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Attention!
Min. Watson, formerly of Hope,
will be plea>e<i to m*c all of her
old friends at her llestaurant in
Gird wood, where tiny will re
ceive the best the market affords.
Sleeping accommodations for
guests and place for sleds and
dogs.
Found After Seven Y ears
ft is reported from Nome that some
parties in a dcs<date place discovered
a strange dark object standing out
slightly above the snow, and upon
investigation they soon unearthed a
dilapidated and stiff leather mail
sack. Protruding from the bottom
of the hole left by the mail bag was
a human hand, stiff and stark. After
several hours of hard work the body
of a man was drawn from its icy grave,
while surrounding him, as if to pro
tect their master from the cold, were
the dogs of his team.
When the federal authorities at
Nome opened the sack the letters in
it were found to be dated 1901, and
the body was identified as that of a
mailcarrier who had disappeared
about that time.
KING LEOPOLD
NOT NORMAL
Critical Situation Confronts Min
istry of Belgium—Sanity of
Ruler Questioned.
Brussels -There are indications that
the Government may soon have to deal
j with a difficult problem in regard to
King Leopold. Its nature may be in
dicated by the remark made by a mem
ber of the Cabinet in the lobby of the
Chamber of Deputies. lie said:
"The king is no longer in a normal '
condition of mind.”
Signs of a mental breakdown of Leo
pold have been noticed for several
months.
SENOR GOMEZ
IS UNSEATED
Manila—After a series of exciting
sessions, Senor Gomez was unseated by
a vote of 40 35. The Assembly has
1 done little else but consider Senor
Gomez’ case since convening in regular
session on February 3. Senor Gomez
made a sensational appeal on February
10, in which he accused party leaders
i of placing him false. The speaker
was compelled to call him to order
before the vote was taken. The action j
I of the Assembly declares his election j
; void.
Fur Market Dull
Tanana fur dealers are beginning
to share in the financial hardships
| of those in their line of business
outside. The panicky times back Fast
have knocked the bottom out of tlie
; fur market.
Fur lots sent outside last fall are
Mill lying unsold in the buyers’ ware
house in the States, and it may be
many months before they can be
realized upon. Further, the slacK
; condition and lo>s of a year in sales
means reduced prices, and the business
i will sutler in consequence.
Alaska last year shipped nearly a
half-million dollars’ worth of furs. A
large percentage was from this dis
j trict.
Hard Times in the States
A former Tatiana and Dawson man
writing to a friend here from Seattle
s i vs:
All of the towns on the coast are j
! crowded with idle men. The inland I
towns are not quite so bad as that of j
the seaport towns with men out of!
work and looking for jobs. The waives
on the coast arc now $1 and board per
day. and very little work to he had at
that price. 1 tell you we are up;
aifainirt the real tiling here, and the
nainut 1 can make a raise 1 am jroinif j
to mush fir the North a> quick as the j
Led will let mo. The biy strikes and
tr nb e have only made tliin<rs worse;
f ti.e working men as well :ts for!
everyone else.- -Fairbanks News.
Platinum in tlie United States
’The production of platinum in the
I'niied S at'", in li*Ol was 200 ounces,
valued at $1100; in the production
was 2is ounces, valued at $.">.‘{20: in
| the platinum production of the
country amounted to 14.10 ounces
valued at $4d.l$u, a fourfold increase
in quantity and more than eightfold
increase in value over the ligures for
; loud.
Game Law Attacked.
Washington The Alaska game law,
i
which had for it> object the protection
of game in thi> territory, will not like
ly be brought up in congress for sever
al weeks. Strong efforts are being
made to kill the bill, which provides
for a closed season and a protection of
fur animals.
The Worlds Gold
It is mainly from Africa, America,
and Australia that the world draws its
supply of gold, some $400,000,000 worth,
won regularly every year. Africa
leads with about $150,000,000; next
comes the United States with about
$1)5,000,000. Australia ranks third
with some $85,000,000; while Russia,
both in Europe and Asia, Mexico,
Canada, and several other countries
also make up the balance.
JOHN H. HALL
FOUND GUILTY
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Former 11. S. District Attorney in'
Oregon Tried for Conspiracy
and Convicted.
Portland, Ore.—Former United
States District Attorney John II. Hall J
was found guilty on a charge of
conspiracy with the Hutte Creek Land, |
Livestock and Lumber Company to j
maintain a fence which enclosed 20,
000 acres of public land in Wheeler
county.
The trial had been in progress for
twenty days. The jury arrived at a
decision in a little more than three
hours.
CHINESE ARE
Pekin—Border complications and
the success of the rebels on the French
border, due, it is believed, to foreign
assistance, have induced the Chinese
government to hasten organization of
her modern drilled troops at all forn
tier points. The government proposes
again to send prince Su to Mongolia
for the purpose of developing plans
looking to organization of defenses for !
i frontier districts. A modern drilled!
j skeleton brigade is now on its way to
Tibet for the purpose of organizing a
Tibetan division.
Mr. Tawney’s Yiew of the F:air
Representative Tawney’s suggestion j
that the Alaska-Yukon-Paeitic exposi-j
! tion should at least he “an exposition j
I of all things peculiar to the Northwest j
land the Pacific islands,” while perhaps;
j not wholly in harmony with the gen-!
j eral plans of the promoters of the en-1
I terprise, nevertheless indicates a'
I friendly interest in one of the chief j
purposes of the fair. It was hoped,
and is still hoped, that the exposition
I will be broad enough in its scope to
cover every country bordering on the
Pacific, and every special interest and
! industry peculiar to these countries.
If the resources and industries of
the states of Washington, Oregon,
Idaho, Montana, California, the terri
tories of Alaska, the Yukon, and all of;
Western Canada, and of Hiwaii and
the Philippines, should be properly i
and adequately shown in Seattle in
it would be worth the Londoner's
land the Parisian’s while, not to speak |
of our own countrymen, to come hither i
to see this alluring display of wealth ;
i and the possibilit ies of wealth P.-l. j
Alaska Schools
Seventy American teachers are scat
tered here and there through Alaska’s)
vast expanses, dotting the sweep of the
j Arctic beyond Bering Straits, weeks |
journeys tip the \ ukon and its tribu-1
tarics even in the brief open season, or
lout) miles from the mainland where;
i the Aleutian Islands lead out toward
Asia. Each of these teachers is the |
center of a new civilization; for the
Esquimo or his kindred native seizes j
j hungrily upon the germ of learning;
and receives its dispenser with open !
arms.
These schools are maintained under j
the Alaska division of the United
States Bureau of Education, with
headquarters in Washington, 1). C. j
They are distinctly separate from the]
public schools in Alaska that are main
tained for white children, these latter
being in direct charge of the local
authorities, while the burden of the
former is borne exclusively by the
national Government and controlled
from the capital. The education of
the native began twenty years ago,
but the segregation of the schools and
their placing on a basis by themselves
took place but two years ago.—Wil
liam A. Du Puy in Review of Reviews.
Teacher (to new scholae)—“Now,
Mary, I’ll give you a sum. If your
father owed the butcher $13.1 <, and
the baker $11.13, and the coal dealer
$27.08, and the landlord $15.10, how
much would lie have to pay them.?”
Answer—“I don’t think he would
have to pay them anything.”
“Why not?”
“Because I think we would move.”
Meet me at the Branch.
I G. W. PALMER I
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| KNIK, ALASKA H
Specialty made of Outfitting Prospectors
and Miners for the Susitna. Yentna
and all Interior Mining Districts
I Best outfitting point on Highest prices paid B
Cook Inlet for furs
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