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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17
CUSTOMS MEN PROBE BAGGAGE
 ABOARD YUKON
Nobody Allowed to Co on or Off Vessel Dur
 ing Investigation

After the steamship Yukon, had made fast to the City Wharf here this forenoon, passengers aboard the vessel and persons on the pier awaiting the craft, were given a thrill when customs officers went aboard and forbade anybody from going either on or off the ship They enforced their inhibition while they searched several pieces of baggage. They also questioned at least one of the passengers. No contraband was discovered; no ar rests were made.
 After the inspection, persons left and boarded the vessel as they de- sired.
 Deputy Collectors M. H. Sides, J. T. Petrich and Leo Osterman were the officilas who conducted the search.
 Investigation was made of cer- tain pieces of baggage for contra band M. s. Whittier, assistant col lector of customs said, after the incident. None was found"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17
TAKE OF FURS SMALL,REP0RTS
 LOCAL WARDEN
Low Prices Keep Trappers Out of Field-Game Is
 Found in Abundance

The fur take in Southeast Alas ka this season has been one of the lightest in many years, according to Frank DuFresne, Territorial game warden, who returned here today after an official trip cover ing the larger part of the district. Low prices for all species, which discouraged trappers, rather than any abnormal shortage of fur bearers are said to be the prime factor in the small take.
 MT. DuFresne, who made his rounds on the patrol ship Seal, Capt. J. o. Sellevold, visited Hyder, Ketchikan and practically all other communities. The trapping sea- son is practically ended, muskrats
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17
.SOURDOUCHS ARE
 TO AID GODDARD
Committee Will Boost Can didacy of Pioneer
 for Council

SEATTLE, Feb. TIA commit tee of Sourdoughs has announced plans for a rally by Alaskans in be- half of the councilmanic candidacy of J. A. Goddard, Yukon pioneer. The Sourdoughs will assemble in Pioneer Square tomorro o " night at 8 o'clock and proceed to the Pioneer Building where Cod dard for Council" club will be or ganized
 Goddard was prominent in the Klondike rush and operated the first steamboat to Dawson during the stampede
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17
Scotland Yard
 Sleuths Hit by
 NeaU Reform Waue

LONDON, Feb. 17-S cot1and d Yards Criminal Investigation De- partment-the famous c. I. D. of many detective thriller-is going to be given fresh start.
 Drastic changes in it's organiza- tion are thought necessary because the c. I. D. has not been main- taining it's high standard of car- lures.
 The new scheme, it is reported, plans to make the detectives ca- reer matter of skill rather than mere length of service. Under present conditions the officer in uniform has a better chance of reaching high rank than the plain clothed detective.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17

s. Wallstedt, District Deputy Su preme Dictator, L. o. O. Moose, returned here today after a busi- ness trip to Ketchikan.
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CARD OF THANKS

We wish to extend our appre- citation to her many friends for their kindness to Mrs. Ash during her illness, also their attendance at her funeral. To the Juneau Young Go. for their kind contribu- tion toward providing her with such beautiful casket and to Rev. Allen for his beautiful burial service.
 adv. HER FRIENDS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17
GABE PAUL LEAVING
 ON TRIP TO SEATTLE

Gabe Paul of the firm of Paul Brothers operating the Gastineau Grocery, will leave on the North western tomorrow morning for &c., attle. The trip is taken on busi- ness, only to Seattle and Mir Paul expects to return home on the next northbound trip of the Northwest ern.
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being the only animal permissible to trap now.
 The take of marten is estimated at 600 skins which is about 50 per cent of the number that was eX- pected to be trapped. Other anil mals, including mink, land otter and weasel decreased in almost the same proportion. The number of trappers taking the field was far below normal, the warden said Many who took out licenses to trap did not use them, preferring to engage in other lines of activity owing to the unattractive prices quoted on furs Of all varieties.
 The mild weaJnc. prevalent this winter has been highly beneficial to deer in the entire district, MT. Dufresne said. These animals, nor mally forced down to the beaches at this season, are well back in the hills, where scant snow cover has left abundant feed for them
 Thousands of ducks and geese, more than for many years, have wintered in Southeast Ala S k a grounds this winter, finding feed in the bays and inlets and low lakes. In Duncan Canal, near Petersburg, great flocks of pin tail ducks were seen, an unusual phenomenon. since this species of duck normally win ters far to the south of Alaska. Mallards and other varieties were seen in large flocks.
The Kusko times., 1931-03-21
DOOM OF DRY REGIME SEEN.
 SAYS SENATOR WAGNER

WASHINGTON.-Asserting that the Wickersham report was "the be- ginning of the end" of prohibition, Senator Wagner, Democrat, New York, today proposed a plan for re peal of the eighteenth amendment, calculated to prevent return of the saloon.
 The New Yorker, in carefully prepared speech to the Senate, advo- cated repeal with concurrent action by non-prohibition states "to insure the conservation of the one achieve ment of national prohibition -aholi- tion of the saloon.
 "You tell me repeal is impossible" 1" Wagner said. II answer yon it is in- eyitable. You tell me that a small majority of the states can prevent it l know they can, but am sure they will not"
 Wagner sail the issue must be faced under courageous leader ship. "That, unfortunately, we can not expect from our President" he added.
 Wagner said the Wickersham con- mission would have recommended outright repeal if it had followed it's own logic. except for fear of the sa- looms return.
 Assurance that this would not hap pen could be given, he said, by con- stitutional amendments in the wet states barring that form of liquor sale or by other similar methods.
 Wagner was interrupted by Sen ator Caraway, Democrat, Arkansas, who wanted to know if he was going to insist upon the Democratic party
 "I will be guided by the party con- sponsoring repeal in 1882. vention," said Wagner. "But II hope it will meet the issue"
The Kusko times., 1931-03-21
yakOtna. Alaska, March 2l. 1913.
WICK ERSAM TELLS P.-T.A.
 OF ALASKA HISTORY

Judge James Wickershanl, Dele gate-elect to Congress, gave an ab- ,sorbingly interesting talk on the High Lights of Alaska History" in an address before the Parent Teach eers' Association of Douglas, accord ing to the Juneau Empire. He began by telling in eloquent words how this .Northland owes it's discovery to Peter the Great, enlightened ruler of a semi-barbaric Russia, and to Gather inc, born slave, whom the auto- cratic monarch stopped from a gilt ,tering throne first to embrare as his paramour and at last to exalt to sov- ereign grandeur as his empress. The speaker rerohnted how those power ful personages conceived the idea and executed the plan that sent Vitus Boring on his mission to find what lay in the vast unknown expanse be- tween the west coast of America and the east coast of Siberia.
 The Judge briefly recalled the dis covery achievements of Captain AL eexie Chirkof and his adventurous successors; the fur-trading exploits of Stephen Glotof and his intrepid followers, among whom was included Alexander Baranof, commonly called the first governor of Alaska, and the early settlement and development ac- ttivities of other daring Muscovites.
 The speaker imparted familiar ,glimpses of Don Salvador Fidalgo. Spanish mariner who gave Valdez port its designation; of J. F. Q. de la Perouse, French navigator, whose Port des Francais is known as Litoya Bay; of the dauntless Englishman, Captain James Cook, who sailed the inlet that bears his name, and of Captain George Vancouver, whose
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voyages have left an imperishable impress on northern lands and seas.
 No less fascinating than the his- tory of discoveries is the geography of this vast Territory, as traced by the Judge. Cursory knowledge of physical aspects solves many prob lems that long vexed scientific minds. "On clear day in January. thirty years ago, the speaker said, "I stood on the promontory at Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, and across the Boring Straits I could see, AS miles distant, East Cape, Siberia. The Diomedes lie between, not quite midway. The natives on both American and Asiatic shores look alike, dress alike, speak the same language. They inter-trade and inter-marry. On both sides are found relics of prehistoric animals of the same kind, the .ages-old remains of plant life of the same sorts.
 "The straits and the sea north of them are shallow, only 180 feet deep "a vast plain covered by compara- lively small amount of water. Not so long ago, considering the great antiquity of the world, the plain was above the water and the two conti- nents were joined by dry land"
 The Judge tersely mentioned Sew ards purchase, the commercially TO- mantle attempt of the Western Union in the '60s to build an all-land tele- graph line from the States to Boring Straits, then lay a short submarine cable and connect in Siberia with an all-land line to countries of Europe. He referred to Alaska's wealth in fisheries, furs, timber and numerous other natural resources.
 "In fifty years. 1880 to 1930," he declared, "she has poured from just her mineral treasure vaults alone, into the lap of the world, S60O,000,- 000-600 months, S1,0O0,000 every month"
 Alaska schools do not teach Alaska history and Alasisa geography as these subjects should be taught in this Territory, he insisted.
 "We should know Alaska better" he concluded. "We should learn about her when we're young"
The Kusko times., 1931-03-21
ALASKA LEGISL AZURE
 CONvEN ES AT JUNEAU

[ JUNEAU.-Without a single hitch the Senate and House completed per- j;manent organization and squared away for business { Luther c. Hess of Fairbanks was elected president of the Senate and Arthur w. Fox of Juneau se. setary. Mrs. Bertha Mckay of Nome was elected aSsis .a.lL secretary. George Mckay of Nome, husband of the as- sistant secretary, was made sergeant at-arms of the Senate. The House elected Grover c. Vim of Juneau to be speaker after three days caucus had failed to break the | deadlock between Frank Foster and Harry Donnelley. Vim was brought forward by Foster as a compromise candidate.
 Lawrence Kerr was named chief clerk, and Mrs. LeRoy Vestal of Ju- neau assistant clerk. R. c. Booth of Seward was elected sergeant-at-arms. Republicans have majority in the Senate. There are four Republicans and one independent. The Republican majority in the House is much larger, with eleven Republicans, four Demo- crats, one independent. Members of the Legislature are: EDv,rtl n.~,scsn- Senator Luther c. Hess. Democrat (holdover); Senator John w. Dunn, independent.
 House-Andrew Nerland, Harry Donnelley and Fred B. Johnston, Re- publicans; Joe Mcdonald. Democrat. Third Division. Senator A. J. Dimond, Democrat (holdover); Senator Bragaw, Repub- lican.
 House-Cal Brosius, Joe Murray and Frank Foster, Republicans; H. H. McCutcheon, Democrat.
 Second Division.
 Senator Richard N. Sundquist, Re- publican (holdover); Senator Alfred J. Lomen, Republican.
 House-Henry Burgh, George Hell
The Kusko times., 1931-03-21
Never Again.

Captain Lindbergh tells Wash ngton reporter a story about his first flying days.
 Tn those .days," he said, "I few all over the South, and I'd stop at every little town and take the people up.
 An old colored mamm did me a good turn once, so gave her a free ride. When we came down she said:
 Thank ye fo' dem two rides, suh.'
 Two rides?' l said, bnt you only had one.s"
 No, auh, two,' said the old wo- man. 'Mah fust and nah last, suh.'"
The Kusko times., 1931-03-21

lerick and Cliff Allyn. Republicans; Andy Nylan, Independent.
 First Division. Senator Charles Benjamin, Repub- lican (h0ldover); Senator Allen Shat tuck, Democrat.
 House-Ziegler and Boyle, Demo crats; Winn and Johnson, Repub- licans.
The Kusko times., 1931-03-21

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-12
PATENTED PROCESS REMOVES GUESSWORK
 FROM ROASTING
Automatic Control of Heat h. sures Exactness. Hills Bros. Coffee Has Matchless Flavor

There are many risks attached to roasting coffee by ordinary meth ods. For a man must guess when the roast is right. If he misses his guess, the flavor of the coffee usually suffers.
 Hills Bros. eliminated guesswork when they invented and patented Controlled Roasting-an automatic process that develops the fullest flavor in every berry of the blend!
 As the accuracy of the hour-glass depends upon an even, continuous flow ;. little at time .. so the unvarying flavor of Hills Bros. Coffee is produced by Controlled Roasting = the patented process that roasts evenly, continuously i. little Gt c time. Automatic con- trol of heat and flow of coffee does what ordinary methods often fail to do. Every pound is roasted to the same degree of perfection, and every pound has the same fine flavor.
 To preserve this delicious flavor, Hills Bros. pack their coffee in vacuum cans. Air, which destroys the flavor of coffee, is removed and kept out of these cans. Ordinary, "air-tight" cans won't keep coffee fresh. But Hills Bros. Coffee can't go stale! Order some today. Ask for it by name, and look for the Arab trademark on the can.
 Hills Bros. Coffee, Inc., San Francisco, California. O 1881
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-12
CRISWELL TOUR OF
 IS HERE ON LAST
 LEG OF LONG TOUR

On the last leg of the Yukon River Circle tour, fifteen members of a Criswell Tours party arrived here Monday night on the steamer Yukon from Seward and sailed last night on the steamer Alameda for Seattle via Sitka. They were ac- companied by J. c. Morley, tour director, who said everyone in the party was highly delighted with their northern journey.
 The party passed through Ju- neau on the Alameda about a month ago. It went to Whitehorse, Dawson and thence down the Yu- kon River to Tanana and up the Panama River to Fairbanks. It came out via the Alaska Railroad.
 In the party were: Mary Griest, Mrs. 0. w. Harlow, Mrs. M. Ashur, Mrs. M. McKenney, Fife I .Bick- ford, J. w. Biggers, Walter A. Schmidt, Dorothy G. Richardson Jonas Hollingstad, Jones Simon son, Donald Macdonald, Mrs. A R, Thomas, Alice c. Thomas, Eliza beth Scarborough, Eliza b e tn s Gerhart, and J. c. Morley.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-12
moon Of DELIGHT b4 4Mozga1etBeuH HouAzo1G

tivities till three o'clock in the morning. It was now four Divitt would have counted his earnings and gone to his wife's room, the room directly beneath Umberto's with its great bed and Spanish lace curtains which Molly Divitt had picked up in the shops on Royal street. Molly had been ailing for month. Umber'to knocked softly
 feeling it well not to disturb her.
 Silence, and presently without a sound, the opening of the door.
 Jason Divitt looked like a little black ant. Umberto would have made three of him, but he. ruled Umberto as effectually as Umberto ruled Gabreau He had come to New Orleans from what was vague ly known as the West" What lay back of him no one-not even Molly, perhaps-knew. But he had the manners of a dancing master and the diction of a pedagogue, ex- cept when he desired-which fre-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-12
NOTICE OF MEETING OF BOARD
 OF EQUALIZATION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Board of Equalization of the City of Juneau Alaska, will meet on the 11th day of August, 1881, at the hour of 2 o'clock D. m., and continue in session until 4 o'clock pm, of said day in the Council Chambers of the Munich pal Council of the City of Juneau, Alaska, and said Board of Equali- zation shall continue in session each day thereafter between the hours of 3 o'clock pm, and 4 o'clock pm, until and including Saturday, August 18th, 1881.
 That alr persons objecting to the assessed valuation of any prop erty, or the assessment of the same for the year 1881, shall re- duce such objections to writing and file the same with the Board on or before the hour of 4 o'clock pm. August 18th, 1881, and all per- sons failing to file their written objections shall be deemed to have consented to said assessment for the year 1881, and the action of the Board of Equalization, and shall be forever barred from thereafter making such objections. <,
 Dated at Juneau, Alaska, August llth, 1881.
 H. R. SHEPARD. ? Municipal Clerk for City of
 Juneau, Alaska
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lated it into the only other tongue he knew.
 How you getta that way?" point ing to the chest. T bringa you here and thinka you dead. I got 'nough troubles What for you do thees?''
 Her eyes moved to the door be- hind him.
 No, you don't go" stated Um- berto. Spanish was probably her language and there were those in New Orleans who would under stand her when she related the story of her removal from the Dol ores. He might even Toe accused of Kidnapping as well as theft. Wait, ' he ordered. T come back"
 The room had one window, that, like its one door, opened upon the balcony. Except at the front, there are no windows in the outer walls of the old French quarter of New Orleans. Umberto made certain the window was fast-he had nailed it against Gabreau's prying some
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 He turned to the larger chest. Gabreau had grumbled at the load when they carried it stealthily from the Dolores to Umberto's boat. Not often he called on Gabreau to help him carry things. Gabreau was needed as a lookout. Tonight however-It was a hevay chest and too beautiful to leave He had abandoned a dozen smaller chests to take it.
 Umberto examined the chest. Eb- ony, exquisitely carved in an open work design, so that one saw through it something that gleam- ed. The lid fitted tightly, but as he jerked the handle it opened and Umberto looked on the thing that gleamed
 Silk, yellow, translucent, shot with little black gems A rope of pearls, a bracelet set with emer- alds-Umberto drew back, reached
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for the lamp, held it close.

for the lamp, held it close.
 The bracelet glowed on wrist, slender. ivory-colored. Under the folds of silk a womans form lay in the chest. Her dark, unbound hair covered her face, and there was no sign of breath.
 The lamp shook so Umoerto set it down H. backed away from the chest. In all his adventures as burglar, pickpocket, highwayman he had never known the abject fear of this moment. To what crime had he fallen heir? Gabreau would be witness that Ahl Gabreau had wanted half. He would give the chest to Gabreau, let him have all.
 But in the act of lowering the lid he halted The silks were stir ring, almost imperceptibly. The slim wrist lifted, a white hand moved to the hair, pushing it away. She sat up, pale girl, gaz- ing at the lid of the chest, beside her, then slowly her eyes moved about the room until they rested on Umberto. She sprang from the chest, staring at him from storm dark eyes
 Umberto's relief was such that he felt faint. He stared at the girl who, in his recovering senses seemed an apparition. She was perhaps not more than 20. Her evening dress-a jeweled slip with a rose half torn from the shoul- der-was stained and crumpled Her black hair fell about her. In their gold slippers her feet were the smallest he had ever seen.
 Whether because she was dark enough to have been his country woman, or because in excitement he lapsed into his mother-tongue Umberto could not know, but he spoke to her in Italian-a voluble flow that rose to the heights oi repressed wrath.
 Her pallor grew deeper and she spread out a hand against the wall, closing her eyes. There was no water at hand, but there was wine-priceless wine that had been mourned by it's owners. Umbsrtc opened the old armoire, poured g qlassful. She drank it in gulps steadied herself by the table, re- stunned her stormy gaze at him.
 Apparently she had not under stood the Italian. Umbelto trans
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The girl stood by the window Tn Umberto's absence she had fas. tened up her hair and thrust : high black comb into it. She con- frentsd the men with no semblance Of fear in her stormy eyes, yet the close observer might have seen ths trembling of her clenched hands the quick rise and fall of hei breast. Diyitt turned abruptly tc Umberto.
 Whats this?" he demanded.
 Lady" Umberto informed him ''She in da chest" Umberto point ed T take it off da Dolores. Lady inside. I don know how she getta that way. Stowaway, maybe
 Divitt looked through the chests contents. Laces, mantillas, black cape which the girl watched anxi- ously as he pulled it out.
 "Thees getta me in trouble" com plained Umberto. T think she dead at first. I ask why she do such thing. She no onderstan' Italian ''
 Get Conchita," said Divitt. He threw the things back into the chest while Umberto went down the balcony to the last room on that side. Gabreau and Conchita, his mother, looked at him dark ly. Umberto, returning Conchita $ look, jerked his head toward his room. She. rose heavily, a squat, swart, bulging figure, and waddled behind him. Gabreau followed. Di- witt was closing the chest.
 Talk to this lady in Spanish, he ordered Conchita.
 Conchita, discovering the girl in the corner, sat down on the cot. During her three years over Di- yitt's place she had been called on to face many situations, but to behold unmoved what looked like a caged princess in Umberto's room "a princess who 10 minutes before could not have been there-or could she?-required something more of savoir faire than even she was possessed, especially when she had got herself all wrought up over Gagreau's four-bit piece.
 Speak to her." commanded Di- witt. There's no time to lose"
 Conchita spoke abundantly, as- surfing the lady that the weather was fine for the month of Febru- ary.
 Try her with French" Divitt said to Gabreau
 "Mamselle-" he began.
 The girl faced them abruptly Her stormy eyes moved over the group.
 Copyright, Dodd, Mead and Co)
 Willy Divitt Tomorrow he
 probes into a runaway's req
 sons. Is she, too, outside the i law?
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Faber's 43-Year-OId Arm
 Bags Trio of Victories

CHICAGO, Aug. 12 - Old Red Faber's 43-year-old arm isn't quite washed up" yet.
 His once-famed spitball didn't start working until July this year, but then he won two games in three days against the St. Louis Browns, and a third against the Washington Senators, to prove that he still has on occasional winning streak left in his system.
 Red has worked nearly $500 in- nings since he joined the White Sox in 1914-winning 240 games and losing 186.
 His last "big year" was in 1922 when he won 21, while losing IT In 1915 he won 24 and lost 13; in 1920 he won B and lost 13, and in 1921 won 25 and lost Is.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-12
DISTANT QUAKES FELT AT SITKA


 SITKA, Alaska, Aug. 12.-Heavy earthquake shocks lasting more than three hours were recorded here Sunday on the seismograph of the United States Coast and Geo. detic Survey Observatory in Sitka. The first shock was recorded by the seismograph at 29 minutes and 57 seconds past noon Sunday. The distance of the shocks from Sitka was estimated at 6,20O miles.
 Associated Press dispatches from Tokyo Monday reported that se- were earthquakes had been felt Sunday at Yokohama. Osaka and other Japanese cities
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MENDENHALL COMPLETES
 VISIT, DEPARTS SOUTH

w. c. Mendenhall, Acting Di- rector of the United States Geolo- gical Survey, who has spent the past month in interior Alaska in specting field surveys in prograss, sailed south today on the steam CT Dorothy Alexander. He stop ped off here for two days to con- fer wiht B. D. Stewart, Federal Mining Supervisor.