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OTJ) GLORY",
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"America For Americans
FOOD WINS THE WAR j
DON'T WASTE IT j
SKAt.WAY AFFAII!
Tvfl scare which S&agwav had a
few days ago over possibility or
likelihood of German plotters do
i^g damage there should not be
passed over too lightly. All may
take a warning. The German se
cret system is tjo widely known for
•' tr be laughed at. The treachery
of her acents, and the extremes to
which she will so to embarrass
'hose who help to oppose the im
perial autocrat is enough to make
everv individual in Canada precau
tious. Yukoners can place no
absolute safety because of re
moteness of their location.
Had a German plot su< h as wag
rumored been carried into effect,
and the railway terminals, bridges
aud storehouses destroyed. Yukon
traffic might have suffered severe
ly for many months, and industries
in this Tealin block'd in conse
quence.
Yukon will make no mistake in
guarding cautiously against any
such plots b^ing underktcen in
•his realm. Even though the en
emy might never authorize any such
operations in this field, there re
main?- the danger from fanatics.
K'eraal vigilance is required.
l>a»son News
\VK MIST i.O AKTKIl TOIKIST
TKAVEL
Judging from California newspa
per reports, one of which we print
elcewhera in today's issue of the
Alaskan, California has gone wild
oyt the possibility of an unusually
large tourist travel there this sum
mer. Transcontinental trains will
operate their regular quota of
passenger coaches, according to an
asnouacement of Secretary McAdoo
woo is general manager of the gov
ernment's railroads.
furthermore E. K. Hoak, organ
izer of a California tourist associa
tion, Bays the 1'acific Northwest
was so enthusiastic over the publici
ty olaa that the organizations in
Seat'.Je, Portland and Spokane
agreed to duplicate any sum the
pe<-Dle of California would spend in
advertising the resources of those 1
cities and the sta'es ot Oregon and
Washington. The Seattle Chamber
of Commerce is to spend $56,000.
Wa also learn that under federal
ooeration the railroads have dis
continued advertising of a publicity
nature. Clearly then if Alaska is to
pet a share of this tourist travel
■which is coming to the Northwest
and to California it is up to the
indiclduai cities and towns to do
gome advertising <"f their own.
okagway always has been the big
gest tourist town ia Alaska, and we
should net let this opportunity po
b* without waking tux citjr known
California's Doors Flung
Wide to Tourist Travel
lie San Francisco Chronicle of
January 26 says:
California'^ doors have been flung
wide to tourists. Easterners who
are shivering under the blasts of
winter, which finds them in the
heart of a fuel famine, may now
urepare to takg that long-planned
trip to the land of sunshine and
summer on the Pacific Coast.
This has been made possible
through an order of the Secretary
o* tl'e Treasury permitting all trans
continental railroads now under
Government control to operate the
regular quota of passengei\ trains
a* an encouragement ta tourist traf
fic to the Pacific Coast aa a waj
necessity. » i
Thousands Expended
"Thousands of dollars are being
expended in this campaign," said
F K. Hoak, organizer of tha board,
after he had returned from the
Pacific Northwest, where he was in
strumental in the formation of sim
ilar publicity organizations that
would serve ttho interest of res
pective communities in the Bame
way, "To date, the Southern Cali
forn a Publicity Board has expended
appioximately $30,000 In full page
advert sements in forty different
aewspaoers of the big Eastern cities
advertising California's resources
and climatic conditions. Fullv
$100,000 will be spent before the
jcamoaigu is finished, and that will
uot be until the present tourist
season ends.
According to Hoak. the people of
the Pacific Northwest were so en
thusiastic over the publicity plan
tb»t the organizations in Seattle,
! Portland and Spokane agreed to
uplicate any sum the people of
California would spend in advertis
ing the resources of those cities and
trie states of Oregon and Washing
ton.
Seattle Joins Campaign
"The Seattle Chamber of Com
merce alone agreed to spend $56,
000 in. advertising the resources of
'hat city and Washington State,"
seld Hoak.
"The aim of the board," he
continued, "is to enlarge into aa
organization that will include the
eiH.'reP acific Coast territory, aud
the Pacific Northwest readily as
sented to this plan. During the
present tourist tsoason, however, the
publicity, which supplants rail
road advertising, discontinued when
the Government assumed control,
will serve the Individual sections."
Heat is the associate of D. M.
L'nnard, manager of tl»e Hotels
Maryland, Huntington and Green in
pajadeiia and the Fairmont in San
Francisco. They are expaining the
details of the plan to the business
men of San Francisco, and a meet
ing will be held some time next
' week to determine what steps will
be taken by San Francisco Interests
to forward the "come West" move
ment.
| Speaking on the subject, Linnard
said: "If Californians respond to
tie appeal promptly we shall have
the biggest tourist season in our
history. Many thousands of East
erners had planned to come here,
but cancelled their arrangements
•vhen they feared that Government
operation of railTOads would make
travel between the East and the
| West uncertain. We have to reas
surp them on that point. The rail
'roads will not do it, for under Fed
1 .-»rai operation they have discontin
I ued advertising of a publicity na
jtuie. Money which we spend in
i th's way will bo the only advertls
liv^ we can count on, and if we
don'* spend it w# must prepare to
sulfer a tremendous loss this wlu
rer 'n Calif oraiV
WE^FELL"
F W. Sterling, district freight
agent at Nelson, B. C., for the
C. P. R., sends us the following
verse. In sending it he Bays: "If
tne recent 'chinook' has thawed out
thf plan', ami your great heart,
sufficient to put von in a recept
ive mood, you may 'fair for this.'
(Gone are the days of midnight
brajvlg.
The open james
Aid music halls
Have given ulace to Time's advance.
Acd robbed the Nortfc
Its rough, romance.
Here where the Miner built his
shack,
And rested
After weary pack,
An.-' dreamed him then of fortune
made
With sluice box
•At'd his willing spade.
Tnert- lingers new but little trace,
Nor of him >vho,
Lost in Fortune's race,
Pulled stakes and stri'sgled futher
on.
Nor left some word
Where htj had gone.
W; tear of those who fortune earn
ed.
But what of him
Who ne'er returned?
Tha cabin floor his bou«s may hide.
Hut jvho can tell us
How: he died?
I* those great hills could only
speak,
Their tales might cause
.Some men to seek
A safe retreat wherein to shun.
Avengers of
A murder done.
All this is past, and boat and track
Now carry the Miner
And his pack,
Her.-.- where he panned on River's
edge,
Now echo's the coughing
Of the dredge.
Yet ocience and her modem ways.
May change the scenes
Of other days,
Be sure such things can never quell.
Nor rob the Northland
0-: her spel].
to the traveling public. We may
feel safe and lay l>ack saying that
steamboat companies and . other
tourist agencies are on the Job
aDd after all the tourist travel they
can get. This may be true, but
whatever we can do ourselves will
19 so much, gained. Skagway civic
bodies could spend part of their re
sources to no better purpose than in
advertising Skagway. "Advertising
pays' and' he who goes after the
same when it is to be had, usual-j
iy sets J i
MRS. PHILIP NORTH MOORE
Mrs. Philip North Moore, pre?ide«l
of the National Council of Women.
MILK AS A FABRIC.
Chemlatry Can Convert It Into Many
Uiaful Materials.
Although any one will concede that
man cannot live by U'eud ulone, it has
been thought possible to get along
rather nicely If milk were added to the
diet. But it remained for two l'rench
chemists, Francois Lebreil and itnoul
Desgeorge. to conceive an Idea where
by milk may also be made to yield a
fabric which may be converted Into
clothing and ornaments.
The curds of the milk are subjected
to a chemical treatment by means of
which the mass is converted into a
plastic substance which may be rolled
into sheets resembling celluloid, from
which buttons and other articles such
as combs, umbrella handles, bric-a
brac and even imitation leather may be
made, all of which ure ^f attractive ap
pearance and of excellent wearing
qualities.
The milk Is first roblud of Its fat.
after which it is warmed with rennet
so as to form curds. It is then par
boiled and exposed to the air and then
Is treated with acetone to give it the
required hardness, plasticity and trans
parency. The product may be made so
soft that it tan be usod as a substitute
for silk iu the manufacture of fine
underwear, or it in; .7 l:e made solid
enough to serve i s a good Imitation of
1 Ivory.—Popular Science Monthly.
Sweep of the Konjo
The Kongo Is the most wonderful
system of waterway 011 the face of the
globe. It bas twice the extent of the
navigable waters of the Mississippi
and its tributaries and throe times its
population. Professor Pupont, once di
rector of the Museum of Natural His
tory at Brussels, said that Its fertile
valleys were destined to be t!ie granary
of the world. India rubber, gutns. ivory,
dyestuffs, silver, lead. Iron, coffee and
palm oil are there in immense quantl
♦ FRATERNAL ORDERS ♦
Arctic Brotherhood. —
Camp Skagway No. 1,
meeta every second and
fourth Tuesday evening
at 8:30 o'clock. Visit
ing brotLers cordially welcome.
Kdwml A. Rainnuson, Arctic Chief.
William R. Gray, Arctic Recorder.
Fraternal Oi tier
Katies—
Skcgway Aerie,
No. 25, Frater
nal Order of
linyjrs nidi, uio Illtil ailll Ultra
\\'i dnesday night of each ukuiUi at
their iiall 011 Fifth. Avenue. Vlait
in*- (Mothers cordially invited to
atteutl.
Johu M. Roller, W. 1'.
J. M. Ciriesbach, Secretary.
F. & A. M.
Wbit« Pasg Lodge
P. & A. M. No. 113
meet® ad and 4th
Saturday Evenings
of eiU;h months. ViaUlng Brethren
ar« welcome.
HAROLD TALBOT. W. M.
J Ail Ho -WALLACE, Secretary.
fcfiSS3
B. P. O. ELKS
Sfcagway Lodfc*
No. 431. B. P. 0.
E. mei'te every
Tkureday S:30
p. m.' Visiting
brothers cordially welcome.
W. B. BATSON. E. R.
T. J. VAWDEWALL, seci »t*rj
I'lonetr of Alaska Igloo, No. 12,
I meet* In A. B. Hall first Monday In
j ewry month at 8:80 p. m.
Vfelting Brothers cordially wel
come.
J. C. WOOD. Pres.
P. H. Doree, Rec. Sec.
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OH! MY BACK!
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j The Expression of Many a KUfc^ey
Su/ferer
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A stubborn backache is cause to
suspect kidney trouble. When the
kidnevs are Inflamed and swollen,
stooning brings a sharp twigne in
t'-e small of the back that almost
'ikes the breath away. Doan'a Kid
ney P1113 revive sluggish kidneys —
relieve aching backs. Here's con
vincing proof of merit.
Mrs. M. Hoflmes, 1016 Indian St.,
Bellingham, Wash., says: "For quite
awijl* I had a dull, heavy ache
I across the small of my back. Often
•v" eu I straightened after Btooping,
sharo pains seized me in my sides.
I hod terrible headaches and dizzy
spelle and my kidneyB didn't act
regularly. In the morning I ttis
always tired and worn out. After
I had used one box of Doan's Kidney
Pills I could see they were help
'ug me. My back g«t stronger and
m0, kidneys acted regularly." (State
ment given October 6, 1913.)
0» July 31, 1916, Mrs. Holmes
said: "My opinion of Doan's Kid
ney Pills hasn't changed. 1 have
always received splendid results
from them."
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closed. Deafness is the result. Unless the
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