ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
JOHN W. TROY • - - EDITOR AND MANAOER
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BLAME NOT ON ALASKA CRABS.
The generally accepted belief among physicians
and those who were associated with him that Presl-|
dent Harding’s death was due to the fact lhat he
had broken down under the strain of over-work j
rather than to poisoning or any other acute cause j
t'tould serve to relieve the blame that for a time]
was placed upon Alsaka crabs. In fact, the President
did nat attribute the flight ptomaine poisoning from
which he suffered to the crabs, according to a dis-1
patch to the New York Times from the Presidential!
train before it had left Oregon, and in litis con-]
elusion Dr. Hubert Work. Secretary of the Interior j
and famous physician, agreed. After saying that ;
Dr. Sawyer, the President’s physician, had placed the
blame for the ptomaine poisoning on fresh crabs, the1
Times' dispatch said:
President Harding does not share the
belief that his. illness Is due to eating fresh
crabs or crabs supposed to be fresh. He at
tributes his attack to some canned food that
lie ate while on his way to Seattle on the
Henderson. Secretary Work agrees with the
Pie ident and said so in a speech he de
livered to a crowd at Grant's Pass.
In explaining why the President was un
able to appear I)r. Work said:
"It comes about that during our last day
at ne:i many of us were attacked by a tem
porary indispo; ition, not due to sea sickness
but to food put up iu a can . I will not say
what I he item of food was. for thereby I
might depress ihe price of the canned
product. However, t lie Indisposition was
temporary. All have recovered almost com
pletely, and the President lias about re
covered ar «oll. Had he been able yester
day' to care for himself he would have been
in hie usual vigorous healtli this morning,
but the reception at Seattle was so cordial
and rr overwhelming that Iwo hours of the
time was con.-umed in a street parade in
order dial a? many people as possible might
see the Executive and his lovely wife.
"The reception he received was of course
very gratifying to the President and to all
of his party, but it entailed a great physical
hat iDhip for a man who had been recently
sick He was two hours In the sun bare
headed acknowledging the plaudits and the
cordial reception lie received, and afterward
he spoke to more than 100,000 people at
three different times, so that the President
physical and intellectual giant that he is!
was overtaxed. So tills morning lie called
me in to ask me to say these tilings In a
confidential way to you, feeling that you are
entitled to that much confidence as you
have come down here in the hot sun to
welcome him.
"Since leaving Washington lid has not
spared himself. lie lias made many ad
dresses from this platform in his dressing
gown, if we came to a town before there
was time to dress he appeared and spoke to
the people, and lie would remain up at
night as late as 1 o’clock to greet and
speak to the people who came out to meet
While I Mas getting my instructions 1
noticed him looking at his dressing gown
ar it hung near the door, and I had a
feeling for a moment that he would appear
beoiie you in that garb, but even as I
looked the very wise and trusty physician
who was sitting in the doorway keeping
people out and the President in seemed
to put his veto on it. and I gave up hope
this t!me-° “e a"OWe,i 10 meet wu at
SPECULATING ON REPUBLICAN POLITICS
While many of ilie Warbington correspondents
think President Coolidge will be a candidate for the
Republican Presidential nomination, and that lie will
have the Administration support and that of the con-'
errvatlve element of tho party, and, therefore, will |
receive the nomination, \Y. \V, Jermane, the Saettle
Times' Washington rorreepondent, lliinks he will not
be renominated and that he will bo defeated In case
he should receive the nomination, on account of bis
extreme conservatism. Mr. Jermane thinks Senator
Hiram Johnson stands the best oh a nee for the Repub
lican nomination, and that he would receive more
votes than anyone the party could nominate, though '
he thinks it doubtful if any Republican can he elected
next year. Mr. Jermane thinks it likely that Gov
ernor Pinchot and Judge Kenyon may also he as
pirants for ihe Republican leadership. lie thinks
Senator Watson is most likely' to he the conservative!
contender All of the correspondents believe that
Senator Johnson and Senator La Follette will soon
announce their candidacies.
Cliarle.- W. P.arron. publisher of the Boston News
Bureau, Wall Street Journal and Philadelphia News
Bureau, believes that President Coolidge will be nom
inated and triumphantly elected. He thinks he is
much stronger than was President Harding and cne
for whom the “Republican Party can rally us a
unit.” He Is confident that the death of President
Harding "removes much political Uncertainty.” Roth i
JUr. Jermane and Mr. Barron are confident that Presi- I
dent Harding could not have been re-elected had he I
lived and been renominated, though both are warm
admirers of the late President.
There are many people in the United States these
days who rejoice that Senator Hiram W. Johnson re
fused to have the Vice-Presidential nomination shoved
off on him at. the last Republican National Conven
tion. The leaders tried to induce him to accept it.
They then decided on Senator I^nroot, who was
willing, but he was defeated by Governor Coolidge,
and that causes yet more rejoicing.
Senator Magnus Johnson is said to bear a strik
ing facial resemblance to Colonel Roosevelt when the
latter was of his age. Also like The Colonel. Sena
tor Magnus seems to have a warlike disposition. Un
like The Colonel, however, he proposes to stage ills
war in the Cnited States with Americans pitted
aganist Americans.
The City Council could not have done better
Ilian it did when it elected former Mayor Ralph
E. Robertson to the Presidency of the School Hoard
to succeed M. H. Summers, who resigned on account
of his early departure from the city. Mr. Robertson
is splendidly qualified on account of his ability and
character for the office.
Delegate Dan Sutherland, measured by any ac
cepted standard. Is no more of a Republican than is
Senator Ha Follette. He not only does not support
Republican policies but he has accused the Repub
lican National Administration of being crooked and
being in a conspiracy with the "Fish Trust” to beat
the poor fishermen.
The Power of the Press.
(Cordova Times.)
Alaska has been having an interesting demonstra
tion lately of the varied ways in which that old and
well-known party, the Power of the Press, Is wont
to work after a fashion, the finality and effect of
which is incontrovertible. In the reports sent out
by I lie various newspaper correspondents who accom
panied Presidtnt Harding on his tour of Alaska have
hern stories sensational or grumpy, true or false, ac
cording to the policies and characters of the news
papers, or the humor the correspondents happened to
lie in when they wrote them. Some of these articles,
appearing in conservative and reputable papers, have
been penned with a conscientious desire to present
the ttuth, but the extent to which the personal
equation may color a report is shown in a recent |
dispatch in the New York Times, sent from Cordova,
at tlic end of the Presidential tour, the entire tenor
of wthich is to the effect that pessimism as to the
future of Alaska was the final conclusion of the
President and his aesociates. "Up to the people,”
' Pessimism as to the future,” “Never be able to
maintain a large population,” “Resources not en
couraging to the great future predicted," are some
of rlie phrases that carry through an article which,
outlining sufficient facts to give its conclusions
credence, manages to convey an impression entirely
Inimical to the Interests of the Territory. This inter
pretation is directly contrary to the sentiments ex
pressed hv the President afterward in his Seattle
address, when he declared himself “entirely optimis
tic of Alaska s future, spoke of its enormous re
sources which, however, he rightly declared would
require time for development, and announced that
he had found "nothing wrong” with Alaska. The
fact that even the President’3 speech is but frag
mentally reported and published in most of the na
tions newspapers and subject to the interpretation
or those same reporters, is but another evidence
of the extent to which public opinion and Govern
mental action are swayed by the Individual voice.
Alaska is a big country, its problems are many and
Hirers. It is a presumptuous man that attempts
from a two-weeks' tour of a small section of its area’
to draw final conclusions as to Its future. Ilis story
has given us ludicrous instance of this. That the
country would never be able to maintain a targe :
population was once said of ihe entire region west of
the Ohio River; that the continent of North America
was a wilderness fit only for savages was an equally
Intelligent opinion of an earlier day. The difference
was. however, that the daily newspaper was not
then, ns now, the real moulder of public opinion.
Alaska lias always been more or less at the
mercy of the public press, and will alwavs be so I
In the face of this fact, however, Alaskans will, as1
always, go diligently on their way, heartily agreeing
with the Pcnlimcnt reported of the President whose
friendliness to Alaska cost him his life, that I* ’is
indeed "Up lo them.”
Not in Good Temper.
(New York Post.)
Because the Evening Post has left Its readers in 1
no doubt cf its affirmative stand on the Volstead law
and enforcement, it feels at liberty to protest against
Ihe unhappy tone of the challenge addressed lo 1
members of the Legislature by the directors of the 1
Anti-Saloon League with respect to the mooted in
vestigation of League activities. The directors are
quite right in asserting that the proposed investiga- 1
tion emanates from sources hostile to prohibition en- :
forcement. But that is no reason why they should
be afraid of such an investigation or should describe 1
it in advance as a declaration of war against the
churches. If the League has “nothing to fear from
the disclosure or all its. activities," the proper move
would have been to challenge the opponents of. pro
hibition lo go ahead and do their worst. After all, .
it is on the record that William H. Anderson, the
leader of the League's fighting forces, has been in
dicted for alleged' wrongdoing.
in the current periodicals a controversy over the
size of the Confederate Army is In progress. The
Insufficiency of the records open the way to con- .
sidcrable conjecture, but it may be taken for granted
! hat both the I'nion and Confederate Armies were
precisely similar in character. They were composed
of vclnteers drawn from all walks of American life
and in fighting qualities they were alike in all ea
sculial particulars.—(Seattle Times.)
Henry Ford Implies that he would accept the |
Presidency of the United Stales only in event of
war. Obviously his duty as President would be to
stop the war by refusing to issue any more spare
parts. (New York World.)
The difference between a regular politician and a
reformer is that the former says the paper unfortu
nately misquoted him when he discovers that what
le said didn't prove very popular, while the latter
tays it's a deliberate liar and always was.— (Ohio
Stale Journal.)
Probably the discerning farmer is never more dis
'onraged than when he sees by the paper what else
Lhe Government is going to do for him.—(Ohio State
Journal.)
If any Republican leader really has a "steam
roller" the sooner he uses it the better.—(Wall Street
Journal.)
The man with evil in
rouble In discovering evil in
Jerald.)
his own heart has no
others, — (Casper. Wyo.,
ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR
Bj SAX TTTT.T.
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Observations of Oldest inhabitant
The old fashioned woman who used
to do all of her own washing and
ironing and the, housework never Had
any occasion to reduce to music.
The Ananias Club
"X hope, said the friend who had
dropped in at 'ipnch time, “that you
will go to the;'trouble of getting up
a decent meaX/IKf' I am nearly starv
ed to death." »
Zero In Those Present
“This article says that in Persia
brides are married by the priest while
the groom is not present,” remarked
Mrs. Grouch.
“Well, they might as well do the
I
same over here, for the groom counts
about us much as a niekle would in
paying off the war debt," retorted her
husband.
No Wonder We Swtt Where It'
Ain't
News item say#: "An authority tie-1
lares the fly cgu think 100 times j
juicker than a^nitn.”
then She Takes Him Down a Peg
or Two, Eh?
Blinks—They say her husband is
six feet two inches tall.
Jinks—And yet she was telling my
wife he often is awfully short with
lier.'
Moral Here for Wives
His wife looks like
The Dickens:
That's why he flirts
With chickens.
They’re Scarce as Hen's Tetth
Warbles Tom Deming: "A thorough
y satisfactory friend is one who en
ourages us to do what we want to
lo, and would do anyhow." He'll have
to go further than that. Thomas, old
boy. He'll even have to be willing
to take the blame if what we do
proves to be a boner.
if It Fits—
Some people arp more in need of a
course in forgetting than they are of
r memory course. This applies es
pecially to Un*ee,:,iiho can never for
ret a slight. ' ' »
The reason their unpaid bills worry
tome men is because they cant’ run
tp any more until they .get the pres
ent ones receipted.
Budding author* are not the only
ines who haffe Chard time selling!
heir stories. Many a husband finds it
s almost impossible for him to “el!"
tis wife the wonderful tale he has
invented.
We are convinced it is not modesty
hat prevents so many people from
showing their brains.
The hardest job in the world is try-'
ng to make a saint out of a sinner,
ind next to that we guess the hardest
loh is trying to make a pretty girl
>ut of a homely one by the paint
ind powder system.
Another way for a man to keep
llmspelf above suspicion is not to be
■aught picking dp the little yellow
iandelions that flCU his lawn.
The fewer the horse used the more
lemand there is for horse sense.
Knowledge may be power, but we
would like to have one of these wise
statisticians tell us just how many
'actories Could hoi rlisi by the knowl
edge the average of people display.
When they come home from the
iarty friend wife can toil you what
■very lady there wore. Her husband
san tell you exactly what they had
o eat—and drink.
We bate to have a man say to
is: "Now, if you are wise." He
night as well say: “Now, if you are
wealthy." We'd he both, if we could.
We doubt If it Is possible for a
nere man ever to get as much flemi
sh satisfaction as a woman does
when she thinks of those she is NOT
lending out invitatftms to when sht; is
giving a swell party.
Some of the dear little girls put so
much red on their lfps we don't be
lieve th,ere is enouph room left there
W* H. CASE
EASTMAN KODAK SUPPLI
Amateur Finishing Our Specii
PlIO^E 311
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It’a all In knowing HOW to do
flrst-clau cleanfng and dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
C. Meldner. Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
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.. JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
Move*, Packs and 8tom Freight
and Baggage.
Prompt Delivery of
LADYSMITH COAL
Phone 48.
for the naughty germs to find park
ing space.
Daily Sentence Sermon
It never pays to argue with a big
ger or wiser man than yourself—or
with a woman. You’ll lose every
time.
News of the Names Club
U. Hurt is reported from Dallas,
but we want lo warn him the ladies
of this club will not stand for any
of that caveman stuff.
We won't even consider Lotta
Rains, of Leeds, Mo., for membership;
we have been getting too darn many
of them from the weather man as it
is.
Blind Since Birth, Sight
Is Restored.
Eight-year-olci Gillian Paten, of
Indianapolis, Ind., blind since her
birth, has had her sight restored
by a delicate operation performed
by Or. Jeol Whitacrc. Four years
after her birth she was abandoned
by her parents. Her pitiable case
was brought to the attention of
Dr. Whitacre. who charitably re
moved the cataracts from her
eyes, giving her sight.
IN UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE.
JUNEAU. ALASKA.
Serials 0 3 7 5 6 - f) 5 9 6 5.
June 28, 1923.
NOTICE TS HEREBY GIVEN That
Lee 11. Smith of Juneau, Alaska,
hua submitted iitial three year proof
in support of his Homestead Entry,
Serial 03756, for lauds In HE Sur
vey No. 101, new series No. 1194,
and additional Homcstoad Entry,
Serial 06966, for lands in U. S. Sur
vey No. 1434. These surveys are
both situated about one mile easter
ly from the mouth of Mendenhall
River, twelve miles north of Ju
neau. Alaska, in latitude 58° 22'
North and longitude 134° 34' West,
and more particularly described as
follows:
Commencing at cor. No. 1, HE
Survey No. 101 whence U.8.
L M. No. 44 F. S. bears North
68° 54' W. 42.28 chs.; running
thence N. 89° 34' E. 2# chs. to
cor. No. 2, thence S. 0° 17' E.
60.08 chs. to cor. No. 3, thence
fc. 89° 40' W. 20.00 chs. to cor.
No. 4, thence N. 0° 20' W.
60.09 chs. to cor. No. 1 the
place of beginning, containing
an area 120.14 acres. Variation
31° 14' East.
Commencing at cor. No. 1, U.
S. Survey No. 1434, whence U.
S.L.M. No. 38.1 bears S. 4 9° 08'
E. 90.24 chs.; thence N. 0° 21'
W. 20.00 chs. along the easterly
line C. S. Survey No. 381 to
cor. No. 2; thence N. 89° 40'
E. 19.99 chs. to cor. No. 3 iden
tical with Cor. No. 3 11.E. Sur
vey No. 101; thence S. 0° 36'
E. 20.20 chs. to cor. No. 4;
thence N. 89° 45' W. 20.08 chs.
to cor. No. 1 the place of be
ginning; containing 40.26 acres.
Variation 31° 15' E. i
FRANK A. BOYLE, /
Register.
First publication July 26, 1923.
Last publication Sept. 24, 1923.
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! SAFE INVESTMENTS
City Bonds, Improvement
Bonds, School Bonds, First
Mortgage Loans, County War*
rants. To net 6% to 8% Inter
est. Correspondence solicited.
j Wm D. Perkins & Ca. !
I Bankers, Beattie, Waaa. j
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AUTOS FOR HIRE
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Blackie’s Taxi
Airy WHERE—ANY TIME
Stand Arctic Pool Room
PHONE 444
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CALL
Berry’s Auto Service
for that seren-pasenger 1923
Cadillac touring car. Stand at
Gaatineau Hotel. Popular
pricee. Phone 10.
Also seven-paesenger Sedan,
Also seven-passenger Sedan
for stormy weather.
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Miller’s Taxi Service
TWO CARS
Stand Alaskan Hotel
PHONE—SINGLE 0
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]_ PROFESSIONAL J
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Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Xonra 1 to 4, 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 104; Res. 101.
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Dr. W. J. Pigg
PHYSICIAN
Office—Second and Main
Telephone 18
Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House BldK.
Telephone 178.
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GEO. I. BARTON, D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Measerachmidt Apts.
Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 6;
7 to 9 and by appointment.
Phone 269.
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Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
201 Goldstein Building
; Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1 to I)
! 7 to 8, or by appointment.
Licensed osteopathic physician.
, Phones: Office, 167; Residence
Phone 612, Coliseum Apts.
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Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. M. to 9 P M.
SEWARD BUILDING
j Office Phone 469.
Res. Phone 276
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Dr*. Kaser & Freebnrger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bldg.
PHONE M
Hours 9 a m. to 9 p. a.
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Dr. Charles P. Jenna
DENTIST
Rooms 8 and 9 Vawntlne Bldg.
Telephone 176.
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All Alaskan Trails End at
HOTEL ATWOOD
First Are. and Pine St., Seattle
Popular Prices. Nearest to Ev
erything. J. A. Farnham and
i Ted Taylor, Propa.
EVERYTHING IN COAL
BRIQUETS
COMAX
LADYSMITH
ISSAQUAH
NANAIMO
BLACKSMITH
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
PHONE 412
Old bunaiea or i/ewspapurs at tin
iCrnnlr*. 21 cents
i
Chautauqua brings you good entertain
ment at a reasonable price.
The program at Juneau this year is better
than any previous one.
You can t afford to miss a single one of
the five programs.
Season tickets sold at:
The B. ML Behrends Bank
7TOZAU, ALASKA. j ?
fraternal Societies
--Of
Gastineau Channel
B . T . 0 . 1LKI
Meeting Wednesday
Evenings at 8:00
o'clock, Etka' Hall.
Charles P. Jenna,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS.
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodies
of Free masonry
Scottish Bite
Regular meetings
1 second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:80 p. in. Odd
Fellows' Hall.
WALTER B HEI8BL, Secretary,
i. o. o. a.
SILVER BOW
_ _ LODGE MO. I A.
Meeeta every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellows' Hall.
Charles E. Perells, Noble Grand|
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
1 ■
I PEESEVEBANCE RT.BT.Eaw
LODGE NO. 2A.
Meets every first and third
Tuesdays In I. O. O. F. Hall, at
8 P M FRANCES GUSTAFSON.
N. G ALPHONSINB CARTER,
Secretary.
MOUNT JUNEAE LOOSI
No. 147, r. a A. M.
Stated Communication
. Second and fourth Mondays
I of each Month. In Odd relieve
H»n. beginning at 7:M o’clock,
iromor 0 Nordling, Master.
Chns. E. Nafibet. Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
lincond and Fourth Tuat
dara of task month
At 8 o'clock. I. O. O. ». Flail.
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDLING, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
MBOHS'RS COUNCIL »w.
17*10. Meetings second
and last Mondays at T:»*
^ r p. m. Transient Broth
ers urged to attend. Council Chambers
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen, G. K.
J. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month it I r n
Elks' Lodge Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; G. X.
Mam, Post Adjutant, Phone 199.
L07AL ORDER 01
M00SX.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o’clock,
Moose Hall. X. F.
Roden berg, Dictator; R. H. Stevenr
Secretary.
WOMEN OF M00SEHEART
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.
AUXILIARY, PIONEER! 0V
ALASKA. Igloo No. 6.
Meets last Thursday of every
| month. Social hour with mem
I bers of Pioneer I.od£e to fol
low each meeting.
I Mrs. Ix>ttle Splckott, President.
! Mrs. I.lllle Iiurford, Secretary.