OUTSIDE DEALERS AND CON
SUMERS CAN BUY BUT FIFTY
POUNDS IN THIS CITY.
CUN NISON S E N D S ORDERS.
Instructions Not to Make Changes in
Regulations Are Promulgated by
Anrdew Christensen, District Ad
ministrator.
Sales of flour and sugar by Anchor
age dealers to storekeepers and other
persons outside of this city will be
limited to fifty pounds, instead of 100
pounds, as was agreed on here last
Tuesday at a meeting of business men.
The enforcement of the fifty-pound
limit is the result of a message from
Royal A. Gunnison, of Juneau, federal
food administrator for Alaska, who
.'ets forth that this amount is the
maximum fixed for other parts of the
territory and that it should not be
changed here until experience proves
that a change is absolutely essential
to the conservation of food.
Message Sent Gunnison.
Immediately after the business
men’s meeting here last Tuesday,
when it was decided to establish at
/ 100, instead of fifty pounds, the maxi
mum amount of Hour and sugar that
could be sold by dealers here to out
A .0 traders and consumers, Andrew
Christensen, food administrator for
the Anchorage district, sent a mes
sage to Judge Gunnison notifying him
of the change made here in the terri
torial regulations. Mr. Christensen to
day received the following communi
cate m from Judge Gunnison:
“Your message received regarding
the maximum outside sales of doin'
and: sugar. Before setting a limit 1
<. .0daily examined the proposition of
convenience in handling, and possible
waste, and concluded the waste would
be slight and would depend on the
care of the merchant.
More Work for Dealers.
“This method places more work on
dealers hut it has a splendid effect in
retarding sales and keeping down
waste. We might let the present regu
lations stand for a time and observe
the results. They can be modified lat
er if advisable. The regulations are
in wee everywhere in the territory.
“iyour information I have pro
ws *•■<! you to district federal food ad
ministrator for the Anchorage dis
trict. All the assistants in your dis
trict will be local federal food admin
istrator and will be appointed by me
on your nomination and will report
to ou. 1 have appointed the persons
you named. Please notify them that
yoj and they should take the usual
government oath of office, agreeing
not to divulge information concerning
the United States food administra
tion except such as is approved by the
head of the public information bureau
of the division.”
Fifty-Pound Limit in Force.
In view of the meoasge from Judge
(icnni.on, “it will be necessary,” said
Ur. Christensen today, “for all whole
■ u< and retailers in this district,
wk-'h includes Anchorage, Mata
nuska, Wasilla, lvnik, Susitna station,
I,ska creek, Moose creek, Chickaloon
arci 1 alkeetna to abide by the territor
i.d regulations limiting to fifty pounds
the amount of flour and sugar sales by
Anchorage dealers to outside traders
\ and consumers.
‘1‘ experience shows that it is not
practicable, or works too much of a
hardship, the matter will again be
presented to the proper authorities
for consideration.”
IN MFMORI YM.
“I presume you carry a memento of
some kind in that locket you wear?”
1 the inquisitive wife of the clergyman
asked a parishioner.
“Yes, it’s a lock of my husband’s
hair.”
“Hut your husband is still alive!”
the lady exclaimed in considerable
surprise.
“Yes,” tljat is true, but his hair is
gone.”—Youth’s Companion.
CONDITIONS ARE QUIET THIS
WINTER BUT CHANGE WILL
OCCUR THIS SPRING.
MUCH MINING DEVELOPMENT.
H. W. Nagley Says That Operations
in Upper Regions of Skwentna and
Yentna Rivers Will be on Extensive
Scale.
Business conditions are very quiet
i at Susitna station this winter, but
with the opening of spring, which will
mark an active interest in mining
work in the upper waters of the
Skwentna and Y'entna rivers, commer
cial activity will take on new life and
the best season in the history of the
station in expected, according to H.
W. Nagley, a merchant of Susitna,
who with Mrs. Nagley, have arrived
in Anchorage. For the present they
are making their home at the Hotel
Anchorage.
Mr. Nagley explained what effect
the building of the new winter trail
between Talkeetna and the Cache
creek country would have on the bus
iness of Susitna station.
“In the future,” he said, “all sup
•'ies will be shipped into the Cache
creek district by way of the new trail
and while this Cache creek business
will be taken from Susitna, the new
mining operations which will begin
this season on the Yentna and
Skwentna rivers on a more extensive
scale than ever before will more than
i make up for the loss of the Cache
creek business.”
Development work is being planned
on the properties on the Necochna riv
er. Happy river, Tass creek, Johnson
creek and throughout the Iviehatna
country, and in the opinion ef Mr.
Nagiev the coming mining season will
result in these mining districts ex
periencing unprecedented prosperity.
Mr. Xaglcy will leave this week
for Talkeetna where lie is operating
a mercantile establishment and after
spending a few days there will returp
to Anchorage before returning for the
sea-on to his home at Susitna station.
Sirs. Nagiev will remain as a guest
of the Anchorage hotel until the ear
ly spring.
FI XSTOX AS STRIKE BREAKER.
Used Rifle as Persuader to Induct* In
dian Packers to Proceed
on Journey.
In 1893 Frederick Funston set out
for Alaska on a commission to collect
botanical specimens. Today the trail
over Chilkoot pass is familiar, but at
that time it was known only to Indian
1 guides and a few daring miners who
had followed its devious ways. Funs
ton with two companions went up the
pass and over to the Yukon, says the
Youth’s Companion. One incident of
tiie trip he describes in his own pic
turesque language as follows:
“The Indians carried the loads while
we dragged the empty sleds. The snow
fell incessantly for live days, and it
lay along our route from 5 to 90 feet
deep. Day after day we wallowed and
struggled on as we worked our way
gradually upward to the summit of
the range. One cheerful little diver
sion occurred on the second day. The
, low browed chief packer who seemed
to have charge of the other Indians
threw his load into the snow and an
nounced that unless their pay was
materially increased he and the other
packers would get themselves back to
the village and thus leave us in a pret
ty pickle.
; “My temper had been at white heat
' all day, and without thinking what
might he the consequence of such a
move, f shoved the muzzle of a cocked
i rifle into the face of the advisory com
■ mittee of that strike, and the way the
| Most Serene Grand Master of the
Amalgamated Order of Chilkoot Sal
mon Biters reshouldered his sack of
beans and tugged along through the
broad expanse of the beautiful snow
shows that it is sometimes a good
thing for every well-regulated family
to have a gun in the house."
TO BE SUED
JUNEAU MAN SENDS LIQUOR IN
TRUNK TO CHICHAGOFF JUST
BEFORE JANUARY 1.
RETURNED AFTER NEW YEAR.
Owner Notifies Marshal of Nature of
Some of His Baggage Before Claim
ing and Requests That It Be Con
fiscated.
Comes now an honest Alaskan and
law-abiding citizen, introduced to the
world by the Juneau Dispatch, which
says that one week prior to the end
ing of the use and sale of all liquors
in Alaska, a Juneau man sent twelve
[bottles of whisky in a trunk to
I ChichagofF, expecting to accompany
| his baggage to the mining camp, but
he missed the launch his trunk went
| on.
Realizing that the liquor would be
damaging property if found after the
first of January, as mere possession
would constitute an offense, he wired
to Superintendent Freeburn, of the
ChichagofF mine, instructing him to
' open the trunk and dispose of the li
! quor and to return the trunk.
The trunk arrived in Juneau on the
last trip of the mine tender Chicha
> golf, and not knowing if the superin
Itendent had complied with the re
quest, of the owner of the trunk, he
notified the marshal’s office of the
: matter and invited a search.
When Deputy Marshal Harry Mor
ton opened the trunk, sure enough
ihere was the whisky and it was tak
en in charge by the government offi
cials. The owner of the trunk wa
not arrested.
JUDGE LEOPOLD DAVID IS EL
ECTED t HAIRMAN AND J. L.
WALLER SECRETARY.
i The Anchorage branch of the terri
torial council of defense met last
night in the club rooms of the Em
press theatre and perfected its organ
ization. United States Commissioner
Leopold David was chosen chairman
of the council and Attorney J. L. Wal
ler secretary.
Matters pertaining to the question
of general defense were discussed and
|
while no definite action was taken at
last night’s meeting plans were in
; augurated to take care of any condi
tion that might arise in Anchorage
wherein any interference with the
prosecution of the war should exist.
I....
! he question of seditious remarks re
ceive.! the attention of the council and
l .
it was decided to take cognizance of
any such remarks brought to its at
tention.
The following have been appointed
by Governor J. F. A. Strong to serve
on the council:
Judge David, Mr. Waller, Felix
Brown, F. B. Canon, Thomas Dwyer,
W. C. Edes, R. L. Hatcher, C. E. Her
ron, Milo Kelly, R. C. Larson, A. E.
Lathrop, F. Mears, J. C. Murphy, T. C.
Price, A. A. Shonbeck, L. F. Shaw, J.
H. Smith and Julius Thompson. The
next meeting of the council will be at
7 o’clock Monday night in the Em
press club rooms.
GAUTEMAU AGAIN
ROCKED BY QUAKES
NO DETAILS ARE RECEIVED OF
LATEST TREMOR IN CEN
TRAL AMERICAN CITY.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 2S.—
Further severe earthquake shocks at
Guatemala City are reported by the
American minister there. No details
were sent. Extensive damage was
done in the city last month by earth
tiuakes.
UNO illLS
R. M. WOODE N, NORTHERN
HUNTER AND FUR TRADER,
WILL TRY TO FILL ORDER.
MANY SPECIES REPRESENTED.!
List Includes Beavers, Wolverines,
Ptarmigan, Black Swans, White
Fronted Geese, All Sorts of Foxes,
Lynx, Wolves and Boars.
Several dozen wild animals and
birds that are now disporting them
selves in Alaska will be blinking at
the genus home of the Seattle tribe
from cages in Woodland park next
ummer if E. M. Wooden, an Alaska
hunter and fur trader, who is about to
return to the north, is successful in j
his quests, says the Seattle Post-Intel- >
ligencer.
John W. Thompson, Seattle pane j
superintendent, and Dr. Gust Knudsen,;
in charge of the Woodland park zoo
of Seattle, have given Wooden a list
of the Arctic animals the Seattle park
board would be willing to buy. This
list follows:
Alaska beavers, wolverines, porcu
pines, ptarmigans, white - fronted
geese, black swans, black brants, red
fox, Arctic fox, cross fox, land otters, j
Canada lynx, striped Alaska wolves,
black Alaska wolves and Kodiak bear. '
TREASURES OF ART
PRECAUTION TAKEN TO PRO
TECT RARE WORKS FROM
GERMAN BOMBS AND GUNS.
LONDON. Jan. 29.—The work of
the Italian authorities in preserving
Italy’s art treasures against bombard
ment was described by Major Sir F.
<le Filippi in a lecture before the Roy
al Academy here recently.
“Italy has been fully alive to her
responsibility for the art of which
she is the guardian, said the lecaurer,
“and has spared nothing in her en
deavor to protect her cities and their
treasures. In Venetian, Lombardian
and Tuscan towns I saw whole budd
ings wrapped up. Outdoor monu
ments are often completely enclosed
in what look like big dog-kennels. In
many cases new masonry has been put ■
in to strengthen historic structures,
and elaborate systems of drainage
have been installed to further rein
force the natural strngth of the
buildings. *
“Bags of seaweed, very light and
elastic, have been extensively and suc
cessfully used in Venice for St. Mark's
and other buildings. Bronzes, pictures
and small monuments have been re
moved in colossal packing cases and
taken to places of seeuritv. The
buildings themselves have been sand
lagged without and within, and every
monument or architectural master
piece separately shrouded.
“Venice has presented a difficult
problem because of the soft soil on
which it is built, making heavy ma
sonry protection often impossible. One
of the most difficult pieces of protect
ive work done was the removal of
Titian’s great Assumption, a part of
the wall of the Accademia having to
be taken down to get it out.
“Four hundred bombs have thus far
been dropped in Venice by enemy air
men.
NIPFON NAVAL MEN ARE ON SE
SCRET MISSION TO UNITED
STATES AND ENGLAND.
VICTORIA, B. C., Jan. 28.—Rear
Admiral Iiada, and twelve other offi
cers of the Japanese navy have arriv
ed here on a secret mission to the
British and American governments.
Some of the officers will be stationed
at the Japanese embassies in London
and Washington.
GOVERNMENT CONSTRUCTED
ROAD IS CALLED ALASKAN
MIDLAND BOULEVARD.
ACTUAL LENGTH IS 370 MILES.
Good Stopping Places Are Located at
Close Intervals and There Are Six
teen Telegraph and Eighteen Tele
phone Stations.
The Va'.dez-Fairbanks Military and
mail road, built and maintained by the
United States government has become
extensively used by automobiles fo’
mail, freight and passenger service b}
a large number of automobile owner?
at Valdez, and Fairbanks as well as
by the l’oad house keepers along the
line, says the Valdez Prospector. It
is known as the Alaskan-Midland bou
levard. Extending from Valdez to
Fairbanks it is 370 miles long, with
thirty-eight road houses, sixteen tele
graph stations, and eighteen telephone
connections. Almost all of the road
house keepers use automobiles for
hauling their own supplies from Val
dez dock direct from the ocean steam
ers. There are approximately 400 au
tomobiles owned at Valdez, Fairbanks
and along this government road and
its tributaries, including Chitina.
This large amount of automobile
traffic has caused the creation of the
Valdez-Fairbanks Automobile union
operating under a broad and libera'
policy, non-exclusive, with no plcdgr
to sign, and no dues to pay.
This organization will be in a po
sition to inform those who seek to
know and the public at large, the gen
eral condition of the road, exactly
how many and the kind of automobiles
operating over the road, and in this
way tl:e attention of the government
will be drawn to the importance and
necessity of keeping the road in tin
best possible condition.
This is the only government military
and mail road in Alaska and it con
nects with the ocean steamers at Val
dez, and provides a direct road for pe
destrians, sledding, wagons, cycles and
automobiles, with ample road accom
modations every five to fifteen miles,
government telegraph and telephone
stations along its whole length. Au
tomobiles have made the trip from
Valdez to Fairbanks in two days.
Although this road has been undet
construction for nineteen years it may
not all be termed a boulevard such as
one finds in a city, one that is sprin
kled and swept every day. There are
many places which require work of a
permanent character to make the road
good for all time. Through Keystone
canyon, over the Summit, at Beaver
Dam, and Teikhell, and as far as Wil
low creek will be found the most sce
nic parts of the road, and the besl
and most attractive camping grounds
for tourist and sightseer, with excel
lent fishing and hunting.
It is the purpose of the Valdez and
Fairbanks Auto clubs to establish gar
ages and club rooms at Valdez and
Fairbanks.
The clubs are making preparation
to care for the tourists and excursion
ists coming to the twentieth anniver
sary celebration of Valdez, July, 1918.
They also plan to get in communi
cation with automobile manufacturers,
auto clubs and sightseers in the states
and inform them of the beauties and
pleasures that may be enjoyed by a
trip over the Alaska-Midland Boule
vard.
DOG ON OPERATING TABLE.
Mack, a bulldog owned by Mrs.
Charles Wright, teacher at the Rulo
school, says a Walla Walla (Wash.)
exchange, got so many porcupine
quills in its mouth and throat during
a fight with that animal that it had to
be chloroformed and hundreds of
quills were taken out with pincers.
The dog was protecting chickens
owned by its mistress. Mack has suc
cessfully fought off badgers, snakes,
and coyotes which have sought to
steal chickens, and when the porcu
pine appeared it charged it. Even
with its mouth filled with quills it
continued the attack.
HERE KILL BE
SEENJ STATES
STUART MAXWELL BUYS PAINT
INGS OF S. LAWRENCE FOR
EXHIBIT OUTSIDE.
WILL GO TO COAST STATES.
Works of Art Will Be Shown Here in
This City Before They Are Sent
Away So as to Give Residents Op
portunity to View Them.
Sidney Lawrence the well known
artist has disposed of his entire art
collection to Stuart Maxwell,of the An
chorage Supply company, who left to
day for the outside where he will join
the United States army. Mr. Maxwell
has made arangements to consign the
collection to art dealers in San Fran
cisco and Seattle for exhibit and sale.
Arrangements have been made by Mr.
Maxwell to place sevei'al of the paint
ings in eastern art galleries.
However, before shipment from An
chorage, the collection will be on ex
hibit here for several days, thus af
fording to the residents here oppor
tunity to view the work of Mr.
Lawrence.
E. B. Ansley, of the Bank of Alas
ka, will make the arrangements for
the local exhibit, the details of which
are now receiving his attention.
Mr. Lawrence’s talents as an artist
| have received national recogntion. The
| painting which has brought him the
greatest praise is the one of Mt. Mc
Kinley which now hangs in the na
tional art gallery in the capitol at
i Washington.
Mr. Lawrence will devote the spring
| and summer to a prospecting tour of
| the hills in the region of Mt.
! McKinley.
i ALCOHOL FROM BANANAS NOW.
! Culls of the Fruit to Be Distiled by
! Americans, Who Will Erect Plant
at Honduras.
| Bananas suitable for export must
i ahvavs be of a certain size or number
.
! of hands. The rejection of smaller
i
bunches by the fruit companies has
always been a source of complaint and
also of loss to the planters. It is now
proposed to use them in the manufac
ture of alcohol, says a report made by
Consul E. M. Lawton at Tegucigalpa,
Honduras.
By executive oi-der, the president
of Honduras, has signed a contract
by which an American of long experi
ence in the fruit business in the trop
ics, representing a company of Ameri
can capitalists, is granted the right
to erect a distillery at San Pedro Sula,
Honduras. The concessionaire has de
posited $25,000 with the government
as an earnest of good faith, which is
to be credited toward export duties
on the alcohol at three cents gold per
gallon.
The company proposes to supply
planters with funds for planting sug
ar cane on the worn-out banana lands,
and will also distill from the cane, the
bagasse of which is to be used in the
manufacture of paper. Experiments
will be made in the manufacture of
paper from banana waste.
A. E. CLARK EXPECTS TO AR
RANGE FOR WORKING OF
GOLD AND PLATINUM JUNES.
A. E. Clark, an oldtimer in Alaska
who in the early ’90’s was an operator
at Circle City and at Forty Mile and
who is now a resident of New York
city, arrived in Anchorage yesterday
and is a guest of the Crescent hotel.
Mr. Clark is the mining representative
of New York financiers and will leave
tomororw to investigate the gold and
platinum deposits of the Kahlitna riv
er country, which last summer was
prospected by Prof. Herschel Parker.
Mr. Clark expects to arrange for
extensive development of the property
next season.
Read The Weekly Times.