THE PROGRESSIVE-MINER
Eentered at the Post Othc^at Ke'ehikan. Alaska as
second class matter October 21. 1914, under the act of
March 3, 1S79.
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..Ketchikan. Alaska. Saturday March S. 1919
POSITIVELY UNFAIR
At the last meeting of the Council, a resolution
was adopted whereby the voters, at the coming
municipal election will be privileged to say by
their votes whether the city should improve its
waterfront property by the construction at public
expense, of a substantial dock and appurtenances
Despite the necessity for the improvement,
there crops the question as to whether the city
can afford at this time to go to the expense. It
must be admitted that the cost of the improve
ment will amount to considerable. The repairs to
our streets that must be done every year, cost
like everything, and the only way to save that
yearly expense is to grade and fill them with
rocks. Can the city afford the expense at this
time? We need a public school above all else.
Can we afford the expense of all these improve
ments? Conclusively not. At least not all of
them this year. Wh> not then, begin with the
most needed improvement and keep on year after
year until we have them all?
Now. coming back to that resolution adopted
by the council, we desire to make a suggestion.
It is this: Since the expense of the improvement
mentioned in the resolution must be born by the
taxpayers, they alone should be allowed to vote
on the proposition. If every voter is allowed to
vote and the improvement carries, which it is
said will prove a benefit to the city, everybody
will be benefit ted. yet only one portion of the in
habitants will be made to pay the cost. This
does not seem fair to us; and it isn’t. There are
many in Ketchikan who ' ill use the dock who are
not taxpayers, and may never pay a red penny
toward its construction, but are '.riven the privi
lege to say to the taxpayers that they must pay
more for their convenience. Can you beat it:
Yet that is just what it amounts to. From that
we think that the suggestion above would be fair..
What do you think Mr. Tr:>payer?
WHAT RUSSIA IN l*. S. SAYS
Some weeks passed President Wilson endea
vored and succeeded in securir a parley with
representatives of the Russian Soviet Swi •
Republic at Prince's Island. hen the news
reached New York t'ity. th patriotic Russian
Committee that has existed since the outbreak
of the war. met and commented on the Presi
dent's action in the following: Bolshevism is
aggressive by nature. It cannot confine itself
within the boundaries of Russia. If you don't
destroy it there it will come and destroy you
here." In the light of.this information, we can
not-truth fully say that the President speaks the
thought of the American peoples in recognizing
in the least debree that Russian element.
ENTILED TO A MEDAL
From all reports, the peculiarity of our pacifist
Secretary of War . Mr. Baker, the campaigners
assert, is that the more inclination a man showed
to fight, the less consideration the Secretary
showed him; and the more reluctance the slacker
showed the more tact pnd consideration he was
shown. The people had been under the im
pression that the war department had been esta
blished to organize an army to fight. This they
believed was being carried out until the cam
paigners pulled the curtain up and let the people
see. Apparently, the army fought hut did so
against 'the Pacifist Secretary who should have
l*>d the army instead. A medal is coming to him.
The man who thinks that because Germany
has a new form of government the nature of
the Hun has changed, has another think coming.
AS OTHER NATIONS SEE US
President Wilson’s speech at Boston depicts
the United States in the light in which other
nations regard it—as their best hope of a just
and enduring peace—and it shows a league of
nations as the means by which we should attain
that end. Even while they went on fighting, they
saw no hope beyond until we came in; then they
turned to us to make the victory worth winning.
They trust us because we fought for an ideal and
because we are the one nation which has no part
in their age-long quarels.
Pride in our ideals and the trust which is pla
ced in us should prompt us to gratify this hope,
but there is a more practical motive, for our in
terests dictate the same policy as our ideals. If
the allies had not continued the fight while we
were still preparing and while a mere trickle of
American soldiers was crossing the Atlantic
Germany would have been supreme in Europe
and we should have had to continue the fight
with that continent’s whole man power and re
sources against us. While it is true that Ameri
ca supplied the additional men and materialneed
ed to overpower Germany and to save the allies,
it is no less true that the fighting which they did
w hen -‘sinking to a sort of stubborn desperation”
saved America if not from subjugation, then
from a war of which it is impossible to guess the
length or the issue. We have incurred an obli
gation to the allies which we cannot in honor
ignore at this time.
This experience has proved that America is
knit to Europe by bonds which we cannot break,
and that we have an interest in the peace of that
continent which we dare not neglect and which
we can safeguard either by entering a league of
nations or assuming a tremendous burden of ar
mament. If w e should choose the second alterna
tive we should be transformed from the chief
champion of peace to the chief example of arm
ed in a war-weary world. —Oregonian
LOST: $60. in bills between Spar
hawk store and Charcoal Point.
Finder please return to this office
and receive $25 reward. Adv.tf.
FOR SALE:-t"-2 aurne.- Perfection
and 1-3 burner Comet o• i sit.e. Phone
R-102.—adv. atp
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States Land Office-, Junes u. Ah - -
February 1-, 191?
XOTICE 13 HEREBY .1 she; p;
Nordstrom of Hadley. Alt A
filed in this office noiit.. of : In
tenticn to submit final fir* ;. ;Lr j.
iu support of his homestead app’ac;
tioj; for the following described tract
situated in Lat. 551 32.5 X. Lc-.cg
132: IS’ W.. on the east c_y-• of
Pnr.ce or Wales Island, Lyman Anc
horage and treat shore of stoat! bight
known as Hole-in the W- d-s^rib
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on line of ordinary high tid - v-:d
bight, whence U.S.LM No 5. ■ -
3. S’ 34’ 51’ E. 17-94 ch.- f X
50’ 55’ IV. 10.03 cl- i„ * r No .
thence X. 35* 21’ 15.51 . -e
Cor. Vo. 3 these* 3. 85s - E. ■ -S
chs., to Cor. Xo. 4. li.C. c . d :i*
of ordinary high tide thence rp r.
dc-ring said line (1) S. 1’ 43’ E. 4.10
eba, (2) X. 84’ 15’ E. 2.30 chs <31
S. 15* W. 10.00 chs. (i, 3. 5S; 15
W. 4.70 chs. (5; X. 62- 45 W. 1.6*
chs., (6> S. 7’ 45’ W. 2.80 chs., (7)
B. 25* 45’ E L70 chs., CS) S. 49* 15’
W. 1.30 chs., (5) X. 45= 49’ W. 2.3
chs. AV» X. 33 15’ t;. 1.00 c-L
(lit X. 55’ 15 W 1.00 ch l.) 3
39* 2 W. 2.81 chs. to Cor. X: 1. the
place of beginning, contain tog an
area o: 20.57 acres, Mag Vzr 25’
17" E.
said proof will he submitted be
fore the Register and IP- iv-r
June 5, 1312, by said Xord-trc-m
claimant and by the following *t
acsece. Erica Spray an ! Le’.- Sr-.- -
•otli ot Juucau. Alaska
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KElGHIKAN.
KETCHIKAN. ALASKA
RESOURCES OVER §750,000
No better time., than . now to save for the.,
home you are going to build
V>’E SOLICIT YOUR ACCOUNT
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I KETCHIKAN CHOP
HOUSE
i OPEN TODAY
Short Orders a Specialty
* Noodles and Chop Suey
| P. K. UCHIHASHI
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? Opposite H. R. Thompson’s
«<ETCH!KAN CAMP N. 20. A. B.
i-e :; every Monday evening at p.
V Siting brothers welcome—Geo.
•iriior t. C I). Smith Harris, A. R.
' v'? for rent, apply to J. D. Eoaxiso
kwast;
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IMITATION
.3 the slncerest form of flattery, that
is why it pleases Da to hear that other
laundries claim to do work Just like
ours, it t3 a tribute to the excellence
or our lauaertng wnich we mi!y ap
predate But why not have the origi
nal 7 Send U3 your wasnames ano
you won't nave to say tngy are as
perfect as ours. The work will be
ours and the real thing.
KETCHIKAN STEAM LAUNDRY
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4- Having been repeatedly re- ♦
♦ requested to take Music Pupils, I ♦
am at liberty to teach a limited +
d- number. +
♦ Terms: ♦
♦ 2 hours a week $10 a month +
♦ 1 hour or two half hours a week ♦
♦ $5.00 a month. ♦
+ No lessons given unless pupil * j,
♦ has practiced at least, on an aver- ♦ I
♦ age one hoar a day. ♦
♦ Mrs. Alexander A. Brindle ♦
♦ ( P. O. Box 523. ♦
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AURORA CHAPTER oTeT8. NCh 3
1'be Aurora Chapter, Order of East- ,
ern Stars, hold reular meetings on the .
2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month
at S o’clock at Masonic Half.
KETCHIKAN
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ED NEWMAN. Prop.
Office Pho^e W BssWsn«3 Ehspf IS1'
The Eagle Lodge
Announces
That on March 17, St Patrick's
Night,. they will give at the MOOSE
HALL their big annual
Masquerade Ball
The six promised prizes will be on display in
the different store windows within a few days.
These will be awarded to home-made costumes
only.
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Dancing will commence promptly at 9:30. A
prize will also be given for the best waltzers
who will contest in the prize waltz.
Dancers must be in costume and have full
masks on.
Geueral admission 50 cents. This will be
exacted from children as well as from adults.
The Committee in Charge
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KODAKS AND EVERYTHING THAT GOES WITH THEM
BOOKS, VIEWS. FANCY STATIONERY, SMALL
FISHING TACKLE. ETC., ETC.
Developing and Printing; Picture Framing done at
F. J. HUNT’S
KODAK STOP?
Front Street Ketchikan
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KETCHIKAN MEAT COMPANY
PHONE 120
We make a specialty of Camp and
Cannery Trade
Carstens Packing Co. Owners
. NIGHT PHONE G120
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Electric Appliances
Siv« RASE By Wire |
A Complete Stock of all
Standard Makes For Sale
CITIZENS LIGHT, POWER & WATER CO.
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Stedman Hotel
HEADQUARTERS FOR COMMERCIAL, CAN
NERY AND MINING MEN
First Class Cafe and Buffet in Connection
SPECIAL WINTER RATE8 FOR PERMANENT GUESTS IN GOOD
CLEAN ROOMS STEAM HEATED, AND WITH ALL THE SERVICE
AND ACCOMMODATIONS OF A FIRC" CLAS8 HOTEL—RATE8
UPON APPLICATION.
KETCHIKA .L.ASKA
We Manufacture and Keep in Stock all Kinds of
SPRUCE AND CEDAR LUMBER
Can Gil any order either stock
or cut to speciGcations.
BARGE BLANCHE
AtiGhlKAN POWER COMPANY
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Entirely New
THE BRUNSWICK PHONOGRAPH
Diccards Old Standard
A revolution has taken place in the phonogr
aph world. Yesterday’s ideas are obselete. A new
leader is «hos£n. The New Brunswick method of
reproduction is surprising all. It brings those na
tural tones hitherto lackink.lt does away entirely
with old phonographic crudities.
The Ultona is part of the new Bru
nswick Method of Reproduction. Now
all records are played according to
their exact requirements. Come In and
see this remarkable feature. It It not
an atachment. Yuu cannot afford to
even think of buying a phonograph
until you have heard the new Bruns
wick, made by the Brunswlck-Balke
Collender Co.
Prices $32:50 to $1,500
D. K R O W E R, Agent
Another Special
Men’s Plush Wool Underwear
Shirt and Drawers per suit $4.50
Worth $6.00 per suit
See our Window Display
_We pay the highest price for Furs
P. J, Gilmore, a<*w
NORTHERN MACHINE WORKS *
Standard Gas Engines General Machine and
Oxy-Acetylene Welding Blacksmith Work
Deep Sea Diving Outfit
Marine Railway, at Charcoal Point
WESTERN MEAT & FISH COMPANY
BRANCH OF FRYE BRUHN CO.
PACKERS AND JOBBERS OF
Fresh Meat, Provisions and Fish
We make a specialty of
SHIP AND CAMP TRADE
KETCHIKAN..ALASKA
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Closing1 l:rlsvz
Out
larged GENTS’ FURNISH
INGS and HARDWARE DE
PARTMENTS — We are
Closing Out our Entire
DRY GOOODS DEPARTMENT at prices
Ranging from
25 to 60 per Cent, relow Regular
On m;.ny lines we-v,
below cost in order t
quickly. Remember, ev<
partrnent is at closing on
1 sacrific at away
move this stock
thing in this de
>rice— |
LINENS, RIBBON
SHEETINGS, C.
SILKS, CORSETS, I
RAINCOATS, SUIIT
Etc. all included. Get ;
nicking is good.
NOTIONS,
iBRICS,
DERWEAR,
RIMMINGS,
early while the
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