D [SIGNS M iCHANT
VESSEL INVISIBLE TO
THE SUBMARIN 5
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—Thomas A. Edison has de
signed merchant ships so that they are invisible to subma
rine enemies. The success of his experiments has been
proven by a trip across the ocean by one of the boats thusj
designed. . ...
By his plan a freighter, for instance, is without a
skyline. Masts forward and aft, used to move cargo, are
hinged so that they can be laid down flat and a portion of
the funnel can be removed to the deck line. The painting
scheme is also carried out so that the \essel is absolutely
invisible at a short distance. Sufficient hard coal is taken
to drive the vessel 300 miles, or across the submarine zone.
. It. is declared that the inventor is at work on electri
cally driven boats which will prove another forward step.
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WON! N RIOTERS
IN AUSTRIA AR ■
SHOT BY POLICE
• LONDON, Nov. 7— Additional advices received about
the closing of the Swiss-Austrian border indicate that the
internal situation in Austria is much more serious than
w* as first supposed.
Pood riots have taken place in V ienna, Presburg,
Prunn, Liabach and other communities, most of the riot
ers being women.
They paid no attention to the police. The latter fired
point "blank into the crows, so the advices claim, killing
many persons.
Private advices indicate that the food situation is se
rious, and that all warehouses and food depots are guard
ed with picked soldiers.
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Thomas Riggs, Jr,, one of the three members of the
Alaska Engineering Commisison, will be nominated foi
governor of Alaska by President W ilson some time dui -
ing January. This is the report received in Seward today
and comes fraom the highest of authority. Mr. Riggs is
now returning to Nenana to wind up his affairs as rail
road commissioner, with a view to accepting the govei
norship. He will leave for Washington the latter part 01
this month or the first of December. By that time every- j
thing will have been lined up for the appointment which
will be made in January. , ,
Those who have been in close touch of political af
fairs, know that the name of Gov. Strong was sent to the
President by Secretary Lane about two months ago.
The appointment was returned by the President, sim
ply marked “unsatisfactory.”
Mr. Lane had done his part, as promised uov. ouuug
when the latter was in Washington about two months ago.
Mr. Riggs had previously] declined to be a candidate
but according to all reliable reports has changed his in
tentions and is now an active candiate and will receive the
appointment, according to tho best of information from
Washington, and various political centers in Alaska.
It was believed here several weeks ago that Mr.
Riggs asked for more time to complete certain matters
in connection with the Nenana branch of the Alaska Rail'
road. This is the work he is now to do upon his return
When Mr. Riggs was in Seward a couple of weeks
ago he professed the greatest interest in the goveinoi
ship and plainly showed that he was an active candidate
for the position. Mr. Riggs refused at that time to make
any positive statement but subsequent events bear out the
above line-up.
Since beginning active construction work in -June,
15)16, Mr. Riggs has accomplished much under conditions
that* have been anything but favorable. The first big
problem was camp construction, inasmuch as the whole
tent village would have to be housed before the fi eeze-up,
the middle of October, but on account of the short season
of navigation on the Tanana River it was a question
whether sufficient lumber could be moved from Fairbanks
and Wood River to do the work. Then, too, the purchas
ers of townsite lots on the 24th of August, in their anxiety
to build before snowfail, boosted the price of lumber so
that the commission’s supply was lost for a time and the
wages paid carpenters were so much in excess of the com
mission rate that their services were lost at the time when
they were most needed. These difficulties, however, did
not seem to worry Riggs, for by the 15th ol October he
had his employees comfortably housed and a montn later
he put his power plant in operation. At Anchorage, where
they had the advantage of an earlier start and quicker de
livery of material, they didn’t get their power plant under
way until the middle of December.
In April'of the present year Mr. Riggs began lay-,
ing steel, which arrived on the last boat in September,,
1916, and in face of floods, labor disturbances, uncertainty
of appropriations, and inability to get matei ials he has
completed thirteen miles of the road to the south of Ne
nana, re-ballasted and overhauled the twelve miles of the
Tanana Valley railroad between Fairbanks and Happy
Station that is to form part of the main line, and in the
remaining 44 miles between Fairbanks and Nenana all
clearing and about half of the grading has been completed.
All grading has been completed to 43 miles south of Ne
nana and everything is ready for the rails.
Mr. Riggs has promised the people of Fairbanks coal.
from the Lignite coal fields, 57 miles south of Nenana, by
the fall of 1918, but since the war has greatly curtailed the
source of supply of materials necessary to the construc
tion it is a question whether he will be able to keep his
promise or not. The working season is so short that to be!
of any use for next season materials must be on the ground
before the freeze-up this season.
During July of the past summer when a general
strike threatened to tie up the whole interior operation
Mr. Riggs proved, beyond a doubt, by bringing a perman
ent, harmonious working organization out of chaos that
he is an executive of exceptional ability.
The fact that Mr. Riggs is a hustler and is an execu
tive of proved ability are two of the best reasons why the
people of Alaska will be glad to welcome him as their
leader.
All hail! Governor Thomas Riggs, Jr!
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BOOZE MAY GO TO
FOUR BITS A GLASS
JUNEAU, Nov. 1.—(By Mail).—
Ilooze in Juneau may go to 50 cents
a drink before December SI, the legal
closing date for the sale of intoxicants
in Alaska, says the Dispatch.
This prediction is freely made by
people in a position to know just how
much liquor is available and the nor
mal consumption on Gastineau chan
nel. Already with prohibition two
months away the shelves in the Ju
neau liquor stores are running bare,
and barrel reserves are being tapped.
The supply is limited. During the
war, at least, manufacture of whisket
is impossible. During the summer and
early fall months whiskey was with
drawn from bond in enormous lots, U \
escape the new tax. That accounts for
the heavy showing made in the recent
reports of the internal revenue depart
ment.
Anticipating this heavy tax and
prohibition of the manufacture and
importation of whiskey, of course the
dealers stocked up heavily. They did
not anticipate, however, what has
come to pass, that they would have
to nay the increased tax of $2.10 a
gallon. Hence, unearned increment is
not being realized.
Instead, these retailers, or most of
them, at any rate, are facing an acute
financial problem. They raked to
gether all the money they could get
and bought whiskey. They now find
that they must get together more
money, $2.10 a gallon, in fact, for all
liquor on hand. Only 50 gallons is ex
empt. If a dealer has 50 barrels in
store, not an unusual amount, he must
raise the money to pay the added tox
on 400 gallons, which amounts to $840.
To get this money is not an easy task
in most cases.
What will be the result?
First of all, the condition that has
been brought about is this: There
has been a general rise in the market
values of all whiskies, an advance
ranging as high as 60 cents a quart.
In Cincinnati the price of whiskey in
the open market is $4.60 a gallon, with
a rising tendency.
Prices which had been raising ail
summer took another skyward move
when President Wilson signed the war
revenue measure.
Except in the case of steady drink
ers, who must have their eye openers
and night-caps, whether or not, and
those who go on sprees occasionally,
there is a tendency among whiskey
drinkers either to cut down the num
ber of their potations, or turn to beer.
It is even said in certain quarters that
men who have not the whiskey habit
too firmly fixed, are abstaining alto
gether from intoxicants, and turning
to soft drinks.
Beer, too, has risen in price. The
tax has not gone up so much, but the
brewers say that because of the high
er prices of materials they can no
longer make beer at the old price,
hence have raised the price from $8 to
$10 a barrel.
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