The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 27, 1935, Page 7

DEATH SUMMONS - OWENS, LOVED EARLY PIONEER 75-Year-Old “Mayor of Sumdum” Dies at Hos- pital L(.st Night Gene Owens, dum,” is dead. Loved respectea as a pione ska, Mr. Owen: ¥ is mourned by &" of Juneau. He died at 11 o'cloc ast ni Al St Ann's Hospital of He was 75 years old. His bo(‘\ was taken to the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. No funeral arrangement will be announced until Monday tne Mayor of Sum- and Incidents Recalied Lockie MacKinnon and William Bosch, old-timers, today r cidents in the colorful life of Mr. Owen: As a youth of about age, Mr. Owens came to Juneau in 1885 from his home in Indiana ‘Three years later, he moved into the Yukon Territory on the trail of gold. That trail ultimately brought him in 1897 to Sumdum, then a thriv- ing mining camp on Endicott Arm There he spent the remaining 38 years of his life, him last night here. Becemes Mayor recalled that he made “a of the But, It wa sizeable sta with the sale Bald zle Mine at Sumdum. even after the boom of the Sum- dum mines had passed, Mr. Owens remained there, working and pros- pecting quartz claims. It is believed that several of his claims may prove valuable when his estate is settled His long residence in the Endicott Arm settlement gave him the hon- crary title of “\ r of Sumdum.” Mr. Owens was an inveterate pipe smoker. used to spend long hours at night Where called in- | 25 years of | | Bahr, until Death called | reading and smoking. to Juneau in Jan- this year for medical at- he told friends that he own away his pipe,” indi- his s smoking ha- been a contributary iis cabi n he came tention had cating t bits ma, cause of death. Was Not Married Mr. Owens had been a patient |in St. Ann’s Hospital last year, but entered the hospital for the last time on January 10 of this year. He was not married, and is sur- vived by no relatives in Alaska. It I:\ believed that his birthplace is in Illinois. * SUPREME COURT = COMES TO AID - OF ANDY BAHR \Remdeer Herder May Not Lose His Life Sav- | ings in Seattle SEATTLE, April 27.—The State Supreme Court has issued a writ of | prohibition preventing Superior {Judge John T. Ronald from signing | the dispossession writ against Andy reindeer herder, and his wife, pending a hearing on May 17, and { disposing of two apartment houses, representing Bahr's life savings. | The property was sheriff under a mortgage held by an insurance company while Bahr |was on the five year trek driving | reindeer from Seward Peninsula to the Mackenzie River. He only re- centl ing the drive, D — IRBANKS ARTIST RETURNS AFTER STUDY WITH ZIEGLER ;i:lm Theodore R. Lambert, THE DAlLY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1935 WEST COAST GROCERY BUYS LOCAL FIRM J. B. Caro and Company to Retire from Wholesale Business After 35 Years After conducting a wholesale bus- iness in Southeast Alaska, head- quartering at Juneau, for the last thirty-five years, the firm of J. B. Caro and Company was sold today to the West Coast Grocery Com- pany, of Tacoma. Negotiations were completed this morning and the firm is now open for business un- der the name of the Juneau branch | of the West Coast Grocery Com- pany. of Tacoma, it was announc- ed. Charles E. Hooker, partner in the firm of J. B. Caro and Company from the time it was organized by the late J. B. Caro and himself in 1900, will retire from active business and devote his time to managing the extensive property holdings of Caro and Com- pany here and in Ketchikan. J. Bert Caro will remain with the Juneau branch of the Tacoma com- pany as salesman and with the ex- | ception of Mr. Hooker, the person- |nel of the local wholesale branch sold by Lhei will remain the same as that of J. B. Caro and Company, accord- ing to Robert Lee, who will manage Fairbanks | for the past four years. the local branch. E Knows Alaska Mr. Lee, who afrived here from y returned here after complet- | the south on the ‘steamer Yukon | Tuesday to take over the active management of the local branch, has been City Salesman for the Coast Grocery Company, of ‘acoma in Aberdeen, Washington He is no artist, has returned to the Interior|stranger to Alaska as previous to city after | Ziegler. Seattle. studying under Ziegler, paintings as remarkable. E. P.|his famous Northwest artist, in | firm, association with his present he was Carnation Milk rep- Sidney Laurence | resentative in the Terrltory for three Friends said that hvi‘md others have described Lambert’s | years. L. J. Boger, manager for the West Coast Grocery, of Tacoma, To Go? Don’t You Know who was a| during the last week while details [in Ketchikan nas also been here‘vETERAN RUYAI. of the sale were completed. | Policies Unchanged 1 “We will carry on the wholesale | business as it has been comducted |in the past by Caro and Company ) but plan to increase our grocery stock so as to make it more com- | plete,” Mr. Lee said. The good will, stock, fixtures and |truck of J. B. Caro and Oampany‘ | were included in the purchase of| the West Coast Grocery Company which has taken a lease of several years on the Caro and Company | property on lower Main Street. A. Van Mavern, will continue as Southeast Alaska representative for | the West Coast Grocery Company, |of Tacoma, a post which he has held for many years. ———————— 3 MEN NAMED T0 GET RELIEF PLANS WORKING Jobless K—e—ep Eyes on Washington Ready to Go and How Much WASHINGTON, April 27.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has named Henry L. | Hopkins, Secretary of Interior Har- old L. Ickes and Frank Walker as the heads of the Public Work Relief plans as jobless multitudes looked to the Capital City for a definite Iword as to when they will go to | work and what they will be paid. | The President has gone over the general plans but no definite word has been passed out as to them. FIRST STEPS TAKEN WASHINGTON, April 27.—Taking the first step toward starting actual spending of the work relief fund Sccretary Ickes late today tele- graphed PWA state engineers to resume receiving applications for non-Federal projects. Secretary Ickes' action coincided with hurried preparations by Hop- kins to prepare a list of employable persons on relief rolls in different regions throughout the country. e e “HIGH” BOAT FOR HERRING CATCH IS IN HARBOR TODAY The high vessel for herring catch | in Southeast Alaska last year visit- ed port today, when the motorship | Jeanette-F of Everett berthed at ‘rarm of David Knox, near Drum- | heller, late yesterday. Alva Knox, who is alleged to have fired the fatal shot, escaped, but MuuNTIE sHuT was shot and killed later by the | police when he opened firz on them, ——————————— FOR CHATHAM Canadian P;ic;man Killed| —Slayer Later Run Down, Pays Penalty Bound for Chatham on the Northwestern is Miss C. E. DeHaas. She is the daughter of Capt. De- Haas, connected with the New Eng- land Fish Company's Ketchikan of- fice. CALGARY, April 27.—Shot in the chest, Corporal Michael Moriarity, veteran Royal Canadian Mounted TR T rjouce Wwas instantly killed at the | DAILY EMPIR& WANT ADS PA SOLDIEBS TRAVEL Traveling to Haines, there to join | the Chilkoot Army Barracks, were five soldiers who took passage from Seattle on the Northwestern. They are: C. T. Bagley, R. L. Chelf, 8. Prestwell, R. M. Jeffers, C. T. Size- | more. e BOUND FOR SKAGWAY J. P. Branca and Rex F. Hart- man, employees of the contracting firm of Stock and Wright, were passengers on the Northwestern for Skagway from Seattle. They will aid in the installation of Skag- Wway's new water system. FAIRBANKS EXPLORATION’S CAMPS ARE ALL OPEN NOW With all dredges of the Fal banks Exploration Company in op{ leration, the company is gradually increasing the number of its em- ployees and plans to have full cre at work somstime in May. camps of the company are nm open. Chatanika dredge, No. ‘3, which started operating April 13 was the last of the gold to go into action. Thaw drillingis still in progress at Chatanika, nfi‘ four prospect drills are being oper<y ated, one at Cleary and three a#/ Ester. e was instently killed at the | DAILY EMPIR WANT ADS PAY! w water system. | ster. L T = Sedan .... Coupgiidiliss/s . . 4.0 Sport Sedan .,.. .... . Phaeton:....0 0.5 ... Sedap o vae Coachs.ie. ¥ ., SportUotipe .. . & &0 5t ol i TownSedan .. .. ... Lo ca. L el Sport Roadster .... ... Goupe t oot g8 n o e Py 1935 GHEVRO New Low Prices! THESE NEW LOW PRICES NOW IN EFFECT IN JUNEAU IASTER SERIES STANDARD SERIES T .$890.00 830.00 810.00 850.00 865.00 925.00 ; .$720.00 700.00 : 790.00 720.00 710.00 750.00 Above prices include Spare Tire, Tube, Tire Lock and Just get on the Bus that leaves the Juneau Ice Cream Parlor Ooles NAart | a reasonable cost. every Saturday night at 1 a.m. and go out the highway. These trips are very popular with folks that want clean fun at | The Jeanette-F is complrlflvely\ new, being built only last year at | Tacoma for the Northwest Herring Company. Last summer, the vessel | Front and Rear Bumpers, and Windshield Swipe Knee Action available at extra cost of $25.00 Channel Bus Line (W. H. BACON, Operator) was credited with the record South- | | east Alaska herring total. Last winter she was used in sar- dine fishing off the coast of Cali- fornia, but she’s again in northern | waters after herring. Skippered by Louis Peterson, the Jeanette-F is |enroute to Seattle, but will return again in May to the Port Conclus- ion plant. The vessel is 75 feet long overall and is powered by a 135 horsepowe! deisel oil burning englne g gIIIIIIIIIII|IIImlmllllllll|lllllllll“lllfllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIlllllIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllTIlIIIIIIIlllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllIIIIflIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIlIIIIIIIIIIII]IIIIIlI Connors Motor Co., Inc. DISTRIBUTORS OO A AR Are You So Farin Debt Yau Cannot See Your Way Out! IF SO LET US HELP you! HOW PEOPLE GET IN DEBT e If you have a desir WHAT TO DO e to get out of debt, have a good credit standing, and hold your head up with and see us and express that desire. Give us a com- credltors and how much you These creditors will their accounts with plete list of all your owe each one. be asked to us as trustee. We will then figure out about what you can afford to pay o i ) N those who have been more fortunate than you, come pool and still leave enough you are willing to pay 1} \ i E to pay all current bills. If I { INTERVALS, a “Pooled i i § I} l N § § § § § \ 4 ‘Z this amount at REGULAR Account Agreement” will be made with you. This will put all of your obliga- tions in one place to be paid out in regular pay- ments at intervals most convenient to you. You will not be molested by creditors or in danger of garn- ishment or attachment. You will not have to borrow m y to accomplish the result you desire. And u make your payments regular and promptly, you will soon be OUT OF DEBT. THE CREDITORS WILL HAVE THEIR and WE WILL HAVE HELPED YOU MONEY " TREAT YOUR CREDIT AS A SACRED TRUST | 14 | CHARLES WAYNOR, Manager Of all the people who owe a large number of past due accounts, only a few are dishonest. A large majority of them get in debt through circumstances, some of which could have been avoided, but many of which come in the class of misfortunes. To these there should be ex- tended a helping hand, one that will encourage and not discourage; one that will produce honest, upright citizens who value a good credit standing. People get in debt through the following circumstances:— SICKNESS generally comes at a time when they are not prepared for it financially. Oftimes it is the wage earner that is sick. It means doctor bills, hospital bills and drug bills. UNEMPLOYMENT oftimes comes unexpected and when they are not prepared for the proverbial “rainy day.” During this time the fam- ily must live on its eredit. MISMANAGEMENT. If all the money in the world were to be equally divided, some people would soon he broke and in debt. They (!o not know how to figare outgo against income, They buy anything their desires call for, with possibly good intentions, but they seldom pay until forced to do so. FAMILY TROUBLES nearly always result in heavy indebtedness and it is generally a case where one side of the family deliberately accumulates all the obligations possible for the other one to pay. NATURAL DEADBEATS, fortunately, are in the minorjty and for them there can be no helping hand. Only force in collections and'eareful credit investigation will get them out of debt and keep them out. THE POOLED ACCOUNT PLAN This is an age of installment buying. It has been said that many people accumulate the things that make life more enjoyable by install- ment buying.- And to the honest person who is in debt and does not wish to defraud anycne, what could be more enjoyable than to get out of debt? So why not apply the same principles? INSTALLMENT PAYING. The pooled account plan is simply a time payment plan.of getting out of debt and is intended to help those who come in the first “four classes above mentioned. Alaska Credit Bureau 'VALENTINE BUILDING PHONE 28