COMBINATIONS
Dainty beyond de
scription are these dain
ty combinations of crepe
de chine and wash satin
hand embroidered and
lace trimmed.
$4.00 to $6.75.
PETTICOATS
Just the kind of petti
coat you would like to
wear with your silk
frocks. Many pretty
flouncing and color com
binations.
$4.00 to $13.50.
BLOOMERS
Crepe de chine and
glove silk bloomers in
good ample sizes. Pink
and white.
$4.00 and $5.00 a pair.
' VEStS
Vests to match bloomers.
$3.50. %
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BOUDOIR CAPS
Dainty silks with various trimmings
of lace and ribbon have been used in
the making of these pretty caps.
$1.25 to $3.75.
HOSIERY
Dependable, long Shearing hosiery
in all the best colors for. this season’s
wearing. * '->• t
$2.00 to $5.00 a pair. ^
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MEN’S DRESS SHIRTS
Durably made in generous size of
very fine silk. Plain white and colored
stripes.
$9.50.
MEN’S SILK HOSE ,
Men’s silk hos£ MOf1 ? dress wear.
Gray, black and brown.
$1.00 a pair or 6 pairs lor $5.50.
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GASOLINE PRICE
WAR IS STARTED
Standard Oil Announces Re
duction—Independents
Follow—Investigation.
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CHICAGO, Aug. 14 The Stand
ard Oil Company of Indiana has an-1
nouueed Jt will reduce gasoline 6.0 i
cents a gallon throughout the en-j
tire territory effective today. The1
statement says that this is done not i
to injure competitors but is made,
to meet the situation caused by
threats of various Governors to start ]
tilling stations. The independents,
have followed the Standard Oil'
Company’s 'announcement by an
nouncing a livo cent reduction.
INVESTIGATED STARTED.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 14. The
Department of Justice has begun an
investigation of gasoline prices in
various central states where a price
war has developed. ,
STANDARD OIL OFFICIAL
MAKING TOUR OF ALASKA
To make an exhaustive study of
present conditions in Alaska as re
lating to the interest of the Stand
ard Oil Company, K. G. Kennedy,
dirtrict sales manager of the Seattle
district, which Includes this terri
tory, passed through Juneau on the
steamer Alaska this morning en
rcute to the Westward. He will go
to Seward. Fairbanks and Kodiak
and expects to return south about
Septniebor. Mr. Kennedy will spend
a short time in Juneau on Ills way
to his headquarters at Seattle.
80 PER CENT SALMON
PACK ANTICIPATED FOR
LIBBY, M’NEIL & LIBBY
An 80 per cii* salmon pack is|
anlieipated'this searon for the Libby, I
McNeil & Libby plants in Alaska
according to F. Svenson, general
superintendent, who arrived in Ju
neau today from the Taku Harbor
cannery. Mr. Svenson arrived at
tho cannery last week after mak
ing;' a trip of inspection of the
WMtward 'plants as far us > Kcuai.
The canneries reached a HO per cent
pack last year.
Mr. Svenson has not received the
reports of the total packs from the
cantx tie.- in the Ilristol Hu^ region
and doe.'# not have the present packs
of the plants along the coast which
have increased since he left, he said.
Mr. Svenson expects to leave to
morrow on the Admiral Rogers for
hi- headquarters at Seattle.
WILSONS RETURN.
M. S. Wilson, with J. B. Caro Co.,
and Mrs. Wilson returned to Ju
neau this morning on the Alaska
after an absence of several weeks
having been in Seattle where Mr.
Wilton underwent a major opera
tion. lie is greatly improved in
health and say* he is feeling fine.
MOVIE PEOPLE ON ALASKA.
Air. and Mrs. Norman Dawn and
Mis Helen Lynch are aboard the
Alaska for Sward, on route to the
McKinley Bark district where they
will spend some time making mov
ing pictures.
PRESIDENT SEATTLE HARDWARE
COMPANY AND SON MAKE TRIP
C. S. Willis, president of the Seat
tle Hardware Company, and Ills son
Douglas, arrived in Juneuu this
morning on the Alaska, on a pleas
ure trip. They will spend scverul
days in Juneau and vicinity .re
turning from here to Seattle.
DUNDAS BAY CANNERY IS
FILLING SECOND SHIPMENT
The pack of 30,000 cases of sal
mon provided for early In the sea
son by the Northwestern Fisheries
plant at Damian Bay haB been reach
ed and another shipment of cans is
being tilled to aggregate probably
eight or ten thousand cases, ac
cording to A. Niison, superintendent.
Mr. Niison is in Juneau on a busi
ness trip.
M KANNA ON* ALASKA.
Hillery MaeKanna, formerly of
Juneau, is now freight clerk on the
steamer Alaska and Is making his
first trip on the ship on the present
trip to the Westward. MaeKanna
visited with Juneau friends while
the Alaska was in port this morn
ing. Ho left here over a year ago
for Lite States. His brother, Robert
MaeKanna Is freight clerk on the
steamer Alameda.
CREW SIGNS ON PHYLLIS
COMYN FOR VOYAGE TO
AUSTRALIA; LEAVES SOON
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A crew oT nine men were signed
on the five masted barkentine Phyllis
Comyn to sail on the three months'
voyage to Australia, with a shipment
of lumber front the Juneau Lumber
Mills. Two more men will be signed
on the ship shortly, making up the
entire crow. Tho nine men signed
on today arrived here on the Jefferson
and Alaska from Seattle, i
The Phyllis Comyn wilt leave Gas
tiueau Channel within a few days,
when a second tug from the Washing
ton Tug A Barge Cor Of Seattle,, ar
rives here and .the tug Arago will
tow It out to Cape Olraeny from
where it will tot tail for Australia.
| .Considerable, delay has been met
i for the start Of the voyage mi ac
count of the difficulty la signing- on
a crew.
SCHWARTZENURGS ARE
. FINED BY\JW>CS HEED
William Sohwm<*kbarg}. Mrs.
Sell wartienbrrsr and lien * Bender,
chanted with violation of the Na
tional Prohibition Act, In an in
formation filed in the V. S. District
j Court before Judge T M. Reed, to
[day entered pleas of guilty. The
case was started following a raid
on the Sch wartzen berg place at
Douglas on Augubt 8th and another
raid last night In which 261 bot
tles of beer were sOtaed. .
Schwartzenberg was fined 1800,
his wife |100, and Bender 9250 by
Judge Reed. Following last night’s
raid at Douglas, Federal officers
raided a house cm -Willoughby Ave
nue this morning said to have been
operated by Sch w« riven berg and
seized a large quantity of beer.
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GUEST or PAINES
Mrs. J. H. Cann Is the bouse guest
of Judge and Mrs. V. A. Paine and
will spend several dago la Juneau be
fore returning to bar borne at the
Apex-El Nido Mining Co. mine in
Llslanskl Inlet. *•
HOTICE.
There will be a regular meeting
of the Women of the Mooseheart
Legion at Moose Hall tonight at
eight o'clock.
MRS. A. F. M'KINNQN,
—adv. Secretary.
WILL NEW ROOSEVELT CAST HAT INTO RING I
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Tliis is a splendid, fine closetjp-of the United Slates Senaotr
eiect Magnus Johnson, Farmer-Hinbor radical from Minnesota, who
has been elected to fill the unexpired trim of the late Senator
Knuto Nelson. Having cast his battered farm Hat into the politi
cal ring and been elected Senator, many expect him to enter tHo
Presidential race next year. Not i tHe remarkably close resem
blance Mr. Johnson bears to the iutfc Theodore Roosevelt when
tho atnous Rough Rider was at 1 lie height of his political career.
This photograph was taken on the Johnson farm, at Kimball, Mfnn.
PARTICIPANTS
BERGDOLLCASE
BEING QUIZZED
Knowingly Participated
in Criminal Plot.
EBERBACH, Germany, Aug. 14.j
—Lieutenant Hoover Griffith and
his chauffeur Victor Nelson, also
Prince Gagarin, Russian, have been
iexamined by the prosecuting attor
j neys as the result of the attack on
! Grover Bergdoll last Saturday. The
men denied having knowingly par
ticipated In a criminal plot.
Roger Spcrer, the fourth man
held, is said to have declared Grif
I flth instigated the plot to kidnap
Bcrgddll and take him to tile United
States where he is wanted as a draft
dodger.
The prosecutors express the belief
the attack was the result of a mur
I der plot. t
The fisheries investigating party,
consisting of Senator Wesley L.
Jones, Congressman Lindley H. Had
ley and Commissioner Henry O’Mal
ley of tlie United States Bureau of
Fisheries, accompanied by Mrs. Jones
and Mrs. Hadley, will arrive at Ju
neau on the United States Coast
Guard Cutter Unalga, Capt. John
Boedecker, sometime Wednesday, ae
cording to advices received in Ju
neau today. The Unalga is now at
Sitka witli the party.
Since sailing from Juneau, July 8,
the Unalga with |ts official party has
visited the Prfhllof Islands, Bristol
Buy und other sections of Bering Sea
where there are canneries, the Alas
kan Peninsula, Kodiak and other
island canneries. Cook Inlet and
Prince William Sound sections.
Two Arrested
| Fisheries Party
j Is Due in Juneau
j Tomorrow
PIONEER WEATHER BUREAU
MAN PASSEH TROUGH CITY
William BeH, for more than forty
yearn connected ' with the United
States Weather Unman, now located
at Koseburg, Oregon, and Mrs. Bel!
•wero passengers 'jljr^trho Alaska oil
■route to t'Qrdofs^wltere they will
visit with tgjelr rlptightOE, Mrs. C. L.
Baker, whrijRk hue hand is connected
with the United States Bureau of
Fisheries. Mr, Beftr pioneer of
Port Angela?, ^asKrMiton, where he
instituted the •Weather Bureau serv
ice in the early'80s when it was con
nected with- the signal corps of the
United States Army. He ts still a
leading property holder in that town
with the foundation of which he was
Intimately associated", and where two
of his brothers are prominent clti
sens.
JOHNSON BOUND OVER.
George Johnson, arrested yester
day charged with transportation and
possession of intoxicating liquor,
was today bound over to the Fed
eral grand Jury by Judge V. A.
Paine following a preliminary ex
amination in the U. S. Commission
er’s Court. Johnson’s bond had not
been Axed this afternoon.
Jack Holmes, whose arrest last
week; on Glacier Highway with a
quantity of alleged moonshine whis
key in his car led to Johnson's
arrest, was also b^und over to the
grand Jury yesterday.' His ball was
set at $5(f0 which was posted.
Old papers toi sal* at Empirt
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CHANCELLOR OF
GERMANY GIVES
OUT STATEMENT
Passive Resistance to Cease
if Certain Conditions
Are Complied With.
(Continued wrom rase One.)
a rtriko today and several shops
were plundered.
COMMUNISTS ABANDON STRKIE.
BERLIN, Aug. 14. — The entire
strike in this city lias been aband
oned by the Communists and trans
portation lines resumed operations
this morning.
STORM POLICE STATION.
AIX LA CHAPPELLE, Aug. 14 —
Twelve presons were killed and
over 60 wounded last night when
crowds attempted to storm the po
lice headquarters and rescue prison
ers taken during the day when the
IKillee broke up the food shortage
demonstration.
JUDGE BURTON SPENDS
VACATION IN ENGLAND
Judge Newark L. Burton, well
known former resident of this city,
is now in England and, writing to
local friends from Saltham by-the-Sea^
said he expects to remain there all
sunt.tier. Judge Burton said he had
spent several weeks 4n London and
was having a pleasant visit. He
will sail on September 28th, from
Liverpool, and return by the north
ern route to the Pacific Coast via
Vancouver and Seattle, thenee»to his
home at Gardena, Calif.
OFFICIALS MOVED
The transfer of the offices of both
Commissioner of Education and Ter
ritorial Treasurer from the Goldstein
building to the Territorial building
was effected today and both officials
were functioning in their new homes
this afternoon. The Attorney Gen
eral's supplies and furniture are be
ing packed up and will be moved as
soon as bis new quarters are in
readiness, probably within a day or
t wo.
ODD FELLOWS INCORPORATE
Articles-of incorporation of the Odd
Fellows Building Asociation were
filed today In the office of Territorial
Secretary. The Association is In
corporated for $30,000 for the purpose
of constructing an Odd Fellows' build
ing for use by Anchorage Lodge No.
8, I. O. O. F. The incorporators are:
W. L. Voorhis, F. Bartholomew, J.
N. McCain, R. B. Lotlirop and M. O.
Cameron, all of Anchorage.
SALES MANAGES PACIFIC
COAST COAL COMPANY v
AND WIFE IN JUNEAU
Wylie Hemphill, general sgl^s
manager of the Pacific Coast Coal
Company, at Seattle, arlved in Ju
neau today on the steamer Alaska
on a business and pleasure trip.
He is accompanied by Mrs. Hemp
hill. They will remain in Juneau
until Sunday when they will leave
on the steamer Quoen to make the
trip to Skagway and Sitka, return
ing south on that steamer. Mr.
and Mrs. Hemphill are guests at
the Gastineau Hotel.
J. M. O’Connor, warden with the
U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, will leave
Juneau tomorrow on the fisheries
boat Murre, to make a trip of in
spection of salmon streams from Cape
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