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EYE-SPECIALIST
Whose permanent offices have been in Seattle, Wash., for
the past 26 years (703-4 Ligget! Building, Fourth Ave. and
Pike St.) will be at the ARCTIC HOTEL from 20th to 22nd
inclusive, until 5:00 P. M. when M. S. Northland goes
South. He will be glad to see his many former patients
and prospective ones, who wish their eyes EXAMINED.
In addition to your obtaing an accurate scientific analy
sis of your eyes, you will be sur-prised to see the many,
attractive NEW STYLES of FRAMES in Green, Pink and
White Gold, and in Zylonite combinations.
, vide work for all idle heads of
families within a short time.
Nothing new in this line has
been reported from Detroit and
Cinicinnati, the only other cities
which vie with New York.
The Seamen’s Church Insti
tute in New York reports that
only once in its 87 years of ex
istence have the demands upon
it approached present propor
tions. The situation is sure tc
grow worse with the closing o'
navigation on the Great Lakes
A report from the League fo.
Social Service Among Negroes
says that the unemployment
situation among colored res
idents of northern cities is even
worse than among the whites.
Tlie administration at Wash
ington is pursuing what seems
a peculiarly inconsistent course.
While bulletins telling of the
government’s efforts to aid the
jobless are coming from the
White House daily, many of the
executive departments continue
to add *o the :>mv of unemploy
ed. I
l'ne Navy Department has
been ordere * to “save” $30,000,
000 thio year in the hope that a
Treasury deficit may be avoided.
Thaf”cannot be uone without
the laying a f o.r men, and the
men are being -rd off.
Ai j’ t 10C more men have
been vrderea irJd off at the
Navy Yard n Washington. At
the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the
situation is more serious. About
3,700 men are employed there
now. against an average of 3.S0O
employed during the year 192D.
The reduction of naval forces
has kept about 4,800 more men
out of jobs as sailors. Also, the
“reclassification” of civilian
workers in the Navy Department
s being used to effect a reduc
tion of wages.
The Navy Department is tak
ng another action which is hard
to understand. It is using sail
ers to do the ship work at the
end of a voyage. This, of course
not only deprives sailors of their
accustomed leave, but also de
prives civi'ian workers of ac
customed jobs.
The army appears to have
caught the same bad infection
The War Department announces j
ihat the wrecking of a battery
•it Fort Slocum. New York, will
be done by troop labor, instead
f by civilian labor. These
measures of “economy” are
strongly resented.
Matters in the Post Office
Department continues far from
satisfactory from a labor point
of view. Much talk was made
last week about employing 200,
000 helpers for ten days at
Christmas. Postal workers say
that the regular system of pro
motions would give steady jobs
to 6,800 men. and these promo
tions are not being made. Sub
stitutes in postal work are not
being raised to the ranks of
“regulars,” and this in sp>te of
the fact that complaints are
coming in from every side about
the cutting down of postal ser
vice.
The subsidizing of air and
steamship lines through exces
sive payments for carrying the
mails goes on as before. But no
provision has been made that
workers employed by these sub
sidized lines shall receive a share
of the benefits granted by Uncle
Sam.
WORKING STUDENTS
Those students of the Alaska
College who are paying for their
■ education with money earned by
1 them during vacation periods
■ and in spare hours during the
college terms will be interested
in knowing that there are two
l hundred thousands “working”
| students in six hundred Ameri
\ can institutions of higher learn
[ ing and that their total earnings
S during the year 1928 amounted
t to the large sum of thirty-three
* million dollars. It also is of in
■ terest in this connection that
l there are one hundred students
\ loan agencies throughout the
j country which are helping tc
jj finance ambitious students and
* that the sum of four million dol
i lars was advanced in 1928.—An
jg chorage Times.
ALASKA CENSUS GIVES
59,278 AS POPULATION
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Rate Increase Is 7.7 Per Cent
According Jo Final Figures
Handed Out by the Govern
ment
William Steuart, of Washing
ton, D. C., director of the Census,
wired Governor George A. Parks,
of Alaska, the other day, stating
that the territory’s rate of in
crease in population in the de
cade from 1920 to 1930 was 7.7
per cent.
In the two previous decades
the territory sustained losses.
Alaska’s official enumeration, as
announced by the director to
the governor, is 59,278. The gov
ernor said the news was very
gratifying and proves that Al
aska is going forward.—Alaska
Weekly.
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WILLIAMS TO ATTEND
CONFERENCE
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District Engineer of .U. S. Bu
reau of Public Roads, With
Headquarters in Juneau, En
Route to the East
M. D. Williams, district en
gineer, United States Bureau of
public Roads, with headquarters
in Juneau, Alaska, came south
on the steamer Yukon this
week, en route to Pittsburgh and
o Washington, D. C.
Mr. Williams is making the
rip mainly to attend a con
ference of all the district en
gineers of the bureau, which will
De held shortly in Pittsburgh.
\t this meeting topics relating
fo the work of the bureau,
maintenance and other subjects
of kindred nature will be dis
cussed.
After the Pittsburgh confer
ence, he will go to Washington
Lo confer with national officers
of the bureau. He expects to be
absent a month or six weeks.—
\Iaska Weekly.
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COMMISSIONERS OF GAME
BOARD MEET AT JUNEAU
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o’fridge and Williams Arrive
Frr Meeting Duo to Open To
morrow
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JUNEAU. Nov. 18.—To attend
‘he annual meeting of th Alaska
3ame Commission, which is due
to open here tomorrow, W. R.
Selfridge and Frank P. Williams,
Commissioners from the First
^nd Second Divisions respective
ly, arrived today on the steamer
Yukon. Mr. Williams resides in
St. Michael and Mr. Selfridge at
Ketchikan.
Dr. W. H. Chase, Cordova,
who is President of the Commis
sion, and Irving McK. Reed
Fairbanks, representing the
Third and Fourth Divisions, will
arrive on the steamer Alameda.
If it does not reach here until
late tomorrow, the opening ses
sion will be postponed until
Thursday morning.
The opening sessions will be
devoted to a study of statistics
relating to game and fur bearing
animal conditions, reports of
game wardens, recommendations
for regulations and criticisms.
Fublic hearings will be held at
times to be made public later
this week.—Juneau Empire.
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High Price for Tailless Fox
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As proof of the fact that the
tail of the silver fox can be
readily replaced by ingenious
furriers, the experience of Mrs
R. J. Herbert of Seldovia, Alas
ka, will prove interesting.
Mrs. Herbert sent the pelt oi
a fox which had lost its tail in
infancy to the London Fur
Sales and received a check for
$401 for the skin. This fox wa;
raised and pelted on the Her
bert Fox Farm on Entrance Is
land.—Alaska Weekly.
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FRANK WYKOFF FASTEST
HUMAN
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov 18
—The Amature Athletic Unior
Convention here unanimously
voted Frank Wykoff, the recon
officially for the 100-yard dasl
in nine and two-fifths seconds
without starting blocks, made ii
Los Angeles on May 10 and hail
ing him the fastest human.
1 Divisional Notes
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WRANGELL
COLD STORAGE BROKEN INTO
AGAIN SATURDAY NIGHT
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The office of the Wrangell Ice
& Storage Co. was broken into
for the second time last Satur
day night. Entrance was gained
by breaking a pane of glass in
the door and turning the latch.
The drawer in the desk was
damaged but there was no
money in it at the time.—Senti
nel.
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ENGINEERS FOR INDUSTRIAL
SCHOOL HERE
J. B. Marhall, construction
engineer for the U. S. Treasury
Department, and E. C. Guerin,
of the U. S. Public Land Office,
arrived from Juneau on the
Yukon last Wednesday to ex
amine the tract of land at Shoe
maker Bay and to survey the
eight-acre tract which is to be
cleared this winter for the in
dustrial school.
Mr. Marshall superintended
the building of the capitol build
ing at Juneau, and at the re
quest of Governor George A.
Parks was “loaned” to the Bu
"eau of Education to make a re
port on the industrial school
site.
The tract which Mr. Guerin
surveyed last week comprises
eight acres in the form of an ir
regular pentagon 1000 feet long
and extending back from the
road about 500 feet. He explain
ed that the tract was laid out in
this form in order to accom
modate the building group which
the architect had planned.—
Wrangell Sentinel.
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RAYMOND WHEELER TO
REPRESENT DIME & DOLLAR
LOAN ASSOCIATION
A. J. Nelson, southeast Alaska!
supervisor for the Dime & Dollar
Building & Loan Association of
Portland, Oregon, arrived from
Juneau on the Farragut Wed
nesday to look over the field in
Ihe interest of his concern.
The Dime & Dollar Saving As
sociation seeks to build up a
clientele of savings-by-mail de
positors, according to Mr. Nelson
Raymond Wheeler has been ap
pointed to represent the organi t
zation in Wrangell.—Sentinel.
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FORMER WRANGELL DOCTOR
DEFENDS HOSPITAL
I
There have been so many let
ters to the Sentinel in answer tc
the inquiry from “Curious” that
any more comment on the sub
ject of the hospital expenditures
would be superfluous. An ex
tract from a letter received
from Dr. Clifford F. Jones, form
er Wrangell physician, is in
teresting, however. Writing from
Sioux City, Iowa, Dr. Jones says:
“Let me cite an instance in
which the presence of the Wran
gell hospital and its equipment
enabled me to save a human
life. After a trip of 45 miles in
a shrimp boat in which I brought
a baby to the hospital at 4
o’clock in the morning, I locat
ed a small open safety pin in the
baby’s windpipe by means of the
X-ray. This baby would un
doubtedly have died without the
operation.”
Dr. Jones offers the suggestion
that the canneries and other
’ike enterprises which operate in
this district, set aside a definite
amount annually as a hospital
contribution, as it would be to
their interest to have a well
equipped hospital within reach
i to take care of seriously injured
men without delay.—Sentinel.
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Ketchikan
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In the Ketchikan halibut fleet,
the high boat for the season
which closed November 15, was
the Superior. She returned
i $2,600 to each of the six men of
r her crew. The Clipper was
[ second with $2,400 to the man
l A marble thrown by one boj
, at another missed its mark and
i broke the $260 plate glass win
■ dow of the Miners’ and Mer
! chants’ Bank of Ketchikan.
i
One million, one hundred thou-1
sand feet spruce logs in a raftj
were successfully towed 800
miles in seven week, from Lor
ing, Alaska, to Anacortes, Wash.
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MURDER MYSTERY IN
KETCHIKAN GOES BEGGING
Another week has passed with
two suspects still in jail for the
murder of G. P. Marshall on
Monday, October 20, and with
the safe which was stolen from
the “murder boat” and the skiff
from the same boat still missing.
Under the direction of District
Attorney H. D. Stabler a special
investigation is rechecking all
of the evidence, with a view of
making formal charges against
the suspects, or “turning them
’oose if the evidence is insuf
ficient.
The officers fell certain that
there are some people not con
nected with the crime who could
give important information if
thev were sure that such in
formation would be considered
as confidential.
“I can add,” said Mr. Stabler,
“that any information given this
office will be treated as strictly
confidential. We are interested
only in the solving this murder
mystery and not in what a man
may have been or is, and noth
ing given us in confidence, will
be used save that it has a direct
bearing upon the murder or
murderers.”—Ex.
Juneau
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VETERAN MARINER NAMED
HULL INSPECTOR AT JUNEAU
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Captain William Fisher, super
vising inspector of the U. S. In
spection Service, with head
quarters in Seattle, has an
no'-need the appointment of
''"aptain Svdney M. Higgins as
local inspector of hulls at Ju
neau. Alaska, succeeding Captain
George Morgan, transferred to
Seattle as assistant inspector of
hulls. Captain Higgins graduat
’d from the United States naut
ical school ship St. Mary’s in
’003, and has an extended ex
terienre as a nautical man.—
\laska Weekly.
Major George D. Beaumont,
•TTho was United States Marshal
’or the First Division of Alaska,
. vith headquarters in Juneau
[several years ago, is a watch
man at one of the large motion
'icture studios in Hollywood,
Calif.
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MUSEUM GETS BLADE OFF
ISLANDER PROPELLER
A propeller blade off the ill- j
fater steamer Islander has been
recovered by divers and present
ed to the territorial museum at
Juneau. A piece of the teak
wood steering wheel was given
to J. C. McBride, collector of
customs.
Diving operations are still un
der way, but the almost con
tinual rains and the resulting
discoloration of the water off
the southern end of Douglas
Island has darkened the scene
of the wreck and slowed up the
work.—Sentinel.
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LONGEST TOWING TASK IN
ALASKA IS UNDER WAY
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With the motorship Silver
Wave at the end of the steam
ship Arthur J. Baldwin’s hawser,
the longest ocean-towing at
tempt in the history of Alaska
waters is now successfully under
way, according to information
’•eceived in Juneau from Seattle.
The Silver Wave, in tow of the
Baldwin, left Nome November 5,
and the Arctic Transport Com
pany, owner of both vessels, ex
nects them to arrive in Seattle
November 19, which allows two
week for the voyage.
The Coast Guard cutter North
land, cruising in Bering Sea and
1 he NorthPacific will keep in
constant communication with
the Baldwin, ready to go to her
assistance if heavy storms arise.
The Silver Wave carries a crew
of five men and is commanded
by Capt. Robert Doyle of Seattle.
The Baldwin is commanded by
Capt. Edward G. Baker and has
fourteen passengers from Nome.
The vessels were scheduled to
call at Nunlvak Island in Bering
Sea and at Dutch Harbor.—Em
pire.
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U. S. S. Boxer, en route south
from the Arctic, passed St. Paul
Island, Bering Sea, at 8 o’clock
Wednesday night. The cutter
Northland, en route south from
Dutch Harbor, passed Cape St
Elias at 8 o’clock Wednesday
night.
PETERSBURG PEOPLE
SHOULD BE EYE-CONSCIOUS
Because they have shown on
my former trip here 4 years
ago, such marked appreciation
of the unusual character of Dr.
.T. W. Edmunds’ work for the re
moval of reflex physical ills, as
result from different forms of
EYE STRAIN and MUSCULAR
IMBALANCES of the eyes, it is
evident the people of Petersburg
are doing serious thinking. Dr.
Edmunds can test your eyes day
time or evenings and will have
to work late every evening to
finish by Saturday night, 22nd
inst. Just stop to think; the
Optic Nerve is a bundle of eight
hundred nerves in a tube or
sheath, branching out into two
million nerve endings in each
Eyeball. There are sets of ad
justing muscles inside each Eye
ball and six sets of muscles out
side each Eyeball; so with the
venous and arterial blood supply
each eye is very delicate and a
complicated piece of machinery
and the two eyes, like two photo
graphic cameras, must be made
to focus perfectly, for distance
and reading, and do GOOD
TEAM WORK. Many physical
ills result from eye strain.
CROSSED-EYED straightened
WITHOUT OPERATION. His
prescriptions are ground in Seat
tle with the utmost scientic ac
curacy.
Now, you good wives, send yam
husbands to me and let me ser*
if his irritability is simply the
result of Eye-strain and NOT A
BAD DISPOSITION.
Dr. Edmunds will give Peters
burg people CONSULTATION
and EXAMINATION FREE. Can
accommodate ONLY A LIMITED
NUMBER of patients but will
work late this evening and Sat
urday, 22nd until 6:00 P. M
when the M. S. Northland eoes
South. —Advertisement
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BELIEVE IT OR—PRISONER
SHOWS 6 FINGERS, 6 TOES
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Policeman Mike Greeleaf, of the
Centralia fingerprint bureau,
found himself confronted with a
bigger job than he anticipated
recently. Ray Bickerton, va
grant, was scheduled to be fin
gerprinted before his release.
That standard identification
card has places for five fingers.
Bickerton’s hand, though has
six fingers.
“Let’s see your other hand,”
the officer said. Six fingers on
other hand too.
“That ain’t all,” the prisoner
said, and he took off his shoes
and sock. Each foot had six toes,
all normal in appearance.
Bickerton was released, but
his record, sent everywhere in
the Northwest and to federal de
partments, will probably prevent
his taking up a criminal career.
After being engaged 26 years
a Missouri man married at the
age of 91. You will have to ad
mit that he put up a game fight.
But what was he doing theother
30 yearsi
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DAIRY RANCH
FOR SALE
A well-equipped and going
dairy ranch in the fertile
San Joaquin Valley of Cali
fornia. 115 acres—100 in al
falfa; 15 acres suitable for
winter crops fruit trees,
market gardening, or past
ure. Plenty of cheap wat
er for irrigating. Good
buildings.. Easy terms.
F. C. HARTMAN (Owner)
3864 Howe Stree
Oakland, .California