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QUAKES AGAIN
Friday’s Tremor Felt Over a Big
Territory—Great Havoc in West
Indies Jan. 14.
Another shock of earthquake was felt
in this section of Alaska Friday morn
ing, Fell. 8.
It was a little less severe than the one
of Jan. 14, hnt it is known to have ex
tended over a wide extent of territory,
and was accompanied by noise similar
to and as distinct as that on the former
occasion.
The disturbance occurred about (1:110
o’clock and was of short duration.
At Kampart the tremor was so slight
that it was almost indistinguishable, ex
cept at the lower part of town, where
it was more marked At Captain Mavo’s
residence the earth seemed to heave
slightly and then settle, with a percept
ible trembling sensation at the end of
the shock. John W. Duncan felt a dis
tinct quiver at his quarters just below
the N.l'. Co.’s store. At other places
the quake was lighter.
At 72 Roadhouse and at 'S', I’.ii; Mi
nook, it was more pronounced, and on
I.ittle Mi nook it was severe enough to
cause some alarm.
Across the divide the disturbance was
quite general. Max Neville, who came
in from Omega, says the shock was
quite severe on that creek.
C. C. Clark, seven miles below The
Rapids, told Mail Carrier Riederman
on his trip from Tanana that his cabin
trembled and was thrown slightly off its
level.
So far as learned no damage has been
done.
Joe Minard, mail carrier between
Rampart and Fort Hamlin, has heard
nothing of an earthquake anywhere up
the Yukon. Clement Anderson, who
came in from Ray River Hot Springs,
savs no shocks have been felt there.
The January Quake.
The earthquake of Jan. 14 was gener
ally felt in tl|*- Tanana River country.
It seems to have been most distinct
on. the Rig Delta river, lot) miles from
Fairbanks.
At Me Rev it t s roadhouse on th« Rig
Delta the shock lasted nearly two min
utes, growing in intensity from a slight
rocking at the la-ginning until it had
reached a stage so violent that the logs
*vere cracked and the building thrown
out of plumb.
The Fuirlmnks Times of Jan. 211 lead
received no news of any disturbance on
the southern slope of the Alaska range.
Kingston. Jamaica, Destroyed.
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as high as 2,000. Many American tour
: ists are among the dead.
Five thousand people were sent to iin
! provised hospitals.
The main shock lasted five minutes.
Lesser shocks followed later. The dis
turbance was felt sixty miles out at sea.
Along the shore at Kingston, w here the
water was formerly shallow, it is now
100 feet deep ami on Jan. Hi the city ap
| peared to be slipping into the sea.
After the disaster negroes broke into
the rumshops and after being crazed
with drink commenced to loot and even
to roll the dead. Several were shot.
Admiral Davis, of the United States
fleet rendezvousing in Cuban waters-,
was ordered to Kingston to assist in
preserving order. On the 18th he landed
marines from the Missouri and Indiana.
While the Missouri w as anchored off the
penitentiary the convicts mutinied and
tw o shots were fired from the battleship,
which quelled the disorder. Governor
Sweetenham, of Jamaica, addressed a
sharp note to the American admiral
criticising his action in firing without
authority. Davis replied that the situ
ation demanded prompt action and iie
had done what his best judgment dicta
ted. Governor F .cetenham then re
quested the admiral to leave the harbor.
Admiral Davis did so," notwithstanding
people of all nationalities begged him to
remain and ignore the governor, whom
they denominated crazy. When the ad
miral sailed many people gathered on
the waterfront and wept.
Probable Cost
of Fuel Alcohol
Since the passage of the denatured
alcohol hill, which became-a law Jan. 1,
there has been considerable speculation
over the probable price of alcohol. A
good many believe it will to a certain
extent take the place of kerosene and
gasoline in Alaska, as well as elsewhere,
and that in places where fuel is scarce
and ilear—as in the Nome country, for
instance—it may play an important part
in the industrial life of the territory.
A Missouri paper says alcohol may be
made from nearly every crop grown in
the central west, but it is probable that
only corn and possibly potatoes will be
used for this purpose in the immediate
future. The amount of alcohol that any
substance will make depends u|mn the
|>ercentage of fermentable matter it con
tains. In the case of corn this runs as
high as TO per cent. In othe* words, 31*
1*0!lids of fermentable material is ob
tained from a bushel of corn. In turn,
it takes two pounds of fermentable ma
terial to make one pound of alcohol,
t onseoiientIv a bushel of corn will make
al»nit 11* |»mnd* ill ulvoliol. Tli<’ weight
«>f a nation of alroliol i* 7 pounds. There
fore, a hu*hel of rum will make 2.7 nal
torn of uleolml. Vl 40 rent* a bushel,
therefore, tlieeorn alone used in niakinn
Hfl-per-vcnl industrial alrniml would
cost pntetieullv |.'t rents. It is elaiined
that the cost of inanufueturien, storage,
ete., wdl amount to 1,1 rents a nation,
and if to this tie added the profits of the
luautlfarturvr and dealer it .is probable
that ale* hoi will .ell in the ncinldsir
Ihs.I »f ftt rents js r nation. This take,
no account of t»y |>r«»lnrt* that ininht
result from manufaetiirintf aleohol from
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corn. The protein of the corn is still
unused, and this is always valuable for
feeding purposes. There are those who
believe that the by-products will pay all
the expenses of manufacturing, and that
therefore the price of alcohol would
simply be the price of corn from which
it is made and a reasonable profit to the
dealer. On this basis the value would
be somewhere around 25 or MO cents a
gallon.
So much for the conditions in Mis
souri and the central west. A Texas
paper says the immense cactus fields of
the southwest offer an inexhaustible
supply of alcohol producing material,
w hich, if true, would leave the price at
practically the cost of manufacture, car
riage, and profit. Even at that 75 cent’s
a gallon would probably be below the
selling price in interior Alaska for some
time to come.
If the consumption of alcohol should
become considerable, however, it is
reasonable to suppose that the supply
for Alaska would he manufactured in
Washington, Oregon or California—out
of potatoes, grain or other suitable mate
rial—at no greater lirst Lost than that
turned out in the corn belt. Even then
the cost in interior Alaska would be so
high that it might be profitable to look
around for some suitable material out of
which to manufacture it at home.
A Belated Blast
From Larsen’s Trumpet
Through the last mail Julius Ralims
torf received a letter from Ed Larsen
who left Rampart for the Chandlar last
August, before the news of the purported
strikes had been received. The letter
was dated “Chandlar River. Dec. 27.”
It said a mile and a half of pay had
been located on Big creek, and that the
writer had secured ground out of which
lie ex|S'ctcd to take his “little pile.”
It is very probable that Mr. Larsen
based his letter on conclusions arrived
at before the freezcup.
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