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The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-06-26
THE NEW NORTHWEST

The arrival from Alaska of ships IL of gold
and valued $3200000 will renewed interest Alaska The
attention which this portion of Uncle Sans domains will attract
of the Seattle exposition will be invaluable bringing
about the speedy development of the northwest The producing
capital well capital when these forces united
the northwest will important the development of
the nation did the old northwest the civil Let keep
the thus this the of
problem which confrons California and the southern
with the
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-06-26

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The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-06-26

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Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21
BOGUS MINING EXPERTS

Employment by the United States geological survey, for even a short time or in any capacity, appears to have a commercial value that it rated high. Even the cooks and teamstcrs of the field parties refer proudly to their connection with the survey and reap the reward of popular credit that attaches to their public scrvicc."
 In this wise the United States Geo. logical Survey Press Bullctin} treats of subject with which the mining men O Alaska are somewhat ffamil- far. Continuing, the article says:
 ''The advertisement of such con- nectiOn after it ceases, however. has sometimes been the source of trouble or embarrassment to the survey, cs- pecially where it is used for the fur thcrance of doubtful mining schemes, and the survey desires to give cm- phasis and wide publicity 10 the fact, now fairly well known, that no mem Der Of its scientific corps is allowed to do private professional work in the United States during the period of his employment. The rules of the survey are, indeed, SO stringent, that no one connected with it in any ca pacity-whethcr as messenger, labor CT, clerk or scicntist-is permitted to hold stock in any mining company in the United States. The public is warned to look carefully into the statements and the standing of any practicing mining engineer who ad- vertises present come ction withs the survey.
 "The fact that the stan of the geo logical survey is not composed cxclu- lively of geologists is too often over To oked. Of the twelve hundred or more persons connected with it in 1908, not more than 10 per cent are geologists, and not more than 1 per cent are engaged in work whose character implies ability to determine the merits of mining prospect or enterprise"
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21
ALASKA'S WAR ON JUDGES

One of the favOritc pastimes of Alaska is making perpetual war on the federal judges assigned to the territory. Ample newspaper proof can be obtained from the files of the Alaska papers to demonstrate that each and every man who ever sat on the bench in Alaska was a profcs- sional criminal. A large percentage of practicing attorneys helped to furnish this proof and are ready to make spiel on the subject at any time or place.
 When Judge Reid came to Alaska some credulous persons hoped he would prove an exception to the rule but the offer is now made by parties so far unknown to demonstrate that he is no better than his predecessors. A few crimes have not yet been charged against him but there iS time to extend the list
 Still it may not be true. Judge Wickersham was accused of nearly every ofTense interdicted by the crim- nal code but his enemies only sc- cured the support of three United States senators out of ninety and each of those three had q grudgc. Also the people of Alaska seem to think well of Wickersham.
 A test vote on Judge Reid in the coast end of the Third Division would show result indicating cm- phatic confidence.
 All this serves as reminder of a story.
 A few years ago Judge Wickcrsham met Thomas A. McGowan. attorney for the Northern Commercial Com pany and one of the foremost lawyers of the Panama, in Seattle, and ad- dressed him as follows:
 Tom, I think you are pretty poor stick of q lawyer"
 McGowan inquired with a touch of asperity the occasion of this umnattcr- ing remark, and received this answer.
 "Well, you are the only lawyer in Alaska who eyer lost case in my court who did not immediately de mand an investigation of the judge. By the way. Tom, have some news for you. The circuit court of appeals has just reversed my decision and ordered Judgement for your client. =
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21
CONGRESS TO BECOME
 BUTTER BATTLE-GROUND

Congress is to become the battle ground between the butter-makers and the oleOmargarine manufacturers this winter. It became known today says the Chicago Evening Post, that vigorous fight is to be put up in both houses of the national legislature for the removal of the embargo on but . tcrinc production.
 Whilcit iS conceded that gastronom ically there is difference between good butter and olcomargarine in favor of good butter, and also in favor of good olcomargarinc as com pared with bad butter. it is recog- niZcd on all hands that d removal of the embargo placed on the manu- fracture of ol"Omargarinc would be followed by a big slump in the price of butter of all grades. possibly a drop of q or cents pound.
 This is a serious proposition for the dairy interests, but on the other hand it iS claimed that advantage has been taken of the tax on olcomargarine to put artificial and excessive prices on batter
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21
A woman reporter on an eastern pa.

A woman reporter on an eastern pa- per was recently shocked because q street carnival had an attraction which was placarded with the inscrip- tion, "For Men Onlyl" From the great number of men she saw patron izing the place, she soon decided that it must be something very wicked, and therefore said somo very caustic things about it in the paper. Upon investigation it proved that the bold, bad attraction consisted of clothes line upon which hung pair of pants, coat, vest and socks. When one sucker entered the place and found he had been buncoed, be naturally steered all bis friends into tho trap.
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21
SENATE VOTES ID
 RELIEVE ALASKA
Piles Bill Appropriating S140,000 For Aids To
 Navigation Passes

Washington, Jan, 15-The senate this morning passed the Piles bill providing foran appropriation of $40, GOO to be used in constructing aids to navigation along the coast of Alaska In his efforts the senator from Wash ington has acted at the request of the lighthouse board,
 It is believed that the Piles bill will pass the house without opposition as congress has been strongly urged to take cognizancc of the necessity for atfording relief to the vessels plying Alaska waters.
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21
Pegasus Adds To Mary's Stable

Fairbanks merchant named Cor don drafts Mary and her little lamb into his service for advertising pur- poses, in the following "pome:" Mary had little lamb It's fleece was white as snow It used to butt in everywhere That Mary used to go But Mary fleeced the sheep one day And shopping went down town And at Gordon's bought a new
 Sheath Skirt And Split Directoire Gown. Yetsheep eyes are still cast at her. And trough necks" jeer and gloat. Though Mary has the lamb no more She's got everybody's goat" For the sheath skirt is the latest cut It's almost cut in half Who cares q damb
 For Mary's lamb
 When we see Mary's calf?
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21
PEkKNiFE LEFT IN FUR
 COAT CUTS WOMAN'S LEG

New York, Mrs. Frederick E.. Brlcher, wife of the secretary of a music-publishing company of this city, was seriously injured while seated in subway train last night in one of the most peculiar accidents on record. Mrs. Belchcr was seated by her husband when she screamed sud denly and grasped her left leg. As passengers stared she cried franti- cally: II am bleeding; it is in my coat"
 Then she tainted. The train was stopped at the next station and the unconscious woman was carried to a bench on the platform, leaving a trail of blood behind her. Mir. Belcher. frightened and mystified as to the cause of the accident, bent over his wife and found q siX-inch cut on the calf of the leg. Bandaging the wound hastily, he summoned a physician, but before the doctor arrived the woman continued to bleed so freely that q policeman found it necessary to take his night stick, by means of which he hastily provid ed tourni- quct.
 Examination of Mrs. Belcher's coat in the meantime revealed the point of sharp penknife sticking through the linniDg. It is supposed that some one who had hand in making the garment, which is sealskin, left the knife by accident in the folds where it was sewed up unnoticed.
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21
Comfort Is Held For Grand I,.v

sam Comfort, the negro who was shot by Cleo Wardell, was yesterday afternoon by Commissioner Beeks held to appear before the grand jury on charge of assault with intent to kill. Bail was fixed at s2,ooo, which has not been furnished.
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21
MAN HUNTS DEER. DEER
 HUNTS MAN; OH! DEAR.

Superior, Wis.,-IIcrc is the realcst story of the hunting season. One for which none will stand rcsponsi- blc except the hunter who tells it upon himself
 Henry Linkor was eating lunch in the wilderness near here when he was attacked by buck that rushed from the md"rbrush. Llnkcr forgot his gun in a mad rush for sapling, which he climbed. The tree, how ever. would uot bear his weight, and hr dropped upon the back of the buck, which, frightened at receiving rider, dashed away across a clear ing. LinIicr hung on for dear life while he drew his razor and, leaning over the bucks neck. cut it's throat. Tn" deer was eaten before the party returned home.
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21

Railroad Conductor--Is there room m there for this man? Young Men in Compartment--Impossible. Just about room for the two ladies.
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21
THEY TRIED BRIBERY"
 SAYS GRAFT VENIREMEN

san Francisco, Jan. I5-That the defense in the graft cases is dcspcr- ate, and is determined to continue it's old tactics is indicated by the char ges made this morning by Joseph Dixon, prospective juror in the case against Patrick Calhoun of the Uni ted Railway Company. Dixon told that he was last evening approached by person whose identity he does not know and was offered substantial reward if he would stand out for ac. quittal.
 An investigation has been ordered, and, as usual, the lawyers for the de- fensc deny any Knowledge of the at tempt at bribery.
 Man is a little cuss and hasn't long to stay. He lies around and makes fuss and then he hikes away. . Some men imagine they are great and try tO tear up jack, but each one meets the same old track. Great Ceasar's dead and turned to clay and SO is Cicero. Alexander has gone the way the rest of us must go. The sages, poets, heroes, all the men of worth, into the open grave must fall and crumble back to earth. Then let's not join the mad affray to strug- gle like the duco, and agonize our lives away, for really what's the use? Let's live and love and sing the while and work some now and then, and give to everyone a smile that cheers the hearts of men. And whether we are crowned with flowers or chilled with winter snows, with happiness let's All the hours, ere we turn up our toes. ."--Ex.
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21

Sapleigh--A bwick fell from build ing two years ago and knocked me senseleSs. Miss Caustique--Indeedl And does your phys ician think you will ever get over it9i
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21
Day Is Cold Along Trail

According to the reports from the government telegraph stations the weather along the trail is somewhat cold. The report from Delta gives fifty two below bero, from Donnelly's fifty, from McCarty's fifty-one, from Copper Center forty-eigbt, from Ton sina forty.two and from Tiekhel, tbirty-fve.
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21

There was d man in our town Who was 50 wOndrUus wise. He thought q business he could run. And never advertise. Take heed and learn the moral Of this sad, mournful tale, For the only ad he ever had Was, "Closcd for Shcrin's Sale"
 --EXChau0c.
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21

"Every man is the architect of his own fortune," quoted the Wise Guy. "Yes, but he wants to keep solid with the building inspectors" added Simple Mug
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21

"Poor Tom, it cost hin q terrible lot to give up his sweetheart" "Then why did he?'' Because it would have cost him q great deal more if he hadn't.v
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21

Do you consider your nerve is sum ciently steady to fit you for an airship navigator" "Well, I've been out ia canoe with a nervous fat eirl.n
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21

w. II. Kennedy, consulting engi. noer for the Western Pacific, says that in all his forty years experience in railroad engineering, he has never before known of or heard of tunnel more than mile in length and the grou nd dry all the way through. But that is what he found in the Western Pacific's Flower Lake tunnel, hole 1.l miles long, in the western part of Nevada. Tho workmen did not strike water or rloisture in any part of the entire lergth, and what fig more, the formatiorl was sosolid that only few rods of tiI Ihbering had to be used in one spot, hwbcre the composition was not go SO Hd.
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21

"Out in fthc Martin river country is the greatest place for muskrats that have ever sccn," said Tom White the other day. "It would be no trouble at all for trapper who knows his business to get at least fifty a day, and as the pelts are worth 20 cents each, ho would be rewarde d with ten dollars q day for his trouble. The lakes in the Martin river dis trict are filled with the houses of the little muskrats, of which there arc thousands. There are also mink, fox, lynx and other fur bearing animals to be found there, but the prevailing crop is muskrat. Herald.
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21

"Is this section prosperous?' "You bet it is," answered the Kansas far mer. "I kin spread q net any time and snake grand piano out of q eyclone.v
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21

"I suppose you know why you are hereP' asked the judge several. "Yes, sir" auswered the prisoner. CT wuz drug here"
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21
KETCHlKAN MAN TALKS
 TO EASTERN PAPERS
CFrom the Washington Herald)

"If were a young man looking for money I'd go immediately to South ern Alaska" said w. s. Daily ,imining engineer of Ketchikan, Alaska, at the Shoreham last night.
 "Fd go to either Ketchikan, Skag- way, or Juneau" continued the miner. "It doesn't take much money to get there." The town in which Mir. Daly lives is the first on the other side of the boundary line and is about 700 miles north of Seattle. "Thc sal aries there are high; clerks are paid from S1OO to $50 month"; he said, "and it doesn't cost any more to live there than it does in Washington or Ot as much.
 "Of course when you go farther north the cost of transportation makes prices high, but the salaries are higher accordingly. Many bright young men go to Alaska from the United States, but most of them dOn't stay with their work. They either save few hundred dollars, and go back to their friends in the United States, or they get the gold fever and start out and begin prospecting. l have seen times there when a com pany would pay almost any amount for an expert boOkkccper.
 "Thc climate of the region ill which l live is comparatively warm. Ic"e weather is rare. We are warmed by the China and Japan current and by the sOuthwcsterly winds.n
 MT. Daly believes that Alaska is destined to become great country, bur that the only industries there will be fishing and mining. "AIaska is full of gold. The Klon- dyke is no longer placer country. All the surface gold has been washed out, and only drcdges can get it out now"
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21

Strange things happen in Missouri. The Lowry City Independent tells this one: "A colorcd woman was charged with inhuman treatment of her children. Evidence wa clear that the woman had severely beaten on" youngstcr, aged some nine ycars who was in court to exhibit his bat tered condition. Before imposing sentence the justice asked the woman whether she had anything to say" Kin ask Yo' Honoh q question:" inquired the prisoner" "CcrtainIy you can," the court responded. "Well, then, Yo' Honoh, I'd like to ask yo' whether yo' was ever de par ent of a puffectly wuthlcss cullud child?"
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21

Hunters coming into town from the Dcighboring islands say that wolves are more numerous than ever before, and that deer are consequently hard to find. The small islands in Snow Passage are said to be literally cov- cred with wolves, and they are get ting SO bold that they approach very near to the tents of people camping on the beach, making the night hide. ous by their bowling. Wrangell Sentinel
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21

Two Atkinson young ladies. while in O'Neil not long ago. decided it would be quite novel and original to have their pictures made with their heads thrust through q newspaper. After making their wants known to the photographer they popped their heads through and the work was done, but when they got the proof they discovered that they had stuck their heads through clothcr's ad- vcrtiscmcnt and just below their faces the clothcr had said in large letters, Our pants are lined in the seat" They didn't have them fin ishcd. The Frontier.
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21

The grand jury in Fairbanks re- turned three indictments against George Gibson, charged with con- yerting to his own use some 5000 worth of gold dust intrustcd to him by Commissioner Bcvington of Hot Springs. The commissioner gave Gibson the dust with the understand. ing that it was to be delivered to the officers of the district court in Fair banks, it being court funds. Gibson, however, converted the greater part of it into money orders which he sent to various persons in the east. All except few hundred dollars has been recovered. Gibson was indicted on two counts of ombczzlement by trustee and on one of embezzlemcnt by bailpp
Valdez weekly prospector., 1909-01-21

Lecturing PhilanthropisC (hom9 from China )--You know, my dear people, the prisons there are not the sort of places to which you and I are accustomed.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-03-06

County
diamonds according article by John Fuller consult
ing engineer for that has investigated the field that REGION In
q number Of the Engineering and Mining Journal
Fuller diamonds found
Of weighed PIT
The found weighs on
white yellow
psrdos" varying hardness
the soil the psoe "A number these
writes Mr. Fuller remarkable purity being
quality African Three the found have
yielded beautiful which valued $40
carat"
tho junction Of that with Prairie and and onehan miles
southeast Murfrsesbor the Mention Of the locality
diamond region ar.t made early 1892 but was not until $780,
when tho including the and reported
BY the State Geoogst that scientifically described
The peridoti Africa found what 10
Technically which
depth the idea Of people, the diamonds
not contained soft soil ground that dcul to wash
aud Africa perdos bus
ground" this originating in tho color Of the material
Mr. Fuller radical dto
Fuller
mining
that mining which would be
unattainable In Africa.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-03-06

This first governmental issue Of
stamped envelopes. stamped letter pa.
per and adhesive labels or stamps In
England was In 1S4O Three years he
fore. In 1897. stamped wrappers under
the name OF 'gO-frees' had been used
experimentally and had been recon.
mended to the chancellor Of the ex.
chequer for adoption BY the govern.
ment. In Dundee. a printer named
James Chalmers printed stamps from
ordinary type. washing their backs with
gum. He showed them to bis neigh.
bors, but made no public mention Of
them until November. 1897. nine months
after Sir Rowland Hill had drawn the
attention Of the commissioners Of the
postofiice to the possibilities Of using
such adhesive stamps when people
bought unstamped envelopes to the
postofiice.
The postal system derives it, very
name from the posts placed along Ro-
man roads to mark points where court.
ers took dispatches. But the modern
postal system with Its prepaid postage.
with Its system Of levying postal trib-
ute on the basis Of weight and not dis
lance. it, letter boxes. it, delivery Of
parcels and newspapers and money or.
ders. dates from Sir Rowland Hill.
The earliest oficial notice Of q postal
service in the American colonies 10
found in the records Of the general
court Of Massachusetts, IN 1880. The
house Of Richard Fairbanks in Boston
was under the ruling Of the court desig.
mated a. the place for all letters
brought from across the seas or to b
sent thither. He was allowed a penny
for every letter which he received or
sent. In Virginia. every planter was
required to provide messenger to car.
ry letters - they arrived at his plan.
tation to the next one. He forfeited
hogshead Of tobacco should he fail
to do 10. In 1872. the government Of
New York established a monthly post
between New York and Boston. In 1901
the Office Of postmaster general FOL