FUR SHIPMENTS
VALUE SHOWN IN
SURVEY REPORTS
Total of 395,247 Skins Ship
ped from Alaska 1922,
Valued at $1,800,003.
Furs shipped from Alaska to the
States, exclusive of seal skins, he- !
tween December 1. 1921. and No-1
vember 30, 1922 were valued at
$1,800,003 4 5. accord)uk to a ftate-j
ment just issued by the Bureau ot j
Biological Survey. During the same ,
period seal skills shipped were val- 1
ued at approximately $1,000,000. i
Pelts of muskrats arc the largest i
single items in the list of skins
shipped, having a value of $391.
431.25. This, however, did not equal
the combined value of all kinds of
foxes, listed separately, which is
shown as heing $493,306.50.
The shipments aggregated 395,247
individual skins of all kinds, ol
which virtually 90 per cent, or 313.
145, were muskrat. Marten skins
shipped during the same period num
bered 10,385, valued at $285,587.50; j
beaver, 12,216 skins with a total;
valuation of $250,428; mink 31,983 (~
skins, valued at $223,881. g
The Bureau's statistics show that]
blue fox pelts shipped by private in
dividuals, firms or corporations had j
an average valuation per skin $10.82
higher than the pelts shipped from |
the Government's farm on Ihe Prib-;
ilof Islands. In the former class of'
shipments there were 1.080 skins,
averaging $110 each, aggregating in!
value $118,800; the Government I
shipped from the Pribilofs, 712 blue
foxes, averaging $93.18 etch, total
ing $66,344, the grand total for blue
fox pelts being $185,144, Govern-: !
ment white fox skins exceeded in
value those shipped by private in-: ;
vlduals or firms an average of $ti!
per skin, the former getting $46 and
Ihe latter $40 per pelt
The list of shipments follows:
Special
Bea rs—
Black ...
Glacier
Brown ...
Grizzly .
Fox—
Red
Cross .
Silver-gray
Black .
White
Blue ... .
llare (arctic)
Lyn x
Mink
Muskrat
Otter (land)
Squirrel
Weasel
(ermine) ..
Wolf
Wolverine
Marten
Beaver
Totals
No.
Value
761
11
23
15
10,138.50
264.00 11
: 18.50.—
300.00
5,:i7i»
740
291
5
*4.393
*1,080
78
628
31,983
: 13.14 r»
. 1.899
75 7
110,011.50
29,600.00,
58.200.001
375.00 e
175,720.00: n
118,800.00111
:: fO 1
17.270.00; K
223,881.00
391.431.25i
43,677.00 i
22.71
10,656
183
296
1 0,3 85
12,216
394.514
9,057.60
3,111.00!
3,996.00 j R
285,587.50
250,428.001
$1,732,693.46
*—Does not include pelts from the ..
Prihilof Islands.
Pribilof Island*. 1922. j
Foxes— • 1
Blue 712 * 66,344.001
White 21 966.00!
Total
Prlbllofs
1
733
67,310.00 j
Grand total 395.247 $1.800,003.461 h
BUSINESS PROGRESSING
IN SEATTLE SAYS OLSON
Business Is good in Seattle and
the building permits for January,
1923, exceed those of the same
month in all previous years, aecird
ing to Oak Olson, of the'local brok
erage firm of Olson & Meherln, who
Returned to Juneau last night on the
steamship Admiral Watson from Se
attle, where he has spent several
weeks. A spirit of optimism prevail* j
among the people of Seattle and
-business is progressing
Many new business blocks are be
ing erected and the residential dis
triets are being filled with new
homes, Mr. Olyson said.
Mrs. Olson accompanied her hits
band to Juneau. She has been ab
sent some time, visiting with friends
and relatives in the states.
BOYLE RETURNS FROM
VANCOUVER AND OTHER
POINTS TO THE SOUTH
George T,. Boyle, of Washington,!
D. C., inspector for the Department!
of the Interior, returned here last
night on the steamer Admiral Wat-!
•ton after a two weeks' visit to Brit
ish Columbia and southern Alaska1
points. He is making a study of
Alaska conditions for the Depart
ment which he represents.
Mr. Boyle, during hts absence,
visited Vancouver. Prince Rupert, |
Alert Bay. Swanson Bay. Ocean'
FUla. llyder and Ketchikan lie'
reports considerable activity at lly
der where It is felt that material
progreea will be made this year in
mining development. Everyone in
the Hjrder district, he said, is al>
aolutely confident of its future as
a great mining renter.
' Mr. Boyle w-ill remain here for
sometime and. unless his plans are
changed by unforeseen developments
In Washington, expects to visit other
sections of Alaska before returning
^o the east.
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A woman scorned will bare her life In the coins of New York
shortly, to fight for her 11vcai-old daughter and for Dorothy Gor
don. a $500,000 heiress, now held In the McLean Insane Asylum, in
Mar achusottr. She is now Mrs. Mary ('oakley Gardiner, of Win
chester. who claims to be the common-law wife of John I). Gardiner,
and who is preferring charges agilnrt Dorothy Gordon's uncle to
block his move to obtain custody of her fortune by the removal of
her present guardiati. William !•’: Jardine. Gardiner denies the
woman’s chargee.
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ESKIMO SAVES
FURNITURE AND
BARS ARE AWARD
CHICAGO, Jan. 22.—Charles
.Mathew , Eskimo hunter, trap
per and dog team driver, r.ime
to Chicago last October to se<*
the sights.
He saw a burning building,
and remembering the Alaskan
idea of everybody helping the
stranger in trouble, he turned
to volunteer.
Police, seeing him carrying
furniture out of the apartment |
house, arrested him for burg- •
lary. He had been in jail ever
since.
Judge Cavanaugh listened to
the Eskimo's stoiy and gave
him ills freedom. I
CHOMBEL TEMPORARY
NIGHT PATROLMAN HERE
O. E. Schombel has been appoint
1 as temporary acting night patrol
an for Juneau, V. L». Tlbbits hav
ig been put on the day shift., ;t
isistatit to Chief of Police T E. P
eegan.
CIVIL SUIT IN PROGRESS.
Too suit of tli> Union Oil com
tny vs. r. \Y Young company,
hleh started lac weak in the U.
District Court beforo Judge T. M
red, w.i * still in progress late to
i.v. it Is expected to continue fo;
to or three days longer.
J. ('. McBride, head of the local
impany, has been on the witness
and since Friday. He was tinder
oss examination throughout thp
iy.
MILLER TAKES OFFICE.
Charles,) Miller. whoso appointment
Assistant U. S. District Attorney I
ith headquarters at. Ketchikan, en
rod on the duties of that office
-t Saturday, according to a state
out made today hy It. s. Attorney
G. Slump. Mr. .Miller stuccoed,
e late A E. Maltby. who died al
e'.chikan just before Christmas.
JNDS TO REPAIR ST. PAUL’S
WILL BE SOUGHT IN AMERICA]
LONDON. .Ian 22. It will be no
riser necessary for persons In
nerica to cross the ocean in order i
view the charms of old London, i
r these charms are about to go to j
nerica through the aid of the mo
rn picture.
A motion picture company is at j
esent busy photographing the beau-1
ill interior of St Paul’s Cathedral.!
le work is being c arried out with I
e aid of improved lighting effects'
that tlie details of the carved I
alls of Gibbons, the high marble!
tar. the chapel of the Order of
George, and tlie dome may be'
early seen. A reel of the films
ill be devoted to tile graves and
ointments of the famous Cathedral,
liich include those of Nelson. Well
gton and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
Tiie proceeds derived from the ex |
bition of this film will be given to'
e fund being raise.; .or the much
eded restoration ol the church. 1;
ill be shown in Am - . i within two
onths, according to the pr.luceia.
AN HANGED IN TENT
BECAUSE 4.AW FORBIDS
PONTIAC. III., .Ian. 22.—Myron
mbrldge was hanged In a tent here
>r the murder of Guard John S.
>nes ah It ho Illinois slate reforma
rv lust June.
Tonbridge was pronounced dead
ne minuses Hither the trap was
.rung. The execution was held un
r canvas to comply with the II
nois law, which prohibits public
mgings. The county‘bad no other
ace.
APPLES. GARBAGES,
in our all-concrete Hre-proof !
Concrete Products Mfg. Co.
Willoughby Avtt. Phone 32. !
A PUBLIC EXECUTION
POTATOES. Ul 'TA RAG AS,
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MEMORIAL
DEDICATED j
IN FLORIDA
PORT ST. JOE, Flu.. .Ian. 22. \
memorial on the sit of the old city
of St. Joseph, Calhoun County, when
tho state’s first constitutional con
vention assembled and where the
first constitution was signed, ha
lx en dedicated by Governor Hardee
and other prominent residents of the
state. The memorial Is of gray
granite and represents the portal of
a convention hall. It is 6 feet high
and 23 feet wide and was erected
by the state at a cost of $10,000.
On one side of the memorial i:
the inscription “This memorial is
to commemorate the birth of tin
State of Florida and the assembling
of the first constitutional convention
of this state convened in a building
the,, standing on this spot in the
year of our Lord 1536." On the
inscription upon the opposite side art
included the names of the forty
five signers of the constitution.
Largo trees h..ve grown among tlx
crumbling ruins of St. Joseph, founded
8 1853, by a group of Columbus.
men wh» built the St .1 isepb
ird Ida railroad from the Head ■,
Lakes to St. Joseph Bay. This was i
one of the pioneer railroads and is
said to have carried as much as t
1 HO 000 bales of cotton annually from 1
V a bam.i and Georgia to the sea
board. It was thin business which
built St. Joseph and with the con
-miction of other routes to the sea- (
board, business dwindled and the .
own began to decay. With the sale i
l' tho railroad In 1841 and its dis- ■
nantling. most of tho residents mov
'd away and many of tho houses
were moved by barge to Apalachiola
where some of them still stand.
TIis town was chosen for the
mealing of tho constitutional conven
tion because of Us prominence, the
TiP by rail affording delegates a
most unusual experience. The site
>f Hi ' monument is upon the ground
where the convention hall stood, now
marked by u crumbling pile of bricks
forming the outline of its founda
tion.
INN FREQUENTED BY
NAPOLEON IS STILL
DOING GOOD BUSINESS
At (rSIil’RG. Bavaria. Jan. 22. —
Tbo most famous inn in Germany,
“The Three Moors." at Augsburg, has
been celebrating an annniversary of
Ms founding 400 years ago.
N tpbleon I spent some time in
Augsburg with his staff and the old
gues'tdrook of the inn held the signa
tures of Josephine Beauharnais and
Marie Louise. Next to them were
inscribed the names of Metternich
and Talleyrand, and of various
Princes and Ambassadors en route
to the Congress of Vienna. Other
noted guests included Wellington and
Sir Walter Scott.
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CHILDREN AND
HEALTH TO BE
PROTECTED NOW
Important Changes Proposed
m Laws of Common
wealth of Australia.
SYDNEY, N. s! \V„ Jan, L’2. —A
lumber of Important resolutions on
lie subject of industrial hygiene, In
duding one providing for system
,tie medical examination of all work
■iv. were adopted at the conference
jctween Commonwealth and state
lealth representatives.
One resolution urged that all per
,ors employed in factories or work-!
hops lie examined medically before
■mploymont, until the person had1
ouipleted his eighteenth year.
Tile conference asked that the
nodical records of the Educational
apartments be made available to
lie authorized medical inspectors in
lie case of any child seeking cm-!
ilcymenl in a factory or workshop,
md urged that factory medical in
pectors he appoint il.
Another resolution urged that the1
ninimum legal working age should]
h fixed lor factories and workshops
it not under 14 years for boys, and
15 years for girls.
Each state should have in effective
iperation legislation controlling oc
cupations dangerous to the health
d' the employees, another resolution'
;aid.
Another resolution, which was
idopted. read:
This conference considers that,
ii view of the importance of a phase
f public hea'fh administration of!
ystematical medical supervision of
lie health of individual employees,!
■ nil of the valuable information an i
cults which have been obtained
tom the introduction by private em
jlcyers of a medical service for their
. t iblirhments, that every enipii yer,
ncluding governments, should he en-1
:oii raged to provide efficient and!
•egular medical service, which shull
teep under review the health of the
vorkors, and shall inquire as to any
elation between variations in health,
ind condition of employment. More-i
iver, in order to obtain the greatest!
uiiount of public benefit from this!
erasure, records of work done'
hould be by a standardized
nethod.”
It was estimated at the eonfer
nce that between 18.UOO and 19,
• 00 children under the age et Id!
ears are employed in factories in
lie Commonwealtii.
UNALGA IN,
The U S. Coast Patrol Ship In-;
ilga, arrived in port at 3:45 o'clock
his afternoon, from Seattle,
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iiouth African Cattle
Are Shipped to Germany
HAMBURG, Jan. 22.—South Afri
an livestock has now been pitted:
■gainst United States and Argentine
neats in the German markets. A
ihipnient of cattle, intended tor
laughter, arrived here a short time I
tgo as an experiment to determine j
he extent to which a demand tor
his kind of meat might be expected
n Europe.,
Olo papers tor sale at Empire.
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JITNEY DANCE
AT
ELKS’ HALL.
Thursday Night
COLISEUM ORCHESTRA
BENZO
WITCH HAZEL
CREAM
An elegant preparation for the
prevention and ^relief of chapped
hands and rare,’1 roughness of the
skin, sunburn, freckles, etc. For
use after shaving it is uequaled.
Prepared only at
BRITT’S PHARMACY
The Rexall Store
PHOVE 28
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Chaliapin Is Subject
Row.
Tcoaor Jyk&Uap i
Admiring the artistic work of
Alii- Grace Holst, hefty Norwegian
roprano, ns Helen of Troy. Feodor
Chaliapin, the famous Russian
bm a. playing with I he Chicago
Optra Company, presented her
with an autographed photograph
of himself, reading: “In remem
brance of a devil Chaliapin" -
referring to his favorite role.
Ct ire Formichi. leading Italian
b: ritone. who has been very atten
tive to Miss Holst, forbade her to
r’crept tlie picture. Since neither
could speak the other's language,
they quarrtded in French. When
words failed them. Miss Holst
swung to Formichi's jaw and sent
him staggering. She retained the
picture.
Says No Need for Alarm
At Decreasing Oil Supply
CHICAGO. Jan. 22—The alarm
shown by the decreasing oil supply,
with the consumption of gaaoline on
he upgrade, due to the increased
use of the internal combustion en
gine, would be needless ware refill
'is receptive to evolutiona. meth
ods of distillation, asserts T. H. Man
ning of the Industrial Research
Laboratories, in discussing the motor
fuel of the future.
A single simple operation convert
or; all crude oil, except a very small
portion, into a high grade motor fuel,
outranking the present products, Is
advocated by Mr. Manning.
“This can be accomplished," he
said, “by a single distillate from the
crude to the refined without the de
Mil incurred by redistilling, refining
and reprocessing as now practiced
hv the refiners. This, of course, will
require a disregard for the lesser
distillates, which would allay the
alarm felt by many at the diminish
ing oil supply.
"Toe oil industry lias outgrown
Its present methods of production
and chemical research hJs shown
that all the agitation concerning the
decreasing oil resources is weak and
unfounded.” 1
SAYS LIQUOR IN
NORTHWEST FULL
OF RANK POISON
Special Assistant Prohibition
Commissioner Is on
Way to Alaska.
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SEATTLE, Jan. 22.—Thousands of;
cases of poisonous liquor, including
raw moonshine* redistilled denatured
alcohol, are parading under the guise;
of Scotch and flooding the markets!
of the Pacific 'Northwest, according I
to I)r. W O. Matthews, special as- j
sistant to Prohibition Commissioner;
Haynes, who arrived here today en-j
route to Alaska.
tT)r Matthews did not state how j
ne knew poisonous liquor was on the
local market having only arrived I
here.
Dr. Matthews will go to Alaska
next week in company of John II.«
Marshall, prohibition enforcement of !
ficer of that territory.
Building Collapses;
Four Men Meet Death
BITTSBUROH. Jan. 22.—Four men I
were killed lat'e this afternoon when!
a house on Twenlv-fifth street cal j
lapsed.
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Crowel! Enters Plea
Of Not Being Guilty
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—Benedict j
| (trowel!, former Assistant Secretary!
of War. pleaded not guilty today to
| the indictment charging him and six
[ other-; with conspiracy in connection
with construction of wartime camps.
DON’T FORGET
to see the
MINSTREL SHOW
AT
COLISEUM THEATRE
Jan. 23-24
Benefit Playground Fund
Reserved seats on sale
here.
TRY THE
BUTLER-MAURO DRUG
COMPANY
FIRST
96 Front St. Juneau, Alaska
DOCTOR HELD
MURDER CASE
IS RELEASED
San Diego Physician Allowed
Liberty on Writ of >
Habeas Corpus.
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 22—Dr. Louis
Jacobs, he!<l in connection with the
death of Fritzie Mann. Oriental
dancer, was released this afternoon
on a writ of habeas corpus. The
police made no effort to fight the
writ. It is stated no evidence has
developed connecting him with the
death.
Approves Navy Accepting
Alameda Gift, Naval Base
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—Secre
tary of the Navy Denbv told the
House Naval committee today that
he would support the bill authoriz
ing the navy to aeeopt as a gift the
a,000 acre tract at Alameda, Cal., for
a naval base.
Old bundles of newspapers a the
Empire, 25 cents.
Does it keep good time?
HOW ABOUT YOUR
FAMILY CLOCK?
If not we can put
for you at a rea
sonable cost or
sell you a new
one if the old is
worn too badly.
Phone and we
will call for it.
THE NUGGET SHOP
LEND A HAND
LAUGH AND BE MERRY
at the
PLAYGROUND MINSTREL SHOW
Coliseum Theatre, January 23 and 24
Admission, 50c and 75c.
After you have enjoyed the Minstrel Show, give
yourself a treat by letting us show you Hart Schaffner
& Marx Clothes at
| Goldstein’s Emporium
Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes ^
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