NEWSPAPER IN CALIFORNIA
METROPOLIS APPROVES EF
FORT FOR NORTHERN FUEL.
MAYOR INTERESTED IN PLAN
Probable Car Shortage This Surnmei
Will Prevent Shipment of Adequate
Supply for Next Winter From East
to Pacific Coast.
Development of coal mines in Alas
ka and the marketing of their outpui
in the states are results earnestly ad
vocated by the San Francisco Star
The newspaper recently printed ar
editorial in reference to the plan o1
Mayor Rolf, of San Francisco, t(
transport Alaska coal to California
The Star said:
“Every encouragement should b(
given Mayor Rolph in his project ti
bring coal from Alaska to California
The fuel problem is one of the great
ost before the nation, and one whicV
vitally affects all parts of the country
“Warm weather will soon reduce th<
domestic demand to a minimum, bu
the industrial consumption will bt
even greater than at present. Already
it is stated that the fuel administra
tion is worrying over the probabilit;
aii unusual summer den.and to re
plenish depleted stocks and provid
against a shortage next winter.
May Prove Kmbarrassing.
"With the prospect for a continuing
car shortage pwing to war shipments
this movement from the mines to deal
ms and consumers, which would or
dinarily be welcomed, may prove em
barrassing to the national railroac
management.
In bringing coal from Alaska b>
ba go. Pacific ports and near-by inter
ior points can be supplied withou
burdening the railroads, while Rookt
Mountain coals can be diverted to cen
tral western states, which would ii
turn tend to restrict Illinois, Ohio, an'
eastern coals to contiguous territory.
Looking Far Ahead.
“Of course, this is looking far aheat
ar.d presupposing a practically unlim
ited supply from an as yet undevelop
ed source. But it is the possibility o
the development of an Alaskan supply
deemed illimitable that makes Mayo:
Rolph’s project one of great import
..:h“ to the whole country.
"With two such practical business
men as Secretary Franklin K. Lan<
and Mayor Rolph working on the pro
ject. definite results may be looket
for. Washington and Colorado coal:
now command a fancy price in the lo
ca1 market, and if Alaskan eompeti
tion did no more than to lower then
to a reasonable figure the Pacific coas
would be greatly benefited.”
RUSSIANS BLOW UP
THEIR WARSHIP!
VESSELS ARE DESTROYED T(
PREVENT GERMAN'S FROM
TAKING THEM.
LONDON, April 8.—Several Ilus
sian warships were sunk by their com
manders off Finland to keep then
from being captured by the Germans
i he Russian vessels were blown u|
after German warships had openei
lire on them.
According to a Stockholm despatcl
three of the Russian vessels wer
battleships.
EXECUTION OFSPY
IS EXPECTED SOOt
PRESIDENT OF FRANCE REFUS
ES TO EXTEND ANY CLEM
ENCY TO BOLO PASHA.
PARIS, April 8.—It is expected tha
the execution of Bolo Pasha, who re
cently was convicted under the Frencl
espionage law and sentenced to death
will occur shortly. President Poin
care has declined to pardon him o
commute his sentence.
MINER FROM CIRCLE CITY DIS
TRICT TELLS OF CONDITIONS
AROUND THERE.
. AMERICAN CREEKS YIELD WELL
• Food Problem Dot's Not W’orrv Pros
> jK'ctors As There Is Plenty of Wild
Game and Vegetables Can Be Eas
ily Raised.
“The wolves are making mincemeat
of the caribou herds,” stated Oscar
Bergland, of Eagle, Alaska, who re
cently arrived in Juneau.
i “On the caribou range,” Mr. Berg
‘ land is quoted as saying in a Juneau
i newspaper, “wherever one sees cari
, bou. he is likely to see wolves in
bands of from 50 to 200.”
Mr. Bergland is of the opinion that
, a bounty of $50 on wolves would not
be too much, if by that method the
wolves could be killed off and the
caribou permitted to live. Everyone
who has lived in Eagle City knows
i that there would be, caribou and to
; spare were it not or the wolves tak
jing their daily toll by the dozen and
| by the hundred. It was in this sec
| tion that one man saw. through his
field glasses, a hand of some ”00 or
°0 wolves surround a band of about
ifty caribou and kill the whole band.
! “American creek, near Eagle, show
led more activity last summer than it
has for seventeen years,” stated Mr.
' Bergland.
Automatic Dump Gatos.
“The ground is being worked by
automatic dump gates, a method by
(which the water is held in a dam un
' til sufficient is accumulated to do the
required sluicing; then it is turned
loose, and moves more top gravel in
a few minutes than several men could
in a day. There were ten of these
gates on American creek in operation
last summer, and about twenty-five
men working. Most of these men
were claim owners, but some were
working for wages.
“Of the four hydraulic plants in
I operation, all of them belong exclus
. ively to local men. Xu outside capi
. tal was interested. These creeks, on
• and around the head of Seventy-mile
• river, have been operated of and on
. for over twenty years, and every year
. the men have been taking out their
little grubstakes for the winter. But
; it has never, heretofore, been worked
, systematically, as we are doing now.”
Mr. Bergland says that the men in
[ that part of the Yukon do not fear the
. food shortage. They can always get
their sheep, moose or caribou in. one
day’s travel from the town. And the
vegetables thev raise will be suffi
II
. cient to furnish a meal for any old
timer, even if he does not have sugar
and flour.
“We raised nearly four tons of
spuds on less than half an acre,” he
i said.
> Mr. Bergland is one of the claim
operators ot the Eagle district.
All SEA DISASTERS
BLAMED ON WAR
ITALY WILL ALLOW INSURANCE
ON VESSELS ON THEORY
THAT THEY WERE SUNK.
)
1 GENOA, Italy, April 8.—The offi
cial Gazette, published at Rome, Octo
ber 1, 1917, contains a new lieuten
ant’s decree in regard to the insurance
of merchant vessels. For the dura
tion of the war the loss of a ship will
be considered as due to war risks. In
fcase it is subsequently shown that the
loss of the ship was instead due to
a marine accident, the insurer against
war risks who has paid the indemnity
has the right to obtain reimbursement
from the insurer against ordinary
risks of navigation,
t_
RINDS OF ORANGE.
l
, Orange rinds parboiled and pre
- served in clear, thick sirup are very
r convenient to have handy to use in
cookies, pies, etc.
ALASKA CAPITAL AND ILLINOIS
METROPOLIS BOTH HAVE
LOTS OF SNOW.
WHITEHORSE SHIPS COPPER.
Big Salmon Country Is Scene of Some
Activity and Considerable Work Is
Being Done on Upper Claims of
Livingston Creek.
“The city of Juneau reminds me of
Chicago when I was there two weeks
ago,” said Herb Wheeler, general
manager of the White Pass and Yu
kon railway recently to the Juneau
Dispatch, “in that both cities have
snow piled high along the sidewalks.”
Mr. Wheeler states that there was
very little snow at Skagway this
winter, nor for ten miles up the Skag
way river. But there was an unusu
ally heavy fall of snow in the interior.
He states that there are two cop
per mines—Valerie and Copper King
—shipping ore from Whitehorse, and
that the Venus, under the manage
ment of J. L. Harper, is a steady pro
* !
ducer, shipping high-grade ore and
concentrates.
There has been some activity in the
Big Salmon country, and a new outfit
is going to do considerable work there
this spring.
Livingston, the old mining creek, is
looking up. Considerable work is be
ing done on some of the upper claims
not worked in the early rush.
Those engaged in the fox-breeding
business around Whitehorse are doing ;
fairly well at present.
PARADISE OF ARTISTS.
!Story of a Curious incident That Hap
pened in Japan.
William M. Chase, the American ar
tist. used to tell in the course of a
lecture on Japan the following story
of an incident in which he figured in
that oriental paradise of artists:
I was standing on a railway plat
form in Japan waiting for a train
and whiling away by time by watch
ing a particularly beautiful sunset.
Suddenly a frei jht train pulled in.
and, stopping in front of me, cut off
my view. Being a good American and
trained in a very proper respect for
“business,” I merely turned philo-j
sophically away and proceeded to look
;at something else. In a moment,
however, the station master appeared
at my side and inquired, with the po
litest of bows, if I had been enjoying
the sunset.
I admitted that I had and smilingly
accepted his apology for the intrusion
I of the train. Of course I recognized
that trains were the first considera
tion in stations, I said.
Imagine my surprise, then, when
the little Japanese shook his head;
firmly. “Rut no,” he said, bowing
'even more deeply than before; “the
train must not be allowed to obstruct
ithe honorable artistic treveler's lion-;
jorable aesthetic enjoyment” — or
(words to that effect. “1 will cause it
to withdraw.”
And he actually did precisely that!
; —Exchange.
WHAT YOU EAT IN APPLES.
j Do you know what you are eating
! when you eat an apple? You are eat- (
ing malic acid, the property that j
makes buttermilk so healthful. You
are eating gallic acid, one of the
most necessary elements in human |
economy. You are eating sugar in the
most assimilable form, combined car
bon, hydrogen and oxygen caught and
imprisoned from the sunshine. Y"ou
are eating albumen in its most avila
ble state. You are eating a gum al
lied to the “frgrant medicinal gums
of Araby.” You are eating phos
phorus in the only form in which it is
available as a source of all brain and
nerve energy. In addition to all these,
you are drinking the purest water and
eating the most healthful and desir
able fiber for the required “rough
ness” in food elements.
Job printing at the Times office
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FIRST DAY’S LIBERTY LOAN
CAMPAIGN HERE BRINGS SAT
ISFACTORY RESULTS.
COMMISSION MEN SUBSCRIBING
Allotment for This City Is Fixed a1
$59,000 and Securities May Be Pur
chased at Bank of Anchorage oi
Bank of Alaska.
Approximately twenty thousanc
dollars’ worth of liberty bonds were
purchased Saturday by the people oi
Anchorage from the Bank of Anchor
age and the Bank of Alaska, accord
ing to a statement made today by Sid
ney Anderson, vice-president anc
cashier of the Bank of Anchorage
and E. B. Ansley, cashier of the Bant
of Alaska.
Saturday was the tirst day of the
liberty loan drive. Subscriptions are
being made today by employes of the
Alaskan Engineering commission.
The amount of the loan apportionec
to Anchorage is $59,000.
Bonds may be purchased at eithei
of the local banks by paying, at the
time of subscribing for them, 5 pei
cent of their face value. Twenty pei
cent will become due May 28; 35 pei
cent July 16, and 40 per cent on Aug
ust 15.
First Day’s Subscriptions
WASHINGTON, I). C„ April 8.
It is unofficially reported that $250,
000.000 was subscribed Saturday, th<
first day of the tjiird liberty loan cam
paign. Officials say this estimate i:
probably too high, as first reports an
usually too optimistic.
Seattle Subscribes Liberally.
SEATTLE, April 8.—Five millior
dollars of the $11,690,000 Seattle am
King county quota of liberty bomb
have been raised.
MORE RECRUITS TO
MOVE APRIL 2(
PHOTOGRAPHERS SUBJECT T(
DRAFT LAW WILL BE USED IN
AERIAL SERVICE.
WASHINGTON, I). C., April 8.
Orders have been sent by the war de
partment to the governors of al
states for the mobilization of th<
April call of the second draft of re
emits under the selective conscriptioi
law. It is expected 150,000 men wil
move to the training camps April 26.
Four hundred photographers, liste<
under the draft law, have been order
ed to mobilize in New York immedi
ately for air service training.
Army Needs Railroad Men.
ST. PAUL, Minn., April 8.—Re
cruiting officers here want railroa<
men for service in France. Dispatch
ers, telegraphers, trainmen and clerk;
are badly needed.
BAN IS PUT ON
CHOCOLATE CREAMS
PARIS MANUFACTURERS AN
NOUNCE NEW POLICY BE
CAUSE OF SUGAR SHORTAGE
PARIS, France, April 8.—The Par
is Association of Chocolate Manufac
eurers (Chambre Syndicate des Choc
olatiers de Paris), because of th<
shortage of sugar and as the result o
an interview with the minister of foo<
supply (ministre de ravitaillenient)
has decided hereafter to make onl;
tablet cholocate and to abandon en
tirely the production of the variou
forms of chocolate candy, such a
cream chocolates.
The association has requested thi
minister to take the necessary step
to prohibit the manufacture of choc
olate candies throughout France.
RIGHT SORT OF CAR.
Black—What sort of car are you us
ing this year? White—Trolley.
WILLIAM C. EDES, OF ENGINEER- 1
ING COMMISSION, SAYS TO
ASSEMBLE FACTS.
PASSENGER FARES ADVANCED. 1
Steamship Companies Propose In- 1
crease in All Freight Charges and
Shipping Board Will Make Investi
gation in Anchorage.
Conditions in Anchorage insofar as
they affect the proposal of the 1
steamship companies to increase i(
t
freight charges and their recent ac
tion in advancing passenger fares will (
. be investigated by a representative of (
the United States shipping board, ac- j
cording to advices received today at f
the offices here of the Alaskan En- '<■
gineering commission from William <
C. Edes, chairman of the commis- <
sion, who is in Washington city. 1
Business men and other shippers {
in Anchorage are urged to assemble t
any information they may have on
the subject of freight charges or pas- (
senger fares so they may be presented
to the federal investigator on his ar- (
rival here. j
Passenger Fares Advanced. 1
Notice has been received from Se- 1
I. , . . .
uu.it? uiut lilt: luinpdmcs
operating in Alaskan waters have just 5
put into effect new advanced passen
ger fares between Seattle and An- ‘
chorage. 1
The first class main deck fare is 1
$64.80, which includes a ticket war tax '
of $4.80, and the first class upper deck
1 fare is $68.04, which includes a ^
ticket war tax of $5.04.
i Last fall the first class main deck 1
[fare was $62.10, which included a tick
i
^ et war tax of $4.60 and the first class
upper deck fare was $64.80. which in
cluded a war tax of 84.80.
No change is made in the steerage
fare, which remains at $53.20.
The steamship companies also an
t nounce that an additional charge of
| 50 cents will be made on every ton
of freight, to cover increased wharf
> age expense in Seattle.
Notice of Freight Advances.
The companies have filed schedules
for general increases in freight charg
I
' es, and the shipping board for the pur
‘ pose of ascertaining whether these
* ! increases are warranted, is sending
its investigator to this city.
The notice given by the engineer
1 ing commission in regard to the mes
^ sage from Mr. Edes reads as follows:
“Chairman William C. Edes, of the
, i
1 Alaskan Engineering commission, ad
vises by wire that O. B. Kent, an at
torney and an examiner for the United
States shipping board, will leave foi"
Alaska in the immediate future to in- (
j vestigate transportation rates. Mr.
Edes states that he will later wire
1 <
definite dates and places of Mr. Kent’s
investigation.
“In order that Mr. Kent may be
furnished with all information pos
sible on this subject, it is suggested
that all shippers prepare data for
( presentation to him upon his arrival/
' STEAMSHIP ALASKA
ON HER WAY HERE
ALASKA COMPANY’S NORTHERN
LINER LEFT SEATTLE AT 9
THIS MORNING.
f SEATTLE, April S.—The Alaska
{ Steamship’s company’s northern liner
. Alaska sailed from Seattle at 9 o’clock 1
7 this morning for Anchorage and way
. ports. Included among the passengers
5 for Anchorage are George Trembley,
5 Frank Scully, C. Corlew, Mrs. W.
Butts, Mrs. G. N. Allen, Mrs. E. Rovce,
> Mrs. S. Duggan and baby, Sol Freyd,
3 C. McIntyre, George Nacy, O. Hill
- man, K. Behrenburg, John Reichart,
W. G. StoesT, George Carrol, Robert
Ashland, Mr. and Mrs. T. Peterkin,
Mr. and Mrs. William Tooth, A1 Shy
- man, Mrs. J. Curley, Mrs. M. Andrews,
George Potter and A. Fraser.
RON GREEK IS
BADLY IN NEED
OF HI ROOD
S. OWENS SAYS MINING DIS
TRICT IS SERVED BY VERY
INADEQUATE TRAIL.
‘ROMISING COPPER CLAIMS.
business Men and Residents of Tal
keetna Petition Highway Commis
sioner for Improvement of Trans
portation Facilities.
That the Iron creek district will de
'elop into one of the biggest copper
amps in the territory of Alaska is
he firm belief of T. S. Owens, who
irrived in Anchorage on business in
onnection with his holdings in that
listrict.
Mr. Owens is the owner of four
groups of copper claims on Iron creek
ind is engaged in negotiating a sale
>f a part of his holdings. He is the
iwner of the Copper Wonder group,
he east extension of the Copper King
:roup, the Monarch group and the
iast extension of the Talkeetna group,
fhe four groups comprise twenty
Some development work has been
lone on the east extension of the Cop
ier King group of claims in the last
hree years and additional work is
dunned by Mr. Owens on the Mon
irch group during the coming mining
eason.
The property owned by Mr. Owens
idjoins the properties of Joseph Mor
■is, who holds twenty-four claims and
vho is now in Spokane, Wash., inter
esting capital in his holdings.
The Iron creek district is about
orty-five miles from Talkeetna and
s at the present time served by only
i meager and totally inadequate win
er trail from Talkeetna.
A petition for road improvements,
iddressed to the road commissioner
'or this district, has ueen circulated at
ralkeetna and has been signed by ev
?ry business man there. In the event
i wagon road is built from Talkeetna
;o the district a majority of the claim
nvners will take immediate steps to
levelop their properties.
Mr. Owens, who is a guest of the
Crescent hotel while in Anchorage,
,vill leave for Talkeetna on tomor
■ow’s train, and expects to make a
;rip into the Iron creek district as
;oon as the weather permits.
ARMY DOCTORS 10
LOSE COMMISSIONS
UNQUALIFIED FOR ACTIVE SER
VICE WILL BE RETIRED BY
SURGEON-GENERAL.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 8.—
>urgeon-General William C. Gorgas
>f the United States army medical
•orps, has undertaken to eliminate
Tom the army medical corps all men
inqualified for active service. It is es
;imated that 1,500 reserve commis
sions will be invoked.
FASHION’S CHANGES.
One can say as a certainty that in
:he twentieth century no one will be
ible to boast that he has created
anything absolutely new in fashions,
rhe crinolines of the Empress Eu
genie wer a reminiscence of the pan
niers of Marie Antoinette, and long
aefore her time, in the orient, women
nad conceived the idea of enlarging
their skirts by means of hoops. A
few years ago women of fashion af
fected high waists and sheath dresses,
but before them Mme. Recamier had
done the same thing, and the dresses
of Mme. Recamier were suggested by
the Greeks and the Romans. In
short, like everything else, fashion is
a part of the same everlasting come
and go. We do not advance as we are
so prone to imagine; we repeat our
steps.—Roger Bouete de Monvel in
Century.
OLDEST EXCLAMATION.
Hurrah, or huzzah, is the oldest and
most common exclamation in all lan
guages.