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JBNMNGS
Juueau Dec. 22—In the cas© of;
the Territory vs. the Alaska Sal-1
aiou company, Judge Jennings yes
teruay handed down judment in fa
vor ol the territory lor taxes.
His honor says "that compliance
with all the conditions and the
payment of license fees imposed
Vv the acts of congress set forth
in the agreed statement, does not
relieve the defendant from the pay
meut of the license taxes impo6d by
the act of. the Alaska legislature ap
proved May 1, 19 IS, but that de
fendant was obliged to apply for a
license and pay »he license foes
and taxes so imposed."
Continuing the court says: "That
the defendant having complied with
all of tho conditions and paid
the license fees imposed by the
set of congress, in said agreed
statement set forth is obliged to
apply for a licejise and pay the
license tees and taxes imposed by
the act of the legislature of Alas
ka knowu as House Bill Xo. 109,
approved April 29ft, 1915."
Therefore the court decrced judg
ment in favor of the territory to re
cover taxes amounting to $1,290.03,
wi'h S per cent after January 15,
1916, aud the further sum of $4,
643.60 for 1913 and 1914 with
8 per cent interest and court
costs--Dispatch.
SHORT COl'RSES IN MIXING
AND FORESTRY OPEN JAN. 3
Short courses la forestry and min
i".g will open at the University of
Washington January 3, immediate
ly alter the holidays. Both
will be of an Intensely practical na
ture, and are expected to attract, a3
usual, men who are engaged In ac
tual work in forest and mine.
Dean Milnor Roberts of the col
lere of mines anticipates an enroll
ment ot about 50, an Increase of a
dozen over the attendance of last
year Dean Hugo Winkeenwerdor,
of the college of forestry, expects
about 30 studeuts in the 12-weeks'
term. Twenty enrolled in 1915.
Special efforts have been made
by both colleges to provide the maxi
mum amount of usr.ble equipment,
and the faculties will be at the
pains to "load" tho short-session
students with needed information.
A feature of 'he forestry In
struction will be a class in lumber
and its uses, a new feature of the
short spssion. This study is not
offered by correspondence, at pres
ea*
The separation of ores by the
flo'aticn process is one of the
new tricks of the mining craft that
will be taught.
G.N'K-THIRD OF MAIL
NOTHING BIT RUBBER
London, Dec. 27—Regarding the
seizure of mail bags on the steam
shin Hellisrolav from New York, the
foreigu office states that out of 300
bags of parcel mall on board the
vessel for Swedem, 109 contained
nothing except rubber, all of which
were consigned to a forwarding
u»ejt iu Sweden.
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
with LOCAI, APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease. Ca
tarrh is a Hood or constitutional disease,
and In order ro cur- it you must take in
ternal remedl -a. Hall's Catarrh Cure is
taken internally, and acts directly upon
the blood an ! mucous surface. Hall's
Catarrh Cure is not a quack raediiine. It
was prescribed by one of the best phy
sicians in this country for years and Is
a regular prescription. It is composed of
the best tonics known, combined with the
best blood purifiers, acting directly on the
mucous surfaces. The perfect combina
tion of the two lnpredients is what pro
duces such wonderful results in curing
catarrh. Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Props.. Toledo, O.
Sold by Drussl»t." pr!<» 75c.
Sake Hall'a Family FUIj lor conitipatlon.
ALl'MNI TO ACCUMULATE
FUND TOR UNIVERSITY
Seattle, Doc. 24—On the "little
drops of water" plan, the alumni
of «he University of Washington
propose to present a fund bo mo
distant day for the construction,
perhaps, of such a building as the
graduates of the University of
Michigan are giving to their alma
mater. The Washington alumni are
asked by their executive' board to
write the secretary each Christmas,
informing him of their addresi,
class and notable experiences of the
preceding year; and each is expect
ed to cnclose a dime to be added to
a fund which will ultimately go to
the uulverrsity. The tithing plan
has met with no opposition*
ORIENTAL LACQUER.
Japan Got the Art From China, Then
Surpassed Her Tutor.
Lacquer has furnished a moat varied
material for one of the earliest Indus
trial arts of China, and. though there
are no authentic records of Its origin
nor of the steps of its early develop
ment, the process Is already called an
ancient one In a work published In
13S7, In the first year of tho Ming pe
riod, which proves that the art was
known in as remote an epoch as the
Sung dynasty. The culminating years
of Its development were reached In the
relfc-n of the Emperor Chien Lcng (1730
95), who greatly encouraged Its manu
| facture and had large quantities of
lacquered objects made with which to
furnish and decorate his palace. After
his death the art seems to have de
clined In merit, and since that time lit
tie or nothing of any high artistic value
In Chinese lacquer has been accom
plished.
The Japanese first learned the proc
ess from China, but have since brought
It to a point of perfection which sur
passes the finest productions of the
Chinese. In Japan, however, lacquer Is
applied solely to objects of compara
tively small size, while In the Chinese
empire it served to decorate screens
and >>anels of tremendous dimensions.
Lacquer is divided into two classes—
painted and carved lacquer. Both kinds
are sometimes Inlaid with mother-of
pearl, Ivory, Jade and various semi
precious stones.
It was In the early seventeenth cen
tury, when Holland and Portugal be
gan their trade with the remote east,
aud particularly with China, that mar
velous empire teeming with so many
extraordinary artistic manifestations,
that Europe first begnn to realize the
new and vast field of decorative ele
ments which were contained In and re
vealed to her artists by oriental art.—
Henry Coleman May In Scrlbner's.
Swelled.
Mr. Woggs—I'm through with Bump.
I told him we are going to name our
baby after some great personage and
asked him for a suggestion. Mrs.
Woggs—What did he say? Mr. Woggs
-He said, "Name It after ours."—Bos
ton Journal.
Why They Sting.
Bill—Ton never see a bee trying to
extract honey from tbo artificial flow
ers on a lady's hat Jill—No, because
the bees know there lu more sweetness
under the hat—Tonkers Statesman.
EVERY OWNER OF
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Should Have
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Now is the Time to Act
Reliable Companies are
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PHIL ABRAHAMS
Agent
4th Avenue
OLD ZEB WHITE
He TelU a Story About o Cantankerous
Man
By M. QUAD
Copyright. 1015, by the McCluro
Newspaper Syndicate.
"Thar was sum purty bail men around
yere Jest nrter the wall," said Zeb
White, the possum hunter of Tennes
see, as be sot his pipe alight one even
ing on the doorstep*. "Mebbe the wust
critter ot the lot was named Tom
Smith. lie didn't hev no furu'ly, but
Jest sorter bung arouud at the co'ners.
Ho was powerful ou the brag, but ho
could tight fur all that, and bimeby
everybody got skcered o' him. Ho went
about with a chip 011 his shoulder and
Mood In his eye till sum men moved
away to git cl'ar 0' bim. Fur sum
reason be didn't bother me fur a long
time, but one day when I went down
to the co'ners to sell sum possum pelts
Tom was outer sorts and opened on
me. lie looks at me a long time with
a glare In his eye. Then he throws
down his hat aud jumps on It and
yells:
" 'Whoopee! Zeb White, behold tho
Jumper t'rom Jumpersvlllel I'll bet my
rltle agin them possum pelts 1 kin out
Jump yo' by sis Inches. If yo' ar' a
man with legs under yo' cum out and
try on nie!'
"I seed be was tryin' to pick a quar
rel." said Zeb. "and so I talked soft to
him and tried to git away.
"I was In mighty pore health," ex
plained Zeb, "and no match fur slch a
man, and so I had to crawfish. Ev
erybody said I orter shoot him down,
but I couldn't shed blood that way. It
hurts me to this day to remember that
I went home like a whipped cur, leavln'
that critter crow over me, but my mind
was made up to tackle him as soon as
I felt like a man ag'in.' When I got
home I was cryln', and the old woman
sez to mo, sez she:
"'Zeb, lins the wah broke outag'inT"
" 'No.'
" 'Then what's the matter?*'
" 'I've bin bluffed.'
" 'D'ye mean that Tom Smith has
crowcd over yo'?'
" 'That's Jest what he has, and I'm so
pesky weak in the knees that I had to
git away from him."
" 'Jest backed yo' down, did he?"
"'He did. It's the fust time In my
life I ever crawfished fur any human
critter.'
feel. But yo' couldn't Uelp It If yo'
tackled him he'd hev broke yo' In two.
I'll go light at It and nurse yo' up,
and In fo' weeks yo'll be fitten to whop
Tom Smith till he can't hoot If yo"
hain't, I'll put on yo'r clothes and
whop him myself.'
"I felt better arter that," said Zeb,
"though I couldn't got over the hurt to
my feellu's. One evenln", about two
weeks nrter the fuss and when I was
galnln' on It, but not feel In' much bet
ter, I was slttin' right yere when I
cotched sight of a b'ar across the roafl
by them rocks. Plenty of b'are around
yere thorn days, ns uobody had been
home to kill 'em off. About the time
I cotched sight of the b'ar Tom Smith
showed up. Tom saw me a-slttln'
yere, and he stopped right by that
tree and throwed down his hat and
yelled, 'Zeb White, nr' that yo' a-sot
tin' thar?"
" 'It ar'.'
" 'Do yo' call yo'solf a man?
" 'Not a well man. If yo'll gin me
fo' weeks mo' I'll run yo" outer the
kentry.'
"Waal," sighed the old man, "he
talked that way till I got mad and rlz
up to go. but Jest as I did so that b'ar
waltzed across the road on his hind
feet and fetched him a cuff which
knocked him ten feet. Tom thought
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on box. 25c.
fd go! ouFOiatrWirBout filileeltT Be,
nml be was tickled to death ns be tin
tip and went fur the b'er. We heard
him sa.vln':
" 'Zeb White, I said yo* wasn't a
man, but I take It all back. I didn't
believe yo'fi stand up to me, and my
heart wag nigh breakia'.'
"I reckon Tom moat-her bifi half
drunk not to know a b'ar from a man,
but he thou girt It was me fur shore,
and he soon hnd a surprise part? on
hand The b'ar didn't Mem bankerln'
arter meat, but he did waat sum fan.
Tbo b'ar knocked him down and rolled
him about a dozen times, aad be got
many a good lick In on the bHar, but
at length the font was oyer, and Tom
Smith was a whopped man. He hol
lered out that he'd got plenty, and I
reckon It wo* the an mo with the b'ar,
as he suddenly made off Into the
woods. When Tom got orer beta'
dazed he got up and said to foe:
" 'Zeb White, I'm a-beggta* of yoT
pardln. 1 thought yo" was a eoward
and dasn't stand up to mo, but yo'va
whopped me in a fair fontP" -
"Was be badly used upf' ! ashed, aa
the story seemed to bo finished
"Ho hadn't skassly a bit o* dothin*
left on him," replied Zeb, **aad ha was
bruises and bites and daw marks from
head to heel I reckon b« might her
got well from them, but his heart was
broke. He knowed I waa In poor
health, and when he realized that Wd
bin whopped by a sick man be took to
his bed and died tn two weeks. He
sent fur me the day he died, and an
hour befo" ho breathed his last he
reached fur my hand and whispered:
" 'Zeb White, I can't make out how
yo' did It, but yo' dun made me holler
fur the first time In my rife, and I'm
pray In* fur death to cum. Tre kinder
thought yo* might beT had buxtaaws
fastened to yo'r bands and feet, but.
that wouldn't be agin yo.' and 1 bear
no grudge. Goodby. Zeb. I hopa to
meet yo' In tbo t'other land and her
onother font to see who ar" the best
man!"*
Before yon decide on * what
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Xmas hoar the Edison I>iamond Dia
Human TV>n® Phonograph. It re
creates music as clear and distinct
a9 the original. You will he wel
come to hear them If you will call.
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loct on any machine. We will make
satisfactory terms for you.
Keller Bros. Drug Co. tf.
W. * A. M.
White Pass Lodg«
r. ft A. M. Nft lis
meets id anC 4th |
rrl Hr'ga. of each |
VlaiU** brother* are wel
Hhll Abrahams, Sec rotary.
Elmer L. Wb«el«j, W. M.
B. p. O. BIiKS
No. 451. B. P. 0.
a mc«ta wery
Thnn4aT er«nlng
£yp at >:91 e'caock.
V^^gfT7rrt." Vtcitlzm broth
era cordially welcoma.
HOWARD ASHLHT, B. R.
F. J. VANDSWALL, g«cr«twy.
Fraternal Order
Skayiraj Aerie
No. 35, Frater
nal Order of
Bogles meet* the flr*t u< third
Wednesday night of each month at
their hall ob Fifth aT«nu«. Vtaitlng
brothere cordially iarltei to a.tt«md.
John C. Wood, W„ P., J. K. Mo
Allstir. Secretary.
®Arcllo Brotherhood.—
Camp Skagway No. 1,
A. B. meets every boc
ond and fourth Tues
day evealng at 8:00 p.
n. sharp. Visiting brother cordial
ly voleome. JA M. K«ller, V. Arc
tic Chief, W. R. Hilleiy, Arctic
Recorder.
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