ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
JOHN W TROY - - EDITOR AND MANAGER
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JUNEAU WANTS REAL LAND OFFICE.
When Ihe Government correct* the error that was
made in removing ihe rnlted Stales Land Office from
Juneau the correction should be no hall-way meaa
me. A Land Office should be established with a Reg
ister and Receiver in charge having authority to try
cause:' and render decisions. Washington Territory
had three Land Offices west of the Cascade Moun
tains and four cast of them. Washington Territory
v.at very little larger in area than Southeastern
Alaska. Montana had hn Land Offices. California
eight aittl other States in proportion.
Cnder tiie circumstances tnose portions of Alaska
east of the divide between Prince William Sound and
the Copper River Valley on one side and Cook Inlet
and the streams draining into it on »lie other, with
an area of 110,000 or 116,000 square miles, ought to
have at least one United States Lund Office.
PRESIDENT AGAINST RAILROAD STRIKES.
President Harding teld railroad men at
the tide of his private car at Pocatello,
Idaho: '‘! think men engaged in transpor
tation ought to be the It tt paid of any in
dustry and to toil under most favorable con
ditions. You haven't any right under any
conditions to bring about a suspension of
service.”—(Boston News Bureau.)
Of course those employed in transportation have
no rigfiY “to strike. Organized action to cause the
suspension of any t . -cntial industry constitutes an
attack on society against which the people are help
ings It t=r comparable with war on women and
children arid non-combatant: It is surprising that
there arc apparently humane turn who now and
again advocate it.
Again, of course, those engaged in essential in
dustries should he well paid. Prevailing wages in all
lines of legitimate work should Ire large enough to
permit a capable and thrifty man to live comfortably
; nd save enough for old age protection. In return for
that the wage-earner should make himself efficient
end should do enough work to enable a capable and
prudent employer to realize a profit.
WETS WIN BOTH MANITOBA PLEBISCITES.
Manitoba has hail two liquor plebiscites. The
first one was on the question of having Government
liquor rti-rer inch at they have in British Columbia
tnd Quebec. The vote was nearly three to lone
tgainrt prohibition and. for the liquor stores. The
next plebiscite vvat on the question whether or not
hotels and lertaurants would be allowed to serve
winer and brers with meals. Those in favor of such
tales carried by a majority of 30,566. Of this large
major) y 25.H88 was in Winnipeg, the principal city
of the Province, and 4,578 in the country districts.
So now. in Manitoba, one can purchase wines,
beers, and ardent spirits hard liquor, they are some
times called at Government stores and wines and
beerE with meals in restaurants.
KILL THE CHOW.
Convincing evidence of the destructive and rapac
ious habits of the common crow as an enemy of game
end song birds has been collected by Dr. It. H. War
ten, tlie noted ornithologist of Pennsylvania, who
during the last seveval weeks lias b en investigating
wild life in the duck breeding grounds on the Vir
ginia <oast. Dr Warren spent two days In looking
for crow victims on the islands in that region and
found no liss than 675 eggs if rail birds, green
herons, kill deer, meadow larks, domestic chickens and
wild black duck ami also egg remains of some other
Email song birds on ground under trees in which were
trews' nests.
Dr Warrin illustrated:
pnder and near cue pine tree, where a
pair of crows hud four young, nearly able to
fly. we picked up 852 egg shells mostly
clapper rails. I'nder another nesting tree
where a crow's nett had 4 eggs nearly ready
to hatch, 67 empty shells of birds' eggs and
few chickens eggs were gathered On ground
under third crow's ne.-t we found 153 egg
shells. Tlie bulunct of egg shells were found
on meadws and under trees about the island
where crowc had eaten contents before their
young were hatched. We also found under
these crows' nests young rails' wings and
other remains of n veral kinds of birds, adult
and young.
The crow is generally regarded by naturalists and
rpcrlsmcn as one of the most destructive robbers of
birds in live country ; nd his depredations occur chief
ly during the n ling Beacon when the young are help
less. As a result of the enormous damage caused by
crows in the destruction of game and useful birds,
movement:' have been started In several parts of the
country to conduct a vigorous warfare against them.
In come r tales there are alicady bounties on craws.
Anti-Crow Clubs are being formed in localities every
where throughout the country where the crow has
bftBonie a posf. Dr. Warren who has made extensive
ntidicr, I* hjfd .life, believes that the crow is one.of
thfc worst of, all destroyers and his conclusions have
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led him to denounce this predatory species In severe
terms.
(lame wardens in many sections of the country
have already taken tlie lead in urging tin* sportsmen’s
association and individual sportsmen of their common
wealths to join in shooting crows as a method of
protecting game and useful birds.
.Senator CouzcnB of Detroit has issued a stale
inn nt in which he declares in favor of fixing five per
.cent, alcolilotc content as the mnxium at which
liquid beverages may be sold This would permit the
'.‘■ale of n good quality of beer but not be sufficiently
i high to allow the sule of wines.
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King Albert suffered a broken wrist when
thrown from his horse, one danger which an
ordinary commoner can usually avoid. (In
dianapolis Star. I
If he had been a common, ordinary bricklayer, far
instance, he would have been riding in an automobile.
We want it understood that Juneau itas not given
an unconditional release on Frank A. Hoyle, and when
we get the United States hand Office with a Register
and Receiver we shall want him hack.
Copper continues to play tag with the 15-cetit
price. It seems unable to get much above that figure
and it refuses to stay below it long at a time.
The Unuk River Region.
(Ketchikan Chronicle.)
The Unuk River, which enters tidewater in Bur
roughs Bay, about «5 miles northeast of Ketchikan,
Alaska, drains a portion of the mainland rejfion
which from the comparatively meager data at hand
lias- the aspect of being probably the most heavily
mineralized section in Southeastern Alaska, with the
possible exception of the- Salmon River drainage.
The International Boundary line crosses the drain
age about twenty-four miles from tidewater and ex
ceedingly favorable Indications exist just beyond
this point, of rich ore bodies, Present knowledge
of the region points to a greater abundance of min
eralized rock in the region of the contact between the
diorlte and greenstone, quartz-porphyry and other
igenous rocks, which is on Canadian territory, but
ip sibllitles are good al.<o for the discovery of valu
able properties on the American side of the line.
| The south fork of the river lying about eighteen
' n i 1 os upstream from the boundary contains evidence
i in the form of float of the existence of ore bodies
I of very great value in that drainage
About li)o:i a road was projected from salt water
' to the region of the south fork and some develop
: lnnnt work di ne on claims in the neighboring region.
The business of attemptnig to wrest from nature a
portion of her mineral stores during the succeeding
I years must stand as one of the real pioneering efforts
|ln this section and the old road and diggings stand
| today as a monument to sturdy hearts wrho hud the
courage to apply their faith in the region in the
face of real hardships.
The very strenuousness and incaccetsibility of the
region has caused it to remain virtually a virgin ter
ritory through all these years, but it is only a ques
tion of time until the same formation tha thas given
up millions in silver and gold in (he Salmon River
country will begin to produce on the Unuk druinage.
The question of developing the llnuk River country
j hinges primarily upon the problem of transportation.
; It i-s impossible for development to be carried forward
,011 the upper reaches of the stream as long us Ide
| Prudence must be placed upon the use of boats in
I the swift glacial current, to carry supplies and eqtlip
| ment.
| I he solution of the problem lies in the construc
| 'ion of a good road suitable for wagon and auto
j travel, and the opening up of a section rich in min
jeral possibilities, and of value front a timber and
agricultural standpoint us well, will follow as a mat
j lei of course.
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Save Our Alaskan Illusions.
(New York Post.)
With Seward reporting a temperature of 95
: degrees, we may as well be forewarned of the prin
I ripal remit of President Harding’s Alaskan trip.
| l.ike Canada ever since Kipling called her Our Lady
i of the Snow's, Alaska is tormented by a climate
i complex. Year after year we are told that Seward s
jlow’es. recorded temperature is 7 below zero, that
( her port is always ici-free, and that hpr winter is
i warmer than Baltimore. It is iterated that Juneau
|is '» * ha same latitude as Kdinburgh and has much
milder weather. Sitka, we are assured, is warmer
i than Copinhagen. while the gieat Yukon Valley has
winters like those of Montana and summers like those
of Now York and Pennsylvania. To speak of ice
or polar bears in connection with Alaska is to expose
yourself to ildicule along with the Senators who
;n 18fi7 lulled it VYalruseia and Johnson's Ice Box.
The statisticians who tell us that Alaska has pro
duced $900.000,000 in wealth, chiefly from mines,
are careful to add that this is nothing to her future
production of wheat, vegetables, and • sub-tropical
1 ruit*.
Assurances concerning the torridfty of Alaska
can easily be overdone, and in the dwindling popu
lation of recent years we see the result. There
should he two reasons tor Alaskan publicity. What
\ve are hungry to hear at thu moment Is not how
c.e Nome children go barefoot and tat home-grown
watermelon in the shade. it is that the greater
I art of Alaska resls upon a solid ice cuke and that
| if •vou '•>" *lx feet (n summer you come to hard
jiroxen ground. It is the comforting news that in
| tin lanjiiu Valley the thermometer frequent falls
It Mi degree, below, which even the late Archdeacon
Sti ck thought cold. We want to ha told how at Fair
banks tiie temperattire goes to 15 below in October
and that zero is theieafter regarded as warm. Nr.
one denies that Alaska ranks first in the Northern
iicmlsphc e. alter Greenland, as a producer of Ice
bergs. uni that within four or five days' journey of
Se.mi« one can see fiords with glaciresby tlie dozen.
| .'round Christmas time the opposite brand of Aias
: publicity may bo loosed.
' 1,1 EP,t0 of lh«* excellent geographical instruction
t today, many people doubtless fail to grasp the
| :“ct *hsl if Alaska is superimposed on the map of
'Ik united States part of it would touch Duluth
j "’llilp another section would reach Savannah and it
i 'hud corner would project into Mexico. Sometimes
i even the Alaskans seem not to grasp it.
Presidential polls multiply. Collier's polls its read
• !>•. who are strong for Henry. The New Republic
polls Liberals"—by its private definition of the
| term—who are divided. Now the Literary Digest
[sums the opinions of 2,000 Democratic national
■icudri". McAdoo is far and away the favorite or this
group—but Henry Ford is second even here, and
l.ndcrwood leads Cox and Smith. Whether Henry's
barrel or Henry's votes win this support may be ques
tioned. -(New York World.)
I bene educated apes, while human enough to bo
interisting, are not quite human enough to be offen
sive. (San Francisco Journal.)
The President is covering the ground politically
as well as geographically. With a change of bid
tor every speech he 1$ mdking things eieitlng.—(feat?
Frandeco Bulletin.)
ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR i
By SAM HILL I
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Observations of Oldest Inhabitant '
We don’t hear much about the
"Glory of War” anymore.
The Ananias Club
■'No," said the flapper to the Shlek,
■'we won’t go to a show tonight,
we ll go to . the mc e around the
corner instead, and the taxi fare,
the cost of thoaUA' tickets and after
theatre supper*rJjjpU save we'll put,
in the bank to warn the little home
we want to buy when we are mar
ried.”
Ho, Hum
Blinks—Americans don’t seem to
be worrying mmh about the Ruhr
situation. •
Jinks No, they are too busy wor
rying about Babe Ruth's home run
slump.
Submitted Without Comment
(Headline in Philadelphia Record I
DID YOU 'EVEN DRINK ENOUGH
WATER
We Refuae To-Altswer On Advice
Of Counsel
(Jack Warwick in Toledo Blade)
There Is nothing any more tire
some than ragtime or jazz, except
chin music—Sam Hill, Cincinnati En
quirer.
By the way, Sam. if she has a
double chin. It’s a duet, isn’t it?
Auto Club Should Also Put Up a
Detour Sign
(Fond du Lac Wic., Daily Com
monwealth.
Several large signs have been or
dered by the city to warn motor
ists that they are approaching the
city limits and to slow down. They
will replace the welcome signs now
on the highways.
Judqe Said Murder Was Justifiable
i “No,” replied Brown, “i never have
to spend a cent for repairs on my
car.”
"I think you belong to the Ananias
Club,” snapped Black, "but what is
your car."
"The street car,” grinned Brown.
Tip to Church Members
It is just as necessary to be liberal
I with your money as it is to be
I liberal with your "views.
Will Take a Solomon to Solve
This Problem
A friend wants ns to find a solu
j tlon for the parking problem. He
; says he drives—hot to his office—
! but toward it. And the only place
! he can find -to park his car Is so
far from his business district that
I he has to take a street car to get
to his place of business. We’ll take
a few minutes off some day and
dope out a way to remedy the trou
ble.
Friendly Philosophy
It takes hut one moment to lose
the ponfldenre of *your friends, but
many years, if ever, to regain it.
It never pays to promise that which
you cannot fulfill. J.E.F.
That Let Him Out
"Won't you marry me," Miss Rich
ley?" pleaded the poor young man.
"No, I can't, yoit see you stated
the situation exactly sometime ago
when you declared I could not take
a joke," she replied Icily. i
If It Fits—
A lot of people never begin to
take marriage seriously until after
Ihe honeymoon is over and the first
of-the-month bills sturt coming In.
The world is going to be a lot
better off when the road Is jammed
by those fleeing from temptation the
way it now is by those running into
it.
Another boost for the high cost
of living is the new style scandal
the girls wear which doesn’t permit
them to wear stockings with a darn
that doesn’t show.
The reason some people seem to
worry is because they think by wor
It‘« all In knowing HOW to do
Orst-elass cleaning and dyeing.
4 „ CAPITAL dye works
i C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
1 and Cleaner. Phone 177.
We are expert in
“ORNAMENTAL CONSTRUC
TIVE WATER-PROOF
CONCRETE.”
I and the common wet kind also.
1 Willoughby Ave., near Ball
I grounds. Established Twenty
I yeare. Phone 32
CONCRETE PRODUCT8 MFG.
COMPANY
1
JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
Move*, Packs and Stores Freight
and Baggage.
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Tying they can prevent the things
they are worrying about from hap
pening.
Wearing knickers, carrying a cane
and smoking doesn't make a girl
look like a man, it only makes her
look like a sissy.
When a fellow says he likes your
nerve it is a pretty fair indication
he hasn't much love for you.
Wives do not like to have their
husbands missing, but when they
start this gun play husbands fear
mighty different about their wives
missing.
W'e used to have a story about
"The CiPiitle Hand" in the old read
er, but there was also a great deal
to be said for the firm hand that
used to do the spanking.
Our idea of a lucky man Is one
who hasn't anything but engine trou
ble to worry about.
The difference between courtship
and marriage is that before they are,
married she enjoys the lies lie tells |
her ami afterwards its very oh,
verv, very different
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News of the Names Club
June is the month when most of
us desire to get rid of ours, but
I Ueorge .1. Hirst, r. of Kansas City,
lias just married Ruby Vest.
Earl A. Route is r* ported from!
Spring Hill. Kansas. Need one over)
your bungalow or garage?
And if you are thinking of build-j
ing, why you will find Edna A. j
Qoodsite in Detroit.
■ r A universal custom
Alter that benefits every
Ewrv bcdy‘
r™/ Aids digestion,
Meal cleanses the teeth,
y/ soothes the throat.
WRtGLEYS
a good thing
to remember
Sealed in
its Purity
Package
FLAVOR LASTS
AUTOS FOR HIRE
WHEN IN NEED OF A TAXI
Call Collins
Seven passenger touring vcar.
Stand Trinagle Shoe Shine Par
lor. Phone 186. Res. Phone 281.
I,
Miller’s Taxi Service
TWO CARS
Stand Alaskan Hotel
PHONE—SINGLE 0
Blackie’s Taxi
ANY WHERE—ANY TIME I
Stand Arctic Pool Room i ,
PHONE 444 j
I
Heller’s Taxi
PHONE 183
Day and Night Service
Stand Heller’s Barher Shop
1 I CALL
Berry’s Auto Service
I | for that seven-pasenger 1923
| Cadillac touring car. Stand at |
[ Gastineau Hotel. Popular I
1 pricse. Phone 10.
Also seven-passenger Sedan, j
Day and Night Service
Call 362.
U & 1 Taxi Service
Nick Lakich, Proprietor.
“We will take you anywhere,
anytime.”
PHONE 64.
M...■
" ARCTIC BATHS "
Without exception the best
Turkish Baths in Alaska.
Give us a trial and you will be
come a regular customer.
W. H. Lott,
1 Proprietor. So. Front St.
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ALASKA COAL
FOR ALASKANS
—No soot
—Low in ash
—High in heat units
—Clean to handle
PHONE 418
PACIFIC COAST COAL
li « COMPANY .
PROFESSIONAL
i
Dr«. Kascr & Freeburger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bldg.
PECKS 96
Hour* > a. m t« 9 p. a.
Dr. Charles P. Ji
DENTIST
Room* 8 and 9 Vawntlne Bldg.
Telephone 176.
Dr. W. A. Borland
Phytician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bldg.
Telephone 172.
GEO. I. BABTON, D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Messerschmidt Apt*.
Office hour*: 10 to 12; 2 to 6;
7 to 9 and by appointment.
Phone 259.
Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
201 Ooldateln Building
Hours: 9'30 to 12; 1 to I;
7 to 8, or by appointment.
Licensed osteopathic physician.
Phones: Office. 107; Residence
Phono fil2, Coliseum Apts.
Dr. W. J. Pigg
PHYSICIAN
Office—Second and Main
Telephone 18
DR. R. N. DONAHEY
Same Good Service as In the
Past
rlUTESON DonahiY
Oot icol (ompag)^
108 Pike Street, Seattle.
▲11 Alaskan Trails End at
HOTEL ATWOOD
First Ave. and Pine St., Seattls
Popular Prices. Nearest to Ev
erything. J. A. Earnham and
Ted Taylor, Props.
WHERE
SUCCESS
BEGINS
The road to success begin* at the Saving* Window.
How early yon attain tucccs* depends on how
often you depo»it. Many of our captain* of industry
owe their success in a large part to the habit of
thrift acquired in youth. Have you started your boy
in the right direction T
The B. M. Behrcnds Bank
JUMI.AU, ALASKA. AT
Fraternal Societies
-or
Gastineau Channel
O . 1LII
Meeting Wednesday
■vealnge at 8:00
o'clock. Elk*' Hall.
Charles P. Jenna,
Sxalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVI8,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodice
of Freemawmiy
Scottish Bite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:80 p. m. Odd
Kellowa’ Hall.
WALTER B. HEISBL, Secretary.
i. o. o. r.
SILVER BOW
_ _ IX)DOB NO. I A.
Meeets every Thursday at M P. M.,
Odd Fellows’ Hall,
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Urand|
Merle P. Morg-an, Secretary.
PERSEVERANCE REBEKAM '
LODGE NO. 2A.
Meets every flrat and third
Tuesdays In I. O. O. F. Hall, at
8 P M. FRANCES QII8TAFSON, I
N. O ALPHONSINE CARTER,
Secretary.
MOUNT JUNEAO LODS*
No. 147, F. A A. M.
Statatf CommurHfatlon
Second and Fourth Mondays
of each Month. In Odd Kollo-a
”ill, beginning at T:*» o’clock.
Homer O Nordling, Muster.
Chus. E. NagTiel, Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Beoond and Fourth Tua»
dare of each mouth.
At 8 o’clock. I O. O. F. Hill
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NOItDLING, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
MEOHBRS COUNCIL'ns.
17-HI. Meet Inga aaeoad
and laat Mondays at T:»C
^ w p. m. Transient Broth
"n urged to attend. Council Chambare
Ifth Street. John F. Mullen, Q. K.
. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Altord John BrgdforB
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at I y. a.
Elks’ lodge Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; Q. M.
Murm, Post Adjutant, Phone 196.
LOYAL ORDEX 0>
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o’clock.
Moose Hall. E. F.
Rodenberg, Dictator; R. H. Slovene
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.
Render, Senior Regent; Mrs. A.
F. McKinnon, Secretary.
AUXILIARY, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA. Igloo No. 6.
Meets last Thursday of every
month. Social hour with mem
bers of Pioneer l-odgc to fol
low each meeting.
Mrs. Lottie Splckett, President.
Mrs. Lillie Hurford, Secretary.
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