ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER
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li»‘ied herein.
OtRr-TTI.ATION OHARA NTEFiP TO BF; MOKE THAN
aotui.i: THAT OF' ANY 'i|,HER ALASKA NEWSPAPER.
BELIEVE SU MP HAS BEEN STOPPED.
Eastern f.rtunci .1 p pers believe that the slump
ii. stock price, which was marked in May has been
stopped. Tlie upward tendency of the June transac
tions e.< nit I , warrant the conclusion. However, the
opinion seem* to prevail that it is a matt, r of grave
doubt that the recovery will be complete for a long
time It Is estimated that the paper shrinkage in the
value of listed stocks in the United Stales in May was
$1,722,085,000. The preferred and common stocks of
: corporations showed an average reduction from the
.May high to the May low of 11% points.
The h- in oil and tt , ! stocks were very marked.
Standard Oil of N< w Jersey, Indiana and California
chewed an aggregate iltrinkuge of $470,000,000. Other
oil losses were in proportion. United States Steel
declined fourteen points making u Iols of approxi
mate ly $75,000,000.
There has been a partial recovery of these im
mense shrinkage: in values, but the loss on paper is
Hill gigantic.
SOUTH TRYING TO PLACATE THE NEGRO.
The country hns gone a long way since it was
proposed that the form: r claves tf the South should
be colonized in Africa. The people of Mississippi,
white and black, recently held a conference for the
purpose of d< vising way and means that would in
duce colored citizens if that State to cease migrating
to other States.
All of the States in the colored belt are now en
gaged in an attempt to make thing;- more attractive
to the black race than they have been in the past.
The negroes of the Sou'll through Industry and effi
ciency have made their place in the country secure.
THE NORTH NOT HARD IT FOR HARBORS
Seward 1- the only port in the north
whore a ve el the size of tlie Cambrai can
dock without danger of recks or reefs, or
finding the water too ileop to anchor—
(Sewn rd (5 a t ewa y.)
So! The Cambrai didn't seem to have any fear
of or trouble In docking at Cordova, Haines and
Juneau. It she had not been prosed for time she
probably would havt taken a chance at Skagnvay,
Sitka, Ketchikan and a few other points.
Really the North i in hard up for harbors
ts the Seward paper seems to think.
LLOYD GEORGE COMING.
That Lloyd George will receive a cordial welcome
to the United States is a foregone conclusion. The
"Little Web liman" is regarded in this country, as at
home, as one of the world's greatest statesmen. He
has left a deeper murk in hi- own country titan any
itato.man of recent times. Many of the perplexing
problems that have worried Great nrtt.it■> »n,i i,-„i.
foi genor a t i oils have been solved either under his
direction or along lines pr; pared when lie was Prime
Minister.
The Irish qv.< it Ion, many of the land and work
ii ! inon'. and other dome-Me problems have been set
tled or the way lo settlement made clearer by him.
No other man of Iris generation has exercised so
print influence for ; a long n time over go many of his
countrymen as I.loyd George,
MOHAMMEDAN WAVE WORRIES
JUGOSLAVIA. *
The rrans-Atlantic I’re s service brings the ntori
or les'! start ling news that conversions from tin
Christian to the Mohammedan religion in Jugoslav!:
are becoming • nuntei ue that the attention of the
Government has been attracted to it. Particular!)
noticeable is the movement unions the well-to-do
The conversions were started by a few "intellectuals
and then others got the habit. ' ■
1 itc ciicu-msutncs that the -Mobanimedans wort
doing no mis: iunary work at all caused the G»v
eminent, to mike inquiry into the cause for tilt
exodus trout Christianity which is running into large
figures. It W.is believed the conversion; were not the re
mit of bona tide changes in religious faith, and the)
"1 re ntiaierous to accept the theory that the)
"<r0 <:au‘«<l -by people seeking sensation. The first
do . overy tiy the Invest i.tutors was that most of those
•"ho changed faith were married men. and the eon
veiMon was usually quickly followed by a marriage.
Find the w: man” became a watchword. »
I tider th> old Austlyan law members of the Mo
hammiedian religion were not interfered with on ac
t "int .f pint..I marriages, and it has been decided
that he w.<. of .Mchammedanism that is sweeping
’ ,lH Bl‘lkan ' ons is due to a desire to prac
t,.'e polv-aniy without violating the law.
M,n iir" prepared by the Holy Svnod
••■I 11 ,‘d“- Tlly 1’ 'Piilurly accepted rem
■rdy P to nake it unlawful for a married person of
‘;UV ‘ al' fji,h t0 ur‘ept the religion of Islam
Jach a I w watild require a married man to procure
a divorce before becoming u Mohammedan.
It is said that lliere arc about one million lionest
to-goodners Mohammedans in Jugoslavia, and that
■the State -is not likely to accept the proposed church
Jaw without consulting the Korun. While (he Koran
ipermitt one to marry as many Wives as he chooses It
is a privilege that is not generally practiced It is
said that out of 700,01(0 Mohammedan men in Jugo
slavia and Austria only .16 have three wives and
only one has four. Many have two.
It is not thought the Mohammedans will object
to any reasonable law that may be adopted by the
U< vernment.
These Texas Representatives who passed a reso
lution censuring New York for passing a bill repeal
ing the State prohibition enforcement act were pro
perly rebuked by the Texas Senators who passed a
resolution saying that the Legislature of a State
bad (lie right to pass such laws as it pleases without
censure from other States. it is bad enough to
I have a State run by Congress in which it h is repre
isentatiou, but when Texas tries to run New Nk it
| is going a lot furthot
The war against pruirle dogs will be carried into
'' ail, say the dispatches, it is becoming more ur.d
mure evident that Di. Horuaday’s chief interest iri
'the wild lfe of America renters in Alaska brown
| bears and Alaska eagles.
Yukon Output Increases,
(Dawson News.)
Yukon's mineral yield is on the upgrade. Under
[the Impetus of the now silver mines at Keno Hill
| ihe precious mineral production of (he Territory is
[ coining up with leaps.
It lias been estimated the silver-lead shipments
from Keno via Mayo this year wild aggregate two
and a quarter million dollars in value.
The Klondike gold yield last year was $1,0118,805,
: and pcornices to he fully as large tills year.
The aggregate gold and silver-lead shipments
■ ivf the Yukon this year may, therefore, be placed at
! approximately tliiee and a half million dollars. In
addition, the silver-lead mining at Keno will con
tinue steadily throughout the summer, fall and win
ter, but the returns, so far as shipments are concerned
from operations from now on, will not figure in the
( totals until next year.
The silver-lead mining operations are being ex
panded at Keno at a comparatively rapid pace, and
Idlie fact is of great significance. It ah) it re
ported big plans for new placer operations in this
I field are brewing.
| In any event, the Yukon previous mineral output
is upward bound. That is a great deal more than
many countries can report, and it places Yukon in the
(Substantial, progressive productive column and cannot
tail tc catch (he eye of the Dominion government
and the investing public in favorable light. Yukon
|'is not only coming back, but promises to eventually
I go far ahead in time of anything she yet has ac
iicom.plished.
One beauty of the Keno development and op
l orations is that the work will continue tlie year
; round. It will be a year-round camp so far us work
|,is concerned, and that means a great deal. With the
mbstantial showing to date, and the starting of the
big .1,000-foot tunnel at the 600-feot level on the
■Treadwell Yukon works, and the prospective installa
tion of other works on a big operating scale, Keno
I may bloss ni any time now into the front rank of
j hard-rock producers of the continent.
Failure of Municipal Ownership.
(Cincinnati Enquirre.)
) Municipal ownership of public utilities is fast
■ running its course. There are a few new experiments
['being made, but there is a growing list of failures
land woeful can: of waste of taxpayers' money on
['•tubborn attempts to make communities support
fpolitioaljy-ridden properties. Soon the deceived peo
| (de will he begging private enterprises to take the-m
off their hands, as the Communists of Germany now
are trying to unload many of their undertakings
upon private corporations and others on privtae mail
lugements.
The United States Census Bureau and the McGraw
(Directory supply interesting information on this phase
■ f municipal ownership. Kecent statistics hear on
light plants. There lias been a decided tendency in
accent yours for municipalities to turn over the
manufacture of power to private companies and hang
onto the niori easily manipulated distributing work
In 1922 less than 9 per cent, of the municipal
plants in the Cnitde States purchased their power
. '"'n private producers. In 1917 the proportion had
risen to 29.8 per cent, and In 1921 to 26 per cent
Now all the municipally-owned and operated plants
produce only 4 per cent, of the electrically-generated
iiower in the United States. Of the population mi.8
jier cent, is served by private corporations and 6.2
*>cr cent, by municipal plants.
Service ecs is provide another striking contrast
rod ehetv that polities in the operation of utilities
is expensive. The Census Buieau reports that in
K'21 the average tax rate of cities having municipal
plants was $19.111. The average rate in cities sup
plied fit ni non-municipal plants was $15.50. This
was p.irtly b» • a u f g where mimiHnnl ninnto
cmpted from taxation, no that their political managers
■ an have more leeway, the rates on other property
is pi rportionntely higher. Also, because the taxea
. eviod on private plants help to reduce the taxes on
eliter property and to lower the average.
It Is not surprising-, therefore, that there should
he a tiring of the public with municipal ownership
ami operation of utilities. A costly lesson has been
learned by many communities where the experiment
has been dried. Others also will learn. And yet
.their will be communities to rush blindly into the
j clutch of municipal ownership in spite of all ex
pperience of others.
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Alaska needs population! Not the kind who
| "’Ants to labor eight hours a day and wear a white
j .collar; but t ho axe-swinging, home-building variety.
who will labor without hope of immediate reward
| to build himself and his family a home.—(Seward
| (lateway. )
Turkey has won another diplomatic victory. Her
mere survival is the greatest diplomatic victory on
record.—(New York Post.)
Science, evolution and rdWgion wert* getting
along pietty wen until Mr. Bryan interfered.—
Cleveland Times Union.)
When a man says there is no use discussing a
thing because it's settled he means he is afraid dis
cussion \. il unsettle it.-f-HSan Francisco Journal )
Maximilian Harden is for the United States of
1-urope. Getting them united s! something else again.
— (Cincinnati Enquirer.)
The President of Ireland the other day attended
a meeting, unguarded. That settles It. The revolu
tion I ended.—(San Francisco Bulletin.)
Austria, which was one of the nations hardest
hit by the big war. is among the first to come back.
.She is able to borrow money.—(Toledo Blade.)
Collapse of the Communist menace in the Ruhr
and in Saxony emphasizes at least one solid factor.
-—(Now York Post.)
ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
i
Observations Of Oldest Inhabitant
Whenever I see one of those old
fashioned pictures of a bride and
groom, showing him sitting in a
nice, comfortable chair, while she
stands heside it. i am Impressed
with the fact that the ladies of those
days were a lot more willing to
stand by their man than they are
today.
The Ananias Club
“You sure have a better batting
eye titan I have," smiled the batter
to the umpire, who had called three.
strikes on him.
Statistical Note
Sofas last three times as long aw
they used ~o before automobiles were |
invented.
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Why Add “Cuba?"
Tlie use of fat-p powders, rouge,
creams and other first aids to beauty
is practically universal among the
women of Cuba “—News Item.
Its Hard For a Fast Man to Do |
Blinks—Ho is last. Isn't he?
Jinks - Yes. ‘ lmt not fast enougli I
to keep up with his running ex- j
pense.”
Oh. Girls, Isn’t Me Just i oo sweet r
(Sign lamped on Hastings Street,!
Detroit, by observer.)
Suits Ready Made by Material Cut |
by an Experienced Tailor Handsome-1
| Jy Trimmed and Bought at a Bar-!
! gain.
I
Fool Questions
VV. N. I,. ask-: "Doesn't every j
lawyer have a brief career?" Some |
body has discovered the logbook of j
the ark, judging from the old ones
they are asking.
She Sure Is a Wise Old Lady
If other people could read our j
thoughts, piost of us would have to!
become hermits. Sam Hill, Ciucin-I
nati Enquirer. Nature has made won
derful provisions for keeping the
peace.—J. H. Reed.
5Nuff Said
"Wouldn't you hate to have yourj
errors checked up against you the i
way a ballplayer does?" asked the
young fellow as they were leaving
I the hall park.
"Huh!" snorted an elderly man in
the crowd. “1 guess you ain't mar-;
lied yet. are you, young fellow.” I
If It Fits—
We don’t care especially about ]
either, but if we had to take our
choice we'd rather be run down by j
a flivver than gossipy neighbors.
Some men are called, but most j
men are just called down.
Most of us find the detours on
the road to success are worse than
a mystic maze.
Considering the number of pins
they use to hold their clothes to
gether, it is a wonder more women
are not stuck up than are.
The first time a woman says damn
she feels so naughty she almost ex
pects to have a bolt from heaven
strike her head.
A good many of the joy rides end
in a funeral procession.
The old-fashioned woman saved
her wedding dress hoping she would
have a daughter who some day
would be married in it. The modern
woman saves hers for her own next
wedding.
When a man hears another fellow
telling of the great times he had
sowing his wild oats he begins to'
realize how much he missed by be-!
ing good when he was young.
Money gets a lot of people Into
trouble, but most of us have man
JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
Moves, Packs and Stores Freight
and Baggage.
Prompt delivery of
LADYSMITH COAL
Phone 48.
a- |
! | It's all In knowing HOW to do | j
| flrst-claes cleaning and dyeing.
j I CAPITAL DYE WOBXS
C. Meldner, Professional Dyer j
and Cleaner. Phone 177. i
THE MAKING OP 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 82.
■
aged to get into plenty of it with j|
out money.
A snobbish woman will cut a man <
because she doesn't like the cut of j,
his clothes. I
Revenge and a wife often are
alike. They look sweet before you
get them.
Charity may b"gin at home, but
that is more than most of the re
formers do.
Daily Sentence Sermon
A lot of dumbbells think the wayC
to let their light shine is to keep
blowing their own horn.
News of the Names Club
Will Beteha, of Newark, N. J,, |
has joined the club. We ll hold the -
stakes. '
Of course her artistic efforis are
confined to her face, hut Ruth A.
Payntef lives in Philadelphia.
Headquarters tor Ladysmith coal,'
funesti Transfer Co Phone 48. adv I
RED PEPPER FOR
COLDS IN CHEST
P-’ase your tight, aching chest, |
Stop the pain. Break up the con
gestion. Feel a bad cold loosen up1
in just a short time.
“Red Pepper Rub'' is the coldj
remedy that brings quickest relief..
It cannot hurt you and it certainly!
seems to end the tightness and drive
the congestion and soreness right!
out.
penetrating heat as red peppers, anil
when heat penetrates right down,
into colds, congestion, aching; mus
cles and sore, stiff joints relief;
comeB at once.
The moment you apply Red Pep-!
per Rub you feel the tingling heat.;
In three minutes the congested spot;'
is warmed through and through. !|
When you are suffering from a cold.j
rheumatism, backache, stiff neck or:
sore muscles, just get a jar ofj
Rowles Red Pepper Rub, made from;
red peppers, at any drug store. You
will have the quickest relief known.'
(advertisement.)
AUTOS FOR HIRE
r
Auk Bay Stage
T
1 Leaves U. & I. Cafe for Auk
Bay 5 P. M., Saturday only,
returning 0:30. Special trip at
: any time. Round trip $3.50
CALL
Berry’s Auto Service
for that seven-pasenger 1923
| Cadillac touring car. Stand at
Gastincau Hotel. Popular
j prices..
WHEN IN NEED OF A TAXI j
Call Collins
Seven passenger touring car.
| Stand Trinagle Shoe Shine Par*
: lor. Phone 186. Res. Phone 281.
I
Billy’s Taxi
Day and night service.
Stand at the Grill.
Phone 472.
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| ELI MOORHOUSE & CO. j
| Certified Public Accountant* j
I
L. C. Smith Bldg., Seattle. |
* I
| Audita and Income Tax Service I
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Annual visit! to Alaska.
USED FURHTTUltl
Bought, Sold and Exchang'd
! H. BOCOVICH
>11 Seward St.
Telephone 441. P. O. Box 111
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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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Dr*. Kaser & Freeburgcr
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Hdg.
PHONE 96
Hours 9 s. m ts 9 p. m.
Dr. Charles P. Jenna
DENTIST ’
Rooms 8 and 9 Valentins Bide.
Telephone 176.
Dr. DeVighna
MaJony Building
Hours 1 to 4, 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 104; Res. 108.
Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bid*.
Tolephonn 172.
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Sitka Hot Springs
Visit the Famous
Dr. F. L. Goddard’s Sanitarium
Rates 23.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comfort
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Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
201 Goldstein Building
Hours: 5:30 to 12; 1 to J;
7 to 8, or by appointment.
Licensed osteopathic physician.
Phones: Office, 167; res., 1672.
▲11 Alaskan Trails End at
HOTEL ATWOOD
First Ave. and Pine St., Seattle
Popular Prices. Nearest to Ev
erything. J. A. Farnham and
Ted Taylor, Props.
DR. R. N. DONAHEY |
Smne Good Service as in the
Past
HllTESON-DOKAHEtf
Optical Company''
108 Pike Street, Seattle.
Fraternal Societies
-GP
Gastineau Channel
O . ILXI
MmUii Wednesday
Hfcenlngs at 8:00
o'clock. Elks' Hall.
Charles P. Jenne.
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DA VIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodiet
of Freemasonry
Scottish Rite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:SO p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B. HEISBL, SecreUry,
I. o. o. w.
811,VICK BOW
LODOB NO. I A.
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Orandi
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary,
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I PERSEVERANCE REBEKAI
LODGE NO. 2A.
I Meets every first and third |
j Tuesdays In I. O. O. F. Hall, at I
| 8 P M. FRANCES GUSTAFSON, I
| N. G ALPHONSINK CARTER.
I Secretary.
MOUNT JONEAD LOO«»
No. 147, F. A A. M.
Stated Communication
Second and Fourth Uondati
of each Month. In Odd V'ellc'-a
Wall, beginning at 7:J# o’clock.
Homer O. Nordllng, Master.
( has. K. Lnghel, Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tutor
days of each mouth.
At 8 o'clock. I. O. O. F. Ha'L
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
HOIS NGRDl.ING, Secretary.
KNIOHTS OF
COLUMBUS
SEGHB R8 COUNCIL 1*0.
17 ‘0. Meetlntrn aeooed
„ and laat Monday* at 7:H
^ Jr p. m. Transient Broth
ers urged to attend. Council Ghana bom
Fifth Street. John K. Mullen, G. K.
J. L. MeCloskey, Secretary.
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AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at 8 9. m.
Elks' ixxlge Room. John P. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; G. H.
Mansi, Post Adjutant, Phone 198.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meet# every Friday
night, 8 o’clock,
Mooee Hall. E. P.
Rodenber#, Dictator; R. H. Stevens
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. McKlnvon, Secretary.
AUXILIARY, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA. Igloo No. 6.
Meets last Thursday of every
month. Social hour with mem
I bers of Pioneer Lodge to fol
low each meeting.
I Mrs. Ixittie Spiekett, President.
' Mrs. Lillie Burford, Secretary.
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
JUHIAU, ALASKA.
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