/Archery Expert Lauds
the Bow and Arrow
Juneau Empire.
* To spend his season in the field,
' matching his wits against big game
* which he hunts with a bow and arrow,
, Arthur H. Young,* of San Francisco, a
i pioneer in the use of these ancient
> weapons in hunting. i§ spending a few
, days here before proceeding to the
>• westward. He is accompanied by W.
\ W. Kelly* cammeraman of Oakland,
and will be joined later by Jack Rob
* inson, another California sportsman.
Messrs. Young and Robinson special
ize in filming pictures of wild life and
> scenery, The latter is now at White
horse to shoot some scenes, while Mr.
. Young and Mr. Kelly are getting a
■ umber of scenes, in this district, in
, eluding Taku glacier.
While most, of the bows used today
bv experts are made from yew, those
carried on his present trip by Mr.
, Young are of bois de arc, long straight
staves, 5 feet inches long, Requiring
. a pull of 85 pounds, to draw the arrow
to the head. The arrows used iu hunt
i ing are heavy missiles, feathered
> broadly, with a broad steel tip or point
with needlelike fineness and having a
i razorlike edge. He makes his own
i bows and arrows.
With these weapons he has killed
; grizzly and black bears, moose, deer
and motunain sheep, and to show that
■ even the smallest game can be hunted
successfully, with the same bow but
* with lighter arrows, he has had no dif—
i Acuity in bagging the little ground
squirrel.
At bow range, preferably within 75
yards, but even at distances of twice
that'amount the weapon is effective.
i Released with the full power of the
pull, the) arrows go right through an
■ Imals the>su;e of tv deer. In the larger
beasts, moose or bear, they bury them
selves often as deep as the head. Mr.
\ Young has killed five grizzlies, and in
. most cases used only a single arrow in
« making the kill.
With him it is not a case of claiming
superiority for the weapons he uses
* over the modern big game rifle. The
• bow and arrow are his hobby. He ad
> mils that an expert rifleman could
probably make more bits than an ex
pert archer. However, he is confident
i that less wounded game would escape
to di8 in the hills or live maimed for
life were only bows and arrows used.
With the latter, a direct hit, he claims,
means a mortal wound, while a glanc
t ing hit merely inflicts a clean flesh cut
without*"itailing serious hurt and per
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manent injury. He kills game as need
ed in his camps with the weapons and
gets his greatest enjoyment in thus
being able to exercise his hobby.
The three men will return here in a
few days and sail for Seward, which
will be tneir headquarters for several
months while they take motion pictures
of wild life. L»ate next fall Mr. Young
will go to Kodiak island and try to bag
one of the big brown bears there with
his trusty bow and arrow.
Co-operative Princi
ples Extend to Grave
Harrisburg, 111.—Co operative dair
ies, shipping associations and cow or*
ganizations have become fairly common
since the organization of the co-opera
tive movement, but this community,
with its co-operative undertaking asso
ciation, claims a unique development
of the co-operative movement.
Although dying may be an entirely
individual affair, the workers of this
district have come to the conclusion
that the business of burying is a legiti
mate co-operative enterprise, and ac
cordingly have organized the Union
co-operative undertaking establish
ment and are carrying out their co
operative principles to the grave.
The American truth-teller was in
form. “Talking of ants,” he said,
“we’ve got ’em as big as crabs out
west. I’ve seen ’em fight with long
horns, which they use as lances, charg
ing each other like savages.” (
“They don’t compare with the ants I
saw in the Par Hast,” said an inoffen
sive individual nearby. The natives
have trained them as beasts of burden.
One of’sm could trail a ton load for
miles with ease. They worked will
ingly, but occasionally they turned on
their attendants and killed, them.”
But this was drawing the long bow a
little too far.
H“I say, old chap,” said a shocked
voice from the corner, “what sort of
ants were they?”
“Eleph-ants,” replied the inoffensive
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Charles Rebhnn and Max Menard,
your heirs and assigns:
You, and each of you, are hereby'
notified that I, vour co-owner, have ex-!
pended in labor and improvements the
sum of one hundred dollars per vear
for each of the years 1923, 1622 and
1923 upoD the Eva Bench placer mining
claim, on the right'limit below'Discov
ery on Yankee creek, tributary of In
noko river, in the Ophir recording'pre
cinct, Territory of Alaska, in order to
hold said claim under the provisions of
law respecting annual labor-on mining
claims. |
And if, witbin ninety days after the
publication of this notice, you fail to
pay yonr portion of such expenditure,:
your interest in said claim will be for
feited to the undersigned co-owner,
according to the provisions of Section
2324 Revised Statutes of the'United
States.
ED NOISETTE,
Co-Owner.
First publication, July 5, 1924.
Last publication, Oct, 4, 1924.
Mrs. Julian Heath, who headed the
women’s drive against the high price
of sugar, said at a luncheon in New
York:
“The sugar culprits will be exposed,
lie as they will. Liars are always ex
posed, you know.
“Once a man went off forefew days’
fishing. When he got back home his
wife asked him how he had made out.
“ ‘Why,’ he said, greatly surprised,
didn’t you get the big .catch I sent on
ahead? A dozen of the biggest,, finest
bass that ever swam-in salt water?”
“His wife laughed.
“‘I suppose these are what you
mean,’ she said, going to-the side
board. 'The bootlegger brought them
this morning ’ •*
‘'And she opened a door and revealed
a dozen bottles of the well known ale
from the Bass family’s Burton-on-Trent
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I am the principal owner of a'block of ’ground
on Yankee creek, about seven trnies long.1,'extend
ing from No. 1 Below Discovery down'to tbe.mouth
of the creek.
Pay has been located all along for a distance of
about three miles from the upper end, and pretty
well prospected and.cross-cut.|
The average depth of the ground !is from'seven
to twenty feet. The top is all black muck, that can
be moved freely. No rock bigger than one's fist.
The width of the pay, for a distance of about
three miles, is from 100 to 200 feet. Crosscuting
work indicates that the ground will go from 15
cents to M per-square foot of bedrock. My belief
is that.the pay will average 50 cents.per foot.
I have a ditch on<the ground, three miles long,
together with water rights. The ground is jprefctv
•well cleared. There is also a drain, three miles
long, with the water right. 1 also have a water
right on’ Ready Bullion creek, from which water
• can be brought to Yankee creek1 with a dkch less
than a mile long (4,900 feet), which will give four
sluiceheads of water, with a pressure or failJ of *120'
feet, being 1600 feet to the work from the ditch.
After doing away with the muck, there will' be
from four to six feat of dirt to handle. The pay
runs mostly in>the bedrock of porphyry and slate.
Tbe.ground is virgin., only, about till000 having '
been taken out by windlass in prospecting.
’■ Prospecting work during the present winter has
resulted in finding values that ran up to il- per
square foot of bedrock.
The Flume Dredge Company has a dredge above
this ground, which has been in operation for the
last three seasons.
The Government road crosses Yankee eriek. 1 .
also have a road down the creek that oonneots with
the Government road.
I am also the agent for owners of ground other
than that held by myself.
The ground can be worked either with dredge, {
drag4tno«eraper, or by bydraulicing.
IswiHwitfaer sell the ground or give a lease on ;
it. -Tf‘tbe?prespect is satisfactory to the buyer, a '
oashi-payoieat will be expected. A rood bargain |<
will-be given.to the■ right/party.
1 Fer further information, terms, ete., enll .gp •<,
greuad, orwrite or telegraph bo.
> 'ED NOLLETTE,
Tokotna, Alaska.