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A CAPABLE SPEAKER.
In the election of Mark E. Heed, brother of Judgo
T M. Heed of thin city, ns speaker the lower Mouse
of tile Waahinton State Legislature has selected a
most capable presiding officer. His record in private
life, as a business man and civic leader, and that
made by him as a member of the Legislature since
1917 are sufficient guarantees of the wisdom of the
members in choosing him for the honor.
Mr. Reed is credited with being a big factor in the
passage of much of the sane legislation ai ompliahedi
in the past five years in Washington, working for
measures aimed at better and more efficient govern
ment. He made an enviable record us majority floor
leader In the House and us speaker will be in position
to pilot a legislative program safely through even
somewhat turbulent legislative waters If such should
be encountered. Ho, moreover, is not of the typo
which seeks to ruthlc -ly exercise power without re
gard for right, but rather is animated by a spirit of
fair play that gives a square deal to his opponent.
He i3 a successful man, prominent in civic affairs,
and a leader of his party in tho State. He is of the
highest type of public seTvarrt that holds first the
interest of the majority cf the people whom he has
been elected to serve.
THE TALLEST STACK IN THE WORLD AT
TACOMA.
The taller-1 rmoke: rake in the world Is at the
fmelter of the American Smelter & Refilling Co. at
Tacoma, Wash., although tlie largest stack is at the
Anaeonda Copper Mining Co.'s smelter at Anaconda,
Montana. These facts are brought out by a cor
respondent of the Engineering and Mining Journal
Press of Now York, wfho says: "I have seen the
drawings of the Anaconda stack, and the 585 feet of
so-called height i3 from the base of the foundation
to the top of the stack. The shaft or brick part of
the Anaconda tack i- only 555 feet high. This Is
the only effective part of the stack, and it has always
been customary with our company's plants to desig
nate the height of a stack us the height of the hollow
part of the stack. Yau can readily see ithat two
stacks of the nme height, but ono built on solid
rock and the other on clay, would have very different
heights of foundations The Tacoma plant of the
American Smelting & Refining Co. has a stack with
the brick or hollow part 572 feet 10 inches high
aliove the top cf the foundation. The foundation is
30 feet in height, which would make a stack G02
feet 10 inches high if designated in the manner of the
Anaconda stack. If the question were which is the
largest stack in the world, I have uo doubt that the
Anaconda stack would be placed at the top of the
list, ue it is 60 feet in diameter at tho top."
MIXITP IS lTNFOHTl1 IN ATE.
Tlie misunderstanding ns to Hie status of the
recent series of game:- of basketball played at Wrangell
In so far as the outcome relates to the lntorsehool
championship of Southeastern Aaska is extremely un
fortunate. If reports carried In the Wrangell news
paper are indicative of the sentiment of the com
munity ,it cannot help but seriously threaten if, in
fact, it does not disrupt tho harmony which has
heretofore existed in that and other branches of
school athletics in this section of the Territory.
Compared to that, the question of which basket
ball lejtn : hall retain the championship and its em
blem, the cup presented at the Southeastern Alaska
Inter-School Meet here last year, is of minor signifi
cance. Tlie issue that has arisen should he settled
at once To delay Is certain to cause further bitter
ness and a wider breach between those involved than
is now apparent. Reduced to its simplest terms the
difference is this: Wrangell claims tlie recent basket
ball tournament was taken out of the list of sports
for the annual Inter-School Meet and, therefore, the
■winner of it is logically champion of the current
year and nhould tieeeme the posse: or of tlie cup;
opposed to Wrangell are Ketchikan and Douglas, who
had learns in tlie recent Wrangell tournament, both
of whom ai-gee that bask, ball is -till included on the
list of sports for the annual Meet and this year's
champion squad mu:’ win it-' Htie in the games at
such Meet when it is held next Spring.
The misunderstanding is based on conflicting re
ports of a meeting cf representatives of schools at
Haines. Douglas, Ketchikan, Wrangell and Juneau,
held here just before the end of the fnier-School Me.
last year. At that time i: was agreed to hold an
other Meet this year and, by a vote of four to on.
Wrangell's vote being for i'suif, Jun. au was electe :
as the scene of the 1H2:: Meet. On thi much are a 1 ’
the schools agreed. Kollo.ving that t.ri n. the sain'
committee approved a proposition to sold a mid-year
basketball (tournament at Wrangell. 1,4 k of official
minutes of the meeting leads to the < ,r.t i6> n al! to
the eto.tus of that series. The Hair,.-- representatlv
L,__ -
acted as secretary and is no longer in the Territory
and failed t< urn in his notes before departing.
A repres' ' ill re of The Kmpire was present
throughout l committee's conference and the story
it carried. it refers to the recent tournament,
tol lows:
was also determined to stage a
mid-win " basketball tournament to replace
the old m of individual schools touring
the entin district. The first tournament will
be held ' Wrangell during the next Christ
mas h did :■ vacation, the selection going to
that towi m account of its central location
I for all towns.
There is i 'thing in this to indicate that there
i was ary inti" n n to drop basketball from the annua!
! Inter-S h ol y < t. In addition to this, one of the
I published n mirementa for winning the basketball
> cup, put on by its donor, is that it be contested
I for annually the Southeastern Alaska Inter-School
Meet. On t; lace of these circumstance:-!, it seems
likely that V angell is basing its claims on an erron
eous impres-i >n of the agreement for holding the mid
year series. The Umpire's interest is confined in a
desire that a lair settement bo reached amicably for
the sake of the future of this branch of interschool
activities an-' i' is to be hoped that sufficient show
ing can be made by one of the two factions to permit
such a settlement to be made without further delay.
Neither, it i- obvious, desires anything to which it is
not jut'ly entitled. True sportsmanship would not
have it otherwise.
Alaska Rail Traffic.
(Seattle Times.)
Alaska transportation this year will be improved
by (lie Government railroad's operation of its own
steamboats on Interior rivers in the Northland. Not
only will traffic conditions be benefited but the rail
way will increase Its revenue and, as a consequence,
further reduce iti deficit.
With inauguration cf steamboat service by the
railroad on the Tanana and Yukon Rivers, the White
Pass and Yukon Route will discontinue steamboat
operations on the lower Yukon River. Until the
building ot 'he Government railroad from Sowar I
on tn'• Coast to Fairbanks on tl.e Tanana River in the
Interior, the White Pass Company ran its ooats be
tween White horse, the interior terminus of its Whitt
Pass Railroad, and Dawson, and down the Yukon
River to the m-nif.lt of the Tanana an 1 up the Tanana
Pi Fairbanks, as wo!! as down the entire length of,
the Yukon to St Michael. R controlled upper Yukon
failTc and was a prominent factor in lower Yukon
business.
When the Government railroad began a train
service betwe n Seward and Fairbanks, it dellocted
the traffic of the Fairbanks region to itself, and the
White Pass Company quit operating boat- on the|
Tanana. With tiic elimination of the Fair ranks bus:-!
new, the company found the lower Yukon traffic un-l
attractive, and did not give it the attention previously
aceorded it.
The Government railroad will route its steam
boats between Nenana, a station on the Tanana about
fifty miles south of Fairbanks, and St. Michael. It
estimates the lower Yukon business will return a
•iniall profit to its boats and result in delivery this,
year of 3,500 tons of freight to the railroad that it,
did not get last year.
The White Pass Company will continue to control
upper ^ ukon traffic. It will turn over any business!
originating in the upper Yukon and destined to the
lower Yukon to the Government railroad boats at the!
mouth ot the Tanana. The White Pass boats have
transported silver and lead ore from I he Mayo Dis
trict to St. Michael for transshipment there to Tacoma
smelters. In the future the company will deliver this
freight, averaging 8,000 tons annually, to the Gov
ernment railroad al Nenana, where it will be loaded
in cars and carried to Seward.
Co-operation on tonnage between the White Pass!
i ompany and the Government Railroad is expected to
develop additional passenger traffic for the railroad.
Many tourists will enter the Skagway gateway, travel
over tho White Pass Railroad to Whitehorse, thence
by \\ bite Pass boats to Dawson and on to Nenana
to take the Government railroad to Seward.
The Government line last year had a deficit of
$1,400,000. According to plans of Congress, the rail
way will be allowed $75,000 for steamboats and
barges and with these facilities, together with the
usual development of new business, the road this year
is expected to keep its deficit down to $1,000,000.
The Government enterprise is not In state of com
pletion. It is still engaged in bridge building and
track ballasting. Yet it is approaching a paving basis
faster than the most sanguine of the advocates of its
construction anticipated.
Switzerland s i ommon Sense.
(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
Confiscation of capital by means of a tax levy,
I be most popular nostrum of Socialists, Luborltes,
Bolshevists ami other disordered finkerers with politi
cal economics, has decisively been defeated in Switz
erland where it was submitted to a national referen
dum. The negative vote, taken recently, in every
district is reported as having‘been overwhelming.
Tho proposal rejected provided for the imposition
of a levy of 33 1-3 per cent upon large estates and
was vasty unpopular in the campaign. The Swiss
Press was hostile and about the only means which
could be employed by the advocates of the plan were
billboards and mass mootings. Even these made but
little impression.
It is the fashion in this country for the pro
fr -donal agitators to imitate these European Bfyles
and it Is not therefore surprising to hear the capital
levy praised here. In England the collection of
Adullamitcs calling themselves the Caibor Party, head
ed by a man who never worked an hour manually,
has adopted this fallacy as one of its principal
reforms.
If (hero could be devised for Great Brlntaln a direct
vote such as was taken in Swlterland there Is little
' out-t as to wiiat (he outcome of the election would
l" a repetition of the Swiss result. One of the
' rcngcst reasons for opposing the plan is that it is
contrary to common sense, a quality widely distributed
in human nature, and through all classes and condi
tions of men.
There is only one way to increase the wealth of a
country and that is through increasing its produc
ts n Any short-cut method based upon any prin
ipl J of robbing Peter to pay Paul will fail, because
-le re are too many Peters to begin with and too many
Pauls who hope to become Peters and are opposed
| being assessed for distribution purposes when that
happy hour arrives.
We sympathize with the Sultan in being separa ed
fr'm 200 wives, but consider the advantage of such
i i". .lit as related to being separated from one’s
■ 11ey.—(Cleveland Commercial.)
An Ohio editor claims the prize of 180,000 francs
by the ( ity ot Paris lor the best and cheapest
11 -f lidewalk. because he suggested hard elder._
f ncfnnatl Enquirer.)
hit plan to allow only the brains of the country
tho voting might he all right if they could be
on election day.- (Kansas City Star.)
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ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
The old-fashioned man who used
to ask the ladles if they objected to
his smoking in their presence now
hjs a son who asks them if they
want a cigarette.
Values Is Values
Her husband had been killed by
the railroad, and she was bringing a
damage suit for $50,000.
“But ntadame,'' exclaimed the claim
agent of the road," your husband
was a worthless, no arcount loafer
and couldn't have been worth that
much to you.”
“Not alive,’ she smiled, "but now
that he is dead he is worth that
much to me or just what I might
have got from the movies if I had
shot him."
Pretty Strong Language for a Bishop
(Chicago Pyst.)
“If the divorce peril is not check
ed." the bishop warned, “all the
banks, colleges and commercial in
will not save the country.
Only Way
Illinks: “Those bandits who
robbed the United States mint had
their nerve.”
Jinks: “Still with income tax.
county tax and Christmas bills al!
coming in that month, you can hardly
blame a fellow for getting desperate
enough to do that.”
Ho, Hum!
"Traveling comes high these days."
“Yes, I find it hard to get any
thing but an upper any more, too.”
Neither Doubtful Nor Payne-less
(Uampod in the Docket.)
The jury appears not to have been
“doubtful” as to appellee's “pain," in
asmuch as they assuaged it with a
$10,000 plaster. Payne v. Doubtful,
230 W. 134.
Garnet & Garnet, Gainesville, Tex.
If It Fit3—
On his wedding day every young
fellow thinks ho is gonna make a
mode! husband, but at the end of six
months he begins to realize how big
a Job lie lias picked out for himself
and quits cold.
A lot of people may be hurt by the
careless remarks you drop. Watch
your tongue.
When a man brings home his pay
envelope with a couple of dollars
missing he has the same guilty feel
ing he had when he used to bring
home a poor report from school.
Walking may lie healthful—If you
avoid streets that are being used an
speedways. On them It is about
as healthful as 'bubonic plague.
The worst thing about money is
that it is so hard to get and so hard
to keep.
The short skirt3 taught us one
thing. They showed conclusively na
ture never intended u lot of calves
to be given the pitiless publicity they
got.
The reason some widows do not
wear their weeds a year is because
their fool husbands were not worth]
mourning for that long.
Before they are married a young
fellow thinks it is great to go out in
the kitchen to help her wipe the'
dishes, but after he has been married
a little while a team of horses
couldn't pull him within a mile of
the kitchen.
It Is bad enough for 20 to act lik’
(10, but there is nothing any more
disgusting than seeing CO trying to
act like 20.
With skirts ;;o long there is noth
ing to do but wear low shoes all
winter. No girl is going to pay $4
or $•> for a pair of silk hose and
not h ive at least part of them show.
It has been our observation that
most of the trains of thought have
to 'be side tracked to let those of
speedier thinkers pass.
A married man's idea of a thought
ful wife is ono who gets her feet
warm before she goes to bed instead
of waiting until she can park them
in the middle of his back.
Daily Sentence Sermon
If you want to enjoy good health
never reed the patent medicine ad
vertisements.
WO
Of
News of the Names Club
Wo won't take a chance so
have had to bar John Wlllicutt,
Boston, from tho club.
Now that Honey ft. Sweet, of
Manchester, has Just boon married,
11 s we loam frotn the Guardian, wo
liopa she will always remain that
way.
Her father cave him tho Ayer, so
to speak, but anyway Susah Ayer, of
Chicago, his boon married to John
Grecg. of tho same city.
JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
Move*, Packs and Store* Freight
and Baggage.
Prompt Deiirery of
LADYSMITH COAL
Phone 48.
I
Britain’s Dowager Queen
Celebrates Birthday.
Vf r. v-;** -
.
This is tlio latest protrait of
Dowager Queen Alexandra of
Great Britain, taken on the cele
bration recently of her 78th birth
day anniversary.
Kindergarten Fart ot
Normal School Course
DENTON. Tex.. Jan. 11.—A kinder
garten is include! in the curriculum
of the North Texas State Norma! j
College here with an anna 1 enroll
nient in exec.-a of 4,000 students.
The kindergarten Is augmented by
the first nir.e grades of the public
pehool curriculum and serves ns an
educational laboratory in which
students do observation work and
practice t -aching under supervision.
If a mans food and wife agree
with him he lias no excuse for not
being happy.
Gas on Stomach
Won’t Let You Sleep
Gas often presses on heart and
other organs, causing a restless, |
nervous feeling which preventsj
sleep. Simple buckthorn bark, gly
cerine. etc., as mixed in Adlerika, j
expels gas and relieves pressure
almost INSTANTLY, inducing rest
ful sleep. Adlerika often removes j
surprising old matter from BOTH j
upper and lower bowel which pois-!
oned stomach and caused gas. EX- i
CBLLENT to guard against appen- j
dioitis. Butler, Mauro Drug Co. j
Sold in Douglas at Guy's Drug
Store.
(advertisement.)
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES
FOR RENT—$4.00 PER YEAR
V/m. D. Perkins & Co.
BANKERS—211 Cherry St., Seattle
ALASKAN VEGETABLES
We have an abundance of cab
bage, carrots and rutabagas for
immediate delivery from our
win ctr—
CONCRETE PRODUCTS
MFG. CO.
Willoughby Ave. Phone 32.
BEST EVER
MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE CO.
Now offers additional attractive
Disability Benefit features.
NONE OTHER SO LIBERAL.
ALLEN SHATTUCK
INSURANCE REAL ESTATE
ESTABLISHED 1898
BRIQUETS
Ideal
fuel for
every
purpose
Large stock* on hand
Ladysmith coal.
Nanaimo ooaV
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
Phone 412.
1
PROFESSIONAL
Dri. Kaser & Freeburger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bldg.
PHONE 56
Hours 9 a. m. th 9 p. tc.
Dr. Charles P. Jence
DENTIST
Rooms R and 9 Valentine Bldg.
Telephone 176.
Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Hours 1 to 4, 7 to 9.
Phones: Office. 104; Res. to*.
Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours. 9 A. M. to 9 P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Roe. Phone 27 6
r
Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bldg.
Telephone 172.
Sitka Hot Springs
I
Visit the Famous
Dr. F. L. Goddard’s Sanitarium
Hates $3.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comfort
GEO. L. BARTON
(PALMER)
CHIROPRACTOR
201 Goldstein Bids. Phone 259
Office Hours: 10 to 12. A. M.,
2 to 6 and 7 to 8 P. M.
Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
437 Goldstein Building
Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1 to 5;
7 to 8, or by appointment.
Licensed osteopathic physician.
Phones: Office, lt>7; res., 1G72.
All Alaskan Trails End at
HOTEL ATWOOD
First Avo. and Pine St., Seattle
Popular Prices. Nearest to Ev
erything. J. A. Farnham and
Ted Taylor, Props.
I
HOTEL SEATTLE
"Home of Alaskans”
Prices reasonable. European
plan. Seattle, Wash.
R. L. HODGDON, Manager
| It’s all In knowing HOW to do
| first-class cleaning ar.d dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
* C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
1 and Cleaner. Phono 177.
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JAPANESE TOY SHOP '
H. flf. MAKING |
Front Street
P. 0. Box 218 for Mail Orden
fraternal Societies
-or
Gastineau Channel
e . ? . o . mi
Meeting Wednesday
'eff , Evenings at 8:00
kg* #f <J o'clock, Elks' Hall,
ygjejjfr ARTHUR B. COLE,
I'fcrL Exalted Ruler.
jaSaii JOHN ▲. DAVIS,
Secretary.
i —
Co-Ordinate Bodie*
of Freemaaonry
Scottish Bite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:30 p. m. Odd
j Fellows' Hall.
WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary.
I. O. O. F.
SILVER BOW
LODGE NO. S A.
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Merle P. Morgan, Noble Grand; Frank
O'Brien, Secretary.
MOUNT JUNEAU LODfll
No. 147, F. A A. M.
Stated Communication
Second and Fourth Mondays
of each Month. In Odd Fellowa
Hall, beginning at 7:S# o'clock.
R. R. TOllNG, Matter.
CHAS £. NAGHEL. Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tues
days of each month.
At g o'clock, I. O. O. F. Hall.
AI .ICE BROWN, W. M.
LOIS NORDLING, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
SEGhERS COUNCIL No.
1760. Meetings second
end last Mondays at 7:10
w p. m. Transient Broth
■rs urged to attend. Council Chambers
•'ifth Street. John V. Mullen, G. K.
. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGI0JI
Alford John Bradford
Tost No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at 8 9. m.
Elks' Lodge Room. JohnvF. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 97'T: G. E.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 196.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o’clock.
Moose Hall. Thoa.
B. Jetton, Dictator; R. H. Stevena,
Secretary.
i WOMEN OF MOOSZHEART
LEGION
Juneau Chapter No. 419
Meeting second and fourth
Tuesday of each month, I
o'clock, Mooea Hall. Senior Re
gent, Mrs. Sigurd Wallatedt.
Secretary, Mrs. C. H. Chamber
lain.
AUXILIARY, PIONEERS OP
, ALASKA, Igloo No. 6.
Meets the 2d Monday In Mooae
Hall, at 8 o'clock.
In Moose Hall, at 8 o’clock.
ALICE LAUGHLIN. President.
LILLIE BURFORD, Secretary.
PERSEVERANCE REBEXAH
LODGE NO. 2A.
Meets every first and third
Tuesdays In I. O. O. F. Hall, at
8:00 P. M. BESSIE MANNING,
N. G. ALPHONSINH CARTER,
Secretary.
WHY A SAVINGS ACCOUNT T
IS A GOOD INVESTMENT
JjYou may add to the account at any time in any
amount.
flYour account is not subject to market fluctuations
but is constantly growing.
IJYour account is always available and provides an
unfailing reserve for emergencies and business op
portunities.
lJFays four per cent per annum, compounded twice
a year. If you do not withdraw your interest it
continues to earn interest upon the interest, making
the rate better than four per cent per annum.
Accounts of One Dollar or more may be opened in our
Savings Department.
The B. M. Behrends Bank
JUNEAU, ALASKA.