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ROAD WORK TO START TODAY A . w ; i n nn n of the Alaska R. ; i . a -si n under the superin tendent ;• of Abe Mi K nnen -t in • i th announcement made in.-' night A . . nip i- tn be Junto two miles frt ill Fairbanks, at the Joy ranch, an I tin fits: work will be done b. tu n F... b n - and that p • nt. 1: i- the nten'.ion to Mr. Sommers to put tin road bi-.wnn Faiibank: and th- l-kghtei n-mile hou-e in a ir first This is the m t’’ t w. - cm n a thorough grading and going over last year. . h n. - ,-pring by the fact that it 1.- d ;. much sooner than were i r olls of the trail, the r> • . i • •• f tlm work. ' i. • • r thinks that it will ■. a b .a; ten days to complote •h i ■!!•• plated repair work, after whit h time tin- camp will be moved to pi int beyond the Eighteen mite h- at-.d work on new grading will ! • a n. e,i About Juni 1 un crew, until r I.- onard Fear, i t a i out to Birch lake and start i: el.ng there, working this way to mei i McKinnon’s crew. TEDDY MUST STAY AT HOME FOR I'RESENT (A ociatrd Press) WASHINGTON, I). C. May IS.— Col Tip nilore Roosevelt must stay at home fur tli< pp sent. At least, he is i. t to be allowia! to accompany the first American military contingent to be sent to France. For in announc ing tonight that a division cf regulars under Hie command of Gener.d John J. Pershing i to be sent t i France in the r future, Pri -id' nt V. . dai not name Roosevelt as one of tit leaders of the first expedition, as had been expected in some quar ters. Col. Roosi velt, however, was not entirely ove rlooked by the President. For in li s statement, in which he said that voluntv ers could not be used for the first contingent on ac count of the lac! that the force to be sent would not ilien consist un til o|v of trained men, as it now Will. President Wilson stiid that, while h ...... ■ to do so, hi could not, at the present time, avail himself of Col. Roosevelt's fine vigor and enthusiasm. IRISH SORE AT 1.1.0VD GEORGE. (Associated Press) Ul' HEIN. Inland. May IS. Pre mier Lloyd George is in bad all over Ireland: nobody has a good word for him. The reason is his recent proposal of a settlement of the Irish question. In past years there have been many proposals for a settlement of the question ad vanced. but the Irish Nationalists consider that of the premier the worst yet forthcoming, as far as the interests of Ireland are con cerned. EXE I ELI) RIEI.E EOR NEW ARMY (Associated T*ress) WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 15. — (Delayed)—The Enfield rifle has been adopted by the war department as the standard arm for the new American army. It is now being used by the British forces and is manufactured on a large scale in this country, although it is also man ufactured in Great Britain. WAR REVENUE BILL DEBATED WASHINGTON, D. C., May 15.— (Delayed)—General debate in the house on the war revenue measure was closed tonight, and Democratic Floor Leader Claude Kitchin is pre dicting that the measure will come to a final vote some time Saturday. It is thought probable that many amendments will be proposed, how ever, before that time as it is a well known fact that there is consider able opposition to many of the pro visions of the bill. It is expected that many com plaints will be received regarding the tax provisions of the bill, in fact, many objections are already being registered by people in various walks of life from all over the country. It is thought that the most furious righting will be against the excess profits, income and automobile taxes, and the second class mail rate in creases provided for. The senate committee today fin ished its hearings on the measure. Nearly all of the witnesses heard declared their willingness to help the government in practically any man ner desired, but gave their objec tions to the tax measure as it now stands by calling confiscatory taxes ruinous. Railways Asked to Readjust Service (Associated Pres®) WASHINGTON. L> C. May 18 Although no such announce ment has y*-t been made from departmental headquarters it is asserted by railroad officials now in this city tluit the war board bus asked all of the railroads of :;.e i untr> to i• .. 1 jast sor 1 _ . ... . 1. . .. ... ;1„ kin \ e ill UI UI . I'’ i«««»i»v iimuuui th* ir maximum facilities for the transportation of fuel, food ma terial and troops. It is their further assertion that the request is to be complied with RELIANCE OFF FOR TANANA The steamer Reliance, the first boat of the season of the American \ ukon Navigation Co. to leave port here, sailed for Tanana at a few j minutes before 1 o'clock this morn ing. She is taking a number of barges to Tanana. from whit h place they will be taken on to St. Michael, there to be loaded with freight and to be brought back to Fairbanks | again. The outgoing passengers on the Reliance last night were the fol lowing: For Nenana —Mrs. Edna Palmer. R. F. Burns, S. 11. Millwee, E. L. Stunner, T. H. Booth, I)r. R. R. Myers, D. II. Young, Ruth Logan. Mrs. R. Logan, V. 0. Bergman, \Y. K Terrill. For Wood River Louis Johnson. For Ruby—Mrs. L. V. Stanley and child. For Tanana—L Ramus, M. II. Crabb, J. A. Arnold. A portion of the freight picked up at Chena by the Reliance was a barge containing two flat cars of the Tanana Valley railroad which are being sent to Nenana for usi j on the government railroad. MORE TAXES _ON JKCOMES WASHINGTON. H. C., May 18. Tvvonty five present increases in pro posed tax provisions on incomes and sureties have been written into the war revenue measure. The action was taken following the statement . of Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo ; to the effect that over two and one quarter billion dollars should be rais ed by the bill. The new provisions ; of the bill are expected to increase I taxation approximately sixty-six mil lion dollars. PHONE LINE TO BE OPEN SOON Commercial telephone service be i tween Fairbanks and Nenana will be inaugurated on Monday, May 21, [ according to announcement made yesterday by Commissioner Thomas Higgs and by Chief Electrician Bert ' E. Hollifield. It would have been open before this time had it not been that some of the telephone poles put up on Coldstream were burned down in a forest fire, tem porarily disorganizing the line. The rates will be $2 for a conver sation of three minutes, and fifty cents per minute thereafter, as an nounced by Commissioner Riggs I through the columns of The Citizen j several days ago. An additional charge of twenty-five cents will be made by the government for calls I where it is necessary to send a messenger for the party called. WOMEN NAMED ON COMMITTEE WASHINGTON, D. C., May 15. i — (Delayed)—Secretary of the Trea sury McAdoo tonight announced fhe appointment of ten women as perrna nent chairmen of local branches of the woman's Liberty loan board in many parts of the country. The appointments are being made for the purpose of assisting in the subscrip tion of the two billion-dollar war loan. NOTICE OF FORFEITURE. To L. M. Compton Diebold and Ray E. Compton, their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns: You are hereby notified that dur the years 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915 and 1916 I expended the sum of twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) in labor and improvements on the Comp ton and Woodring placer mining claims, situated on Coldstream in the Fairbanks mining and recording pre cinct. Territory of Alaska, said labor and improvements constituting the annual assessment work for the years mentioned. In order to hold your interest in said claim under the provisions of Section 2324 of the Revised Statues of the United States, said expenditure being for your share of the annual assessment work for said years, and if within ninety days after the last publication of this notice you fail or refuse to pay to the undersigned as co-owner your said proportion of terest in said claim will become the property of the undersigned as co owner under Section 2324, Revised Statutes of the United States. VAL DIEBOLD. First publication May 21, 1917. Last publication August 27. 1917. LOWER RIVER | PASSES AWAY (By Mail NKNANA. May 17. Samuel Find lo;. McDill. ag' il sixty-one. an old timer of all lower river mining p Ml here at 10 o’clock last night His death followed several days af ter an operation for acute appen dicitis, by which he was attacked 1 -hortly after enti ring the service of the Alaskan Engineering comnrssion about a month ago. For a time j after he was operated on he seemed to rally, and some hopes were held out for his recovery, but he suffered a relapse, death coming last night to relieve his sufferings. The deceased wns born at Iligs vill**, Henderson county, Illinois. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Dorothea I Sliehter, who resides at Sioux City, Iowa, and who has been advised of tho death of her parent. Mr. McDill had been a resident o. Alaska since lSDI. He was a took by occupation, and was re cently in charge of the civilian mess at Fort Gibbon, He had also spent considerable time in prospecting, be ing well known at Hot Springs and all other lower river mining camps. GERMANS AFTER RUSSIAN PEACE WASHINGTON, I). C„ May 15. - (Delayed) That the German attempt to break down the Russian provi sional government and to secure a separate peace with Russia is about to prove successful, is the report received at the state department from Petrograd, according to infor mation given out tonight. The ne gotiations which are said to be go ing on have already had the effect of lessening the military effective ness of the Russian army, and in the event that they terminate suc cessfully for the Germans will stop all fighting on the part of the Rus sian troops. The announcement comes on the eve of the departure of the Ameri can commission for Russia. Should the commission reach Petrograd in time, it is thought that the signing of peace terms can be averted. CONFIDENCE IN RUSSIA. WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 16. (Delayed)- Evidence that the United States government has every confi dence that the real Russian democra cy will soon reassert itself despite the Gernianophils, is the loan of $100,000,000 which has been made to Russia. The confirmation of the report that Foreign Minister Pavel Nikolaievich Milyukov has resigned his post has not shaken the confi dence of the administration, as the war experts consider that the pres ent troubles in Russia, following the recent revolution and consequent ov erturning of the monarchy, are but natural. M. Milyukov tendered his resigna tion yesterday. His portfolio as for eign minister has been taken by M. Tereschtenko, minister of finance, and M. Kerensky, previously minis ter of justice, has taken charge of the financial duties in the Russian cabinet. BRITISH WORK WITH ITALIANS (Associated Press) LONDON, May 18.—A British force is now co-operating with the Itali ans in the Isonzo drive, according to information received at the war office tonight. It is stated in the i report that the Austrians have made a number of desperate counter at tacks in an attempt to recover their lost ground, but that now the at tacks have been checked. A report received here tonight from Petrograd is to the effect that the Russians today repulsed a massed attack of the Germans near Shelov, on the eastern front. CONGRESS IS TALKING WAR (Associated Press) WASHINGTON, D. C., May IS.— The broad principles underlying Am erica’s over-ocean participation in the war in Europe was the subject for considerable discussion in commit tees of both houses of congress to day, and a British American trade conference was finally agreed upon. It was also agreed that the United States shall devote all of her re sources not needed at home and by her armies preferentially to the al lies, then to the nations of the world friendly with the entente. ENCOURAGING CHILDREN. OROVILLE, Cal., May 17.—In orde: to encourage the children to raise truck gardens, money prizes have been offered which will be awarded | to those achieving the best results. Commissioners Made biaternity Members (Associated Press) WASHINGTON. 1>. C. May IS Mr. Artliur Balfour, bead of the British war commission now paying a visit to the United States, has been made a member of the Phi Be ta Kappa American college honorary scholarship so ciety. Eleven other university — — 1 • • .4 4 Vs 4 Ko OrtfM T~VV I . i . ,n including British Ambassador Spring-Rice, were also made members of the society. All have expressed themselves as highly grateful for the honor thus con ferred upon them. AMERICANS IN CANADIAN ARMY Gl.YD OF WYRl LONDON, May 1 America's entry into the war was hailed with un bounded enthusiasm by everyone of j the 700 native-born Americans on- 1 camped near London in three Cana dian battalions, one of which, the 211th, has been called the new American Legion because of its j large percentage of “boys from the I States.” The other two battalions are the 212th and 213th. The 211th was called the American Legion when it was formed out in Calgary. While in process of for mation there it attracted Americans from many parts of the I'nited States and Canada. So it was only natural that the members should cling to their native designation when they landed in England, es pecially as the outfit numbered more Americans than any Canadian batta lion since the 97th, which was known as the original American Legion in the Canadian army, but which lost its identity when it was broken up and its members scattered among other regiments, some of which were sent to the front and saw fighting on the Somme. Ever since their arrival here early in January the men of the 211th have been crying for a taste of mod ern warfare. Their training in the Canadian northwest made them hard as nails, and as is characteristic of the American temperament, they were anxious to show results and quickly, too. So when the news of America’s ac tion spread through the camp the of fleers were at once besieged with in | quiries as to how soon they would be sent to the front. The men were told that no decision had been reach ed. This, however, did not dampen the enthusiasm of the men over the action of the country of their birth and they went through their drilling as never before. The news was like a tonic to all, from the commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel W. M. Sage, down to the most lowly private. Nearly all of the officers of the 211th were born in the United States. Colonel Sage is a native of New York City, later going to Cal gary where he belonged to several Canadian regiments. He is known throughout the western part of Cana da as a crack rifle shot and has been an instructor in the provisional schools of infantry there. A former New York State National Guardsman is second in command of the so-called new American Legion. He is Major L. E. Clark, also a na tive of New York City, where he was born 33 years ago. A Pennsylvanian is a quarter master of the battalion. He is Cap tain D. Trainer, who served in the Spanish-American war with Colonel Roosevelt’s Rough Riders. The medical officer is Captain W. K. Turner, formerly a surgeon in Louisville. Captain Turner was born in Flemingsburg, Ky. The paymaster, Captain E. R. Ed son was attached to the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey at Seattle, when he resigned to join the 211th. Captain H. R. Sanborn, a native of Petaluma, California, is a former member of the Washington National Guard. Lieutenant H. H. Jones served four years in the Seventy-fourth Regiment at Buffalo. There are many more officers from all parts of the United States. In fact, the battalion is full of capa ble men who have left lucrative posts to join the gallant fighters on the soil of France. BRITISH DON’T NEED OUR HELP (Associated Press) WASHINGTON, I). C., May 18 — From British shipping headquarters here has come the announcement that British shipping is sufficient to support the needs of England and her armies and to transport the nec essary supplies to the country and her troops. British shipping can take care of everything in that re gard, says the announcement, and does not need the help of the ship ping of the United States. It is therefore expected that all available American trans-Atlantic tonnage will be used to carry supplies from this country to Russia, France and Italy A Frenchman is the inventor of a machine for stringing beads by cen trifugal force. NEW PRECINCT FOR RECORDING MADE BY JUDGE In an order issued yesterday Judge ('Uarles E. Bunnell designates that Ncnana be a recording office and that the present l’nited States com n'iscinnert Rnhnrt K Burns art as recorder The boundaries of the new district take in, for the most part, ground that was before in eluded in the Fairbanks recording district. The order establishing the 1 precinct is as follows: In the District Court for the Terri tory of Alaska, Fourth Judicial Di vision. In the Matter of Establishing the Ncnana Recoiding Disir. t . rom a portion of the I-ui. narks Recoiding District: It appearing to the Court that, on account of the Town e.f Ncnana and the building of the uivernment Railroad from Broad pass to Ncnana, and upon the statements and repre sentations of Thomas Riggs, Jr., a member of the Alaskan Engineering Commission, and that it will be to the best interest and convenience of all concerned that a recording dis trict embracing that section of the Fourth division adjacent to said gov eminent railroad and town of Ne nana, be established. Now, therefore, it is ordered, ad judged and decreed, that the saiil Nenana recording district be, and is hereby, established, and shall in lode the territory bounded and described as follows: Commencing at Cathedral Moun tain, on the summit of the Alaskan Range, and extending in a westerly and northwesterly direction, around the head waters of the tributaries of the Wood river and Tatlanika on the east and north, and the tribu taries of the Nenana river on the west and south, and continuing along said height of land and natural di vide between the tributaries of the Nenana river on the west and south and the tributaries of the Totatlanika river on the east and north to Rex Dome, at the head of Rex creek, a tributary of the TotaUanika river, and continuing in a northerly direc tion on the height of land and na tural divide immediately to the v est of the Totatlanika river and its tribu taries to the Tanana river; thence crossing the Tanana river anti fol lowing the height of land and natur al divide to the highest point of land at the head of Little Coldstream and its tributaries, and the tributaries of Maiden creek, which point is marked by a monument and is hereby desig nated Hums’ Knob; thence in a west- | erly direction, following the height of land and natural divide immedi ately to the north of Little Cold stream and its tributaries to the Tan j ana river; thence following the chan nel of tlie Tanana river to the junc ticn of the Tanana river and the Tolovana river; thence in a souther ly direction along the divide between the Nenana river and is tributaries on the east and the Kantishna liver and its tributaries on ; ;e west to the summit of the Alaskan Range; thence along the Alaskan Range to Cathedral Mountain, the place of be ginning. The recording district heretofore described is intended i ine ude the Nenana river and r'l i.s tribe.aides and Chicken creek a; 1 all its tribu taries cn the :.ji ill of the Tanana river, end is rci intended to in clude Wood Tver, T. 'anika river, Tctailanika liver or any cf their tributaries cc the south of the Tan ana river, and is not i*.ended to include any of the tr ibutaries of Guldstream on the north of the Tanana river. Dated at Fairbanks, Alaska this 19th day of May, 1917. CHARLES E. BUNNELL, District Judge. LABOR LEADERS ENTOUR. (Associated Press) WASHINGTON, D. C., May 18.— The British labor leaders who are now in the United States as mem bers of the British war commission left this afternoon for a tour of the states of the middle west. Just prior to starting they concluded a conference on labor conditions in the middle west with labor and govern ment officials, and are now taking the journey with the idea of inspect ing conditions for themselves. The marshal's office has been noti fied that John Duyck and John Law ler both pleaded guilty to assault in commissioner’s court at Tanana re cently and were each fined in the sum of $25 by Judge Joseph C. Dehn. The fine and costs were paid. Tom Butler was acquitted at his preliminary trial on the charge of giving liquor to Indians. The com plainant in the proceeding was Joe Roberts. MAN IS KILLED WHEN AUTOMOBILE PLUNGES THROUGH BRIDGE RAIL Rikaldo Rapilato, a Pedro creek operator, was prob ably instantly killed shortly before 6 o'clock yesterday alter noon when his automobile plunged through the upstream railing of the bridge across Noyes’ slough. The accident was not witnessed, and Rapilato was alone on his was home after a visit to Fairbanks. The automobile is thought to have become unmanageable just as it was going on the bridge, and Rapilato was seen to be driving at a furious speed just a few moments before, having passed a man on the road. It was this man who, coming along a few mo ments later, noticed that the railing of the bridge had been broken and that a man’s hat was lying on the drift. Fur ther investigation showed the back end of the automobile sticking partly out of the water. The bod\ oi the tin for lunate man was recovered by searchers approximately three hours after the accident. The head was badly cut and bruised, which leads to the belief that Rapilato was thrown from the car with great force against the driftwood in the slough and that the body then sank. Another theorv is that the man was in the automobile when it took the plunge and that he was drowned, being held down by the car A large crowd of people gathered within a few moments after word of the accident was telephoned to town from Noyes’ mill office. Efforts to get the automobile out were then made, and the men working eventually succeeded in getting it hoisted from the water far enough to see that the corpse of the man was not in the tonneau. A further search of approximately an hour and a half was then nece sary before the corpse was located and hoisted to the surface. The first information brought to town regarding the happening was to the effect that the bridge had broken down under the weight of the automobile. By those familiar with the bridge, however, it was stated that that could hardly be pos sible, as the bridge had been prac tically rebuilt throughout last year after one of Ross’ automobiles had broken it down, precipitating six men into the slough, but causing no damage other than to the ma chine and the bridge. The water where the automobile took the plunge yesterday is approximately ten feet deep. Rapilato was seen to be driving out of town shortly before 6 o'clock at a furious rate. His rate of speed was also noticed on the Garden Island side of the river. It is un derstood that he was on his way home with a piece of hoisting ma chinery that he brought to town to lie repaired. He spent Thursday night in town, according to state ments made by his friends, and started for home yesterday morning, but after getting as far as Fox he met a party of friends who desired to come to town, so brought them back in his car. He was on his way home again when he met his death. No examination of the car for tiio purpose of determining the cause for its plunge has yet been made. Nor could the cause be as certained, in all probability, as the forward end of the machine was badly battered by contact with tin■ drift. The only evidence that a man was underneath the car or in the slough with it was the fact that lie could not be found and that a. man's hat was to be seen lying on the drift near the auto. It was stated last night that in all probability the radius rod of the ear, a Ford, became bent when the front wheels of the machine hit the slight obstruction offered by contact with the bridge approach at the high rate of speed that the man w driving. No otln r reason for the plunge of the automobile can lie as signed. Rikaido IJapilato was a native of the Italian Tyrol and was between thirty-five and forty rears of age lie had mined on Pedro creek for a number of years as a partner of Julius Gius. Last year he bought out his partner and then sold an interest to Julius Stolcis, who i ■ now on Pedro creek, but who is expected to arrive in town today. Town Gossip and Stories Bv The Tattler. MOLLY Molly is the name of HAD HIM the pet bear which TREED. is the mascot of the Fairbanks fire depart ment. She is veiy friend!/ with all of the fire boys and with other peo ple who come around to v sit her regularly, bringing such dainties as she is used to eating, but she is as quick to recognize a stranger as most humans. And she also recog nizes the fact that to the average stranger she possesses more or less terrifying qualities, which fact makes her inclined to show off whenever she gets a chance. Frank Clark was passing through the back yard at the fire hall one day last week. lie did not see Molly and she did not see him until he was almost upon her as she lay sleeping, but suddenly she aroused herself into consciousness with a “woof” that made Mr. Clark think, and think quickly. And he thought, but he did not think in the light way. For instead of jumping in a direction where Molly, in her playfulness, could not reach him on her short chain, he jumped right into the right angle corner formetj by two buildings. And there Molly kept him until help arrived and he was relieved from his predicament. For Molly on her chain, could reach eithei way from her stake except into tin coiner, consequently the coiner was the only safe place for Mr. Clark to stay. Every time he would start along the side of the building in either direction Molly, from her po sition on her haunches, would play fully reach out a paw that certain ly would have caught the man had he attempted to pass. lie tried it several times until he finally saw it was useless, so decided to gTve it up and call for help. Which accounts for Mr. Clark's chagrin when one of the firemen came down from the quaiteis and, putting his arm around Molly’s neck, affectionately bade her go way back and sit down, which site quietly did, enabling her victim to make his escape. It also accounts for the fact that Mr. Clark is trying to keep his bear episode quiet. CATCHING Mayor Henry T. Kay DOGS NOT does not think that HIS LINE. he looks like the present ncumbent of the office of municipal dog catcher. Nor yet does lie think Unit he hears a look similar to that which inhabits the physiognomy of that never-to-be forgotten past master in the art of catching dogs who formerly pn - id ed with nothing short of kingly grace at the dug pound. Ilut the other day Mayor Ray ran aero s a man who actually mistook him for a dog catcher. The mayor was walking out Cush man street when he mot a man who was being followed by a little black dog. Shortly before he reached the man in question the dog came on ahead and, friendly as he always is with animal or man that shows a disposit'on to be friendly with him, Mayor Kay reached down to pat the dog when it came up to him in a friendly manner. That was the signal for the man who owned the dog to act. For the moment he saw the mayor lay hands on the dog he jumped forward and grabbed his pet out of reach, saying "No Fairbanks dog catcher can get my dog if 1 get there first.” Mayor Hay, of course, was cun siderably taken aback at being taken for the municipal dog catcher. He did not wait to explain this all to the man who owned the deg, but he now says that, while he is willing to help dry out the fire department hose after a fire; will rustle lumber on the waterfront, and will even go to the extent of working on the streets if necesary, he absolutely re fuses to have the job of municipal dog catcher wished on him in that manner.