POOR OLDJOHN
BARLEYCORNI
MUCH TROUBLE
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Ain’t it awful, girls!
The decision of Infernal Revenue
Collector Williams of Tacoma that the
Volstad act arid the Alaska bone dry
law are both the inheritance of Alaska,
both working here, as their interests
in prevention may appear, has further
unclarified the local situation until
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Hope has returned to the local Pandora
box and joy has taken to the hills and
can be summoned no more to Our
Town. As the half-wit said after look
ing at his pet calf which the boys the
night before had sheared and roached
the tail of: “It don’t look so good as
it did before.”
The Alaska law says that the federal
judge may tend bar, with the clerk of
the court as second bartender, and the
Volstead act says that George must
do it, with the physicians of Our Town
as assistant barkeeps. The federal
judge says that he will “let George do
it,” as he doesn’t know anything about
materia medica like George does, and
George s superior officer warns
George not to open the joint for fear
that his powers may conflict with those
erf the judge, and the entente cordiale
which should exist among officeholders
might be frayed thereby, on the eve
rf a possible change of administration,
hich would make the world that much
more unsafe for the Democrats who
do not today know just how safe they
are.
In the meantime the burden of proof
falls upon the News-Miner, and they
are all blaming us for all of it.. They
now assert that if the News-Miner
hadn’t fought prohibition, prohibition
wouldn’t have won, and if we hadn’t
declared the Volstead act to be head
and tail above the Alaska law, the
rotten Alaska law would still be work
ing; whereas by so doing hitherto
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herebefore, we have fixed it so that
no law is working here, and also so
that the lawless can’t, and there is no
health in us.
O that we had studied demagoguery
in our youth! What a beautiful chance
for a demagogue. We could easily
claim now that the News-Miner is
the strongest force for prohibition in
Alaska, and that this paper has gone
farther than the rest of the prohibi
tion world could go in bringing about
the nth degree of prohibition which is
“enjoyed” nowhere else on the globe.
What an opportunity to step in now,
in their hour of greatest success, and
take all the honors away from the
short-haired gurls and the long-haired
boys who have been claiming the
credit for prohibition, whereas, by
common report in Our Town, it was
the News-Miner did it all!
But alas! we knew poor John Bar
leycorn well, his good points and his
bad points, and today, stricken with
the flu, pleurisy, p-new-monia and
the grip, with our voice gone and most
of our strength with it, we never saw
the time when we missed poor John
so, and we can’t take the advantage
we are offered, because we were not
constructed thataway. — Faribanks
News-Miner.
SKI TOURNAMENT ON
MOUNT RAINIER IN JUNE
TACOMA, April 16 (by Associated
i Press).—Ski jumpers from Canada,
Sweden, Norway and the United
States are to participate in the an
nual ski tournament on Mount Ta
coma on June 26 apd 27. The event
will be under the direction of the
Northwest Ski Club.
Anders Haugen of Dillon, Colo.,
holder of the world’s record, with a
jump of 214 feet, and Henry Hall of
Denver, who has a leap of 201 feet
to his credit, have been asked to enter
the tournament.
PRETTY MISS MASON IS
ATTRACTION TONIGHT
A new Paramount star is booked to
night at the Empress—Shirley Mason
in “The Winning Girl.” The play,
adapted from a Saturday Evening Post
story of the same name, begins with
a backward flash, some eighteen years
ago, when the boy so eagerly expected
o
in the old Southern home proved td^be
a girl. Such a disappointment! But
if she couldn’t be “James” she could
be “Jamesina”—Jem for short. And
when the family fortunes reached bed
rock she stepped into the breach with
all the vim, energy and initiative that
might be expected from a James. And
she could scrap, too, like a “regular
fellow.” There is pep and punch in
this picture. A Pathe News and sin
gle-reel comedy complete the program.
Best coffee in town served at the
City Bakery. 13-tf
Don’t argue. The Club billiard hall
carries fresh tobacco. 27-tf
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J. C. MCBRIDE
(OF JUNEAU)
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Candidate for Republican National
Committeeman
Twenty-two years’ continuous residence in Alaska.
Thoroughly conversant with Alaska’s needs. For many years
engaged in mining, merchandising and the fisheries of Alaska.
Stands unequivocally for Alaskans for all offices and the fullest
development of Alaska’s resources advantageously to all interested.
A VOTE FOR M’BRIDE AT THE PRIMARY ELECTION,
APRIL 27, MEANS TERRITORIAL PROGRESS AND PROS
PERITY.
JACK CHOVIN
THE PEOPLE’S CANDIDATE FOR
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Republican National Committeeman
Twenty-three years in Alaska. An independent Republican.
The only candidate for National Committeeman who has received
the indorsement of the Republican Club of his own town.
GEORGE C. HAZELET
CANDIDATE FOR
Delegate to Republican National Convention
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YOUR SyPPORT APPRECIATE*
Primary Election, Tues4ay, April 27
E. E. CHAMBERLAIN
OF SEWARD
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Republican Candidate for Territorial Senator
THIRD DIVISION
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JOHN J. FINNEGAN
Republican Candidate for Attorney General
Primaries April 27
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Regular Sailings Between Seattle,
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Ellamar, Liscum, Latouche, Seward
FROM SEATTLE— SAILS SOUTH—*
APRIL 8. ALAMEDA APRIL 16
April 15. NORTHWESTERN APRIL 23
APRIL 22. ALASKA APRIL 30
Frequent sailings of freighters carrying explosives.
This schedule subject to change without notice.
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Phones: Office 223, Residence 223—2 rings. ..
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Trains leave Cordova for Chitina Monday and Thursday.
Trains leave Chitina for Kennecott Tuesday and Friday.
Trains, leave Kennecott for Chitina Sunday and Thursday.
Trains leave Chitina for Cordova Tuesday and Friday.
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Dining Car in Connection with all Regular
Passenger Trains between Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received and delivered at Cordova
Wharf from 9 a. m. to 5 p m., except Sundays.
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot office %
one hour before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER Superintendent *
MARK M’ALLEN, TICKET AGENT
THE NORTHERN CLUB
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Phone 130
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