HAINES NOTES
Hlines, Ter. 3.
The basket social Riven by the
Haines Athletic an-1 Social Club, tu
A. B. hail las' Saturday evening,
was very largely attended, the hall
being packed to its utmost capacity.
The hall was handsomely Iterated
with the (lags of our country and
the colors of the Haines Athletic
and Social Club. The selecting of
the baskets at auction would put
one In mind of a day In the stock
exchange in either New York or
I'hioago. The bidding was very
lively. Mr. C. D. Gray, the princi
pal of the public school, officiated as
auctioneer, and from the way the
people made their bids, shows him
to be remarkably good. One bas
ket brought the nice little sum of
sixteen dollars, a pretty good price
to pay for a lunch.
After the sale of the baskets,
dancing was indulged in until the
early morning hours. Punch (with
out a kick in it) and coffee was
served with the lunch. The music
was furnished by the Fort Seward
orchestra, which is a guarantee that
it was good.
The Fort Seward and Haines bas
ket ball teams are going to play in
the A. It hall touight. and it will
undoubtedly be a lively and inter
esting game. If the red cross was
in operation here. I would suggest
that they be on hatd with their first
aid kits to take care of the wound
ed.
The Improved Order of Red Men.
ami the Loyal Order of Moose con
template giving a Christmas tree In
the Arctic Brotherhood hall on
Christmas eve, and the committee
is already at work and there is no
doubt but that it will be a grand af
fair.
Mr. J. H. Chisel has mured his
family down (rum his homestead
for the winter, having obtained a
leave of absence from his place. His
family is living on the corner of 2nd
avenue and View street.
The Haines Masonic club has pur
rhased twenty-live folding chairs
for use in their club room. They
"•re purchased by William Cole for
(he club. We are adding a little
here and a little there, as we can.
and after a while, we hope to have
. verything convenient and comfort
able.
Mr. Jack Rath, who has been up
at Kainy Hollow all fall, came down
last evening and took the Kstebeth
for Skagway.
To Cure n CoIO In One Day
Take Grove s LAX1T1VE BItOMO
QVININE tablets. The genuine bears
the signature of E. W. Grove. 30c.
Subscribe for th* Dally Alaskan
President Has
Plan For Nor
malcy Return
Washington, Dei- 7.— President
Harding In his message to tho joint
session of Congress yesterday, iaid
before that body u delinite plan,
which. If promptly put Into execu
tion. would bring the country back
to normal. He proposes to speed
up the plans whereby America can
be again on a sound normal basis
of operation. This he deems will
be the best contribution which the
lTnited States can give to the world
for its restoration to normalcy.
The President appeared in nerso:i
before the joint session of Congress
and read his message. He sounded
the note to other uations that the
United States had no intention of
trying to save other nations. They
must save themselves.
Outstanding In the recommenda
tions of the President for bringing
hack the country to normal, are the
creation of an industrial court '.h.s
court to have judicial or qna.«i;udi
cial power to deal with labor dis
putes affecting the public interest:
another was the prompt enactment
of a permanent tariff bill: the en
actment of the all.<«d debt funding
bill. He also struck the note of
encouragement for the cooperative
market program to aid the farmers
In the disposition of their products.
There must be a sf »eding up of the
reclamation legislation for the aid
of the e.xsoldiers that they may be
provided with more homes. There
must also be some revision of the
tax bill which was recently passed
LLOYI) GKOKGK WIl.l,
NOT VISIT I'XITKP STATKS
London. Dec. 6.—It was officially
announced today that the premier
of Great Britain would not visit the
United States as a delegate to the
arras conference. This is due to an
early meeting of parliament and the
necessity for his being at home to
act on the Irish question.
SHERIFF STRINGER
FOI\I> NOT GUI.TY
Seattle. Dec. 7.—Former Sheriff
Stringer, who was accused of em
bezzling the county funds, was tried
on the charge and found not guilty.
ONE FATALITY IV
PACKING HOl'SE STRIKE
Chicago. Dec. 7.—The country
wide strike in the packing house in
dustry hHS resulted in one fatality
in this city.
How A Bank
Check Should
Be Made Out
A check is a written order on a
hank to pay a certain sunt of mon
ey to somebody. Checks are usually
made payable to some person, Arm
or corporation arid <<re usually writ
teh on blank forms furnished by the
hank on which suoh checks are
drawn. Checks should be made out
fully and clearly in order that the
bank may know exactly what you
are ordering it to Co. See that the
written amounts aud the figures on
your checks are identical. In case
they do not agree, the written
amount takes precedence over the
figures, but the bank may decline to
pay either amount because it does
not know your exact wishes. In
this event the che k would be re
turned marked "A-iiounts Differ."
Do not place the tigares so far away
from the dollar mark that other
figures could he inserted. The same
rule applies when writing out in
words the amount of money to be
paid. Start close to the left hand
margin and if any rucant space re
mains between the words giving the
amount and the printed word "Pol
lars." fill it in with a wavy line.
It is important that you write your
name naturally, and in the same
manner in which you wrote it on
the signature card. If you wish to
obtain money from your bank, make
a check payable to "Bearer" or to
"Cash" and the bank will pay It up
on presentation. You can also ob
! tain cash by making a check payable
to yourself and tl.eu endorsing it
; by writing your nar.e 011 the back of
the check. The hclder of a check
may present it to tha bank on which
it is drawn, requesting the hank to
certify upon its face that the draw
er's account is "good" for the
amount of the check, in order to
make it more easily negotiated
Tiiis the bank mav do by writing
I or stamping "certified." "good when
I properly endorsed.' or other equiv
alent words on .U face. When a
bank certifies a check it assumes re
sponsibility for pajment.—A.B.A.
CASUIDK KILLS
B.WIHT IX ll.U'lv
Portland. Doc. T.—Joseph Camp
bell, a bandit who attempted to rob
a bank in East Portland, was shot
and killed by J, F. Alt, the cashier
of the bank. The bank had been
held np by Alt and his two accom
plices. but the casMer pot the drop
on the bandit and killed him. I tot h
of the accomplices were captured.
President Newhall of the bank was
wounded.
It is easy to identify
Victrola Instruments
You can tell them the moment you raise the lid and
see the trademark "Victrola." You will also see other
Victor trademarks, as the picture and the phrase "His
Master's Voice.-'
Be sure to get a Victrola instrument of the great
est artists and specially made to play their Victor rec
ords.
The Victor trademarks besides being your means
of identification are also your guarantiees of quality. Vic
trola Instruments are built to give a lifetime of service.
Look under the lid for the Victor trademarks—"Vic
trola," the picture and the phrase "His Master's Voice"
—and you can be certain of lasting satisfaction.
Victrola Instruments $23 to 91500.
Victrola
Reg. U. S. Pat. Oft.
You can havg one of 'hese in
struments sent to your home at
once, tor you can buy ib'm on.
easy terms, a small amount dowu
and the balance In monthly in
stallments.
Keller Bros.
Suggests Junk
ing For Seattle
Street Cars
Seattle.—Immediate Junking of
much of Seattle's present street rail
way rolling stock, immediate invest
ment in "several million dollars'
worth" of new equipment, and a
new refunding scheme, were recom
mendations of Peter Witt, Cleve
land traction expert, that today con
fronted the city council. Seattle's
present rolling stock, representing
a large part of the value for which
the city had paid $15,000,000 in
lionds, is worthy caly of the Junk
pile, Witt told the councllmen in
•.idvance of his written report.
Witt recommendeJ that the city at
once invest al least $2,000,000 in
replacements of its cnrs and motors,
without which, he declared, it will
lie Impossible to make economies in
service or greatly improve it.
He further recommended that the
city should at once confer with the
bondholders (The Puget Sound
Traction Light & Power Company)
on a proposal to replace the present
outstanding bonds with a new issue
of 25 years' duration: no payments
to be made toward the principal for
10 more years.—Ex.
GOVERNMENT STARTS Sl IT
FOR RETURN REINDEER
A suit entitled United States vs.
Lomen & Co. Involving the title to
a large number of reindeer in the
possession of Lomen & Co. was filed
in the district court at Nome re
cently. According to the complaint
it appears to be the contention of
the government that white people
cannot lawfully acquire title to fe
male deer. The Lomen company is
alleged to have purchased a herd of
reindeer from the Norwegian Evan
gelical Lutheran church of America
in January, 1916. which herd was
originally placed in charge of the
mission by the government for the
purpose of distribution among the
Eskimos. It is charged by the gov
ernment that the church acquired
no title to the deer and therefore
could not transfer them to the de
fendant corporation. Lomen & Co.
are alleged to have paid $5 742 for
ihe deed to the Synod of the Nor
wegian Evangelical Lutheran
Church of America.
Among other things the complaint
prays for an accounting and deliv
ery to the United States ot all the
female deer and the increases there
of since January 1, 1916.
Assistant District Attorney Hugh
O'Neill, upon being interviewed by
a representative of the Nome Nug
get, stated that he was Instructed to
commence the suit by the depart
ment of justice and to do so with
out further delay. The letter from
the attorney general to this effect
was dated at Washington, August 6,
and was received in the last mail.—
A. K. C. POWER PLANT IN
ANCHORAGE DESTROYED
The big power plant, owned and
operated by the A'sskan Engineer
ing commission, burned to the
ground late yesterday afternoon. As
;i result of the fire Anchorage is ex
periencing pioneer days of tallow
dip candles, kerosene and gas lamps.
The experience, however, will be
temporary, for within one week or
ton days the capable commission of
ficials will have installed a plant
similar in mechanical and driving
force and generating power for An
chorage business houses, residences
and commission buildings.
The fire started at 4:15 yesterday
afternoon and gained rapid head
way, due to the extreme dryness of
the flamable material. Origin of the
fire is said to have been from the
overheated smokestack igniting the
wood under the sheet iron roof.
The overheated condition of the
large smokestack was due to its
burning out a few minutes before
the fire started. P. J. McDonald
was in charge of the plant at the
time. No blame Is attached to any
one and the heavy atmosphereic
conditions unquestionably caused
the soot in the smokestake to burn
out, causing the extreme heat. This
theory is arrived at from similar oc
currences and, according to experts,
is a common occurrence: many sim
ilar fires being cited by such reliable
citizens as Jack Chovin, F. O. Berry
and others in a position to know.—
Anchorage Times.
An expedition bound for Baffin's
I,and carries a moving picture outfit
to show pictures to the Eskimo*. If
It's a campaign to make the Eskimo
ladles adopt our summer styles, lt'l
doomed to failure.
FEET MOST ABUSED MEMBERS
According to English Writer, Only
About One-Third of Humanity
Walk in Natural Manner.
The human foot ts one of the most
beautiful and useful Instruments ever
conceived, but, unfortunately. It Is not
what a motorist calls "foolproof."
There Is a great deal of misunder
standing about our feet. We treat them
outrageously, as either custom or fash
Ion may dictate. As a result, about
one-third of the population Is splay
footed. another third walks like a hen
on hot cinders, and the remaining
third may be said to walk fairly nat
ural.
The foot has a graceful arch run
ning fore and aft. We take this longi
tudinal arch, turn the toes outward
so that the heels meet at an angle of
45 degrees, and then put all our pres
sure in a skew direction across the i
arch. No railway engineer would |
dream of building a straight arch
bridge to carry loads neither across
nor along the arch, but irregularly
askew over It
We ought to walk with our great
toe pointed straight In the direction |
of progress, as Indian runners do, and
"spring from the great toe." Instead,
most of us "take off" in a lumbering
sort of way from the ball of the great
toe.
The arch of the foot Is supported
largely by the tendon which runs un
der the foot to the great toe Itself, and
this neglect of use renders this ten
don weak and lax, and causes depres
sion of the arch. The best care for
weak arch Is the practice of raising
one's self upon the great toe, that Is,
doing as a penalty exercise what you
should have done all along naturally.
If you will try when walking to keep
the feet straight, and to end each
stride with a little "spring" off each
big toe alternately, you will be re
warded by finding that progress seems
easier, quicker and more buoyant—
London Dally News.
QUALITIES THAT WIN SUCCESS
Probably the Greatest Among Them
Is That Subtle Something We
Know as Personality.
It takes more than mental ability
to make a man and more than the
qualities that are supposed to make
for success Itself. It Is not so much
what a man knows, or his ability In
applying It. as It Is In what he Is
himself.
There lurks in some human beings,
In overflowing measure, that subtle
something termed personality which
Is likely to carry them much farther
than anything else. Probably charac
ter. courage and dependability are
the three great assets. Theodore
Housevelt In his own biography writes
of the two kinds of success, the one
being the result of natural gifts,
the other being acquired slowly, and
adds: "I need hardly say that all the
successes I have e\«er won have been
of the second type. I never won any
thing without hard labor and the ex
ercise of my best Judgment anil care
ful planning and working long in ad
vance. I was as a young ninn at first
both nervous, and distrustful of my
own prowess. I had to train myself
I painfully and laboriously n«t merely
i as regards my body, but as regards
( my soul and my spirit."—Exchange.
City Largely Built on Piles.
A considerable part of the founda
tions of the city of Venice r«-i> on
piles that were driven Into the muddy
shallows of the Adriatic more than
1,000 years ago. The tallest structure
of the city for many years was the
campanile or bell tower of St. Mark's
cathedral. It was a massive structure
of brick which rose to a height of 323
feet, and the plies for Its foundation
were driven In the year 874. The first
campanile was built In IM>. In l.'CX)
the foundation was enlarged by driv
ing more piles, and the tower was re
built In 1512 an earthquake brought
It tumbling down, but a new campanile
was Immediately erected. This fell
July 14. 1002, owing to the gradual
failure of the foundation. New piles
were then driven and a new campanile
was erected In lfl0T> on a reintorced
concrete foundation.
I
Armenian Literature.
Prior to the Fifteenth century Ar
I taenia's literature Is eiillrely lp the
form of religious ver<e and prose. ,
1 The record of secular events Is en- '
1 tlrely In her sonps. The desire for ,
| freedom and patriotism Is the theme J
of her many old son<rs, jest as her ,
modern music Is the expression of In J
! tense struggle against oppression. The <
period of national greatness, when as '
a nation Armenia was fn-e and pros- .
perous, Is told In songs sung by shep
herds, and at firesides.
3 rnOFESSlOHAli CARDS .
W. B. STOUT jg
A 11 • r n • jr at h a » J#
Practlc* la all court* ^
In Territory of Alaska
HALVES — — — AIAtiKH
DR. L. S. KELLER §
Dentist
Most Modern Methods
)fflce Honrs: 8-12 a. m.—i-« p. nfc
\ Ijf-kan Building Bro*dwa|
3KAGWAY ALASK-I
—"T 7 T T T I UHtJIIlllllim <
SKAGWAY'8
FRATERNAL ORDERS
nnn'
S, Camp Stat* ay So. 1,
• mwti »TOry aecond ami
5JS fourth Tuesday •vralnjj
IP' at 8:80 •'dock. Vl»tt»
ng brothers cordially welcome.
J. M. Keller, U R- Keller,
Arctic Recorder, Arctic Chief.
B. P. 0. ELKS, Sk«s«
w*j Lodffs, No. Ml, B.
P. O. KIkJ, meets every
Thursday at 8 p. m.
Visiting brothers ccr«
Ilally welcome.
3. C. WOOD, fc. 1.
F. J. VAXDKWAUj, Secretary.
P, 4 A. M.
White r»* Lodge F. * A.
A. M. No. 118, meet* 2oO
and 4th Saturday vrenloRS
of each month at 8 o'clock.
Visiting Brethren are wel
come.
J0H5 X. HAXSE>', Y\. #1.
T. J. Standlsh, Secretary
Fraternal Order ot
Eaglaa
Hkagway Aerie, No. 2.".
(• raternal Order ot
Kagles, meet tlia first
mil lUinl \l ei!n*vlay nlgnt 01 «acn
uonth at their hall on Fifth Ave
iuo. Visiting brothen cordially in
rltcd to attend.
C. H. ROGERS, W. P.
J. >1. Griesbarh, Sec'y.
Pioneers of Alaska, Igloo No. 151,
neet in A. R. Hall Bret Monday In
"very month at 8: SO p. m.
Visiting brothers cordially w»l
-OHIO. J. C. PtUfiLPS, S®c J.
Naomi Chapter No. 9.
O. E. 8., meets In Ma
| sonic hall, first and
' third Friday, of each
month, at 8 o'clock. Via
ting members welcome
Oharrie Marie Spark*.
Worthy Matron.
b'irtiira Snffcoool, Secretary.
NOTICE
When you want anything moved
rrunks. Baggage or anything elso.
rail up tlie John William «, U. S.
Pransfer Co. Also wood, 16 Inch.
lelivered. $4.50, and coal, per ton.
ielivered, $18.
$100 Reward, SIM
The reader* of thl» paper will b*
pleased to learn that thers It at Isast
ono dreaded dl*aa**e that sclent has
been able to curs In all Its star** and
that is catarrh. Catarrt betnc rrwOlr
Influenced by constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatmsilt. HWs
Catarrh Medicine Is takm internally tad
arts thru the Blood on the Mucous ®uf
fsccs of the System thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease, a^ylnc ths
pallet strength by buildln* up
Btitution and assisting nature in dolfUt its
work. The proprietors hare so JP^rri
faith In the curative powers oT Hairs
Catarrh Medicine that they off** <*»•
Hundred Dollars for any cass th*t If falls
to cure Send for list of ?*stlnrtnfkla.
Addresr F. J. CHENEY A CC . Toledo*,
Ohio. Sold by all Drufiflst, 7*c.
yyV^AAAAMW
>qu^lyreueve? CATARRH
OF THE
BLADDER
1< AND ALL .
.■DISCHARGES
safe » wcasra
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Rsvure of crmntrrftUt
White Pass & Yukon Route
TIME TABLE NO. 48.
Tuesdays and Fridays
Xo. 1, X. Bound.
1st Class.
8:30 a. m. Leaves
10:45 a. m. "
12:30 p. m. "
2:00 p. m. "
4:25 p.m. Arrives
No. 2, 8. Booti<
1st Class.
Arrive# 3:86 p. m
Leaves 2:05 p. m
" 12:46 p. b
•' 10:65 a. m.
" 8:30 a. m.
SKAGWAY
\\ H1TK TASS
BENSETT
CARCROSS
. VTHITEHORSK
Passengers must be at the depot In time to have Barrage In
spected. and checked. Inspection Is stopped thirty minutes befoie
leaving tlm« of trains.
150 pounds of Baggage will be checked free wlt'i each full far*
ticket, and T5 pounds with each half fare ticket.