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Douglas Island news., 1912-09-25

h prospector was drowned recently while shooting the rapids at the Big Rifle on the StiKine in small boat. His partner clung to the capsized boat and was picked up.
 Gold bullion to the value of Sl, 100000 reached Seattle on the steamship Sep- ator. It was brought from Nome and the Iditarod and is the largest ship ment brought out of tke North this year.
 II. Bratnober, tire well known mining expert, arrived on the Senator. He and his associates are heavily interested in different parts of the peninsula at Bluff, Topkok and ether points.~-Nome Mug get.
 James Lauders, one of the l4 prison. CTS who in the winter of 1900 partici- pated in a sensational jailbreak at Nome, and who was recaptnred at Los Angeles, is now, after I2 years of free dom, serving sentence.
 A recent arrival from the KloudiKe says that the big dredges are doing wonderful work in the Dawson countryS that one of them will handle as much dirt as l,O0G men could do under the old hand ways of placer mining.
 Suit has beeu Institated by Mrs. E. Reed, as administrator of the estate of ,. E. Reed, against the Copper River railroad, for S25O0o damages for the death of :. t. Reed, the engineer who was killed on Che defendant company's line last winter by the falling of Che snow ptow Frop e tres5lo weakened by Gre,
 John A. Miller, Dominion govern ment engineer, recently went to Daw' son to exauaiue the overland route be tween Dawson sad Whitehcrse for the specific purpose Of reporting to Ottawa on the advisability of granting 6 special sa1n fer the construction of an aUtomo" bile road between Dawson and White horse,
 Petitions are being circulated at Oordova, Valdez and Seward praying President Taft to pardon John William MoNauara, convicted of the murder of 8 well Known business tnan of Cordova, George Carpenter, about two years ago. McNemaru ts nov serving fifteen year sentence at tue federal prison at McNeil's island, in Washington, The grounds upop which executive elem eucy is asked are Chat the prisoner suf- fers ill health aud general disability. Fer time prior to bis departure for Cordova, McNamara lived at Seward. He was formerly railway conductor and is 55 years of age.
 July production of the Yukon Gold | Go. and the yield for the season to July 31. both show important increases when compared with the same periods of 1911. The gold yield in Jnly was valued at S644, 400, which compares with s476,s44 in July last year; for the sea son to July 31 the yield of S1, ,760,7oO this year compares with Sl,131,5l2 in the same period of 1911. In July the company dredged 100000 cubic yards, bringing the season's total to 2,48l,loO yards, averaging Fl cents cubic yard These figures compare with 793504 cubic yards in July, 1911, and l,968,5Ol cubic yards averaging 57 cents in the ! 1911 season to July 3l.-Mining Science
Douglas Island news., 1912-09-25
The NOrthIand Tine latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed. Information for Everybody,

EhAOA AASSSASA AVA A@ They serve two-bit meals at Ketohi- kan
 aoldups are becoming common ct Fairbanks.
 Even John W, Frame wants to SC to the Legislature. The Nome Nugget is again talking aboet an ice.breaker. 1 The women of Skagwey have organ iged an improvement society. ! The Ketchikan Koral Klub meets st the band hall, says the Miner. { The s. s. Cordeva recently reached 1 Seattle with 4G,000 cases of Alaska fish.
 Nome has given up the idea ofcheap coal, They are burning the Canadian article.
 The floating cannery Glory Of the 1 Seas has packed 37,00e cases end is ready for the trip soeth, 1 Kuik brings forth the ueme of Milo Kelly as candidate for representative in the Alaska Legislature.
 The Pacific Mining Journal, recently launched at Seattle, has t&kea up fer it's slogan, "Open Up AIask&,"
 The Seattle judge whose crooked accs resulted in his disgissal, IS to be aa- lowed to practice ou Che deer *peepal."
 The schooner Altce of ehe Robinson Fisheries Go, recently re&ched Seattle with I7LOO0 oodfse tUogn tho BerinG sea.
 A nen OF tlse creeks voted fer Robert W. Jenniags under tho impression he was voting for Williaon 4ennings Bryan,
 1 The Alaska Eisa Products cOmpnoy at Seward is manufacturing dne grade ot leather, made trom tbe skin of sharks,
 1 The steamship Bertha has 6eeu char" tered to Swan & Go, who will operate her as freighter oa the Southeastern Alaska route,
 pr. J, J. Chambers, of Nome, who pleaded guilty to the charge of crim- inal libel against W, 4, Gilmore, was ! fined SlO0. He paid it,
 Cordova steps to the front with two candidates for the territorial legisle- ture, George Hazelet for the senate and E. F. Gray for the house.
 J. LindIey Green, assistant United States district attorney, with headquar- ters at Seward, states that he will re- tire next January to resume the prac' tice of law.
 Tito Frigoa, a Fi.lipino confined in the Ketchikan jail, after three at" tempts, committed suicide by hanging He was awaiting trial for giving whisky to Indians.
Douglas Island news., 1912-09-25

Mayor Ballaine, of Seward, went duck hunting with party of friends. One of the party shot at bird, and the mayor went home to pick the shot out of ais head. That's better than to be mistaken for bear or goat.
 To live for more than four years with people whose most valuable possessession is sewing needle-a people who never heard the report of gun and had no knowledge or tradition of white race-is an experience that comes to but few men in this twentieth century of achievement and advance menU, but it is only chapter from the story of Vilbjalmar Stefansson, Arctic explorer Stefanssen and his compan- ion, pr. R. M. Anderson, of Forest City, Ia., were sent north blythe Amer ican Museum of Natural History, New York, in 1908. They went to the Arctic by way of Winnipeg and Edmonton, down the Mackenzie river to it's mouth. The most wonderful part of their ex- ploration is the possible discovery of the descendants of the Scandinavian colonists of Greenland, who were last heard Of in l4l2, and who had disap. peared when trade was resumed with Greenland in the seventeenth century. These people are described as being taller than Greenland Eskimos, but not so tall as those of Alaska. They live in the typical Eskimo way and talk their language, but at times the eXplor' CTS believed that they could detect some Morse words. There are nearly 1000 people in the thirteen tribes ot these people, who have lived apart from the rest of the world for centuries. Some are blondes and many have blue eyes.
 While it is yet too early for under writers to congratulate themselves on
 
 having had good season in Alaska, no costly wrecks have yet occurred among the fishing fleet. However, seldom summer passes during which Alaskan waters do not claim their toll, and the present has been no exception. The latest victim was the schooner Com- peer, which was driven ashore in Bris- tol bay during heavy weather. When her anchors dragged she was carried up on the beach, where she still remains hard and fast. The codfshing schooner Joseph Russ was wrecked near Unimak Pass in April. However, the under writers have fared fairly we'll, for they have thus far had no heavy claims following the loss of salmon ship. Two cannery vessels were ashore in Bristol bay, the ship Standard and the bark Emily F. Whitney. The latter sustained but little damage, but the Standard was damaged to some extent. Capt. E. c. Genereaux, of the San Fran cisco board of Marine Underwriters, left Seattle for Bristol bay when the Standards mishap was first reported. He returned to San Francisco on the ship, which will require repairs follow ing the stranding, which occurred May g during an easterly gale. Three anchors and all chain were lost and the vessel was beached. The anchors and cable were recovered and week later the Standard was lowed off by the Se- attle tug Richard Holyoke. The cargo was reported undamaged .-Raiiway and Marine News.
Douglas Island news., 1912-09-25

From the following, which appeared in the Ketchikan Miner, we conclude that the editor of that sheet will not starve right away: IS. F. Shepard, of the Mary Island Light Station, kindly remembered the Miner Man this week with box of vegetables, assorted, which it is almost unbelievable that they could be raised in Alaska. There's cabbage that weighs ten pounds. which is going some; an eight pound white turnip, and immense carrots and onions, and beats that are hard to beat. Taken altogether they are collection of vegetables that would attract atten~ tion anywhere, and coming from an Alaskan garden are complete sar- prise"
 The Kuskokwim is probably the greatest stampede country in Alaska today end has enjoyed this proud dis tinctiou for the last five years. There is always a good story in the mouths of prospectors about the latest find across the Yukon watershed on the Kusko- kwim side. Many finds have fallen down and many prospectors have lost faith. Lately, however, the situation has changed and now it looks as though there will be big town some place cn the Kuskokwjm. 1t may be at the mouth of the Tulicsak, scene of the latest strike. Others think it will be farther up the river, opposite the h. noko or Iditarod countries, in what is now known as the Aniak country.
 Vancouver.--D. Cairnes, of the Do- miniou geological survey, who, with J. Maddern, of Washington, D. C., has for two years been deliminating the inter- national boundary between Dawson city and the Arctic ocean, reached here recently, returning from the summers work in the North. He reports the discovery of great deposits of iron ore, which, though of great scientific inter- est, will not be developed commercially during the life of the present genera tion. The ground is covered by frozen tundra which thaws only on the top during the hottest summer days. Cold discoveries have been made in the Porcupine valley, but the few prospec- tors in that country keep very quiet about them.
 Constantly things are happening in this country te emphasize the impor- tance of the "see America first" move ment. For instance, in recent issue of the Detroit Free Press writer, dis cussing "Unpleasant Alaska" says: By the way, how'd you like to live, say in Alaska, right now? To be sure. the place where you now dwell isn't at all suited to person of your rare delicacy and fastidiousness. Besides, there is the climate, you know, which is so se- were on your fragilite, and the neigh bors who constantly get your goat that is, ahemI constantly rasp your sense of propriety-which is always in the way and always is getting chunks rasped off it, isn't it. We'll, perhaps there are worse places which brings us back to Alaska. Since June ', when volcanic Mount Katmai blew off it's top, heavy, murky pail has shut out sun, moon and stars for radius of over 1 200 miles," A radius of 200 miles in Alaskal In Alaska that much ground wouldn't make a decent back yard.- Seattle P..I.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
Pennington.

Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Schoelier, He bert
Floyd and Merlin SchOeIler and Ed
Weber of Helenville, and Misses Esther
and Florence Sahel spent Sunday even
ing at c. F. Weber's.
Mrs. Gust. Pitzner and Mrs. H. Pitzner
visited relatives near Johnson Greek
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Hasely of Kendall,
visited re 'atives here the fnrepart Of the
week,
Frank Sabel and wife were Y atertnW n
visitors Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs, c. +. Weber and daugh-
tiers, Violet and Isabelle, and Maynard
Cherry visited A. Zautner and family at
Sullivan Sunday.
Mrs. L, Zimdars and son Palmer, called
at FL. Kleinsteiber's Saturday.
Irving Weber was Helenvil,e visitor
Saturday evening.
Frank Sabel had shingling bee Men
day.
Miss Esther Sabel of Waterfowl. is
spending her vacation at her home here.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Office of the Board of Education, Wat
ertOWn, Wisconsin.

Office of the Board of Education, Wat
ertOWn, Wisconsin.
Special proposals for the installation
Of water closets and shower baths in
the Webster school building in the city
OF Watertown, Wisconsin, will be re-
ceived at the office of the clerk of the
board OF. education, until Wednesday,
the Goth day of June, 1912, at Z o'clock
p. M. Plans, profileS, specifications
and form of contract may be seen at
the office OF the city clerk, AS guar
antee that the successful bidder will
when requested blythe board of Eeduca-
ton execute a written contract, the
form of which is on file in the office of
the city clerk, to do said work, all pro-
posals must be accompanied with cash
or with certified check to the amount
of ten per cent of the total contract
price, payable to the board of educa-
ton, which said cash or check, will be
returned to the bidders upon the execu-
ton Of contract
The board Of education reserves the
right to reject any or all bids.
Dated this 18th day Of June, 1912.
Board Of Education OF the City Of Wat
ertoWn, Wisconsin.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
Milford,

Chauncey Reno of Fort Atkinson,
spent a few DAYS with relatives here,
Ada Mansfield is visiting friends at
Fall River.
Miss Mahe Gallup returned home
Saturday after a weeks visit with
friends at Brooklyn, Camhl idge and Fort
Atkinson,
Mrs, Helen D. R0gitz OF Watertowr,
spent few days of last week with
friends and relatives here.
NJ IS, V III. Iii ks entertained n company
OF relatives from Eagle, for few day 8
last week.
Chas. Schroeder and family spent Sun
day at Chas. Nevins' at jefferson.
Aug. Sander and family were Sunday
visitors at Waterloo.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
High School Commencement

The exercises of the graduating Il ,ss
of the High school held last evening at
Turner opera house were interesting AMI
the efforts of the class received much
praise, each one on the program doing
we'll. The singing was very good "a
also the instrumental music, furnished
by the High school orchestra was fine.
The address by Prof. Hall of Madison.
was appropriate for the occasion aud
much good advice was given TO :he grad
yates and also to the students, plrents
and teachers. Want of time and space
prevents further comment. but next
week the exercises will be pl ,lished in
full with the program.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
Library Changes.

Miss Corinne Bartlett, assistant Ii
brarian, and Miss Else Wiggenh0rn.
who have completed their apprentice
ship at the WatertOwn library. will take
the summer course in the library school
at the University Of Wisconsin this sum-
mer Miss Catherine Moore and Mis-
Catherine Blair will begin six months
apprenticeship at the public library
July |
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
Makes the Nation Gasp.

The awful list of injuries on "A Fourth
OF July staggers humanity, Set over
against IL, however, is the wonderful
healing, by BuckIen's Arnic4 Save, of
thousands, who SUFFERED from burns
cuts, bra SEES, bullet wounds or explo-
slons, LIS the quick healer of boils.
ulcers, eczema, sore lips or plies. 25c at
Gamm Corner Drag Co.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
Baseball.

Saturday afternoon Kronitz KOlts put
it all over the Cigarmakers by a score Of
+ to 2. 1t was good game from begin
ing TO end.
The second game between the 8. B,
Lewis company team and the Wolfram
shoemakers was easy for the "Beeware"
team which won by score of 10 to 3.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
Fire. Department Called Out.

The fire department was called out
count of an incipient blaze in the bag
gage room at the junction. The fir
was quickly eGtinguished and the loss
if any, was small. The department. re-
sponded promptly to the alarm and WIS
soon OH The spot ready for action.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
Leader on Sale.

Current copies Of the Leader are for
sale at the following places in Water
town:
DRUG STORE, E. NJ. STAPLETON,
WEST MAIN STREET.
SCHEMPF'S DRUG STORE, MAIN
STREET.
STORE OF II. A. S0MMERS, MAIN
STREET.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
They Seem to Come to About One Fer.
son In Every Ten,

son In Every Ten.
The modern theory of ghosts insists
that invariably, when they are real
ghosts and not the spurious product of
credulity and deception, they are dis
hnctly subjective in character and ex-
list only by virtue of conditions permit
ting their creation in the mind of the
person or persons seeing them. In
other words, a real ghost is never an
objective phenomenon. like tree or
house. As a psychologist would say,
it is always "a percept having no basis
in external reality Less learnedly. it
is always a case of seeing things
where they amt That is to say. it
is hallucination.
1t has been .conclusiVely demonsrat-
ed that one person out of every ten
has experienced at least one hallucina-
ton at some time in his or her life.
Proof of this results chiefly from
remarkable census Of Authorizations
originated more than twenty years ago
at the international congress Of psy-
chology and simultaneously carried on
principally by members or the Psy-
chical Research-in the United States,
England. France Germany and other
countries. To thousands of persons the
question was put, "Have you ever.
when believing yourself to be COM
pletely awake. had vivid impression
of seeing or being touched by living
being or inanimate object or of hear
ing a voice. which impression. so far
as you could discover. was not due TO
any external physical cause|' OF the
1889 replies received to this ques-
ton no fewer than 1926 were in the
Observation-Disclosures Magazine.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
: hOuld Be Stopped.

Attention has been called to the prac-
tice of thoughtless persons who should
be prosecuted, of making the streets a
dumping ground for old bottles. rocks.
etc. Especially the paved streets. 1t
makes them unsafe for bicycles, autos
and horses which are liable to be injured.
The street cUmmissi ner should get his
eagle eye on the offenders and bring
them up with jerk.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21

A team of tame wolves attracted con-
siderable attention Monday evening and
Tuesday morning. Their were six of
them attached TO buggy aud driven
without lines by man advertising a
breakfast food, he was en- route to
New York City.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
Proposals for Coal.

Sealed proposals for hard and soft coal
and wood for the public schools of Wa
tertOwn will be received by the Board of
Education on or before July 3, 1912.
Coal to be weighed on city scales.
Carl r. Field,
Clerk Board of Education.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21

provisions of the schedule of wages for
Primary, intermediate and Grammar
Grades, adopted by the Board of Educa
cition June 18th. 1911.
The Board reserves the right to assign
teachers their respective grades from
time to time as the interests of the
schools may demand.
WEBSTER SCHOOL.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
Report of the Condition

of the Bank of Watertown, located at
WatertOwn, State of Wisconsin, at the
close Of business On the 18th day of
June, 1912, pursuant to call by the
Commissioner of Banking:
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
Board Of Ed cation.

Regular meeting of the Board of Edu
cation June 5, 1912 All members pres
ent, President Moore in the chair. The
minutes of the previous meeting were
read and approved. Several accounts
were presented and referred to the FL
nance Committee. The Finance Com
mittee presented the following report
which was adopted aud the accounts
therein contained were allowed all vOt
ing in the affirmative:
To the Hon., the Board of Education.
Gentlemen:
Your Finance Committee would re-
specially report that we have examined
the following accounts and recommend
their allowance as follows:
Times Publishing Co. for publishing
notice 80
WATERFOWL Weekly Leader for publish
ing proceedings, etc: -- 3.SS
Cooley Grocery House for Supplies 7.2O
Standard Brush Go, for brushes 1900
". u. sproes ser Co. repairs ---. 80
Il, y o. WinkenWerder for supplies l 80
Kusel i kuseI for plumbing repairs and
labor ABB
Thos. j Berto express advanced 1.Sl
H, Tetzlaff for coal ,,-- % %
EvOra Shakshesky for substitute teach
ing 1.G6
WatertOwn Gas & Electric Co. for ser
vice Il bills 1889
Beurhaus-G ioger Go. for eheesecloth rs
Frederick R. Childs & Co. for typewriter
ribbons 3.23
The Bobbs Merrill Go. for library book
northumberland 1.25
Aug Hoefs for labor and materi | 1852
Wisconsin Telephone Co. SIS
Otto Biefeld q Go for repairs Ito
Respectfully submitted
William H. Woodland.
William +. Voss,
Albert A. Frattinger,
Committee on Finance.
On the recommendation of the Com.
on Teachers and Instruction report
marked E9h. Al it was decided to esta b
lush an additional Sth grade in Lincoln
school, all voting in the affirmative.
The following report by the Com. on
Teachers and Instructions was unani-
mously adopted:
The Hon. Board Of EDUCATION.
Natertown. Wis,
Gentlemen:
Your Committee on Teachers and
Instruction TO whom was referred the
applications of teachers for positions in
the public schools Of this city have had
The same under careful consideration
and recommend the rel appointment of
the following teachers for the ensuino
school year 1912-1913, with salaries per
schooi month as set opposite their re-
spectlye n-.mes. in accordance with the