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tiered *» secona-eiaaa matter An
t\pt' 29th, 1928, at the postoffice at
i'nfcotna, Alaska, under the Act of
Ujuwa 8, 1ST9.
Takotna, Alaska, April 5, 1930.
S^ME FACTS AND FIGURES
CONCERNING PROHIBITION
In seven years federal courts hand
ed out sentences aggregating 30,177
years for liquor offenses; sentences
nqw aggregate about 10,000 years a
year.
In 10 years 61 federal dry agents
hqve been killed by liquor runners.
“It will require 3400,000,000 a year
toj enforce prohibition.”—rBishop Can
non (Methodist).
It is estimated conservatively that,
only 5 per cent of the liquor drunk in
thp United States, is imported; the
rept is made he.re
“OUR. country is sucering from a
£UPttlgj$ui*JWd infectious disease that
is gnawing and eating away the fibres
of. our body politic.’’—Congressman
Siyovich. J'iew Xorf*,
Every government that ever tried
prohibition ha§ ..abandoned it except
three: , l'he United States, Fimand,
and Prince tdwafd Island.
“There are.feet. .better evdences of]
tbe ,egect.pf prohibition than those
found,in home-Qwning and home
building throughout the United
States.”—F, M. Jackson, banker, of
Birmingham, Alabama
About 30,00.0,0Q0 gallon sof Indus*
trial alcohol are. diverted each year >
for liquor purposes.
“Prohibition? in the United. States
means the machine, age at its .best.”
—Senator Sheppard, Texas.
So-called "pure” alcohol is 97. per
eept pure..
"There is nowhere in the Scriptural
story any suggestion that the wine
produced, at .Capa of Galilee was al
coholic.”—Congressman Copper, Qhio.
’Phare is more, disregard for law
in States controlled in the West and
SqptitvfeS thf . Anti-Saloon League
then.-iir.titt so-called wet Eastern
States.”—Congressman Clancy, Mich
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Light wines run from 10 to 18 per i
cent alcohol; beer ab<fut 3 per cent; j
stout ano porter about 8 per cent, i
and wnisky from 47 to 51 per cent, j
A New York dry agent, getting!
81800 a year, was found living re
cently in an apartment costing 82100
a year.
From January 16, 198D, to. January
16, 1930, more than. 1360 lives were j
saenneeu to dry law enforcement, in
eiudin gofticcrs. (Official records.)
There is alcohol , in practically
every medicine known to the medical
profession.
* Eight States have withdrawn their
enforcement laws, mainly by popular
vote.
One of the poison* put, into .alcohol
by the government is brucine; . it
causes convulsion f v
Buttermilk and sour milk frequent
ly contains more thajivone-half of 1
per cent of alcohol* thfi limit, allowed
by the Volstead Act. ,.
More tnan ...(felp.stm.s m.thn Nortlo
west, produced alCMUtf. \ from corn
sugar..
la the first tightryearSiPf prohibi
tion the cost of . enforcement was
8315,216,860; the *lcas in revenue
from ciquor was more, than 81,600,
000,000; tines amounting to about
840.000,000 were levied..
In the first year,, of prohibition
fewer than 100,01)0 stills were seised;
in 102S 261,0 wore seized.
The first State to ratify the 18th
amendment was Alassissjppi, .January
8, 1018. At that time only silt West
ern States—Washington. Colorado,
(Oregon, Montana, .Utah- and Arizona.
—were bone dry, legally.
Federal dry agents arrested 34,000
persons in 1921; in 1028 they arrest
ed 75.000. i
One State-—Nevada—voted on the
straight question, ' rs prohibition a
failure?" on November 2,_192fi, Re
sult: Yes, 18,131; no, 5,352...
The alcoholic death rate increased
more than 300 per cent between 1920
and 1927, j
The penalty for seeing anyone take
a drink amt fading to report the
crime now is five years in jail and a
fine of *10,000.,
CARNERA CCORES KNOCK
OUT IK DENVER BATTLE
DEN VS.lt, March. 29—Jack McAu
liffe of Detroit was Primo Camera's
thirteenth knockout victim, the big
Italian putting the Michigan boxer
tq the mat for the count after two
minutes and eighteen seconds of
fighting in the first round of their
scheduled ten-round bout here last
night.
TELLS OF LIFE AT NEW CAMP
OF SHERIDAN, MANITOBA
In a letter from Sheridan, Manf-i
toba, to Edgar Provinse of Hyder.
James Roberts, a former Hyder resi
dent, describes in a vivid manner the
new mining camp which has come
into existence at that eo>nt, in, con
nection with the development of the
Sherritt-Gordon mine,.. Hr. Roberts,
who is accompanied by his bride of a
few weeks, is in charge of a large
meat market and cold storage plant
erected by Burns.Jfc Cq. to supply the
Sherritt-Gordon and Klin Flon mines,
both oi which are located neat Sher
idan. .
Sheridan, Mr, Roberts explains, is
Pa& and is a typical. boom camp of
located about 90, miles, north of The
the North.
“Everybody wears, buckskin, par
kas and moccasins,” the letter says,
“and. dog teams are , much in evi
dence. Dog teams ieave here for the
trading poosts and prospecting
camps, and a dog team came in yes
terday from a place 200 miles, north
of. here. Everything started here
since November. Most of the. build
ings are constructed of'jogs, but mod
ern construction is now under way
The Klin Flon mine, is just, about .40.
miles across country from here. There
are 3,000 men working there. The
Flin Flon has invested ?d5,000,0QO jn
the mine already and are building a
smelter, too. The.. Sherritt-Gordon
will send their ore here for treat
ment*
“The steel was. just finished here
last November, so you can. imagine
what the place is like. The old name
of the place was Ivissinning, or Cold
Lake, and it caij. get cold. for. it .was
as cold as 60 belt* wtwo weeks ago.
The country is rocky, 1 tuffs and hills,
with, lakes and swamps,, and is . cov
ered with pines of small size. Burns
&. Co. have a plant here of about the
size of the one $t..Prince Rupert.. It.
'sure is a dandy. They have a plant
at the Flin Flon, too, and* have a con
tract to supply, meat- to both.camps.
“We are staying in two rooms
built in :the plant.. They are double
windowed and the walls are insulated
like an. ice boa. With two big heat
ers -.in. you would never imagine-, t
was cold outtaide, Tint place has cost
about .$10,000 so far,, and the ma
chinery is to.be put m yet. So far l
am just sitting around, keeping the
tires gbng and- listening, to friend
wife’s advice. She cams with me and
we are iMBFin gluts of .fun. I will
have, a ,sauteed of meat in Tuesday.
One thing 1 have noticed here is-that
the traJec people wtu are already
established have .no hold-up prices.
Vou ce- buy just about the same as
you would in^ a.«city.;
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McLARNIN FORCED TO EXTEND
'SEL FIN BATTLE WITH NEGRO
NEW YORK, Mar. 29.—The dyna
mite in Jimmie McLarnin’s right arm
failed to explode last night and the
clouting Victoria boy wa3 forced(,to
stage xa rapid-fire finish to gain a de
cision over tne negro welterwe.ght,
Xoung Jack Thompso nof Oakland,. »n
the ten-round feature of. the. boxng
card at Mauison Square Garden. Mc
^arnin railed in the last three rounds
co gain. the . unanimous. decision of.
edges and referee.
QUESTION LEGALITY OF
THE 18TH AMENDMENT
a»E W YORK.—A new question as
o the constitutionality of the lfctn
amendment, not heretofore passed on
by the United States Supreme Court,,
was raised by a committee of the
New York County Lawyers’ Associa-j
tion, which recommended the presen
tation to the court of the ratification .
of the amendment by the state egis- J
lature aud not by the people. ,
The report ^aid that it violated the
i.'enth Amendment i-f the Conatitu- j
tion and. 1 herefore was not. legal, The
report is to. lie .voted on at .the next
general meeting of ,tbea. ssociation in .
the latter part lof^AprtKi.
DAVIS POINTS TO U. S. PRO
PERITY IN RADIO ADDRESS ,
WASHINGTON.—Inn a radio ad
dress delivered under the auspices of
the U. S. Flag Association, Secretary
of, Labor James j. DavU character
ized the . Unite dStates as a .land of
unexampled prosperity i and., oppor
tunity
“Thirty million people boron onu
other- shores have found it a .Unddofi.
opportunity, and I am one of. thtasa
thirty million,” he asserted.l. “If .yyu .
will go back three hundred years you.
will discover tli-ie '/as not a .power
ful lord or xh>r; in Europe who ,b ed
a", well as the tyr*e cl worker who is .
ber iming typical ■'f America.’
Influenza is reported to have been»
taking a heavy toll among Indians at .
Haines this winter. Five are said.ito >
havei.died recently.
j Frank J. Guskey,
j Notary Public.;
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