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May 19 FARRAGUT May 27
May 28 WATSON June 4
June 4 EVANS June 12
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GATHERED FROM
Late reports from the Goodpaster
country state that good prospects
have been found on several creeks in
that section.
“Spud” Martin, a well known Fair
banks rancher, has recently disposed
of five tons of potatoes grown by him
self at $150 per ton.
The Alaska Loyal League of Fair
banks is taking a census of the popu
lation of that town to ascertain the
number of males of military age.
Forty-eight citizens have enrolled
in the home guard at Seward. Adju
tant J. C. Luttrell, a Spanish War
veteran, has been chosen as instructor.
The baseball season at Cordova op
ened last Sunday with a game be
tween the Blum-O’Neill team and the
railroad boys. The railroad boys won
by a score of 7 to 5.
The Pauli boys, on Amy creek, Liv
ingood district, have drifted 40 feet
down the hill from their prospect
shaft and say the pay is showing up
better all the time.
It is estimated that there is better
than half a million dollars on top of
the ground on Livingood creek, with
some time yet to work before the
spring sluicing begins.
TIDE TABLE FOR ANCHORAGE.
Friday, May 18.
High Water . 4:02 a. m. 31.7 feet
Low Water .10:34 a. in. -2.1 feet
’High Water . 4: r»2 a. m. 29.3 feet
Low Water .10:38 p. m. 2.3 feet
Saturday, May 19.
High Water . 1:17 a. in. 32.5 feet
Low Water .11:19 a. m. ::.l feet
High Water . 5:39 p. in. 30.1 feet
Low Water .11:25 p. m. 2.2 feet
TRAIN SCHEDULE.
Effective 12:01 a. m., Monday, April
2 3, 1917, a mixed passenger and freight
train w'ill be run between Anchorage
anti Matanuska, Matanuska and King,
p.nd between Anchorage and Rabbit on
the following schedule:
Main Line.
Northbound Southbound
Daily ex. Daily ex.
Sunday Sunday
Leave Arrive
7:30a.m... 0.0 Anchorage .. 9:15p.m.
7:55a.m... 4.8 Whitney .... 8:50p.m.
8:25 a. m.. . 12.3 Kuney . 8:30 p.m.
9:10 a. m... 21.8 Birchwood ... 7:50 p.m.
9:40 a. in.. .27.6 Eklutna . 7:20 p.m.
Arrive Leave
10:10 a. m.. 36.4 Matanuska .. 6:45 p.m.
Matanuska Branch
Northbound Southbound
Daily' ex. Daily' Ex.
Sunday' Sunday' 1
Leave Arrive!
11:00 a. m.. 36.4 Matanuska .. 6:20 p.m.
11:30 a. m.. 42.9 Palmer . 5:55 p.m..
12:20 p. m..49.5 Moose Creek. 5:25 p.m.
Arrive Leave
12:40 p. m.. 55.0 Eska . 4:50 p.m.
Leave Arrive
12:50 p. m..55.0 Eska . 3:08 p.m.
1:10 p. m.. 58.7 Granite . 2:53p.m.
Arrive Leave
1:25 p. m..60.6 King . 2:45 p.m.
Main Line
Southbound Northbound
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday only.
Leave Arrive
9:00 a.m... 0.0 Anchorage .. 10:45 a.m.
9:20a.m... 5.0 Campbell ... 10:25a.m.
Arrive Leave
9:45 a. m.. . 10.4 Rabbit . 10:00 a.m.
Mixed train leaving Anchorage north
bound will stop Just north of road cross
ing, Terminal Yard, Anchorage.
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In an action recently brought in the
district court at Fairbanks, D. H.
Cascaden, a well known mining man
of that section, is accused of erasing
the name of the plaintiff, Pat O’Con
nor from the location of the claim.
Owing to the cavein at the Tread
well mine the Treadwell club building
was thrown out of plumb, but repairs
are being made and it is expected the
building can Zte fixed up as good as
new.
The Cordova clam canning plants
are working day and night to take
care of the large amounts of raw ma
terial being brought in by the diggers,
and expect to put up a record pack
this year.
A petition signed by more than 200
residents of Douglas has been pre
sented to U. S. Marshal Tanner, of the
First division, asking that he retain
Harry F. Morton as deputy marshal
at that place.
George Hutchinson, cashier of the
First National Bank of Fairbanks, is
authority for the statement that the
output of the Tolovana country this
season will reach a million to a mil
lion and a quarter.
uif uicuun company, operating tne
big copper mine at Valdez, has in
creased their force of men by 20 or
30 the past month ami are putting
thousands of tons of ore on the dump
ready for shipment.
Royal Pullen, Jack Johnson and
Fred Porter, three Treadwell engin
eers, entered the old 700 tunnel re
cently and rescued 14!) sacks of pota
toes which had been stored there
previous to the cavein.
In a recent issue of the Ketchikan
Progressive-Miner it was stated that
William Holzheimer, assistant dis
trict attorney of that place, is a can
didate for the office of district attor
ney for the Third division.
Advices received in Fairbanks a few
days ago state that the Overland road
house, 50 miles south of Fairbanks, on
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the government wagon road, was to
tally destroyed by fire. The building
and contnts are a total loss. The place
was operated by Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Burgess and has enjoyed a large pat
ronage.
The Nome Nugget states that na
tives may be seen almost any day on
Front street with two or three car
cases of seals. They look too repul
sive to eat but are an important arti
cle of diet among the Eskimos. White
men who have been compelled by cir
cumstances to subsit on seal meat say
it is not so bad and has the taste of
good pork.
M. D. Snodgrass, the government
expert agriculturist, has been making
an exhaustive investigation of the big
marl desposit recently discovered on
the homestead of P. Lynch near An
chorage. Mr. Snodgrass is of the
opinion that the deposit has consider
able fertilizer value, and some of the
material will be tested by the Anchor
age gardeners this season. The de
posits are practically unlimited.
Peterson’s hotel has additional new
rooms now ready. 2
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WASHINGTON, D. C., May 5.—
There is one preparedness measure
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that is raising “merry Cain” among
members of the national guard as well
as in the regular army. There are
1 signs that in some of the states the
national guardsmen may go so far in
their hostility to it as to perpetuate
1 “round robins.”
The bill in question was introduced
' by Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon,
chairman of the senate committee on
military affairs. It prohibits the sale
or use of tobacco in army camps. The
i prominence of Senator Chamberlain
in military matters and his great in
fluence over army legislation have
caused the bill to be treated Very se
riously. Senator Ollie James, of the
■ tobacco producing state of Kentucky,
is leading the opposition to the bill in
the senate and has made known his
intention to fight it to the last ditch.
National guard officers are de
nouncing the measure as unpatriotic
and are declaring that it will result in
wholesale desertions and absences
without leave and will practically kill
enlistments. The District of Colum
bia national guard, being nearest to
the seat of government and in closest
touch with legislation is the first to
[flan a “round robin” of protest to be
signed by every officer and man of the
district guard. This is to be sent to
the capitol. In addition Col. Glendie
G. Young, of the district guard, has
just given out a tobasco-like state
ment in which he says:
“It is outrageous. If such a law is
passed it will knock recruiting into
a cocked hat. A user of tobacco who
either can’t or doesn’t want to give
up the habit is not going to join the
army if he knows that by so doing he
will have to quit smoking. To put it
more plainly if we tell a civilian who
likes to smoke or chew that he can't
do either it is a dead certainty he will
keep as far away from an army camp
! as he can conveniently get.
“But that is only one feature of the
thing. As I understand it, the bill
specifically prohibits the use or sale
of tobacco in the army camps. There
are a lot of men—a majority—al
ready in the army who are confirmed
addicts of the tobacco habit. To force
them to abandon the habit suddenly
will wreck their nervous system.
“But if the law is passed it will
have to be enforced as far as possible.
Therefore, the men wont’ stay in
camp. They will ask for passes or
furloughs, probably, but if they don’t
get them they will go anyway.
“The result will be that the court
martial judges will be working over
time continually and re-enlistments
will be about as numerous as German
sympathizers in the war department.
“Nobody denies that excessive use
: of tobacco is harmful or that total
; abstinence tends toward greater effi
! ciency, both mental and physical, es
pecially the latter. But why pick out
j the army as the goat for the begin
ning of this wonderful reform ? If
1 they want to abolish the use of to
bacco well and good, but let them be
gin with civilians. I will certainly
sign any protest against such a law
as it is absolutely unfair to the sol
j dier. It is a plain case of discrimina
tion.”
Capt. Thomas E. Fawcett, of the 3rd
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I infantry, district national guard, also
is out in a statement which sizzles.
“It looks,” he says, “like some of the
people over there at the capitol con
sider us bad boys who must be
watched and scolded and disciplined
every minute. Next thing they’ll be
abolishing drill and substituting daily
church service instead.”
Senator James is gathering togeth
er information to be used in fighting
the bill. A considerable part of this
information will be a presentation of
the l-ules and regulations of other gov
ernments with reference to the use of
tobacco in their armies. He will show
that the great powers now warring in
Europe not only do not ban tobacco
from their armies but deal out the
weed in the form of rations to their
soldiers. It will be shown that ciga
rettes are regarded almost on a foot
ing with medicine and surgery in the
care given a wounded man.
Opposition to the Chamberlain anti
tobacco bill is becoming intense, both
in the army and out of it, and it is
considered doubtful whether, notwith
standing its influential promoter, it
gets very far in the law making body.
We are prepared to locate miners
on good placer ground, also dredging
and hydraulic. Anchorage Abstract
& Title Co. 50.3 Fourth Ave. 56
NOTICE FOB PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior, U. S.
Land Office at Juneau. Alaska, April 7,
1917.
NOTICE is hereoy given that Oliver
C. Miller, of Knik. Alaska, who on Oc
tober 14, 1916, made Homestead applica
tion No. 03320, for SEVa Sec. 5, WV4
SW Vi Sec. 4. EV&NEU Sec. 8,
NWVi, Section 9, Township 18 N., Range
1 E., Seward Meridian, has filed notice
of intention to make five year Proof, to
establish claim to the land above de
scribed, before Leopold David, United
States Commissioner, at his office at
Anchorage, Alasna, on the 15th day of
June, 1917.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Albert CrorKer, Carl Johnson, Ed
Mullin, all or Knik, Alaska.
L. S. Sears, of Matanuska, Alaska.
C. R WALKER, Register.
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were 367 savings accounts to every 1,000 of population in Germany, 379 out of 1,000 in France, 342 out of 1,000 in the United Kingdom, but only 218
out of 1,000 in the United States. In other words, there were nearly twice as many savers, in a given number, among the people of these European
powers, as there were in the United States! No wonder they have been able to astonish the United States by the way they have financed the more
than forty billion dollars already invested in the war. THEY WERE BETTER SAYERS THAN WE. We can well learn from their example and
add more generally the splendid quality of thrift to our own undoubted spirit of patriotism. It is the privilege of this bank through its
facilities to be of practical assistance to all who are practicing thrift.
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