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GREAT BRITAIN" ABANDONS FREE TRADE
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In returning to the policy of protection after three-quarters of a cen
tury of free trade, the Britishers were very careful not to dignify the pol
icy by that name for fear, perhaps, of wounding the feelings of what few
Cobdenites remain in Great Britain. So the bill which passed the House
of Commons was entitled "a bill to imposo duties of customs on certain
special industries and the safeguarding of employment in industries In
tlie I'nited Kingdom against the effects of the depreciation of foreign cur
rencies aud the disposal of imported goods at prices below the cost of
production, and for purposes connected therewith."
This title has set the protectionists of this country to laughing and
one or two of our cartoonists have poked considerable fun at John Bull
tor his naivete. As a matter of fact the British bill proviaes a rate of pro
tection far beyond anything that has been tried out in this country In re
cent years for it is no less than "duties of customs equal to one-third of
the value of the goods," while our high protectionists have not since 1890
gone beyond SO^e average ad valorem and the much maligned Payne-Ald
nch tar-d law averaged under 20'. during the four years of its existence.
—Republican Publicity Bureau.
CAN' AMERICAN SHIPPING Sl'RVIVE THIS?
A careful compilation shows that the daily cost of operating an Amer
:< :in vessel of 8,000 tons, exclusive of fuel, is $500; of a similar Trench
v. -iel, $400: British. Norwegian. $'!00. Japanese. $275; Spanish.
$200; and German. $150. That gives some indication of the problem the
Shipping Board has to rm ot in putting the American merchant marine
fleet on a paying basis, it will take time to do it. Men of ability, energy
and patriotism have been assigned to the job by President Harding, and
it is up to the public to be patient and give them an opportunity to make
good.—Publicity Bureau.
President Harding's record to date is one that can be and is a source
of pride to the President, his party and his country.
SIIKKP IM) WKLL
AT JUT.VMSKA
P" C. C. Georgeson. director of
of Agricultural Experiment stations
iii Alaska, spent several days here
recently in the inspection of the ex
periment station at Mutanuska. and
in looking over the agricultural
prospects of Matattuska valley. He
was very much pleased with tin
work that has been done at the sta
tion during the past year. He state*
that excellent progress has been
made in all lines and in the con
struction of farm buildings. The
barn, ■which he states is by far the
most modern and the best equipped
in the territory, is practically com
pleted, and a forty-foot silo with
capacity of about 1»0 tons and a 75
foot concrete root celtar are at the
present lime under construction. The
silo will be completed in sufficient
time to be filled this fall. It will
solve the winter feeding question.
Dr. Georgeson commented very
favorably on the live stock pros
pects of the valley and especially
that of dairying. He realizes that
the growth in livestock is necessar
ily a slow process, as sufficient land
must first be cleared to furnish sum
mer pasture and feed for a six-1
months wiuter. However, with the |
opening of the government railroad !
he f-aels that the markets that will
open up along the way will greatly
stimulate the dairy industry.
Quite a number of Holsteins and
Jerseys may lie found on the ranch
es in the valley and the experiment
station has a good start in register
milking shorthorns. Hardiness and
good rustling qualities are the two'
main factors to be considered in j
choosing a dairy herd for this sec
tion ot Alaska.
Or. Georgeson appeared very en
thusiastic over the sheep prospect
and suggested that before long many
farmers would have their own flocks.
The native grasses offer wonderful
summer pasture and they can be car
ried through the winter successfully
on grain hay without a grain sup
plement.—The Pathfinder.
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\™ Publication-^ Special—1021
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BULLETINS
Bulletin 1So. Pennsylvania min
ing statutes, annotated, by J. \V.
Thompson. 1921. 1221 pp. Paperl
cover. SI.00
Bulletin 206. Petroleum laws of
all America, by J. W. Thompson.
4 4s pp. 40 cents.
TECHNICAL PAPER
Technical Paper 269. Analyses of
Iowa coals, by G. S. Rice. A. C.
f'ieldner. and F. 0. Osgood. 1921.
27pp. 5 cents.
Owing to the expense Involved in
the preparation and publication of
these bulletins atid the limited
printing funds available for the use
of the liureau of Mines, it has been
necessary to place on each bulletin
the price designated. Orders should
not lie sent to the Bureau of Mines,
but should be addressed to the Su
perintendent of Documents, C>overn
ment Printing Office, Washington. D.
C.
TAKES LEASE OS
GASTIXEAC HOTHli
R. J. Sommers, former surveyor
general of Alaska, has leased the
Gastineau hotel for a period of ten
years from the owners. Claude Eric
son and E. R. - Jaeger, the lease to
become effective on October i of this
year.
Mr. Sommers stated that he in
tends tc< devote his personal atten
tion to the hotel business and will
make every effort to maintain the
present high standard of manage
ment for which the hotel is famous.
No plans of change are contemplat
ed and the present manager. Glen
Bartlett, will continue in his posi
tion.
Claude Ericson. one of the owners,
of the hotel and who for the past
several years has given his person
al attention to the management, will
leave shortly with his family for a
vacation trip south. He will return
in several months to look affr his
many property interests here.
Mr. Sommers. the new lessee, is
one of the best known men in the
North. I'p until a few wefks ago
he was surveyor general of Alaska
and before that was territorial mine
Inspector. He expects to leave short
ly for a vacation trip in the south
before entering into the manage
ment of his new business.
Oil, OF GLADNESS
Four hundred gallons of wine and
sixty gallons of rider, the latter "as
Baying" upward of five per cent, al
cohol. were harvested in a raid made
yesterday afternoon on the store
conducted on the famous beach at
Douglas by James Haras, a Greek,
by special Officer Jack Wilson and
Deputy U. S. Marshals Lucy and Gar
ster. The stuff was emptied and
gurgled its way to the mighty deep,
but it is not believed it will affect
the flavor of the fish to ■»!>>• notice
able extent.
Haras was arrested and 'aken be
fore U. S. Commissioner Gray of
Douglas, where he pleaded guilty
and was given the option of pung
ling up $250 in coin of the realm or
spending two months in retirement.
He chose the latter and now gaxes
on the world through the birs of
the federal jail in Juneau—plays
checkers with his nose, as it were.—
Stroller's Weekly.
Old Scottish Sunday Dinner.
In h letter of Sir Walter Scott, dated
In 18J4, he describes h typical Sab
hath lu Edinburgh 100 yeuis ago ax
follows:
"I have always been Intimate with
the Korbeses from my lufancy, since
the excellent old lord with his wife
and family used weekly to (line at my
father's always on a Sunday, nn>l on
the SHine hill of fare, which would now
be thought a curious one to Invite a
nobleman to. in the first place there
was sheep-head broth and said
sheep's head Itself, the reason belli*
that the sheep's head, which requires
much boiling. was put on the night be
fore. and the dressing of the beef
steaks occupied the least possible time,
and thus the necessity of employing
servants on the Sabbath day was
diminished as much as possible. Then
there was a bottle or two of special
wine, which no wine merchant had fit
ted for the market, and there was a
sermon read, during which one part of .
the children were sleeping and the
other pinching and kicking them to
make them keep awake. And then j
there Is an old Sabbath for you In |
Edinburgh."
Fashions In China.
Notwithstanding the popular west
ern fancy that fashions never change
In China, the Chinese woman Is pains
takingly particular hs to the exact
length and fullness—or scantiness—of
her coats, skirts and trousers. She Is
carefully precise about the width of
bias hands or braid or lace that she
uses for trimming, the number and
arrangement of fastenings, the shape
and height of her collar. All of these
details vary as tyrantcally from sea
son to season—under Shanghai miid
ance—as certain style features do
with us under the leadership of New
York or l'arls. Moreover, as against
our four seasons, the fashion devotee
of China takes account of eight.
Seven Convicts
Have Done What
Gardiner Tries
Veteran Guard at McNeill's Island
Recalls Forty-Six Escapes, With
Thirty-Nine Recaptured
By GILBERT GORDON
In the Post-Intelligencer
McNeill's Island. Sept 17.—If
Roy Gardiner wins his tragic game
of hide and seek with fifty prison
riflemen on land and twenty sharp
shooters patrolling twelve miles of
shore, he will be the eighth prisoner
to sncceed in a clean get-away from
this institution during the thirty
eight years of Capt. Neil Henly's ex
perience as guard and pilot of the
penitentiary launch.
Capt. Henly, now supervising the
night patrol of islrnd waters in tUe
Gardiner hunt, joined the peniten
tiary staff in 1SS3, ten years af»er
the prison was built. So far as he
now recalls, about forty-six prison
ers escaped during that time and of
this number he recalls only seven
who have succeeded in eluding pri
son posses. It has required weeks to
catch some of them—one was a;
liberty for two months—but thirty
nine were eventually returned to
their cells.
l.a-sl Dash Musi Spectacular
It remained for Gardiner lo stage
the most spectacular dash for lib
erty. Incidentally, the fatal shooting
of Everett Impvn during his spec
tacular run with Gardiner under a
hail of 30-30 bullets on Labor Day
was the first prisoner ever fatally
shot since the prison was establish
ed.
"In 1SS". three days after I join
ed the prison, a convict escaped,"
recalled Capt. Henlv today. "There
were only four settlers on the island
at that time, hut the fugitive was
caught in three days.
"That same year two others got
away, but it only required two day*
lo get them. A year or two later
another escaped into the v.-ouds—he
lasted only a couple of 3s
Kotini) in llritioh Colun.bia
"It was ahout 1SS5 that a ;rison
trusty slipped down to the jail
wharf, stole a penitentiary rowhoat
and escaped. He was picked up a
couple of weeks later in Hritish Co
lumbia and brought back. Miout
eight years later a guard ard pri
soner went to the mainlau I for mall
in a sailboat. On the return trip
a storm arose and both were lo<t —
neither was ever seen again. Dut
this was always believed to be an
accident, as the boat was later pick
ed up.
Three Never Keiaken
"About 1S96 a pugilist prisoner,
'Tug' Wilson, and another convict
named Pomeroy, slipped into the
forest while cutting wood with a pri
son gang. They have never been
captured. The next year another goi
nwaj—he has never been found."
The most popular theory of the
Gardiner escape is that he swam to I
safety soon after he escaped, but j
the only recollection of such a feat1
in the mind of Capt. Henlv was th^
rase of a prisoner who eluded guards |
about 1900. This convict swam from
Ward's point to Anderson's Island,
a distance of a mile, but was recog
nized by a rancher, who brought him
back to the penitentiary under a
sun.
Eleven prisoners escaped through
» ventilator shaft about 1903, but
all were caught on the island. In
the same year two convicts named,
Chester and Meinberg escaped in a
l»oat and they were both captured a
iveek later on Nisquallv flats.
It is ahout fifteen years ago that
:he notorious Albert Bell, a mail
-obher. escaped through money
imuggled into the penitentiary by
i convict friend. Stveral theorists,
relieve Gardiner had an outside ae-J
-omplice in his Labor Day break. I
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IX THE PROBATE COIRT FOR
HAINES PRECINCT. FIRST JU
DICIAL DIVISION, TERRITORY
OF ALASKA.
N THK MATTER OP THE ESTATE
OF
S. J WEITSMAX. deceased.
\ollro ol Hearing on f inal Ac
count
H. Chisel, as administrator of the
estate of P. J. W'eistnan. deee;u>e!
did on the 5th day of September
1921, file in the above entitled court
his final account and report of his
administration of said estate, and
the hearing of the same has been
set hv said court for tUe 5th day of
November. 1*21. at t!.« hour Of two
o'clock p. m. at the courtroom of
said court at Haines. Alaska, at
■
are required to file an> objections
they may have to said aci unt and
report, and to sliow cause if any
they have, why said account and re
port should not be allowed and set
tled.
Pitted this oth day of September.
1921.
JOS II CHISEL.
Administrator
First insertion—Sept. ?. 1921
Final Insertion—Nov. 10, 1921.
but the Boll escapc is among t hp
few such cases recalled by rapt
Henlv. After escaping RM1 went to
a cache where he found a suit of
convict accomplice he hid fur two
weeks in the penitentiary barn,
planning to walk away when guards
relaxed their search for m Here
he was found by guard ' iding in
the hay.
Shortly after tite Hell escape
eleven convicts, after honey-comb
ing the prison roof. es. .iet! :tt night
A11 were later recaptured with a
is still at large.
Three Times l?cia|»mre«l
The next break «;.s that of W il
liam Wendt. a few years later
Wendt escaped three : •
years, but was never at 1: eru Ion
er than a week.
Among the few who -ucceeded in
a clear getaway was a Russian
trusty who escaped in a boat in
19If!. No trace of him
found. A few years later a Mexi
can named ,lesu« K:.:
Ramirez attempted what Gardiner is
believed to have done, hid on shore
and boarded a log for a di.sh to the
mainland. A few feet from s?:ore.
however. Ramirer rolled off the log
into the water. He returned to shore
and ran to the nearest famln'iise to
get warm. Penitentiary guards were
notified and he was caught warming
himself over a hot stove.
K«c«po Made In Rot* boat
In 1919 two convicts named True
THK SK AGWAY
Pioneer Dairy
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IHt SANITARY m.jm
Thf UrpFt and best eon
ducted dairy In Alaska. .
Dallf ahlpmentw of pnre
milk and eream to all
p«int* on White I'aw A
Yukon Ronlr.
Big Game Guide
Sport-men who art* interest
ed in hunting bis Eame in the
lxmer VnWon rotintr) are in
ritnl to rail on tiw. .1 have
lhed fin- many years in the At
lin ronntry, and ran Rnariinfee
hunting partio* fine sTjerimens.
I lime a cnod power Ivwi
for lake linnilnc an<l flshlnc.
For information rail or ad
dress
Tom Williams
Ttier« ?p more c-»
of the country 1
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to be incursbi
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baby's tender skin after a bath
with Cuttcura Soap.
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m*--* s n«: If I >Ultll»*m a **■ T»k-1" if
PSPCvIk it*-m Soap ak»av«>« wtthmrt f"«t
and Riley escaped in a rowbn.it
next year there w*re two e«cap*-«
hut both convicts were apprehend*'1
Watson, wl o escaped
Passaco in a rowboat The opinion
has been advanced thai Watson. no><
an inmate of McNeill* island pem
tentiatv. had posted llardiner on the
toporraphy of the island And the
narrow stretch of water d vidine the
island and mainland
Although onb seven out of fortv
six escaped prisoners have •.•ucceed
ed ir. a pet a way. Oapt H^nh cot
cedes (iardiner a chance to win lii«
came of hide arid rpek with pet'
tentiary guards and possemen
"Bnt 1 believe he's sfiJl on ihr
island," says the ret era n cttard and
mariner. "It's a same of freeze oir
and the odds are that Rardiner *111
htse his chips—and liberty "
MICK1E, THE PRINTER'S DEVIL
By Charles Sughroe
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