ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER
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JUNEAU SHOULD RETAIN LAND OFFICE.
The executive order icnioving the I'nited Stales
Land Off ice from Jutieau to Anchorage should he
suspended end if a Land Office is needed at Anchor
age, and doubtlc. s such is the case. Congress should
establish a Land District with that 'town as its head
quarters. The work in the I'nited States Land Offices
in Alaska has principally to do with mineral lands
and the most important mineral lands, those which
give must work to the Land Office, are located in the
Flirt Division.
The Juneau Land Dis.trlut should not only Include
Southeastern Alto ka but it mould, at least, contain
part of tlie Third Division that is tributary to Prince
William Sound and t he Copper River region. It
ought to include the whole coastal country.
The records in the Land Office show that more
hutittfc a originates in the First Division than else
where in this Land District. They show, also, tHut
most of the business that originates in the ether sec
tions of the Land District t done Dy mail from
Seattle and elsewhere on the Outside. For these
Juneau is more ncci .Die than Anchorage. We dc
net say that there is no need of a Land Office at
Anchorage, but we do contend that there is greater
need of one at Juneau. The happy solution of the
dilemma would be to have one at each place.
THE BALANCE OF TRADE.
For tlio first four months of the pre.ent year the
excess ot imports ov. r the exports of the I'nited
httates amounted to $88,894,359, according to figures
comtpiled uy liie Heston News Bureau, or an average
of 822,223,590 a month. This shows u remarkable
reversal of conditions (n the trend of trade, lit 1922
the balance* of trade in favor of the Unified Stales
was $720,000,000, or about $60,000,000 a month. In
1921 It was $2,075,000,000, or ubou! $173,000,000
u month. In 1920, $2,960,000,000, (i about $246,
000,000 a month. In 1919, $4,020,000,000 or $335,
000,000 a month.
This result has been brought about through a
shrinkage of our exports and an increase In our Im
ports. For the first four months of the present year
our exports averaged $327,374,990 a month and our
imports $349,598,580. In 1919 our exports averaged
$660,035,499 a month and onr imports $325,363 -
744. In 1920, exports were $685,668,025 monthly
and Imports $439,873,448. In 1921, exports $373,
752,614 and imp rt: $200,762,299 monthly, and In
1922, average monthly exports $319,314,000 and
imports $269,396,570.
Several things, it is agreed, are contributing to
this change. One <f them is the mounting prices
in this country which discourage buying here. An
other. the continued depression in the value of Kuro
pean exchange which prevents buying in America
and encourages buying in Kurope. Yet another, is
liwraesed prosperity in the United States which per
mits Americans to purchase luxuries as well as raw
material abroad. In addition to these, the condi
tions indicate increased production in other countries.
in spite of this change in the balance of trade,
the trend of gold shipments continues toward America,
i liat b due to the fact that foreigners still owe
large balances in this country and to the circumstance
3hut American investments abroad are earning some
thing like $t,000,000.000 a year in interest, divid
ends, etc. On the other hand there is an "invisible
balance" in favor ot foreign countries resulting from
freight and insurance payments to their ships and
Insurance companies, money .sent home by foreigners
in the United States arid money expended by Ameri
can tourists and business visitors abroad that is
estimated to amount in the aggregate to abrfut
$900,000,000 a year.
It is estimated that foreigners returning home
carry with them money approximately equal to money
biought here by immigrants.
These figures, when all considered, show that the
balance, insofar as ail transactions between America
and foreign countries ere concerned, is about equal.
SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA HAS RICHEST
AMERICAN GOLD MINE.
Not only has Juneau got the larged gold mine
in the wolid. measured by the tons of ore mined and
niillili ilai!" but tlie Chichagoff Mine n Southeastern
Alaska has paid 1'rgrr d.vidcnds during the last ten
years than any other gold mine in the United Stutes.
Tile Ohbhagoff mine is not as well known as many
other mines for tlie leuson that it is a close cor
poration with only three stockholders former Ambas
sador ;lugh C. Wallace W. K. Rust, of Tacoma, and
Mis. Edward de Groff, the latter the widow of the
original owner. The average annual dividend has
been more than $1.0011,000,
THE EFFECT ON GOVERNOR SMITH.
The New York Post, which opposed the repeal of
the New York prohibition enforcement law and
Which supported Governor Miller in the Iasi elec
Son against Governor Smith, not on account of lack
admiration for the character, ability and qualifi
qaticne of the latter but because of its admiration of
!lii* character, ability and qualification* of Governor
Miller, declared that the contention of those whcuasaid
that the poplarlty and political standing of Governoi
Smith depended upon the decision he made in th<
case was absurd. It gave as reason for the declara
tion that Governor Smith is not an over-night product
that his standing is not freakish in its nature, that
he gained the confidence of the people of New Yori
because, they have 'le.rrned to know the man foi
what lie is through intimate acquaintance with hii
long and fearless public career. It said that n<
matter what conclusion lie might reach on this ques
j tion the people of New York would give him credi
j foi honesty, courage and intelligent and informec
! interest in the public welfare.
MOST SENSATIONAL MINE DEVELOP
MENT IN THIS COUNTRY.
Probably the most si nsational mine developmcn
anywhere in recent years, and one of the wonders o
mining history, is the Premier Mine just across thi
I border at Hycler and within territory claimed bj
-Alaska before the settlement of the Alaska-Catvadiai
I boundary dispute. It paid its first dividend Decern
ber 1, 1921, and, beginning with that payment
(3,152,000 has been paid in dividends, it is said tha
another dividend of about three quurtrcs of a milliot
will be paid in the near future. When the tiist twi
years of its dividend paying shall have arrived It wil
have earned for its stockholders from $4,000,000 t<
$4,500,000 or more. The control of the mine is owntk
by Americans.
Many discoveries of similar indications to thosi
| which characterized the Premier have been made oi
j the Alaska side of the line at Hyder and across th<
i line in Canada. The Portland Canal district carriei
, gold, silver and copper. Heretofore the greater valui
'has been in the silver.
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SHOULD SEE KETCHIKAN.
The Ketchikan Commercial Club is endeavorlnj
| to get the Congressional visitors to call at that plac
Ion their southbound trip. If the request of the Firs
City were granted it would be found to be wortl
j while. Ketchikan is the second city of Alaska in slz'
land general importance and second to nbne in enter
prise. Its future as one of the important America!
ports on tiie Pacific is assured. Within its limit!
! are eight canneries, one of the largest cold rtoragi
plants for fish in the world, besides smaller ins'titu
I lions of the same character, sawmills, headquarter
, lor 11 large fishing fleet and many other importan
' teature3.
Southeastern Alaska is already one of the touria
playground of America. Four or five thousand tourist
viidt this section of Alaska annually. Every touri
j who visits the Territory goes back to urge others b
I come and sec. The accessibility or this section ha
I made it practicable for many thousands to includ
| Southeastern Alaska in'the itinerary of their Wester
trips.
Alaska should bo made free. She should be rc
leased from the influence of the faddist societlei
organized hobby riders, etc., of the East with the!
endowed secretaries and propaganda. The America
way to do that would be to give her self-governtnen
jin as wide measure as possible.
| Ko* fur and general fur farming is one of tn
; rapidly growing industries of Southeastern A laskt
i Probably more small fortunes have been made in fo
; farming during the last two or three years tha
| in any other one line of industry in this section r
Alaska.
Most of the marble used on the Pacific Coast i
| quarried in Southeaatren Alaska and practically al
jthe gypsum is mined here. Alaska marble is shlppe
I east as far as Chicago.
] T,le F'irst Division’s banking assets arc larger tha
; those of the remainder of the Territory combined an
j those of Juneau are two or three times greater tha
those of any other town in the Territory.
China Crisis.
(San Francisco Bulletin.)
The suggestion that the eight outside eignatorie
j to t he nine-power treaty for China should, use th
'machinery of their association for concerted actio
in establishing orderly government is reported a
being given favorable consideration at Washington
; Independent action by any of the powers whos
: citizens were captured by the Shantung bandits coul
, not go much further than securing compensatio
•for injuries inflicted and would be merely patch
I work.
I ** t'1<? bandits are paid the ransome demanded the
i are certain to return again and again and in large
| numbers, and banditry of that kind throughout Chin
; would lie put on a paying business basis,
j If the Chinese government cannot guarantee th
tree movement of law-abiding foreigners in China i
is time for friendly intervention, and if it is by coi
i ccrt of tlie powers it should be possible to guar
| against unnecessary friction.
For All-Alaska Chamber.
(Ncnana News)
An all-Alaska ('llamber of Commerce” is shorll
I to ,uke shape, states ( has. I). Gurtield. head or tli
Alaska Department of the Seattle Chamber of Com
merco, who has just returned from a six-week
survey of Alaskan conditions. There are few in 111
territory, tiays the Ketchikan News, but who wi
heartily second Mr. Garfield's suggestion it is
good one but in all likelihood not a new one; bu
i! through Mr. Garfield's efforts, a practical effi
eient and harmonious Alaskan Chamber of Commcrc
brought Into being, the News for one will b
pleased to say, "well done," and give Mr. Garliel
I the credit he will »o richly deserve
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j chief trouble with the Communists is t ha
■ they won t commune unless one agrees with them
—(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
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It is one marked peculiarity of Mr. Bryan's career
Hint if lie is not steering a steam roller he is likel’
(o be under one.— (Detroit Free Prees.)
Senator Moses rays: “We have the Hague tribonnl
That is enough." Was it enough in 1914?_(Sat
Francisco Journal.)
Unlike Columbus's sailors, crews of incoming
ocean linos are not elated at the sight of dry land
— (Now York Post.)
Briefly put, the llemoerats uren’t going to cross
any Ford until they come to It —(Dallas Ney».)
One of the chief aids to longevity is a cTironJc
ailment of some kind.—(San Francisco Journal.)
ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
! The nld-faslilonml woman who used
! to object to the family coming into
the house with muddy feet, now has
a daughter who wears u mud mask
to bed.
The Ananias Club
"Yes." said the father of six flap
per daughters, "we always keep with
in our income."
Ouch!
"The bride was led to the altar,"
read Mrs. Grouch.
“Huh!” interrupted her husband.,
“wouldn't it, have been more correct
to have said the groom was dragged
to the altar?"
Another Great Question Settled
At a meeting of the Topeka Ad
Club the question of "Which is the
more important, a man’s wife or his
trousers,” was up for debate. The
decision reached was that a man can
go anywhere without his wife. Oh,
well-! ! !
Need a Lot of Both To Buy There,
Too, Wc Suppose.
N. W. hastens to inform ns that
Silver and Gold keep a clothing
store on Fourteenth Street, New
York.
What Every Husband Knows
"Pa,” said Clarence, “what's sac
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icasin?
"Calling the husband the head of
I the house," grbwl' d the dad.
Shucks, Anybody Can Draw That
One
(Heading in a Weekly Contemp)
Artists Draw the Color Lino
Fool Questions
W. E. E. springs this old-timer.
"What Makes Long Island Sound?"
' And the answer is fust as old. "The
! noise from New York.” Which makes
| us wonder why nobody has asked if
: the noise in Illinois is what put
j the- 111 in that state.
<! Safe Bet
[! Blinks: “Tills busy Rtatlstleian
j i says New Yorkers mailed 300,000,000
i more letters last year than they rc
j reived."
- j Jinks: ‘‘Probably explained by the
1 number of out-of-town people who go
j broke there and have to write home
-I for more dough. So few of that
- kind are answered.”
| But Why Make 'Em
j I Explanations dre always hard to
l ; make, but the hardest are those we
j try to make to our wives—Sam Hill
! In Oineinnati Enquirer. This sounds
t like a paragraph from the life his
3 i tory of Jiggs. (Dusty Miller, in Wil
j mington News-Journal.)
lj They Know Their Friends
f A convention of medical men met
at Liberal, Kansas, recently and tin
undertakers of the town sent around
s these cards:
I Physicians and Surgeon:
We Welcome You to Liberal
Compliments of
The Liberal Undertaker.-.
Comfort For the Bachelor
* j M. S. T. desires ns to broadcast a
t, hit of defense fqr the poor unfortu
nate birds who have no wives who
go to afternoon bridge parties and
! stay long enough so their husbands
; will have time to get dinner ready
[ before they get homo, and know
i none of the other blessings of mar
s: ried life. Till'd fense was evidently
j thought up by one of these unlucky
1 “Jokes of Nature” just after getting
1 a returned manuscript from a maga
zine and cribbing the sentiment on
3 the enclosed slip to fit the bachelor
1 —anyway, speaking of those fellows
, HOTEL’ SEATTLE "
i "Home of Alaskans"
x | Prices reasonable. European
! I plan. Beattie, Wash,
ei | R- L, HODODON, Manager
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It’e all in knowing HOW to do *
flret-clase cleaning and dyeing. |
l CAPITAL DYE WORKS I
C. Meidner, Professional Dyer j
and Cleaner, Phone 177. i
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- | THE MAKING OF CONCRETE ,
s j Is a matter of proper material* I
e i together with engineering skill.
I | Both are our assets.
Established Twenty Tears
t I CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFO.
- ' COMPANY
s | Willoughby Ave. Phone 33.
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JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
Movm, Packs and ttona Frdfkt
and Raffac*.
Prompt flellyery of
! umamn coax
J- Pbm '48.
turned down by wise women folks,
he says: "Rejection does not, neces
sarily mean lark of merit.” Ho \nim.
It’s cold comfort for you poor old
leftovers.
Those Are the Symptoms All Right
“I fear our boy is going to grow
up to be a reformer," sigh ’ll thv
discouraged father.
"Why so," enquired the wlf e
“He doesn't, seem to find anybody
here that suits him."
We Ha'/e Done It t
"Most men." declares Sam Hill, it
the Cincinnati Enquirer, "k • >v th:P
the wl< kedness of poker, betting ami
I playing the stock market consists ol
being unlucky.'' Or in feeling that
“lucky hunch," tossing in every red
cent of tile weekly allowance t he
wife permits you out of your pay
check and having the dice turr
over with a pair of six • the firsl
throw. (Plqtta Call.)
If It Fits
We don't think the limit is goitif
to be reached until we see a book ot
“What Parents Ought To Know,'
written by a sixteen-year-old girl am
her fourteeu-year-old brother.
One reason why th family tha
goes out' motoring these days ,’otsji
get much chance to enjoy th> seen
ery is because father keep ' :n al
busy watching out for speed cops.
Any married woman can tell thi
girl who is waiting for a perfect
man to lome along befoie risking
matrimony that she might as wel
resign herself to dying an old maid
It is a heap sight better to have i
double chin than to bo two-faced
If that is any comfort to the supet
i stouts.
Oooii ha Hit a cost so much that wi
'often wonder how anybody tan af
ford to have any had ones.
Two of the most disagreeable peo
pie in the world are a woman wht
thinks she is pretty and isn t and t
man who thinks he is small am
isn't.
AUTOS FOR HIRE
I CALL . I
Berry’s Auto Service j
I for that seven-pasenger 1»2,
' Cadillac touring car. Stand at j
j Gastincau Hotel. Popular |
I prices..
WHEN IN NEED OF A TAXI
Call Collins
Seven passenger touring car. |
Stand Trinagle Shoe Shine Par- j
lor. Phone 180. Res. Phone 281. |
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Billy’s Taxi
Day and nigln service.
Stand at the drill.
Phone 4 72.
Auk Bay Stage
Leaves I'. & 1. Cafe for Auk
Hay 5 P. M., Saturday only,
returning Special trip at
any time. Round trip $2.50
I^evilla Fir Shop
EERRIERS TAXIDERMISTS TANNERS
KETCHIKAN,ALASKA
SWC|A1JZINC IN CRfAtlNG FROM
Kite MU tufts tut mist PAIttSllN STYLES
ARCTIC BATHS
Without exception the best
Turkish Baths in Alaska.
Give us a trial and you will be
come a regular customer.
Proprietor.
W. H. Lott,
So. Front St.
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ELI M00RH0USE & CO.
Certified Public Accountants
L. C. Smith Bldg., Seattle.
Audits and Income Tax Set vice
Annual visits to Alaska.
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USES FURNITURE
Bought, Sold and Exchanged
If. B0C0VICH
111 Seward St.
Telephone 441. P. O. Box Ml.
ALASKA COAL
FOR ALASKANS
—No soot
—Low in ash
—High in heat units
—Clean to handle
PHONE 412
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
PROFESSIONAL
a
Dri. Kasfr & Freebnrger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein lldf.
PHONE 56
Hour* 9 a. to. t« 9 p. m.
Dr. Charles P. Jennt
DENTIST
Rooms 8 and 9 Vawntlne Bldg.
Telephone 176.
Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Hours 1 to 4, 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 104; Rea. 10J.
Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. M. to 9 P. 1C.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Rea. Phone 276
Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bldg.
Telephone 172.
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Sitka Hot Springs
Visit the Famous
Dr. F. L. Goddard’s Sanitarium
Kates $3.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comfort
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Dn. R. N. DONAHEY |
■ S:une Good Service as In the
Past
HUTESON-DOKAHEf
OoticoKompon)^
108 Plko Street, Seattle.
fraternal Societies
-OF
Gasiineau Channel
o . 1LKI
Meeting Wednesday
Hbenlugs at 8:00
o’clock. Elks' Hall.
Charles P. Jeuue,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodies
of Freemaionry
Scottish Rite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month1-1'
at 7:30 p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary.
i. o. o. r.
SILVER BOW
I.ODOM NO. 1 A.
Nleeets every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Perolle, Noble Orandj
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
MOUNT JONFAD LOOM
No. 147, F. A A. M.
Stated Communication
Becr.nd «rid Fourth' Mondays
j of each Month, In Odd Folic—a
, J'»M, beginning at 7:1* o’clook.
Homer O. Nordling, Master.
( Iras. R. Naghel, Secretary.
Order of tbe
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tuta
days of each month.
At 8 o’clock, I. O. O. F. Ha!L
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
I/)IS NORDLINU, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
-ratiMi, BEOHB RB COUNCIL WO.
" 17 4U. Meetings aacoad
Nulld )alt Monday* at 7:1*
t] [7 p. m. Tranelent Broth
ers unfed to attend. Council Chamber#
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen, O. K.
J. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at I |. n.
Elks' ixjdKe Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; G. M.
Maun, Post Adjutant, Phone 196.
LOYAL ORDER Of
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 6 o’clock.
Moose Hall. S. F.
Rodenberg, Dictator; R. H. Stevens
Secretary.
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I WOMEN OF MOOSEHEART
LEGION
I Juneau Chapter No. 439
Meeting second and fourth
I | Tuesday of each month, 8
I o’clock, Moose Hall. Mrs. C. W.
Bender, Senior Regent; Mrs. A.
i F. McKinnon, Secretary.
T AUXILIARY, PIONEER* Of T
ALASKA. Igloo No. 6.
Meets last Thursday of every
1 month. Social hour with mem
] hers of Pioneer Ixidge to fol
low eoch meeting.
Mrs. Lottie Spickett, President.
JMrs. Lillie Burford, Secretary.
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WHERE
SUCCESS
BEGINS
The road to success begins at the Savings Window.
How early you attain success depends on how
often you deposit. Many of our captains of industry
owe their success in a .large part to the habit of
thrift acquired in youth. Have you started your boy
in the right direction?
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, The B. M. Behrends Bank
rUHXAU, ALASKA,
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