MAN FALLS 400
FEET TO DEATHi
DOUGLAS ISLANI
Andrew Merickle, Old Timei
Slips on Ice and Plunges
Over Cliff.
Andrew Merickle, oldtime residen
here, and watchman on the Treat:
well ditch for the past .In year:
was killed yesterday afternoon, whe
he slipped on the ice. rounding
bend on the ditch, and fell over
cliff, 400 feet. Merickle and J. \Y
Atkins, also a watchman on th
ditch were making: the rounds o
the ditch, opposite Mendenhall bat
While rounding the bend across th
top of the cliff, Merickle slipped 01
the ice, which covered the ditch ant
before he could regain his balanr
or Atkins could reach him, plunget
over the cliff, falling the entire 40(
feet. Atkins made all possible hasti
to reach him but he was dead whet
his partner reached the place when
he lay.
Atkins returned to the beach al
once and left on his gnsboat foi
Juneau to notify officials of tht
Company.
At 9:45 o'clock this mornliu
Manager Metzgar sent the Companj
boat Teddy to the Island with Mr
Atkins, Deputy U. S. Marshal S. G
Thomas and others, who will britu
the body to the beach. The boa
will return there at 3 or 4 o’clocl
this afternoon to bring the body o
Merickle, and the party to Juneau.
Andrew Merickle was over fib year
of agp. He came to this country
more than 30 years ago from Wis
consin and has been employed a
watchman on the Treadwell . ditcl
the past 20 years or more. He wu
a logger by profession when he firs
came to this country from Wisconsii
and for a number of years was en
gaged 4n logging in this vicinity, or
a small scale, before becoming as
sociaited with the Treadwell Compan/
He also spent some time here prps
pecting
Merickle was a man of reserve
nature and seldom discussed his ow
affairs, according to old-time resi
dents in Juneau. Nothing can bt
learned of <liis relatives or from wlia
locality in Wisconsin lie came.
MASQUERADE PARTY
ON SATURDAY NIGH!
The masquerade party to be given
Saturday night by the EN-TI-TY Clut
for the students of the ninth, tenth
eleventh and twelfth grades promises
to be a dazzling affair and full nl
enjoyment, according to plans alread.v
made. There will lie prizes for the
most ,'attractive costumes for both
boys and girls, best sustained and
most comical. There will be good
music and sufficient of “eats" to
satisfy all, according to those in
charge.
M'CLOSKEY LEAVING ON
VACATION TRIP TO EAST
J. D. McCloskey, local agent for
the Canadian Pacific Railway Com
pany, ■will leave Juneau tomorrow
morning on the steamer Princess
Mary on a five weeks' vacation trip
lo the States. Mr McCloskey plans
to spend a short time in Seattle and
from there will go East, visiting In
St. Paul, Chicago, Dcs Moines and
Ames, Iowa. At Arnes lie will be the
guets of James Rust, formerly of
Juneau, and who is now attending
Iowa State College there.
During Mr. McCloskey’s absence
the steamship offlco will be in
charge of V. \V. Mulvihill, agent at
Skagway. Mr. MtrlvlhlM! arrived in
Juneau this morning on the steamer
Spokane from Skagway.
YOUNG WANAMAKER
PASSED BAD CHECKS
NEW YORK, Keb. 28. —John
Wanamaker, son of Rodman Wana
maker of New York, and grandson
of the late John Wanamaker, was
sentenced to six months' imprison
ment and to pay a fine of 50,000
francs by a Paris court on a charge
of having obtained 145.000 francs
from the director of DeuvlUe Casino
on checks which it was alleged were
valueless.
Old papers foi sale at Empire
office.
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A. B. HALL
SATURDAY NIGHT
JITNEY
DANCE
Dancing will begin
at 10 o’clock
•‘JUST KEEP
A SMILIN’ ”
FURNISHES COMPANIONS FOR LONESOME MALES.
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Mb's Kvelyn Kent is liown at her desk in lier apartment in
New York City, where she has originated and is carrying on a
unit)ue business. She lias started a bureau, with a service charge
of $lo per call, which will furnish lonesome out-of-towners wilh
clean, wholesome girls for an cv nine's entertainment, consisting
of dinner and theatre cempanion »hip. the host, of course, standing
all the bills. Everything went w 11 until seme practical joker call
ed nineteen times and kept nine con pretty girls waiting for tome
lonesome swain. But she says the bureau is prospering.
HARDY RESIGNS FROM
MARSHAL’S FORCE; IS
EFFECTIVE AT ONCE
The resignation of N O. Hardy.
| as Deputy U. S. Marshal, was made
1 'public today. It is effective at once.
The action of Deputy Hardy, it
was stated by Marshal George I).
| Beaumont, was entirely voluntary,
land the Marshal expressed his regret
at it, saying that Mr. Hardy had
made a very efficient and trust
worthy officer. No appointment has
been made to fill the vacancy.
Mr. Hardy has been a Federal
lofficcr -ince October, 1 ;* 17. when lie
I was appointed as Deputy Marshal by
| then Marshal J. M. Tanner. He was
continued in office by Marshal H -ui■ -
! mont when he succeeded Mr Tanner.
I He was acting Chief Deputy follow
ing the resignation of \V. \V (,'ascy,
; Jr., and resumed that office recently
when A It Cole was given a 30-day
1 leave of absence. Reports of De
puty Hardy’s resignation have been
current for several days but were
not confirmed until today.
SNOW SLIDES FROM
MT. JUNEAU BLOCK
ROAD; DANGEROUS
1 Snow slides from Mt. Juneau into
, Last Chance Basin have lie'n mi
' morons and Often, according to ne t.
who have come to town from the Al
|aska Juneau mine in the ba ,'n. Sev
eral small slides have oc a.—el a
I number of times in the hugest ra
[vines on the mountain. Tim largest
j slide occurred Tuesday w.f i tons
of «nnw slid down ithe ravine i'..out
100 yards up the road from the long
I tranrway on Mil. Juneau, bio K'nj; the
Perseverance and Khner raie» 'roads
;and reaching almost t'o the Gua Club.
A huge boulder, weighing two or
| three tons, was spent down iho motiu-l
! tainside in the slide’ and b Iged on I
the Elmer mine road.
Travel on Perseverance roil is ex
itremely dangerous at this time o!
if he season. At night, as Tuesday
! laht, when several slides are roar
ing down the mountain ravines, it is
1 npossible to tell from what part of
the mountain they are coming. Last
year a party of Juneau residents
barely escaped with their lives when
they were walking to town from the
Ebner mine and tons of snow slid
down a ravine opposite the part of i
the road they were walking. Being
after dark and with the roar ng of
Gold Creek, they had difficult in
discerning where the sii(]e wras and
hv the presence of mind of one of the
I
party throw ithemse.lves flat op the
road, barely in time to ho save I from
being thrown up on the hillside bv
the concussion from the force of th
slide.
iMen who 'have oefcasion to come in
to Juneau from Kbner mine, warn
the people of Juneau to keep off the
road until the danger of snow slides
is past.
Germany May Strike
Zeros from Currency
BERLIN, Feb. 2S.—Following the
example of Soviet Russia, where six
zeros have been chopped from the
ruble which has depreciated to some
thing like 60,000,000 to the dollar,
Germany's 'financiers have been con
sidering doing away with three or
more ciphers on the mark notes, in
view of the rapid decline in the value
of the mark.
Gorman printing presses continue
to turn out 10,000 mark notes by the
ton, and as yet there is no cessation
in sight. German financiers esti
mate that at the present rate the
Berlin government, every 48 hours,
has been turning out more paper
money, figured in marks on a paper
bams, than was issued during the
four years of the war.
MAY INCREASE FUEL
SUPPLY BY CARBONIZATION’
PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 28.—
Charles K. Fettke, associate profes
sor of geblogy and mineralogy at Car
ney1 ;> Institute of Technology in Pitts
burgh, says the waning petroleum
supply of ithe country may be sup
plemented to 'a great extent by tak
ing the enormous quantities of bitu
minous coal now being burned and
subjecting it to low-temperature car
bonization. This process, he claims,
will produce a fuel that is in many
respects superior to raw coal; the
smoke nuisance of cities will be abat
ed and valuable by-products will be
recovered- | *;• jf J
WILL ASK OTHER COUNTRIES
TO PAY DEBTS TO U. S. A
NEW YORK, Fob” 28 - A Wash
ington special to the Times says the
funding of (he British debt will be
made the occasion for a renewed in
vitation to tire other foreign debtors
to take similar steps.
URGE PASSAGE OF MEASURE
The Wrangell Commercial Club has
passed resolutions endorsing the bill
introduced by Delegate Dan Suther
land providing that Alaska shall be
Included as a beneficiary under the
Federal Highway Act.
BASKETBALL AND DANCE
DOUGLAS A. N. B. vs. JUNEAU A. N. B.
8 o’Clock Tonight
A. N. B. HALL
General Admission—50 cents Come Everybody
ALASKA MEAT COMPANY .
Wholesale and Retail Butchers
PHONE 39 SEWARD STREET
PLENTY OFJ5AD WEATHER
to be expected yet. Old Winter hat
a habit of ‘‘lingering in the lap 01
Spring ’’ So don’t let yonr coal tup
ply become exhausted. Have us send
you a ton or so of fine, clean coal
that will insure you a comfortable
home and save the family from man)
of those dreaded spring colds.
We also carry a full line of feed
D. B.~FEMMER
PHONE 114.
KETCHIKAN MAN
DIES; WAS WELL
KNOWN LOCALLY
Judge E. S. Stackpole Passes
Away After Illness of
Several Weeks.
Judge E. S. Stackpole, prominent
citizen of Ketchikan, died there last
night after an illness of several
weeks, according to telegraphic in
formation received today by H. L.
Faulkner. He will be buried at Ket
chikan Friday.
Judge Stackpole was 88 years of
age. Death was not unexpected and
most of the members of his family
had been summoned home soma time
igo. He leaves a wife, two sons,
Harvey, who resides at Ketchikan;
Morrow, who is in charge of i mine
in Mexico; Mrs. Shelton, of Wen
rtehee; Mrs. Youiden. of Butte, and
Mrs. Randolph, of Grant's Pas.-, Ore
Judge Stackpole came to Ketch!
kan 23 years ago and had mads
his home there since that tinr1. Tie
was United1 States Commi o'oner
there for 14 years, serving under
Tudge N. C. Brown. R. A. Gn.aul&on
T. R. I.yons and R W- Jennt tgs in
‘.hat capacity and voluntarily resign
ing from office.
"He was one of the It eat known nr.1
best liked men In the Territory,' sail
Mr. Faulkner -this morning on receipt
of the new of the death. Mr. Faulk
ners' acquaintance and friendship
with the deceased extended over a
period of 20 years.
Judge Stadkpole was a resident of
Montana before coming to Alaska.
He was interested in the mining in
dustry there. At one time he served
as postmaster at Deer Lodge, Mont.
He was n Maoon and a member of
the Arctic Brotherhood.
I WHO’S HERE |
I AND WHERE I
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Mrs. W. G. Wright loft Juneau on
the Spokane on a trip to the States.
She expects to remain Outside until
early summer.
J. G. Carson, fox farmer with a
farm near Hoonah, who arrived here
Monday cn the Esteboth, left on the!
Spokane for the States.
At the Gastineau
Alfred Christiansen, Andrew Run-'
ning, H. M. Moffett, Joe Edgar, A.
W. Long-aker, W. E. Riwden, It. F.
Sweeting, Nellie Simpkins.
At the Alaskan
J. W. Atkins, Manus Dugan, S
Knudsen, Charles Larson, John i
Morin.
BONUS QUESTION TO VOTERS
NEW YORK, Eeb. 28—The Now |
York legislature has passed the bill
submitting to the voters of the state |
the question of paying a bonus to |
New York soldiers and sailors who[
served the country during the war.
Headquarters for Ladysmith coal.
Juneau Transfer Co. Phone 48. adv.
Eor engraved or printed calling;
cards see The Empire.
JITNEY DANCE
ELKS' HALL
THURSDAY NIGHT
COLISEUM ORCHESTRA
You know this is the place for
peppy music and a good crowd.
Only a few more dances and then
the door prize will be awarded.
SAVE YOUR COUPONS
Follow the Crowd
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 are 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
PH01S 25
Accused of Stealing
Tellegen’s Love.
Kathleen Clifford is one of the
two noted actresses named by
Geraldine Farrar in her New York
divorce action against Lou Telle
gen.
PIONEERS GUESTS OF
AUXILIARY TOMORROW
NIGHT AT MOOSE HALL
A big time Is planned by Pioneer
Auxiliary Igloo No. 6 for tomorrowj
night, when they will entertain the!
members of the Pioneer Lodge, fol-j
lowing the initiation ceremony of the]
Auxiliary, at Moose Hall, The in it in -1
tion ceremony of the lodge will start I
at 8 o’clock, at which .time the Pio
neers will a Iso hold a regular meet
ing, on the first floor of the hall.
Following the business, which is
planned to be ended about 9:30
o’clock, the lodges will join forces
for an evening of entertainment.
Cards and dancing will make up the
program.
Excellent music has been provided
for by the committee in charge of
the entertainment and plenty of Vir
ginia reels and other old-time dances;
will be given. Guests not wishing to I
dance will play card3 or be enter
tained with social gatherings. A reg
ular old-time supper will be served
later in the evening.
The get-ttogether evening of the j
two Hodge? of Pioneers is the first |
that has been given in several |
months and all members plan to at-1
tend. I
NO BUTTINSKIES WANTED
NEW YORK, Feb. 28.—A Paris
special to the American says any
mediation offer between France and
Germany will be regarded by France
as “unfriendly.”
Old bundles of newspapers at tha
Etnnlre. 25 cents.
Stories They
Tell of
Lady Elizabeth
LONDON’, Fob. 1!8.—Since the put
Mic learned of t.he engagement of th
Dike of York to Lady Elizabet
Bowes-Lyon, the papers have bee
I flcbded with copy of the “I kne\
tier when—" type. The truth of th
matter is that the only thing mos
Englishmen knew about Lady Eli*:
both was that she was one of Prir
‘cess Mary's bridesmaids, so that mos
any little insight into her life i
| news to them. Now, in England
there comes a time in the life of a
most everyone of consequence whe:
he or she is (thrown into contact wit:
I American tourists, and. likely as no:
[ something funny happens. Usuall,
the joke is on the Americans.
It was that way with Lady Eliza
beth. according to one of the storie
now being circulated about her. I
seems that once upon a time a part;
of American tourislts came to he
father's famous Irish seat, Glatni,:
Castle, where Hamlet is supposed t(
■have killed Duncan. Lady Elizabeth
though usually sedate, was for th<
moment in a playful mood. She at
tired herself in housemaid's garb, ap
proached the visitors, aind offered tc
show them the sights. Her offei
was accepted and (the visitors, aftei
giving the place the “once over,’
tipped her and went their way, uevei
suspecting that the modest maid was
tihe daughter of the titled owner and
destined to be the Duchess of York
PETERSBURG TO HAVE
NEW SCHOOL HOUSE
The Petersburg City Council has
let a contract for the erection of a
new concrete. Hire-proof school houst
for Petersburg. Work on the new
building is to begin the last of Marct
and the building must be ready foi
occupancy at the beginning of th<
next scroo! year. The cost is to b<
$39,000.
KIRK'S
ROSORA
CREAM
Excellent for
all Kinds of
Rough or
Chapped Skin.
TRY THE
BUTLER-MAURO DRUG
COMPANY
FIRST
96 Front St. Juneau, Alaska
Young Washington Girl
to Make U. S. Debut.
Miss Sylvia Lent, a young
Washington, D. C,, woman, who
lias been studying abroad Tot years
1 under Leopold Auer as Ills first
American pupil, has returned from
European successes to make her
American debut in New York on
March 5.
“TO LET” PLACARDS are "ad
vertising,” or course, in a foolishly
limited sense. If you wait to advor
SPECIAL
JEWEL BOXES
50 cents each
We are showing tor
the first time beauti
ful card ivory vanity
cases.
The Nugget Shop
R. SIMPSON, Manager.
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NEW GOODS
-Women’s Rain Coats
A new lot of women s raincoats and cravenetted coats in
Gabardine, Twills, and Tweeds are now ready for your inspection.
Hand Decorated Aprons
New aprons with a dainty touch of hand work. Just the
thing to add a little cheer to the home these rainy days. And
inexpensive too.
WATCH FOR OUR NEW BETTY WALES AND WOOLTEN
COATS AND SUITS
Our New Spring Oxfords and Pumps Are Here
Large assortment in the latest styles and colors. Only a
short time till Easter. Make your selection early while we have
all sizes and widths.
Goldstein s Emporium
JUNEAU'S STYLE CENTER
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