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6BHF MCE 10t TO 1
■EST FOR CAIffl Sift
Sounding like a Res Beach novel
or one of Jack London's stories,
tile '-lib ol a race lor thousands of
mUta along the coast of Alaska, by
rival engineers for a, cannery site
on Bering Sea, was told iu the Ju
neau und office yesterday by H. H.
Waller, one of the contestants.
The race started in Seattle and
took the contestants to Seward on
palatial steamers, from there to
the far westward on small gasoline
boats, through the stormiest ocean
in the world, through howling gales
auj raging blizzards, across miles
ot snow-covered Alaskan wilderness
and return, all in the dea i of win
ter.
Mauy times both partita v, ere in
danger of shipwreck and . ., v. ioso
to death, in fact tiicy laid inoir
lives in their hands mu<t of the.
time -ud the slic ittst i lt or
breakage in their j, .. i s wouid
have resulted in th ii death.
The race was iiuisiiid as far as
the rival engineers .ire concerned iu
Juneau yesterday when the Admiral
Farragu' landed at ;Iie t-ock.
H. H. Waller, one of th; co::tt-si
ants in the race stviped ashore *c
and while admitting taut the
man beat him to tut ground
fuses tc admit defeat an i t..o
chapter will be told by
of the contesting t.j-t;..
The race starttd at Se.^tile 1«
last summer when reprt -..t.itivu! if
rival tish couip: : ies arrivt.il t..- .
and tola of having found cannery
site of great value, each one un
known to the other. At once each
made preparation to locate and hold
the iite and engineers wei<t started
north. The first step was to file
an application for location iu, the
Juneau land office and this was j
done. At 9 o'clock of the morning
of January 12, 1916, the Xelson
Lagoon Packing Company, acting
through Winn & Burton, filed
au application for ground and the
proper steps towards authorizing a
survey of the land were taken by
the land office officials.
A' 10 o'clock of the same day the
steamer Jefferson landed hwe and
H. H. Waller, acting for the Henry
S. Tiboy and associates, filed an
application for the same ground.
The descriptions of the land iu the
first application were very vague
and the land officials could not be
■ure the two parties were applying
for the samo ground, and owing tp
the /act that the description^ of
the ground in tha Waller applies
tion were vory definite, the survey
ou this application was also au
thorized.
Wa:?er at once left for the West
ward to connect witi the steamer
Dora at Seward on his way to make
a survey of the property prior to
filing h'i application, for patent, as
required by law. However, the
dramaUc part starts, the attorneys
for the opposing companies found
out that Waller was after the same
ground. They got busy on the "
cibJe with the result that Alexan
der Bradford arrived in Juneau
a week and left for the '
Westward the next day. Waller, In ■
the meantime was waiting in Se
ward for the Dora to leave on her
Inn £ run to Unga and the Westward.
She wsifr delayed by heavy storms
itid liiadford arrived there before
sin pulled out, Bradford was ou his
w;.v to Kodiak where a gasoline
boat wrs waiting for him and * he
\ .nned to get a long start down ;
• • st -.aits ahead of the Dora. Wal
, lowever, found out that Brad
■ i was on the way before his ;
• \iii and immediately got busy j
; iii£ to hire a gas boat to take
.. to Unga, bu* Bradford's prln
i: Is had already been working
• :vougi! agents and all available
gas boats had been engaged at
sidt-rable expense. Waller was
unab!o to secure anything for some
time. Finally he secured permis
sion from some one in Seattle to
use a boat which was at Seldovia
in winter quarters.
Bradford arrived at Seward 00
the Admiral Farragut on his way to
KodUtr, a*d Waller and one of his
i-riucipala boarded the same boat
for Seldovia. The gas boat was
State of Ohio. City of Toledo, I ..
Lucas County. 1
F-ink J. Cheney makes oath that he Is
senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney
& Co.. doing- business In the City of To
ledo. County and State aforesaid, and
that Raid firm -n-lll pay the sum or ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and ev
ery case of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by the use of HALL'S CATARRH CURB.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In
my presence, this 6th day of December.
A. D. 1SS8.
(Seal: A. W. GLEASON.
Notary Public
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Take Hall's Family Fills for ooosUnaUoa.
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froxeu in and the engine was out
Ot repair but afier working on her
for practically two days and nights
she was ready to put to Boa and
tho [.arty started without any de
lay. Bradford in the mean time had!
reached Kodiak where a large can
nery tender was waiting his ar-1
rival and was already on bis way
with a good start.
Then for over a thousand miles
along the coast of the Alaskan
Peniusula, bucking gales and snow
storms, traveling In small gas boats
every mile of the way the - race
continued, both boats being pushed
for everything they bad in them.
Uiiga wis reached at last with
Bradford a good day ahead of his
rival. Dog teams secured, both
parties started on the long over
land mush to the shares of Heren
deen Bay, on Port Muller, Bering
Sea, where the site was located.
Waller arrived there in due time
but found that Bradford had been
there for at least a day.
The story of how the two Pi
ties worked on the survey, each
StralulDg every nerve and using
every trick known, to beat out bis
rival, -will probably never be
known, but Bradford and bis
party finished first and the re
turn trip was started. The story
of the return ia loot for the time
being but Waller arrived on the
Farragut yesterday and filed bis
surrey in the offloe of Secretary
Davidson at One*. Bradford's sur
vey has not been received as yet
Ti e next step In tho fight for tbe
site is up to the officials of the
land officet the attorneys of the
opposing companies and the de
partment of tho Interior, and it is
probable that some time will elapse
before the question as to which. ;
of the contestants really win is
settUd.—Juneau Empire, Feb. 26. ,
SHORT AND SHARP.
Join a thrift club of some sort this '
year.
Mere good intentions hare no real
fchance to stop the war.
Clothes do not make the man. bnt i
they help him make a bluff.
Neighbors observe oaCh (»ther morp
than they observe tlie Ciolden Rulei
A cubist artist is prond of the title,
but If you called him a blockhead he'd
get mad.
The shortest month or t*ie year Is the
one that Is accompauicil by a thirty
day note.
If Europe isn't bankrupt she nt least
gives a splendid Imitation of currying
on like one.
Discontent flourishes under the de
lusion thai others' lives are easier and
happier than our own.
All of emigrating Europe will not
come to America. Sonth Africa can
bold half a billion.
You can generally tell a counterfeit
coin by the ring, but you can't always
detect a counterfeit love that way.
The Congressional Record continues
its useful'work of serving as the great
mausoleum for well intentioned ora
tory.
Reindeer steak from Alaska, which
Is reported, sounds a great deal better
than cab horse porterhouse from New j
York, which Is permitted.
The Royal Box.
Murat, king of Naples, was known as
the dandy king.
Henry III. ahd Henry IV. of Eng
land were lepers and were called the
leper kings.
"Heljas" 1; the real name for Greece,
iihd "king of 'the Hellenes" is the cor
rect title of the king, not "king of
Greece."
"Queen EllnrtKjth, the widow of King
Charles of Roonranla, Is widely known
■b "Carmen Sytra," a writer. Her
majesty, who to Bearing the end of
her seTenty-aecond year, was before
her marriage a princess of Wled.
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