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SENATOR KNUTE NELSON.
Great strength—physical and mental was the
first thing that impressed one in meeting Knnte Nel
t.: n, long affectionately relerred to as the "Grand Old
Man" of Minnesota. Ills physique was stocky and
muscular, his head larger than that of the average
man, his features cast In a strong mould, ills whole
personality was suggestive of uneffectedness, breadth
of mind and decisiveness.
Nelson bad a peculiar aptitude for statecraft, evi
denced1 by t lie fact t hat, besides being a me nub or of t he
I'nited Stati.- Senate for more than twenty-five years,
lie war for six years in the House of Representatives,
and he served in the Legislature of Wisconsin and
Minnci at a and twice as Governor of the last named
Stale. Ho was frankly and unaffectedly proud of
his tecord of never having been defeated for any
office for which lie became candidate. In politics he
was a Republican.
In dealing with legislative que-'ions he w:if thor
oughly fearle; s in his public utterances and, in
private conferences with members of his constituency
was outspoken. One of the many laws passed largely
because of liis initiative and aggressiveness was the
bankruptcy law. which, from his active and suc
cessful connection with it, was known aB the “Nel
eon Cure.”
Horn in Vcss, Norway, on February 2, 184 k,
Knute Nelson came to tIre I'nited Stales with his
widowed mother, when lie was six years old, and
they found their first American home in Chicago
Knute helped his mother by selling papers on ths
|irt(*f?‘“ ' L'tU’rr they moved to Wisconsin and th<
youngster obtained li is first i booling in Dane County
going to the academy at Albion, Wis., where he stud
ied for three years.
In the Civil War Nelson entered the Fourth
Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. He served three years,
taking part in the capture of Fort Jackson, St.
Phillip, and New Orleans, in the siege of Vicksburg
end the battles of Baton Rouge, Camp Rislati and
Franklin. In (lie fighting at Port Hudson, La.. h«
rcceU’ed a wound in the thigh, the effects of which
be #clt the rest of his life. Taken prisoner, he was
lrept at Port Hudson until it surrendered.
Returning to Dane County. Wis., after the war,
Nelson studied law and was admitted to the bar in
18C7. In 1808, Mr. Nelson married Miss Nlcholina
Jacob: on, at Christiania, Wis., and they moved to
Aixandi ia, Minn . which w as to he Nelson's home
thereafter. Five children were born, but four have
died, leaving Miss Ida Nelson the only surviving
child.
Mr. Nelson was elected to the House of Represen
tatives in 188:!. after he had served terms in the
Legislature of both Minnesota and Wisconsin as State
Senator. After six years in the lower house of Con
gress he retired and resumed his law practice. He
Was elected Governor of Minnesota in 1892 and was
reelected two years later but resigned in 1895 to
become I'nited State- Senator to which office he was
reelected in 1901, 1907, 1913 and 1919.
The heme life of the Nelsons was marked by the
Same simplicity as characterized the personality of the
lawyer and statesman, as neither the Senatoi nor
his wife eared for the distractions of social activity,
Mrs. Nelson, long after her husband became a na
tional figure, adhered to old world customs of house
keeping, among them sanded floors.
Mr. Nelson s amusements and recreations were
Simple. He loved to be out of doors, but when in
flic house his chief pleasure was found in his
library, Where he read almost daily, his favorite books
being historical. '1 he Alexandria home is on a large
and well managed farm and the Senator was pleased
If refered to as "Farmer Nelson.” He once said he
did net wish to he culled statesman and that lie was
a Hayseed. The first book he ever had was an
old lrool reader for which lie traded a "jag" of
wood. He kept that little book all his life. Accom
plished as lie war in knowledge of history and the
law, tie was accustomed to say that his best univer
sity had hern the war of the North and South and
the service he saw in it.
Senator Nelson visited Alaska in 1993 accompan
ied by Senator Dillingham of Vermont, Senator Put
teirou erf Colorado and Senator Burnham of New
Hampshire. I hey visited all Southeastern Alaska
points and then went down the Yukon River, up to
Fairbanks and on down to Nome. He always took a
lively ami intelligent inter H in Alaskan affairs.
Kaily in 1 18 Senator Nelson announced that he
would not he a candidate for re-election for I'nited
States Senator. He said he was too old to make a
campaign for the nomination and the election that
w-nifd follow. However, the Democrats erf Minnesota,
t.l the* suggi tion. it is said, of President Wilson,
asked him to run again, and promised him an endorse
ment, so he reconsidered his determination to retire,
and was re-elected for another term with the support
ot the Democratic us w»!l as the Republican Party.
Senator Nelson lived a long and useful life. He
h dead at the age of four score years, and the record
he has left behind, is one of the treasures of the Great
]fest and his country.
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WASHINGTON STATE TO HAVE CON
GRESSIONAL ELECTION.
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| The appointment of Congressman J. Stanley Web
jstcr of Spokane to bo United States District Judge to
•succeed Judge Rudkin, recently appointed to the
Circuit Court of Appeals bench, will, it is admitted,
| remit in a red hot Congressional by-election. The
[Fifth, or Spokane, Washington Congressional District
is the closest in the State. Senator C. C. Dill repre
cented it twice in Congress before Judge Webster of
the Washington State Supreme Court was induced to
resign from the bench and make tlie race against
hint in 1918. Justice Webster had prvcious’y been
, a Judge of the Spokane County Superior Court, and
j was recognized as probably the most popular man in
'that section of the Stale. He defeated Mr. Dill and
I has twice been re-elected. Last fall, however, his
j majority was cut down to less than 3,000. it is con
jetded that tile Democrats will renominate Judge Satn
H. Hill of Watcrvllle who made such a good showing
against Judge Webster. Judge Hill is said to be an
excellent campaigner, ami Senator Dill, admittedly an
excellent campaigner who itas carried the district
titer times in four campaigns, will stump the en
tile district for Judge Hill.
The Republicans realize that they must nominate
a strong man and make a hard fight if they want
to defeat Judge Hill. The man they talk of most
!.s Rufus Woods, editor of the Wenatchee World, who
was a Progressive in the days when (hat party
bloomed. Mr. Woods is a live wire and the bead of a
live newspaper.
A prominent radical lost week referred to The
■ Empire as a "stcBsidized” newspaper. Well, if that is
I true, there lias never been anything paid on the
: susidiGK, and The Empire would like to designate th.e
nn.u who knows so much about the matter to make
{’lie collections.
The school meet has demonstrated that the future
|of Alaska will be in good hands. When the youth
.of Southeastern Alaska reach maturity it will be well
j to keep an eye on this country.
“Marriage a Failure.”
(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
A Cleveland jurist is said to be responsible for
I tlie following hopeless deductions:
] ‘.'Marriage, as a social institution, has failed
' miserably."
“I-ove, after marriage, in most cases, is ‘bunk.’
Most romances fade as the honeymoon wanes, and
, were it not for fear of what the neighbors and fam
ilies would say there would lie many more marriages
go to the Divorce Court."
| "Love of children, religious scruples and fear of
i popular criticism are the three factors that keep
people together."
The cynics from time Immemorial similarly have
: advised us. This man may be a dyspeptic-minded
| cynic, but lie sounds more like one of those unfor
.tunate pessimists tor whom there is no blue in the
| sky, no tragrance in the rose, no music in the
la lighter of a happy child—for whom nothing exists
i but the crepuscular glooms of a nature which has
J lest toucli with tlie inspiring sweetness, truth and
; beauty of the world.
II marriage, as a social institution, has failed
j miserably, then it lollows that life, religion and or
dered socelly have tailed miserably. But this depart
ling ululation of a sick spirit is not true. And, if
it were true, what does lie offer the world in place
ot the Institution he damns so hopelessly?
it will take more than the statement of one in
I dividual to convince the world that the oldest and
: most sacrosanct among human institutions is a
[wretched failure. I'pon tills institution is erected all
society, all government. To it is due the development
.'iid enlargement of all that we know of morality.
Ilf cause of It men and women strive and sacrifice.
Without it there would result universal moral and
social chaos.
Direct Legislation Not Yet a Success.
(Prince Rupert News.)
[ Direct legislation lias not proved to be a success
| so tar. ft is very ponderous and unwieldly anil
jcoetly. So far in British Columbia It lias not been
used but i hr re are threats that it may be in the near
Inline. Those who favor open selling of beer and
those who want total prohibition are both considering
ihe possibility of invoking it with a view to getting
: their case before the people.
W bile on the lace of it, to ask the people to vote
! on a law or to initiate it, seems the right one, there
are many drawbacks when it comes to putting the
system into practice. To educate the people on the
inci its or demerits ol a bill, a good deal of money is
, iic.cc.-ary and the side that puts tiie most money anil
I energy into the work is likely to prove the winner
[ There are so few people who will take the trouble to
read through an act of the Legislature with iis
technical phraseology and criticize it Intelligently
Uutl it seems hopeless to try to get them to vote on
I i intelligently. It it were tried out a few times we
should know more about it, perhaps.
Phone Development.
i (Philadelphia Record.)
■ Men and women of an older generation will recall
i the telephone as a scientific toy of interest, but not
hunch more than that. Today by long distance one
niay speak from San Francisco clear across the con
! tlne"t. down the Atlantic Coast to Key West, and
| thence by cable to Havana, CtHba. The annual report
i«t tho parent organization of the Hell system, just
issued, shows the financial side of the great develop
ment of the telephone. The American Telephone and
ft-]graph t ompatty's Dlrcfors have recommended an
increase in capital stock from $750,000,000 to $1 -
000. 000.000. The total investment in plant and
equipment stands at $1,798,000,000. At the close of
.last year there were 14.050,000 telephones in use, an
I Increase ot 600,000 over the previous year. Instead
[ol a toy the telephone has become one of our chief
utilities, and it seents likely to remain so, with the
probable addition of a radio service through new
discoveries and inventions.
It long lias been declared that Englishmen have
no sttse of humor, but a member of the House of Com
mons the other day pulled (his one in a discussion on
1. udy Astor's liquor bill: Americans are divided into
two classes—those who still have a little and those
who have a little still.” —(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
New York needs several thousand immigrant girls
U'acli week -girls who can cook. These girls are not
coming. Horrible thought! New Cork may have to
learn to cook for itself!—(Chicago News.)
Here is the Standard Oil Company saying that
$ gasoline would ruin the Standard Oil interests.
Hut it would boost La Follette’s Presidential boom
ky high. — (Dallas News.)
Strange how well the country gets along without
the Congressional Record.—(Boston Transcript.)
By practicing thrift you will gain the love and
admiration of your prospective heirs.—(Cincinnati
Enquirer.)
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ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
I
When the Knights Had Their Day
Some books of history tell us
They were so very fond of flight,
We're sure. In days of old,
They had, oh, many a wild knight.
Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
What h:tR beetrme i;' the old
fashioned girl who thought jt war
necessary for the young man to a-»k
her lather before she would consent
to marry him.
The Ananias Club
"No, indeed,” said the girl in til
check room, as she grubbed our hats,
"We wouldn’t think of accepting a
tip (here. We pay $8,000 a year for
this concession just to serve the pub
Ik-.”
An Old One Revamped
Blinks: “A worn,in never knows
her own mind."
.Jinks: "Well, it is no wonder for
she changes her mind so often it
must 'be imipossibls for her to keep
tractk of It.”
Can't We Cross It With the Hen?
(News Item.)
During the lifetime the sturgeon
lays about 7,000,000 eggs.
Fool Questions
T. M. asks: "fan you sleep com
fortably under a .beet of ire and
blanket of snow?" Might, if you did
It long about the middle of August.
Huh!
'She: "Up says he detests prac
tical jokes"
He: "Then w'hy is he always trip
ping the light fantastic toe?"
Pa's View of It
“Pa." said Clarence, "what do they
mean by taxation without representa
tion?”
“My idea of it. son, is for a hus
band to earn all the money und then
not have any -more chance than a
i raibbiit of saying' how it is gonna be
.spent,” replied his dud.
Costs More, Anyway
“What’s worse' than stepping on a
i tack in your bafeleet?” asked New
| POP
“Running over one just after you
have put on a new tire,” retorted
| Otlto Owner.
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Even That Didn’t Warm It Up
i (Eden Ridge for. Falmouth (Ky.)
Outlook, l
Farmers are about done burning
tobacco beds and weather still pretty
! cool.
If It Fits—
If you haven't -/made many friends
I by criticism try flattery.
When you hear a man speaking of
; a girl as ‘'beautiful, ibu't dumb,” you
I know without telling he doesn't mean
! she can’t talk.
i More fellows have gotten a crink in
thpir npeks by having their heads
turned by a ipretfy girl than ever
have by having them turned by suc
cess.
At that, we d mart if a woman cun
suffer more in a tight pair of shoes
than a man can in a high collar.
Nothing can sbock a dear, innocent
mother more than hearing the son
! she thinks is an angel child being
referred to as the Sheik by his girl.
This is the time of year when he
begins to dream of a nice quiet vaca
tion spent along some good trout
I stream and she of a trip to some
| swell seaside resort.
As we understand it the supei
j shouts are absolutely and eternally
j opposed to itiio reittirn of erthe» the
! bustle or the hoop skirts.
We’ll (bet a spoil many oi last
'year's June bride* are beginning to
| feel a little bit surprised to find bow
tired you can get of a hero after
living whth Iti'm less than a year.
Life is full of disappointments, in
cluding that of tlie poor dumbbell
who had planned to retire, but has to
keep on working to meet the alimony
payments
Same children appear to have got
ten fhe idea a certain commandment
h is been changed do “Parents obey
your children.”
A man’s idea of cbpperation is to
start tli ■ garden in the spring und
let his wife take cure of It after tha
weather begins to get too hot.
Daughter's idea of being generous
is to let dear old mother have all
the things she is tired of.
Daily Sentence Sermon
The bird who falls for the bunk of
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USED FUKN1TUM |
Bought, Sold and Exchanged
H. R0C0VICH i
211 Seward St. |
Telephone 441. P. O. Box 111
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JUNEAU TRANSFER
COMPANY
Move*, Pack* and Itorea Freight
and Baggage.
Prompt Delivery of
LADYSMITH COAX
Phone 48.
J'
the easy money promoters stands a
fine chance of losing h1s bunk.
News of the Names Club
I. M. Sane lives at Mexico City,
but if he is we can’t see why he
lives there.
Maybe you can think up something
to say about Lue !. Lovelace Bulley,
of St. Louis, who was m .ITif'd last
week.
May Plead Guilty as
$900,00 Thief.
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[ Ail jPcs's-T'ac U? «»= |
A. H. Pen field, former cashier j
of I tic Springfield (Ohio) Na
tional Bank, is expected to enter i
a plea of guilty to 12 counts in ;
an indictment charging him with j
embezzling $900,OtlO of the funds j
of I he tiank. Should he do so lie |
would be liable to accumulated j
prison sentences of HO years and |
fines aggregating $60,000.
ROY V NYE, FORMED
ALASKA OFFICIAL, DIES:
Roy V. N.ve, fannerly a!ss: can: ,
United (States District Attorney f t |
I the First. Division, serving tin 1- :• |
John Rtr.-'tgard during the Taft A i-,
! ministration, died recently at Mon-1
] rovte, California. Mr. Nye cam.- t.v
I Southeastern Alaska from Fairbanks j
where he had practiced law for smiv-j
[time. lie returned to Monrovia, |
i where lie had come from h.s "drill-1
place in Iowa in 1S87, at the expira !
lio nof his term of office here, lie;
j was married there in 1014 to Mrs.
| Mary L- Squires. Mr. Nye was horn!
| In Iowa 47 years ago and was gra.d
I uated from the University of Cali-,
| farnfe in 1899. Latter he studied at i
jUorne.il and then cattle to Alaska, |
i where he spent a dozen years or
I more. Ha was well known in Ju- j
■ neau. ifis death was preceded bv a,
i lung illness.
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PIONEERS GET ESTATE
| Carl E. Pemrson, form vly ligh:-|
| house keoper at Eldred R; t k, whuj
idled at the M'trine Hospital at Port
Townsend, left ills estate to the Ket
; chikan Igloo of Pioneers.
Furniture nioveo and stored.
Heavy hauling done. Phone 48. Ju
neau Transfer. —adv
ALASKA RADIO
I Buy only Non-Regenerative i
, Sets. Regenerative Sets create
Interference when tuning. Will ,
, be legislated out of air in time.
As well turn automobile loose
I without competent driver.
Julius Jaeger, 324 E- 4t!l st- i
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I ARCTIC BATH HOUSE |
I i
and Barber Shop
| TURKISH, STEAM, SHOWER |
| AND TUB BATHS I
| Lower Front St. (Van Atta’s old |
| stand) BILLY LOTT, Prop, i
I Phone 414. I
TRY OUR *
Merchants Lunch
45 Cents
Arcade Cafe
MARY YOUNG, Proprietor.
I JAPANESE TOY SHOP |
i f I
I H. S. MAKINO i
' Front Street i
! I F. 0. Box 218 for Mail Orden I
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BRIQUETS
Ideal
fuel (or
every
purpose
Luge itocka on band
Ladyimitb coal.
Nanaimo ooa'.
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
n«it sit.
PROFESSIONAL
Drs. Kaser & Freebarger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstela lld(.
PHONE 56
Hour* 9 a m. t« B d. m.
Dr. Charles P. Jenat
DENTIST
Room* 8 and 9 Vawntine Bldg.
Telephone 176.
Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bldg.
Telephone 172.
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Sitka Hot Springs
Visit the Famous
Dr. F. L. Goddard’s Saritarium
Rates $3.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comfort
GEO. L BARTON, D. C.
Chiropractor !
2nd floor Me.sserschmidt Apts.
Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 6;
7 to 9 and by appointment.
Phone 259.
Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
201 Goldstein Building
Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1 to 5;
7 to 8, or by appointment.
Licensed osteopathic physician.
Phones: 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, Wash.
R. L. HODGDON, Manager
It’s all in knowing HOW to do
first-class cleaning ar.d dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
^ THE MAKING OF CONCRETE 1
is a matter of proper materials
together with engineering skill.
Both are our assets.
Established Twenty Years
CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFO.
COMPANY
Willoughby Ave. Phone 32.
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Fraternal Societies
-OP
Gaslineau Channel
B . P .
0 . 1 I K •
ilMtii; Wednesday
Evenings at 8:00
o’clock, El kg’ Hall.
Charles P. Jenne,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodies
of Freematonry
Scottish Rite
Regular meetings
; second and fourth
Fridays each month
‘at 7:S0 p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B HEISEL, Secretary.
i. o. o. w.
SILVER BOW
_ LODGE NO. I A."
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Grand;
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
MOUNT JUNEAO LOOtt
NO. 147, F. A A. M.
Stated Communication
Seci.nd and Fourth Mondays
of «och Month. In Odd Fullers
n»ll. beginning at 7:J# o’clock.
Homer O. Nordllng, Master.
( has. E. Laghel, Secretary.
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tuew
days of each month.
At 8 o’r-lock, I. O. O. F. Hall.
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
-LOIS NORDLING, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OP
COLUMBUS
HEC1HFRS COUNCIL MO.
17 <0. Meetings secoad
and last Mondays at 7:11
^ p. m. Transient Broth
er* urged to attend. Council Chambers
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen, Q. K.
J. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at 8 p. m,
Elks’ ixjilge Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; G. I,
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 198.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o’clock.
Moose Hall. E. F.
Rodenberg, Dictator; R. H. Stevens
Secretary.
i WOMEN OF M00SEHEART
LEGION
I Juneau Chapter No. 439
Meeting Becond and fourth
I Tuesday of each month, 8
i o’clock, Moose Hall. Mrs, C. W.
! Bender, Senior Regent; Mrs. A.
I F. McKinnon, Secretary.
T~AUXILIARY, PIONEERS OP
ALASKA. Igloo No. 6.
Meets Inst Thursday of every
; month. Social hour with mem
; hers of Pioneer Lodge to fol
low each meeting.
I Mrs. T^ottle Spickett, President.
I Mrs. Lillie Burford, Secretary.
I
CALL
OF SPRING
With the return of spring nature awakens to a
new life. New ambitions are also born within us.
New opportunities are given now that do not come
again in the winter season. Why not take a lesson
from nature and prepare for the winter of life by
saving out of the abundance of today. We will help
you in our Savings Department. A dollar is enough
to begin with.
The B. M. Behrends Bank
JUNEAU, ALASKA.
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