RuUtn'ib hull TO
SCLDIEYS’ MISERY
DOGS ARE U. .ED TO DRIVE
RATS OUT OF TRENCHES
PARIS, Jan. 20—Four special
trains of dogs have just been sent
to different parts of the French
battlefront. One train of 26 cars
had 25 dogs in each car—for ter
riers, rat terriers, police dogs and
other breeds—to be divided between
different sections of the front, and
most of them employed in chasing
rats out of tho .renches. Attract
ed by the ramains of the soldiers’
rations, rats invaded the advance
works shelters and trenches, even
on the firstline, and multiplied to
such an extent that the soldiers
are incapable of exterminating
them. Dogs are now to be tried.
Three special trains of dogs, car
rying about 500 dogs each, in a
large proportion wolf hounds, but
including specimens of nearly all
breeds, were a gift from Canada to
the French army . They are to be
employed mostly in the mountanious
regions, in the commisary and sani
tary services, while some of them
will be trained as sentinels and
trench dogs.
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GRAND LEAP-YEAR BALL
The Ladies Basket Ball Club will
give a Leap-year Ball in the Red
Men’s Hall on the evening of Feb.
29th, for the purpose, of raising
money to build a gymnasium. The
girls plan to make this ball the
greatest feature of the season.
Nothing will bo omitted that will
help to make it a success, and every
one is guaranteed a delightful time.
The members of the club will act
33 Floor Committee and everyone
come out and boost the gymnasium.
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of Marble claims on Dali Island will
be sold cheap if taken a t once. Best
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Address, P. O. Box 73. Ad. 6t.
Great “cleanup” sale for the rest
of the month of January at Heck
man’s. Adv. tf.
Why bother and take the risk of
fire from gasoline torches trying
to thaw your pipes, when Foord,
tho plumber, can do it safely and
quickly with his new electrical pipe
thawer without uncovering the pip
es. Call Phont 91. Adv. tf.
FOR SALE—A two room cabin
and a lot on Stedman Ave., City.
The lot is 30 foot front by 150
feet deep. For particulars apply to
“Dad” De Young. Adv. tf.
FOR SALE—Choice four resi
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Jicob Pittinger, City. Adv.
French Flannel Waists, formerly
$3.00 now sold for $1.50 at Heck
man’s. Adv. tf.
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FOUND—In Tongass Narrows a
14 ft green skiff. Owner apply
this office prove property and pay
for this notice. Adv. 6t.
KETCHIKAN MEAT COMPANY
SPECIALS
Fresh Chicken tamales,
Fresh Sound Oysters,
3 Doz. Eggs 95 cents.
Would like a few more boadrers,
good home cooking, family style.
We give meal tickets at reasonable
rates. Located over Kriedler’s
Lumber shop. 26t.
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WHY PAY RENT?
When Mr. Peckham with the
Kyus Drug & Jewelry Co., is of
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very low figure for a quick sale
Five rooms and large bath' room.
Splendid view. Call and see Mr.
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ENGLAND’S FOOD PRICES
INCREASE 11 PER CENT.
LONDON, Jan. 25—Food price?
in England show a general increase ;
of 44 per cent. since Uie war began,
according to statistics by the Loam
of Trade. Sugar is double thc
price it commanded in July, 1914,
,ea is about 50 per cent, dearer,
British meat 50 per cent.,flour 4b
per cent., bread 40 per cent., and
bacon, milk, butter and chese about
80 per cent. Taking the country as
a whole and considering the relative
importance of the various foods, the
difference in thc cost of maintaining
the table in a home of moderate
.iroumstances is 44 per cent., higher
: an before thc war.
Between November 1 and Decem
ber 1, of 1915, retail proces of food
rose less than 2 per cent. The aver
age increase between the prices ol
December 1, 1915, and the same
date of 1914, show an average rise
of 24 per cent.
Figures compiled by the Berlin
municipal statistical bureau show
that in Berlin, between November 1,
1914, and November 1, 1915, the
cost of ordinary foods advanced fil
per cent., while the difference be
tween the past September and Oct
ober prices came to 8.8 per cent.
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CAVEMAN HAD GIGANTIC COW
(American Boy)
Imagine, if you can, an anima'
so gigantic that its wrists are
nearly twice the size of those of
an elephant, its tail as bulky as thc
dray horse’s, chest, its feet as large
as the many-knotted roots of a gum
tree, and you will gain some con
ception of the appearance of Mr
Stonehatchet’s cow’. When a curious
skin was found by natives in n
cave at Last Hope Inlet, Patagonia
the La Plata museum sent out an
expedition to investigate. The finch
made by this party were most in
teresting. Digging in the cave
brought to light more of the skin
and then some bones and claws,
sufficient parts of the animal for
the scientists to determine that thej
were the remains of a gigantic
prehistoric ground sloth.
But as the natural haunts of the
prehistoric sloths were tire forests,
what was the animal doing in this
cavern puzzled the investigators, and
they began to search further for
more clews.
Finally they found two awls made
from the leg bones of a dog and the
skeleton of a rat as big as a New
foundland dog, and then the skull
■of Mr. Stonehatchet, the cave man
himself.
It dawned upon the searchers that
they were in the former home of
Mr. Stonehatchet, who for some
useful purpose, had evidently do
mesticated the giant sloth and
kept it in captivity. Further evi
dence of the domesticated nature of
the animal was found when a large
quantity of cut hay was unearthed.
It was accepted by the scientists
that the only possible reason for
the stabling of the huge sloth in
the cave was to be found in the
large quantity of milk furnished
by the monster, as it possessed a re
markable series of enormous milk
tags, extending all the way clown
its thorax. Beyond dispute, they
had discovered Mr. Stonehat _-het’s
cow. And what a cow! With such
an animal producing probably 20
times as much milk as the best
bossy today, there was no danger of
Mr. Stonehatchet and his wife and
all the large family of little Stone
hatchets going hungry.
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ATHENS, Jan. 20—How eight
G ii..an submarines that set out to
uck i he British great fleet were
. ,.:.iv destroyed or captured was
..escribed in a story told by Lord
... on his recent visit here.
No public account of the affair was
ever given.
“When the maneuvers of the
great fleet w-ere held about a month
ago north of Scotland,” said Lord
Kitchener, “eight German subma- I
rines of the newest and strongest !
type went out with the purpose of
get ling to tile fleet and playing hav
oc with tile maneuvers. One came
o grief in oar North sea net. The
,; iv, nosed through and approaeii
;.ie fleet. But there wTas another
in. heading them off. They tried
0 break through to get around to
find an opening, but there was none.
Two more were lost in this effort.
Finally the remainder decided to
return to their base at Helgoland.
"But they could no longer find
their way out. The gate and the
nets iiad been closed. Two more
were lost desperately trying to get
through. The remaining three fin
ally were forced to come to the sur
face and surrender themselves. We
took them intact—crews, submarine.-,
and all.”
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1 IIK1 WERE QUITE GENEROUS
WITH THEIR COMPLIMENTS
LONDON, Jan. 24—A correspon
dent of the Gazette who was at the
lime sojourning in Bulgaria when
the Kaiser made his visit to King
Ferdinand, says that at a banquet
both monarchs delivered addresses.
King Ferdinand thanked the Emper
or for his visit, and said:
“The world learned to know with
surprise and admiration the strength
of Germany and her allies, and be
lieves in the invincibility of the
German army under the guidance
and leadership of its Eemperor.”
Emperor William, in his address,
thanked King Ferdinand for the ap
pointment as chief of the Twelfth
Balkan Infantry regiment.
“Your words prove,” said Emperor
William, ’’that we, in etsimating this
hour, are filled with the same feel
ing. Challenged by our enemies we
and our loyal allies have been struck
at the very root of our strength.
We found a hard fight which soon
spread farther. When Turkey,
threatened by the same enemies,
joined us, and by stubborn fighting
reassured her world’s position, your
majesty’s prudence recognized that
the hour had come for Bulgaria to
'bring forward your old claims and
to smooth the way for your brave
country to a glorious future. Your
majesty’s nation in arms added one
. ublime. leaf of glory to another in
the history of Bulgaria.
“In order to give expression to
my feelings for such deeds and to
tbo feelings of Germany, I have
begged your majesty to accept tile
dignity of a Prussian field marshal
and I with my army, am happy that
you, in accepting it, also in this
sense become one of us.
“With firmest confidence I raise
my glass to the welfare of your
majesty’s house, to the victory of
the glorious Bulgarian army and to
Bulgaria’s future.”
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AT THE STEDMAN
E. S. Hewitt, Juneau; W. G.
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“When Broadway Was A Trail”
TONIGHT AT THE GRAND
WALTER PAUL, NATIVE
ACCIDENTLY DROWNED
(From Wrangell Sentinel)
WRANGELL, Jan. 20—The body
ol Walter Paul, native, who was
drowned last week was brought to
Wrangell, together withh all the
witnesses in the case, and an inquest
was held and a verdict of accidental
drowning returned.
:e facts of the case as brought
out at the inquest seem to be that
Walter Paul and Harry Yura, a Jap
anese, left Wrangell on their way
to Kake, and when near five mile
island they overtook another gas
boat belonging to. Geo. White, who
was aboard with his wife and an
other native named JackGeorge
Walter Paul put a tow line on the
!■' ,■. and towed them to the mouth
of Wrangell Narrows where they
anchored for the night. It seems
that before leaving town that Yura
had purchased a good supply of
liciuor and that night after anchor
ing Jack George came aboard the
boat and the three of them started
to sample the fire water and before
long they wero under the influence
of the booze, the Japanese and
Jack George laid down on the
bunk and went to sleep. The Jap
awoke some time later hearing cries
rom the water and arousing Jack
George they went out on deck and
discovered Waltr Paul struggling in
the water. After some time" they
succeeding in getting a boat lowered
and dragged the drowning man on
deck where they triedto revive him
bu; all efforts were in vain and he
never regained conscienceness after
being taken from the water. After
all efforts to bring him too proved
of no avail his body was placed in
the hole of the ship and the next
morning they proceeded to Peters
burg and reported the arrair to Mar
shall Kildall there.
A.; the Commissioner at Petersburg
was away the case was placed in
the hands of Commissioner Thomas
here wrho wired to bring the bx! r
iid witnesses here for the inquest.
Harry 'i urn at a hearing pleaded
guilty of the charge of, furnish'ng
liquor to Indians and was sentenc
ed to serve ten months in the Fed
eral jail at Juneau. He will be
taken north on the boat tomorrow
by Marshal Wallace to start serving
his sentence.
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INDIAN WAY OF KEEKING TIME
Certain of the resei-vation In
dians still cling to the calendar of
I heir ancestors. The Indian method
was to compute time by sleeps and
moons. A sleep is twenty-four
hours, and a moon is a month. There
is also a midmoon, where the sun
’s at 12 o’clock meridian. This hour
is indicated by pointing overhead.
When an Indian pointed quarter
way up the sky, he meant 9 o’
clock; when he pointed quarter way
dow, he meant 3 o’clock. Sunrise
was the eastern horizon and sunset
the western. Night was indicated
by holding the hands together,
palms downward, stretching 0ut the
arms and holding the body and head
bent forward.
When there was a moon, the time
ua indicated in the same way as
. ho sun. Were' an Indian ask
tho distance to a certain place,
or how far he had come, he would
ay so many sleeps or days travel.
■I sleep as describing distance was
.bout thirty-five miles when walk
ng deliberately, from fifty to sev
enty-five miles if going in haste
with a message.
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A DAY IS NOT ALWAYS
OF TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
A day is generally supposed to be
a period of twenty-four hours, but
this not necessarily so. The period
of the sun’s position above the hor
izon also constitutes a day.
The actual measure of time cover
ed by a day as we know it is 23
.hours and B6 minutes and 5 seconds.
In some parts of Norway the day
lasts two whole months without in
terruption. Three and a half months
constitutes the period of the longest
day in Spitzbergen, while the short
est only registers two and a helf
hours. That is, judging the actual
period of light, which would be the
natural day.
I’etrograd’s longest day is nine
teen hours and the shortest five.
At Hamburg the longest is sev
enteen and the shortest seven.
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ROYS LEAD IN WAR TIME
BIRTHS
Despite the argument that there
is no basis in science for the be
lief that, more boys than girls are
.;orn in war time, the statistics of
hirty-six. towns in England and
Vales break records in this country
for hoy babies.
From January to March, 1915,
for every 1,000 girls born there
..era thirty-two more boys. For
'.pril and June there were forty
three and for July and September
fifty five. The marriage rate for
Fngland and Wales in the last
mentioned three months was the
highest ever recorded, being 21.3
in every 1,000 population.
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IMPROVEMENTS AT THE
PURE FOOD CANNERY
G. E. Paup & Co., are driving
ew piling under the building of
the Pure Food Fish Co., to take
the place of decayed ones and gener
ally strengthen the plant. As soon as
the pile driving is completed the
canning machinery will be moved
o an adjoining room, constructed
last year, for the purpose of pro
viding more space for can cooling
and labeling.
The moving of the machinery will
greatly add to the convenience of
I handling the finished product, as it
ill combine their cooling space and
eliminate the possibility of becom
I ng crowded as the result of a heavy
days run.
Can making machinery has been
ordered and the work of making
cans for use during the coming sea
son will begin about the first of
May.
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AND GROCERY
Corn ,15
Ail mill; 3 cans ,25
8 oz. can Bakers cocoa .25
Reliance Coffee .40
Gold Shield coffee .40
Canned Pineapple .15 & .20 ^
String beans, ,20c. two for -35
Sweet potatoes, 20c. 2 for .35^
Kvout, 20c. 2 for .35
E. J. Peas, 20o. 2 for .35
Golden Wax boans .20c. 2 for .35
Pumpkin, 20c. 2 for .25
Hominy, 20c. 2 for ,5ft
Solid Pack, Amocat and Reliance
Tomatoes, .15
Ranch Eggs per doz. .35
or 3 doz for $1.00
Lend fhrerer cocoanut per lb. .20
Baking powder, per lb. .16
Your money back if not satisfied.
Bread, Rolls, Pies, Cakes and Layer
Cakes, Angel Food, WhPe Cake, Jel
ly Roll, Lemon Roll, Cup Cakes, Gin
ger Bread, Cocoanut Kisses, Maca
roons, Honey Jumbles, Frosted Creams,
Lemon, Sugar, Currant, Snie.e and Co
coanut Cookies, Doughnuts and Toast.
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2? that our holiday business this year far exceeded our expecta- TO
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I Bungalow Aprons - 45c. Laces and Trimmings - One Half Price &
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