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SATURDAY. JANUARY 11. Phis
IT LOOKS CALM TO THEM
The people at Katalla complain that
the steamer* have been raving ’he
town tit-* systematic if »-!>.. ami report
ing at Seattle that a > orm was ratfimr
•ml the breakers ta»'linr *0 bijrh that
no Ian iimr eouUl be ejected. Now the
inhabitant'* of th o town looktm; forth
upon the beep. ..mi *t emir not hint: hut
Cairn waters an.1 the steamer'* wavin'*
them a fond fare veil, wondered w hy
they were e -criminated against.
Tttiiufs look different to a matt up a
tm*. The view point seem** to effect
tin* v i** >:t. Wit *tli *r there was a
Storm on the sea or not, there seems
to be one i:t the hearts of Katallans,
which not to he wondered at when
the boats that should brinir them lft
tets of _ro*»d cheer from the friends on
tin* out**ide. are known to be floating
by on the briny deep.
STRICKEN WITH HOLY BLIGHT
Souk* of the church shepherds over
iu Seattle give evidence of being
stricken with the holy blight. It
Seems tnat tl.i \ . M. »'. A., under the
!:>«. ruemm of T. S. Lippy. president
of the board of directors, has contem
plated installing billiard and pool ta
bl*‘s ii it> ne« building. When this
became noised abroad, these shep
L i'»is. put up a maiamoot howl, and
declared they would use their intlu
oj.ce to h ive tie::-people cut olT their
hiiopor! tr ’n tlu Y. M. (\. unless
these tames b‘ cut otY the list of
t :ip.neats for the new building.
One pam->se of tiie Y. M. iA. or
ganization is to make a resort where
IP.* young men of the city can have a
p u't to meet and en o themselves,
and at the same time lie tree from emi
tter witu those things that are harm*
fni ai liieir use. Young men are not
> , \ much stuck on a place where
i v hi is m round like bumps on a
log. to- where they are expected to
spot)11 their time in the lecture or
reui’ug room, or «u lno bam; though
u: questionably they would Ik* the bet
tec for occasion tily soaking their
be ids. They need a place whore they
c :. iijoy all those games and sports
that are not harmful per so, and where
t.iere is an air of freedom so much ap
preciated by ill mankind. The Y. M.
( . y. must not be hidebound if it is to
bo a great factor in helping young
UleJl of the Ci y.
YET ANJTHER VERSION
i\V. Hiorntun in Alaska Yukon,
magazine f** - of the shepherd psalm.
It »*m>t it: tin- missionary. Rev. S.
Hall Young. 1>. I)., had much trouble
i.; tying tv) impress the Eskimos,
among whom in* worked, with the
beauty and sublimity of the twenty-;
third psaitn. Realizing tin* need of an
interpreter, since he himself was igno- ,
rant of the native language, he era- ■
ployed a boy who could speak some
English, to put the twenty-third psalm
into Eskimo tongue. This being done,
the Rev. Dr. waited expectantly to see
the sublime effects of this noble psalm
radiating from the beaming counte
nances of his little flock. Hut the sub
limity did not seem to have struck
home. There was no gleam of appre
ciation in the eyes of the little Eskimo.
The version gotten up regardless of
expense for the little heathen’s bene
fit was a dead failure. He listened to
it once, shook his head, as much as to
sav, none of that in mine, and walked
away.
Years later the Rev. Dr. learned
enough of the language to enable him
to read the version that his translator
had made for him. The original
begius this way:
“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall
not want. Hemaketh me to lie down
in green pastures: He leadeth me be
sides the still waters.”
The new version ran as follows:
“I am a mountain goat. The Lord
is the goat-hunter. I do not want him.
He shoots me down on the mountains
and drags me down on the beach.”
FARM LIFE
Farm life in the states has lost many
of its old time picturesque features.
The husking-bee, apple-pearing bee
ami other bees have Mown away, but
also the isolation of farm life lias dis
appeared. The electric car lines con
nect many of the remote country dis
tricts with the cities. Telephone
wires connect the farm houses and ru
ral free delivery takes the daily paper
to the farmer’s door. Many of the ad
vantages of the city are enjoyed by
the people on the farms.
This changed condition of country
life i» leading many to seek homes on
the farms and thus the congested con
dition of the cities is being relieved.
In the states there is still room for
I countless numbers on tin* land. Pan
ada also offers great opportunity for
the agriculturist, and in Alaska there
will soon he opened up vast tracts of
land that ran he used to great ad
vantage for agriculture and grazing
purposes.
FRAUD IN SCIENTIFIC WORK
Professor Hilprecht, of the Univer
sity of Pensylvania, is publicly ac
cused of a falsification of scientific re
cords, in his reports of the notable
work of excavation carried on at Nip
pur bv the Babylonian expedition of
ids university.
The case against Professor Hilprecht
is made serious by his failure to ans
wer his accusers, who laid their
charges before the American Oriental
Society more than two years ago.
A writer in McClure’s magazine has
been decrying the American navy, and
stating that our tied is as poorly pre
pared to enter a naval engagement as
was the Russian Meet wlun it en
countered the Japanese squadron.
Admiral George Dewey, on the
other hand, says the American navy is
ail right, and that * ur battleships are
as good as any in the world. Pre
sumably Dewey knows as much about
it as the magazine writer.
There seems to lie more than one naan
in town this winter who has been cast
ing longing eyes toward the jail, where
they can he properly fed, housed and
warmed at government expense. Re-:
cently one man received a sentence of
In) days, and yesterday another
reached the goal. The trouble with
these hums is they like a long sentence |
too well. The old English treadmill,
revised in Alaska, is about the only
thing that would make confinement a
punishment.
Cordova is to have an electric light
plant. Kataflla was to have both a
ttdephone and electric light plants,
hut >o rapid are the changes in these
Alaskan towns that before the ma
terial purchased in Seattle for these
plants could be shipped to Katalla that |
town had passed the stage where she j
need1 d telephone* and electric lights,
and now passes them up to Cordova.
Kale Douglas Wiggins says, “there's
lots of folks ;i" have made a good livin
by mindin’ their own business."
There's lots of folks that have not yet
staked their claims. Better pack
your eamp outfit and get busy.
Land and Mineral Decisions
Published by Woodford I). Harlan.
! land attorney, Washington, 1). C.
Mining Claim, Townsite—In contro
versies between parties claiming pub
lic lands under the townsite and min
! ing laws, respectively, the phrases,
“lands known to be valuable for min
erals.’’ or “for mineral deposits ” and
“known mines,” or “land containing
known mines,” are equivalent in
meaning.
Practice—If a case is ready for con
sideration under the “Rules of Prac
tice," it may be advanced on the
docket without notice to either party.
Residence by wife—Practice—Fail
ure of the wife to reside on the land
until after notice of contest does not
impeach the good faith of the claim
I ant where it is apparent that her final
removal to the land is in compliance
with a previous bona fide intention of
the claimant to make his home on the
land.
Coal Lands—Sections 2348 and 2349,
R. S', do n<5t require that a coal claim
ant must open a mine on the land at
the time of filing a declaratory state
ment therefor.
Contest—Practice — A hearing or
dered as to the status of land does not
involve the applicant’s qualification to
enter.
BURNING FOR
FIFTY YEARS
After Half a Century Fire To Be
Quenched and Mine Become
Scene of Activity.
Munch Chunk, Penna.,—After two
years’ persistent work and the ex
penditure of nearly $1,000,000 there is
now hope that the lire which has burn
ed in the heart of the rich Greenwood
colliery of the Lehigh Coal & Naviga
tion Company, near here, will in a few
weeks be extinguished. If it is, the
company will Ik* able to mine coal
worth several million dollars, from
which the lire has withheld workmen
ever since it was accidently started in
1858.
When it is extinguished work will be
given to >,000 men and boys, a new
town is expected to spring up about
the colliery and a big mountain will
yield up the millions of tons of coal it
has held in its heart, and which is so
great a store that the lire, although it
has burned only one year less than ;>0,
has been unable seriously to diminish.
Ready Money Saves A Life
San Rafael, Cal.—Stewart Dunbar,
a local rancher, owes the fact of bis
being alive today to a quick wit and
the fact that lie carried on bis person
a roll of bills, instead of the usual
“liard money” 'Californians usually
affect. Dunbar was returning to bis
borne late at night, walking along
the railroad tracks. In the darkness
be caught bis foot in a cattle-guard,
and it bccatnd so wedged that be found
it impossible to extricate himself. Re
felt no alarm at first until the whistle
of the midnight train was beard, when
all bis efforts to free himself only re
sulted in imprisoning bis foot the
faster. In desperation be cast, about
for someway to Hag the train, and find
ing nothing else in bis pockets,
took out a roll of bills, and lighting a !
match, set lire to them. This impro-J
vised torch he waved fratically, and ;
was successful in catching the atten
tion of the engineer, the locomotive
being brought to a stop not ten feet
from him. Dunbar bad fainted when
the trainmen reached him.
Lawson on the Panic
Boston Thomas Lawson delivered
an address here discussing the present
financial situation and tlu* causes lead
ing up to it. Lawson said that the i
move had been a deliberate one made j
by the banking and corporation inter- j
ests in an effort to discredit Roosevelt i
because of his attitude on the question |
of trusts and combinations of capital-!
Stocks were forced down purposely and j
a stringency created in tlu* money !
market by withdrawing actual cash
from circulation. Railroad corpora
tions and large manufacturing inter-1
est> in order to create hard times, dis
charged as many of their employes as
possible, claiming they were unable to
secure the cash with which to pay the
men.
A Host Hopeful Sign
The Filipino legislature is about to
pass a bill appropriating $1,000,000
for the erection of school buildings
and the maintenance of schools in the
outlying villages. This bit of news is
significant in a way. Not altogether
from the fact that $1,000,000 is about
to be appropriated for educational pur
poses, but the dispatches say that this
is the first bill to come up for final
reading in tlie Assembly. In other
words, the first public business to be
completed by the Philipino legislature
is that which looks to the develop
ment of educational facilities; for the
enlightenment of the people; for the
creation of conditions best calculated
to hasten the day when the Filipino
will be able to take care of himself.—
Portland Evening Telegram.
WEEKLY WtATHER RECORD
Weathei record for the week ending
January 11.
Temperature.
Max. Min.
Sunday 38 24 Cloudy, snow
Monday 29 26 Cloudy, snow
Tuesday 25 21 Cloudy
Wednesday 22 20 Cloudy, snow
Thursday 24 18 Clear, wind
Friday 22 18 Cloudy, snow
Saturday 26 18 Cloudy
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THE SEWARD LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY
(Incorporated November, 1905, under the laws of Alaska)
Office—on Fourth avenue, near Adams, Seward, Alaska
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
Cook Inlet Precinct, Jan. 4, 1908.
To Harry McCormack, C. J. Wal
ters, James McGill, Thos. McConety,
Geo. Hanson, Wm. Burns and Alfred
Noel:
You are hereby notified that the
undersigned has expended one hundred
dollars in labor and improvements
upon the Skukura Creek placer claim
situated upon Sknkurn creek, tribu
tary to Twenty Mile river, in the
Territory of Alaska, Cook Inlet pre
cinct, claiming 12000 feet from NOTICE
up the creek in a southeasterly direc
tion, and 300 feet each side of Skukum
creeK, as will appear by certificate
filed the 23rd day of February, 1900, in
the office of the recorder of said pre
cinct, in order to hold said premises
under the provisions of Section 2324
Revised Statutes of the United States
being the amount required to hold the
same for the year ending December
31st, 1907.
And if within ninety days from the
publication of this notice, you fail, or
refuse to contribute your proportion
of such expenditure, to-wit, $12.50
each as a co-owner, your interest in
said claim will be forfeited and be
come the property of the subscriber
under said section 2324.
A. C. CARRIER,
Co-owner of one-eighth of said claim.
First publibation Jannary 4. 1908.
Hen Dividends
The American hen made good this
year and helped to roll up dividends
that beat even records of Standard Oil
profits. According to the annual re
port of the Secretary of Agriculture,
the hen is one of the next best money
making things to the trusts. The
farm dairy products for the year reach
nearly $800,000,000. More than $600,
000,000 represents the value of poultry
and eggs produced on farms in 1907.
This industry, says the secretary in
his report, has advanced at such a rate
that “no arithmetic can keep up with
it,” and represents a ten per cent in
crease over 1906.
For Widows and Orphans
Congress is reported as considering
the advisibility of placing a tax of one
cent per ton upon all coal mined in the
United States, for the purpose of
providing a fund to help in the main
tenance of those who are left widows
and orphans by the death of miners
who have lost their lives in mine
disasters.
Dog salmon for sale at Brown &
Hawkins.
If vou desire, write or ship to
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41 Langley St., Victoria. B. C.
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
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ATTORNEY -AT- LAW
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DENTIST
Bank of Seward Building
SEWARD. - - ALASKA.
J. A. BAUGHMAN
PHYSICIAN
and SURGEON
City office: Owl Drug Store.
Home office: Up stairs in Richard building
Landed His Job All Right
Thomas White, known as “Hot-cake
kid”, was given ninety days and costa
in Judge Howlett’s court on Monday
for carying concealed weapons. He
was doing the drunken “bad man” act
at the wharf.