IGLOO WILL SELL 1J0M)S IN DE
NOMINATIONS OF $25 EACH
AT EVERY MEETING.
TO BE REDEEMED IN TWO YEARS
Members Decide to Invite Some Per
sons Outside of Their Order to De
liver Address at Their Regular
Sessions.
Members of the Order of the Pio
neers of Alaska at the meeting last
Friday evening decided to put in op
eration a plan for paying otf the in
debtedness on the Pioneer hall, which
has some novel and interesting fea
tures.
The revenues derived from parties,
dances, theatricals and other social
events planned by the Pioneers for the
near future are to be placed in a re
demption fund for the purpose of tak
ing up the issue of bonds, which the
Igloo is selling to its members. These
bonds are in denominations of $251
each, and are in the nature of an in
vestment open to the members, to be
redeemed within two years. The
money thus derived will be placed in a
fund for the payment of the indebted
ness.
i
A novel plan for the early redemp
tion of the bonds is provided by draw
ings, to be held at every meeting, at
which one or more bonds will be re
deemed and the lucky holders will get
their money back.
Bonds to the amount of $225 were
I iiKM! cti nit' ic.m iiirt'uug anti it
expected that the sale of bonds each
meeting- will raise the money required
before the debt is due, and that ail
bonds will have been redeemed within
the first year.
The meeting also adopted a plan fo
patriotic speeches to be delivered
under the good of the order. A speak
er outside the Igloo is to be obtained
for every meeting.
Coffee, sandwiches and cigars were
served at the meeting Friday night
which was in the nature of a smoker.
BOB SCOTT, WELL-KNOWN PROS
PECTOR, LEFT IN BOAT FOB
(i ALENA BAY.
INTENDED TO DO TRAPPING.
Friends of Bob Scott, the well
known prospector of Valdez, fear that
some accident may have befallen him,
or that he has been cast away at
some point down Prince William
sound, says the Valdez Miner.
Mr. Scott left Valdez about January
] for (ialena bay, where he intended
to run a trap line tlie balance of the
winter. He never .-bowed up at bus
destination, nor has any word been
received of his whereabouts by his
friends.
I.ate in December Mr. Scott repair
ed a small boat on the beach at Yal- 1
dez and after laying in a stock of sup- I
plies sailed for his proposed camp
down Prince William sound. Since!
that time no one has seen or heard
of him.
'1 he Indians at (Ialena bay report J
that he has not come in there and I
boatmen plying Prince William sound!
say that they have been unable to
line! any trace of him in any bay or
inlet navigated by them.
While passing Freeniuntle a few
days ago, Capt. Jack Peter states that
be saw the hull of a boat cast up on
the point which might be Scott's boat.
A heavy sea was running, making it
extremely dangerous to attempt to
land on the lee shore, and investiga
tion was delayed until another time.
rl he bull was covered with snow and
ice and its identity could not be ascer
taine.
CITY AUTHORITIES DO NOT
CARE TO ESTABLISH POUND
BECAUSE OF EXPENSE.
DEFENSE COUNCIL WON’T ACT.
Food Administrator Declares He Is
Without Authority and in Meantime
Canines Eat Good Food and Menace
Little Children.
Nenana is worrying over the dog
situation, says the Nenana News.
No provision is made in the town
site regulations for abating the dog
nuisance otherwise than by the estab
the nearest wood three miles away,
already has demonstrated that im
pounding the canines is not a profit
able business—not profitable enough,
at least, to keep a pound man on the
job. And the council of defense, de
clares the News, which was created
to assist the government in putting
the nation on a solid war footing by
conserving the resources and encour
aging co-operation in all matters per
taining to the war, insists that it is
powerless to rid the community of
worthless and dangerous dogs which
are a menace to life and which con
sume daily a large amount of food
which should be conserved for human
consumption. The Nenana food ad
ministrator is also without authority
to act, he declares, beyond seeing to it
that dealers do not supply dog owners
with food which should be sold to
families.
The situation is serious, complains
me mere are lar more uogs m
Nenana than can be fed by the scraps
from restaurants and private homes;
and there is not enough other dog feed
to supply the demand. The result is
that many dogs are eating food which
may be hard to replace during the
coming buying season; they are feed
ing on sheep and other game animals
which may not be killed for human
consumption at this season of the
year; and they continue to menace the
lives of the children of Xenana.
CU’KHOI SE FOR SOLDIERS.
Fine Building Will lie Opened Soon at
El Paso, Texas.
EL PASO, Tex., March 30.—The El
Paso patrol district will have one of
the finest soldiers’ clubhouses on the
border when the new headquarters of
the Soldiers Welfare and Recreation
committee is completed and opened to
the soldiers of this border district.
The war camp community service
has alloted the El Paso committee
$1(5,000 for its activities and a portion
of this budget is being used to furn
ish the new headquarters which are
located in a permanent brick and
stone building at the intersection of
two principal streets in the heart of
the city. There billiard and pool tables
are being ii smiled, a large auditorium
is being furnished through the coop
erative efforts of the El Paso women’s
organizations and leading, writing
and lounging rooms have been ar
ranged for in the new club.
The soldiers’ club will be dedicated
with a program of music, speeches and
soldier entertainment which will be
followed by a reception by the mem
bers of the committee and their wives
in honor of tiie soldiers of the district.
A series of dances will be started at
the club and a paid supervisor will be
in charge of the club activities, re
porting to the recreation committee o?
the local war service board.
THE DIFFERENCE.
“What diTerence is there between
a crowd and a mob anyway?” asked
the Old Fogy.
“A mob is a crowd that has a lead
er,” replied the Grouch.
TELEGRAPH RATES INCREASE.
ROME, March 80. — Foreign tele
graph rates have been increased 40
per cent owing to the depreciation of
Italian money, a dollar bringing an ex
change of 8 lire and a half instead of
five lire before the war.
FORTY FEET OF ICE IS REPORT
ED ON EUREKA AND MORE
FORMING EVERY DAY.
HEAVY RAIN BADLY NEEDED
Gus Hahn Arrives in Fairbanks and
Says Working Season Likely Will
Be Very Short Next Summer on
Account of Hard Winter.
Gus Hahn arrived in Fairbanks the
other day from the Kantishna gold
fields, where he has been working on
No. 14 above, Glacier creek.
Mr. Hahn says that the creeks are
glaciered to such an extent that un
less there is a heavy rain soon there
will be a very short mining season
there next summer.
On Eureka creek alone, thei*e is
over forty feet of glacier on the creek
bottom and more forming every day.
Van Orsdel and Hahn sunk two
holes on No. 14, but the prospects
were so poor that they have discon
tinued mining.
Wood Three Miles Away.
They were using a large boiler, with
the nearest wood thre miles away,
some of it being a six-mile haul with
a dog team. Mr. Hahn says that the
country, while a very good hard rock
proposition, does not pay for a miner
to attempt to make any more than a
grubstake by working with the pick
grade j imposition.
However, he believes that with bet
ter facilities for getting the grun in
there, the cost couhl be reduced very
much.
Gold and Antimony.
't here is plenty of gold, galena ore
land antimony in there, but no facili
ties for handling it..
Mr. and Mrs. Van Osdel plan or
going to Nenana for good early in the
spring, or as soon as the river opens.
Mr. Quigley is still working on the
same ground and has over six hun
dred feet of tunnel run on his proper
ty. Andy Ness and John Lee are still
working on the ground sublet from
Van Orsdel. Ness is now on No. 12
above Glacier and is getting ready te
ground-sluice.
Joe Dalton is on Eureka creek
ab- ut seven miles from Glacier, and
is preparing for the summer’s work.
STAR PLAYERS IN ARMY.
Major League Veterans Constitute
Team at Camp Freemont.
CAMP FREEMONT, Palo Alto
Cal., March 30.—This camp is no ex
ception to the rule that “every canton
ment has a major league baseball
team.” It has been said that an intei
camp league could bo formed whose
teams could be made up entirely oi
professional players.
Baseball at Camp Fremont is undei
the management of Lieutenant T. R
Klawens of the sixty-second infantry
lie formerly was manager of the bas
ketball team of the Illinois Athletic
; club, at Chicago.
Among former baseball stars win
i have a place on the team are Lieuten
j ant Baggins of the Three Hundred am
i First cavalry, who was first basemar
| for Cleveland a year or two ago; John
! Crouch of the Three Hundred anc
Nineteenth Engineers and Lieutenant
Don Johnson, a former pitcher for the
Philadelphia Americans. Eppa Rikey
of the Philadelphia Nationals arrived
I in camp. Klawans, Crouch and John
I son will make up the pitching staff of
the team.
Lieutenant Klawens is making ar
rangements to have the Cubs stop of!
at Camp Freemont for a game on their
training trip. He is a close friend of
the manager of the Cubs.
BLES& YOU, MY CHILDREN.
(Sheldon, N. D., Progress.)
Only one couple from the westerr
part of the county applied for a mar
riage license at Ransom County’s
Matrimonial Bureau this week. They
were Richard All Good, 27, and Ina
Sheets, 17, both of Englevale.
I MONEY REQUIRED TO CONDUCT
j WAR AND PATRIOTISM NEED
ED TO PROVIDE FUNDS.
EVERYBODY SHOULD ASSIST.
Self-Sacrifice Is Necessary Too in
Present Times and Every Man, Wo- !
man and Child Is Urged to Do |
Something in Great Struggle.
By C. C. BENEDICT,
First Lieutenant, M. R. C.
It takes money to run a war but j
it takes patriotism to provide the!
money. It takes patriotism too to deny !
ourselves wheat, meat and fats in J
order that our boys and our allies in j
France may be fed. Locally our
patriotism in this matter will soon be
measured when we know how much we
have saved in wheat and meat during
the last nine weeks. And by the way, |
conservation does not end with the
nine weeks’ campaign but we are ex- \
pected to go right along the same as
if there were cards collected each
week. There is no objection to your
doing even better than you were askedi
to do in the matter of saving of food.!
! You can eliminate all wheat from your!
i diet and help the allies that much j
more, be just as well oif yourself and
feel that you have done just a little
more than a “bit.” There is no limit
to the amount a person may do.
Anxious to I)o Something.
There is not a red blooded Ameri
can man, woman or child who reads,
the accounts of people who have been ;
to the battlefront and return to tell us |
, what they have seen, but whose latent!
desire to take an active part in the S
war is fanned into an intense longing, j
We get tired and grow impatient at
being denied what we deem a privil
ege to do something that has the ap
pearance of counting more toward j
ending this awful orgy than the mere
saving that we can do at home.
Yet we are told that we can do as
important work here as there, that
concerted action at home is necessary
in order that the war may td won.
Therefore we are urged to keep along
the Liberty loan and the thrift stamps
and the war saving stamps. Special
emphasis is placed on what each in
dividual is expected to do and what
the result will be if each does his ot
her duty.
You are simply asked to lend your
monej to the government, to your own
country, to help out in the crisis that
we are facing. It not only shows your
patriotism but it will be of lasting
benelit to yourself by teaching thrift
and economy.
Self Discipline Is Admirable.
Self discipline is one of the most
admirable traits an ’ individual can
possess and this leads us to the point
of this story, which is, the enlistment i
of evevv man. woman and child in An
chorage in a club for the purpose of ;
denying ourselves luxuries, etc., am
spending the money saved thereby for j
thrift stamps.
Primarily, it was intended to make i
it a club for smokers, to deny them
selves smoking and buy stamps with
the savings; then it was suggested to
admit nonsmokers, or smokers too, I
who would deny themselves any lux-.
ury, or any amusement, the idea being ■
to make it a sacrifice. It must be a j
sacrifice else we are not doing our
part. The plan is to buy one thrift i
stamp a day at least, more if you can,;
less if you cannot do better, but do ;
something—do your best. If you are:
planning to go to the theatre tonight, j
stay at home and buy two stamps, j
next day make some other sacrifice on j
candy, cigars, etc.
The edtior of the Times has volun- i
teered to accept names for the club j
and will publish them from time to 1
time. Join the Thrift Stamp Club and
help win the war.
An Alabama inventor's revolver is
practically a miniature machine gun,
as, instead of a cylinder, its cartridges
are loaded into a chain of almost any
desired length.
FRED LAUBNER, WILLOW CREEK
OPERATOR, SUFFERS DEATH
AT SEDRO-WOOLLEY.
THROAT CUT; KNIFE IN HAND.
Indirations Point to Suicide, But Of
ficers Can Ascertain No Motive for
Self-Destruction and Probe Murder
Theory.
Fred Laubner, of Anchorage, vice
president of the Mabel Mining com
pany in the Willow creek district near
here, was found dead today near Se
dro-Woolley, Wash., about 120 miles
north of Seattle, according to an As
sociated Press dispatch received by
the Anchorage Daily Times. Mr.
Laubner’s throat was cut and there
was a knife in his hand.
While at first flush the indications
point to suicide, the officers have not
abandoned the idea of murder. Mr.
Laubner’s financial condition was ex
celent, and there is no known reason
why he should have been despondent.
He usually carried large sums of
money on his person, and it is possible
that he was slain with robbery as the
motive of the homicide and that the
assassin tried to arrange the appar
ent circumstances so as to lend color
to the theory of suicide.
Successful Mining Man.
The death of Mr. Laubner removes
one of the most active operators and
one of the successful mining and
business men of southwestern Alaska,
lie came from Hershey, Neb., in 1898.
His career in Alaska was confined to
the southwestern part of the territory.
When Seward was founded he went
there from Katalla, where he had been
engaged in the transfer business. At
Seward he continued in the transfer
business and also located a homestead
adjoining the tcwnsite. This home
stead he afterwards plotted into Laub
ner’s addition and sold it to Robert
Ashland, of Seattle, for $35,000.
While living at Seward, Mr. Laub
ner drove cattle into the Willow creek
district and sold the live stock to the
miners for heef. By reason of these
trips he became acquainted with and
finally interested in the mining indus
try there.
Had Many Other Interests.
Mr. Laubner and his associates in
the Mabel mine last fall practically
agreed on a sale of the property tc
Montana parties for a consideration
said to have been in the neighborhood
of $500,000. Negotiations over minoi
details in connection with the trans
actions delayed its consummation
from time to time, but, according tc
word received here only' a few days
ago, agreement had just been effect
ed on substantially all points at issue
Mr. Laubner was 42 years old. His
burial will take place at Sedro Wool
ley. His estate, aside from his stock
in the Mabel mine, is estimated by
his close friends here as worth at
least $50,000. He was not married
and his affairs in the states are tem
porarily in the hands of his mining
associate, William Martin, of Seattle
Mr. Laubner leaves three brothers
•Joseph Laubner, of this cit.v, am
Leonard Laubner and Andrew Laub
ner at Hershey, Nebraska.
V. M. C. A. BEATS ROBARTS.
Match Is Flayed on Bowling Alleys n;
Victorious Team.
Bowlers representing the Young
Men's Christian association last night
on the association alleys defeated the
team representing Robarts’ billiare;
and bowling hall. The total pins
knocked down by the association team
numbered 2,142. The total score of the
Robarts’ team was 2,121).
The scores of the three games anti
players follow:
First game—Y. M. C. A. 725; Ro
barts, 684. Second game—Y. M. C
A., 753; Robarts, 763. Third game—
Y. M. C. A., 664; Robarts, 682. The
line-up of the two teams included: Y
M. C. A.—Wilford, Kuback, Hart
Thompson, Anderson; Robarts—Ro
barts, Hardy, Edwards, Olson, Graves
I DISTRICT DEPUTY G. F. FORREST
CON DUCTS INSTITUTION
E X E R C I S E S .
CANDIDATES ARE INITIATED.
Officers Are Elected for Ensuing
Year and Installed and Ceremonies
Conclude With Banquet at Night in
Mint Grill.
With thirty-three charter members,
who had demitted from Elks lodges in
various parts of Alaska and the
states, the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks yesterday afternoon in
this city instituted lodge number 1351
of the organization, ami immediately
afterward initiated forty-two mem
bers. Following the institution and
initiation exercises, the newly organ
ized lodge took a recess until la.^t
evening and on convening then elected
and installed officers for the ensuing
year. The ceremonies of the after
noon and evening were concluded with
a banquet at 10 o’clock last night at
the Mint Grill.
The institution of the lodge was con
ducted by G. F. Forrest, of Juneau,
who is district deputy grand exalted
ruler for Alaska and who came here
to perfect the Anchorage organization.
\ /1 ^aui^vu v* i
For the purpose of the institution
he as grand exalted ruler, formed a
grand lodge and made the following
| appointments to the various chairs:
Grand leading night, M. M. Thomp
| son; grand loyal knight, M. S. Wool
: ever; grand lecturing night, C. M. Eck
; man; grand secretary, James E.
i O’Reilly; grand treasurer, Fred Li 1 > -
] man; grand tiler, Daniel Ryan; grand
1 esquire, Fred B. Tracy; grand inner
i
I guard, L. A. Bums; grand organist,
j James Murray and grand e’naplin, ',V.
; H. Peterson.
The following Elks occupied seats
j in the temporay grand lodge:
E. M. Culbertson, C. R. Rhodes, E.
I T. McNally, R. M. Courtnay, E. I‘.
Hedberg, Ben N. Weaver, Samuel Mc
Donald, A. J. Wendler, F. A. Martin,
Charles W. Bush, Ralph Kitzmiller.
Sumner S. Smith, H. L. Gentsch, J. E.
Chovin, W. R. Thomas, Elmer Erik
sson, Thomas C. Trice, C. F. Peterson,
M. W. Diedrick, M. M. Hanley, C. M.
Murphy, J. R. Rock and A. H. Dieber.
Candidates Are Installed.
Immediately after institution of the
lodge, the following candidates were
initiated:
C. W. Mossman, A. E. Lathrop. Sid
ney Anderson, Leopold David, A.
Shonbeck. E. W. Ramsey, W. V..
Butts, Alfred Benson, J. E. Robarrs,
Geo. Osborne, Robert E. Clarke. Jan s
A. Wilkinson, W. D. Stearns, Geo. W.
Fowler, Geo. E. Miliken, William Eng
land, William Fox, H. M. Hamill,
H. Xaglev, Oscar Anderson, J. H. Cal
• lin, Eli De Hon, Matt Raich, Ray C.
Larson, J. S. Baldwin, W. H. Howard,
R. G. Chambers, J. E. Berry, Chester
| M. Murphy, E. E. Porter, Jerry C.
! Murphy, E. W. Chandler, W. E. Lee,
! J. M. Wilson, K. W. Hammar, T. B.
Watson, T. L. Murphy, David O. Toole,
W. R. Manning, Daniel Leach, R. G.
Dougherty and Roger Summy.
Officers Are Elected.
At the session of the lodge in the
evening the folowing regular officers
were elected for the ensuing year and
installed:
Exalted rule’.-, Samuel McDonald,
esteemed leading knight, Ben X.
Weaver; esteemed loyal knight, J. T.
Cunningham; e s teemed lecturing
knight, A. A. Shonbeck; secretary, F.
A. Martin; treasurer, Sidney Ander
son; tyler, Elmer Eriksson; trustees,
A. E. Lathrop, Edward T. McNally
and A. J. Wendler; grand lodge rep
resntative, Samuel McDonald.
At the banquet in the Mint Grill,
speeches were delivered by some of
the officers and members.
To enable a knitter to keep her
arms at her sides and also to better
distribute the weight of her work a
curved, double ended knitting needle
has been invented.