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Douglas Island news., 1909-07-28

The captain and crew of the wbaler Belvedere are in the custody of the federal authorities at San Francisco, where they will be tried on the charge of murdering four Eskimo girls in the Arctic. The charge recites that the girls were kidnapped for immoral pur- poses and afterwards thrown into the sea to avoid detection.
 Backed by Tacoma capitalists and old-timers in the Nome country, the Surf Mining company is now installing a plant on the shore of Boring sea, near the old cemetery, with which it is sanguinely expected large amount of gold will be cleanediup before the close of navigation, says the Nome Nugget, The plant which is being installed is steam m-scrapiug outfit. In other words, it is large scoop which will be oper- ated by pulleys. A"dead man" will be anchored at point considerable dis tance from the shore, and block will be attached to the mooring. The plant has been so devised that the scoop will work automatically, travelling out a certain distance, scooping up load of sand, and returning it to the beach, where It will be treated by the ordinary method Uf sluicing. One of the chief difficulties which will have to be met by the Surf Mining company lies in the fact that the upper foot or more ot the sea floor is composed of quick sand and as fast as it is scooped out by the shovel or scraper the hole will fill in again This upper stratum carries only low values, the money lying in concen- traled form about two or three feet below the surface.
 It seems that Alaska Is becoming the dumping ground for foreign laborers. The St. Croix arrived with 145 Russians who hoped to secure work on the rail. road here. As the story goes, the Rus- sian steamship Vaarg arrived at Nome with 300 Russians. The citizens there held mass meeting to keep them from being landed, but the commissioner, acting in the capacity of immigration ageut, decided that each of the foreign CTS had the necessary amount of money provided by law, and they were landed. One hundred and eighty five took pas- sage on the St. Croix and 40 of them were landed at Seward for the railroad at that place. The purser of the steamer telegraphed to M. J. Heney of this place to see if he would employ the other 145, but received no answer. The purser took the train this morning to try and find MT. Heney to see what could be done. In case there is no work for them, they will be taken to Seattle. Passengers on the St. Croi1 state that some of the Russians evil dently belonged to the army, as they still wear the uniform of Cossacks. Very few of them can speak word of English, it is claimed, and the majority of them are evidently of the laboring class. It was also reported, but the report could not be verified and is given for what it is worth, that some of the Russians are the exiles reported in the press dispatches as having killed their Cossack guards and escaped from penal settlement, with the intention of landing in Alaska. The pieces of army garb, it is pointed out, may have been taken from the Cossacks who were slain.--Cordova North Star.
Douglas Island news., 1909-07-28

Forty-two oil claims belonging to the Pacific Coal X Oil company have been "jumped" by the Northern Oil company or it's agents in the past few weeks.
 The American Museum in the inter- est of natural history will shortly send a party to Alaska to study the Indians. The mem bsrs will make sketches, take photographs of Indian life and gather data.
 It is said that big force of men will be kept at work next winter on the Copper River & Northwestern railway, and the road will be operated as far as Teikell river, according to present plans.
 Iron creek, in the Nome district, is the scene of much activity this season. Frank H. Waskey and the Golden Gate Mining Go. are employing big crews of men, and excellent results have been reported.
 The captain of the river steamer Casca captured a baby moose in the Yukon, but when arrested for violating the game laws set up the defense that he had plucked it from the river to save it from drowning.
 Sullivan and Cache creeks, in the Hot Springs district, are expected to yield S3OO,OOO in gold this season, but the present shortage of water may result in the total cleanup being consider ably less than this amount.
 A Seattle paper notes that Fred Bram, one of the few men who have al. ready made success of farming in Alaska, is visiting in that city. Mr.. Bram is one of the owners of 25.acre ranch at Gakona, 131 miles from Valdez.
 Levi Chubbuck, a special agent of the department of agriculture, is in Alaska for the purpose of examining the agricultural lands of the Copper river, Susitna and Tanaua valleys, with view of opening the way to home steaders.
 The fawn which was captured near Ketchikan by passengers on the Cor win on her trip to Nome, and after wards presented to the captain of the ship as mascot, became weary of sailor life and committed suicide by jumping into BerinP sea.
 Alaska has already given up many fortunes, but stands ready, to my mind, to give up twice as many more with development, " are the words of Dr. H. S. Pritchett, of Boston, mem- Der of Che U. s, lighthouse board, after making trip to the North.
 The "Nifty Kid," who was confined in the Nome jail for fighting, recently tore few boards from the upper story of the building, leaped to the planked street below and started on Marathon for the tall uncut. He was overtaken by the marshal, however, and is again taking the rest cure.
 Three hundred Russians, many of whom were laboring under the impress sion that they had reached their Mecca, or the land overAowing with pick and shovel work, recently arrived at Nome. One hundred and fifty were seeking Rd- mission to that port, 50 were on their way to Fairbanks and the balance en- route to the States.
Douglas Island news., 1909-07-28

Construction work on the Juneau Eagle river trail Is progressing rapidly. A crew of about thirty men, working in the vicinity of McGinnis creek, has completed eight bridges averaging 30 i feet in length and Il feet wide, and built several miles of corduroy road.
 The first wholly elective Yukon coun- cil has convened. Robert Lowe, of Whitehorse, was elected speaker, Will lard Phelps, of Whitehorse, leads the government side and presents bills emanating from government sources. ! The first legislation enacted was intro duced by a Conservative, and recon : mended that six Keystone placer drills be loaned to prospectors in outlying districts, with proper safeguards, to encourage the opening of placer fields. It unanimously carried.
 Recent arrivals at Fort Gibbon from the lower river bring stories of strike on one of the tributaries of the Kusko- kwim which comes into the Kuskokwim ! 40 miles above Bethel. The river Is me Tuluksak, and the discovery !s sup posed 10 be have been made 100 miles up from ,he mouth of that river. Ac- cordng to the story, five men recently took out S4,5OO, and another is to the effect that one man rocked out S30 d day la the vicinity of the strike there are said to be about IF men.
 l Notwithstanding the fact that coal lands were withdrawn from public en- try by President Roosevelt in 1906, during the past two or three months numerous locations have been made up in the Carbon mountain and Saltwater sections, says the Katalla Herald. There are many good lawyers who hold that the then president had no author ity of law or of precedent to withdraw the lands from entry, but nevertheless he seems to have done it quite effec- tually. The present location of coal lands is said to have been done in the belief that the lands will be restored to public entry, or that congress will pass remedial legislation of some kind, and in the meantime the claimants will have secured prior rightss
 Arriving from Kodiak and other islands to the westward on the Bertha today were w. A. Gossett and son, Charley Gossett, cattle and business men of Baker City, Oregon, who have been looking over the country with a view of investing. They left on the Bertha for the south, but expect to re- turn later. MT. Gossett says the Aleutian chain of islands will, in time, be the grazing lands for the worlds market of horses, cattle and sheep. The grass is even superior to the famous bunch grass of the West, and enough wild hay can be put up to keep the vast neroS TOT the ShofI CAhe AOL "nLOH '"0S will have to be fed during the winter months. He believes that stock can be shipped cheaper from the islands via water ports to America, Alaska and Asia than from any part of the Western hemisphere; certainly much cheaper than from east of the mountains, where a rail haul is necessary. He believes that goats will prove more marketable and valuable at the present time than sheep. He has plans under way for a big farm and is now enroute outside with a view of arranging the necessary detaila.--Cordova North Star.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-25
HOW MAN PROFITS BY COTTON SEED

the business of crushing cotton seed. refining
cotton oil and manufacturing the various prod
uetS OF the seed is largely conducted nv the
American Cotton oil Company and its subsidiary
corporations. This company was Incorporated
under the laws of the State of New Jersey n,
october IL. 1889 The principal products pro
ducrd by the company are cottonsced oil. cotton
seed cake. cottonseed meal cottonseed huIEs and
ashes ANA linters. also a compound and a cotto-
'ehe winch are used as substitutes fer lard and
butter refined edible oils soaps and Wasbine
powders
The American Cotton Oil COMPANY owns nm
nerouS rrhntricS all the United SSraros
crude oil mills. soap factories. lard plants gins
ltr''nZer works and seed houses The business
OF the company commences in Septcnber .,
each year with the purchase of cotton seed ana
continues during the season through the ,-,r;o,,s
processes OF crushing. refining and manufa.t-
urinS OF ITS various products for mark,tjno ~,
over the civilized world Sixteen large ,,,,-,,
Mes are owned by the American C,c.t,, an,
company through the ownership of their ~. ~;
capital stocks. excepting the dirccto~-. ,,,.,,,
lying shares The executive office of III. .
PaHy Is at No. - Beaver street. New YORK ci,.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-25

his working hours, got busy the other day and
reduced the egg traffic to interesting and spe-
cihc details. He figured out, for instance, that
the total egg production of the country for a
year was fifteen and One-half billions. If placed
end TO end they would make a line nearly five
thousand miles long, sufficient TO connect New
York and San Francisco with a ribbon of eggs
and leave some for a bowknot at either end. IL
requires eight eggs TO make pint, so If gigan-
tic cook should essay the task of serving up all
Of the countrys eggs in an Omeette he would
have 24300000 gallons of eggs with which to
cope. The statistician essayed to estimate the
s3ze OF the Omeette. but that led him into mazes
Of calculation where even his nimble wits failed
him.
Back of all these eggs comes the hen There
sre about 7SOO0OOO of her on the job. and each
hen In a year will lay five times her own weight
fn eggs If she pays attention to business and
doesn't loaf too much II follows. then that if il
were possible for one hen to lay an egg the size
h all the eggs rolled into one that particular
Ian would in verify rule the roost and have
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-25
ATLANTIC FRUIT COMPANY.
Luscious Products Brought to New YORK from
the Tropics.

The history Of the Atlantic Fruit Company. its
rapid and remarkable growth, reads like ro-
nance Of commerce. In 1905. just four years
ago this now wonderful concern began bUsi-
ness with headquarters in Baltimore Nd where
the general Offices Of the business are still 10
Gated: 1lOI 10 1IO1 Calvert Building. The Bal
tmore Division is located at No. IS East Pratt
Street: the New York Division at Pier 9. East
River: the Philadelphia Division at 12I Walnut
Street
Members of the Company are. Joseph Di
Giorgio. President; Thornton Rollins. Vice
President: Henry j. Buck. Treasurer: Irving h
Ward Secretary and General Auditor The
Company now has a paid in capital stock OF
$3.50. 10000. and operates under charter eighteen
steamers importing tropical fruits from jamaica
and cuba TO New York and Baltimore Princi-
palIy bananas are imported. and for the fiscal
year ending June 3Oth. 1909. more than four and
half million punches had been imported 70 the
different ports. They also brought large ship
ments OF other tropical fruits including espe
cially cOcOanuts- The salaried employees OF this
Company number now over one hundred. AMI
there more than thousand laborers en-
ployed on steamers and in the Tropics In con-
nection with the shipping
The following quotation from one Of tie Iarg-
est papers OF Baltimore gives an idea with what
regard and esteem the young President OF this
remarkable Company is held in that City where
the parent Office Is located: MIR Joseph Di
GiorgiO is easily the leading Italian citizen of
Baltimore His remarkable rise in the fruit
business or shipping trade is one OF the 70
mances OF the business He is now President
of the Atlantic Fruit Company. which is the
second largest corporation engaged in the ship
ping OF tropical fruits" This leader Of indus
try is but So years Of age. and has been in
America but twenty years. He has been knight
ed by the King OF Italy.
He be- gan his business career in this country
with small fruit business in the City Of Bal
tmOre. but the future held more for this man
Of actual achievement He knew that mankind
had always prospered with improvements In
transportation He also knew that in his line
Of business success depended cheap water
carriage; that 10 form the proper connection
between the Tropics and those countries de-
handing fruits would mean large profits 20 all
parties concerned. Hence he set about 10 IS
tablish such means OF transportation and to-
day has and controls the second largest ship
ping business OF its kind in the world
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-25
RUTTERING CITY'S BREAD.
Chmnings of Many States Come to
Metropolis Ldrder.

Butter demands and receives its share Of dell
cate. cleanly handling in the New York markets.
One may buy butter at almost any price he wants
to pay. ranging from few cents to dollar or
more pound. The highest prices are brought
by the butter produced by the specialists. who
own model daires and surround the process OF
manufacture with all manner Of sanitary and
prophylactic measures to insure freedom from in
huences that would impair the flavor or purity OF
the sweet smelling yellow output.
No matter how much or how little one may
find the butter bill charged in his grocery &C
count he may rest content with the assurance
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-25

The popularity OF eggs with New Workers. as
an article OF food is due to the fact that they
furnish excellent substitute for meat in a
compact. palatablc form As article OF diet
they are far more general than any other
product that goes 10 the making Of the daily
bill Of fare They are rich in protein. which
builds and repairs the tissues of the body and
makes energy. They easily digested. and
their preparation is a matter of only a few min
utes They are marvcously adaptable TO cook
Ing processes. II has been reckoned that there
are more than five hundred ways in which 10
serve eggs.
In common With butter. cheese milk and meat.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-25

'I'e eggs that are marketed In New York owe
'her freshness, palatableness and heaIthfulncss
TO modern cold storage methods In order to
preserve eggs a low temperature is necessary
THIS may proftably be supplemented bv cx-
ciudlhG AR from the contents of the shells. if
II Is desired to keep them for unusually Ions,
perlods before marketing. AS a general thing
the period which elapses between the having of
The egg and its sale to New York customers is
so brief tlat its freshness is amply assured bv
Keeping it in low temperature. Nowadays
HeSh egg Is merely well kept egg The
iresher they are the better. of course but = we'll
kept egg will retain its freshness to an extent
that VIII satisfy even epicure if il is claimed
into cold storage promptly and allowed 10 re-
main without being exposed to n sufficiently
nigh temperature to encourage fermentation and
decay
Endless trouble and pains are taken bv the
dealers TO insure the freshness OF New York.s
egg supply. Some go to the lengths of wran
ping each egg in air and water proof paper.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-25
KEEPS THE HEN BUSY
NEW YORK LIKES EGGS.
1ouoa Produces More Than Any
Other State, scith Ohio Second.

II all the eggs New York eats in year could
be made into one, a cup the size of the Singer
Building would scarcely suffice to hold the gil
Eantic specimen OF hen fruit" which would it
self be almost as huge as the skyscraper. and
with a shell which could successfully be assault
ed with a spoon only a little smaller than the
obelisk In Central Park.
In the metropolis eggs is eggs" when It
comes to reckoning them numerically and in
bulk. Little brown hens and big gray hens.
busy White Leghorns and hulking Plymouth
Rock pullets, wherever the voice of the hen is
raised in the land, labor increasingly with the
concentration of effort that is mathematical OF
the hens industry TO keep pace with New York's
demand for eggs. They come here from every
state and almost every territory in the Union
And the marvel of it is. when one comes to think
OF IT, how exceedingly few spoiled eggs Slip into
the supply when it has once passed the various
Inspection processes to which each crate is sub
3ected. Bad eggs in plenty come to the New
York market, but it is only odd one now and
then that gets into circulation, TO speak.
Spoiled eggs have their utility and their value
There is a steady demand for them at good
prices by manufacturers OF certain sorts of fine
leather. They are far more eager TO get them
than the consumer is to have them appear on
the table. and the dealers are just as anxious to
see that the bad eggs go where they are wei
coined, rather than risk complications with the
health authorities and combat complaints from
their customers
EGGS BY THE BILLION.
When one sets out to total all the eggs used
In New York in a twelvemonth he runs out Of
tn millions and gees up into the billions In one
day alone recently 3.5UOOOO eggs reached the
New York market. The aggregate number for
q year is approximately 1.3OOOOOOOO more or
less. which IS quite near enough for practical
purposes. what hundred thousand eggs
or so either way when one is counting them by
millions
A stats clan in one Of the biggest commission
houses in the city, who lives with eggs. thinks
eggs. buys eggs, sells eggs and is on the most
intimate terms possible with eggs during all Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-25

things pretty much her own way In the world
for she would weigh In the neighborhood of
35O.OO0.OO0 pounds. II such hen existed she
would enable the astronomers to settle the
mooted question OF signalling to Mars. One
cackle would not only be heard on the planet.
but in all probability the reverberatiOns of the
sound would jar Mars out OF its orbit The
eggs that she would lay would weigh only a
few less than 2.OOOOOOOOO pounds.
'RAH FOR THE IOWA HEN!
Iowa is the banner egg state. Something in
the atmospheric conditions there seems TO be
especially fitted for the development of the egg
industry. for year In and year out the sturdy
hens of Iowa wallop the feathers off their rivals
in the other states in the race TO roll up the
highest total Ohio is second in the list and
Illinois is third. New York State. the eggs of
which come for the most part to the metropol
tan market. is ninth.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-10
Stearns' Wine of Cod Liver Extract

appetite and aids the digestion enches the BLOOD
providing nouishment need This eondi'
restful Stearns' Wine of Cod Liver
your sTEARNsthe genuine
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-10

A. f. Judd of the trustees of Oahu
College is meeting with great success
in his effort to get for the college pho
tographs of former trustees In add
ton to the photographs previously Sc
cured of George NJ. Robertson and
John 5. Low, several others have now
been presented to the college. Frank
{. Anterior has given fine likeness
of his father, Joseph B. Anterior; Mrs.
Ellen Weaver has given a photograph
of her father, Richard Armstrong, and
of her brother. w. n. Armstrong; Mr..
Judd has had suitably framed a large
photograph of his father, Chief JUS
tiee Judd. and, through the assistance
of G. P Wilder, picture of DR.. Robert
w. Wood an enlargement from da
guerreotype, has been secured When
these picture are all in, it viii make
a valuable collection.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-10
Capt. Harllee Selected.

year, has been Selected for the impor.
tant position this year. The team will
be selected after practise at Seagirt
\. j., where arrangements have been
made for rife practise of marines sta
toned at New York and Philadelphia.
Captain Harllee was at one time sta
toned at the Honolulu Naval Station.
Coming on the Thomas.
On the transport Thomas now en-
route from San Francisco to Honolulu
is the 18th Cavalry, which is to ex-
change with a regiment in the Philip
pines. The 18th Cavalry has been sta
toned at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.
Company A, 1st Battalion Of Engi.
neers, stationed at Waikiki, is relieved
from duty on this island and will leave
for the mainland on the transport due
here about May 5.
The plans and specifications for the
new drydock at Pearl Harbor have been
completed and the advertisements will
be issued SO that bids will be opened
May %. The new dock as modified to
bring the cost within the amount APP
propriated by Congress for the work
has been reduced to length of 500
feet, the original length having been
100 feet.
The engagement of Miss Bessie
Louise Diehman to Lieutenant Thur
man Harrison Bane, 14th Cavalry, e.
s. A, has been announced. says the
News Letter. Miss Dichman is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dich-
man. and is well known in social and
musical circles here San Francisco.
No date has been set for the wedding,
which will probably take place in the
early fall before the departure of Lieu
tenant Bane for the Philippines. Lieu
tenant Bane is graduate of West
Point, and has host of friends both
at the Preside and in this city.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-10
Welcomed at Moanalua.

Admiral Ijichi, the captains, officers
and cadets of the japanese training
squadron were welcomed and enter
tanned yesterday afternoon at Moana-
lua, the beautiful country seat of Hon.
S. NJ. Damon. The officers were con-
veyed to the estate in carriages. Mr..
Damon welcomed the distinguished Adj
miral and officers upon the lawn. A
pleasant two hours was spent in admir-
ing the beautiful flowers and grounds
and in partaking of refreshments. The
Hawaiian band was present and dis
eoursed throughout the stay of the
large party.