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EDITORIAL
WRTHUKST CROPS GOOD
la spite of dry weather continued
over a long growing period, crop re
ports 'or Washington, Oregon and
Idaho are ;o the effect that last
year's yield will be exceeded in
the comiug hardest and that the
Northwest states will show a wheat
crop of approximately 65,000,000
oushels. Last year'* yield for the
.Northwest was 5S,900,00() bushels.
While the yield per acre will not be
so large this year, the season's to
tal will be swelled l*y the increased
acreage. Kains, though belated,
have improved prospects some
what, aiiii the total may thus ex
tend beyond the estimates.
la the nation the long suspense
of waiting for th9 wheat to ma
ture -3 largely over, though West
ern Canada fields are still lacking
some days of maturity. The w-orld
nas never waited so anxiously for
news of its growing crop, nor has
the outcome of so grave an issue
turned upon it. it seems now re»
t'jly assured that the alfled coun
tries w-ill not be lacking in bread
for anotner year, and that their ar
ises w"' be abundantly sustained in
:>ie field as well as the civilians at
home. Last year's wheat crop of
••^5 million bushels !n the nation is
to be greatly exceeded, just how
much is yet to be determined, but
it is reasonable to expect a yield
of little less than one bHlion
bushels.
in the Northwest an adequate
harvest gives promise to our agri
cultural interests of continuing pros
Jierity. In general lines of trade the
whole state is feeling the stimulant
ot" war operations, and particularly
ot shipbuilding. A good crop will
take care of the 'armer and In
clude h'm in the general prosperity.
The Northwest should have a year
of continuing growth and progress
ahead of it.—Seattle P.- I.
I RK HI VS PEACE OFFER
There is only one difference be
tween the Hun new proposal for a
peace conference and all the former
proposals. The difference is in the
occasion. Former proposals 'were
made on the heels cf minor military
success: this one Is made immedi
ately s'ter a major military failure.
Hut with singular stupidity the Pru^
siun war lords speaK in the tone of
victors, and offer a German-made
peac® as a boon to the world. Of
touree, the new offer is intended for
home consumption. After the fail
ure of the great offensive, somethin
had to De done to sustain the mor
ale of the German people, who in
addition to all the sacrifices of the
past four years, now face continu
ous pinching hunger if not starva
tion.
The'impudence o* the new pro
posal is astonishing. No man in any
of tie allied nations can read the
terms without a feeliug of bitter
TRAINING SCHOOL FOR ARMY CHAPLAINS AND ITS COMMANDER
^\t Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, K.v.. there is :i school where the men who look after the spiritual welfare
Of oui* fighting boys are trained. Here they gain the neccessary knowledge of military routine, nnd upon qualifying
are commissioned as officers. The photograph shows the chaplain students in the mess hall, and Inserted la a por
trait of MaJ. A. A. Pruden, commander of the school.
Carrying The Four Minute Message
In Alaska, The Land of Distances
Alaskan Four Minute Men tackled
a miux's size job when they under
took: to carry the message across
586,400 square mi'es o^territory.
frozen 8 feet deep during the great
er part of the year, and never easy
to travel over because of lack: of
transportation systems, to reach
some 64,000 people, includnig In
dians and Eskimos, scattered all
over this land of dazzling dis
tances.
The job needed doing, however
and there were plenty of patriotic
volunteers found ready and able to
tackle it.
R. E. Robertson, Territorial chair
man, has built up a wonderfully ef
ficient organization in each of the
four judicial divisions of his vast
proconsulship.
Each divsiion is under the direct
ion of a divisional chairman, who
has his local chairmen just as in the
States.
H. P. Faulkner, or Juneau, di
rects *he first division; G. J. Lo
men, of Nome, the second division;
Thomas S. Scott, of Cordova, the
third division; and John A. Clark,
of Fairbanks the fourth division.
Down to the date of the last mail
there were 31 local chairmen, . y
field representatives (whose func
tions wfll be realt with later, 39
Four Minute Men to fraternal or
ganizations, 3 public schools using
the Four Minute plan, and some 250
Four Minute Men, including three
ladies.
indignation. Unanimously every one
of the allied nations will reject the
terms of peace for two reasons:
First, because most of them are
unrighteous; second, because no
honorable government will permit
itself to deal with a morally bank
rupt government. The government
of Germany has no honor. It vio
lated the peace treaty with the
Bolsheviki government of Russia
within twenty-four hours after the
treaty was signed.
The questions which the kaiser
would settle at his proposed peace
conference in Madrid will be set
tled on the field of battle. There
is no other way. The civilized world
must either be free or under Hun
dominion. Its freedom and the
safety of the people will be in dan
ger until Prussian militarism is
destroyed. Until the destruction of
that world menace is an accom
plished fact, there can be no peace.
—Portland Telegram.
TELLER MISSION' BURNED
Eire destroyed, the large Teller
Mission building one morning last
month. The night before the boys
were fumigating the building and
one of the boys had stopped a hole
in the stove pipe with a rag to
keep the fumes from spreading. He
forgot to take the rag away and
when the fire was started at seven
o'clock next mornins: the rag caught
fire, and the wooden structure was
in flames in a few moments. Rev.
Fosso, his wife and Miss Enevstedt
awoke and were oarely able to es
cape, saving hardly any of their
clothes, money and tooks. They are
now living in the old mission build
ing near by till a dwellnig house
can be built.
Tne fine buildin? that was de
stroyed was built about ten years i
ego. It housed the mission and the ;
Bureau of Education School. It is j
estimated that it can hardly be re- ]
Placed for ten thousand dollars be- ■
cause of the present high price of '
building materials.—The Nome Es- <
ktmo. 1
Because of the distances between
small settlements, Mr. Robertson
has enlisted the services of nine ax
perienced talkers whc are known as
field representatives, and who are
makine four-minute addresses on.
the trails, on boats .and in the road
houses along their itineraries.
Some of these settlements get no
news more recent than six months
old; and it may be imagined that
the need for such a service of in-,
formation, is vorV marked.
. Alaskans love the "movies" every
bit as much as their brothers in the
States; even the Indians and the
Kskimos are constant attendants at
the motion-picture theaters with
which every sizable center of popula
tion is provided.
The very best of the feature films
find a way into these Alaskan fast
nesses. while the theaters themselves
compare very favoraoly with those in
the large cities in the States. As
for the Quality of the four-minute
speeches given during the intermis
sions, !t may well bt said that the
invigorating climate vuts even more
pep and punch into them than usual
There are all kinds of climates in
Alaska; in some sections, particu
larly on the coastwise slopes of the
Alaska range, the residents may be
obliged to pass from their homes to
the 'heaters through snow tunnels.
Snow t a depth o* 63 feet has
been Known to fall during a winter
season.
n>. tii*> snnihorn coast th« ther
mometer rarely reaches zero and the
winters are jileasant and mild; in
niarkpd contrast to the real Interior,
the Yukon Valley country for ex
ample. where the temperature some
times descends to S0° below. In all
sections, however, wherever there
are theaters, the entir population
turns to them eagerly to relieve
the tedium of long and dreary
nights or to break the monotony of
the months of lonely prospecting a
mong the mountains; and bo the
four-minute message is brought to
them all.
Where there are no theaters, the
Four Minute Men have not hesitated
to avail themselves of all kinds of
ready-made audiences to present
their patriotic appeals; Balls, par
ties, teas, games, gatherings of all
sorts and conditions of people, glad
ly pause to hear the four minute
message of the Pour Minute Men of
Alaska.
Even out among the frozen Soli
tudes they go behind their twinging
teams of huskies; or up and down
the great rivers to distant camps
sind f'sheries; wherever there are
Garcias, these intrepid patriots Will
be found carrying the message of
:ourage and conviction, of service,
and of sacrifce.
Results have bulked big in sales
af War Savings Stamps and of
Liberty Bonds; while food conserva
tion has been carried to such a de
free that even tne natives deny
themselves sweets ,the supreme re
initiation on their part.
The Four Minute Men of Alaska
ire making good on a mighty diffi
:ult job.
Tne above was taken from the
Pour Minute Mens' News and shows
ivhat the world thinks of the Four
tfinut© Men's part in winning
he war program.
Locally Fred J. Vandewall is the
ihairman of the Four Minute Men
ind he has appointed Messrs. E. J
5haw, V. I. Hahn, Paul H McClel
and, L. H. Pederaen and Dr. L. S.
teller. Besides these speakers Mr.
Tandewall furnishes every fraternal
irganization with, en article to be i
ead in the meetings.
i CELEBRANTS AT BIRTHDAY
DRINK CACHE
There was a bottle of Golden
Wedding, a bottle of Dewar's spe- j
cial Scotch and several bottles of
the finest wine on the sideboard in
the card rooms of George Phelpa
yesterday afternoon and evening. On
another table was a large cake, the
finest George Smith, with his ex
pert bkill, could bake, and the
cake just melted in one's mouth.
Men came and men went, select
ed the bottled goods they wished to
imbibe in, turned out a good glass
full, smacked their lios, and winked.
It evidently hit the spot. And
George Phelps kept the door of his
store wide open ahd welcom: all to
, partake.
It was Mr. Phelpa' "21st" birth
day, and the lid was to all intents
absolutely off. There were no
candles on the cake, as there would
have been room, but there was the
nanouncement of a boy baby—many
years ago.
, All who sipped ot tne wines anu
partook of th^cake extended the
felicitations of the day to the host,
j But strange to say, there were
few repeaters at the Bide board for
the Golden Wedding, the Dewar's
Scotch and the wines were heavy,
and again all those who did drink
knewi that the cache was small and
there were many to be treated. But
it was a regular b'rthday party,
thoroughly enjoyable even if the
Golden Wedding bottle and the wine
bottles were filled with grape juice
Qr sweet cider.—Seward Gateway.
ALASKA IS COMING IXTO
HKK OWX AFTER THE WAR
"Rignt now it is quiet in Alaska .
and those who dispose of their ,
property or other interests will be
sorry that tney did. I am going to \
Anchorage to close ud several little (
deal* and then go south. But when j
the war is over, back north I oome (
and will reside permanently." ThiB (
is the way G. M. Campbell, first lo- (
cator at Anchorage, reviewed the ^
situation yesterday aboard the Al- •
aska on his way to Cook Inlet
metropolis. Mr. Campbell stated
that when the war is over in.' Eu
rope hundreds and hundreds of peo
ple are coming north and the great
majority will locate in Alaska for
keeps.—Seward Gateway.
TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT
July 17, 1918
1 speak not for myself, but for my
town;?
Our hearts go out to thee,
la this thy sorrow and thy sacri
fice
Of him who, late a babj at thy -
knee.
Hath oaid the highest price
A man can pay for glory's golden
crown.
Though now a part of thee that
lived is de«d—
This fruit of loins and care .
(Because he sought not ease, but
nobly chose . « '*
The freedom and the hazards of
tne air, , j
And like an eagle rose
And fell) doth glorify thy whitening
head.
And from hi-j grave shall spring a
thouand young
And kindred Bpirits, who
Jn emulation of his. high emprise
Shall, braving all, both death and
honor woo.
And sweep* polluted skies
Free of the vultures; and like him
'Do sung. , -,| |(
—John Edward Boys," Seattle. ■
WRITES GLOWM OF HHP
THRU FAMOUS IBS! PASSAGE
The following, taken, from tl
Visalia Times is a part of a lettei
written by Mr. (L J. B. Agnew
who uaased through Skagway eom<
time ago with hia wife oa a sighi
seeing trip.
"Going through Wrangell Nar
rows, the boat slows down so thai
it barely moves, and twists an
turns around buoys) and lights foi
ail hour or so. It reminded me ol
Gatua Channel through the lake ai
Panama. There ffere Beveral glac
iers Just above that dispelled the ai
hisioa and wa weie soon running
through a flow of small ice bergs
They were melting in all kinds ol
fantastic shapes and we imagined
we were reviewing a parade o|
fancy floats. It wa? easy "by £
slight flight of the imagination tc
see several falrite, angels and al
sorts of things on the melting ice
of the most delicate blue or green
coloring. The largest glacier wt
passed was "the Davidson glacier,
on the left of Lynn canal. This was
named'for Prof. Davidson, whom all
the old Califomians will remember
Why Vancouver, who suveyed the
whole North Pacific coast 130 years
ago Bhould have called the Lynn
channel a canal I can't understand.
The Lynn was for his home in Es
sex, but the canal must have been
carved by the same great glacier
which ground out the rest of the
labyrinth of waterways.
"There are only three 'Inside Pas
sages' in the world, this one from
Seattle to Skagway, 1,100 miles lom
where the waves of the Pacific only
3trike you directly in two or three
short stretches, one off the coast of
Chile and the third along the Nor
wegian coast. They are all three
bo similar that you cannot tell
which one of them a writer is de
scribing. One description does for
them all. There are hundreds of
Islands with a network of channels
between them and it takes an old
experienced ^navieator to nick th<
course. They all look alike to the
cheechaco. The timber grows to th<
high tide as tick as alfalfa In a
[ield, simply no room for another
tree to find root on the mountain
side.
"We stopped several hours while
the boat unloaded freight at Ket
LOST DEER AT BARROW
Fifty five stray reindeer with a
blf bull caribou for a boss were
found ay Ogeanak, a Barrow trapner,
ivho had gone inland a couple days'
lourney. The deer wouldn't leave
their wild friend so Ogeanak had to
till the'caribou before he could
1 rive them to Number Three herd.
More than a hundred runaway
leer haVe been found and driven
)ack to their herds, by the Inland
rappers, Mr. Cram our teacher
vrites.' These men are glad to get
he reward which Barroyv woners
five to. the finders of stray deer.
>o many deer had left the herds
hat the reindeer boys held a meet
ng last fall and agreed thflt any
>ne who found and returned stray
leer should be paid one female fawn
or every five deer or less that he
irought back.—The Nome Eskimo.
chlkan and Juneau. We wandertd
around and took In everytning to ta
seen. We saw our first iceberg*
> and glaciers after leaving Juneau.
• • •
"Just across the Gastlneau Cha
nel from Douglas Island and aboire"
. the town of Juneau, the capital of
Alaska, is tne Alaska Gaatineati
mine, which milled 7,500 tons of ora
' daily during the the year 1916, wftb
a recovered value of 97 cents per
ton at a cost of 73 centa a'toa.
They have a maximum, capacity for
12,000 tons per day.
• • •
Speaking of his Atlln trip, Mx.
Agnew says:
"When you gee an acre or *o
fenced with a high fence to" tbl*'
country you may know it is 'a' WJC!
farm, and according to law" you
must not go within 75 feet of it'-'
A stranger coming around may Triakt
the foxes nervous and tfceyf' will
take their puppies of and bury their '
in a hole or in the snow, and fre
quently this kills them. We b»w
half a dozen farms yesterday aftd
today. A good-sized silver gray
will sell for from $500 to |1.600, »6
you see it is quite some business."
Hidden Dangers
Nature Gives Timely Warnipca Tb*W
No Skagway Citizen Ow Af*
fond To Ignore.
DANGER SIGNAL, NO. 1 com* •
from the kidney secretions. They-;
will warn you when the kidneys afb'
weak. Well kidneys execreta a;
clear, amber fluid. -Weak kidneys."'
send out a thin, pale and foamy, or
! a thick,red, ill-smelling urine, ftUJ
! of sediment and irregular of pM*'
I
I DANGER. SIGNAL NO 2 come#
from the back. Back paina, dull'
1 and heavy, or sharp ajad acute, bu«-'
i gest weak kidneys and warn you-of
i| the danger of dropsy, gravel aad"
| Bright's diseaese. In that case Do*!**'"
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H. M. Parker, prop, barber shop,"'
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fine and there is no doubt about'
it. I believe that too much aund
ing, together with little exenda#
j made my kidneys give out on bib:
Every muscle in my beck ached and
when I lifted my haDd above '
j shoulders, a sharp, cutting pais
always took me la my back. My
kidneys "were awfully weak, too.
Doan's Kidney Pills cured me ami
f'xed me up in fine shape."
j Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy—
i get Doan's Kidney Pills—the same '
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