SHIPPING BOARD SAVES
$600,000, LEEHEY ASSERTS
Maurice D. Leehey told the inter
departmental commission at Seattle
that some local regulatory body or
commission living in. Alaska is nec
essary to regulate ocean shipping and
adjust complications arising in water
transportation, lie stated that the
Alaska Territorial Shipping board'had
saved the people of Alaska at least
$600,000 by preventing the proposed
increase in freight rates last fall. He
said it developed that such increase
was suggested hr the Canadian lines
in correspondence with the American
steamship companies at Seattle. In
deed. such an increase wps once an
nounced by K. I*. Clark, of the Alas
ka Steamship Company, while the Ad-»
miral line issued a statement, when it
withdrew the Senator from the Nome
run. that it was losing money, and
would have to increase rates.
R. M. Semmes, traffic adviser of
the Territorial Shipping board, and
his accountants were engaged at that
time in assembling traffic data, a
summary of which has been published
in the hearing of the senate committee
on commerce last March. The steam
ship companies granted another in
crease in wages in August, and an in
crease in the price of fuel oil was an
nouneed, ho they declared it wodld be
necessary to increase rates. A con
ference with fiovernor Higgs was had,
and notice was served by Mr. Leeliey
| that any increase in rates would be
resisted. The Territorial Shipping
board has thus far prevented the pro
posed increase, although the price nf|
fuel nil is increasing. Mr. Leehey,
says they are prepared to show th it
any increase in rates would cripple
the Territory and so reduce traffic that
the revenues of the lines would be ac
| tually diminished by any increase in
The increase proposed last fait
would average $1 per ton. The Alas
I kn and Pacific Steamship companies
I last year handled 295.490 tons of
northbound freight and 278,199 tons
| southbound, a total of 573,698 tons. It
:s believed that traffic this year wi>l
exceed 60j),000 t .ns, in view of the In
creased 'tmnnr; . f t’*c Alas’ ar, En
gineering commlplon, «o that a> aver,
age increase if *i per ton metes a
saving to the people of Alaska this
year of oter $600,000. Indeed, the
saving is greater, because it was also
proposed to increase passenger rates.
Mr I.echcy cited this in his argument
for the control of Alaska affairs by a
by a body resident in the Territory,
along the lines proposed by Secretary
Lane and embodied In the Curry bill,
creating a development board in Alas
ka to,take over the work now handled
by the federal bureaus in the Terri
Mr. l^eehey referred to the traffic
data and financial statements pub
lished in the hearings before the sen
ate commerce committee last March.
He told Dr. Alfred H. Brooks the fig
ures there published gave only the
summary, but the Territorial Ship
ping board has several hundred pages
of detailed statements, which he in
vited Dr. Brooks and his committee
to examine. The data goes into every
phase of the traffic and costs of opera
tion in the Territory. He stated this
data has been collected by the Alaska
Territorial Shipping board at a cost of
$15,000. It is the only complete Al
aska traffic data ever assembled, while
the meager data collected by the Uni
ted States Shipping board in its in
vi-itigstion of Alaska water traffic :n
101S is reported to have ■ ost the gov
ernment over $80,000.
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MINE ROMMCE OF THE
MOTH IS RECALLED
Twenty years ago It. Helmerson
(Uncovered what he considered an ex
cellent prospect on ground in Yankee
Cove Basin, the other side of Auk
Bay. At that time It was impossible
for him to either get the ground or
obtain a lease on the property. Rut
he never gave up hope of some day
getting a chance to follow his hunch
and prospect the ground?jfeellhg eer
tain that the pay was there and that
it would moan a homes take for him
if hi* once Rot an opportunity to upon
up the veins.
Itecently, while on the outside, in* j
learned that it was possible to get a.
lease on the property, which now Is.
owned by Pete Early. He lost no
time in returning to Juneau, and im
mediately upon his arrival there took i
steps to got control of the property.
Mr. Helmerson left on the gas boat
Dixon for the scene of his new ven
ture anil proposes to immediately
open up the property in which he yet
has the faith he was imbued with
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FRISCO LEADING COAST
BUSINESS CENTER
In spite «f a most remarkable com
mercial and industrial growth during
the past twenty years, Seattle still
ranks far behind San Francisco in the
volume of her business, judging from
the Clearing House reports printed
In the coast newspapers. These, gen
erally speaking, show such wide dis
parity between the- volume of Seattle
and San Francisco business as to leave
no doubt that the latter city is in a
class by itself when compared with
the balance of the coast business cen
Alhtough occasionally displaying
spurts of considerable magnitude on
the whole the Spirit City averages but
little ahead of Portland in the amunot
of business done through the Clearing
The following statement of Clearing
House returns taken at random from i
one of the leading: coast newspapers,
the San Francesco Examiner of JPun >
13, 1920. provides a fair example of the
relative difference in the business of
co and other
The figures:
12th, the day
Seattle and San Franc
coast business centers
given are those of Jum
preceding publication.
San Francisco..
Seattle.
Spokane .
Tacoma.
As shown by this statement, the
volume of San Francisco business or*
that date was more than equal to that
of the otfcer four cities combined, and
also over three times that of Seattle
2.700.000
7.501.000
7.866.000
2,517,000,
1.152.000
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FOOD FOR TROUOHT
When you change a girl's name for
her you discover that a girl by any
other name is not as sweet.
Fifty years ago a story had to have
a Moral. But nowadays a story has
to have an Immoral.
Hair tonic used to he used exter
nally to raise hair. Rut nowadays it
is used internally to raise H—1.
A foreigner might /Imagine that
there is a law in this country com
pelling an American to spend four
hours a day arguing, politics. But
there isn’t.
A girl will paint her face and go
out half naked and then get mad be- j
cause she attracts so much attention. I
Any man who has a wife and six
children knows that all the serfs are
not in Russia and all the peons are
not in Mexico. »
Every married woman believes that
every other married woman is hap
pier than she is.
Some one is always taking the Joy
out of life. The fall skirts aro to be
wider and will come all the way down
to the ankle.
About one man in fifty knows how
to carry a cane and not look like he
was loaded down with excess bag
Even If you have no lawn mower,
it is well to buy a bottle of machine
oil. You can lend the oil to your
neighbors.
You can Jax* to all the other Blues.
But you do not do much Jasxing when
you have the Matrimonial Blues.
The man who works with a pick
and shovel can't understand why his
Foreman makes more money than he
After a young married nan finds
out how much it costs to make up,
he isn't so anxious to quarrel with
his wife.
A wife will do almost anything her
husband wants her to do unless she
finds out that he wants her to do It.
About the time she begins getting
careless and lolls around the house
minus her hair rind her complexion,
he begins to get careless and Quits
having every day and begins to eat
RUSSIAN WAR BRIDES
STRANDED IN MANILA
WILL BE SENT TO U. S.
Manila,—Three hundred or more i
Russian "war brides" who have come |
here from Siberia with their Amor- ]
lean soldier husbands, are to he sent ]
to the United States by the govern
ment as soon as transportation is
These brides come front every sta
tion in life from the peasant gi 1 to
the college graduate and a number had
been nccustomou to the luxuries of life
before war and revolution drove them
from their homes.
Their experiences in Manila, prob
ably have been a disappointment to
most of them, as their soldier hus.(
band* on the meager pay of a
month have been unable to support a
family, house rent and food prices
having almost doubled here w ithin the
last year.
To prevent these Russian girls from
actually suffering, the Red Cross and
other charitable organizations, have
provided them with shelter and food.
They are willing to work, but having
no knowledge of KngHsh or Span is’1,
they are unable to find employment i i
any of the stores in Manila and na
tive men .and boys are prefernd for
house servants.
After several weeks of investiga
lion ns to the best disposition to make
>f llie war bride's and their soldier
Husbands, the army authorities decid
i- I that they, with few exceptions,
■should !»<• sent to the United States
tnd there distrlbued among the army
•amps and posts, where quarters a e
ivailnble for married enlisted mei.
ri'ese. the department of the Philip
pines is not aide to provide. < »nly
:hose enlisted men with wives who
tave an income in addition to their
irmy pay will lie permitted to remain
n the Philippines.
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SURVEYORS TO EXTEND
LINES IN GOAL REGION
Tin* steamer Y'ukon brought the
heads of three survey parties to In
terior Alaska to continue work already
started and to undertake new surveys
required in several sections, says the
Nenans News. Woodbury Abbey, who
has spent several summers in this
part of Alaska, came to Nennna to
complete the survey of leasing units
in the coal Helds south of town: K.
O. CJuerin, also well known in the Fr.
I terior. will work south from Fairbanks
with a party, running township lines
and making special surveys in the im
mediate vicinity of Fairbanks: and
J. F. Warner left the steamer at Ragle
to attend to special work along the
Yukon river.
Mr. Abbey will take a party >»f
about eight men into the flehl with
him, leaving town shortly ami make
his headquarters for the present it
lignite. where he will pick up the
work where it was left off last year.
Later in the summer he probably will
•>-*sist Col. Gotwals of the Mask* Load
commission in making a revonnais
a nee of the proposed Kantislma wag
on road route.
Col. Gotwals and Territorial See
rotary It. .1. Sommers are coming
Interior Alaska next month for tin
purpose of investigating Kantislma
road needs and outlining the work
that j>ropahly will be undertaken next
Hummer. Funds are now available
for tin* reconnaisence and the visit of
the road commission officials was de
cided on before Mr. \bboy last Ju
To Establish Health Centers.
S. Louis. Mo.— Intensive surveys
arc being made by the 1’niu.nl States
Public Health Service of school and
home conditions of children in several
sections of Missouri. It is expected
to result in medical supervision of
schools and the establishment of
health centers where deficient child
ren may receive medical attention.
TRAPPERS RETURN FROM
WINTER IN TAKU VALLEY
Wright Wenright and partner, Jack
Johnson, returned recently from the
Taku Uiver where they spent the win
' ter trapping. They report that the
trapping season in the Taku Valley
was not very prosperous, hut they
got nine hears as well as other furs.
Their camp was about twenty five
miles beyond the International Hound
ary in British Columbia.
According to Mr. Wen l ight, whe-e
in the years past there was only two
trappers, the past winter there were
at least a dozen, thus dividing up the
fur catch considerably.
Not having shaved since leaving
town last winter Mr. Wenright had
one of the finest sets of ‘‘Bolsheviki’’
whiskers seen in Juneau in a long
time.—Juneau Capital.
LAWS AFFECTING
MIGRATORY BIRDS
Ab there seems to he misunder
standings regarding the laws affecting
migratory birds, the following infor
mation is given to the public by the
Governor's office.
The migratory bird treaty net pass
ed by Congress and approved July Srd,
1918, is the only act now in effect
governing the killing of migratory
hlrds. So much of the act as affects
Alaska is as follows:
Migratory birds include the follow
ing: Wild ducks, geese, swans,
cranes, curlews, snipes and yellow
Migratory birds may be killed only
with a gun, not larger than a number
ten guage, and fired from the shoulder.
They may be taken during the open
season from the land or water with a
blind or floating devise with the aid
of a dog and the use of decoys. They
can not be taken with the akl or from
a power boat, sail boat or any floating
devise towed by power boat or sail
The open season In Alaska is from
September 1st to December 15th, both
dates inclusive.
The bag limit in any one day during
the open season is aa follows: Twen
ty five ducks In the aggregate of all
kinds; eight geese in the aggregate of
Migratory birds may be transported
in the Territory during tho open sea
son as provided for in tho regulatlqns.
Migratory birds cannot be offered
for sale, cannot bo sold, and It is un
lawful to offer to purchase or purchase
such birds.
Copies of tho migratory bird treaty
act and regulations may be secured
from the Governor's office upon re
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