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ALASKA PUBLICITY
BUREAU
Juneau Alaska.
If you want to either hire or be
hired, let us hear from you.
Employers will please state nature
of positions vacant and
wages paid.
Those desiring positions will give
qualifications and nature of
work wanted.
E. J. WHITE,
Chief of Bureau.
By order of the Governor.
WOMEN GREA1 AID
War Has Greatly Increased Employ
ment of Gentle Sex In Variety
of Industries.
PARIS.—Women employed in all
branches of industry in France num
ber 626 000, according to an official
report. This compares with 487,000
employed in normal times. This in
crease is due almost entirely to the
employment of women in metal in
dustries, chiefly in munition works.
The weight which women can be re
quired to carry in factory work is
limited to 55 pounds.
Women are widely employed for
inspection of finished goods, they
examine separate parts for automo
biles; verify light shells, fuses, and
grenade plugs. The inspect big
shells externally and internally by
j the use of electric lamps and they
I test the caliber using complicated
measuring apparatus and micro
scopes. They nail up cases of all
kinds, even cases for airplanes and
automobiles. The women supervise
| the buildings where men are at work
i and keep them clean.
That the long absent ptarmigan
1 are returning to their old haunts
and are appearing in ever increasing
numbers is the report brought to
various mining camps by prospectors
and travelers. They are reported to
be gradually making their way to
wards the coast. Large numbers of
chicks are seen in the hills and the
present warm dry season promises
a good crop.
Private John Bachevick, of Daw
son, is back in the northern city af
ter 14 months service in the trenches
during which time he was twice
badly wounded.
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NENANAITE SAYS
GOOD NEWS BAY
IS POOR CAMP
Nenanaites will recall George Dun
can ,who left here last spring for
Good News Bay, via Kantishna, in
company with Bob Dodds and others.
The following is a de facto copy
of a letter recently received from
Duncan by a friend of his in Nenana
and is very expressive of conditions
in the localities mentioned and makes
one glad who has remained in Ne
nana instead of seeking those far
away “good things.”
Bethel. Aug. 1, 1918
Dear Friend.—
“I suppose you are surprised to
hear from me; we had a hard trip
over sixty days to Bethel, and I lost
my leader—little Pete—and my good
gun. I left my wolves and one dog
up above McGrath, forty miles; I
expect to go back to McGrath in
September; there is no other way
of going than by boat, and it doesn't
go until then.
We tried to get over to the Nixon
Fork diggings but could not make it
—too much water—and when we got
to McGrath there was three feet of
water, the people were living in
boats and on the roofs of cabins, or
away back in the woods.
When we got to McGrath, there
was nothing doing. Nixon Fork had
good prospects but no chance of
getting work there. It may make
a small camp, in time, and the Good
News Bay strike was not as as I
expected it would be.
1 will tell you just how I found
it. There were thirty or forty men
and they only had work for fifteen
men; no chance of work for me, so
I did not stay very long, and they
are only working six men now.
Men are leaving Good News for
other places, some are going Outside
and some going up-river. Discovery
is starting to pinch out; they have
taken out fourteen thousand dollars
to date, and unless they find more
ground on the claim like they have
had, the men that bought may not
get all their money back, so you see
how it is at Good News Bay.
“They have found prospects on
Slate creek, but it will not amount
to much. Water-Moose runs into
Slate creek, and Slate runs into Good
News river.
“Bob Dodds and I did some pros
pecting but found nothing but colors.
Twenty or thirty men have been
out for days prospecting, but could
find nothing but colors; they all
say the same thing: ‘It is a glacier
deposit.’
“Water-Moose, that is the creek
on which discovery was made, is a
blow-out. but nothing more has been
found up to date.
“I left Water-Moose on the 3rd
of July and walked across country
eighteen miles to a creek called
Con-Con, and worked for a fellow
mining there who had a small pay
streak. I worked 15 days and then
walked 35 miles to the coast and got
a boat to Bethel.
“Bob Dodds is still at Water
Moose, but was doing nothing the
last I heard from him.
“I will close for this time with
best wishes any best regards to all
and the biggest share for my 50-50
pal.
“GEORGE DUNCAN,
Bethel, Alaska.”
GERMANS ID
TO GUARD LIFE
Of SLAV RULER
;
Peace Treaty Contained A Secret
Provision For Safeguarding
of the Royal Family.
BERNE.—Repeated reports of the
assassination of the former Emperor
Nicholas of Russia have brought out
a statement in diplomatic quarters j
that the German authorities took i
care to guard as far as possible I
against the eventuality of an assass
ination of any of the members of i
the former imperial family, by a ! j
secret article in the Brest-Litovsk! i
treaty, providing for the treatment j i
of the former emperor and his fam- !
ily. This article, as discussed in dip
lomatic circles, required that the
personal safety of the imperial fam
ily should be safeguarded by suitable
military and police guards, and that!
their future surroundings should be '
in keeping with the dignity of their
former position. It was in acocrd
ance with this provision, it is said,
that the Red Guard, which formerly
had charge of the imperial family,
was changed to a guard of Letton
ians in whom special confidence was
reposed. The change of the place
of imprisonment to Yekaterinburg is
also said to have resulted from this
same provision requiring safeguards
against personal danger to the im
perial family.
The prevailiing diplomatic view
here is that the interest of the Ger
man authorities in Nicholas and his
family was something more than
humanitarian, and foresees the possi
bility of German support, for an im
perial restoration in Russia, if that
should eventually prove an effective
part of the German policy in Russia.
ALASKANS TO REGISTER
DURING WINTER MONTHS
E. J. Cronin, president of the !
Local Board No. 19, under the
selective service regulations, received
a telegram from the governor’s
office in Juneau, intimating that
the registering of Alaskans who
come under the new man power bill j
will be taken in hand during one \
of the winter months.
The telegram contained no defin-1
ite information as to just when j
Alaskans w'ill be required to register.
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