Alaska News Notes
A report, from Junea’i says there are
low two Indians on the Sitka council
and that already they are endeavoring
to arrange for a school building of suf
ficientsir.e to accommodate all th© chil
dren, regardless of race or color, in
thattowc. From the same authority
Sfc is also learned that the white ma
jority of the council is just as much op
posed to the measur© as the Indians
»re in favor of it and that there is little
likelihood of the Indian members put
ting over anything on them.
G. VV. Gasser, superintendent of the
agricultural experimental station at
Fairbanks, has announced the unex
pected arrival of a yak calf at the ex
i perimental farm. This is a pure-bred
yak. and is unique as being the first
yak born within the confines of the
V United States.
At an administrator’s sale in the es
tate of Mike Byrne, at Fairbanks, the
Dodd bench and the Byrne bench, on
Engineer creek, were sold to NorraaD
C. Stinnes. of the U. S. Smelting Com
pany, after some spirited bidding. The
consideration was $7,601 cash.
According to reports received in, An
shorage, Jack, Daugherty, former
owner of Daugherty’s store in Anchor
age, has just fallen heir to $100,000
through the death of his father. At
last accounts Mr. Daugherty was re
ported on his way to his former home
ii. id Iowa. _
In all probability from 60,000 to 75,
000 pounds of reindeer meat will be
contracted for by the Alaska railroad
this summer, and will be served on the
t river steamers, the Curry hotel and
the 'dining cars of the railroad.
A. S. Kepner, who recently returned
to Anchorage from a trip down the
' YukoD, brought with him the skin of a
snow-white mink, which he purchased
from a trapper at Holy Cross. The fur
is of the usual size aud prime.
A report received at Anchorage re
cently stated that Postmaster Singer
of Seldovia dropped dead a few days
*go from heart failure.
Kills Physician and
Packs Body in Trunk
Los Angeles.— Mrs. Margaret B.
Willis, real estate dealer, formerly
Mrs. Albert Schultz, of Denver, told
nolice here today, they said, that she
had shot and killed Dr. Benjamin
.Baldwin, Los Angeles physician, for
merly of St. Louis, kept his body in a
trunk ia her home for two days, and
then‘ buried it over an embankment
/ north of here
Mrs. Willis, a middle-aged woman,
walked into the police station here and
told of the killing voluntarily, it was
announced,
After her confession, police said, the
woman asked for a cup of coffee, lie
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freshed, she led officers to a spot on tbe
state highway near San Fernando, a;
suburb, where it is said the doctor’s i
body was found half way down the em
bankment, partly protruding from a
wardrobe trunk.
The woman identified the corpse, ac
cording to detectives, with the remark,
‘■Yes, that’s hira.”
Some Facts About
Bobbed Hair Craze
New York.—“Don’t bob your hair to
make it grow faster. Bobbing the hair
for esthetic reasons is quite proper,
providing vour relatives do not object,
says Dr. Herman Goodman in [iygeia,
Cutting the hair injures its growing
qualities. Under general conditions
hair grows one inch in six weeks, but
not all grow the same !ength. On the
crown and the back of the head the
hair may grow from 40 to 50 inches and
be not unusual, while on the sides 18
inches is the limit.
Dr. Goodman makes another surpris
ing statement. The years when the
hair grows most quickly is between 35
and 60.
If you find hairs on vour coat collar,
do not get nervous. The hair is con
tinually sheddiDg, even in the most
healthful persons. Only when they go
faster than they come in is the time to
get nervous. The thiDg to do then is
not to consult a barber or hair dresser,
but go to a reputable physician who,
though bald himself, can tell yon what
to do to restore the hair to a healthy
condition._
“The late George Gould,” said a
New York architect, “had a stock of
anecdotes appropriate to every occa
sion.
‘■‘Once at a dinner at Georgian Court
we got to talking about a rich you-og
man who was being bled white by his
so-called friends. This unlucky young
1 man reminded Mr.Gould of the Jubilee
Juggins, an Englishman who actually
squandered a fortune of $3,000,000 in
the year of Queen Victoria’s jubilee.
“He said that the bleeding and
sponging of which the Jubilee Juggins
was the vieifm became so notorious in
Jjondon that on© evening, when the
porter at a London club was asked if
the Juggins was there, he replied with
a sniff:
“ ‘No; the beagles and the vultures
is ’ere. but the carcass hain’t arrived
yet.’ ”
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A “Triumph” in Journalism.
The futilities of journalism of a cer
tain type are amusingly illustrated sn a
large picture ia a recent issue of the
Ne,w York World. The first consign
ment of transcontinental mail by air
from,San Francisco had reached New
York. The flight which marked the
culmination of long, patient and costly
effort on the part of the. Postoffice De
partment, ami in which were employed
airplanes representing the final
achievement of inventive effort, occu
pied Jthirty-eight hours. The World
exultantly prints a fac simile oi the
firct page of a San Francisco paper
which the inventive genius and the
daring of men, aided by the resources
of the nation, had thus carried across
ihe continent in less than two days.
Aad what is the message conveyed to
the world by this fortuuate San Fran
cisco newspaper? Across its front page,
in letters of deepest black, appears the
heading, “Bandits Kill Poker Player1’’
Other largo headings are: “Posses
Scour Mountain for Wounded Man.”
“Musical Comedy Stars Hevealed as
Agents in New York Bucket Shop
Quiz,” “Mrs. Kerr Fined $10 for Bat
tery of Woman While Whipping
Spouse.” The only other considerable
head has to do with the enterprise of
the government in arranging the coast
to coast flight by which this important
intelligence could he speeded across to
the eager peoole of the Atlantic sea
board.
Perhaps in time newspapers may be
come better worth prodigious efforts
for their swift distribution. This par
ticular event recalls Plutar di’s saying,
'■‘The old proverb was now iade good,
'The mountain had brought forth a
mouse’.”—-Christian Science Monitor.
Mr. 3nd Mrs. St97e Broiac are now
in charge of the culinary department
of the Pioneers’ Home, Sitka.
lie was one of those fresh young fel
lows given to the use of slang. At the
breakfast table, desiring the milk, h©
exclaimed: “Chase the cow this way,
please.”
“Here, Jane,” said the landlady,
“take the cow down to where the calf
is bawling.”—Progressive Grocer.
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A Dredging or Hydraulicing
Proposition, YankeeGreek
i am the principal owner of a block [of 'ground
on Yankee creek about seven'mires long, [extend* i
ingfromNo. 1 BelowJDiseovery dowa'to ihs„moutli i
of the creeks
Pay has been located all along far a distanae’of
about three miles from the upper end, and pratty
well prospected and cross-cut.
The average depth of the ground lis fromisevea
to twenty [feet. The top is ail black muck, that can
be movedjfreelv. No rock bigger than one s Sat.
The width of the pay, for a distance of about
three miles, is from 100 to 200 feet. Jrosscuting
work indicates that the gronnd will go from 15
cents to $1 per square foot of bedrock. My belief
is thatjthe pai will average 50 centsiper foot.
I have a ditch onitbe ground, three miles long,
together with water rights. The ground is pretty
well cleared. Thera is also a drain, three miles
long, with the water right. I also have a water
right on Ready Bullion creek, from which water I
can be brought to Yankee creek with a ditch less
than a mile long 4,900 feet), which will give four
sluiceheads of water,|with a pressure or fall of 120 i
feet, being Id00 feet to the work from the ditch.I
After doing away with the muck, there will be
from four to six feel of flirt tc fcdti#**. The pay
runs mostly in the bedrock of porphyry and slate,
The ground is virgin, only about 811,006 having
been taken cut by windlass in prospecting.^
Prospecting work daring the present winter has
resulted in finding values that run up to $1 per
scuare foot of bedrock
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The Flume Dredge (lorncany ba« a dredge above ,
this ground, which has been in oceraiiou far the *
last three seasons. fi ; 1
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The Government road crosses 1 aokee et eek, 7 f
also hare a road down the creek that connects with
the Government road. 0
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. am also the agent for owners of gronad ©the;- '
than that held by myself.
The ground can be worked either with r r»c g*
drag-line scraper, or by bydrauiicinr.
1 Will cither sell the ground or give a lease oe
it. ’if'the prospect is satisfactory to the buyer, a j
cash payment will be expected. A good fcargair.
will be given to the right party.
For further information, terms, ete.., sail m
ground, er wr'ts-or telegraph me. ?
:=1D NOLLttTTE,
Tokotna, Alaska
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