NOT SO RICH
The diving company at work
trying to recover treasure from
t he sunken wreck of the old Ca
nadian steamer “Islander,” has
recovered from the ship’s safe
fifteen pounds of gold dust,
with a value of $3,700. The re
futed wealth in the sunken ship
is said to be in the several mil
lions.
’’TAINT SITMPIN” IN ALASKA
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Three young women jdmmed
traffic in Los Angeles recently by
; ppearing in the busy part of
the streets of the city clad in
mud pajamas. Police had to un
tangle the crowd assembled,
and escorted the young women
to a nearby restuarant.
Alaskans are not bothered by
pajamas and it is not because
it is too cold to wear them. They
just have not reached bizzare
civilization.
Seattle tells of a buxom maid
who appeared in a popular help
yourself grocery, clad in a sawed
off bathing suit. She never
caused a ripple in the Queen
City because she had on a flow
ing mantle —and it flowed.
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It won’t be long now wher
the “back to Adam and Eve’
Colony will be right in style
The South African wearing a
I pair of pantaloons and a silk
top hat is more embarrassed
than his brother who wears
nothing more than a pleasant
'smile and a breech cloth. Such
is civilization.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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Representative John F. Miller
of Washington, made a talk re
cently over the radio. His thots
are worth repeating. They fol
low:
“My thought is that a man
who is tricky in politics will be
tricky in anything else where the
inducement is as great, and
where he stands an equal chance
of covering up. An honest man
will be as honest in his political
dealings as in other dealings. A
political trickster is the last man
who should be connected with
any degree of responsibility in
party management. Pure and
honest politics, loyalty and hon
'est conduct, fairness and up
rightness and highmindedness
I should be the course of every
one who is in any degree intrust
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Baying
Halibut
Salmon
Sablefish
Petersburg. Juneau and Ketchikan
Buying
Salmon
For Freezing, Mildcuring and Shipment
Fresh at
Chatham and Noyes Island
New England
Fish Company
| Est. 1868
II “Always in the Market11
ji Store Departments - Oil Stations - Wire
| less Stations at Chatham and
ji Noyes Island
M. S. "Pacific” leaves Pe
tersburg for Port Alexander
every Friday at 4 p.m.
- Folgers Coffee -
J. B. Caro Company
Hi
Pool and Billiard Tables
At
BRENNAN’S
| Cigars and Tobaccos of all kinds
‘.U*4**a* '**«*+*++++++++++++++++++*++++++* *+++*++***
Smokers Supplies of Highest Quality.
Phone 17
THE ARCTIC CLUE
home of the fishermen
FULL LINE OF TOBACCOS & CONFECTIONERY
WE Move Anything Loose On One End
reliable transfer
General Hauling
Phones 3 and / 2
cd with the privilege of shaping
the public’s thought.”
Mr. Miller must be meeting a
bit of Alaska politics in Seattle.
Let thorn who wish to wear this
descriptive coat put it on, if it
fits. We are not fitting it to any
| one in particular, but he who
puts it on does so because of his
own conscience.
PARTY HARMONY
We here much these days of1
the states party harmony I
I within tbe ranks or the Repub-1
licans. And in Alaska also we j
note a general desire to create I
a harmonious situation. 7 e
Alaskan has not changed its n )l-,
icy since its first issue—ana hi
follows only the dictates of its
owners, the Alaska Native Bro-'
th°i’hood. It has been consist-1
ently Republican, supporting Re-1
publicans in primary and gei-j
er: > elections. Some who havoi
cnposed us are now lined vnj
with their former Democratic i
(leader) support against them
a id wondering what The Alas
kan is going to do. So the ur.,n
is that the Republicans get tn
get her in the interest of parts
haimony Oh yes, we like har
mony—but for the sake of hai -
niony why not piay over in o u
yard instead of trying to make
us go into the other fellows yard.
You bet, it makes a world of
difference whose ox was gored
and that ”1,000 or 1.200 votes”
mean the difference between de
feat and victory. Oh yes Let’s
have harmony—Put change the
■tune a bit from what the fisher
man, the logger and the home
builder have had to dance by
and give them a real tune which
they will enjoy. That will be :
real harmony.
WHY NOT TALK FOR ALASKA ,
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From the Seattle Star
Hundreds of Seattle, workers
will remain idle and thousands
of dollars’ worth of material foi
the construction of the new fed
eral buildings here will go out of
the state because our represent
atives at Washington are “so
dead on their feet” that they
failed to make a fight for north
west industries, Ralph A. Horr,
candidate for Congress, charged
at Empire Way Improvement
Club, Monday night.
Altho the northwest products
committee of the Chamber of
Commerce has lodged a com
plaint and has been ready at all
times to aid our congressmen,
Seattle’s federal buildings will
be built with Indiana limestone
instead of a Seattle product,
Here charged.
“The indolence of disinterest
of Seattle’s congressmen is the
more striking compared with the
activity of the Oregon delega
gation confronted with exact
ly the same situation,” Horr
charged. “At Klamath Falls
where a new federal building is
being constructed, the Oregon
congressmen made a fight and
had the government building ex
perts substitute Oregon granite
for Indiana limestone, thereby
keeping Orgon’s people on the
payroll and her quarrj indus
tries active.”
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PLANS FOR ALASKA BOARD
MENACES PUBLIC DOMAIN
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By Stanley Bailey in Tacoma
Times
Government administration of
Alaskan affairs for years has
been the cause of bitter strife.
The special committee of the
United States Senate created to
study territorial affairs this sum
mer was specifically instructed
to recommend legislation to
remedy conditions.
In 1920 Senator Harry New of
Indiana, benefactor of John B.
Edwards, who has charge of all
forest leases of the Department
of the Interior, intoduced a bill
to create an Alaska Board
Could Sell Anything
Under that bill the Board
would have absolute power to
sell anything in the Territory.
Those vast coal fields of the
Territory could be sold for $1.
Great forests could be sold for
any sum the board deemed suit
able if the bill passed.
The bilj was indorsed by the
then Secretary of the Interior
Lane. Loud protests were heard,
and Lane resigned—as did Se
cretary Denby of the Navy, fol
lowing disclosures of his actions
concerning refusal to develop
coal for use by the navy.
The bill was introduced in
1921. If it had passed, the Board
would be responsible to no one
and would have unlimited auth
ority. Further attempts to pass
it are expected at any time.
Through the financial history
of Alaska seems to run a trail
of strangulation.
First the Alaska railroad was
mismanaged. It cost millions of
dollars and failed by far ade
quately to serve the people of
the Territory.
It is the most important artery
of the Territory through the
richest regions of that vastly
rich empire. It was discredited.
Development BlocPted
Every effort to obtain develop
ment of the huge coal fields were
blocked.
Development of the timber
industry is being retarded by of
ficial action.
Evidence shows departments
are honeycombed with agents oJ
particular interests that might
be interested in Alaska.
Ts the gigantic plot to prevent
development of Alaska based or
hone that Congress will create
an Alaska Board—with absolute
power to sell the Territory?
The Senate’s Alaska oommitte
has a vital problem there.
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ASK CORDOVA C. OF C.
Last week we published the
arotest of the Cordova Chamber
af Commerce which condemned
n positive terms the series of
xrticles by Mr. Bailey, which in
cluded the above. v
We ‘cannot see any good trying
to heal the surface of a sore and
letting it fester underneath. Cer
tainly some of the charges are
not without foundation—better
to get the root of the sore 01U
and get the system in a healthy
condition than to be ever both
ered trying to cure the surface
of the sores.
A competent im estimation will
not hurt the rai’road or any
bureau—trying to sidestep an
investigation must be for an ul
terior purpose. If a wash—tho
rough one is needed, have it done
with and start all over again.
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A LOST EVIDENCE
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A fisherman was arrested not
Long since for possession of that
heavenly light which gives joy
to those who have the “jack.”
That night a very sociable t me
was had by one of the prisoners
with his jailor as host—and the
famous mountain dew whetting
up appetites and the feeling of
security and comfort behind the
walls of Uncle Sam’s stone
house. Ten dollars and costs,
said a lenient judge the nextj
day.
The next day two men were
talking when one said: I hear
that a prisoner and the marshal
drank up the evidence in John’s
?.ase. The quick reply was:
Don’t I know it. It wTas my
oooze. The other fellow passed
Out. i
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PECULIAR PROSPERITY
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From various sources we have
oeen told that the country and
snd its people are prosperous.1!
We have been told of bread, and (
■oup lines in the States a he of
Tien digging bread and meat
oones out of garbage cans and
sating it on the spot. Now we ;
reprint the following from the :
columns of a contemporary: <
“Persons who believe that un- ]
smployment is not causing in- ]
Lense suffering in this country, ]
?hould have been in the vicinity ]
of the Fort Hill Square (Boston)
ire station, one day last week.
A fireman threw a crust of
oread to a flock of pigeons, but :
oefore the birds had a chance i
it the morsel, a hungry man
grabbed the crust and fled down
die street stuffing it into his ;
mouth.”
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. .We have no baby autos, baby
'golf, baby nurses or baby kitch
ens—but we do have the babies
themselves.
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WAR PROFITS
Gustavus Myers, writing in
the New York “World’ about
what American captains of in
dustry were doing while our
boys were fighting in France,
says:
“The scope of profiteering
reached into every field. It was
computed that corporations in
the United States collected a
total revenue of $4,800,000,000
more a year during the three
war years, from 1916 to 1918,
than they did in the three pre
war years from 1912 to 1914.”
It may be true that these in
dustrialists do not deliberately
promote war, but they certainly
make the most of it after it
starts.—LABOR.
THICK SKINNED
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A piece of leather four feet
square, two inches thick and
like armorplate is being prepar
ed for shipment to the Univers
ity of Washington Museum. It
is probably the oldest bit of
leather in the world today, says
i press dispatch from Seward.
The patch of hide belonged to
a great flying lizard that roam
ed the prehistoric hills of Alas
ka and whose meat finally be
came food for bears. It was
discovered on Cook Inlet by
Herman Burkhard, Los Angeles
banker, and his guide, Russell
Annbet of Anchorage. The
creature measured 60 feet long,
with a skull 38 inches long.
A piece of its hide and por
tions of flesh remained where
the giant saurian had been ov
erwhelmed by glacier ice in the
undra shales. Such lizards had
forty teeth, each weighing ten
ounces, and ribs five feet long.
The last recorded discovery of
a prehistoric creature in Alaska
was in 1902 near Nome, where a
mammoth with frozen flesh and
bide complete was discovered
by a gold miner at the foot of
his shaft.
Every spring huge tusks and
lores of mammoths and other
orehistoric creatures are left
ncovered along the Yukon,
Kuskokwim and other streams
in Alaska, where frost action
topples over high embank
ments or floods wash away cliffs.
Scientists have been awaiting
he discovery of an entire mam
moth preserved in the frozen
-ubsoil along the Alaska rivers
3r near Kotzebue Sound, where
ihe finest fossil ivory is abun
dant.
UNITED STATES UNEM
PLOYED NOW 2,508,151
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Two per cent of the popula
tion of the United States, or 2,
i>08,151 persons out Of 122,698,
190, were unemployed in April,
the bureau of census announced
today .
This unemployment figure
vas for Class A, described as
‘persons out of a job, able to
vork and looking for a job.”
“It may be noted that the per
centage of the jobless for the
■ountry as a whole agrees very
dosely with the percentage
fune 26, which covered a little
ess tha i one-fourth of the p >
milation, thus substantiating
;he assertion then made, that
he earlier announcement form
’d a representative basis for es
timate,” the statement said.
Per Cent Differs
The percentage of unemploy
ment given for the different
states ranges from 0.5 per cent
>f the total population in South
Dakota and Missisippi to 3.2
ier cent in Rhode Island and
'Jew Jersey and 3.3 per cent in
Michigan.
Numerically the unemployed
vere greatest where there was <
‘he largest population. The I
lumber for New York was 364,
517, 2.9 per cent, and and in Illi
nois 236,926, 3.1 per cent. Penn
sylvania showed 211,877 unem
iloyed, 3.1 per cent; New Jersey, ;i
127,615, 3.2 per cent; Michigan,
160,506, 3.3 per cent, and Mass
achusetts, 115,970, 2.7 per cent.
The lowest number of unem
ployed was 2,741 in Delaware,
1 1 per cent, and 2,850 or 3.1 per
cent in Nevada.
THREE SENATORS ARE IN
ALASKA TO LOOK OVER
GOVERNMENT RAILWAY
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A Senate committee, consist
ing of Howell of Nebraska, Ken
diick of Wyoming, and Thomas
of Idaho, are in Alaska investi
gatng the government-owned
railroad.
“We will handle the situation
with real vision and the spirit
of the West,” said Senator Ken
drick during a talk at a dinner
tendered the visitors at Juneau.
“We will give the sympathetic
consideration we would ask of
you if the situation were revers
ed and you were the investiga
tors.
The Alaskan road is being
persistently “knocked” in Wash
ington by opponents of govern
ment ownership They would
like to have it turned over to the
Guggenheim and Morgan inter
ests which, ever since the days
of the Taft administration, have
been struggling to cinch their
hold on the territory’s great na
tural resources.
The people of Alaska are in
favor of the present arrange
ment. They point out that the
| road was built as a pioneering
project to deliver an empire and
pay until there has been a mark
ed increase in population.
They point out that the road
Instead of crippling the gov
ernment’s road, they say Uncle
Sam should establish better
shipping connections between
the United States and Alaska.
At present private interests
have a monopoly, with the result
tftat while Alaskans get reasoiv
able rates on the government’s,
railroad, they are “held up” by
the privately-owned ships.—LA
BOR.
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KER SPLASH
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He (bragging about ancestry):
i“Yes, my father sprang from a
iline of peers.”
Bored listener:“Did he drown?”
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If your not a thinking man,
to what purpose are you a man
at all?—Coleridge.
Every misfortune is to be sub
dued by patience.—Virgil.
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Guy, Skyman. Local Agent
The new Ford will give you yvu every comfort and
convience of a high priced car at a price within your
reach. Operating costs are low and greater mileage
assured at a minimum cost.
Fryer Machine Works
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The best of the season for canning fruits
Peaches
Pears
Prunes
At their best and cheapest
Fruit jars, jar caps, jelly glasses.
Certo
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I Alaskan Glacier Sea Food Co.
Ohmer Will Buy Halibut For The
i; Fresh Fish Market. See Earl
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Before You Sell Your Fare.
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General Blacksmith
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