ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
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^TROT’HATION OrAKANTEKP TO HE MORE THAf
botTRLE THAT OF ANY OTHER AHASKA NEWSPAPER
JAPANESE MAY HAVE BEEN FIRST.
That America may have been discovered by tlx
Japanese Instead of by Columbus or the Norsemer
is a suggest ion cf former Governor Thomas Riggs o!
Aimka Writing on the subject recently In the New
Verk Times. Governor Riggs said:
Nationality f( r the first person to set
foot cn American soil is claimed by several
European countries. So far all history or
tiaditicn awards the honor to hardy mariners
of the Atlantic; and yet is It not possible
or even probable that before Leif or Co
lumbus ret forth in their frail crafts of dis
covery. that contact with the shores of North
America had been affected by some of the
Asiatic racer?
It is said that Buddhist history records
the exploration cf the Pacific Coast of Amer
ica r-emo 600 years ago by a band of mission
aries from Japan. It is supposed that those
adventurers followed tin Kurile chain of
islands to the Aleutians, then along this
archipelago to the mainland of Ala ka and
thence as far couth a California. Other
expeditions may hav. classed the narrow
Brring Straits separating Asia from America.
On a clear day the Diomede Islands can be
eoen from either continental shore.
That Japanese landed in America cen
turies ago seems aim .at proved by the find
ing cf a (]uaim stone lamp now exhibited
in tlie Alaska lllstorial Museum at Juneau,
Alaska. The lamp was found some ten years
ago by Charles Clunky, a farmer, clearing
. hts land near Knik, a little settlement at I he
head of Cook inlet, it was uncovered In the
alluvial silt at a depth cf a foot, and by him
preronttd to tlie Territory. The lamp is
slightly oblong in shape with a greatest
diameter of about twelve inches The de
sign resemble; the conventional lotus leaf.
At one end, oppoilte the wick lip, so as to
face the light, squats the figure of Buddha
with the impenetrable calm of the Rant on
his carven countenance.
By win in was this lamp lert on the
shores of Alaska? In t lilts little known
museum, Buddha and his lamp await t lie
student rf early history to solve the mystery.
The lamp tr one of the must striking ex
hibits, but the wealth of Eskimo antiquities
is equally ab: 'Pblng. There are museums
witli large collections, but none having so
many rare items from prehistoric days. For
years there has been piled in the attic of the
ram-hack! ■ building which house.! the Gov
ernors office a great number of boxes con
taining the collection of Lieutenant G. T.
Emmons, made /by him for the St.. Louis
Fair. On rough shelves around the walls
were piled the valuable books and archives
of the Territory cf Alarka.
Archaelogy has always hail great appeal
to me, unrl eo it was that I determined to
put the Emmons collection to good nso as
the formation of a Territorial museum. There
was a small fund available for the purpose,
but insufficient to tlie needs. With the
atsi: dance cf the tlien Attorney General of
Alaska, a few of us organized and incor
porated the Alaska Historical Association. A
sliding scale of membership in made a little
mori money available, und the Territorial
museum was launched in four rooms on the
second floor of a frame building, the lower
floor of which contains the experimental fish
hatchery.
I ing part ot the available fund, a por
tion of die wonderful Eskimo collection of
Dr. Daniel S. Neuman, formerly of Nome
was purchased, and Dr. Neuman permitted’
'he remainder to he shown as a loan col
■ lection
In bhe museum the student can follow the
pi ties of the Eskimo race from the earliest
1 " 'l?e "> 'be prevent Tile knives and
ornaments of jade arc remarkable; the weap
ons. the fishing tackle, the ivory fcDehes, the
highh colored ceremonial masks, the cloth
ing 'he cooking utensils, the childrens’
1; the delieatey carved ivory butterflies
carii.-f| „„ sealing trips to insure good luck,
constitud a most unique collection.
The UK' cf nontlllable lands of the Missis-ipn
\ alley and rant ward fer growing successive crops o
1imbr would in tire ultimately a supply «>f fores
pioduct: adetiuate ler all national re<iuirenienta, say.
the Inited .States liepartment ol Agriculture. I
would go far toward maintaining stable rural com
munlties in region: o: inferior soil and limited ag
riculture.
GOOD MEN TO HEAD ALASKA RAII,BO AD
In naming Cel Janie <J Stcese to be head of tin
Alaskan Engim ring Commit-.,on and Col. John C
Gcln als to be his assistant, efficient and conwnientiou ■
management Is assured for the Alaska Railway Col
fetcese and Col. (.otwuls are hot it men of the first
grade in the engineering profi-sion. both have bad
large and diverse experience, both arc adaptable and
bate initiative of high order, and both are men
of far-reaching vision. Both of them are constructs
In viewpoint, both are builders. Under tlier leader
ship we may look for the solution of many of th
transportation problems of the North and for an activ
polity of development and a Ions period of progres
for the region affected.
LET'S NOT FORGET.
At le:m! two very important international matter
have been ' tied by the present Adminirtraton At
fairs in the Bacilli: have been adjusted so that th
prospect of war in the Far East is far more remot
than it has bum for a hall century and the Englis
debt question lin been arranged to the satbfactio
of both countries In both instances precedents wer
establish'd that might very well serve for many othc
International 11 lenient s.
l.et the critics of the international policies of th
Government, and they are many and, perhaps, som
cause for their existence, not torgot what has bee
done.
Early this month steamship companies had t
suspend service to all points east of Rockland an
on Ponob cott Bay and River on the Maine coas
on account of ice.
A Brooklyn jury has convicted a woman to
killing a man. Those New Yorkers never were en
thusiastlc about women's rights.
\ lest ot Irisn (.rit.
(New York Post.)
From Michael Collins’s grave comes an asscrtlo
ot the determination of Irish patriots to obtain th
only lasting peace possible, a peace won by defeat c
the Free State's internal enemies. In speeches whic
he had prepared for the Dail just before he was she
'last August, new about to be published In book fori
in Dublin, he declared that the irregulars had trie
to bring Inland to the brink of a real hell, the blac
pit in which our country’s name and credit woul
have sunk." Irishmen could never cease to struggl
against such a fate. “If they had succeeded in d<
stroying the National Government and reducing th
country to anarchy the greatest evil would have beet
not that tlic English would come back * * * but the
they would have been welcomed back, that the
would have come not as enemies, but as the onl
I protector;, who could tiring order and peace.” The
alternative f disgrace and national suicide no Irish
man can cmtmplate. and it is the only alternativ
to crushing I)e Valera.
Crippled as Ireland is by the rebels’ campaign <
destruction, ether small nations have started o
prosperous careers in far worse condition. The ne’
National party is- already rallying the pisiple beliin
a program which on the one ha ml demands repres.-io
of the rebels und on the otner constructive Indus
trial, agrarian, and social reforms. There are nation
which have let a gang of l’anaJtics bully them int
submission, but Ireland is apparently determined no
to be one of them.
Alaskan Railroad.
(San Francisco Chronicle.)
By the completion of the great bridge over Hi
Tanan-a River, construction of the Alaskan Railroad i
finished, and the operating authorities are now in fill
control. It is interesting to note that tills great wor
is another instance of the capacity often found in 111
enlisted men of the United States Army, in which ca
pacity Colonel .Mcars entered the army during tli
Spaiiisli-American War. Colonel Mears has had charg
of cons' ruction from the beginning, except during th
Great War, when he was rendering still more int
portant service in France.
The building of this read has not only made at
cessible valuable deposits of high-grade coal, hut lui
opened up the great interioi of Alaska to permanen
settlement, inipos ible on any important scale withou
modern means of communication. It would have bee
done more gradaully by private enterprise, but th
| road would have been no such road as the governmei;
' lias built. It has been built to stay. And we slia
begin to bear from Alaska pretty soon as we have ni
heard before. Alaska is likely to become the home (
tlie most virile and competent of the American raci
The cost of the road, in round figures, was $56
000,000. To pay 5 per cent, net on cost it mui
yield, after all charges, $2,800,000 a yearr. Althoug
i is the one completely untaxed road in the Unite
States, It will be a long time before it Is a net revent
producer to that or any other Important extent. Hi
It will open up a new continental area to settlcmon
and the values thus created will be taxable. For tl
present its main business will be hauling ores an
coal.
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Poor Pharaoh!
(New tom tie*aid.)
Is there no escape from politics, even beyond tl
grave? The experience of the late Tutankhamen, om
a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty and perhaps
friend of Moses, gives t he answer in t he negativ
The Egyptian King, now generally known among tl
irreverent American population as Old Tut, fint
politics beating upon the door of the tomb in whi<
he was laid away some 30 centuries ago, presumab
to sleep in peace forever.
Tlie Egyptian politicians are fearful lest some
i the precious relics he taken to other countries, thi
| injuring the tourict trade. The students of arcl
I neology are vexed because political matters keep Ge;
oral Allenby and King Fund from hurrying to opi
the sealed door behind which the mummy of Tutanl
hamen is supposed to stand iu regal state. A thii
I political shade in added by the French explorations i
I the same Valley of the Kings, which may rival tl
(discoveries made by the Britons and Americans.
.1 a p a n esc - A m e ric a n relations being now on a bas
I*1' good understanding and good will, a lot of peop
are surer (hail ever that the world is going to tli
j dogs. (Cleveland Plain Dealer, i
I It's an awful blow to Hi Johnson.—(Cincinna
Enquirer.)
Dr. Frederick A. Cook, of north polo infamy, seen
to have discovered something at last about whic
: there is no fake—-a cell in a Texas jail.—(Pittsburg
Ga/.ctte-TImes.)
According to a paragraphing philosopher, the dii
tin nee Is this: "Your friends come in without knocl
.ing and your enemies knock without coming in.
, i Cincinnati Enquirer, i
Idaho has two Senators, but the public doesn
hear of the other one - i Toledo Blade.)
Senator Heflin is one reason why there are s
many Republicans. — (Boston Transcript.)
Hurling back in Europe lias given place to talk
ing (lack Fewer casualties result. —(Chicago News.
They talk uhout tax revision when what the pec
pie want io tax reduction. (Pittsburgh Dispatch.)
Putting it the other way 'round, try not to be a
unhappy as possible.—(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
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Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
AVetmer, of the Charleston N. anil
C., tails our attention to the fact
the girls have discarded the curling
Ultra for the shooting iron. Which
mi ana a lot of men now are in for
hair-breadth escapes or coffins.
You Bet It Does
"Money makes the mare go."
■ “Love iMakas '(lie world go round.”
M. ..mth'ino makes the head spin.
Says Shut Up
e “Money talks in politics, too," re
t marked Rliinks,
"Yea, but about all 'it says is:
‘Mum's (ho word’, ' replied Jinks.
1 The Stork Brings a Stark for the
1 Storks
(Prom the Clinton Herald via H.
O. 13.)
Horn Sunday, December 17. at Mcr
1 cy Hospital, a daughter to Mr. and
Mrs. John Stork, Route 4
Fool Questions
Wanta Noe asks: “What does Wall
Street moan when it says ‘money is
gclitiing easier?’ “
j <AVe suppose it means the suckers
e are beginning to Hite again.
,| This Should Interest His Wife
t (H dad line in Cleveland Paper.)
J “WHY I LIKK CHICKENS"
Somebody Please Point the Moral in
This
Amortoa spent 133,000,000 Cor books
in 1910 and $800,000,000 far cigar
ettes.
If It Fits—
i A girl these days is Wise if she
■ gets a ‘business e lucatlon before she
married a man who can’t afford to
p pay alimony.
Still a wtrfo with a sharp tongue
( makes homo mighty dull far her bus
I band.
Some men suffer from a poison
I pen, but love letters that get into
1 the papers during divorce trials show
a. good mlany of them can suffer
. from a mushy one, too.
When you see some of the girls
t coming down the -trout you get an
! idea from their faces that the rain
bow has taken t > wearing skirts.
I Tryling to reform their (husbands
j does not Worry most women as
much as trying to reform their shapes
1 to suit the changing fashions does.
After spending a day at home the
s average mian thinks the old saying
1 should be changed to “Wives find
( plenty of jobs for idle hands to do."
. At 'that, the verdicts of a good
many all-male juries show they often
L, are badly mixed.
,! Ilf the one 'half of the World does
2 not know how the other half lives
. it is not the fault of the busy bodies
who make it their business to broad
.least the information.
gi A woman educator declares Amer
tdhia needs bettor voices -yes, and a
11 blamed sight fewer of them.
, Still there are plenty of brunettes
,, who were light headed before they
I j resorted to the peroxide.
I A good deal of the courting is done
t j in •t/lie dark, but there is nothing
f dark about married life—except, may
, be, the outlook.
Daily Sentence Sermon
I, ] i"s ro disgrace to be poor, but it
,l *fs horribly um onvenient.
e { News of the Names Club
t j Will B. Bent, of Detroit, can be
tt i thaniltful df he is only Bent and not
e breike.
(I ! Wo suppose Iva Shinn, of Ann
I Arbor, now hid os ti under a long
skirt
MEXICO DOUBLES DUTIES.
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Mexican import. duties on rubber
tires liave been doubled by recent
Presidential decree.
e Old papers for sale at Empirt
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harm and n . surprise you. One
man with ' ■:ik, watery eyes and
aching eye , lis report lxivoptik
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recently to marry her fiance, but on
her arrival found that she did not
love him and decided to return home
on the next ship.
The other 150 unmarried English- I
[men in Cape St Vincent, persuaded
her to allow them to spin a coin, '
and if file gue.-ed wrong she was
to remain and marry one of them.
If she won site was to depart. The
girl accepted the challenge and lost,
i She later selected a man from among ]
the 150 and married hint, her former ;
fiance acting as best men, t
GERMANS PURCHASE
MANY BRITISH SHIPS
LONDON, Fob. 26.—Gorman com
panies, iin 1022, purchased 130 ships,
with gross tonnage of 491,567 tons, '
at British sales, which is 10 por ,
cent of their tonnag • lost during the 1
war. The large-t purchasers wore:.
North German Lloyd, 10 ships, 64,714
dons; Ham burg. South American
Steamship Company, nine ships, 64,
535 tons; Hamburg-American Line,
12 ships, 58,178 tons, and German
Cosmopolitan Steamship Company,
six ships, 33,326 tens. I
If i ’s advertised it’s of TIMELY
INTEREST. That’s something to re
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SAGE TEA DANDY
TO DARKEN HAIR
It's Grandmother's Recipe To Bring
Bring Back Color and
Lustre To Hair
You can turn pray, faded hair
i into beautifully dark and luBtrou«j|
■ almost over night if you'll get a|
bottle of “Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur '
Compound" at any drug store. Mil-1
! lions of bottles of this old famous
I Sage Tea Iteeipe, improved by the1
j addition of other ingredients, are1
sold annually, says a well-known
I druggist, here, because it darkens
| the hair ra naturally and evenly.
■ that no one can tell it , has been'i
J applied.
Those whose hair Is turning gray
: or becoming faded have a surprise
awaiting them, because after one or
two applications the gray hair van
ishes and your locks become luxur
iantly dark and beautiful.
This is the age of youth. Gray
I haired, unattractive folks aren't
■ wanted around, so get busy with'
Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Com
pound tonight and you'll be de
i lighted with your dark, handsome!
hair and your youthful appearance!
within a few days.
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National Forest Timber For
Sale
Sealed bids will be received by the
1 Forest Supervisor, Ketchikan. Al
I ark a, up to and including March 28,
1923, for all the merchantable dead
timber standing or down, ami all the
live timber marked or designated fur
cutting on four separate areas loca
ted in Gambler Hay, Admiralty
Inland, and on one area located in!
Mitchell Hi y, Admiralty Island, Ton
i gass National Forest, Alaska, esti-|
I mated to be 81,500 linear feet of:
! hemlock piling, more or less. No bid
I of lens than lc per linear foot for
all piling up to and including 05
'feet in length, and lVic per linear
foot for all over 95 feet in length'
will be considered, $200.00 must be'
deposited with parli bid, to be ap-'
plied on the purchase price, refund
ed. or retained in part a* liquidated
damages, according to conditions of
r,ale. The right to reject any and all
bids reserved. Hefore submitting
bids, full information concerning the
timber, the conditions of ftale, and
the submission of bids should be ob
1 tained from the Forest Supervisor,
Ketchikan. Alaska, or the District
Forester, Juneau, Alaska.
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DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bid*.
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DENTIST
Itooms 8 and 9 Valentine Bid*.
Telephone 176.
Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Hours 1 to 4, 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 104; Res. J.n*.
Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. M. to 9 P. Al.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Res. Phone 27 6
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Rates $3.00 Per Day and Up
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| 2nd floor Messerschmidt Apts.
| Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 5;
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Phone 259.
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OSTEOPATH
<37 Goldstein Building
Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1 to 6;
7 to 8, or by appointment.
Licensed osteopathic physician.
Phones: Office, 1C7; res., 1672.
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▲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.
HOTEL SEATTLE
"Home of Alaskans"
Prices reasonable. European
plan. Seattle, Wash.
R. JL>. flODGDON, Manager
|-y-1
fraternal Societies
-Of
Gastineau Channel
O . ELKS
Meeting Wedneeday
Eveclng3 at 8:00
o'clock, Elks' Hall.
ARTHUR B. COLE,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodies
of Freemasonry
Scottish Kite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:30 p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B HEISEL, Secretary.
I. O. O. F.
SILVER BOW
LODGE NO. S A.
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Grand;
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.,
PERSEVERANCE REBEKAH
LODGE NO. 2A.
Meets every flrst and third
Tuesdays in I. O. O. F. Hall, at
8 I’ M. FRANCKS GUSTAFSON.
N. G ALPHONSINE CARTER,
Secretary.
:
MOUNT JUNEAO LOOM
No. 147, F. A A. M.
Stated Communication
Second and Fourth* Monday*
of each Month, In Odd Fellows
”all, bojrlnntn* at 7:J# o’clock.
Homer O. Nordling, Mastor.
Chas. E. Naghel, Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tues
days of each month.
At 8 o'dock, I. O. O. F. Hall.
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDLING, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
— 'Ksu bEOHERS COUNCIL N»
C. ■JjJSgClE^ 17 "J. Meetings aecood
*■ and last Mondays at 7:t»
'Vlpe p. m. Transient Broth
■rs unfed to attend. Council Chambers
e|fth Street. John E- Mullen, Q. K.
r. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
_ each month st 8 ®. in.
Elks’ Ix>dge Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; G. E.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 198.
LOYAL ORDER 0>
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o’clock.
Moose Hall. Thoa.
B. Jucteon, Dictator! R. H. Stay ana,
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, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA. Igloo No. 8.
Meets the 2d Monday In Moom
Hall, at 8 o'clock.
ALICE LAUGHLIN, President.
LILLIE BURFORD. Secretary.
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