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AVERAGES $341 PER PERSON.
Northern Territory Substantiates
Statement Often Made That it Pro
duces Per Capita More Than Any
Other Part of Country.
Alaska exports, aside from precious
metals for the month of September,
this year, aggregated $17,070,407 in
value, according to a compilation
made by Andrew Christensen, head
of the land and industrial department
of the Alaskan Engineering commis
sion, from reports received by him
from the various parts of Alaska.
The population of Alaska is 50,000
i
white persons, and as a result the av
erage production per person for the
month of September, not considering
the output of gold and silver, was
more than $341, which substantiates
the statement frequently made that j
Alaska produces more per capita
than any state or other territory in
the United States.
The table of exports follows:
Bones, hoofs, horns, etc.$
Curios .
Fertilizers .
Fresh fish, other than
salmon .
Dried fish, smoked or
cured .
^Kippered herring .
Pickled fish .
6
1,126
8,640
.00
.00
.00
171,488.00
2,785.
Id .31
81,151.
00
00
00
Canned salmon . 13,945,286.00
00
00
All other salmon .
Clams .
All other fish and fish
products .
Furs and furskins .
Ivory .
Jewelry .
Oils, animal, fish and
other .
Antimony .
324,562.
13,856.
30
22,842.
473.
125.
00
00
00
00
36,627.
7,240.
.00
.00
Copper .. 2,397,429.00
.00
.00
Lead .
Tin ore and concentrates
Wood and manufactures
of .
Canned Herring .
Manufactured furs .
Whale bone .
Alaska vegetables, tur
nips .
Chrome ore .
13,462.
4,050j
4,860
14,723
520
596.
00
00
00
00
243
3,000.
00
00
$17,070,497.00
Total
SITE IS LEASED
FOR WAREHOUSE:
BANK OF ANCHORAGE STARTS
ERECTING BUILDING AT FIRST
AVENUE AND G STREET.
As a site for a warehouse, the Bank
of Anchorage has executed a lease,
for five years, of tracts 37 and 38 in
the Anchorage railroad terminal re
serve, south of the main line of the
government railroad at First avenue
and G street. A siding will be con
structed in the near future to the leas
ed premises.
The bank has already commenced
the erection of a substantial ware
house, having a floor space of 50 by
100 feet. The building will be cover
ed with corrugated iron, thus remov
ing any danger of fire from sparks of
passing locomotives.
The bank expects to store 1,200 tons
of merchandise in the warehouse this
winter.
A Real Providence.
Mr. Younghusband reached home
late for dinner.
“I got pinched for speeding on the
way home,” he explained rather sheep
ishly. “Have to appear tomorrow
morning and get $10 or fifteen days.”
Mrs. Younghusband fervently clap
ped two blistered little hands. “What
a providence!” she cried devoutly.
“You must take the fifteen days, John!
The cook has just left!”—Harper’s
Magazine.
RAISE RATES
C. E. FLYE, OF PACIFIC STEAM
SHIP COMPANY, SAYS OPER
ATION COST IS HIGHER.
CANNOT RUN ON OLD SCHEDULE
Contradictory Reports Are Received
About Commandeering of Vessels,
But Alaska Liners Probaly Will Not
Be Taken.
C. E. Fyle, of Seattle, general pas
senger and freight agent, of the Pa
cific Steamship company, who recently
visited Alaska coast towns, stayed at
Juneau a day or so on his return to
Seattle and is quoted by the Juneau
Empire as having said that without a
doubt the steamship fi'eight rates
would be raised again next spring. He
stated that at the present time the
rates on the California ran are near
ly as high as the rail rates.
“Alaska so far has received every
consideration possible, but the raise
will have to come soon,” he said
Mr. Flye said the prices of every
thing used by the company in the op
eration of the ships had been raised to
such a point that it is no longer pos
sible to operate under the old schedule
of rates and break even on the cost of
operation.
“Recently it became necessary for
us to charter one of our boats for the
off shore trade in order that her earn
ings might be considerably inci'eased,”
he said.
Mr. Five stated that as for the
commandeering of the steamers from
the Alaska run, they knew nothing.
“Contradictory reports are being
sent out from Washington every day.
We have a man there constantly and
nearly every day he sends us a differ
ent report, but in view of the recent
announcemnts I think that the Pacific
will be let alone as long as possible.
“The California run will suffer first
because all ports there have rail serv
ice. The Alaskan service may be cur
tailed, but it will not be crippled by
the government, because we can truth
fully say that the boats are necessary
to handle traffic for the livelihood and
sustenance of the people.”
OWNER OF BON MARCHE PUR
CHASES STOCK OF GOODS OF
MRS. T. D. CORLEW
MAKES ADDITION TO STORE
Greater Volume of Business Will Be
Conducted With Practically Same
Over Head Expense Which Insures j
Lower Prices.
Barney Simon, owner of the Bon
Marche yesterday completed negotia
tions by which he has acquired the
stock of ladies’ furnishings, dry goods
and boots and shoes of Mrs. T. D. Cor
lew. The price paid is said to have
seen $25,000 and is the largest single
nercantile transaction in the history
>f Anchorage.
Mr. Simon today, in speaking of the
;ransfer said:
“Although I now practically control
;he dry goods business in Anchorage,
my prices, if anything, will be lower
:han ever before. I shall be able to
sell cheaper now because of the great
volume of business which I expect to
io and the consequent lessening of
overhead expense. Both stocks now
will be under one roof, which will
make it easier for the shopper, who
’an rest assured that the prices asked
lere will compare favorably with
those asked on the outside.”
On account of the need for more
room, Mr. Simon today rented the
store building adjoining the Bon
Marche, and will move part of his
stock there.
TIER BRINGS
NEWS OF FAR
NORTH TO NOME
CAPT. MARTIN ANDERSON HAS
NO WORD IN REGARD TO EX
PLORER STEFANSSON.
Leaving Bailey island, Captain Mar
tin Anderson, better known by the so
briquet of Chechaco Martin, recently
returned to Nome with his schooner,
!
the Anna Olga, dropping anchor in
the Nome roadstead, says a recent is
sue of the Nome Nugget.
Not one word has Deen heard of the
; Stefansson expedition, good, bad or
indifferent, but as they are in Pat
rick’s land, completing the survey of
j the new land discovered by the Cana
J dian explorer, it was not likely that
they would hear of him.
This season marked the latest break
of ice ever in the north. And when
Martin left late in August it was still
j solid to the eastward. This was the
j latest break-up in the history of the
Mackenzie, the river breaking up sev
eral weeks later than usual.
! Whales were plentiful in the north
and when Captain Anderson was leav
ing “the bowheads were blowing off
! inshore.”
Bernard at Copper Mine River.
Joe Bernard is at the Copper Mine
river, hunting, trapping, exploring and
collecting curios.
i ne Mission scnooner wnicn was
brought down the Mackenzie river
and which was valued at $7000 was
burned and totally destroyed last win
ter. Fire broke out in the engine room
and was too strong to control.
The redoubtable Pete Bernard was
at Cape Kellet and the Mary Sachs
still on the beach in Banks Land. Alec
Allan with his schooner El Sueno, with
a shaft somewhat bent by bucking ice
was at Warren Point, happy and welh
Around Banks Land on August 10
it was solid ice.
The greatest kill of caribou was
recorded last winter when they were
very plentiful and the herds unusually
large.
One Family Kills Seventy.
One family killed seventy on a hunt
ing trip during the winter. Our good
friends the ptarmigan are there
with both feet. Thousands of them
pack the river country where they
are usually in myraids, so that the de
pletion common over the rest of Alas
ka did not affect them in any way.
Captain Anderson did not know any
thing about the Challenge, beyond the
fact that the schooner last year left
Victoria land running through thin ice
that was coming up for Bank Land
and where doubtless they put in the
winter on that deserted section hunt
ing and trapping.
The Anna Olga will be taken to
Safety Harbor and there placed in
winter quarters and Captain Anderson
will leave for the oustide. He brought
down quite a number of skins, fur and
ivory as well as curios.
ALIEN ARRESTED
FOR CONSPIRACY
NEW YORK AUTHORITIES FRUS
TRATE ALLEGED PLOT TO
BLOW UP TRANSPORT.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—An alleged
plot to damage or blow up a United
State converted transport is believed
to have been frustrated by the arrest
of Charles Wallman, who is charged
with having attempted to get aboard
the transport by bribing one of her
mechanics.
V. allman. who :s a Scandinavian,
was a pantryman a beard Harry Payne
Whitney’s yacht.
The transport is a former German
liner which was seized by the United
States and which is being overhauled
in the Brooklyn navy yard’s drydock.
BETWEEN FRIENDS.
Edith—Jack told me I was so inter
esting and so beautiful. Marie—And
yet you will trust yourself for life
with a man who begins deceiving you
so early.—Boston Transcript.
DRINKERS AND SALOON KEEP
ERS ARE RACING TO DISPOSE
OF ALL THEY CAN.
SALES MADE TO DRUNKARDS
Progresive-Miner Calls on Officials
to Enforce Regulations Without
Waiting for Prohibition — Others
News from Alaska Papers.
_
If we examine the record of the
municipal court, says the Ketchikan
Progressive-Miner, we find indication
that a race is on in the consumption
of liquor.
“Is there no way to stop that mad
race?”, the newspaper asks.
“Speaking to an officer, he said that
in his opinion it was a race in which
both the saloon keepers and the drink
ers were trying to see how much i
booze they could dispose of before the
first of the new year, and they were
going the limits.
Wants Law Enforced.
“Formerly, we had a law on our
statute books prohibiting salooon
keepers from giving or selling liquor
to anyone showing intoxicated condi
tion. What became of that law? If
it is still on the book, why not use it
and make an example by taking away
the license of the man who sells liquor
to intoxicated men ? While the people
were generous enough to allow the
saloons to no Business until tne nrst
of the year that generosity was not in
tended to include the exemption from
the force of the law regulating the
sale of liquor.
“This officer said that if he had the
power he would take away three li
censes of saloon keepers in this town
who are breaking the law almost daily
in that respect. Have the lawbreakers
all the say in this matter? All the
recorded accidents the last two years,
were such only before the eyes of the ;
law; morally they were not so; but
were murders.
“After the last day of the year ev-1
ery person found selling liquor shall
be prosecuted and punished according
to the law, because he shall be a law
breaker. Why not start today and
punish those who are lawbreakers?”
RETAIL MERCHANTS RECEIVE
NOTICE THEY MUST PAY ON
THEIR STOCKS ON HAND.
EFFECTIVE ON OCTOBER 3
One Half of Impost on All Shipments
After That Date Are Chargeable to
Wholesalers Under Provision of
Revenue Law.
Notice has been received by An
chorage tobacco dealers that the sign
ing of the war revenue bill by the
president on October 3, placed a tax
on all tobaccos and tobacco products in
the United States and territories.
All orders shipped after that date
will carry the tax, one half of which
will be borne by the wholesalers, but
the tax on all stocks held prior to Oc
tober 3, will have to be paid by the re
tailers. The tax is as follows:
Snuff and tobacco, per pound .... $ .05
Cigarettes, per thousand .75
Cigars, retailing under 7 cents,
per thousand . 1.00
Cigars, retailing over 7 cents,
per thousand . 3.00
The exemptions allowed by law are:
SnufF and tobacco . 100 pounds
Cigarettes .1000 pounds
Cigars . 500 pounds
Report blanks and instructions from
the internal revenue office at Tacoma
are said to have been shipped to the
merchants of Anchorage, who will be
required to report their tax liabilities
on stocks on hand.
SENATE FAILS TO CONFIRM AP
POINTMENTS OF E. E. JOR
DON AND F. R. BRENNEMAN.
- !
HOLD TO REGULAR SESSION
William A. Holzheimer, Assistant Dis
trict Attorney at Ketchikan, Is
Named United States Judge for
Nome.
Following the adjournment of the
special session of congress Charles A.
Sulzer, delegate in congress from
Alaska, has returned to his home in;
southeastern Alaska. Recently he vis
ited Juneau and when there declared
that at the regular session, which will
begin next December, he hoped to ob
tain a more liberal form of home rule
for Alaska.
When the special session came to
end, the nominations of Emmet E. Jor
don ,of Nome, to be marshal of the
second division and of F. R. Brenne
man of Valdez, to be marshal of the
third division had not been confirmed
by the senate, and these officers will
serve under interim appointments
pending the convening of the senate
again at the next regular session of
congress.
william A. Holzneimer, ol Ketchi
kan, has been nominated by President
Wilson for United States district
judge for the Second ujdicial division,
to succeed Judge John Randolph Tuck
er, jr., who was not a candidate for
reappointment.
Mr. Holzheimer has been assistant
United States district attorney for the
first division with headquarters at
Ketchikan since Jenuary last. Prior to
that time he practiced law in Juneau.
Mr. Holzheimer has been prominent
as a lawyer and in politics in the
states of Utah, Idaho and Washing
ton before coming to Alaska, and had
strong endorsements from attorneys
and jurists in all of those state when
he was an applicant for appointment;
as United States district attorney for;
the third division, an application which j
was withdrawn sometime ago. He was
the democratic candidate for attorney
general of the state of Washington in
1908.
Mr .Holzheimer has won many en- ‘
coniums for the manner in which he
has conducted his office as assistant
United States district attorney at Ket-1
chikan.
Mr. Holzheimer is married and has!
one daughter—Miss Katherine. Mrs.
Holzheimer was a member of the
Washington state commission at the
San Francisco exposition. She is well
known and popular in Juneau.
STEAMER FARRAGUT
GOES TO SEATTLE
The steamship Admiral Farragut
sailed for Seattle and way points Fri
day with fifty-three first class
passengers, not including twenty-four
alleged slackers and James Gay who is
accused of aiding and abetting the il
legal sale of intoxicating liquors. The
alleged slackers and Gay are on their
way to Valdez to appear before the
grand jury there. They are in charge
of Deputy Marshals C. W. Mossman,
J. J. Sturgis and J. Cavanaugh.
J. G. Watts, townsite manager, F.
B. Woods, postmaster, Dr. J. B. Bee
son, physician in charge of the gov
ernment hospital, J. Coffee, the news
paper man, and Tex Jones, of the
Panhandle pool room were among the
passengers for Valdez.
Dr. F. A. Ross was a passenger for
Seward; Dr. R. C. Mathis for Seattle
md Mrs. Roger Summy for Cordova.
The Farragut arrived here last
light. Among the passengers aboard
)f her for Anchorage were: Miss Ber
tie Baxter, Geo. W. Palmer, Don Pal
mer, Miss J. Parker, J. W. Momb, A.
B. Woodworth, R. E. Troughton, Jos.
Magill, Fred Bayre, H. Moss, W. L.
Maitland, S. S. Kenneby, M. H. Healy,
Mrs. C. McLeod, William Christie,
Mrs. Christie, William Neimi, Mrs.
Neimi and Tim Rice.
Br GOVERNOR
TERRITORIAL EXECUTIVE ACTS
IN ACCORDANCE WITH PRESI
DENTIAL PROCLAMATION.
DAY WILL BE OBSERVED HERE
Appeal Is Made to Loyalty of Alas
kans and They Are Urged to Unite
in Some Appropriate Patriotic Cere
mony.
In accordance with the action of
President Wilson in setting aside Oc
tober 24 as Liberty Day to promote
the campaign for the sale of the sec
ond issue of Liberty Bonds, Governor
J. F. A. Strong of Alaska, has issued
a proclamation designating the day as
a legal holiday in Alaska. The day
will be observed here. Officers of the
Alaskan Engineering commission are
taking the initiative in arrantng a
program for the occasion. The gover
nor’s proclamation follows:
** cue presiaen: or tne
United States by proclamation has
designated Wednesday, October 24,
1917, as Liberty Day and has set the
afternoon of that day a holiday for all
federal employes throughout the coun
try whose services can be spared for
the Liberty bond campaign; and
whereas, the success of the Liberty
Loan is so vital to the nation that it
is the first duty of every citizen to
support to the utmost the financial
measures essential to the effective and
successful prosecution of the war, and
the observance of Liberty Day by the
people of all the state and territories
of the Union should stimulate the sale
of Liberty bonds, the subscription to
which will close on October 27, 1917.
Urges Appropriate Ceremony.
“NOW THEREFORE, I, J. F. A.
Strong, Governor of the Territory of
Alaska, do in accordance with the pro
clamation of the president of the Unit
ed States, designate Wednesday, Octo
ber 24, as Liberty Day and I do earn
estly request that on the afternoon of
that day all public offices, stores and
all public places be closed and that the
people of all towns and precincts so
far as possible unite in some appro
priate patriotic ceremony and demon
strations to promote the success of the
Liberty Loan and I especially request
that the mayors of all incorporation
towns or local governing authorities
do everything within their power in
the way of cooperation in the celebra
tion of Liberty Day to the end that
nothing humanly possible shall be left
undone in arousing the enthusiasm
and support of the people of Alaska
in the great struggle for the survival
of democracy, in which our nation is
engaged.
.‘liaaixau aic a duiuiR*
“The people of Alaska are patriotic
and their devotion to republic institu
tions has been proved by their acts
many times and now they are expect
ed to act well their part in the pres
ent grave crisis which confronts the
nation. Lip service is of little avail
in time of trouble; action is needed,
instant and complete, and the belief's
expressed that our people will not fail
in the great duty they now owe to the
government which represents them in
the conflict being waged between the
forces of humanity and freedom
against those of autocracy and oppres
sion. Remember liberty wil not per
ish from the earth if Americans do
their full duty.
“Given under my hand and the Seal
af the Territory of Alaska in Juneau
the capital, this seventeenth day of
Dctober, in the year of Our Lord One
rhousand Nine Hundred and Seven
;een and of the Independence of the
United States the One Hundred and
Forty-Second.
“J. F. A. STRONG, Governor.”
NEW LEADER LIKELY
AMSTERDAM, Oct. 20.—Prince
pon Buelow, former chancellor, has re
turned to Berlin. According to the
Lokal Zeitung, the prince will be offer
ed the chancellorship now held by
Michaelis.