DEER HUNTER HAVE
FIGHT WITH WOLVES
Frank Preuschoff and Mr. Dawson
had an exblllrating encounter with a
bunch of wolves recently says the
Petersburg Report of November 22.
They started from the Preuschof
logging camp, at Beecher Pass, for a
deer hunt. Before traveling very far
they got into a place that resembled
a wolf den—which it proved to be...
Pretty soon a wolf head was espied
In the nearby thicket, and then an
other and then some more. They were
practically surrounded by the beasts
Frank will swear to ten wolves, but
they appeared to be more numerous
at the time.
When they had recovered from their
surprise, the boys started the fire
works. One wolf was quickly shot
dead and three were wounded. Then
the varmints retreated a little way and
were followed up and three more of
them were killed. Dawson followed
the pack on their second retreat, to
see If he couldn't bag some more, and
Frank started Into skin the pelts from
those killed. Soon a series of howls
came from around the den, and Frank
located a wolf In the brush whose
glaring eyes showed utter disapproval
of the "skin game" being worked on
the family. He then grabbed his gun
anil flred several shots whloh evidently
went wild; then climbed on a stump—
In order to get a better view. The
wolf closed In and Anally bolted just
past the stump. Frank had the muzzle
of his rifle within four feet of the
wolfs back wl-n he flred, but for
some reason the bullet missed Its mark.
Although after this there were no
further demonstrations by the wolves
finish the skinning job alone, so he
In that vicinity. Frank didn't care to
went down to the camp end brought
liana back to stand guard until the
pelts were secured.
WHEN AMERICA
WAS YOUNG
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The United States geological survey
has just published a report which,
though technical, nevertheless embod
ies some Interesting history of the
early ages of the North American
continent. It tells of the rise and fall
of a portion of the continent millions
of years ago, long before the age ct
man, at a time when strange beasts
Inhabited the country, when the cli
mate was subtropical, and when a
peculiar swamp vegetation flourished
the remains of which were converted
Into the present great coal beds of the
west.
Late in what is termed by geologist!:
"carboniferous time," according to \V.
T. Lee. the author of the report (pro
fessional paper 96 C), there were
mountains in Colorado and New Mex
ico comparable to the present Rocky
mountains. During the Trlasslc pe
rlod and much of the Jurassic, which
followed, a time to be measured in
millions of years, these mountains were
eroded away. Late in the Jurassic
period a wide area had been worn
down so near sea level that a slight
subsidence of the land allowed sea
water to enter from the Pacific ocean
and spread over Wyoming, northern
Colorado, and eastern Utah. Near the
close of the Jurassic a slight uplift
expelled this sea. After some time
this area began again to settle and
the streams spread fine sediments over
the bed of the shallow basin lately
occupied by the sea and over the low
lying lands. This subsidence intro
duced the Cretaceous period and cul
minated in the occupation of the reg
Ion by the sea which reached from
Utah and the Mississippi valley and
front the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic
ocean.
The subsidence was slow at first and
the streams spread their mud uniform
ly over an c'.ea extending from New
Mexico to Montana and from Utah to
Kansas. Only small areas of the
Rocky Mountain region were not cov
ered by them. In the streams, swamps
and bayous of this early Cretaceous J
time lived huge reptiles; some of them
were 85 feet long and 20 feet tall, with
a bulk many times as great as the
.argest elephant of today. By the close
jf Lower Cretaceous time the water
from the Gulf of Mexico had spread
over the graded plain as far as the
present Rocky mountains. This in
cision of the sea was followed, appar
ently without greut lapse of time, by
x still greater Invasion in the Upper1
Cretaceous epoch.
The first deposits of Upper Cretac
eous age—the Dakota sandstone—were
spread out uniformly over the level
plain, which then included the whole
area that was later pushed up to
form the Rocky mountains. Over ,
these sands, which were laid down
along the advancing front of the sea,
were deposited the marine sediments
. s the sea moved forward. In Its wa
ters lived great numbers of serpent
like swimming reptiles; and over It
soared pterodactyls, the fossil remains
of which show that they measured 18
feet from tip to tip of wings. On Us
shores and In Its waters spotted large
diving birds, which still retained the
THE JAPANESE
BUMP OF
Japan was the first foreign country
where I saw moving pictures shown.
In Yokohama one whole street is
given up to moving pictures—Theater!
street
On the rioor the audience sits, with
their feet squarely turned under them
absorbed in the shifting shadows.
American manufacturers have labor
ed long and hard to find films that will
amuse the Japanese, but their success
has not been very marked. No white
mind can fathom a Japanese sense of
humor. Our funniest films over there
go flat. Charlie Chaplin bores them
But in the midst of a death scene in
some domestic film they will suddenly
begin to rock with merriment. Then
is a fortune in it for any one who will
locate the Japanese bump of humor
and manufacture picture plays that
will hit It.
The Japanese are now manufacturing
their own films, but they are not of
much Interest to white people, as
nothing ever happens In them. Thera
s no action. Half a reel may be given
up to drinking a cup of tea. But this
may be exceedingly funny to the Jap
anese, or there has been more going
on than shows on the surface. By the
way they lift their cups, by the way
they swing their fan they are passing
a message. Two Japanese can talk to
each other with their fans, while the
white man standing alongside under
stands nothing of what they are saying
—World Outlook.
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teeth Inherited from their reptilian
ancestors.
on the shores of this sea, especially
along Its western margin, great
swamps developed and In them grew
a variety of semitropical plants, such
as palm and fig trees. The resulting
caibonaceous material which ac
cumulated as peat was later converted
Into coal. The sea did not attain Its
maximum slse at once. Probably at
no one time was the whole Interior
basin under water. The advance of
the sea and the filling of the basin
kept pace with each other, eo that
sediments and fossils which Indicate
nearness to shore and coal beds which
Indicate swamps above sea level are
found at many positions from bottom
to top of the Upper Cretaceous forma
tions.
At the close of the Certaceous pe
riad notable changes were produced
in the geography of the region. The
interior basin, which had been sub
siding throughout the Cretaceous pe
riod, was now lifted; its waters were
poured back into the oceans, and the
mountains whose roots had been buried
were resuscitated. In some places the
erosion that followed removed from
these new-ly lifted mountains the Cre
taceous rocks that once covered them
and cut deep enough Into the under
lying formations to obtain the pebbles
of older rocks, which may now be
found in the lower part of the oldest
Tertiary beds. In other places the
Cretaceous rocks were not entirely re
moved. Beds that once lay 6,000 feet
belotv the level of the sea were lifted
to form mountain tops that now stand
more than li.OOO feet above sea level.
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NIGHT AND DAT THE NUGGET IS PUTTING FORTH ITS BEST EFF< RTS TOWARDS THE
BUILDING OF NOME AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RESOURCES OF SP-VARD PENINSULA
Concerted Efforts Will Get Results
.J INVITE THE MINER. PROSPECTOR AND ALL OTHERS TO INFORM THE NUGGET CONCERN
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THIS SECTION.
LET THE WORLD KNOW WHAT TOU ARE DOING SO THAT OTHERS MAT BE ABLE TO SHARE IN
YOUR KNOWLEDGE. IT WILL ALSO STIMULATE OTHERS TO SEEK AND OPEN NEW FIELDS FOR
EXPLOITATION.
EVERT HOUSEHOLDER. EVERT CARTN OWNER IN THE CITY SHOULD ALSO SEE THE WISDOM
OF HAVING THE HOME TOWN PAPER DELIVERED AT THEIR DOOR DAILY *ND THEREBY ASSIST TUB
PAPER IN HELPING TO DEVELOP THE VIRGIN RESOURCES OF THE COUNTRY
Conceited Action Will Not Only Help The Country,
But Will Also Help us ail Individually
KELP BEDS HAVE
GREAT FUTURE
A year’s output of potash from the
kelp of Puget sound would bring $6,
000.000 at the present war time prices,
according to Profesur George B. Rigg
of the botany department, of the
University of Washington. Dr. Rigg
surveyed the present status of the
kelp Industry in a popular science
lecture at the university of Washington
recently.
Kelp Is abundant and easily acces
lble In the sound, he said, and three
factories might be kept busy working
every day of the year, each producing
5.000 tons of muriate of potash yearly
Each would consume 500 tons of the
seaweed dally. Ordinarily the year’s
production of 15.000 tons of potash on
the sound would be worth $600,000, the
average price being almost $40 per ton
At the present time It brings about $10
a ton.
Fifty thousand tons of ke'p could be
harvested yearly along the Pacific
coast, Dr. Riggs asserted.
The beds lie from Mexico to Alaska
and are of course not all commercially
accessible.
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