NEW YORK, July 17. — A decrease
In the number of deaths as a result
of the infantile paralysis epidemic in
New York was noted during the last
two days. A decrease is also evident
in the number of new cases. During
the last 24 hours the deaths numbered
19 and the new cases discovered by
the health officials totaled 95.
It is generally believed that the
stringent steps taken by the authori
ties to check the spread of the epi
demic are beginning to bear fruit.
PORTO RICO ENDANGERED
BY SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC.
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, July 17. —
The epidemic of smallpox which the
sanitary authorities have been fight
ing for the past six weeks is now con
sidered under control, after a total of
159 cases have entered the quarantine
hospital here. So far more than 100,
000 persons have been vaccinated and
the authorities propose to put in force
the compulsory feature of the health
laws which will make it necessary for
every inhabitant to submit to vacci
nation. So far there have been no
persons who have refused to submit
to vaccination, but the number volun
tarily presenting themselves to the
sanitary doctors has fallen off to a
decided degree.
Prisoners from the penitentiary are
being used to clean up the city, as
one means of ending the spread of the
disease.
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quire of Dr. W. H. Chase.
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The Petersburg Report says that
Julius Sunde. who represented that
town at the Democratic convention at
Juneau, is the only Democrat in the
place.
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WOMAN HELPS ROB BANK;
ON GUARD AS SAFE IS CRACKED
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ST. MARY'S. Kas , July 15. — Four
persons were shot, one probably fatal
ly. by robbers, who escaped after hav
ing stolen $2,400 from the St Mary’s
State bank early today. The robbers
were aided by a woman, witnesses
said, who guarded the street leading
to the bank while her three men com
panions cracked the safe.
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LOCAL JOTTINGS.
Rov. Father Turnell. of Skagway.
leaves today on the Admiral Evans for
home after a week's stay In Cordova.
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Fred Thlsted, head salesman for
Flnkelstein & Saplro, left this morn
ing for a week's business trip to points
up the line of thp, railroad.
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Rev. E. P. Ziegler left this morning
for a week's visit to his missions at
Chitina and McCarthy.
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H. A. Lawrence, representative of
the Union Pacific railway, left for Ju
neau on the Mariposa today.
Rev. A. G. Shrlver left this morning
for a few days' visit at Chitina and
McCarthy.
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O. L. Coward, of the General Electric
Company, left for Juneau on the Mari
posa.
Barney Simon, owner of the Bon
Marche at Anchorage, was a south
bound passenger on the Mariposa. \
HEBE
"There are good things in store for
he Copper river district," declared J.
j. Harper, general manager of the
,akinaw-Taglsh mines, who left on
he Mariposa for the south after a visit
o the company's properties on the
,akinnw river. "It has been definite
y made known that Bart L. Thane,
ceneral manager of the Alaska-Gasti
leau Mining Company, of Juneau, has
lent mining engineers into the Cop
ier river district to scrutinize closely
)very prospect, with a view to acquir
ng something for development. This
s whnt I was told in Juneau recently.”
Twelve men are reported at work on
the Laklnaw property, near the
lead waters of the Bakina w riter, 18
miles from Bong Bake station on the
railroad. Mr. Harper says that a road
s being built from the' mine to the
■ailroad, so that ore can be shipped.
Development work on the property Is
going on apace, he said.
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Times.
M DOES NOT
HR JOEERE'S
GOOD NATURE
PARIS, July 1.—(Correspondence of
the Associated Press.) — Twenty-two
months of responsibility by General
Joffre In the conduct of the greatest
war in history, during which time he
has been" on duty an average of 17
hours a day and has traveled more
than 70,000 miles in a motor car, do
not seem to have aged this veteran
soldier a bit; there is not the slight
est betrayal of fatigue In his counten
ance, his step or in his mind; he Is
quite as ready for any development
today as at any time since the war
began, and his decisions are as prompt
and clearly thought out as on tho his
torical August 26, 1914, when he is
sued to the French armies the general
instructions for the battle of the
Marne.
It is in a quiet villa surrounded by
a pretty garden and in a spacious room
on the ground floor with a billiard
table covered with maps in the center
and maps on all the walls that the
general in chief begins to receive re
ports from his staff officers between
5 and 6 o’clock in the morning.
General Joffre. on sitting down at
his work table finds a single sheet of
paper, on which are noted the latest
news of the situation of the French
and German armies received during
the night. There is no inkstand on
the table, for the general writes very
little, and no telephone, an instrument
that he detests, and never uses ex
cepting by proxy. There Is a compli
cated set of colored crayons, however,
with which the general with his own
hand marks changes in the situation
of the armies upon the maps.
After a nasty glance at tne memo
randum, the general listens to reports
from the staff, which are rapidly com
mented upon, while concise orders are
given covering questions of detail; af
terward projected orders of consider
able consequence are submitted to the
general by members of his staff, or
submitted by hirn to the staff.
General Joffre listens to his offi
cers with a rather detached air; he
even has the appearance of paying no
attention to what is being said; then
suddenly will surprise his staff by in
terrupting the reader of the report or
letter and reaching out for it. When
ever a phrase or a word strikes him,
he insists upon reading for himself.
He also follows for himself, pencil in
hand, reports concerning military op
erations and movements of troops, and
seeks out for himself even the most
insignificant points named in the dis
patches. With the same care he reads
every telegram, every order, before
signing it.
The first session of the day dis
poses of questions of organization,
troops required at different points,
movement by rail, sanitary service, ar
rangements for reinforcements, all of
which are decided to the smallest de
tail.
After about three hours consecrated
to reports and the necessary orders
to provide for the eventualities of the
day, Joffre rises from his desk and
puts on his cap, which is the signal
for the departure from general head
quarters to some one of the armies at
the front. It is generally about half
past nine. Three powerful motorcars
are always waiting at that hour in
front of the villa. As the general
passes out of the door, an officer
pushes into his hand a small paper
that he sticks into his pocket of his
jacket. It is the time-table and the
itinerary of the day’s journey, ar
ranged and approved by him the
evening before, and from which no
divergence is permitted.
The general-in-chief and an ordi
nance officer get into the first car,
while a second officer follow's in what
is called the "relief car,” the third
one being reserved for tw'O secretaries
who accompany Joffre on all his
Visits to the armies. These same cars
have carried the general and his suite
since the beginning of the war over
nearly every mile of the ground from
the sea to the Vosges. The hours he
spends speeding over the country are
hours of comparative rest for him. He
improves thehccasion to read in more
detail long reports that have not re
quired inynedlate attention, but which
he wants to know from beginning to
end, but most of the route is spent in
rest, the general being an adept in
the art of catching snatches of sleep
eti route. He is credited with the
power of sleeping when he wants to
and awakening at will.
Nothidg in the construction of the
trenches escapes Joffre; if there is
anything .wrong anywhere, the officers
and soldiers say, it Is that very thihg
that the general’s eye will light upon.
He prefers to be unnoticed in these
sort of business trips to the front, in
sisting that they in no way partake of
FLOOD OF EUROPEAN GOLD
CONTINUES TO POUR IN.
NEW YORK. July 17. — Steamships
Tom Europe today landed $20,000,000
n English gold in New York, all of
It consigned to banking representa
tives of the British government
The day's gold receipts make the
total amount sent to the United States
$88,000,000 since the last movement
t>egan.
FAIRBANKS, July 14. — Ralph H.
Gilliland, timber cruiser connected
with the general land office, is miss
ing, and it Is believed that he has lost
his life in the Tanana river.
Gilliland left here Saturday in a
rowboat to go to Nenana. On Sunday
the overturned boat was picked up
by the steamer Tenana and was
brought here. A party was at once
made up and a thorough search of
the country has been made, but with
out success, as not a trace of the
missing man was discovered. It is the
general belief that the boat struck
a snag and was overturned, throwing
the occupant into the river. There is
little doubt that he was drowned, and
river steamers have been notified to
keep a watch on the bars in the hope
that the body may be found.
the form and ceremony that attaches
to reviews, but, instinctively, when
the old "grandfather” passes, the sen
tinels and soldiers present arms, red
dening with pleasurable emotion be
cause of this opportunity to honor the
general-in-chief.
None of the army commanders have
yet been able to satisfy Joffre on
two points — that the shelters for the
men along the first line are never deep
enough, and the barbed wire entangle
ments that protect the first line are
never dense enough.
"It's very well, it's very well,” says
he generally to the colonel, shaking
^tls hand, “but you must put up a lit
tle more barbed wire. I ant going to
send you more, and when you have a
few available men just deepen those
shelters a bit, too."
He never forgets such things; the
barbed wire is always forthcoming,
and if he passes that way again and
finds the shelters have not been deep
ened, he notices it and makes the
colonel notice it.
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FINAL NOTICE.
Dog license has been due since July
1. All dogs found without license af
ter July 15 will be destroyed.
GEORGE DOOLEY,
Chief of Police.
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