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The Alaska Weekly Post
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GATEWAY I’rRLISHI NG COMPANY, (Inc.)
ELMER A. FRIEND, EDITOR \M> GENERAL MANAGER
Harry V. Ho ben. President Frank L. Ballaine. Sec. i
Intend mM aaovnd-claaa matter September ?. 1915, at tha I*«*at (>flV*e at Seward, Alaaka,
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TINY ISLAND ON
ROCK IS PRISON
S W I RANCISi O. Aj
a tiny island, actually a lame »o« v
with a circumference of just a mile
and a quarter in the c* nt< r «»r S:• • t
Francisco Hay. The I’nited States A
my has 470 military pn »m r>. p actn
ally all of whom ha\e t»r> n -ent **re*
since war was declared wit I liesmany.
Former soldiers. >e?it* <<• b\
tary courts tor serious crimes ar *
here. There are boy. win* vo m: * n*
ear ly in the war and then did not got
to fight because the> violated th
es ami regulations of an a my. !!\
class of civilian life also ha> n> i •
presentatives her**, acco dim: to t.
prison’s books.
Officially the prison ar .» ' cai'e.i
the “Pacific It ranch' I’nited Stal
Ibseiplinan Harmcks, Alcatraz Isl
and.” To it are .*ent soldier." from
western stations and post" after cov
virtions under military law.
Theoretically, a sojourn on the isl
and is supposed thr »ui: «i;scipl
lessons taught there, to •' • the on
oners for return to civil or militat e
life. Kach month a dozen or mom i
returned to the army to “make rood.”
THE
SEWARD
DRILL
Recently Thoroughly Kenoxatvd.
"WK H INDtK ONEX I IK>I CLAS
COO US"
“WK CNHERSTWII HOW IO
PREPARE THEM"
( loan I moss ami Court o*\
IS OCR MOTTO.
PRIV \TE DIMM; ROOM
FOR I.MHES
Ctiarios ( a moron — John ( . Calfnov
GOOD EATS
AT
COMMERCE
CAFE
Tbe bent place to cat for Ladies and
(ientlemcn. A single >isit will
make >ou a regular patron.
—WE AIM ID PLEASE YOU
A Special
CHICKEN AND TURKEY DIXNI
EVERY SUNDAY
Leo. Jendy, Prop.
MEET ME AT THF.
BRANCH
GRILL
RESTAURANT AND BAKERY
BREAD CAKES PIES
Open All N»cht
FUSICK — & — J ENICK E
Proprietors
Saice the island prison vas establish
<••! a few yeats ajjo nearly seven hua
n'vd men have boon restored to thei
o m* r place in the army. In the wor'd
war these former prisoners jrave goo.i
account of themselves. It was not un
> ommon for reports of bravery and
• \ireme sacrifice on the part of form
r prisoners to trickle back to tivj
"bijt rock.**
Ov« i the tloois of tin' administia*
i«>n budding and streaming acro<*
the t nti v fare of the building are t ;"
ds "Hope Springs Kternal
•i tin Human Ureast." Tt e adminis
* »*n offices front the prison proper.
When :\ .soldier arrives at tin* is1
an.! under sentence he must don tl o
' -on gaib of hrow with a hat of t'v
eolo*. The clothes are not of
»e diary cot and the hat »s like a Turn
>*Shanter. U\ good behavior and at
Mil (»n to prison duties . officers ;o
cha ge of the ha» racks may decide if
h aeain . an he »f use to the army art!
it *i:i p isoner expresses a desire. f*e
i> started on the road for return to
the army a clean man.
The prisoner time becomes a "d’ -
«• p!e.‘* He i> given a uniform of :*n
d issue with its turned down eolla..
He wears a brassard to denote his im
P'-oved station. Front S a. in. he p -
< -iv. > m\ .It ill. with a battalion of
in fel’ows. In tbe afternoon ho works
at different duties.
When a few months elapse he i;
sent from the island to some unit of
the armv.
All the m n do not elect to rema i
ith th«* army. Throuph the west, arid
particularly in San Francisco, the
lie many former prisoners on paro’*
t orn th** “rock** enpaped in varioo•;
ines of busines> who report once i
month to the commandant.
i In* “hip ro( k” rises almost shoe1'
from bay waters. The para l •
pround had •»* he hewn f**om the solid
rock. \i>>*ve th parade pround Siirr
a1 hewinp was done for th** prison
buildmps. Harracks for officers and
the soldiers stationed as puards ar I
udmini.'trators rise from near the hay
and almost are mortised into tkm
"**k.'. Manx other difficulties xvere
overcome.
I»ecau>e of tin* profusion of flow -
•ms *»x’*“ the island and festooned
about it- rock walls the “hip Kock*’
**y it.* officers is cal'cd. “our jexvel.*’
Skirtinp the island runs a railed walk.
up?>o*-ted by and lump out from the
n k.' The Walls above and beloxv the
dk a*I* a mass of flowers, xvhich
••eminply prow out from the rocks. T>
^et the tlowers to proxv prisone r
kV°uld *lril! a pocket in the rocks,
troxv In a few handfuls of earth an i
dant the seed.
I. t ape fiom the island is nearly
'possible. Artempts made to swim
hundred yards to the main*
■an.i I ave failed. Several men have
l>-i-n drowned in the effort. A few
have •* t aped by rafts made of dri *t
o.m| hf»\vo'-or. At night a powerful
s« a vhlight plays about the islano
om a lighthou.se on the island. Broad
ays ar*» 'Wept continuously around
the base of the rock.
ro\ ii \ isi m« a mom;
t OMlMi I NDt’STB V *
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i >m. «> the \luska industries th\t
•« ms to !>•• particularly in the money
’I e past season is that of fox farming.
On many ot the islands in Print*'
'Ailliam ound and on the adjacent
small s kinds to Kodkik. to the west
ward am! down around the mouth of
the inlet, both on small islands and on
the mainland of the Kenai peninsula
there are a lot of people now engaged
business of pi ipagating foxes.
There are several kinds being bret.
Black. Grays, and Blues. But the big
gest success, seemingly, is to the
bof the blue variety*
Most people, who have not investi
gated the matter, are of the opinion
that this fur-raising business is entir
ly in its infancy, and the industry has
been seriously hampered by the sta.t
ASK FOR
WILD ROSE HAMS. SWEET. MILD—FLAVORED
DMA THE FINEST HAMS CHOSEN FOR THE
SPECIAL WILD ROSE CURE
FRYE — BfcUHN COMPANY
U. S. A..: a ;.; i
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BILLIARDS ' AM) POOL |
Soft Drinks Cigars Cigarettes I
ROAD HOUSE AND CLEAN BEDS B
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The Culinary Department is under the management of P
K. E. SHANK LIN •' *
j ing of a lot ol blue sky ‘ com panic
! which had only the theory for a capi
! tal stock, hut nevertheless a groa'.
many thoughtful people an* now pu4-’
I ting a lot of labor and money into the
j business. As in all new ventures much
, experiment ing has been done and som •
j of it has been costly, but at the pres
ent time the industry is getting in fine,
• basis; the United States agricultu
ral department is making it a study
and are offering the fruits of their in
vestigations to the people in the bu>
j ines •.
AH over tin* country, from N’ew
York to California, money is being p ’t
into fur production, but under e<ju !
ca e and attention the business shou d
he much more valuable here in Alaska
than in any other place on account »
the uporiority of the fur produced,
the abundance of the right kind o'*
food ai ! the availability of getting
new strains of wild stock.
Several big shipment* of fox sktr*
have he n made from Alaska the pa ‘
winter, mostly blue skins, and from
now «m the industry should increas*
very lapidlv. There is practical^' an
un’Im' • tl d» rnand for prime fur and
the da\ may he soon at hand whrni the
fur industry . by fur farm production,
may l e b*ought back to the point ir'
Alaska that it was in the sea otte»
• ays when single shipments of fur
amounting to a million dollars wo.*'
made.
When one considers that practically
the one and only industry of this tot -
itory for the generations in which it
was governed by Russia as well as tw.»
or three drearies after the American
occupancy was the fur business it wiM
not he hard to estimate the possibili
ties of the same business in the future
when carefulness anil scientific meth
ods are the rule instead of the waste
ful haphazard mariner of the business
in the past.
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What is that which is full of holes
an I yet holds water?— A sponge.
Try Our Ice (Yefcm ./
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Its Colder '>
V; •
Smoother
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Better-,
TRY IT
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C.OV. GEN. IIARIUSOY IS TO • • • !
T Vk I! I'll IK I) WIFE WHO
IS is YEARS OLD flUSCO GIRL j
SAN FRANCISCO. April 30— Ac
cording to a New, York dispatch re- j
ccived heve today Governor (lertora
Francis Burton Harcison of the.Fhilip
pine Island. will soon take as hi<
third wife, Miss Elizabeth Wientmon
age.| IS, a Berkley girl,, who is attend
ing I'niversitv here, do.^pite her moth- \
er's protests. t
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Francis Burton Harrison was born
in New York forty-six years ago , and
married Mary Crocker of San. Fran
cisco his first wife in 1 000. After her
death in 1003, he marrW’d again two
years later to Miss Mabel Judson ot
Brooklyn, N. Y. and a divorce was oh
tainod about a vear‘ago. |
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The reported placer strike in thei
I'inute district,' lower Yukon, is ro-j
ported to have been a failure. Fay ini
but one hole, that a slide; no gravel,
no claims selling; bedrock .fro»m 8 fo
20 feet
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TRUTKRS ATTRNTION TRA f»ER'i
SHIP TO ■ •’
GEORGE K. GOSH AW, INC..
• • • , •* * i. . 7 >
Dealer* in Raw Furs. .
Seattle, . • * New York , *‘
Alaska Building. . ,\ 127 W. 27th S treet.;
*•* • • * • 'fi 1
s\ v do business direct with you and solicit all Raw Furs. All shipment js ai* •
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handled i»> «• v;>«‘rt graders ami New ^ ork Market Prices are paid oji.c; erred |
grading the da> reeemetL II desired, your shipments will be kept separ ate in
order that our prices may be approved by you. Providing ogr vaJuatim i does
not prow sat i>factor>. the turs will he returned to you.. Trauspoi rtatiot* !
charges prepaid. Ship by Parcel Post or Express. Ship jn a Jpry ton .jBition:.|
Special instructions if any. must accompany the shipment. .* Always • .jTclosi |
itemized list oi contents with name and postoffice address. .Plqce,du plicate I
list of contents on outside ol hale or package. All payment# made by cl*. 4vek on |
the Seattle Natiomd Bank, or in any other manner desired.. »• / .
ship now • a.'...' j \ i
( HAS. GOLDSTEIN & ; COMPANY ' >- ... [
of Juneau, Alaska. ' ‘ .j
OFFER TO THE TRAPPERS AND DEALERS OF THE NOJCTFEf 1*'HK ‘
FOLLOWING PRICES FOR NO. 1 PRIME FITRS: ‘ ‘ ‘ ’
• .. ... . .,.Si ,
Lynx, extra large No.l. $30.00 to f.fl. , 30 |
Lynx, large No, l .—... 25.00 to 00,
Lynx, small 13.00 t<p ;jfli 00
Mink, dark coast skins ...-......... •.. . 5.00 t<i TV. ..00
Mink, dark coast skins, small 3.00 tfo », 00
Mink, fresh water .>.0(1 to 101 00
Land Otter lklf jto j ltt V
Red Fox, No. 1 large ........—.-.... 3(>'.oo to? 351 '0
Cross Fox, according to beauty..— _ fo .00 to. mi 0
Muskrats .75 to I S 1
Silver and Mack Foxes, as to color
Wolverine 5.00 to \ 12.01
Wolves 5.00 to 20.00
Ship us your Furs! As soon as received we will grade samy and wire ou t best 1
offer. If our prices are not satisfactory we will return the furs and pav trans
portation charges on same both ways.
References: Any hank in Alaska, Dextor Horton National Rank, Se attic;
National Rank of Tacoma, Wash.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEE)!)
We operate the largest Fur Manufactory north of San Francisco.
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