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Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21
A YEAR OF DISASTER.
RECORD OF 1906 IS A DARK AND
 BLOODY ONE.
Nature Causes Terrible and Wide spread Destruction of Life and Property Grim Reaper Works More Peacefully.

A notable characteristic of the year property which has been caused by the forces of nature. These forces have not been so active oi so disastrous In their results for many years past. The record Is a formidable one. In Janu- ary an earthquake killed fourteen per sons at Gonzano, Italy, and a tidal wave on the Colombian coast swept away 2.500. In February a hurricane visited the Society Islands, favorite resort for hurricanes, and 1000 per ished. In March a cyclone swept through Mississippi and 21 were killed, and an earthquake in Formosa destroy ed 2,009. In April the Vesuyius erup- tien killed 2,000, a second earthquake at Formosa 109 the San Francisco earthquake HIS. and a cyclone In Texas 26 In July there were two smaller disasters. a cloudburst at Ocampo, Mex leo, which killed 10 persons, and waterspout at Lyons, France, which killed 31.
 The furies broke loose in August and 1000 were victims of an earthquake at Valparaiso and 12.00o of floods at Human. China. In September there was a long series of disasters. A landslide and storm in the Caucasus cost 255 lives, the typhoon at Hongkong 10000, flood at Topic, Mexico. 10, a herri- cane at New Orleans and Mobile 140, and a cyclone in southern Spain 50. In October a hurricane off the coast of Florida, which started from Venezuela, skirting Honduras Nicaragua. Salva- dor. and Cuba. left 9S6 dead i'll its path. During November nature took little rest, a great lake storm in which g sailors perished, being the principal disaster. In December came the flood which destroyed the village of Clifton, Ariz.. and caused the loss of 60 lives.
 Including the losses of life by lesser disasters of this kind the record shows
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21
8o-Adjournment of Congress.
July.


 1-23 American tourists lost their lives in train wreck near Salisbury, Eng land.
 tSon born to Crown Prince Freder. fisk Wilhelm of Germany.
 eCapt. Dreyfus restored to full for mer standing in French army. 1S-Death of Lady Curzon of Kedles- ton, formerly Mary Letter of Chicago. 20-Reign of anarchy in central prov inces of Russia.
 21-Czar dissolves the douma and treu. ble breaks out.
 22-Death of Russell Sage. hnaneier. 30-Death of John l.. Toole. English comedian. Russian troops mutiny and capture fortress at Sveaporg.
 August. 1-3-Mutinies of Czar's troops at prom. inent fortresses put down. 4-Great strike ordered by Russian rev outionists begins. Death of Rear Ad- miral Train. 300 drowned by loss of steamer Srio of Spanish coast. 13-Death of Mrs. Pearl Craigie, Eng. fish authoress.
 16-Violent earthquake at Valparaiso Chile.
 17-Death of Rebecca S. Clark (sophis May).
 1S-Death of Lewis Morrison. 20-Cuban revolution breaks out. 2S-Real Estate Trust Company's bank fails in Philadelphia. 30-Enthusiastic greeting to Vim. J. Bryan in New York.
 31-Edward Rosewater of Omaha Bee dies suddenly of heart failure.
 September. 3+Paul O. Stensland. absconding Chi. cago banker, captured in Tangier. Mo rocco. Naval review on Long Island Sound.
 s-Great massacre of Jews in siedice, Poland
 9-Mountain slide buries 255 people near Tihis. in Caucasia.
 13-United States sailors landed in Havana, but recalled almost immediate ly.
 14-Presdent sends ultimatum to Cuba.
 1S-Terrifc typhoon sweeps Hongkong 21-Jellico, Tenn, wrecked by dyna- mite explosion.
 22-Fierce race war in Atlanta, Ca. 2fSteamboat traffic on Missouri river resumed after ten years.
 26-Bank Wrecker Stensland sentenc- ed to Joliet.
 27-Hurricane sweeps States along Gulf of Mexico.
 2S-Cuban government goes to pieces and United States intervenes.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21

Send 10000 rattlesnake skins" tele- graphed a German firm of fancy leath CT workers recently. The order started an immediate boom in the snake hunt Ing industry, and the queer mortals who make a liring-and good one hunting rattlesnakes in their hiding places are out early and all day bag ging the game. Perhaps the most sue cessful snake catcher In the country Is Griffith Jones, Welshman, who lives at Toby hanna, Pa. He has not only succeeded in bagging hundreds of rat tiers, but has formed a sort of com pany of snake catchers, and has some times as many as thirty men and wom- en out catching every variety of snake to be found in the Pennsylvania rocks and woods. He rarely returns without as many living and dead snakes in his canvas bags as he can conveniently carry. He has never been bitten, and says he never need be unless he faints while snake hunting.
 The snake skins net 90 cents and 75 cents up to S1 each. according to size and quality. Jones has a process of
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21
DOES WELL IN THIS LAND.
Immigrant Boy Dies, Having Accu- mulated s1O.OOO fin Few Years.

Over at 253 Graham aveh'e, Brook. lyn, an aged father and u'other, two sisters and brother are bewallng the death of Jakey Kafplah. as he was fa- mlliarly k'awn to pretty nearly all In the Brownsville section. About five years ago he left the proTince of Cour- land in Russia taking passage to Amer ica with no other asset than a little red bundle and an abundlnce of en. ergy and ambition.
 He did not know word of English when he landed at Fills island. The Hebrew Aid Society released him and gave him small sum of money. With that be bought basket and a small stocl; of shoestr!ngs, collar tuttons and other notions and thus equipped he started a successful business career Within a year be had saved enough to bring his old father and mother, two sisters and brother to this country When they came he rented house at 255 Graham avenue, Brooklyn, and 1t took every cent he had left 10 meet the first months rent. After that all the members of the family worked at some- thing and in few months the shop into which he had turned Iart Of the house was the storehouse 'cr consid- erable stock of dry goods anc notions, from which hls pushcart aaI Lis broth CTS were supplied.
 Business prospered and friend of the family told a reporter that the family owned s1o,oOo in real estate and other assets. All this Jakey had done by the time he was 21, 3It the hard work told on his strength, aud typhoid pneumonia took fatal hold on him, ending in hls death. The iurcral was held from the little dwelling and both before and after the hoIr there was a steady stream of friends and ac. quaintances, young and old, who went to pay their last tribute to bis mem. oIy.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21

already that more than 50,000 persons have perished this year by earthquake, hurricane, and other manifestations of natures fury.
 Accident has also taken Its toll of human lives in the horrible railway wrecks at Salisbury, England. Atlantic City, \. J., and Woodville, Ind, and in the sinking of the Italian emlgrant ship Sirio of the Spanish coast, and of the Valencia off Vancouver Island, as well as In the mine disaster at Cour- rieres, France.
 Death in more peaceful guise has been busy among the well-known ones of earth. laying in the grave President W. R. Harper of Chicago University, the aged King Christian of Denmark, Miss Susan B. Anthony, Johann Most, Carl Schurz, Henrik Ibsen, Russell Sage, Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Gen. W. R. Shafter, Rev. Sam Jones, Judge Gary, and many others.
 installed new rulers during the year ; political affairs in Russia have been in a turmoil and outbreaks of violence and assassination have been frequent; the United States has been compelled to in tervene to save Cuba from revolution and possible anarchy; the young King of Spain has taken wife, and Okla homa has been admitted to the Union of States.
 Other prominent happenings of 1906 have been the prevalence of dishonest bank failures, President Roosevelt's visit to Panama, the restoration of Captain Dreyfus, the finishing of the great Croton dam above New York City, the Longworth Roosevelt wedding, the resumption of navigation on the Missouri River, etc.
 The principal events of 1906 are briefly summarized below:
 January.
 4-Explosion in mine at Coaldale, W. Va, kills 21 miners.
 8-Landslide in Haverstraw, N. r., kills 15 persons.
 10-Ten lives lost in fire in West hotel, Minneapolis. Death of President w. R. Harper of University of Chicago.
 11-New Croton dam in New York finished.
 12-Famine in northern Japan.
 18-Death of Marshall Field.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21

in the cause of charity and the confer ences of the various societies organ ized for the relief of suffering is 50 often in vain Always the answer Is the same: I am too busy, I am too tired I haven't the time; and yet there Is always time for self-amuse. ment, self-interest and self-advance- ment." The evil is not confined to any one parish or any one religious denom- nation. Charity workers in all fields notice 1t. Many will give little money. few will do the actual work. Personal giving, under wise direction, and personal help are the things most needed. It would be matter of great regret If the organization of charitable work were to kill out the personal touch and the feeling of individual re- sponsibility.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21

1.-Two negroes burned to death by mob in Springfield. Mo. Two officers and five men killed by explosion on bat mosa.
 15-Four trampled 10 death and many injured in panic in St. Ludnilla's church, Chicago.
 1S-Earthquake and fires devastate business district of San Francisco.
 19-Prof. Pierre Currie, discoverer of radium. killed in Paris.
 22-Dust explosion h mine 40 miles west of Trinidad, Colo, kills % men. 26-Tornado sweeps across Texas. 30-Tornado strikes parts of Furnas county, Nebraska.
 May.
 Mob violence and wild disorder in Paris. .. Iron workers strike in Chicago ... Many minor strikes start in the East. 5-Pennsylvania anthracite miners vote to not strike.
 14-Death of Carl Schurz.
 1S-Railroad rate regulation bill passes Senate. Forest fires destroy towns in northern Michigan and Wisconsin. 23-Death of Henrik Ibsen.
 25-Seven political assassinations in Russia.
 3l-Michael Davitt, famous Irish lead CT. dies. .. King Alfonso of Spain weds Princess Ena of Battenburg. =. Bomb thrown at Spanish king and bride kills 20 persons and injures 100.
 June.
 4-Death of Senator Arthur P. Cor man of Maryland. =. Senator Burton of Kansas resigns. Death of John c. New.
 4-7-Tornadoes in Texas, Kansas, Min nesota and Wisconsin.
 1+Explosion on British boat at Liv- erpool kill. 9 persons and injures 40. =. Massacre of Jews at Bialystok, Russia ....Bil admitting Oklahoma as State passed by Congress.
 1S-Death of Gov. John NJ. Pattison of Ohio. Lieut.. Gov. Andrew L. Harris sworn In as successor. .. Republicans celebrate 50th anniversary of foundation of party.
 2o-Death of Chas. E. Tripler of liquid air fame.
 22-Prince Charles of Denmark crown ed King of Norway as King Haakon. -. Richard G. Iyens hanged in Chicago. 25-Harry Thaw of Pittsburg shoots Stanford White in Madison Square Gar den. New York.
 H-Earthquake In South Wales. 29-Mrs. James Tanner killed In auto accident in Helena. Mont.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21
TEN THOUSAND ffIDES QfREpTIE HAyT REIN

treating them himself and by his meth. cd of tanning retains the beautiful markings, Among the numerous artl. cles made of snake skin are pocket. books, necktles, card cases. ladies' purses. belts, hat bands and money bags.
 The worst part of the work, accord ing to Jones' Is not the danger of be- ing bitten, but the disappointment at tending the attempt to capture the snakes. Out of 300 attacked he says he Is averaging well if he captures a hundred. The snake can wriggle out of very close quarters and seldom stops to argue with his enemy or protest against capture He is off for the smallest hole be can find and unless the hunter is as quick as a lightning flash with his long pole he will lose the quarry.
 The snake hunter strikes oil, so to speak, when he lights upon nest of snakes comfortably ensconced In some cranny for the winter. These snakes will probably he punched together for the sake of warmth, and can be cap tured en masse with little lltliculty, as they are sleepy and sluggish. Some times there are as many as a hundred snakes In one of these punches, but such a find is not often recorded.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21
29-Cnited States establishes provis- ional government in Cuba.

29-Cnited States establishes proyis- ional government in Cuba.
 October.
 14-Chicago White So1 win baseball championship of the world.
 15-Evangelist Sam Jones dies on train in Arkansas.
 16-Death of Mrs. Jefferson Davis. |. .. French submarine Lutin lost tn harbor of Biserta, Tunis.
 17-Western Cuba and southern Flor ida swept by hurricane.
 21-Blizzard and severe rainstorm hit Western States.
 24EColorado river turned from Salton sea into it's former channel.
 2S-Train pfunges from trestle into sea at Atlantic City, \. J.. destroying 70 lives. Two persons killed and build ings wrecked by natural gas explosion in Cofeyville, Kan.
 31-Judge Joseph F. Gary of Chicago, who presided over anarchists trial, dies.
 November.
 1-Death of Congressman Redwood Hoar of Massachusetts.
 5-Cashier Herring of failed Milwaukee Avenue bank in Chicago sentenced to States prison. .. Bank robbery at Ladd, Illinois.
 sePresdent Roosevelt starts for Pan. anna.
 12-49 persons killed In B. & O. col. lision at Woodville, Ind. Death of Gen. ". R. Shafter.
 1S-Bomb exploded in St. Peters church In Rome
 19-Ecclesiastical court sustafns her esy decision against Rev. A. Crapsey of Rochester, x. |.
 21-23 lives lost in storm on great lakes.
 22-Collsion of liners Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse and Orinoco in English chan. nel causes 13 deaths.
 2S-Explosion in Amen, Germany, kills 300 persons and lays town in ruins. 29-President Samuel Spencer of Southern railway and three guests killed in wreck on his own road.
 Decenb ber.
 SCongress meets.
 tSixty lives lost in flood in Clifton, Ariz.
 7-Burning of Chi Psi chapter house at Cornell university. Ithaca, N. Y. 14-Edward Muller elected president of Swiss confederation. Fuel famine in North Dakota.
 17-Several changes fn President Roosevelt's cabinet effected. 19-Death of Bishop c. c. McCahA
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21

The latest distribution of Carnegie Hero Fund medals bestowed de- served recognition upon sixteen per sons who have distinguished them. selves by deeds of courage which re- suited in the saving of life. It Is in- teresting to note that, of the sixteen, ten live In or near Chicago. As in pre-. vious lists, the latest benefciaries in- clude many young people, nearly all of whom received grants of money in with which to complete their educa- ton. The details of the deeds for which the awards were made are in- spiring reading, especially for that growing number of intelligent persons who realize that war Is not necessary to breed heroism.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21

It Is quite certain that a consider able percentage of every class In life Is living beyond its means h the ef. fort to make a display, keep up ap- pearance and climb Into the next high. CT class. This tendency is always ex- aggerated by the higher wages and larger profits In a time of prosperity and by the hope it holds out of perma. nent improvement of condition. Every country needs the tonic of panic de- pression now and then to take the con- ceit out of its people and teach them modesty, thrift and foresight
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21
Sanders Measure.

chair behind the air-tight stove In the sitting room when his wife hurried in and told him that Abel Sanders was In the kitchen and wanted to see him.
 What d'you let him in for?" he asked. responsibility.
 He wants to buy hess, that's why" replied Mrs. Simons. You'd have made a great-to-do if hadn't"
 "No, I wouldn't" MT. Slmons said, as he reluctantly rose. T know Sanders size. I can't do business with him. He wants a cheap hoss. And I ain't got anything I can sell less than fourteen dollars"
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21

Charity in large cities is generally well organized, and, In consequence, promiscuous giving is going out of fashion. Most persons interested in philanthropy take pride in the fact. A Roman Catholic dignitary. Archbishop O'Connell of Boston. lately pointed out one respect In which the change Is not an advantagethe loss of personal in. terest and personal work. Why Is It," he says that the appeal for workers
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21
17-Clement Armand Fallieres elected

 President of France.
 21-Eighteen lives lost in fire panic In Philadelphia church. =. Brazilian turret ship Aquidaban sunk by explosion and PIP men perish.
 23-Steamer Valencia goes ashore on Vancouver Island coast; 14S lives lost. 25-Death of Gen. Joseph Wheeler, U. s. A.,,.. House passes joint statehood bill.
 29-Death of King Christian of Den mark.
 30-Frederick VIII. proclaimed King of Denmark. .. Death of Paul Dresser, Indiana song writer.
 February. 1-Colombian coast towns destroyed by tidal wave following earthquake. S@Hurricane sweeps Society and Tua- motu Islands, destroying thousands of lives. Mine explosion near Oakhill, ". Va. kills 2S men.
 9-Death of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, negro poet.
 16-Pat Grove acquitted of Cudahy Kidnapping by Omaha jury. 1T-Longworth-R Roosevelt wedding in Washington.
 1S-Peavey elevator burns in Duluth. with loss of S1.0000o0. M. Faillieres takes oath as President of France. l9-Explosion in mine at Maitland, Colo causes 16 deaths. 23-Johann Hoch, bigamist and wife murderer. hanged in Chicago. 3j-Death of exSpeaker David B. Henderson.
 27-Marriage of Prince Eitel Frederick of Prussia and Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg, in Berlin.
 March. 2-Tornado and fire destroy large part of Meridian. Miss.
 EDeath of Gen. J. NJ. Schofeld. 7-Rouvier ministry falls in France. S-Fifteen Americans and 500 Moros killed in fierce battle on Island of Jolo. l0-l,060 die in mine disaster in Cour- rieres, France.
 13-Death of Miss Susan B. Anthony. 16-35 killed in railway collision near Florence, Colo.
 17-Death of Johann Most. anarchist. 21-Death of Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.
 April. 1-John Alexander Dowle deposed at Zion City, H.. as head of Christian Catholic church and succeeded by Wilbur c. Voliva. Henry C. Ide inaugurated Governor General of Philippines. 2-Great coal strike begins. S-Vesuvius in eruption destroys towns at its base.
 11-Death of James A. Bailey, great snowman.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21
MOTOR AMBULANCE.

The electric wagon In the cut belongs to the St. Andrews Ambulance Associ- ation of Glasgow and Is arranged most admirably. To prevent vibration the body is insulated from the chassis by rubber pads. The interior contains a heating apparatus and Is provided with a complete surgical equipment.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21

Did you ever feel the hot blush of shame mantle your cheek for something you had done In your youthf' asked the man with the grizzled mustache.
 Never" answered his corpulent friend, promptly.
 Perhaps you wouldn't said the mustached veteran, thoughtfully some never do."
 "Oh 1t would mantle all right If there was any occasion for it, said the man of comfortable proportions. "The req son that 1t doesn't Is that my youth was exemplary. It may seem a little like boasting, but I suppose you want the plain. unvarnished truth when you ask. But whyT'
 II was looking at a photograph of myself at the age of 20 or whereabouts last night" explained the man with the grzzled mustache. My wife dug 1t out of batch of family pictures she had slowed away somewhere and she hand ed 1t over to me and asked me If rec ognized 1t. Honest, didn't 1 wouldn't believe her at first when she said 1t was me. but 1t grew on me by degrees sort of came back to me. I wish had It here to show you. Say, I'd kick any boy now that came around me look. Ing like that, but suppose I was rath- 1f | han Iav pressed the prints and broken the plate."
 What was the matter with it?'
 "Everything. The collar principally, perhaps. I was wearing very low turned down collar, with a very wide and flowing bow. I suppose ! thought 1t a rather picturesque and romantic sort of an arrangement, but, great guns 1t made me sick at heart to look at it. When got to thinking it over 1 that very tie and the suit of clothes I was wearing. remembered my shoes. They were patentleather shoes, low cut, with elastic sides and dove-colored uppers, decorated with very small pearl buttons. Yes, sir, l wore shoes like those, and size aud a half too small for me at that"
 The man with the grizzled mustache elevated his foot with some slight diff fculty and regarded the roomy, square toed shoe of unadorned black calf that he was wearing "I remember the girl I was chasing at that time, too," he coll tinued.
 "Yes." said his fat friend.
 My goodness but had taste. What kind providence prevented me from marrying I don't know, but do recol- feet that I was madly, passionately in love with her and that I thought her a paragon of feminine charm and beau ty. But what got me was the expres- sion of entire dissatisfaction In that face. I won't say In my face, because that complacent young idiot wasn't me. I have had to stand for his foolishness, of course. I'm still carrying the corns he left me. for Instance, and I feel the effect of his carrying on in college. I've got a broken finger that he acquired il a cane rush. See that:"
 That's nothing. You can be thank ful that 1t wasn't a broken neck"
 Tt would have been If I could have got hold of him at about that timc," said the veteran, savageiy. Staying hp to all hours and undermining my con stitution, too! That's what he dd. there's no question about It. I'd have been In my prime to-day physically If 1t hadn't been for the way he conduct ed himself But 1t was never any use to talk to him. He knew 1t all. It was just a matter of form and convention sending him to any educational lnstltu- ton. Why didn't he store my mind
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21

Fort McHenry is DO longer neces- sary for the defense Of Baltimore, and Is to be abandoned. but 1T will always be remembered because over 1t waved the Star Spangled Banner" of Keys vision and song. It is reported that Baltimore will maintain the fort as a public resort, as Fort Independence Is maintained h Boston.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21

Thomas A. Edison claims that he can make an automobile for s200 that will last for fifteen years. But why should anybody want an automobile that will last as long as that: We will all be flying h less than fifteen years from now.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21

A h ha qrrasted in Detroit was found to be a..l4 covered with remarkably artistic tattooIng. That was certainly putting art on the bum.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21

Mrs. Bonl has secured her divorce and the court has denied Roni's ap- peal for an allowance of S50,0oo a year. What a relief 1t would be If both could now be induced to keep from again attracting public attention.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21

Six causes for divorce have been agreed upon by the divorce congress, so there seems to be no reason why any of the applicants should be disappointed
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21

In reply to a correspondent who asks: How cau stop biting my finger nails" the New York Herald says: Wear a muzzle." That might do but wouldn't it be simpler for him to have his teeth pulled?
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21

A Montreal bank wrecker has been indicted for ordinary larceny. How shameful That's the way they treat common thieves.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21

If Count Boni de Castellane Is as innocent as be says, how Is he going to explain why he didn't die young, like the good little boys in the story haoEs7
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21

J. Pierpont Morgan has paid out s200,0C0 for a collection of manuscripts and private letters of Robert Burns
 What a good time Robbie could have had with only a fifth of this amount
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21

The next American heiress who mar ries a French count will probably have to settle with his creditors before be consents to be led to the altar.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21

MT. Rockefeller objects to connecting his name with so small donation as S1O0. Why not let his left hand do the giving?
Alaska sentinel., 1907-02-21

After securing that verdict for IS cents the other day, MT. William Rockefeller must have felt like P cents additional.