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MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1920
BETTER MAIL SERVICE
Residents of Alaska—trail blazers
and pioneers in the development of
Uncle Sam’s last remaining frontier
•onntry—are entitled to a more ade
quate and expeditious mail service
than is now being given them by the
postoffice department. f\)r over a year
now the regular steamship lines oper
ating between Seattle and Alaska
ports have been refused the usual
mail contracts. Hence, mail matter
of whatever kind or nature, important
and unimportant, is shipped from Seat
tle to Alaska ports by freightt. As
a result, business concerns as well as
private individuals suffer a delay in
the receipt of mail matter that not
only causes much annoyance, but in
lome cases actual loss financially. In
the case of some Alaska ports it is
not now possible to receive mail and
make repuly by return boat, for the
adequate reason that the mail does not
reach the hands of the addressee until
the boat departs on the return voyage.
It is easy to imagine the havoc such
an intolerable condition raises, more
•specially among business concerns.
A Seattle wholesale house sends goods
1tt an Alaska firm and expects a remit
tance on a return boat that brought
it. Hence, the wholesaler is compelled
ta wait a week or ten days longer
than he should be obliged to do.—
Alaska Dispatch.
GE TYOUR GOAT
K’s a wonder that prospectors long
before this haven’t taken a tumble to
Me value of the Nanny goat, and quit
buying canned milk to pack into the
bills, and extra grub to feed a dog.
cays the Hyder Miner.
Animated milk factory, pack animal,
pet and companion, docile as a kitten,
able to go anywhere man can go and
Men some, able to eat anything from
eedar twigs to wrapping paper, an
asset rather than an expense, the
Nanny goat would revolutionize the
prospector’s life if he only knew it.
Just imagine—fresh milk, rich as
e*eam, for the coffee nigh*t and morn
Mg; twenty-five to forty pounds of a
pack transferred from weary human
shoulders to a husky animal’s back
along, enabling the prospector to ex
wsen traveling, or an extra pack taker
Mud his trips away from his base of
supplies. Isn’t the picture alluring?
Don’t feed a dog—let a goat feed
you.—Ketchikan Times.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
Real estate and homes in Ketchikan
were never worth as much as they are
today, and every indication is that
htey will be much more valuable
within a short time.—Ketchikan Chron
icle.
“Young pullet lays eggs eight weeks
old,” is a newspaper headline from a
Chillicothe, Mo., paper. Some of the
been laid by an old hen.—Valdez
oggs we receive in Alaska must have
Miner.
Presidential aspirants and possibili
ties are to be beard these days on
every hand. Each state and section
has its favorite son. Just who will
receive the nomination of the nomi
nating conventions as yet is a mys
tery.—Douglas News.
“He was married and had two sins,”
says a Ketchikan paper in a recent
obituary notice. The proofreader’s
obituary has not yet been written.—
Hyder Miner.
Congoleum Rugs, suitable for every
room in your house, can be found at
the Northwestern Hardware Co.
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The shop of Rudolph the shoemaker
is open again from 10 a. m. to 7 p. m. tf
A profiteer and his patronage should
soon be parted.
Devotion to church is too often a
question of devotion to dress.
There is a shortage of sugar, but the
sweets of osculation remain.
Production and economy will save
the country from a serious crisis.
Mexico may yet become popular for
Americans who wish to spend a quiet
winter.
The silk-stockinged, high-heeled, low
necked autumn girl has laid aside her
summer furs.
Profiteering in pianos is charged.
The low notes are considered alto
gether too high.
At any rate, those little new nations
are not looking to American riot cen
ters for guidance.
If money is filthy lucre, it hardly
remains long enough in the pocket to
contaminate one.
Despite the attacks which were to
put him out of commission, the prof
iteer is still profiteering.
Frost is supposed to cure hay fever,
hut it doesn’t if a desire to remain in
it is one of the symptoms.
Those annoyed by the worries of
this world might profitably look into
living conditions in the next.
Some of the cracker barrel strate
gists might apply their ingenuity to
solving the sugar supply problem.
A Boston physician advises eating
dry yeast—but would it be safe after
drinking some of those home brews?
The high cost of living is coming
down—on paper. What we want to
see is a reduction on the menu card.
Borrowing an engineering term, one
hopes that the restless, disorganized
world will soon find its angle of re
pose.
America is still the land of oppor
i tunity, whereas a great part of Eu
f rope seems to be the land of impor
j tunity.
There has been a large mintage late
ly of pennies. This looks ominous for
more side trimmings of nickels and
dimes.
Despite the industrial unrest, busi
ness generally is booming. The alert
American dollar refuses to go into re
tirement. *
A scientist is going t-> go up in a bal
loon 50,000 feet and attempt to hail
Mars, but they may have the phono
graph going.
Pity the school boys of these times,
with several pages of history added
every day which we older ones didn’t
have to study.
Bird lovers rejoiee that there have
been more feathered beauties in the
woods and fewmr on women’s hats this
year than ever before.
Bolshevism is a little less appro
priate to American life than a Fiji
islander in 'his native costume would
be at a skating party.
The question is whether extension
of sugar control after January will
avoid the shortage that is now exist
ing under sugar control.
If they are really going to make au
tomobile tires of paper, doubtless they
will employ for the purpose newspa
pers of good circulation.
Now, if a bolshevik had a college
education perhaps he would have de
veloped enough philosophy to leave
things how and where he found them,
Britain reports a growing increase
in the use of flying machines, although
the price of airplanes promises to keep
them out of reach of all except the
aerostockracy.
No amount of expert philosophy can
prevent (he high cost from going high
er unless industry is able to produce
in abundance the things required by
the purchasing public.
Another way for a man in moderate
circumstances to afford an automobile
is to work ten hours and ride two.
That will save gasoline and enable the
“upkeep” fund to swell.
The Italians who sailed for home
from this country when the armistice
was signed are coming hack. They
soon discovered there is no place to
live in like old America.
Apparently it is so difficult to dis
tinguish a friend from an enemy along
the frontiers of those new European
states that the forehanded citizen
shoots first and investigates afterward.
Doubtless the doubting Thomase^
will soon be telling us that as soon as
the price of sugar becomes estab
lished at a sufficiently'high level there
will be plenty of it for sale ih the open
market.
But even the record-breaking hom
ing pigeons, going nearly a mile a min
ute, are slow-moving creatures com
pared with the airplnners who made
better than two miles a minute on
their transcontinental flight.
MUCH ACTIVITY
IN REOPENED
SILVER MINES
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HELENA, Mont., Jan. 24.—The
haste with which silver miners aban
doned their claims after the demon
itization of silver in 1873 was amaz
ingly illustrated by the relocation, by
Helena men recently, of a mine that
promises to be rich and that, though
worked during a period of several
years, never was patented.
More than that, it seems not to
have been visited sin2e abandoned.
The relocators found old shovels, with
the wood almost eaten away, just
where they had been dropped.
There is no means now for deter
mining to whom the mine, which is
situated some mils from the city, in a
well known district, once belonged.
Ore abandoned in the shaft is declared
to have assayed so rich that a com
pany to work the claim was formed
at once.
The demonetization of silver pro
bably reduced in a day, a rich mine
to a failure. With silver at the pres
ent price, the ore discovered will pay
very well, it is said, and may mean
a fortune.
STATE CONVENTION OF
SHEEP GROWERS TO BE
HELD AT WALLA WALLA
WALLA WALLA, Wash., Jan. 26
Several speakers who are to be heard
at the Salt Lake convention of the
National Sheep Growers’ association
at Salt Lake last week may come, to
Walla Walla to address a state con
vention of sheepmen here tomorrow.
Between 150 and 200 are expected to
attend the local meeting. Many for
est supervision men of Oregon and
Washington are expected to attend.
BIG LUMBER SHIPMENTS
FROM GRAYS HARBOR
HOQUIAM, Wash., Jan. 24.—Al
most 500,000,000 feet of lumber was
shipped in 1919 by rail from the Grays
Harbor territory, according to unof-|
ficial estimates. The lumber was car
ried away in 18,520 cars. Shipments
from Hoquiam alone totaled 10,475
cars. In 1918 Hoquiam sent out less
than 9,000 cars.
Calico hop. Eagle hall. Tonight.
Job printing at Daily Times office.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
WANTED—Woman for general house
work. Apply Lakeview. 26-tf
FOR SALE—Bed spring and mattress;
two small tables, four dining room
chairs, cot, sanitary couch, cook
stove, tub and ironing board, elec
tric iron and mirror, 2x2 feet, Ap
ply to J. J. Goodro, opposite school
house or Phone 100. 24-2t
FOR SALE—Victrola and 18 records.
No. 3 Pioneer cottages. 24-2t
FOR RENT—Cabin in Oldtown. In
quire of Paul Bloedhorn. 23-tf
FOR RENT—Housekeeping rooms. In
quire Room 6, Mickelson & Currier
building. 22-6t
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FOR RENT—Furnished cabin. See
Ed Lee or phone 61—2 rings. 21 tf
LOST—Purse containing currency.
Reward if returned to Osborne
Bros. 19-tf
FOR SALE—Speed boat. Apply Gus
Cozokas. 19-tf
FOR RENT—Furnished apartment.
Call 104. 17-tf
FOR RENT—An apartment. Apply to
C. J. Goodall. 15-tf
WANTED—To buy or rent one female
canary for breeding. Call 29-2. 10-tf
WANTED—Leather couch, in good
condition. Apply Times office. 8-tf
FOR SALE—L. C. Smith typewriter;
first-class condition, $40. See Cor
dova Adjustment Co. 27tf
LOST—A monogram watch fob, with
two small diamonds in setting. Re
turn to Times office and receive re-'
ward. 8-tf
FOR RENT—Furnished cabins. See
Dooley.
WANTED—Two tiemakers; good tim
ber; 40 to 45c; ties to be put in
bunches not less than three in a
bunch; parties will batch. Apply
Harry Christie, Mile 19.
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TOURNAMENT
IS NOW ON
After the Show
Axel Anderson
vs.
James Dennis
THREE PREES
FIRST—SUIT OF CLOTHES
SECOND—PAIR OF SHOES
THIRD—STETSON HAT
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] A New Shipment of
| FRIESHER’S
BLACK
KNITTING
YARN
Just Received at
Aunty Keating’s
Wee Shop
Socks, Sweaters and Caps Made
to Order
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PEYSER
THE TAILOR
Opposite Kenny
Holden’s
Phone 188
SHOE REPAIRING
DIMON NICKALOFF
Currier Building,
C Street. P. O. Box 986.
Keist Furniture
Company
Is the Place to Buy
New and Second-Hand
Household Goods
OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT
We Sell Goods on Commission
Next door to. Alaska S. S. Office
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LIVE CHICKENS
Good Roasters
JOE FREY i‘
Phone 22
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