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ALASKA—WASHINGTON—CALIFORNIA
S -,If TNG FROM KETCHIKAN
SOUTHBOUND
April 3 City of Seattle
April 8 Adm Farragut
April 10 City of Seattle
April 17 Adm Watson
Rrvr : r Sailings Seattle to California
For further information call at office or
i'fciepher.s 77 V. A. Peterson, Agent
Sailin;; dates subject to change without notice
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Adm. Watson
City of Seattle
' a Farragut
Adm Evenns
April 1
April 3
April 13
April 20
Princ ess Mary
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%PAGiFJC# Marc'll 11—21 April 1—11—21 and
May 2—12—23
FOR
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PRINCE RUPERT, VANCOUVER, SEATTLE &
Particulars from F. E. Ryus. Agent Ketchikan
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COMFORT AND SERVICE
S'u : subject to change without notice. Tick
cts to Seattle, Tacoma, Victoria, Vancouver. B. C.
CY- 's Northbound March 30, April 11—23
and e-u: i southbound 4 days later.
SS. Ala'ka Northbound March 29, April 18 re
turning 10 days later
SS, Alameda, Northbound April 3, Returning
10 days later
Northwestern Northbound April 10, May 3 Re
turning 8 days later
C. M. TAYLOR, A-ent TELEPHONE 64
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ROSS & CO, TRANSFER
Coal Hauled From All Docks
Goods of All Kinds Stored
At Reasonable Rates
ROSS & McKAY Props.
-PHONE 64
Office Phone 76 Res. 121
“ALASKA TRANSFER ‘
GENERAL TRANSFER
All Orders Promptly Attended
To
PHONE 222 DAY OK NIGHT i
BAGGAGE DELIVERED DAY i
OR NIGHT
GEO. F. FORREST, JR.
KETCHIKAN WHARF CO.
C. M. TAYLOR
Phone 64
Agent
MAKE A NOTE OF j
OUR NOTICE |
that we are making summer deliver
ies of coal now for next winte's use. '
Tell friend birsband.he should take ad
vantage of summer prices and order
the coal now Better be prepared
for any emergency and the saving is ‘
not to. he despised, Phc-ho us how
qaacb-aatfr what Kind We’ll start the!
delivering at once. „
Bowling A lly
And Pool Hall
Everything New
ond Up-to=Date
K. TAKATA aad J. g. TATSCDA
PROPRIETORS
INDEPENDENT
DR AY I NO CO.
Coal & Frsignt Mauled
From all Doc' s
Office Phone 64 Ret?. G 121
CHRIS SOR ENSEN.Prop.
ALASKA RESTAURANT
F. C. HAGIWARA, Prop.
NOODLES AND CHOP SUE\
Special From 4 P. M. to 2 A. M.
HOX SEATS FOR LADIES
End of Mission Street
AT THE POODLE DOG
GRILL
restaurant
AFTER AN AUTO RIDE
or a waTk or the theatre whtn you
i<5el licke eating somgthing nice and
tasty stop in this restaurant "and
yo , ii b; e.'1'e to get what you want.
You’ll find Our service prompt and
ct;ft and 0"r food cooked to perfection
to eat tigre once is to decide on
making .it a habit.
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Waste in The Nenana Division
In the organization of the Alaska
Engineering Commission in May 1914,
you designated Thomas Higgs, Jr , a
’! number thereof, at a Salary of $10,000
per year and put' him in charge of
construction north of Broad Pass, in
(he Tanana district, with headquart
ers at Nenana. At the time of his ap
point' let'1 Mr. ; :g ,.s had never worked
on a l. . -id, or in railroad work; lie
had never even survey, on a railroad
or worked in a railroad office; and his
only acquaintance with railroads was
as a passenger on railroad trains.
You had known him intimately for
many years and had full knowledgs of
his experience and incompetency bc
, fore his appointment, His wasa so
' cial and political appointment and an
I offense against the Alaska railroad
project,
■ Higgs had charge of construction
I work on the Nenana-Fairbanks Divi
sion for four years—-from the time of
I his appointment as Governor of Alas
ka, March 7 1918, ..During that time
; he had constructed only seventeen
.miles of main line south from Nenana,
and but five miles of narrow gauge
main line near Fairbanks—22 miles in
i four years! ..And fourteen miles of
the main line south of Nenana, built
pelorw the flood level of the glacial
waters of the Nenana River were
I washed out and destroyed by incom
petent location, thus leaving him a
Credit of 3 miles of standard gauge
main line south of Nenana, and five
miies of narrow gauge near Fairbanks
in four years! Herewith is a graph
ic drawing marked “Exhibit A” with
i two photographs attached which show
the conditions on the line south of Ne
ll nana as the sani ‘were exhibited to me
I ; by the officials of the road in Septem
II her, 1918,
I i Tlu> line was originally located be
| low the level o£ the surface of the
! river, and when the summer thaw
, threw out tlie glacial flood it natural
| ly took down the borrow pits and
ditch along the railroad grade, and.
j following the laws of nature, cut the
I grade down like sugar, thus utterly
: de-troping the line for miles as shown
; photograph “R", Your attention is al
| so called to photograph “C“ on the
I safe charge, for it sro-ws the rccon
• struct ion of this line by a competent
! railroad builder on higher ground in
; September and October 191S,
On September fi and 7> 1918, in com
pany with Engineer-in-Chief Brown,
: and your special examiner, Mr. W. A.
; Ryan, I was taken over both these
. linos, the one undercut and destroyed
: 1 ho other a mile or two away on
j higher ground,-—two parallel lines for
! a distance of 25 miles, The recon
! structod line had been built from
Mile 3 south of Nenana, that being
' the only part of the Riggs road which
! could be saved on account of incom
petent location. The road was aban
doned from Mile 3 to Mile 28 south of
i Nenana and rebuilt on the higher
! level.. Of the 25 miles destroyed by
were completed, graded, tracked, sur .
Stliis incompetent location 14 miles
faced and trains running over it; a
bout 8 miles beyond that were graded
ready for ttie track, and the other 3
miles were under construction.
At the average cost price per main
line mile there w’as a loss on the 14
miles of completed road of nearly $2,
000,000, in addition to the loss of 8
; miles of grading, and three miles un
| dor construction, probably $2,500,000,
and a year’s loss of time in the conn-i
; pletion of the road, and the end of
’the authorization and appropriations.
• which effectually forbids the comple
; tion of the main line over Broad Pass
iisntil Congress shall pass new legisla-.
! tion and additional appropriations.
But, you will answer, this was just
! one of those unavoidable accidents in
i cident to all railroad building. No one
knows the 'Weakness of that "defense
j (better than you do, for Bilv Ryan has
long ago advised you of the true
; facts—though he lias probable prepar
ed a defense for yu bettor than the
; facts will justify. The less of those 25
1 miles of railroad was the result of the •
drunken inefficiency of a locating on
gineer, acting under an incompetent
l Commissioner in charge of the Ne-:
narnt Division, neither of 'Whom ought
, to have been permitted to handle the’
public funds, and would not if you!
had given the matter that careful at- '
tenticn -which a railroad contractor
would have given the job.
Hevowith attached And marked Ex
hibit B, is a Tetter ■addressed to yott.
dated October 14, 1918, and signed by
J.- C. Rogers,- (who wag given' a dis-j
■•barge •with a high record by the En-j
: incer-in-Chief, which he handed me
! with the following letter.) The letter
reads as follows ; ,
SEATTLE. Oct., 14.191S
| lion. Frankin K. Lane,
: Secretary of the Interior,
, Washington, D. C.
Sir: My name is James C. Rogers
| and 1 was employed as laborer in cons
miction work at and around Nenaua,
i by .the Alaska Engineering Commiss
i ion from June 26, 1916, to Aug. 11 of
, that year, and at vnr’us times since,
I have in my possession a certificate
of discharge signed by Engineer in
j charge, giving me a good record, and
| saying there is no objection to mv
re-employment, dated August S, 1918.
. I made the beds and attended 41ie'
i rooms of Mr. Bailey, the chief engi-;
ucer. One of the beds was sometimes j
occupied by Thomas Riggs, Jr., al
though he resided "tost of the time at
Fairbanks. Bailey kept a considera
ble amount of whiskey, beer and wines
in the room at ail times, and drank
very largely and offered me some of
it to drink. The liquor was there the :
same time Mr. Riggs was, and he
knew of it, without doubt. Bailey also
frequently entertained notorious wo
men there- and the general character
of till- rooms was had. Mr. James Ha
gen, Deputy Marshal, also occupied a
•bed in the room when Riggs was not
there.
Respectfully, J. C. Rogers
When in Nenana in September last
many citizens complained to me about
Bailey’s drunkenesn and other disre
putable public actions there. His gene
ral ahbits in the matters suggested in
the foregoing letter were well known
to the people of Nenana and Fair-!
banks, and certainly Riggs was not j
! unaware of the facts, Ddunkenness!
Mr. Secretary, in headquarters at Ne- j
nana. publicly daunted in Riggs’ face j
cost the government railroad funds a j
loss of millions of dollars and a year’s;
lost of time, and the end of the appro j
priations Paid brought faiure to the,
enterprise, If Mr. Riggs had been a J
railroad man, competent to perform j
$10,000 value in railroad service tier I
annum, he would not have permitted j
a drunken incompetent to ruin the en
terprise. but lie was not. and you
knew ir.
(Continued Tomorrow)
!
SYDNEY G. GUMPERTZ,
First Sergeant, Company E,
132nd Infantry.
Sergt. Gumpertz was deco
rated for gallantry beyond the
call of duty in action in the
Boise de Forges, France, Sep
tember 20,. 1918. When the ad
vancing line was held up by ma
chine gun lire, Sergt. Gumpertz
icft the platoon of which he was
in command and started through
a heavy barrage- toward the ma
chine gun nest, llis two com
panions soon became casualties
1 rom bursting shells, "out Sergt.
Gumpertz continued on alone in
tiie face of- direct fire from the
machine gun, jumped into the
nest and siierjcecT the gun, cap
turing nine of the crew. Sergt.
Gumpertz’-s home is at 701 West
17Sth street, New York city.
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LOUIS CUKELA,
Lieutenant, 5th Regiment, U. S.
M. C.
Lieutenant -C'ulteln was dec
orated for conspicuous gallantry
near Villers-CQttorets, France,
•Tilly IS. .1018. When his com
pany, advancing through a wood,
met with strong resistance from
an enemy strong point Lieu
tenant Cukclu, then a sergeant,
crawled out'from the Hank ami
made his way toward the Ger
man line in the faeO of heavy
fire, disregarding the. ryamings.
of his comrades. He succeeded
in getting behind the enemy pp
siiioir. Hushing a machine gnu
emplacement, lie killed the crew
with "his’hayonet.' With German
hand grenades he then bombed
out the remaining- portion’ of the
s'Tong point. JiN home is
Minneapolis, MUin>
in .rj
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ssw.;••;=■.. hi in—hii
Men’s Separate pant'- 1.00 to $10,00
at Fields, Adv, j
Francis X, Bushman and Beverly
Bayne at the LIBERT! Thursday and
Friday, Adv,
FOR SALE—Silver-tone phonograph
and records. Phone 205. —Adv, 6t, p,
FOR SALE.—-Kimball Organ cheap.
Phone 205 —Adv. tf.
FOUND—Four keys on string Own
er may have same 'by applying this
office and paying for adv,
WANTED—Room and hoard with
Private family, Apply Bookkeeper,
Western Meat & Fish Co, 2tp,
FOR SALE—Two-chair barker out
fit and cigar case to lie sold below
cost, Enquire this office, Adv 6f, |
MRS" J. A. RUMMER, late of Se
attle, will do plain and fancy dress
aking. Phone 222.—adv. Imp.
FOR SALE:—12 h. p. 2 cylinder 4
cycle medium duty. Apply H, C. Hen
kins, first house south of Heath’s
store. —Adv.Ctmp
FOR CHARTER: A 40 ft. boat suit
able for fish buper or general utility.
New Standard engine. A.ddresh Box
547 Ketrhikan. Adv.Imp.
FOR SALE.—Gas Boat 25 feet long
in good condition, with 8 h. p. Palm
er engine, 4 cycle, in good working
order, for $550, at the Mather Iron
Works. —Adv. 1 mo. p.
FOR SALE — A homestead two1
miles from Haines on Government
road and Chilkat river. Convenient
to saltry. cannery and good school,
Sec Mrs Steve Ragan. —Adv, 6t.
TtTG INVERNESS
Solicits towing of all kinds.
Work done by the hour or by
the job. A trial will convince
you that your work will be done,
hi a quick and reliable manner.:
For particulars inquire at the!
Stedman Hotel office. advpl5 j
FOR SALE Trolling boat 26-foot!
double bunk New shipmate stove, j
new 7 h. p. four cycle engine, 40-gal. j
Fuei tank Electric lighted. Cuto i
sparknr tender Some fishing gear, i
Price $750.
One 24-foot Cape Cod Dory with 35!
a. p E. M, F. Engine. $250 cash,
Or.e 22-foot Gill Net Skiff $25.00. j
Enquire Looker’s Camp, Mud Bay. I
—3tp. Adv. j
NOTICE FOR BIDS
NOTICE is hereby given that the;
Common Council of the City of Ketch
'ran hereby invite bids for the coni
truction of a concrete sidewalk onj
h£ cast side of Front street between!
lock and Grant streets in said City. ] ‘
n accordance with specifications on'
;le with the city Clerk. All bids to
•a accompanied with a certified check j
orMQ percent of tho amount of bid'
nd such bid to specify the length of,
ime tho v/ork is guaranteed. Bids
oust be in the hands of the City |
iierk on or before April 2nd, 1919.
S. A. PLUMLEY.
City Clerk.!
.ast publication April 2d, 1919.
NU BONE CORSETS
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Fancy Hand Sewing. Corset Alter
ing. Bungolow Aprons a Specialty
All style buttons made to order i .1
Call and let us show you! i
Mrs. D. Cooper and Mrs. O. Basse
Rooms 1 and 2 Tongass Building
>pen from 9 a. m. till.5 p. m. Phone 206 ..
ADVERTISED LETTERS j
When requesting letters from this;
ffice. please say that you saw the i
!tter ADVERTISED, and pay a fee
° Q K' rortt on each letter.
"All letters not delivered by April'
2 1911* will ibo disposed o£ according |
Pvt, Wilfred Anderson
Nikola Bojanieli
William Cleveland
Mrs. Grace Collins j,
Mrs, P, Cubin
Christ Christiansen
O Christinson
Hans M. Hansen
J, Infantz
Joe Johnson
Joe P. Johnson
J, F, Lane
Ethel Mose
Sam Nilsen
kOsar Olsen
Henfy Kudland
Ole Johnson Solnas. (2) .
Tom Smitr
J?,. S,. Thoystrand. .. j
J. F. Warder, Postmaster. |
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Jno. R. Beegb j. h. Davies
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ACCIDENT, FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE
NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE AGENTS
CUSTOM HOUSE BROKERS
BONDS OF ALL KINDS
CUSTOMS HOUSE LIABILITY
NOT \RIE8
Office :\e>. t Doov t;> Custom: H< .• Phone 14.'I. Night 25
—Engines of Quality—
For the finest boats that float
For Sale by
H R. THOMPSON Clo.
John Davis & Son
Pioneer Boat Builders
anteed. Let us figure with you for
your uew boat,
Place your order early to avoid rush
L an make quick delivery on now or repair work
John Davis & Son
MetSakatla, Alaska
rr-a 'v,i4V.-Wsr<W. s'a-V»»'a-6<'S’r>fc-a^
FOR SALE SCOW ELLIOTT
. 75 by 20 feet— 43 Tons.
Home on Scow _18 by 62
Suitable for Saltery
ill in good condition Inquire of W.
L Bryant, at Heckmah Co.
KETCHIKAN CLEANING
1 PRESSING WORKS
Suits Sponged and pressed, Dry or
Steam Cleaned. All kiitda“"of La
dies liarments. uioveg, shoos
spats, wool smrts ei sweaters.
All Work Guaranteed; Phone 222 '
CROWN & KUMER, Props.
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S. A. PLUMLEY 4
• Attorney and Counselor-at-Law 4
1 Office—Town Council Chambers 4
Ketchlltan, Alaska.
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