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DRV LAW HITS MANY LIVES
Prohibition prohibits some rob
bery, some vagrancy, some business
Xai'ures, some Insanity and a lot of
drunkenness, according to the ex
perlence of Spokane. Washington,
fays the Spokane Chronicle.
Arrests decreased from 4962 in
1315 to 1712 in 1916, the first year
wthou* saloons. The police re
cords show- $37 arrests for drunken
ness in 1916 against 2082 in 1915.
Larceny cases decreased from 324
>o £»3 and vagrancy was cut from
1579 to 423.
People still drank beer and whis
ky—"he permit system allowed this,
and bootleggers were never idle.
But Sn'kane's liquor bill was cut b
au evtn $4,000,000 according *0
f'.e I est estimates.
Pctail business houses generally
reported an increase of 25 per cent
ia fade. Bank deposits jumped
more than $10,000,000, and bank
clearing totalled $255,420,401 in
1916, a•rainsf_$ 192,732,109 in 1915.
Bantc transactions reached $643,
716,596, against $503,369,590 dur
ing the last year of the saloons.
The SDokane Merchants' associa
tion *c< k over assignments of e'ock
valued at $475,000. in 1915 and
$350,000 in 1916. Dun's and Brad
s'reet's both showed a considerable
decrecse in business failures.
Just how much credit can be giv
en to prohibition for business bet
terment can not be estimated, but
it was demonstrated absolutely that
prohibition did not hurt business
and that it did improve collecitons,
increase the volume of clothing,
shoes, grocery and furniture sales
and allow many men to k«vp at work
who formerly lost considerbale time.
The Spokane county sheriff's of
fice operated during 1916 at an
exrense $10,000 under the total for
1915. The county government mac'q
a total saving of $20,000 under the
previous year. The city government
made a reduction of $86,000 lm
improvement taxes gained $70,000
over the previous year.
FKttlGHTEP W ITU HOPE
The wort being carried oa by
li. L. Inane Exploration Depart
ment of I to Alaska Ga^tjneau Min
ing Company la freighted witb hope
tor better things lor Alaska. This
department Li on tb© outlook for
new properties to develop and to
uive employment to labor and mar
kets for other producers and trades
men, and thug to add to the popu
lation and prosperity of the Terri
tory. Particularly; hopeful are
the facts tbat it is seriously en
fiagtd in an attempt to open iron
mines, and thus provide the foun
dation for an iron and steel indus
try cn th« Pacific Coast, and the
circumstance that all the indica
tions point toward i'a success.
If it shall transpire in the
course of time that Alaska is play
ing tho part of Minnesota to a great
Pacific Coast iron and steel busi
ness it will be fortunate for the
Territory indeed, A diversity of in
dustry counts for Btability, and it
fcas a broadening effect an a popiula
tion. The addition, of a new class
of industries brings a community in
tcuch with people that it was not
in touch with before. It brings a
new class of people to the communi
ty, and new trade. It add# to tie
e'rength and quality of the com
mercial and industrial fabric.
Tho Pacific Coast needs an iron
end steel industry now worse than
any otter tiling. Tie indus
tries at »-Q ia(Vfl on the Pacifio
Coast require machinery and struc
tural steel and all th a othsr pro
ducts of iroau The cost of trans
portaljen, the lack of transporta
tion facilities and the demands up
on the Iran and flteei industries of
other sections of the country are
all contributing factors to the im
portance of the establishment, of
sucn. an industry here on, the coast.*
With. such. an industry, established,
machinery-making land other manu
facturing institutions would spring
up like mushrooms from one end of
the coast to the other. In a short
time hundreds of thousands of
skilled and unskilled laborers would
find new avenues for employment.
The foreign and domestic commerce
would be greatly auguanented, and
the population of the country would
increase vastly.
The Empir© Joins all those inter
ested in Alaskan development in
wishing all mauiner of success to the
B. L Thane Exploration Deport
ment and to its manager >"hp has
already contributed bo much toward
the advancement of Alaska. — Ju
neau Empire.
JUNEAU NOW
CLAIMS WD
Do you know that Juneau Is get
ting to be an awfully; jealous burg?
The latest sign of its Intense de
«l.-e '•* srasp all that other towns
in Alaska might tare, either by rig
of inheritance or otherwise, li
shown in on article printed in
the Emuirg lor the 27 th.
Juneau, according ta the Empire,
is now going to claim the merit of
having the onl£ real wind in the
north, and for a number of years
that right has belonged, as moat
people cf the north thought, solely
and exclusively, to Skagway.
The big dally devotes almost *
whole Dago in describing the ad
vent of the annual wind to the
to the capital city, comparing it to
no other wind in the north, and ad
mits w'th apparent glee tha* the Ta
ku wag strong enough to take out
the strong plate glass windows of
the Pacific Steamship company's of
fice, and then rub it into Skagway,
by saying that Juneau's wind, not
content with smashing the glass,
amused itself for the nest few hour
stirring the glass with snow which
brought in from the out-of-doors,
into a mess consisting of papers,
dirt and other article# which were
handy. ; ; •
Then this same wind, losing nene
o" its playfulness, ripped Borne of
the tia lettering off the Palace thea
ter, and then took c£f some of the
ven* pipes from t&Q Gastineau ho
^
The Lone Fisherman, was unable
to make heT regular trips, and the
Prince Albert and City of Seattle
stayed ia port, unable *o buck the
cross Taku.
Yes, it appears that the Skag
way wind is a joke, and that Ju
neau has the only real wind. Let 't
be known es the Windy City.
"Do your daughters help tbelr moth
er with the housework?"
"We wouldn't think of expecting it 1
Muriel is temperamental, and Zaza is
Intense."—Pittsburgh Po6t
Damp,CoIdWeather
Brings Its Toll of Sickness to A3-'
askan I'eopile.
Chilly, damp, changing weather f
hard on the kidneys.
Kven more irritating are colds,
griu and pneumonia;
They congest the kidneys;
They bring backache and disor
dered kidney action.
For weak kidneys use a tested
remedy.
40,000 people publicly recom
mend Loan's Kidney Pi 11a.
Frank Lang, 620 Savier St., Port
land. Ore., says: "Changes of tem
perature, together with bard work
brought on titouble with my kidneys*
A catch often took me in the small
of my back and threw me off a
ladder. I felt the pain extending
up mv spine and down into my
groins. It seemed like a paralytic
s'roke and for several days I was
o radically unable to do anything.
My kidneys acted too often, caus
ing me a great deal of annoyance.
Doan'a Kidney Pills fixed me up
in good shape."
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy —
ge* Doan'g Kidney Pills—the same
♦hat Mr. Lang had. Fostar-MUburn
Co., Prong., Buffalo, N. Y. J
SLIDING TO DEATH.
A Perilous Mountain Incident and I
Lucky Escape.
An American wlio lives in China
made the ascent of the sacred moun
tain, Siaooutalshan, a year or two
since, and made, or at least began to
make, the descent in a much more un
premeditated manner.
He had reached au altitude of over
9,000 feet and, having lost the trail,
branched off and climbed a lower peak
to see whether he c<7fllil discover the
right track. He managed to crawl to
the top, and since the view was very
floe ho opened bis paint bos to make a
sketch.
As he was sorting his brushes the
■tone on which he was sitting gave
way. and he started sliding down the
almost perpendicular slope. He tried
to clutch the ground with his hands.
He seized every projecting stone in
the hope of stopping his precipitous de
scent, but at the speed nt which he
was going that was no easy matter.
Death stared him In the face, for
another 100 yards would bring him to
the edge of a precipice several hun
dred feet high, over which he must in
evitably go. His hair stood on end as
he approached the spot, and he can
well remember the sound of his heavy
paint box clanging from rock to rock
as it accompanied him In his descent
A violent shock, which nearly tore
his body in two made him think he
had gone over; but, no—he had sudden
ly stopped.
He opened his eyes, but he did not
dare move, for his position, although
much Improved, was far from safe.
His coat and strong leather strap that
was slung under his arm had caught
on a projecting stone, but a single false
movement on his part would start him
Rlldlng down the slope again.
Slowly, carefully, as he lay on the
almost perpendicular slope, he tried
to get a footing. When he had suc
ceeded In doing that the great diffi
culty was to turn round. After several
anxious moments, each of which seem
ed ages long, he succeeded, and there
he was, half kneeling, half lying, with
his body on the ground, clutching the
rock that saved him.
Then, when hLs agitation passed
away, he managed to crawl up, cat
fashion, to a position of safety.
MUSIC IN THE HOME.
Its Recning err! Joyous Influence
Should Bo Welcomed.
So mucb is ilone for the children
nowadays. So many different sorts of
knowledge are crammed Into them at
school. They devote themselves to so
many things unconnected either with
childhood or home life. Meanwhile one
opportunity—rich in possibilities for
happiness—is too often. neglected. Mr.
Josef Stransky gives wise counsel in
this matter:
"The way to love music, to Increase
its production, is to know It when yon
are young—young individually and
young as a nation. It Is much more
difficult to prepare people to enjoy mu
sic after they are grown up and their
minds have become crowded with vari
ous Interests in life. The American
nation should not let its youth.slip by
without filling the souls of the children
with music.
"As yet the young people here do not
have their minds directed definitely
enough in musical channels. I do xiot
see groups of children standing about
a piano In the twilight aud singing to
a mother's accompaniment. I do not
see the boys of a neighborhood forming
a small orchestra and playing really
fine music, as they do In France and
Germany."
Mr. Stransky overstates his case
somewhat. We know of a New Eng
land farmer's family of sis children,
each playing a different instrument,
who, with father and mother, make a
real little orchestra. And there are a
good many such groups of the sort Mr.
Stransky says he has not seen—young
sters about their mother at the piano.
But there should be still more—many
more. There cannot be too many, for,
as the wise conductor says, music la
something more than mere entertain
ment. It is "a serious and permanent
Joy in life * * * to keep the emo
tions stirred, the imagination young."
—Collier's Weekly.
Something Lacking.
A resident of Nevada who has re
cently returned from a trip through the
east was interviewed by the Post.
"Ho^ did Niagara strike me?" said the
traveler. "Well, to be candid, it was a
little disappointing. There seemed to
be something lacking—something, i
couldn't see what, but something that
I didn't see and felt I ought to see to
make the picture complete." Perhaps
it was a man going over in a barrel.—
Kansas City Times.
Freo Advice.
"There are a great many people In
this world who don't know what's
good for them."
"Perhaps so.1' replied the cynical
man, "but they always have plenty of
neighbors who would giudly tell them
what is good for them if they would
only listen."—Birmingham Age-Herald
Can't Go Far.
"Just met with a heavy loss. A
ship in which I was interested was
wrecked."
"I got my money in canal boats.
When one of them is wrecked we know
where to find it."—Louisville Courier
Journal.
Of Course.
"My friend, the glazier, has a sad
life."
"Why shouldn't it be? Isn't it foil of
panes?"—Baltimore American.
FRATERNAL ORDERS
Arctic BrotUerliood. —
Camp Bkngw»v No. 1.
A. B. meu<8 every sec
ond and fouirth.1 Tues
day evening at 8:30 P
xn. snarp. Visit Lug brothers cordial
ly Wf'ccm®. W. L. Steve>nsom, Arc
tic Chief. W. E. liurford, Arctic
Keccrder.
Fraternal Older
Kaglc£—
Skagwsiy Aorie
Ko. 25, Frater
nal Ordeir of
b*gleg meets tl»e| first and third
Wediitfftlfly night of oaoh month at
tnrii hftll ou Fifth Avenue. Visit
ing brothers cordially invitejtl to
ttttfiiJ. J. M. Cjieisbach, W. 1*.
>J. V. MiUer, Secretaiy.
P. & A. M.
Whlta Pus& Lodge J
F. & A. M. No. 113!
meets 2d and 4th j
J'ri. .fc'v gs, 01 eu-ca
montc. Visiting- brothers are wel
come.
..Elmer L. Wheeler, W. M.
Address all communicationa to
the Secretary.
B. P. O. ELKS
Skagway Lodge
No. 431. B. P. O.
E. meets every
Thursday night
V at 8:00 o'clock.
Visiting brothers
coraiaily welcome.
HENRY FRIEDENTHAL, E. R.
r. J. V-AWDEWAJLL, secretary
Pioneer of Alaska Igloo, No. 12,
meet* in A. B. Hall first Monday in
every month at 8:80 p. ni.
Visiting Brothers cordially wel
come.
r W. L. STEVENSON, Pres.
V. T. DORTERO. Rec. Sec.
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