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The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-01-06

chored two miles off shore and took on our load for Chile.
 have a new job now, secretary for the captain. make out ell his re. ports and papers on the typewriter and it is like old times to get to hammering a mill again.
 l received the first and only letter from home this trip and I was ter ribly shocked over the loss of MT. Coleman and Margaret. 1t seems only yesterday that we were going to the old school house together. Convey my sincere sympathy to the families of each.
 Nov. 21.-We have just received word that all the enlisted men aboard will be discharged at the end of cur present trip which should be some time in March and then me for the North once more. Just keep your eyes open for job for me and be sure it Is on dry land.
 Your rowing sailor, tired of the briny.
 GEORGE HERRING.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-01-06
IS A TOUGH PLACE;
 JUST LISTEN

The following article sent to The Citizen from an Outside paper has a tendency to create the impression that Alaska is real bad place. The party. Perry, mentioned in the article must have got his information out of book. for Alaska even in its early days never followed the style of the yellow backed novel
 LOS ANGELES. Dec. A state ment in which he described the fatal shooting of his superior officer. Cap. tain Abram Posner, was made in the county jail here last night by Lieu tenant H. E. Perry. according to deputy sheriffs, who earlier in the day had captured the officer at Palm dale, 69 miles north of here.
 The deputy sheriffs quoted Lieuten. ant Perry as having said he shot Captain Posner because the latter found fault with him and his work. He was further quoted as saying his original intention was to take Cap tain Posner to lonely spot and beat him. but the attempt of his in- tended victim to escape upset his plan.
 "He had been riding my trail. as we say in the army, for weeks." Lieu, tenant Perry was quoted as saying. When a man does that in the army there are two things you can do. One is to get out. The other way is the way I learned in Alaska--get the man who Is riding you
 Perry was said to have added that when he was If years old he killed a man in Alaska who had pulled up the stakes on his gold claim and then filed upon it.
 Captain Posner died Monday at Es- condido, Cal, after making a ate. ment in which he accused Lieutenant Perry of shooting him late Sunday night, as he fled from an automobile in which the lieutenant had 'ked him to rid from his home in San Diego to Camp Kearny
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-01-06
REPORTS ON
 FAIRBANKS AGRICULTURE.

The farmers in the Fairbanks dis. trict this season harvested short crop, as compared with last year. Good marketing conditions have en- couraged them to clear more land for cultivation in 1919. according to a report to William c. Edes, chair man of the Alaskan Engineering Com mission. The production of the Fair banks region this year was az fQl- lows; Oats and wheat hay, $50 tons; seed oats. 10 tons; seed wheat, 30 tons; potatoes 45O tons. cabbage, 35 tons: carrots, turnips and rutabagas, 80 tons: tomatoes. cucumbers and other hothouse vegetables, 26 tons. About one-third of the crop was mar keted in Fairbanks and the rest in Nenana, Tolovana, Ruby, Hot Springs and Iditarod.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-01-06
NACE SCHEDULE
 EFFECTIVE NOW
(The Assnoiated Pressl

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-Postmas- ter-General Burleson announces that the increased wage schedule for em- ployees in all departments of govern ment controlled telegraph systems goes into effect tomorrow.
 The increase of wages for the oper- ators is a substantial one and is received by the operators with thanks. The order recently issued by w. G. McAdoo including this class of employees in the schedule came at a time when many of the best men in the service were contemplating changing to some other field of en- deavor on account of the low wage.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-01-06
SALMOlI RATES
 ARE REMOVED


 Cecil H. Clegg, food administrator for the Fourth division, was notified yesterday that the price on salmon had been removed. Just how the removal of the restriction will affect the local salmon market is not known at present. The instructions wired to the food administrator follow:
 Upon my recommendation and ap- proval of the United States food ad ministration at Washington, all regu. lations issued by the federal food administration for Alaska concerning the price of salmon ill Alaska will be removed, effective January 1, 1919. Give this the widest publicity. All regulations having to do with licenses of canneries, fishermen, etc, have not been removed and are still in effect.
 BRADLEY"
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-01-06

IL IS truly remarkaDle SnOWlnS and one well worthy of mention of all who devoted their energies to provide for the fatherless ones, as well as to those whose generosity made the fund possible.
 The amounts derived since the fund started in 1917 is sufficient to support 213 fatherless children for a year, with a small balance left over. The amount raised in the month just past will support 32 children for a year. Some of the donations recorded were for renewals on orphans that Were adopted at the commencement and wnlcn would have expired with the month of December.
 The report on the adoptions shows that to December 1st, 1913, 186 or. phans were provided for. To the end of November. 1913, the re-adoptions were IA.
 The scope from which the funds were received is far reaching; from Chicago, Illinois, to Wiseman in the koyukuk, all from Alaskans. Those places recorded in Alaska are Ruby, Flat creek (Poorman P. O., in the Poorman section, Long creek. Ester creek, Fairbanks creek. Chatanika, Fox, koyukuk. Fort Gibbon, Brooks, Nulato. Happy creek, Boulder creek. the Hot Springs district, Tofty, Woodchopper, Fort Yukon, Little FL dorado, Richardson, Nenana, Juneau and Fairbanks. On the Outside do nations were received from Chicago, Illinois and Worley, Idaho.
 Aiding in the work of providing for the fatherless ones were a number of warm.hearted women of the inter. for, some of them located at remote places, but they never ceased in their efforts and to them will be given credit for their labors in making possible the grand results noted.
 The Alaska Committee for the Fath- erless Children of France, having charge of the fund. with headquar- ters in Fairbanks is composed of:
 Mrs. J. Harmon Caskey, chairman.
 Mn. John A. Davis. secretary.
 Miss Annie M. Fitchett, treasurer.
 The representatives of the Alaska Committee and their fields of opera tion are as follows:
 Mrs. Frederick D. Browne-Nenana.
 Mrs. Frank O'Farrell--Tanana.
 Mrs. Louis Selk-Fort Gibbon.
 Mrs. Thomas H. Long-Ruby.
 Mrs. Thomas B. Wright--Koyukuk'
 Mrs. Craig Redman-Tofty.
 Mrs. g. ]. Martin-BroOks.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-01-06

Probably no fund has created great CT interest among the residents Of interior Alaska than has the one for the fatherless. children of France.
 Appealing as it does to the sympa- thies of a generous people it has without exception been responded to unstilutingiy by those who have the true American spirit at heart. Far overseas, under war stricken ban ner, is a republic nearly akin to that of the Stars and Stripes, a generous, warm blooded nation that strove to free their land from the heel of an oppressive, inhuman, despotic in- vader. In meeting the foe many of the defenders of that nation laid down their lives and left to mourn them their wives and children, upon whom will fall the brunt of the af- termath-the upbuilding of a des- boiled nation.
 Heroically have the women met the burdens inflicted upon them, but the children-the innocent sufferers of them all-had nothing with which to meet the grim needs of war eX- cept the sacrificing of that which belongs to them-food. Without food the army could not exist and win; without food the children could not live. America, as a nation, supplied the food for the fighters; Americans. as a unit, supplied the food for the children.
 The orphans fund in the interior of Alaska is far-reaching. Ably of. 1icered and with capable representa- lives in all parts of the interior, the fund has been well managed. Moth ing was left undOne to acquire money for the needy children-and the pub lie responded. Many have been the denials made that the children of France might live; comforts and luxu ries were foregone and the money that would have been expended for these has been turned into the fund that several might live, instead of one acquiring something that was not essential to welfare.
 Starting in with the drive on the firts of December, 1917, the fund was incepted in the interior of Alaska The first monthly report showed a splendid result. Each succeeding month had large returns, and but one poor month was recorded.
 The reeturns for the various months of the year just passed with the month of December in 1917 fol lows:
 1917.
 December ............s.... kS1 ,65O.75
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-01-06
Mrs. James Climie-Rampart.
 Mrs. Dave Lowery-Fort Yukon. NIrc Tennie Cleyeland-BOulde


 Mrs. Jennie Cleveland-Boulder.
 The effort in behalf of the children of France was not confined to Alas ka alone-it was world wide. Even the men in the trenches, where the idea originated, contributed gener ously to the fund. A belated num- Der of the stars and Stripes a newspaper which was published by the American Expeditionary Forces, in Paris, had the following article about the number oi adoptions by the American soldiers fighting in France up to October 1, 1918:
 "This week the adoption of French war orphans by soldiers of the A. E. F. under the Stars and Stripes war orphan plan passes the 300 mark. This plan, which brot so much happi' ness to the little children in dire need, whose fathers had given theil all for France, was the idea of an American private-Harold w. Ross, of the railway engineers, detailed to the editorial staff of the army news, paper. It is under his direction that the plan has been so successfully worked out-Officer in Charge" Conceived amid scenes of desola' tion and suffering the idea at once was adopted by the soldiers at the front and by the Americans at home The spread has been remarkable From the battle trenches of France to the most northern mining camp in the world the appeal has been met with and most generously. The answer will stand forth as a monu ment to the sympathetic attributes o1 the American nation.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-01-06
WILL CONTEST
 CHAMPIONSHIP
(The Associated Press)

PASADENA, Dec. 91.-The Mare Island Marines, Pacific coast football champions of the service league. will meet the strong Great Lakes naval station eleven Wednesday to decide the service championship of the United States.
 The Marines are the strongest az. gregatiop of gridiron men that has been representing the Mare Island navy yard for a number of years. the team being made from the pick of thousands of men. many of whom are college athletes of note.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-01-06
M'COVERV DIES
 FROM INJURIES
(The Associated Press)

BOSTON, Dec. 31.-Terry McGov- ern died here today from the result of t-fisht with Frankie Britt in this city. The immediate cause of his death was from a fractured skull, acquired when his head hit the floor of the ring after receiving terrific blow from Britt. Britt has been taken into custody to await the out come of the coroner's investigation.
 Terry McGovern, at one time known as Terrible" Terry was one of the foremost figures in the padded arena in the early sos. He acquired the title of featherweight champion in 1900 when he defeated George Dixon. One year later he lost to Young Corbett, who held the title for three years. By his death one of the most noted figures of the prize ring has passed On.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-01-06
WILL RELEASE
 SINN FElNERS

LONDON, Dec. 31.-It is believed in this city that all followers of the Sim Fein faction who have been interned in England will be released immediately.
 This action is thot to be one for the appeasing of the attitude taken by that faction after its success at the polls in Ireland. The British government has no desire at this time to have internal trouble with any faction and it is thot that with the releasing of the interned mem bers that some adjustment of the differences may be arrived at.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-01-06
AIRPLANES MAY CARRY MAIL TO
 ALASKA CITIES

A recent editorial in The Juneau Empire advocating an aerial mail ser vice to Alaska, especially Southeast. ern Alaskan towns, has created great deal of interest, and the feasi- bility and practicability have been discussed considerably.
 The following Associated Press tele. gram received by The Empire shows that the idea also has taken hold in Seattle:
 SEATTLE, Dec. 10. The
 Seattle Times says the North
 west Aero Club will meet in
 few days and consider plans to
 make Seattle the Northern
 terminus for an aerial mail
 service, and to make plans for
 an aerial landing place. It
 says a passenger line to Juneau
 Is an American possibility.
 Naturally the mail service would follow. the establishment of a pas. senger service. It has been suggested that seaplanes probably would be the most practical for the Northern route owing to the fact that they could land almost any place along the in. side channels and would obviate the expense of constructing costly land ing places.
 Tho pocf,n Q cfer Oouoro1 }n t{o ro. port printed recently outlines a num- Der of aerial mail routes and one of these Is to South America via Cen tral America. The distance from Se- attle northward to Alaskan tC wns could be covered with much less ex- pense than route established to South America, and would solve the mail problem to large extent.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-01-06
WILL GIVE MONTHS PAY
 AS BONUS TO SAILORS
(The Associated Pressl

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.--Secretary of the Navy Daniels stated today that he expected that a bonus of one months pay would be given to the sailors, marines and other members of the naval crews when they were discharged as gratuity for their services.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-01-06

Total number, between ages of
 21 and 31 in service .2525
 Orders for 87 more inductiops had been sent out and had to be cancelled on account of the signing of the ar. mistice.
 Had the armistice not been signed Alaska would have had 2,612 men in the service at this time. between the ages of 21 and 31 years.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-01-06
ALASKA SHOWS LARGE PERCENT
 IN THE RANKS


 Probably twelve per cent of All aska's total white population are in the service of her country" announc- es Capt. J. J. Finnegan, executive officer of the military department
 "The figures, regarding men of the 21 to 31 class, which have been com. piled by our office, show that 2,525 men between the ages of 21 and 31 have enlisted or been inducted into the service. This would be at least 10 per cent of the total white popu- lation of the territory Besides these, several hundred more, above or be- low q or 31 years of age, have vol unteered"
 Following are figures to which Capt. Finnegan referred:
 "
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-01-06
HARBOR STRIKE WILL BE
 ARBlTRATED BY BOARD
(The Associated Press)

NEW YORK. Dec. 31.-The Nation al war labor board will act as the arbitrator for the striking longshore. men and the steamship companies in- volved. The men returned to work only on the condition that the mat ter would be handled by this board, whose members have the confidence of the longshore unions of the city.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-01-06
RUMANlA WILL HOLD ITS
 ELECTIONS DURING MATCH
(The Associated Pressl

PARIS, Dec. 31.-The election for the Rumanian chamber and senate will be held during the month of March. The people will have their strongest candidates in the field to offset the faction that plunged them into the war.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-01-06

A helmet has been invented to pro- tect the heads of boxing instructors from too ambitious pupils.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-01-06
The Orphan Fund

brief resume of the work accomplished in Interior
 Alaska for the relief of the Fatherless Children of France and the story of how it was incepted
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-01-06

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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
NAVY PLANS PACIFIC
FLIGHT THIS WINTER
NC Type Planes Also Will
Fly to Rio yaneiro.

WASHINGTON, sept. 2e.-Two long
distance seaplane flights are planned
for early next year by the navy, one
to Brazil and another TO the Philippines
Planes Of entirely new construction
probably will be used.
The flight TO the Philippines will be
the longest ever attempted in the his
tory OF aviation, 1000 miles, or twice
the distance covered by the NC-4 In
the transa tlantic flight.
Plans OF the Department, II was
learned to-day. call for the start of
the transpacihc flight from San Diego.
Cal, with a stop at Hawaii, making the
FIRST leg 1000 miles long and longer
than the meas Trespassey- Azores voy-
age. and another stop at Guam. Naval
aviation officers, It was learned, are
considering extension of the flight to
Hongkong, China.
Hampton Roads probably will be Sc
lected as the base for the start of the
South American fight, ending at Rio
Janeirc. The longest leg of this Journey
Will be 1000 miles. with stops at Guam
tanamo, Cuba, Haytl, Santo Domingo.
Trinidad and several South American
ports.
The type of plane to be used in the
Nights is now under discussion at the
Navy Department
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
IS DE HAVILANDS
TO PATROL COAST
Squadron Ordered to Field at
Mineola.

A squadron of thirteen De Haviland
biplanes will arrive at Hazelhurst Field.
Mineola, within few days for perma-
nent station. The planes will be used
to patrol the coast from Fishers Island,
N. Y. to Nantucket, Mass.
The new ships, which are complete in
every detail, including machine guns
and wireless telephones. viii also have
base on Staten Island. As Hazelhurst
Field Is shortly to be abandoned by the
Government the squadron will move to
Mitchell Field. adjoining.
Other airplane squadrons. including
the Fourth and Fifth. will be sent here
for preliminary work prior to being sent
to the Canal Zone. Hawaii and the
Philippines. Squadrons which have
been on the Mexicon border will be
among those which will be ordered to
Mineola.
The Martin bomber which flew from
Cleveland to Mineola in three hours and
twenty minutes Thursday, will be one Of
those to go with the Fourth Squadron
to Hawaii. while other Martin bombers
with the First Squadron will be used
for the coast patrol work, which the
Mineola Field is to undertake.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
SEASONAL STORAGE
OF MEAT ALLOWED
Ruse Seen in Packers Refusal
to Buy Because of Hoard
ing Rule.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 26.-Storage of
the usual seasonal requirements Of
meats" is permissible under the food
control act and does not constitute
boarding. Attorney General Palmer said
in a letter sent to-day to w. r. Stubbs.
former Governor of Kansas. The De-
partment of Justice, Mr.. Palmer said.
has no intention of insttuting prosecu-
lions in such cases.
Mr.. Palmer's letter resulted from a
conference yesterday with a delegation
of livestock raisers from Kansas, who
told him that the packers had curtailed
the buying Of livestock on the ground
that they might be prosecuted II they
stored large quantities of meat.
Nothing that the Department of Jus
tice has so far done and no views whic!'
have been announced here offer any jus
tification for such an excuse on thu
part OF the packers" Mr.. Palmer wrote
ut ought to be unnecessary for me
to say that there Is no intention what
ever on the part Of the Government 10
attempt to construe as boarding any
storage OF foodstuffs which is not IN
excess of the reasonable requirements of
the business or reasonably necessary as
against the period Of scant or no pro-
duction as defined in the act.
IT cannot avoid the conclusion that
the packers with whom you conferred
and their counsel know this perfectly
we'll and therefore there must be some
other reason behind their refusal to buy
your products. 1t would have an unfor-
tunate effect upon our campaign to re-
duce the high cost OF living II tho five
large packers should by their refusal to
buy your products be able to very mate
rally decrease production.
81 am therefore confirmed in my judg-
ment that the business methods OF the
Ave large packers constitute a comblna-
ton in restraint of trade, which has had
and II permitted to continue will have
such n hold on both production and dis
tribution as will bring to all the people
unfortunate and unnecessary losses sim
liar to those from which you are now
suffering"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
THOUSANDS SAVED
BY PRICE BOARD
Great Benefit to Public i'm the
Drive on Living Cost
Is Shown.

That the work of the Fair Price Com
mittee in the Attorney-Generars cam
paign to reduce living costs has saved
thousands of dollars to consumers in the
greater city is the view of Arthur Will
Jams. Federal Food Administrator for
this city This accomplishment, he says.
is due TO the cooperation of Wholesale
and retail food dealers who ARE keep
ing the faith and playing the game fair"
Put together the pennies which
100000 people are saving on food just
now and you will find that they count up
enormously" Mr.. Williams said.
THE decision of Louis Marshall and
his committee that the price of Jewish
bread should remain at 9 cents a pound
means saving at the lowest possible
estimate OF $1,000 a day to consumers.
1.-The Fair Price Committee gives 8
cents as a maximum fair price for a
loaf OF wheat bread In cash and carry
stores. Assuming there is a saving OF
four-tenths of a cent a day to each con-
sumner. you have a saving Of 100000 a
day for the entire city.
IT believe that the Attorney-Generals
campaign has brought about a saving OF
cents a pound on sugar.
Eight months ago we were thinking
of so and 60 cents a pound for meat.
While to-day the average Is 30 Genus per
pound. In the last two weeks, as a re-
suit of the cooperation of the wholesale
Gnd retail meat dealers, the price of beef
has been held down notwithstanding a
tendency of wholesale meat prices to ad-
vance. Because of the work of the
wholesale meat dealers committee and
Oscar S. Straus the people have saved
en- average of 2 cents pound on beet
at least"
Col. Michael Friedsam. president OF
B. Altman & Co. and head of the com
mittee on dry goods. clothing and shoes
of the Fair Price Committee. Informed
Mr.. Williams yesterday that he is much
pleased over the fact that dealers in in
creased numbers are calling attention &c
low priced shoes and clothing in theil
published advertisements
Capt Jaffray Peterson, .. NJ, c., II
charge of quartermaster retail store No
/. which Mas opened at % West Nine
teenth street Thursday, said $4,000 PEG
Pile visited the store yesterday. Tn,
sales amounted to about $4,000, eX
elusive of the mail order department.
where the orders mounted into the thou
sands.
The Rev. DR.. Jonathan C. Day, Com
missioner of Public Markets, had hear
to heart talk yesterday with a delega
ton of retail butchers. The butchers
promised to push the sales of arm.
roasting chickens.