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The Times is going to give away
; to the two best hustlers
in Cordova
A Bicycle
AND
A Gold Watch I
These two articles will be given away on July 30 to
the two boys having the largest number of votes to their
credit at 6 o’clock on that date. The boy having the
largest number of votes to his credit will be allowed his
choice of the articles.
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the same as those in Cordova .which is as follows:
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ADDITIONAL NOTICE.
The Contest will be closed to entries at 6 o’clock the
afternoon of July 20. Any boys who yet wish to enter
j’ e lists for a try for the watch may do so up to that time,
but thereafter the contest will be confined to the boys in
the running at that time.
Get busy. All it needs is a little hustling.
None of the boys yet have much of a start, and a good
brisk campaign will put any hustler in the lead.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE BRIT
ISH ARMY IN FRANCE. June 30. —
(Correspondence of the Associated
Press.) — Those young Canadians In
khaki, playing baseball In a Belgian
pasture, could tell you what the shell
fire at Verdun was like. They had
been under It — the worst that has
been known on the British front.
Around them was the utter quiet of
the countryside; In the distance the
guns were still growling around Sor
rel Hill, Sanctuary Wood and Hooge,
the scene of the Canadians’ greatest
battle in France.
Mud-stained, blood-stained, they had
come away from the bloody piles of
dirt which had been their trenches
and after a long sleep they had won
dered why they were alive and started
to play baseball to pass the time until
they should go into the trenches agin.
They had been in the thick of it from
8:30 a. m. till 1:30 p. m. on June 2,
right in the apex of the Ypres salient,
that bend in the line which had stuck
out as invitingly to the Germans as
the Verdun salient for more than a
year.
The Germans could arrange their
guns In a fan shape around it as they
could at Verdun, and they did. When
their guns began to speak the British
guns spoke back; and even the old
inhabitants of the Ypres salient agree
that it was the worst ever. Nobody
on the spot ever supposed that there
were so many guns in either the Ger
man or British army.
Btot the officer inside the farm
house, sitting at the farmer’s dining
room table could tell all about it—
his small part of it. He and his men
had been in and out of the trenches
on their shifts till they were quite
used to the monotony of the trench
life, and the daily wastage. The
morning of June 2 was very quiet. A
general who was taken prisoner af
terw'ard was making an inspec tion. An
occasional crack of a bullet overhead, ■
and an occasional shot in answer. At
8:30 the inferno broke without any
more warning than a boiler explosion.
They always do, British or French or
German.
“Five point nines" (that new 6.9
inch German shell), " whiz-bangs,"
trench-mortar shells and "silent Liz
zies" (a naval gun shell of high velo
city, which is not heard coming until
it bursts).
"I knew what we were in for," said
the officer.
Anybody with any experience at the
front would know. At any time either
side wants to concentrate its artillery
on a certain frontage of trench that
frontage is bound to go down; and
the attacking side can rush its infan
try in and take the debris. The dif
ficulty is to hold it. This time the :
shelft were coming from the front
and both sides. According to the !
usual system they were laid on both
the front and the support trenches
with a curtain of fire between the two.
“Y’ou know the kind of country it
is,” this quiet young officer from To
rnnfn wont nn.
Nature as well as the shells Is
against the soldier. If he digs a
trench water fills it. Mostly he must
depend upon sandbags—roofs and
walls of sandbags. He cannot dig cel
lars twenty feet under the earth and
crawl into them when the “cloudburst
of hell’’ descends as in hilly and
mountainous country. So nobody ever
has a good word to say about the
Ypres salient except the peasants. The |
soil is rich.
“We had no orders to go," said the
officer. “We stuck.”
They could not fire back at those
guns thousands of yards away with
their rifles. No one was showing his ^
head in the German trench opposite.
If a man leaned over a section of the
parapet remaining to fire he and it
might be blown away by another shell.
The only thing to do was for each man
to find any kind of cover he could
in a fresh shell hole if no parapet
remained and wait. Messengers in
such instances, be it the British or
German side, have one chance of five
in surviving if they try to go or come
from the rear.
Five hours of this. Then at 1:30 in
the afternoon orders to retreat did
arrive.
That officer from Toronto gathered
the remnants of his command under
the shower of shrapnel bullets and in
the midst of geysers from the high
explosives. Just as he was starting
the tornado ceased. This meant the
German infantry charge. As the Can
adians started taking what cover they
could in a half obliterated communica
tion trench the> had a glimpse over
their shoulders of the Germans arriv
ing. German rifle and machine gun
fire followed them on their way back
to the support trenches, taking a final
toll: then the British guns turned;
theii ornado on the Germans in their
new tosiUons, and the support tren
Dhes dazed their rifle fire into Ger
man < harges.
Another officer In another farm
bouse— this one from British Colu®
bla. He Is pleased with the coat he
wore when he went through a curtain
jf fire. A piece of shell had cut a
jig rent under the arm without even
penetrating through his undershirt.
“Some luck, eh!" he said. “I had
i hunch I would come through alright
when I started."
His orders were to go up in rein
’orceinent. He went. One shell struck
n the midst of a platoon and got only
jne man. That was “some luck,” too.
Men fell, but the command went on
to the counter attack.
“Those who are In the thick of it
certainly get it hot," said another of
ficer. "Each company in the thick
af it thinks for the time being that
It is fighting the whole war. Its casu j
»lty list looks pretty mad. But when ^
pou take the losses of a division as
i whole you are surprised at the small
>ercen tage.”
WOE UNTO BEAU SEEKING
MAJOR'S CACHE
W. W. Majors, of Fourth of July and j
3pangle creeks, had an experience
with a bear, or more correctly speak
ng, the bear had a good time at Ma- I
iors’ expense when he (or she) dls
;overed a caChe full of good, whole
some food on Spangle creek. Upon
Recovering that his cache had been
noted Mr. Majors removed the rem
nants to his cabin nearby, feeling
hat everything would be perfectly
safe there, and returned to Fourth of
ruly creek. Some days later Mr. Ma
|ors returned to his Spangle creek
iabin to find that Mr. Bruin and his
sntire family had been there. The
loor was open, the supplies all gone,
ind the interior a total wreck. The
looking utensils were strewn over the
woods for a distance of a quarter of
i mile.
Mr. Majors vowed vengeance on the
jear family, and in order to speedily
;et “revenge” is said to be lying in
wait with a 30-30 and a supply of cart
•idges.—Ruby Record.
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25 LYNCHINGS IN SIX MONTHS.
MONTGOMERY. Ala., July 12. —
Records kept at the Tuskegee insti
ute show that there were 25 lynch
ngs in the United States during the :
Irst six months of this year, com
>ared with 34 for the same jjfriod a j
fear ago. Two whites and 23 ne-1
;roes were mob victims, and eight of
he mwere killed in Georgia. Five
were charged with attacks upon |
women.
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While Joe Stanton and C. L.. Hoyt
were coming in to Valdez over the
jovernment trail this week, an im
nense bull moose walked out of the
>ushes and trotted down the road
ihead of them. Had Joe had his auto
nstead of a team he would nave run
ilm down quickly.
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Several crews of men are now at
vork on the government road out of
,'aldez. i
N THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
TERRITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD
DIVISION.
vlotlce of Term of Court at Cordova,
Alaska.
Phe President of the United States of 1
America, to the Residents of the *
Third Division of the Territory of
Alaska, and to All Whom It May
Concern, Greeting:
You, and each and all of you, will
(lease take notice that by an order of
he court, duly made and entered, a
erm of the District Court for the Ter
ritory of Alaska, Third Division, has
>een called and will be held in Cor
lova, Alaska, beginning on the 17th
lay of July, 1916, and will continue as
ong thereafter as the public welfare
nay require.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 13th
lay of June, 1916.
FRED M. BROWN,
District Judge.
; District Court Seal)
tttest: Arthur Lang, Clerk.
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