Bank of Alaska
An Institution of Strength and Character
CAPITAL $75,000.00
SURPLUS $17,500.00
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ANCHORAGE
Wrangell
President
Vice-President
SKAGWAY
V ice-President—
W. R. Hillery
Cashier—
W. L. Lands borough
ANDREW STEVENSON
ANDREW A| BENTON
ANCHORAGE
Vice-President—
J. T. Westermann
Auditor—
B. A. Ross
Assistant Cashier—
M. McVean
WRANGELL
Vice-President—
W. H. Warren
CROSS CONTRIBUTIONS TAKEN
BETWEEN 10 A. M. AND 12 NOON.
HERE
NORTH POLE
BAKERY AND COFFEE HOUSE
Fearth Avenue, Between D and E.
ECKMANN’S
FURNITURE STORE
Has Just What You Want At Right
Prices.
4TH AND K ST.
DIAMONDS, WATCHES
NUGGET JEWELRY
“Just Quality.”
8 WALTER A. LORD CO.
Watchmakers, Jewelers.
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Alaska Pool
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CIGARS, TOBACCO AND
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Dick’s Kitchen
Better Than
Ever
**THE CHAUNCY WRIGHT
OF ALASKA.”
Fourth Avenue.
Opposite Bank Pool Hall
Collins Cigar
STORE
Cigars, Tobaccos and
Soft Drinks.
, NORTHERN CIGAR STORE
4th Between H and I
Soft Drinks
W. J. McLEOD.
RESTORATION OF SILVER
SURE IN NEAR FUTURE
During the past twelve months
India has purchased a total of 123,
500,000 ounces of silver, which it
coined into $120,000,000 of new ru
pees, thereby netting a profit on the
coinage of about $30,000,000. This
output of the mint was readily ab
sorbed and more will be needed.
Although India is a prominent
buyer in the silver market, its pur
chases no doubt will pale into in
significance when compared with the
aggregate require mn' 3 of European
nations after the war, when new
schemes must be evolved.
Russia, the United States, Great
Britain, France, Germany, Belgium,
Austria, Portugal, Italy, Rumania,
Turkey, Serbia, Japan, Montenegro,
and Bulgaria, as well as certain neu
tral nations that have run heavily in
debt, represent a tremendous buying
power and all are large prospective
purchasers of silver.
While the quantity of silver that
these nations may use immediately
following the war can be merely a
matter of conjecture, it undoubtedly
will be huge. If the fifteen nations
mentioned make purchases whose to
tal would average only $100,000,000
apiece, that would mean $1,500,000,
000 spent for silver. With the debts
of the governments involved running
high into the billions of dollars, and
all on a gold basis, the above figures
seem very conservative. Many mil
lions of dollars in silver must be
coined to supplement the gold circu
lation and help retire the immense
amount of aper obligations of the
various governments. Old standards
of computation have been swept away
by world conditions and sums once
1 considered large are now regarded as
insignificant in national finance.
When the unparalleled demand
for silver begins to make itself felt
prices for the white metal should
soar to record levels, and stimulate
production to an extent unequaled
in the history of the mining industry.
AUSTRALIAN JUDGE
OPPOSES OPEN SHOP
The fat plutes of Australia have
been greatly mortified by a state
ment recently made by Justice Hey
don, of the industrial court, which
body passes on wage disputes and
other labor grievances. Judge Hey
don has always been regarded by the
corporative interests as a “safe
man” for their interests, but it ap
pears that he came into contact with
so many real problems of life with
which the workers must deal that he
has come to see new light. Judge
Heydon has lost all confidence in op
en shoppery and scabbery and has
declared himself clearly for organiz
ed labor. “I agree that it is a fair
thing that a man who gets better
conditions through the efforts of his
fellows should bear his share of the
expense,” says Judge Heydon. “I
am absolutely with that contention.
If I were a non-unionist workingman,
and unionists in my trade got me a
higher wage, I should think myself
an exceedingly shabby person if I did
not send them a contribution fully
equal to my fair share.”
A strike occurred among the fish
ermen employed by the Carlisle Pack
ing company at Cordova, the men de
manding an increase of from 5 to 8
cents for silver salmon and from
$1.50 to $2.00 for humpies.
GERMANS WHO DIE FOR COUNTRY
TRANSFORMED INTO WAR AMMUNITION
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It will be remembered that one of
the American consuls, on leaving Ger
many in February, stated in Switzer
land that the Germans were distilling
glycerine for nitroglycerine from the
bodies of their dead, and thus were ob
taining some part of their explosives.
Die London Times has obtained a de
scription of the place where this is
lone. The factory is invisible from
the railway. It is placed deep in for
est country, with a specially thick
growth of trees about it. Live wires
surround it. A special double track
leads to it. The works are about 700
feet long and 110 feet broad, and the
railway runs completely around them.
In the northwest comer of the works
the discharge of the trains takes
place.
The trains arrive full of bare bodies,
which are unloaded by the workers,
who live at the works. The men wear
oilskin overalls and masks with mica
eye-pieces. They are equipped with
long hooked poles, and push the bun
dles of bodies to an endless chain,
which picks them with big hooks at
tached at intervals of two feet. The
bodies are transported on this endless
chain into a long, narrow compart
ment, where they pass through a bath
which disinfects them. They then go
through a drying chamber, and finally
are automatically carried into a diges
ter or great cauldron, in which they
are dropped by an apparatus which
detaches them from the chain. In the
digester they remain from six to eight
hours, and are treated by steam,
which breaks them up while they are
slowly stirred by machinery.
From this treatment result several
products. The fats are broken up into
stearine, a form of tallow, and oils,
which require to be redistilled before
they can be used. The process of dis
tillation is carried out by boiling the
oil with carbonate of soda, and some
part of the by-pijpducts resulting from
thisis used by German soapmakers.
The oil distillery and refinery lie in
the southern corner of the works. The
refined oil is sent out in small casks
like those used for petroleum, and is
of a yellowish brown color.
The fumes are exhausted from the
building by electric fans, and are
sucked through a great pipe to the
northeastern comer, where they are
condensed and the refuse resulting is
discharged into a sewer. There is no
high chimney, as the boiler furnaces
are supplied with air by electric fans.
There is a laboratory, and in
charge of the works is a chief chem
ist with two assistants and seventy
eight men. All the employees are sol
diers and are attached to the Eighth
army corps. There is a sanatorium
by the works, and under no pretext
is any man permitted to leave them.
They are guarded as prisoners at
their appalling work.
WHY WE ARE
FIGHTING GERMANY
Incredible though it may seem in
view of the persistent and murderous
aggressions by which Germany
forced this war upon us, voices os
tensibly American are still heard
asking why we fight, while others go
even further and declare that we
have been “tricked” into entering the
war by England, or by President Wil
son, or by American millionaires
whose profits were cut by the activi
ties of the German U-boats. It is un
necessary, of course, to characterize
such utterances. But there are also
journals and individuals of unques
tioned loyalty who feel that the of
ficial statement of our case, with its
emphasis on noble and altruistic
ideals, needs to be supplemented by
a sharp reminder that this is for us
a war of self-defense in which the
very soul of our nation is at stake. In
addition to the outrageous murder of
American sailors and passengers,
and the effort to set Mexico and Jap
an at our throats, “we are in this
war,” says the New York Herald,
“because we realize that the despotism
which set out to crush libery in Eur
ope had marked this country as its
next victim.” In fact, Germany boast
ed that America would be “made to
compensate it for the costs of this
war,” recalls the Newark News, and
the Brooklyn Eagle foresees Ger
many, if victorious, smashing the
Monroe Doctrine and invading South
America. As the Chicago Tribune
puts it, Americans are fighting now
“in order that they shall not have
to fight five or ten years from now
under the worst possible conditions.”
This same idea that “ours is a war
of self-defense is reiterated by Sec
retary Lane, of the interior depart
ment, in a ringing statement which,
declares the New York Journal of
Commerce, “ought to read by every
American able to read it, and trans
lated or interpreted to those who are
not.”
Beans found in the cliff dwellings
near Globe, Ariz., have been found to
Ejrow and produce large plants which
bore pods having from 10 to 12 large
pink beans which are grown in the
southwest. Scientists in the south
west say the beans must have been
placed in the cliff dwellings more than
500 years ago. The seed crop is to be
used to produce beans for war crops.
It is reported that the Guggen
heims have taken an option on three
and one-half miles of ground on Colo
rado Creek, in the Cripple creek dis
trict.
Many a man has been saved by the
good advice he didn’t take.—Bing
hamton Press.
JOHN SPARGO AMONG EARLY
CHAMPIONS OF SOCIALISM
John Spargo, whose withdrawal
from the socialist party in the United
States was recently announced bases
his action on the alleged inefficiency
of the organism to promote socialism,
and not because he has ceased to be
an internationalist or an anti-militar
ist. The pro-German attitude of the
party prior to and following the en
trance of the United States into war
he cannot acquiesce in or defend; and
as a matter of socialist tactics he con
siders the policy as futile and inept as
it is wrong in theory. Mr. Spargo is a
native of Cornwall, England, and sup
plemented study in the schools by
university extension courses at Cam
bridge and Oxford universities. While
a youth he became a member of the
socialist party in England.
In 1901, coming to the United
States, Mr. Spargo entered on propa
ganda, both as a speaker and as a
writer; and in a short time he became
one of the best known and most widely
read of the party’s adherents. It is
doubtful whether any American so
cialist has approached him in the va
riety or the nrolific oualitv of his
writings. Pure theory, however, has
not been his only field of operation. In
administration of the party he has
served on national and international
assignments, and is well known among
the European leaders.
His most valuable contribution to
socialistic literature is his biography
of Karl Marx, by all -odds the best
work in English of the kind. Mr.
Spargo as a socialist always has been
an opportunist and not a doctrinaire,
and this has brought him into line
with .many of the social reform move
ments carried on by persons and by
organizations far from socialistic in
their motives and methods.
The St. Elias Oil company, which
has a patent on 160 acres of land near
here, is now manufacturing 50,000
gallons of gasoline and distillate a
month, which is produced from a high
grade parrafine base oil of the same
quality, or better, than is found in
Pennsylvania.
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CARROL & CO.
A STORE FOR MEN.
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JUST ARRIVES A BIG NEW STOCK
Kuupenheimer Clothes
Stetson Hats
Packard Shoes
Coopers’ Underwear
A Special Line of Ladies’ Walking Shoes.
CARROL & COMPANY 1
4th Avenue
ANCHORAGE Comer E St. £
INCREASE IN TENANT
FARMERS IS PREDICTED
In a statement issuel recently the
Joseph Fels International commission
predicts an enormous increase in the
number of tenant farmers and land
less farm laborers, and a correspond
ing inflation of land values in favor
of large land owners as a result of
the food shortage and the movement
to conscript or enlist millions of men
and boys for work on the farms.
While accepting the necessity of
drastic measures to stimulate food
production, the commission, in its
statement, urges action by congress
in favor of a constitutional amend
ment permitting federal taxation as a
means of controlling land values and
keeping opportunity open to the men
and boys who answer the call for
farm labor.
“No other power residing in con
gress,” says the statement, “will pre
pent our present demand for food and
aur agricultural mobilization from
creating huge unearned values in land
at he expense of the men who will
polunteer or who will be conscripted
to cultivate land now lying idle or
only partially cultivated by tenants.
“No other measure will throw open
the doors of opportunity to the men to
whom we are apepaling to sacrifice
their interests in order to become
food producers. The very lands on
which their labor will be expended
will otherwise rise in value so rap
idly that we shall see the rise of a
landed aristocracy on the one hand
and a miserable peasantry, lured into
that situation by an appeal to patriot
ism, on the other.”
Some very promising prospects are
reported to have been uncovered on
the benches of Nugget, Peters and
Cache creeks, in the Cache creek dis
trict. Considerable new development
is planned in that section this season
and the operators look for a record.
Courtesy and Quality Our Motto
The Style Shop
MAUD D. CATTLE & CO.
EVERYTHING IN LADIES’
READY-TO-WEAR GOODS.
Dressmaking and Manicuring Parlors
Now Open.
Masonic Building.
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THE WHITE LUNCH
Bakery and Coffee House.
Home-Made Bread and
Fine Pastry.
Specials—Light lunches sand
wiches, pork and beans, Mexi
. can chili beans.
4th and C. Opposite Crescent
Hotel.
OUR BEEF, MUTTON, PORK
and other meats are strictly high
grade. They are from especially bred
stock and are far superior to meats
cut from common breeds. It will take
only one trial to prove our meats’ su
periority in spit of the fact that the'-'
cost no more.
Fresh Fish, Butter and Eggs.
Ship Creek Meat Co.
WATCHES DIAMONDS
B.C. NICHOLS
THE ANCHORAGE
JEWELER
Watch Repairing a Specialty -*
CLOCKS JEWELRY
DAHLS
RESTAURANT
GOOD EATS
GREEN FRONT CIGAR
STORE
CIGARS, TOBACCO, CANDY.
MISS I. BLAIR, Prop.
Corner 4th Ave. and C. St.
WORK MEN EAT
At
D: D:
FRED WRIGHT
HAPPY MEALS
BAXTER’S
CIGARS
TOBACCO
MAGAZINES
We have property in all
parts of the city, fen* sale or
lease. Houses for rent or sale.
Anchorage Realty Company.
Phone 40-R.
WOOD UNDERTAKING
COMPANY.
Licensed Embalmers
Funeral Directors -f
Modem Shipping
Equipment.
Anchorage - - Alaska
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Lauritz Bros.
FOR THE BEST
Painting, Paper-hanging
and Decorating.
“Lauritz the Sign Man.”
5th Ave. bet. E. and F.
ANTON JOHANSEN
Seldovia, Kachemak Bay.
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
Everything for the Settler,
Fisherman, Prospector, Hunter
and Trapper.
RIGHT PRICES.
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