ARE BLAMED
Says Farmers Forced to
Sell Food Products
at Large Loss.
Washington.—'‘Farmers are being
forced to sell food products, wool, cot
ton and hides at losses that will total
$6 000,000,000 this year, yet middle
men’s profits have kept prices up to
such an extent that the public is com
pelled to pay almost as much as be
fore,” says Arthur Capper, United
States Senator from Kansas.
“We have the most expensive and
inefficient marneting system in the
world. Labor costs, which dealeis and
merchants are making the excuse for
continued high prices, are but a cover
for continued extortion.
“Cooperative markets will afford the
only practical relief to the consumer.
They saved Enrnpe from complete col
lapse and would save the people of
America billions of lollars in middle
men's profits.
“During investigations of the high
cost, of living which the Senate cun
ducted recently, it was found that a
bushel of potatoes for which a farmer
in Michigan received $1 was sold for $4
to $6 in Washington.
“We traced meny-sales. The farmer
sold to the ^village dealer. The agent
of a Detroit buyer took the potatoes.
The buyer-Gold them to a commission
agent from Washington. The Wash
ington wholesaler sold them to the re
tail buyer. Each of these six men, of
course, took their commission.
“The week of November 15 broke all
records for shipments at the Chicago
stockyards. Farmers dumped 111,960
head of cattle in six days, including
many breeding animals. The producer
in many recent instances has received
6 cents a pound for his cattle. Never
theless, the consumer pays from 25 to
42 cents a pound for his steak.
“A Wyoming sheepman recently
paid $2.10 in freight to ship each head
of sheep to Kansas City, where he was
paid $1-75 pe- sheep, a net loss of 35
Notice of Forfeiture,
To John Turtiauen, his heirs, executors
and assigns:
You are hereby notified that during
'the year 1920 I have expended the sum
of one hundred dollars ($100.00) upon
Discovery placer mining claim, situated
on Dodge creek, in the Inoka Mining
and Recording Precinct, Territory of
Alaska, and the further sum of two
hunered dollars ($200.00) upon the New
Years Association placer mining claim,
upon thesame creek, in the same pre
cinct, in order tohold said claims under
the provisions of Section 2324 of the
Revised Statutes of the United States
of America and the amendments there-*
to concerning/annual labor upon min
ing claims, being the amount required
to hold said claims for the period end
ing December 31st, 1920, and if within
ninety days after the publication of
this notice you fail to contribute your
proportion of said expenditures as co
owner, as well as the cost of this ad
vertisement and recording fees, your
interest in said claims will become the
property of the undersigned, your co
owner. who has made the required ex
penditures, under the terms of said
section of the Revised Statutes of the
^United States.
Mike Mynti.
Date df first publication. Feb. 2, 1921
J>ate of last publication, May 4, 1921
cents on the freight alone, not counting
the cost of raising the sheep. oNat tir 1
]y, he is being forced t,uo of Luiiness,
yd there is scarcely atiy noticeable de
cline in the price of food.
“Two ounces have been added to the
loaf of bread in rav home town, and
more than $1.25 a bushel has been
taken from the price of wheat and 90
cent' a bushel from corn bet ween June
1 and December 1.
“A few months ago 30 bushels of
corn would buy a good suit of clothes.
Now, even with the small c*ut in cloth
ing, it require^ more than 100 bushels
of corn to buy the same suit.
“Lack of credit is choking agricul
ture to death. Farmers from almost
every state in the West and Middle
West have written to me in the last
few weeks complaining that they can
n it get credit under any conditions.
“Congress'must solve this problem,
and, as one remedial measure, it 'must
re-establish foreign trade relations, so
that our surplus crops, livestock ana
cotton may find a market- In consid
ering measures, the war finance cor
poration should be authorized to re
sume operations at once. There is no
other way to market the 12,000,000
bales of this year’s cotton crop and our
other great surpluses.”
W. T. Lopp Wires
About Ship Boxer
Seattle, March 7.—W. T. Lopp, su
perintendent of education for Alaska,
wires/from Washington tiiat the ap
propriation 'for fitting -up the ship
Bi'Xer for the use of the Educational
Bureau is Alaska was stricken from
the sundry civil bill. He says that the
use of the Boxer in carrying teachers
and supplies to outlying districts would
save the country twenty thousand dol
lars a year. He say^* no change is
contemplated in the policies of the
bureau relative to native and white
schools. _
Olaf Waagen, of Ophir, is a late ar
rival.
Mary Garden Shocks
Chicago Theatregoers
Chicago.- Mary Garden, as the gol
den courtesan, Chrysis. dominated the
“Aphrodite,the-Nt*vr Year’s eve en-!
terteinment tor 4?OGO ojJcragoUv.g Chi
cagoans.
Draperies of the tint of pallid sun
shine constituted her tirsi costume.
Her second was a diaphanous rose
and leopard’s skin and a long scarf of
dull green.
The third was cunningly folded
mists of white.
But that wasn’t th%half of it.
Spectators were left breathless by
the terpsicborean realism of Pavley,
master of the ballet.
A transparent “chiffon i.-laisuee’! was
the only mask as a statuesque youth
and his inamorata presented the an
cient equivalent of a wedding night.
Tlie party got a little rougher when
the youth brought the girl to the foot-1
lights so that none might mi>s their
gestures.
The audience didn’t receive the
dancing well, and curtain calls were
conspicuous by their absence. The
conversation was along the line of
“Isn’t the music wonderful?”
“Aphrodite” was advertised as the
sensation of the Chicago opera season.
It was.
F.iitz Tlttel an ived from tho West
Fork oo Suoday to transact a little
i e e^sar> business.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Arnold IJaK Hans Screasen. P.
Glsoa C. fia-.iscii, G. Kooatz, F. E.
Levy, .letries Hansen, P* Qristensen,
John Gi'ffiin, Fred' Vogelsdag, their
heirs, executors and assigns:
Yon and eat-h of vou are hereby noti
fied thatiduring the years 1910. 1911.1912.
■1»I3, 1911. 191.'). 19 Id, 1920. 1 expended
the sum of (.$100.00) One Hundred Dol
lars upon your imerests in the Nugget
Association and the North Foie -Asso
ciation, situated on Yankee Creek, ir.
the Tnoka Recording Precinct. Terri
tory of Alaska, in order to hold said
claims under the provision of Section
2324 of the Revised Statuses of tlie
United States, and the amendments
I thereto concarulog annual labor upon
I mining claims, being ihe amount re
I quired to hold said mining claims for the
j period ending December .11. 191(1, 1920,
and -1f within ninety days after the pub
i licaiion of rhis notice you fail or>eofnse
! to contribute your proportion of said
expenditures, as well as tbo.cost of
j recording and publicafibn of this
I notice, as co-owners, your inter
ests in said claims will become the
proparty id' the undersigned, your co
owner, who has made the required ex
penditurs under jhe terms of said sec
tion of the Revised Statutes of the
United States.
John' A. Olson.
First publication, February 2, 1921.
Last publication. May 4, 1921.
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