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THE PROPOSED LAND OFFICE REMOVAL.
Whin Mr. Sliattuek raid that the Interior Ite
paiintent had failed to be just to the people most
directly concerned when it ordered the removal ot
the Land Office front this City without giving them
in opportunity to be hoard and that it was scarcely
f^ir to them and less fair to Juneau to order the
removal without any preliminary notice he stated thi
situation very conservatively.
Secrecy regarding foreign affairs id often excusable it:
the executive branch of the Government, but there
caii Ik no excuse for secrecy in an act so important
to the people of Alaska a. t lie closing of the Juneau
} Land Office. While there had been ill-defined
minora in circulation that such an act was contem
plated the preposition seemed ro absurd that they
were not seriously regarded. That the removal would
be made secretly without an investigation or an
opportunity for those most concerned to be heard
\.as so unthinkable that it never occurred to any
one, and all those who were concerned, who had
heard the mysterious rumors, knowing well that an
investigation would disclose the inadvisability ol
the action, were content to await an opportunity
to lie heard.
If an investigation had been made it would have
been discovered that the change will work a hard
liiip on 75 per cent, of tlio-e doing business with the
Land Office. It would have been discovered that
three-quin terr of the burinc-s at the Juneau Land
Office relates to mineral and oil lands. Most of this
business, conic • from tbe States and much of it Is
transacted by mail. That which is transacted by peo
ple who live west of Juneau is usually done while
flhe boats are In port by people who, are going
through tills City, or by those who stop over from
one boat until Hie next. The mail service between
Juneau and the Outside is far better than that be
tween Anchorage and the Outside, ad for not less
than 75 per cant, of those who do business with
the Land Office Juneau is far more conveniently
located than Anchorage.
if the Department had seen lit to establish a
Land Office at Anchorage to serve those along the lino
of the rut I read there could have been no legitimate
objection. But to close the Land Office at Juneau
«.nd compel those along the Alaskan coast to go
iuland to that town to transact business is placing a
burden on the people that amounts to an outrage.
CANADA PROPOSES RECIPROCITY.
Canada 1ms made the first move to reopen the
proposition for tariff reciprpcity with t tie United
thalee since it was rejected by that country in Hill.
At that time t?!e reciprocity treaty that was nego
tiated between the Taft and l.aurier administrations,
which was ratified by Congress, was rejected in a
Canadian election, it was the issue upon which the
Veteran Sit Wilfrid Laurior went to defeat and re
tired from office as head of tiie Canadian Govern
ment.
Tire low schedules of the Underwood Tariff prob
ably caused the subject to be dropped by the Canad
ians, but with the adoption of the Kordney-McCuntber
Tariff it again became a lively topic across the border.
Ot course the victory of the Liberal Party, the low
t,n iff part>. in l auadu gave zest to the movement
over there.
It was Canada's place to make the lirst move
toward freer trade between the United States and
that country. It is not tlie fault of the Americans
(here Ir not now a reciprocal tariff between the two
countries. This country did her part. However, that
ihould net prevent America from treating the
proposal of the pres nt Canadian Government on its
merits. If (anuda iiu seen the error of her way,
we should be glad of it, and we should meet her
half-way.
There ate as many reasons now as there W'ere
in 1911 for the removal of trade barriers between
the United States and Canada. At that time Ameri
can tmtinunt was almost unanimously in favor of
tiie Taft reciprocal treaty. It was supported by both
Democrat? and Republicans, although It was ap
parent then a- now that while both countries would
profit from tiie arrangement, the greater profit would
hi ( anuda s. Net withstanding this Canada rejected
it on the absurd ground that it was the firs' step
toward American annotation of Canada.
The latest lew price for German marks is 40,000
for one dollar. At this price the marks have to be
printed in large denominations to be worth more than
the white paper that is used not to mention the cost
of printing.
COLORADO GOVERNOR IGNORES
NATIONAL PARTY LEADERS.
Iii appal nt ins: Alva Adams to the Senate instead
of one c f those recommended by National Democratic
Isadora Governor Sweet of Colorado served notice
that the selection of a Senator is. a State and not a
Federal matter. Without reflecting on Hutson Thomp
son Morris Shaffrotb in the least, people generally
will prububly approve of the action fo the Govenror
of Colorado. Mr. Wilson. Mr. McAdoo and Mr.
Bryan are ail great men but none of them added to
his greatness when he tried to influence the selection
of a Senator from Colorado.
The new Senator’s name is not a new one in the
West. It is a name that was made known by his
father who for so long a time was very frequently
referred to us ' Colorado’s best Governor."
The National debt of Germany now ex
ceeds ten trillion marks.—(Boston News
Bureau.
That is the chief reason why Germany's plight
' la not arousing mucbssympathy among civilized peoples
! who regal'd honesty as one of the proper character
I istics of civilisation. No Nation could honestly owe
I so much.
I Upton Sinclair, the great Bell-appointed tribune
of the people, ran at the foot of the list among the
dozen or so candidates for Congress ai the recent
Los Angeles election. Evidently the people of law
Angeles do not take their tribune as seriously as lie
takes himself.
i Clarence H. He Mar of Melrose, Mass., Who for
;ihc third time in succession recently won the Boston
I Marathon, is a printer and earns his livelihood by
working at the case.
Sentinels of the Republic.
(Boston Herald.)
Hero in Boston we have the executive offices of
the Sentinels of the Republic, an organization con
ceived in Massachusetts and inspired by Boston men
pnd women devoted to tlieir country, with sentinels
now enrolled in every State. its activities extend
throughout the Union; its purposes are simple, com
prohensive, thrilling. Here they are;
To maintain tile fundamental principles of the
American constitution.
To eppose further Federal encoracliment upon the
j rcrerved rights of the States.
To slop tlie growth of Socialism,
j To prevent concentration of power in Washington
| through tiie multiplication of administrative bureaus
under a perverted interpretation of the general wel
j fare clause.
To help preserve a free republican form of gov
ernment in the United States.
There arc many thousands sentinels enrolled who
; have pledged themselves to carry out these uims and
! they have been successful in stirring sentiment all
(over (he United Stales. Their representatives have
actively bestirred themselves in Washington and in
j Stale capitols to prevent vicious legislation, the ten
dency of which would he to undermine the funda
mental principles of the republic. At the head of the
j organization is Louis A. Coolldge, chairman of a
Uomnitttce cf correspondence which lias representu
I fives in every state. The secretary is Mrs. John
! Bulcft, active in all patriotic work. The treasurer is
James Jackson, treasurer and receiver-general of the
commonwealth. When sentinels appeared last winter
before a sub-committee of the judiciary committee of
the United States Senate, and Mr. Coolidge read Hie
principles of the sentinels, Senator Uolt, chairman of
tli sub-commlttce, exclaimed: "I don't see how any
; -- wujcu nt me uiJiisuiuuon or your
|society. You have state*! the fundamental principles
jof American citizenship.” Senator Colt was right. No
i one who really loves his counlry and believes in
, such a government us ours was framed to toe, can
hesitate to subscribe to them.
It is in line with those activities that Charles G
Dawes, himself a sentinel enrolled, has organized
in Illinois a local body called the Minute Men of the
’Constitution, a body of aggressive friends of orderly
government who arc determined to assert in Illinois
tlie supremacy of the law. There is nowhere such a
body is more needed, and there are other States in
,the Northwest which probably will follow Mr. Dawes’s1
I lead. The put pose of the Minute Men and of the I
Sentinels of the Republic are interlocking, and here!
I we have, at las t, a promise of conservative activity I
: without regard to party or religious lines. Sucii i
' groups of men and women are entitled to the sup-,1
port of every real American.
Gompers for Court.
(San Francisco Bulletin.)
“With the proposal for the United States to enter |
, tlie international court of justice I am in full ac-!
I cord," tays Samuel Gompers, veteran President of the!
; American Federation of Labor. He belivece that
Action upon the proposal is of paramount importance i
if we are to rave our civilization. It transcends the!
I issues of party politics and should huve support ir-1
I respective of party affiliation.”
When Gompers speaks of the world court as a
, means ol saving civilization he is not using words
loosely, but is mindful of the fact that the danger
I to modern civilization is the absence of an inter
I national tribunal for the peaceful settlement of dis
putes inevi able in tlie increasing complexity of econ
omic and political relations.
Individual settlements, even when effected by ar
bitration. merely patch up the particular trouble and
ofton are no more than compromises and therefore
not final.
i A court would give International law a status
and respect that could he given it in no other way.
Sc.ouct 01 later tlie nations must choose between a
! world court and chaos. Another great war and civili
zation as it is known in tlie Western World might
, become to enfeebled as to bq unable to withstand a
| i weeping advance by the overcrowded Asiatic races.
Thoughts such us these mark party political oon
I flict over tlie court issue seem not merely trivial, hut
! a pathetic disregard of the national welfare What
i evet opposition , there may be to (lie proposal, It
| »l>ould not be on party lines. It is a national issue
and should be discussed on a national basis
Purile and Silly.
(Seward Gateway.)
Some of the arguments advanced at the hearing !
in the Fostei- literacy Bill were so purile and as to
be positively silly. The question to bV decided as we
will see it was whether a man who did not know for i
whom or what he was voting should bo allowed the!
same voice in public affairs as one who did. The!
Indian vote, where they are intelligent and educated
Is as good us any vote. Where they are uneducated j
and cannot read, write or understand English, of
what good Is their vote to the community at large?
I am against the League of Nations because it
*8 to° Readers will please write “strong”
or "weak" in the blank space and mail to Mr. Mun
81V. who will be pleased cither way.— (New York
Post.)
Paris women wearing aprons to their dresses
and fish in their huts. Appropriate combination_
aprons are useful when cleaning fish.—(San Francisco
Bulletin.)
Borah does to the Republican Party about every
thing that Bryan does to ours except to run for
office.—(lloutson Post.)
We fancy, however, that Mr. Wilson has never
changed his opinion that a cocked hat becomes Mr.
firyun best.—(Houtsou Post.)
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! ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
Worth Remembering
Your trouble* are not .helped
By beling tearful,
Life's always easier
When you are cheerful.
Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
The old-farihtioned tnan who could
take a drink or let it alone now has
a son who is bound to let it alone
after one drink.
It’s Not For Us
The fashions for men now decree
wv shaM wear a feather on our hat.
hut we don’t think it will be much
of a feather in a m.itn's cap to fall
for .such a fool style.
Had No Kick Coming
Blinks- This •article says coffee j
was entirely unknown to the Greeks
and Romans.
Jinks—Oh, well, so was prohibition.
Fool Questions
T iS. R. asks: "Does it take the
slh.ir]> edge Off of a complaint i)
file, it?”
Use your night stick, officer; it ■
has it corning to him.
It Sounds Interesting
A news item tells us that "a kind
of sugar called jaggery is obtained
from the juice ©f'the oocoanttt.” We
are Just wondering if the sugar gets
its name'from the effect it produces
on those who oat it.
Was a Wet Affair
“There wasnt' a dry I at the ban
quet last night,” said the truthful
huslband.
“Nor a dry throat, either, I judge,
from the condition you came home
In,” isnapped his wife.
Gems From Guide Book to Success
However lowly your station, you
as an employee are partly respons
ible for the success or failure of
your concern. Ke p strong! A weak
link will render useless the strongest
chain, and a crumbling stone oft
Causes ifho stateliest temple toppling
Unto ruins. —J. E. F.
If It Fits—
Most every woman can boast she
has had many men at her feet-if
shoe clerks are counted
in glancing Iback over our lives,
w© guess most of us think ft would
Ibe a whole lot batter for us to taka
a course 1n forgetting than a mem
ory course.
If thely ever get 1 l(at drug that dis
pels tear on the m'arket it is going
to have a 'tremendous sale among
the henpecked husbands.
It doesn’t surprise us that some
(people are ashamed to tell the truth.
W’e don’s hear so many people
complalining aibout life being short
as we do complaining about being
short 'themselves.
There's nothing dangerous about a
fast car until you get a fool at the
wheel. (' i ' •
A woman writer asserts that
bobbed hair .wiill come back. That’s
no consolation to the girls who had
theirs sheared. It takes so blame
long to come !»ack they fear they
will be old and grav-headed hv the
time it does.
Saying nothing is 'the easiest thing
for people to do. Keeping still is
the hardest.
A man ought so to live that he
never will have to ask his newspa
per friends to keep stories about him
out of the paper.
A good many men would kiss thuir
wives more if they were not so busy
kissing their money good (by.
i oey now nave anu-ioxsns 10 seep
a fell low from getting about every
tilling 'but foolish- .
■RemetinVes we wonder if the ladies
don't get a In'; more pleasure out of
trying to nvake their husbands over
than they do in trying to make their
Old clothes over.
Daily Sentence Sermon
Things don't come to him who
waits, but they ero pretty sure to
i It's all In knotrlng HOW to do k|
I first-class cleaning and dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
| C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
j and Cleaner. Phone 177.
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" THE MAKING OF CONCRETE *
is a matter of proper materials
together with engineering skill.
Both are our assets.
Established Twenty Years
CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFO.
COMPANY
Willoughby AVe. Phone 32.
JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
More*. Pack* and Item Freight
and Baggage.
Prompt Delivery of
LADYSMITH COAL
PbooK 48.
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come back with him if he goes after
thorn.
News of the Names Club
Here are a couple of marriage M
< an si11 'from the Buffalo Ex press:
Frank Zabonowski, No. 270 Rother
-Mary Kopydlowska, No. 404 Kotins.
Gregory Ratorf, Hotel Baggs Ege
ntfe beontov-Rch, Hotel Baggs.
.Make your own comments.
PREHISTORIC
GEARS FOUND
bus ANGELES, May 19. Ground
for the belief that prehistoric In
habitants of Southern California un
derstood the principles pf mechanics
and employed them in the-construe
it'liKi of laWor-savling machinery, ap
pears to have been furnished with
the die.every of two gear-shaped
rocks in a gravel pit near Culver
City, in this vial nifty, close to 'where
numerous preh is Ionic implements
have ibeen found front time to time
during the past 12 years.
Tito stone gears were found about
15 feet -below the -surface -and lay
close together. One of tile wheels,
the smaller of the two, is about four
inches in diameter and two inches
thick. It is of very bawl granite,
but it.s 11 teeth show .signs of wear
about the edges such as might have
been caused by grinding against an
other hard substance. The wheel has
no hole -in the center, which leads
to the theory that ft inlay have been
used as the grinding wheel of a mill
The other gear unearthed, somewhat
larger in diameter, is fashioned of
sandstone. It bps a hole in the cen
ter which is of the double cone type;
that is, tbd opening ,1s about two
inches in diameter on -either side of
the gear, tapering to one inch in
the center—- a.n arrangement employed
in modern mechanics to facilitate the
locking of a wheel upon Us driving
shaft.
Eight large teeth appear on the
circumference of -this year, but are
less dearly defined than on the
smaller granite gear.
Scientists are planning further ex
cavations in the. hope of discovering
other portions of the ancient stone
machinery, if machinery it actually
was.
Furniture moveG and stored
Heavy hauling done. Phone 48. Ju
neau Transfer. —aiw
| Wm. D. Perkins & Co.
I Bankers
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Seattle. |
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Safe Deposit Vaults j
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Front Street
P. 0. Box 218 lor Mail Orders
TRY OUR |
Merchants Lunch
45 Cents
Arcade Cafe
MARY YOURG, Proprietor. ,
USED FURNITURE
Bought, Sold and Exchanged
H. ROCOVICH
211 Seward St.
Telephone 441. P. O. Box 2S1.
ARCTIC BATH HOUSE
and Barber Shop
TURKISH. STEAM, SHOWER
AND TUB BATHS I
Lower Front St. (Vac Atta’s old I
•tand) BILLY LOTT, Prop.
Phone 414. I
ALASKA COAL
FOR ALASKANS
—No soot
—Low in ash
—High in heat units
—Clean to handle
PHONE 412
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
] PROFESSIONAL
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Drs. Kaser & Freebnrger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein lldf.
PHONE M
Hours 9 a. m t* 9 p. m.
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Dr. Charles P. Jenne
DENTIST
Rooms 8 and 9 Valentin# Bldg.
Telephone 176.
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Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Hours 1 to 4, 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 104; Res. 10$.
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Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. M. to 9 P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Re*. Phone 27 8
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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
Rates 13.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comfort
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GEO. L. BARTON. D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Messerschmidt Apts.
! Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 6;
7 to 9 and by appointment.
Phone 259.
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Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
201 Goldstein Tluilding
Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1 to S;
7 to 8, or by appointment.
Licensed osteopathic physician,
i Phones: Office, 167; res., 1672.
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▲11 Alaskan Trails End at
HOTEL ATWOOD
First Ave. and Pine St., Seattle
I Popular Prices. Nearest to Ev
i erythlnK. J. A. Farnham and
Ted Taylor, Props.
DR. R. N. DONAHEY
j Slime Good Service as In the
Past
Huteson-Dokahet
OoticaKompag/'
108 Pike Street, Seattle.
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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?
The B. M. Behrends Bank
JVHEAU, ALASKA.
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■ Fraternal Societies
i-or
Gastineau Channel
O . 1LII
llMtlit Wednesday
HFealngs at 8:00
o’clock. Elks' Hall.
Charles P. Jenne,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
I Co-Ordinate Bodiet
of Freemasonry
1 Scottish Rite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:80 p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
11 WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary.
I. O. O. F.
SILVER BOW
LODGE NO. I A.
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles K. Perelle, Noble Qrand|
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
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I PERSEVERANCE REBEKA1
LODGE NO. 2A.
Meets every flrst and third
. Tuesdays In I. O. O. F. Hall, at
! « P M. FRANCES GUSTAFSON, 1
| N. O. ALPHONSINB CARTER,
I Secretary.
MOUNT JUNEAO LOOM
No. 147, F. a A. M.
Stated Communication
Second and Fourth' Mondays
of each Month. In Odd Felicia
Mall, beginning at 7:J» o’clnnK.
Homer (1. Nordllng, Master,
('has. E. Naghet, Secretary
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tuea*
days of each month.
At S o’clock. I O. O. F. Ha'.L
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDL1NO, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OP
COLUMBUS
HEGHERS COUNCIL WO.
17 ‘U. Me* tin** *eco»8
and last Monday* at 7:M
_ v p. no. Transient Broth
er* urged to attend. Council Chamber*
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen. O. K.
J. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGIOM
Alford John BradforA
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at 8 p. m.
Elks' ixiage Koom. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; O. B.
Maun, Post Adjutant, Phone 198.
LOYAL OBDEK 01
M00SX.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o’clock.
Moose Hall. K. F.
Rodenberg, Dictator; R. H. Stevens
Secretary.
WOMEN OF MOOSEHEART
LEGION
Juneau Chapter No. 439
Meeting second and fourth
Tuesday of each month, 8
o’clock, Moose Hall. Mrs. C. W.
Bender, Senior Regent; Mrs. A.
F. McKinnon, Secretary.
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AUXILIARY, PIONEER! 0V
ALASKA. Igloo No. 6.
Meets last Thursday of every
month. Social hour with mem
bers of Pioneer Dodge to fol
low each meeting.
Mrs. Dottle Splckett, President.
Mrs. Dllllo Burford, Secretary.