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WEATHER REPORT.
7 a. m. March 8, 1917.
Station Temp. Day Wind Trail Snow
Anch’rage 26 Cldy. Calm Fair 8 in.
Summit ..35 Cldy. South Good 30 in.
Kern Crk. 40 Cldy. S. E. Bad 30 in.
Potter Ck. 40 Cldy. S. E. Fair 8 in.
Indian Ck. 42 Cldy. South Bare 4 in.
Matnuska 38 Cldy. South Fair 6 in.
King Rvr. 28 Cldy. Calm Fair 12 in.
^ Kashwtna 26 Cldy. South Good 86 in.
Deadhorse 26 Snow Calm Bad 42 in.
Talkeetna 30 Cldy. North Good 88 in.
IS KILLED ir
HILLING TREE
( Fairbanks Citizen.)
J. E. Handbury, one of the best
known oldtimers of the interior, was
instantly killed yesterday afternoon
at the logging camp of Marsh &
Crozier, on Clear creek, when hit by a
falling tree. The accident happened
about 2 o’clock and immediately after
ward Harry Marsh, one of the men
for whom Handbury was working,
started for town with word of the
death, arriving here about 8 o’clock
last night. The remains will be
brought into town tomorrow, the lo
cal federal officials having decided
that an inquest is not necessary.
In describing the accident last
night, Mr. Marsh stated that “Joe,” as
he was best known among his many
friends here, was engaged in cutting
down a tree about fourteen inches
thick at the butt. His cutting part
ner was Louis Goyette. They had cut
the tree and were standing back
watching it fall. A high wind was
blowing, which, to some extent,
swerved the tree. It also blew a
small birch tree under the one which
was falling.
Handbury was standing about ten
feet back of the stump of the falling
tree, which, upon striking the birch,
hung over it and swung up and
around, the butt hitting him on the the
right side of the head and caving in
his skull. The falling tree then slid
off the birch which had stopped it in
its fall, the butt bearing Handbury to
the ground under it and between it
and another tree. It is Mr. Marsh’s
opinion that an examination would re
veal the fact that practically every
bone in the upper part of the man’s
body was broken.
Mr. Marsh was but a short distance
from the immediate scene of the acci
dent. After Handbury had been Bottle
to the ground by the falling tree, Goy
ette shouted over to him telling him
what had happened. Mr. Marsh im
mediately rushed up to pull Handbury
from beneath the tree, seeing at the
same time that blood was rushing
from the man’s nose, mouth and ears.
He says that Handbury gave but one
gasp after he got to him.
After listening to Mr. Marsh’s story
last night Commissioner Reed Heilig
decided that a coroner’s inquest into
the case was unnecessary. According
ly, Mr. Marsh will go out again today
to his camp and will probably bring
the remains into town tomorrow.
Their disposition awaits instructions
from Clyde E. Handbury, a son of the
deceased, who lives at Cripple Creek,
Colorado, or Mrs. Handbury, who re
sides at 105 Bluff st., Council Bluffs,
Iowa. The deceased is also survived
by a daughter, who, it is understood,
is with the mother.
Joe Handbury was of that type of
pioneer miner of the west which is
rapidly passing. All of his days he
had followed the frontier, either in
mining or logging camps, and was an
expert at both logging and quarts
mining. He was a man who was wide
ly read, more, perhaps, because of that
isolation which he always sought,
and could quote almost any
passage desired from classics of either
prose or poetry. He was, in fact, a
writer of poetry of no mean ability,
numerous of his poems, after being
printed in local papers, being copied
by outside publications. It was rare
ly, however, that he would allow his
signature to be attached to his works.
The last poem he wrote, printed in
this paper, was in regard to the pass
ing away of his little friend, little
Mary Porter, one of the children
burned to death in a cabin fire here
last fall.
Mr. Handbury was a member of the
local Igloo of Pioneers, and his appli
cation for membership shows that he
was bom on May 22, 1851, just where
is not stated. Therefore, had he lived
until next May, he would have been
66 years of age. The application
blank shows that he arrived at Nome
on June 22, 1900.
In this camp, for the most part, Mr.
Handbury had followed quartz mining.
Most of the time he worked for other
people, but it is understood that he al
so possessed some quartz property,
just how valuable is not known. He
had been a resident of this camp since
its earliest days. Prior to going to
Nome he was located in Colorado,
where he was also engaged in quartz
mining.
Unless his relatives direct that the
body be sent outside, the local Igloo of
Pioneers will take charge of the re
mains of Mr. Handbury, and they will
be buried under its auspices. Just
when the funeral will be held will be
announced later.
SENATOR JOHN SUNDBECK
IS A LOVER OF THE DOG
(Seattle P.-I.)
Capt. John Sundbeck, formerly clerk
of the United States district court at
Nome and recently elected territorial
senator in the upper house of the
Alaska legislature, arrived in Seattle
yesterday en route to Juneau to take
his seat among the lawmakers of the
i northland. Senator Sundbeck declares
that the territorial legislature has
many problems to come before it for
solution, the principal of which, in his
opinion, will be the providing of school
funds to take the place of the reven
ues canceled by the enactment of the
prohibition law. The senator has
spent the past two months in Califor
nia. He is a pioneer of Nome, and
prior to going to the far north he was
one of the early settlers of the Dako
tas. His particular hobby is dogs, and
whenever he is called upon to speak at
banquets and gatherings he comes for
ward with a various assortment of an
ecdotes of the “Alaskan’s best friend.”
“The dog in the northland is to the
Alaskan as was the horse to the early
pioneers of the great west,” said Capt.
Sundbeck at the Hotel Frye yesterday.
“Your dog is your friend in the im
mense solitudes of the north, and he is
often your only guide and dependence
when hitting the snowy trails. In my
fifteen years of experience in the
Nome district I have encountered so
many incidents both personal and oth
erwise, of the dependence men place
on the dog in that country that I could
fill volumes were I to take the time to
relate them all. At this season of the
year it is the dog on whom the travel
er depends to go anywhere, and in a
blizzard he is your main dependence,
for the dog will lead one to the near
est habitat.”
MAY SHOW BUFFALO BILL
AS PROTECTOR OF FORESTS
DENVER, Colo., February 13.—
Since the formation here recently of a
tentative body to erect a monument
to the late Colonel William F. Cody
(Buffalo Bill) scores of suggestions
have been pouring in as to the form
the monument shall take. Old friends,
acquaintances, propagandists of this
and that body, all want something in
the monument typical of the old west
or of the movement for which they
seek support.
The general opinion expressed in
these proposals is that the monument
should include an equestrian statue of
Colonel Cody. Moses Howell, an old
friend and at one time a scout under
his command, is the author of the sug
gestion that the equestrian statue be
surrounded by bronze castings of buf
falo.
Another suggestion is to make the
bronze figure of the colonel the “Guar
dian of the Forests” standing with up
raised hand to protest against the de
struction of western wild life.
The suggestions have come from a
widely distributed number of cities.
The regular meeting of the Home
Economics department of the Wom
en's club will be held Saturday after
noon at 2:30 o’clock, in the Chamber
of Commerce rooms. Mrs. Viola Mur
phy will address the department on
“Entertaining and Hospitality in the
Home.” A full attendance is desired.
MRS. E. S. REEDY, Cor. Sec.
Wedding, birthday and fine cakes to
order. North Pole Bakery. 667
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PEKING—Chinese newspapers are
unanimous in welcoming American
capital into China to build railroads.
The announcement of the conclusion
of the agreement whereby Siems and
Carey, financed by the American In
ternational corporation, are granted
a contract for over 2,000 miles of
railway costing approximately one
hundred million dollars gold, has been
received with great enthusiasm. Nei
ther the Chinese public nor the Chi
nese press has any fear that the Uni
ted States has any ulterior motives.
“Since the death of President Yuan
Shi Kai, the most important single
face in the history of China has been
the signature of the Siems and Carey
railway agreement,” says the Peking
Daily News. “It reintroduces into
practical politics a principle that was
in danger of being forgotten. Amer
icans do not seek political power, in
fluence or spheres. They seek trade
and trade only, and they have now
assumed that other nations seek noth
ing more and really mean what they
say when the pledge themselves to the
maintenance of the open door and
equal opportunity for all in China.
“All the powers interested have ex
pressed their adhesion to the principle
of the open door, but in spite of the
lip service rendered to this doctrine
there has been a sneaking desire to
evade its real consequences. Great
Britain, more than once when non
British schemes have appeared to have
ramifications that reached the Yang
tse valley, has been obviously uneasy;
as witness the French port of Pukow
scheme and the Japanese Hankow de
velopment project. Japan has almost
openly repudiated the open door doc
trine. The Japanese vetoes on the
Chinchow-Aigun railway, on the Hsin
mintun-Fakumen project and on Mr.
Knox’ Manchurian railway neutraliza
tion proposals, all go to show that
Japan has in her heart repudiated the
open door dogma long ago. The Jap
anese demands of last year and the
corollary to them to be found in the
side issues railed in connection with
the Chengchiatun negotiations, only
confirm them. Russian diplomacy for
several years, and her latest public
displays of it—the treaty with Japan
and the protest against the presence
of members for Outer Mongolia in the
Chinese parliament—can only be in
terpreted in the light of a virtual re
pudiation of the doctrine of the open
door. The Germans nearly did the
same thing in Shantung previous to
the outbreak of the war.
Had the department of state in
Washington set itself to devise a test
for the sincerity of the powers that
have declared their adhesion to the
doctrine of the open door and equal
opportunity in China it could not have
devised one better than the present
contract.”
Practically all the Peking papers
and the important Chinese papers in
large centers express satisfaction at
the decision of American capital to
look for an outlet in China. For sev
eral years but little American capital
has come to China. This fact has
been discouraging to Chinese who are
interested in development projects,
but the railway agreement has given
them new hope.
MISS RANKIN TO BE
CALLED REPRESENTATIVE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. — When
asked today how Miss Rankin will be
referred to in congress, Speaker Clark
said: “On the floor of the house Miss
Rankin will be addressed and spoken
of as the lady from Montana. In the
newspapers I should say she should
be spoken of as Representative Ran
kin. She is a representative from
Montana and most newspapers use
the form of representative in refer
ring to members in the lower house of
congress."
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Though the European war no longer
holds the attention of managers, act
ors and playwrights, it is a subject of
great interest on the part of chorus
girls. They are demanding its imme
diate termination on the grounds that
it is bringing them deep humiliation.
It seems that, owing to the lack of
German dyes in this country, the mem
bers of the merry-merry have been
compelled to rely upon tights tinted
with American dyes, with the result
that their stage appearances have of
ten proved ridiculous.
Listen to this complaint from a Bal
timore correspondent:
“Thirty or more chorus girls are
exhausting their vocabularies upon the
war because it has forced them to don
tights tinted with American dyes.
During the rehearsal of a new show
at the Palace theatre the other night
they made their first appearance in
American dyed tights, and little did
they expect what awaited them. All
went well until the girls began to
dance ami get warm and then they no
ticed that the tights faded in spots.
After the rehearsal the tights were
removed with difficulty and the girls
found that, while the tights had as
sumed a faded appearance, their limbs
were dyed a bright shade of pink.”
Diamonds, watches, gold nugget jew
elry. Walter A Lord, near Harmony
theatre. 433
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After the show the 12 of us repaired
to the Oyster Grotto and from the va
riety found there we felt that we
were at Rector’s on Broadway, N. Y.,
instead of Alaska. There were oys
ters on the half, oyster cocktails, pan
roasts and stews. There was caviar,
Welsh Rarebit and O’ everything
good. And most comfortable private
dining rooms made it complete. 581
Ranch eggs at the Mint. 574
Tasty, appetizing lunches at the
North Pole Bakery. 567
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