FLANIGAN READY TO QUIT
ALASKA; PAY TOO SMALL
(Anchorage Times.)
ft is reported ou. good authority
'that D. W. Flanigan, federal dry
i. agent, who formerly made his head
quarters at Anchorage and was re
, cently transferred to the Fairbanks
i district, where, he is at the present
time, has tendered his resignation to
; the head of the enforcement organiza
. tion at Washington and is now wait
ing to he relieved from duty.
It is.claimed the action of the offi
cer has nothing whatever to do with
the ercent development at Washing
i. ton in connection with the fight being
made on federal. appointees and in
■> which Flajrvigan • hecame involved
through the introduction of a letter
1 by Delegate Sutherland concerning
the existence. o£ an alleged bootleg
ging rjng in .oCrdova. Local friends
t....of the dry agent., assert that he has
... asked to he relieved of duty in Alaska
. because he considered hisccompensa
tion inadequate...'In his letter to the
. dry chief at Washington.Flanigan is
; ..said to hav.e presented .figures in ,sup
j ..per diem allowed by the Government,
port of his protest against salary and
He. is waiting now to hear from
Washington in reply to his request to
l. be reieved.
It is considered that he may be
v ..transferred to the States ire case the
i department is disinclined 'to increase
Alaska .allowance
Stockholm has been made a dustless
i city through the use of lye in which
wood pnlp has been dissolved. Streets
. and. oadways, are sprinkled with tha
i by-product which has hitherto been
wasted.. -.Two weeks after treatment
with the newpiquid the surface of a
roadway becomes smooth and hard,
. as though'Coated with'seme kind of
asphalt.
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BIOLOGICAL DEPT. ISSUES
PAMPHLET ON BLUE FOX
Raising blue foxes for their pelts is
becoming an important enterprise on
the islands along the coast of Alaska,
according to a recent bulletin of the
Biological Survey, ed States De
partment of Agr.i..,,tilre, entitled
“Blue Fox Farming in Alaska.” So
rapidy has the industry grown that
practically all suitable islands con
trolled by the .department, have al
eady been leased for this purpose.
Blue-fox farming is practiced, on out
lying islands of little or no value for
agriculture. The foxes are allowed
to roam over an entire island, where
they choose their mates and make
Hens. The animals are, in most in
stances, fed at regular intervals by
the ranchers.
Attempts to raise blue foxes in
pens in Alaska.have met with some
success. It is asserted by a number
of ranchers and raw-fur buyers, how
ever, that, the pelts of blue foxes thus
raised lack the quality and finish of
those produced under wild conditions.
A long, cold winter, with a fair
amount of rainfall, particularly in the
spring* is conducive to the production
of good pelts, according to the bul
letin. As island chosen for a fox
ranch should have a harbor for a boat
to permit communication with the
mainland or other islands. Since fish
is the chief article of food in the diet
of the blue fox/ proximity to a can
nery is of decided advantage, as the
waste material makes excellent food
for the foxes. The presence of fresh
water springs, streams or ponds on
the island ranch is also important.
Selective breeding of the animals
is recommended-by th eauthors of the
bulletin as a means of improving the
market value of the pelts.
A short ' description is given con
I cerning the development of white fox
.farming ih Northern. Alaska. That
i the white fox wil play an important
part in fox farming is indicated by
! the fact that of 92 permits issued in
-3 ’ by the .department for the capture
of Alaskan fur .bearers fqr propaga
tion, 33 were for taking white foxes.
DRIFT WOOIXHOMES BUILT
.tBY'BERING SEA NATIV ES
'i Although there isn’t a. tree -for hun
dneds of miles around,/ twenty timber
houses have been buif by natives un
der direction of tdachers of the Bu
reau of .Education on St. Lawrence
ishmd, in the Bering ,-sea, a bullet in
pubished by D. J. T. Wagner, Seattle
chief of the Alaskan division of the
Bureau, says.
Driftwood, patiently gathered front
; the beach, has been used in most of
the new homes, although some lumber
has been shipped in in Dirndl .quanti
, ties from Nome and Seattle, Dr. Wag
! ner says. Skins also are used in.home
; construction.
| “Semi-subterranean huts and skin
j covered Cents, filthy beyond descripj
j tion, formerly were used as homes by
the natives/’ the chief says, in his
monthly news bulletin. The bulletin
, goe son to say::
I “With the steady advance though
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the years of the Bureau of Educa
tion’s school system, and other civiliz
ing agencies, these primitive- condi
tions have gradually disappeared, ex
cept in some of the remotest settle
ments which the Bureau., has not as
yet been able to reach.
“In many of the villages, as the
result of education, the old huts have
been replaced, by neat, Jure) Ufiirni shed
houses, the homes of self-supporting,
self-respecting natives^ thousands of
whom are employed by the great can
neries of Southern Alaska. The fleets
of power iioats belonging to .and op
erated by the natives, are of great
service in transporting fish from the
fishing grounds to theicanneries.”
A LITTLE OF- .'EVERYTHING.
The railroads of the United States,
(Turing .times of normal business ac
tivity, carry about three aud one-half
million tons, of freight.
The Right. Honorable A. M. .Carlisle
of London, aged 72, and ill, has re
quested that his ashes be scattered to
the .winds to the strains of .“The Mer
ry Widow” waltz.
Rev. Vangeelkergen, a Calvinist,
minister of The Hague, Holland, faces
dismissal because he expressed doubt
that the serpent spoke to Eve in the
garden.
..Movies at Clearwater, Fla., were al
lowed to open Sunday, nights when
•Judge Hird ruled .that! the Sabbath
ended at sundown in that state.
Mrs. Catherine Jelley of New York
i gave up the Charleston afte breaking
•her leg. trying to lear.n it.
A. St. Paul judge sentenced .Mrs.
Clara Mooney, and Mrs...Mary Ryan
to refrain from speaking to each other
for.a year.
All surgeons of the (famous. Mayo
clinic, at. Rochester, Minn., have been
furnished life insurance as a gift froip
the. institution. With all their skill,
these eminerit disciples of .Galen cah
not keep one another from xkufjling
off the mortal coil occasionally.
Old if.ony of Fate is stilb on the
job. A Texas soldier of. fortune, of
Mexicaamneestry, Jesus Trejo, of San
Antopio, after being mixed up in sev-j
eral Latin-American. revolutions with
out getting a scratch, although ondfc*
sentenced to be shot died .the otheg
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day fro rainjurics received through
falling: into a post hole.
Practically all animals except the
horse will dash for the open air in
time of fire or any other danger.
Nearly 200 years ago, in Joy, 1731,
the first free library was established
in Philadelphia by Benjamin Frank
lin.
Noah Webster’s first ‘edition o£ his
dictionary contained about 70,000
words.
In 1012 Argentine spent imore
money on education than or* her en
tire miitary activities.
. Offered .$56 a month, one hundred
New York charwomen struck for $10
a week, thinking that would be a
larger wage.
K. Jtitt'fc dahe 3 Jennings. well known
actress, has played 178 different
"mother'’ roles during her stage ca
reer.
Mias K athprior Nuckolls, chosen as
the most beautiful girl at the Uni
versity of Alabama,-is eziptjafci'fflf the
basketball team, champion target shot
and holds several swimming renords,
Wishing to hahg himself comfort
ably, H_ W. Dyer of Lewisham, Eng.,
padrWl his neck before placing the
repoe, w ith the result, that Iris effort,
was a failure and he will Ifvr.
t Part of i the poice force of Dresden,
Germany, will be. equipped haitb ruh
berdi r id, rol Ujr-tK at >•;,
LUMBER SEASONED IN DAY OR
LESS UNDER NEW PROCESS
Stockholm.—By a high vacuum pro
cess, invented by a Swedish engineer,
fresh cut lumber is now “seasoned” in
a day or ess, sufficiently for the car
penter’s bench.
Thus green birch boards become
ready for the finest funiture in 20
hours; spruce and pine in 30 hours,
and oa kin 40 hours. Such artificially
“cured” lumber, moreover, is free
from cracks, warps and “blue” spots.
On sliding rollers the planks are
put inside the long, air-tight cham
bers, where they are first heated by
steam coils and then pumped dry by
the vacuum process, which is 30.9 per
cent perfect. This procedure is re
peated according to the nature of the
wood.
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PProi)osjtion, Yankee Creek
! About 1 -Mil** las*-, extending frdm No. 1 below discovery to
the Mouth *f the cr**k.
located all alone for a distance of about three miles from
upper end, and pratty well prospected and cross-cut.
'Average depth of grbuad j* from 7 to 30 feet. Top is all black
mack,that can be scraped freely. No rock bigger than one’s flat.
;Ground will go from lb cents to $1 per square foot of bedrock.
Ditch en the ground, 3 milea long, together with water rights.
Ground i» pretty well cleared. There is also a drain, 3 miles long.
Also a water right en Heady Bullion ereck, from which water can
be brought to Yankoo creek with a, ditch lews than a mile long
(4,900 foot), with a pressure of 130 feet, being 1600 feet to the
work from the ditch.
After deing away witfc muck there will bo from 4 to 6 feet ef
dirt to handle.
Only abcut-'f 11,0dd aaa been taken out.
Proapecbag werk during the past winter has resulted in finding
values that run up to %1 per bquare foot of bedrock.
I will oithor soil tho ground or give a lease on it. If the prospect
m aatiafaetory to the buyer, a cask payment will be expected.
For further iafornietiea, terms,
telegraph me.
etc., call on ground, or write or
EP A’CLLETTE,
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