Mining Notes
A large amount of platinum dust is
s
reported to be found in Dime creek
gold, and that it might repay miners
to look out for deposits of the metal
in larger quantities. The caution is I
given to watch Dime creek black sand, j
Jack Ohrem received a letter from
a former Nomeite located now at'
Marshal City. The winter diggings |
said “if you have a grudge against j
said if “you have a grude against |
any one send him here. Marshal is a
summer camp and when the payroll j
stops, goodby prosperity."
The t arleton conipanying sent out
a considerable shipment of hardware
supplies to Crawly and Co. on the;
Diamond I. and to Walsh, Murray and j
Killeen on the Pearl fraction indicat
ing that active mining work is being
pursued on both claims.
Rivent Nome advices from up the
coast state that Marti risen and Mar
tin Corlis are taking out a dump of
pay dirt on the Bluestone. Cordon
Strange and Billy Minter are pros
pecting on No. “ Cold Pun. McIn
tosh’s teams are busy freighting in ,
that section of the country .
A small stampede from lditarod
country is reported, occasioned by the
report that new pay had been discov
ered on Flat creek.
Charles It. Harris, manager of the
Cache Creek Dredging company, has
had 20 men and *U teams employed;
in freighting in 2">0 tons of supplies
ami provisions for the company’s next:
season’s work.
WHEN SHELL HIT “SAUSAGE” BOVS '
DISAGREED DN RANGE REPORT
By United Press Correspondent
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN
THE FIELD, Feb. 20.—(By Mail.)—
You remember the country fair? Re
member the tremor of expectancy in
the crowd gathered around the dingy
old hot air oallon as she swelled, oh,
so slowly, with the smoke and fumes
of the barrel stave tire?
Will you ever forget the thrill she
gave you as she laxily lurched into
the air, dragging with her the fellow
in the darned but spangled purple
tights, the parachute jump man with
oiled hair plastered down on his fore
head? You secretly half hoped he
would.
And then, at about fifteen hundred
feet, the aeronaut's mad leap, his dead
drop of .'100 or 500 feet, the slow open
ing of the parachute and the swinging
drift to the ground. Remember?
Suppose you had to leave your job
in the office, shop or on the farm and
be ni such performances tomorrow?
Suppose you had to go up in a bal
loon, in any and all sorts of weather,
to be shot at by artillery and lunged
at by hostile aircraft? Suppose you
had to leap from burning balloons, or
get tossed out of the basket of one
while passing through the clouds?
What if America should suddenly
find herself in a war and the bill
boards should say: “Your Country
Needs You.** Think you could do
these things for her? British boys
Invite you to send to them for such items in FURNI
TFRE and DRY GOODS as cannot be readily sup
plied by the merchants in your community.
All such orders received by FREDERICK
& NELSON receive the prompt, personal
attention of an expert shopper and Parcel
Post shipments are sent POSTAGE PAID
to any point in Alaska.
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are doing the little trick every day. j
Yesterday they were clerking in
stores, working in shops, bookkeeping!
in offices or going to school. Today!
they are making parachute leaps from
balloons and other more thrilling)
j things still.
Yesterday that lieutenant you find j
yourself talking to was a pink and
I white youth at Eton preparing to go j
up to Cambridge. Today he considers
fighting duels above the clouds with
! Germans as much a part of his job
I as yesterday he considered calculus to
be. Yesterday he was a school kid,
writing essays about flowers. Now
he handles a machine gun like a de
mon as he hurtles through the sky
two miles a minute, or nosedives after
a war-hardened youth like himself
who he is trying to kill.
Here’s an example. The incident
' occurred in the observation balloon
section. Two youngsters, carrying
out observations over the German de
fenses, suddenly got a shell through
their balloon. It began to fall, slowly
at first, then faster. They were about
a mile high.
“We’re hit and falling!” one of the
observers phoned down to the ground.
“The hostile gun is at X-22-D(>2!" A
moment later the second obsci’ver
phoned down the position of the hos
tile battery, which had punctured
them, but gave the position slightly
different.
Then both hoys jumped. Their
parachutes opened about the same
distance down, and not more than
fifty feet apart, they were wafted
i *
earthward together.
“The blighters!” one youth called
over to the other as they dangled half
a mile above the earth. “They could
•
not do that again in a million shots.”
“Rummy lot of stale cheese!”
growled the other, waving an arm in
the direction of the Germans. “Pure
%
accident! They couldn't hit a bread
wagon if they tried.” Thus chatting
they landed in a field about a mile
from their winch, and patiently
trudged back.
“I’m sorry to note,” said the com-i
i pany commander as they entered thej
hut serving as balloon section tele-!
phone central, “that you two gentle-,
men failed to agree on the location of |
the hostile battery which brought '
you down.” And though there was j
a twinkle in his eves, his voice was se- i
II
vere.
“Sorry sir,” one of the young offi-1
cers replied, with a smart salute, “butj
perhaps our error was due to the ob
servations being taken at different al
titudes.” Throughout the British
army one finds boyish looking officers.)
And they have again and again
proved themselves up like this when1
| the pinch comes.
Two other young officers while at|
an altitude of about 4,000 feet, found
themselves caught in a windstorm be
fore they could be hauled down. Just
before reaching earth a violent gale
hit the balloon, which pulled the
winch on the ground completely over,
snapping the wire cable. The saus
i age went up and off among the clouds i
like a bubble in a wirlwind.
At a tremendous height the balloon
j was struck by lightning and set on
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fire, throwing one of the officers out
of the basket. His parachute open
ed, but as the balloon, now falling'
like a rock, had its rigging tangled up
with the lower cords of the parachute,
the latter began descending at fright-'
j
ful velocity through the storm clouds, j
The officer might have cut the bal-1
loon lose, making his own escape a
certainty, but he would have doomed
his brother officer to certain death.
So he refrained, preferring to take
the millionth chance along with the
other man.
The velocity of the fall extinguish-1
ed the fire, which had burned a great;
hole in the balloon and wind, getting
in through the opening, caused the
fabrice to swell out, thus forming a
parachute of itself. The ground was |
reached with a thud, which broke a
col lor bone or two but noth young
men walked to the neurest derssing
station where they “eropted” before
receiving first aid.
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