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WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE
RUT LN THE CITY’S MAINS
During tlie recent freeze-up tlie
city water barrels went nearly dry
again. Three times this year has the
shortage happened. So far, out side
of a few grunts and growls, we
have gotten along fairly well, but
we have been lucky. And LUCKA
is the fitting term. We have been,
and are, playing with fire and dis
ease and so far have been a little
bit the winner.
But Lady Buck has a habit of shift
ing her affections. The next water
shortage may find her on the other
side. Then what?
Those who have the welfare of
the town in mind have been bring
ing up our poor water system, airing
it, cursing it, condemning it for the
past seven or eight years and the
town goes serenely on its way, bow
ing to the god of chance, throwing
a kiss to Bady Buck and trusting
to old Jupe Pluvius to keep the bar
rels full.
Petersburg isn’t the only town
that has played a long and a lucky
hand in this respect, but if we know
anything at all we know that in the
end they’ve lost and lost heavily.
And we’re not immune, O, no.
Some day when the black smoke
starts curling up where the build
ings are close together, some day
when an epidemic strikes the com
munity, and the reservoir is dry
what’ll be done?
Come, folk, lets plunge up a
little and build a decent water con
tainer. We have the location, the
water is pure, we have the dam
site (even though we haven’t the
water by a damn sight just now)
and we have the means if we really
want to go ahead.
TWO MILLION' MORE TO HE Li
THE BOOZE RUNNERS
It comes out now that the Anti
Saloon Leage has nearly two mil
lions of dollars to toot on through
another year.
All of this anti-saloon stuff is
making rich pickings, and there arc
not a few imbibers on its payroll.
Evidently, things are going very
well for the No-More-Booze-Crusad
ers and it isn’t generally believes
that they desire a change, in the
average running of affairs, half so
much as they want us to think.
Swivel chair jobs at fat salaries
are more or less appealing and the
team work, on the surface, of the
anti-this and the anti-that is com
mendable, of course, but we rath
er doubt the sincerity of the loud
est talkers.
And me-o-my! What a lot of
snoopers, spies, gum-shoers, pussy
footers and sneak3 there are who
now draw a stipend from th^
League who once depended on their
gats and blackjaks for. a precar
ious living. These shady folk have
the art of “following the lines of
least resistance” down pat.
The Anti-Saloon League will make
a big noise with its nearly $2,000,
000 and 95 percent of the net re
sult will be noise because there is
bo little of its movement that is
four square.
DOGS DEAD, PERFUMED AND
OTHERWISE
Up around Cordpva way they are
having a rip snorting time about
dogs. Cordova's dog catcher ap
pears to be on the job and he’s
nailing ’em when he can and where
he can, and “when” is often and
“where” is any old place. It’s caus
ing a deal of strife, but the number
of dogs is growing smaller.
As the Cordova dog catcher goes
hlg gruesome way there comes out
of Lunnon Town, across the pond,
a gink with costly and exclusive
perfumes lor society pups—tiie four
legged—aud it is reported tdat lie s
ioing a big business.
Where they are killiug canines
Line place they are perlunnng ’em
in another. Here in Petersburg
they do nothing and there are more
ornery dogs to the square men
than you can shake at a stick in
a month of Sundays.
That section of town lying be
tween the Hogue ^.nd Tveten Com
pany's building and the sawmill and
bacK to the creek is just crawling
with dogs aud some of ’em are so
darn mean that grief will come oi
'em before long. The authorities
should make some move to rid tne
town of its curs, near ours and no
account dogs.
AM ERKOK, WE TltlMK
We think the Commercial Club ot
Petersburg is making a mistake in
sending Mr. C. E. Swanson, to Wash
ington, D. C.
At this time, and considering the
linancial conditions of S. E. Alaska
—and of Petersburg in particular,
—we think it is a mistake to senu
any one. We can ill afford, now,
what we think will be little more
than a junketing trip.
But if the Commercial Club is
bent on sending a mau to Wash
ington for financial aid, or for Gov
ernment assistance, in our local har
bor improvements, the greater mis
take is in the man it has selected.
Mr. Swanson is an able man in
the particular line he is following.
He is one of the rustling citizens of
Petersburg’ and is, apparently], a
success in a business way, but he
is not of that representative type,
nor of that personality that demands
attention, creates interest and in
spires confidence.
(.IMS HOURS—A CULT US CLASS
If there is anythink lower than
the average private detective we
don’t know w'hat it is unless it
may be a snake. They’re out for
any thing at any time and for the
one who pays the most irrespective
of the rights or wrongs in the case.
In the big oil affair dragging along
at Washington members of the
Burns Detective Agency have been
caught in some pretty shady trans
actions. So shady, in fact, that
Justice Siddons has granted a mis
trial in the Sinclair trial wherein
one McMullin, of the agency was
found to be working the Govern
ment instead of for the Govern
ment. He was also under Sinclair
pay.
LEST WE FORGET
Ten years ago on the 4th of Nov
ember the first Americans went
down before the leaden hail of a
raiding party of German soldiers in
the World War. Ten years ago this
month our first dead lay stretched
out on the battle field and it seems
but yesterday that we saw them
march away. There were nearly
230,000 to follow this first detach
ment over the Great Divide, and in
the killing as a whole do we ever
think of those who were the trail
blazers into the unknown regions?"
SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA COAST
, SURVEYS
THE ALASKAN- Is in receipt of
the Annual Report of E. Lestei
Jones, Director Coast and Geodetic
Survey. The report is in bound
form and is replete with informa
tion bearing on United States Const
and Geodetic Surveys and covers
the fiscal year ending June 30th,
1927.
What will be of great interest to
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Alaskans is that part of the report
wherein the surveys of Southeast
ern Alaska in both text and illus
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fratio.JUji are a prominent feature..
TJie details of the work in cue
ueld cover the hydrogi apum and
; upogi apluc, die geodetic,- the mag j.
Lie lie and seismoiogie, the t ide unit t.
current. 1
We quote from press memoi-an- >
ium under release (late of JMovem-jc
ber 25tli, 1927: 1
Colonel Jones, in his report, says: <
“in Southeastern Alaska, tne sur- *
vey ship Surveyor obtained eve- :
20,000 soundings and fully survey
ed a.u area of 1,255 square miles (
along the outside coast, •extending .
as far north as Lituya Bay. This t
was an original survey of the area
involving triangulation control, lopo- ;
graphy, and inshore hydrography <
along the shore, as well as onshore ;
hydrography. The party on the
Surveyor completed a survey of the
coast of Southeastern Alaska
the international boundary at Dix n
Entrance to Lituya Bay..”
“1 his illustrates what can be
done by modern survey ships and
by the new methods which have ,
been adopted in recent ytars. Tot,
only is the .work being done more J
economically than ever before, but
the Governirdent i3 giving to ail the
.maritime -interests much-needed
clouts and other nautical data that
[are alone responsible for the reduc
tion in loss of life and property at
sen.*
The report states that it i plan
ned to complete the compilation of
seven new charts of Alaskan wa1
during tiie present, year, and to i -
construct two other Alaska > arts,
in conformity with the latest sur- j
vey data.
Detailing the activities of the Sur-j
vey in Alaska during the lisca
year. Colonel Jones say.
. “Surveys begun during the pro
vious year in southeastern Alaska
were completed in the following le
ealities: APort Alexander, Pybus
Bay, Kaigani Strait and Port Re
fugio. In 'various sections of t^ie
main " ship .channels supiemenla
wire drag examinations were linish
ed. Additional surveys were con
pleted in Red Bluff Bay, Warm
Spring Bay, . Tebinkof Bay, Gedney
Harbor, Port Lucy, Pori Herbert,
Deep Cove, Patter-son Bay, in Chat
ham strait otr cape omaney, aiong
Baranof Island from Point Herbert
t<X Point Patterson, and along Kuiu
Island from Point Harris to Point
Ellis. A base line of. second-order
accuracy was measured near Ivillis
noo.”
“The survey previously inaugurat
ed on the outer coast was extended
from Cross Sound to Lituya Bay and
offshore for fifty miles to depths ot
1,000 fathofns, including the loca
tion of all fishing banks in that
area. This work completes the
original survey of the , outer coas'
of southeastern Alaska.”
Til western Alaska ""the survey of
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Shuyak Strait, including Red Fox j
and Blue Fox Bays,- was.-finished.” i
“At the-'dose- of The year addi
tional surveys were in .progress in j
Baidy Bay, Tlevak Strait, Kla vai
Iiilet, Evans Bay, land Drier Bay
The program for extending origin a
surveys ' alon'& 'the- «‘coast of Alaska
west df-‘ Prince' William Sound way
inaugurated * with actual work. ac
complished in the vicinity of Cape |
St.- Elias, Point / Elrington, Pott!
Bainbridge, Drier Bay-, and in , Nuka j
BaK” '■ : . ■■ i
Both magnetic . and - seisn ologie
work 'was oarried on continuously j
during the year at the Survey’s ob- ;
servatory at -Sitka, the ; report says, i
and investigations of aurofa and:
megnetic storms, and - their r< 1-ation
to radio and cable transmission wer?
carried on at--this observatory. Tide
-observations - wefe’ -carried on dur
ing the ye'ar ,a‘t -three, primary tide
-stations, in 'Alaska,; Hocated at Ket
chikan, Valdez, and Seward.
In stressing the important work
which should he undertaken by.the
Coast and Geodetic Survey at the
earliest possible date, Colonel Jones
make particular mention of the
necessity for additional magnetic
observations in. Alaska. “The time !
has arrived,” he says, for the decen
nial occupation of repeat magnetic
stations in Alaska. It will be verv
diffiifult to obtain all the. necessary
obsevations ;by .1930 without putting
more parties ; in the field than the
present appropriation permits.”
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CONVERSION TO OIL. f]
The United States Shipping
>oard has contracted the change
f three steamships to that of the
)iesel motor veisels to compete
vitli large motor ships sailing un
[er foreign flages in long distance
uns. The cost of conversion, in
ducting engines is as follows: The
'ourugeous, $1,319,000, Defiance,
;i’l92,000.; Triumph $1,315,000.
The above contract figures are
mtside of the appropriation of
J25,000,000. made some time ago
0 convert a number of steamers to
Diesel power as an experiment—in
1 way—with internal combustion
engines on longer than ordinary voy
ages. On what are termed “short”
voyages—500 to 4000 miles—oil
mining engines show so little sav
ing over oil consuming steamships
it large tonnage that conversion in
Shis line will be slow if at all. In
fact steamers using pulverized coal
in recently patented burners are
showing such good results in steam
ing costs per mile that it is quite
probable a return to coal will come
in the near future.
Large cargo boats on long trips
however, at present cost of oil, are
more economical when powered with
engines of Diesel design than steam
driven vessels are.
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Ihere is a rancher down San ^
Francisco way who is battered and j
bruised. He came into court in
early November and asks that a
crimp be placed on his wife’s ac
tions. He first wants the court to
prevent his wife from locking him
out of the house, but if he should
manage to gain an entrance he re
quests that the court enjoin her
from heaving him out. He has
been of the garden variety of hus
bands for a month or more, since
the garden has been as close to the
house he thought was his as he
.has been able to get. For this neg
ligence of the wife in inviting him
jin he wants $5000. It is evident
•om this that trie loving lady ha* 'OS
le purse, too. The flui ter is now i •
efore an Oakland court.
LB HE IS A GOOD GOOD POSITION
FOR A REAL WORKER
We are offering Permanent Posi
ions to a few reliable men and wo
aen, in which an excellent income
rom side-earnings .even to PART
TME workers acn be made. Durtug
mr 35 years in business we have ap
»ointed over 518,000 agents who
upply our household necessity to
mr customers in every country in
he world. Many of our agents
lave been with us over thirty years
md have achieved Financial Inde
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lecessary to appoint more local re
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For Tractor power, $75. Equip
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Fresh Choice Meats
Canned Fruit; Etc.
Petersburg,
Alaska
Joiin Fan ning
SHOE STORE
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Best grafte of Shoes for men,
women and children.
/ Best Quality Goods
at very low price.
Shoe repairing neatly done.
The ever growing Circulation of
.'he ALASKAN among buyers is an
nducement to Merchants to Adver
ise in The ALASKAN.
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and Cinnamon Rolls *■
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tersburg Friday morning, leaving
for Juneau via Kak> and way ports
about noon.
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