Temperance Workers
Foresee Trials in Store
For Great Britain
LONDON. Apr. 22.—The annual
drink bill for the British nation is
$1,500,000,000, according to J. Gray
Matheson, who presided at a recent
meeting of the National Temperance
Commercial League.
E. Rosslyn Mitchell, member of par
liament for Paisley, declared that the
next 25 years were going to be a crit- j
ical testing time of the moral stamina
of the British nation. Commercially
and industrially intemperance was un-;
profitable, he added, but apart from !
that, because of the needs of the na
tion. England must keep from the
young evil which “levies such fatal
toll on the moral quality of the race.”
Cat This
Point, It’s W | Jg
Important
—the point of a Parker J0 Duofold
is made of genuine M r. a t i v e
Tasmanian Iridium A which costs
over three times as / / much as the
iridium used in / / ordinary
fountain pen / / points. That’s
why the Parker / / Duofold is
called the 25- / / year point.
That’s why it If! t3 the cheapest
pen on earth JJ/ at $7 — because its
usefulness 4^ is everlasting.
Lady Doolold or Duof old Jr., ${
Geld Ring or Gold Pocket-clip
included free.
Pack aSocg a Duofold
on your vacation
Ask To See It At
ORLANDER, the Jeweler
AUTO SERVICE and
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AMY'S EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND
TRAINS
Prompt and Reliable Service
Phone Madison 143
PROPOSE WATERWAY FROM
GREAT LAKES TO HUDSON
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 23.—
The secretary of war has appointed
a board of officers to make a survey
of the project for a deep waterway
from the great lakes to the Hudson
River, to cost around four hundred
million dollars.
Latest of German Shrines
Is Birthplace of Ebert
HEIDELBERG. Germany. Apr. 23.—
Heidelberg Castle and the city's 500
i year old university have ceased to be
the chief attractions for tourists visit
! ing this historic city. Inst4fed visit
ors are seeking a tliree-story house on
Priest’s Alley, in the workingmen’s
i section of the old city, to view the
humble little apartment where Fred
j erick Ebert, first president of the Ger
man republic, was born 54 years ago.
The day of the late President Ebert’s
burial here in his native city, his
widow and children visited the tiny
rooms where the president’s father, a
tailor, and his wife sheltered their ten
children. For mor^ than an hour the
house was closed while the widow and
her children inspected the four small
rooms in which the family lived when
Frederick was born.
The house bears a tablet proclaim
ing it the birthplace of the first suc
cessor to the Hohenzollerns under the
new constitution. It is a simple dwell
ing, and modest, like a hundred others
| on the same street. The rooms are
small and the ceilings low.
Thousands of German Republicans
are flocking to this shine, and a move
ment is under way to set the building
| aside as a public museum.
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WALLA WALLA WOMAN
WITH TWO HUSBANDS
SEEKS TWO DIVORCES
WALLA WALLA, April 23.—Anna
I E. Farrens, of Yakima, filed divorce
; suits iu the superior court here today
against her two husbands. The first
: is Homer F. Farrens, to whom she was
I married here on July 15, 1922, and the
; second is Preston L. Holman, to whom
j she was married in Yakima on July 8,
1924, by the judge of the Yakima Su
! perior court. In her complaint she
! charges she thought Farrens was dead
before she married Holman, but dis
covered on March 21, of this year that
! her first husband was still alive and
working on some ranch near here,
I whereupon she immediately left Hol
man and now seeks divorce from Far
rens on the grounds of cruelty and
rion--support and from Holman because
: the marriage is illegal.
In providing a rest cure for a run
down husband it is better for the wife
to take it.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81 Res.. Madison 40
Pacific Coastwise jet-vice
^ADMIRAL LINE
OSSSS^nH.F.ALEXANDER. PRESIDENTHHM
S. S. ADMIRAL EVANS
Sails from
Seattle
April 21
May 5
Arrives
Seward
April 28
South from
Seward
May 2.
S. S. ADMIRAL WATSON
May 12 May 19 Tues., 9 p.m.
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports including Seldovia and
Kodiak.
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STEAMSHIP STARR
NEXT SAILING STR. STARR MAY 10,1925
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
PHONE MADISON 13*. SEWARD, ALA8KA
Philippines Count Increase
In Property Subject to Tax
MANILA. Apr. 23.—The value of
taxable real property in the Philippine
Islands Increased by $10,362,000 and
that of non-taxable property by $1,
565.000 during the year 1924, over the
preceding year, according to figures
compiled by the executive bureau.
In 1924 the value of the taxable real
property amounted to $600,600,000, as
compared with $596,238,000 in 1923.
The value of the non-taxable property
for 1924 placed at $96,000,000 for the
preceding year.
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AUTOMOBILE THIEF WHO
PLAYED TAG WITH COPS
IS yySAIN IN SERVITUDE
BOSTON, Apr. 23.—James Sheehan,
16 year old automobile thief, who
played tag with Boston’s force of
motorcycle police for four days be
cause he liked “the thrill,” wearied
of the sport early today and return
ed to the state school for boys at
Shirley, from which he escaped sev
eral months ago.
“I did it just for the fun of the
thing,” was the boy’s explanation.
“I wanted to get the thrill.”
Sheehan said that he began his
recent career as a speedster March
24 when he stole an automobile in
Clinton. Since then he had “bor
rowed” one car after another, his
record on Saturday being four large
automobiles. In a hide and seek
game with the police in the Charles
town district yesterday, crowds
turned out to cheer the youth, whose
exploits had been widely heralded. ''
OWENS VALLEY FARMERS
MAY MOVE TO OREGON
KLAMATH FALLS O - Ap. 23
—Wearies over the long, drown out
fight with the city of Los Angeles
over w'ater rights, farmers of Owens
valley, California are planning a mi
gration to Klamath county, accord
ing to announcement here recently
by Sam Head, spokesman of the Cal
ifornians.
Head conferred with large land
owners in the Langell valley section
and procured promises of options on
10,000 acres of land which are now'
under irrigation.
With these options tucked in his
pocket, Head plans on returning to
Owens valley next week to organize
his militant neighbors for the migra
tion northward.
Investigation of the Langell valley
district revealed more than 10,000
idle acres when owners were willing
to sell providing immediate settle
ment should be started.
HUMAN CANCER STILL
BAFFLES SCIENCE, SAYS
NEW YORK EXPERT
NEW YORK. April 23.—Cause of
human cancer still baffles science ac
cording to Dr. Michael Levine, biolo
gist in charge of the cancer research
hospital here, who asserts that the
“recent claims of the discovery of the
reason of this disease are preliminary
reports and lack adequate proof.”
Dr. Levine is engaged in an exhaus
tive study of plant cancers and in a
report to the board of managers of the
New York Botanical Garden he says
it has been found that certain types
of plant tumors, knowm as crowm galls,
“are analogous to human and animal
cancer.”
Dr. Levine’s studies directed largely
towrard making comparisons between
cancer of animals and plants, are still
in progress at the Montefiore Hospital
which is providing faculties for study
ing both human and animal cancer.
Plant tumors are photographed under
the microscope in the process of in
vestigating the cancer-like growths of
plants.
AGED TRAPPER’S BODY
FOUND IN SNAKE RIVER
BOISE, April 23.—For over forty
years Frank Wilson, 80 years old, has
trapped along the treacherous Snake
river near here, living on an island
and travelling in all kinds of weather
in a small rowboat. About a month
ago he disappeared and today his body,
was found floating in the Snake river,
and authorities are of the opinion that
he capsized by a chunk of ice hitting
his boat. Wilson lived alone in a
cabin on the island and little is known
about his relatives.
FIVE ELECTRIC DREDGES FOR
URAL PLATINUM FIELDS
NEW YORK, April 22.—Five repre
sentatives of the Russian Mining &
Machine Construction Industries sail
ed for home today, after ordering five
electric dredges valued at $1,200,000
for the Ural platinum fields.
English Cradles Empty
Despite Many Marriages
LONDON, Apr. 23.—The blight of
unemployment, which has kept more
than a tenth of Britain’s workfolk
idle for five years, has not dulled the
darts from Cupid’s bow. Just as many
marriages wer,e performed last year
for every thousand people in England
and Wales as in 1923.
Although marriage is as popular as
ever, people are bringing fewer and
fewer babies into the world. Last year
the birth-rate dropped down to 18.2 a
thousand, the lowest level ever reach
ed in the country, excepting the abnor
mal years in the closing half of the
great war.
The provisional figures for last
year’s vital statistics, issued by the
registrar-general, report 730,286 births
and 473,270 deaths. The births were
almost 30,000 fewer than in 1923, and
the deaths almost 30,000 more, but
the natural increase in population, it
will be seen by comparing deaths with
births, amounted to roughly 250,000
people.
Emigration rids this overcrowded
land of only a minor proportion of the
increase that the population makes
every year. There are more people in
the country by over 2,000,000 than be
fore the war, and doubtless there are
almost as many at work, yet the army
of unemployed remains around 1,250,
000. This has led many to believe
that unemployment has become chron
ic in Great Britain.
Both the death rate and the infant
mortality rate were slightly higher last
year than in 1923.
Brunswick Radiolas, tne Radiola de
Luxe at the Alaska Shop. tf
Nothing is more torture than sitting
in a barber s chair with your mouth
full of lather and watch a man walk
off with your new hat.
Warm Weather To Bring
Heavy Flow Whiskey
Across Line, Drys Say
WASHINGTON, L>. C., April 23.—
Basing their estimates on activities
along the Canadian border, the Nat
ional Association Against the Prohibi
tion Amendment predicted today that
“whiskey will be plentiful this sum
mer and cheap at that.”
“As the warm weather continues,”
it said in a statement, “and the de
mand for the highball, the rickey and
the julep increases, so the rum run
ning along the Canadian border will
increase also. Prohibition officers,
according to our information, are help
less in the face of this unprecedent
ed onslaught.”
Found to have a natural tenor voice
a New York laundry worker became
a grand opera star almost over night
Out of the w'ash boiler into hot wa
ter,” as it were.
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The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
6 A. M.
Monday and Thursday
TRAINS ARRIVE
8 P. M.
Wednesday and Saturday
Gas Launch
KENAI
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
LAKE KENAI FOR THE
DAY OR TRIP. TELE
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Southwestern Alaska Route Schedule
Vessel—
Yukon
Northwestern
ALASKA
YUKON
Northwestern
ALASKA
Scheduled
Lv. Seattle
April 18
April 25
May 2
May 9
May 16th
May 23
Scheduled
Ar. Seward
April 25
May 2
May 9
May 16
May 23rd.
May 30
Scheduled Sail
from Seward
April 25
May 2
May 9
May 16
May 23rd
May 30
Steamers in the above schedule will make all regular ports of call
in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
Steamers in above schedule leave Seward every Saturday midnight.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
PHONE MAIN 125
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contributing factors in development of the regions through
which they passed, so also is THE ALASKA RAILROAD each
day accomplishing much towards the building of an empire.
In place of the old, tremendously expensive and inconve
nient methods of transporting supplies of whatever character
over rough trails from the coast, there is now a modern rail
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time and at far less expense than was formerly required.
This great steel highway offering regular twice weekly
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