SEATTLE TAKES
REVERSE STAND,
SAYS FAULKNER
Chamber of Commerce Re
verses Self on Transfer
Local Land Office.
The Seattle Chamber of Commerce
has reversed its position regarding
the removal of the United Suites
Land Office from Juneau to An
chorage according to H. L. Faulkner |
■who returned yesterday from Seat
tle, and has asked President Hard-]
ing 'to defer the removal until after,
the President’s visit to Alaska sug
gesting that an investigation may
develop the necessity for land offi
ces at both Anchorage and Juneau. I
Mr. Faulkner appeared at a lunch-1
eon given toy the Alaska Bureau of!
the Seattle Chuinher of Commerce
last week and embraced the op
portunity to set the matter clearly
before that body. He made it per
fectly clear that in asking the sup
port of the Seattle organization the
people of Southeastern Alaska were
not atlmepting to have Seattle be-1
come involved in a local or internal
affair of Alaska; that Juneau was
not attempting to retain Its land
office at the expense of any other!
section of Alaska, but because It Is
a public necessity that there be such
au uuicc at vuucbu.
One 'by one as the light dawned
members arose and expressed their
appreciation of the situa/tion as ex
plained by Mr. Faulkner and action
was Immediately taken to counter-1
act the error of the former stand by I
The sending of the following tele j
gram to President Harding:
"Our attention has been called to;
the executive order removing the
land office from Juneau to Anchor
age, Alueka, effective July first next.
There are very strong arguments
advanced by Alaskans against the
wisdom of this step from many
points of view and urgent requests
for a postponement of the change
until a hearing can be had on the
matter by all parties Interested. Be
lieving this altogether reasonable
aud especially advisable in view of
'the intended visit of the President
party and of the Secretary of In
terior to Alaska to take up and ad
just matters as this, the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce respectfully
endorses the request of the Alaskans
for ia reasonable deluy In this matter
until such investigation can be had.
"The argument that further in
quiry may develop necessity for land
offices at both Anchorage and Ju
neau seems especially appealing for
careful consideration."
Jones Sends Telegram.
Senator Jones of Washington, ulso
sent a telegram to the President at
Mr. Faulkner's request asking that
removal of the land office from Ju
neau be deferred until after the
President’s visit to Alaska.
The following telegram was also
forwarded to the President from
Seattle:
•'The undersigned residents both
of Alaska and Seattle and patrons
of Juneau Land OfTIce protest its
removal from that convenient cen
ter of mining Industry to Anchorage
at extreme north end of district
which has extremely limited busi
ness and so remote that communica
tion is delayed additional two weeks
for 'bulk of district. We respectfully
represent that order of removal was
made without notice or hearing and
pray that public hearing be granted
or at least that removal be deferred
until Secretary of Interior cun per
sonally investigate situation and as
certain desires of vust majority of
people Interested and affected by
the serious injustice which the re
moval would impose.”
It was signed by 1. Goldstein,
Mayor of Juneau, Juneau Chamber
of Comerce by Allen Shatituck, Presi
dent, Alaska Juneau Gold Mining
Company, Alaska Gastlneau Mining
Company, Jualin - Berners Mining
Company, Chlchagoff Mining Com
pany, H. L. Faulkner, Kalph E
Robertson, Hellenthal U Hellenthal,
Ketchikan Commercial Club, Ketchi
kan Power Company, H. C. Strang,
J. C. Banber, Sea Coast Packing
Company, Daly Alaska Mines Com
pany, Hyder; Virginia Alaska Com
pany, Hyder; Charles P. Lindfors.
Kataila; Chllcat Oil Company, Ka
talla; Falcon Joslin. Kobert M.
Jones, Thomas B. Lyons, Maurice
D. I^eehey.
FREAK FISH LANDED
AT PRINCE RUPERT
A freak fish was landed by the
Canadian schooner F. Doreen this
morning and is on display in the
window of the Prince Rupert Fish
Market. The body is like a snake,
covering aver four feet In length
and tbe *YiVad resembles that of a
raven with a long beaked-like mouth.
Tbe teeth are aboout au inch long
and resemble a sawhlade. The fins
on tbe back are like large silk tans
and are collapsable.
It la a most remarkable specimen
ot fish and uothing like it lias ever
been landed here before. It eunnot
be named, although a number of fish
ermen have seen it.—(Drince Rupert
News.)
WED AT NENANA
Mrs. Josephine Reese, who has re
aidet) at Nenana for a year, and
Charles A. Sheldon, connected with
the Alaskan Engineering Commission
went married at Nenana recently
They will continue to reside there.
PROMINENT WOMEN VISIT JUNEAU WITH CONGRESSIONAL PARTY.
FAIR VISITORS
ARE PLEASED
WITH ALASKA
Women of Congressional Par
ty Give Impressions of
Trip Through North.
"My impressions of Alaska? There
aren’t adjectives to describe it but
I’m awed and delighted with every
bit of in, coast and Interior, it has
been my fortune to see,” said the
"Lady of Smiles,” Mrs. Francis E.
I Warren, wife of Senator Warren of
Wyoming, this morning aboard the
U. S. transport Cambrai.
"But I'm disappointed," she con
j tinned, with a sly glance at her
companions. “Do you know why?”
("Because I'm not close enough to
I the Arctic circle to see polar bear;
and Eskimos. 1 truly expected t,o
l see a big polar bear astride an ice
! berg sailing down one of these Alas
| kan waterway's to meet us.”
Impresed by Mt, McKinley.
"Anyhow,” put in Mrs. E. F.
Ladd, wife of Senator Ladd of North
Dakota, "we have received one im
pression which will be u joy
throughout our lives. It was a view
of Mt. McKinley, glistening in the
sunlight, against a background of
the deepest blue of the sky. My
daughter visited Alaska last year
and I have rather treated her de
scriptions of the country as exag
gerated but 1 believe now site dots
not tell half enough."
Miss Clara J. Sproul, daughter of
•rnusentative Elliott W. Sproul, of
Illinois, can’t miss a visit to every
nook and corner of the Territory
time allows she said. "I’ve visited
every spot I could ride or walk to
sec and now I am delightfully sur
irlsed that we are to have an auto
mobile ti'ip to Mendenhall glacier."
"I can’t believe I huve really ar
rived in Alaska and now to think
1 am to have a visit right here In
Juneau,” said Mrs. Agnes C. Kling
er, mother of Lieut. Thomas Klinger
of the U. S. S. Unalga, stationed
here, with a cheery and friendly
smile to the crowd of Juneau people
who went aboard the ship to meet
her. Mrs. Klinger was met at
Seat tie by her son, who also made
the trip on the Cambrai.
"Really do you know I’m not going
to make the trip to Mendenhall
Glacier,” laughingly said Mrs. S.
E. Winslow, wife of Representative
Wlslow of Massachusetts, as she
watched her follow travelers leave
the Cambrai for the waiting auto
mobiles. "Honestly 1 don’t believe
l care about seeing another variety
of glacier. We have seen 'fifty and
one’ already and I admit I am i
awed. I
"Yea, it is my first trip to this '
coast but the motion pictures have
b(cn an education so really I'm not
a chechaoO,” she said, answering a
teasing reference' as to Massachu
■ 'j:.- and Alaska made to her by
Representative John K. Miller, of
Washington, with a gay little smile.
Truly the motion pictures showing :
■ ( ues of the North have made ev-1
cry difference in the attitude of | \
the people of the East toward Al-,
.aka. she said. They are a wonderful
•<r et to this country.
"But just the same,” she said,
! with a wistful little smile as she j
looked out at .the low hanging fog
hiding the hills which suround Gas- i
j tineau Channel, “i do hope we will ,
see these wonderful mountains be- !
fore we leave.” i
And to please its guests Juneau ,
rolleil the clouds away this after- t
noon and showed a sky of blue and ,
verdant hills.
A number of the women of the
Congressional party are sportswomen
md enjoyed fishing while the Cara
brai was in port at C'hilkoot Bar- |
racks. They are all anxious to see
j lie Alaska Juneau mill and prac- ,
Mlcully everyone of them will go ,
! through the mill this afternoon.
JEFFERSON WILL NOT h
CALL AT PRINCE RUPERT !
The steamer Jefferson will not call J
at Prince Rupert, which schedule was |
recently announced, according to ad- t
i vices received today at the local of- !
: Vice of the Alaska Steamship Com- f
j manager. Mr. Bunch stated that
| pany from John H. Bunch traffic
ustoms regulations arc so harden- i
some the service will not be inaugu- '
rated at the present time. The Jef- •
ferson was scheduled to have called
at Prince Rupert enroute both north
and south.
CRIDER RECOVERING.
_____
Advices received in Fairbanks1
| state that C. S. Crider veteran Al
' aska representative of the American
Railway Express, who was compell
ed to give up his work ae the result j
of a nervous breakdown, is now on
(lie road to recovery. — (Nenana]
News.)
ALL DEPENDS UPON
U. S. JOINING LEAGUE
NEW YORK, June 12.—President
Coleman of the Worthington Pump
and Machinery Company, who re
cently returned from a three'
months’ business trip though Eur-I
ope, says there will be no world re-:
adjustment until the United States]
enters the League of Nations orj
some similar world body. He says
conditions In England are Improving
rapidly.
For engraved or printed calling,
| cards see The Empire.
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Annual
Moose Picnic
SUNDAY, JUNE 17TH
OLD BASEBALL GROUNDS IN
SILVER BOW BASIN
Everybody Welcome
JUEEN IN PORT
THIS MORNING
on way sooth;
Vill Leave Port at 8 o’Clock j
Tonight — Brings 12
Passengers for Juneau.
Steamer Queen, Fapt. Enqulst, ar
ived here at 11:30 o’clock today and
fill leave at. G o'clock tonight on
oute to Seattle. The Queen la re
naining In port to allow the tourists
ipportunlty to visit In Juneau .as i
he steamer arrived here at night
nroute north, Capt. Knquist said.
The Queen had 12 passengers for
uneau. They were: Mrs. A. K. I
rlacKlnnon, Mrs. P. Heatty, W. M
Vuderson, W. T. Hargron, S. T l’res
on, A. Van Mavern, Mrs. M. Dock
drs. Ruth L. Persch. W. K. Day,
}. I„ Edmandson, A. T. Billingsley,
’. A. Sebonacker, Jack Reid.
Passengers hooked this afternoon
o leave on the Queen, southbound
re: For Seattle: I. L. Kline. Con
lie Martin. Mrs. Grundler, J. W.
itansfield, Mrs. C. Beatty, Helen!
llehl, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Mullen,
len. Virginia and Beatrice Mullen,
larhara Delitz. (). I.unde, Arnold Cur
ls, C. H. Wyre. For Ketchikan—
lay me Owens, H. B. Carhrey, Ole
icarbe, P. Peterson.
lx>st aometnnu. > rou can get 11
ack by using the ‘*L<o(t and Found
olu ran of The Eraplrr
SOMETHING NEW IN
NURSING
BOTTLES
Made from the famous
Pyrex ware. All regular
nipples fit Pyrex nursers.
No danger of breaking
these bottles by boiling
them.
THY THE
BUTLER-MAURO DRUG
COMPANY
96 Front St. Janeau, Alaska
Substation Post Office No. 1.
Phone 134. We deliver.
MOSQUITO
LOTION
The old Northwest
Mounted Police for
mula.
There is none bet
ter to keep the
“brutes” away.
4 For sale'only at
BRITT’S PHARMACY
The Rexall Store
PHOIX is
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BONDS FLOATED
BY PETERSBURG
TO BUILD PLANT
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Seattle Firm Takes $1 1 5,0001
Issue—Assures Erection
of Cold Stoia^e Plant.
A boond issue of $115,000 has just
been placed In Seattle by the City
of Petersburg and the funds will be
used for the construction of a muni
cipal power plant, according to a
statement made today by T. S. Els 1
more, Mayor of Petersburg and Hen- i
y Roden, local attorney who nego
Iated the sale of the Issue. The
entire issue was taken by the John '
E. Price Company, Seattle, at par,
the bonds bearing seven per cent, in-1
teres t,
“Work preparatory to plant con j
struction has already started at thei
site which is 15 miles south of the
town of Petersburg and erection of
the plant and installation of machin-:
ery will be pushed with all possible
speed,” said Mayor Elsmore. The j
contract for Construction has been
awarded to Hubbel & Waller, Seat
tle and Alaskan engineers, and the
engineering work has been put un
der the active direction of Engineer
Harris, hydro-eleo*ric expert former
ly of the University of Washington.
The plant will have a capacity of
1,000 horsepower. It will consist ofi
two 500-horsepower units, only one
of which will be put in at present.
It will supply the town with cur
rent for all lighting and power for
municipal purposes and industries
of the city for various needs. As
far as possible local labor will be
used in construction.
The construction of this plant I
will be followed immediately by the
erection of a modern cold storage
plant adequate to take care of all!
the fishing business in the Peters
burg district, said Mr. Elsmore. Cap
ital for this is ready for^ investment
as *>on as cheap electricity is pro
vlded.
The outlook for this year in all
lines Is bright at Petersburg, he
said. Two salmon canneries located
there will operate at capacity this
season. One is already packing fish
and the other preparing for opera
tions. The shrimp and crab can
ning plants are operating at capac
ity.
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I Shot Guns Issued to
j Dry Agents to Keep
Off River Rum Runners
DETROIT, Mich., June 13— 1
Orders were issued today by the
United States Attorney for this
district to Federal prohibition
j agents to use shot guns and re
volvers iu curbing the activities
of rum runners on the Detroit
| River.
This action was taken after j
| an attempt made Monday by rum
I running boats to sink the F- j
103, a dry squad boat, while i
bringing In a launch containing ,
j 120 cases and 20 kegs of beer, i
CAMBRAI BALL TOSSERS
PLAY FIREMEN TONIGHT
A special attraction for baselmll
funs was announced this morning ny
Manager J. J. Woodard, of the local
Fire Department team, in a game ar
ranged between it and a strong ag
gregation of sailors off the Transport
Cantbral. The game will start at
6:30 p. m. at City Park.
No lineup of the .sailors has been
announced. The local squad will be
composed of: Andrews, pitcher
| Ganiara, catcher, the infield being
{picked from Henry, Powell, Mook,
Henning, Fry. and the outfield from
McCloskey, Woodard, Brown and
Hanna.
HAHN GOES NORTH.
V. 1 Hahn, superintendent for
11 he White Pass Railway Company,
with headquarters at Skagway, la a
passenger aboard the Princess Alice
for that place. He is accompanied
by 'his son, Carl.
RAILROAD WAN TOURING
J. H. (TNelll. general manager of
the Great Northern Railway, is a
! round trip passenger on the steamer
Alaska. He is accompanied by Mrs.
! O'Neill and their three children,
: Peggy, Jean and James.
LABOR SHORTAGE CURTAILS
ACTIVITY AT CHICHAGOPP
The Chichagoff mine is finding
lit difficult to get men, and is work
ing only two shifts in the mill, ac
cording to Assistant Superintendent
; J. L. Hills, who, with Mrs. Hills, ar
| rived from Chichagof last night on
: the Ambassador.
Mr. and Mrs. Hills are guests at
the Gastineau Hotel, but will return
to Chichagof tonight.
Latest styiea or engraving tor
visiting cards at Ths Empire. f
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Marine Glasses j
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Just received a»new shipment of celebrated |
French Marine Glasses and Binoculars. =
You are invited to compare quality and prices.
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