ALASKA NOTES
The Ragles bought a lot at Anchor
age.
The Alaska cable is again in need of
attention.
Mount Kstmai is at it again, after a
two-year rest.
Forest fires ranged recently ^on the
east side of Lynn canal.
Among the flourishing institutions at
Cordova is a "Tango” club.
Whitehorse folks ate $85 worth of ice
cream one hot afternoon recently.
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Five hundred lots have been sold at
Anchorage. Prices averaged $300 per
lot.
Dr. Alfred Thompson, member for
Yukon, Is visiting his constituency this
summer.
Cordova’s two big stores, S. Blum &
Co. and the O’Neil & Slater Co. have
combined.
The Juneau school board estimates a
cost of $23,536 to run the public schools
the coming year.
Dr. Alfred Brooks, head of the geo
logical survey work in Alaska, is on his
w'ay to the Iditarod.
It Is announced that Secretary of the
Interior, Franklin K. Lane, will visit
Alaska this summer.
. Many of the Shriners who attended
the Seattle convention made the ex
cursion trip to Alaska.
from present indications the Juneau
council will go the limit with a tax
levy of 2 per cent this year.
The steamship Mariposa struck a
rock in Clarence strait, where the
chart showed 175 fathoms of water.
The damage was slight.
Henry S. Graves, chief of the forest
service, will spend six weeks In Alaska
In order to familiarize himself with the
exact situation on the Chugach and
Tongass national forest reserves.
A Vermont United States Senator
who visited Skngway recently as a
tourist, sprained his ankle while In that
town. It is to be hoped he will not
remember It against the territory when
It comes to voting appropriations.
< nders from the war department have
reached Sitka to clear the coal sheds
there to receive naval coal.
Even Whitehorse has its political
troubles, when two worthless, mangy
curs will get into a pen and kill nine
hogs at $15 a hog.
Andrew Malakoff, of Ellnmar, was
drowned recently at the Valdez dock
when the little skiff In which he had
attempted to reach the Tokeh Lou was
upset.
The Rooth Fisheries Company has
consummated the purchase of the five
canneries operated by the Gorman
Company in Washington and Alaska.
The canneries In Alaska are located at
Kasaan and Shakan.
The salaries of post masters at the
following places in Alaska have been
raised $100 per year, because of grow
ing receipts: Cordova, Douglas, Juneau
Ketchikan, Nome and Seward. Fair
banks lost a hundred.
According to the statement of Con
sulting Engineer J. H. Mackenzie, the
Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co. will
spend two and a half million dollars to
make Its property one of the big pro
ducers of Alaska. The money will be
apportioned, one million for milling
plant and docks, a million for mine
development and $500,000 for a power
plant.
Two hundred and forty acres of land
located in the townsite reserve in what
is known as the Junction has been se
lected for the government experimental
station to be established along the line
of the government railroad. The choice
was made by M. D. Snodgrass, of the
government agricultural service, as
signed to the work, .after an investiga
tion of the various sites proposed. The
area Is located in the northwest corner
of section 15. township 17. range 1
east, in the Matanuska valley.
The Dent Lumber * Shingle Co. has
arranged to purchase the barge Kate
Davenport, at one time a well known
windjammer, and 1,000,000 feet of mis
cellaneous lumber, with some shingles,
will he loaded by this company and
shipped to the Anchorage Supply Co.
This company is a private concern
which has opened a large lumber yard
at Anchorage, mainly for the purpose
of supplying building material to the
rapidly growing town. Many other
miscellaneous shipments have been
sent north on account of the great ac
tivity in the Cook Inlet region.
THE HEART-BREAKING FLIGHT
OF THE PEOPLE FROM
ANTWERP.
It is doubtful if the world has ever
seen so pathetic, so heart-breaking, so
terrible, a procession. It seemed as
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though no wheeled vehicle had been
left in Antwerp. There were people in
motor-cars, with others standing on
the running-boards and clinging to the
hoods and mud-guards; there were peo
ple in carriages, in delivery-wagons, in
moving-vans, in farm-carts, in omni
buses, in carts drawn by dogs, on bicy
cles, on horseback, and thousands upon
tens of thousands afoot. Men pushing
their wlvd's and children in wheelbar
rows piled high with bedding. Sturdy
young peasants carrying their aged
parents in their arms. White-faced
nuns urging forward groups of war
orphaned children who had been con
fided to their care. Monks in woolen
robes and sandals bearing wounded
men on stretchers. Mothers, so weak
and ill that they could scarcely totter
forward, with week-old babies in their
ams. Priests assisting the feeble ar.d
te wounded. Women of fashion, in fur
coats and high-heeled shoes, staggering
under the weight of their belongings
which they were carrying upon their
backs. Whitehaired men and women
grasping the harness of the gun-teams
or the stirrup-leathers of the troopers,
who, themselves exhausted ■ from days
of fighting, slept in their saddles as
they rode. Springless farm-wagons
filled with wounded soldiers, with
bandaged heads and arms, and with
piteous white faces and through the
straw beneath them tlie blood dripped,
dripped, dirpped, leaving a crimson
trail along the road.
The confusion was beyond all imagi
nation, the clamor deafening: the rat
tle and clank of batteries, the trample
of hoofs, tho cracking of whips, the
throb of motor cars, the curses of the
drivers, the moans of the wounded,
the cries of women, the whimpering of
frightened children, threats, pleadings,
oaths, screams, imprecations—and the
shuffle, shuffle shuffle of countless feet
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HAS SOLUTION TO
JAPANESE PUZZLE
Restriction of all foreign immigra
tion to E per cent, of the number of
naturalized Americans of each race
now represented In the United States
is one method of solving the Japanese
problem, according to Dr. Sidney D.
Oulick, of New York. General restric
tion of immigration must be accom
panied, Dr. Gulick says, by establish
ment of federal bureaus of registration
and education for foreigners and by
basing eligibility to naturalization upon
personal qualifications alone.
Dr. Oulick and Dr. Shailer Mathews,
of Chicago, formed a special embassy
last winter to Japan to cultivate
friendly relations between the United
States and Japan. Dr. Gulick was re
cently invited by President Wilson to
give him his views of immigration.
‘‘America should admit as immi
grants only so many aliens from any
land as she can Americanize,” said Dr.
Gulick. “Americanization takes place
largely throught tlioso of any nation
ality already Americanized. All new
citizens should take the oath of alle
giance to the flag on July 4. The
adoption of these reforms would pro
vide a solution of tho general immi
gration problem and take care of the
Japanese question very readily.
“Japan does not ask f6r free immi
gration to the United States. The num
ber of Japanese laborers In the United
States now is 10,000 less than it was
eight years ago. All Japan wants is
that those of her people who are al
ready here shall ho protected accord
ing to tho treaties existing between
the two eountires.”
ORDER MINING EDITIONS
The forthcoming number of the Nome
Nugget Mining Edition is progressing
nicely. It will undoubtedly be more
interesting than any previous editions
and will contain many subjects other
than mining—in fact a magazine de
picting the entire peninsula. An in
creased edition will be published this
year and there will probably bo enough
for all, but to Insure 'receiving your
copies it would be best to send In your
order at once, EOc per copy, or $5.00 a
dozen. Postage S cents per copy.
Now is the time for fruit-jars. Get
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BOOM IN STEEL.
A recent rev iew of the situation in
the iron and steel trade, in a newspaper
published in the center of the industry,
shows conditions which have scarcely
ever been duplicated, even during sea
sons of unbounded prosperity.
Working at full capacity, the steel
plants will require full six months’ time
to fill the orders which have already
been placed with them. The orders re
ceived during June were 400.000 tons
greater than the output of the steel]
plants for that month.
The greatest total tonnage of agri
cultural products ever moved in the
United States will he handled by the
transportation lines this year. OJreat
increases In railroad equipment are
imperative. The agricultural classes of
the United States, when the present
crops are harvested and sold, will have
more money to spend than ever before
in history. The Increased purchasing
power of the agricultural community
means an enlarged movement of goods
from other places Into the farming
states.
The shipyards of the United States
are busy as they never were before.
Their consumption of steel never ap
proached such figures as at present.
Motor vehicle plants are dally increas
ing their orders, and there is an In
creasing demand also for steel from all
other countlres with which w;c have
developed an export trade. Taking pre
sent and future prospects, it Is abso
lutely certain that the output of the
steel mills of the country for the re
mainder of this year, and probably for
more than a year to come, will reach
a stupendous total.
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