PRIZES FOR THE
MASQUE BALL
l)o not forget the grand masquerade i
hall to he given by the firemen at
Brown *V Hawkins ha! tomorrow
night. The dance will begin at B
o'clock sharp and at 10:30 the grand
march will Ik* given, when all masques
will be removed. Kveryliody who can
do so should attend the ball.
Following is the list of prizes to be
given to tie* masquers:
Ladies Best dressed, >’> cash: best
sustained character, gold necklace:
most comical, &*> plate, most original, j
glove box and box of stationery.
Gentlemen Best dressed, caret set:
best sustained character, case of beer;
must comical, two bottles of hock, one
bottle of port and one of Angelica
wine: most original, $10.o0 macrcinaw
coat.
Girls under fifteen Best dressed,
pair of skates*, most comical, bottle of
perfume.
I toys under fifteen—Most original,
sweater: most comical, one cake.
Percentage girl or lady Choice of
any hat at Kllsworth's.
Luckiest lady One ll»U cake.
Luckiest gentleman fwo bottles of
Murom's Fxtra Dry.
Door prizes—One chicken, one duck,
and two ln>xes of cigar**.
Cairo. 1 Vo. .’»*>. Vodrh ne?». tie* avi-1
atot\ has completed a tr»p of
three thousand n i:e> and i> now plan
ning a trip from Cari> to \ustralii.
Vienna, Dec. MO. This is the warn
ing given <»nt regarding emigration to
America. It i> advised that all foreign
ers stay away from America until
such tint*- as conditions improve in |
that country.
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London, Dec. 30. Sha ;,«*i on, the
explorer, w l make another dash fori
the South pole during 1'*i4. With a
knowledge of the business in which he
is engaged and the vast fund of in
formation eoneering that country left
by the daring explorer Scott,who gave
up his life in an ettempt to reach the
South pole, Shakleton should have an
easier time of it than he would other-1
wi.se have.
Service for 10c up and meal tickets
that last forever at $7.
Commerce Cafe
See the large and beuutijul selection
of dolls at Butts' store. X
Bread for sale 10c a loaf or 12 for
$1. At Commerce Cafe
For reliable information write Can-j
son, Pioneer hotel. Knik, Alaska, t
Augustine Kver’s famou* candies
at \Y. VY. Butts'. t
Imperial candies, the finest ever. A
full line at VY. W. Butts’. +
Loug distaiee telephone booth at the
Branch.
Dog harness at J. L. Graef *s.
Meet me ui the Brand) *
Twenty-gauge, L913 model shot guns
at J. L. Graefs. X
Ice cream at Butts'. *
DIRECTORS MUST
COME THROUGH
_
Chicago, Dec. 30.- The receivers of
the (treat Western ferial Company
operating under the Shernian law,
have sued the directors of the Quaker ;
Oats and ferial fompany for ten mill-;
ion dollars. It is claimed that the pre- J
ferred stockholders had each received j
the sum of one million dollars each,’
vhile the common stockholders re-!
eetved noth in if.
SISTERS SOLD
TO BROTHERS
Tokio, Dec. 30.-The worst famine
ever known now exists in Northern
Japan It will outrival the famine of
lSti9, when thousands of the inhabi
tants of that countr\ starved to death,
.Mothers are actually selling their j
I daughters into slavery to their own!
brothers. The run on the banks still!
continue and the situation is very |
serious.
REUNION OF
ALASKANS
North Yakima, IVc. ->o. Former
Alaskans, now residents of this city
and county, are planning on holding a
rt union in .lanunrx,
Mot t real. I)ec. .*>0. Fire destroyed
block aftt r block of buildings in this
city last t.ijjht. Oxer a mile of hose
was drawn from the river which pre
vented a much greater conflagration
a> tie* city water works broved unable
to cope with a large tire. The prop
erty loss is over a half million dollars.
The city faces a water famine*.
LARGE FEES TO
BE grantee;
New York. Dec. .‘50.- Hayes, Hersh
tield vV Wolf have been allowed fifty
swo thousand dollars bankruptcy fees
against their brokers. This is said to
he the largest fee allowed in a case of
this kind.
WILL SUPPORT
RAILROAD BILL
Senator Miles Poindexter has writ
ten to a personal friend in Seattle, in
which he stated that he would support
the administration Alaska railway bill
a> soon as it becomes evident that bis
bill cannot nass, and he is frank enough
to say that he does not believe that his
bill will pass.
Meet meat the Branch.
Eudweiser beer at the Branch. *
Fresh Lake Trout at the Commerce
Cafe.
Sleds for boys and gfirls; sleds for
a«i. At J. L. Oraef’s.
lee creepers and toe skates at J. L.
•raef’s.
Three meals for One Dollar. Open
day aid alf ht. Commerce Cafe
FAILED TO GET
THE MONEY
Oroville, Cal., I>ec. 30.— After work
ing for weeks driving a tunnel to
roach the vauls of the First National
hank of this city, robbers were succ's^
f 111 in reach in jf tin* vaults, hut weie
unable to crack the safe and were
therefore disappointed in jrctiinj* tie
hi if haul they anticipated. '1 hey were
not allogetncr without luck howevei.
as they secured about $4,(XK) which
had not been placed in the vault
There is no possible chance that the
robbers will oe caught as they made
sfood their escape before the robbery
had been discovered.
HE IS STIEE
ON EARTH
Sun Francisco, Dec. 30.—Linco n
Deachev, the daring aviator who reo
jently looped the loot) for four sneeess
! ive times, is ill darinir t he fool-ki Die.
! Yesterday, in this cit\, he looped the
| loop live times and the end is no* yet.
; lv*:iehe\ should he satisfied with the
record he has made lor there i> not a
man in the world, probably, who will
ever try such a foolish stunt.
t'alumet, Mich., D e .»• h At tin ii
! quest her** yesterday to inquire it.to
,tli** t e.rr i hi * * ea t a s: r< ■ ■ hy w h i(* h r* *
suited it the death ot so many chil
1 dren Christmas evr.. t wo men te^iilh-d
that a man wearing a t i i/.eidsAl
i liance bad ire was n snons.bie for tic
panic, while a score of i t tiers testified
that it was tin excited memh r oi ti.e
audience who was res onsilde.
Services at Catholic Church
Services will he held :it tin* < athoiic
church at I * * r* »• h New N e:ir> mori Tig
Kveniiiif >e»*vicc at
Kev. b ather Shepherd, I *.ist« r.
WASHINGTON'S HUMOR.
A Dinner Invitation That Showed the
General's Genial Side.
In spite ui the general opinion to the
Contrary, Washington was not an espe
I'iallv grave and austere man. He had
. 4 sense of humor and could make or
enjoy a joke as well as any one. From
Professor (7. F. Holliday s ii and
Humor of Colonial Hays” is taken this
ettor, written to invite a friend, with
the ladies of his family, to dine with
the general. There is no date, hut
there is some reason to think that the
note may have been written from Val
ley Forge. It shows tlie grave and
burdened soldier in a pleasantly genial
; light:
“Since our arrival at this happy spot
we have had a ham. sometimes a shoul
der of bacon, to grace the head of the
table, a piece of roast beef adorns the
foot, and a dish of beans or greens, al
most imperceptible, decorates the ceil
ter.
“When the cook has a mind to cut a
figure, which I presume will be the
fuse tomorrow, we have two beefsteak
[lies or dishes of crabs in addition, one
on each side of the center dish, divid
ing the space and reducing the dis
tance between dish and dish to about
six feet, which without them would lx*
near twelve feet apart. Of late he has
bad the surprising sagacity to discov
er that apples will make pies, and it
is a question if in the violence of his
afforts we do not get one of apples ln
itead of having both of beefsteaks.
“If the ladles can put up with such
entertainment and will submit to par
j take of it on plates once tin, but now
, Iron (not become so by the labor of
' icouring), I shall be happy to see
them.”
Success 1b something to live up to;
failure, something to live down.—
Youth's Companion.
The Electric Voice That Speaks
Through the Ether.
SETTING UP THE VIBRATIONS.
This Is the Work of the Oscillator,
Which Is the Electric Mouth, and Its
Message Is Caught by the Resonator, ;
Which Is the Ear of the Apparatus.
More truly than any other tele
graphic device, the wonderful wire
less is a speaking voice, it makes
itself heard just as llu* human voice
does by a series of waves moving free
ly through space.
When I speak my voice is sent out
in undulations of varying length and
frequency through tin* air. When tin*
wireless “speaks” Its voice is conveyed
by undulations in tin* ether, which is
a more relined medium than air, (jury
ing the waves of light and electricity
as the air carries those of sound.
The oscillator of the wireless is a
“mouth.” sending out undulations in
the ether as our mouths send out un
dulations in tin* air, and the resona
tor of the wireless is an “ear,” catch
ing the ether ini waves «is they im
pinge upon it. as our ears catch the
atmospheric waves that strike them.
WV see nothing wonuenui m on .u
sounds, heeause nature gave us in our
needs one instrument to produce them
and another to receive them. Hut she
left us to find out for ourselves how
to produce and receive “vocal” waves
in tin* ether. Since we had to make
the instruments that deal with them
the etlierk* waves seem to us marvel
oils, although they are in principle no
more marvelous than the* waves of air
Man began i<> use electricity lor con
veying intelligence hy sending a < ui
rent of it along a wire lie pressed a
button at one end of the line, and the
electric current passing along the wire
induced a corresponding motion in a
tapper at tin* other end. It was a
roundabout way of employing an agon
cv which wo now know can be em
ployed more simply and directly by
throwing away the wires and makii -
tin* electric waves “speak stiaight
through the ether.
It is true that the language employed
does not consist of tin* words ot an\
spoken tongue, but it is one that cat:
he directly translated into any other
known to man, and so it is the most
universal of all languages.
Now. let us see how it is employed
First as to the electric “mouth.” When
a charge of electricity is accumulated
on a “condenser” n similar but oppo
site charge is induced upon another
condenser placed near. 1 he air be
tween them acts as an insulator be
cause it is a poor conductor of electric
ity. Hut when the charge attains a
certain degree of intensity the strain
upon the air becomes too great, and a
spark passes between the two con
densers. by which equilibrium is re
stored between them.
. . .1__ .
The passage or mis spurs piuumw,
so to speak, a shock in the ether,
which, like the explosion of a gun or
the utterance of a sound, sets up a se
ries of waves in the surrounding me
dimn. which radiate away on all sides.
These waves in the ether produce the
electric “voice.” If the sparks are reg
ulated in number and frequency the
consequent waves are similarly regu
lated. An instrument for the produc
tion of such waves is called an oscilla
tor or exciter. It is a kind of vocal ap
paratus for speaking through the ether
instead of through the air.
But just as we should have no knowl
edge of the passage of sound waves if
we were not provided with ears to hear
them, so the electric waves would go
unregarded if we had no apparatus for
receiving them
The receiving apparatus Is called a
resonator, or detector. It may he sit
uated hundreds of miles from the os
cillator. but It will catch the waves
as they undulate to it through the
ether, and it can be made to reproduce
them in an audible or legible form by
causiug them to operate a Morse dot
and dash instrument, as in ordinary
telegraphy by wire.,
[Continued on page •!.]
Koen'.g‘s candy in plain and fancy
boxes at W. W. Butts’. *
Field glasses at J. L. Craef’s.
F&bsu Hue ribbon beer at Tbe
Braneb. *
WOULD REDUCE
HOMESTEAD
Washington, Dec. 1J<> Tall man, the
('ommissioner of tin* iand otlice in
Washington, has liled a report and re
commends that Alaska homesteads he
reduced from three hundred and twen
ty acres to one hundred and sixty.
He also recommends that the locators
of homesteads in Alaska he pt emitted
to vacate their claims for a petoid of
six months of each year and that own
ns of homesteads outside he still eligi
ble to a homestead in Alaska.
AFTER SEARCH
OF FIVE YEARS
Oakland. Cal.. Dee. .‘50. After a
search of live years Mary < 'hrietman,
the woman who was wanted for writ
inir hlackmailiutf letter to many peo
ple, has been arrested. Mrs. Chriet
tnan is the wife of a plumber living
here. She has confessed that she has
written more than five hundred black
mailing letters to >oei< *\ women here.
She will he held for trial and will prob
ably receive a sever *»entence.
Id 1 Pa>0. Dee. .10. The reh< C were
victorious iri their enjra£*-u ent before
Ojinaja yesterday. Ih • 0.lT the battle
four hundred federals M/etrht t efu^v on
tin* AnmCean Ode. bur \v» r*■ drr - n
hack by Cncle Satu *' troops.
Seattle, Dee. Four thousand
people attended th»* currency celebra
| lion held in the Hippodrome in thir>
citv hi>t night.
OLD SOURDOUGH
GETS AN OFFICE
Captain Donald B. Olson, who at one
time was the telephone magnate of
Dawson and later engaged in mining
I at Lituya Bay, Alaska, has been ap
! pointed superintendent of the state
reformatory at Monroe, Wash., by
: Govornor Lister.
LOCAL NOTES
OF INTEREST
The Alameda is due to leave Seattle
tonight. ___
William Winchester, who is em
ployed at the Skeen-Kechner mine,
arrived in town yesterday and will re
main a few days.
Mr. Kensinger, the mill man at the
Skeen-Lechner mine, who has been
spending the holidays w ith his family
at the Overland, w ill return to the
mine in a couple of days.
L. F. Shaw of Seward has been ap
pointed court commissioner of the
newly made Nelchina district. This
will greatly convenience the recording
for the locators in the new camp.—
Valdez Commoner.
Sourdoughs and chechakos, you
are Invited to the Commerce Cafe.
Service every hour in 24.