BRITISH SUBMARINE
ACTIVE IN BALTIC
LONDON, Oct. 22—The campaign of the British sub
marines against German shipping in the Baltic Rea is being
continued, and the results obtained are proving very satisfac
tory to the British admirality. Four more vessels with a joint
tonnage of over eleven thousand' have been sunk since Tuesday.
In all cases the crews are given time to launch their life boats
before the ship is attacked.
LONDON, Oct. 22—The war office has published a sum
mary of the British casualities in all the theatres of war since
October 1st, and the official figures are nearly 2300 officers and
over fifty thousand men. This includes killed, wounded and
missing. The public is impatient of the large casualty lists
published by the war office and criticism of the management of
the war is rampant, due to the apparently insignificant results
obtained from such large sacrifices.__
SUPREME COURT
JUDGE PISSES
OLYMPIA, Oct. 22—Justice Her
man Crow of the State Supreme Court
died here last night.
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F. M. Fuller has moved his bar
ber shop from the Windsor hotel to
the Alaskan hotel. He has spared no
expense in making his new quarters
very inviting for his old friends. He
may be Fuller—but not full of cus
tomers and says that he has a new
way of removing the alfalfa. Try
him.
Job printing at the Times office by
skilled printers.
The train arrived this afternoon
bringing many passengers from inter
ior points and a consignment of mail
Fairbanks.
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WANTED—To buy a roll top desk,
apply at the Times office.
CHIEF FORESTER
The Alaskan question, like Banquo's
ghost, will not down.
Already are looming large on the
horizon shndows of a coming scrap in
congress and more friction between
departmental chiefs and the ever con
stant play of politics over the Alaska
question.
The Railway & Marine News hints
more directly at the alleged friction
between Secretary Lane and Chief I
Forester Graves than has been seen in j
print thus far, although the visit of.
Forester Graves and a person said to I
be the representative of Secretary
Lane to Alaska caused vague rumors
of departmental friction.
The Railway & Marine News
charges that the forest service is fol
lowing the footsteps of Pinchot in,
handing out "special articles" on the'
great value of Alaskan forests to east- j
ern papers with a view of paving the
way for a fight in congress this winter
against any encroachments on, the
foreots in Alaska. Referring -to an
article in the Washington Sunday
Star, the Railway & Marine News
says:
"The peddling of such misleading
information Is merely folowing out the
Pinchot tactics. In this Instance the
Star article was 'promoted' by the for
esj service, which furnished the infor
mation and pictures to a free lance
writer, who successfully unloaded the
mess on the unsuspecting Sunday edi
tor of the Star. Possibly he also suc
ceeded in putting it over on some
other Sunday editors throughout the
uniformed east. Pinrhot's press bur
eau, when operated, was most suc
cessful in handling dope to special
writers, which they were able to sell
at good prices to various publications.
Pinchot was the angel of many wrrt
ers, and many of the space men will
always regard him as their particular
friend, and it is possible that this
friendship of the space writers is one
of the reasons why he can to this'
day put over false statements.
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"Here are some of the statements in \
the foreBt bureau’s article In the StarJ
which Railway & Marine News as
serts are direct falshoods and which
can be proven as such by any com
mittee of expert timber men outside of
the U. S. forestry bureau. Read
carefully the following direct mis
representations If you would know the
class of matter the press bureau of
the forestry service has been putting
out for many year8 past and is now
again publishing:
The prime reason for Mr. Graves
journey to the far North, It is said, is
to obtain material with which to con
vince the people of the United States
that the t' nhe- re ewes or \laska is
well worth protecting for the benefit
of the people at large; and that it
would be a national calamity, in the
faee of a dwindling lumber supply to
permit these vast tracts—inexhausta
ble if handled with the proper care-—
to fall into the hands of “special in
terests,” as a very great proportion of
the natural resources in the United
States proper has done, through
“fake” homesteading and other medi
ums.
“ 'This activity on the part of the
forest service and the geological sur
vey'conies as the direct result of the
construction, now under way, of the
new government railroad, which, run
ning from Seward, on the Pacific, 741
miles inland to Fairbanks, will unlock
for the first time the well stocked
natural treasure value of Alaska.
“ ‘Yet, in the Tongass preserve, eas
ily accessible in spite of the under
growth, on account of the peculiar
logging conditions which exist, there
stands billion feet of marketable t:m
ber.
" ‘The Chugach preserve lies on the
Seward and Kenai peninsulas, Cook
Inlet on the west and Prince William
Sound on the east. Within its bor
ders there are some eight billions of
feet of marketable timber.
“ ‘It hajs been a little more than two
years since the first shipload of com
mercial timber was taken from the
Alaskan national forests. This cargo,
comprising 1,200,000 board feet/^vas so
large that it broke down the Hadley
docks before It could be loaded upon i
the Melville Dollar, which carried it.
‘outside’.
" ‘Together with this, some, 1,600 j
private sales have been made from the j
timber of the preserves in the past
four years, principally to concerns en
gag^i in Alaskan commerce. Added
to this there are at present about fifty
canneries, each of which depends upon
the forests for timber for building
docks, fish traps and crates: as well as
about 450 private ventures, operating
under ‘‘special use permit,” Including
fox ranches, shore whaling stations,
mineral spring resorts, hotels and
stores, within the borders of these
preserves.
“ ‘But the real crux of the matter
and the principal cause which has sent
the government forester and his as
sistant scurrying into the northland, it
is declared, is information that the bu
reau has received that a number of
limber operators are considering the
purchase of the lumbering rights of
vast tracts of these reserves with an
eye to operations in the future,
when hey intend to ship the timber in
private hulls through the Panama
Canal to the Atlantic Coast. It has
also become known that many wood
pulp operators have been considering
the possibility of obtaining timber
from these forests for pulp mills of
the east."
The Railway * Marine Newg denies
that Alaska timber is as valuable as
claimed, and sayg if the whole re
serves were thrown open very few ad
ditional saw mills would operate, for
the reason that nearly all Maskan
Industries, including railroads, as well
as the government railroad, import
Puget Sound timber at a higher price,
because it. is more durable. The Sea
tie publication savg still more biting
things, all of which goes to show that
the Alaska question is "loaded” and
may again serve as a national political
and industry bone of contention.
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graher, secretary or general office
assistant on newspaper, by American
woman of twenty-five. Have had
three years’ experience. References.
MISS RUTH M. HEATH,
3002 4th Ave. West, Seattle, Wash.
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tage, Observation Knoll. Apply to
the Alaska Transfer Co.
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Empress Theatre
FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 1915.
PATHE WEEKLY NEWS No. 52.
OUT OF PETTICOAT LANE—
In Two Acts.
WHEN THE GODS FORGIVE—
Vitagraph Drama.
Admission 25 Cents First Show Starts at 8 p. m. Sharp
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SEATTLE, Oct. 22—The United
States collier Prometheus Balled from
here yesterday bound for Cordorj^
The Prometheus carries new «qnf|>>
ment for the wireless station at Cape
Whitshed, to repair the damage done
by the recent alcohol explosion at th®
plant.
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, Clark Byers, the chief of the fire
department was busy today inspecting
chimneys and flues throughout the
town.
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Woman, all round laundry worker.
Must be good ironer. To begin work
about October 12.
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