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Saturday, June 22, 1912.
EXPLOSIONS
MYSTIFY
(i. W. Woods, who returned hist week
from ;i prospecting trip in company with
L. A. I’ratt and John Cary, from the
head of the Malo/.i, tells of hearing the
explosions and feeling the vibrations
of the volcanoes on Kodiak island while
on their trip.
At first the party thought, it was some
kind of a celebration at the post and
that the explosions were caused by the
firing of cannons, but when the noise
kept up all through the first night and
for three days and nights thereafter
they came to the conclusion that
it was an eruption of the earth of
some kind.
Mr. Woods states that one night the
explosions were so loud and continuous
that they kept the party awake all
night. He said the noise was
like a lot of explosions occurring to
gether and the party would feel the
vibration of the earth at the same time.
Several people living on the outskirts
of Fairbanks heard sounds as of blasting
or cannonading to the southward, and
wondered if the road crew were blasting
stumps. Learning that this was not the
case, they were mystified as to the
cause.
Up the Tanana at the different road
houses the same explosions were heard,
beginning in the afternoon and continu
ing until after midnight, some of them
coming in quick succession.
In one instance some prospectors
thought someone was dynamiting in a
nearby lake, and went to investigate.
At the lake they found the noise still
sounded as far away as ever.
Prospectors near some of the glaciers
attributed the noise to cracking of the
ice and falling fragments.
Since the press dispatches arrived
telling of the terrific volcanic explosions
over on the coast, the real significance
of the noise appears. They were the
sounds of the eruptions.
NEWS
OFTHE
WORLD
Tolovana was visited by a light fall of
volcanic ash from the volcanoes over on
the coast.
Volcanic ashes from the volcanoes on
Kodiak island fell in alight shower over
Victoria, B. C.
Owing to the illness of Clarence Dar
row a delay has been caused in the Los
Angeles juror bribing case.
Julia Clark an aviator was killed at
Springfield by a fall on Tuesday while
making a preliminary flight.
A elegram from Kodiak states that
the volcano eruption has greatly dam
aged the fishing industry at that place.
An attempt to cross the Atlantic in a
35-foot motor boat is now being made by
Thomas Flemming Day, editor of “The
Rudder.”
Washington, June 18.—The president
vetoed the army appropriation bill. The
bill contained provisions which would
have legislated General Leonard Wood
out of the army
Knockout Brown has taken a tumble
down the pugilistic ladder as a result of
his defeat at the hands of Leach Cross.
I Cross had it all his way in the 10-round
argument in New York last Saturday
night.
Jem Smith, featherweight champion
of England, is holder today of the
French championship as a result of his
knockout of Jean Poesj, France’s pre
mier featherweight, in twelve rounds in
London last week.
Albquerque, N. M.—The governor has
declared he will attempt to prevent the
Johnson-Flynn fight, scheduled for Las
Vegas on July 4. It is believed he will
be able to do it. Both Johnson and
Flynn are now here.
The police reserve of San Diego has
been armed with Krag-Jorgenson rifles
and amunition and will endeavor to stop
the street riots. Small pox has broken
out in different parts of the city and is
spreading to the stockades and jails.
THE LAW OF THE YUKON
This is the law of the Yukon, and
ever she makes it plain:
Send not your foolish or feeble; send
me your strong and your sane.
Strong for the red rage of battle;
sane, for I harry them sore;
Send me men girt for the combat,
men who are grit to the core;
Swift as the panther in triumph,
fierce as the bear in defeat,
Sired of honorable parents, steeled
in the furnace heat.
Send me the best of your breeding,
lend me your chosen ones;
Them will I take to my bosom,
them will I call my sons;
Them will I gild with my treasures,
them I will honor and greet,
But the others—the misfits, the fail
ures—I trample under my feet.
President Taft spent the afternoon of
the first day of the convention at a ball
game in Washington, D. C. Theodore
Roosevelt spent the first day of the con
vention at his hotel quarters in Chicago,
with the telephone receiver at his ear
and giving instructioes to his friends
who were making the fight on the floor
of the convention.
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“It has been made to appear that I
mistrust the people of the United
States. I den}- it,” says President Taft.
Be that as it may, the returns from
Oregon, Nebraska, Illinois, Pennsyl
vania, Minnesota, Kansas and a few
other republican states give the im
pression that the people of the United
States mistrust President Taft.—Tacoma
Tribune.
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