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Atlanta. Gn. — Slight and beauti
Inl Mrs. Margaret Brooking, who. at
the ago of 21. is credited with hav
ing married three husbands, appear
ed in the Superior Court here re
cently on a charge of bigamy, filed
by her second husband.
The young woman, according to
the evidence, married at the age of
13 a man named John McCord. A
child was born of the union, but soon
after the youthful mother received
Information which led her to believe
McCord was dead. Months passed
and McCord did not show up. so she
married Lon Powers.
A short time afterwards the start
ing news came that McCord was
etUl living. The young woman im
mediately left Powers, at the same
time instituting n suit for divorce
against McCord, a decree being
granted. But instead of going back
to either of her former husbands,
ahe chose to take unto herself a
third protector, a Sam Brooking, of
Atlanta.
In the trio. Powers, the second
husband, attempted to institute a
charge of bigamy because the wo
man had married him while still
wedded to her first husband. Re
turning the verdict, the Jury held
that the original marTiage to Mc
Cord was void because the bride was
only 13 years old at the time, below
the age at which a woman may con
sent to marriage. The bigamy charge
M’H KKMKK MAP OF AU.SKA
ISSI KII CJKOMKiM'AI* Sl'RVKY
The Department of the Interior ■
announces the publication by the j
Geological Survey of a new relief j
map of Alaska. The scale is about j
40 miles to the inch (1-2,500.000) I
and the map. which is the result of i
25 years of topographical work in
Alaska by the Geological Survey, j
measures 30 by 50 inches and is. j
therefore, essentially a wall map. j
The water and the glaciers are j
shown in blue, the relief in brown, J
and the names and the other man- J
made features in black. The base j
was compiled by R. H. Sargent, and
the relief is shown by shading done j
by John H. Renshawe. the master ,
hand at this form of cartographic
representation.
This map (known a* map D) can
be procured for 50 cents from the di
rector of the Geological Survey at
Washington. D. C. It should not be .
confused with the map of Alaska on j
the same scale (Map E. issued in
1023), which is sold for 25 cents and j
which does not Hhow the relief. In
this new relief map many of the geo
graphic names that are shown on
the older maps have been eliminated
to avoid obscuring the representa
tion of the topography. On this ac
count, the older map (E. 1923) will
probably best serve the new one (D.
1924) is best for ordinary comwer
Icial use, but adapted to the use of
(those who desire a picture of to
pography of Alaska.
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tout: NATIVES l*KINCi
l»l{IVKN Ol'T COtNTKY ,
fii th«* opinion of William T. L.ipp, :
Superintendent of tin* Alaska Div- j
“ion. Bureau «*!' Education. the time i
s fast approaching when the en- {
■roachinent of private enterprises on )
Reward Peninsula will soon drive j
he natives out of that district. The \
•efndeer situation in certain districts J
>f the Seward Peninsula, at the pres-I
>n time is very similar to the cattle j
jays in the States when controver- |
des over land arose. There are no j
land leasing or grazing laws in the j
S'orth. and regardless of the natives’ ■
prior rights to the land, they and
their herds are being slowly crowd- i
There are a great many Eskimos I
an the Seward Peninsula who have
already signified their intention of
Moving their large reindeer herds]
down to the Cantwell district, and |
the first of these herds, owned by j
tin Eskimo nawed Simon, who has ,
ranged his reindeer over the Norton
Sound district for many years, told 1
Mr. Lopp last summer that he in- !
tended to start driving his herd of j
approximately 5.000 reindeer, last
fall to the Iditarod. where he would
winter them, and then this coming ,
summer or fall, complete the drive
to the railroad or into the Cantwell
district. In all probability, there
fore, starting in at the Cantwell dis
trict. within a few years’ time will
see great herds of reindeer swarm
ing over the great belt of moss,
which is approximately 50 miles
wide and many miles in length.
Mr. Lopp believes the matter of
bringing the reindeer to this district
of the Territory could be very easily
solved with the introduction of ships
transporting the animals to Anchor
age and thence up the railroad in
box cars to Cantwell. Another meth
od which could be used is to bring
the reindeer up the Yukon Kiver on
barges and then drive them down 1 >
the moss belt. As these methods en
tail more or less direct expense t>>
the owner, it is doubtful if at this
time the natives will bring them
down except by herding them across
the country.
The future plans of Mr. Lopp. in
regard to the disposal of the rein
deer meat is to introduce the meat
more extensively in Alaska for con
sumption. This was experimented
on more or less in Southeastern Al
aska last fall when. Mr. Lopp fret urn
ling South in the sturdy little motor
ship Boxer, placed a number of the
reindeer carcasses on the market in
Juneau and Ketch!kan. The meat
sold very 'rapidly and the purchasers
expressed their satisfaction :i“ t.. the
quality of the meat. To 'quote Mr.
Lopp. "This reindeer meat venture
is in the way of an experiment. It is
our belief that a valuable trade in
this line can be bu'ilt up. Transpor
tation difficulties have until recently
stood in the way of .commercializing
the herds, hut if the initial attempt
shows a profit -the reindeer industry
may .develop into .something worth
The Bureau'of Education dues upt
own many reindeer compared to the
other herds. The. to'tal number of
deer owned bv the Department does
run exceed 5,0«>0, it is slated. It
the intention of ih Department t«.
protect the Eskimo and his reindeer
business for a few more years, !»*•
fore the present embargo is lifted.
An embargo, which, it is under
stood, the biological department,
strenuously objects to. Thirty years
ago the Eskimo had practically no
thing but now they control almost
$5,000,000 worth of stock and prop
When asked about the recent
Fairbanks Grand Jury report. Mr.
I. pp. without criticism, said that
the medical appropriation for the
last two years, spread over the four
judicial divisions of Alaska amount
ed to $00,000. Of this sum the
Fourth Division has and will re
receive $20,000. There are two his
r-itals in the Fourth Division, two
doctors, four nurses and eighteen
native schools. For the erason that
;h* Kuskokwim district contains a
larger population of the natives, the
headquarters of this division arc
maintained there. Ear! M. Forest is
the superintendent in charge.
Th.* Bureau of Education motor
ship Boxer, served about twenty gov
ernment schools last summer, or ap
proximately 2.000 natives, with a
few whites who are distant from the
regular schools.
•MAH .10X0’
(By Orin R. Strong.)
And we have a new game called
Mah Jong.
The game is a conglomeration of
every other game you ever played.
Acceptance of the game is indica
tive of the disturbed condition of the
public mind. Our society folks are
buying Mah Jong sets, partly to sati
ate a certain curiosity and more to
show other folks that they are fash
And so we see town folks, who
' arh other in the jargon of the Mon
gilians. Truly these are faddish
times, where and when anything new
novel and foolish is accepted in pref
erence to the staid and conventional.
While the Americans are playing
Mah Jong tho Chinese are cutting
off their queues and robbing trains.
In this exchange of American and
Chinese ideas it appears that the
Chinese have gotten the best in ex
While robbing trains is somewhat
risky there is reasonable hope of
temporary profit. In Mah Jons
i there is none. There is said to be
several thousand characters in the
Chinese alphabet. To be expert at
Mah Jong one shouUl learn them all.
When the Chinese women begin tn
I oh their hair and flap the sheiks wn
suppose the Americans will take up
the poppy habit, which is about what
they did to us when they traded
' Mah Jong.”
Two or three years ago we all put
in incense burners, and now every
home smells like a joss house. Now
comes Mali Jong. What the next
Oriental adoption will he we are not
piepared to say, but let us hope for
the best. Exchange.
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National
Monument
cave in N*' \v Mexico that shows un
usual beauty and a great variety .*f
natural features. It is in the east
ern foothills of the (laudalupe Moun
tains. about 10 miles north of th*»
Texas line and 22 miles southwest
of Carlsbad, the principal town in
southeast New Mexico.
The cavern is said to have been
discovered in 1901 by J. I*. White
and nice Lone, whose attention was
drawn to it by th** #reat number of
hats they saw coming out of a hole
in the side of a small valley. They
entered the hole and found a cave
containing large deposits of bat gua
no. These deposits were worked for
Mr. White has recently explored
several miles of the chambers of th"
cavern. About half a mile from the
opening, from which th“ bats weer
seen coming, the cavern became phe
•nominally large and spectacular.
About three miles of its hallways
and chambers, including its most
ornate parts, were surveyed in the
spring of 1923 by Robert A. Holley,
of the General Land Office. In Sep
tember 1923, the cavern was visited
by Willis T. Lee. a geologist of the
Department of the Interior, who
spent three days in examining and
photographing it. On Mr. Lee’s re
turn from New Mexico the National
Park Service recommended that the
cavern should he made a national
monument, and a proclamation set
ting it apart as recommended was
issued bv the President October 25,
I Cavern Not Yet Fully Kxplovetl
No part of the cavern has yet been
thoroughly explored, but enough is
known of it to show that it will rank
high among the famous caverns of
the world. Visitors to if who say
| they are familiar with other great
hers surpass in size any others yet
discovered. One room is more than
half a mile long and several hundred
feet wide, and its ceiling is so high
that torchlight* failed to illuminate
The floor of the cavern is 1T•* feet
'below the entrance, which was form
ed by the fall of a small part of the
roof. In a distance in less than two
miles from this point the floor de
scends about 500 feet, vet the bot
tom of the cavern lies still deeper,
for Mr. White has found chambers
and hallways 200 feet lower. The
depths of the cavern, therefore, lie
at least a thousand feet vertically be
The geological conditions in the
vicinity of Carlsbad Cavern are un
usual. The limestone in which the
cavern has been carved is about 1 .
300 feet thick and is underlain by an
equally thick series of beds of soft
red sh.ile and sandstone that in
clude thick beds of . ypsum and rock
salt. Tin- occurrence of these easily
sol liable beds under the 1.300 feet
of hard yet snlulve limestone may
have prodiii •■(! a cavernous condi
tion of the rocks that will shew <pec
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ITEMS
Walter Fisher. Interior Alaska
mining man, who is passing a few
weeks in Spokane, is planning a trip
to South America, according to ad
vices received by friends in Seattle.
Hughie McCury, pioneer Alaska
mining man. well known in the Fair
banks country, departed from New
York the first of the year, enroute to
British Guiana, South America. Me
Cury is familiar with South America
having been in charge of plantations
on the Island of Trinidad for many
years, prior to going to Alaska.
Thomas Cole, who with his bro
ther fa-sb Cole, now a candidate n
the Alaska Primary in April for the
Governorship, we-nt to Alaska in
1 $95, is now located in Seattle,
v here he is credit man l'or the Fobes
Supply Company, 560 First Avenue
South. Mr. Cole lived at Juneau
from the time of his early arrival
there until 1915. During the years
1911-12. he was the private secre
tary to the then Delegate to Con
gress from Alaska. Hon. James
Wickersham.
R. G. Corwin, pioneer Stiklne river
mining man. but who has been en
gaged in other business for man}
ji-ars past, now makes his head
quarters at the Brigham Hotel. Og
den. Utah. Lately he has become as
sociated with J. C. Dumbolton, als
a well known Northern pioneer, in
placer mining proposition in Britis
Columbia. Mr. Corwin was in S<
Alfred. M. Ohlsen. pioneer of Fai
l anks. long employ -1 n Martin
l’inska's store., ha.-- receitly oner
i gent’s furnishing st »re in K-*is
; Washington State. He has al.-o P
; chased a home in tha* thriving c
■and intends to remain th.---, p.
.IOK WAKliK.V
T.» an old time Alaskan fin? f
|that Joe Warren has open’d a I
*v:111• Detective Agency in Sumi'> ■
, faction all over tin* Northwest,
the elongated Warren has a r>pi
tion as a peace officer in Hits ea
try that does not take second
eve,, to Old Sleuth himself.
As far back as the memory of j
peaet-. in fact, he thinks so muc
peace that lie will have it even i
has to tight for it; that’s the kin
In the early days of Spokane, v
town. Joe Warren was chief of
tf. in the old days the Coup
just the same as if he had be
rattlesnake. They didn’t care
“tart anything;, for they knew if
did. Joe wiuld finish it for then
when the camp was new and a 1
folks who thought they were t
was a captain of police there at
son ally that th** majesty of th
picked to see that the honest i
got a run for his money, and h
that they did. He has been a
tire, as well as Chief of Police
attle. and after all these
which he now looks upon as
spent getting an education. I
opened up for himself, in the \
building, as head of the Joe V
There is nothing that Joe
tackle, from finding a runawa;
t • heading off a hank robber
hits a special corps of assistan
kno>v and understand their
Joe and his meij are capable o
ln.g. in an efficient mannei
work of a private nature th
he entrusted to them.
Joe’s office is something of
quarters for Northerners an
i id timers drop into Seattle f
aska without looking up tb
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