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ALASKA TROWS
WERE DISCHARGED
All of the Alaska registrants re
maining in the army attached to
the company at Fort Gibbon, num
bering about thirty-five, received
their discharge from the army yes
terday, according to a telegram re
ceived by William Papadopulos.
They have all taken passage on
the steamer Alaska, which left the
army town at 1:30 this morning,
for their homes in Nenana and Fair
banks.
Tom Markuson, well known old
time of Ester City, arrived in Ne
nana today on the launch Victory.
This is Mr. Markuson's first visit to
Nenana since the big excursion of
1916. He expects to remain in
town for a few day*.
INSANE RUBYITE
LEAVES ASYLUM
According to advices received on
the last mail. E. W. Major, of Ruby,
who was recently adjudged insane,
and was sent Outside to the Morn
ingside Insane asylum with the last
outgoing marshal’s party, has been
released from that institution.
His brother has taken charge of
the unfortunate man and they are
now both residing at Arlington.
Washington.
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LABOR SITUATION IN THE
WESTERN STATES AS SEEN
BY EMPLOYMENT CHIEFS
II.—MONTANA
HELENA, Mont.—In several
phases, there are startling con
trasts in labor conditions and in
the cost of living, in Montana to
day, compared -with the< era pre
ceding this country's entrance into
, the great war.
While no authentic figures for
the past 60 days are available, it
was stated in March, by a com
mittee of the state assembly which
investigated the cost of necessities
in the state, that prices had risen,
on an average, about 90 per cent
in this state, since the world strug
gle began.
As far as labor is concerned, op
portunity is far greater in Mon
tana than in 1914, when the war
broke out. and even than in 1917,
when America entered.
Despite the fact that, at present,
the mines of Butte are not running
full blast, a labor shortage exists,
in Montana, acccording to both
state and federal official reports.
Farm labor shortage probably
will be acute in this state for some
time, according to reports from
workers in Montana for the depart
ment of agriculture. The Mis
soula office of the department re
cently issued a statement to the
same effect and the weekly re
ports of Chas. D. Greenfield, state
commissioner of agriculture, re
peatedly reflect the same situation.
The mining industry is the only
basic industry in the state run
ning on a sub-normal basis. The
latest figures available for the
Anaconda Copper Mining company,
the largest employer in Butte, and
in the state, is for March. It shows
a production of about 60 per cent
normal. It is a rule that the pro
duction of other Butte mines will,
on an average, hold on a level
with that of Anaconda. It is hoped
the mines, not later than July,
will return to a normal basis.
Montana’s manufacturers employ
!many men and are going full blast.
!Coa! mining is said to be normal,
i for this time of the year. The
! prospects for road building are in
creasing, the new park-to-park pro
jject creating a demand for fine
highways over hundreds of miles,
!to be pushed forward this year.
Some railway construction is as
sured. Two or three large de
velopment projects are coming up.
| Oil drilling goes on with renewed
vigor and the revival of silver min
: ing will call many men into the
hills. Building is brisk and is ex
pected to increase.
Aside from spasmodic troubles,
here and there, attributed to I. W.
W. agitators, there is no severe
trouble in Montana.
Complaint of the cost of living
is general. It is being investigated
by the newly created state effi
ciency commission, which is to make
a report to a special session of
the legislature, next winter. The
commission has made no statement
of its findings.
[ This body was a joint committee
jof house and senate in the last
assembly. It submitted a report
made in which it was said increases
averaged as high as 90 per cent
and were almost invariably more
than 60 per cent, compared with
pre-war costs.
Particular complaint is made of
the cost of dairy products. State
Dairy Commissioner W. H. Fluhr
has taken up the matter. He sue
g*ts as one solution that the ex
cess products of June and July,
now shipped out of the state, be
held in Montana for home con
sumption next winter. He is mak
ing a campaign among dairymen
for this practice. The high cost
of feed has been ascribed as the
great factor in raising dairy prices.
Prices of coal have fallen slightlv
since government supervision ceased.
Complaint of rentals also is
heard. This condition, however, i'
not general.
ANTWERP REGAINS
PLACE AS CENTER OF
DIAMOND COFFERS
LONDON.—Antwerp, which lost
its extensive diamond cutting trade
while it was occupied by the Ger
mans, is rapidly recovering its place
through the return of thousands of
diamond cutters who sought refuge
in England and Holland.
When the city fell into the hands
of the Germans, diamond merchants,
brokers, cutters and polishers fled
to England and Holland. Most of
them were Jews. They were quickly
absorbed in the diamond trade of
the countries to which they fled.
In London they settled at Hatton
Garden, set up business and quickly
became prosperous.
With the armistice many of them
returned to Antwerp, but others re
mained, and this finally aroused the
burgomaster of Antwerp, who want
ed the industry restored to its old
basis. Tempting offers were made,
but masters and men among the
Jews declined all offers unless- they
were recognized as of Jewish nation
ality instead of as citizens of the
countries in which they were born.
The question went before the au
thorities in Brussels, and the de
mand of the men was granted.
It is stated in London that dia
mond merchants and workers of all
nationalities, except Germans and
German Jews, are now to be ad
mitted to Antwerp, and hundreds
of them are hurrying to the city.
Their former houses are to be
restored to them and the furnishings
and equipment carried off by the
Germans are to be replaced by the
authorities.
Before the war, the Saturday
night boat from Harwich to Ant
werp was crowded wdth London
brokers and merchants, their pock
ets filled with money with which
to buy Antwerp diamonds. Sunday
' and Monday would be given over
to bargaining: and Monday night
i would see the same crowd on their
I wav back, their pockets filled with
diamonds instead of money.
It will be several months before
shipping arrangement? will be such
as to permit Antwerp to entertain
buyers in considerable numbers, but
diamond authorities are of the
opinion that before autumn comes
the city will have firmly re-estab
lished its profitable premier industry.
ART TREASURES OF
J. P. MORGAN VALUED
AT GREAT AMOUNT
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LONDON.—Art treasures in Lon
don, purchased by the late J. Pier
pont Morgan, have been valued, for
fire insurance purposes, at more
than $2,000,000, according to testi
mony given by an art dealer in a
court action here. Some of the pic
tures. china and other treasures are
'in the Morgan residence at Wall
Hall. Watford, and others adorn the
residence of the late banker in
, Grosvernor Square.
The art dealer, who was suing
; another art expert for a commission
for appraising the pictures, declared
that Mr. Morgan secured such good
values on his pictures that if they
were put on the market today they
would bring higher prices than he
paid for them, not only because of
Mr. Morgan’s care in making his
selections, but also “on account of
the halo around Mr. Morgan’s name.’’
Among the pictures described are
a Troyan, valued at $75,00(0; a
Crome, placed at $100,000; two pic
tures by Franz Hals, valued at $125
000 each; a Van Hoffema, placed
at $75,000; a Greuze, two Constable:
and a Breton. In the Watford
house, the dealer said, was a picture
bv Velasquez, valued at $100,000.
a “magnificent picture by John
Russell and a fine picture bv Abbot
of Lord Nelson.”
The china, the witness said, in
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sert service.” There are also fine
'Italian embroideries. The Gros
Ivernor Square treasures were ap
I praised, the witness testified, at
$1,339,000 and those of Wall Hal!
jat $785,000.
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j ELSEWHERMN ALASKA
A fifth teacher is to be added to
'the teaching staff of the Wrangell
i public school this year.
The coal mines at Tantalus, on
the Yukon, have been leased and
the coal will be mined there on
quite a large scale this season.
Martin Harrais. who has been
working at Kennecott. will do de
velopment work on some copper
properties across the N'izina river,
I on which he has an option
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A Seattle firm recently was the
; successful bidder on . the contract
.to furnish one million feet of lum
1 her for the Alaska railroad. The
lumber will be used in rebuilding
bridges on the road out of Seward.
The William Britt dru'” store,
after having been operated con
tinuously for the past twenty years
in Skagway. is to be moved to Ju
| neau, where it will be conducted
as a branch of the Br:tt stores.
Mrs. Cornelia Templeton Hatcher,
erstwhile Wickite politician in
jAlaska, is spending the summer in
Seattle with relatives, according to
■ the Port Angles News. She re
, cently visited at the latter place.
A rock weighing several hundred
; pounds roiled down a mountainsiue
iand entered the front door of a
cabin in Skagway. It enlarged that
opening very much and was final'v
ejected from the house by the com
bined efforts of the men, aided by
; jacks, bars, blocks, much coaxing
and hard work. Outside of knocking
the fence over, twisting the cabin
onto its haunches, splintering the
door, and wrecking the sidewalk,
no damage was done to speak of.
Limerick Alley, at one time a
famous thoroughfare at Skagway,
but which for a number of years
has not been used, will again come
into the limelight.. The office of
the town treasurer will be reached
in the future by way %of the alley.
Burnett Ashley and Frank Ash
ley. two sons of Mayor Howard
Ashley of Skagway. have returned
from France to the United States.
Frank Ashley was recently dis
charged from the service at Camp
Lewis. He saw active service at
the front from January, 1918, ur
til October, being under fire much
of the time. Only 17 men of his
unit escaped with their lives and
without serious injuries. Frank
was gassed in October and an at
tack of influenza and pneumonia
followed. He was in the hospital
for three months.
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Genuine BaiHach at Fowler Ml
Morris.
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Washburn—Down Gibbon, 1:30
a. m.. date.
Seattle 3—At St. Michael.
Atlatna—Up Kovukuk river, 1 p.
m.. yesterday.
Dooley—At Kuvukuk river 1 p.
m.. yesterday.
Benchley—At Melozi.
Alaska—Up Tanana river for
Fairbanks, 1:30 a. m.
Mutt—Up Tolovana; takes Carl
White mail to Fairbanks, this a. m.
Jacobs—At Gibbon; scheduled to
leave for Whitehorse, 30th.
Davis—Down Whitehorse, 16th.
Tanana—Up Circle, 12:45 a. m.
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