S.P.C.A. PLEASE NOTE’.\\
"JUNEAU EMPIRE" ATTACKS GRQTJYDHQG:
■'♦’ron the 11 Juneau Gaily Enpire" of February 2nl,we take
it that the E lit or of that worthy sheet disagrees with the Grounihog
prognostications regarding Alaskan weather# Me’11 subnit tliat^in a
ska, as in Texas,"only fools an\ strangers ore lict the weather* .But
the following article, taken fron the "Enpire" shows what the Juneau
Scribe thinks about hi3 aninal friend* s lope*
M M ’Vinter is over”, reports the Grounihog "Hole Lookout” • This
norni.og Oil Man Grounihog stuck his nose out from his under
ground hone, on a gray worll, and was net with a flurry of snow.
Ho sha low appears 1 to frighten hin,a.i 1 so he decile 1 to stay
out onl greet the aarly spring.So his appearance prophesies to
this district, says the "Lookout***
But wait a ninute.
February 2nl, last year, 01.1 Man Groundhog also nade his first
appearance of the year m a gray, lark world,with no shadows,
and fro: Febrauary 6th to 9th Juneau was taken unaware by one
of the strongest divisions of the Taku Wind forces.
Windows were broken,buil lings torn down, si all craft piled high,
on^the beaclies, and general havoc wrought throughout the town.
A second attack raged through fron February 15th to 17th,the
two attacks :eing consilerei by olfltiners the worst that had hit
the town in years. There was no sign or pronise that it would not
occur again*
An i that * s that."
iHE TOT LISCUH NAVY IS SOLD:
Capt*Alexan ler Allen,Arctic traier,has purchased the Ar^y
port ten ter, Lt.C.V.Donal ison«Yhe vessel, which is now lying at Valtez,
will be convertel fron stea*. to either gasoline or Diesel power,at
Corteva. Capt .Allen i3 now on his way north to supervise operations.
It is his intention to use the vessel in Arctic tracing voyages next
season.
(Tron ’'Juneau Daily Enpire")
POST GRAVE ‘DIGGERS O^I Cl ALLY APPOINTED:
Capt#7right an 1 Pfc#Cu£tis Lobernan are the antiquarians
of Chilkoot Barracks#,being now engaged in ielving into the pre-his
t^ric records of the Post*those prior to 1918, now on file at Head
quarters# They are preparing an in lex system that will per .it the
antedeluvian docu exits to he found with facility#
"ALAS# POOR RICHARD*. I KNEW HIM YELL.**
Benja.in Eranklin once serve ’ at Chilkoot Barracks. You
don't believe it?? Look up the Post Records upstairs in Headquarters,
and you* 11 find that he really was here# 'Vhat's ?iore,he served a hitch
in the Guar Ihouse, as a garrison prisoner*
It is believed, however, that this :.ane-of-ams was not the
colonial statesman and revolutionary lea er.
3ennie of the Guar Ihouse was here in ^.905#