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Steamers Admiral Evans And Watson Call at BaVihlkan North and
Southbound on the 8th, 18th and 28tbof each month.
Right reserTfd to change schedule «tuwut notice.
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Sailing from Ketchikan Northbound. Southeastern Alaska Service.
JEI a jCrlLSON.April 15, 26; May 6, 17, 29.
DOLPHIN.April 8, 20; May 1, 12, 24.
RETURNING THREE DAYS LATER
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' ALAMEDA.April 1. 27; May 17; June 7,
NORTHWESTERN.April 13; May 2, 23; June 13.
ALASKA.April 22; May 12; June 1, 23.
MARIPOSA.May 7, 27; June 17; July 7.
Juneau, Skagway and Westward. Returning 10 Days Later.
Largest and Fastest Ships Running to Alaska. Sailings Subject to
Change Without Notice. Tickets to Seattle, Tacoma, Victoria and
Vancouver, British Columbia.
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reduced rates between First Class.$20.00
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Victoria, Vancouver, Ana-ortn, BoiKn^iam
Everett, Oiympt*, Port Towmend, South
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NEXT SAILINGS FROM KETCHIKAN
SPOKANE.May 9, 20, 31; June 11, 23; July 5, 17, 29
CITY OF SEATTLE. May 14, 25; June 5,17, 29; July 11, 23
RETURNING THREE DAYS LATER.
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Lve. SEATTLE.April 24; May 5, 16, 26.
Arr. KETCHIKAN.April 27; May 8, 19, 29
Lve. KETCHIKAN.May 1, 12, 23; June 2 \
Arr. SEATTLE.May 3, 14, 25; June 4
Subject to Change Without Notice.
Steamers connect at Vancouver with train* for all Eastern points.
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To and from EASTERN CANADA, also EASTERN and SOUTH
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Transcontinental train3 to Eastern destinaitons: including Bos
ton. Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Hamilton, New York, Niagara Falls,
Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec. Toronto and Winnepeg. STEAMERS
to southern poins including Seattle, Victoria, Vancouver and Anyox.
S. S. Prince John
will arrive in Ketchikan every Monday night southbound. Low
fares Electric lighted trains. Observation cars. Unexcelled dining
and e • • ear service, including both Standard and Tourist sleepers
GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIPS.
J. J. RALIEGH, Agent, Ketchikan. - - Phone #0.
J. D. McAULAY, Traveling Freight and Passenger Agt., Juneau.
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I To Portland, Spokane, St. Paul, Chicago, Den
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To San Francisco via Portland and the Palaces
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and “Northern Pacific”
Information and rates from any local steamship agent or:
A. S. Dautrick, Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent,
Room 18 Valentine Building, Juneau.
Seattle Ticket office, Second and Columbia
| PROHIBITION.
Some friend of ours in Our Town
mailed us yesterday a copy of the
speech of Hon. Richmond Pierson
Hobson, representative In Congress
from Alabama, the subject of which
is prohibition. It is entitled "The
Great Destroyer.” and is printed at
government expense and distributed
by the Anti-Saloon League, whose
highest-paid representative in Coa
gress Mr. Hobson is said to be.
We admit that we havn't read-it yet,
but we will. We fancy it was sent
us as a joke by one of the boys who
know that we believe and advocate
temperance in all tilings, and if the
intention was to "get a rise” out of
us, it has succeeded.
■ There is a saying to the effect
that "Consistency is full-jeweied” or
words to that effect. However that
may be. we know that everybody ex
pects and demands of everybody else
consistency. We know that the peo
: pie demand it of us. and while we
j endeavor to give it tand fail at times)
; we also demand it of others. “If you
‘ can't pay you can't take." is the rule
t of the game as we understand it,
and as we know that among other
things Mr. Hobson is inconsistent up
on prohibition we are not pr.epared
to give credit for his public talk when
his public actions do not bear out that
talk. For instance, water may be a
great destroyer, as well as whisky or
the milder beverages. In fact, when
! Mr. Hobson sank the collier Mer
• rimac in Santiago harbor early in
; July of 1898, his men and himself
j took to the water and for a time it
i looked as though the water would be
! their “great destroyer.” Just then
| the boats from the Spanish warship.
| Reina Mercedes picked them up and
I here is the testimony of one of the
I men. one John P. Phillips:
“And. later on, when we were
taken aboard the Reina Mercedes,
dressed only in wet underwear,
cut off at the knees, Hobson, as
calm as ever, walked up to the
j • commander of the Spanish ves
sel, saluted him and said: 'I DE
MAND WHISKY FOR MY MEN
who have been long exposed In
the water!”
So much for Mr. Hobson and his i
I record.
We do jot hesitate to say that we!
i are unequivocally for temperance— \
temperance in ALL things. Our child
ren are being taught it from the crad
| le, and, after all, that is where the !
lesson should begin. Overeating kills
more people than does overdrinking
i —therefore, . temperance in eating
should be taught, because we learn
to eat. and eat for many years before
we start in to acquire the drink hab
it. If children are temperate in their
eating and are taught to eat right
and live right, there is little danger
i of them. ever becoming a slave to
j liquor. Excesses of ail kinds are a
menace and should be opposed in .the
■ press and in the pulpit—for instance,
they tell us from the pulpit and from
j the rostrum that drink is the great
est cause of insanity—that as a cause
of insanity drink leads all causes.
The facts in the case, however, are
that, according to the United States
statistics insanity is caused in regu
lar order (1) sexual abuse; (2) relig
ious fanatacism; (3) drink. The logi
cal cure for insanity (striking direct
jl.v at its source) would be (1) unsex!
children immediately after birth; (2)
deprive them of religion ldst they be
come insane; (3) drink—well, there’s
no use in following this line of
thought, for without sex or religion
| ""hat would it matter whether all the
| world’s men drank or not? They
j would certainly have a reason for
drinking—be entitled to some solace.
We are not for prohibition, for a
thousand good reasons. First of all. ;
it doesn’t prohibit It never did pro- j
hibit and it never will. You can no
i more legislate morals and temperance
j into a people than you can legislate I
| ‘mo them success. Neither condition 1
: is beyond any man. Some of us just J
! wiH not be successful, and some of j
us are less moral than we probably!
should be. But, what code of laws is :
i going to put us right and keep us
that way? None that man can make.
| Some 37 per cent of the people of the
i“dry” States is urban, and about the
1 same percentage is alleged to take
ja glass of beer or whisky oecassion :
; ally or oftener. Some 63 per cent of
! the population of those States is in
; terurban—the 63 per cent, not expos
; ed to the opportunity to get beer or
I whisky freely, has taken it upon it
i »elf to deny the 37 per cent the right
! to obtain light or strong drink if
they wish to. They have done this
without the consent of the 37 per
cent, and as the 37 per cent had no
hand in making the *aws the 37 per
cent refuses to be bound by such
laws. The result is ardent spirits in
place of milder beverages, poorer liq
uor, illicit stills and drunkenness ac
cented in those who would not be
drunkards but that their neighbor de
nies them the right to eat or drink
as they feel they have the right. We
do not believe that we have the
right to legislate away our neighbor's
personal rights and privileges, and
we therefore do not believe that any
other man has that right Might does
not make right, and never did. Pro
hibition does not prohibit, and never
wilL Temperance is RIGHT, all the
time. You can drive a horse to wa
ter, but you can’t make him drink—
you can deprive a man of the oppor
tunity to buy drinks easily, but you
cannot keep him from taking a drink
when he wants one if he can get it
(and he most always can) in “dry”
or “wet” States, and no laws ever
passed can do that to man.
We are not greatly Inclined in Hob
son’s favor. No—it is not true thht
we are envious of him for bis kissing
record; we just haven’t faith in the
man, for the reason that while we
do not believe him to be personally
sincere or logical in his beliefs, we
KNOW that be is more earless with
statistics than any man should he
with the truth. For instance, in his
talks before Congress he makes the
■ assertion that: "Alcohol kills 2,000
Americans a day." The year he made
that statement the United States sta
tistlcs showed that j)33,612 people died
that year—Hobson's estimate of the
deaths due to alcohol would amount
to 739,000 of 933,612; the United
HORRIBLE STRUGGLE
AT DOUAAUMONT HILL
AS DESCRIBED BY A WOUNDEC
FRENCH OFFICER.
PARIS, May 28.—"The hill on whlct
stands the ruins of Douaumout fori
is so closely carpeted with dead that
it is impossible to mount the slopes
on three sides," is how an officei
wounded in one of yesterday's countei
attacks describes the scene of this
week's frightful struggle for tht
height.
"I saw three German regiments fall
to a man within half an hour undei
the merciless sweep of our 75"s," he
added.
The French regiments which gained
short-lived possession of the fort
have seen more fighting on the banks
of the Meuse than any others in the
French army, and the wounded with
complete unnnlmity agree that they
never before witnessed such a« iul
carnage. The ceaseless deluge oi
shells with which the Teutons pound
ed the hill led General Nivelle to re
frain from attempting to reinforce
j the regiments holding the fort and he
called upon these iron troops to hold
j off the Germans as long as they
> coultf. forcing them to make frequent
counter attacks.
This policy entailed the final aban
donment of the fort, but It was com
pletely successful in Its motives of
tearing further sanguinary gashes in
the crown prince’s reserve.
Eleven Attempts Made.
The German assaults on the hill be
gan on Tuesday night. Under the
blinding glare of electric searchlights
they attacked with the fiercest deter
mination. Eleven times during the
night and on the following day they
swept against the French lines with
out appreciable gain. Their ranks
were thinned every time by the
trench three-inch, four-inch and six
inch shells.
The twelfth attack was Irresistible,
however, and the French fell back
down the hill, picking their way over
the dead and dying to their trenches
300 yards to the south.
Captured German officers admit that
the recapture of the fort by the
French created alarm- on the whole
German front comparable only to that
of the first days of the Champagne
offensive. For forty-eight hours the
telegraphs and telephones as well as
motor messengers were busy summon
ing all available reserves.
Prussians Guard Attacks.
Six divisions, including the Prus
sian guard, which is' reserved only
for the greatest emergencies, were
rushed to the scene. Two divisions,
one of Saxons and the other of Wur
temburgers, were sent to the west
hank of the Meuse and hurled against
Cumieres to cease the French pressure
on the other side of the river. At the
same time two Bavarian divisions
were ordered by the crown prince to
recapture the fort, while two divis
ions of the Prussian guard were kept
in hand on .the second- line.
Altogether at least 75.000 German
bayonets were thrown into yester
day’s fighting. They won Cumieres
and retook-Fort Douaumont, but the
price they-paid is estimated at 30,
000 men.
Paris critics, pointing out that the
Germans always fight with the ad
vantage of superior artillery, predict
that the Verdun battle is going to
continue as desperately as ever, but
all express complete confidence in
the matchless valor of the French in
fantrymen.
“They won’t get by" is still the
watchword of the Verdun defenders.
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ALASKA GLACIER RETREATS.
United States Geological Survey
Shows Changes in Glacier.
Fifteen years ago a member of the
United States Geological Survey map
ped the front of the Barry Glacier,
which is in the northwest corner of j
Prince William Sound, Alaska. In !
1910 it was found that the front of j
the glacier had gone back about 3 j
miles from the position It occupied j
in 1869. B. L. Johnson, of the Geolo- ,
gical Survey, examined the front of ;
Barry Glacier in the fall of 1914 and
determined that the total retreat of j
the glacier between 1910 and 1914 I
appeared to be about 8,200 feet, a ]
retreat of 4!£ miles in 15 years. A
short account of the retreat of this j
glacier by Mr. Johnson has just been :
published as Professional Paper 98-C. !
It includes a sketch map showing the
position of the glacier front in seven j
different years and several reproduct
ions of photographs ot the glacier.
A copy of the report may be ob- j
tained free on application to the Di
rector of the United States Geologi
cal Survey at Washington, D. C.
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The snail’s mouth' is armed with a
saw-like tongue, like a long narrow
ribbon, colled up so that only a part
of it comes into use at any one time.
Distributed over the surface of this
ribbon are tiny teeth.
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Belgium’s population At the out
: break of war was 7,700,000.
j States statistics give as a result of
j alcohol 3,183 deaths that year—3,183
against Hobson’s 730,000. Hobson on
1 ly exceeded the truth by 724,000,
I which, however, is far enough to suit
us. — Fairbanks Daily News-Miner,
May 3, 1916. (Remarks regarding un
sexing, insanity, etc., are from speech
of Bertholdt of Missouri in Congress,
on the Hobson amendment.—Editor.)
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ADVERTI8ED LETTER LIST
of the Ketchikan, Alaska, Post Office,
for the week ending May 27, 1916.
John S. Blakeman, Harry Fitzger
ald, C, Green, A Halsan, P. B. Hie
kok, Charles H. Johnson, Alfred
Knutson, H. O. Lay cock, W. H. Quirt
E. Walter, Miss Evelyn Warren, Mrs.
W. C. Williams, Sofus Wik.
When calling for the above, say
“Advertised.” Parties claiming let
ters from the above list must pay a
fee of one cent for each letter claim
ed. A11 letters unclaimed by June
10, 1916, will be sent to the Dead Let
ter Office, Washington, D. C.—M. E
Bwlneford, Postmaster.
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