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MORE THAN
NEWSPAPER.
COLORADO SENATOR SEEKS TO
STABILIZE SILVER MARKET BY
GOVERNMENT HELP.
To provide for the situation which will arise when
the 207,000,0’00 ounces of domestic silver, provided
for under the Pittman Act, shall have been purchased
by the Treasury at $1 per ounce, Senator Nicholson,
of Colorado, on December 27 introduced into Congress
a concurrent resolution providing “that the President
of the United States appoint a commission of, nine, to
be known as a Silver Commission, of whom not more
than three shall he members of the United States
Senate and not more than three shall be members of
the United States House of Representatives; that such
commission be authorized to communicate with such
nations ac may be feasible, either individually or in a
joint conference to be arranged for that purpose; that
such commission shall use its influence toward the
resumption of the use of silver in the various mone
tary systems of nations which have abandoned or less
ened Its use, and shall also lend its influence toward
the adoption of any stop that may tend to stabilize
the valuo of rilver in the world’s markets; that the
com mission, after inch investigation and conferences
as it may«leem advisable, shall report to the President
its recommendation and findings; that no compensa
tion shall be allowed to any member of such com
mission, as ruch, but the actual necessary expenses of
the commission shall be borne by the United States.”
Hearings on the resolution arc expected to begin dur
ing January.
ZONES CAUSE PROTESTS.
The protests of the Alitak Packing Company and
the Katmai Packing Company against the regulations
issued by tlie Department or Commerce for the ad
min iot rat ten of fisheries in the Southwestern Alaska
Reserve apparently are based on what they term un
fair^, zoning in the Kodlak-Afognak district. In the
face of the permits Issued it Is evident that both
canneries have been shut off from tlie Karluk River
lulling grounds, where, it is said, they have secured
heretofore a large pack of the flrli for their annual
packs.
1 he Kodrak-Afi'gnak District lias been divided into
throe zones. That numbered one, extending from Low
Cape to Cape Ugat on Kodiak Island and from just
southern t tf Katmai Hay to near Cape Kunmik, on (lie
mainland of the peninsula, where the reserve joins
the Alaska Peninsula Reserve, contains the Karluk
fisheries. I line permits only have been issued within
this zone. One is to the Northwestern Fisheries, an
other to the Ala“ka Packers Association and the third
to the Robins.: n Packing Corporation. The first two
named have received generous permits which appar
ently will facilitate their operations and permit a
material reduction in operating costs over former years
In that they are permitted to take fish from tile
lagoon at the river mouth. The Robinson Packing
Corporation, established last yoar, has a floating can
nery at Zachar Bay. hut is not permitted to operate
in Die coastal waters between lanv Cape and Cape
l gat, which includes the Karluk River grounds. This
seemingly limits its operations to Cyak Bay and the
mainland Portions of Die peninsula included in the
zone.
The permits given (o Lho Northwestern Fisheries
and the A P. A. canneries, one at Liyak and the other
a: Larson Bay, specify that in lien of the fishery
operations heretofore conducted off the mouth of the
Karluk River, by agreement a weir is to be con
structed actor- the lagoon or river al the expense of
there companies, and distribution of the fish shall he
fleeted at thlf weir under the supervision of the
Bureau o H. I,cries N*M over 50 per cent, of *he
thcTw Ch CnUr the riVer iilal1 »»o divided between
the twe e nipan.es, and at least 50 per cent, shall be
given unrestricted accc to iheir spawning grounds
motecT T ,‘hm“ 11 '"a,'C’' U is evi(lont that adequate
stream "M,red '° ,he “almon f<>'' that
a.* Tm fH!ak Pa<kin,? t’ornpany's Lazy Bay cannery
at Alitak Bay is iocaled in zone two. „dor D .
regulations i, cannot go outside of u.at zone for
fsh nor purchase from anyone without the zone T ,
sr 1,10 Krk ^ - .s<»
Red to 7.500 ea.es of red .Umon and three of i,
four traps ordered dismantled when the limit is
reached. It may fish „-r other .. of 2 L ,
onWthoe,A 'im,t 8,1,1 PBleed
on the A. P. A. cannery at Olga Bay, Alitak. The
fidhing limits placed on this zone lie within Lew Cm
Oil the western shore of Kodiak 1.1 md and Three
Saints Bay on the southeastern chore, and Chirkoff
Trinity and Semidi Islands Chirkoff.
The Katmai company’s plant \, ju gone t..
Spruce feland at Uzinki. it also has been shut' e
from Karluk and from Uganik, Terror and Viskoda
bays.
It is evident that unrestricted entry to the Karlnk
River fisheries is the object of the canneries in the
Kcdiak-Afognak district which lie outside of zone one.
it is to lie expected that the interests which will suffer
Ciorn the zoning will criticize the Bureau of Fisheries
for the privileges that have been granted to the
A. P. A. and Northwestern Fisheries in connection
with Karluk. However, the discrimination, if any
exists, which is yet to be shown, seems to be against
:he Robinson Packing Corporation which, although
in zone one, is d nied the right to get fish from the
most important waters of the zone., In the division
of any of the districts into zones, it1 follows naturally
that some plants must suffer for a time at least. 11
the runs of fish were large enough to supply every
cannery there would be no need for reserves and
i zones. In theory, at least, the Bureau, in making the
several zones has been guided by the needs of escape
ment of fish to the spawning grounds and has fixed
the boundaries of each so that it will Include as many
canneries as may operate with reasonable s. curlty
for proper escapement. The Bureau has had represen
tatives at Karluk for two years watching the situation
and should ha\e a good idea of the number of c.in
ncries that can operate and how many fish they can
take there without endangering future supplies. It
lias issued permits to those nearest the stream. That
the Alitak Packing Company and the Katmal Company
are net so situated cannot b" charged, against the
Bureau or Fisheries. Of course, if they can sjiow
unjust treatment they are entitled to redress. But
their interests are not paramount to the interest of
the Territory and if the latter will suffer hy their
admission to the Karluk fisheries, then such admission
liould not be granted.
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That Hasketball Mixup.
( Ketchikan Chronicle.)
The Wrangell High School hud the people of
Wrangell stirred up something when they made claim
to the basketbtflJ tchaiiiptor.phiip of . Southeastern
Alaska ,or It might have been of all Alaska. The]
whole school force lias become involved in the con-j
troversy, from Commissioner I,. L>. Henderson down
t(. the pupils of the primary grades.
From all the evidence at hand, us set forth by I
Wrangell and by Commissioner Henderson’ and the I
students, it appears that there could have been no
agreement that the December series was to settle the
championship, for no one understood it so except the
Wrangellltes.
However, regardless of who is right or who is I
wrong, it is a certainty that the controversy lias only]
tended to increase interest in school affairs and
athletics, and also it is a lesson to all schools that in
making arrangements for these meets that the great-1
jest care must be taken to have every point understood
j thoroughly and in black and white so that there can]
be no serious differences of opinion later.
Wrangell as usual demonstrates that there is prob
| ably more town spirit there than in any other settle
! ment in Alaska. The people of Wrangell are a unit j
jin backing their splendid basketball team. It Is nj
I vital matter with them and they are to ho commended]
i lor it. Whether the school body there is right or
j wrong, the people of Wrangell think they are right
and they are prepared to back them fully. And in
j that they give a good le«son to other towns in Alaska.
And the result of the controversy is going to lie
Itliat the next sorb's of inter-school athletics is going
'» create more intorcst than ever before.
Bill Haywood Not the Only Failure.
(New York Evening Post.)
On the part o£ the Soviet Government it soetnsl
I rather ungrateful to have permitted the story of "Big|
i Mill" Haywood's failure to come out in the foreign]
[capitalistic prees, incuding the American. The former
] giant of the I. W, W. is described as a broken man,
; lilting his nails in a Moscow hotel bedroom over the
, emach-up of his ambitious communist experiment
: omowhore near Siberia, and not above whimpering
over his wretched luck. Big Bill cuts a rather sorry!
| figure in the despatches.
That lie doe3 so appear in the news is only another
I example of the resourcefulness of the Soviet leader
j ship. The fact of Haywood's failure was bound to
| come cut, and in Itself would have brought no great
| discredit upon the man. History is strewn with the
| " recks of Utopian colonies undertaken by some very
;jlde people. But lest the Haywood failure should be
I-s ized upon as an indictment of Sovietism in general,
| it was deemed nccessury to write down the I W. \\\
; leader. And so he appears in the despatches as a
j helpless oaf. with a streak of yellow and a whine.
And as a further offset we are informed that the
Kashas experiment, of which Haywood made such a
j liarli, is now to be taken over by the Soviet Govern
j hient, and a million dollars has been appropriated for
Hie purpose, and half of that sum is to be expended
l'i <he United States, and altogether a bit of un
i palatable fact has been turned into a choice morsel
[of propaganda for the American market.
A mIIHon dollars will not be expended upon Hie
[Haywood experiment, because the Soviet Government
j has 110 million dollars to spend. And half a million
1 dollars will not be disbursed in the United States
| because it is just the opposite thing we have been
1 witneosing—namely. American dollars going to Itus
|sia to feed the starving. It seems odd, just when
Hie Soviet Government is trying hard to get two I
I hundred thousand Amalgamated Clothing Workers'
i dollars from America into Russia to provide sonie
j thing in the way of clothes for a naked and shivering'
! population, that the Soviet Government should find |
Halt a million dollars for Communist experimental
supplies in the United States.
If Bill Haywood has failed in his adventure into
communism, it is not altogether the fault of Hie
| heavy-faced, slowJbrained, White-livered I. W. w
j leader of the despatches, moaning over his w rongs in
|a Moscow bedroom but in the American language —
ircr it would seem that during his Irng sojourn in
Russia Haywood has not acquired a sufficient knowl
edge of the language to address a hotel porter others
[than Haywood have failed at the game of Communism
namely, the Soviet rulers, who are not heavy-faced1
| or slow-witted or white-livered, and who speak the
Russian language very well. The famous Communist
farms which to many well-meaning American observers
welcomed as the harbingers of a Russia running over
with milk and l oney have turned out a tragic failure
even as communism in the factories and the shops
But tribute cannot be denied to the resourceful
ness of the Soviet news distributors, which seizes
upon the knocks of fate and turns them into boosts
-/--—-—
In the enemies he has made Pierce Butler's quali
fication for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
appears to be proved.—(Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.)
When a statesman says he despairs of the world
he means that he despairs of getting what lie wants.
— (Baltimore Sun.)
Hair tonics as a tonic may not work miracles, but
ar a beverage it is said to make anyone red-headed.
— (Cleveland Commercial.)
ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
I
I-■
Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
The old-fashioned fool who skated
>n thin ice now has a son who drives
i car without chains over slippery
streets.
Think of Mistakes a Stenog Could
Make on Such a Machine
“A Chinese typewriter would have
■o have about 2.000 keys on the
hoard.”—'News Item.
But Asking Wives After You Get 'Em
Is Different
(Headline Over Editorial in Detroit
Paper. (
WIVES POU THE ASKING.
Fool Questions
A. O. H. asks: “Don't a majority
of the ‘submerged tenth' of most
cities belong to the floating popula
tion?" Anybody want to answer this
for him?
Ho, Hum, Again
"Do you toll your wife ovary thing?"
asked the prospective bridegroom.
“No," replied the old timer, “she
never lets me stop listening long
enough to tell her anything.”
You Know It
Opines J. II. Heed: “There never
is any good reason for the average
man doing more than half the things
he does." Huh! We can think of
two mighty good reasons right off
the bat—one reason is his wife and
the other is the boys. If it wasjrt
for those two he wouldn't be doing
one-tenth the things ho does, you
bet!
Gems From Guide Book to Success
You'll invariably find upon investi
gation that the really successful man
did not wait for opportunity. He
[•rented it.—J. F. E.
If It Fits—
The difference between a betrothed
girl and a married woman is the
girl can only hint at what she wants
him to got 'her for Christina •, while
the married woman goes out and
buys what she wants and sends him
the bill.
The only time some men ever do
anything for the good of the com
munity Is to provide the guest of
honor at their own funeral.
Our idea of a dumbbell is a man
who thinks the girls wear galoshes
to keep their feet dry and protect
their health.
The trouble wiUi a lot of people
who skimp and save until they grow
rich enough to own a fine house is
that they never get to a place where
they can enjoy a meal anywhere but
in the kitchen.
A young man these days never can
be quite sure whether a girl is mar
rying him because she likes the
kind of car he drives or whether
she just wants a targat to practice
on.
There is one thing about the worn
an who only has had one new dress
in 'the last 20 years—she at least
has had the satisfaction of knowing
that several times during those years
ftt has been right in style.
A woman can’t see why when sho
can hold her clothes together so
satisfactorily with pins her husband
should always insist on having the
missing buttons sewed on his.
Some men think the fellow who
can't enjoy a vacation unless the
wife and kids go with him needs do
be taken before the Probate Judge
And yet the country really is full
of men as crazy as that, front page
stories to contrary, notwithstanding.
Nothing tickles a married man
more than to have his wife attempt
to give him a warning kick under
the table and have the toe of her
“hoe collide with the shin of the vis
iting preacher.
We often hear of people who ought
to be ashamed to show their faces,
but at that, we 'guess that really
isn't the reason why so many girls
insist on covering theirs with a coa‘
of paint. >
Singular girls never are popular
with men and that is why they
usually remain single.
The saddest part of Christmas
after tile kids grow up is that father
just hasn't any pxcuse to go out
and buy a lot of mechanical toys
to play with and break up.
Daily Sentence Sermon
It Is better to remain forever un
known than to get your name on
the sucker list.
News of the Names Club
Oh, girls! I. Risswell lives at To
ledo, but he is married. Will Wash
works in a laundry in Detroit, ac
cording to J. X jv|_
To Make Inquiry Into
Record of Appointee
•WASHINGTON', Jan. 20.—The Sen
ate banking committee has approved
the resolution that the sub-commit
tee make a thorough inquiry into
the ^ hanking t nneetion.s of Janies
Me Nary, recently nominated Comp
troller of Currency.
TRANSFER STUD FARMS.
TOKl'O, Jan 20. _ The govern
niont s stud farms are to be trans
ferred from the army administration
to that of tlie Board of Agriculture,
t has been officially announced here.
Instead of breeding horses for mili
tary purposes exclusively, an effort
will now be made to produce a gen
eral purpose horse.
Old papers mr mbs at Emplta.
Daughter of Morgan
Partner Killed.
Miss Hope Harjes, daughter of
H. H. Harjes, of Morgan. Harjes
A; Co., the Paris branch of .1. P.
Morgan & Co., was killed recently
in a hunting accident on the
Jiarjes estate in Prance when a
frightened pony threw her.
INFLICTS WOUND AT
FIRE ACCIDENTALLY
AND LOSES HIS LIFE
'SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 20. — A
knife wound accidentally inflicted by'
himself during a tire which destroyed1
his barn at Trentwood, near hore,1
recently, was responsible for the
death of O. h. Purl'd, according to;
the decision of Coroner VV. M. New-'
I man.
Dr. Newman reached bis decision;
after taking a knife from the pocket;
of the trousers worn by Parlet when!
tho accident took place. On open-'
ing the knife Hr. Newman found thej
large blade covered with blood. He'
alto found that the blade exactly j
fitted the cut 'in Parlet’s thigh.
Parlet's femural artery had been
severed and he had bled to death.
In Dr. Newman’s opinion, the!
wound must havo been infllicted
when, while working in haste in the
darkness, Parlet slashed with his
knife to cut the rope with which
one of his cattle was tied in its
stall and the knife glanced and
struck into his leg. Dr. Newman
is of the belief that after the acci
dent Parlet closed the knife and re
turned it to bis pocket without
realizing the seriousness of the
wound lie had given himself.
LOS ANGELES. Jan. 20. — Mrs.
Flbrence Hopklnsen, aged 35 years,
was shot and killed last night in
her home in the presence of her two
sons, by Louis W. MeKennan, aged
3a, rejected, who probably fatally
wounded himself.
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DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bldg.
PHONE £8
Hours S a. ns. te 9 p. K.
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DENTIST
Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Bldg.
Telephone 176.
Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Hours 1 to 4. 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 104; Roe. log.
Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. M. to 9 P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Ren. Phone 27 6
Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bldg.
Telephone 172.
Sitka Hot Springs
Visit the Famous
Dr. F. L. Goddard’s Sanitarium
Rates $3.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comfort
GEO. L. BARTON
(PALMER)
CHIROPRACTOR
201 Goldstein Bldg. Phone 269
Office Hours: 10 to 12 A. M.,
2 to 6 and 7 to 8 P. M.
Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
437 Goldstein Building
Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1 to 5;
7 to 8, or by appointment.
Licensed osteopathic physician.
Phonos: Office, 167; res., 1672.
All Alaskan Trails End at
HOTEL ATWOOD
First Ave. and Pine St., Seattle
Popular Prices. Nearest to Ev
erything. J. A. Farnham and
Ted Taylor, Props.
HOTEL SEATTLE
“Home of Alaskans”
Prices reasonable. European
plan. Seattle, WaBh.
| R. L. HODQDON, Manager
It’s all In knowing HOW to do
first-class cleaning ar.d dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phono 177.
THE MAKING OF CONCRETE '
| is a matter of proper materials |
| together with engineering skill, j
Both is our assets,
i CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFG.
COMPANY
I Willoughby Ave. Phone 32.
Fraternal Societies
-or
Gastineau Channel
O . ELKS
Meeting Wednesday
Evenings at 8:00
o'clock, Elks' Hall.
AKTHUR B. COLE,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodiet
of Freemasonry
Scottish Rite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:30 n. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B HEISEL, Secretary.
I. O. O. F.
SILVER BOW
LODGE NO. I A.
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. M.f
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Grand;
Merle P, Morgan, Secretary.
MOUNT JUNEAO LOMI
No. 147, F. A A. M.
Stated Communication
Second and Fourth Mondays
of each Month, In Odd Fellowa
Hall, beginning at 7:S# o'clock.
R. R. TOTJNG. Master
CHAS E. NAGHEL. Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tues
duya of each month.
At 8 o’clock. I. O. O. F. Halt
ALICE BROWN, W. M.
LOIS NORDL1NG, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
SEGHERS COUNCIL N*.
^jSHMaUy 1760. Meetings secoiid
and last Mondays at 7:10
p. m. Transient Broth
ers urged to attend. Council Chambers
Fifth Street. John F Mullen, G. K.
,T. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at 8 p. m.
Elks’ Lodge Room. ^John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 97 8; G. E.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 196.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every FrHay
night, 8 o'
Moose
cor; H. *J
B. Judso
Secretary
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JL> -
WOKEN • MJ0SK.. -ART
LEGION
Juneau Chapter No. 439
Meeting second and fourth
Tuesday of each month, 8
o’clock, Moose Hall. Mrs. C. W.
Bender, Senior Regent; Mrs. A.
K. McKinnon, Secretary.
AUXILIARY, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA, Igloo No. 6.
Meets the 2d Monday In Moom
Han, at 8 o’clock.
ALICE LAUGHLIN, President.
LILLIE BUHFORD, Secretary.
PERSEVERANCE REBEKAH
LODGE K0. 2A.
Meets every first and third
Tuesdays In I. O. O. F. Hall, at
8:00 P. M. BESSIE MANNING,
N. G. ALPHONSINE CARTER,
i Secretary. f
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