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SMOKES A PIPE
AT ACE OF 125
Berlin, Nov. 10.—Frau Dutkiewiez,the
oldest woman in the world, this week
celebrated her 125th birthday. She is
almost blind, is deaf, and suffers rheu
matic pains. She has smoked a corncob
pipe for 50 years, and attributes her
longlivity to this fact. She was married
90 years ago, has had 10 children and
has 200 descendents. Her oldest son
was 89 when he died.
The night watchman recently yelled
into her ear that he had received a nov
elty in the shape of a copy of the Yukon
Valley News, published at Tanana, in
far Alaska. He spelled out the words
Geo. Bemis, the live jeweler. The old
lady intends sending for some Alaska
nugget jewelry.
COX’S ARMY
DRAWING NEAR
Brave Men Chasing Camp Robbers
Off the Wires.
Day by day Cox’s army, 11 strong, is
drawing nearer Tanana. Out since Au
gust, Sergt. Cox and his gang have been
clearing the telegraph right of way up
the Yukon.
The men keep on the jump. They are
bolstering up weary poles, digging the
line out of the snow, and chasing away
the camp robbers who are picking the
currents off the wire.
When Sergt Cox spies a tree he i
throws an old blanket over his head j
and peeks through his surveyor’s trail- :
sit. If lie discovers that the tree is rest
ing its limbs against the wire, the whole
army takes it by storm and brushes it
to one side. Then the next niggerhead
is scaled and Cox peers over the hori
zon. If the next tree is more than 50,
feet away they stack arms and pitch j
camp for the night.
The gang is about 40 miles up stream. 1
It will finish its work about Xov. 15.
1. U. Anderson returned recently from
a trip to the camp. With Schaefer lie
took up the mail to the Rapids, a shirt,
two pair of sox, a collar and a necktie
for Cox. Mail was also taken for Zim
merman at the mouth of Morlock creek,
and Otto Anderson at the mouth of
Schefflein.
Besides R. F. Cox, Geo. Cox, Andy
Whittington, Otto Romander, Hans En
geleseth and two foreigners who hang
out at the ^ ukon "cafe ’ are in the gang.
"Count” Frenzel, the cook, and Louis
Roch, the “butcher of the English lan
guage,” are the wits of the party. They
get into heated discussions which last
late into the night and illuminate the
darkness.
1' renzel dashed off a poem one night
lor Anderson, w ho brought it to George
Carl’s saloon where it is now on exhibit.
The poem is illustrated with a hand
some crayon sketch of Fred Barton. It
also shows a true likeness of Barton’s
lop-eared dog. The poem composed bv
the “Count” is reprinted in part on the
editorial page of this issue.
Purser Hamilton and Dan McFarline,
of the Minneapolis, passed through Tan
ana last week on their way from Lewis’
landing to Fairbanks.
PROSPECTORS. ATTENTION.—Jack Cav
unaugh has all kinds of seeond-h u;d mining*
tools in firstrclass condition.
The Latest Fad.
St. Louis, Nov. 10.—Women here have
started in raising poultry. They have
formed a society, and instead of gossip
ing over the latest bit of scandal they
discuss the relative merits of Plymouth
ltocks and chopped feed as against Leg
horns and whole grain. Some of the
ladies are making good pin money rais
ing fowl.
PRINTERS IN
LIMELIGHT
George Wilson and A. M. Elliot
Turn a Trick or Two.
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Geo. C. Wilson, the sourdough printer
and prospector, accompanied by A. M.
Elliot, were the first to cross
on the ice from the point last Sat
urday. They had been waiting therefor
over a week, Mr. W. not wishing to put
his boat through the Yukon icefloes.
The two left Fairbanks in a rowboat.
Their departure attracted considerable
attention. The entire force of the Alas
ka Citizen saw them start the ice going,
waving them a shivering farewell.
At the Times office Jackson, the lanky
lightning reporter, immediately began
space writing, filling reams of paper with
hieroglyphic notes, while Karl Fleisch
mann, the embryo editor-in-chief, tele
phoned to W. F. Thompson (the News
Miner editor) at the Tanana club. Roy
Southworth of the Times rushed out a
half-tone cut of Joe Cannon to the com
posing room and labeled it Geo. Wilson.
No one knew the difference.
The printers made the long cold trip
without mishap, only stopping long
enough at Hot Springs to secure a copy
of the Echo as a souvenir.
Wilson belongs to that sturdy type of
typo-prospector who makes opportuni
ties for you and advertises Alaska. Over
50 years of age, he will put many a
young man to shame on long mushes.
He loves the hills and is never happier
than when undergoing hardships in the
wilds of Alaska. He is also a very able
printer. He will be connected with the
News till next summer, and Elliot, the
printer-editor who is on his way to the
Iditarod, will help out till Sam Callahan
who is under the weather, recovers.
Elliot has chased golf balls in Scot
land, clubbed elephants in Africa, las
soed kangaroos in Australia and snared
alligators in Louisiana.
Uses Hot Rods.
Geneva, Nov. 10.—Two Italians, Min
ch (aged IS) and Molo (10), blacksmith
employes, drew from the fire two long
white-hot rods and attacked each other
in play. Suddenly Molo lunged forward
and passed the heated rod through the
body of Mineli who fell dead. Molo was
arrested.
HARRY HEINS VERY
FOND OF THE NEWS
“Your valuable paper, although small
in size, is certainly a credit to the pub
lisher and the town it is published in. j
Keep on sending it.”
Thus writes Harry Heins, HotSprings.
Harry is running the Half Way House, j
Everybody likes him, and all wish him j
success in bis new enterprise.
Yes, Harry, the News is small but its
your friend as it is of every honest, hard
working man or woman. It is just in
its infancy, but—watch it grow!
15 Miles of Sausage.
Des Moines, la., Nov. 10.—The state '
board of control has let the contract for
15 miles of wienner sausage — 50,000
pounds — for the state institutions.
ME FOR ALASKA
SAYS SURRIDGE
Outside Is No Place For Any Man,
He Declares.
Conditions outside are simply awful,
says T. C. Surridge, who came up river
late last week. He returned last spring
from an extensive trip on the coast.
With the cost or living high and sala- i
l ies low, lie found it too slow and decid- !
ed to come home though he was offered
a good position.
When he was in Frisco some years ago !
he stood in front of the Flood building
and watched 700 male clerks emerge at
the noon hour. This time he stood at
the same place and 6,000 women and a
handful of men tripped out. The men
looked pale and haggard—si> unlike the
Alaskans, who live a more natural life
and get good pay.
The girls carried large hand purses
which contained several old street ear
transfers, a few pennies and nickels, hair
pins and powder puffs.
Most of them entered the cal'seteria
where you help yourself and don’t have'
to give tips. Many were accompanied
by their “fiascos” who wanted to get
married but couldn’t.
Surridge says when a man asks for a
position and thinks he is worth $75 a
month, the manager says: “We could
not think of paying more than $5,"). We
can get a girl for that.”
Surridge says Vancouver is the coming
; coast town. Everything is life and bus
tle there. They have a complete auto
fire department and “pay as you enter”
street cars.
, Victoria is a nice quiet place. They
get up at 9 a. m., and at 5 p. m. busi
! ness is suspended.
Agent tor the X. N. Co. at Holy Cross
i all summer, Surridge will carry the mail
j from Minto to Fairbanks this winter.
I He will remain in town several davs.
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