FRANCE’S LOSS
IN STUDENTS
i IS BEING FELT
PARIS, Feb. 15 (Correspondence of
the Associated Press).—That French
intellectual classes have paid in lives
to a fearful extent in the war was dis
closed in the casualty returns now be
ing analyzed according to professions,
is stated in the Paris journal, Intran
sigeant. The records show that 6,227
'Frenchmen prominently engaged in
educational pursuits have been killed
on the battlefield.
Paris alone, the paper adds, has lost
3,378 students of different universities
and colleges, besides 350 journalists
;and men of letters. The figures for
provincial France are not yet avail
able, but they are said to be very
large.
Since August 2, 1914, most of the
great French educational institutions
have been practically closed down,
only a few elderly professors and a
limited number of younger men, phys
ically unfit for military service, re
maining to keep the lamp of knowl
edge burning.
To repopulate universities ana col
leges without delay is, in the view of
the authorities, imperative if France
is to remain in the forefront of in
tellectual life. M. Laffere, minister of
public instruction, promises special
facilities for students “as soon as they
are demobilized,” but the machinery
by which men are returned to civilian
life is working very slowly.
L’Eclaim, another Paris daily paper,
in an editorial demands quicker meth
ods. It says that French culture is in
danger of losing its leading position
if the process of putting the teaching
elements back into their proper
spheres of activity is not at once ac
celerated. High cost of living and the
very human desire on the part of the
demobilized professional men to se
cure the best possible livelihood, it
says, is rapidly leading to an acute
crisis in the teaching world. The pa
per advocates a scheme by which the
still mobilized professors and students
should be enabled to resume their lec
tures and studies at once at the uni
versities and colleges of Lille, Nancy,
Strasburg and other centers of learn
ing in the northern and northeastern
parts of France and ih Alsace-Lor
raine, if they can not be sent back
to their homes.
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BEET TOP ENSILAGE
KILLING OFF HORSES
SALT LAKE CITY, March 15—Utah
farmers this winter began to feed beet
top ensilage to horses and, according
to R. W. Hoggan, state livestock in
spector, the result has been fatal to
the animals. He was recently called
to a farm in Box Ender county, this
state, where eight big draft horses
which had been fed silage beet tops
had died. A post portem examination
disclosed that the animals had been
poisoned.
The horses had suffered, according
to Dr. Hoggan, with laryngitis and
gastro-enteritis. The mucuos mem
brance had become detached, so that
the horses were unable to swallow food
or drink, resulting in paralysis of the
throat and death. Dr. Hoggan has ad
vised Utah farmers not to use beet
tops as silage.
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CAMOUFLAGE WALTZ
IS LATEST IN DANCE8
The camouflage waltz has hit Doug
las. At the firemen’s dance this week
some of the returned sailors and sol
diers introduced it. The dancers con
voy each other through an imaginary
ocean Infested with mine fields and
submarines. They weave back and
forth like a dry law violator coming
home after an all-night session with
the boys. They used to dance some
thing similar to that in the old dayB.
Then it was called the “blind stag
gers,” and was caused by the male
member of the dancing team hitting
the flask that he invariably carried in
his hip pocket too often between
dances. A feller could get by with
* it for a while, but eventually someone
who hgd been trampled on would com
plain to the floor committee and the
weaver would be invited to chase him
self. The only camouflage there was
about it in those days was the cloves
the fellow ate to kill the scent of his
breath. The' word camouflage had not
been invented then; but it sure is a
nice word, and we often wish it had
been in general use a few years ago.
It saves lots of explanation and
sounds nice and genteeL—Douglas
News.
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The Dully Times Job plant Is
SERVICE MEN
VOLUNTEER IN
BRITISH ARMY
LONDON, Feb. 15 (Correspondence
of the Associated Press).—Thousands
of the British army who recently be
came so war-weary that they openly
threatened mutiny unless they were
soon discharged have turned about
face and are volunteering for the new
army, according to the military au
thorities, who assert that they are sat
isfied that there will be little difficulty
in securing the 900,000 men who will
do Great Britain’s share in safeguard
ing the peace the allies have won.
The causes said to have sent the
men flocking back to the colors are
the unexpectedly large war bonus of
fered to men who “take on” and the
acute industrial situation. The first
factor has been of prime importance
in the case of boys from 18 to 21, who
have been two or more years already
in the army and who have no trade
to fall back upon in civilian life. In
the new army they will be fed, clothed
and sheltered and draw a mminimum
of about five dollars a week as pocket
money. They have quickly awakened
to the realization that there is no such
prospect awaiting them on a return
to “civvies.”
The Industrial upheaval plays the
main part in the decision of the older
men. In the first rush for demobiliza
tion no man was permitted to go who
had not a definite offer of employment.
The government did all in its power
to make certain that such offers were
bona fide, but in spite of every pre
caution thousands of men got their
release on bogus papers. These men
soon found themselves in an unenvi
able position. They could not get
work and they faced some very un
comfortable inquiries if they applied
for the out-of-work pay provided for
those who are idle through no fault
of their own. The recruiting sergeant
was an easy road out of their troubles,
and that astute individual, who draws
a bonus for each, recruit, was not blind
to his opportunities.
A third factor of minor but real
importance is the fact that numbers
of men who have been home on lib
eral leave since the armistice was
signed have discovered that they are
not nearly so happy out of khaH{ as
they imagined they would be: T'hey
frankly admit that they miss the com
panionship of the army, the lack of re
sponsibility and the easy hours. Now
that the war is over the army is rest
ing on its laurels, and in the great
camps around England “work” is con
fined to one hour's parade a day, with
football games, paper chases and other
sports to fill in the remainder of the
time. That is a considerable contrast
to eight or nine hours <5f monotonous
toil in a shop or factory.
The army authorities have nbt so
far made public any figures on re
cruiting, but some indication is of
fered by the experience of two bat
talions in one of the largest camps
in the south of England. In one unit,
where all the men had seen service
overseas, more than two hundred re
enlisted in less than two weeks. In
the other, an “A-4" battalion, made
up of boys under military age, more
than three hundred took the oath in
the same period, a large number for
the regulation period of twelve years.
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NOTICE OF MONITION.
In the District Court of the United
States, Territory of Alaska. In Ad
miralty.
Nels Andersen, libelant, vs. the ship
Myrtle H.
Public notice is heby given that on
the 7th day of March, 1919, a monition
issued out of the clerk’s office of the
District Court of the United States,
Third division, Territory of Alaska, in
a cause civil and maritime wherein
Nels Andersen is libelant against the
ship Myrtle H., her boats, tackle, ap
parel and furniture, for the sum of
seventeen hundred and thirty-one and
90-100 dollars, by virtue of which I
have taken the same into custody.
The said monition is returnable on the
7th day of April, A. D., 1919, when, if
that be a day of jurisdiction, or if not,
then on the next day of jurisdiction, a
hearing will be had of the cause.
All persons interested in said Myrtle
H., her boats, tackle, apparel and fur
niture, are required then to interpose
their claim, if any they have, other
wise the same will be pronounced
against for debt and costs as prayed
for in the libel.
Dated March 7th, 1919.
F. R. BRBJNNEMAN,
United States Marshal, Third
division. Territory of Alaska.
By WM. L. FURSMAN,
Deputy.
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NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF
PARTNERSHIP
Notice <a hereby given that ihe
partnership heretofore existing oe
tween William Crooker and Charles
Mathews in the operation of the
launch Wail has been dissolved. All
accounts due will be collected and all
bills payable will be settled by Will
iam Crooker. The operation of the
Waif hereafter will be by Mathews
& Arnold. Regular trips to Katalla
and way points.
MATHEWS & ARNOLD.
Dated Feb. 6, 1919.
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF
ACCOUNT
In the United States Commissioner's
Court, Cordova Precinct, Territory
of Alaska (In Probate).
In the Matter of the Estate of Gun
nard Johnson, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that V. G.
Vance, administrator of the estate of
Gunnard Johnson, deceased, has ren
dered and presented for settlement to,
and filed in the probate court of said
Cordova precinct, his final account aS
such administrator, and that Tuesday,
the 15th day of April. 1919, at 10
o’clock a. m., at the court room of our
said probate court at Cordova, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by the pro
bate court for the settlement of the
final account, at which time and place
any person interested in said estate
may appear and file his exceptions in
writing to the said final account and
contest the same.
Witness the Hon.
(Seal) A. J. ADAMS,
Judge of the said Probate Court, and
the seal of said Court affixed, this
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To L. T. Gray, heir and devisee ol
Robert D. Gray, deceased, to all other
heirs of the said Robert D. Gray, de
ceased, to James Smith, executor of
the last will and testament of the
said Robert D. Gray, deceased, to all
persons claiming liens upon or against
the interest of said estate, of said ad
ministrator, or of said heirs, in the
mining claims hereinafter described,,
and to all whom It may in any manner
concern:
Yo and each of you are hereby noti
fied that I have expended during the
year 1918 one hundred dollars ($100)
in labor and improvements upon and
for the benefit of each of those three
certain mineral oil mining claims, all
situated at the head of Mirror Slough,
in the Kayak recording precinct, ter
ritory of Alaska, and known as and
called:
The Drown Bear Association Min
eral Oil Claim,
The Bald Eagle Association Min
eral Oil Claim, and
The Gray "Wolf Association Min
eral Oil Claim,
the location notices or certificates of
which may be found of record in Book
6, at pages 148 and 149, of the records
of Mining Locations and Declaratory
Statements, in the office of the United
States commissioner and ex officio
recorder in and for the said Kayak
recording precinct, at Katalla, Alaska,
that is to say, I have so expended in
such labor and improvements upon
and for the benefit of all of said
claims during the said year 1918 the
sum of three hundred dollars ($300),
in order to hold said claims under
the laws of the United States and
the Territory of Alaska relating to
the annual labor upon mining claims,
being the amount required to hold
said mining claims and each of them
for the period ending on the 31st day
of December, 1918.
And if within ninety days after the
publication of this notice, to wit,
within ninety days after the 8th day
of Ma^ 1919, you fail or refuse to
contribute to me, the subscriber, one
of the owners in common of said min
ing claims and each of them, your
proportion of such expenditures,
which amounts to the sum of fifty
dollars ($50) for each of said claims,
dr a total of one hundred fifty dollars
($150) for all of said claims, your
Interests in each claim for which you
so fail or refuse to contribute w(ll
become the property of the said sub
scriber under the provisions of Sec.
2324 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States.
A. T. COTTON.
Residence and postoffice address,
Katalla, Alaska.
First publication, Feb. 6, 1919.
Last publication, May 8, 1919.
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