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VOLUME IIII. NUMBER 51._ , UO\ \. ALASKA, H01'AytllTQ%8T 3!, 1917. ~~ ' ~ . -PBIUK Tl^KNTS^
(By Associated Press)
TOKIO, Aug. 31. — The steady rise
in the price of necessities of life In
Japan is calling forth protests from
many quarters, especially' from the
ranks of salaried workers. In many
cases private employers have raised
wages to meet the new conditions, and
the government is considering some
measures of advancing salaries. The
giving of bonuses already has begun.
The demand for high priced labor
in the commercial and manufacturing
branches Is causing many young men
and women to resign from the govern
ment service and the result has been
that both telegraph and telephone de
partments have suffered.
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(By Associated Press)
VERA CRUZ, Mexico., Aug. 31. — A
passenger steamer which recently ar
riveu at this port reported the relief
of four lighthouse keepers and their
families stationed on Triangle island,
on the course from Progreso to Vera
Cruz. The lighthouse keepers had not
been visited by a supply boat for
months, and were out of provisions
and at the point of death from hunger.
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Following the completion of the Cop
per River railroad and the departure
from Cordova of some 7,000 persons
for new construction fields, that city
felt the sudden reversal most severely.
From 1911 to 1914 the town merely ex
isted as the railroad terminal. Then
same the great copper boom and more
recently the addition of permanent in
dustries. Today Cordova is enjoying
a more substantial and generally bet
ter condition than during its boom
days.
Primarily the railroad and dock
payroll is growing to a figure in ex
cess of $100,000 per month. New min
ing companies are in the field and the
older mines are being worked. The
town has two banks and many good
Btores.
In addition to the great Kennecott
copper mines, President Godfrey, of
the Mother Lode, is now at that pro
perty preparing for heavy shipments
by wagon road to McCarthy, while
Mining Engineer Dubois is at the
works of the Alaska Copper Corpora
tion, out from Strelna station, arrang
ing to ship from that mine to the out
side.
Howard Birch and George M. Es
terly are at their properties, and Ros
B. Mgtklns of 1 jOs Angeles recently
went In over the railroad and trail to
the M. E. W. gold mine on Slate creek,
which is showing up finely.
Many prospectors are moving Into
the country, and their efforts fill no
doubt add to the mineral output via
Cordova.
In addition to the railroad and min
ing prosperity, Cordova haH lately
benefited to the fullest extent by the
development of its fishing industry.
No better fishing grounds exist than
in Prince William Sound and at the
delta of the Copper river.
At Cordova are located the plantB of
the Northwestern Fisheries Co., the
Carlislo Packing Co., the Moore Pack
ing Co., the Canoe Pass Packing Co.,
all engaged In salmon canning, while
the Pioneer Packing Co. and the Light
house Canning Co. are packing minced
clams made from the giant razors
brought In from the flats.
Some 50,000 cases of minced claims
and probably 500,000 cases of salmon
will come out of the canneries this
year.
Out on the Copper river flats the
Clarke-Crabum Co. is packing salmon,
while the Copper River Packing Co.
operates at Mile 55.
Over at Katalla some interesting
development work along Industrial
lines is being made by prominent
CordovanB, and next year may Bee fur
ther additions to the plants that are
providing the vast tonnage over Cor
dova docks.—Seattle Railway News.
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Largest assortment of fancy Rib
bons at lira. Kate Rolfe'a.
♦ REGISTRATION LI8TS ♦
♦ CLOSE SATURDAY 9 P. M. ♦
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♦ Mayor W. H. Chase, commls- ♦
♦ stoner of registration, today re- ♦
♦ eeived a wire from Governor ♦
♦ Strong, informing him that all ♦
♦ registrations in Alaska for the ♦
♦ selective draft would close on ♦
♦ Saturday evening at 9 o'clock. ♦
♦ there Is still another day in ♦
♦ which to get your name on the ♦
♦ honor roll. See that It is there ♦
♦ and avoid the penalty if you are ♦
♦ of conscrlptive age. ♦
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RUSSIA IS ELIMINATING
SUPERFLUITIES OF ALPHABET
(By Associated Press)
PETROQRAD, Aug. 31. — Minister
of Education Manuiloff is ruthlessly
cleansing the Cyrillic alphabet of su
perfluities. By decree he has abol
ished the specific Russian letter "yat,"
confusion of which with “e" is one of
the woes of schooling, abolished also
the use in Russian of the Greek
“theta," formerly used indiscriminate
ly with “phi,” abolished one of two
forms of “i," and finally abolished the
“hard sign” placed after consonants.
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SILVER STILL GOISIG UP.
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—Bar silver
was yesterday quoted at the high price
of 90 3-4, breaking all records.
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All of the local business houses will
be closed on Monday, Labor Day.
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OTTAWA, Canada, Auk. 31. — Can-1
ada is facing its first crisis since the
opening of the European war. A gen
eral election is to be called by 1’rein
ier Borden within the next few weeks
for early in the fall. The life of the
present Conservative government ex
pires on October 7. This will be the
first opportunity the people of Can
udfi have had to pass upon the war
policies of the Borden government
sin«e the Dominion plunged into the
great conflict.
The government has been split wide
open on the issue of conscription. Brit
ish Canada, generally speaking, sup
ports conscription. French Canada is
almost solidly opposed. The bitterest
and most exciting political campaign
in Dominion history la in prospect.
Upon the result depends the continu
ance in power of the present Conser
vative government and the enforce
ment of the compulsory military ser
vice act.
Leading the Liberal opposition is Sir
Wilfrid Laurier, ex-premler and the
lido) of the French-Canadiana of the
<provlnce of Quebec. A brilliant speak
er and a masterly politician, Laurier is
I bending every effort to bring to bis
standard all the elements In Canada
disaffected with the Harden regime.
Already, however, he has hud to
lace the refusal of twenty^wo non
Prench-Canadlan Liberals In the house
from Ontario and the western pro
vinces to follow him In his anti-con
scription battle. What strength those
conscrlptlonlst Liberal purty "bolters'
can take with them to the polls has
become one of the big question marks
of the campaign. In its answer lay
lie the final decision. On the part
or the Conservatives, they have had
to face minor but very significant de
sertions from Prench-Canadlan Con
servatives.
Canada has 406,000 enlisted men.
Her overseas force la made up of five
divisions. Pour of these are in Prance
and one is held in England as a re
serve division. Since the desperate,
bloody day at Vimy ridge heavy drafts
have been made on this reserve. Can
ada must provide more men or soon
Dominion troops will ,be left without
reserves. This would mean the elimi
nation of Canada as a fighting factor
at the front. Canada must raise 100,
000 more men, and do it quick.
Voluntary recruiting is a thing ol
the past. Canada has no great wealth
of man power. Eight million people
Is her top. Already the 400,000 men
who so freely gave themseives to ser
vice have seriously tightened the labor
market In places. Farmers are in
straits for help. In many cities c lerks
and municipal employes are given half
holidays from their regular employ
ment In order that they may go into
their fields. This shortage ts empha
sized by the anti-conscriptions. Con
servatives declare there are hundreds
of "slackers" in the cities who could
; be spared, and assert that these are
the men they want to ge under the
law.
Intricate as is this problem alone, It
Is intermixed with the racial ques
lion, an alien enemy tangle, a tremen
dously difficult financial situation, In
volving the nationalization of 7,000
miles of railroad and millions of dol
lars in advances to others, and a line
■of hoary but still virulent political
animosities, which stirred together of
fer the Canadian voter a political
salad unllko anything previous in his
entire political experience.
The next few weeks will see stirring
tiroes across the border.
sum SPRUCE
ENTERS PIANO
High grade musical instruments, es
pecially fine pianos, are to be made
from Alaska lumber, the so-called Sltk
ka spruce Eastern manufacturers have
for some time been negotiating with
the Worthen Lumber Mils Company at
Juneau for car loads of this lumber
which has proved excellent from ever)
point of view in the construction ol
pianos.
Select Sitka spruce, owing to its
lightness, its width, the absence ol
knots, the grain and the good sound
lug board qualities it possesses, is
considered to have no superior foi
piano construction. A big demam
has been created for it on account o!
a shortage of the eastern spruce, greai
quantities of which have been con
sumed in the manufacture of paper.
While spruce lumber is plentifu
■throughout the territory, the plentifu
grade required for piano tnanufactur*
does not abound in such goodly quan
titles as the general run of spruce.
Prom Boston has come orders foi
many thousands of feet of the lumber
The Juneau Mill Co. will endeavoi
to make a shipment of 60,000 feet o
this spruce to eastern concerns to I*
used in the construction of airplanes
Thousands of feet have been shipper
out for airship construction duriui
the past year.
E01 ICE
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LARGE
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Aug. 31. — The admiralty
court awarded $332,750 for salving the
steamer San Onofre, which got into
difficulties In the ice Helds of the
North Atlantic in March, 1H10.
The steamer Ashtabula, which as
sisted In the salvage, was awarded
$182,750, and the San Gregorio re
ceived $150,000.
(By United Press)
LONDON. Aug. 31. — J. it. John
ston, a London schoolboy, is wearing
the military cross for having captured
forty Germans. His own story of how -
he did it follows:
"I got separated from my men and
came to a German dugout, a sort of
dark tunnel. I decided to explore it.
After walking a long way I heard
voices and turned on my flashlight.
1 thought 1 saw Only half a dozen men
and I ordered them to put up their
hands and come along. When I dis
covered as they filed past me that
there were a good many more than
a half dozen, I began to get uneasy,
thinking of what might happen when
they got out. The fortieth and last
man was an officer. We walked out
together and there we found several
British soldiers had taken charge of
the Germans, just as though the whole
thing had been prearranged. 1 don't
know where our men had come from,
but they looked good to me."
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(By United Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 — The Am
erican Ked Cross today started out to
help win the war against the German
kaiser and the American mosquito.
Great armies of the skeeters now j
infecting the vicinties of cantonment
camps that will hold America's first
637,000 drafted men next month, are
looked upon by the war department as
strongly pro-German.
"These mosquitoes,” said a govern
ment official,' "would shoot an Ameri
can so|dier full of malaria as readily
as the kaiser would shoot him full of
lead. One is just about as bad as the
other."
Experience proves that the mosquito
has no patriotism in his makeup. He
' is all buzz and singer In the southern
states, where br'er mosquito scatters
malaria like the kaiser scattered
peace proposals, the Ked Cross has
already started its big drive on tho
nightingale of the bedroom.
They must be eliminated not only in
camps proper, but in the surrounding
country. Fifteen to sixty square miles
of territory within a radius of a mile
around each camp must be purged of
the pest
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FARRAGUT ARRIVES WITH
PASSENGERS FROM SOUTH.
The steamer Admiral Farragut ar
rived from Seattle at 10:30 o'clock
last night, with the following passen
gers for Cordova: George C. Haze
let, A. M. Bateman, Calvin P. Ilazelet.
0. C. Ilazelet, L. J. McDonald, E. C.
Cherster, Captain R. E. Davis. Dave
Parrall, Paul Guist. A. Gidost, William
Schwager, O. Hanson, Gust Herstrom,
Charles Anderson. John Anderson, Joe
Krelg. Dave Jones. Those leaving here
for the westward were: Robert Scott,
Charles Bell. K. C. Jack, Sam Miller
and A. Nagel.
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M EX. JO REDUCES RATES ON
CORN IMPORTED FROM U. S.
I (By Associated Press)
MEXICO CITY. Aug. 31 -To aid in
the effort to make good "the shortage
of corn throughout Mexico, the Con
stitutionalist rktlway lines have re
duced the freight rates on corn im
ported from the United States thirty
per cent.
AN EASY ONE.
Where can you have a good time on
Saturday night? Why. at Eagle Hall,
of course.
POPE’S PLANS GO A GLIMMERING
PEACE ADVOCATES DRIVEN FROM STATE
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♦ MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 31.—The committee of the ♦
♦ Peoples’ Peace Council was unceremoniously ejected last *
♦ night from Hudson, Wisconsin, where they planned to *
♦ hold a convention. The committee is now here. *
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* MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 31.—The leaders of the Peo- ♦
* pies’ Council of America have announced that they will *
* start for Washington tonight to place the question of *
* their right to hold a national peace convention before *
* the federal authorities. They say that in case a hall is ♦
* unobtainable the meeting will be held on the plaza ♦
* in front of the capitol. *
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• RUSSIA TO MAKE ANOTHER BIG LOAN
PETROORAI), Aug. 31.—The Bourse Gazette expects the
provisional government of Russia will soon obtain a loan of five
billion rubles from the United States.
RESIDENTS KAZAN DRIVEN TO FORESTS BY FIRE
PETROGRAl), Aug. 31.—A fire, last Monday, in the city I
of Kazan spread so rapidly the population fled to the outlying |
fields and forests. Russians began pillaging on a large scale,
and students stopped the looting.
PRICE OF WHEAT FIXED AT $2.20 A BUSHEL
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—A reduction in the price of
bread is near as a result of the fixing of $2.20 a bushel as the j
price for standard grades of wheat at Chicago and Galveston.
A licensing system of flour and bread dealers will soon be es
tablished, and the food administration expects to find a way
to reach the small dealer and keep down prices. The members
of the price fixing committee believe that the $2.20 price for
wheat will permit a fourteen ounce loaf of bread for five cents.
GERMAN SUBJECTS MUST ACT AS SPIES
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CHRISTIANIA, Aug. 31.—-Three German spies were con
victed at Bergen for supplying'mfonnation to submarines re*
garding the sailing time of vessels, which latter transported
supplies. Captain haven and First Officer Schwartz, German
citizens, and Thomson, a Norwegian, were sentenced to terms in
the penitentiary. Captain haven admitted working under in
structions from German authorities, and said that German sub
jects were forced to obey such orders.
INCREASED PRODUCTION TO PAY FOR WAR
hONDON, Aug. 30.—Dr. Addison, minister of reconstruc
tion, discussing the future of the chemical industry with repro
sentatives of the trade, insisted on the necessity of increased
production to pay for the war and to meet preparations that the
Germans were making for industrial effort after peace.
He indicated that his policy would be to assist the trade in
every possible way to meet the dislocation that would lake
place when the factories ceased to produced war material md
said he wanted them to give workmen a direct interest in the
introduction of improved methods which were essential to tin
success of the industry. v
INVESTIGATING CONDITIONS IN BELGIUM
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 30.—German Chancellor Michaelis
has arrived at Brussels, and is gathering information regarding
conditions in Belgium.
HD HELP TIE
ALLIES
Discovery of platinum In Alaska by
Dr. Hcrschel C. Darker, of Now York,
and others has aroused government
agencies to the greatest activity In (lie
hope of finding sufficient quantities
of the precious metal to meet the war
needs of the allies.
Four government expats have been
assigned to study the Alaskan sltj
ation and report on t sc discoveries,
which may replenish the platinum sup
ply cut off recently by >he virtual ces
sation of activities in the Ural moun
tain mines, the source Of the world s
greatest supply.
Intensive operations would fpllow
a favorable report, for the true eon
ditlon. it is declared, cannot be de
termined before next year, by which
time the present short apply will he
vory nearly exhausted.
Professor Darker has reported find
ing platinum In quantlt! is in the grav,
el of the Knhilnu rive ■ during gold
placer drilling, fnstallati in of a dredge
followed and K. B. Mertie, a govern
ment geologist, was at- .igned to ob
serve results. Alaska) gold miners
also have reported plat’aum in the
Ketchikan, Koyukuk, Ftirhavcn, Nl
zlna and Uhrlstochlna districts
Between ten and tweve ounces of
plantinum were discove ml in Alaska
last year, and this smal amount was
sufficient to greatly stir urtate farther
prospecting this year. Government
exports will go no fart hi r than to say
that the situation is 01 -till. ‘ hut
they tat. id +. lend , ,,-4^—4. 'I 'a de
velopment while there Is the slightest
chance of results.
Wur uses of platinum include the
making of sulphuric acid and the com
pletion of contact points of the igui
tion system of airplanes. .uitomVill ■
anl telephone and telegraph Inst, u
ments. Substitutes have been found
for it In making of sulphuric add
but II is almost Indispensable for other
uses.
So acute is the world's shortage that
it has advanced from $45 to $105 an
ounce since the beginning ot the war
The condition has become so critical
in this country that a survey of the
visible supply has been made, but th
results have not been published.
Russian banks which made high
loans on the output of the Ural moun
tain miners, are understood to hold
large quantities of platunum, but the
chances of obtaining their supply is
regarded us very uncertain. Seven
hundred and fifty troy ounces consti
tute the largest unnual production of
plantinlm in the United States, while
Russian before the opening of the war
produced as much as 300,000 ounce
in u year.
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f ROME, Aug. 31. Pope Benedict, on receiving Pre
* sident \\ ilson’s reply to his pence proposals, did not at
* tempt to conceal Ids bitter disappointment. The pope re
* Kurds llie answer as leaving little room for further ef
* torts at the present time. ’Pin* pope hud hoped for a
* more favorable response from the United States than ♦
* from anywhere else. ♦
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WAR TAX BILL BE VOTED ON SEPTEMBER 10
W ASHINOTt IN, Aug. 31.—The senate has resumed its de
bate on the \\#ar profits provision of the war tax bill, under an
agreement for a final vote on the bill itself not later than Sep
tember 10. I he agreement also calls for the disposition of the
war profits section not later than next Wednesday, and income
tax provisions by September 7. The petition for cloture has
been withdrawn. ,
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT TO PURCHASE C N. ROAD
OTTAWA, Aug. 31.—The house of commons has passed a
hill for the purchase of the Canadian Northern transcontinental
railway by the Canadian government.
LONDON LIFE INSURANCE RATES TAKE JUMP
LONDON, Aug. 31.—Life insurance companies are figur
ing on l'J.(HM) Londoners being killed or injured during next
year’s air raids. < In this basis they charge a dollar for $51X1 in
[demnity, estimating London’t imputation at six million.
TRAINING CAMP FOR THE ARMY BAKER
NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—Array bakeries for troops in train
ing hero are to be established at Gettysburg, I’a.; Washington;
Syracuse, N. Y.; and Fort Ethan Allen, Vt., by tin* quartermas
ter's department. Captain John C. lVgram is enlisting 1010
bakers. There will be a total of 10 bakeries. Later big army
bread factories will be placed along the American lines of com
munication in France. _
AMERICAN AND FRENCH SAILORS FRATERNIZE
AN ATLANTIC FORT, Aug. 31.—American and French
sailors do not wait until they arrive in France to fraternize. The
French tip’s «ro here with French ships lying in the harbor,
while American sailors by the thousands are at a navy yard
nearby.
Residents witnessed a novt I sight recently. Four of 1 nolo
Sum’s sailors and four from France paraded the main
thoroughfare on a sightseeing tour. The men were paired and
each man wound his arm about the other’s waist. Pals they
were, despite the fact that they could not understand each
other’s language. Apparently it made no difference. Hundreds
turned out to watch them and momentarily reflect, perhaps, on
the significance of the comradeship.
KING GEORGE'S SON ENTERS TRAINING CAMP
WINDSOR, Eng., Aug. 30. — Prince Henry William Fred
crick Albert, fourth son of King George, went into camp with
an advance party of the Eton College officers’ training corps.
Prince Henry wore the outfit of a private soldier and ear
ned a kit bag and he discharged the usual fatigue duties inei
dental to an advance party, which consists of preparing the
camp for the reception of the corps.