BIG SLASH
IN WAGES
U. S. Railroad Labor
Board Orders Cut
of 12 Per Cent.
Chicago, June 1.—The United
States Railroad Labor Board is
sued an order tonight cutting
wages twelve per cent, effective
from June 30.
Labor organizations employed
on one hundred and fifty-four
railroads are affected by the out,
which means reductions in the
annual wage bill aggregating
four hundred million dollars.
Alaska’s Commerce Is
Now on a Stable Basis
Totaling $108.329,895, Alaska’s com
merce, one of the great bulwarks of
Seattle’s prosperity, virtually held its
own in 1920 as compared to 1919. when
the figures were $I09,5o2,339. The de
crease is only $1.322,444, and it is
a largely confined to gold and silver
shipments. The year 1919 showed a
slump'Of more than $17,000,009 as com
* paret to the record of 1918, so that the
i 1920 slump is insignificant in compar
ison. The statistics, which were re
ceived in the annual report of the eus
■ tom’s department northern heacjquar
ters in Juneau, sh'ow that Alaska has
■ halted the downward movement and -is
now on a stable basis.
PROFESSIONAL
W. F. Green—
M. D., D. D. S.
Office: McGrath, Aaa.
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Max Simel
The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
Sold
Miners", Prospectors’
and Trappers’
Supplies
Steamer Service On the Inoka
River.
Ask the People of Ophir about us.
STATION
Fairview, Innoko River
PRESIDENT
IS ANXIOUS
Will Visit Alaska This
Summer If Congress
Clears Its Business.
Washington, June 1.—To Gov
ernor Hart, of Washington State,
1 his afternoon, President Hard
ing expressed the earnest wish
that Congress would clear up its
business in time to enable him
to make his promised trip to
Alaska this summer.
Mayor Gets 50c Year;
Wants $8 Per Week
Hoopeston, III, — Changing times
have brought about the most bfiter
political tight in the anuals of this
town. The issue is, shall the mayor’s
salary continue at 50 cents a year or be
boosted to $8 a week? Aligned with it
is the proposed dreadful gouge on the
part of the aldermen. They get 25
cents a year, and are clamoring for $5
a week.
For thirty-nine years the‘ mayors
have served for §6 cen-te a-year and
the proposed raid on the treasury has
caused a public protest. The ma^or
tty of the faction against the boost is
made up of ex-m.ayors,» about twenty of
them, who term theaotiou of the city
council which' voted •unanimously for
the boost as shocking state of affaii s
and a reckless waste of t^ood mnnev.”
Ex-Mayor Merritt toid how he was
compelled to waste a half year’s salary
when he was mayor to settle a bet. He
received a telegram asking if it was
true that the mayor only received 50
cents a year. He replied; “It is true,
and here goes half of it to pay for this
message.”
The Shamrock, with Charles and
Victor Nystrom, returned early Thurs
day morning from a trip up the .North
Fork, bringing back the launch Red
Wing.
Notice of Forfeiture.
Te George Twerme (George Moe).
Andy Schwarsdale, and Ralph Zaber: j
You, and each of you. your heirs and
assigns are hereby notified that during
the years of 1910. 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920,
I expended the sum of one hundred
dollars [$100 00] annually upon each of
the following named placer mining
claims: Discovery and Number One
Below Discovery on Fex gulcb, a tribu
tary o? Cripple creek, in the tlnnoko
recording,precinct. Territory of Alaska,
in order to hold said claims under the
provisions of Section 2324 of the re
vised statutes of the United States and
the amendments thereto concerning
annual labor upon mining claims, for
the period ending January 1, 1921, and
if within ninety days after the publica
tion of this notice you fail or refuse to',
contribute your proportion of said ex-,
pendiiures, as co-owners, your interests
in said claims will become the property
of the undersigned; your co-owner, who
has made the necessary expenditures
under the terms of said section of the
revised statutes of the United States.
James White.
Date of first publication, April 13, 1921.
Date of last publication. July 13, 1611.
Every Home in Alaska
Should Harbor a Goat,
Says Successful Raiser
• Joseph T. Bauer, former master ser
geant U. S. Signal Corps atTiulato and
Sitka, but now retired, and ©woe? of a
goat ranch on ChicagOff island, makes
the claim that he has experimented
with the auimals during a hard winter
and that he was able to winter them
without shelter or food and that they
came through the experience in fine
shape. He is of the opinion that goats
will thrive where deer will perish.
Mr. Bauer thinks that goat raising
in Alaska is entirely practicable, and
he says he has been raising them with
the utmost success for .the* past five
years and is of the opinion' that tthere
should be a goat in every home in
Alaska. “If every island from Dixon
Entrance to the head of "Lynn Canal
was fully stocked with goats, every
ship going south would have a capacity
load of fresh meat and hides,” said Mr.
Bauer.
He claims that the animals in Alaska
are very prolific and that from five
goata last year he got fourteen kids. If
the kids are allowed all the milk they
wish, a kid will dress thirty pounds in
two months, and roast kid is the meat
par excellence, he stated.
Goat milk, according to Mr. Bauer,
if care is taken in the milking, is next
only to Jersey milk in flavor and is one
of the best milks for both adults and
infants, dt is not uncommon, he says,
for a .goat to give a gallon of milk, a
day.
Mrs. R. S. Boyd is a Tana passenger
to Bethel. In company with Mrs.
Boyd are Misses Josephine Parent, who
will visit her parents at Crooked creek,
and Mary Fred and Bessie Fred, to
visit their parents sat Bethel. Mrs.
Boyd will return on the Tana.
10 MONTHS
IN PRISON
Germany Staits Trials
and Convicts First of
War Criminals.
Leipzig, June 1.—Germany to
day convicted her first war pris
oner, Sergeant Heinen, who was
sentenced to ten months in
prison and ordered to pay part
of the trial costs, when he was
found guilty of maltreating fif
teen British and 'Belgian prison
| ers of war.
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