FEDERAL TRADE
LICENSES SHOW
SMALL DECLINE
Receipts horn towns Larger
and from Districts Sma'l
er Than for 1921.
Federal license receipts in the First
Division last year showed a decline
of $14,678.58 from receipts of 1921,
being 197,673.09 as compared to
$112,351.67, according to official fig
ures made public today by John 11
Dunn, Clerk of the 1\ S District j
Court. The shut-down of many sal
mon canneries outside of ineorporat
ed towns was responsible for th? en
tire loss.
All of the decline wras in receipts
from outside of incorporated towns,
receipts from the latter being about
30 per cent larger than in 1921, to
taling *50.081.39 for 1922 and in 1921.
$38,155.08. Receipts from the unin
corporated districts for 1922 were
**7,591.70 and for 1921 $74,196.59.
Failure of the canning industry to
■operate at normal capacity and the
reflection of that on other busi-iiesscs
out of the incorporated towns is as- >
signed as the cause of the decline.
However, it is pointed out that
every incorporated town made gains j
a 1.cense receipts except Sitka and 1
Skugway, where small losses are |
shown. Ketchikan continued in the
lead which she maintained through j
receipts from canneries located with
LUl jUH nit* i in
Juneau Is again in second place, |
while Petersburg came ,-ixtli to third ;
position. The receipts from the last ]
mentioned place were almost equal
to the local license payments. This
tact is accounted for. said Mr. Dunn
by reason of the payment of taxes
for two and three years of corpora
w hie 11
t ons, canning and others
they had been delinquent
The list of receipts from incorpor
Hted towns follows
1922.
Ketchikan
JUNEAU
^Petersburg
Wrangell
Sitka
Ska g way
Douglas
Haines
$17,958.56
, 10,580.00
. 10.C88.38
t 848.07
2,747.88
2,241.10
1,075.40
698.22
1021.
$ 15,341.01
9,885.73
2,155.00
4,096.41
2,919.90
2,428.50
725,60
595.00
Totals 550,081.39 $38,155.08 |
The recovery made by the towns]
was as good as had been expected at i
the beginning of the year. The total I
receipts for the year front these was :
virtually $5,000 larger titan for 1920,]
when $15,127.03 was reported hv thei
clerk's office
Receipts during the present year.]
according to early indications, said]
Mr. Dunn, will be lurger than last
year's. License payments, he add ttl
are already coming in at a higher
rate than this time last year. The I
first quarter of 1923, ending March
31, is expected to be better than the I
same quarter last year, during which1
the largest payments of the year
were made. The receipts by quar
ters, as listed by the clerk, are: !
March. $17,282.82; June, $12,609; Sep
and December.
lentber, $12,593.7
$7,505.85.
Hemittances covering the receipts
from incorporated towns have been
made to the several municipal clerks
while the remainder have been cov
ered into the Alaska Fund.
TREADWELL GETTING OUT
LOTS OF ORE IN MAYO
The Dawson News quote- l .thnr,
L. H. Rivet, who recently arrive!]
at Dawson from the Mayo di-trlct.l
as saying that the Treadwell cam i
pany Is moving ore front its Ki no I
Hlfl mine to Mayo very rapidly He I
said:
"At the Werneeke camp I f>un 1 [
them working day and night gutting,
out the rich silver oro and “limp ns
it to Mayo Landing. The cuter el' ir
three crews of men working on li
in rotation. The machine Is making
a wonderful showing, delivering a • i
60 tons of 01 > each trip, averaging
40 to 44 hours. The 'cat' travels1
five miles an hour when going light.I
and two and a half mill's when drag
ffing a lull load, consisting of fom
large sleighs, each usually carrying
12 to 15 tons of ore. The claws of
the ‘cat’ cut into tho snow in a wa\ 1
that gives it a mighty grip along tiici
several feet of surface on which its
long paws grip the roadway, blit tin
heavy trailers passing behind fill I
the slight indentations of the grip
ping apparatus and pack the highway
until it is a perfect boulevard. It
is so well packed that it render
hauling also far easier for teams op ’
crating on the same route."
OUTLOOK IS GOOD
FOR BIG CHENA DISTRICT
The Wig Chena district is a com-:
ing camp, according to George \Y
Wilson, proprietor of the Chena II;v
Hot Springs, who. in a letter to t!;e|
News-Miner, tells of activities in th.v :
district. “On the Middle Fork id!
the Big -Chena -and in the neighho
hood of Bedrock Bar." lie write-- !
“we are to have this coming season
two new hydraulic plants operating
One of these plants was installe I
a year ago, and the owners Inv -
ground-sluicod a eonsiderable strip
of ground on which they will begin
their spring work. The owners of
the other plant have nearly comple
•d their dMcb. end are now engaged,
waihmeti andf teanis*. in putting their
plant In place—Fairbanks V»w<
iMinbr.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN TO WED POLA NEGRI.
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Thi; photograph cf Charlie Chaplin and Pol a Negri, world
famous screen stars, was tali n at Pel Monte, California, when they
admitted they were engaged t > marry, but failed to m a date
tne ceremony.
for
BIG SHOW ON
THIS EVENING;
H. S. ASSEMBLY
Varied Program of Gooc
Things by Clever Artists
Tonight for P.-T. A.
Tonight, skirting nl 8 oV! >ek i:
the High Sehool Assembly II.ill, ;
varied program of entertainment wil
be given. A glance at tit variou:
numbers and participants forecast:
something Just a little bit differen
ft om :hp usual entertainment line
something that will be made up o
exceptionally spi ial nmnle-s. A1
participants have been reii -trsing fo
weeks and the program will he i
snappy one. The program will b
over by in o'clock.
The entertainm ml tonight is ooat
to tiic public arid is under thi
auspices of t!i - Parent Teacher As
soi iation for tie* pu pose id' raisin.!
funds to meet obligations. The ail
miltance trie •• is so 1 e.v that tin
High School Assembly Hall shouli
be parked, d nvn stairs as will a
balcony.
rite numbers to be given tonigh
are as follows:
Selection Overture H. S. Orrhet
COMEDY
Oonstanc
Ferdinand
SKETCH "A
PAIR"
Honeyton
Mrs. John
Honeyton
Mr. Martin
\ I’P Y
IJernhofi
Selection
"That Old
(with the
The Sweetheart
The Kittle Girl
The Little Boy
I'm Wife
Selection
Jorgenst
Orchesti
Sweetheart of Miuo”
following) L. L. Martiir
Alice Cai
Betty Bafrag:
Eddie Spur;
Mrs. C. K. Hit
Oridiesti
' I . \ Ij I I V/I IV
by
STEUBENVILLE HORNERS G LKH
CLUB
Abner Jusl.ih Plnchponny
r K. Ilirlan
Ann Marla Lumpkin
d Lola Nordltn
i:u In zer Applebee \V. \V. Earlier,
Si ’ill Mutild i A- plebce
Mr- Plus. ,1. Jenn
Oltadiah Popplew ii ite Win. Fr,
Prudent ■ Priscilla Sltimuu
Mis-; Iren** Nelao:
He ‘ kiah St|ii;u,«ins. choir m ister
i id Glee Club !e nier H. J. Fiahe
Si.u|-Hci:j Hiiuigu.n* .
M si Anita Gitrnlc
Charily Str.iiggin
Gertrude WalUted
Accompanist -M Gertrude Ne
son.
Violin obi a i Mrs Lester (
Gore.
Selection- On-in stra.
BRIDGE WORKER IS KILLED
BY FALL FROM FALSE WORI
George Wallen. -nipl.iyed bv III
American Bridge i nnptny In coi
nectlon with the , instruction of tli
Tallinn River • '• bridge at Ni
nana. mot death i ,-enil.v as the ri
suit of a fall f- mi ;h-- false war
lo n pilp of t mi he on tin* river let
Horroxima’oly 50 1 a ’Inn .
PIONEER PASSES AWAY
James Dyer. U.s vimr.- old, passe
mav at Anchorag ■ recently. Til
doeeasod entoreil the hospital ab.n
one year ago. coming to Anchorng
lr i n N'enana, anil -, . member •
tiie N’enana Pioio of Alaska.
THAT SPARE BOOM is a cas
asset- if you use the Empire class
tied. You can rent it to a deslrab
tenant at a good price, thus lesset
ing your own rent-burden.
CITY RETIRES
1 PAYMENT ON
SCHOOL BONDS]
I Council Authorizes Retire
ment of $ 10,000 on Bonds
and $1,250 Interest,
Ten thousand dollars in school
bonds, and $1,250 interest on them,
will be retired March 1. by the city
; of Juneau. Authorization for Hip
,; retiring of the bonds was made by
| the city conni | at its regular meet
.ling last night at City Hull.
The payment on bonds this year
I is tlie third to bp made by til0 city
• situ < I!i21. on the total of $75,000.
i The bonds were floated in 1917, for
. the construction of the present school
building. The bonds retired by the
city this year makes a total of $35,
000. leaving a balance of $40,000,
I In 1921 $10,000 worth of bonds
;' wer * retired by the city and in 1922
! $15,000.
Order Pipe
II Other business taken up by the:
i> council was the ratifies ion of tile I
J order placed by the street eammit
t tc ■ tor 900 feet of 12-inch concrete
i sewer pip - and 15 Vs, to be Installed
- in Main Street for permanent use.|
| The pipe Is being purchased at 55
| cents per foot and the Y’s at $1.10
I per foot. Emil Krause has beenj
j Riven the contract for th • pipe and]
i- the installation, which will begin
j during the first part of May.
i i A resolution submitted by Conn
i oilman Connors for the location of
'election precincts for th ■ spring elec
; lion and the naming of A E. Gurr.
? | City Clerk, as registration officer,1
- was adopted.
i Enforce Ordinance
1 Some time was spent in a discus
i J si on of the endorcing of the orili
• nanco pert lining to the period of time
allowed gashoats to remain at the
; city float and the Oity Clerk was
1 Police to keep this ordin ince in
1 strict 'enforcement.
. OPHIR COMMISSIONER RESIGNS
n. R. Smith, after a long term as
yi Commissioner of 'lie Ophir precinct,
. j resigned tint office recently and left
for th - Outside. He will visit with
!1 relatives in California. Chris Rolgen,
ja well known old-timer, succeeds Mr.
r I Smith as Ophir Commissioner.
J WEDDING AT WHITEHORSE
1 ' _
[i Mrs G. U Smith and A. E. Stewart
.! of Whitehorse were recently married
jet Vancouver. Mrs. Stewart was era
! ployed as account Hit for P. Burns <V
Co. Mr. Stewart lias been a resident
j of Whitehorse for many years, an*
| is connected with the White Pass 'i
! Yukon. The newlyweds were given an
|enthus!asi:i' welcome upon their re
f! turn i i Whitehorse
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ALASKAN HAS HOT
TIME IN IRELAND
,_! According to a letter received at
Fairbanks recently Paddy Breen, well
, ' kqown old-tinier of the Interior, who
’ j went Outside about a year ago, had
the misfortune to visit a fighting
community in Ireland with the result
j that he was shot through the spine
‘ and will tie a cripple for the rest of
1 his life
a j — •>•♦•*-‘
. i ATLIN WOMAN DIES
f Mrs .1 R Kershaw, wife of an
Atlin. R tv. pioneer hardware mer
chant. died at Atlin recently. Mrs.
Kershaw had been Outside for her
h; health, but physicians could only
l*! give her temporary relief.
i-| For good printing phone .174.
(Empire Printing Company.
FLAPPER AND
BARNSTORMER
START THINGS
Awful Mess Is Unearthed bj
American Legion—Be
Exposed Next Week
One of the dizzi • -<t up-tod h > miniit
flappers, flapped across the horizoi
of a young man, ami he fell.
Along came an old-fashioned actor
a regular barnstormer, ami ht
slipped.
A college professor fell for
youthful prank and he not only
slipped and fell, hut wen' in heat
first.
Then a nice little lad. the above
young man, received the bounce iron
th • flapper, mad • a call one after
noon, met a awe.-; young thing anti
executed amath r “fall" which
smashed him up far keeps.
About this time the work of the
flapper had been lolt upon anollioi
man, just recently married. He was
the Innocent by • mder but as usual
got mixed up in the triangle affair
flapper, wifey and himself, and to
togganel almost to destruction
Mamma-in-law got wise that some
brunette hair found in the sugar w:t*
not that of her daughter's how could
i: I■?, for the daughter was a blonde,
and "mamma” ju>t butted In and
"iitifl nn I tin .m I <\ o w n
Then the maid servant, site was a
cute little thins, also; she sot busy,
but she worked right in hand with
the college professor and everything
was setting in a glorious line with
.ill colors of th" rainbow and many
not in it. when a parrot said some
thing like this:
"Kiss me, darling.”
Talk about a Taku striking some
thing—oh, it was awful.
There was an upheaval, all right
all light, and th • roWege professor,
the barnstormer, maids and men. in
eluding stage hands and chorus men
and more flappers, also “muther-by
law" and all the others came in for
th ' groat spill after going up in the
air and then striking the earth
with a ker-plunk
The whole blame thing will be
told on the stage at the Coliseum
next Tuesday and Wednesday night
by a company of well known people
who are going to give the comedy, “A
Night Off," something that move
like greased lightning, for two solid
hours. The American hegion, that
organization that does tilings in .1 n
neau, is behind the dramatic treat
and as formerly, w II see that it goo
over with a bang
Tbs sale of tickets opened this
Morning at Butler-Mauro Drug Store
and at noon tile sale was reported as
large.
Our shipment of Vitafood lias ar
rived. Sanitary Grocery. —adv
Headquarters for Ladysmith coal
Tuneau Transfer Co. Phone 48. adv
P.-T. A.
SHOW
High School Assembly
TONIGHT
BEST MUSICAL TALENT
IN JUNEAU
FOUR BIG FEATURE
ACTS
HIGH SCHOOL
ORCHESTRA
8 o’Clock.
Admission 25 cents.
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JITNEY DUNCE
ELKS’ HALL
TONIGHT
COLISEUM ORCHESTRA
6 pieces
See the Coliseum Orchestra’s
windcws display at Wnght's Jew
elry Store. Piiaea Valued at $75.
SAVE YOUR COUPONS
Follow the Crowd
Search Is Authorized
For Survivors of
j Wrecked Gas Launch
i i
Search has been authorized
' lor po: iible survivors of the
launch Buffalo reported to have
been lost recently enroute from
rj i Seldcvia t< Afognak, according
to a statement made at the ;
i Governor's Office today. in
formation regarding the dis
| , aster is meager, said Gov. Bone,
who authorized 1'. S. Marshal
Harvey Sullivan, of the Third
I Division, to make a search.
In a telegram received from
Marshal Sullivan, it was stat d
I | that wreckage had been driven
i ashore at Devils Bay and was
| found there February 9th, by
1 | the Afognak hatchery super- j
Undent. It was identified as
having been tlie Buffalo. That
craft was supposed to have had
a number of passengers from
1 Seldovla for Afognak. Fears are
| expressed for their safety.
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BASKETBALL GAME IS
CANCELLED BY J. H. S.
Tim schedule of (lie Juneau High
School basketball squad was upset
| today by the cancellation of the
game arranged with the local A. N.
11. five. The school five had first
I expected to moot the Indians lar,t
I night, but the game was postponed
until tonight and today wa3 called off1
entirely.
ANY REASONABLY - PRICED
'nitre or apartment may be rented—
! through an inexpensive classified ad
I vortlsement in The Empire. Teat the
matter. The “risk” Involved is so
(Small that few people would dignify
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 invigorates and stimulates
the digestion and thus acts as the
very best stomach tonic.
BRITT’S PHARMACY
The Rexall Store
PHONE 25
LECTURE TOMORROW
AT PRES. CHURCI
There will be another of the r
teresting lectures on the variov
fields of Presbyterian servii
throughout the world at the Presb,
terian Church on Sunday night at
o’clock. The one on Japan is up t
the standard of perfection in slid
coloring, and few countries in th
world have such wonderful coloring
as the natural fields and forests c
these islands of the Pacific. A
though there are thousands of then
the area is not larger than the stat
of California and has half of til
population of the United State
Three-Quarters of a century ago the
were in a low state of heathenisn
and now they are a people active an
regressive and will.be counted in th
reckoning of the nations of th
world.
FORMER JUNEAU BOYS
DO THINGS AT SCHOO
John Long, son of J. Long, an
Albert Orson, son of Ole Orson, o
Juneau, who are attending Ohentaw
School. Oregon. are accomplisliln
work at the school, worthy of men
tint, according to the Ohemawa Am
erican, school paper. A short tlm
ago some one in the school sent t
Sal'in to have a certain kind of
key made. Word came back tha
the assignment was impossible. 1
was then that young Long steppe
in He made the key in the schoo
rhop.
V. ill tic r Ore; tin tc
iin internsting discourse on curren
events, given by him before th
senior elate, Beth boys attended th
Juneau schools before going t
('lit mawa.
DOUGLAS C. E. MEETING
Tire Christian Endeavor meetin
at Douglas Sunday night will b
hold under the leadership of Rangna
Kronquidt at 7:30 o’clock, Congreg;
tional Church.
VALENTINES
ALL KINDS
AND PRICES
TRY THE
BUTLER-MAURO DRUG
COMPANY
FIRST
96 Front St. Juneau, Alaska
'sixth division of
{ SOCIETY ORGANIZED
i-1 The sixth division of the Martha
s | Socletv met yesterday afternoon with
e Mrs. George Marshall, hostess.
1 The business organization was per*
8 tented and the name—"The Harvest
> Home Circle"—was adopted. This
e1 being the last division to put on
e some public atfalr during the year
s i The Harvest Home Circle will give
f an entertainment and fancy work
l-(sale the latter part fo November,
i, | Ways and means were discussed to
e provide for financial returns as the
e Circle meets from time to time.
Mrs. Marshall served a delightful
y i luncheon. The Circle meets next
. March 1« with Mrs. M. B. Summers
ll -*
VANOPHEMS LEAVE.
, Jean Vanophem, manager of the
Jualin Berner Mining Company rniue
at Jualin. left Juneau today on the
L. tender Santa Hita, for the mine. He
was accompanied by his daughter
1 Simone and their guest. Miss H.
f I Ivey. They have spent the past wfeek:
i(ln Juneau.
Bedrock Cottage Cheese, made py
- the Carnation Milk Co., has arrived,
e Sanitary Grocery. —adv.
i i-ost something f Tou can gat .It
; hack by using the "!»st and Found"
i oiumn of The Ew.pira.
i| -
I I
[ 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.
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. f
One-Fourth Off
Goldstein’s Emporium
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