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DO THE PEOPLE OF KETCHIKAN REALIZE That if Ketchikan goes dry the
Liquor interests have 24 days to get out of business. (Do you think it is fair?) These 10
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places are among the highest contributors to our City tax.
Think it over. Do you think it is right to put these men out of business in 24 days with
One Hundred and Twenty=Five Thousand Dollars invested.
Right is right and wrong is wrong, is this justice?
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PRESIDENT ISSUES
A PROCLAMATION
URGES OBSERVANCE OF FLAG
DAY JUNE 14TH.
WASHINGTON, June 2.—President
Wilson issued a proclamation calling
upon the people of the United States
to celebrate Flag Day, June 14, with
patriotic exercises, giving expression
to "our thoughful love of America.”
The proclamation follows:
"My fellow countrymen: Many cir
cumstances have recently conspired
to turn our thoughts to a critical ex
amination of the conditions of our na
tional life, of the influences which
have seemed to threaten to divide us
in interest and sympathy, of forces
within and forces without that seem
ed likely to draw us away from the
happy traditions of united purposes
and action of which we have been so
proud.
"It has, therefore, seemed to me
fitting that I should call your atten
tion to the approach of the anniver
sary of the day upon which the flag
of the United States was adopted by
the Congress as the emblem of the
Union and to suggest to you that it
should, this year and in the years to
come, be given special significance as
a day of renewal and reminder, a day
upon which we should direct our
minds with a special desire or re
newal to thoughts of the ideals and
principles of which we have sought
to make our great government the em
bodiment.
"I therefore suggest and request
that throughout the nation and if pos
sible in every community, the four
teenth day of June be observed as
Flag Day with special patriotic ex
ercises, at which means shall be taken
to give significant expression to our
thoughtful love of America, our com
prehension of the great mission of
liberty and justice to which we have
devoted ourselves as a people, our
pride in the history ana our enthus
iasm for the political program of the
nation, our determination to make it
greater and purer with each gener
ation and our resolution to demon
strate to all the world its vital union
in sentiment and purpose, accepting
only those as true compatriots who
feel as we do the compulsion of this
supreme allegiance.
"Let us on that day rededicate our
selves to the nation, 'one and insepar
able' from which every thought that
is not worthy of our fathers’ first
vows of independence, liberty and
right shall be excluded and in which
we shall stand with united hearts for
an America which no man can cor
rupt, no influence draw away from its
ideals, no force divide against itself, I
a nation signally distinguished among
all the nations of mankind for its
clear, individual conception alike of
its duties and its privileges, its obli
gations and its rights.”
REGARDING COAL
LAND LEASES
DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR HAS
ISSUED RULES AND
REGULATIONS
A booklet, describing the condi
tions under which the government
will grant leases for the coal fields
in Alaska, has been received. For
information of the public in general,
the most important rules are hereto
appended:
WASHINGTON, May. 30.—Regulat
ions under wdiich 33.370 acres of the
coal lands of the Bering river field
and 13,920 acres of the coal lands of
the Matanuska field in Alaska may
be leased for commercial mining
were made public at the department
of the interior today. Applications
to lease them may be received until
the end of this month at the general
land office in Washington.
The law of Ocober 20, 1914, under
which the leases are to be granted,
provides that they may be awarded
by the secretary of the interior
“through advertisement, competitive
bidding, or such method as by gener
al regulation provide." It is decid
ed that each application received this
month shall be advertised for thirty
days, following July 1, by number,
and not by applicant's name, and by
description, with the statement that
the lease is to be awarded subject
to such better bids for the particular
tract advertised.
A considerable part of each of the
two districts is reserved by the gov
ernment for its own use. The reg
ulations and informative publications
given out today contain maps and com
plete descriptions of each unit offered
for lease.
Areas of leasing units vary in size
from 320 to 1,200 acres in the Mata
nuska regions and from 200 to 1.280
acres in the Bering river section,
which begins about 30 miles from the
Copper River & Northwestern rail
road. The Matanuska fields are less
than 200 miles from Seward, and the
government’s railroad is now under
construction to that point. Coal from
Matanuska can be brought to tidewa
ter at the new town of Anchorage,
about seventy miles southerly. There
are nineteen leasing units in all in the
Matanuska and sixty leasing units in
the Bering river districts. Both reg
ions contain high-grade bituminous
and anthracite coal.
Leases will be granted for a period
of fifty years. The government ex
acts a royalty of 2 cents a ton the
first five years and 5 cents a ton for
the succeeding twenty years. After
this period of twenty-five years it is
provided that the royalty shall not
exceeded 5 cents of the selling price of
the coal. The royalty exacted is con
sidered small, but reasonable ni view
of all conditions, and was admit
tedly made low’ for the purpose of(
TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS
OF HEART BEATS
RECRUITS FOR BRITISH ARMY
CAREFULLY TESTED BEFORE
BEING ACCEPTED.
LONDON. June 4.—Photographs of
the heart beats of recruits for the
British army now form part of a new
physical examination adopted by the
military authorities; says a corres
pondent of the Associated Press writ
ing in the London Times. These are
being made in a London hospital
where men whose hearts vary in the
least from normal are put through
a series of tests by some of the great
est specialists in heart complaints in
England. The new method is said to
obviate the danger of accepting as
recruits men whose hearts are not
sound enough to stand the rigors of
soldiery.
“Please run up those stairs to the
roof and back," the recruit is told
by one of the medical examiners. On
his return to the ground floor his
pulse rate, breathing rate, and blood
pressure are taken and compared
with the pulse rate, etc., obtained be
fore the candidate went stair climb
ing. After a rest of three minutSS the
pulse and blood pressure are again
measured.
The knowledge of the general con
dition of the heart obtained by these
and the other routine methods of
heart examinations is not enough,
however, and the candidate is next
taken into the electro-cardiograph
room. Here he sits with one bare
foot and his two hands in separate
basins of water. Wires lead from
the basins to a complicated electrical
apparatus, which, in a word, photo
graphs on a moving sensitized film
the electrical currents generated by
the different chambers of the heart
in beating.
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encouraging the leasing and also the
development of local markets. The
opening of these fields, the depart
ment believes, will mean early cheap
er coal for mining, manufacturing and
other purposes, not only in the terri
tory, but along the Pacific coast gen
erally. It is expected that it will also
prove a decided incentive among pros
pectors.
The government’s plan is to receive
proposal for leases without delay.
Preference will be given, it is said, to
those who will make the largest in
vestments and the earliest develop
ment of the coal fields for commercial
purposes.
The form of lease is similar in large
part to the private leasing obtaining
in the West Virginia coal fields and
has been passed upon by a board of
practical coal operators, who have ap
proved it as a workable lease.
FAREWELL PARTY.
A most enjoyable surprise party
was given Saturday evening at the
Moose Hall in honor of Mr. and Mrs.
M. B. Troyer. who left last Sunday
on the steamer Spokane for their
home in Seattle. The party was a
tribute of friendship to the departing
young couple.
Mrs. Troyer is the daughter of Cap
tain and Mrs. Gregory of the Kukui
and has been visiting with her par
ents in Ketchikan the last 3 months,
during which time she endeared her
self to all who met her and regret her
departure.
While Mrs. Troyer visited here, Mr.
Troyer made a trip to the westward in
the interest of the Seattle-Astoria Iron
Works.
The hall was beautifully decorated
with greens, ferns and flowers. The
music was excellent and the fifteen
couples dancing enjoyed a splendid
evening ending with a delicious lunch.
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NEWS ITEMS FROM THE JUNEAU
DISPATCH.
W. G. Beattie, district superintend
ent of the United States bureau of
education who recently resigned his
position will leave next week for Cot
tage Grove, Ore., where he will be
superintendent of the schools at that \
place. Mr. Beattie's successor has j
not as yet been appointed but it is j
rumored that Charles W. Hawkes
worth who is in charge of the Educa
tional Bureau at Hydaburg will re
ceive the appointment. Mr. Hawkes
worth has been in this line of work
for the past eight or nine years he
has been at Hydaburg for the past
five years and for three years previ
ous to that he was teaching at Point
Barrow and previous to that he acted
as a distant superintendent of the
north west division.
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The poll of the enumerators ap
pointed to ascertain the sentiment of
the people of Chitina as to the sale
of liquor in that town have returned
a poll of 39 wet and 39 dry, and five
who registered no opinion, says the
Cordova Times.
Under previous rulings of the court
it is supposed that this means no li
cense will be granted, as it has been
held that when a person refuses to
voice an opinion, the vote shall be
counted as dry.
The result of the election at Chiti
no is a surprise to many who recently
have been there, as it was the gen
eral opinion that the (place would go
w^t.
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CAMPAIGNING UNTIMELY.
It is unfortunate that the prohibi
tion question should pop up at this
time. Unfortunate because there is
no one thing which tears a town so
asunder and engenders so much bit
terness as a prohibition campaign; it
is unfortunate, because our city is
just recovering from a campaign of
unusual bitterness and nastiness, and
is hardly in shape to enter upon an
other so soon. It is unfortunate be
cause it is but a short time until na
tional prohibition will be enforced in
Alaska, which would eliminate all the
rancor and strike of a local campaign.
It is unfortunate because at this time
our city needs all the revenues it
can get hold of to keep our schools
going, and reserve a sinking fund for
a new school building.
Just what can be hoped for by in
augurating a redhot wet and dry cam
paign by outside parties is not easily
inderstood. Valdez has made no at
tempt to police Seattle nor thrust un
welcome laws upon her; why should
Seattle pat c.es attempt to agitate Val
dez to the breaking point, and turn
our citizens against each other. We
are doing fairly well; business is fair
ly good, so why try to change things?
Why this constant agitation? First
one thing and then another. Never
satisfied; constantly prodding and ir
ritating your neighbor. Is this the
way to build up a town?—Valdez Pros
pector
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GERMANS ARE SAID TO
USE GENERAL KITCHEN
LONDON, June 2.—Feeding mas
ses of the people in the larger cities
by means of central kitchens under
municipal auspices is the soultion se
lected by the government to meet
the problem of food supply and dis
tribution during the period of the
war.
The president of the food distri
bution board, Adolph von Batocki, an
nounced to the ways and means com
mittee of the reichstag today that an
appropriation bill for funds to assist
the municipalities to organize and to
operate the kitchens would be im
mediately submitted to the reichstag.
The municipality of Schoeneberg,
the second largest Berlin suberb, has
already arranged to feed 30,000 per
sons in such institutions. A similiar
organization for Berlin was called in
to life at a conference today, which
was notable for that of two women,
Frau Hedwig Heyle and Fraulein
Landsberg, among the members of
the conference.
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NOTICE—The Civic Club will hold
its regular meeting this evening at
the Council Chamber. Let every mem
ber attend as business of importance
will be taken up.
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EX-COUNCILMAN PAUP BUSY.
Ex-Councilman G. E. Paup is ap- I
parently making short work of driv- j
ing fish traps with his new piledriver. ,
He left yesterday morning, drove sev
eral traps (?) and returned early this
morning to coal up for another go,
and incidentally, give his men a
chance to cast their votes. They say
he looks as lonesome as a cannary
bird in its cage since Mrs. left—poor
fellow.
SPWMMBWMW—imiMiHirTill AT
Mr. W. A. Williams the genial fore
man of the Northern Machine Works,
was pleasantly surprised last evening
by a party of his friends, assembled
in honor of his 49th birthday.
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To make a man perfectly happy,
tell him that he works too hard, that
he spends too much money, that he is
•‘misunderstood” or that he is "differ
ent.” None of this is necessarily com
plimentary, but it will flatter him in
finitely more than merely telling him
that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise,
or good.
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Husband’s motto: A good lie in time
saves nine poor ones next morning.
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TO-NIGHT!
At the GRAND
TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1916.
Christy Mathews
The world’s famous baseball star in a two-reel drama.
Love and Base Ball
Lovers of base ball will see Christy’s first try out on
the Polo Grounds, New York, and how it cost him $18.00 a I
week job, and proves that love does not always run smooth
with a base ball player.
His Captive
A two-reel society drama that works itself into a love
story, and comes to a climax in the great western country
I where cattle restling is the game.
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A print shop mix up is the comedy.
Wednesday and Thursday 4
“THE OPEN SHUTTER’’
A four reel feature with
Herbert Rawlinson and Anna Little
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Stenographer
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( Meets every first and third Tues
» day evening at 8 p. m., at the Coun
» cil Chambers. All women interest
C ed in the welfare of our city are
f cordially invited to attend-—Sec. B
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