F«Ubli«WJ 1898 OMwt D»i1t » Al»»k»
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Suberrlptiona And Advertisements
SetelTid By
Uenaett Neva Co., Whltehorae, Y. T
E. E. Qideon Carcrose, Y. T.
E. L. Plllmaa Atlln^ B. C.
EDITORIAL
DEFENSE SOCIETY PROTEST A
OA1XSX SPANISH MISSION
VISITING AMERICAN
FRONT
Th« visiting of the American
frcut ia France by military experts
j* auy nation other than an Ally of
the Uuited States was earnestly
protested against by the American
Pefense Society in the following
tfle^ram sent today to President
Wilson, and which is signed by Mr.
tiarley Stewart Davison, Chairman
o' the Society's Board of Trustees:
"Noticing an express statement in
C - public press that a SDanish Mili
tary -Mission including experts In
all arms purpose visiting the Ameri
can front, we respectfully protest
a-ainst the visiting on the Ameri
can front in Franc© by Military ex
perts V any nation, other than any
ai'y of the Unite! States."
"The sola purpose ot the Ameri
can Defense Society in calling the
attention of the Administration to
the proposed visit of the Spanish
Military Mission to the American
front is to safeguard by every pos
sible means all information regard
ing the organization of American
troops ou the field of battle," Baid
Mr. Davison. The protest against
i!>e Spanish Military Mission is not
to be taken as an expression of
feeiii.g against that particular iia
tion. We favor the exclusion of
military experts of all the neutral
powers.
"There are. of course, certain
;.tutra! nations which caa hardly
be classed as unfriendly to Ger
many. To prevent the sending of
any military mission by such
benevolently neutral powrs is, of
course, an all important question,
and a precedent we believe should
be established' at once; otherwise, jt
mi^ht be hard to estimate American
losses in life directly due to infor
mation open to enemy agents in
these neutral countries.
PR XCTICAL WAY TO
FINISH HUN DIABOLISM
The American Defense Society is
calling for pledges agreeing not to
purchase anything made jn tier
many. This ia work that meets our
heartiest approDation. It is not
s'"ite cr hatred or anything of the
sort. It is hard common sense, and
appreciation of justice, a using of a
powerful weapon against a detest
able enemy. Every American can
mate his power felt In this field,
hr positively refusing to spend a
cent now or hereafter for anything
m*d« in Germany.
Within a fere days Germany has
throws the last shred of decency,
civilization and humanity to the
wares and has announced her in
tention of sinking hospital ships
wherever found'. This she does with
a deliberate and conscious lie on
her lips. She does it because of
h«r complete adoption of Satan and
all his hellishness. This makes her
a pariah, a leper among the na
tions. She hag chosen to be an out
cu* and an Outlaw a^d a* KUcb
must take the treatment frhe has
Invited.
One way to make reiMwtls and
apply punishinent la to refuse to
do Duslaesa With her after the war
Now is the time to make »ure that
the punishment is applied1. Every
American can. and should take this
obligation.
That we do not require anything
made In Germany—including the
language—is mad© plain by our
experience during the war. We
have had several years of almost
entire freedom from German-made
things and we haTa not suffered.
We would be still better off by deJ
coring complete industrial Inde
pendence and positively refusing to
purchase a single Germany article
for *t least a century. — Bristol,
Conn. Press.
STAY WITH IT
Ma^y Alaskans at this time of
the year get dissatisfied with the
country and make plans to leave be
fore the snow flies.
To these we would say: Take
stock of yourself and your resourc
es before you finally decide to KO,
and '-*n stay here. You are do
ing your part when you Btick to
your Job, no matter what kind of
useful work it is. If you quit and
move around there is a lot of time
wasted, not only on your part, but
your employer Is losing. Another
man has to be trained to take your
place and he has to quit his Job
and someone else take his place, and
so the endless chain of lost time
goes cs.
The chances are that you will not
better yojrself—you are doing Well
now—you don't know how you will
do where you move to. Better
stick to » certainty than to chase
the will o' the wisp that someone
tells you about.
Your tJncle Sam says "Stick to
your Job,'* 90 like a good soldier
stay vi'h it till the war la over,
and In so doing you will have ac
complished a great good for your
country and for yourself.—Douglas
Island News.
PRICES AND COST OF LIVING
The retail price of food as a
whole for the United States on May
15, 1918. showed an Increase of
3 pertfnt oyer the price f°r April
15, 1918.
Of the 27 articles for which pric
es are received by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, 6 articles—milk,
flour, potatoes, raisins, sugar, and»
coffee—remained the same in
price. The increase of 70 per
cent 'n the price of onions la due
to the nett onions having just come
on the market. Round steak 11 ml
plate boiling beef increased 10 per
cent each; sirloin aleak, rib aud
chuck roast, 9 per cent each; pork
chops, 3 per cent; bacon, ham, and
rice, 2 pe* cent each. Bread and
butter increased 1 per cent each.
Salmon increased less than 1 per
cent. Tho pr'cea of corn meal
and cheese were 2 per cent less
cu May 15 than on April 15. ard,
beaivs, and prunes showed a decreas
of 1 oer cent each. Eggs and tea
declined less thanl per cent in, the
same aeriod.
Conforming to the ruling of the
Food Administration, no live or
fresh hens were 6old on
March 15 or Aprtl 15, hence no
comparisoa can be made in the pric
es for the period April to May. The
May price, however, shows a 5 per
cent increase over February, the
date last reported.
GERMANS DEPORT
BELGIAN WORKERS
Returning Belgians, deported this
year, brlu» new evidence oI German
cruelty, according to the "Belgian
Bulletin," received by *he Depart
ment of Labor, which says:!
"It is known that at th8 begin
ning of the year 1918, in spite of
all their promises to the neutrals,
as well at to the Pope, the Ger
mans s^ain deported' from Lo
keren (eastern Flanders) to the
western front to labor at military
works 27,000 men of the middle
and working classes.
"It <s announced at present that
200 of these unfortunates h ave
been aole to return to their native
town. They are all in a lament
able state of health, and for the
most part tuberculous, but on the
other hand dysentery and typhus,
underfeeding, cruel treatment, and
blows have made very many vic
tims among the men d«ported from
Lokerea, and nothing marks the
spot where they have been buried.
To Care » Gold In One Day
Take LAXATTVB BROMO QUIN
INH 1 ablet*. Druggists [ roftmd
money U it falls to cure. E. W.
GROVE'S signature la on a»cb box.
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COST TO CONSUMER OF A
POUND LOAF OF BREAD
Siucf. 1913 farmers have been re
ceiving for their wheat a gradually
iucreasing proportion of th« price
paid by the consumer for bread.
Thp amount received by thg wheat
grower for his contribution to the
average pound has increased' from
lcs« thou 1V4 cents per loaf jn
1&13 to more than 3^ cents e&rl£
this year. The proportion to the
whole price is shown by the rela
tive length of the black columns of
the chart.
The middle portion of each col- \
umn shows what the miller receiv
ed for his filling costs and profit
Th's has oeen a somewhat variable
factor, hut is now at the minimum
(6 percent). In this 6 percent, how
ever, is included the cost of the
containers (bags, sacks, etc.) shown
as dotted area which haa increased
very nearly in proportion to the
price of bread itself. Bags now
cost snout 50 per cent more than
In 1913 and 1914.
The shaded portion of the column
represents the expense of distribut
ing the four, making it into bread
and gettine the loaf to the consume
The chart shows that the farmer
is now receiving a much larger
sharo of the final price for his. Pro
duct than (n the past, and that a
considerable amount of "spread"
has oeen taken out of other ex
penses.
THE FOURTH AT UN ALASKA
On the last trip of the Dora to
the wetward the old reliaole made
Unalaska, on the Fourth of July.
Unalaska is one of the largest of
the Aleutian islands, and lies a
bout 100 miles west of Unimak pass.
It is an lnaccesible, out-of-the-way
place, but has an excellent harbor.
The revenue cuters Bear and Unai
ga were *n port, and the crews of
these vessels, together with the
crew of the Dora and the few whites
on toe island indulged in one big
Fourr' ot July celebration. Boat
races, 'oot races, wrestling, etc.,
was indulged in. The Unaiga's crew
carried oft all the honors but. one,
the main event, a wrestling match,
which was won by "Shirty" Morgan,
fireman of the Dora, who w-on the
first fa-ll in tjiree minutes. Th«j sec
ond bou*. lasted an hour and thirty
minu'es, the referee finally calling
time auil awarding the fall to Mor*
gan.
The Dora made the run from Un
alafrjta to Naknek in three days.
Here sh« took on quite a number of
men from the different canneries.
Also fivt insane persona and four
prisoners. At Nushagak, former
Deputy U. S. Marshal Paulson, and
wife and Mrs. W. H. Johnson, form
erly school teacher at Togiatr Point,
and wife, joined the Dora party. A
number of passengers had' to be left
behind at this point on account of
lacV of accommodations. Two In"
sane persons were added to the list
a* this Dlace. The run back to Un
alaska took three and a half days.
The boat left Unalaska on the
nighf 0? the 13th, got into a heavy
fog, tide and gale in Unalga etraits,
and was blown back into Bering
sea aboul 85 miles. After round
ing to she resumed her journey, call
ine in at Sannak where a beef was
killed* and taken aboard to th^ de
light of the hungry passengers.
Everyone aboard Bpeakj highly
of the splendid treatment they, ex
perienced at the hands of Capt.
Newlauds and First Officer Arthur
Meeiick.—Valdez Miner.
BODY WAKES ITS OWN HEAT
Comes as Natural Result of Chemical
Changes Which Are Constantly
Taking Place.
The hpat of our bodies Is- the direct
result of the chemical changes which
take place in all the tissues and or
gans of the body. Brubacker's Physi
ology says that "each contraction of a
muscle, each act of secretion, each ex
hibition of nerve force is accompanied
by the evolution of heat.
"The chemical changes," It contin
ues, "are for the most part of the na
ture of oxidations, the union of oxygen
with the elements, carbon and hydro
gen, of the food principles either be
fore or after they have become con
stituents of the tissues.
"The ultimate source of the body
heat is the latent or potential energy
in the food principles, which was ab
sorbed from the sun's energy and
stored up during the growth of the
vegetable world." When the food—
whether this be directly vegetable or
vegetable that has been transformed
Into meat by being enten by an ani
mal—is digested In our bodies it Is
"reduced by oxidation to relatively
Simple bodies, such as urea, carbon
dioxide and water, with a liberation of
a large portion of their contained en
ergy, which manifests Itself as heat
and mechanical motion."
X1ZIN& niSTIUCT
Several largo hydraulic outfits
are at work in this district. The
largest is owned by Howard Birch,
who is working very rich ground,
nut handicapped by the shortage of
labor. He is paying $5 a day and
board. He expects to clean up two
or three pits this summer; and a
oout 300,000 feet of bedrock in the
entire season's work.
Esterly's big hydraulic outfit is
lying id'U at the present time 011 ac
count of the high cost of operat
ing, and the high cost of everything
else in, the district. The company
has some good ground but Prefers
to wait until after the war to oper
ate it.
On Rex Creek, the Andrew's hy
draulic outfit with Bert Carvey in
charge .is working about 12 to 14
men, and will make a big cleanup.
Many smaller outfits are. work
iu6 alone the river, and all are very
otHimifitic over the summer clean-uj
The big bridge across tbQ Nizina
hag cone out, five gaps averaging
about 150 xfeet each oppearing in
the structure, the material having
gone down stream to join, McGinty
at the tottom of the sea. The first
high wat»r tore the pilingf rom a
nuntoer of bents and the balance
soon went. It is a great disappoint
tnent to lose this bridge, as it was a
great convenience to the people of
the district, or would have been, if
it had stood the test of high water
It is believed it wl.ll be a total loss
to tbe district.
The Mother Lode mine is driving
a tunnel to connect with the Bon
aza mine from the Mother Lode end
which will be completed within a
month or six weeks, greatly fa
cilitating the output.
TAKES PLACE OF REAL EYE
Invention of French Oculist Invaluable
to Soldiers Who Have Suffered
Disfigurement.
The high velocities and high explo
siveness of the present-day projectiles
often result In facial wounds of most
horrible appearance, In the repair of
which the surgeons meet with extreme
difficulties. In particular, soldiers re
turn from the line of fire not merely
with an eye shot out, but with the en
tire lid and eye socket destroyed, and
the absence of these foundations has
often made the insertion of an arti
ficial eye impossible.
Until the present moment there, has
never existed any means for conceal
ing this disfigurement and restoring to
the unfortunate victim the appearance
of a normal man possessing two eyes.
But quite recently a French oculist,
Henri Elntus, has made it possible to
do this even when the eyelid Is entire
ly missing.
In its essential features the apparatus
consists of an artificial eye, equipped
with a lid of any convenient plastic
material—paraffin or molding paste,
colored to match the subject's com
plexion. This eye Is furnished also
with lashes, to give to It to the fullest
extent the appearance of a natural
eye. It derives Its support from fine
metal wires attached to eyeglass or
spectacles, so adjusted that when the
latter Is placed upon the nose, the
artificial eye falls accurately into Its
cavity. The eye may easily be sepa
rated from these attachments tor
cleaning. -
THE PATH
I rolled' up the curtain, and peeped
out'at life;
The billows were foaming with
anger and strife
No calmness I saw, but high roll
ing waves
That greedily yawned like open
graves.
And gulls moaning flew, like souls .
of >ie slain
That even in. death, remember their
Pain,
The ftuug golden splijndor as it
rimmed the high crest;
Only showed more plainly the storm
on ber breast.
While in the far distance, like blood
of the elairi,
The flag® of all nations quivered
with pain.
The ocean's wide surface seemed
lonely aud <old
As a shroud ali speckled and cover
ed with mould.
Far off in the distauce, a b!ack
towering thing,
There seemed to hover, like death
on the Wing;
Then sank slowly from sight, 'neath
the horizon's rim,
As the sua touched" the spot, where
before it had been;
Then ocean calmed down, like the
peace in a soul,
That at last nears Heaven, the 1
longed for goal
And *he son softly shone from the
heaven above
On the Pathway of Nations, all
hushed in His love.
, C. W. T.
1918 A. G. 8paulding & Bros.
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stack at Keller Bros, Adv. tf.
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE
Notlo ia hereby given, that the
uudereigned htis been appointed Ad
ministrator ol the estate of Miles
Creegan, deceased, by the Pro
bate court for the territory of Al
aska sitting in probate at Haines,
Alaska, e,.id any and all persons
having claims against eaid estate,
are required to present them to
me, with the proper vouchers, at
my office in the said town of
Hainea, -vitbin Bix months Irom
date of first publication of this
notice.
Dated the 19th day of August,
1918.
J. Q. Morrison, Administrator.
W. B. Stout, Attorney for Adminis
trator.
First Publication, Aug 22, 1913.
Final Publication, Btpt. 26, 1918.
Good Back For Bad
Skagway Residents Are Learning
How To Exchange the Old
Back For « Stronger
One rt<
Does your back ache, feel weak
and painful?
Do you suffer headaches, languor
and degression?
Is the urine discolored, passage*
irregular?
The kfdneys may be calling for
help.
Weaic kidneys cannot do tbeir
work.
Give them the help they need.
To curb kidney backache you
must cure the kidneys,
Use 0 tested and' proven kidney
remedy.
Doar.'s Kidney Pills have Ptood
the test.
Convincing proof of merit in th»
following endorsement:) •
Arthur Portier, 609 Heron St,
Aberdeen, Wash., says: "Doan'i
Kidney Pills, in my estimation,
are superior to any other medtcloa
for kidnev trouble and I couldn't
recommend anything their equal. I
have seen taking Doan'a Kidney
Pills off and' on for a number oX
years and have always received fine
results. For lameness of the back
and kidney disorders, Doan's can't
be equaled."
Pric- 60c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ass for a kidney remedy—
get Do a li's Kidney Pi"8—the «am«
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NOTICE OF FlNiaX AQOOUJiX
In the U. S. Commissioner's Court
Tor the territory of Alaska at Skag
wajr in probate La the matter of
the estate fo S. H. Yeoman*, exe
cutrix of the estate above stated
has filed in the above entitled court
her final account of the estate of
the said deceased, and the hearing
of same hag beau Iliad for Satur
day the 28th day of September,
1918 at two o'clock In the after
noon of said day at the court rooja
in the federal court house at BJctf*
way, and all persona having lot*c>
est in said estate are notified then
and there to appear and file J$U7
objections they may have to said ac
count and to show cause. If any th«
have, why said final account should
not be allowed.
Mrs. Ella Mary Yeoman*,
Administratrix.
Dated at Skagwsy, Ataaka, thta
27th day of july, 1918.
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