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J 4 - THE OREGON ; SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLA ND, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1 17, 1918 HIGH COSTS HAVE SHUT DOWN MINES AIL OVER ALASKA R. P. Bonham, Back From Long Trip Down the Yukon, Says There Is Big Rush From North SIBERIA GOLD NOW ATTRACTS Mines in Asia Promise Rich De velopment in Future; Once Mighty Nome Now Only Village War, Isolation and the elements have worked havoc with AlaRkan Industry, recording to the observation of Raphael P. Bonham, special representative of tlie Kovernmcnt, who vent north several months ago to adjust labor troubles. He declared Katurdny that by the time he got there the troubles had settled them Helves by the elimination of the par ties to the disputes. r, , , . . m . . . i nf penpie nave uocKeo. out or Alaska, Mr. Bonham asserted, with almost the name rapidity that they flocked in dar ing the gold rush of a score of years ago. Bonham said he traveled rapidly for Alaska, and made over 2400 miles, go lri(f In by way of British Alaska and down the Yukon (o Nome. At 1st. Michaels, with a party of seven others, he chartered a gasoline trading schooner for J180 to get over to Nome, a distance ! of 110 miles. It took them 44 hours, ! and the expectations were that eight I hours would be sufficient. The schooner was blown back upon the Nome shore bv a Eale when It attempted to return and Its crew of one squaw-man and one native- Hsklmo nearly lost. High Prices Chcili Mining "The most remarkable thins about Alaska from the Industrial standpoint," I bo f.nid Mr. Bonham. "was the stampede out. Ships and boats were loaded to the limit. People who had rushed In there 20 years ago were just as anxious to es cape. At Dawson cottages that had cost thousands of dollars were offered for J 100 each. Hotels were closed or clos-liiK- Tho high prices for coal, oil, ma chinery and provisions made it impos sible for individual miners to continue operations, and many companies found their (told costing them two dollars for Mr. Bonham found the industrial con ditions peculiar. The territorial govern nient had passed a stringent eight hour law which was declared unconstitutional by the courts. The miners had attempt ed to enforce its provisions and had re fused to work overtime at time and a half wages. The low water and small snowfall alone would have shut down many hydraulic and dredging operations. The high price of provisions in many cases wiped out the margin of proftt completely, and it Is astonishing how much men can eat In a cold climate working on dredges. Only 400 Left in Xome "In many hundreds of cases," said Mr. Bonham, "we found that men had reported for work early In the season and because of conditions' had gone right out again." The varied causes con tributed to tho closing down of most "f the mining operations In Alaska. Nome in Its glory had 30,000 Inhabitants. When Mr. Bonham left there in Sep tember It had 400. "One of the great industries In Alas ka." nald Mr. Bonham, "is the reindeer. The animals multiply wonderfully and ! BONHAM SEES ALASKA'S INDUSTRIES - . '.V , ,,.:- '"S' w - - - V '"- . r'.WWH .U J -- i i r - ' - 'I'll fK J f H J P I ALASKA MINER. HERE KS?ftf J i BATHS IN BATTLE' IS LATEST STUNT OF YANK SCIENCE Bathing and Disinfecting Appara tus Follows Fighters to Very Front Lines During Action. AMERICANS FIGHT CLEAN Portable Apparatus Keeps Fight ers Clean and Washes Clothes; New Clothing Issued. Alaska reindeer among resources of northern country. At left S. S. Victoria arriving at Nome with supplies. Right Native belle in fashionable attire. 1 A tion. With hay at $80 to $90 a ton, an animal that furnishes good meat and nides and can winter In Northern Alaska on the moss and brush Is a wealth to its owners beyond estimate. Some meat Is . being shipped out of Alaska, and more will be. 1 had a carcass shipped to me here, but It has not arrived yet." Gold Hunters Go to Siberia Going down the Yukon Mr. Bonham was fortunate enough to be taken on board by a United States government steamer that was taking out soldiers, and was more comfortatfle and also was enabled to make the trip more rapidly than would have been otherwise pos sible. "Mining men look for a later resump tion of activities in Alaska," said Mr. Bonham. "Many of them told me they would go over to Siberia as soon as conditions permitted, and that indica tions are that there Is as much gold In Siberia as in Alaska." Mr. Bonham has resumed charge of the United States Immigration bureau fn- Portland with offiaes in Ihe Railway Exchange building. ON FIRST TRIP OUT IN 12 YEARS, HOMESICK Expects Those Who Have Left to Return Now That War Is Concluded, He Says. Br Sterling Hefllg Somewhere In France, October 20. Here is a war story that beats the record. In crashing battles, without inter mission, you can see almost an entire division of American soldiers victor iously advancing and taking their morning bath ! The bawth. in the hell of It. that's me cooi-nervea ooys : The facts, be ginning in early July, continue in the 1 present hour, with hot-water showers and shelter tents for chill weather in the open. I Also, you get, here and there, the comments of a famous American hy gienest, with full permission. He Is Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh H. Young, sen ior consultant dermatologist and urolo gist of the American E. F., and pre viously professor in Johns Hopkins unl ' versity medical school and hospital, j bookwriter, member of learned socie 1 ties and a leader in his line. Seeing the Buddies, Europe now knows what our hygiene is, and our "high Ideas of living." At the same time, there are glimpses of the work of an untiring friend of the boys health. Captain Ed- , ward J. McCague of the medical corps and division dermatologist, from the , University of Pittsburg medical depart-' ment. Baths If ear Treacbei I i The division jvas first thrown Into ( action to prevent the Germans from ! crossing a river. Portable shower ; baths and Foden-Thresy dislnfestors had been left In the training area when i the division was hastily moved front. friend, McCagrue ; but, dismantled, they soon caught op. in an area, which had been occupied by Germans four days previously. The ground was still cov ered with German dead. Four days after this break In continu ity, bathing was going on full blast In the new establishments. For example, take the th infantry. As relieved from the line, they were marched to the big baths and fully fixed up. In one day. 2200 men went through those established at a certain pontoon bridge. They bathed all night. During the night the area was heavily shelled and 10 casualties oc curred in the vicinity of these baths. They died clean ! Set r ta Barms The division rushed ahead of the big baths again. Again they were dismantled and re established in two days. The first aft ernoon afterwards the entire th regi ment was bathed. French knockdown shacks had been moved up with baths and dislnfestors to another river. One section found well arranged barns which the retreating Germans had not had time to burn and ran the whole business in them, with excellent success Te?. trucks were required to do the moving. Mean while, extra clothing and blankets for distribution In the division were sent to the baths, and although the shacks were soon left behind again, the extra supply of uniforms and underclothes necessi tated keeping the trucks. No difficulty was experienced In obtaining them, al though the division was engaged in the most active warfare ! Arrangements were made for the rapid bathing of the rest of the organisations during the remaining days of the month ; but the men did not wait. Small show ers were used extensively. In particular by the th regiment In and immediately behind the battle. At the same time, other small showers, from the supply train, were move forward with other hundreds of men passing through them as opportunity offered. Fire nrts.es 17st Yet elsewhere. Captain McCague made Ingenious use of town fire engines which he "discovered in two bombarded villages. They were hand apparatus and proved very satisfactory pumps, one being es tablished at a well, the other in a creek. My friend thinks that these can be found In many villages (especially when we get into German territory!) and pro vide an easy means of pumping water. Is it a tour de force a stunt excep tional, not to e counted on. this bath ing in the battle? Captain McCague says no. the thing Is now routine In many organizations and can be done ha alL Perhaps It is. by now. "If portable tents and ahowerbaths and Feden-Thresy dislnfestors and port able laundries be furnished with each division." says the Pittsburg Medical college man become captain In bloody war. "no difficulty will be experienced in fallowing the most active warfare and I bathing thousands of men dally from supply organisations and troops in rest and reserve." Aye, even In the line ! "By means of small Individual port able shower apparatuses." he tells me "even troops In support can be bathed at frequent Intervals." Yaaks Fight Clean This, I repeat, is the measured lan guage of a responsible officer speaking for. publication. The man to man facts go further. Medical officers, sergeants in charge, and the men on their own Ini tiative, set up the showers, when they can lay hands on them. In any shelter where there is water, in the thicks of modern fighting And here is the htc of It. As cold weather opens and "natural bathing' closes, the required equipment has been T" organizations and used continuously, coming along ; but much still awaits transportation from home, necessitating, all kinds of makeshift on tho part of Buddies and their medicals, determine to "fight clean" and avoid skin annoy -anoea and epidemics. - Ranger Trees Bear ' Then Waits for 4. Hours for Party;? V Dee Wright, forest ranger, went bear - hunting up on the Bear river In Pacini ; county. Wash., two weeks ago with two doga and two men. Dee doesn't like to shoot bears except with a camera, but -he enjoys chasing them, so he left his ,'. two friends and chased ahead with the .-' dogs. ' . -.- After going for miles through denso ' , underbrush. Dee and his dog com- . panlons treed the bear The dogs stood , y guard on the groqnd and Dee, to ret the , men know Just where they had found . the bear, climbed another tree himself ; so that his voice could be heard above the brush. -( . For four hours. Dee, the dogs and the' bear waited, snd Jnst as they all felt ' asleep the two hunters appeared, found " their bear ail waiting for them and shot him without any difficulty. . Uysses Without Hotel ' r Ulysses. Pa.. Nov. 16. tL N. &) ' T Ulysses is without a hotel. Explana , tlon : The proprietor of this town's only hotel loaded all the household effects ot the hostelry onto several wagons ons -recent morning and departed post hast into New York state. Reports aro that creditors were to foreclose on him on Monday. ; ; "The STORE THAT UNDERSELLS BECAUSE IT SELLS for CASH" I Thanksgiving Table Linens go back. Everything costs 'so much up j Lat the r.Tys caught up Z"ZTa" .oU"" 3 id.,d,U8tl1i i with them ; but only the portable shower have been no new mines struck within the last few years and everything is at a standstill." Accompanying Mr. Wallls Is his Mc Kenzie river husky, "Taxi," who has been the leader of seven dogs that have pulled him over many miles of frozen Bnow. "I thought the children would like to Charlie Wallis, quartz miner of Fair-, play with him," explained Mr. Wallls. banks. Alaska, arrived In Portland '. "He can pull their sleds around." Saturday on his first trip to the states! T"l is a monstrous dog and he is ! rection n 12 years. Mr. Wallis will visit his ! nows a Ua master, as he waits fur-I ?aKU!' be,ng lfne2. by AT'I'A1, ,r Drotner, VV. A. WaUls, a grocer or 1840 ; the transportation safelv secured in a apparatuses which were brought up by the sanitary trains were on hand for , the first fighting. A week later, seven more showers were received from the American Red Cross and installed, first. In a dismantled house on a creek. French portable shacks, hospital tents about 16 feet square, and the hurried -up Foden Thresy steam dislnfestors then formed the equipment. How do you take baths In battle? Captain Boran and 28 men. under di- of division Dermatologist Mc- Sartdyjflkmlevard, and his sister, Mrs. j warm bailment of' a hotel -aui fiencn. aaaington court, De, ! Mr Wallis is staving at fore' visiting his mother at Rufus. Or. i c.bi. ror years air. wains nas uvea m : the Alaskan interior and he likes it. the New Chatsworth Woods to Go London, Nov. 16. (I. N. S.) The fa-: No sooner had he landed at Seattle than mous Wicksup and Lyndop woods on the he became homesick for the safety of Chatworth estate of the Duke of Devon- ! the Alaskan w ilderness shire are to be cut down. About 250 I does not like cities. St. Louis Sols Milk Prices St. Louis. Mo., Nov. 16. (L N. S.) A for Mr. Wallls cash and carry price of 11 cents a quart ' for milk, sold at dairy offices and branch J lumbermen of the Canadian Forestry "Nearly everyone is leaving Alaska . stations, has been agreed upon by dairy j corps will shortly take up their quarters now." said Mr. Wallis. "but now that ! firms, following a conference with social i . irive on the tundra moss in that sec- I at Rowsley to do the work. 1 the war is over, I think they will all 1 workers and city officials here. This Is the Home Of the Overcoat and THIS is overcoat weather! A galaxy of overcoats! Nothing less. Portland's greatest stock! Assembled on one entire floor rack after rack, case after case each filled to over flowing OVERCOATS! Overcoats for every age of man overcoats for every use of man. The stress of wind and wave and weather holds no terrors for the man safely clad in one of these, for here are warmth and comfort safe protection from the wintry elements. Overcoats of style and individuality J From the loom to the tailor no detail, however small, has been omitted which goes to produce garments abounding in character. There's real economy in choosing your over coat here : superior quality, approved style and lasting satisfaction await you. $20 to $60 The E a tire Third Floor Take Elevator Pen Bellini LMorrison Street at FcnjrtW . stk-jo - Ww aire: ders f.o run certain big bath establish- i ments. the men were rushed in trucks as soon as they were out of the line 1 (or marched when th? distance was ; short) to such divisional baths, where they were showered and soaped and had clean underclothes and uniforms given ; to them. Clean Clothes Isiaed ! The soiled underwear and uniforms f blood, mud, sweat!) were disin- fested and the underwear washed and reissued : but it was found impossible to disinfest, cleam up and repair the ' outer clothing as rapidly as the men re- ; quired them, so new uniform suits were , issued to almost everyone and to some ' more than once. ' Can't you see It? Do I tell it? It is terrible, but splendid, those boys coming : in all reeking, blood stained, mud soaked, dropping all that, bathing and then get- j lng into sweet, clean garments ! About i 15,000 new uniforms were obtained and j used for the purpose, exclusive of fresh- ( ening up battle worn suits in the course I of the advance, and none of the discard ed things were lost : all went to the sal- 1 vage for repairs, cleaning and sorting, j And about the same number of under- : clothes ana pairs oi socks ui nished by the quartermaster corps, al though the distributing personnel was drawn from the Infantry. Does this last say nothing to you? It was the battle ! Yes: but I said "baths In battle" as distinguished from relief. Here's the high novelty. How do they do it? "Small shower baths were arranged in more distant positions." It Is permit ted me to quote Captain McCague in his own words, "so that battalions and other organizations could be bathed in the front lines.' Officers la Charge Do you get It? Some of the battle baths were in charge of regimental medical officers. Others were entrusted to particularly Intelligent and devoted sergeants with picked personnel of en listed men. There were no changes of ; uniforms or underclorhes at them : but the men used them continually In the hottest of the combat, and all In reach i of the supply trains had one change of underwear and did their own washing! Others of the advancing battalions ' had regular changes of underclothes. ; ! and the small showers going with them , ! were kept very busy. Other units, on j orders of medical officers, bathed simply ; in creeks and ponds, whether or no they had clean underwear. All the while, j i farther back, the divisional establish- 1 ments bathed troops in reserve and ! those coming out of the line into sup- ! i port and remaining In tne area. The men of the tr-d tr-resri- ments. for example, naa meir iuu soap baths about once a week. Another regiment had been aetacnea irom uie division, firs with the th and later : v. Ith a French division, and got very j little bathing or change of underwear, j They became quite dirty and infested, j Yet another of those which had been re- j duced to streams and ponds had, later j on. the luck to come back near to a large divisional bath establishment. It kept fairly clean and well, but not so well j as tne th and th. Just mentioned. So you see. Advance Is Rapid Ann now it eets hotter and hotter Because I am quoting a few words from high personages, the story cannot lefttself go, but must be framed in j measured and conventional language, j Vnr five days the division was "very t actively engage.. In hold the German. Then they crossed another river. French and Americans side by side, pursuing the enemy. During the first week. koii.in7 m eoine on dally at the divi sional baths first of troops in the back areas and support, then of troops re lieved from the lines, coming out In a miuk of blood, mud and sweat. TMn eVjt so hot In this pursuit that j they shortly got ahead of the divisional , baths entirely, so that they "remained i inactive for two dayW to quot my BUY a Gift a Week NOT only will it be easier on your pocketbook. but by selecting at least one gift a week you are sure to make a more satisfactory selection than to wait till the last, when the rush Is on and the best selec tions gone. 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