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ALASKA WORK IS APPROVED BY ENGINEERS Kelchik;:—and Seward| Plans Endorsed—Port Alexander Benefits 14—-The has been pproving Creek WASHINGTON, Jan. Army Engineers' report submitted to Congress improvement of Ketchikan and Saxman harbor at an mated cost of $272,000. Engineers, made a preliminary survey of the work contemplated which involy s | construction of a breakwater, and | dredging and annual cost of main-| tenance which the engineers said would be merely nominal for| many years. | At the same time the enginee: approved proposals for Resurrec-| tion Bay, development of a refuge | harbor at Seward, estimated tro cost $85,000 and approved pro- posals to provide a channel 12 feet deep and 100 feet wide at the | main entrance in the channel and 12 feet deep and 40 feet wide at the entrance to the inner lagoon, at Port Alexander, Chatham Straits, near the lower end of | Baranof Island, as an opera base for fishing vessels, estimai- ed to cost $17,000 | - Hardy s Heart Is Tnken from Body/| DORCHESTER, Ellt,lam!. .Lm.l 14.—In the early morning moon-! light, the body of Thomas Hardy, | minus his heart, was taken away for burial in Westminster Abbey. The heart, in a bronze casket, will be placed beside his wife pody, B~ ol ERIWPF The pallbearers at the Abbey for the famous dean of English literature, who died at his home| on Thursday, include Premier Baldwin, J. Ramsay McDonald,| Rudyard Kipling and George Bernard Shaw. PULP EXHIBIT IS PRESENTED MUSEUM| A letter written on a sample of the first pulp produced in Alaska, | January 26, 1921, by the Alaska Pulp and Paper Company at Speel | River, contained in a frame umlPr' glass, has been presented to the Alaska Museumt by E. Lester| Jones, Director of the U. 8. Coast| and Geodetic Survey. The lotter was written to Mr.| Jones by E. P. Kennmedy, presi- dent of the company for the pur- pose of presenting Mr. Jones wlth‘ a sample of the first pulp pro- duced from the Speel River mill.! ————————— CHIEF ISSUES WARNING Chief of Police George A. Get- chell issued a warning today that Juneau residents who dump garb- age on hillsides and other proper- ties will be prosecuted to-the fuil extent of the law. Getchell said yesterday he called on residents on Gastineau Avenue and gave personal warnings to those whom he says have been disregarding this order. - Mrs, A. J. Palmer is a Juneau Dbound passenger on the Alaska. She has been visiting with her son and daughters in Seattle for the last few weeks. WE CONTEND AND MAINTAIN and can truthfully say, we have one of THE BEST & and MOST RELIABLE Pre- | sription Druggists on the Pa- - cific Coast. Doctors can trust : us and so can you. The very highest grade of everything is @ used and we do not substitute. © we have 1928 Tide Tables HELLAN’S PHARMACY Next Door to Graves Store Phone 33 Yes, | leader of Colorado, has arrived | help the coal strikers. Woman Sheriff; | Helping Mmen A - LA & | plans for work “Flaming Milka” Sablich, girl strilk New York on a tour of the eas! where she will head mass meeting in an intensive drive for funds © Milka ha just been released from jail, wher she was confined for battliag wit the Colorado State MilitZa. (International Newsreel) .- Object to They Eat Mush SYCAMORE, 111, Jan. Mush is still being served in the De Kalb County jail following an un- | successful rebellion of 33 prison- ers when Illinois’ first woman sheriff, Mrs. Helen Dolder, took office Thursday. The prisoners were driven their cells by the guards: whea they refused to eat Thursday night and demanded: ' “Who'll put us in their cells?” The prisoners have been in their cells since then and on mush diets. 14 to Slayer:f Woman Demands Quick Death Jan. 14—Joe s, killed his Mrs. Alma PORTLAND, Ore., Levis, aged 44 ye former sweetheart, Matthews, aged 26, divorcee and the mother of three children, then drove to police headquarters and turned in his revolver, saying: “I want to die quick, if she is dead. I want to die if she lives. I want to die, hang me and do it quick.” ., —— Old papers fot sate at The Empire i “ELKS GOOD LUCK DANCE TONIGHT” BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. When We Sell It It's Right Free Delivery Phone 134 Sub Station Post Office No. 1. .. ——a For Prices On Our Dried Fruits QUALITY GUARANTEED NONE . BROTHERS BETTER Front Street DEPART SUNDAY lf‘dVL“ ffll bll” FIdl]le(‘O | ber | the | industry | exten | plant sites, er | Adaitional | preliminary | timber | Fall but no inten | District | Mr to Confer with Cam- eron, Zellerbachs Enroute to I t on official busine mainly vected with the plans for the year's development of the pulp and paper program, Asst. District Forester . Heintzleman will 1 e on the steamer Alameda | Sunday for Seattle. He expec q' to be absent about six weeks. who has had | points con B Heintzleman, arge of the Government's pro motion work looking toward tim- ales upon which to establish | e ; pulp and paper manufacturing Dr. Ernest H, Cherrington of West- | in Southeastern Alask:, | erville, Ohlo (above) will carry on will spend most of this time ia | all publicity, educational and legis- San Francisco, visiting a few days | lative work of the Antl-Saloon in both Seattle and Portland. The ! League, taking over the pesition main object of his visit is to g:t| left open by the death of Wayne B, in touch with both the Cameron. | Wheeler. Chandler and Zellerbach interest: | (International Illustrated News) | ->-—oo—— and confer with them over the'r| R in the Te v |GAZALOFT CASE TAKEN UNDER ADVISEMENT during the coming season of{ The case of the Both are expected to e engineering studies water power and oth-| aloff, charged with possession early in eason. [of intoxicating liquor, was taken timber itions junder advisement by Judge Frank to le, at the hearing in the be made. Commissioner’s Court yess were made afternoon. sive cruising was loff, who done. A report was made to bothia sentenee of one year im the groups several weeks ago by thellocal Federal jail, was arrested engineers making the study. itljanuary 10 by prohibition agents has not been made public but ¥ land charged with possession of is understood to have been favor-|intoxicating liquor. able. The Forest Service has not! received a copy of the report, M./ Heintzleman 'said. WINTER TERM COURT ADJOURNED TODAY: winter term of the U Court in sion sihce November last adjourned , this morning T. M. Reed. Court opened at 10 o'clock this | morning and was adjourned short- ly after 11 o'clock. Umberti Manica, who plead | guilty to a charge of possession | of intoxicating liquor, was se tenced to serve three months in| the local federal jail. | Lars Saltroness, native of Nor-| way, was granted citizenship pa- pers by Judge Reed. He was! For the husband, brother, permitted to change hiz name (9| son, or friend whose past Louis Ness. | year was one of accomplish- ment, the Gruen Pentagon. i So often has this celebrated honor TAKE IMPROVED [ puch been chown to oot PINE-TAR AND HONEY | “The Croix de Guerre for American Achievement”, Mentholated, with Cod Liver Oil| Extract and Eucalyptus for relief of Coughs, Colds, Loss of Voic Bronchitis, Hoarseness and affe tions of Throat and Lungs. Only At | initiat- | S. vs. Sam subjects will studies probably Lawrence. Phone 1534. adv. The se was by Judge For his New Year— this award of merit! NUGGET SHOP Telephone Number 37 “HERE WE GO AGAIN” “Canned Ggods” is a handy term that doesn't do justice to . a real marvel of civilization. When we sell you a can of “HAPPY HOME BRAND” Pineapple we like to think of far-off Hawaii, some of whose delight comes to you “in tin.” Come in and see our after-inventory special displays on all canned Fruits and Vegetables—it is sure saving for you. . If you are too busy at home you are welcome to our tele- phone service which is best of any in any town between City of New York and Fairbanks, GASTINEAU GROCERY now serving 2 EDISUN TUHNS T0 NEW WORK FORT MYERS, Fla, Jan. 14— On a milk diet and in good spirits, Thomas Edison has turned his in- ventive mind to contemplation of some 1,500 variegated plants from which he expects to find from 30 to 50 which will bear rubber. Edison has been put on a mil diet because his wife fears he is subject to his old-fashioned dys- pepsia. > — Chamberlin Fails to BreakrFlight Record MITCHELL FIELD, Jan. 14, Clarence A. Chamberlin's sec- ond attempt this week to estab- losh a new world’s duration flight record, failed when he landed at 2 o'clock this afternoon. It would have been necessary for Cha nvhmlvu to have remained in the air until 3:34 o'clock this afternoon to beat the record Chamberlin bettered his old mark of 51 hours and 11 minutes at 1 o’clock this afternoon. o FEugene Permanent Waves, $15. American Beauty Parlor. —adv. PN S 01d papers for sate at Tne Emplire. Ger m.|n| registered in 1923 when tho museum was opened. Rev. Kashevaroff sald today many visitors do not register and he believes that had every name ‘hcml entered last year the num- ber would have been well over 19,000. There has been an increase in {the number of visitors registered cach year since 1923 being as follow. 1923—3,495; 1924 -5 - 9; 6,221; 11926—6,562; All May Soon e Son—— OVER 500 IN i .| SEARCH AFTER ~ CHILD SLAYER F‘LINT. Mich., Jan. 14—A wide SCHENECTADY, N. —The radio fans’ dream of home receiving set bringing n both sight and sound, seems m':er realization. A small audience yesterday saw and heard nr}lsts three miles dis spread search for the slayer of ;‘;’:" °"‘3:n‘|‘i "":""“‘ ‘:"“”]”‘ COM- | five year old Dorothy Schneider,! 3,6973. amlyregul:{(:m (:.r s "C‘(Y)‘s""'l:"".‘]" kindergarten pupil, whose mutila-| Visitors without exception are that mow stands In the way, of ©0 Pody was found Thurday inimpressed by the contents of the ; ¥ 0 a creek three miles from homo,|museum, Rev. Kashevaroff said popularizing television radios, it Y continues. Two men brought un-|Even Alaskans from other parts | der suspicion are to be viewed by |of the Territory evince surprise ! Archie Bacon, farmer, who wlat the extensive collection of ex- the child’s kidnapper and slayer|hibits. after the crime had been commii-| The Curator receives numerous !ted. Five hundred officers have letters and gifts at Christmas | been augmiented by volunteers|time from tourists to Alaska who | searching for the elderly killer. have visited the museum, many {of whom he does not remember. MUSEUM VISITORS | The majority of visitors We said, always before leaving the LAST YEAR 8 573!musr‘um lament the fact that the —_— exhibit is not stored in a con- and the liabilities amount to $11,-| The total registration of visit-|crete and fireproof building. 289, lors at the Alaska Muueum for! et o the year 1927 was 8,573, accord-| The Wanaerer. Capt. Ole An- ing to the figures g!\on today by|sen, returned to Juneau last Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff, Curator.|night with a cargo of salmon ¢, This number is 2,011 more than|which was purchased from trol- {were registered in 1926, and 5,-|lers in the Tee Harbor, vicinity Y., Ji 14 — - J. J. WOUDARD FILES VOLUNTARY EANKFUPTCY A voluntary declaration of llank ruptcy has been filed in the U. S. District Court by the J. J. Wood- ard Company, local plumbing and sheet metal shop. The assets ()!‘ the company are claimed to é | $3,687.45, of which amount 3’(‘71‘ is asked as personal exemption, I do work Juneau and ou such as carpenter, shingling, elec- 1078 greater than the numl:rr|nm| will be shipped to Seattle, ,,..::.' Blue and White F namel Ware trical, calsomining, plumbing or, any kind of repair work. Phone 137. Box 406. Henry C. Gor-| ham. —adv. ol papers for sale at The Empire. AR T S R S YOU BET Well, the Trustees arc going Immediatley PHONE 37 “We boost for our boosters.” Three Free Deliveries Daily ANNOUNCEMENT We have been appointed distributors in Southeastern Alaska for the following lines. This means you buy direct from factory eliminating Seattle jobbers profit. BIRCHFIELD BOILERS TRANE HEATING EQUIPMENT RAY OIL BURNERS HART OIL BURNERS “LEAD CLAD” SHEETIRON 5 WE ALSO HANDLE “STANDARD” PLUMBING FIXTURES GEO. B. RICE Plumbijfi Oil Burners ARE WE GOING? WHERE TO? of the Ladies of Mooseheart Legion. Moose and their wives and sweethearts, BUT it is requested if you bring your wife you must also bring your sweetheart. P. A. P. I'll meet you there and we'll have a time like we never had before. L. 0. 0. M. 700—MONDAY NIGHT—16TH AT COST Special price on canned goods by the dozen GARNICK’S PHONE 174 WE ARE! NorTHERN Licar PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. O. A. StiLLMAN, Pastor MORNING SERMON AT 11 0’CLOCK. Subject: “A Compre- hensive Test,” followed by Communion Service. BIBLE SCHOOL AT 12:45 EVENING SERMON AT 7:30 P, M. Subject: “God's Werkmanship in Christian Character.” A Warm Welcome for Everybody to give-a big time in homor They also invite all After Lodge S ] | | | Plain unvarnished facts about a plain unvarnished season-end sale that starts the 10th Prices Are Greatly Reduced On Hart Schaffner & Marx OVER-COATS $35.00 OVERCOATS NOW $23.15 $40.00 OVERCOATS NOW $26.65 $45.00 OVERCOATS NOW $30.00 $50.00 OVERCOATS NOW $3L15 Prices are reduced because we must have room for new goods. Price reductions are logical for you and for us. So there’s nothing amazing about this sale—it’s good business all the way'round. stein’s Empotmm WNEAU'S STILE CENTER