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The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-04-09
James Gregg Injured

James H. Gregg, who lives opposite
Dalkena, met with a serious accident
last Friday. He was using a pile driver
to drive some l0-foot posts in the ground
When starting to drive post the ham,
mer. which weighed about 800 pounds,
slipped from The lead, and the post and
manner fell on Mr. Gregg. carrying
him to the gronnd He. was badly
bruised and the muscles of his left arm
and shoulder severely strained. The
accident will keep him from working for
over month. He was extremely for
tunate in not being crippled worse.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-04-09
Who Is Edwards?

Articles OF agreement have been signed
between Sandy Judge and Ray Raymer
for catch-aa-catch-can wrestling match,
best two in three falls, at Rink Opera
House April 10. These two and Edwards,
of Newport, are considered the best
three lightwsights in the state, and the
latter will probably challenge the win
ner for the state championship. North
Idaho News.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-04-09
Sell Their Business

Hei5ner Broa. have sold their saloon.
the red front, to James Dunlap, OF Spo-
kane. The new owner formerly con-
Quoted the Buffet saloon on Sprague
avenue, near the Cakes cafe. The Heis.
ners will take long rest and probably
after time develop some mining prom.
erty in which they are interested. The
new proprietor purchased the stock and
fixtures OF the saloon only, the Heisners
retaining the building.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-04-09

1t is a queer coincidence, but the
"dry" element carried every city in
Illinois at the recent election in
which Rev. Billy" Sunday had
held evangelistic meetings during
the year. Rockford, Decatur, Kan
kakee and Galesburg, four of the
large cities of the state, all went
dry. The Rev. Billy" had held
successful revivals in all of these
towns.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-04-09

Secretary Taft carried the pri-
mary election in Minnesota in
Minnesota on Tuesday and will
have all the delegates from the
Gopher state. South Dakota also
gave a big majority to the war
secretary, and he secured a couple
more delegates in West Virginia.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-04-09

Indications are that Senator La
Toilette has captured the Wiscon-
sin delegation to the Republican
convention. The senator is Wis
consin's favorite son. He has Jared
better than Joe Cannon Jared in
his state.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-04-09

Speaker Cannon will not have
the solid delegation from Illinois
back of him at tic Chicago conven-
ton, as the First district has de-
clared for Secretary TAFT Other
districts in the state would do the
same if the people had their say.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-04-09

In Tacoma the Republicans
elected their entire city ticket by
majorities ranging from 2OOO to
$500 votes and carried every ward
in the city. Tacoma has been
Democratic city for the past six
wears.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-04-09

Chicago went Republican by q
large majority. The city council
is now composed of So Republicans
and "a Democrats, a net Repub
lican gain of 10.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-04-09

Kansas City and Milwaukee
went Democratic. In the latter
city the issue was for personal
liberty"
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-04-09

Rev. DR.. Mintzer, OF Colville, presid-
ing elder for this district OF the Metho-
dist church, was Newport visitor this
week.
Douglas Island news., 1908-01-15

With the passing of the old year the Northwestern Steamship company also passed out of existence, and that com pany and the Alaska Steamship com
 pany were merged under the name of the Alaska Steamship company. The officers of the new company are as fol- lows: Charles E. Peabody, president; s. H. Eccles, of New York, first vice president; Frank E. Burns, second vice president; D. H Jarvis, treasurer; w.. H.. Bogle,. secretary; J. H. Bunch, gen. eral freight and passenger agent; E. P. Clark, city ticket agent.
 Good as the reports show it to be in the list of copper producers Alaska has only begun to be heard from. Alaska has not yet gotten into action. Her destiny is to stand at the head of the copper producing countries of the world. When the copper ore of Alaska is placed along side of that of any other ore in the west the other ore looks like shadow alongside the substance. For quantity and quality Alaska has the goods and it only re- mains for development to place her at the head of the class.-Skagway Daily Alaskan.
 Nulato. a trading post, village, post office, telegraph station and steamboat landing on the right bank of the Yu- kon river, about 100 miles from Norton sound and $50 miles from the ocean. Pounded by the Russian, Malakof, who built blockhouse and stockade near here in 1888. Shorly after, in his ab' sence, this was burned by the Indians. It was rebuilt in 1842 by Lagoskin of the Russian navy. He was shortly afterwards succeeded by one Vasili Derzhavin, whose many acts of cruelty led to the massacre of the entire garri sou by the Koyukuk Indians in 1851. Tn later years the post was moved ? miles farther upstream to it's present site. Eulato is, and always has been, the great trading center for the natives of the Koyukuk valley. The Roman Catholic mission of St. Peter Claver is located at Nulato.
 Cape Prince of Wales, which has be- come prominent because of the dis covery there of tin deposits, is the westernmost point of the mainland of North America. Across the strait one can see East Cape, Siberia, with it's rugged, steep coast of granite cliffs. During eight months in the year no boats can reach Cape Prince of Wales. In the summer the United States mail arrives twice month, and in the winter there is a weekly mail service from Nome. Navigation for small boats from Nome is uncertain after Oct. 20th. By December the sea is sufficiently frozen to permit travelling by dog-sled on the ice near the beach. The winters are noted for severe bliz- zards of snow-ice and high winds. Yet the temperature does not drop as low as in more inland places. The lowest temperature for the winter of 19o5-6 was 45 degrees below zero. During the blizzards, which may last for 10 days, 1t is almost impossible for man or beast to endure the icy blasts as they hurl themselves upon him from the polar regions. The changes in temper ature are very sudden. Tn 24 hours during January and 9, 1907, there was "a drop of 43 degrees.
Douglas Island news., 1908-01-15
The N0rthIand The Latest News. from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North. Condensed.
Information for Everybody.
Is the sitka Alaskan really dead?

Is the Sitka Alaskan really dead! ! In 1906 the Koyukuk produced be. tween Sl5O,OO0 and s2OO,OO0 in gold. John Corson is firmly convinced that be should succeed Delegate Gale. Snow is reported on the White Pass railroad, from four to eight feet deep. It is said that bill making special lighthouse district of Alaska will pass Congress without murmnr.
 The liquor license at Valdez has been raised to s1,OOO, much against the wishes of the saloon keepers.
 After the birth of his Gfth daughter, Whitehorse citizen has given up the idea of raising baseball team. District Judge Gunnison has decided that hereafter no doctors or dentists will be required to serve on juries.
 Two Alaskans, named Frank Coch- rane and Frank Bell, in fight over a woman at San Francisco. Both killed.
 The high tide of Jan. 4 took Skagway by surprise and several hundred dol lars worth of property was destroyed. A Spokane mining expert predicts that in twenty years the production of precious metals in Alaska will be in- creased ten fold.
 During the eight years of service on the Alaska bench Judge Wickersham tried 1726 cases, of which B were ap- pealed and 10 were reversed.
 So far this winter the weather in the British Yukon and Interior Alaska has been the mildest ever recorded since the coming of the white man.
 The reported discovery of immense ly rich placers in the Koyukuk is gen. orally taken with salt. However, the Tanana was scofed at for years. The headquarters of the Alaska Coast Company, operating the steam ships Portland, Bertha and Jeanie, have really been moved to Tacoma. Spokane capitalists are beginning to take an interest in mining operations in the porth. A number have taken stock in the properties at Conrad.
 CoIdfoot mining camp, and postof1ce (established in 1903l on Middle fork Koyukuk river, at the mouth of Slate creek, erroneously called Coldfood.
 Koyukuk river, tributary to the YR- kon from the north, little above Nulato. Native name, reported by the Russians as Kuiuk and by the Western Union Telegraph expedition, 1867, as Coyukuk. On Coast Survey maps called Kouiak, Koyoukuk and Koyn- kuk. According to stoney, the Kobuk Eskimos call it Tug -ga-rag.a,wick-
Douglas Island news., 1908-01-15

A squaw convicted of assault in Judge Gunnisou's court so appealed to the Judge that he fined her $500 and then paid the fine out of his own pocket.
 It is said the Northern Navigation Company having put the matter to the test last year, is about to introduce oil as fuel on their fleet of larger boats on the Yukon.
 It is DOW certain that Joseph WyIey and Fred Celene, the men who left Chilkat early last month for Yakataga, were drowned while attempting to cross the Siyu river.-Katalla Herald.
 Postmaster Boyle, of Valdez, has been summarily removed and James Jefferson appointed to succeed him. Boyle deposited postotice funds in the Reynolds bank, and they went in the crash.
 The bill presented to Congress at the instigation of a bunch of Seattle Alas kans who were anxious to dodge assess ment work on claims held in Alaska, died early and no one in the North seem to mourn.
 Delegate Gale Is said not Go favor the appointment of an Alaskan to either of the several judgeships. No Alaskan could be poorer in that posi- ton than the average carpet -bagger of which we have had sample.
 The teller in the Canadian Bank Of Commerce at Whitehorse has written number of poems that have attracted widespread attention. His name is II. W. Service, and he is the author of Songs of the Sourdough" and ''The Spell of the Yukon".
 At public meeting at KatalIa the following resolution was passed by the citizens: Resolved, that we feel high Iy fattered at being the only town in Alaska that ever paid the Northwestern Steamship company or any other steamship company, freight on fire apparatus"
 New Workers, who are planning a trip to Paris by automobile, are mak- ing inquiries as to she condition of the Alaska roads. The proposed route lies through Alaska, across Boring sea toI Siberia, Vladivostok, across Msnchuria along the trans Siberian railroad route to St. Petersburg, thence to Paris. Preparations are being made for the start.
 After spending s1.o0o,Oo0 on their property in the Cariboo the Guggen- helm Exploration Company has sus- pended all work. It was announced some time ago that the work would cease. One reason assigned for this was that the company objected to the style of lease which was issued to them and under which the land was held, says the Victoria Times. Whatever the reason the company has suspended operations indefinitely. John Hobson, general manager of the york; has ar rived in the city, and today confirmed the news that operations were suspend ed indefinitely. He says that during the season the company washed gold for about twenty days. In Shat time about S20,Oo0 in gold was recovered. The gold yield averaged about the usual production from the claims in past years
Douglas Island news., 1908-01-15
Bristol Bay Fisheries
NO. 8

MT. Russel s. Bates, deputy United States marshal at Nushagak, Alaska, was in Seattle few weeks ago. Be- fore returning to his isolated post of duty he told the Alaska Yukon Maga- zine something about the fisheries on Bristol Bay.
 There are twenty-tWo canneries or Bristol Bay and the annual catch of salmon in these waters is from three fourths of a million to million cases. Sixteen fish are required to make case of salmon) Nushagak River is the greatest salmon stream in the world. Wood river one. of it's tribu- taries, has it's source in a mum Der of lakes. That strange faculty in the lower animals which we designate as instinct causes a salmon to ascend a stream which has lakes somewhere near it's source. The spawn of the fish is deposited in the shoal waters of these lakes. The Nushagak river is five miles wide at it's mouth and this width continues for a distance of twelve miles above it's mouth. In this body of water the tides rise as high as twenty-seven feet. There are also other rivers in the Bristol Bay country which are noted salmon streams. Among these are Igigik river, Naknek river, which heads in Lake Iliamna pronounced Lamna) and the Kvichak (KwechekI.
 The companies operating in this region are the Alaska Packers Associa- ton, of San Francisco, which has nine canneries, the North Alaska Salmon Co.,, also of San Francisco, which has four canneries, the Northwestern Fish cries Co.,, one cannery, the Alaska Sal~ mon Co.,, Alaska Portland Packing As sociation, the Alaska Fishermen's As. sociation of Astoria, and others. Dur ing the summer season these compa- nies employ coco people in their can neries. During the winter there are not more than 150 persons in the Bristol Bay country. All the canner- ieS are equipped with modern machin- cry.
 The greatest needs of this part of Alaska are batcheries. At the present rate of taking the fish there must come a time when the supply will become exhausted if fish hatcheries are not established. At the present time fish is the only article of commercial value in this part of Alaska. Nogold or other valuable mineral has been found, and there is but little game in this region. As salmon are the most valuable food fish of our western waters the men engaged in this industry should make adequate provision for the per- petuation of the species. Purely com merciaI reasons will suggest the estab- lishment af a fish hatchery in the neighborhood of every important sal mon stream in Alaska. The success ful operation of the hatchery at Fort man has demonstrated the unquestion- able value of such an adjunct to the salmon fisheries of Alaska. The men engaged in the business of salmon fish, ing and canning should remember the old adage, 'that a man cannot eat loaf and have it."
 The Treadwell Store has just received a large line of New Clothing for Men
Douglas Island news., 1908-01-15

The Treadwell Store has just received a large line of New Clothing for Men and Boys.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-03

oath,' said the man. You must swear on something more sacred than that swear on your mother, and then I will be- lieve you.' M. Persitz did, and slowly with the man following him, they worked their way back to the cellar
 Eighteen in all were convicted, and all hanged. The man to whom M. Persitz had given oath was pardoned but was sent to live in Siberia where small strip of land was given to him. and he eventually married. And now once a year he writes to M. Persitz.
 It is always a little incredible to me that M Persits has come through so well, seeing the number of bitter enemies. he must have all over the world, but the utter fearlessness of the man is undoubt- edly big asset on his side. He has not, however, come through scot free; and he has two bad scars to show as the result of two shots that got home in Geneva M. Perstz will not take undue risks, and he will not for instance, travel at night Nor would he cross the Channel at night For the rest, 1 think that he at least gets as much fun out of life as most folk. As a linguist he is like most Russians u marvel. Eleven languages does M. Per sitz speak fiuently, and for those who are curious they are: Chinese, Arabic, Tur- ksh, Italian, French; Portuguese, Ger man, Spanish, Polish, English, and, of course, Russian.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-03

something to a battery by the aid of a small electric lamp. M. Persitz guessed at once that a wire ran from the battery to dynamite placed under the palace, and that the man was only waiting instruc- tions to send the current along the wire.
 He grasped his revolver to shoot him, but did not dare fire for fear there might be dynamite about there So he wormed his way nearer and suddenly seized the man by the hands. Tt sounds like exag- geration, I know" said M. Persitz to me, '.but we lay there, we two, face to face, in that narrow passage l graspins his hands, with no possibility of aid for over two hours.
 Toward the end of that two hours NJ. Persitz managed to get the wire from the battery between his teeth; and gradually, at the cost of broken tooth, he bit through it. Directly the man saw this he said in Russian: Pro Palo''-or In very plain English, "The game is up" M. Persitz remarked to him that he rather thought it was, but that if he would give certain information he would not be pun ished The man, however, refused to be- leve M. Persitz, even when he gave his word of honor
 You must swear on something" said the man. What is the thing you count holiest?' God and the Czar," replied M. Persitz. '.I do not accept such an
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-03

gregate He noticed that barrels of vodka used to arrive there with some what remarkable frequency.
 Giving up his disguise as student, he changed to that of driver; and in that capacity he got engaged to convey one of the barrels of vodka from the station to the kabac. Being instructed to be very careful with it, and not to let it jump in any way, he became more suspicious, and that night he took four officers with him, got into the kabac, and there, sure enough, in a cellar, or vault he found that the barrels contained dynamite, and not vodka. Leading out of the vault, too, was small underground passage, which, as he expected, and afterwards found to be the case, extended to under meath the palace.
 The next night he surrounded the house with a squadron of Hussars, arrested all the people found inside, and then giv- ing instructions that no one was to move until he returned, proceeded to descend into the vault, and thence, armed with a revolver, wofmed his way along the secret passage.
 It was slow and terribly hot work, for the passage was so small that be could only get along by lying flat on his face and squirming his way along. At the end of quarter of an hours work he sud- denly came upon man intent upon doing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-03
RaiIroading Then and Now.

J. O. Pagan in the May Atlantic. 4 During the palmy days of what may be called autocratic management, when 8 railroad man started out in the morning the paymaster or the office boy, for that amount the man would have been en- titled to on his return. The employe was willing, and in fact had agreed, to travel or to work from a point A to a point E for a certain fixed sum- So far as his Lay was concerned, it made no difference whether he covered the distance in s hours or IS. If a yardmaster delayed him for two or three hours before start ing, and if he lost half day on the road by reason of wrecks, disablement of locomotive, or a washout, so much the worse for him. His duty was to go from A. to B and to do what he was told to on the way, without question, even If it took him from sunrise to sunrise to cover the distance. There was no help or res cue in sight, no appeal from the discipline In those days and if the work was not to his liking, the world was wide, and a dozen men were ready to step into his place.
 Nevertheless the one-sidedness and in- justice of the whole proceeding were man ffest to everybody, and from year to year it remained to be talked about ob- 3ected to, and brooded over. But with ever-increasing business and complication of conditions, a much better educated class of men found their way into the railroad service. In moving a train from place to place, greater intelligence was required A conductor today can fre- quently run from one end of the road to the other in a purely mechanical fashion, but in the early days of railroading, with a single track, confusion of flags and train orders, and a multitude of unfore- seen difficulties awaiting him at every station, 1t took little less than genius to make a successful railroad man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-03
The Price of Liberty.
]. Jones in Success Magazine.

Ellis O. Jones in Success Magazine.
 How do you manage your railroads in this country?" inquired the Man from Mars. Tn those countries of what you called the Old World which I have visit ed, they are owned and managed by the government"
 "Inasmuch as I have never been abroad" replied the politician, q must of course, conclude that their methods are purely theoretical. We, in this coun- try, pride ourselves on being practical"
 May I ask you to explain?" said the Man from Mars.
 Certainly replied the politician. "Our practice proceeds on the thory that the government is too poor and too ineffi- cient to own and manage our railways Accordingly, the work is turned over to private individuals
 And are the individuals trustworthy?"
 By no means,' said thu politician. "We have to appoint railroad commissions to watch them.'
 "The commissioners, then, are to be de- pended upon?"
 Not at all. They are watched by the legisatures.'
 And the legislatures?'
 "They in turn are watched by the mag azines.' "Oh, I see, the magazines are the final arbiters. That is very interesting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-03
Transparent.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
 fine robust soldier, an Irishman, after serving Uncle Sam for some time, became greatly reduced in weight, owing to ex- posture and scanty rations, until he was so weak he could hardly stand. Conse- quently he got leave of absence to go home and recuperate. He arrived at his home station looking very much of a wreck. Just she stepped off the train one of his old friends rushed up to him and said: Well, well Pat, am glad to see you're back from the front.''
 "Begorra, I knew I was getting thin, but I nivver thought you could see that much,' said Pat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-03
Mince Pie Vs. Alcohol.

From the Baltimore News.
 MT Theodore Sutro of New York who has some very pronounced opinions about local option, prohibition and other tenn perance movements, appeared before the House committee on Judiciary the other day and laid down the postulate that pro- hibition laws are unenforceable, citing Congress itself as an illustration of the truth of his statement. There is a law forbidding the sale of liquors in the na- tional capitol MT. Sutro affirmed that the law is steadily violated, and asked if it is not the custom for congressman ito call for tea with a wink MT. Sutro ar gued that if the law is violated under the come of the capitol it is strong evidence it will be violated everywhere. One other statement vehemently advanced by Mr. Sutro was that mince pie and cold water do more harm than alcohol
 Of course, both propositions are debat- able. There is undoubtedly room for sus- Ilcion that congressman who indulge dcn't have to get their feet wet even when il rains in order to wet their threats; in- deed, suspicion has been cast even on the contents of cups on their desks, and fre- quently resorted to by some statesmen, particularly in the Senate, in the course 8tf long speeches. There has been grave ooubt as to whether plain water would be so ''mellowin' to the organ" Still if prohibition does not make the capitol as dry as Sahara, there is no question that Ii has made the place a lot dryer than it lsed to be.
 So far as mince pie and cold water are concerned, we have never seen statistics that looked reliable. The combination is understood to be deadly. The only thing to be said about it is that few people, having once indulged too much and toe long in topI ing off feast with such d pece de resistance, care to repeat the performance the ] ext day For that reason it's unhappy influence on the hu- Tlan race is not given free scope it's vicious propensties materially lessening It's activities.