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The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19
AMERICANS FIND
 GOLD IN SIBERIA

American prospcctators have pcne- trated the wilds of Siberia, and after several years of persistent work, have uncovered pay placer diggings. The new gold field in the czar's domain is located across Bcring sea from Nome and is undoubtedly continuation of the same gold belt.
 Information concerning this gold discovery comes in letter from a leading official of the Siberian Devel- opment Company, operating under q sub-conccssion from the Northeast Siberian Company, to q friend in Val dcz, and the news is therefore authen- tic. The original discovery was made by l.. C. P. Nadcau, on q creek named for him, and is on watershed of the Anadir river, flowing into Boring sea- The find was made last season, and Si, OO0 in gold was mined from dis covcry claim by the most primitive method. Other prospectors found good prospects on neighboring creeks. The news reached Nome and a num- bcr of miners immediately sailed for the new Eldorada. Forty men wintercd at Anadir. They are equip ped with thawing plants, drills, etc. for expeditions prospecting, and will undoubtedly show up some rich pay stroaks.
 At the mouth of the Anadir river iS a toSS1rIy station ,ritb |, T,roo ,f twenty-five men. Some 300 miles up this magnificent stream q penal colony is located.
 The Siberian Development Com pany has trading station near the mouth of the Anadir, and docs q profitable business trading with the EskimOs of the region.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19

The Alaska cannery fleet will sail rom the south for northern waters the latter part of this month. The first will be the bark J. D. Peters. which sails from Seattle March 20 with 125 men and supplies for the can nery at Orca. The Harvester follows on March 25 with 100 employees and supplies for Dumas. She will be lowed by the tug Sbelikon. The ship Jabez Howe sails for Eyak about tho 2S' and the Guy c. Goss and the St. Paul will sail for other points few days later.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19

TORY OF ALASKA, THIRD DIVISION. Pontus Magnusscn, Plaintiff.
 Otto Hanson, Defendant.
 The President of the United States of Amcri ca, Greeting: To the above named defendant
 District Court for Terfioryyp ypesf of AiaskS m Ine ar dnird Divisinon' within thirty days after the upon you, and answer the hGni compI"in, mninh "i thc no,o above named plaintiff, a copy of you; and unless you so appear and answer tbo ,o plaintiff VII apply to the court for the relief S"ngn ,Sn niain, i S%id hu which is frs the owner Of an undivided one.sixtcenth jp eeest teerest Tn and to five certain lode mining ing District, Valdez Recording District Alostn and that plaintiff be docreed to be entitl"d in src c"nvGytanec of said mining claims to him ever onjoinad from claiming said ono. s;Y. lGGn'h ,ang interest In said mining claims Second out in the complaint between ''S, the SSr,SSs Scs hereto, in that he have conveyed 10 him, the in and to said five lode mining claims, undop n contract Tn which defendant agreed to con. % yey to plaintiT said one.sixteenth interest i'm said claims. The said five lode m ming claims above referred ;o are known and called . as fo,' lows: Pauline Lode Mining Claim; Iowa Lode T, Ed"ras %% odo Mnims Gs% IodG .Sa Mining Claim Mining Claim The date of the order for the application @ Of this summons is March ith, leO8, said order being made by the UonorabIe silas II Reid; Judge Of our District Court, and this publication is to be made for six weeks fin the "Alaska Prospcctor," weekly newspapnp published and printed at Valdez, Alaska And you the above named defendant arc re gnlred to appear as above set out within thirty days from the day of tho Inst pnbiicntion oi this summons, which is on tho l6th day of April, 1908. ~ ""' ''
 Witness tho Honorable siias IT. Reid. ,ndoc Of said Court this fourth day of March iotS and the seal thereof hereto attached ''N''
 tSeall E. J. Sticr, Clerk. Ostrandcr < Donohoe, "'p"'''
 PlaiDtiHs attorneys.
 First publication March :. 1908
 Last publication April f6, 1903
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19
Thornton Commits Suicide.

Thomas Thornton, sentenced for a gold robbery on a Yukon steamer to McNeips island penitentiary, and la- ter transferred to the Leavenworth, Kansas, penitentiary, committed sui eide on March 7. While on the way down from Alaska he jumled over- board and swam two miles to shore, but was afterward recaptured. While at McNeips island he attempted sui. eide by severing an artery with q piece of tin.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19
TEN DAYS FROM .
 G|BB0N ID VALDEZ

From Fort Gibbon to Valdez, about sOOmiles, in ten days came Jack La mont, mail carrier for the Northern Commercial Co.,, arriving Sunday night. His sled was pulled by five of the fines huskies that ever hit the trail, with Siwash harness.
 The telegraph line from Valdez to Fort Gibbon is 7S4 miles long and the trail is about the same. Laenont left Gibbon the morning of March 8 at 2 o'clock. He reached Valdez last night, March 12, at o'clock, and went out on the Northwestern this morning.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19

In the Probate Court, Valdez Precinct Terri tory of Alaska, Hon. John Lyons Judpe In the matter Of the Estate of Louis Brown Deceased. Notice of Final Settlement, exccutor Of the above named estate bas rsni dcrcd and presented for settlement and filed in said court his final account as adminisira. tor oi said estate, and that on the 20th day of March. 1908, at the honor of 10 o. in. et tho courthouse, before said court, in tho town of valdez, having beon duly appointed by the Judge Tor the settlement Of such accounts at which lime any person Interested in said estate, may appear and file exceptions in thereto. Dated this 18th day of January, 1908
 Knut Brantset,
 ENCcutor of said Will
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19
THE NEW BONANZA

The Prospector publishes today a from Pete Monahan telling of new strike on Valdez creek. The output achieved last year by hand full of men and the constant discovery of rich deposits in many other places seems to justify the drift of miners into the region at rate which begins to look something like stampede.
 The Panama is taking as much in terest in the upper Susitna district as Valdez, and Fairbanks papers are busily telling their constituents that it is much easier to get into the dist rict from that town than from Valdez and therefore Fairbanks should cap- ture the tn de. Valdez has no need to worry about the trade of the district and should do everything possible to stimulate interest in the region.
 That the upper Susitna is destined to be great mining camp every old Alaska prOspectOr has believed for a long time. Many of them have eX- plored the region and every one of these men reports that the gold in dications, like the frogs of Egypt, cover the whole land, buubccausc they did not happen to strike anything phenomenal at first they passed OH, after the manner of prospcctors.
 This has been the history of every big mining camp of the north. Every one was scratched in desultory fashion for several years before it blossomcd into a great district and every one was industriously knocked by men who failed to realize their first hopes. The upper Susitna dist rict looks like the next Alaska bonan- "a, and it belongs to Valdez
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19
TO PUT MINE ON
 PRODUCING BASIS,

AS soon as the snow disappears the work of installing a tramway and erecting ore bunkers on the property Of the Landlock Bay Copper Mining Company, located on Landlock bay, will begin and be prosecuted with the utmost vigor until completed. De- velopment work is steadily progress. ing on this property and the ore bod ies already blocked out justify the management in sputting the mine on a shipping basis as soon as possible.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19
Fight On Cordova Incorporations

Owners of the new Cordova town sight will oppose incorporation of the town. They are taking dispositions now before the clerk of the court in Valdez to be used at the hearing in Fairbanks April 10. Deeds to town site lots reserve all public franchise rights in the streets and this is said to be the cause of the yearning for in- corporation by residents, who want the community to control franchises
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19

The recently published statement of operations of the Guggonheim Ex- ploration Company for the year 1907 contains the followingitems: Increase in assets, S,121, ,148, making tho com pany's total assets in mining inter- este 30,9O7 ,76i surplus at the end of the year, sl3,7i4,25t. The company,s more important holdings include tho Utah Copper Co.,, Cumberland Isley, Nevada Cons, Esperanza of Mexico and Yukon Gold.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19

George M. Esterly and family and the children's nurse started Monday morning for Nizina creek, where Mir. Esterly will direct the operation of the biggest hydraulic plant in Alaska. The capacity of the equipment has been trebled this year and all the latest devices for working placer ground by the hydraulic process have been added.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19

Chairman Corners of the New York democratic state committee, better or more widely known as "Fingey" Corners, is opposed to Bryan but that may not hurt Bryan. The only time that "Fingey" ever rose out of ward politics was in 1908, when he made deal with W. k. Hearst to help elect that person governor of Now York and things didn't happen right.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19
PR0SPECTORS LOCATE
 COPPER DISCOVERY

Two well known sound prospectors, Mason and Gleason, have recently located favorable surface showing of copper on Fidalgo bay, near the Schlosser property. The outcrop shows ledge nearly two feet in width, practically solid ore, chalco- pyrite in character. They are now engaged in development of the pros poet.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19

The Mt. Mckinley Development company has been incorporated under the laws of tho state of Wash ington, with capital stock of $50, ,O00. The company will operate on Lake creek; in the Yentna district. The incorporators arc E. M. Walters. Henry Anderson, Howard Waterman and Anna Waterman.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19
MOUNT AUGUSTINE
 BLAzES UP AGAIN

Mount Augustine, slumbering volcanic peak on Mt. Augustine is- land, near Iliamna in lower Cook in- let, is in eruption for the first time in several years. When the steamer Dora came in from the west the flames could be seen shooting upward eighty miles away. A great volume of smoke was also rising.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19

If Judge Wickersham was going to run for congress he wouldn't send out the news by way of Juneau. His law practice at Fairbanks is worth two or three jobs like delegate in congress and brings just as much glory.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19

Anna Gould is coming to the United States under the alias of Mrs. Miller, but there is no occasion to make fuss about it. Better men than Anna have fonnd it convenient to change their names as they came west
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19

William and Eugene Bartholf, min ing men of the Kenai peninsula, are expected on the next steamer from the outside with five. stamp mill and necessary equipment to be installed on a froo gold quartz property located near the head of Cook inlet.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19

Probably Noah Brusso thinks it wa smart for 8 French Canadian to go to Dublin and lick an Irishman on his own dunghill on St. Patrick's day.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19

If the American battleship and tor pedo boat fleet starts across the Pa cific July 6 1t will pass the seal islands just about the right time to bother tho Japanese poachers.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19

The cable correspondent wires that Queen Victoria wept when King Alfonso returned home safe, but it is not clear why he thinks anybody in Alaska cares whether the queen cried or gave the king some jawbonc for staying out so late.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19

II. B. Elliott, q special representa-. tive of the Alaska Steamship Com pany, is making the round trip on the Saratoga.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19

Georgo E Baldwin, superintendent of the Bonanza mine, left for the in- toriOr Sunday, to assume the duties of his position.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19

Licenses collected in Alaska during the fiscal year ended June 90, 1907 amounted to grand total of S3S4 ,895,- oi of which s1G6,oio,01 was from inc corporated towns and s2i7 ,476, ,oo out side of Incorporated towns.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19

John Gardner of Fairbanks is in Valdez awaiting the arrival of a drove of cattle from tho outside which he will take to the interior.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19

Pope Pinus insists on written be- throthals and witnesses thereto. But yill he insist next on witnesses to all tho preliminaries?
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19

Edmund Smith, tho attorney, sails on the steamer Saratoga for Seattle on professional business in connection with the Reynolds-Alaska Develop mont Company.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19

Falcon Joslyn, organizer and a leading spirit in the Tanana Mines Railroad Company, will arrive hero on the steamer Yucatan, enroute to Fairbanks.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19

Tho United States customs post at tho summit of the White Pass is to be abandoned.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19
District Court Adiourns

After a short session Monday after noon Judge Reid adjourned the dis trict court at Valdez for the term.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19

The question is what is the trust trying to do with the price of copper?
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19

Itscost tho United States 75 cents to collect each dollar of customs in Alas ka last year.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-03-19
Summons for Publication

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE TERRI.
 TORY OF ALASKA, THIRD DIVISION. Pontius Magnusscn Plaintiff,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-09

BY O. L. sTEENsEN.

In this country, where the magpfv
is unknown except when imported,
very little is Known OF his cleverness,
thieving proclivities and great facil-
ity for learning to talk, In which he
equals or perhaps surpasses the par
rot. "Chattering like magpie," is
n well chosen simile. in Europe we
find the magpie in plenty, and in the
country a steady war Is kept up on
him because of his destructive habits
and thievery. In his favor 1t must be
said that he, like the crow, is to
certain extent the farmers friend
by helping to destroy mice, grubs,
ETC., although he cannot be seen fol-
lowing the plow like the crow and
raven. He Is fully as wary as those
birds and is very suspicious OF "the
man behind the gun His propen-
sity for stealing shining things is well
known.
Not so well known is his dislike,
hatred 1t might be called, OF bright
colored objects, more particularly
bright red or yellow flowers | have
seen magpies with shrjll cries make
savage onslaught on beds OF red glad
iolus. amaryllis and nasturtlum,
while, strange to say, peonies were
left unmolested; perhaps because
their color was not of the Irritating
red shade. I have seen a poor little
escaped canary bird fiercely attacked
by them. 1t seemed as II all the mag
pies in the county had gathered about
that canary. They shieked, fiuttered,
pecked at him and literally tore him
to pieces.
Here is an old legend about the
magpie which may amuse some OF
your readers:
"Onee upon time a magpie,
perched on a branch of a large will
low, saw through the open window
of the village church the chalice on
the altar brilliant I'm the rays of the
sun. Swiftly he flew in, stole the
chalice and carried it up in the. will
low, where he secreted it in the heart
of the tree, imploring silence on the
part of the tree.
AS soon as the theft was dfscov-
cred the villagers set out inquiring of
birds, beasts and plants IL they had
seen the chalice. None had Then
they came to the poplar. And the
poplar willow swore it knew naught
of the chalice and so swore raising it's
branches to heaven in affirmation.
"As a punishment for this perjury
the good Lord would not let the pop
lars branches resume their natural
position. And that Is why the pop
lars branches point straight up.
Next to the poplar was another
willow tree, and when 1t heard the
false testimony of its sister tree it
dropped its branches in shame and
sorrow and so they have ever re-
manned. And thus we got the weep
ing willow
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-09
A BOOK COVER.

Many of our boys and girls no
doubt would like to have neat cover
to put on the books they read to
keep them from getting soiled. Here
is the way to make one that may be
used on any book of ordinary size.
The girls can make it for themselves;
the boys can ask their sisters good
offices in the matter. Take a piece
of tailor's canvas eight inches wide
and seventeen and half inches long,
and on one end of 1t embroider an
initial or monogram, as may be de-
sired. This should be done on the
part of the canvas that will cover
the front of the book. Line the cam
vas with gold eolored silk the same
size as the canvas, overseaming 1t on
all the way around, then bind It
around with half-inch crimson ribbon.
Fold in about two inches on one end
and fasten 1t at each edge. The back
OF the book can be slipped in at this
end so that 1t will hold. and the
other end, being unfolded, may be
used TO mark the place when the book
Is laid aside. OF course the cover
may be OF any size desired. but the
one here described will answer for
most books.-Chicago News.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-09
The Gyroscone PrincipIe.

A practical application of this ten
dency of rotating bodies to preserve
the direction of their axes has been
made in Germany to the compasses
used on shipboard. The needle Of
the ordinary mariners compass Is
very sensitive. This has been neces-
sary hitherto in order that 1t should
maintain its direction toward the
north during the motion of the ship
as 1t moves about In different direc-
tions 1t has been found, however,
that the rolling and vibration of a
ship inteffered with the needle. II
the waves were rolling high the nee
die is apt to become unreliable be-
cause OF its great sensitiveness TO
shocks. However, if when the needle
was known to be in an undisturbed
condition II is connected properly
with gyroscopic wheel kept contin-
ually in motion, this wheel would
hold the needle to its true position.
The usual shocks on shipboard would
have practically no effect. Expert
ments have been made abroad in this
connection, especially with the An
schultz compass. The results of these
experiments have been very favor
able.-From j. Il. Springer's "1he
Gyroscope," in St. Nicholas.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-09
Suffrage in French Revolution.

Woman suffrage is, not, as many
suppose, an American invention. In
1888, the year of the destruction OF
the Bastile, Olympic de Gouges pre-
sented to Marie Antoinette a,.Drogram
containing seventeen articierdemand-
ing the full enfranchisement of wom-
en-. This program set out "that all
citizenesses should, as all citizens,
take part personally or by their rep
resentativess In the forming Of law,
the expression Of the popular VIII"
The success Of this movement at
first appeared certain. Condorcet, in
1893, in the convention, celebrating
the project for constitution. insert
ed woman suffrage. In June, 1898,
the convention voted 1t, but 1t was
never applied, and later that year 1t
was annulled. Subsequently came
the code Napoleon. ''It is necessary"
said the Emperor, "for the woman to
know that in going from the guard
ianship of her father, she should en-
ter under that of her husband"-and
the code expressed practically this
view of the Corsican who had told
the childless Nine. de Stael, with bru-
tai candor, that the greatest woman
in France was the mother who had
the largest number of children.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-09
Notes OF the Farm.

All meat and milk products should
be given as fresh as possible.
Make hens work for their food and
then give them grit,to grind 1t.
Eggs not more than ten days or
two weeks old hatch the strongest
chicks as rule.
The males should be mated to the
females at least two weeks before
eggs are desired for incubating.
Building air castles is light work,
but 1t won't make the hens lay, the
eggs hatch or the little chicks thrive.
Eggs being saved for Matching
should be kept at a temperature not
lower than forty-five nor higher than
seventy-five degrees.
Nobody ever succeeded In the poul.
try business by doing business in
helter-skelter manner; good manage
ment means as much or more toward
success than any other one thing.
The fowls should be allowed to run
outdoors every day the weather will
permit. They will be more healthy
than II closely confined, but don't
compel them to so out in cold winds
and rains.
Plan to purchase at least a setting
or two of pure bred eggs for hatch.
ing this spring. 1t will pay. Another
good way to get a start with good
poultry is by the purchase of day old
or newly hatched chicks.
If the poultry yard is inclined 70
get muddy it will pay to fill it in with
sand OF gravel. ashes, cinders, ETC.,
until 1t is above the general level.
Some peoples poultry yards would
scarcely make even as good hog pens.
Keep the food troughs and feeding
pens clean. Poultry are not like buzz
yards, capable Of thriving ON any old
kind OF rotten stun. Don't let them
have access to musty grains or de-
cayed material of any kind or disease
will very likely result.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-09
EPW0RTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY, APRIL IL.
interrupted Hosannas-Luke 10. 3.

"eS'' uPeco Hosdnnds--Luke ~. 52
4s; Zech. 9. eli.
When Jesus Christ came to a city
OF Palestine, and when he comes to
city OF America, the result is the
same. There Is sharp cleavage OF
opinion and conduct concerning him
The children and all those of child.
like hearts rejoice; they know that
simplicity and goodness and truth and
love come with him, and these things
are to them the signs of the pres.
ence of God. But his coming is al.
ways undesired and dreaded by those
who have refused simplicity and
goodness and truth and love. The
Pharisees sneer They know how
to be righteous according 10 a pro.
gram, but they have no purpose OF
righteousness as thing of tho
heart. The traders In the temple
snarl in impotent rage, because tho
very qualities for which he SANDS
will ruin their business and destroy
their gains.
So Christ comes to every communl.
ty. The hosannas of the childlike
are eyer interrupted by the criticisms
of the self-righteous and the greed Of
the unjust. No man who is unwill
ing to confess his helplessness and
his need will receive Jesus Christ
No one who chooses gain rather than
godliness will welcome him. When
a man who Is In bad business does
welcome Christ he abandons his bus.
mess, as did Zaccheus; when a man
who is in a bad business does not
welcome Christ, sooner or later he
must abandon his business anyhow,
but in that case he perishes with his
profits.
The childlike are not the only ones
who welcome the advent Of Christ
He comes with a message of freedom
TO all who are bound. His simple
word opens the dark places OF doubt;
his comfort releases the prisoner OF
sorrow his word of pardon frees the
bondslave of sim