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The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08
NEW YORK HAD
 IT DRY BEFORE
 THE NEW YEAR
Usual Noise Carnival but No Liquor to
 Help CeIebrantS
 Get BOiSterOuS.

NEW YORK, Jar. S.-(By MaiD- When the chimes of "Old Trinity" heralded the coming of 1917 at 11:5O o'clock New York greeted the an nouncement with its usual carnival Of noise, but it was the dryest New Years Eve the city had seen in many years.
 In the face of Mayor MitchelPs threat to revoke the license of those who disobeyed his orders, revelry ceased in hotels and restaurants promptly at l o'clock. In recompeRse for the curtailing of their liberties tonight New Workers will be per mitted to drink to the health of 1917 until a. m tomorrow night
 But the mayor placed no ban on a bOi5terOus demonstration at mid night. The sirens of river craft joined in the horus of church bells as the hour struck. Countless thou. sands in the streets added 10 the din with horns and cOwbells. Pa trOlmeu were stationed every twenty. five feet on Broadway, from thirty fourth street to FiCty.ninth street. There were no vacant seats either in the restaurants famous along the Great White Way" or in those less widely known.
 "Watch.night" services were held in the scores of churches while pas tors offered prayers for worldwide peace
 Several thousand persons who at tended a mass meeting in Washing. ton Square under the auspices of the American neutral conference joined in sending a message to President Wilson, and the crowd joined in singing "Rng Out Old Wars, Ring in World Peace," and with America"
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08
Lnke McLnkn Says

A thick-hcadCd man has so lit tel sense that it makes him laugl to see a girl with her face buried up to her eyes in a fur collar ant her limbs exposed from the knees down.
 Some nuts act as if they were afraid they might get blinded i. they ever looked on the bright sidC Of life.
 Once in a while you will run in to a married man who believes that women are so contrary that they would rather be married than be happy.
 We don't know much. But wC do know that any girl would rather have a Cupids-bow mouth than have an arrow one.
 Nature is doing better work late ly and is making fewer mistakes You hardly ever hear of a Female Barytone or Male Soprano any more.
 What has become of the old-fash- toned girl who wasn't ashamed to have freckles on her face, but who was ashamed to have paint on her face?
 Married men and convicts can't understand why it is that men who are free do not appreciate their freedom.
 We may not be able to compete with Germany on other kinds of dyes. But we lead the world on nose dye.
 Just because her face is foured up until she looks like marshmal- low, don't imagine that she is a candy kid.
 Any married man can tell you that the best way to make your wife talk is to tell her to keep still.
 It is the very things that Moth 'r likes about a young man that Daughter does not like about him.
 A little girl would like to wear Ter Sunday clothes every day in the week. But 1t is different with a lit- le boy.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08
STATES MINES PRODUCE
 MANY BILLIONS
Production during 1916 Estimated at Twenty Five Percent.
 Increase.

WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-Three billion dollars is the value put upon the 1916 output of American mines in estimates made to Secretary Lane by the geological survey, copper alone netting about $3OO,OO0.OOO.
 Production, it is estimated, has run at least % per cent. ahead of 1915.
 The copper output was the sen sation of the year in the mining world. At an average price of 27 cents a pound the 1916 production had a value of S52O,OOO,OOO com pared with $243,OOO,OOO the year before. The profits were the great est ever known in the metal. Prices lvcraged slightly more than 27 cents against about r cents in 1915. Ar Izona led the states in copper pro- duction, mining 675,OOO,OOO pounds against 432,OOO,OOO pounds the year before. Montana came second with 35O,0OO.OOO pounds and Michigan was third with 2G9,OOO,OOO. Alaska mined I2O,OOO,OOO pounds, which was almost twice ;he 1915 produc- ton. Tennessee alone failed to in- crease it's yield,
 Heavy Production of Iron.
 Shipments of iron ore amounted lo $17S,OOO,OOO, an increase of $77,- 100000 over 1915. The country's mines produced 75,5OOO,OOO gross tons, against 55,OOO,OOO the year before. Production of pig iron dur ing the year made a record with 39,- 100000 tons, against 2O,0O0,OO0 .ons in 1915. The coal mines sold j9T5OO,OOO tons, compared with j7O,0OO,OOO, the record established in 1913. The quantity of bitu- ninous mined was 5OO,OOO,OOO, an increase of 6G,5OO,OOO over last year.
 Preliminary estimates indicate 4 per cent. more crude petroleum was marketed in 1916 shan in 1915. The total amount produced is put lt 292,SOO,OOO barrels. About 3S per cent of this came from the Oak lahoma-Kansas fields, 30 per cent. from California and the remainder from the Appalachian, Indiana, H. linois, North Texas, North Louis jana, Gulf Coast and Rocky Noun tain fields.
 The 1916 domestic output of quicksilver was valued at $3,643,- 900, the greatest in value since 1875. High prices stimulated un- usual activity in the Western States
 The value of spelter from United States ore in 1916 was $15O,OOO,- 900. The output of zinc increased 95,O0O tons, making a new record for the metal. Lead also showed a large increase. the 75,OOO,OOO out put representing a gain of 50 per cent.
 Every Western state shows a big mining gain. Arizona's output alone shows an increase of $1OO,OOO,0OO; Utah and Montana combined show another $1OOO,OOO,OOO. Utah, Mon tana, Nevada and Idaho combined paid $G6,OOO,OOO in dividends dur ing the year.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08
YUKON EXPORTS WERE LARGE FOR
 THE YEAR 191 s

During the year 1916 the exports
 from Southern Yukon amounted to approximately $1,OOO,OOO, $9AOOO be- ing raw rurs and the other $9OGOOO copper and other ores, all of the furs and about 50 per cent of the ores being consigned to parties in the United States and the remainder of the ores to smelters in British Columbia.
 The value of the orc shipments is partly estimated. During the first eight months of the year all ores from that district were shipped to the shelter at Tacoma, Wash, and amounted to $87S,S42. Since that time there have been only about S49,- 232 worth of ores shipped to Tacoma, although the Pueblo and Grafter mines have greatly increased their output and several new copper pro- ducers have been added to the list, We believe, therefore, that t is safe to assume that a very low estimate would bring these British Columbia
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08
OUR NEW POSSESSIONS

The Danish West Indies will come into the pos, session of the United States sometime this month. The treaty by which pay S25OOOOOO for the Islands has been ratified by the Danish people. Previously it had been ratified by the unanimous vote of the people Of the Islands. All that now remains is for Congress to appropriate 225OOOOOO and for the Unit cd States to pay it over.
 The newest American possessions are a continua- ton Of the marine elevation of which Cuba, Jamaica Hayt and Porto Rico are a part. They lie off the east coast Of Porto Rico and St. Thomas, the most famous of the islands Is 3S miles distant from that island St. John island lies about F miles east of St Thomas, and St. Croix lies 50 miles south of St John and St. Thomas and 50 miles southeast of Porto Rico. The islands have area of approximately 9OOOO acres. St CroN. the largest of them, is about 20 miles long and from one to five miles wide, while St. John the smallest contains but 20 square miles of area. The combined population is about 35,OOO, mostly negroes. s Thomas is regarded by far the most important of the islands but that largely due
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08
BODY OF MISSING MAN IS FOUND IN
 THE FORK OF TREE

PLACERVILLE, Gal, Jan. S.-In an upright position in the fork of a tree the body of Carl o. Eolstrum, of San Luis Obispo, Calf, reported missing fourteen months ago, was found by hunter in the hills near Placer. vile. Before coming to Placerville some time previous to his disap- pearance from here Holstrum had been in a sanitarlum. It is believed he became confused while wander ing in the hills and that death was due to exhaustion. A letter address, ed to K. w. Holstrum, in Morgan, Or, and dated October 24, 1915, was found in his pockets.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08
up to Q half million d0I.

shipments up to a half million dol lars.
 In addition to the above there have been shipments of gold-sllyer ores too the Tacoma shelter from the At lin and Bennett Lake districts, that amounted to $174SO, and from the same properties to the Anyox and Trail, B. c. smelters many valuable cOnsignments of gold-silyer ores of the value of which we are in ig- nOrance, but which we have reason to believe will run well up into the thousands of dollars.
 The exports from the southern Yukon during 1916 were:
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08

Conner mine dividends for the last year in the limited States reached the enormous total of $l570OO OoO And this does not represent all the profits of copper mining last year by any means. It does not represent the money invested in improvement and preparation for even greater production next year and the years that will follow. It simply represents that portion of the profits that taken out of the in' dus,ry and divided among the investors in copper properties.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08
TO IMPROVE THE MOVIES.

LONDON, Jan. ST. P. oCon- nor, Dopularly known in America as Fay Pay, has been appointed chair man of the board of film ccnsors, an organization created by the nov ie trade in England, to watch over the cinema. Mir OConnor says he hopes to improve the character of the movies, and invites cooperation from leaders of the best thought in the nation.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08
TACOMA VOTES BONDS.

TACOMA, Jan. S.-At the special election here Saturday, Pierce Coun- ty voted for the two million dollar bonds to purchase 10000 acres at American lake for a divisional army post for the U. s. Government.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08
Notice!

When any of the Vets in the Club are in Baltimore they should stop in at the Booze Cafe, at Mar ion and North Liberty streets, and sample some. The proprietor's in- itials are E. z.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08
Totols ....$93,655

IWIWI0 VWWIWIW WTaVI"II
 Other exports to the United States during the same period were: Bo. tanicaI specimens, $2OO; wild animal skins, heads, etc., for mounting $40O; antimony ores from the Wheaton dis trict $5,312; gold-siver ores from Conrad and Bennett Lake districts, $11,4SO; ice from Lake Bennett con signed to Skagway, $1O5. - (Whitc- horse Star)
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08
o. E. s.

Juneau Chapter No. z, Order Of the Eastern Star wyill hold it's regu. lar meeting, Tuesday evening, Jan. 9th at odd Fellows Hall Chapter meeting promptly at 8 o'clock. h. stallatlon ceremonies commence at S:3O sharp.
 j9. MAY F. CASE, Secretary.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08
O,

Some men are always truthful, while others like to fabricate once in a while. But what we started to say was that Will Lye lives at PiQua, Ohio.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08
Gosh |!

Clio Harper informs us that at Walnut Ridge, Ark, there arc two womcn's clubs. One of them is the "T. O. M." Club and tho other is the "C. 4. IT." Club.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08
Oh, Joy!

Peaches may come and cherries may so, but pruncs live on forever. But what we started to say was that Red Strawberry lives at Vale, Tenn.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08

The rapid rise of President Alexander, of the Admiral Line, reads more like romance from the pages of book of fiction, rather than true account of career of young man who won his way from
 longshoremans job the head of the greatest portation company on the Pacific Coast Aexander's career proves that there is always at the top and that the accident of birth has little do with persons journey through life It all depends upon the person himself He rise to the top; be con tent drift along with the tide like average per son, or he can sink to the lowest depths of human depravity. Man is mortal agent; his station in life is made by himself-( Anchorage Times)
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08
Did He2

Dear Luke: Willie Breeze blew into town the other day-(E. A. B., Joplin MissOuri.)
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08

Give us your next order for trans. fer work or coal. Juneau Trsnsfer Company. Phone 4s.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08
Firms Is Firms.

Manly & Young are architects at Lexington, Ky.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08
Names Is Names

Annctta Newcomer lives at Dcs MOinCs, Iowa.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08
Things To Worry About

A white ant produces S6,OOO eggs 3 week.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08
Our Daily Special.

If Ignorance Were Bliss, This Would Be A Contentod World.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08

l.AlI tha News AII Lhe T!me.'
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-08

Headquarters TOT LadyorIth Coal. Juneau Transfer comnanH Phone 4a
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-21
DETECTIVE VISITS VERMONT.
To Look Up Evidence in Case of John
v. Piper.

Burlington, July 2l.-Fhe attorneys
for DR.. w. T. Condor OF New Brunswick,
n. j., the alleged slayer of John V. Piper,
state university college of agriculture,
'l6, had detectives in town lately, look
ing up the history of the murdered man
while he lived here in Vermont. Prof.
G. P. Burns of the college department
of botany was the only man, so far as
known, to whom the detective talked
while here Piper worked under Profes-
sor Burns while at the college and while
instructor for several months up TO Sep
tember, 1916.
The detective said he was going TO Es
sex junction, st. Albans and to Perkins
VILE. where Piper's widow and children
and her mother are passing the summer.
At st. Albans he said he intended to talk
to z. w Pike of Isle La Motto, mem
Der of Piper's class in college and his
closest friend.
The trial of DR.. Condor is set for next
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-21
FURNISHED LIQUOR TO SOLDIERS.
Raymond Burgess of Winooski Was
Fined in Winooski.

Winooski, July 2l.-Raymond Burgess,
native of Randolph, pleaded guilty in
municipal court yesterday to furnishing
liquor to soldiers and was fined $500 and
costs of $7.35. He was taken back to
jail and given time to raise the amount,
which he thought he could do. In COM
pany with two soldiers of Co. F, lst
Vermont, he walked down West Allen
street Thursday evening and into pas
ture to partake of the drinks. Burgess
carried under his arm paper bag, which
contained six bottles OF beer. They were
told while in this pasture to look out for
Chief Barber, who resides in the neigh
borhood. The chief arrived on the spot
just in time to see one of the men in
uniform with one of the bottles. The
soldier thereupon threw the bottle into
the grass upon seeing Chief Barber. Bur-
CESS admitted that he was guilty of
wrong doing in furnishing the soldiers,
but said that he thought he would take
a chance"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-21
MUCH DIspLEASED.
At Order Keeping Plattsburg Military
Men Out Of Burlington.

Burlington, July 2l.-"Eighty cases o
iniantile paralysis in Washington coun
~, this state, is not a good and suffi
cient reason for forbidding members oI
the garrison or training camp at Platts
burg from visiting Burlington without
permission" is the opinion OF Max l.
Powell, expressed last evening.
This order was issued in Plattsbure
Wednesday by Lieut.-Col Wolf, the
camp commander. Mr.. Powell, upon read.
ing the order in Thursdays Free Press
got into communication with the leading
business and transportation men of the
city, and after much thought and consid.
Grafton, dispatched two kilograms to
Washington, one 20 Senator Carroll S.
Page, the other TO Representative Frank
L. Greene, beseeching these gentlemen to
use their high offices in having this order
rescinded.
Mr.. Powell thought, should this order
become effective, IL will do much harm
to the hotel men, transportation compa-
nies and business places of this city and
in that it will stop a heavy
flow of traffic to this place. Already,
large numbers of people have applied for
at the hotels in this city,
both on the way to and from Plattsburg,
and this patronage will have to be can
,elled should this order become effec-
tive.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-21
Y. M. C. A. INFLUENCE.
Is Very Powerful According to Gov. Gra-
hams Estimate.

Gov. Graham's estimate of the Y. NJ
C. A is given in the following:
"The Young Mems Christian associa-
tion deserves the fullest support OF
every man who believes that America
must win this war. An army depends
in largest measure upon its morale. Its
morale is its self-relisnce and its moral
character and upon the moral character
of an army rests its success. The sec
retaries of this association all over Eu-
rope and America are doing the great
est possible work to develop this char
acter. They work upon the fields and in
the camps. They give to the soldier a
breath from home. They give to him
place to hear from home. To listen to
home songs. To sing home songs. To
read home news and best and above all,
to free himself, if only for time, FROM
all the temptations of the camp. Here
in the Young Mems Christian association
he finds his feet and finds himself and
again goes out to his duty, a cleaner and
so better man. If you have anything
to give. give it to this association, deny
yourself that you may give and again
deny yourself that on may give again,
for by so doing you will receive back an
Rest assured that the gift
will always reach its intended home and
make some soldier happier and better,
his morale stronger, the army stronger
one step nearer TO the Z5nning Of this |
war"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-21
FOUND DEAD IN CHAIR.
George c. Averill of Brattleboro Died Of
Heart Trouble

Brattleboro, July 2l.--George c. Aver
i'll, aged SO, treasurer and principal stock
holder of the Ashuelot Paper company
and former president of the Vermont
National bank, was found dead in his
chair in his home yesterday afternoon
by his son, Richard c, Averill, on the
latter's return from Spofford Lake, n.
H., where his family has been on va
cation. Health Officer Henry Tucker said
death was due to organic heart trouble.
Mr. Averill was seen in hiN garden an
hour or more before being found by
his son.
He was born in Thomaston, Conn, Oo-
tober IS, 1857, a son of Rev. James Aver
i'll. At the age of 16 he became clerk
and bookkeeper in the First National
bank at Greenfield, Mass, remaining
there eight years. He then became tell
er of the First National bank in North
ampton, Mass, and in 1885 came to Brat
tleboro and was teller of the Vermont
National bank one year, succeeding G. S.
Dowley as cashier in 1886 He was made
president of the bank in 1897, remaining
in that position until he resigned in 1915.
Since then he has taken an active part
in the Ashuelot Paper company.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-21
COMPANY ORGANIZED.
Co. D of the Home Guards at vergennes
Gets Under Way.

Vergennes, July 2l.-Company D, First
regiment, Vermont volunteer militia, i:
now regularly organized and established
here as an organized military force under
the control of the state The commits
stoned officers are: Captain, George w
Stone; first lieutenant, Charles II, Cole
second lieutenant, George w. Casey
About 25 men have enlisted In the com
pany and formally taken the oath OF
allegiance and service requested of all
soldiers.
The applicants for membership are
considerably in excess of the authorized
strength of the company, which at pres
ent cannot exceed so men.
Now that the federal draft is over,
a number of the desirable young men
within the draft age win be received,
and the enrolment completed to full
strength The final roster will also in
clude some of the applicants over 81
years of age not yet accepted, the plan
of filing the company by installments
being in accordance with the orders of
Governor Graham.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-21

$40, Edward H. Loveland, Randolph.
440, Walter j. Glynn, Wells River.
TAI, Howard B. Varney, South Strafford
1854, Claude E. Hopkins, Williamstown
I'll, Watson w. LaRose, Randolph.
1922, Alvah L. Hatch, West Fairlee.
SAL, Charles r. Emerson, Groton, r. F. D
63S, Jesse 4. Mahan, East Randolph.
1882, Ray Dennison Godfrey, w. Fairlee.
1I4l, Fred W. Macaulay, Williamstown.
l0l6, Leon Lusco, West Fairlee.
335, Clarence Pierce, Fairlee.
493, Glare V. Adams, Wells River.
1923, Leslie S. Reed, Randolph Center.
6s5, Walter H. Sisson, Randolph.
923, Charles Gladue, Tunbridge.
34l, William. T. Rutledge, Fairlee.
1907, George w. Avery, West Fsirlee.
39l, Richard B. Cobb, Newbury.
1853, Edwin johnson, Fairlee.
970, Frank f. Goulette, Washington.
637, Harold C.. Camp, Tunbridge.
800, Scott +. Haselton, Wells River.
57l, Everett Bingham, Randolph.
ass, Benjamin H. Wright, So. Ryegate.
704, Henry II. Heath, East Bethel.
Y, Herbert d. Dowse, Bradford.
356, Roland H. Gardner, Fairlee.
ll2, Carl j. Stowe, Randolph.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-21
HER SON A SUICIDE.
Harold J. Cross Recently Completed a
Term in Navy.

Stowe, July 2l,-Mrs. Addie Russell
Cross has only recently received news
of the death of her son, Harold j. Cross,
"a years of age, who died by his own
hand May 10. The young man had re-
Gently completed four years service in
the United States navy, since which time
he had been with his father, William
Cross, in Maine. The only particulars
Mrs. Cross has received are that the
young man shot his fathers dog and
then went into the woods and shot him
self. The body was not found until the
last of June, the burial taking place
June 20. Insanity is supposed to have
been the cause of the act. The parents,
both of whom survive, separated many
years ago, and the father is married
again and has a family of children in
Maine. OF the first family, two sisters,
Mrs. Hazel Merrill of Moretown, and
Miss Vivian Douglass of Burlington, and
a brother, Bernie, of Albany, n. Y, sur
vive. Mrs. Cross had expected that the
deceased would come to see her when his
term in the navy expired.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-21
CORRECTIONS ON DRAFT.
A Few Changes in Washington County
From List Published Yesterday.

The following are corrections and sd-
ditions in the Washington county draft
as published in yesterdays paper;
No. l4s5 should have been Ashlet
Charles Barnett inot Bsrrettl Of Cabot /;
the I4th man should have been No. 27s7
lSheridan G. Boyoe Of Waitsfeld in
stead Of 27s2 Harold Hibhard Green
wood Of Warren; the s7th man should
be No. s067 Bernard q. Ainsworth Of
Woodbury.: the s0th man should be No.
2las lCsrroll Dohey Of Montpelier; TIE
s4;h mar should b No. PASS walter
AIbert vir-s of Northfelil; Anirea To
rnasi's address shouid b. MoniPsiisr. not
Ezrra
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-21
NO CHURCH SERVICES.
Doors Will Be Closed in Barre To-mor-
row

Unless the Salvation Army is permit
ted to pound out its drum message OF
militant evangelism, tomorrow will be
churchless day for Barre, as the board
of health order promulgated yesterday
because of the presence of infantile pa
ralysis inhibits religious gatherings along
with moving picture shows and other
assemblies for amusement purposes.
Some doubt as to whether the order ac-
tually included every church meeting
was dispelled by the statement of the
board of health that the ruling is to be
taken literally. Protestant churches in
Barre may be said to have been running
on half time for few weeks, as a num-
Der of the clergymen are away on their
vacations, but even the union meetings
arranged for the months of July and Au-
gust are banned under the latest order.
To-day rumor filled its quota of new
poliomyelitis cases, but the fact remains
that there is only one case in Barre, that
of the infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. Alex
ander Ross of Rowland street, whose
condition is said to remain practically
unchanged.