ALASKAN WAS BELIEVER
IN PREPAREDNESS
Mystery, deep, dark, and pro
found, which has, pervaded the
Frye hotel for several days pai’:,
has been cleared up and like all
mysteries its solution was simple
—after it had been solved
Several days ago a prominent
physicion from Valdez register
ed. He hadn’t been in his room
half an hour when a steamship
man whose name is known from
Harbor island to Smith Cove
showed up.
“Is the doctor in?” lie inquired
of the young lady at the tele
phone switch. The doctor was
in. Would lie please go right up
to the doctor’s room?
“Come on, fellows, I guess it’s
all fight,” said the caller to a
group of other northerners, who
accompanied him. Manager Watt
watched them to the elevator.
Their faces wreathed in smiles,
they returned to the lobby.
Thirty minutes later a delega
tion from the Arctic club show
ed up.
:‘Is the doctor in?” the leader
asked. The doctor was in. Would
I hey go up to his room? They
| -vould.
Three minutes later another
uominent steamship man ap
leared.
“Is the doctor in?” he asked.
I The doctor was in. Would he
Xo up to the doctor’s room? He
vould.
Pretty soon an Alaska mining
nan showed up again. He went
hrough the usual formula and
lien-took the elevator. Ten min
tes later the steamship man who
vas the first visitor appeared with
new gang
“Say. where are all those fel
ows going?” asked Watt. “They
mist be wearing out that carpet
n the sixth floor.”
Delegation after delegation
nme and went all day long. “Fin
dly Watt could stand it no long
er. He would talk to the doctor
himself
“Gettin' pretty popular,” he
hinted, as the medico came down
i to dinner._
‘‘Yes," was the reply, “A lot oi
the boys have dropped in to call
on me. Most of ’em want to talk
politics.”
After dinner the crowds came
thick and fast. The stream of
callers continued until the doc
tor left for New York. Then
Watt went to make an examina
tion. He wanted to see if it
would be necessary to put down
a new carpet to replace the one
that had been worn by the tramp
ing of many feet between the ele
vator and the doctor's room.
It was then that he solved the
mystery. The doctor is a believer
in preparedness. Four bottles
were on the floor, and they had
been drained of their last drop.
“Coises!” said Watt bitterly
Protect your eyes.
Snow glasses and eye glasses.
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LAnen’s Drug Store.
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20,000 EMPLOYED !
IN ALASKA FISHERIES
The year ending June 7 was
the most prosperous in the his- [
tory of the fishing industry in,
Alaska, according to the report
just issued by Secretary Redfield
of the department of commerce.
The total value of the fish caught
in that year was twenty one mil
lion two hundred and forty three
thousand five hundred, or a mil
lion more than in the year pre
ceding. The number of salmon
caught was fifty four million six
ht ndred and fifty thousand and
the number of cases was four mil
lion and thirty six thousand. The
salmon alone was valued at eigh
teen million nine hundred and I
twenty thousand. Eighty one
CONSUMERS PAY
J3IG MARGIN
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Nine billion dollars is the price
Americans farmers get for their
crops every year while enough
is added by middlemen so that
the consumers pay twenty seven
billion dollars for the same crop,
I
canneries were in operation anc
mployed twenty one thousand
.wo hundred persons, four thou
and being natives. Thirty seven
nillion dollars is the sum invest
1 in the Alaska salmon industry
if which the vastly greater pro
portion is invested in the salmon
ndustry.
Note—One mistake was dis
covered in the cable message tell
ng of the fishing industry and
nother might have crept in here
is it is difficult to have figures
come over the lines corrected.—
Seward Gateway.
Ths Family Paper Is the 'Come
Daily Nugget.
according to the statement of
credit and marketing experts be
fore the Southern Commercial
Congress.
Members of the congress were
told by speakers favoring rural
credit legislation that the farmer
gets thirty five cents and the mid
dlemen sixty five cents of each
dollar the consumer pays for the
farmer’s crops. There is an enor
mous amount of waste, especially
in perishable products, because
of the jack of a central, directing
market, intelligence, they said.
NOTES FROM
THE KOBUK
Boris Magids and Chas. Cahill
of Deering spent two days re
cently in Kiana.
Mr. Chris. Gudmanson is on his
way to Point Barrow. Buying
-.kins for an eastern fur house.
Deputy Marshal O’Reilev re
turned from trip up river with a
native Saturday
Mr. R. S. Hall, the manager of
the Midnight Sun Trading Com
pany stores, has returned from
his annual trip up the coast.
'
The winter mail service has,
been vrey good, both the Kobuk
and Barrow contractors, making
good and carriers are always on
time.
Miss Hill the efficient teacher
also deserves great credit for the
progress of the native children
under her able tutorship.
The native village of Noorvig
has taken on the appearance of
a city, streets well laid out and
cabins placed on nearly all the
lots. Fifty-four cabins complet
ed. One building and more to
be built. Sixty eight lots have!
been located up to date. This'
NIOHT AND DAT THE NUOOET IS PUTTING FORTH ITS BEST EFFORTS TOWARDS THB UP
BUILDING OF NOill AND THB DEVELOPMENT OF THB RESOURCES OF SEWARD PENINSULA
Concerted Efforts Will Get Results
WE INVITE THE MINER, PltOSPECTOR AND ALL OTHERS TO INFORM THE NUOOHT CONCERN
INQ THEIR EFFORTS AND UNDERTAKINGS IN THB DEVELOPMENT OF THE HIDDEN WEALTH OF
THI8 SECTION.
■■ — LET THE WORLD KNOW WHAT TOU ARB DOINO SO THAT OTHERS MAT BE ABLE TO SHARE IN
TOUR KNOWLEDGE IT WILL ALSO STIMULATE OTHERS TO SEEK AND OPEN NEW FIELDS FOR
DAILY NUOOET EXPLOITATION.
Mr moatk. EVERT HOUSEHOLDER: EVERT CABIN OWWHB Of THE CITY SHOULD ALSO SEE THB WISDOM
OF HAVING THE HOME TOWN PAPER DELIVERED AT THEIR DOOR DAILY AND THDRBBT ASSIST THB
——— ■ ■- PAPER IN HELPING TO DEVELOP THB VIEOIN RESOURCES OP DU COUNTRY
w"klt N''aoKT Concerted Action Will Not Only Help The Country,
But Will Alto Help ns all Individually
f
vvitli school building and home
tor the teachers, work shops and
other buildings have all been
erected under the supervision of
(the Rev. Dr Rcplogel who de
j serves great credit for acomplish
ing this work in the short time
—
The village is badly in need of
a hospital and doctor to care for
| sick and look after the health of
the natives
The miners on Klery creek are
all busy taking out winter dumps,
the spring clean up is expected to
be the largest that Klery has
produced to date.
The first reindeer fair on the
: Kobuk will be held March G to
; 12 when delegates from all the
j herds in the Kotzebue country
i as far north as Barrow will gath
jer at Noorvik to discuss the rein
deer industry.
Jim Reed has taken charge of
the Selewik post for the Kotze
bue Fur and Trading Co. Mr.
Blain, the former trader, having
been found frozen to death in one(
of the January blizzards.
Mr. Louis Rich has been taken
to the Candle hospital, badly
bruised up- A young team of
pups running away down hill
with load of wood resulted in his
injuries.
Mr. Sam Magids and wife will
mush outside by way of Kovu
kok and Fort Gibbon about the
15th of March.
The natives are bringing in a
great deal of fur, the prices of
same are very high. With a large
catch of fur the stores alwavs
clean up their stock of goods, and
a great many articles are out of
stock at present- But no shortage
f grub.
Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Clark,
two mushers from southwestern
Alaska, spent three days in Ki
ana having traveld several thous
sand miles this winter for pleas
ure, coming across country from
Fort Yukon by way of Koyukuk
and the head of the Kubuk. TTiev
" ill make the circuit by wav cf
Candle, Chinik, Unalekleet and
the V ukon to Gibbon, Fairbanks
and the coast. Their teams of 21
dogs are the pick of Alaska. The
finest that ever wore a collar or
mushed a trail in Alaska.
The Kobuk section is badly in
need of trail staking, the river
ought to be staked from the
mouth to Reiley camp all the cut
offs marked and staked with
permanent stakes. This trail is
traveled by a great number of
neople, including miners, mail
carriers, missionaries, govern
ment officials and natives, and in
storms often it is impossible to
find a portage or cut off resulting
in the travelers not making their
destination and sleeping in a
<=now hank with a good chance of
freezing
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