The largest wedding ever held at
Brooks took place recently when Mrs.
Louise Matheson became the bride of
Vincent H. Pierce, a well known Liv
ingston operator. Several hundred
people attended the ceremony.
C. R. Clarke, a roadhouse keeper
and rancher at Yukon Crossing, is
on his way to the outside for the first
time in twenty years. He formerly
ran a roadhouse on the Chitina-Fair
hanks trail.
E. K. Irving, who was shot by Wal
ter Stoker recently on the government
railroad and who has been confined
to the Seward hospital, has so far re
covered as to be able to walk around
a little.
Three special detectives from Seat
tle, connected with the federal inves
tigation of the illegal liquor traffic in
that city, arrived in Juneau recently
to probe certain conditions there re
lating to bootlegging in Seattle.
Corrine Gilmore, a former resident
of the restricted district of Douglas,
and the last person known to have
I seen Babe Brown alive, has been
j brought back by the authorities from
Montana to testify in the murder case.
Oeorge Kolde, a Fairbanks rancher,
had new potatoes served at his Christ
mas dinner. They were not grown in
a hothouse or out of doors, but in the
cellar of the ranch. The potatoes did
well despite the absence of light, and
he harvested nearly 100 pounds of
fair sized spuds.
O. Hinton Henry, editor of the Free
Pros sat Fairbanks, was recently con
vlcted in the commissioner's court at
that place of criminal libel on N. R.
King, and was sentenced to serve 120
days in jail and pay the costs of the
proceedings. He took an appeal to
the district court.
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Of course you will attend the Kagle
dance tomorrow night. The music
will be the best, and the floor being
in excellent condition, you are assured
of a good time.
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Seward has been suffering from a
shortage of coal, which was relieved
a few days ago on the arrival of the
steamer Juneau.
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contract in Seattle for the construc
tion of a cannery tender. The new
boat is to cost approximately $20,000.
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(Hy Associated Press.)
HOME, Jan. 18. — Pope Benedict
X\, through the department of lost
' °ldlers, established at the Vatican,
has aided in learning the whereabouts
ot more than 10,000 lost soldiers about
whom heart broken relatives had in
qulred through personal appeals to
I his holiness. He is receiving and has
j received since the war began, some
-oo letters a day from distracted par
ents, wiveB and sweethearts in all of
the belligerent nations, pleading that
he use his good offices to learn wheth
er their loved ones, about whom they
have been unable to hear anything,
are dead, wounded, sick or prisoners.
I be pope has found this one of the
saddest phases of the war. Notwith
standing the size of his daily mail, he
reads all such Utters himself. In the
beginning of the war he attempted to
j investigate each personally, but the
task became so formidable that it was
necessary to establish a separate do
partment at the Vatican, now in
j charge of Father Huismarn, under the
pope's direction His holiness, after
reading one of the appeals, makes
some notations on Its envelope and
sends it to the department of lost sol
dieds, which has its offices on the
fourth floor or the Vatican near the
papal secretary of state. Here arc
' some thirty priests and civilians on
i gaged in clerical work.
T he department haH access to of
ficlal records transmitted by the
Prussian minister of war to the Holy
See at Lugano, Switzerland, and has
offices af Paris, Constantinople, Vi
enna. Freiburg. Brussels and Fade
horn, Westphalia, Germany, with sev
eral minor branches in other coun
tries.
The department has become one of
the most highl organized of any in
1 the Vatican. It writes several hun
! dred lettors a day. and to date such
letters have run up to a total of more
than 5,000,000. As the department re
turns all money enclosed in letters of
! appeal and as a person writing from
England cannot well enclose Italian
stamps for international correspond
ence, the stamp bill alone of the de
partment has been upwards of $200,
000.
After making an official demand on
the governnvivt of the country where
the soldier is supposed to be, the de
partment causes each new name to be
posted up in the military prison
ramps, by the aid of a Catholic chap
lain always present, in the hope that
some of the U t soldiers’ comrades
may see the name and offer some clue
that will lead to his location. Sev
eral thousands such lists have been
printed. There are 110 lists, each
containing 2nu t antes, for the Italian
army alone, making thus a total of
22,000 lost Italian soldiers. Aside
‘ from this, the department has copies
of Official nrtnv prisoner lists, ar
ranged by nations, and it immediately
searches tiles.- lists carefully for the
name of the lost soldier
Despite the difficulties of the task,
the department has so far been able
to find more than 10,000 lost soldiers,
and lht> pope h . received a treasured
collection of letters of thanks from
families, often from little children,
who address him as "Mister," or give
him the title names of popes dead
many hundreds of years.
The correspondent of the Asosclated
Press on a visit to the department saw
t bundle of letters that had just been
sent by the pope, possibly 75 in num
ber, and on the envelope of each one
In his own handwriting was written
directions concerning its disposition.
Among the heap was a letter from his
sister, the Countess Persico della Chi
esa, of Genoa, the pope's home city,
asking that a Bearch be made for a
certain soldier of Genoa. “The count
ess begs attention again,” the pope
had written on the letter. Another
one of the letters was one of thanks
from a French family whose son, Jean |
Laforgue, had been for two years in
the Orient without being able to send
news to his family of himself, but the
pope had been able to discover this
lost son at Hamsam, in distant
Turkey.
Another letter was one of thanks
from the family of Count Hugo de
Hochefort. lieutenant in the aeronau
tic corps, who, during the Somme of
fensive, fell into the German lines.
By telegraphing to the nuncio at Mu
nich. Bavaria, the department had
been able to learn that the young man
had died in the hospital and had been
buried In the cemetery attached to
the hospital. "It was at least a conso
lation for the family to know the bur
ial place," said Father Hulaman.
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(By Associated Press.)
BONBON. Jan. lit. — That private
practitioners in the medical profession
will be practically non-existent before
the end of the war and all patients
will have to go to infirmaries to be
treated was the opinion expressed at
the annual meeting of the Glasgow
Victoria Infirmary.
The Lancet says ‘There must come
a day, if the war is indefinitely pro
longed, when the necessary economy
of medical men can only be obtained
by mobilization of the whole of the
available supply, so that calls can be
made upon individual services when
and where required, it has long been
felt that some such step might be
taken and we believe that the general
opinion of the medical profession,
judging by the correspondence that
comes to us, is in a similar direction.”
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Fritz W illard, a resident of Haines,
was taken into custody at that place
on (he charge of breaking a measles
quarantine and was fined $25 and
costs.
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TOWN OF CORDOVA.
Municipal Taxes.
Town taxes are now due and pay
able to the town treasurer, H. I
O'Neill, at his office.
Said taxes will be delinquent on
the second Monday In February, 1917,
at the hour of t> o'clock p. tn. Upon
all unpaid taxes after that time a pen
alty of five per cent will ve collected
If. I. O'NEILL,
Town Treasurer.
The Nome Industrial Worker states
chat the high price of powder, fuse
and capB is simply killing prospecting
in that section.
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IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE
TERRITORY OF ALASKA. THIRD
DIVISION, CORDOVA PRECINCT,
AT CORDOVA.
No. 112.
In the Matter of the Estate of J. W
Durnen, Deceased.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
The undersigned executor of the os
tate of J, W. Durnen. deceased, here
by gives notice that all persons hav
ing claims against the said estate, an
admonished and required to present
the same, with the proper vouchers,
within six months from the date here
of, to the undersigned executor .it his
office and place of business, namely at
Slater's Restaurant, on First Street,
in said Cordova.
Dated at Cordova, Masha this 27th
day of December, 1916.
HENRY A. SLATER.
Executor of the estate of .1. \V. Durnen,
Deceased.
Date of first publication, December
29, 1916.
Date of last publication, January 26.
1917.
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