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NOME, ALASKA MAY 4, 1917.
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WAR NOT NEAR END.
The British war office is indulging
in on optimisic conjectures about the
near ending of the war. Many of the
elder statesmen expect at least an
other year of it.
"X have no patience," says Major
General Maurice, of the British war
office, "with the theory that Germany
is at the end of its fighting resources.
Germany is capable of and will put
up a strong fight.”
General Maurice believes that the
120,000,000 people of the Teutonic al
liance have unsuspected reserves of
strength and he sees no military
reason why the war should not ex
tend over another winter.
This year, however, should be de
cisive of certain contingencies that
will have to do with the final result.
Germany is pinched for food, with
another harvest six months away,
but it has tightened its belt and is
lacing the situation with some confi
dence. The submarnie campaign is
expected to impose a similar condi
tion upon England and upon the al
lied troops in France. If this can be
accomplished, then peace may come
without victory to either side.
The decision of the war may be
involved in the success or failure of
the submarine campaign. There are
still 6,000,000 men available for the
army of Germany, though perhaps
3,000,000 have been killed or disabled
during the past thirty months. This,
with ample food supplies, is a force
for any nation to reckon with. But
peace without victory would not sat
isfy the alieis, and it would leave the
Balkan and Turkish questions unset
tled and provocative of other wars in
the future.
EDUCATION UP HERE
Now that the territory is face to
face with the necessity of support
ing education let it go the limit and
make a good job of It. Alaska should
have a university, if possible. At
least there should be high schools
in the various thickly populated
populated places. Not that one should
ho in every town but one should be
in each city easy of access to the
other cities in the division.
13ut Ave really ought to make a
start, in however small a way, for a
universary of Alaska. Once started
public spirited people of means here
and outside would be glad to sup
port it.
As matters stand ut present people
are compelled to send their boys and
girls outside for the higher educa
tion. This is a serious drain on their
means but they very rightly place
the education of their children above
and beyond consideration for them
selevs. * * •
A couple of good university pro
fessors with some instructors would
not cost such a terrible amount and
each sriident could be asked to pay
some fee toward the salaries.
Valdez has actually made a start
in this direction and Valdez has
hardly a tenth part of the popula
tion contiguous to tins city. Event
ually, if not in the beginning, the fed
eral government would unquestiona
bly assist because the government
would recognize the fact that on the
intelligence and training of at least
some of the future citizens of Alaska
will depend the territory’s real ex
penses.
Now that the legisalture is to take
oter the expenses of education il
might look into the matter very care
fully and see if they cannot make a
finished job of it—Juneau Dispatch.
THAT LARGE ORDER FOR STEEL.
Thirteen hundred tons of 50-pound
rails were recently ordered for “our
railroad," and the contract was let
to the United States Steel Company,
and the event called for tinkling
cymbal and sounding brass. There
wa much rejoicing in the land of
"eternal snow” until our statistician
got out his pencil, and then our hopes
toboganned to the gravel pit with a
dull thud. Fifty pound rails would
mean one hundred pounds to the yard
of track laid; and in 1,300 tons there
are 2,600,000 pounds; at 100 pounds
to the running yard this would equal
26,000 yards of track this “large or
der" would complete, or about fifteen I
miles. As the road, when completed, j
will take nearly 30 years to complete I
it at the rate the contracts for steel |
are being let. And 50 pounds rails1
in a country which gets 45 to 80 be
low, will be a constant menace to life,
as the frost will render them so brittle
that they will break under the slight
est strain. Fifty pound rails are con
sider too light for a Shay logging
engine, and they cannot be expected
to transport very heavy loads where!
the frost renders steel as brittle as!
ice. Tile steel should be at leas
heavy'enough to stand the immensi
50-ton engines ordered for the road.
Valdez 1’rospector.
GOLD IN THE SEA.
The Ashing industry Is assumini
huge proportions in Alaska, othci
Ashing grounds are being oi
have been Ashed out, and now it falls
to the lot ot Alaska with her thou
sands of miles of coast line, her miles
of deep water Ashing banks, on whicli
are gathered the halibut and cod that
practically supplies the peoplo of the
I'nited States with all that is eaten
of that kind of Ash and her innumera
ble bays and inlets which during the
season are teeming with salmon of all
kinds and are canned in vast quan
tities to supply, tho -world.
The value of the Ash In the waters
tributary to Alaska cannot be esti
mated in dollars and cents, but a safe
estimate based on the past ten years
will bear this out. Alaska will pro
duce Ave hundred million dollars
worth of Ash during the next twen
ty years. The future gold mines of
Alaska are in the waters and there
is where thousands of Alaskans will
make their fortunes.—Ex.
THE WIFE’S RIGHT.
A New York judge has rendered a
! revolutionary decision that is likely
to be provocative of discord in many
households. In the ease of Kell vs.
Kell, Judge Cornell took the advanc
ed ground that when a husband fails
to made an edquate allowance to his
wife for household expenses she is
justified in searching his clothing at
opportune seasons and abstracting
such sums of money as may be needed
for family maintenance.
In the New York case Mr. Kell
missed $17 from his trousers pocket
after a refreshing slumber, and Mrs.
Kell did not deny taking it. Kell
sewed up his pockets and thereafter
| slept with his trousers under his pil
low, meanwhile appealing to,the court
for relief. The wife explained to the
court that her husband gave her only
$5 to $7 a week to "run the house"
with, and care for the needs of two
children. Judge Cornell told her that
if the amount was inadequate she had
the light to help herself from the
family cash supply.
I'nles.s Judge Cornell's dictum is
reversed by a higher court, it will
stand as a precedent for similar de
cisions in other portions of the coun
try. In families that have some fric
tion over the maintenance allowance
the husband will find it Convenient to
go home with no more than car fare
on his person, and if by chance he j
should carry home any substantial'
amount he will require to sleep behind
t locked doors. In the case of a weak
: husband and a strong wife, she might
- even take It away from htfn and be
within her rights.
New York has not yet concluded to
allow women to vote, but it e\Pdently
Intends to see that they are not
handicapped for spending money.
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COMPARATIVE
TEMPERATURES
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Following are the lowest recorded
temperatures for this year and last
on the days teeignated. The minus
sign before a number moans below
sero.
U. S Weather Bureau.
1916 '• 1917
May 1 .: 23 22
May 2 . 28 30
May 3 .. .. . 23 22
Eggs $1.25 a dozen at Prosser’s
1 Harness Shop. Phone Black 5.
FIRE MM SIGNALS
12 .Standard Oil Co.
13 .Carstens Cold Storage
14 .J. J. Season Co, office
15 .Headquarters Saloon
21.The Lobby
24 ...Pioneers Igloo.
25 .Catholic Church
31.. ’.Tolet’s residence
32. Yorkey’s Cigar Store
41...opp. Webb's Market
Engine House, Phone Main 97.
7 whistles water. 3 Are out
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