“CONTRIBUTE TO FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION”
IS SI OOAN^eVgflKBOPK PULL.
WOMAN MINER
STRUCK IT RICH
MRS. E A. CLEVELAND, PIONEER,
FINDS FORTUNE ON
WOODCHOPPER.
(Valdez Prospector.)
To every pioneer in Alaska it will
be good news to learn that Cleveland
& Howell, of Woodchopper, are again
to take out a big fortune in that
camp during the coming season.
Their first big cleanup made recently
mounted to $6S,000, according to ad
vices from the lower river. While all
will be glad to wish Mr. Howell, who
is a progressive miner, the best of
luck, all old timers will be delighted
for Mrs. Cleveland's sake, for no wo
man that ever lived in the North has
done more than she to develop the
country.
For almost 20 years Mrs. Cleve
land has been spending money, tens
of thousands of dollars, in develop
ing the country and opening up new
mining ground, to say nothing of the
thousai®s she has given to grubstake
prospectors.
On, Gold Run. in the Dawson coun
try, during the early days of the
Klondike, she owned one of the larg
est mercantile establishments in the
district. For several years she did a
big llhsiness getting good profits on
all goods that she sold, but her gen
erosity to prospectors finally broke
her. She grubstaked hundreds of
them during the course of her life
in- the upper country and in the Tan
ana valley, not so much with the hope
of reward, but with the idea of help
ing out the oldtimers. and with the
idea of opening up virgin fields of gold.
After having had several fortunes
of some size, and after having sunk
them in trying to develop the coun
try, many men and almost any wo
man would have quit in despair. But
not Mrs. Cleveland, for she always
looked at the mining game philoso
phically, ready to make changes as
they came, and believing that when
the beans and bacon were growing
low in the cache it was time to ex
pect something to happen.
Besides her mercantile venture on
Gold Run, she spent a fortune min
ing on Eureka creek, a tributary of
Indian river. After spending thous
ands of dollars preparing to hydraul
ic. they discovered that the pay was
not as good as it appeared at first
and she again lost another fortune.
On Woodchopper creek, in the Hot
Springs district, Cleveland & Howell
started to prospect and put a good
sized fortune into the property be
fore anyone knew whether or not
they would ever take out enough to
pay their labor, to say anything of
their expenses. And now they are tak-!
ing out big money, and many min
ing men who have looked over their
proposition think that they will take
out more than a million dollars this
season.
If they have this good fortune,
which appears to be in their hands
now, Mrs. Cleveland will certainly
have the distinction of being the
Hetty Green of Alaska. And it will
be a safe wager that the more money
she makes the more prospectors there
will be who w’ill have a friend to
whom they can turn for assistance
in an adverse hour. That’s why she
will be unlike Hetty Green of New
York.
THE AMERICAN FLAG WAS
MISSING.
(Juneau Empire.)
Juneau longshoremen caused a pat
riotic demonstra'ion on the water
front this morning that was some af
fair. The incident following so clos
ly on the heels of flag day was all
the more remarl able. The demon
stration was of short duration but
was intense while it lasted.
The trouble was caused when the
steamer Princess Ena, freighter be
longing to the Canadian Pacific Com
pany, pulled into port. As the ship
pulled alongside the Pacific Coast
Dock, the heaving lines were cast
to the dock.
"Don’t touch them.” was the word
quickly spread among the assembled
longshoremen and dock hands, and
the lines were allowed to slide off
into the water. They were pulled
aboard the ship and again thrown,
but again were allowed to slip from
the dock.
By this time the captain of the ship
was becoming warm under the collar
and some hot words were heaved
over the side of the ship to land
on the heads of the longshoremen.
The words landed on the broad
backs 01 the longshoremen unheeded
and bounced back to the Ena.
"What’s the matter with you blank
ety blank truck engineers, anyway?"
inquired the captain in no uncertain
terms. His attention was called to
the fact that the American flag
should be displayed from the fore
peak. Someone had blundered, but
when the flag was put up, and the
Canadian flag also displayed at the
stern, the lines were taken and the
demonstration was declared off by
mutual consent.
The Princess Ena is making her
first trip to Alaska since crossing
the ocean to Vladivostock with a
full cargo of war munitions. The
Ena is in command of Captain W. L.
Gilchrist, and has 300 tons of Brit
ish Columbia coal for Juneau. She
is just returning from Skagway
where she delivered 78 cattle, 108
hogs, one horse. 1800 cases of gaso
line. 50 tons of powder, and 225 tons
of general cargo, which was for the
interior.
The Princess Ena arrived in port
yesterday with considerable coal for
the Northland Dock.
To complete her record of misad
ventures, the longshoremen here, re
fused to help unload unless they were
given the same price that the men
receive at Seattle for the same work
since the settlement of the strike.
To this, the Captain demurred and put
his own crew .to work unloading, and
while it is slow process, the captain
does not seem to mind it. It will be
unloaded eventually, said one of the
crew this morning.
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in possession of specimens illegiti
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LABOR UNION HAS
ENDORSED SULZER
ADOPTED RESOLUTION TO SUP
PORT THE DEMOCRATIC DELE
GATE FOR CONGRESS.
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(Va'.dez Prospector.)
At a meeting of the Sulzer Min
ers' Union No. 152, W. K. M., held
June fi, the members o;' thnt Union
unanimously voted to L.v'port ('has
: Sulzer, the Democratic nominee for
| Delegate to Congress from Alaska.
A letter signed by President Thos.
| H. Butler, and Secretary II. R. Raffle
j son, of the Union, sent to Secretary
i Charles McCallum of the local Un
ion, says:
“At a meeting held in our hall on
June 6th, 1916, all members being
present, a motion was made, second
1 ed and unanimously carried to give
■ Senator Charles A. Sulzer of the Alas
ka Legislature, our entire support In
his campaign for Delegate to Con
gress.
! "Mr. Sulzer has been a resident
here for the past fourteen years. Un
I til last year he was general manager
i for the Alaska Industrial Company,
| but since last year he has operated
the mines himself as a lessee. During
all these fourteen years he has proved
; himself a true friend of Unionism, a
good fellow and a friend of labor in
: general.
I ' “He gave the 8-hour day of his own
- free will in 1902 upon starting opera
tions in Alaska, and this was long be
| fore anyone else had the same rule
in Alaska. He has always paid the
highest wages in this district, given
everybody a square deal and treated
everybody as a man. There is not a
man who has ever worked in Sena
tor Sulzer s camp who will not speak
I of him in the highest terms, and we
know from long observation that he
i has the qualifications to ably repre
! sent us in Congress.
“The foregoing are only a few' of
the main facts of Mr. Sulzer’s charac
ter which have endeared him to the
workers, so we wish you to rally to
his support and leave no obstacle in
the way for his election for Delegate
to Congress from Alaska.”
A PERUVIAN RIVER OF HORROR.
(New York Post.)
There is a river of mystery and
horror in Peru, and the legends of rich
rubber regions and untold wealth in
gold are accompanied by tales of those
who went up it never to return. Casi
mer Watkins, a naturalist, recently
returned from South America, tells
of the stream.
“This river,” he said, “is the Colo
rado river, the richest river in Peru.
Great groves of rubber trees lie
along its course, and gold has been
found in it. But the Mascos, a tribe
of cannibals, infest it. They still prac
tice cannibalism, and will kill a man
on sight. Expeditions have been fit
ted out and been heavily armed to go
exploring for rubber and gold, but
none of them ever has returned. The
savages have killed the men and eaten
them and turned the canoes adrift.
They have come down the river emp
ty, bottoms up, or filled with supplies
which the savages did not c^re to re
move."
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The Egyptian vulture was the chief
scavenger of the land of Pharoah.
MATANUSKA RANCHER EX
PERIMENTING WITH MELONS
P. A. Boyce, formerly of Snohomish,
Wash., but now located in Anchorage,
;:as just returned from a trip trough
the farming district of the Matanus
ka valley and was very much impress
ed with the farming developments iu
this section. He spoke particularly
of W. G. Stevens, who hs an ideal
piece of farming ground four miles
above Matanuska Junction, and says
Mr. Stevens has put four acres of
ground in cultivation since April 6th,
and is experimenting in watermelons
and cantalopes, in addition to plant
ing the proven crops of potatoes,
barley and garden truck, and will have
a much larger acreage under culti
vation next year.—Anchorage Times.
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ORIGIN OF “CHESNUT.”
(Indianapolis News.)
Among the no small number of
Americanisms that have been adopted
by the English and are in daily use
there, though they have almost or
quite passed out of current speech
here, is the word "chesnut” as ap
plied to the old and well-worn joke or
story. Joseph Jefferson, the actor
who marie Rip Van Winkle famous,
gave the origin of the term years age.
! "There is,” he said, "a melodrama
but little known to the present gener
ation, written by William Dillon and
called 'The Broken Sword.' There
were two characters in it—one, a
Captain Xavier, and the other the
comedy part of Pablo. The captain
is a sort of Baron Munchausen, and in
telling of his exploits says: "I entered
the woods of Collaway, when sudden
ly from the thick boughs of a cork
tree-’ Pablo interrupts him with
the words, ‘A chesnut, captain; a
chesnut.’ ‘Bah!’ replies the captain.
‘Booby, 1 say a cork tree.’ ‘I should
know as well as you, having heard
you tell the tale these twenty-seven
times.’ William Warren, who had
often played the part of Pablo, wai
at a ‘stag’ dinner two years ago, when
one of the gentlemen present told a
story of doubtful age and originality.
'A chesnut,' murmured Mr. Warren,
quoting from the play. ‘I have heard
you tell the tale these 27 times.’ The
I application of the lines pleased the
rest of the table, and when the party
broke up each helped to spread the
story and Mr. Warren’s commentary.
And that is what I really believe to
be the origin of the word 'chesnut.’ ”
In Turkey it is unlawful to seize a
man’s residence for debt, and suffi
cient land to support him is also ex
empt from seizure.
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thorn, J. W. Roberts and wife, C. O.
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and wife, Robert Scott, H. Lutes, H.
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REDUCED REVENUES.
What the reduction of revenues
means to towns or nations, when they
come from new and untried sources,
is portrayed in the proceedings of the
Budget Committee of Russia which
met in Petrograd March 1. Their re
port showed:
That the daily war expenditure is
$15,500,000.
That the revenue of today is $1,
511,024,659, while the expenditures
are $1,616,231,849, excess of expendi
tures over revenue being $105,207,140.
That the most important decrease
in revenue was from the abolishment
of the government’s vodka manufac
ture, the revenue having fallen in one
year from $344,500,000 o $4,500,000, or
a reduced revenue from partial pro
hibition of $340,000,000 in one year.
The government of Russia, and the
brightest minds of Russia, have been
figuring and scheming for nearly two
years to find a way to replace the
revenues decreased by stopping the
manufacture of vodka, and as yet have
found no way. In an autocratic na
tion such as Russia, measures can be
used to increase revenues which
could not be used in a Republic like
the United States, yet such as have
been applied do not reach the de
sired point. They must figure out a
way, and hope to do so, but they have
not arrived at the solution even after
long study and many experiments.
Probably the trouble is that the
country had grown to depend upon
the revenues from liquor, just as
America has until over one-third of
our National revenues tome from the
liquor 'sources. Probably the United
Slates can in time learn to live with
out revenues from liquor, but until
such time as the problem has been
solved it would be disastrous for the
Territory of Alaska to endeavor to
solve the problem.—Fairbanks News
Miner, May 18, 1916. (adv.)
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fuel oil when present supplies are ex
hausted, according to an English scien
tist, who has obtained seven gallons
from a ton of vegetable matter.
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of the Ketchikan. Alaska, Post Office.
For week ending June 10, 191S.
Arvik, Job*
Brown, Chas. H.
Carlson, Tom
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Chuck, Billy
Coy, Stanley
Dahlbeck, John C.
Hackney, F. R.
Johnson, Cha*. H.
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Sproule, George
Troy, John.
Walers, E.
When calling for the above, say
“Advertised.” Parties claiming let
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fee of one cent for each letter claim
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24, 1916 will be sent to the dead letter
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