C,P. R. STEAMER
STRIKES ROCKS
Princess Alice Hits Rocks
During Storm — Cancel
Steamer Sailings.
VANCOUVER. H. ('., Fob. 14.
The Canadian Pacific nger!
steamer Princess Alice, en route
from Victoria to Vancouver, struck
a rook on Moresby Island during tliej
night in a heavy snow storm and rv-j
turned to Victoria. An -fnvestig.i
tion showed the steamer had punc-'
Hired a forward plate.
Another Canadian Pacific steamer
hove to on account of the storm.
The sailing of tlie Princess Beat
rice tonight for Prinoe Rupert .has!
been cancelled on account of Hie
storm,
Snow in Victoria ranges over a
foot In depth.
Street car service Is demoralized.
NO JEWELS
NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—None of
the Russian crown jewels have been
found in the coffin of seamen Janus
Jones, burned in Brooklyn Cemetery,
which was disinterred by the gov
ernment. K had been repeatedly
rtited the crown Jewels had been
placed In Jones's casket by smug
BLIZZARD IS
BAD IN EAST
ST. PAm,, Feb. 14 —The storm j
today .la this section is the w . st ex-i
peiienced for .t < mturv.
All trains ure j-Ullel ex; apt th-isc •
lines leading to the ith.
Four persona hav perished near
Pino City when fire s: ir I from a a
overheated stove and destroyed a
house.
PORTLAND IS j
SNOW BOUND
|V _
PORTLAND. Ore., Feb. 14.—This
city Is Virtually snowbound today .is
the result of a blizzard which rag.: I
last night.
The 'minimum tempera,in - was 14
degrees above zero.
LITTLE GIRL INJURED
BY SLED OF COASTER
.Viola, 11-year-old daughter of
Mrs. Arthur Rlendeau, suffered n
fracture of both bones, above the
ankle, of her left leg. when site was
struck by a sled on which one of
the eons of Jeff Nichols, was coast
ing, Monday afternoon about 4
.o'clock, in front of the Sanitary
Grocery. Little Viola wus crossing
the street with her mother, when
'the Nichols boy came apeeding down
the street on his sled and struck
her before she could get out of the
way.
She was carried Into the office of
‘Uen Shaittuck and taken from there
to St. Ann Hospital. She is In a
favorable condition today, according
to her physician, Hr. W. J. Pigg,
but will be confined to her bed lor
some time.
In coasting on Seward Street the
Nichols boy was disobeying the;
coasting rules of the Juneau Police
Department, which do no; name;
that street for coasting. Witnesses of
the accident said he was coasting
from Fifth or Sixth Street.
JEFFERSON~HERE
TODAY FROM SOUTH
With 76 tons of freight for Ju-!
neau, the steamer Jefferson arrived
hefe at 2:45 o'clock this afternoon
from the South. The boat came in !
•the Channel at 1 o’clock, putting In
mail from the southern towns only,!
for Juneau, having left the South al
lire same time ns the steamer Prin-!
cess Mary, which brought the mail i
from the States.
The Jefferson will be in port un
til about C o'clock tonight, sailing
from here for Skagway and way
ports and returning tomorrow night,
tout!) bound j
Among the passengers arriving at
Juneau were George llanos, A. H
Hooper, P. T Howe and one steerage
8PORTING PUBLISHER
DIED RICH MAN
NEW YORK. Feb. 11 The esi.itc
of tihe la/te Richard K Fox, publlshei
of the Police Gazette, t'.nnou sport
in* .paper, probably exceeds *3.000,
000. He owned practically all of
•two Oily blocks in Brooklyn. .
SINKING OF LUSITANIA
WAS ACT OF WAR
NEW YORK. Feb 14.—The Xew
Yorle Court of Appeals held, in de
riding the case of the estate of Al
(red G. Vanderbilt against an in.sui
anoo company, that the sinking of
the Lusitania was an act of war. Th.
verdict upheld ‘the dnsuram e company
On refusing to make payment on the
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WHERE ROYAL SUITOR POPPED THE QUESTION.
■warn- w
QaL>& of "Vbr.'ij,
Belft* G>cTO7«J*j- lyorO.
'IoWp/"wpJfeV^ &#/ /***•
—.— ..- V- as / , --
it is currently reported in Biitith court cirrh that it was in Lovers' Walk, at Si Paul’s, Wc.n
limy, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, tha the Duke of York proposed and was accepted by Lady Elizabeth
l> ivi r-l.yi.n. This beautiful walk is on her father's estate, where the Duke was a week-end guest. The
Duke, s coiul sen of the British rub rs, and his tianceo are here shown in their latest posed photograph.
Rich Buyer Is Missing;
Wife Fears Orientals.
Although New Ycrk police have
rent out a general order for the
arrest of Mortimer Latitman, buy
er and r. hetui manager of the
Kaufman Brothers’ department
::’or . of Pittsburgh, Pennsyvania,
who dhappeared from the Wal
dtl f-At tcria Ho: el. with approxi
mately *75.000 .,n hi: perron, his
wife fc.tr: lie hue been lain by
Orientals. The police allc:-1'. it ,v
ever, that he got $20,000 from a
friend to buy thick and ha. 10
tui ned neither the money nor the
lock. Her hi band had be it often
to tin Orient as a buy r and knew
many Oriental agents in America,
ltd his wife, who deni i he can
be guilty rl crime, believes tome
cf thorn have claim him for bin
nit ncy.
LEAVE SMYRNA
CCXSTANTINtn uil. Fob. 14.—At
Angt i a telegram say s a decision ha
been reached by the Turks to clow
down on entrance of warships ti
Smyrna and ordets have also beet
. sued t’o (the Allies their warship;
tintst leave the harbor at once.
The entry of Greek merchant ves
sels to Turkish ports is also forbid
don by the order issued today.
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DOUGLAS NEWS |
J-i
I., C. Praitt, Deputy Forest Super
\ sor of the Chugaoh National Forest
w h headquarters at Cordova, w.il
loin . Inntnwnt l- rwtl tlicx Prln/'Ptl.
Maty far Portland, where lie will b;
'ti ioned for several weeks. Latai
Is-* -xpeets to go on vacation leave
H ■ will return norih in about 6(
days.
James Wickershani, local attor
ney, w iy leave'on the Princess Mari
ior .Seattle, thence to San Fran
i. isco, on court bn si nous, lie expect;
to return to Juneau within a month
Anton Hide, in charge of the rout
work in the Seward-Anchorage dis
trict. for the Alaska Itoad Commis
sion, left Juneau on the uteame:
Alameda for the State:-, on a vaca
tion trip, lie has been here on busi
ties, in the interest of his office.
At the Gastimau.
.1 Johnson. John Holm, Mrs. Slg
rid Street!. John BotjdeUer, Mrs. Hoc
deker, S. Arbutino.
At the Alaskan.
K B. Mclver. P. Hansen, L. Lund
<!. I>. Boroff. W F. Ht*chyan, Tet
Slierzberg.
INCOME FROM CUSTOMS
MAY REACH $430,000,001
WASH I XtlTON. Feb. 14.—E. \Y
Camp, chief of customs division. in
creases his os!.:mate of the govern
men- income for 1923 under the Ford
ney-McCutnber tariff to $ISO,OOO.OOii
an advance of $30,000,000 over hi
December estimate.
Headquarters for Ladysmith coa!
Juneau Transfer Co. Phone 48. ad\
NEW LOW POINT '
IN TEMPERATURE j
REPORTED TODAY
Mercury Drops to Nine—
Other Alaska Points Near
Normal—High Winds.
TJw cold At weather of the win;
-a far was i 'ported for Juneau carl,
his morning . .when the mercury
t at h d 9 da arc's. At S n. m. it
I liral jiioderaieed uk. the trr minis -j
i tar reading It! above, and durin;
i thii day it roise several degrees high-.
; < r whlile 'the sun was on the job.
Fairly normal tcm;.oratnrea are r •
ported by the Weather Bur mu f i
I all of the Territory, ranging from J
t hove tit Tan-ana to S b*low aero a.;
Eagle, Fairbanks and Alt. MefCinl *y
Turk station. Prince William Sounu
r 1 C k Inic-' temperatures ranged
rou : 1 14 to Hi above. Fui . ii.u
. iT.g the Southwestern coast w irtnc;
weather was reported, St. Paul and
I\- link rcipcrt'inig SI and Dutch It r
I r !!6 above.
Edmonton. Albeit i. is credited with
,l:o most -yvere c i, the men r ,
• undl'ng a; .1(1 below germ
The wind a tine | i t maximum
I v ' .(■ y litre last night between 0
lend 10 oV.ck. wit *n a su. :.cn. 1
| velocity off 45 mil's p r htsii: w.
r x' ered for five minutes. ’lh.
: g'.iotn velocity recorded l.ir
shorter per! .1 .ban that was .50 mi! •
per h:>utr. t’rcii mge 1 w mUi t can
| d It ions aro forecast for tomnrrn w
with till:- win-1 continuing stiong from
th ■ northeast.
Exc ]t :.1 the interruptions tn wire
i "niniunicaLioiTw, tempurar.v c: ippli.ig
of n considerable noait; r of phone
throughout the eiit.y, .ml a siior,
nxir.i of c'rci;, Is in the fire alarm
jsv tern which'has be n pa re 1. h •
'twisting of street liglits at several
j rc'ti'--. no material dainag • lias borti
-1': k 11111111111 Tit 1111 ii it 111 it i ii i it t HiTiTiViTi 111
(lone to local property. Linemen for
both the telephone company and the
I gilt company were hard at work all
day repairing damages done to their
jines.
FLORY TOlEAVE ON
PRINCESS MARY FOR
TRIP TO CONFERENCE
District Forester Charles li. FI.try
will leave for the States tomorrow
i n t it , a.l bautine-- which v\ ill tal:.
him o Seattle, fJi rtiardd, Ogdon unci
possibly to San Francisco. I'-1 ex
pc.’.s to ba absent from the T rr.
to:/ at it five weeks.
While tiay trip is mainly for the
purpose eff attending the annual t.
nazici'al conference of th * For •: S.;r
vie- at Oglen, li will also confer
with p as lata stod in pulp and I
I iper development in Alaska and
uxiiia-c a new hunt for the Ice t
lic.ri. On his arrival a, .-V. . tl;
aids wlil to callc I f r for this V ia
ir I the awards, .nude briar1 it.1 rs
turns here.
The Ogd1 a conference will be at
e tb.l , ■ • Forester W. tl. Ore ay
by :hn IV - trlet Kn -tens of the eight |
naional a'orest districts, and by all
chiefs of operations. Allotments o'
funds .for carrying on the walk o.
'.tax: fiscal \. r will he made at
hr < i crt'.'iro. It will epert on j
March 5. He will gj to Portland
.• i f \v days before proceeding to
Ogden. Later he may go to San
Francisco to meet Frank C. Dough
rty, prorootor of the pulp and papo
project at Thomas Bay, and others
acerertc.l in Alaskan forests as a
-..urt-o of pulp and paper supplies.
H> will return here sometime after|
i: > n.iald'.de of March.
FIRE
OMAHA, Feb 14.—Fire in the
Armour Company Packing plant this
afternoon caused damage estimated
at *600,000.
Sub-zero temperatures and a high i
wind handle pped 2b com pa if ie
fighting the blaze.
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P D 1717 Q To be Given I
F SXlLilLO Away a 11
MASK BALL ~ I
At A. B. Hall, Wednesday, February 21st |
DANCING FROM 10 P. M. TO 2 A. M. I
EQUAL TO A CASH VALUE OF $50.00 |
Best Dressed Lady Costume—Ladies Traveling Fold- |
ing Umbrella. =
Best Dressed Gentleman Costume—Gentleman s Vel- =
our Hat. See Goldstein’s Emporium Window. =
Most Original Costume, Ladies—25 Tickets to Palace §
Theatre. =
Most Original Costume, Gentlemen—25 Tickets to |
Palace Theatre. |
Ladies Best Comical Character—20 Tickets to Palace §
Theatre. §
Gentlemen’s Best Comical Character—20 Tickets to =
Palace Theatre. y |
One Month’s Pass to lady or gentleman holding lucky |
coupon presented at the door to Palace Theatre, i
Admission 45 cents, Tax 5 cents, Total 50 cents. i
Spectators 22 cents, Tax 3 cents, Total 25 cents. §
Ladies admitted free to dance floor after unmasking |
at 12 o’clock. |
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THE MOOSEHEART ENDOWMENT FUND BALL
for the benefit of the
Home for older Moose
will be given February 15, at Moose Hall.
Music Furnished by Coliseum Orchestra.
GENTLEMEN $1.00. LADIES FREE
__ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE.
BRITISH MAY
CALL OFF MEN
ALONG RHINE
LONDON, F t). 14. A. IJ >n ir L iw
apeaikkit.S tin t'.i? Hull < i ' Commons
3al;d be vtiMl hoped it would Ua pos
slble to ro'.aun Ftritli- ii trooins on Ihi
Rhino, but < itber the Francli or Uer
inan governments c .iild make i' Im
poeslblo and that would lie a grea
misfortune as ‘H would moan ths ent
of the Entente.
ROSENBLUTH
IS SET FREE
NEW YORK. Feb. 14.—Comm Is
aloner Hitchcock has dismissed thi
removal proi eedlogs li.»tlttlU?V
again- Oipta’n Ros ambits:h to obtaii
transfer to Tacoma, Wash., !,,s bai
bond of $40,001) has been restored am
Rosenhluth discharged from custody
Commissioner Hitchcock heh
that Camp Lewis, Wash., was no
the property of the United States or
October 2.a, 1916, when Major Alex
tinder UronklFt? was allege 1 to have
been shot and killed by Captain Ho
genblmh. An Indictment returned ir
Tacoma, i»y a reaerai grand jury
(ontcndr 1 Orcnkhlto was Hagen
bluth's Victim.
NO STATE ACTION
TACOMA, n.—iProsecullnji
Attorney J. W. Shelden announced
there would be no state actios
msalinst Captain Koscnbluth, whose
removal from New York for tria
here has been refused.
BEEF, WINE
AND IRON
is the best Spring Tonic
Iron performs a very import
ant office in the human body.
It improves the quality of the
blood, the tissues are better
nourished and all functions are
performed with more vigor.
The combinaton of Beef, Iron
and Wine also promotes appetite
and invieorates and stimulates
the digestion and thus acts as the
very best stomach tonic.
BRITT’S PHARMACY
The Rexall Store
PHONE 25
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Wind Shows Up
In Classified
Column Today
Evidence of the alight bleozes
i prt val ! ng today aro popping
i or.1 n tii" classified columns to
] d v or The Empire. Tiro hats
salid “(rood bye" and dlsap
p irod. One iput >in appearance
at Tiio Empire office and the
other is lost.
Then two persons, who had
put tin classified "ad's" to run
i:ii I 'finitely, ordered them out
today after oniiy a run of two '
days—the classifieds brought
iv tilts -quickly.
Ci'Ve the column t life once
ever today—there may be some
thing lintere-ting there for you.
i i i
BELGIAN MINING MEN
LEAVING FOR SOUTH
After a several weeks’ visit here!
and at .Iiialin. A. Mulder, of Ant-'
wtrp, and N. Van Muylder of Brus-i
sells, will leave tomorrow on the.
Princess Mary for Seattle and other
,I Pacific Coast points en route to their
i homes. They came here for the
|purpose of examining the Jualin
property in which they are intcr
Ic led and to aid in organization of a
,jcompany to develop the property.
Organization of the company, tho
j was completed last week. Both men
! were well pleased with the outlook!
j for the development of a paying'
! property at Jualin hope to make an-,
jother trip to Juneau alter the mine
| is apened and a mill established. I
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VOUR "UNUSED” ASSETS—that
typewriter, musical instrument, fur
ait urn, office Fixture or appliance—
ire marketable, for cash, through
j ilie classified columns of The Empire.
VALENTINES
ALL KINDS
| AND PRICES
i
i
TRY THE
BUTLER-MAURO DRUG
COMPANY
REST
96 Front St. Juneau, Alaska
LOCAL W. C. T. U. IS TO
HONOR UNION FOUNDER
Tli*' Woman’s Christian Temper
ance Union of Juneau met Tuesday
and completed arrangements for
Frances K. Willard memorial service*
to he held in her honor as founder
of the Union at the City Hall Sat
urday. February 17. The date was
tixed by Congress for appropriate ex
orcises for receiving and acceptance
from tlhe State of Illinois of t.he
ctatue of Francis E. Willard, er
ected in Statuary Hall in the Na
tional Capital.
An interesting program, it was
■aid, has been arranged, following
which there will be a social hour
when refreshments will be served.
Phe public is invited, especially the
women’s clubs and societies of the
city . An invitation is likewise ex
tended to the women’s clubs and
teachers of Douglas, Treadwell and
Thane. - M
KETCHIKAN BOY DIES
Harvey G/lbbs, itive-year-old son of
.Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Gibbs, of Ketchi
kan, died last Thursday of pneu
monia. The day before he had fallen
from a. dock to the beach, 20 fee;
below. Physicians discovered no in
jury beyond a few bruises from the
fall, but the shock is- supposed, to
have caused the pneumonia which
fallowed and caused death.
We have just received
another shipment of those
beautiful
IMPORTED
PENDANTS,
LOCKETS,
BEADS,
EAR DROPS. ETC.,
at prices from
75c to $10.00.
See our special, lustre
china, individual
PEPPERS AND
SALTS
in blue or yellow at
50 cents a pair.
THE NUGGET SHOP
R. SIMPSON, Manager.
m
One-Fourth
Off
AT-TEN SHUN!
Your comfort and peace depends upon the quality of your
Overcoat.
We are offering special inducements in Overcoats this
month. Look them over! The prices will certainly speed your
buying. %
One-Fourth Off
Goldstein’s Emporium
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