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ALASKA YUKON PACIFIC
EXPOSITION NOTES
The game reserve at the Alaska
Yukon-Pacifn. Exposition will con
sist of six acres of uncleared forest
land set aside as a paddock for wild
animals.
The famous Liberty f ell, now in
the old State House at Philadelphia,
will he exibited at the Portland Rose
Festival and the Exposition this sum
mer.
Fifteen members of the House of
Representatives and ten Tinted States
Senators will he present nt the open
ing of the Exposition in June.
The New York State building is
a replica of Seward’s old home near
Auburn, New Yoik.
There arrived in Seattle recentlv
a big shipment <*f wheat, oats and
grasses raised within the Artie circle.
A 6,000 pound copper uugget, the
largest piece of pure copper ever
found, will he exibited at the Exposi
tion. The nugget has been shipped
from Alaska to Seattle.
Not far from Hucklev, Washington,
was found a timber that will make
the tallest one-piece flagpole in the
world. The pole is 200 feet in hight
and stands on the Exposition grounds.
It required five ordinary flat oars to
haul the big timber.
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Margaret I,earn who was confined
to the house for four week a with ty
phoid fever is quite recovered now
Mr. Sundurg. our cook lias moved
his family from Afognak to Wood
Island They arrived on the schoon
er .Mattie about the first of .Man h.
April 71I1 Nvcholia and Mike went
fishing iu the afternoon, they brought
home zb fine cod fish and one halibut
which measured 4ft. and weighed 53
lhs.
p me Scientists claim that the recent
earthquake disturbances in Italy and
other places have changed the Japan
current thousands of miles from its
course. That is the reason wdiy the
Northern Pacific Coast is enjoying (?)
such a spell of winter weather this
year. If that be true we wish the
stream would find its old path again
and give us some warm weather.
It is now almost the middle of April
and the snow still lies thick on the
ground, and the lakes are solidly
frozen. Indeed the ice lias not
thawed since the first hard freeze
last October.
Owing to the depth of snow there
is no pasturage for the stock. It is
not unusual to see cattle wading out
in the sea to get the kelp to eat.
Our cattle have not yet been obliged
to fish for a living, but unless spring
weather comes soon they may have
to do so.