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THREE DAY SERVICE
Sailing from Ketchikan Northbound, Southeastern Alaska Service
JEFFERSON, April 15, 26, May 6. 17, 29.
DOLPHIN, April 8, 20, May 1, 12, 24.
RETURNING THREE LATFW
MCCT COMFORTABLE SHIPS ON SOUTHEASTERN ROUTE
ALAMEDA, April 1, 27, May 17, June 7th.
NORTHWESTERN, April 13, May 2, 23, Jnne 13.
ALASKA, April22. May 12, June 1, 23.
MARIPOSA, May 7, 27, June 17, July 7.
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway and Westward, Returning 10 Days
Later. Largest and Fastest Ships running to Alaska.
Vi Sailings Subject to Change Without Notice.
Tickets to Seattle, Tacoma, Vietoria and Vancouver, British (.ibititnbin.
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Bight reserved to Change Schedule
NEXT SAILINGS from KETCHIKAN
SPOKANE—May 9, 20, 31. June 11, 23, and July 5, 17 and 29.
CITY IF SEATTLE—May 14, 25. June 5, 17, 29. July 11, 2?
RETURNING THREE DAYS LATER
PHONE 77..F. H. BOLD, Agent.
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STEAMERS to southern points including Seattle, Vic
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rive in Ketchikan every Monday night southbound.—
Lowest fares. Electric Lighted trains. Observation cars. Un
excelled Dining and Sleeping Car Service, including both Stan
dard and Tourist Sleepers.
GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIPS.
J. J. Raliegh, Agent, Ketchikan. Phone Wj
J. D. McAULAY, Traveling Freight and Passenger Agt.
Juneau, Alaska.
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FUSED TO LEAD
VARIOUS ENGLISH NEWSPA1*
ERS BLAME OFFICIALS FOR
REVOLUTION.
' LONDIN, May 1. — Immediately
; after the outbreak of the revolution
in Ireland, the press turned the
tguns upon the officials and tired
w true, according to reports. The Daily
Mail in an endeavor to put the
L blame where it belongs says:
The revolt in Ireland is the na
tural result of the government’s poli
cy in that country. Augustine Bir
rell, chief secretary of Ireland and
Premier Asquith sat still and allow
ed a rebel force to be enrolled and
armed. They did not move hand
nor foot against it- March 17, 1,
600 Irish volunteers paraded, most
ly armed with refles and nobody
stopped or challenged them.
Mr. Birrell never asked why the
volunteers existed. He knew it was
not to serve against the enemy but
rather to obstruct the imperial for
ces. Dec. 16 he declared “evidence
of their disloyalty is voluminous,’’
yet he did nothing
If he had any policy other than
merely drifting, it was to turn a
blind eye to the disloyal movement
f The government persuaded itself
that the treason could be overcome
I by resolutely looking the other way.
The government’s wait-and-see po
, licy was complicated by a hide-the
truth policy. .
If the newspapers had been per
mitted to publish information in
their hands Sunday nigh, these
things could not have happened- The
'"Irish authorities would have been
aroused from their sleeping-sickness
by the publication of news that
something very exceptional was oc
curring. They might have taken or
dinary precautions, but the press
was muzzled. It is proof of the
grossest negligence and obtuseness
when four or five parts of a great
city can be seized by comparatively
a small number of armed men.
This colossal blunder follows upon
and surposses all other blunders of
the war. How much longer is the
nation prepared to drift under the
domination of leaders who refuse
to lead?
The Daily Express says that Au
gustine Birrell’s strange hesitation
in informing the house of commons
of the Irish revolt makes it natural
to imagine the situation is worse
than officially reported- It is the
duty of the government, says the*
Express, frankly to admit the truth
that stem measures must be adopt
ed against the "crass folly of the
rebels."
The Daily \Chronicle says: WJiat
is most dreaded now is that even
the order speedily restored may be
at the bloodshed which may rankle
for generations. Ine cannot help
fearing reaction against the pros
pects of constitutional home rule
The Times says: The whole mis
erable business is a sorry comment
upon the complete failure of Mr.
Birrell to maintain respect for law
and order during the nine years of
his weak, callous administration.
Such are the fruits of truckling to
sedition and making light of con
tempt for law.
Sir Roger Casement’s invasion ap
pears to have been the merest opera
bouffe, the Times adds: The paper
suggests that the Germans had
grown tired of him and his boasts
i and insisted that he redeem his
promises. Continuing, it says:
The Germans may have calculated
that the uprising in Ireland would
influence certain kinds of American
opinion in their favor at a time
when relations with the United
i States are Critical. German societies
and Irish societies in America have
been working hand-in-glove to preju
dice opinion against Great Britain.
They doubtless will exert themselves
now about “Ireland’s struggle for
freedom”
If the cabinet tries to hush up
any part of the truth or confine the
intelligence reaching America to of
ficial communications doled out by
themselves, the German and Irish
agencies in . the United States will
haye a free field for their malign
activities; but if the government al
lows responsible, competent Ameri
can correspondents to Investigate
matters freely and unfettered we
are confident the Germans will find
they have misunderstood real Ameri
can opinion
- 3LEUP HARVESTER
j HAS BEEN BUILT
l The Daily News some time ago
| reported that kelp was to be harvest
j ed on the southern part of this
coast and a reduction plant is now
an accomplished fact and a Los
Angeles boat builder has built a
kelp harvester for the company. The
harvester is 159 feet over all, with a
width of 40 feet It i8 self-propell
ing, being equipped with twin sci&w
.propayers driven- by two 110 h. p..
Union engines, h will have a daily
cutting capacity of 500 ton*.—Prince
Rupert News.
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ing done at the Progressive-Miner.
NEXT WAR WILL BE IN CHINA
(American Review.)
| British diplomacy has been cahrg.
ed with two great blunders in the
present war, the failure to handle
the Balkan crisis and pacify Bul
■ garia, and the failure to prevent the
alliance of Turkey with the Central
Powers. It is responsible for a
third, equally great, but hidden for
r the moment in the greater urgency
of war. It has failed to prevent
1 the entrance of Japan into China
! Through this error England has
l opened the way for her own ally to
’ become her greatest commercial and
! political rival in. the Orient.
The next War—difficult as it now
■ is to conceive of further bloodshed
■ —is likely to have its root at Kiau
chau, so easily taken from the Ger
l mans by Japan- For on the comer
■ stone of this ancient province, the
cradle of the Chinese race and the
; home of Confucius, a new empire
is scheduled to rise—the greater
Nippon that is the dream of every
Japanese. ,
With the elimination of Germany,
the problem of-the Far East has
[ been profoundly altered- England.
; France and Russia, who had once
been eager for the partition of
! China, a division prevented largely
by their own mutual jealousies, are
today conscious of a new menace
and a new "problem” after the war.
I A youthful power determined at any
I cost to dominate the East commer
! cially confronts them, eager for the
I day when they can be ousted poli
i tically from the East as well.
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EVEN AMERICA HAS ITS
MUMMIES
Dr. Hart Merriam of Washing
ton, D. C., has presented the United
States National Museum with a
smoke-dried head of a Brazilian In
dian- 4
The gruesome object is on" of
the few specimens in tiiis country
of these rare human trophies col
lected and prepared by the Parentin
tin tribe of the Tapajos River in Pa
ra, Brazil.
It is the head of another tribes
men, killed and preserved by the
Parentintins. The dried skin is
yellow and stretched tightly over
he skill; the black hair hangs
lo *se in bobbed style; the eyes are
(overed by wax con s ornamented
by two small teeth to imitate the
pupils of the eyes, and the ears
are still decorated with the cord
insertions and tufts of red and yel
low parrot feathers worn by the In
dian in life. Originally, when used
as a trophy, it was suspended by a
cord, which Still emerges from the
mouth
Unlike the "better known Jiberos
of the upper Amazon, who preserve
the heads of their enemies by re
moving the skull bones and skrink
ing and drying the skin until the
head is much reduced "in size, the
Parentintins leave the head in its
normal form. They first remove the
brain, then smoke the head by use
of an aromatic wood until it is dri
ed, and hang it up to decorate
their houses. Their work is as
scientific as that of the mummy
makers of Egypt.
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FATALISM CURSE OF JAVA.
Conquered Followers of Mahomet on
Island Have no Ambition.
The garden par excellence of the
tropic world is Java, yet intellectual
ly, says the Scientific Monthly, it
is but a cemetery of withered hopes
and ambitions wrecked in mockery,
for over all there broods the dull
fatalism of despair—the “sufficient
unto the day” of the conquered fol
lower of Mahomet.
Ambition, if it exists in the Java
of today, seems powerless to raise
its people above the condition of
the Asiatic peasant. There is no
well-to-do class of native artisians.
and one may travel throughout the
land and find hardly a native shop
upon whose wares the European
may bestow a glance of admiration,
save only for the vanishing art of
baticck cloth and the still more
moribund manufacture of the Krees
Ant-like over the whole land, in
every view, there swarms the dull
faced, docile collie of the soil... Meas
ured by standards of morality, a
National Forest Timber For Sale
Sealed bids will be received by
the Forest Supervisor, Ketchikan, Al
aska, up to and including May 22,
1916, for all the merchantable dead
timber standing or down, and all
the live timber designated for cut ■!
ting on an area of approximately
48 acres situated at the. extreme
head and on the right hand side of
a creek emptying into Traitors Cove.
Jlevillagegido Island, estimated to
contain 850,000 feet B. M. of spruce
and hemlock sawtimber, .more or
less. No bid of less than $1.06 pay
M feet B. M. for spruce 5.0c
per M feet B. M. for hemlock saw
timber will be a considered. Deposit
with bid. $200.00. The right to re
ject any and nil bids reserved. Be
fore bids are submitted/ full in
formation concerning the Umber, th*
conditions of sale, and the submis
sion of bids should be obtained
from the Forest Supervisor, Ket
chikan, Alaska.
• source of commercial weakness, and
Java has not always “paid,” despite
her conquerors’ efforts to obtain as
much profit from her as their con
science and the public spirit of
’ their times would permit. The water
supply of her countless mountain
streams.flight turn the wheels of
’ many a mill, but Java still sends
l her products abroad in the form of
. raw materials, and the cultivation
of cotton is not even attempted
ADVERTISED LETTERS
, Avertised letter list of the Ket
I chikan, Alaska Post- Office. For
tl\e week ending April 29, 1916.
Fred Bautier, G. Bogdanovich.
1 Senor J. Guadalupe Cadenas, Eliza
beth Durham, John Gordon, Christ
Iverson, Karl B. Karlsen. F- Ray,
Maurice I. Poston, J- H. Semple,
Vedder Doc. Hegeman.
All letters unclaimed by May 6,
1916, will be sent to the Dead
■ Letter Office, Washington, D. C.
Parties claiming letters from the
above list must pay a fee of one
cent for each letter claimed.
When calling for the abpve, say
Advertised.
M. E. SWJNEFORB,
Postmaster.
AGENT FOR “LIFESTAFF.”
Mr. P. Nelson, of the Seattle
Bar announces that he has receiv
ed the agency for an un-alcholic
beverage called “LIFESTAFF,”
brewed by Hemrich Bros. Brewing
| Co., of Seattle. Sold in pint, quart,
or case. (adv. 12t.)
ANOTHER iMIJSEMENT PLACE
With the re-opening of the Shoot
ing School at the foe* r ° Mission
street, the people may ti. •"'her
place of amusement where t. / can
shoot away their little wads. Mr.
DeYoung will attend to the -est
Just go and shoot aw.v ..i! you mind
to.
CANNON’S BAKERY
AND GROCERY
Armour’s fancy select Ranch
Eggs, per dozen,..30
Tavern Steel-cut Coffee, 35c or
three for. 1.00
Marigold Steel-cut Coffee. .25
Nuraya Tea, per pound.65
Fisher’s System Flour, 49 pound
sack . 1.75
fisher’s Blend Flour, 49 pound
sack . 2.00
Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money
Refunded.
General Hauling
and work of all kinds
done by the
Independent Transfer
Company >
C. M. TAYLOR, Agent
Phone 64
PATRONIZE HOME
INDUSTRY
Smoke a Ketchikan Cigar
KETCHIKAN CIGAR FACTORY;
Alaska Delivery .
WALTER GRAY, prop
COAL DELIVERED FROM AU
DOCKS
PHONES 61 Ti
Ketchikan Wharf Co.
COAL
COAL
NANAIMO
Lump Coal
10.00 PER TON.
Ketchikan Wharf Co.
C. M. Taylor
Phone 64 Agent
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On Your Arrival in, or your Departure From „
the City, if YouZ Visit
The SIDEBOARD
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Corner Front and Dock Streets, You Will be Welcomed on Your
Arrival and Carry the Good Wishes of M. E. MARTIN
With You on Your Departure.
Congeniality, Goodfellowship and Fair Treatment
Combined, is our Long Suit.
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treated: a place where the best Liquors, Wines
and Cigars are kept. Our motto being:
“Thebest is none too good for our Patrons”
At the Admiral Saloon, Ketchikan.
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