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THl’RSDAY, MARCH 19, 1911.
VALUES IN SAWDUST.
American ami Canadian sawmills
have discovered that the sawdust
which they have been perplexed how
to rid themselves of as a worthless
incumbrance is worth at least $40 a
Ion. In Baltimore a chemist has
perfected a process of extracting gas
from sawdust, adequate enough to
supply a city like Ottawa, with light
and heat at «5 cents per 1,000 feet.
. This is thought to portend that around
the great sawmills, which have been
emptying their dust into the Ottawa
liver, a variety of new industries sub
sisting on it are lkely to grow up.
In Austria, where everything in the
shape of fuel is being carefully
searched for, sawdust is impregnated
with a mixture of tarry substances
and heated to the proper tempera
ture; it is then passed over a plate of
iron heated by steam, from which a
screw-conveyor takes it to a press,
where it is compressed into briquets
•of fthe required size. The press turns
out about nineteen every minute,
weighing two lifths of a pound each
and measuring six inches by two and
one-half inches bv ore and one-hall
inches. One Austrian factory alone
produces about 7,000,000 of these saw
dust briquets a year.
In Germany there is a bakery that
turns out 20,000 loaves of sawdust
bread daily and finds an open market
for this product. Although this saw
dust bread is intended for consump
tion by horses only, it is claimed by
the manufacturers that, in case of
famine, sawdust bread would furnish
a nutritious and very highly satis
factory food for human beings. The
sawdust is first subjected to a pro
cess of fermentation and various
chemical manipulations, and is mixed
with one third of rye flour. It is
then shaped into loaves and baked
in an oven like other bread.
For many years the French have
extracted coloring dyes from sawdust.
The saw-dust, it appears, is acted tip
on by sulphur and caustic soda in a
fufrnace. Suphuretted hydrogen is
liberated in large quantities and the
vegetable substance, whatever it may
be, is rendered soluble in water, to
which it imparts a strong color, vary
ing w-ith the substance employed.
These solutions are employed as dyes,
-which are fixed by passing the fabric
through boiling bichromate of potash.
--New York Press.
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LOCAL BREVITIES.
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The Cameron-.Iohnson Mining Co.
received a wagon on the Northwest
ern and it will be used near the mine
for hauling supplies.
Mr. and Mrs. George Treat have
returned from Cuba to the United
States and are now visiting in New
Orleans.
Mrs. McMullen and children passed
through Valdez on the Northwestern.
Mrs. McMullen is the wife of the cap
tain of i he steamer Dora.
Councilman Harry King received a
telegram from his wife that she would
leave Seattle on the steamer Admir
al Kvans, leaving the Spirt City
March 25. Mrs. King has fully re
covered from the operation she un
dervvent.
Teumes Oome, one of the workmen
employed at) thei ;Oameron-Johnson
eamp on Shoup bay, suffered a pecu
liar accident a few days ago. He
fell while holding two large nails in
his mouth. One of them Whs driven
into the roof of his mouth, where it
was deeply imbedded, the other drove
out several teeth and went into his
lips. He also suffered a broken
band. Oome is now in town for med
ical treatment.
A vein, of sentiment is often all in
dead, except in the case of the dead
broke.
Pew men travel over the rodil to
success without ad' occasional punc
ture.
CORDOVA ROAD IS
001 OF BUSINESS
Wind Fills the Big Open Cuts
and Not a Train Has Moved
for Ten Days.
The Copper River ami Northwest
ern railroad has been blocked since
Tuesday, March 10, according to word
brought here today by passengers on
the steamer Northwestern. The wind
has been blowing and tilling up all
the open cuts made by the big ro
tary snow plow and in consequence
the road is out of commission.
Supt. Corser is making almost sup
erhuman efforts to relieve the block
ade, as 100 passengers, who arrived
in Cordova on the steamer Evans and
the Northwestern, are waiting for an
opportunity to reach the interior, be
sides which all the mail since the
tenth is stalled along the track and
many passengers are at Chitina, hop
ing for an opportunity to reach the
coast.
The officials hope to clear the
tracks in a few days and have every
available man, engine and rotary at
work.
The railroad men hope to clear the
were determined this winter to keep
the line open and last fall spent
$320,000 in improvements to the line
and were convinced that, no matter
how bad the wind the track would be
kept clear.
In speaking of the preparations
made the Cordova Alaskan of No
vember 25, said:
"We have repeatedly assured our
readers that the Copper River and
Northwestern Railway will be oper
ated throughout the winter practi
cally on schedule time. Trains will
run three times a week both ways be
tween Cordova, Chitina, McCarthy and
Kenneeott. Our confidence in this
matter has been based upon a knowl
edge of the preparations that have
been made under the direction of
Supt. Corser. When Vice-president
Baxter inspected the line last sum
mer he decided upon the expenditure
>f such money as might be necessary
to guard against wash-outs, snow
slides and accidents such as would
lave a tendency to delay traffic.
“As a result of this decision Supt.
Corser expended $320,000 and has
made such improvements and addi
tions that warrant him in expressing
the belief that other than an occa
sional snow slide that would not cause
more than a day’s delay, the railroad
is in such splendid condition that pas
senger, freight and mail service will
exceed in regularity that furnished by
the transcontinental railroads in the
states. Kvery precaution has been
taken and preparation made to pre
vent snow blockades. Immense snow
rotaries will work in both directions
from Cordova and Tiekel. An engine
house has been constructed at Tiekel
to accommodate the rotary fleet on
its lay-over there. The locomotives
to be used in the rotary service have
been changed from oil to coal burn
ers, as it has been found difficult to
keep the oil from freezing and have
it at available locations.
“In addition to the regular coal
bunkers seven emergency coaling sta
tions have been erected at conveni
ent points between Cordova and
Tiekel, a distance of 101 miles and
covering the locality where trouble
has heretofore been experienced. In
addition emergency supplies for tlis
workmen have been placed in all
permanent camps south of Chitina,
which will be a great advantage in ex
pediting any track clearing that may
be necessary. Permanent frame sec
tion and bunk houses have replaced
all tent camps as far norih as Mile
114.
"A strict lookout will be maintain
ed at all times along the track, and
for the accommodation of the track
walkers patrol houses have been built
at intervals of 4 to 7 miles south of
Tiekel. An important precaution to
prevent the slide of snow has been
the building of several hundred addi
tional feet of snowsheds in Abercrom
bie canyon, at points where trouble
has heretofore been experienced.
Such slides as may now come down
will be gotten out of the way in a
few hours. The track has been raised
in jnany places, while ditches .have
ben opened all along the line so that
surface water will not form ice on the
track. The addition of two water tanks
will be ample to supply water wher
ever needed.”
Mre. Jack Ingram is in Cordova
waiting for the lifting of the block
ade to return to Chitina and meet
her husband, jfiupt. Ingram of the
Alaska Road Commission.,
SENSITIVE PLANTS.
'
Bunthine at Night Doesn't Fool the
Flowers In the Arctic.
The sensitiveness of plants is a never
failing interest to all lovers of the
woods and fields. I,ike a human being
sensing a fall In the barometer and
the coming of u rainstorm, so the
! clover In the meadow feels and shuts
t Its leaves. A close observer says that
! a field thnt was white with blossoms
' has suddenly become quite changed
1 by the approach of a heavy cloud or
: the falling of a light shower.
The common ehickweed opens its
blossom only when the sun is shining
and counts on only the bright hours.
When it closes its blossoms rain in
variably follows. The sea purslane
has the same habit, it never opens In
cloudy weather and closes when the
sun is low, about to sink. The scarlet
' pimpernel never exposes its flowers to
a shower.
One of file miturallsts in an arctic
exiiedition noticed that, although the
summer sun shone through the nights,
the plants made no mistake, but when
tlie sun got round to the west they
cfosed up as if the sun had really set.
The common "four o'clock” almost
always closes its flowers at that hour,
and so many plants have that instinct
i that Linnaeus made a floral clock of
flowering plants, each of which had its
! time for closing. The wood sorrel not
: only drops its leaves and shuts its pur
ple veined flow’ers when it rains, hut
does the same if the ground near by
is struck with a stick. The family of
the oxalis has the same tin hit.—New
York Sun.
EGGS THAT CROAK.
Young Crocodiles Are Heard Before
They Are Hatched.
That young unbatched crocodiles ut
ter au audible croaking cry within the
eggs in which they are laid is averred
by Knowledge, and it adds the cry is
so loud and distinct thnt it can be
heard when the eggs are buried under
one or two vards of sand.
Dr. W. A. Lam born tested the fact
at Lagos on the West African const
He heard a croaking noise from below
a dry path, and, digging in the path
to investigate the cause, he discovered
thirteen crocodile's eggs at a depth of
about eighteen inches. All the young
crocodiles hatched out within half an
hour of being dug up.
So far buck as 1890 Dr. Voeltzkow
noticed that unbatebed Madagascar
crocodiles uttered a cry from the egg
at a depth of two yards and that any
shock, as of a heavy tread, near the
egg caused the baby crocodiles to pro
duce this sound “with the mouth closed,
as we produce hiccup sounds." In this
way they inform the female crocodile
when she visits the nest that they
want her aid, whereupon she scrapes
the sand away and they emerge
Apples With Worms.
May it not be that we get a keener
pleasure out of eating an imperfect ap
ple than a perfect one? It is neither
the best possible apple, which would
be perfect, nor the worst possible ap
ple. which would have a kind of nega
tive perfection: it has n worm at the
core. But t wonder whether we do
not enjoy it more because we have to
eat the more carefully to keep from
eating him Besides, he arouses tu
our uiind all sorts of questionings.
Why is he there? What kind of worm
is lie? How did he get it.'? How would
he have got out if we had not ousted
him? And—note this-what sort of
apple would it have been if he had
taken up his residence elsewhere?
The perfect apple could have roused
no queries which the defective apple
does not The same subtle lufiuences
went to make both—the same elements,
the same forces, the same chemical
processes. But the defective apple is >s
! in addition to all these— the worm.—
Robert M. Gay iu Atlautic.
Cocaine and Crime.
Police authorities have come to re
gard cocaine as oue of the reeogui ' .1
I sources of crime. The cocaine hem!
seems to hnve his moral sense destroy- ■
ed. The morphine devotee Is often a
man of refined and elevated thought.,
with delicate perceptions and with a
keen sense of honor and obligations,
except that he will always lie and de
ceive to get possession of his needed
"dope.” In his sober moments the al
cohol fiend Is often a man of conspicu
ous honor. The cocaine fiend seems
different. It is believed that cocaine
directly stimulates to evil passions and
evil deeds.--Family Doctor.
Hollow Tooth Ache.
If you have a hollow tooth and it
aches cut a piece of clove to fit the
cavity and put it in lightly, allowing
the upper part to stick out like a cork
in a bottle. It will soon swell, keep
ing the air from the nerve, and the
pain will cease until the clove drops
out. when It may be replaced by an
other.—Exchange.
Steady Employment.
••It’s lucky I should meet you,
Smith. There’s a little olll you owe
Timklns. the tailor, He's commis
sioned me to collect it.”
“Has be. old man? Well. I’m glad
you’ve got a permanent Job at last"—
f.ondon Tatler
Impertinent.
■ "I remember very well the first dol
lar I ever put in tbe bank.”
••The first?’ Tben you have put to
more than one?”—New Orleans Pica
yune. ' •
dusk a Deduction,
"What is-hjs sphere In UfeP'
••Well. Jading,.from tb*» clrclp of Us
acquaintances, I’d say bp .was s
rounder " California Pelican.
Copyright Halt Schatt'ner 0c Marx
NOTICE OF ELECTION.
Notice is hereby given that; pur
suant to an order made by the dis
trict court of the Territory of Alaska,
Third division, in the matter of the
annexation of certain territory to the
incorporated Town of Valdez, the
common council of the Town of Val
dez has called -n election to be held
in said town and in the territory pro
posed to be ann xed to said town, on
Saturday, March 21, 1914, to determ
ine whether said territory shall be
so annexed as prayed for in the peti
tion therefor, tiled in said district
court as provided by law. The de
scription of said territory as set up
in said petition, is as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at Meander Corner No.
1 of the Valdez townsite survey and
running thence south, 24 degrees. 19
minutes. 14 seconds east. 240.638
feet: thence south 53 degrees, 32
minutes east, 1228.26 feet; thence
south, 74 degrees, 52 minutes east,
568.26 feet: thence south, 45 degrees,
43 minutes east, 136.62 feel; thence
south, 30 degrees, 27 minutes west,
131.24.feet; thence south, 29 degrees,
12 minutes west, 123.42 feet; thence
south, 14 degrees, 45 minutes west,
51.95 feet; thence north, 61 degrees,
27 minutes east, 5000 feet: thence
north, 28 degrees, 48 minutes west,
2050 feet; thence south 61 degrees,
30 minutes west, 5700 feet, to place
of beginning.
At such election qualified electors
are invited to vote upon said prop
osition to annex said described ter
ritory to the Town of Valdez by plac
ing upon their ballots the words "For
annexation to the Town of Valdez,”
or "Against annexation to the Town
of Valdez," or words equivalent there
to.
The polling place tor such election
in the Town of Valdez shall be in
the hall of the common 'council on
Broadway avenue. The polling place
in the territory proposed to be an
nexed shall be in the ground iloot
room of the Fish building on McKin
ley street, adjoining the Tillikum
Oh b. The polls shall be open from
9 a. m. to 6 p. m. of March 21, 1914
TUe election board designated fot
the Town of Valdez is compose!! of the
following persons: Judges—H. P.
Sullivan, Louis Rosenthal, Thomas
Hunt; clerks — J. J. Cavana, Dan Wil
cey.
The election board designated lor
the territory proposed to be annexed
is composed of the following persons;
Judges—Adam Swan, Oliva Maroise,
J. H. Bell; clerks—Frank Millard.
Robert Weber.
The qualifications of an elector en
titled to vote at such election, pre
scribed by law, are as follows: He or
she shall be a male or female per
son of the age of twenty-one years
or more and shall be the owner of
substantial property interests in land,
building or improvements on land or
tide land within the said corporation
or the territory proposed to be • an
nexed to or Incorporated within such
corporation.
TOWN OF VALDEZ.
Bv ft. ft. RITCHIE. Mayor.
• RANDALL E. ASHBY,
Town Clerk.
First publication Feb. 20, 1914.
Last publication March 20, 1914.
Hospital of the Good Samaritan.
For $6.60 we will give you a ticket
entitling you to hospital service and
care for any eight weeks out of the
/ear from date of your ticket, when
incapacitated by injury or sickness.
W .11, Ziegler.
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
j Meet cTcry Tuesday evening at P o'eitxu II
; Ka*le Hal! All members are mi jested tc
; attend. T. c QUINN. Air tic Chief
S. M^NJECK. Secretary
Local Valdez
SOCIALIST PARTY
i Meets Thursdays at
8 o’clock at
the local quarters back of
Ingrain & Bush’s Cigar Store
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j Summons for Publication.
Theo. Emel, plaintiff, vs. \V. Fred
I Swanson and F. A. Hancock, defend
ants.—No. 653. Summons for Publica
tion.
To the above-named defendant,
W. Fred Swanson:
You are hereby required to appear
in the district court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, within
thirty days after the completion of
publication of this summons against
you, to-wit, within thirty days after
the 28th of March, 1914: and answer
the complaint of plaintiff filed here
in, and unless you so appear and uu
swer the plaintiff will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in the
complaint, decreeing her to be the
owner of the launch Anita, and that
neither you nor your co-defendant has
any interest in or title to the same.
Witness the Hon. Fred M. Brown,
judge of said court, this 13th day of
February, 1914. ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk of the District Court, for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
I By T. P. GERAGHTY, Deputy Clerk.
First publication Feb. 14, 1914.
Last publication March 28, 1914.
Notice to Creditors.
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court, ex officio Judge in Probate,
Valdez Precinct, Third Judicial Di
vision, Territory of Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of Peter
Steinmetz, deceased. W. A. Rystrom,
administrator.—Notice to Creditors.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the estate
of Peter Steinmetz, deceased, 10 the
creditors of, and all persons having
.claims against the said estate, to ex
hibit them, with the necessary vouch
ers, within six (6) months after the
first publication of this notice, to the
said administrator at the office of C.
E. Bunnell, at Valdez, Alaska, the
same being the place for the trans
action of the business of said estate:
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 10th
day of February, 1914.
W. A. RY8TROM,
Administrator of the estate of Piter
Steinmetz, deceased. ,
First publication Feb- 11, 1914
Lust publication March 16, 1914.
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PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National Univenit?
I Washington,ID. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 Fourteen years in
Office in Whaling building VALDEZ
Next to cable office
DR. GERMAN
.h,n, ■„ THE dentist
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. in., to (5 p. m.. 7 p. ui.. to 9 p. in. Sundays
by appointment All work iruarantccU
DR. C. H. VANCE
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OSTEOPATH
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