STEAMER BURNS-136 ARE MISSING
Liverpool, Oct 11—After burn
ing to the water’s edge, the
s!earner Yolturno. sailing from
Rotterdam, Oct. 2, for Halifax
and New York, sank in mid-At
lantic Friday morning. She haa
50i passengers on board at
the time and 03 crew. Of these
130 are known to be missing
and have undoubtedly perish
ed. Ten big liners speeding in
different directions responded
to her call for help and at
great risk sent their life boats
in a howling gale to take the
people off the burning craft,
proceeding so close that the
falling sparks feii on them.
The fire was first discovered
in the hold of the Yolturno on
Thursday morning and her en
gines were stopped and the
attempt made to extinguish it.
This continued the greater part
of the day, but it became un- ;
managable during the night,
and the wireless sent out calls
for help. The Cunard steamer
Carmania was the first to ar
rive on the scene, being but
75 miles away at the time. The
Grosser Fuerst came shortly
aTfterwards. but owing to the
wind and the darkness it was
determined to wait for morn
ing. This was done, and while
waiting for the break of day
eight other vessels attracted by
the wireless came to offer their
assistance.
PROTECT THE DEER
Communicated
Editor Miner
Are we going to exterminate
the only source of wild meat
that Southeastern Alaska has—
the deer.
Did it ever occur to you that
the protection of the deer
should stand before the protec
tion of the timber. Nobody
will go into the timber busi
ness and deliberately work to
destroy timber unless he has a j
good reason for so doing. But,
with deer it is different. The!
hunters kill anything and ev- j
erything in sight, sometimes in;
their haste to be killing, they
even shoot a man.
It is true that there are laws
in existence for the protection
of the deer and other game an
imals. but do they protect? In;
this neighborhood there are j
two islands where the law says j
you must not hunt—Gravinai
and Duke i-lands, but even - j
body knows there is hardly a
day goes by without somebody!
sometimes whole parties there;
after deer almost every day.
It is true that they do not kill:
many deer because they have j
about exterminated them, i
What does the average hunter
care whether there are any
deer left or not as long as he
gets bis deer?
The conditions here are en-!
tirely different than in most
countries. It is too wet for the j
raising of sheep and the put-!
ting up of forage for winter
eeding purposes. The same is
equally true of cattle. Then it
is up to the deer. If no one
would kill any deer but the
large bucks there would be all
the deer in a few years that the
people of Southeastern Alaska j
conld use.
Meat now sells here in Ket-'
chikan for from IS to 45 cent'!
per pound. Say that deermeat
was worth 25 cents, and every
deer would dress 100 pounds.
This would make each one be
worth $25.00 to the people of
the district. Are they worth
protecting?
Bear in mind this country is.
not like the central states.
where domestic animals took
the place of the buffalo, deer
and antelope which formerly
roamed over that country by
the millions, and now farming
is crowding the stock Off the
range so that less stock is 1 .?- •
ing l ti'ed in the states tha^ ev
er before and the population
j- growing every year. Meat is;
getting scarcer and the prices
are (.limbing at an alarming
rate, so that something itind
be done and done quickly or
the ] oorer people of Ihis coun
try will soon not know what
the taste of meat.
In the winter time when the
deep snows come the deer
ranees for from one-half to a
mile from the beach, where
the salt air and the southeast
winds cut the snow orf quick
ly, and where they will 1hriv»j
very well if left alone. At
that time of the year they are
thin and not fit to kill for meat
but still they are slaughtered
by the thousands.
There is another effect that
this winter hunting has. The
deer are driven inland to es
cape the hunter and the deep
snow comes, trapping them,
and they starve to death. How
many trappers have you heard ;
tell of finding ten to twenty j
carcasses in a bunch, where ,
they said the wolves had killed i
them. My experience is that I
where a wolf pulls down a ;
deer there is no carcass left
just a scatterment of hair and
a few pieces of the harder
bones and nothing else.
It is true that the wolf gets
his share and it is a lion’s
share at that, but when the
writer came to this country 14
years ago. these islands were
covered with great herds of
deer, and there had been lots
of wolves and hard winters be
fore. It is true if the deer
had been protected against the ,
wolves, the eagles and the ra- j
vens there would be a great
many more deer.
How long would the great
herds of sheep last in the cen- !
tral states if the herders were
taken away and the sheep left
to the tender mercies of the j
hunter, the wolf, the bear, the
eagle, etc., they would last just
about as long as a June frost ,
in that place they call Hades.
There is an old Mosaic law
that says thou shalt not steal,
but leave your store door open
without protection and you will
see if the law is obeyed or not.
AN OLD TIMF.R
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WILL GO TO NOME
Gapt. G. W. Ames of the
cold storage vessel Elihu
Thompson, which had been
loading halibut at the New
England was in receipt of a
cablegram yesterday inform
ing him to proceed to Tacoma
with the least possible delay
where he would load fresh
meat for Nome. The re ent
storm demolished the cold
storage plants at Nome and
with them their entire stock
of meat, so unless the Thom
pson can get through Nome
will be meatless this coming
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MARRIAGE IS ANNULLED
One of the first item* of bus
iness coming up before the
Court yesterday afternoon was
the hearing in the application
of Lizzie Timmons for the dis
solution of marriage to Patrick
E. Timmon*. On hearing the
evidence which showed that
Timmons had a wife alive and
undivorced at the time he mar
ried the plaintiff, the Court or
dered that the marriage should
be declared annuled and void, >
and that the plaintiff should be
allowed to resume her maiden
name of Lizzie Pankrafz.
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The Daily Minery $1 per me. ^
♦ NORTHERN HAPPENINGS *
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A McCormack harvester, of
the latest type, was taken into
Fairbanks by J. P. Ricket, who
has harvested forty acres of
grain with it. The harvester
was the first of its kind to go
to interior Alaska.
Fred Hinton, a member of the
Steffenson expedition left the
party at Point Barrow and re -
turned south on the revenue
cutter Bear. He reports that
the Karluk has been repaired
and has pushed on to Hershal
Island.
Word comes from Juneau
that J. R. Willis, collector of
customs for this district has
tendered his resignation of the
office to take effect on or be
fore December 31. Mr. Willis
will go into business at Ju
neau.
Leonard Dodge, a well
known prospector formerly of
the Fairbanks district, but
lately hvc-ng in thelditarod. re
cently succumbed to a bullet
wound which he received in
the leg. The bullet was fired
from a revolver in the hands of
“Jimmy Britt,” a woman of the
underworld. Dodge, in his
dying statement, exhonoraled
the woman from all blame,
claiming (hat the shooting was
accidental.
Good reports come from the
new strike near Andreafski,
near the mouth of the Yukon.
A town has been established,
named Marshall City. About
100 persons are located at the
new camp. Many people from
Nome are preparing to stam
pede to the new diggings,
which are also drawing many
people from the lower Yukon.
It seems beyond doubt that the
new fields will have a popu
lation of 200 this coming win
ter with prospects of many
more if reports continue favv
orahle.
That the abrogation of the
assay charges at the United
States assay office at Seattle
has greatly stimulated the gold
receipts i- evident by compar
ing the months just passed
with those, of the preceding
year. In July, August and
September, 1012, the assay
office received $1,034,596.72 j
in gold. During the same mon- |
ths of 1013 the assay office re-!
reived $4,463,935.40, or ap-1
proximately a $2,000,000 in
crease. The showing is re
garded as excellent, in view of |
the fact that shortage of water j
in some of the mining districts |
has prevented the cleanup of
all the dirt, and that much of
it will go over until next spring |
for cleaning. The prospects 1
are thus very bright for an in- j
creased output next season.
The department of commerce j
will a>k for an appropriation of
$60,000 for the erections of
additional aids to navigation
in Alaska in the fiscal year be- j
ginning June 30, 1914.
Ji:nnau‘s new hotel, The
Alaskan, has been opened for
the rceorr modation of the pub
lic. The building was erected
at a cn.-l of $70,000. has forty
two rooms and all modern im
prove,.ion! -. The hotel is
leased lor a term of years to
P. L. Ger.-mett and Frank Mc
Coy. (he former being presi
dent md manager and Mr. Me- j
Coy, secretary and treasurer.
Robert Sheldon was made
the recipient of a handsome
gold watch by. his Fairbanks
friends as a mark of apprecia
tion of his feat in steering his
automobile over the Valdez
trail between Fairbanks and
the gateway town.
Falcon Joslin and Delegale
Wickersham will drill holes in
Ihe vicinity of Fairbanks in
search of coal. They expect
lo locate the bed at from one
to two thouc-and feet from the
surface. i
The new ambulance for the
conveyance of the injured or
sick of Dawson and vicinity has
arrived. It is one of the finest
ambulances made. It is rig
ged to be drawn by two horses,
and is entirely enclosed, with
fine hard wood finish, couches,
ventilators, places for the car
rying of emergency equipment
ami the like. The wheels are
rubber tired, and the whole is
finished in a dark tint. The
outfit is resplendent in varnish
and presents a most creditable
and attractive appeareance.
The seat, forward will accom
modate an extra person be
sides the driver.
Another shipment ot foxes
wer-* recently made from Atlin
to the Atlantic coast. There
is a feeling among the people
that the government is making
a no.-take in permitting the
animals to be shipped out of
the country. They reason that
if the fox re's'ng business is a
success in the east it should be
in the west.
The Alaska n’ime«, published
el Cordova, construes Delegate
Wstkersham s refusal to serve
on the Rcmibiican National
committee to mean that he will
again be a candidate to suc
ceed himself :p the next del
egate election in Alaska.
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When the cashier of the First
National Bank of Alaska finish
ed checking up at the end of
the first day after the bank
opened the figures showed 1
that $120,000 had been depos
ited. The bank in located in
Douglas, Alaska.
Hunters in the Nome dis
trict declare ptarmigans and
jack rabbits to be more numer
ous this year than ever before.
This may lie some consolation
for the dryness of the season
and the scarcity of work.
The Pueblo copper mine in
the Whitehorse district will
be operated on a much larger
scale during the coming winter
the force of men will be in
creased by 73 miners.
Henry A. House, formerly a
miner at Nome, from ‘ which
city he was sentenced to Mc
Neil island for alleged banking
frauds in Alaska, was arrested
at Seattle on the charge of
stealing mail from office buil
dings in that city, removing the
stamps and then redeeming
them at the main post office.
G. D. Ilazelet has the Mc
Carthy-Chisana trail marked by
stakes from McCarthy to the
Chisgna over the Nizina and
Chisana glaciers, a distance of
78 miles. Bridges over the
Nizina and Chittistone have
been authorized by the road j
commission.
The Skagway Alaskan de
clares that Haines is not the
first community to ship agri
cultural products from Alaska
to the states. The H. D. Clark
ranch near Skagway has been
sending seed potatoes to Cal-'
ifornia.
John Steel of Landlock bay,
announces himself as a can
didate for delegate to congress
to succeed the Hon. James
Jack Curley, who was form
erly in the resturant business'
in Valdez and Cordova, is run
ning the Commercial Cafe at
Juneau and is looking for a
bigger place of business.
The exhibits of students of
(he Fairbanks schools at the re
eent fair is •eported to have
been an excellent one and that
it was far superior to previous .
years.
Fairbanks is soon to have a
Knights Templar lodge and a
representative of the grand en
campment is on his way to the
interior lo install the officers.
Local business men of Cor
dova have leased the Dalton
sawmill at the ocean dock, Cor
clovn, and will put it in shape
to Login at an early date.
The Faribanks Times tells
Ihe following, which may be
taken for what it is worth:
Quite a remarkable occurrence
was witnessed by two early
hunters yesterday morning,
while walking out the railroad
track toward Ester Siding. The
hunters had gone but a short
over Noyes slough when they
ran into a rabbit whose bind
feet were frozen to the track,
and between that point and the
government farm they came
across a dozen more. All of
(he rabbits were alive, but
they, had struggled so hard to
free themselves that they had
laserated their feet to such an
extent that it was deemed a
matter of kindness to put them
out of their misery. Most of
the rabbits were young ones,
and it appears that they had
jumped on the rails while cros
sing the track, and their feet
had frozen fast.
President Bradley of the Ala
ska—Juneau Gold Mining com
pany, claims that is company
has 23i. 150,000 toils of ore in
sight which will pay a profit of
more than one dollar per ton..
There will be required a work
ing force of 1,500 men The
company claims to be able to
recover the values form the
ores for 80 cents per ton. It
costs the Treadwell $1,40 per
ton. The first of the four
stampmills, each having 400
stamps, will he in running
order before the New Year.
During revival meetings in a
western oily placards giving
not ice of the various meetings,
subjects, etc., were posted in
conspicuous places. One day
the following was displayed:
“Subject—‘Hell: Its location
and Its Absolute Certainty.’
“Thomas Jones, barytone,
will sing Tell Mother I’ll be
There.’ ”
The parcel post is being uti
lized by the natives in the
Arctic circle to get their furs
lo market, according to Capt.
H. G. Ballinger, commanding
the United State's revenue cut
ler Bear, which made a cruise
to Point Barrow,the most nor
therly point in the United
States domain. A number of
natives north of Bering strait
have sent white fox skins by
parcel post to Seattle and San
Francisco, receiving a better
price than they could from the
trading craft. The company in
the Arctic during the season,
says Capt. Ballinger, has been
quite keen and the natives have
received good prices for furs,
the traders paying in cash.
Fair white fox skins bring $15.
which a few years ago would
have considered an exorbitant
price. The standard price at
Point , Hope for polar bear
skins is $5. per foot of length.
Capt. Ballinger reports the
reindeer herds along the roast
are multiplying rapidly and the
natives owning deer are con
sidered capitalists. The nat
ives generally are in a pros
perous condition ami (heir
Ullages within the i Arete
could be held up as mod
els. as far as law and or
der are concerned, to places
of equal size in any other coun
try in the world. Were it
possible for them to obtain
divorces when unhappily mar
ried, without fhe long and ex
pensive trip to Nome, there
would practically be no violat
ion of law.
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WORKING IN ORE
Word comes from I lie head
uf Portland Canal that Ihe In
dian properly tunnel is mow in
high grade ore and looks very
promising. The Brilish Col-!
umbia government is building |
a trail to the property and ore
will he brought out as soon as
the road is open.
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After being gone a few days
short of three months, the
Lighthouse tender Columbine
arrived in port last, night. She
sailed from Ketchikan, July 18
on an annual tour of inspect
ion, with Milo IToadly, super
intendent of the Alaska district
on board in charge of work.
Since then she has called at al
most all of the lights north of
this point and as far to the
Westward as Unalaska. Dur
ing the voyage new lights were
installed at Cape Spencer,
Smith Island, Point Elrinfton,
Pilot Rock and Cain Head, the
latter two in Resurrection Bay;
and one at the entrance to the
harbor at Kodiak. On account
of the bad weather i! was im
possible to land at. Cape St.
Elias as planned, to instal a
light.
Besides this, three bouys
were placed in position at the
entrance to the harbor a* Kod
iak, which were badly needed.
All northern stations were
supplied with provisions, oil,
[coal and general supplies and
transfers of keepers were
made at Ilinchinbrook, Scotch
Cape and Sarieheff lights. The
conditions of the weather with
which they had to contend is
seen in the fact that it took
oigth days to land 22 tons of
coal at Ilinchinbrook, which
under ordinary conditions
could have been accomplished
in that many hours.
In addition to the new work
done, all the lights in the dis
trict covered were “relieved”
that is put in condition for the
winter, and all the old bouys
were taken up and new ones
installed.
A sad incident of the trip as
far as Capt. Gregory of the
Columbine is concerned was
the loss overboard in a gale off
St. Elias of his old canine
companion, Buster, the poor
old fellow falling overboard
and his loss not being discov
ered for some time afterward.
The Columbine will remain
in port long enough to over
haul and take on supplies and
will then stock up the nearby
lights for the coming winter
season.
THE PARENTS
A resolution was passed by
the board of Education at their
last meeting, that any child of
school age must enter before
(the expiration of the third
week of the first month of the
term.
This applies only to begin
ners provided the child has not
reached the seventh year of
age—any child having reached
or passed the seventh year may
enter at any time during the
term.
This ruling does not apply to
[Children whose parents were
unavoidably detained out of
town, but only to those whose
parents were in town and who
through procvastination failed
to start them at the beninning
of the term.—
To every Board of Education
that has served in Ketchikan,
this question of parents failing
to start, their children at the
beginning of the term, or in
case of their comming of
school age during the term in
sisting that they be taken in
has been a most vexatious one.
Not only is this a detriment to
the beginner incident to the
cramming necessary, but, to
the teacher it is most unfair.
In incorporating this resol
ution in the minutes the Board
of Education considers the in
cident closed.
As the newly elected teacher
will be unable to reach here in
time to take up her work on
completion of the new prim
ary quarters, Mrs. J. L, Jones
has kindly volunteered to take
the class pending her arrival.
ROB’T L. PETTY.
Clerk, Board of Education.
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TAKING TRIP SOUTH
Henry Pankratz will journey
south on the Alki, planning to
go a.s far as Portland. On the
way he will stop at Ostrander,
W ash., where John Howard
and family now reside and will
visit with them for a time.
It is whispered around town
that Henry is taking a trunk
with him a whole lot bigger
than he needs for his clothes 1
and in all probability will have
a lady’s clothes in it when tie
returns.
INSTALLING AN ENGINE
The Norlhe rn Machine works i
is installing a 50 horse power
Truyer-Fox engine in the gas
boat Dixie. The boat’s old en- 1
gujc wa-n't heavy enough to do !
the work.
All roads lead to the Dream.
TERRITORY OF ALASKA
By The Governor
A Proclamation
“On the eighteenth day of
October of the present year
forty six years will have elaps
ed since the stars and stripes
displaced the flag of Russia in
Alaska and this great northern
country became a possession
of the United States, and by an
act of the territoral legislature
that day has been designated
as a legal holiday to be known
—as Alaska day. It is there
fore proper that we Alaskans
should pay homage not only
to the flag of our country as
the emblem of liberty, enlight
ment and progress but that also
we should observe the anni
versary of that day, and bring
the people of the United
States to realize that in Alaska
they have a heritage that is
destained to add new stars to
for millions of free and pros
perous people. Now there
fore I J. F. A. Strong, gover
nor of the Territory of Alaska
in accordance with the law
of the Territory do recommend
that all the people cease from
labor on that day except such
as may be absolutely neces
sary and thereat they join in
such demonstrations as may
be practicable in the various
localities with usual exercises
and cermonies suitable for tbe
occasion. Given under my
hand and the seal #f Alaska
at Juneau the capitol this
fourteenth day of October in
the year of our lord one thou
sand nine hundred and thir
teen and of the independence
the United States of America
the one hundred and thirty
seventh.
Seal. By the governor J.
OF. A. STRONG,” W. L. DIS
TIN EX OFFICIO.
Secretary of Alaska.
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INSTALL A NEW LIGHT
'Fhe Methodist Church has in
stalled in (lie auditorium the
indirect system of lighting.
This does, away with all glare
and is comforting to the eyes
in any part of the room. It is.
a much softer light than the
old method. As far as is known
here Ibis is the only installa
tion of the indirect lighting in
Alaska. Those attending now
will find it u greater pleasure
on account of the better light.
The choir has a specially pre
pared an I hum for tomorrow
evening.
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ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE
DREAM. adv