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The Alaska prospector., 1903-06-25
Kenai Notes,

KESAI, June Sd.-The river is full of large king salmon, and the general lool: of contcnlment on the countenances of the natives as they sit on the bank of the river watcb- ing the unwary fish as they become gilled in the set nets, would be an interesting sight to the student of Indian nature. Both the cannerics of the A. P. A. at Kusilof, and the P. P. & \. Co. at this place. put up their initial case of salmon for this season on the same day, May 29th, and have been packing ever since.
 The last trip of the Tyonic was one to be remembered, on account oi the arrival here of Mir. Chas. F.. Bunnell, who is to have charge of the American school for the sum- mer, Mrs. Bunnell, Mrs. Noble, wife of Cyrus D. Noble, of Seattle. and Dr. R. \. Gordon, prominent physician of the state of Washing ton, who is looking over the country with the intention of locating q stock range. He has now gone on short trip across the Inlet to try his rifle on one of the large brown bear
 |. s. marshal Geo. Sexton was also a passenger on his way to Sun rise, accompanied by our old friend Captain Fillmore, who the grand jury has seen fit to indict on ac- count of some traffic in firewater. But it seems very natural that the Captain should be interested in anything pertaining to water.
 have just received word from J. F. Riley, in charge of the Kenai Lake M. Co.'S plant, that he will be ready to start their giant the 9th of this month, and from the present outlook everything seems favorable for successful summer.
 J. T. Cornforth is still at Kusilof lake, pushing ahead the work on the property of the N. w. Mg. & Dev. Co.
 Dr. c. F. Mills is at present here at the P. P. X N. cannery, but will leave in a day or two to spend two or three weeks at the cannery of the A. P. A. at Kusilof.
 At 3:20 Il. m. yesterday we were very much shaken up by one of the severest earth trembiors that has been experienced for years All the native population thought that their time had come, and busied themselves making the sign of the cross and hunting for the precious bottle of holy water.
 P. H. Ross, the new assistant to superintendent Nielsen has met with serious loss, and has been anious to know the PROsPECTOR's charges for lost advs. It happened in this way: Last fall Nielsen per sonally broke the priests bull to work in harness, an,l naturally the bull understood Nielsen's terms te perfection. A few days ago Ross was driving the bull, when of sudden the old fellow thought il was about time to take rest, so lay down in the middle of the field. Ross is a prominent member of the . church in Kansas, so very mildly urged the bull to arise and walk. He spent quite time at that with out result, so used the whip, but with no better success. He at last remembered the terms he heard Nielsen address the animal, so talk ing a long breath he started in and by the time Nielsen arrived had succeeded in his attempt at man. aging the bull. He sorrowfully turned to Nielsen, saying, "Well, l have fonnd how to manage the brute. but l have lost my religion"
The Alaska prospector., 1903-06-25
Additional Entry Under Section 2306 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.
[. :. LAND OFFICE,

F..
 Juneau, Alas kH, April 23, lHrs. Ole E. Oleson, of Astoria. Ore SuTl. assignee of William R. Chattin and Fhucic Williams be- ing entitled tO the benefits uf section lDi of the revised statutes of tEe United states. granting additional lands to soldiers and sailors whf, served in the war of thc rebellion. does hereby apply to enter [. :. survey number jl5, situate on the right bank of Wood river about ten miles above it's confluence with Nushagak river, Alaska
 Beginning al Cor. 1, thence north a3 deg l5 min west 1O.,O chains to Cor. ?; north ii deg ij min east la.SI chains to Cor. S; south s; ieg i5 min east l0.op chains to Cor. |: thence along meandeIs Wood river, south 61 deg west l1.5D chains to station: south i9 deg 2, mi west s.5O chains to rhe rlnge of beginning. Area 1880 Il, r,S. Variation .3 deg l0 min east. As addi- tional to their original honiest-ads on the west half 1f south west quarter uf section 6, township l, south range 3i east, at Ln trande, Oregon July i3, 1872. I'.r homestead entry No. ii. and al e, brl"; i.>, Lai.. Jan. Ia, 1870 no Gc,,. iiHIuii, sti i,3.., stead No. l2G9
 My Postoffice address is Astoria, Oregon.
 OLE +. OLSEN. Publish for statutory period in ALASKA PRos- PEcToR, at Valdez. Alaska.
 JOHN W. DUDLEY, Register.
The Alaska prospector., 1903-06-25
Additional Entry Under Section 23O6 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.
' $ LAND OyvIcE.

Juut8u, SIWhkus NpfII ShnISub. Frank N. Warren. Jr, of Portland. Oregon, assignee of Sylvester Lynn. being entitled to the benefits of Section 2s6, of the revised stat. utes of the: United States, granting additional lands to soldiers and sailors whO served in tlse ' Survey number 5l7, situate On light bank of Rear creek. about E mile above its confluence with Kyichsk river. Alnsks.
 Beginning at Cor No. 1, whence Cor No. :, survey number l2S. bears north 36 deg vest 36.39 chains distant; thence north I deg l5 min east 500 chains to Cor 2; south 35 deg 45 min east 8.U0 chains to Cor .; south 5 deg l5
The Alaska prospector., 1903-06-25

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The Alaska prospector., 1903-06-25

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The Alaska prospector., 1903-06-25

From Seattle for Valdez, Cook Inlet and way ports, 25th of May. From
 Valdez for Seattle and way ports. Sth of June.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-27

1t has been discovered that just be-
fore embarking on their perilous
journeys birds prepare themselves for
flying with great velocity at very
high attitudes by abstaining from
taking food and allowing all the
food in their stomachs to digest be-
fore starting out in fight. The
birds body is filed with a series of
pneumatic sacs filed with air. These
sacs make it possible for the birds to
rise to immense heights and remain
afoat without any exertion, and
thus it may employ all its power in
forward fight
Astronomers studying the stars by
night have seen at an altitude of
three miles myriads of birds migrat-
ing with incredible speed. What 9th
er scientists-have hesitated to make
known regarding the rapid fight of
birds DR.. Gatke has boldly an
nounced. He declares that the ruby
throated humming bird passes, like a
speck from a rainbow, over 1900
miles twice a year, but that this is
very ordinary compared with the
achievement of some other birds
Ornithologists who have not shared
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-27
OUR YOUNG PEOPLE
Mvstry of Bird Migration.

MY8trY or BrQ
I wish that every boy and girl
could read an article on the mystery
of the migration of birds, by Harold
Bolce, in the Saturday Evening Post.
I should think that the information
in this article would lead to SO much
interest in and respect for the inhabi-
tants of the bird kingdom that no
man. or boy who roams the woods and
fields with a gun, in search of some
innocent thing to destroy, would ever
wish to take the life of such a won
derful creature as a bird is here de-
scribed to be.
For more than twenty-five years
scientists have been trying to dis
" something of the mystery of
bird-migration, and the present inter
national study of the subject is by
far the. greatest concerted scientific
inquiry ever instituted, and, scien-
lists say. the most battling.
\ =
The common belief is that birds
migrate to warmer climates through
fear of cold and hunger but learned
ornithologists do not accept that be-
lief, from the fact+hat birds migrate
from regions where warm weather
prevails and food is always plenty,
land alter years of study of this sub
seiect Ptef. Alfred Newton, of Cam
bridge, stated that without doubt
bird migration was one of the great
last mysteries of the entire animal
Kingdom prof. Cooke, who in the
interest of the United States is SUI
perintending the present study of
bird migration, is now at work on a
report which it is believed will clear
up many perplexing mysteries, but
certain it is that birds are obeying
some natural instinct when they mi
CRATE. Russia, Germany and Eng
land are all engaged in Investigate
ing bird migration and these investi,
cations have resulted in some sur,
prising facts in regard to the migra.
ton of birds.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-27
TERRACE AND IRRI0ATR- YOUR FARN.

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hundreds Of dollars for fertilizers and let the rain
wash them away when you can buy a BOsTRoh IN,
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Culture bitches, Tile Drainage, Road Building, Laying
Out Orchards, Obtaining Angles and Foundation Ley
els, there is no better Instrument made. Write 10r de-
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-27

AONO4614NA
~ u v
It is now asserted that the hood
ed crow, usually a sluggish bird,
hurls itself, by some unaccountable
law, through space at the time OF
its spring migration at the enormous
rate of one hundred and eight miles
an hour. But more incredible than
this is his assertion that the northern
bluethroat in one unbroken flight at
night passes from Central Africa to
the German Sea, a distance of 1900
miles in nine hours. He also states
that the Virginia plover, which leaves
it's haunts in North America and,
taking a course down the Atlantic,
reaches the coast of Brazil in an
unbroken fight of fifteen hours, o v
ering a distance of 5000 miles at the
rate of four miles a minute. And
when the migratory fight is at its
greatest speed $40 miles an hour Is
nothing extraordinary. This study
of bird migration is conducted under
great difficulties, as in their long
flights, mostly at night, they are far
beyond the vision of the men who
have attempted to study them. And,
too, it is very difficult to study the
migration of the different species
from the fact that in their migratory
flight they omit cries never heard at
any other time. For a quarter of a
century Prof. Cooke has devoted his
life to the study of birds, and as a
naturalist he is acquainted with the
language of every species. A bird cry
in the woods at once proclaims It's
| family to this o~rnithologist. Yet in
all the fifty seasons that he has lis
tened from h~ousetops to the cry of
migrating birds he says that he has
been able to recognize only seven
different kinds. A fascinating thing
regarding these bird notes is that
focks of birds from widely separated
localities, meeting perhaps for the
first time far above the earth's sur
face, seem to understand the ~univer-
sal language of migration, and at
these lofty heights seem to exchange
greetings. It is the opinion of some
modern naturalists that these mi
grating notes are a part of a uni
versal bird language, reserved for use
only in their worldwide journey
ings.
X X n
The highest altitude to which hu-
man beings can rise with safety is
$4,000 feet, and yet there are birds
hat easily fly over the topmost peaks
of the Deodkunga mountain, which
.Fises to an elevation of $4,000 feet.
What enables these little creatures,
which are warm-blooded animals, sup
piled with lungs and a complete
respiratory system, to remain above
these attitudes and even to display
vastly increased powers of activity,
is a mystery which is still unsolved.
1t is a wonderful and fascinating
study, this of the bird kingdom, and
is considered worthy of a lifetime's
devotion by the learned men of all
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-09-04
$4,000 After Forty Years.

Daniel Prime of Easton. Pa, col
ored man, has received a letter from
Charles Smith, an attorney of Jack
son. Mich, stating that Prime is
legatee to the amount of $4,000 under
the will of Jonathan Moore of that
place.
In the civil war Prime was a ser
geant in company II. Fifty-fourth
(colored) Massachusetts regiment.
Jonothan Moore was a first lieutenant
in the Eleventh Michigan. In opera
lions near Charleston Lieutenant
Moore was wounded in the leg. Prime
took of his own blouse and wrapped
it around the leg to stop the flow of
blood. and carried the lieutenant to
the rear. The men never met again.
but Moore learned the name Of the
man who had saved his life.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-09-04
Woke Up in a Church,

Special Waterman w. H. p Whey
heard strange sounds coming from
within the Brick Presbyterian church
early this morning, says an East Or
ange, N. j., dispatch, and summoned
Patrolmen Hector and Winter. The
three found all the windows and doors
fast; so they sent for the sexton.
When the door was opened they found
a man sitting contentedly in pew.
This is the best joke on me that
ever happened" remarked the in
truder.
The policemen couldn't see it and
were about to arrest the man when
the sexton recognized him as prom
inent. Brick Church business man.
He had been walking around, he said,
to find his hat and awoke in the
church. He was greatly amused be-
cause he is an avowed infidel and
doesn't attend 1t is thought the man
wandered into the church during choir
rehearsal and fell asleep. His hat
wasn't found.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-09-04
usurer,s Wealth s12.5oo. 600.

Sam Lewis, the most famous and
fashionable usurer of England in the
last generation, who died two years
ago, leaving a fortune estimated at
100000, left, it now proves, $12,-
100000. Over s7,5OO,OOO of it goes to
charitable and other public uses, in
Guiding 100000 for dwellings for the
poor in any part of England the trus-
tees may select, and 100000 for a
Jewish hospital For many years
Lewis advanced money to society men
and women who. had expectations but
no available cash. He always insisted
upon the fulfillment of the whole
bond. He was one of the chief causes
that induced the passage of the re-
Gently adopted money lenders act.
which empowers judges to revise or
cancel contracts where the money
lenders obtained extortionate terms.
Lewis once broke the bank at Monte
Carlo and gave all his winnings to the
poor of Marseilles.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-09-04
PRAYER RESTORES HER SIGHT.
Remarkable Cure of an Afflicted
Woman in Oregon Reported.

DR.. l.. w. Brown of Eugene Ore,
relates a most peculiar circumstance.
He was called to Cottage Grove to
assist in an operation to remove an
eye from Mrs. Hunnicutt, who had
been blind in one eye for thirty-fve
years, and it had been deemed advis-
able to remove the useless member.
The woman was placed on the operat-
ing table and the attending surgeons
got their instruments in readiness for
the operation, when the woman shout
ed that the Lord had restored her
sight.
Those in attendance were greatly
surprised at the outburst, but the
good eye was closed and she was
shown several articles and could see
them plainly with the eye that had
been blind for years, and called the
articles by name. There were half
a dozen witnesses of the occurrence
and all were dumbfounded
The woman had spent several hours
in prayer previous to the time for the
operation, and just before going on the
operating table offered final prayer
to God to restore her sight. She nat
urally feels that her prayer was an
swered.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-09-04
broke Long Silence to Quarrel.

For seven years Ark" Fletcher and
his wife Martha lived in the same
house, says a Cleveland, Ohio, dis
patch, and yet the man never in all
those years spoke to her. This is the
declaration set up in the wife's petit
ton for divorce. And then, when the
seven years silence was at last
broken, she says, it was in quarrel.
She wants the courts 20 dissolve the
marital ties.
They were married in Sandusky in
1869. Seven children have been born
to them, five of whom are now living.
The eldest is thirty years old and
youngest nineteen.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-09-04
Value of Water Routes.

Sir William Van Horne, who is o
practical and experienced railroad
manager, takes no stock in the prop
osition that by building all-Canadian
lines of railway from Quebec to Van
couver the grain trade of the North
west can be diverted away from wat
err routes. He says: Never will
grain of the canadian West be hauled
to the Atlantic seaboard voluntarily
by any Canadian railway by rail route
alone. No railway will do it unless
forced to do so. No all-rail route, I'M
less forced by strenuous conditions ex-
plicitly understood, can afford to des-
pise or to dispense with the water
route provided by the great lakes.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-09-04
LIQUOR ONE CENTURY OLD.
Celebrities Invited to Visit Kentucky
and Help Drink II.

Col. Dick Alexander of Bells Ford,
on Salt river, Kentucky, has a three
gallon jug of whisky that was dis
titled by his grandfather on Sept 20,
1903, the day his only daughter mar
ried. On the same day that it was
made it was placed in the jug, sealed
and dated, and has been handed down
with the understanding that it was
not to be opened for 100 years. Those
who have handled the jug say that it
appears from the shaking as if about
half of the liquor had evaporated and
that the remainder is about as thick
as sugar-tree molasses.
Alexander also has ten jars OF
peach preserves that were put up
fifty-three years ago. On the Goth of
September the seal of the jug will be
broken and two Jars of the peaches
opened. The cid gentleman has in
vited number of friends to break
bread with him on that day.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-09-04
Self-Management.

No doubt you have realized that the
popular educational information
turned out by the printing press dur
ing the last century has caused things
to be a little different from what they
once were. The manager is not able
to do to-day in the same way that
which he could do twenty. forty, sixty
years ago. And the time is coming
when, if he would be successful, he
must not only have wit and a strong
hand, but a humane heart and an
ever clear head. AS some may not
recognize the necessity of an occa-
sional rest from everyday work,
A great corporation offered a smaller
one $4,000 in settlement of a claim.
The small concern refused. The large
one had famous lawyer with assist
ants, witnesses and money. The law
yer of the little concern had little
money and had to fight it alone. After
securing 100000 for his clients he
confessed he never could have lived
through the fight if it had not been
for his habit of dropping all work at
midnight Saturday and not taking it
up again until Monday morning. l
know of another man who made a
practice of lying down after the most
difficult mornings work of the week,
and by sheer will-power forcing him
self to take a fifteen-minute nap be-
fore starting off for the most difficult
afternoons work of the week. 1t is
necessary to know yourself and know
how to manage yourself. The success
full management of men begins in the
correct management Of self.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-09-04

DR.. Paul Valentin is starting a
school of happiness" in Paris. We
would all be happy if we were taught
how, and we shall now be able to
learn. A complete course of lectures
on the subject will be given and a
periodical will be published called the
Normal Life. The school will open
and the magazine will appear next
autumn. One of the doctors support
ers says that henceforth men and
women will be taught the art of hap
piness, just as they are taught that of
painting or playing the piano. All
sorts of happiness will be lectured
upon and in particular the doctor will
teach his pupils how to be happy
though married. he considers that
conjugal felicity depends upon % cir
which he does not define
and over which one may not always
have control; ~ cerebral equilibrium
between the two parties and CD
of character. The thing
is to learn how to fulfill these three
and that the doctor will
teach us.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-09-04
FARMER oUTWITs sHARPERs.
Gets Five Dollars from Confidence
Men and Gives Them the Laugh.

Men and Gives 7 hem the Laugh.
A. |. Voorhees,, a farmer living near
Trenton, N. j., turned a trick on
brace of confidence men. Early in the
morning well-groomed stranger
drove up to the Voorhees, residence
and asked if the Voorhees, property
was for sale. Voorhees, told him that
the farm could be bought, and the
stranger was shown through the house
and a tour was made of the farm.
The prospective purchaser seemed
to be pleased with the lay of the
land and was going over the details
of bargain when a man coming down
the road stopped them and asked the
way to New Brunswick. He claimed
to be from Alabama and said that he
had lost his way. The fellow pre-
tended to be insane and pulled roll
of greenbacks and a pack of cards out
of his pocket.
At the sight of the cards Voorhees,
became suspicious. The man with the
roll said he wanted to get rid of the
money, but could find nobody to take
it. He handed each of the men in the
carriage a five-dollar bill. Voorhees,
stuck the greenback in his vest pocket
'and, jumping out of the carriage, babe
the men goodbye, telling them that
the game was too old for that locality.
The man from Alabama suddenly re-
covered his reason and, leaping into
the carriage, he was rapidly driven
in the direction of Princeton, swear
ing a blue streak as he went
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-09-04
Emma cOIdman's Kind Heart.

When not actively engaged in the
anarchist propaganda, Emma Gold
man is said to be a compassionate,
tender-hearted woman. who cannot
bear the sight of anything-even an
insect-in pain. she has a spare
ROOM friend of hers says. but it is
invariably devoted to the use of some
friendless. forlorn girl or woman
whom she has rescued from starvation
or from the streets. If no unfortunate
human being is her guest. at least
some stray dog or cat is partaking Of
Emma's hospitality"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-09-04
WOULD AID THE UNFORTUNATE.
Daughter of'W. j. Bryan Seeks to En-
ter Famous Hull House.

The children of the Chicago Ghetto
will count new friend at Hull House
in the Autumn. Miss Ruth Bryan,
daughter of William Jennings Bryan,
has asked Miss Jane Adams to allow
her to join the staff OF settlement
workers at the famous center, and at
Lincoln, Neb., Mrs. Bryan, admitting
her daughters desire to do settlement
work, expressed the hope that Miss
Adams would be able to find. her
place.
Miss Bryan, with her mother, spent
all last week in Chicago studying con-
ditions in the Nineteenth Ward and
the methods Hull House has been ap-
plying to the task of helping the
women and children of the neighbor-
hood to live better and cleaner lives.
The plight of the Ghetto children in
the river wards impressed Miss Bryan
especially, and she said her heart
went out to them and then begged
Miss Adams to take her into the
settlement and let her try to help the
small ClIlZeHS WHO HUNS IhO o1i WIS
and alleys near Hull House.
No expression of Miss Adams in
tentions in the matter of Miss Bry-
ans admittance could be secured.
Mrs. Bryan, at Lincoln, contented
herself with announcing that Miss
Ruth, who is nineteen years old and a
Junior at the University of Nebraska,
had made application to Miss Ad-
dams for a place on the Hull House
staff and had been promised favorable
consideration for her petition.