The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 31, 1928, Page 8

¥ ! 4 | 1 it NEW CONTRACT FOR INSANE OF Government Apparently Plans No Change in Present System (% MODERN MAGICIANS MUST USE FINESSE lon cessary That there will be The modern conjurer po 4. sbandonment . of | nly a few colored silks askan nisane by the R GE vaed m m vogue for. many year wes deoid ndica a call for bids for| | Magical ich a cont which was received| | 1n o It announced that tenders for a| | ¢ ct to care f he insane of | ¥ i ry for period of five| - vear yegin nuary 930, m | e ‘ufl Hrind .vu!l ‘nlv.huw }n “' :‘,,‘mc TIHE ASSURFD | Department up to January 16| FUN-LOVERS TODAY | AT ELKS' HI JINKS The present contract with ! . ‘ Morningside Sanitarium expires in JI07 Whe rerig id un.| FElks' Hi Jinks! Everybody | M- knows what that is! For year por » the Junean Elks have staged this rtment ounced that luL;M’“‘ at which the Old Year is| would be received from any re-loi.ideq on its parting way and | sponsible institution from west of| iy New Year welcomed with | the Rocky Mountains |proper eclat, to the accompani- | The cont system has been|ment of music, dancing and all attacked over a long period of janner of no years as being inhuman and unde-{ onight is the big night. The | sirable from ecvery standpoint of|pillg have decorated their audi-| humanity. For many years, various | torium lavishly for the occasion Governors of Ala ve recom-|The orchestra has ly of mended o the Interior Department | ihe newe nd jazz.e music that it Dbe discontinued. Gov.|ready to spring. There are new George Parks in his most recent|favors for everybody. And there| annual report to the Department!will be neither serpentine u-n} renewed this recommendation. Sev-|confetti to spoil mi-lady's gown eral A ka legislatures have|Dancing will start at 9:30 p. m adopted resolutions and memorials{and end in the wee sma’ hours | urging the advisability of changing|of the morning of New Year's| the system. | Day. | Two .Jefinite plans have Dbeen| - - > - | suggested in the past for improve- | - grescey ——— st ment. One was for the construc-| | WHO'S WHO | tion of bulldings and establish ; I PT ment of an institution to be gov- ! Rty AND lV’{fi'l"‘ y‘ ernmentally operated at some suit.|** = able location in the Territory. Th 1 other suggested that some Pacific| Coast State might be induced to| care for Alaska insane thus plac- ing them under direct supervision of State officials. PETE FARRELL Pete Farrell, better known as “Montana Pete,” one of the real oldtimers of Alaska, passed away at St. Ann's Hospital last night at the age of 81 years. Of the 81 years that made up his life, over GO re crowded with the hectic of adventures. Farrell was given “Montana Pete” when young man driving ot during the early days of the set- tling of Montana state. After sev- eral years of driving ght- horse coaches during which time| Farrell hud many experiences that would go well in a novel, he went to California where he took part in the glamorous gold rushes that filled -he years from “49” until the latter part of the century. From California Farrell came to Alaska and during the 40 years| he spent in the Territory, he took tically all of the Targer always in seek of ad- As a gambler during the the name ¢ he wa age cdach venture, days when dust was the stake to be played for he enjoyed the repu- tation of a winner of large sums It is sa11 that in one game of solo he won §25,000. After the big rushes were a thing of the past, Farrell came to the coast and spent the past years of his life in the towns of Southeast- arn Alaska. Of late years his health has been failing and pricr to his death he was confined in the local hospital, where the end ‘came, du? to old age and a failing heart. The only surviving relative a brother, who lives in Va California. Farrell had nev ned, for as his friends put it, “he was always on the go, looking for excitement and he was too busily decupied with pursuits of adven- ture to settle down.” The hody is at Juneau Young Mortuary awaiting the completion of funeral arrangements. - e - TWO ARE FINED Bert Jensen and Ingvold Peter- gon, who pleaded guilty last week to possession of intoxicating liqu- or in violation of the Alaska Bone Dry Law, were fined $100 each to- day by Judge Frank A. Boyle, in the U. 8. Commissioner’s court. ———.———— FRANCE TO CUT ARMY TO 598,000 BY 1930 PARIS, Dec. 31. France's army will number 598,000 offi- cers and men in 1930, when one- ear service is applied. This mber will inciude all the colon- troops and will %e 130,000 than the total number of under arms in France and the colonies on the eve of the World War. | These figures were given in he Chamber by the War Min- ', Paul Painleve, in reply to rtions by some Radicals that d been no real reduction fighting force. | Miss Lenore White in| Juneau cn the Princ evening. Miss White i known in Juneau but this first visit here in over She is to visit with her Mr. and Mrs. B J. W about six weeks then r San Francisco where she arrived ix years, parents, ite for | ing an auditing trip to the | Puget Sound district, Ward McAlister visiting here for s a with his mother, Mrs He ar-| rived yesterday from Seattle and | will return to Skagway this week. s g Ll T Art Critics Prove | Too Appreciative| PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 31. Modernistic t seems to puzzle even the ic: For three weeks “The Fossil Huntérs,” an-example of modern | art by Edwin Dickinson of Prov-| incetown, Mass., hung in a choice | pesition at, the international ex-| hibition of art here while thou- sands wondered what the maze of black and blue print, as it ap-| peared to the untutored eye, was intended to be. Officials connected with the exhibition, as well as the critics, apparently understood the pic- ture perfectly, so no one asked questions. But imagine the embarrass- ment of the officials and critics when Dickinson wired a demand that his picture be hung right- side-up instead of sideways! WISHING YOU ALL A HAPPY 1 AND ‘ PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Freo Delivery Phone 134 When Wo Sell It It's Right 3ub Station Post Office No. 1. tarium. “ CROWDS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPI GREETING HOOVER IN COSTA RICA Crowds in San Margaret Dow, 25-year-old Paw- Mary last |tucket, R. I, girl, will leave soon to well |become assistant secretary of the is her north China mission of the Amer- fcan board of the Congregational church, MISS GODDARD RETURNS HELLANS few a as We have a such BRIDGE SETS POKER CHIPS CARD SE TOILET SET! HAND BAGS LEATHER GOC Which we intend to sell at a greater reductior our Christmas p New Year's Ca HELLAN’S PHARMACY \ Next to Valentine’s Phone 3 Free I LI e B Goes To China |THREE FINED TODAY; Science As Well As M ysticism Enters Into Choice of Birthstones By Paoline DEAN PATTY WRITING FOR PROSPECTORS nal. An ancient tome of the pers i p a likewise sot forth the extravi- Brilliant, kindly, true in friendship, |gant claim that “if the fmage January’s bairns are grand. a lion were ergraved on a g Mark them well where'er you see them, it would protect and prese | ki With a garnet on the hand!” ors and health, cure the w | . | |'THAT certain gems, becau: all disease. and guard him_ from {Head of School of Mines| | T, Dy tttractions save | M1 perils in traveling.” | . b ; , People who are born in the lal- Would hncourage Pros- ‘ «“1:‘;"‘1;14 D:Jx“”: for good upon ‘3"r"[lfir half of January and the carly i E : ! dividuais, according to the|part of February when the planct pecting 1 Alaska { date of their birth, was the firm |Uranus is in the .'uu»nllum!yum» | s | bellef of all the|Variably lead interesting liv | Ernest N. Patty, Dean of the| early mystics and|!hough not always happy ones. | Agricuttural College and School o astrologers. It is a|They are under the influence of | Miioy. and’ Nk 5% ok 48 bellef that has come | AGuarius, and for this reason, mar- Mines, has prepared a series SHEnIS w_theanen :;nke P o Mines, 2 i the ages, embroider. | tHINE but a tranquil veature, even | ticles on prospe tending toy ¥ by “the Bhail though they generally embark |awaken greater i and activ-| superatitions of cach |UPOR @& with the greatest fore- |ity in that vocation. The age, now at last to|POUSht and caation. six in number, are written under find some Jjustifica-| There are green garnets as well Lo ‘hoadlig “Tales ‘£ oyke Gk tion by modern|a8 red. so that January people [Hills,” and they are being releas.| sclence in the theory | have the choice of practically twe el i ki of chemical attrect. |&ems in this one birthstone. The d | 0 he first fon and the newly-|finest garnets, often termed “Cape {the series will appear in The Em. discovered vibratory | Rubles,” are found in South Africa, | pire Wednesda nuary 2, and| rate of gems which|iD close proximity to diamonds. they will be published in this 18 as varied as their | {rom which they seem to have tak-- | paper thereatier as released. colors. en on unusual brilliance. Many The garnet, the stone assigned to are also found here in the United the month of January, has long been credited with the power to confer upon its wearer strength, 4 e, Dean Pattv helieves that mining [1s destinea be far more im-| | portant factor in Alaskia than it | | | |has been the past, but re | grace and victory. Because of its b‘ nizes the need of more prospec-| stimulating red color, likened in kS Jose, Costa Rica, welcoming President-clect Herbert Hoover and his party. tors. He also emphasizes the ad-| the past to a glowing coal, it has g ; i vantage { the School of Mines| been called the gem of inspiration, ., ol ~ |at Fairbanks as a training place| ;"? is :"F‘D“’:ed to G|‘V° great im- MOOSEHEART WOMEN | FAIRBANKS MASONS for prosncctors—a place wherbh| PoSUS 0 the creative instinct. H ELECT OFFICERS FOR YEAR| iggpectors may gain knowledge| t‘,e"’;:se"u"’n‘;:;“;’:’g::z.;:l"z’;:;f ( TOINSTALL THURSDAY| ruirbunks Masons lected | that will count far thorough and| tific research or in any work re. 3 : o omas W, Hunt to Vorship- | intelligent prospecting. ‘ quiring creative ability, as January The Women of Mooseheart Le- ful M Louls F. Joy, Senior| - - | people frequently are. It is also i gion will install officers at the Ward r Grandison, Junior | conducive to cheerfulness, exhilar- ~ rogular meeting mext Thursday Warden: Guy B. Erwin SLUDENT N eRan sting the epirlt and driving away ¥ T Th member of Toose ) v S | " T " | InEloN’ an soom, ; b ko B B G 2 9 Miss Nellio Afein, a student at| During the Middle Ages, the : ] e {he Eklutna Indus School, and | Barnet was used as a remedy for ; e Logion, No . and SHRINE (,LJB OFF\(‘ERS Mike Alex, Alaskan Railroad em. Inflammatory diseases, and was|Btates, In Arizona, New Mexico, their wives, are extonded an in Maur Lo Sharp has heen o T pklutna, were marrieq WOFR to insure constancy, fdelity |Montana and New York State. An tion tp attend. The affair n President of Anchor= | | and happlness. It was also fore- |enormous garnet weighing 8% ot public. but s only for Hhe shrine Club for the coming | y &y 4 . |'most among the stones supposed to | pounds, known as the Kunz garnet, foose’ Eoktarnt BHave Wil e | veat Rank Ti. Knight was. eff St oty | warn their wearers of approaching |was recovered some years ago in entertainment provided following | oc Vice-President and J. B NOTICE danger by changing color, so that | excavations in Herald Square, New Mhe inktaBation 4 Hatln Baotbtav Thauaner My office will be closed unti] during the Crusades nearly every|York €ity, and was presented by SHORY; £ tein, -‘,’ 4 | Tanuary 2nd. | ln(;n.lghh; wore a garnet given him by [ Dr. Kunz to the Museum of Natural v R e 7 as a protective dan, - o ATTENTION HOOSE L R ST I‘mri.nl\ _ DR. GEO. L. BARTON. i y P v ger sig- | History. Regular meeti of Moose ployed at Funter for several| rg AT SRR 5 § e tonight A large attend-|months, ed to town today ‘++++l"¥'|-i‘+'l+l—l—H—H+PH—l—l-F4—l'H-H+++4+-l+ is urgently requested. @d n the 8 | — 1 NEW YEAR REVEL IN DOUGLAS e 90 Bl ot b TRAPPING ILLEGALLY —TONIGHT — senger for Seattle on the N : i 5 western Friday . Mrs. Wheeler {s| ‘Jack Garside and Jimmy Han- b P l,'. II I the wife of Warrant Officer|¥0n Were fined $25 and Joe Rep "'2,3’ es a l Wheeler on the Coast Guard cut- |k was fined §100 for illegal trap ter Unalga. g by, Nodse Biank Ao Hovls 1 CARDS AT 8 O°'CLOCK—DANCING J. P. Kronheim returned fo|the Commissioner’s Court A R 0 Biftaan. on. the Mbrenits: tHta Py two were apprehended m e ANT'Q morning from Sitka where he has|and arsosted on Seymour Canal AT 10—REFRESHMENTS been enjoying the effects of the|and Replik was arrested several oy hot baths at the Goddard Hot|Wweeks ago at Lisiansk Music by most |Springs. Mr. Kronheim left Ju-| Al three cases were made by i . neau on the last outward trip|Wardens Dufresne and Jewell [ I ’ 3 () .l 3 Mr, and Mrs. W. A. Habernal |Pleas of guilty were entered by .|were among the passengers to|all threc defendants to charges of EVERYONE INVITED TO ATTEND rrive in Juneau on the Prin-|trapping out of m ’ s Mary. ' Mr. Habernal is mak- O L S Late Ferry After Dance rito He is well known here, Miss Dorothy Goddard, eclerk iaving made several such trips|in the office of Karl Theile, vorth in the past. Secretary of Alaska, returned Mr. and Mrs. Alex Sey return- home today after a holiday visit| T LT ed home Sunday on the Princess|with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. |f Mary after spending several | F. L., Goddard, at Goddard’s Sani-' TS o e 73y d 4 A weeks visiting relatives in the LET’S ALL START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT And keep in mind that there is no substitute For a Quality And that there is no substitute For a Friendship And that there is no substitute rticles For Fairness and And that there is'no substitute S For Honesty And we hope and feel that there is no substitute for FRANKNESS, KINDLINESS and CONFIDENCE BETWEEN OUR CUSTOMERS AND US. 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