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WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 28, 1920
UNCLE SAM, FURRIER
So prevalent has become the idea of
“Uncle Sam” as a person'who, at the
present age and time, is forever eter
nally disgorging himself of money in
answeV to various and sundry appeals,
ranging from giving Italy another loan
to enable her to keep D’Annunzio in
Frame to lending France a few' million
honest American dollars to keep the
German wrolf from her door, that it
is pleasant to discover a transaction
In which the benevolent old gentle
man has made a million or two to salt
away to care for him in his old age
when his nephew's and nieces may be
so occupied with new' fads that they
won’t have no time to look after his
wants. And it does not detract from
that pleasure to know that Alaska is
the source of the revenue.
Most of the w'orld know's about
raany of Uncle Sam’s activities, as a
Tailroad builder, as the embarrassed
operator of a nation’s railwray systems,
as a shipbuilder, as a knight-errant to
distressed nations, prime mover in in
numerable causes, a friend of the Ar
menians hut trusted by the Turks—
hut few have any knowledge of Uncle
Sam, The Furrier. While he dabbles
a bit in foxes, seals are his main forte.
Here he reigns supreme—seal king
•f the w'orld. with a market already
ereated and an increasing source of
supply that makes him the object of
envy by less fortunate individuals.
The seal census of 1918 gave the
number of seals in the Pribiloff islands
as 496,611 animals of all ages. This
was after the close of the killing sea
son. The census taken at a corre
sponding date for 1919 gave the si^e
of the herd as 624,260 animals. Uncle
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and in 1919 the number of skins taken
xp to August 10 was 25,381. More
should have been secured, but experi
enced workmen could not be secured,
so they were left over for another
year.
Reporting on the industry, the de
partment of commerce says: “It is
estimated that when the entire take
of sealskins for the calendar year 1918
slfell have been dressed, dyed, ma
chined and sold, the net revenue to the
government, based upon the proceeds
obtained at the sale September 10,
1919, will be in excess of $2,450,000.
To this should be added an approxi
mate net revenue of $123,000 for the
sale of fox skins. It is safe to say
that when the proceeds of the sales
of bones, oil and other by-products
are taken into account the net revenue
for the products of the calendar year i
1918 will reach a sum in excess of
$2,600,000. This would more than pay
all expenses of every nature connect
ed with the administration of the
Pribiloff islands, the Alaska salmon
fisheries, and the care of the minor
fxr-bearing animals of Alaska for a
period of twelve years.”
Nineteen-eighteen was the first year
»f the resumption of the commercial
taking of seal skins. The proceeds
for the operations of 1919 should equal
if not exceed those of 1918, as a sub
stantially higher price was obtained
for skins sold during the former year
than those ^old in 1918. The fur
business of Uncle Sam is one of the
smallest branches df his Alaska estab
lihment at the present time. Wor is
R the only one which shows a balance
•x the credit side of the ledger.—
Fairbanks Citizen.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
The proposition made by the gov
ernor to establish a territorial con
stabulary along the lines of the Royal
Northwest mounted police of Canada,
ie a good one, but the soldiers are
also necessary, and we should hold on
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to what we have rather than turn to
things we have not yet received.—
Valdez Miner.
A New York supreme court justice
says that a lady can be a lady and
still smoke. At that, a kiss "from lips
flavored* with the incense of a corn
cob pipe or a Turkish cigarette is
not our idea of heavenly bliss.—
Douglas News.
To what indignities shall the tax
payers of Ketchikan submit? To what
extent shall they permit their money
to be wasted? To what extent shall
they permit their gold to be hung on
the garden gate, *o be taken by the
first highwayman or grafter who may
appear? To what extent shall they
permit the affairs of the city to be
run for personal gain of those sworn
to administer the affairs of the muni
cipality in a fair and impartial man
ner? And shall they suffer the city
to become a one-man town?—Ketchi
kan Chronicle.
ROBERT M. ESTES
Robert M. Estes of the department
of the census at Washington, has been
•appointed director of census for Pan
ama by President Porras.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
LOST—A blue Persian, cat. Return
to Mrs. G. A. Harmon. 28-tf
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WANTED—Woman for general Jiouse
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 RENT—Cabin in Oldtown. In
quire of Paul Bloedhorn. 23-tf
F0R RE/sIT—Housekeeping rooms. In
quire Room 6, Mickelson <& Currier
building. 22-6t
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.
The country will he easily recon
ciled to a shortage of influenza.
Our friend, the fly, will also regret
the passing of the public sugar howl.
This country also needs to produce
more thrifty Americans.
In the present sugar shortage the
beet swells with its own importance.
No racial advancement was eve*
achieved through race riots.
Again the formerly modest apple
looms large as a relatively unpurdms
able fruit.
If a man isn’t a radical in this day
he gets the reputation of wanting to
stir up trouble.
A shortage of sugar is bad news
right here at the opening of the bowl
ing season.
What could you expect when pian
ists and poets begin trying to run
things in Europe?
If it hadn't been the butter, some
thing else undoubtedly would have
sent up the price of milk.
There is getting to he altogether toe
much informality about taking other J
people’s lives.
Profiteers would have us reduce the
cost of living by shortening the work
man’s dinner pail.
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No amount of price regulation can
cheapen food if the -producer fails in
his duty.
Before you decide to die from the
“flu” better determine whether or not
it is merely a had cold you have.
The great American pie is no crim
inal ; but the profiteer who cuts it
comes pretty close to being one.
In the list of household appliances
the girl who used to apply for general
housework is wanting.
Soft collars for students at van Eng
lish college have been barred. Britain
takes its democracy hard boiled.
Price boosting propaganda is almost
as hateful as German propaganda was
during the war.
Perhaps they are called equinoctial
rains because they rain with equal
vigor all night and all day.
One of the drawbacks of a big striae
is that it produces a crop of highbrows
who tell us how to reform human na
ture.
Public scorn will be more of a pun
ishment fiff the profiteering grocer
than the isolation of a prison. Buy
with a fair price list in your hand.
The old saying “six of one and half
a dozen of the other” has been
amended to read “six are one and half
a dozen are another.”
The freight rate from South Amer
ican points has been cut 30 per cent,
but we got so little of our winter’s
supply of coal from there.
Twenty-cent sugar is forecast. The
other of the two most disagreeable
men may now go ahead and prophesy
$1 butter.
Why not sell trench tools of tfie !
American army to-motorists to dig un
der the grade crossings of the rail
roads and save their lives?
It’s about time for the scientists to
patent some attachment to the nose
that will extract a breakfast from the
air.
And every year sees a more senti
mental attachment formed for the coal
in our bins, a burning disinclination to
part from it.
Mexico warns United States avia
tors to keep away from the border.
Will Carranza flse some fly cops to
enforce his mandate? ,
If you see a well-dressed man with
his abashed eyes on the ground afraid
to look his fellow-man in the face, he
is probably a profiteer. By their
meanness ye shall know them !
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Since the ancient right of the farm
er to make cider, ripen into what it
may, will not be interfered with, there
will no longer be any trouble in get
ting plenty of hired help.
A city in Japan has raised the pay
of its policemen from $5.98 to $7.48
a month. Here is one public-spirited
place, at least, where civic servants
do not have to ask for justice.
A ten-hour day for farmers may do
well enough in theory but no farmer
is going to stop getting in hay when
rain threatens, just because the whis
tle has blown.
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The prediction that Liberty bonds
will soon climb toward par is not a
surprise to many shrewd investors
who have been buying them with that
possibility in mind.
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The London paper that thinks the
war was a bad bargain would hardly,
however, go so far as to indorse the
German boast that the violence now
manifest throughout the world is a
sign of German victory.
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TOURNAMENT
IS NOW ON
After the Show
Jerry Perry
vs.
Harry Porter
THREE PRIZES
FIRST—SUIT OF CLOTHES
SECOND—PAIR OF SHOES
THIRD—STETSON HAT
A New Shipment of
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KNITTING
YARN
Just Received at
Aunty Keating’s
Wee Shop
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Socks, Sweaters and Caps Made
to Order
PEYSER
THE TAILOR
Opposite Kenny
, Holden’s
Phone 188
SHOE REPAIRING
DIMON NICKALOFF
Currier Building,
C Street. P. 0. Box MS.
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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. Office
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LAUNCHES
PIONEER AND SWAN
Wm. J. Crooker, Owner and Master ^
REGULAR TRIPS TO KATALLA
FREIGHTING AND TOWING
To All Parts of the Sound ^
Phone 57—2 Rings
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just received;
A LARGE 8HIPMENT OF I
LIVE CHICKENS
.Good Roasters
JOE FREY
Phone 22 J
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