r WHITE PASS &
1)1 F FIC ULT ENG INERRING
FEATS IN COUNTRY.
HAWKINS WAS CHIEF ENGINEER
Work on Tremendous Undertaking!
Was Carried Out Night and Day,!
Summer and Winter, Under Condi
tions That Appeared Insurmounta
ble to Ordinary Persons.
As this is the twentieth anniversary
of the famous stampede to the Klon
dike, the following article by Kather
ine Louise Smith, of Minneapolis, j
written in 1900, and published in the
Railway and Marine News of Seattle, \
will prove interesting reading to
many residents of Anchorage who
were participants in this rush to the
gold fields. It deals with the building
of the White Pass & Yukon railroad,
and is as follows:
/ Undoubtedly one of the most diffi
'• cult engineering feats on this contin
ent is that of the White Pass an l
Y'ukon railroad which connects the
Alaskan coast with the interior gold
fields and forms a connecting link be
tween the farthermost inhabited re
gions of America and the states. To
realize the tremendous importance of
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Department of the Interior,
U. S. Land Office at Juneau, Alaska.
May 28, 1918.
NOTICE is hereby given that Axel
Olsen, of Matanuska, Alaska, who, on
June 26, 1915, made homestead appli
cation, No. 01832, for SW% and SEti
Section 3, Township 17 N., Range 1
E., Seward Meridian, has tiled notice
of intention to make final three year
proof, to establish claim to the land
above described, before Howard Wil
mouth, Notary Public, at his office, at
Wasilla, Alaska, on the 31st day of
July, 1918. Claimant names as wit
nesses: O. N. Nilson, J. W. Hoppe,
Fred Strand, Martin Bergstrom, all of
Matanuska, Alaska.
C. B. WALKER,
666Register, j
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE TO
CREDITORS.
In the Matter of the Estate of Ernest j
Pod bo v, Deceased.
WHEREAS, on the 11th day of May,
1918, R. <). Albritton was regularly ap-|
pointed administrator of the estate of
Ernest Podboy, deceased, by the Com
missioner and Ex-< tfficio Probate Judge
of Knik Precinct. Third Judicial Divi
sion. Territory of Alaska:
NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to the
law in such case made and provided, no
tice is hereby given to the creditors of
said estate to present their verified
claims against said estate, accompanied
with proper vouchers, to said adminis
trator, at his office at .No. 505 Fourth
Avenue, in the city of Anchorage, in
the Territory of Alaska, in said pre
cinct, within six months from the date
of this notice.
Dated this 14th day of May, 1918.
R. u. ALBRITTON,
Administrator.
ARTHUR THOMPSON,
Attorney for Administrator.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior, U. S.
Land Office at Juneau, Alaska, January
30, 1018.
Notice is hereby given that Vinten E.
Caves, of Knik, Alaska, who on June 21,
1915, made Homestead application No.
01829, for W V2NWL W M> S\V Vi Sec. 26
KlgNEL EHSEli, Section 27, Town
ship 16 N, Range 8 \Y„ Seward Meridian,
lias filed notice of intention to make fin
al three-year proof, to establish claim
to the land above described, before F. S.
Commissioner S. S. Bateman, at his of
fice at Knik, Alaska, on July 1, 1918.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Peter Jenson, George Gates, J. W.
Downing, William Marfit, ail of Knik,
Alaska.
551 C. B. WALKER, Register.
NORTH POLE
BAKERY
AND COFFEE HOUSE
4th Ace., Bet. C and D.
&
W. D. WANGLING
HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR
FURS.
this road one must understand that it
;rosses a pass which was used by men
ind women to reach the Eldorado of
the Yukon, a pass of so much danger
than men and women lost their lives
n attempting to cross it, suffering
ncredible hardships, wading in rag
ng torrents, climbing almost impas
sible rocks and going through bogs
vhere dead horses lay at the rate of
>ne to every mile. No wonder the
instruction of a railroad that would
mt an end to the necessity of endur
ng these hardships was hailed with
ioy in the little boom town of Skag
,vay which is the coast terminus of
he route.
In reality this road, which is noted
he length of the Pacific coast, was
milt by a British corporation osten
sibly to secure a charter from the
Canadian government and began with
i wagon road starting Trom Lynn
•anal. In 1898, a year after the great
jold rush had commenced, this road
vas started and until the present day
t has kept its record of being one of
he most wonderful roads in America,
ts scenic effects are superb, the
jlimpes of salt water, the Skagway
iver and glaciers and mountains are
ineclipsed, but these seem minor af
'airs to the pracitcal engineers and
niners who planned and built this
oad over places so impassible that
nen had to be suspended by ropes
vhile working. This road spans
nountains from 6,000 to 7,000 feet
ligh and in from thirty to forty hours
eaches a country that before its ad
vent it took weeks to penetrate. It is
lailed with delight by the prospector.
;he pleasure seeker and the intrepid
:raveler.
Work on this tremendous engineer
ng feat was pressed with vigor and
intil its completion was carried on
light and day under difficulties that
Doth in winter and summer seemed in
surmountable. Few people who enter
the cars at Skagway, after the pleas
ant ocean voyage have any idea of the
perils encountered and hardships en
sured to make possible this journey
Dver the rims of mountains and can
yons. When in the spring of 1898, Mr.
E. C. Hawkins, chief engineer of the
White Pass and Yukon road, arrived
it Skagway with his crew of men, he
’ound the maps of this perilous region
and reports which had been furnished
iiim were worthless and incorrect' and
the engineering difficulties far more
difficult than he had imagined.
He immediately began taking new
surveys and after live different ex
peditions and surveys to get the lay of
the land, horses and railroad material
were landed at Skagway and work
commenced. Two months later the
first train was run for five miles out
of Skagway, historic event as it was
the first railroad to carry passengers
in Alaska or as far north on the Am
erican continent. Little by little, the
road was built, the track laid to sum
mit, and the first train arrived at
White Horse. It was the cause of
great ovations, eagerly waited for by
crowds of miners who had come in
from the mountains around and a
crowning triumph of engineering skill
which had been watched by the techni
cal world at large. Every mountain
El Sitka Hot Springs
These springs are five in
number and one of the old land
mai'ks of Alaska. The Russians
had a hospital there in 1841,
where they sent patients with
diseases of the skin and consti
tutional blood disorders.
The temperature averages
145 degrees Fahrenheit at the
Spring. The baths are effica
cious for rheumatism, stomach
and liver troubles, kidney and
bladder diseases, and for consti
tutional disorders.
These springs are in charge
of Dr. F. L. Goddard. The
terms for room, board, and
baths, $2 a day and up. Cabins,
$7.50 per month and up, includ
ing furnishings, except bed
ding. ADDRESS
F. L. GODDARD, M. D„
SANITARIUM, : ALASKA
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Get the Best Price by Shipping Your
Furs to the EASTERN MARKET.
Furs Bought Outright, or Sold on
Consignment.
FURS
REMITTANCE BY MONET ORDER, EXPRESS ORDER OR CHEQUE
Hoerner, Williams & Co.
REG.
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GENERAL MARCH SAYS tflRSl
ED ITALIAN FRONT FRII
PART OF NON-COMBAT AN'
1NG MEN TO BE SENT
77TH DIVISION OF NEW Y<
Washington, June 29.—“Sunn
situation looks extremely favorable
C. March, chief-of-staff of the Unite
day. General March announced tha
the Italian front yesterday. They
and not taken from General Pershii
sist largely of non-combatant sanitar
will be sent into Italy will be taken
The first national army divisic
French front, said General March, 1
New York, which was trained at C<
Major-General J. Franklin Bell.
The chief-of-staff said that the 1
over eighteen thousand prisoners a
Austrian offensive and had restored
road is difficult to build but this was
attended by more than usual difficul
ties. Aside from almost impassible
stretches it was in the extreme north,
i one thousand miles from the base of
I supplies for everything had to be ship
' ped from Seattle and Vancouver.
No telegrah lines then connected
| the interior with the states or Canada
! and the sailings of the steamers were
; irregular, owing to cold and delays.
! This was an immense drawback as
! large quantities of powder had to be
! used for blasting. In one place a cliff
120 feet high, 70 feet deep and 20 feet
thick had to be blasted away in order
’ to get space for the roadbed and
though there is only one tunnel on
this remarkable road, supplies and
machinery had to be packed up such a
step trail to reach its location, it is
astounding that the road was evei
built under such difficulties. Eighty
one miles from Skagway the road
runs through a lake and here a cur
ious thing happened. during the
building difficulty was experienced in
securing a feasible line for the rail-I
way and a location had been made
along the tast shore of the lake. In j
; order to get a better surface of water j
! and to do away with the many comers
that indented the shore line, the water!
was lowered fourteen feet by excavat- j
i ing an outlet chanel. At this time oc-'
!
curred an unlooked for event. The!
water after remaining stationary for
sometime, cut its way into the sandy
hill through which the outlet has been
excavated and formed an enormous
canon in the lake bed and covering
the country where the railroad line |
was located. This remarkable phen
omenon reduced the lake level over
seventy feet and made necessary the
construction of two large bridges over
the canon formed by the emptying
water. Today the roadbed runs di
rectly through the former bed of the
lake and though the cost of construc
tion was greater the line is more di
rect and the railroad was benefitted
in the end.
All told there were some 35,000
men employed in constructing this
perilous road and strange to say only
thirty-five died,from sickness and ac
cident, an extremely small proportion
under the circumstances. The engineer
| was fortunate in securing the services
of an extremely intelligent class *of
men. Many were prospectors anxious
to reach the gold fields, who were glad
| of work in winter as they did not care
to start for the interior until the
1 opening of navigation. Others work
j ed to replenish their capital to enable
them to buy supplies. Usually these
men had exhausted their funds in try
ing to locate gold and were eager to
start again as soon as the road could
be finished. These features had dis
advantages as well as advantages, for
one day, 1,500 men without any warn
ing drew their pay and threw down
picks and shovels and started pell
mell for the Atlin country to the east
of Skagway in the northern part of
British Columbia. Inquiry proved that
a returning miner had told them of
the discovery of gold in this region.
This necessitated a hunt for men to
fill the vacancies and a loss of time in
breaking the new force in.
Recently the original engineering
IF-STAFF
' AMERICAN TROOPS REACH
DAY, COMPOSED FOR MOST
r SANITARY UNITS—FIGHT
BY GENERAL PERSHING—
IRK WAS HONORED.
'ying the entire battle fronts, the
o the allies,” said General Peyton
d States army, in an interview to
t the first American troops reached
were sent from the United States
ig’s expeditionary forces, and con
y units. The combatant forces that
from Pershing’s armies,
m which took up a sector on the
vas the seventy-seventh division of
imp Upton under the command of
taliaii armies had taken something
nd much war booty in the recent
their line along the Piavc river.
and construction has been improved
upon in many places. Switchbacks,
trestles and bridges have been re
placed with cantilever bridges, steel
constructions and fills and every pre
caution is taken to keep the road in
prime condition that it may rank with
the highest types of railroad en
gineering. The road is operated daily,
except Sundays, throughout the year.
During the winter time a rotary snow
plow is kept at work clearing the
track but it is seldom that snow has
delayed trains more than a few hours.
Too add to the precautions track
walkers patrol the rails constantly or
the lookout for boulders that may fall
from the precipitous mountain sidei
that loom up on one side of the cars
Every precauation is taken to make
the trip a safe one, the cars connect
with boats for Dawson or with a stage
in winter that is heated and provider
with ample relays of horses, and tr
see the prospectors start out to make
their fortunes is a wonderful experi
ence only eclisped by the adventures
of the intrepid gold seekers them
selves.
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
MAKES SERIOUS CHARGES
AGAINST INDUSTRIES.
EXHIBIT INORDINATE GREED
In Report to the Senate Commissioi
Declares That American Industries
Are Profiteering and Taking Ad
vantage of the War Pressure foi
Heavy Production.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 29.
The federal trade commission, in i
report to the senate, declared it be
lieved that American industries wen
profiteering; taking advantage of th<
war pressure for heavy production
and showing inordinate greed and ii
some cases bare-faced fraud.
The commission’s report to the sen
ate shows that the meat packers an<
allied industries, and the flour millers
were making a Jieavy profit out of thi
war. It declared that low-cost con
cerns were making a heavy profi
under government-fixed prices for th<
whole country. The commission sai<
that it had investigated and fount
that officials of the big concerns wer<
making high salaries, out of propor
tion to the service rendered.
The report was submitted to th<
senate, following an exhaustive inves
tigation by the commission.
It is expected that the department o
justice will be called upon to prose
cute the profiteering firms.
City and Commission basebal
teams meet for a match game at 2:3<
this afternoon at Athletic park. Mill
will probably pitch for the Commis
sion and either Brown or Hunt for th<
City.
WARNED NOT TO
ATTACK GERMANS
PARIS, July 2.—The Gazette, of
Laussane, Switzerland, has been
warned by the Swiss federal chancel
lory against further criticism of Ger
many or Germans. The newspaper re
cently had a savage editorial against jr
the Germaas in a certain review of
the book, “My Four Years in Germa
ny,” by James W. Gerard, former
American ambassador to Germany.
AMERICANS AND BRITISH
FORM SOCIETY IN TOKIO 1
LONDON, July 2.—The formation
of an American-British society has
been completed at Tokio, Japan. The
object of the society is to promote a
spirit of co-operation in matters of !
mutual interest for the two countries. 1
AMERICAN TROOPS GO j
TO EAST VIA CANADA j,
WASHINGTON, July 2. — Some i
American troops from the western j
training camps are moving eastward |
through Canada, according to an an - i
nouncement by Secretary of War!
Baker today.
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DIFFICULTIES
OFTHEADVANCE
I _
AMSTERDAM, June 27.—The dif- ]
Acuities of the German advance over |.
the devastated country around Armen- i,
tieres are described by the corre- ,
spondent of the Cologne Gazette.
“In Armentieres there is not a
house that can be used,” he says. “The
streets are in ruins. It must have been!
evacuated a long time ago, because;
I there is hardly a piece of furniture co j
be seen. On the western side, by thej
| workingman’s quarter, lies a large,
new English cemetery, with countless
graves beautifully decked with spring
flowers. Over the gardens of the
j neighboring village the commanding
i height of Kemmel peers above the
: Flanders plain. There the battle rages
fiercely. We meet English prisoners
and our own wounded. They, describe j
the difficulties of the fight, above all \
the countless machine-gun nests of;
the British. But they are of good!
courage.
“In the western suburb of Lille the
i children were playing ball, but upon
i the extreme edge of the town we came
i on ruined houses, and then the wildest
i picture of war. We wondered how it
j was possible that men could hold out
there. They did so in winter, too!
Water lies everywhere under the soil,
— a thrust of the stick and it oozes
forth. One can only go through
trenches on boards. The dugouts,
stand a foot and more full of water. ;
The breastworks of sand and earth j
must be lifted above the level and so |
afford scai*cely any cover for shoot-!
1 ing.
' “The effect of constant bombard
' ments has rendered the country im-1
passable. Teri’ible is the working of ■
our storm batteries around the region'
of the advance. The wire has entire- j
- ly broken, the trenches have fallen in.
i Last year’s shell holes have almost a
■ romantic air, with flowers and wild !
i things. A wounded man who fell j
; into one of these holes with no one to;
, aid him must surely drown,
i “Communications here are only
possible on concrete roads, which are
- built over the mud flats. Right and
1 left of the causeways are broken
s stumps of trees, shell cases, bombs,
; the bodies of horses and even of men.
- On the roads is an endless procession
of wagons, carts, automobiles and
> columns of troops. German airmen
l fly above to protect them.
I Feverish work goes on all sides.
; The shell holes are filled with slabs of
• concrete and pontoons are thrown over
holes that are too deep to fill. All
: this work has to be done under con
• stant attacks from the air and from
long-range guns.”
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GRANTED EXEMPTION.
LONDON, June 29.—Because he
had invented a paper sack for pota
i toes, the manager of a British textile
) engineering firm was granted six
j months’ exemption from army serv
- ice. At the hearing it was stated that
? Germany had been making paper
sacks for years.
rWO HUNDRED AND EIGHT
SOULS ABOARD AT TIME OF
THE U-BOAT ATTACK.
rWENTY-FOUR REACH P O R T.
''ate of the Remainder Remains Un
known at This Time—Vessel Was
a British Hospital Ship and Was
Homeward-Bound From Canada—
Twelve Sisters Drowned.
LONDON, July 2.—The British
lospital ship Landovery Castle, car
rying two hundred and eight persons,
ncluding passengers and the crew,
vas recently sunk by a German sub
narine. A life boat containing twen
;y-eight passengers has arrived at a
3ritsh port. The fate of the re
nainder is unknown.
The Landovery Castle was home
vard bound from Canada and was at
;acked and sunk by the U-boat a hun
Ired and sixteen miles- south of
Fastnet.
TWELVE SISTERS DROWNED.
LONDON, July 2.—Survivors of the
lospital ship Londovery Castle report
;hat they seen a boat containing,
imong others, twelve nursing sisters,
;apsize and all were drowned.
LANE ARRIVES
FROM HONOLULU
A PACIFIC PORT, July 2.—Secre
;ary of the Interior Franklin Iv. Lane
ind Assistant Secretary Bradley
reached this port last night, on their
way to Washington. They have been
an an extended trip to the Hawaiian
islands, where they have been inves
tigating the much-mooted land ques
tion.
MANY KILLED BY
FALLING BUILDING
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, July 2.--The
toll of dead by the collapse of a build
ing here last night is between ten and
twenty, with a score or more injured.
Fire has added to the danger of those
imprisoned beneath the debris. The
loss is placed at $100,000.
SENATE FAVORS
$2.50 BUSHEL
WASHINGTON, July 2.—The sen
ate again rejected the proposal of the
house to abandon its amendment to
the agricultural appropriation bill in
creasing the price of wheat to $2.50
per bushel. The fight is going on in
conference. The house favors the price
fixed by the president, $2.00 per bush
el, while the senate stands pat on the
increase to $2.50 per bushel.
URGES MODIFIED
WAR EDUCATION
PITTSBURG, Fa., July 2.—The
adoption of a war modified education
to build a new civilization was urged
at the opening of the national edu
cational association by its president,
Mary C. Bradford, of Denver, Colo
rado. The association opened its an
nual convention this forenoon and is
largely attended by delegates from all
parts of the nation.
BELGIAN SHIP
SUNK BY DIVER
WASHINGTON, July 2.—The Bel
gian steamer Chilier was shelled and
sunk by a German submarine 1400
miles off the Atlantic coast June 21,
according to an announcement today
by the navy department. A sailing
vessel rescued the crew, twenty-five
in all.