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THE “MILWAUKEE” AGAIN TO THE FRONT
Through the extensive main-line Electrification of
its mountain divisions, the •‘Milwaukee'* has again
made good its claim to being the Pioneer Line. This
▼ colossal undertaking has attracted world wide atten
tion and wonderfully Increased the safety and effi- ;
ciency of tlie road.
' For additional information call on or address
TOM TALLENT. Agent.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RY.
A. E. Harris, T. P. A., Juneau, Alaska.
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NATIONAL DEBTS
SHOW LARGE
INCREASE
PARIS, May 30. — (Correspondence
of the Associated Press.) — The re
cords of the national defense bonds
at the ministry of finances show that
the public is now bringing to the trea
sury an average of fifty million francs
cash a day in exchange for the short
term obligations at five per cent. This
is more than a billion and a half a
month, or eighteen billion a year,
which is three billion more than the
war of 1870 cost. "That fact," says a
high authority ot) French finance,
"shows sufficiently that the cautious
French public is not alarmed by the
financian requirements of the French
pffnrt
“There was a period during the war
when people, astounded by the pro
portions the conflict had taken, were
inclined to say, 'It can't go on like
that. Where will the money come
from?’ Yet it has gone on with stead
ily Increasing expenditures — billions
follow billions into the gulf of war,
yet the money flows in. The truth is
that after being shocked by the fin
ancial effort required, Frenchmen
were astonished «it the revelation of
their own resources."
The deduction drawn by French fin
ancial experts generally is not only
that French confidence is undismayed
by the multiplication of the govern
ment's debts, but that it is not money,
but credit, which keeps the war go
ing, primarily. On the other hand,
they point out, it is war that keeps
monev in continual circulation, hand
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itig it out to new creditors as fast as
I it is brought in by old ones in ex
change for. bonds, in this way the
French public debt has gone from
i about thirty-two billion fram s before
the war to about fifty-two billion, an
increase of nearly 62 per cent, but
nothing in proportion to the increase
in the public debt of Germany, which
is 515 per cent, and in Great Britain,
where it is 165 per cent.
The public debts of the leading be
ligerent powers before the war, and
the percentages to which they have
increased as shown in figures avail
able here, are as follows:
Francs Increase
Germany... 6,225 515 1-2
Great Britain . . .. 15,405 165 1-8
Austria.18,704 74 1-2
France ..31,967 61 3-4
Russia.23,518 33 7-8
Italy.14,231 14
Note—The debt is given in millions
of francs, and the increase in since
tye war began.
i^alculate^^er^head^jjf^pojjulation^
the average debt of these six belliger
e:d." has gone from 280 francs to 535
francs. France now owes 1,250 francs
per head as compared with 800 francs
per head before the war; Germany
590 francs as compared with 97
francs; Great llritain, 505 francs as
against 242 francs.
French economists have estimated
the riches of France all the way from
two hundred and fifty billion to three
hundred and fifty billion francs. Tak
ing three hundred billion as a basis,
it would mean 7,700 francs per head;
with an income per head not including
salaries and wages, of 300 to 350
francs, while the interest charge on
the increased debt now figures out at
about 1,300,000,000 francs, or about
33 francs per head.
While France paid nine hundred and
sixty million francs interest on her
debt of thirty-two billion francs be
fore the war, her annual budget had
gone far above the five billion mark,
of one 128 francs a head. Those bud
gets were loaded by generous social
legislation and liberalities of all kinds
such as were particularly favored by
the paternal sort of a state that the
French republic had become. It is
pointed out that strict economy may
take at least a billion and a half francs
out of those budgets in the future,
covering the interest of thirty billion
francs new debt at five per cent.
WOMEN ASK GOVERNMENT
TO REGULATE DRESS
COLOGNE, June 8. — Disappointed
that both personal and official pleas
and warnings have had little or no
effect, the Woman’s Alliance of Co
logne and thirty-five associated wo
men's associations and organizations
have petitioned the governor of the
fortress to issue a decree forbidding
the wearing of high-heeled shoes, wide
flowing short-skirts and other apparel
that has been smuggled in from coun
tries at war with Germany or that is
patently a copy of foreign mode and
fashion.
"It shows a lack of patriotism and
is a disgrace for German women,”
says the petition in part, "that many
of them go about In clothing which by
its striking, frivolous nature mocks
the earnest sentiment that rules
amon^ the people at this time of mani
fold need and severe personal suffer
ing.” The petition declares that lux
ury of a noticeable sort In clothing
4s nothing but an insult to the unfor
tunate, and is unworthy of the Ger
man woman at this time.
"Since all the pleas of sensibly
thinking people, as well as the offi
cial cautions, have been without re
sult,” concludes the petition, "we ask
the governor to take steps against the
above named evils.”
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STELl CORSETS WORN B!
OFFICERS IN TRENCHES
Officers in the trenches, as well as
officers in other military units, usual
ly wear steel corsets as a protection
against spent bullets.
"Score one for the breastplate,” said
an officer who had been doubled over
by a shell fragment which hit him
in the abdomen. Instead of a flow
of blood crimsoning his blouse all that
was visible through the rent in the
cloth was an abrasion on a steel sur
^ce.
“But for your new corset you would
have been dead now,” the surgeon told
him.
Karly in the war an officer who
wore protection of this kind would
have been frowned on by his fellows
as unsoldlerly. A type of corsetlet
jof small plates of highly tempered
steel joined together by steel wires
Is being more and more worn by of
j ficers. Its structure adapts Itself to
ihe movements of the body, it weighs
only a few pounds and. fitting snugly
as a vest, it Is not cumbrous. If the
son of l.ord Shaughnessy, president
of the Canadian Pacific railway, v.ho
was killed recently, had been wearing
1 one. his lift might have been saved,
according to his comrades.' Since then
Canadian commanders have strongly
urged all their officers to buy corse
lets.
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Nine hundred names were enrolled
by the canvassers at Douglas on the
question of eligible voters on the li
cense question.
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A Skagway drug store has offered
as a prize for the largest trout caught
before July 1, a split bamboo road,
reel and line.
BILLS APPROVED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL JUNE 8, 1916.
I;. E. Capers, legal expenses, tax sale .$33.00
W. L. Smith, lumber.'.... 3 99
W. M. Wolf, repairs to public buildings. 11.00
(Jordova Drug Company, electric supplies. 1.85
(fordova Fire Department, two fires . 62.00
Alaska Transfer Company, cartage, etc. 7.15
Blum, O’Neill Company, supplies. 7.75
H. A. Slater, meals, election board. 6.00
LABOR BILLS.
John Ertz, twenty hours street work .10.00
Chris Olson, two hours street work... 1.00
S. E. Rose, three hours street work. 1,50
Frank Black, twenty-seven hours street work . 13,50
Charles McKnight, twenty-five hours street work ..12.50
Ole Bohme, twenty-five hours street w*ork. 12.50
August Swasey, eight hours street work.. 4.00
EDWARD F. MEDLEY, Town Clerk.
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REPORT OF THE TOWN CLERK OF CORDOVA, ALASKA, FOR THE
MONTH OF MAY, 1916.
Receipts—
Previously acknowledged .$2,870.29
May' rentals. 25.00
Police court fines..‘. .... 35.00
Total .$2,930.29
Disbursements—
Previous May Total
Board of Education. $ 770.00 $ 770.00
■Cleaning streets, etc.$ 15.75 141.35 157.10
Fire Department. 50.00 157.50 207.50
Expense, general.. . 50.00 67.50 117.50
Eights. 117.50 117.50
Pub. buildings and Imp. 22.10 22.10
Police. 147.50 135.00 282.50
Pub, health, lndigents. 25.00 25.00 50.00
Totals.*288.25 *1,425.95 *1,714.20 *1,714.20
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Balance . *1,216.09
EDWARD F. MEDUEY, Town Clork.
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