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EDITORIAL
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COMMISSION' HAS NO TIME FOR
ALASKA
Following is the report of the In
torstate. Commerce Commission on
the standard time zone investigation.
Ir '? based On an exhaustive in
quiry conducted bv Commissioner
Aitchison, in every section of the
country- It is ordered by the com
mission that the time swne limits
de'iued in the report shall become
effective at 2 o'clock antemeridian
of January 1, 1919.
Reoort of the (Amuiii^sion
Atchison, Commissi oner:
Bv sections 1 and 2 of the act of
Congress approved March 19, 1918.
entitled "An ac to aave daylight
ann to provide standard time for
the United States." it is provided:
"That for the purpose of estab
lishing the standard time of the U*
niterf States th«» territory of the con
• iuoutai United States shall be di
vided into five zones in the manner
hertlnalter provided. The standard
tiuio of the first zone shall be based
on tl^e mean astronomical time of
the seventy-fifth degree of longitude
wc-s* irom Greenwich; that of the
fourth zone on the one hundred and
twentieth degree; and that <*f the
tiftb zone, which shall include ODly
Al?ska, on the one hundred and fif"
tieth degree. That the limits of each;
zone snail o© defined by an order
or r'rte Interstate Commerce Commis
sion. having regard for the conven
ience of commerce and 'he exist
ing junction points and) division
points of common carriers engaged
In cvmmerce between the several
State? and with foreign nation*,
and such order may be modified
!ioq time to time.
Alaska Tirue Zone.
The act provides that the stand
ard time of the fifth zone, whicn.
shal] include only Alaska, ahail
bp based on mean astronomical time
oi to* 150° ol longitude west from
Greenwich, and shall h© known and
designated as United States stand
ard Altska time. Our attention has
teca directed to th© fact that tho
mai«lai>d of Alaska xetends frotu
appioximately 130° to lt>S° west of
Greenwich, which, translated' into
Is equal to more than two and
on^HI> hours. Juneau, the caoital
of *t>e "*xxitory. with, a lognitude o«
apDroxlma^ i34i^« west, is mroe
thaa en hour time east of the
one hundred an* fiftieth meridian
to which Congress refrered tlie
'.'nite States standard Alaska time.
Xomally, we would) ex>»Lt to find
the souhteastern portion of Maska,
lying east of a southerly prolo^ga.
'iaa of th© international bund&«j
ruantu^ through Mount St. Ellas,. W
"■ *°a« based' upon the standard
of 135® -w<-<st of Greenwich.; while
the remainder of Alaska would, ap
proximately b6 divided into two
zones, based respectively upon meri*
Oiabg of 150° and 16a® weet of
Greenwich. These three meridians
woujd pass close to Skagway and
J un#»au, Sewar<i> and Nome, res
pectively . be creation of these
CANADIAN 'CAVALRY ROUND UP HUNS I
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With the fit jhtlng on the western front becoming more open, cavalry Is
being employed in greater numbers. Canadian cavalry made a spirited dash
Into enemy ter fltory and rounded up thousands of prisoners. This official
photograph sfi.o fvs tbejHeinies coming Into the Infantry line after being driven
In by the cava! fymen.
thre- zones in. Alaska would hi.r
monls»> -with the who!© scheme of
standard time, and seemingly present
u-. great obstacles for Accomplish
rnent
However this mar be, it is ot>
vious that CXuiffress hag not vested
anv discretion in the commission as
to tbp standards of time to be °b"
served in Alaska, and the remedy to
the situation njiwt be found in Con
gress, if at all.
THE REASOX AN'I) THK FACTS
POK A "WOOD ROAD
It ba$ been quite agreed, by those
whc knovr, that good wages can t>e
made by wood cutters! at $3.00 per
cord, ftytir foot -wood. The charge
for delivering in. town i» $100 per
cord. The governmeut charges 25
cent- per cord stutnpage, and today
wood is selilng for $9.00 per cord,
sixteen foot measure, delivered.
Th« reason that this) price is
asked is hte fact, that this wood
is imported. It is hauleU from the
McBae spur near Whitehorse, and
there costs $5>.lo per cord" f. ©. b.
cars. Tha freight is $2.50 per eord,
which leaves a pdssab'e $1.40 for
hauling and profit.
The reason that it is necessary for
this wood to come from such a
Ion* distance is a simple one. Skasr
way has no roads to its adj;icent
be its of timber, and no one seems
inclined to shoulder the expense of
Duilding jfuch a road, because of
the
Keaswjj that it is believed- that
tais sfioruld t>e done by the govern
ments
The fact that the government built
a ?oad extending up the river for
a distance of about four miles.
"«nere there was already a fairly
good road, is no reason for the er°v*
'eminent shirking this responsibility.
The fact that the government
oiui' ? bridge across the Skagwav
river to connect with road* is no
reason why the)- shou'Jd stop.
The White Pass has published a
tariff calling for $1.10 Per cord
from Denver Station for a minimum
of 10 cords to the car. Wood could
not be hauled by team this distance
of five miles for this amount, and
the fact that there is toussnds of
cords of fine wood in the Denver
Glacier valley shoufhld' b© induce
ment enough, for the government to
buili* a good road' for two or three
miles up this valley, connecting) with
l'the railway right of way, so that
this wood would become accessible
to the people of skag^vay
The reason that the White Pass
would derive a revenue from this
project, should- not be sufficient rea
Ison for the government hesitating to
build this road.
Th*. fact that the government is
traildinp roads throughout Alaska
where there 1# 'eSs necessity f°r a
road than th-e reason States] above
snouw cause th.e Alaska Road <om
mission to give this matter careful
consideration . It is well under
stoji». that tlus has been taken up
by the people Jot SkPgway, and; the
request, for s»ch a road turned down
on the grounds that it would paral
lel the railway. We heartily agre
with tbe comwjssion that a Trunk
or autoinu>bile road, to the Summit
at »his time is ^unnecessary, but we
do think that -\ve should have a
r°*d or ROADS leading- to the rail
road from the various timber bodies,
so that S&agway would not suffer
a fuel famine, or the people be put
to tha necessity -Of paying for "im
ported wood." which has to be Ti&ui
e<? nearly 1001 miles against & pos
sible 3 or S miles. an<i In addition
to this pay jutside Pric-e^ for labor
which is acknowledged to he much
•higher than in this -vicinity.
Boost for the Denver Valley i<>ad,
.'Kid when we set it we wiH again
have $0.00 or $7.00 woo# delivered
to our homes.
(JKT BUSY!
Don't start croaking.
This country is going on.in pros
perlty.
The may upset thrones and re
gime..- .all they please in Europe.
\\'f, don't do things that way in
this country.
When we aren't suited with thinj.<
as they are we dust off the ballot
oox und put it into oonimission.
That's the American way. The
Peaceful revolution.
Lots of things need change aQd
mending. Don't forget that. For
one tning, the common fellow is
goiu^ to have mor® to say than be*
fote the war.
iiut free peoples like this know
how to go about buoIi jobs as ours
without **ying at cne another's
throats.
' 0' course occasionally s;me big
or little man looses a tornadw of
fiery words. We do it ourselves
sometimes and our chest feels bet
ter afterwards.
Xow we're going to be atlgosther
too busy to bother with the breth
ien o■ the firebrand.
Aik' we won't hav,3 any time
to waste lsitening to eroakcrs.
They told us it would take 5
or 10 years to whip Germany.
ThanKg be, our boys didn't be
lieve it.
Tbe croakers are discredited.
This is the hour for prosperity—
lor all of 'Us Americans to make
good times for ourselves.
Ge' busy.!
J/JNKLV ISLE, HIT OF PASTOR,
HOME OF CROWN PRINCE
Amsterdam, — Mosterland, a
haiuiei consisting- of a score of sma.ll
farmsteads and fishermen's huts on
the bleak lonely island of \Viering'*n
which is situate'! some distance frcm
fhe Dutch nava] station at Helder,
is the home assigned to the Intern
ed 'ornier German crown Prince.
The -locai pastor's humble two
storir •» residence has been leased
furnished for six months and hare
the crown princ« will live. The
house, which is without the slight
est attraction, is off the beaten 1
tr»<'k and is hardly ever visited by
strangers. The iiamlet itself is
innatiited1 for the most p^rt by mus
Isel "ishermen who after their ex
I periences with Ujboats during the
wiJr, view *h© guest's advent with
anything but favor. A lonlier re
) treat for the former crown prince
(could hardly be imagined.
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BATTLING XEI.SOX GETTING
BACK SOME OP FAVORS J
Chicago, Dec. 12. — "Bread cast ,
upon tl*e waters" i§ returning much ,
less than the proverbial thousand-1
fold to Battling Nlsoni, the "Our* |
aMp Dane," of lightweight champion
shio fame.
Nelson, who is penniless through J
legal technicalities and' suffering
from Spanish influenza, recently had
hi3 hospital bill paid. The "Battler !
appealed to friends to come to bis
aid. A check for ?203, the gift of
organization he aided in the
heydey of his career covered the
' immediate ©XDena , . ^ , , j
ONE JUNE NIGHT
By LOUISE OLIVER.
(Copyright. 1918, by the McClure Newspa
per Syndicate.)
It was a high Iron fence cohered
with honeysuckle—the one between the
Harringtons and the Neals—and with
every year's growth of the vine and as
every twig Interlaced to thicken the
density of the green wall, the barrier
of hate between the two families had
likewise grown In vast proportions.
The vine-covered fence Itself com
memorated the beginning of the feud,
for, as Is usually the case, It had start
ed with a disagreement about the
boundary line.
To arbitrate a quarrel Is not to set
tle It. Neither side winning, there Is
no one to forgive. So the Harringtons
and the Neals nursed their hate into
the second generation, and still It
grew,
Violet Harrington, the last and only
one at home now, had always hated
Dr. Wilbur Neal bitterly. She hated
him chiefly because he had always
seemed politely and supremely indif
ferent to her. He w^s almost the only
man In town who had not sooner or
later lost his heart to her. Vloiet had
always been the envy of every girl In
Coburg, because she was the prettiest
and most popular. Naturally accus
tomed to homage, she resented the fact
that Will Neal paid so much attention,
tb his books to the exclusion almost of
everything else.
Now she was twenty-eight and he
was thirty, and neither of them was
married. Knowing that she could have
anybody, she had taken nobody. Now
she was alone In the great house.
It was June and a wonderful moon
light night. Violet sat out under the
mnple tree in the yard, near the fence,
in a soft white dress, stroking Dick,
her Persian cat, and whispering little
secretsln his ear.
"It's a lovely night, Dickie. Do you
smell the roses? Listen! That soft
little murmur Is the voices of the love
fairies. Do you hear? They slide down
on the moonbeams to the roses on
June nights and plan whom they shall
enslave next. Then they mix a sort of
magic out of dew and fragrance, and
fly with it to the chosen ones and
anoint them. After that it's all over,
Dick. That love potion never fails.
"I suppose you're wondering. Dick,
why they never chose me. I've often
wondered, too. 1 wonder why they
never did. There are so many splen
did, wonderful men. I wonder why I
never loved any of them. I'm getting
awfully old, Dick. Some day I'll te
walking with a stick. Oh, Dick, 1 wish
I could love somebody. I d.<n't want
to be old and lonely and ugly."
Her head went down on the soft coat
and a tear dropped.
Suddenly there was n chirping and
fluttering in the vines, and Dick im
mediately Jumped down to investigate.
A fledgling hud dropped out of its nest
and got tungled in the leaves.
Violet jumped out of the swing and
hurried after him. But by the time
she reached the vine-covered fence the
cat hnd worked his sinuous way into
its very heart. Stooping, she reached
into the black shadows for her pet.
But he was gone.
When she tried to straighten she
found she could not. Her hulr—a won
derful Clipper, the chief charm of her
beauty, was caught cruelly by the
thick, twisted branches. She took out
the pins and tried to work it free, but
it was useless. She found she could
sit comfortably enough, but that was
no help to matters. She couldn't stay
there all night; too far back from the
street to be heard, and no one near but
the hated house of her neighbor.
Suddenly she heard a voice. It was
masculine and quite near. She peered
through the fence, and In the moon
light saw a swing much like her own,
and In It a man smoking a cigarette.
Between puifs he was talking to a
white bulldog on the opposite seat.
The man was Wilbur Neal and he
was in uniform.
She started. She had not heard he
had joined the array.
'Bags, it's a bully night* Isn't It?"
ealil Doctor Neal. "I wonder If
they have nights like this in France?
But of course they have, .only I sup
pose I'll be too busy ft) notice thera.
"It's funny. Isn't It, Rags, how we
wnste time and waste It, and suddenly
realize what things mean to us when
they're about gone? For instance, there
is a girl I like very much—very much
Indeed. And she hates me, and she
thinks I hate her; and because I dldn!t
know how to overcome her dislike J
just let it go. And now it's too late
to do anything about it. Too bad, isn't
it?' And if nothing happens to me in
this war, and I come hack, I'll grow
Into a cranky old man without friends
Isn't it silly? I've watched her grow
up, and she's a fine, useful woman, a>
well as beautiful. And I've lost hex
because I haven't any courage. But
I've courage tonight, I believe, Rags.
I wonder whaf she'd say if I went over
thpre? It's only next door, Rags."
But Rags had heard something. A
white shadow had flashed out of the
hedge, then In again. It was too much
for canine -endurance,
"Conic here, Rugs! Don't you hurt
that cat. It's Jiers. Rags, come here!"
But Rags was barking at something
'more substantial than a shadow, and,
refusing to move, his master followed.
So Doctor Neal found Violet Har
rington a prisoner, and had to go
around to her side to release her.
Two hours later, when he had taken
a reluctant leave, Violet burled her
head happily In Dick's soft coat.
"It must have been the love fairies,
Dick," she whispered. "I'm going to
marry him."
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WILL H SOI
YETBEEIFOUND
Vancouver World. — A situation
which may give rise to considerable
trouDle in the administration of the
late Capt. Jameg Alexander, the
wealthy mining man who lost his
life In the recent wreck of the S.
3. Princess Sophia, was disclosed in
an application which wag madia in
suprem,; coure for the appointment
of an interim administrator <o take
charge of and administer his pro
perty until probate or administra
tion could be regularly applied for
on beh°lf of the ascertained, bene
ficiaries. The motion was mode on
oeWl' of Allan I. Smith, a Phila
dc'whia capitalist, who alleges that
in October, 1911, he entered into
aa agreement with the deceased to
advance him certain sums of money
for th-» development of the Engineer
mine in the Atlin district, the de
ceasrd undertaking to make a will
in hia favor as security for the ad
vances. The first payment on this
agreement, it is alleged, amounted
to $30,000, and later on advances
were mad<e which bro't the amount
up ♦o $150,000, all of which waa
spent in development of the mine.
The will of the d-eceased, it i3 fur
t>ex stated by the applicant, was
made and properly executed, and a
copy of 't given to him, but the
orMuai is not to be found. Dili
Rent search has ibeea made, but
wltnou*. success, amd* the supposition
ia that it was among the effects of
the deceased which went down with
.the Sopnia. The body of both the
deceased and his wife were re
covered and idetified, bu.t none of
tbe effects were found. The de
ceased couple had no children and
Other heirs have not yet been dis
cover* \
A sum of $13,667 was discovered
in the Bank of Montreal here be
longing to Capt. Alexander, and
tnis, together with the Engineer
mi-e, which is said to be worth at
least a million dollars, comprises the
whole of the estate.
It was pointed out by Mr. Regin
ald Symes, who appeared! in support
of the motion, that the granting of
this application did no settle any
th?rg. The idea only was that
someone Should be placed' in offi
cial charge Of the estate until the
er*ot situation oould bg ascertained.
He suggested that the Royal Trust
OomDany be appointed as interim
administrator and the necessary or
der >vas made.
Unceasing Misery
Some Ska^way Kidney Sufferers
Get Little Best or CWnifort
There la Htle Sleep, littl® r«t,
lii.Ua oeaoe for many, e aufWrer ir<>.
kidney trouble. Life is o*e «o a Us
ual round' of p&in. You can't rest
at nizht when there's kidney baA*
acifi. You euffer twinges wd
"stabs" of pains, annoying urlatt*/
disorders lameaees and arevou«i«£ft.
You can't be comfortably at werfc
with darting pains and blladlH^ ^fltT
zy gyells. Neglect these all meet*
and serious 'roubles may follow. Re
gin using Doaa'j Kidney Pilla at
thf. (irst sign of diaorfrer. Theus*
ands iiare testified to their a»«rf.t.
Skagway readers will fl«d: too*
vincine poof in the folliwing testi
mony:
Mrs. L. J. Stover, 23 U W.
S*„ Pendelton, Ore., say#; "I 4a\e
found Doan's Kidney Pills to fie
all tint ia claimed of them for backr
ache and kidney trouble. Aooat *
vear ago I liad a dulj pais ia
the region of my kidneys. Often I
couM hardly keep goiny, taf batofc
felr so weak and sore. After { kad
taken one box of Doan's Udxtjf
Pills that awful misery t* «c bank
left entirely and I wae ab'-e to get
around a/s well as «nrer."
Price 60c, at all deaJeifl. Deu't
simpir a«k for a Iddaitj; —
get Doan'i Kidney Plllfc—tk, *a*e
that Mrs. Btorer had PoUWr'Wi
burn Co., Mfgrs* Buffalo, N. Y.
Keller Brothers received a o<ai
sljnment of the Army and N»vy B1
Tempio cigars today. Try them they
are the finest smoke erer.
NOTICE OF SALE OP Rfi&fi K8
TATB
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA,
DIVISION NO. I, AT 8KAG
WAY, BEFORE HON. E. A. RAS
MUSON, V. 8. OOMMI8MONBR.
AND EX-OFFICIO I'ROBAaCH
JUDGE.
In tie matter of tine estate of
Thomas A. McDonald, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that' Ui
pursuance of an order Of eal«,
duly made and entered ihg i>r«
bate court for the Territorp ®f
asska, sitting hi probata at SkAg
way precinct, on the ISfrh 6*y «f
November, A. D. 19* 8, Ml til® »*I
ter of the estate of Thomas A. }&
Donald, deceased; fcii« U«4er»'jne<
execulor of saidf estate, will «ril *t
public auction, subject t» •omfir'afcl
tion of sale by sai^ t*urt, «ks £«i
lowin^; described real estate bei act
ing to said estate; T*-wft; t/tu
One ll), two (2) aad three (3} in
Block sixty-fiv«, and Let %w»lv»
(12) In Block One huadrei &*4
twenty (120) of th» Cttj <4 Wai£
way, «s shown by the *flN5oial plat
thereof:
Said sale will be made oa tk«
13th day of December, A91f, at
the hour of 2 o'clock ta the after*
uoon o' said day at tr4at
of the court h«usB in the aa% 9U&
of Skagway; t«t;iB8 of 334# a® ftlUw
for cash.
Dated thi# 13th day of November,
1918.
L. S. KKIXSft ,
Executor of the estate o£ TkomaS A.
McDonald, deseaeed.
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