ALASKA NOTES
(Brora uur Exchanges.)
Warm Spring tiny, where there are
sixty qualified voters, did not have an
opportunity to express their preference
for the dllTer'ent candidates at the
election on November 3rd, owing to
the non-arrival of ballots and election
supplies. The postotfiee of Warm
Spring (or BaranoiT, as it is oUlc-iaUy
known) was abolished couple of years
ago, since which time the residents
of the Springs have hud to depend on
passing gas boats for their mall ser
v Ice.
Alusku needs immigrants from
northern countries who know how lo J
make the farm produce the most un-1
tier these climatic conditions. Theie I
fore, it would seem that a special el
tol'i .should ho made to advertise Alas
ka in Norway and Sweden. n me
commercial club is going to advertise
in newspapers, vv by not send an ad
vertisement to some Scandinavian
newspaper, calling attention lo the
resources ol tins undeveloped country . '
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Fairbanks Citizen.
The annual report of the Alaska
experimental slutions show liiai din -
ing tile season of lUfli Ketchikan eu
joycu the greatest rainfall of any place
in Alaska, with 148.XT inches lo its
credit, with the month of April reeoru
missing. Cordova holds second place
with only 11 a.IT inches, Juneau, 8u.7u
incites; Keward, 4a.TJ incites; Nome,
iu.ea incites. At sskagway lu.iti inches
toil in eight months, there being ic
record for the bulnco of the year.
Uermun capitalists interested in cop
per properties in luc Kuskulina and
Koislna districts aie said lo be plan
King ihu installation of a smelter with
sulficieni capacity lu tiundiu custom (
work in addition lu the tonnage from
their own properties. There are many
promising cupper pruperttes in thai
district, being from 1J to Jo miles
from Sirelna, on the Copper itiver ami
Northwestern Jtailway. Abyul 4u men
were employed last summer doing de
velopment work in the two districts.
The use of a keystone drill un the
ground owned by Tom Atkin and Tom
.McKinnon, on Candle creek, a tribu
tary of Talalena river, which in turn
empties into the Kuskokwim, proves
that a very rich and extensive pay
streak has been encountered. The
drill holes show an average of $7 to
the square foot of bedrock for a width
of over 4X0 feet, near the upper part
of the ereek. Nearer the mouth of the
stream the pay is not so rich being
spread over a wider area.
.Juneau claims the finest hospital
building in any eity north of Seattle.
Miss Burpee, formerly matron at the
Whitehorse hospital, has gone to tho
front as a nurse.
Ten former students of the Fair
banks high school are now at the
Washington University
There has been organized In Doug
las a "Child's Welfare Club.” which
has for its mission the help and eleva
tion of the children of the town
The Yukon Gold Company. Dawson,
is preparing to handle thousands of
cords of wood in preparation for next
summer’s operations for thawing pur
poses. An enormous quantity of wood
is used each summer by the com
pany.
The steamer King Fisher, belonging
to the New England Fish Company
lost her wheel recently near Yakutat
A storm was raging at the time but
fortunately another steamer was near
and assisted the disabled craft to a
place of safety
Tired of life and despondent be
cause she could see no way by which
she could leave the life of shame sin
was living. Bertha Brown, of Koyukuk.
mixed a dose of antiseptic tablets and
drank the -concoction with suicidal
intent. She Is an old-timer In the
Arctic.
Several holdups have occurred in
Juneau recently and the police have
decided to make a clean-up and will
issue an order for ail men to move
along who cannot show that they have
means of support The citizens are
applying to the chief of police for per
mils to carry revolvers.
Petersburg claims a population i
over 1,000 people It has a $15,000
water gravity water system owned In
the city. Water is upplled to resi
dences for $1 50 per month The ordi
nance provides that all exposed wulei
pipes must be laid at least 3o inches
under the surface.
The business men of Fairbanks an
considering ways and means to raise
sufficient money to build a road ti
the scene of the new strike on the
Tolovana They are alive to the ben
eflts to fie derived from capturing tin
trade of the camp and will endeavoi
to have roadhouses established be
tween the two places.
Two citizens of Cordova, one an
Englishman and the other a German
forgetful of the fact that president
Wilson had charged all good citizen
In a terrific battle to settle a dispub
as to the superiority of the two na
tions. The Teuton put up a stiff tight
being scarcely recognizable when he
was forced to admit the superiority
of the Englishman.
The markets of Fairbanks are ad
vertising turkey for 40 cents per pound,
the same price ns is asked by dealers
on the coast.
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A Fairbanks exchange rises to re
mark that the Seward Gateway now
claims tlu* largest circulation of any
! paper in Alaska. The Skagwav \las
j kan also claims the honor Tt's a case
! of horse and horse.
GERMANS USE SILENT GUN
j LONDON Go) F F Swinti-n has
! given out through tin* London pr«**s
I bureau tbe following statement ton
cernlng a silent gun tbe Germans arc
using:
"In otir center tbe enemy is employ
ing a silent gun which may be pneu
matic or worked by some mechanical
contrivance.
"There is no report of the discharge,
the projectile travels through the air
1 without any »-f the warning made lo
an ordinary shell and the first notice
to be received of its arrival is the de
tonatlon. So far the weapon has done •
no damage."
ALWAYS IN STYLE
If v**u have your suit pn ss. l . I.-ii
j «d and repaired by us
We will make them lock like new
\\ • do «li v «•! gasoline « p mm
We do steam cleaning
j We make alterations
We do cleaning, pressing and re
pairing fui Ladies and tb nthim i.
I We make a specialty .»f making and
repairing furs.
First-class workmanship
All work guaranteed, our prices are
reasonable. Once a customer always
a customer.
Dome and see us. we will uni
our prices before we do you w 1
We appreciate your p.iirruu-•«
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HOME COOKING
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The Coffee Home and Hestaurant ol
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Mrs. Nieblmg is the only place Io ge
I home cooking.. Lunches and short;
orders will receive the best of atten
tion. Dinner served from five o'clock
on. and it can’t be beat. Next door to ,
the Surprise store. tf j
SPRING DRESS GOODS
In plaids, roman stripes, brocaded
with plain colors. Silks and serges to
match. All new goods, latest style.
Now it the time to get a good selec
tion.
MRS. J. WANDER’S
2nd Ave, opp. Coutl House
Mrs. Bartlett announces that her
, her dancing class will meet every Wed
nesday and Friday at K. K. hall from
now on.
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The impression is general among (hose who have not visited this
section of Alaska, that because of close proximity to the Arctic t ircle.
jfi Seward Peninsula must of necessity partake of tile characteristic ot
#1 the Frigid Zone. This idea is partially confirmed by the photograph'-.
W usually depicting some midwinter scene, which are sent In thousands
^ to friends on the “Outside.
£ It is truly unfortunate that the same medium cannot he made to
Ww show the true beauties of the land in the open season and the
XX sipate the erroneous ideas disseminated h\ writers of romance ot the
"blood and iron" school hacked up bv portraits which we ow-cb
furnish in profusion.
It is doubtless striking a blow at the root of a cherished belief to
state that Seward Peninsula possesses 117 varieties of dowering plant
”w life and over 2,000 species, including the various moss and fm-gtis
^ growths. ...
So soon as the snows have melted the change irom "winter ■
hoary coat" to the green verdure of summer is almost magical. This
transition is so sudden that, on the sunny slopes, delicate dowers an
frequentlv found in close proximity to belated snow hanks. : he
almost continuous sunshine causes a marvelous acceleration ot
growth in all forms of plant life.
Turnip lettuce, radishes, onions, kale, spinach, and other varieties
W of the hardier vegetables develop with marvelous rapidity and arc ot
/I a niost surpassing quality because of their rapid growth. I otatoes
"A and cabbage mav be grown by proper selection of soil and seed
X From early 'Mav until August the day light is continuous and a!
£ though the sun sinks, for some three hours, below the horizon there
vi vet lingers a beautiful mellow twilight.
The summer season is short, it is true, but the verdant splendors
A\ l)f ,ite long summer dav? amply compensate for the longer winter
which, while cold is not so severe as is generally imagined. Cv nu.ni
W ,hc winter season is looked upon as the most enjoyable part of tin
/I yCarThe winter season is the great "play time" of the X'a t hern
X people. Dances, fairs, theatricals and indoor athcletu. spoils von n
£ lnitc much to the social life while skiing and sleighing behind dog
.A teams are forms of outdoor amusement much indulged in by botl sex.
In general the people live quite as comfortable in the winter as those
of more salubrious climes.
, I. WImH MANN A'lTRAt TM >\>
The latch disseminated knowledge «>i Alaska s unique scenic r
and industrial attractions has resulted in bringing an ever-increasing A
number of tourists to her shores, and one and all, from the lea-t trav
piled to the most blase globe trotter, have departed filled with ..lei jW
at the marvelous scenic beauties and the tremendous display of acti
\ ities in this heretofore little known country . ^ ,
That Alaska has more to offer to the tourist than any of the
far famed countries of Europe in .phy sical beauties has been amph B^k
attested l>\ those who are competent to know
Wit ere on earth can he lonnd the scenic wonders «> t the tiords of t *
Norwav and the mountains and glaciers of Switzerland combined on A
a scale - > remendous as to dwarf in comparative insignificance the
best those countries have to offer Ar
Xowhere. save in Thibet, an Ik found tin equal of such lolly.
majestic peak- of Mi Kinlev. I airweather and St Elias, all nearly a k^^
mile higher than the age famous Jungfrau. Alt. Plane or the Matter
horn and no land can boast such mighty glacier-, as any one of the
half dozen to he seen from the comfortable vantage of a steamship
Al-o, nowhere can he seen such array of smouldering valcanoes.
with their loft\ plumes of steam nr smoke, a- are found rising eight W
to ten thousand feet above the waters of our Southern shore-.
Added to these, which occupy hut a comparatively -mall part of
this immense territory , are the marvels of the far-interior, where the
majestic Yukon flowing in silent grandeur through a land fa 1 lor
its display of mining activities, absorbing, scarcely heeded, in it
voluminous course, the waters of a host of streams as large, or larger,
than mam of the famous river- of the earth. AA
These viewed, there still remains a section, larger than the com- W
hined areas of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware and Maryland. ^
which, while lacking in scenic attractions, yet is of absorbing interest A
because of the diversitx of it- mining activities, presenting as it docs,
practically every known method of mining, from the most primitive A^
to the highest modern dox'elopment. all within the space of a three
hours ride.
In addition to the many phases of mining. Seward Peninsula
possesses unique attractions in its reindeer, seal and walrus and also 1m
in its quaint and curious Eskimo. W
ESKIMO WINTER COSTUME.