VOL. I
PETERSBURG, ALASKA AUGUST 13 * / f U Q
NO- 5
ME KPIffi HERE
EIWII1E It JUNEAU
The aerial mappers, Lieut. Wy
att in command arrived here with
their machines Wednesday morning
and the mother ship the U. S. S.
Can net pulled into port with barge
in tow Wednesday afternoon en
route to Juneau.
Mapping operations out of Wran
gell were completed much sooner
than was expected. In fact the pro
gram laid out for this expedition
was on a basis of three years. At
the present rate of operation this
work wilj be completed much soon
er. In the few days of work with
base of operations at Wrangell over
12,000 square miles were covered.
The expedition is now enroute to
Juneau from which point they will
operate in this district. It is their
plan, weather permitting, to finish
that district before the Taku winds
start this fall whereupon they will
return to Petersburg and complete
tht. mapping of this district.
Upon their arrival here, the offi
cers and crew were met by mem
bers of the Chamber of Commerce.
The Chamber of Commerce was
host to the visitors at the Home;
Cafe. Later in the evening a dance
in the Sons of Norway Hall was
tendered the visitors and a very en
joyable time was had by all. The
visitors expressed themselves as be
ing highly pleased with their re
ception and hopes of their early re
return are mutual.
The work of mapping the Ter
ritory undertaken by the Navy De-j
partment and the Department of
the Interior is of great import to
the Geodetic Survey as well as for
knowledge that is being secured for
the Territory that could have been
obtained in no other way.. The
discovery of unlimited water power
resources on Revillagegedo Island
unfold untold opportunities for the
town of Ketchikan. Already Lieut.
Wyatt speaks of the agricultural
possibilities in the valleys back of
Duncan Canal. The pictures taken
so far bring out in clear detail the
timber resources also. Exact de
tail of our coast line is being made
and uncharted rocks down to 20
feet shown. Shipping men will!
know to the inch just where the
bad rocks and reefs are.
One machine is able under fa
vorable conditions to cover an area
of 1,600 square miles in one day.
Pictures are taken at an altitude of
i0 000 feet. One picture being
taken every fifteen seconds and the
picture taking in an area four miles
wide and five mDes long.
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One of the machines stopped in
at the Kake cannery and upon leav
in/ Mr. Skinner handed them on or
der to Mr. Ohmer for shrimp and
crab meat. It was in the hands of
Mr. Ohmer in a half hour.
The Gannet left at five o’clock
Thursday morning and the filers
took to the air shortly after.
WETS VS, DRIES
The election contest in Ohio is a
battle between Judge Florence B.
Allen with th dry forces backing
her campaign against the candidacy
of Senator Pomerene. Miss Allen
held several important judicial of
* r>es beside beng judge of the Ohio
has served two terms in the Senate
Supreme Court. Senator Pomerene
and is an out and out “wet.”
NO EVIDENCE
_PIRACY
Capt. A. J. Anderson of the gas
boat Caroline, and crew was arrest
ed and taken before Commissioner
Kehoe, Ketchikan, on the charge
of attempting to commit grand lar
ceny of a boat load of salmon from
a trap owned by the Smiley can
nery. At the conclusion of the pre
liminary hearing the commissionei
dismissed the case on the ground
of insufficient evidence.
PORT O’ MISSING MEN
_. ...Theodor Joakim Stefanson. Bori
in Ibestad, Norway; parents Steph
anus and Annie Olsen; age 42; me
dium height; brown hair and blu«
eyes; .fisherman; not heard fron
since 1918. Last .known address
Petersburg. . A legacy awaits him
Send any information care Officei
in charge Salvation -Army, Peters,
burg, Alaska.
The Salvation Army has added t<
its list of meetings, a brigh
breezy, little service for children 01
Monday evenings at 7 o’clock. Th<
little ones are much enthused an<
look forward to each meeting whei
they meet la the Hall.
Hire's Root Beer on ice at the
Totem Pole.
In 1925 the World Court sat for
185 days, and, during th first four
months of 1926 it has been in ses
sion 10 days. In view of questions
already submitted it is likely to sit
more than 200 days this year.
According to Ike estimate of the
Registrar of the League of Nations
the Court will sit for 240 days dur
ing the year 1927. The report
slates that since many of the judg
es live in foreign countries, they are
unable to attend all sessions of the
Court and that the salaries of the
deputy judges hav amounted to
nearly as much as the emoluments
of the judges themselves.
..EDUCATING VOTERS
Ninety home classes for instruc
tion of foreign-born women were
maintained in Syracuse and Onon
i daga County.N.Y., in 1925 with an
enrollment of 400 pupils according
to a report of the Bureau of Educa
tion. <
The work has been carried on for
seven years. Classes are recruited
by the Americanization League, but
it is a part of the city system of
adult education( financed by the
city of Syracuse and the State of
New York. Teachers are trained
j under direction of the State De
partment of Education in State
courses in immigrant education in
Syracuse University.
“Home classes,” says a state
ment of the Bureau of Education,
“are valuable not only for the in
( struction given, but also in estab
. lishment of friendly relationships
, and by bringing the school to for
, eign-born women whose lives other
L wise are severely restricted by their
j inability to understand English.”
Lime Crush and Lemonade attb-.
Totem Pole.
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A Scott Bullit, candidate for the
nomination of Senator from the
State of Washington has declared
himself as being opposed to the re
peal of the Volstead Act but de
flares himself for State control At
that we believe with a return to
prohibition educational program of
"the good old days” it would be a
great improvement over the illi
gitimate child of prostitutors of
offices and the dispensers of "rot
gut.”
^nchorag recently enroute to Nome.
He left after a days stay for the Se
ward peninsula country where he
will open his campaign for reelec-'
tion. He plans to return to Anchor-!
age in September in time to attend
the Western Alaska Fair. At that!
time he will make a thorough cam-:
paign throughout the entire third
division.
A contract to supply the Oak
land plant of the Chevrolet Motor
Motor Car Company with its entire
reouirements in lubricating oils and
greases has been awarded Union
Oil Company of California.it was
learned here today.
In addition to providing the oil
and grease requirements it is un
derstood that the Union Oil will al
so furnish a portion of the gaso
line needs at this plant.
The lubricating oils will be sup
plied from the Union’s oil refinery
at Oleum, located on San Pablo
'.lay, and will be shipped in tank
lots to the plant of the automobile
concern.
The Chevrolet factory at this
plant turns out approximately 400
•jars, and each one as it leaves
the plant will be lubricated with
oils manufactured from Western
crude by Union Oil Company of
California. Many of these cars
will also be powered by the popu
lar Union non-detonating gasoline.
According to lubrication experts,
correct lubrication is almost as
important to the ultimate life of
the car as is its proper handling
during the “breaking-in” period or
initial 500 miles of driving. The
oil must be all lubricant in order to
provide the proper cushion for the
moving parts.
On this basis the success of Union
Oil Company of California in se
curing this contract may be consid
ered guarantee of the high quali
ty of their lubricating oil.
Lee Pratt, deputy supervisor of
ihe Chugach National Forest with
headquarters in Cordova is reported
as being on his way to Ketchikan to
take over the Chugach, a newly
built boat for the Forestry Depart
ment.
The Chugach is 65 foot overall
and is powered with a 75 full dei
sej engine. She is especially design
ed and built for the Westward dis
trict. i
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Let’s try a Rainbow Special at
the Totem Pole.
COURT
Sixty names were drawn yester*
day in the U.S. District Court by
Clerk John H. Dunn and Jury Com
missioner H. J. Turner for the pe
tit jury panel for the Ketchikan j
term which opens the latter part
of this month. No grand jury pan
el was drawn.
The term is expected to be brief,
the jury being ordered to report oni
August 26. It was said that it prob
ably would not be occupied more
than two. or three weeks. !
Talesmen on the panei were:Wal-j
ter William Anderson and W. T.j
Thompson, Charoal Point: Herbert;
J. Anstead, Mrs. Chas. Burch, F.j
H. Bold, Mrs. Clark Black, F. A.
Cloudy, Mrs. E. J. Copeland, David
J Dakkins Thomas Davies, Mac
Dunning, V. P. Eaton, Mrs. A. J.
Ela, Alton J. French, Ole Fosse, C.
W. Frederickson, E. B. Grigg, A. G.
Guthrie, Mrs. Mary M. Hall, Mrs.D.
W. Hunt, A. J. Cooper, A. J. Han
son, Samuel Ingram, G. E. Johnson,
Mrs. Lavina Johnson, F. J. Krause,1
A. J. Koski, H. J. Lofquist, W. W.
Ledbetter, Chester Lindsay, Mrs F.
L. Lake, Harold Morseth, C. E.
Mudgett, N. G. Nelson, A. J. Nor.
wald, Mrs. Gertrude N elson, Gus
Olofson, Mrs. C. M. Patching, R.
M. Ray, Ed Smith, W. F. Stivers,
Ray F. Steel, Donald Sinclair, Ben
V. Shane, Paul F. Smith, William
Shervick, Charley Slaymaker, Flo
lence T. Tobin, W. E. Wright, all
of Ketchikan; Mary Grant, J. W.
Pritchard, Wrangell; C. R. Huntlty,
Pennock Island; Ed Locken, Jacob
Otness, Sybil Lockcn, Lulu Mc-j
Kechnie, Petersburg.
Deputy Marshals Caswell and
Ilerriman left here yesterday to
serve jury summons. —Empire
F. L. Sutton, disgruntled politi
cian, speaking before & Rotary Club
in Iowa recently declared that Sen
ator Smith W. Brookhart was nom
inated at a primary where only 30
percent of the voters cast their
'■ otes and won out because he had
an organized minority behind him.
He said that Brookhart had made
Iowa the laughing stok of the na
tion.
Mr. Sutton must have been read-!
some of our “independent” papers.
meier 10 my
CORNERSTONE
The cornerstone of the new
Northern Light Presbyterian Church
will be laid in about two weeks, ac
cording to announcement by Rev.!
O. A. Stillman and Walter F. Meier!
Crand Master, Grand Lodge, F. and
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and A. M. for Washington and
Alaska will officiate. Mr.Meier is
now on a trip to the Westward and
interior or Alaska, visiting Masonic
lodges and is expected to return to
Juneau within two weeks.-Juneau
Empire.
NEW PROFESSOR AT COLLEGE
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J. C. Scoles, mining engineer for
a mining concern in Mason, Nevada
has been appointed associate pro
fessor of mining on the faculty of
the Alaska Agricultural College
and School of Mines.
Mr. Scoles is a graduate of the
School of Mines of the University of
Wisconsin and for the past 14 years
has been engaged in mining opera
tions. |
ALASKA
The following measures have!
passed Congress during this session|
end are now law:
H.R.657 3. - Anthracite Railroad
i Controller Bay) extension of time
to complete.
H.R.9210. - Amendment to Fish-i
eries Act; provides for taking bait
at all seasons.
H.R.3953. - Homestead claims;
authorizes departure from rectang
ular system of survey, and provides
for survey of points of land jut
ting into lake or ocean.
H.R..- (By Mr. Sinnott of Ore.)
To lease public lands for fur farm
ing.
H.R.Res.139. - Authorization fori
construction of Government Dock
at Juneau.
H.R.8192. - Postal Service; pro
vi'des that postmasters in Alask
may act as disbursing agents in
paying mail contractors.
H.R.6261. - To permit export of
timber from National Forests or
public domain.
H.R.9178. - (By Mr. Moran of
Pa.) To pay actual travelling ex-;
penses of Army officers in Alaska.!
H.R.9508. - (yBy Mr. Sinnott of
Ore.) Authorizes the issuance of
deeds to certain Indians or Eskimos
for tracts set apart for them in sur
veys of townsites in Alaska, and to
surfey and subdivide such tracts.
Senate Bill 3213. Authorizing dis
T osition of money of insane per
sons from Alaska, at Morningside
Sanitarium.
H.R.6117. -(Mr. Curry of Calif.)
Authorizes exchange of passes for
Alaska Railroad employes with pri
vate railroads in the United States.
H.R.345 4 - For the relief of cer
tain Indian Policemen.
H.R.3448 - For the relief of
John Solen.
H.R.10901. - Authorizing the
Town of Wrangell to issue bonds
in the sum of $50,000.00 for con
structing and equipping a public
school building.
__ Appropriations for Roads —
Alaska Road Commission - $900,
000.00
Bureau of Public Roads, estimated,
$520,000.00
Rivers and Harbors
The Rivers and Harbors bill, held
in the Senate with action deferred
until December, carries an item of
$29,000.00 for the improvement of
the Tolovana River; and the fol
lowing examinations and surveys
are authorized:
Ocean frontage of Afognac, with
a view to provide a harbor.
Nome harbor.
Sitka Harbor.
Cordova Harbor.
Anchorage Harbor.
Dry Pass.
Portage Bay, and adjacentt bays
with a view to providing a practical
harbor accessible to the Cold Bay
oil fields.
Gastineau Channel.
Port Frederick.
William Henry Bay.
A search and seizure of a quan
tity of liquor of whiskey found in
a barn and garages, without search
warrant was not an unreasonable
search, the Circuit Court of Ap
peals, Sixth Circcit, held in the
case of Ganto Guaresimo v. United
States, in his writ of error to the
Distric Court, Eastern District of
Michigan.
Chas. V. Brown formerly of
Boise, Idaho, arrived in Juneau to
accept the office of deputy marshal
at Skagway in place of E. A. Ken
dall resigned.
FRENCH WAR .DEBT PAYMENT
A payment of $10,000,000 was
made to the New York Federal Re
serve Bank for the Treasury De
partment recently by the French
Government as interest on that
government’s debt to the United
States for surplus war supplies. The
payment was in cash.
The debt due from France on the
purchase of surplus war stocks
amounted to $400,000,000, and on
this sum, France pays semi-annual
installments of interest amounting
to $10,000,000, and minor interest
payments on several other occa
sions to cover $7,000,000.
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Rev. H. R. Allen, pastor-elect of
the Resurrection Lutheran Church,!
will begin his pastorate about the
first of September. He was but re
cently married and is spending his
honeymoonin in Europe.
George C. Hazlett, pioneer of
Alaska and first mayor of Cordova
died on Friday the 6th of extreme
Idood pressure and complications.
Coming to the North in 1898,
was president of the Cordova
Chamber of C mmerc,* for several
years. In 192T. he was candidate
for the office of Governor of Alas
ka opposing th> candidacy of Judge
Wickersham. A bitter figrht en
si ed in which neither side woulu
give to the other. The result was
the appointment of Scott C. Bone.
George Hazlett is survived by
two sons, Craig in Evanston, 111.*
and Calvin, Cordova, at present a
member of the Territorial Fish
Commission.
ifiSWUl HIE
Marshal Albert A. White return
ed to Juneau from a trip to the
States where he had taken some
prisoners several weeks ago. Re
turning with him this time was
Mrs. White and her sister Miss Flo
rence Williams who will visit in
Juneau for some time.
NOTED AUTHOR IN ALASKA
Stewart Edward White, noted
author is reported as being in the
Westward waters with his yacht
the Seward. On the trip with him
are Lester Simpson, Arthur Young
and Dr. Pope, members of his re
cent trip to Africa.
See the new line of Stamped
Goods at the Linen Shop.—ady.