CHARGE RAILROADS HINDERING
WATERWAY IMPROVEMENTS
Pacific Nows Service, Wash. Bureau
WASHINGTON, The war against
waterways far from being at an end
is being waged with increasing vio
lence, states the official call for the
thirteenth annual convention of th •
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
to be held in Washington.
"The work of improvement has been
seriously delayed,” the call continues
'arul thi evident object of the oppo
sition is to procure the entire aban
donment of our waterways, which
would necessarily give the railroads a
monopoly of inland transportation.
This program disastrous ns it would
be, is strongly supported. It must be
vigorously opposed if it is to be de
flated.
"To that end every commonwealth
and every community in the United
States that is interested In a river
or a harbor should be represented at
tills cnventlon."
Senator Ransdall, of Louisiana is
president of the organization. Pres
dent Wilsn and several members of his
cabinet are expected to address the
convention.
Governors of states and territories.
mayors of cities, towns and villages
and presidents of commercial industrial
agricultural, and waterway associa
tions are given authority to appoint
and accredit delegates to the conven
tion.
Office and Residence of J. F. McAl
lister, freighter and transfer, Elite
Baths. Phone Red 157.
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DEMONSTRATES ARMY KITCHIN
TO DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS
Pacific News Service, Wash. Bureau
WASHINGTON, To demonstrate
the possibility of serving hot and pala
table foods to Uncle Sam's soldiers
whde they are on even the most
strenuous marches, the army's com
missary department recently served
a free lunch to clerks of the State,
War end Navy departments in the
south court of the building.
A two-wheel travielng kitchen of
thi latest model, closely fashioned
after the model kitdhens now being
used by the fighting armies in Europe
and by the American troops on the
Mexican border, was set up, and a
tire stalled under the various com
partments, and in just one hour rosat
po’k, potatoes, bread, soup and coffee
wrre being served to all comers.
The traveling kitchen is a two
whceled vehicle having two twenty
gallon tanks for coffee, soups, and
stews, and even for cooking meats
• ml other vegetables .md baking -
biend. It so lifted that no matter how
rough the country the ingredients
would not spill out while traveling
and when a halt Is called the meals
are ready as soon as the troops lay
off their marching equipment and
slock their guns.
PACIFIC COAST
MAY CAN GRAYFISH
IN WINTER MONTNS
Pacific News Service, Wash. Bureau
W8AHINGTON, The habits of the
greyflsh. the newly introduced foodflsh
which the United States Bureau of
Fisheries claim credit for discovering
are such that it frequents the Atlantic
Coast in the summer season and the
Pacific Coa3t in the winter time. Ex
perts of the Bureau of Fisheries say
this means that u summer pack of
greyflsh can be made on the Atlantic
and n winter pack on the Pacific
Coast.
The salmon canning machinery
vhich is idle a part of the year can
he used to pack greyfl3h profitably,
according to the Bureau, The me
chanical apparatus used in salmon
fanning and which reduces hand labor
to a minimum is entirely adaptable
tc greyflsh canning.
Toe demand for greyflsh Is much
greater than the supply, according to
the Department of Commerce. For this
reason the Dopratment hopes that the
I’aciiie Coast canners will take advan
tage of the presence of greyflsh off
their coast during the winter months
to make a heavy pack which will sup
pl> the demand.
WE CAN DO IT.
For first class work and prompt de
livery phone Main 151 and the Peo
ple’s laundry will send and get v >ur
laundry. W. J. WILLIAMSON, Prop.
All kinds of sleigh and ski wood on
sale at Ros*' mill and shop. Also
building and mining timbsr.
New laid eggs at Prosser’s Harness
Shop, $'|.00 per dozen. Phone Blaok 5.
r'alllnsr ca.ds srlnted at Nunpet office
Dream Theater
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Comedy Serial
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Frorti Our Exchanges
Tom I'lunkctt of Marshall City, is
reported to have discovered a quartz
hug* there showing much frae gold.
The Moose lodge of Fairbanks has
ti60 members, $3,U0Q in the treasury,
ha«! jiaid $7,000 in benefits, and is only
2 1-2 years old.
Measles are reported to bo preva
lent in Cordova and a strict quaran
tine is being maintained against those
afflicted with the disease.
Leo Simmons, a fur raiser near
Carcross, is reported to have a large
number of mink, which he has raised,
as well as a fine lot of foxes.
The wrestling game appears to be
all the rage at Anchorage and a nurn
| her of bouts have been staged there
between local would-be champions.
APPLLEGROWERS PROTEST
SHORT STORAGE BILL.
Pacific News Service, Wash. Bureau
WASHINGTON, Apple growers of
the Pacihc Coast states have entered
emphatic protests against a bill re
cently introduced by Representative
Kmerson in the house to make It un
lawful to hold in cold storage any
food product for a period longer than
three months. Certain varieties
grown on the coast, they declare, do
not become palatable until after three
months cold storage.
The bill, If It should become a law,
would force consumption of all apple
holdings within 100 day3 after the ap
ple crop Is harvested and would result
in a disastrous congestion of all con
suming markets, force prices far be
low' cost of production, and mean that
the country would of necessity do
without apples except during the short
j picking season or Immdeiately there
after.
The apple growers of the coast are
writing and telegraphing their con
gressmen here in an endeavor to have
the measure amended so ns to exempt
apples from its operation. It is not
believed likely the bill will come up for
discussion ns it is very likely to be
crowded out by other and more Im
portant business and will thus die with
the Congress on March 4. Should it
come up It will probably be amended
as the coa3t apple men wish.
ULIIIOUI MS
WARSHIP NAMED Mil
WASHINGTON Secretary of the
Navy Daniels has received a formal
request from former Queen Llliuoka
lani of Hawaii to give the name
Hawaii to one of the new battle
cruisers.
The request has ben taken under
consideration but it is understood the
battle cruisers will bo named after
the famous irgates of the first navy.
It Is posr'ole, however, that some war
ship of another type will bo named in
honor of the island poas>^*‘: ns
At Kern creek on the government
railroad, a crew of 18 men sent there
to go to work n>fused to assume their
labors on arrival, on account of the
poor quarters provided
It ia reported that one of the Utah
bank hills, unsigned,stolen in a train
robbery several years ago, was offer
ed in payment for a meal at An
chorage restaurant recently.
Tne bakers of Juneau have reached
ai. agreement to reduce the price of
I bread and three loaves for a quarter
is now the prevailing price for the
"staff of life" in that city .
Two thousand one hundred and one
men were employed by the Alaska
Kngineeriag Commission during the
month of December on the Anchorage
division of the road.
K. W. Hutchinson, operating on
Poorm ai, in the ltuby district, is re
ported to have located good pay on
his ground und has purchased a plant
and will take out a winter dump.
Tie herring fishermen at Halibut
Cove, Kachemak bay, have packed
nearly 1000 barrels of the finest her
ring ever caught In Alaska this win
ter. .Some of these fish are so fat
that they will fry In their own oil.
Frank Wnskey, one of the largest
operators in the Marshall City cainp,
is working ground there belonging
to Chris Betsch and Joe Jean. He is
employing about 30 men and Is in
pay running about $3.50 to the foot.
Tlie ladies of Douglas and Tread
well have formed a Ladies’ Auxiliary
to the Island Amatuer Athletic As
sociation. Mrs. K. E. Goghlan of
Douglas and Mrs. L S. Ferris of
Treadwell, were elected respectively
president and secretary-treasurer.
Mayor B. D. Stewart of Juneau left
for the national capital recently to co
operate with Delegate Wickershum
in securing the passage of the Ju
neau capital appropriatoin and with
Col. Richardson in connection with
the Gastineau bridge appropriation.
The Anchorage school board has
served notice on Andrew Christensen
of the land department, of the Alas
kan Engineering Commission, that if
the Commission does not provide
funds for the local school It will have
to close owing to the lack of school
funds in the territorial treasury.
Gus Lundstrom reached Anchoruge
recently from Valdez and is stopping
at the Ciescent. Lundstrom is an ex
pert electrician and came here to in
response to a wire from Superinten
dent McFarland to accept a position
with the T. and T. department of the
Alaskan Engineering Commission.
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