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FAKE OIL COMPANIES
WILL BE FOUGHT BY
TEXAS ORGANIZATION
DALLAS, Tex.—The Texas Oil
Investors’ Protective association has
been organized to combat activities
of irresponsible and fraudulent stocK
selling oil companies. The asso
ciation, composed of hundreds of
investors, will take action to force
dividends from fraudulent companies
and salvage from incompetents.
Association officers claim that
many companies have squandered
funds of stockholders, while many
others are failing to pay dividends
when production is ample to justify
such payment.
Public interest was so great afte;
the discovery of new Texas o:
fiields that nearly eveo’ one in
vested, association officials say. Be
cause of unrestricted stock selling
the situation has become such tha
it is almost impossible to dispose
of stock of the most meritorious d«
velopment enterprises, big oil mei
say.
The Cascade Laundry has plenty
of hot soft water at all times. Ne-v
bath rooms, fully equipped and san
itary, with special rooms for ladies
You get »*ebate with $2.50 laundry
which applies on bath, or pay 50i
per bath.
Vsnana. Alaska's Interior yesl Pepo
Electrical Goods
Stoves and Ranges
Water Pipes and
Fittings
Bath Fixtures
Sheet Metal Work of All Kinds
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
Nothing Succeeds
Like Success
Our Goods are Right. Our Prices are
Right
Watch and Jewelry Repairing, Engraving
Wm. TAYLOR
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Northern Commercial Co.
Outfitters of the North
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LONDON.—There is a spice of
; adventure in the salvaging of steam
ers sunk by German raiders. Round
the British Isles, in the Mediter
ranean and off the Murman coast
are rich fields for the salvage ser
vice as well as private enterprise.
' • In the North Sea the water is too
deep to make any considerable suc
cess, but in shallower water not
onlv cargoes, but ships are being
i
saved.
Some of the sunken vessels con
tain huge fortunes in gold or goode.
One is known to have carried
$5,000,000 in gold The diver sent
down to work on her borrowed the
key to the ship’s strongbox, but
it is not recorded whether he re
trieved the gold.
If the divers after an investiga
tion decide to attempt to float the
ship, barges are moored over he’
at low tide. Nine-inch wire ropes
are then passed under it and fast
ened to the barges above. As the
tide rises, the barges rise with it,
bringing the ship along, as it lies
in the great wire cradle. The dam
aged ship is then towed into shallow
water and the necessary repairs
made.
i In the ease of vessels only partly
submerged, compressed air is some
times pumped into her hold, driving
out the water, while the ship slowly
floats to the surface. Occasionally
it is necessary, where the hole is
not too large, to make a great
patch, float it over the hole, and
then fasten it sufficiently tight in
position until the ship can be pump
ed out and floated.
One vessel was torpedoed in the
Channel, but almost reached the
shore before it went down. When
it finally sank it was exposed at
low tide, and no so very far from
a railroad. Heavy locomotives pull
ed the vessel into a perpendicular
position and the vessel finally re
floated.
, While these salvage operations
have been remuneratively success
| ful, leaders in the industry declare
that it is next to impossible to save
a ship lying in water deeper than
her masts, and that very many ships
will never be brought up But
they do not despair as to the
cargo if the ship lies in less than
200 feet of water. Divers car.
operate with comparative ease at
that depth.
Many sailors recently demobil
ized have cast their lot with the
government salvage corps or with
some one of the private corpora
tions which have taken up the
work. The pay is good, while there
is always an element of danger.
SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC
IN EUROPE AVERTED
BY VACCINATION
> PAP.IS.—The world war will be
. ]hela unique in the fact that it has
|| not been accompanied by an out
jj break of smallpox. This may be
due in part to the precautions taken
in urging all Paris to be vaccinated
or re-vaccinated. At any rate more
than 1,374,000 persons were vac
cinated during the war, and only
i 56 cases of smallpox were recorded,
! of which 26 were fatal,
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—
Diver Hanson, who has been work
ing on a fish trap near Kasaan, had
an encounter with a monster octo
pus recently while working under
water. The diver saw the fish,
which he states measured fully
twenty feet across, coming toward
him. and signaled to be hauled up
immediately, but before he could get
away the octopus sueeeded in grab
| bing him with one tenacle by the
j arm. The current swept the diver
j under the trap and it was difficult
j for him to make a fight, but he
I finalv eluded the big sea-spider.
—
PROPERLY STRINGED
! ‘What is that string around your
i finger for?”
i “That is to remind me that 1
j forgot something my wife tied it
j there for me to remember.”—Ba’ti
!/ more American.
TAMPA WOMEN •
ORGANIZE 10
COMBAT VICE |
TAMPA. Fla.—Fiv'e hundred Tam
pa women have formed the Woman’s
Protective league and say they pro-1
pose to clean up organized vice by j
direct action—that they propose to j
-undermine its support.
By the establishment of a sort
of moral credit bureau, this organ- 1
lzation proposes to furnish any
woman a confidential report on the j
|"double life” of her husband if she;
wants one. The inquirer does not
! even need to give her own name in
i _
making the inquiry: she may desig
! nate a postoffice box add.ress or any j
place where an agent of the league j
, may deposit the report on its in
j vestigation.
i Organizers of the bureau say that
| seventy of their number have
! pledged to do the investigating work
i in the open, while the remainder j
I will work in secret,
j "So many have such old repro
bates for husbands,” said one of
I the chiefs, "they can’t work openly
because these husbands won’t let
! them. Therefore they will work:
; secretly.” The theory of the leagus
| is that if a man has not been walk
I ing the straight and narrow path,
| one of the five hundred will know
1 about it—or at least can find out.
F-esh garden seeds, just arrived,
Fowler & Morris.
j
TELL FANTASTIC
TALES OF YANKS
| COBLEN'Z.—Some fantastic fic
j tion is published in German news
papers by writers from Frankfort
and Leipzig who have visited Cob
! ier.z and returned home to write
whatever they may please about the
American army. Many of the
stories they tell are new to the
| officers of the Third army, who
count them as German propaganda.
One writer of a long article m
ithe Leipzig paper dealing with life
{in Coblenz relates alleged instances
of ridiculous sentences imposed up
on Germans bv the A.merican armv
.courts. In one cSse he says that
the wife of a government official,
"annoyed on the street by a drunken
solder, exclaimed in her anger: ‘If
i only all the Americans would go to
the devil'.'” The military court, he
says, punished her for “this re
ligious wish” by sentencing her to
: appear every morning for thirty
;days at the headquarters of the com
! manding officer and repeating to
those present the phrase: "I am glad
jthat you are still here, gentlemen,
' and it is my wish that you con
tinue to stay here for a long while.”
! This is all news to the American
! officers. If any woman appears
|at headquarters every morning, the
• sentries on duty there have failed
: to notice it. It is part of their
job to prevent trespassing by Ger
mans at the main entrance of the
Third army headquarters,
j Another fictitious tale narrated
by the Leipzig writer to arouse
German dislike for Americans, deals
with a case in which a woman,
splashed by mud from an automo
bile, ejaculated, “those dirty Ameri
can automobiles.” For this, the
Leipzig Munchausen avers, a mili
tary court sentenced her to climb
the fortress of Ehrenbrietstein daily
at 5 a. m., for thirty days, carrying
a pail, scrubbing brush and scour
ing rag, and to clean six American
automobiles. Upon completion of
this task he asserted, she was re
quired to walk back home similarly
i equipped.
Another fantastic tale told by the
Leipzig journalist is of a sentence
which he declares was imposed upon
a hotel owner whose nerves could
no longer stand the “wild music”
produced by the American band;
and who commented upon it unfav
orably. In punishment, the fiction.
| We Strive to Please
| EVERYTHING THE BEST
I
| Tavern Cafe and Bakery
X WM. RODIGKEIT : : : Proprietor
writer claimed, the hotel man was
sentenced to march daily for thirty
days alongside the band and after
its parade to tell its leader, “Sir,
your music pleases me to per
fection.”
American intelligence officers are
endeavoring to ascertain through
what channels the Leipzig corres
pondent obtained the alleged “in
formation” while in Coblenz, par
ticularly stories about the fines and
sentences imposed upon women.
Court records do not reveal any
such cases.
NEW INDUSTRY
TO BE DEVELOPED
AT LUTUYA BAY
JUN'EAU.—For the production of
gold ore from quartz, few persons
realize that pebbles are used, and
that these pebbles in the past have
been brought all the way from Illi
nois by rail to Seattle and then by
boat to Juneau.
The pebbles are required for
grinding the ore as it comes from
the crushers of the quartz mill. At
one time an Alaska mining company
got its pebbles in Norway, the ore
grinding process requiring a very
hard pebble. Now, however, a con
tract has been given to a Juneau
man to furnish the company with
25 tons of pebbles not less than
two and one-half inches in diameter
and not over four inches. The con
tractor intends to bring the peb
bles from Lituva bay. To get them
out, it will be necessary to con
struct a 12-mile road.
The Lituva pebbles have been
used before at the Chichagoff mills
and their flint-like qualities are said
to have made them very satisfac
tory. Should they meet the re
quirements, operators of this dis
trict believe a new and unique busi
ness of dealing with pebbles may
i be developed in Alaska.
The members of the Tanana Valley
Rifle club will hold a special mee
i ing at the office of Guy B. Erwin,
at Fairbanks, tonight to discuss plans
for the immediate development of
i the new range on the Rsckert farm.
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Trappers and Traders of Alaska
SELL YOUR FURS TO A HOME INDUSTRY. WE GUARANTEE
YOU HIGHER PRICES THAN OUTSIDE X."*"
CONCERNS WILL PAY.
During the last season we conducted an advertising campaign
throughout the North and are prepared to send you the names of
people in all sections of Alaska and the Yukon who will verify our
statements.
Our excellent Eastern connections, and the tremendous amount
of mail order business we are receiving from all parts of the
States for furs made to order enables us to turn our stock quickly
at a reasonable profit, but we must have fur, for which we guar
antee top prices.
Make us a trial shipment. If our price does not suit you, the
goods will be returned charges prepaid.
WE MAKE FURS TO ORDER
at more reasonable rates than can be obtained Outside. At present
we are working three operators, and need others. If you are an
operator and finisher, and want a good year-around job, com
municate with us. t
CHAS. GOLDSTEIN & CO.
JUNEAU,ALASKA
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