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fak'dnu Alaska.- August 7. 1926.
I UK INIH STUY OF ALASKA
'l l I KS IN A COMPARISON
. , viri; uks,News-Miner.)
During the ear 1925 Alaska
shipped ’ in's ’a the value of
S2M15,<i2l.J i. To moat of us this
seems like, a hit of money., but before
■vi tuck our thumbs .in our vest pock
ets i .-i .iF claim to the wide world
v hat tine fuc.iountiy vve live iu let’s
take a peek at what. some.-of the other
States .-ire doing-..
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large as Alaska. S'he is gutted with
coal mines, punctured tfuli of oil wells,
•xtensi elv cultivated to farm. pro,
duets. and. roaring with iron and Steel
industrii s. Every foot, of her is ae
ceasihlt U. the. tramping feet of her
ten mill'm inhabitants.- Pennsyl
vania’s fut catch for 1925 amounted
to K .OOO.MOo! ‘‘Incredible!” we gasp,
is our chest deflates itself, hut. it is
true as cold -! loaded statistic.-.- can be.
Sqiiare '■.!•■ fo'- squ ire, ntPe Pennsyl
vania wro- need fifteen dollars to every
■ no produe- l by Alaska fur. And she
lid it with ur-grade pelts, like tnusk
■atsv ..skunks, racoons, wildcats and
sootherk g ay foxes, while we have
silver white foxes, cross and blue
foit s, ■TTUit'trn, nearer, otter and lynx
averaging: at least three times as
many It.t: ta pelt the flkins
produced in Pi rfsylvania.
Alaska ,ia twelv. times larger than
Louisiana, Lcui.-iana runs extensive
:.V P cotton tieldi*. sugar cane, water
malons • nd lar.y doikies. And yet,
luring tne year -1!'2' she produced
*6330,OM in fuis! Square mile per
square mile she produced thirty-one
dollars where we produced one. She
lid this with muskrats at approxi
mately six bits per pelt. Laugh that
olf> you reactionaries who think
Alaska is a fur country and who think
our laws are getting too stringent.
Many other States, in fact most all
other States in the Union, can show
us .up in a similarly sorry light. In
stead of serving as a model for other
States to copy, we stand a far better
chance of being taken as a horrible
example of how not to do things.
Speaking from a -fur-lined standpoint,
if you will accept tin simile, we have
run the convolute I wn-hill gamut
wealthy prodig- < y -t0 .thriftless pau
perism. V'evaie tatideitHr. the "ottom
H
of t.he heap with a dull, sickenihg
thud.
ft was not so many y**arg that
Pennsylvania wild-life ^sources
were so exhausted that there' was. seri
ous talk ot Tohsmug the game laws
altogether. Slit* had reached a far
greater degree of low-down game
scarcity than confronts Alaska today,
hut she did not give up. t itizens or
ganized throughput the States and de
manded more game. they offered
their sincerest co-operation to the
State departments, and they plugged
every leak tin utigh,'which their wealth
of wild lilt* was rapidly slipping. They
learned that n gam. warden, hot any
number of wardens, could help them
unless they pitched in and helped by
faithfully observing the game laws
and seeing to it that the other fellow
j tTid the same. They also learned that
1 there wer many other enemies to
'combat in tddition to the game law
! violators. 1 treat tires, predatory an
niais and and natural diseases
of wild game, were found to be taking
a heavy hoik
Pennslvania faced all these issues
squarely, fought them squarely, and
today her game is increasing at a
i greater rate than her human popula
tion. She is a proud example of citi
zen co-op-a ation through game as so
ciations and individuals. Other States,
too numerous to mention, have done
nearly as well. Wt in Alaoska can do
better—can do better it we will—for
our natural endowment of wild life is
far greater than, that of any State.
j CHARI.IE ROSS RANSOM
M V STERY REII VENATED
New York. The New York World
today said a mystery more than a half
century old has been solved in the
finding ot' Charley Ross, who was kid
napped from his home in a suhurh of
Philadelphia in 1874
It is stated that Mrs. Pierre Starr,
| whose mother was a first cousin of
1 Charley’s mother, brought to New
! York a man believed to be Charley,
j He is married and has six children.
, His age is given as 56 years.
The Russ case has been one of the
outstanding mysteries of American
history. When a child he disappeared,
and his wealthy father began a search
which was prosecuted until his death,
in 1897. He spent $60,000 in an effort
to find theTfff&'Srfio was a cury-haired
lad w hen he disappeared.
After the disappearance the boy’s
father received a demand for $20,000
ransom. The chile never- appeared,
but a nationwide search followed.
Hundreds of Charley Rosses were pro
duced, but none was the right one.
Suspicion fell upon two river thieves
and peddlers, William ii. Mosher and
Joseph Douglas, but when finally
caught in a robbery they died of gun
shot wounds without revealing any
thing.
IMPOSTERS PREPARE FAKE
HISTORIES OF FAMILIES
London. — Bogus “pedigiee ped
dlers,” who prepare imaginary family
histories for Americans seeking to
trace their English mcestries, have
been reaping such harvests that the.
British (Tress has warned visiting
Americans of thi swindlers activities.
-Pedigrees furnished by tne fakers are
1 sometimes- very flatteringy but close
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J. H. McLEAN
Fresh Fruits
Fresh Groceries, Just Arrived
Up-to-Date Line of Clothing
New Suits
From $5.50 to $45 Per Suit
investigation would prove that they
are are bogus, experts say.
The swindlers look up some, ancient
family with the same name-as the per
son seeking his own family pedigree
and pass such “family irees" off,on
the unsuspecting American. Persons
seeking accurate information are ad
vised to apply to the College of Her
alds in London for the true historie
of their fafilies.
i itESS SQUIBS.
The Biiti-h working people are a
great disappointment to the Russians.
—South Bend Tribune.
Henry Lord doesn’t do well when he
goi s in for quantity production of
j opinion —Philadelphia Inquirer.
If Franci ever pensions her ox
Premiers ell never get that four
j billion she wes us.—The Thos. E.
| Picktrill Service..
The way to transform a silly, fad
! into a stimulating recreation is to
: adopt it you' self.-—Norfolk Virginian
Pilot.
An educated man earns more. And
it seldom takes over ten years after
graduating to get educated,-—Wash
ington Post.
Did you ever feel next morning,
like a picture of a man transmitted
by radio across an ocean?—Louisville
Times.
The next time America frogs to war
we nominate Chicago for a place in
the first.-iine trenches.A lbawy-Decsthr
(Ala.) Daily.
Scientists; say that, of all sounds, a
baby’s cry has the greatest carrying
power. And dad is the carrier.—Pitts
burgh Gazette-Times.
Perhaps the happiest thought in
connection with the war debt is that
Russia owes us only $193,000,000.—
Ohio State. Journal.
When every kind of flying machine
has gone over the Pole, the only thrill
left will be in going under it in a
submarine.—Brooklyn Eagle.
They say we are going to get $200
per capita out of the foreign debt set
tlements. We are ready to discount
ours for $20 cash.—Houston Post-Dis
patch.
The American Historical Associa
tion reports that there is no money in
writing history. That may be why
Henry Ford says it’s bunk.—Louis
ville Time3.
It is only a short distance to the
North Pole as a Byrd flies.—St. Louis
Star.
The franc seems never to have been
notified that the war is over.Portland
Oregonian..
No doubt somebody already has an
eye on the hot do gconcession at the
North Pole.—Wichita Eagle.
A general strike is one in which the
working class and the leisure clas?
swap places for a while.—Anaheim
Plain Dealer.
When a politician alleges that
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stealing is going on, he usually fails
to keep his voice from sounding a
little wistful.—El Dorado Tribune.
Modern husbands usually sigh with
envy when they hear of a wife who
treats hers like a nog.—Publishers
Syndicate.
The need of the times.-is tt.vehicle
you can ride down-town and then fold
up and carry into the ■ dice.*— New
castle (Ind.) Courier.
Clarence Darrow says prohibition
tends to destroy imagination and a
feeling for romance. So? Then who
gets up all our wet and dry statis
tics?—Detroit News.
It was such a pretty strike—every
body happy and titled ladies cooking j
sausages for the volunteers and dukes
and marquises running locomotives,
and strikers cheering the soldiers and
playing football with the bobbies. It
does really look as though the Eng
lish had a sense of humor that we in!
these United States sometimes lack.—
Chicago Tribune.
Explorers report thereJs plenty of
room .at the toD.—Albany Knicker-|
bocker Frees
Sometimes it seems a -pity that the
dogwood tree can't oite -in *self de
fense.—Toledo Blade.
Among the items that gcr tot hrilike
up the high cost of living at*, taxes I
and taxis.—Marion (Qhib) Skat
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