ROADS, PENSIONS
SCHOOLS.TALKED
BY LEGISLATORS
Increased Pensions,New Road
Law and College Appro
priation Discussed.
Roads, old age pension Increases
and financial aid for the Alaska Agri
cultural College and School of Mines
along with itibe regular school ap
propriations, are subjects exciting
tthe greatest amount of interest
among members of the Legislature
in the informal discussions held pre
liminary to the opening of the Legis
nature. It seems apparent that these
matters will occupy a major portion
of the time in the session that
opened today.
H. R. Shepard, it is understood,
has prepared a measure of some kind
earning increased allotments for
aged and Indigent pioneers which
Will probably be introduced at an
early date. From every other Di
vision, members have come prepared
to support such a proposition an I
suggestions for maximum allowances
range all the way from $15 to $50
monthly, with $25. or double the pies
ent maximum allowance for men, as
the one mo it commonly mention" I
as likely to find the greatest support.
During the period from .Inn,' 30
1016. to December 31, 1022, the Mtal
of d'sburreraents made by the T r
ritorial Legislature for old ,ig > al
lowances was $112,011.23. For opet
at/ln.g and maintenance of the Pio
neers’ Home during the same time
$276,026.56 was expended, while . I
dltlon&l expenditures for up >v
meats and additions to the Horn*;
brought the grand total to $432,270 71.
Other welfare measures, including re
lief of dependent children, and for
Indigent and poor not coming within
the provisions of the old age allow
ance law', caused d luirsi meats ot
$61,568.65. rescue and relief of lost
persons adding another $10.343 36.
Roads Revision Proposed
'Proposals to revise the present
system of handling the T -rritcrial.
Road funds are expet'.sd t> be made
(shortly after the session gets under
way. A revision, which was ainu I at
tilu? cooperative system, was attempt-]
>cf during the 1021 so sion hut was
defeated. There Is said to be a sen
timent, the strength of which is n r
inconsiderable, for the creation of a
salaried Territorial! Road Commission,
some what similar to the one which I
exf«ted prior to flic passage of the1
present law in 1910. It would have
charge of divisional road projects and
■would function tndepend ntiv of liie
Alaska Road Commission and th
Bureau of Public Roads, the two Fed
eral organizations which now expend
Territorial funds cooperatively with]
money furnished by the Federal gov
ernment.
Since June 30, 1016, up to Decem
ber 31. last, the Territory had ex -
pended through general road appro
priations $1,085,378.97. This was,
divided practically evenly among the
four Divisions. All of it up to and
including 1910 was expended by the
l.h-en existing Territorial Road Com
mVswiom. In that yca.r the present
cooperative system was established
by law but did not begin to fully
function until 1921. In addition there
had been expended $24,000 In th"
Second Division for the purchase of
the Seward Peninsula Railroad, and
$49,987.70 for the construction of
bridges across 'the Nizina River in
the Third Division. Of this latter
amount $25,000 w is spent coopera
tively with the Alaska Road Commis
sion, which I3 now erecting pirrs
to hear a substantial structure across
the Nizina which is expected to cost
tn the neighborhood of $100,000. the
balance of the funds to lie provided
by the Federal Commission. Shelter
cabins during the same period cost
$25,854 73.
School Appropriations Big
The largest -ingle item of expense
made by 'the Territory since .tune
30. 1910. is that covering its schools.
The total of general school expendi
tures for the period was $1,218,945.20.
To this was added $60,000 for the
maintenance and equipment of the
Alaska A. & M. College at Fair
hanks: $41,000 for its maintenance
and conduct, and $23,375 for better
endowment of ill.
The estimates of the Board of
Regents of the college for the next
Hlecn' um have not been nut le pub
lic, but It l« understood that they will
ask for sums sufficiently large to
enable tine construction of a mines
building and a dormitory on the
campus. neither of which it now has.
Members from the Fourth Division
are especially anxious to obtain ike
itcrsage of such an appropriation.
'lU.ore who have visited the insittj
4. on are wamr in their praise of the
matter In which it is conducted and
the work being done
Senator Brown. who cam? 01
iiom Nome by way of Fairbaul;.
spam a day there. • President Bun
nell ia making good there.'1 he de
clared emphatically. ‘Two tilings I
am intereated in. the colleg and
allowances for the old boy- who
blazed the trails all over th» North."
said Representative D.:n Cailagh in
Member* of both Houses aro :n
tcrested in having the estim,i-es of
the Board of Education for t'.. v.?x
L.ennium (include provision for fmi',
for the purchase of fuel for n't c
the schools outstide of hicorpor ' .’d
cthool districts which, under rul
ia» ot the board In 1921. sere r •
q wired to furnish fuel for schools
where they were conveniently s.tu
lil they* have' received font pin inis
COL STEESE TO BE HONOR
GUEST AT BANQUET GIVEN
HERE THURSDAY NIGHT
Complimentary to Col. June*
G. Steose, a number of lo. il
business men and friend' urj
tendering a banquet next Thurs
day evening at the Arcade Cafe.
Covers will be laid for about
3b people.
In addition to Colonel St. -
who will be honor guest, other
guests will be Gov. Scott
Bone. Caipt. John Boedecker of
the Unalga, und Capt. 1’. A
Agncw. Disbursing Officer of
tlie Alaska Road Commission
on this matter and will try to rem
edy the cause.
Generally, there has been evi
denced a desire to keep the appro
priations down to as small a f.gure
as tlie business of the Territory can
be operated successfully. Little dis
cussion of taxes and sources of reve
ntio has been had up to the pro tent,
time.
MARSHALL IS TO
BE TRANSFERRED;
LEAVES ALASKA
Prohibition Enforcement Di
rector Receives New Of
fer from Haynes.
.If iin li. M:n- hall. Prohibiti'it En
foiocmeat Officer for the Alaska Dis
trict. has; received a telegram train
Hey It vncK, Prohibition Commis
sioner, offering him appointment to
the litigation division, subject to
work in a. hating tlie United States
Dftttrict Attorney and |iro. >cittlon at
tached to the Washington Division
at tlie Kama salary as received as
Director.
Mr. Marshall has wired acceptance
of the offer. He has not been In
to! med a: to whether the transfer
means to the State of Washington,
•r Washington, I). ('.
“I have m. Information when the
train frr will bo made or when my
iccce . r a Prohibition Enforce
ment Officer will be named," said
Mr. Marshall today. "In the mean
time 1 am still Enforcement Officer.";
Mr. Mar hall was appointed Pro
hibition Enforcement Officer on De
cember 1, 1921.
Mr. Marshall stated Ihe transfer
means that lie will leave the north
land. He came to Alaska on April
IS. 1909 and was for two seasons in
Ihe Proeupine district. Since Julyj
SI, 1911. Mr. Marshall ha prac
ticed law in .1uneat) with the excep-'
tier, of the time lie was United
States Commissioner or engaged;
otherwise.
The transfer of Mr. Marshall from!
Alaska to Washington is believed toi
be the result of the recent invostlga-j
tion of prohibition enforcement in
Alaska by I)r. E. E. Matthews Who
spent sometime here for that pur
pore, according to his announcement
while here. It has been the policy,
apparently, of the service to make
transfers where friction develops.
I V A. 11 a/el t i ne, who was in charge
of the Pacific Division, for instance,
nas recently transferred to Penn
sylvania. Another official was trans
ferred from Washington to Mon
tana, and there have been other in
stances of transfers.
Three Unmasked Men
Tap Washington Bank
VANCOUVER, Wash., Ma.rch 5.—
Three unmasked men drilled the
vault of the Slate Bank at Yac-olt,
north of hero, and escaped with $'iOn
in aflver and $5,000 in l,ibert.v bonds.
All telephone connections were cut.
Tlie robbers bound three boys on
duty !n the telephone exchange. The
robbers were unable to reach the
inner compartment where the main
funds were kept
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Southern Mondanao
Shaken by Shocks
MANILA. March 5. An earthquake
of considerable {intensity was felt in
Southern Mondanao yesterday No
damage has been reporlel.
Former Alaskan Miner
Passes Away in Seattle
SEATTLE. March ,T Carl Ander
sen. aged 4k. miner in Alaska from
1898 to 1905, deed here yesterday.
He le.vves a wife and three children.
BRIDGEMAN GOING OUT
The completion of the new bridge
across the Tanana Itiver at Nd
nana is causing a number of the
bridge employees to return to the
States. Eleven bridgenuMt are aboard
tiie Admiral Watson going South.
Don't forget to pnone ns tills week
for that nice dressed, fresh killed
chicken for your Sunday dinner.
D. B. Eemmer, Phone 114.
BOB TURNERS' AUTO SERVICE.
Phene 257. New 7 pasc.enger
Studebaker car Comfort and safety.
Stand next to Boston Store. —adv.
YOi'R "timiSm, ASSETS—that
typewriter, musical instrument, fur
niture, office fixture or appliance—
are marketable, for cash, through
the classified columns of The Empire.
HUNT IS NAMED
IN SENATE AND
COLE, SPEAKER
First Division Men Head Both
Branches of Territorial
Legislature.
(Continued Prom Page One.)
brief. He said in part: “I highly
appreciate this honor and ray hope
is that I may be worthy. I %yill un
dertake to give you just and fair
administration to the best of my
ability I have no enemies among
the Senators and hope to have them
all my friends at the end of the ses
sion.”
Wi:h the call for nominations for
permanent Secretary the harmony
which had so far marked the pro
ceedings departed abruptly. Two
names iv?re presented—Mrs. Selma
Scott of Valdez, by Senator Cham
berlin, seconded ;by Senator Dimond,
and Will Steel, by Senator Aldrich,
ml seconded by Senitor Snodgriss.
Baflots wore called fet The first
taCle>‘ showed a tie. four each. A
,< :r. 1 hall: * produced a like result.
A bird bo'lot gave Mrs. Scott four,
Stt d three, and W. M. Eddy, of
Nome, one. The fourth ballot found
th? vote hack as i* started, and tie
■i 'i and final ballot Mrs. Scott four,
Ft< r *hree. Eddy one.
VVii n t was apparent that no re
u would be reached at that time,
i rec'ss was taken a 1 p- m. until
8 p. in. There was r > oign of weak
by supporters of either candi
date this afternoon.
Houre Moves Smoothly
After ccmph’ing hi.s work in the
Senate. Secretary Theile called the
House to order ait 12:40 p. m.. the
proceedings being opened with prayer
by Hev. A. P. Kashevaroff. Certify
ing to the personnel of the House.
Mr. Theile called the nil, all mem
hers answering present, t tains oi
office were administered by Judge
(Vine. Representative John A. Wil
son, of Nome, seconded by J. H.
Murray, of the Third Division, nomin
I James I1. Daly, of Nome, for
uiv.orary Speaker. Murray was
•ileerd in nomination by K. M. Polley
and Mr. Dily a. kod that his nomina
tion bo withdrawn, which was done.
X ninations were dosed and Murray
declared unaTi'mousf.y elected, and
escorted to the Speaker's desk by
Representatives (’ole, Polley and
Wilson.
Murray moved ivp the procedure
with rapidity. In quick time, Earl
Blossom was elected Clerk pro tem
w hout opposition. A motion by
Shepard to extend the courtesies of
ithe floor to Governor Bone was
unanimously adopted, but the Gover
nor was not present.
Cole is isominated
The work of organization was re
sumed at once. Ca-h Cole was placed
in nomination for Speaker by Polley,
•seconded by Ross. Frank H. Foster,
seconded by Tom C. Price, moved
the closing of nominations. Cole was
unanimously elected. He was es
corted -to the chair by Polley and
Ross. In acknowledging his election,
Speaker Cole said: "Gentlemen. 1
thank you and I assure you I appre
ciate the honor.”
Without delay, Earl Blossom was
plateed in nomination and elected as
Clerk of the House. Earle C. Jame
son was also elected without opposi
tion as Sergeant-at-Arms of ths
House. Both were installed at once,
oaths being administered by Repre
sentutive iMurray.
The 'Speaker appointed the first
committee, naming Representatives
Johnston, Grant, Daly and Price as
the Committee on Help.
At 1 p. m. the House recessed for
10 111 nu.‘ » tilt it hr* flolntra.t
l'roin each division might confer on
membership on the Committee on
Committer*. When the body recon
vened, W V*. Gra.nl, of the First;
Oily, Second; .Foster, Third, and
.Ross, Fourth, were announced as
■members selected for that commit
tee which was approved by the
House.
| The House adjourned at. 1:20 p.
m. until tomorrow morning. It was
stated the Committee on Help would
probably complete its labors this
afternoon and make its recommenda
tions relative to clorical employees
tomorrow morning. In the Senate
this is be’n.g delayed by the dead
lock over tlie election of a Secretary.
Caucus Held Yesterday
Tlve members Cf the Senate, fol
lowing inform. 1 discus i ons over or
ganization matters, went into caucus
yes'terdav and reached an agrr ..nont,
it is understood, covering only the
election of a President. No active
candidates appeared for tile position.
Senator Hunt was strongest man
with Senator E. E. Chamberlin a
close runner-up. In order to facili
tate the Senate organization, and
when it seemed that no agreement
could he reached for further organiza
tion it ‘was decide! to leave the
question of Secretary and Assistant
Secretary of the Senate and pos
sibly other employed to be threshed
out in open session.
The House nv'rmb rs held no
carctis until this morning. Three
candidates appeared in the (Held yes
terday. Cole. First; Murray, Third,
and Ross, Fourth Division. These
held their respective followers for
| several ballots in the ranous this
morn ng. hut on the break. Murray
d’d no mere than hold his strength,
while Cole gained enough from Rocs
supporters to put him over. Mo dis
sension wa> emcountered in filling
SUTHERLAND TO COME
HERE IN SHORT TIME;
ARRIVE ABOUT APRIL 1
Delegate Dan Sutherland will
return to the Territory within
a short time, according to in- j
formation received here today.
Juirt when he plans to leave
Washington is not known but
it was stated that he would
probably arrive in Juneau dur
ing the session of the Uegisla- ,
ture, possibly about April 1.
i-i
the Clerk of the House and Ser
geant-at-Arms positions, and when
the House was called to order by
Secretary Theile, it was in position
to effect permanent organization
without friotion.
CARL JENSEN INJURED
BY FALL OVER CLIFF
Carl Jensen, the 11-yeur-old son
[of aiff. and Mrs. Carl Jensen, was
| injured on the head, receiving two
! severe Rashes, when he fell over a
| rocky shelf on a steep grade on Mr.
I Heberts and rolled about 100 feet to
|'.he road, in hast Chance Basin, yes
j ! jrday afternoon about 4: JO o'clock.
Me received a cut one inch lone
ver the left eye and another three
j inches long on the lop of his head.
The little lad was climbing over
the lidge from the hillside fnciirr
j town, near Father Brown's trail.
vlih two little companions, the sons
[of Mr. and Mrs. \\\ 1,. Paul. Carl
was in the lead and after walking
around the ridge toward town,started
down a ste(<) grade, on the Basin
ride of the hill, and according to
'he Paul boys, he cried, "Here's a
good way to go drwn," and disap
peared front sight. The Paul boys,
badly frightened and unable to de
scend the steep grade after their
companion, turned back and return
ing the way they had come, to
get aid.
When Carl reached the foot of the
| hill. near the end of the
hr. a d sidewalk, on the Basin road,
lie was fully conscious and able to
j walk. He started for home and
when about half way in met a
pm-arby, who took him to his home.
Ur. DeVighne was summoned and
:rdcrod him taken to St. Ann Hos
pital where his wounds were dresed.
It was neccsary to take 10 stitches
'n the lad’s head, to close, the
wi unds, Ur. DeVighne said.
Curl war taken to his home today
tnd his condition Is not cosidered
■erious.
Hospital Day Is
Set for May 12
CI1EOAGO. March 5.—Plans of
.->,000 hospitals throughout the United
States and Canada to observe third
annual National Hospital Day on
May 12, will \)e directed this year
by E. S. Klltnore. superintendent.
Wesley Memorial Hospital, Chicago.
Mr. Gilmore, who has been vice
chairman of the National Hospital
Day Ci nmittep. 'succeeds Dr. Howls
A. Sexton, Hartford Hospital, Hart
ford, Conn-, as chairman.
President, ' Harding, the Unite !
States Public Health Service, gover
nors and others in public life in the
United States and Canada have
heartily endorsed the movement to
j make the people hotter acquainted
with hospital service.
P.-T. A TOMORROW.
The regular meeting of the Par
ent-Teacher Association will be held
tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at the
High School auditorium.
Nervous Feeling Due
to Gas on Stomach
Pressure of gas on heart and other
organs often causes a restless, ner
| vous feeling. Simple buckthorn bark,
glycerine, etc., as mixed in Adlerika,
expels gas and relieves pressure and
nervousness almost INSTANTLY.
Acts on BOTH upper and lower
bowel. Adlerika removes matter you
never thought was in your system
which poisoned stomach, causing gas
and nervousness. EXCELLENT to
guard against appendicitis. Butler,
Mauro Drug Co. (advertisement.)
if 1 's advertises It's of TIMELY
INTEREST. That's something to re
member—to your profit.
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 ^ue 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
STANDARD OIL
COMPANIES IN
BIG COMBINE
Senate Investigating Commit
i tee Makes Report—Dis
solution Decree Violated
WASHINGTON. March 5.—Com
plete control and domin ition of the
oil industry by the Standard Oil
Companies in violation of the 1911 1
dissolution decree of the Supreme
Court of the United States, is charg- ,
ed by the [,a Collette oil investiga
tion committee in its report made to ;
he Senate yesterday forenoon.
The report claimed the Standard
Oil Companies fixes the ‘'price at ,
wfhilch the producer of crude oil re- i
celve3 at the we”, the price which ,
the refinery receives for his gasoline
and the retail price paid by the con
sumer- ”
Telephone Calls
Average
176 a Person
J CHICAGO, March 5.—(By the As
: Delated Press.)—If every man, wo-1
j nan and child in the United States (
lid his share of talking over the
| teloph .ne last year, each wettid be f
i entitled to 176 completed calls, ac
cording to figures compiled b; the J
Illinois Committee on Public Utility ,
i Information.
The committee reports 20,000,000,- (
i U00 telephone conversations in 1922 j
over the 14.300,000 telephones than!.!
in use. To handle the business 305,-1‘
000 persons were employed by the!(
'.3,100 telephone companies, and, the j j
[committee impressively adds, thej
29,701,000 miles cf wire used w ml ’
, t n -irclo the globe 1,183 times a;
iie equator. In order words, there
, s enough of the wire to run 62
louhle wire telephone circuit from
he c.rth to the moon, at its mean
distance front the earth, and still
I have 90,000 males or so Seft over for
Iter purposes.
Sines Dr. Alexander Graham Bell
avented the telephone in 1876, the
: industry had grown with such amaz
n.g speed that the United States
with only a sixteenth of the world ?
population, now possesses two-tljlrds
; cf all the telephouss in use.
The lfi.000,000 telephone poles in
; use. says the statistician, would
l build a railroad trestle 30 feet high'
•ran Chicago to Buenos Aires, while
tlie additions and replacements each
wear would carry a telephone line 1
!t wo thirds the way around the earth.
FOZARD^OMING HERE.
James Fozard, Superintendent of
the Latouche mine, Is aboard the
Alameda for Juneau according to ad
vice received here today from him.
He expects to bo here while the
Legislature is in session.
Sale still on. Spring Stetson Hats,
$5.50. BOSTON STONE. —adv.
MASQUERADE DANCE ,!
ENJOYABLE AFFAIR t
- \\
The meat enjoyable school party *
t' the sea. on was the masquerade;1
lance given Saturday evening last i ^
it the Ifligh School gymnasium bv 11
:lie EN’-TI-TY (Hub for the students;'
>f the ninth, tenth, eleventh and c
welfth grades of the Juneau public 1
school. and their parents and guar-:c
Mans. Nearly all the students of;f
he four grades attended and many t
if the parents wore there.
Promptly at 8 o'clock dancing was 1
itarted. the music being furnished r
>v the High School orchestra. Cos- ('
umes, beautiful, weird and comical, 11
core worn by the masked guests and I’
nueh enjoyment was made in the P
messing masqueraders. About 10 1
('clock a supper was served. t
Six prizes were awarded as fol- c
ow-: Most comical, Leola Langdon a
ind Fred Hussey, as Chinamen; moat s
ungin.il. Harriet Barragar as Prince
’harming and Mary WMson as
folly: best dressed. Eva Tripp as a
airy and Billy Kirkland as a mm
nnr lad. The judges were Mrs. Oja, ,
drs. Holmquist, Mrs. E. J. White
nd M. Russell- ^
:OMMUNICATION UPSET
BY NEW CABLE BREAK
_ : e
g
Further confusl m in the disorgan- t
!p 1 system of cable communication o
ras reported today by Sergt. C. M
'henrrwlth, operator in charge of the ,
>cal cable office, when the Juneau
’etersburg, Wrangell and Ketchikan
ection was interrupted early this
lorning. The Sitka-Juneau line has
een interrupted for several weeks.
Since the latter break the South
astern Alaska business has been
andled between the Sitka, Juneau
nd Ketchikan radio stations, mes
Hgo.s passing through Sitka destined
o towns o-n the Inside Passage from
le'chikan to Ska.gway being tians
litted to the local radio station
nd transferred from there to the
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ROSORA
CREAM
Excellent for
all Kinds of
Rough or
Chapped Skin.
TRY THE
BUTLER-MAURO DRUG
COMPANY
FIRST
96 Front St. Juneau, Alaska
>cal cable office, which distribute',
hem. Messages from these point!
d points beyond Sitka were trails
lifted by the (local cable office t«.
ietchikan from where the Navy
adlio gave them to the Sijka radio
'he new break upsets this traffic
rrangement which has worked out
x a very satisfactory manner. The
able office here is in communication
nly with Lynn Canal points. All
ther business, for both Alaska and
lutside points, must be transnn-ted
y the Navy Radio.
Owing to Ithe convening of the
.eglslature local communication busi
est has taken a big jump and, uu
er conditions brought about by the
ew break in t'he cable, it is ex
acted that some delays will be ex
erienced in wire communications.
was stated that messages fiied at
le local cable office will be re
ttved as usuall -until further notice
nd transmitted by it to the Navy
tat.ion for handling.
IDAHO EXCLUDE? JAPS
BOISE, Idaho, March 5.—The Idaho
ego-nature has passed a measure
rohibiting the leasing of lands with
l the state to Japanese and other
liens.
RAILWAY FOR SAHARA
PARIS, March 5.—The French gov
•nmenit contemplates the early be
inning of a trans-Sabara railway
> be completed -in 20 years at a co3t
’ one billion francs.
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WATCHES
AND
JEWELRY
Bring in old jewelry
to be remodeled in up
to date styles.
Fine watch repairing.
The Nugget Shop
R. SIMPSON, Manager.
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44 inch at.45
54 inch at.55
63 inch at.65
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BUT OUR REGULAR PRICES.
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