THE ANCHORAGE WEEKLY TIMES
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CHAS. E. HERRON.
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MIGHT NOT NEED ANY.
In the last issue of the Weekly Democrat, one illiam Pe
terson, better known as “Shorty” Peterson, who has been
bound over to the grand jury on the charge of aiding in the il
legal sale of liquor, advertises to buy automobiles, stating that
on account of the free publicity given him by the Times, his
business has increased to such an extent that more machines
are necessary.
The Times always is willing to give such men as Peter
son free advertising of the kind he received, but would re
spectfully call his attention to the fact that after he is through
with the grand jury he probably will not be so much in need
of additional automobiles.
WOMEN’S PATRIOTIC LEAGUE.
Following: out the suggestion of Mrs. Franklin K. Lane,
wife of the secretary of the interior, a band of Anchorage
women have organized a patriotic league in Anchorage, the
immediate object of which is the endowment of an Alaska bed
in the Neuilly Hospital in France.
This bed is to be the Joint gift of the cities of Alaska, and
for this purpose it is proposed to raise $100 in Anchorage,
which has been determined a just proportion of the $000 neces
sary for this undertaking.
The effort is one of the most laudable ones yet made in
this city and is deserving of the unstinted support of all per
sons.
“BUY A SACK OF POTATOES.”
Recently the Matanuska Farmers’ (’o-Operative Produce
association shipped twenty tons of potatoes to Anchorage for
sale to the local merchants, and a movement is now being start
ed to urge all householders to purchase a sack of potatoes, be
cause by so doing they save one cent pt r pound. The pota
toes are retailed for four cents a pound in sacks and live cents
a pound in broken lots of less than a sack.
Every consumer and property owner in Anchorage and
vicinity will enhance the value of his own property, as well
as effect a saving, by buying immediately a sack of potatoes.
The Matanuska farmers are sadly in need of immediate
funds with which to pay for harvesting their crops, and by
1 lie consumer laying in a supply of potatoes it will enable the
merchants to make larger purchases from the Matanuska Farm
ers’ association.
Every patriotic citizen should take it upon himself to buy
at least one sack of potatoes.
MINERAL WEALTH OF ANCHORAGE.
Prospectors coining to Anchorage after having passed the
summer in the hills, bring stories of new-found ledges which
await only capital and transportation to transform them into
immense mines. It long has been known that the country adja
cent to Anchorage is rich in mineral resources. The Willow
(’reek district alone, properly developed, will, support thou
sands of miners and a great city, but great as are the possi
bilities of Willow creek, they are an inconsiderable asset when
the great Broad Pass district and other mineral belts nearer
Anchorage are considered.
Willow creek, the oldest mining district near Anchorage,
although it has produced great amounts of gold, is as yet
practically untouched. Its great hills even have not been thor
oughly prospected on the surface, and there unquestionably
are hundreds of rich leads which await only the coming of
the prospector. Even in the mines which now are working
and daily yielding thousands of dollars, no attempt has been
made by the owners to determine the extent of their ledges.
To the man with imagination the development of the Wil
low creek country alone to anywhere near its capacity means
that Anchorage will become a great mining city, and when the
possibilities of the Broad Pass and other near-by districts are
reckoned, the future of Anchorage is something that cannot
even be surmised.
The mining possibilities of the territory tributary to An
chorage are not surpassed by any district in the world. The
minerals are here; they are within easy reach of capital; and
with the extension of the railroad into the heart of this great
country, a source of untold wealth will be tapped.
It is not alone gold upon which the future of Anchorage de
pends. Prospectors returning from the Broad Pass have
brought samples of rock amazingly rich in copper, silver and
lead. The opening of these mines will mean the erection of
smelters and other activities which follow closely on the heels
of such development, all of which will contribute to the growth
of Anchorage.
“CHERCHEZ LES BOCHES.”
Only think of a paragraph like this appearing in the Pe
king and Tien-Tsin Times, a paper published on the other side
of the world!
“Wherever there is trouble on the surface of the globe to
day, one is pretty safe in acting upon the motto, ‘Cherchez les
Boches’—look out for those rascally Germans.”
This cruel stab occurs in a summary of evidence to prove
that the Germans were authors of the attempts to place the boy
Loussac’s Daily Gossip
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3,1917.
Vol. I. No. 265. ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, 4th mud D
Why suffer the inconvenience of
trying to find your way in the
dark, when you can buy a KWIK
LITE flashlight from us. A Kwik
Lite flashlight comes in many
different sizes. The vest-pocket
light takes up very little room and
the batteries are considered the
best made. They are highly rec
ommended for steady burning and,
of coi-rse, we guarantee them.
The August Victor records are
in and as usual the latest popular
music is brought home to us on
the phonograph. To hear Ger
aldine Farrar sing the “Star Span
gled Banner” is an inspiration, and
listening to some of the latest
dances makes you long for a dance
floor and your best girl. The new
popular songs are snappy and full
of melody. Billy Murray sings
“Everything Is Going Up,” and
we know it is true, but it is funny
just the same. Our stock of Victor
machines and records is the larg
est in Alaska. Within the last two
weeks we have sold about a dozen
machines and a thousand records
or so, and we have some left, and
new ones coming in on every boat.
Mail your orders to us.
We have received a few single
light, silk lamp shades. They are
very pretty and not expensive.
They will greatly improve the ap
pearance of your home. Come
in and look them over.
Libby Cut Glass—always a gift
of excellence and good taste. Uni
versal Chaffing Dishes and Perco
lators are always welcome in a
home. Sterling and Rogers 1847
table silver in all these articles are
suitable gifts at all times.
Parisian Ivory—A toilet article
DeLux—dean looking, sanitary and
dust proof, it* makes » nice appear
ance on your drvoecr. You can go
a long way to win a girl's heart by
a gift of a nice Paresian Ivory Toi
let Set.
AUGUSTINE & KEYER make
the most delicious chocolate candy
on the coast. Their Victoria and
Chocolate Butter Crisp are famous
and when you give your friend a
box of them you have made a three
base hit and a home-run. We are
the agents.
Eaton & Crane’s name as makers
of high grade stationery is a guar
antee of the quality and correct
ness of the paper you use. Hereto
fore they had no direct representa
tive on the Alaska coast. It was
not thought possible that any one
store could sell enough stationery
to be granted an agency, but we
have done it. The reason we sell
so much is because of its quality
and price.
Loussac’s Drug Stores
PHONE 100-R Immediate Delivery PHONE 62-Y
4th and D St. 4th and H St.
ex-Einperor Chang Hsun, upon the tin-one of China, and fol
lowing close upon its delivery, comes the story of the official
treachery of another “Boche” down in Argentina.
And what a contemptible story, too! Think of using the
machinery of a neutral government to transmit a message so
treacherous and so brutal! ‘‘I recommend sparing these little
diips if possible, but if they must be sunk, let it be done so
neatly that there shall not be left a human being nor a floating I
spar to tell the tale,” or words to that effect.
It is a ghastly narrative and calculated to confound one’s
j moral sense. We cannot but wonder if an entire nation has be
come insane. As the list of incredible offenses against inter
national law and common morality extends itself, we gaze with
a feeling of horror upon ever deeper and darker evidences of'
national obliquity and indifference to truth and honor.
There will be some who assert that Germany is being made
the scapegoat of the human race; that every evil in the world
is being laid upon her shoulders; that crimes committed in a
thousand other names are being charged to her account.
We know the tendency of men to be guilty of this fault.j
We do not doubt that many a crime has been laid at the door of1
the German people in which they had no hand. We human be-1
ings seem to have to have a “goat!” Those sins and vices
which we cannot otherwise account for we put upon the back
of any evil-doer who happens to be in sight.
But this particular criminal has been caught so often j
‘with the goods on him” that he has no one to blame but him-!
self if he gets loaded with some of the infamies of other peo- j
pie.
ALASKA’S RAILROAD MUST BE BUILT.
Increasing cost of construction should not be responsible
for a checking or curtailment of work on the government’s
Alaska railroad and will not be, if the federal authorities are j
made to understand the urgent necessity for carrying out the!
original building plans, declares the Seattle Times.
The fact that the line is costing 22 per cent more than
the estimate is important only if there is reason to believe that
substantial savings could be effected by postponing operations
until after the war. There is no visible reason at present for
believing that such a saving could be effected.
The government now is in a position to get material at ex
tremely reasonable prices because of its general supervision
over all industry during a time of war. Transportation rates to
Seattle by steamship northward are not likely to go down very
materially at any time in the near future. In point of fact, the
only possible saving would be in labor expense and that might
be more than offset by the advanced cost of materials after
peace had brought about a relaxation of governmental control
over production.
Having started this great improvement, the nation should
not relinquish it at this time, when any curtailment of building
operations would have a most undesirable effect upon general
conditions in the territory. Seattle, in conjunction with repre
sentative Alaskans, should take steps immediately to lay the
facts before the Washington authorities, in order to avert a
decision that would affect every business interest in this city
and in the northland.
The pro-German propagandists who are dwelling on the
horrors of war seem to overlook the fact that many of these
horrors are recent German inventions.
Probably General Haig will agree with general opinion
that the weather service is atrocious in Flanders.
It is now Herbert 0. Hoover, but pretty soon it may more
frequently be “see Herbert Hoover.”
If everyone who yelled for justice got it there would be a
lot of mad men in this world.
Jelly Glasses
and
Fruit Jars
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To Our Usual Stock We Have Added a Complete Line of
:
Staple Clothing
:
for Working Men, Consisting of Underwear, Blue and
Kahki Overalls, Jumpers and Coats, Socks, Shirts, Mitts,
Shoes, Rubber Shoe Pacs, Rubber Boots, etc.
A. A. SHONBECK
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
AGENCY FOR:
THE GIANT POWDER COMPANY
ANCHORAGE PHONE 47-R MATANUSKA
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TIDE GOES OUT
R. D. CHASE, A. G. BALLS AND
MARTIN P. COTTER CANNOT
NAVIGATE BOAT.
ONE COMES FOR ASSISTANCE
Party Reaches Home After Having
Spent Two Days in Swamp with J
Insufficient Food Supplies and In
adequate Shelter.
Marooned for two nights and two
days on the inhospitable mud flats of
Eagle River, without food or fi. was
the fate of three duck hunters who
left here on Saturday night for an
outing in the swamps along the north
short of Cook Inlet. The series of
misfortunes which attended the trio,
R. D. Chase, A. G. Balls and Martin
P. Cotter of the disbursing office force
of the Alaskan Engineering commis
sion rivals the worst chapters of Rob
inson Crusoe, with none of Robinson’s
good luck in capturing a stray goat or
two to provide the necessary tee-bone
steaks.
Sailed from Anchorage.
The party sailed from Anchorage
well equipped with guns, ammunition
and determination and arrived off the
mouth of Eagle river about day break
Sunday. No ducks appearing in the
immediate vicinity, it was decided to
go further inland with the tide and
seek birds along the flats nearer the
shore line.
Boat Strands in Mud.
All went well until the boat strand
ed in shallow water, with the tide eb
bing fast.
Despite every effort to get the craft
off no headway was made, and the
only alternative left to the Nimrods
was to wait twelve hours for the even
ing return of water. Cold, hungry,
without and prospect of relief ahead
for at least twelve hours, like true
philosophers the dauntless disbursing
agents concluded to make the best of
a bad situation.
Tide Upsets Calculation.
The Sunday night tide, however, up
set their calculations by refusing to
come in far enough to float them, and
another twelve hours of philosophiz
ing loomed large on their horizons.
There was but one thing to do—and
they did it, namely—to wait again pa
tiently and count the slow moving
twelve hours until daylight Monday.
Then patience ceased to be a virtue,
and philosophy was thrown to the
winds.
Tightening up their belts several
notches in lieu of beefsteaks the
pseudo duck hunters turned grub
hunters, abandoned the call of the wild
and harkened to the louder call of the
inner man. After a solemn consulta
tion it was determined to make a true j
Nansen trek for home, via the muskeg
which stretched for miles ahead and
the boundless forests beckoning in the
distance. The journey which started
Monday morning was unpropitious
from the very beginning and only the
very slowest progress was made
across the innumerable sloughs and
mudholes.
Concluded to Draw Lots.
At the end of several hours of
struggle the trio concluded to draw
lots to determine who should carry the
message to Garcia. Balls was elected
by a big majority and he, with his
wide experience as an Alaska forester,
sadly bade his comrades good-bye and
again resumed his journey on foot to
Anchorage, leaving the other two
members of the party to return to the
boat, there to wait until succor could
be sent them. After traveling all day
Monday, thoroughly exhausted and
with mojt of his hunting equipment
abandoned, Balls managed to reach
the railroad late Monday afternoon,
and from a section foreman’s camp
sent word to the commission to send
the steamer Matanuska to rescue the
perishing.
The Matanuska started on her relief
voyage late Monday evening and late
last night the other two disbursing
officials reached the Anchorage dock,
after having completely depleted the
larder of the Matanuska.
WILLIAM B. DEAN NEXT WEEK
WILL LEAVE HERE FOR
STATES ON BUSINESS TRIP.
WILL RETURN NEXT SPRING!
Anchorage, It Is Predicted, Offers
Wonderful Opportunities in Build
ing Line and Structures Will be
Permanent Character.
William B. Dean, the owner of the
cement chimney and tile manufactur
ing plant located at Seventh avenue
and L street, will leave next week for
Seattle, where he will perfect ar
rangements for the enlarging of his »
plant, the operation of which next
summer will be conducted on a large
scale.
Mr. Dean, who will return here next
spring, says that Anchorage holds
out a wonderful opportunity in the
building line and that in the future
all homes will be constructed with
the idea of permanency. The growth
of the town during the past year is
conclusive proof, in his opinion, that
the residents will be satisfied with
nothing but the best.
Frank E. Parker, who has the credit
of being the first to see the possibili
ties of constructing a warm storage in
town is enlarging his storeroom,
which will include storage space for
such merchandise as does not heat
during the winter. The contract for »
the new structure which adjoins the
original warm storage building on the
south was let to Samuel McNeice and
he expects to have the building com
plete within the wTeek. When the wa*k
is finished the warehouse will extend
from Third avenue to the alley and
will afford an increased space of about
1,000 square feet.