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If It Is On the Market You Will Find It Here
WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF DINNER PARTIES
A. J. Wendler, representing thej
merchants, Frank W. Redmond, rep-1
resenting the business interests, and 1
J. A: Wilkinson, representing the j
Sheldon-Sibson Stage Line
Carrying U. S. Mails
For CH1T1NA and WAV POINTS
Every Tuesday Morning
Special Auto for parties of four
or more any time.
C. Ha**ry Woodward, agent
Fairbanks
consumers, compose the committee
having charge of the “fair pr;ce ’
system inaugurated at Anchorage
a short time ago. J. G. Watts, town
site manager and in charge of the
land and industrial department dur
ing the absence of Andrew Christ
ensen. is actiing local food admin
istrator.
A four-minute speaker in An
chorage recently charged that the
women of that city were not doing
their quota of Red Cross work as
requested and allotted
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NOW!
TfcAlt SAVINGS STAMPS
ISSUED BY THE
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT
I
10 DOUBLE HER
ARMY AND NAVI
TOKIO.—Japan has made pre
: liminary plans to increase her army
by fifty per cent and to build three
, times the number of dreadnoughts
and battle-cruisers previously plan
! ned.
| No official announcement has:
1 been made, but it is understood that i
| the project adopted at a recent con-!
| ference of field-marshals and fleet
! admirals includes the creation of an |
I army of 21 corps, or 42 divisions;
j and the enlargement of the navy
) so that it will eventually include j
' three main fleets, each to consist of
j eight dreadnoughts and eight battle
i cruisers. Each of the new army di-!
| visions will be composed of three
; regiments, instead of four, as at
present.
j Years will be required to develop
, the army and navy to the desired
j strength, but a beginning will be ]
! made as soon as conditions, espe- j
j eially financial conditions, will per-1
| mit.
Under the new military program, i
Japan would have 126 regiments, as
against the present 84, there being,
now in existence 21 divisions, each,
j of four regiments. An increase of
42 regiments is provided for.
Of this increase, four new divi-1
| sions are covered by the army pro
gram laid down in 1906. when it was
decided to increase the number of
divisions to 2f|, or to a total strength
of 100 regiments. This program
has not yet been carried into effect.
Writers on military matters estimate
that the new plan contemplates an
eventual enlargement of the Japan- j
ese army by fifty per cent above
its present strength, with a corres- '
ponding enlargement of the reserves
due to the great numbers passed
through the service each year. Many
think the expansion will be easy
from the standpoint of man-power.
The naval program adopted at the
last session of the Diet was to fill
out a fleet of eight dreadnoughts
and six battle-crusiers. The new
naval proposal therefore means that
Japan plans to build two squadrons
each to be composed of eight dread
noughts and eight battle-cruisers and
two additional cruisers to fill out
the present battle-cruiser fleet. In
other words the construction project
calls for sixteen additional dread-;
noughts and eighteen more battle
cruisers.
The estimated expenditure involv-1
ed is large. That for the army is
placed at about $87,150,000; and
that of the navy at about $540,
000,000. It is probable that the
actual costs will be much higher,
as the estimates mentioned above
are based upon figures worked out
i before the war, when prices were
lower.
1
ALASKANS FIGHT
I SHY OF SIBERIA:
—
NOME.—On account of the un
certainty of economic and political
conditions in Siberia this year, few
Alaska miners and trappers have
1 crossed the Berng sea to take min
! erals and furs from the Asiatic lands
across from here.
In other years many Alaskans,
most of them from Nome and the
j Seward Peninsula, have gone into
the Siberian country around the
Gulf of Anadir. Nome is about 150
miles from the Siberian coast.
Small American trading vessels
; plying across the Bering Straits and
'along the Siberian coast built up
| such a big business a few years ago
j that a movement was started for the
; establishment of a custom house on
| the Siberian coast, probably at East
j Cape.
Men who have returned from j
' across the strait say that a second i
j rich Alaska in its undeveloped state
lies in the eastern Siberian provinces
of Kamchatka and Yakutsk.
There is work for every person
to do in this war—food is ammuni
tion, are you wasting it?
WORK IS HALTED
TO MOVE CAMPS
Tracklaying, Surfacing and Dragline
Camps Are Being Moved Out
to End of Track.
The work of laying steel, sur
facing and building up the grade
as the line progresses has been sus
pended temporarily to permit of
the moving of the cars housing the
men of the tracklaying, surfacing
and dragline camps. It is expected
that this work will be completed
tonight and that tracklaying opera
tions will be resumed tomorrow.
At a point near the end of steel
a force of men are engaged in put- j
ting in a spur track for a distance
of two thousand feet. This spur j
will run on to a bed of gravel which j
has been chosen by the Commission '
officials as the base of operations
for the Bucyrus Dragline excavator j
and will accommodate the gravel|
cars.
The gravel bed near Bailey sta
tion in use hitherto, has been
found to be unhandy and has neces
sitated the use of a gravel bed
nearer the actual scene of operations
at the front.
At the present time the extension
of the railroad is delayed to some
extent for the needed gravel for
ballasting and surfacing, as this
material has to be hauled a distance
of about fifteen miles from the
gravel bed at Bailey to the end of
steel. The new gravel bed chosen,
will, it is thought, supply this ma
terial in sufficient quantity to keep
the work moving until frost condi
tions render it impossible for the
dragline excavator to get any more.
A siding will also be put in at
the front with its southern end ad
joining the main line at Station No.
18724, to be used as a material and
switching track. Camp 15, or the
tracklaying camp, and Camp 16, sur
facing camp, will be established in
the neighborhood of this siding.
When the work of constructing
the spur track and siding is com
pleted, a full force of men will be
available for extending the road on
ward towards the coal fields.
John Ramm, owner of the halibut
boat E. Neilson and crew of three
men recently broke the record for
a four-man fishing boat by bringing,
over 35.000 pounds of fish to Ju
neau recently. They received j
nearly $600 to the man for their
catch.
COONEY MOTEL
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But Better than the Rest.9*
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The Granby Consolidated Mining
Smelting and Power company has
declared a dividend of $874,962 for
the quarter ending June 1. This is
at the rate of 2.5 per cent. Pay
ment was made on August 1. The
company made a net profit of $450,
000 in May.
Falcon Joslin, who^has been in
the States in the interest of the St
Elias Oil Company, returned to Ka
talla on a recent boat with a party
of capitalists to investigate the
fields. A number of men have
been engaged and work is progres
I sing on the company’s property.
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