SOCIAL
CANDOR
My husband
cons) dered a
very long time
before he pro
posed to me. He
was very care
ful.
Ah, it's always
those eareful
people who got
taken in.
"My wife has a great scheme to
save coal."
"What is It?"
"Spend the winter In Florida.**
Some ).vt ran qiiii'K. ui. it- get rich
■lowly, most sthy poor.
If Russia really has uo leisure class
It must be lu terrible straits for office
boys.
Trof. Ellhu Thompson predicts that j
by means of wireless telephones Hi
will soon be as easy to talk to all part*
of the world u* It Is at present ovetJ
the local lines. Does he think that's.
A citizen «h>> can as Rube Ruth j
doe*. seeure the cheers of the mnltl i
fide without niakina any reference tc j
polities nm-r be retarded as servins';
h h'shlv uo-ful purpose.
FACE DIS
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URED
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And Blackheads. ItchedTerribly.
Lost Sleep. Cuticura Heals.
"Pimples and blackheads broke
out all ever my face an«i is was in a
dreadful condition. The pimples
were large and red and itched some
thing terrible and I lost many nights'
sleep. My face was disfigured and I
was ashamed to £0 out among other
girls.
"I saw an advertisement for Cuti
cura Soap and Ointment and sent for
a free sample, i bought more and
after I had used two cakes of Soap
and one and a half boxes of Oint
ment I was completely healed."
(Signed Miss Matilda J. Schikora,
R. R. 3. Kalispe'.'.. Mont.
Daily use of Cuticura Soap. Oint
ment and Talcum for toilet purposes
usually prevents skin troubles.
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oraior. -* D*7*. U. yiiti-u j!u» " Sold every*
w«- - -
^F*U:Kur.\ shavaj without mug.
m
W * EN*
P2C^3ge Is
cerm proof
The en<?s are sealed
by e!2c»r!cify so that alt
the goodness and flavor
are retained for you.
Each stick Is separately
wrapped. to keep it fresh and
cteisii till you need it —after
every meal or cigar.
Whitens teeth, clears
threat, sweetens breath,
ait: appetite and digestion
— great benefits for a
small price.
And ths Pries 3
Mi
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Secretary of
Agriculture
Talks on North
Seattle, May.—The Alaska Bureau
has received the following text of the
letter of Chairman Curry, in reply to
the letter of Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace:
Washington. D. C.
May 17. 1921.
Hon. H. C. Wallace,
The Secretary of Agriculture,
Washington. D. C.
My dear Mr. Secretary:
Permit mo to acknowledge receipt I
of your letter of lae UUi Instant
containing your comments on 11. it.,
ot!94. a bill to provide for tlie ad-j
ministratiou of national property and j
interests in the Territory of Alaska.
I appreciate your consideration of I
this measure and am glad to have
your suggestions and your thoughts.
I will have your letter printed in the
hearing as additional evidence that
supervision of the affairs of Alaska
on the ground must be brought
about if we are to develop the terri
tory. I would be pleased to discus?
this bill personally with you. Your
last paragraph endorsing the great
underlying principle of the bill, which
is the one big vital concern, greatly I
pleases me, and 1 have no doubt we 1
would have but little difficulty thru j
frank discussion in harmonizing our
views on the details of the applica- j
tion of the principle.
It is not a new conception. Form-j
er Senator Chamberlain introduced j
a similar bill in Congress many years
ago. I introduced ti bill along this
line In the 66th Cougress. on March
2. 1920. Former Secretary of the
Interior, on. Franklin K. Lane, worth
reading, for it goes briefly, but fully,
into the details of interlocking bu
reau control, lie endorsed this plan.
1 venture to suggest that no plan
that might be concieved by the mind
of man would ever meet with the
unanimous aproval of all of the oT
varieties of bureau officials who gov
ern Alaska from Washington anj
hold in their absolute control the
prosperity, the development, and the
aelfare of the Territory, and the hap
piness of the people.
You will find by careful reading
of the hearings that all of the bu
reaus thought something was wrong
with the Federal Administration of
Alaska, that something should be
brought about, but invariably they
held up their hands iti horror when
it was suggested that possibly their
bureau should be Included in the
general plan of co-operation.
During the hearings, many ot the
witnesses suggested that what is
needed in Alaska is more money,
which has a familiar sound to Con
gress, and more power and more em
ployes for each of the federal agen
cies; that then they could operate
efficiently. At the present time, one
out of every five white male inhab
itants of the Territory, approximate
ly, is a federal or territorial employe.
I doubt tho wisdom of going much
further along that line. It is inti
mated, however, that additional fed
eral employees will be sent to Alaska
to take charge of the water power,
under the jurisdiction of the Federal
Tower Commission.
Of course, the Forestry Service
and the Federal Power Commission
must co-operate or there can be no
full development of the paper pulp
industry in Alaska. This is one ex
..:i p| j i'!' ovpr-iapping and inter-lock
ing control that has been largely res
ponsible for the stagation of the in
dustry in the Territory. How much
more simple if a responsible Board
had jurisdiction, subject to respon
sible cabinet control. What we need
in Alaska is not more experts, but
more hardy home building pioneers
to develop the Territory.
One of the objections frequently
made to the Alaska Development
Board is that it is "something."
That is the philosophy of Confucius
and has been responsible for keeping
China in a state of coma for centur
ies.
The1 outstanding fact is that bu
reau control from Washington has
failed.
You state tnat "we nave in Alas
ka an opportunity to create a second
Norway." This fact, Mr. Secretary,
is what prompted this bill. We have
that opportunity within our grasp
for the past fifty-three years hut bu
reau control has not only failed to
develop this second Norway, but has
depopulated it continuously for the
past twenty years. During the past!
ten years, the decrease in population j
has beeu enormous.
I have never known of long range
administration or government that
was successful administration or
good government, and I have never
known of any man or set of men
who would willingly surrender pow
or thoy possess.
1 care little whether the members
of this Board be called Assistant Sec
retaries, as has been suggested by
some: .Members of the Development
Hoard, or what their titles may be.
1 agree with Shakespeare that there
is very little in a name.
The bill I Introduced is a tenta
tive measure pure and simple. I so
stated in the hearings. I regret you
not have an oportunity to be
present at the hearings and I hope
you will find time to read thetn care
fully when they are prftited. I
think, if you do so, many questions
in your mind will be answered.
I will send you a copy of the hear
ings when they are printed. It has
taken more than a year to get the in
formation together that is contained
in these hearings. They are the com
plete story of Alaska not only thru
American occupation, but also dur
ing- llussian occupation. They show I
:ti detail the known resources of the |
Territory, the possibilities, and most f
important, the neglect that is a na
tional shame.
What we need in Alaska is that j
there be stationed there a Board of
officials who will have power to act
just as the bureaus in Washington
now act 011 matter* of administra
tion of national property and inter
ests in Alaska. They must live in
Alaska and not in Washington, think
in terms of Alaska, and know Alas
ka. its people and its need by per
sonal observation, continuous asso
ciation. and close contact, and not
by theorizing from afar. They must
and will be fully responsible to the
Federal Government in Washington
and the final draft of a bill, as I
stated at the hearings, will give the
Secretary of the Interior full power
to review, and the President will
possess power of review over his
decisions. Also, tbe President will
be ghen power to remove a member
of the Board at his pleasure.
There is no general denial of the
necessity for such legislation. There
is some quibbling over the best meth
od of practical application of the
broad principle. This can and will
be adjusted, to meet all objections
that are tenable.
I assure you that there is no in
tention to give the Development
Board any greater power than is
now possessed by the Washington
Bureaus, and no greater power will
be given. I see no reason to be
alarmed that the Board might waste
the natural resources of the Terri
tory. Of course, they would not. If
they attempted to do so, they would
be promptly removed and held up to
public shame, just as would a Bu
reau Chief of Department heads
attempting. And there is every rea
son to assume the President would
select the members of the Board as
carefully as he selects Bureau Chiefs
and Department heads.
X M W
j The Nugget Shop, Inc.
Robert Simpson, Mgr.
JUNEAU, ALASKA
X A General Jewelry & Optical Business Conducted. Mail Or
*{* ders Solicited
•j* Mr. 11. L. Uouglns, Formerly Watch Inspector C. M. & St.
P. |{. It. Co.,""Can. I'ac. Lines. In Charge o( Watch Repair
||* Department.
X Mr. P. J. Click, Formerly of Mayer Bros., Seattle, In
Charge of Jewelry Mfg. & Repairing.
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All of us, I know, realize the nec
essity of action. Some of the sug
gestions contained in your letter are
very helpful and will be used. In
some instances, however, you have
misinterpreted the text of the bill.
X hope that I may have privilege
of your advice and your full and cor
dial co-operation in nil effort to per
fect the most workable bill possible.
With kindest regards, I am.
Sincerely yours,
CHARLES F. CURRY
Chairman Committee on
the Territories.
ALL Yl'KOX COLD WORKS
GOING -FULL BLAST
George Coffey, resident manager
of the Yukon Gold, announced this
morning that the company's power
plant at Twelvemile started opera
tions yesterday for the season, and
today the juice was shot over the
hills 75 miles, to Gold Run, where
it began driving the company's big
gold dredge which is operating on
that creek. The electric power also
will be used to drive the big twin
centrifugal pump which will lift the
water from the ereeH for 1000 points
which the company will use in the
cold water thawing process on Gold
Hun this season. This the the big
gest cold water thawing project yet
undertaken in the Klondike, and it
give promise of every success. The
pumps will hoist 1,200 gallons of
water a minute and force it through
the points. Many new points were
made at the company's plant. War
ren McFarland is there looking after
the details. The bucket line was put
on the Gold Run dredge this morn
ing. and the big machine started
digging on claim No. 2S. Marvin H.
Benton is dredge master in charge.
The Yukon Gold hydraulic works
also are well under way, with plants
working, at Jackson, Lovett, Fox,
Oro Fino. American, Adams, Chee
chako and Gold Hills.
Endeavoring to
Find Happiness
Seattle.—Wanted—a baby.
Sending an emissary 1,000 miles to
Seattle to find a child for them to
adopt, an Alaska couple, doing mis
sionary work in the North, have fail
ed to find the little human mite need
ed to complete their happiness.
Rut they are still hopeful. Their
forwarding address is held by the
Washington Children's Homo Society
and they have first call.
They want a girl anywhere from a
month to 4 years old. Specifications
as to complexion, nationality, eyes,
hair and everything else arc waived.
\V. H. Slioemakw, 22 years old,
and his 21 year-oltf wife have been
married for two years and for the
last eight months have been doing
missionary work for the Penticostal
Rescue Mission at Skagway. They
are soon to go into the interior in
furtherance of their missionary work
and having no children of their own
decided to adopt a Kittle girl. When
their friend, Mrs. A. R. Hillery, sec
retary of the Skagway board of edu
cation, recently was called to Seat
tle on business, they commissioned
her to find a child tor them.
Mrs. Hillery was in Seattle 10
days, but was unable to find a little
girl such as they required, although
she applied to the Washington Chil
dren's Home Society, the Public Wel
fare League and other charitable in
stitutions. Mrs. Hillery left for Al
aska the other morning, but has left
credentials for the couple at the Se
attle offices of the Children's Home
Society in the Thompson building,
and said they would gladly send for
a girl should one be found.
Dr. George H. Sheaf, state super
intendent of the society, said there
are so many applications for little
orphan girls for adoption that it is
impossible to fill them. The only lit
tle girl at the home in Seattle an
swering the requirements of the Al
aska couple he said, had been virtu
ally reared by her 13 year-old sister
and when the sister objected to going
to the North he did not feel that he
could separate them. Dr. Sheaf said
that Mr. and Mrs. Shoemaker's rec
ommendations were of the best.
MICKIE S<\YS
n
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OOt TH' ON4 rcEUN1 GOOO >*MEU
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BW\S DESV^ Rti^VMVNl FtRtrt'
XWj'h fcHC-VOSiVl' NSONtX
Just Where He Had Left It.
L'ncle Billy is gifltini: old :iml ah
sent-minded. One day Aunt Sully, his
•vifo, noticed that he was roaming
round from room to room. Presently
he called to her from the kitchen,
"Sally, have you seen my pipe?"
"No, Billy," she answered. "Can't
you find It?"
"No, I can't!" lie replied rather
crossly. "I've looked upstairs und all
over, and I can't find It."
"Didnt' you leave it In the latn
room?" asked Aunt Sally.
"No, I didn't. I've looked there.
Come and look yourself."
As Aunt Sally laid down her paper
she heard him laugh.
"Have you found It. Bill?" she
usked.
"Yes," he replied. "It was in my
mouth."—Youth's Companion.
A Miner of Bullets.
F. 11. I.nmley, an ore specialist, Is
removing lead and copper-nickel from
the hill back of the target range at
Camp Lewis, near Tacoma, Wash. By
means of a "jig" operated by water
power, lie shakes the heavy metal
from the earth which he Is excavating.
In three months' time, he expects to
get 100 tons of metal valued approxi
mately at $200 a ton, and having
cleaned up at Camp Lewis, he will
take his apparatus to other camp
cites. All of the metal he mines was
shot into the hillside by the boys of
Uncle Sam's army two years ago.
Lainley works on a commission basis.
"First man to mine a target range."
says Lamley of himself.—Leslie's
Weekly.
Not Exactly Church Music
Reverent Catholics of Dunkirk an
j demanding an investigation why th«
Dunkirk cathedral chimes, Instead ot
playing the Angelus, are now calling
the faithful to worship by exhilarat
ing jazz tunes, with fox trot music pre
dominating.
Fox trotting Is not especially ram
paat in Dunkirk, but the cathedral bell
ringer must have bad his vacation ic
far is, for, according to Itii astouudec
listeners, lie lias oeen playing recent
ly with a pure Montmartre touch, no!
ulssins a single note.—Loudon Mail.
It Is suld persistent efforts are be
ing made to smuggle Bolshevist
propaganda into the Unltetd States,
and that they are at work in other
countries. How their missionary work
can accomplish anything in the face of
the miserable failure of their doc
trines In Russia itself. It Is hard to
see. Common sense would suggest
that Bolshevism Is Its own worst
demonstrator.
Apropos of hazing. It is an odd fea
ture of human nature that the aver
age student would rather be a bully
than a gentleman, arguing the old defi
nition of a gentleman as o man of
kind heart, considerate ways and a
Just mind.
Rather than further reduce prices,
speculative holders of hides are said
to be selling them to be made Into
glue. The public has suspected that
most of them were being transformed
into paper for use as soles.
If the report that three Americans
have been brutally killed by Bolshe
vists Is true, Americans thrown Into
contact with Bolshevists hereafter
will probably take pains to conceal
their nationality. _ _
Seattle, June 6.—Dr. Trlse, today
purchased of the John Hume Com
pany the caunery seine boat Com
mander. Dr. Drise plans to operate
tills boat in the herring fishing at the
Seldovia banks.
Save letter writing by sending
the Alaskan bak home to the folks.
Special terms for a trial subscrip
tion.
SKAGWAY'S
l'K.\TERNA!< ORDERS
Camp Skagway No. 1,
meets every second and
fourth Tuesday evening
at 8:IS0 o'clock. Visit
ing brothers cordially welcome.
•J. M. Keller, Ii. S. Keller,
Arctic Recorder. Arctic Chief.
tP" Vj B> P* °' EliKS, Skag
/ffj u'a.v Lodge, No. 431, B.
1'. O. Elks, meets fiist
and third Thursdays at
8:30 p. ni.
Visiting brothers cor
dially welcome.
J. C. WOOD, K. R.
I'. J. VANDEWALIj, Secretary.
«. F. & A. M.
A White 1'ass Lodge F. & A.
A. M. No. US, meets 2nd
;ul(' 4;h Saturday evenings
y\ of cadi month at H o'clock.
Visiting Brethren are wel
come.
JOHN N. HANSEN, .. . '•!.
T. J. Standisii, Secretary
hi W-J
m
Fraternal Order of
Eagles
siii'gway Aerie, No.
Fraternal Order oi
Ragles, meet the Hi si
und third Wednesday night of each
month at their hall on Fifth Ave
nue. Visiting brothers conlially in
vited to attend.
M. E. ROGERS, W. P.
J. M. (irieshaeh, Sec'y.
Pioneers of Alaska, Igloo No. 12,
meet in A. 15. 11 ill first Monday in
every month at S:.'50 p. m.
Visiting brothers cordially wel
come. C. I'M ELI'S, Sec'y.
Narv-.'ii Chapter No. 9,
<). !■:. S., meets in Ma
sonic hall, first and
third Friday, of each
month, at 8 o'clock. Vis
iting members welcome.
t'liarrie Marie Sparks,
Wo.'thy Matron.
Leila 1". f'ri.w. Secretary.
i^Lticiwxsr-L
PROFESSIONAL CARDS t
W. 15. STOUT
Attorney at Law
Practice in all courts
In Territory of Alaska
HALVES ALASKA
nr. ; . S. KELLER
Dentist
Mot Modern Met hods
Office Honrs: !>-12 a. in.—1-0 p. m.
Alaskan liuiMing Broadway
SKAGWAY ALASKA
Nearly fifty lu'.e copywright books
by the best authors, are now on sale
at popular prices. Look the list
over before the oue you have beeu
desiring to read is sold. Ksller
Bros.
T11E SKAGWAY
Pioneer Dairy
II. F. SEEMAN, Prop.
The largest and best con
ducted dairy in Alaska. .
Daily shipments of pure
milk and cream' to all
points on While Pass &
Yukon Route.
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7 SAFE A SUCCESSFUL
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uarne K»~
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Piles Cured In 0 to 14 Days
Druggists refund money if PAZO
OINTMENT fails to cure Itching,
Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles.
Instantly relieves Iteming Piles, and
you can get restful sleep after first
application. GOc.