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ALASKA SEAL HERD
RAPIDLY INCREASING
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 10.—
The fur seal herd in Alaska now num
bers close to 400,000 animals, and
is increasing at the rate of about 35,
000 a year. The probale income of
the government from the herd in the
fiscal year ending June 30 next will
be upward of $750,000, according to
Hugh H. Smith, United States fish
commissioner, and it will increase
steadily thereafter. It is the belief
of Smith that the time is coming
when the government will derive a
net income of a million dollars a
year from the herd without any ini
j^hirment of it.
In addition, there is the income
from foxes in Alaska, now amounting
to about $60,000 a year. From seals
and foxes the government is now
making two or three times as much
as is appropriated by congress for
the Alaska work of the department of
commerce.
The total number of seals estimat
ed to be in the herd in 1915, when
an official count was made, was 368,
872, as compared with 294,687 in 1914,
268,305 in 1913 and 215,738 in 1912.
The number in 1916 was 417,329.
In 1912, 5228 pups of the season
were branded on the Pribilof islands.
Subsequent observations made on
these branded animals have ben pro
ductive of valuable information in re
gard to the natural history and
growth of seals. Some of these ani
mals were observed in 1913, and in
1914 they were noted in large num
bers. The number that returned in
1915 was so large in comparison with
the total number of seals under ob
servation, as to indicate a lower mor
tality in the first three years of a
seal’s life than had ordinarily been
assumed.
The plan of marketing the seal
skins in this eountry, instead of send
ing- them abroad, has ben a marked
success, according to government ex
perts, who point out thaat a reliable
market now exists at St. Louis which
is well supported. This home market
idea was first given definite impulse
in 1915. Seal and fox skins are now
dressed and dyed in St. Louis, and
the annual sales are atended by many
home buyers.
FORGET WAR TO HONOR
AN AMERICAN ARTIST
LONDON, April 10.—Many distin
guished people forgot the stress of
war for at least an hour the other day
to repair to the St. Paul’s cathedral to
pay tribute to the memory of an
American artist, Edwin Austin Abbey,
who through his work, has been more
or less closely identified with the ar
tistic side of English life.
The gathering was headed by the
American ambassador, Walter Hines
Page and the Princess Louise, duchess
of Argyll. It assembled in the ar
tists’ corner of the crypt where are
the graves of Turner and many more
distinguished English artists, and un
veiled a tablet to the memory of Ab
bey. It was here that Abbey used to
visit.
Ambassador Page delivered the
principal speech, sketching Abbey’s ca
reer from his birthplace, Philadelphia.
HAS ANYBODY HEARD
OF THIS FAMOUS INDIAN?
NEW HAVEN, April 11.—White
Eagle, an Iroquois Indian, has been
engaged to coach the lacrosse team at
Yale this season. White Eagle volun
teered his services, and Yale men be
lieve that the Blue will be represent
ed by a strong and well-balanced team
in the new game.
The Iroquois warrior has had a
wide experience in the game. He is
known as one of Canada’s most fa
mous players. The new coach’s father
played lacrosse in Canada and also in
England and Ireland.
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WHAT SCIENCE
HAS DISCOVERED
Science has discovered something
besides the mystic “sixth sense” to
help the blind. If the new device in
vented by Dr. Fournier d’Albe is suc
cessful the ear will be made to do the
work of the destroyed organs of sight.
Already sufficient success has been
achieved to demonstrate the practical
value of the appliance.
Iiy magnifying certain sounds caus
ed by light being projected from an
illuminated disk under selenium the
ear is literally made to “hear” let
ters. The light form is influenced by
the form of the letters, each letter
creating a slight but perceptible vari
ation in the sound. These sounds,
magnified and transmitted through a
telephone instrument, enable the aud
itory “reading process” to be achiev
ed. A printed page placed over the
illuminated disk and passed across it,
spells out in distinctive sound each
letter against which the light shines.
By this expedient the Roentgen
rays can be made to impress the sig
nificance of the letters upon the mind
of the blind individual. In three or
four days the peculiar “sound” alpha
bet can be mastered. In a short time
the totally blind individual can read
at the rate of 20 or 20 words a min
ute.
The machine is actually several
years old, having been invented in
1912. At that time, however, it was
regarded in the light of a curiosity
and used chiefly to demonstrate the
peculiar physical properties of the
apparatus. The war, with its thou
sands of blind veterans, will make the
device of incalculable value to those
who have been deprived of their sight.
By means of the “optophone” as it
is called, blind men can be made to
“hear” when a shade is lowered or
a light turned on. The Roentgen So
ciety of Electrical Engineers believes
that the optophone has great possibil
ities and will do everything in its
power to demonstrate the machine’s
worth.
Read The Dailv T’mes aad be an
Anchorage booster.
The Northern Commercial Co. has
erected a store and dock at Dikeman
at a cost of about $10,000.
The Kennecott Copper Company
has paid its back taxes to the terri
torial treasurer, amounting to the sum
of $219,000.
An application has been filed in
the Tuneau land office for a group of
marble claims on the west coast near
Shakan, by Attorney William Bayless
of Juneau.
John Pounder, who owner some of
the richest ground on Dome creek in
the early days is back in Fairbanks
after an absence of ten years. He is
headed for the Koyukuk.
Nome merchants are outlining each
other in efforts to offer their patrons
the most tempting prizes. The latest
one offered is a bar of gold worth
$100. All purchases of twenty-five
cents entitles the buyer to a chance
on the prize.
In the celebration of Seward’s day
at Fairbanks the flags of all nations
were raised including that of tier
many. The district attorney’s atten
tion was called to the fact and he or
dered the flag taken down, which was
done with no show of feeling one way
or the other.
John I!. Hosworth, a Treadwell
miner, was instantly killed near the
2200-foot level of the 700 mine recent
ly by a rock which fell from an ascend
ing skip. John Harris, who was stand
ing near, had a narrow escape from
death, being badly cut about the head
and one arm broken.
The machinery arrived for the new
canning company recently organized
at Valdez. It will be a one-line plant
but the machinery is of the latest and
most up to date type. It is estimated
that the company will make a large
pack this year as the bay is full of
fish during the spawning season.
Walter Clarville, formerly manager
of the Royal hotel at Ketchikan, re
cently sent to Attorney Warder of
that place a receipted bill showing that
he had paid IK cents a pound for Alas
ka humpback salmon on the second
of March in the Chicago fish market,
this being the wholesale place on that
date.
Mrs. Nellie Neal, proprietor of the
roadhouse at Mile 45 on the govern
ment railroad, mushed into Seward
recently carrying a 30-pound pack.
She left her home at <i o’clock in the
morning and reached Seward at 10:30
that night, having made but one stop
in the whole 45 miles, at Mile 12, fo.'
dinner.
Judge II. \Y. Jennings of Juneau
recently refused to grant citizenship
papers to two men, a German and an
Austrian, who were up in the district
court for naturalization. Judge Jen
nings held that he had no right to is
sue certificates of citizenship to those
of an alien nation with whom the
United States was practically at war.
The Orphanage News Letter, pub
lished at Wood Island, states that the
little girl brought there from Seldo
via several months ago, and whose
name was unknown, has been discover
ed through Marshal Cameron of Sel
dovia to be Mamie Lowell, the daugh
ter of Billy Lowell of Seldovia. For
several months the little girl bore the
name of Seldovia Nameotf.
A decided revival of interest in the
Tolstoi district is reported as the re
sult of a new strike recently made
on Iron creek, a tributary of Madison
creek. A hole sunk to bedrock dis
closed pay running $1 to the foot. A
small stampede occurred and the
creek has been staked from one end
to the other. Five prospecting boil
ers have been taken to the creek
within the past few days.
At Haines recently a German citi
zen recently lost his brother in bat
tie “somewhere in France," and on
receipt of the news hoisted the U. S.
ensign at half mast. Several soldiers
from the post nearby compelled him
to either hoist it to the top of the staff
or take it dowu. He tok it down and
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locked it up in his tnjrik, whereupon
the U. S. commissioner had him ar
rested for “defiling the Hag,” but ' a
jury promptly acquitted him and the
incident was closed.
Harold Wilson, acting captain of
the Nome coast guard crew, has re
ceived orders from Washington to
discharge all Germans in his depart
ment who are not American citizens.
Tom Savage, Verne Rogers and T.
Hutchinson, employees of the Pioneer
Packing Co. of Cordova, have been no
tified by wire to immediately report
for duty as members of the naval re
serve and have left for the states.
Boby Brown, a sawmill owner on
Dime creek, near Nome, was fatally
injured on March til when one of his
legs was cut off by a saw in the mill.
As it was necessary to convey him to
j Candle, f>0 miles distant for medical
treatment. Leonard Seppala's team
of Siberian wolf dogs, winners for the
j past two years of the Alaska Sweep
stake race, were pressed into service
and the journey made over a heavy
trail in six hours.
FAIRBANKS TEACHER
TO REPRESENT ALASKA
Miss Margaret Keenan, superinten
dent of the Fairbanks public schools,
received a letter from Governor J. F.
A. Strong, appointing her as repre
sentattive of the territory at a nation
al convention to be held at Indian
apolis, Ind., next summer, at which
will be present delegates from all the
states who are interested in vocation
al or industrial education.
Miss Keenan is now figuring on tak
in ga trip back to her old home in
Ohio next summer and if she finally
decides to go she will accept the com
mission and attend the convention, as
she is much interested in vocational
and industrial education.
Cameron’s Cafe is busy. Join the
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Fred Carlquist, wTio .'s a graduate
optician from San F'rancisco, is per
manently established with George Os
born, the C. St. Jeweler, and will ex
amine eyes free. 260
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