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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27

| brace up against the uneasy feeling
| when a bad-faced young man, who WAS
a spectator, sided up to him and whis-
pered:
| don't you do itv'
What do you mean, sir, by address,
| ing me in this mannerv
Don't put on the rollers. Yer too fat
| and 1oggy. You hain't got no hair to
| fall on. Yer might roll down hill in a
bar'l, but you amt no pigeon-Winger
| on skatesp
| Mr.. Bowser got mad all over, and
| from that instant his determination
| was taken. He would skim that floor
as the gull skins the sea, and after the
skimming act he would make that bad
| faced young man beg his pardon for
| the insulting remarks. He sat down
| then and there and strapped on the
| skates he had hired at the door.
| "How are you going to start in?"
| asked Barnes, as all was ready.
He'll start in with a fiipf1op and a
dum-dum!' chuckled the bad-faced
| on the rollers dere'll be circus to beat
| de band. Look at &c heft of him! Look
| at de curves in his hind legs! I
| wouldn't miss de circus for a hat full
| of cigars!'
Mr.. Bowser was reaching out for the
young man with the Intention of
| wrecking his life when Barnes patched
up a temporary peace and suggested
that the curly-kews begin. Mr.. Bowser
| looked up at the heavens and down to
| the earth There was no escape. The
other skaters began to clear the floor
for him.
Look at him-he's lost his sand!'
| shouted the bad-face.
Hes too innocentr' shouted others.
Better try to ride mule" advised
| a policeman as he came forward.
'Bowser, you go in and astonisn
'em," whispered Barnes tThey take
| YOU for a greenhorn. Play off for few
minutes and then go at the pigeon
i wings"
I'll thing I'll let It go till some
other time" was the trembling reply.
But you can't man-you can't
You'd be mobbedt'
i Cant I go home and see Mrs
Bovser and then come back again.
Mrs. Bowser always cheers me up"
| Heavens, man, come along with
| you! Take it easy until you get the
4 rhythm of the thing.
i "Oh. he'll get the rhythm all right
/ all right" grinned bad-face, and 1t was
those words that decided Mr.. Bowser
i He was helped out on the floor ant
left there alone. Five hundred had theil
ewes on him. After minute OF silence
500 people began shouting at him. BOW
ser moved He moved again He moved
for the third time. Confidence come. h
could do the trick He smiled ant
started out with rush. His theor!
about roller-skating was that 1t shouif
he rushed at to a conclusion. He rush
ed it. At his first rush his heels sho
forward, his body shot backwards. ant
after an instant he came down with
crash. He came down on the back o
his head He saw Halley's comet, am
the tail thereof was a hundred million
miles long He didn't hear what TIL
people said. but when he recovered con
seriousness he bad been dragged of tn
floor and a policeman was saying:
Now, old man, if you have any hon1'
to go to you'd better get there. You
line is jumping eight horses and an ele
plant, and you should stick to it ant
let the rollers alone
Mr.. Barnes first talked to Mr.. Bowse
like a brother, and then offered to &c
a truck to take him home. He calle'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27

Although the first edition of e. Phil
lips Oppenheim's latest novel 1.-THE IL
lustrfous Prince" was the largest that
has ever been printed. his American
publishers, Little, Brown & Co. have
gone to press with another. 1t was
this Oppenheim story that Dr. Richard
Burton, professor of English of the
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-03-26
new STAMPEDES IN .
-
ALASKA next YEAR
-
Predictions Of Great Activity In the
lditarod Placers, the Chitina
Copper Region and sushitna' 5
Gold Quartz Belt. 80 I

Three different mining stampedes,
each distinct in character. are predict:
ed for Alaska next summer. and one
of them is on in the depth Of this pres;
ent winter. To the Iditarod placer dig
gings men are now toiling over the
snow trails in Il wild chase for i
share of the undoubted riches first
found there last season. Into the great
copper belt Of the Chitina basin there
will be another influx of miners and
prospectors next July when the Cop
per River and Northwestern railroad
reaches the outer edge OF the district.
Still another group, the gold quartz
miners, will flock to kenai peninsula
and the Sushitna valley as soon as the
snow has gone to follow up the recent
Moose pass and Willow creek strikes.
1t would seem then that Alaska has
finally advanced to the quartz mining
stage, and to this may be added in 1910
coal mining in the Boring river fields.
This change really marks a most i'm
portant milestone in the development
Of the northern territory. Placer min
ing produces much gold, but it is not a
permanent resource, does not make u
permanent population or even warrant,
as a rule, the building of railroads.
Quartz mining does. The placer fields
Of the Iditarod and Innoko rivers,
which are said to be larger in extent
even than the Klondike fields, are sure
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-03-26
PULP WOOD IN ALASKA.

Transportation Facilities Only Needed
to Open Up Enormous Forests.
Another valuable item has been add
ed to Alaska's growing list of undevei-
oped resources Recent expert exami-
nation of the timber IN the Sushitna
basin has confirmed the belief that it
is pulp wood of high quality. The
timber is poplar, cottonwood and
spruce. but little Of WHICH is of COM
mercial value for lumber. The land on
which this growth stands includes the
100000 or more acres estimated as
grazing and farming land and on
which demonstrating recently began.
This area, distributed among the vari-
GUS valleys of the basin, is for the
most part covered with a luxuriant
growth of wild redtop grass, with little
underbrush and only a. moderate stand
Of timber. 1t is obvious that; with
reasonably convenieHt market for pulp
wood and water transportation, of
which there Is much, the cost Of clear
ing these lands might be greatly re-
duced If not made q; profit by the sale
Of the timber as q byproduct. .
On Kenai peninsula, along the line Of
the seventy mile Alaska Central rail-
road, alone there are many thousands
Of acres Of available pulp wood, and
this will be increased with almost
every mile Of the roads extension to-
ward the Matanuska coal fields. The
value of this supply of pulp wood in
American territory and the practicable
ity Of utilizing 1t was first pointed out
by Levi Chubbuck OF. the department
Of agriculture, who visited the region
last summer. Still more recently Sena-
tor. George J. Baird of Canada went in
to the Matanuska coal fields and was
greatly impressed by the vast area of
pulp woods as well as: the splendid
grazing lands they stood on. = He pre-
diets the rapid settlement Of this re-
gion by farmers and cattlemen.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-03-26
FOUGHT :. FARMING
BATTLE ALONE } !
Went Into Wilderness and
!: Made a Ten Strike.
Ole MARTINS HEROIC STORY

Miles From Any Human Being, He
Broke tho Land With a Hand Guilt
vator and Won With His Nerve and
8rains-Ole's Experience With Potato
Growing.
This is the story Of farmer who
won because he had nerve and under
standing enough to sit down on his
land and fight it out to a finish,
farmer who had never heard Of the
word discoura cement and whose only
definition of failure was that it meant
''try again little harder" also it is
the tale Of man who farmed as much
with his head as he did with his hands,
and he did an enormous amount of
work with those latter.
His name-not that it matters par
ticularly-is Ole Martin, and six years
ago he drifted into these United States
from Sweden, where he had been farm
ing In rocky and exhausted land for
fifteen years. Six months after his
arrival at New York he was in Alaska,
and six months after that he had few
acres Of land On the Kenai peninsula.
Then he began to farm. There we're
no neighbors-not then, at least, for it
was not until later that a taciturn
Scot sat down short distance away
and began to farm on his own &C.
count
Had No Dogs or Horses.
The location was three and q half
miles north Of the new town of Sew
ard, and there was no railroad; also
there were no horses and at first not
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-03-26

this q about the only kind of con-
sunction We are able 70 continue on
the rad during the winter. From 600
to LOO men win be kept in the can
yon III this winter. and as soon as pos
.sible ID the spring 1000 more will be
added to the; force. Beyond the mouth
Of the Chitina construction Is moder-s
ltely easy for the Alaskan coast. which
presents more and worse obstacles to
railroad construction than any part Of
the world I know. At the Chitina,
however. the Copper river must be
bridged for the third time within Z
hundred miles"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-03-26
TIIlE ], pl)Il1ll)l I.

;v1gnbOnd sLi'ea sAs, gee llS SNOW rocky.
slide secured csny ons and advancing
glaciers. The river Itself. the only
large stream empt wing from tbs Alas
kan interior to the southwark, il
turbulent, silt laden, Ice bearing tor
rsnt IN which no man can swim TWEEN.
" strokes. AZ one place It runs be
tween great living glaciers that dis:
charge millions OF tons so1 Ice into its
current each day sof the summer
months, and here TIE railroad must
sosnsry Will eseen,s lNl1ostd Famous.
The scenery II of unique grandeur,
but these scenic features, 20 soon to
become world famous, have represent
ed to tho engineers problems sof unex-
ampled complextty. Many Of these
problems were repeatedly declared to
be impossible OF solution even under
the most favorable conditions of
weather and with 81 unlimited time.
Two years ago next month the first
lot Of material and supplies arrived in
Cordova. Since then construction has
been pushed forward with almost I'M
believable momentum. a2:s4 =
In these two years permanent road
Of a high standard has been completed
to the mouth OF the Tiekel river, 1O2
miles from Cordova. Three great steel
bridges have been set over the swift
flowing Copper river, and a fourth
across great;ice secured channel be-
low the berg lake Of: Miles glacier is
far advanced and will be one of the
engineering wonders Of the: world.
Long stretches Of tunnel and rock cut
and piling have been finished and a
feet Of river steamers built and placed
In commission. ~ !: :> - : =. =
At Cordova end, where there were
no problems Of Importance, much mon
ey has been spent in preparing for the
handling of a heavy train service to
and from the mines 5.:,..s :, -,
The iron in the blood Of the men who
are building this road shows apparent.
~ in the blood of Cordova, for also
there has been fighting to do. Made
towns like this one do not grow of
their own volition ii "a single year. It
takes organization, confidence and
much toll where ones home must, as
here, actually be carved from the eter-
/ nal hills
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-03-26
OLE MARTINS CABIN AND EXPERIMENTAL POTATO PATCH

even a dog, so supplies had to be
"packed' in. A man who has never
carried sixty to hundred pounds on
his back over rough, unbroken cOun-
try can only imagine that. Ground
had to be broken and cleared Then it
had to be prepared for sowing, and
the old methods of Sweden and the
United States even were useless. Mar
tin began with potatoes and failed.
His results were watery caricatures
of the potato Of commerce. He had
got his seeds from Seattle. and he
tried again and failed again. Then he
began to farm with his head. He pro-
ceeded to educate his potatoes and
teach them to grow respectfully. This
could only be done by growing and re-
seeding Soon he had real potatoes
and began to sell them.
Cultivation was a problem, for with
out tools it was difficult. Martin solv-
ed this problem, however, in his own
patient way. He built himself hand
machine and pushed it himself with
.prodigous labor. Later, when he had
secured dog team, he broke them to
haul the cultivator. 1t was severe
task, for he was alone. There was no
hired man-just Ole himself and the
dogs.
Decided on Garden Truck.
Finding himself so close to grow
ing community. Martin saw that in
garden produce there would be mar
ket, and he set to put some seven
acres under cultivation. In nearly all
his work he had trouble with his seeds.
Those from the States would not grow
we'll in soil where there We're lao
inches of rainfall in year. and so he
had to educate his turnips, his cauli-
flower, carrots, cabbages and the rest
to grow in damp soil.
The government maintains expert
ment stations, but these were and are
too few; also they are only experiment
stations. and the real work must be
done by the real farmer Martin went
through It all, and he built his log
house, barn and outbuildings. He cuts
his hay-tons Of ft-by hand and ricks
it alone. He finds time for flowers,
dAu LuCoC arc LIS dAAuoCA1@AItS' AN
built an incubator and is raising chick"
ems and is housing them in a log
house equipped with stove. Every
bit Of work On the place-every last
tap-has been done by this farmer sin
gle handed. He has combined the
work OF the experiment stations and
the farm, and to him is due the sue
cess of farming on the Kenai. Now
the railroad has come TO him. and he
can ship his products in to Seward.
even across the sound to Cordova and
Valdez, and he Is well to do.
Fought Twenty Hours Day. -,
But the trials and the fight Of those
early days, when he was wrestling
twenty hours Of a summer day and
eight hours Of q winter twilight with
a rough, semiarctic country. pushing a
clumsy, homemade cultivator by hand
and smiling cheerfully, will not soon
fade, nor will the days when eighteen
hours Of yellow sunlight. brought the
seeds rushing to the surface and ma
tured them in five weeks. Those were
the moments when he saw the things
the future held: And he's not going
to sell out and 60 back to Sweden.
He's going to- stick on the job. It's
his home now, and he sees the time
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-03-26

to yield many large fortunes. If the
field proves as rich as the present
showing would Indicate the district.
will have a population of 10000 Within
a. twelvemonth. Already. there ard
1000 men where year ago there, were
hardly a dozen. The excitement re-
sulting will be great, and the romantic
story Of the Klondike and Nome will
be repeated. But it would be most ex-
ceptional If ten years from now should
see any important placer mining going
on in that now almost unprospected
region. 1t will simply be worked out.
1t is different with the Chitina cop
per region. There is known belt OF
mineralized rock l2O miles long and
eight or ten miles wide, and, though
this belt may also be said to be not
half prospected, there are thirty-five
or more groups Of claims on it. One
or two Of these have been so far de-
veloped that there is assurance Of a
large ore supply for generations. So
sure is the future of this region that
capital is spending $10,O00,OOO on q
railroad from the sea 200 miles inland
to tap it. Yet there is every possible
ity that dozens of other properties still
unknown may equal that one or two.
The Chitina region had never been en-
tered except by few miners. en-
gineers and Indians, SO that when the
:, railroad. now 100 miles inland. reaches
the mouth of the Chitina river, thirty
Qx0 60
tically an entirely new country, the
future activity of which is assured be-
forehand. will be opened up. At pres
ent ingress is posi- Bile only by long
trail trips over very rough country, a
condition that will be changed almost
In a fash within a few months. The
result to those who know what pioneer
conditions are is apparent. .,
Another new mining field that gives
great promise Of attracting large num-
bers Of pioneers next summer is that
north of Seward, on Kenai peninsula.
This is old placer country. in which
some Of the mother lodes have recent
~ been discovered and are proving
very rich. This country is still very
difficult of access beyond Cook inlet.
as there are nor even government
trails, but railroad is on it's way In,
land to the Matanuska coal fields, and
the ALASKA road commission has prom,
1sed next summer to build q trail.
northward in this valley and across,
the mountains to the headwaters of:
the Kuskoquim on the way to the
1ditarod diggiDgs. This will give a!
great impetus to both quartz and
placer mining along the line and will
allow the development Of several
quartz propositions. !
The railroad out Of Seward already
crosses the peninsula seventy miles,
and with new government trails has
this last year made available much
gold quartz country of great promise.
On the whole. the most conservative
investigator must admit that Alaska's
greatest mining days are of the future
and that the mineral wealth produc-.
ton will be in the steady ascendant
from now onward. r II.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-03-26

In ten years no. Il ve-w hen he will
have farmer neighbors all about him
and the rich soil will be working for
the men who can conquer it. ss.s Z
Up in the Tanana valley and in the:
Copper river and the Susitna,. too.
farmers are following the track Of Ole
Martin, the man who farmed and made
it 60 through-alone. -" I
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-03-26
ALASKA BABY
MET' ! |
cordova to Be Gateway at For
New Rush This Year.
ROAD TO COPPER FIELDS.

Rails Of tho Copper River and North
western Will 9s Laid to the Mouth
Of tho chitina by July, When I'm.
nenseIy Rich Mineral Area viii Be-
AeeessibIe-A Dramatic Chapter In
Railroad Construction.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-03-26

that defect the biggest OF the bergs.
They are ninety feet through from end
to end. ..s=..
Bridge Building In Alaska.
1.-THE steel superstructure Of the
bridge we hope to have in place early
next fall, by which time the. line will
be well on its way eastward up the
Chitina to the copper mines. This is
to be the first branch Of the road COM
pleted, and it should be open from the
eastern to the southern terminus about
one year from now. 1.
"Another branch beginning at Mile
80 Of the main line on the Copper riv-
er and running about forty-eight miles
to the Bering river cosi fields is sur
veyed, and a good deal Of the roadbed
il built. This branch could be built
In short time and the Alaskan coal:
made available for our Alaskan road
and the people q the territory without
further delay. ,855.}
Beyond the end, Of the present
length Of track at Tiekel the line runs
through Woods canyon for twenty
miles. This gorge Is exceedingly Wild,
with almost perpendi cular sides for
consid erable stretches. This necessi-
4ates almost cont inuolls rock work, and
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-03-26
TONS OF. ALASKA COPPER.
Report Of Geolosist Brooks Shows
Enormous Yield This Year. -

Report Of Geologist Brooks Shows
Enormous Yield This Year. =.
'The season Of mining In Alaska has
been prosperous: one" says Alfred
n. Brooks, geologist in charge Of the
Alaska work of the United States geo.
logical survey, who has just returned
to Washington from his annual Swing
around the circle in. the far north
west while dry weather and other
unfavorable conditions have curtailed
the placer gold production at Nome,
most Of the other camps have either
maintained or increased their output.
Figures Of gold output are not yet
available. but it seems probable that
the production for 1909 will be be-
tween nineteen and twenty million
dollars. The low price of copper has
not encourage mining Of that metal.
but about half a dozen properties ship
ped ore during 1909. It appears proba-'
bic that the Alaska copper output for
the year will exceed 4. O00,O 900 pounds"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-03-26
One Light Ii Two Thousand Mile.

One Light In Two Thousand Miles. I
For the first time the great southern
coast Of Alaska, more than 1000 miles
long, has this winter a lighthouse.
Though one Of the most dangerous and
stormy coasts In the world and diff
cult of navigation. even in summer,
this area has been wholly neglected
until now. The first light is on Cape
Hinchinbrook. at one Of the entrances
to Prince William sound There are
many other places where lights and
fog signals are almost as urgently
needed. notably Cape st. Elias, where
steamers are. often held up for days
because Of fogs and long. hidden
reef. Other lights are. however. to be
added NEXT vrr !,sssE 81 .@@= s<2 81
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HoLDuP SiIEN EsIcIXPr..

ss E3ITTsBGRGS March % he fourth
street car ho ldup vii thin the last two
mon this. was reported to- the police
ssarly this m orning 8. & a couple Of des.
speradoe boarded q Lincoln Avenue
sear# In TIL east end district ana after
beating the conductor ana mo orman
xet away Will shout $50. sss.s 377a
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-03-26
SLIGHTLY 1MpRovE ~

= DAYTONA, Fla, March pa bulle-3
tin issued from the bedside Of United
States Senator Daniel Of Virginia to-
night indicates slight Improvement
III his condition since yesterday. ss$S
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-11-25
Southern Farming

In this ripe year of 1910 there is grow
ing. corn crop Of 26, 277, 900 acres in the
eight Southern States of Virginia, the
Carolinas, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Alabama and Mississippi which is an in.
crease of 1855, 600 acres over the area
devoted to that cereal in that territory in
1909 This is an encouraging sign, and
ii persisted in and the system of intensive
culture shall be adopted generally, as it
particularly in the States named, the cost
OF living will be materially reduced-if
the people are strong enough to take BY
the throat monopoly and force it to put up
with a reasonable profit.
The South is as good corn country
as the West. The greatest yield per
acre of that grain ever recorded was
grown on South Carolina farm, and it
is an established fact that last year Farmer
Bats, young man of 30. tilling the soil
within thirteen miles of Raleigh. N. C.,
gathered a crop of corn the Weld of which
was the enormous quantity of 225 bushels
per acre, whereas the average OF the
country over is only 26 bushels. This
story of the yield on Mr.. Bats plantation
would be incredible if it we're not estab-
llshed by testimony above challenge
Washington Posi-.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-11-25
NATIONAL AFFAIRS.

Rev. j. 0. Kindstrow. of the Swedish
Lutheran Church, of Ala, committed
suicide by cutting his throat
State Senator j. p McNichol, of
Pennsylvania, and Miss Margaret Dona-
hue, nurse, were married.
The gunboats Wheeling and Petrol
reached Portsmouth, N. H., after a
cruise of 20, $50 miles.
A wireless message sent out at Kew
West to Norfolk was picked up in San
Francisco.
Deputy Sheriffs, with injunctions.
prevented a meeting of stockholders of
the defunct Chicago National Bank, a
John r. Walsh institution.
James X. Polk Taylor, former
slave, has donated $50 acres of Colorado
land for tuberculosis sanitarium for
:olored people.
Brigadier General David J. Magru-
der, veteran of the Civil War and
native of Frederick, Nd, died at Bryn
Mawr, Pa.
Miss Jane Morgan, of Philadelphia,
master Of large steam yachts, and the
Hon. Cecil Vavasseur- Fisher, son of
Lord Fisher, admiral of the fleet, Great
Britain, were married.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-11-25

November 21st, from st. Peter and
St. Paul's church, and Solemn Requiem
by the pastor, Rev. Father Miller, and
was largely attended. The Secilian choir,
which is considered one of the best in
the State, furnished music on this occa-
sion. The remains were removed to
Calvary cemetery, where his family are
nearly all inferred. The floral offerings
were most handsome and the funeral the
largest held in this vicinity for years.
Mr.. Eisenhauer was a man of typical
German characteristics. He lived with
marked simplicity. His home life was
pleasant and nothing pleased him more
than to be surrounded by his children
and little grandchildren. With his
friends he was steadfast in his confden-
ces, and there are many who will realize
there loss of friend.