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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-13
Fear Death is Imminent.

Washington, July 13.--Monsignor
F'alconi today received the following
cablegram from Cardinal Rampolla:
"Amelioration of the illustrious patient
is not progressing. Prayers are recon-
mended."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-13
Won kallay Dead.

Vienna, July I'm Benjamin Won
Kallay, for a long time Austro- Hungar-
Ian minister, died today, aftsrA hries
Illness.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-13
LEO PREDICTS
HIS OWN DENISE
The Venerable Pope Believes
He will Pass From This
Life on Thursday
CONDITION is WORSE TODAY
Ais Holiness uapsed Into semi-con-
seriousness This Morning, During
Which Time He Saw tho Death Angel
Approach-caIIs Loudly to Secretary
Pie-conference of the Doctors.

Rome. July 1s.-Bulletin:. 1t is un-
derstood that the doctors will hold an
examination of the pope earlier than
usual this afternoon, OWN to the
somewhat more unfavorable condition
OF the patient
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-13
T.-R! BULLETIN.
NOTICEABLE NEWS OF TODAY

Sun rises July IA, 4:34; sets 1885.
TheWeather.
For Iowa-Generally far tonight and
Tuesday; rising temperature.
For Enthusiastically fair tonight
and Tuesday: warmer Tuesday and il
the central tonight.
For South Dakota-Generally fair TO
night and Tuesday; warmer in the eaf
tonight.
S AGE ONE.
TeIesrapr.ss .ews.
Pope .icts Own Death.
Is 81 S@lg Fast Today.
Big = Sfike Is Settled.
p te Visits the Kearsarge.
n difference at Sagamore.
sie Newly Discovered Comet.
>ieview Of Assessments.
PAGES TWO AND THREE
Iowa News in Brief:
Webster City's Municipal War.
Pioneer in the University.
An Iowa Man Missing.
Burglary at Quarry.
Cummins Denies Letter.
Clintons Saloon War.
PAGE FOUR
Editorial.
Character vs.. Riches.
Business Features.
Topics and Iowa Opinions
PAGE FIVE.
General News:
Bad Wreck in Kansas.
The Jew in Russia
Miscellaneous News.
PAGES SIX AND SEVEN.
City News:
browns in Plain View Of Friends.
Central Wage Scale Partially Signed.
Another Reform School Runaway
Caught.
Husband Jealous; Attempts Suicide.
Steps on Match and Starts Fire.
\ Mrs. Fletcher Honored at Des Moines.
The City Field.
PAGE EIGHT.
Iowa and Commercial:
Board of Trade Quotations.
Review of the Markets.
Clews on Finance.
An Enemy to MOSQUITOES.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-13
sTANBERRY NOMINATED.

Mason City Man Named for Reprsssn.
tative from Cerro Gordo.
Mason City, July 13.---After thirty
ballots Saturday VIII Heldren in q
field OF nine candidates, was nominated
sheriff of Cerro Gordo county. John
Stanberry was nominated for represen-
tative.
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Rome. July 13. s:l5 this morning
the doctors issued the Following buile-
Tin regarding the condition of the pope:
Up to midnight the pontiff re- I
n,ained tranquil, but afterwards he
experienced agitated Intervals. A
physical examination of the thoraS
shows no change since day before
yesterday. The action of the kid.
neys continues slight. and the gem
ersl condition of his holiness is
somewhat depressed. The pulse
respiration is 80; temperature s6.
centigrade. tsigned)
..LAPPeNI.
"NdAzZoNL'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-13

Rome. July -Bu!letin-s:4o p. IN:
Hyperdermic injections of salt and
water have been administered to the
pope. The night bulletin is anSlous!y
awaited.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-13

Rome July 13.-Bulletin-7 p. M;
The pope's condition is becoming worse.
Contrary to the arrangements made for
daily receptions of three cardinals, none
was permitted to enter the sick cham
Der today.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-11-07

Iliuliuk, which means curving beach.
Dutch harbor is important as a coal
ing station, and when we arrived we
found there the North Pacific fleet
consisting Of the New York the flag
ship, the Concord, the Bennington, the
Marblehead and the Fortune, with
Admiral Glass in command. The reve-
nue. cutter Bear was also in the harbor,
and soon after our arrival the revenue
cutter Rush, bound for St. Michael
and Nome, came in. The Bear was
awaiting the return Of the British ship
Shearwater from the seal islands, with
which vessel the Bear alternates in
guarding the sixty-mile limit around
those islands, and the islands them
selves. from pOachers. The ShearWa-
ter arrived before our departure, SO
that the harbor looked somewhat as
if a naval review were about to take
place.
Admiral Glass and the officers Of
his fleet had just arrived from a trip
westward along the Aleutian chain.
where they had been engaged for sew
eral weeks in exploring and surveying
the harbors and coast lines. making
soundings and picking out the most
available places for one or two naval
coaling stations.
The village of Unalaska is the OBJ
jective of many tourists as the best
place in which to buy specimens of
the wonderful basket weaving done
| by the Aleuts. Thither, for sale, are
brought, by an old German, who is a
sort of Reconstructed chief of the
| island baskets and other articles
from far-off Attu.- the most westerly
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-11-07

of a beautiful day. High overhead
tower the heights of old Makushin,
from whose summit floats lazily a
cloud of white, steamy smoke like the
waste from the tall chimney of a great
factory where the workers rest and
rise along the west and are silhouetted
sharply against the glowing sunset
sky. The gray fog gathers in the val
leys and follows the receding sunlight
slowly up the hillsides. At the upper
end of the village the waters of the
bay are contracted to a narrow chan
mel, but little further on they spread
out again and fill the deep valley in
the heart of the island. Thru the
mists of evening which float along
the surface of this placid water glides
the kiak of a native propelled by his
silent stroke. AS one rests upon the
grassy hillside across the channel to
gather in the beauty of the scene held
here in this faraway island of the
Pacific, the air carries absolutely no
sound. Dutch Harbor has kindly
taken away all the prose and left to
dreamy Unalaska only the poetry of
existence. No ships lie at her de-
serted wharves; the days of her COM
mercial Importance are gone. And
this is true of practically all the places
of Importance under Russian rule.
Unalaska is no longer of consequence
in the development of Alaska; Kadiak
or ST. Paul, at one time the center of
things Russian on the American con-
tinent, retains much to interest the
visitor in the way of reminders of it's
one time Importance, but they are all
glories Of the past; Sitka, which, after
st. Paul, became the seat of the Rus
sian government of Alaska and which
really achieved the distinction of
being at one time the most important
commercial and industrial center on
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miles further, in what is known as
the Aleutian chain of islands.
1t may not be generally appreciated
that Nome and the Seal islands are
fareher west than Honolulu. that Attu,
is not as far from the Asiatic coast
as is st. Louis from Minneapolis and
that it is nearer from Attu to the Com
11ander islands. just off the coast of
Kamschatka, than from Minneapolis
to Milwaukee. This Alaskan penin-
sula and the Aleutian islands, If stretch
ed out across our continent, would
reach from Minneapolis to Boston,
Such comparisons may help to convey
a clearer idea Of the far western reach
of our Alaskan possessions, for these
islands were acquired as a part of our
purchase of Russian America in 1867.
~ NE of the largest of the Aleutian
~ chain is the island of Unalaska,
lying in practically the same
longitude with the Hawaiian islands.
Shut within the heart of this island is
one Of the finest harbors in the world.
Entered by somewhat circuitous
route from the north side of the ISL
and. this harbor is completely sur
rounded by high mountains and affords
q safe refuge for ships Of the heaviest
draft; where they may load and un-
load at commodious wharves, no mat
ter what storms may rage without on
the open sea. This harbor. as we'll as
the water all along the Aleutian chain,
Is open all the year round. The ia
pan current, warm ocean stream,
flows eastward along and around
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-11-07

European consumer. There are sew
eral varieties of salmon, the less de-
sirable being known as the pink sal
mon and the humpback. These are
salted,s dried and packed in barrels for
export: Dried salmon is the form also
in which the Indian prefers the large
quantities which he consumes. The
fish which he takes for his own use
are cut open, boned and slashed into
sections about an inch wide so as to
open up the flesh and, expose it to the
air, and hung up to dry. After eX-
posure in this way for a week or ten
days it is smoked until nearly black
and is ready for winter use. Dried
salmon dipped in seal oil constitutes
the principal part of the Alaska In
dams winter food and is esteemed as
highly by him as is the beef roast by
the beef-eating Englishman.
VERY little is known about the
" history of the salmon It is
known that it is Matched in
fresh water; that in the course Of time
it finds its way to the sea. But where
it goes and what has been it's manner
of life during the five or six years
which are generally supposed to in
tervene before it returns to spawn in
soft water no one has yet been able
to discover. But at the age of prob
ably six or seven years both males and
females swarm about the mouths Of
fresh water streams, guided by an in
stinct which compels them to seek the
head waters of these fresh water
streams for their spawning grounds.
AS soon as the salmon leaves the salt
water and enters the fresh water it
begins to deteriorate. The absence
of the saline property seems to be
fatal to his existence. The flesh begins
1o.. .1xy
a purplish red, with great splotches of
gray on their backs and sides; their
noses appear to be covered with a
white fungus growth. which is only
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-11-07

with live salmon, SO that it was nee
essary to pick them out with boat
hook, there does not appear to be
much danger of failure of a crop.
The government is giving serious at
tention, however, to this phase of the
sent out the Albatross, the ship
equipped for the service of the fish
commission, bearing a corps of fish
experts for the purpose chiefly of in
vestigating the condition of the sal
mon and other fisheries of the Alaskan
coast This ship spent practically
three months cruising among the cam
neries Of the archipelago and as far
west as Karluk. The Albatross came
into the Sitka harbor while the Nc
Culloch was there and Mr.. Alexander
expressed the opinion that while the
last season was an unfavorable one
for the southeast Alaskan fishermen
he had no fear as to the permanence
of the supply.
T HE better grades of salmon are
among the most valuable of
our food products. Canned
| salmon is said to contain as
much protein as lamb chops and beef
steak; more than eggs and more fat
than chicken, eggs or beef. Its food
value is very important, a fact which
| has doubtless been taken advantage
of where nature has supplied 1t to the
northern Indians as their chief article
! of diet. Some one in comparing this
fish with other articles of food says
| that one pound of canned salmon
costing 2 cents will furnish protein
at the rate of SIS cents a pound, While
beef at IA cents makes protein cost II
cents a pound; Goldfish steaks at II
cents furnish a pound of protein at
| the expense of II cents, and pork at
IL cents a pound produces protein at
the rate of 85 cents a pound. In other
words, of those elements which build
up and repair the body salmon pro-
vides them nearly so per cent cheaper
| than beef, more than 40 per cant
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the volume of falling water is suffi-,
cient they are said to climb almost
perpendicularly for several feet, While
leap of two or three feet over an.
obstruction is no trick at all for these
powerful swimmers.
Altho the law provides that salmon
fishing must be suspended for thirty
six hours out of every week in order
to give the fish a chance to go up to
the spawning ground, where the can
ming companies are taking fish in
large quantities at the mouth of the
best streams, nature cannot be relled
upon to provide for the perpetuation
of the species and the government has
required by law that all canneries shall
maintain hatcheries and put into fresh
water every year ten fry, as the young
fish are called, for every fuli-grown
fish canned. Some of the hatcheries
comply with this law and some do not.
At Karluk there is a large hatchery,
the establishment of which must have
cost the Alaska Packing association
from $4,000 to 100000, while the
maintenance probably adds another
$4,000 annually. This hatchery is To-
Gated about two miles up the Karluk
river. It is we'll equipped with the
most modern appliances for salmon
lowed to enter the stream are, caught
in traps and kept in artificial ponds,
from which they are taken to the
spawning tanks and spawned artificial
ly. When the fish are ripe for spawn
ing the eggs are easily extracted by
stripping the fish between thumb and
finger. Salmon eggs hatch in from
100 days to six or seven months, ac-
cording to the time of spawning and
the temperature of the water in which
the eggs are placed.
Salmon roe is cluster of pink or
salmon n-colored eggs, each about the
size of a French pea. The first sign
of life in a salmon egg may be dis
covered by holding up one of the eggs
toward the light, and in it will be dis
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-11-07

cheaper than Goldfish and about IS p. }
cent cheaper than pork.
The salmon canning business OF
Alaska employs about S22, 10000 OF
capital. The value Of the. plants, in
Guiding vessels, is estimated at ST.
900, 900. In 1901, 100, 900, 900 pounds
of salmon were packed and shipped
from Alaskan waters.
This called for the handling of ST.
100000 fish. There are in Alaska
f1fty-five canneries and twelve salt
cries. Not all the canneries were i'll
successful operation this year, partly
thru an overstocking of the market
in 1902, and partly thru the fact that
some have not been we'll located and
could not compete on a depressed
market with others situated where the
fish are more abundant and of better
quality. There are 1900 men and
10 steamers and flfty-fye sailing YES
sells besides tugs and scows employed
in the business. The output in 1901
was worth S6,926,167, which is about
half the total salmon pack of the Pa
cific coast The crop of 1902 has not
been published officially but was con-
siderably larger-probably S1,50O,O 600
more. Alaska has produced since it
became an American possession $50
100000 worth of salmon, or seven
times the price paid for that country.
During the last salmon season the
output particularly in southeastern
Alaska, was materially decreased.
owing largely to the fact that
the previous year considerable
quantities of inferior grades of
salmon had been packed at these
canneries and placed on the market,
inferior not so much in quality or
food value as in appearance. The
market calls for the red salmon and
the lighter varieties are not so readily
disposed of. The better grades seem
to be more abundant in the northern
waters The market price ranges
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-11-07


covered thin dark line in the form
of a loop, something like the platinum
wire in an electric lamp. This is the
outline of the little fish,. which feeds
upon the contents of theaegg until he
bursts: thru the thin chrysallis.
THE present regulations, however,
with respect to propagation of
salmon, are not a success. AS
already indicated, not all the cannerles
maintain hatcheries, and those who DO
maintain them can hardly be expected
to continue to do SO except upon the
mon return to spawn in the waters
where they were born. If this be true,
the canning companies which main
tain hatcheries may expect to reap the
benefit of their own propagation, put
there is no certain evidence that TINS
theory is sound. The salmon cannerles
of Alaska pay to the government an
nually in the form of a tax of cents
on each case about 100000, and 1t is
the Judgment of the fish commission
as we'll as the packers themselves that
the fair and most effectual method OF
perpetuating: the salmon is for the gov
ernment to establish hatcheries and
maintain them out or the 1und ae-
rived from this tax, or from heavier
one if necessary, as this tax amounts
to only / per cent on the value of the
OUTPUT. This would not only dis
tribute the burden of maintenance
equally upon all the packers, but 1t
would insure the propagation OF the
fish by the most scientific methods and
the perpetuation of the most valuable
species. AS to the necessity of arti-
fetal propagation, there can hardly be
any doubt. SO many ways are found
to avoid the spirit while complying
with the letter of the law with refer
ence to the taking of the salmon that
It cannot be hoped that this valuable
natural asset will not be materially af-
fected if the perpetuation of it is left
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-11-07

turned and scanned and soldered by
machinery; the ends are cut out,
crimped and fitted by machinery and
one end is soldered on ready for the
filling process.
. Before the cans are placed on the
cutting machine already described to
be filled with the raw fish, measured
amount of salt is placed in each one
of them. This also is done by a
simple device which deposits the ex-
act amount in each can of a trayful
at one movement.
@ ALMON fishing is a summer bust
~ ness. The salmon appear around
around the outlets of fresh water
streams only during the summer sea-
son-thru June, July and August.
When the season approaches the can
ming companies of Alaska gather up
in San Francisco, Seattle and other
coast towns men who furnish the
most profitable labor for this bust
ness: At Karluk the fishing is done
largely by Italians. The draught
which we saw taken that morning
was brought in by a dozen or fifteen
Sicilians, under the direction of a sort
of overseer or contractor, who had
agreed with the packing company for
the labor of a number of his country
men. He is in fact the employer and
the men are under his authority and
in his pay. Men employed in the sal
mon canning business earn good
wages. For the three months of the
fishing season they receive on the av-
erage about $3.50, together with their
board and lodging, and their. trans
portation to and from the fishing
81 ounds The work in the canneries
is done chiefly b: Chinamen. They
are reliable and skillful.
Not all the salmon are canned
There is a market for salted salmon
particularly in Japan and China
where the consumer is not as partic.
ular as to quality as the American OF
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-11-07

the Pacific coast of North Amealca,
is only beautiful, a very beautiful.
reminiscence and cuts little figure in
the commercial or political Alaska OF
to-day
TROM Una1aska our route lay along
Il the south coast of the Alaskan
peninsula. The Aleutian islands
swing down to the 51st parallel
of latitude, only about, de-
grees above Seattle, but now we
turn northeast and before we reach
home find ourselves at Valdez, upon
the latitude of White Horse rapids on
the 61st parallel. The North Pacific
does not always live up to it's name.
and withal, revenue cruisers built for
speed are not by any means the steadi-
est boats on a rolling sea. l am
violating no condolences committed to
me and making no confessions, but
neither the seal steaks and livers
brought from ST. Paul island nor the
Goldfish taken Sunday morning on cod
bank off the Semidi islands appealed
very strongly to any number of the
party. They say the table was not set
that day in the captains cabin where
the senators were quartered, and the
racks on the table down in the ward
room were not filled with the dishes
Of many except the officers and one or
two of them seemed to be dieting
THINE was when the fur trade was
the chief source of Alaska's
wealth. But that declined
Then gold began to be discovered an6
gold mining absorbed all attention di.
rected toward Alaska. and it is des.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-11-07

of the Aleulian chain. In all the
basketry of the native races of our
western mainland and island possess
sions nothing compares favorably with
the Attu baskets, while for fneness
and delicacy of construction the weav-
ing of some of the smaller articles
made by the Attu natives out of wild
grass and root fibers, compare favor
ably with costly laces. The popula-
ton of Unalaska is chiefly Indian or
creole.
BOVE the cluster of white cot
n tages and stores that front the
"A curving beach which gives to
the place it's Indian name of
Iliuliuk. rise the towers and dome of
the Greek church. The site of this
lingering vestige of Russian occupa-
ton is one of the fairest spots in all
Alaska. 1 saw it first in the evening
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-11-07

to the processes of nature and the
only half observed requirements as to
private hatcheries. Indeed, there is
some difference of opinion as to whe tn
er the salmon supply is not already
showing signs of serious depletion. The
pack this season, for example. is very
small in southern and southeastern
Alaska by comparison with some pre-
vious years. Attention is called to-
the fact, however, that there have
been other lean years followed by fat
ones. and that on the Bristol bay fish
ing grounds the supply during the past
summer has been very abundant. The
run Of salmon seems to vary from sea-
son to season, and while they continue
as numerous as they have sometimes
been found in Bristol bay, where Off
cial reports state that in going dis
tance of five miles in steam launch.
the wheel was clogged several times
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-11-07

decomposition setting in, and un-
less they reach their destination
within a reasonable time they
die before the spawning process.
When they spawn the male
digs little depression in the
sand with his nose and the eggs
are deposited in it. But where thou
sands of salmon are spawning at the
same gravel bed the same season the
eggs first deposited are often dis
turbed andit is estimated that not one
in ten ever natures under natural con-
ditions. The spawning salmon rarely
if ever find their way back to salt
water, but die in the fresh water to
which. they have come to lay their
eggs Wonderful stories are told Of
the feats performed by the salmon in
ascending rapids and cascades in order
to reach the headwaters where their
instinct irapels them to go. Where.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-11-07

close to 81 a case of is cans.
Alaska has other important fishing
resources, which. however. have not
vet been developed to important pro-
portions. Both cod and herring are
found in large quantities. but neither
are so valuable as food and have as
vet received comparatively little at
tention. No doubt the Goldfish banks
will in time attract capital and pro-
duce larger returns for there is un-
questionably a large supply of these
fish along the Alaskan peninsula. Hal
ibut of the finest quality is also found.
1t is the most delicately favored fish
taken in Alaskan waters, ard is
most exclusively. The supply. how
ever, ;1oes not appear to be sufficient
to justify the expectation that halibut
fishing will ever be yer., extensive
in4k ii. S. McLain.
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tined to be much more important than
it is now. But unless you are much
better informed with regard to Alas
kan affairs than / was before l went
there, you are hardly prepared to
learn that the fisheries of Alaska en-
ploy more capital and that their prod
annually as the gold output.
The salmon fisheries of the Column
bia and Fraser rivers and of Puget
sound are well known and generally
regarded as the principal source of the
salmon supply, but the fact is that
the whole coast line of British Colum-
bia, the southeastern and southern
coast of Alaska and clear on around
to the mouth of the Yukon river is
more or less plentifully stocked with
these most nutritious of all food fishes,
the king and red salmon, the finest of
the species, being found most abun-