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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-03-26

Please announce that l am a can.
didate for nomination for the office OF
Recorder, subject to the decision of
the Democratic electors at the primar.
les Tuesday, May 81, 1912.
GEO. Z. YAUGER.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-03-26

Please announce that i am a candi-
date for the nomination for the Office
of Recorder, subject to the decision
of the Democratic electors at the prim-
aries, Tuesday, May 81, 1912.
EDGAR G. RUSH.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-03-26
shERIFE

Please announce that am candi-
date for the nomination of the office
Of Sheriff, subject to the decision of
tho Democratic Electors at the primar-
es Tuesday, May 21, 1912.
JOHN M. WooLISoN.
Please announce that ! am candi-
date for nomination for the Office of
Sheriff, subject to the decision Of the
Democratic electors at the primaries
Tuesday, May q, 1912.
WILLIAM NJ EDGAR,
Democracy
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Worthington company. president and
director: International Steam Pump
company, president and director: the
Laidlaw Dunn Gordon company. presi-
dent and director: Power and Mining
Machinery company. president and di.
rector.
George ID. Widener is connected
with the Widener-Elkins traction syn
dicate of Philadelphia. He is one of
two sons of p. A. b. Widener. George
d. Widener's fortune is estimated at
$50, ,0OO, 900.
Colonel Washington Roebling. build
er of the Brooklyn bridge, is presi.
dent and director of the John A. Roeb.
lings Sons company. His fortune
amounts to about s25, 100000.
lsidor Straus is one of the best
known merchants in the world and is
worth about $50,0O0,O00. Mr.. Straus
is connected with the following organ.
izations: X. III. Macy e. Company,
l.. Straus & Sons. Abraham & Straus,
the Birbeck Investment Savings and
Loan company, vice president and trus.
tee; the Educational Alliance, presi-
dent and director; Hanover National
bank. director: Second National bank,
director.
J. Bruce Ismay is president OF the
International Mercantile Marine com.
pany and is one of the founders of
that big organization. Ii was Mr. Is.
may and J. p. Morgan who consoli.
dated American and British steamship
lines. II also was Mr.. Ismay who con.
ceived the idea of building the Titanic
He is worth probably $5O.000,0O0
John B. Thayer is vice president OF
the Pennsylvania railroad. His son
j. b. Thayer, Jr.. who was on the
Titanic with his parents, formerly was
a noted fullback on the University OF
Pennsylvania football team. Young
Thayer was known as one of the bes,
fullbacks that ever played on a col
lege team.
II the fortunes of all the first class
passengers were placed together they
would make easily $1,000. .000. 900, while
the fortunes of the ten richest Of them
would aggregate $500.000.0O0.
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women and children. Many women
and children. however. have perished.
When the Carpathia reached the ill
fated vessel no sign of life was to be
seen anywhere, the mountainous ocean
swells giving much evidence to the
stupendous disaster. Early reports
stated that all the passengers and the
crew of the Titanic had been taken
off by the Allen liners Virginian and
the Partisan. and the Carpathia. but
wireless message received here dis
credit these reports in every detail.
No hope is held out at the Offices OF
the White Star line that any man on
board has survived to tell the story of
the final sinking of the levithian, al
though some of the women in the
boats may have witnessed the sinking.
Only by a miracle. il Is pointed out.
could any person who stood by the
ship escape the great vessels power
full suction as she sank to the bottom.
The Titanic carried the most notable
list of passengers ever borne across the
Atlantic by one vessel. Homecoming
American tourist postponed their sail
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than her best speed. She was a day
ahead of her schedule and il is con
sidered probable that an attempt TO
make record-breaking voyage was
the hope of her crew when she entered
the ice field.
Her forward plates were completely
wrecked A gaping wound opening
below her water line and letting the
water into her forward compartments.
In the meantime the lifeboats were
manned and into them were placed
as many Of the women and chill
dren as they could hold. The
boats were put of while there was
afioat until wireless could summon
help. Later and more conservative es-
Inmates tell of great bravery on the
part of the men passengers. There
was a minimum of disorder. John
Jacob Astor. who. with his bride, was
returning from their long honeymoon
abroad, saw his bride placed in life
boat safely away. Col. Astor was
drowned. The work of getting the life
boats away, the work of allaying
the fears of the great crowd of pas
sengers as much as possible, the
work of keeping the pumps In opera
ton and the engines throbbing-these
tasks and countless others were direct
ed by Captain Smith, the vener.
able commander of the Titanic. and
before her advent the commander of
the Olympic who displayed almost SUI
perhuman power of mind and body at
the worlds most horrible sea disaster,
crowned his long and honorable serv-
ice on the high seas.
A wireless message from the Nir-
ginia states that the occupants of the
small boats which she picked up have
been transferred to the Carpathia
which is proceeding to New York.
The Titanic struck the iceberg at
1:25 Sunday night and fioundered at
2:20 Monday morning.
At daybreak the Carpathia arrived
on the scene and her passengers and
crew brought the small boats with
their precious human cargo into New
York.
The boats which rushed to the Ii
tanic's aid found only the scattered
life boats and dismal scene of wreck
age.
Sinking by the head and wom-
en- are being rushed into the life
boats" were the last words that sput.
tered into the wireless room Of the
Virginian from the Titanic. All
through the night and until her wire
less station was silenced over hun
dreds of miles of seas from the anten-
mace OF the giant liner flashed the
mystic and magic as. o. s." the
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Benjamin Guggenheim Followed, With
SOS, 900, ,ooo-interests Many and
Varied.

New York, n. Y.-Wealth aggre-
eating something like half a billion
dollars is represented by ten Of the
passengers on the Titanic. If calamity
befell only few of these ten. it would
materially affect vast business enter.
prises in the United States and Eng.
land. Foremost among the passen-
gers in point Of wealth is Colonel
John Jacob Astor. who was returning
to New York with his bride, former.
ly Miss Madeline Force. Colonel As
tors holdings may amount to $150. 0.000..
900 and he is connected with nearly
a score of corporations, besides at.
tending to his realty interests.
Next in financial importance. come
Benjamin Guggenheim and George ID.
Widener. Mr.. Guggenheim is in the
American Smelling securities COM
pany, the great mining corporation.
which was founded by his father. Mey.
er Guggenheim. He is connected with
the following corporations: Blake
and Knowles Steam Pump Works,
president and director; the Henry r.
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worldwide cry Of distress on the
ocean.
Every wireless operator within
range OF the doomed vessel dropped
other messages to- locate and many re-
layed the fatal message to the world.
The collision occurred in latitude
+li6 North and longitude SOFA West,
l.l5O miles east OF New York and $50
miles south of Cape Race. the most
westerly point of Newfoundland.
Contrary to earlier dispatches there
was no storm when the vessel struck.
The weather was clear and calm
Almost as soon as the Virginian
picked up the distress signal II was
recorded by the operator on the Olym-
pic. the Titanic's sister ship, and next
TO her the largest vessel afioat. This
was at midnight. At that hour the
Olympic WAS 200 miles from New
York enroute to Southampton.
The Baltic. famous for her rescue of
passengers of the steamer Republic
and for her Jack Binns, who sat aloft
and braved death TO summon help
was the next ship to pick up the brief
story Of the Titanic's plight.
She was on her way from New York
TO Liverpool but turned about and put
on full speed toward the Titanic's po
sition The Partisan, according to heI
messages reached the notilla of res
cue ships shortly after the Baltic.
A wireless message from Captain
Haddock confirmed the fears of the
White Star Line officials that all but
the go women and children who es
capped in the small boat from the $40,
100000 steamship had perished. A
part of this message was Withheld, bu,
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WHITE STAR LINER STRIKES AN ICEBERG WHILE
GOING AT FULL SPEED AT 125 MONDAY
MORNING AND GOES DOWN IN
LESS THAN AN HOUR
women AND CHILDREN we're SAVED
Widene
ismay senhem, Washington
ling, J. q. and Many

New York, n. Y. The White
Star liner Titanic, the worlds great
est steamship has gone down some 800
miles off Cape Race, with go of her
1900 passengers and her full crew OF
$50 men on board. That the greatest
catastrophe in marine history has oc-
CURED to a vessel of their line is ad-
mitted by the officials of the White
Star Steamship company in New York.
The liner Carpathia. the first vessel to
come within sight of tine Titanic, res
cued all the Titanic's life boats in
which We're GO persons most OF them
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ing weeks ago SO as to ride the new
wonder of the season on her maiden
voyage.
Dispatches state that the Titanic
went down at 2:20 o'clock Monday
morning. The delay in the transmits
sion of the news is attributed to the
fact that all dispatches have been sub
ject to difficult relays.
The collision of the Titanic with an
iceberg is now known to have been
a headon crash that occurred while
the liner was proceeding little less
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TITANIC, THE T|T0N OF THE OCEAN,
FINnS WATERY CRAVE ON FIRST TRIP.
OVER L4oO PEOPLE ARE DROWNED
FACTS ABOUT THE TITANIC.

The largest vessel afioat.
On her maiden voyage. Was due
in New York Tuesday, April 10.
Left Southampton April 10.
Forty-six thousand three hundred
t~enty-eight tons register.
Displacement, 5000 tons.
Total length, ss2 feet 8 inehea
Breadth, % feet 6 inches.
One hundred and seventy-hve feet
from the keel to the top Of smoke.
stack.
Eleven decks, with aceommoda atIons
for 1000 persons, including passengers
and crew.
Two regal suites on the Titanic cost
s4,35o per trip, occupants having priv.
ate promenade deck.
Titanic was nearly four times as
large as the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse. which, 10 years ago, was one
OF the largest, finest and fastest boats
in service.
officers Of Titanic were: Captain,
e. J. Smith: surgeon, w. r. N
O'loughiin; assistant surgeon, J. e
Simpson: purser, n. w. McElroy;
second purser, r. L. 6roeker: chief
steward, A. tattimer.
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PASSENGERS SUFFER-.
Remain in Life Boats Eight Hours
Before Rescued.

New York.-Those who were saved
after the Titanic disaster have gone
through hardships of exposure and per.
II which may have left many Of them
in serious condition. A dispatch Civ
en- out at the White Star Offices said
that those rescued by the Carpathia
were picked up from lifeboats at 10: 80
O'Clock Monday morning. eight hours
after the Titanic sunk.
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TITANIC COST ss,oOo,oOO.
Estimated $1,000. 900 Worth Of oia.
monds Are on Board.

New York.-The Titanic was insured
at Lloyds for $5.000,0O0 according to
advices from London and it was said
here that the International Mercantile
Marine company also carried a surplus
fund for insurance purposes which
could be applied on the loss. The cost
OF building the great liner has been
estimated at $10.OOO.O 900. although Vice
President Franklin. of the White Star
line insisted that her value was not
over $S.O0GOO0.
The total monetary loss caused by
the sinking Of the ship. however, is
certain to run to many millions more.
but the total amount cannot even be
conjectured. 1t is generally under
stood that the vessel had aboard dia.
monds of great value
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enough was diyulged to make GER
tain an appalling account of the
catastrophe. Not until Captain Had
dock flashed Horrible disaster-all
but go lost" would the White Star
officials believe the largest ship ever
launched had gone down on her maid.
en- voyage. The scene in the White
Star Line Offices was pitiful. Brought
to a realization of the stupenduous
wreck-the complete destruction of
the fruit Of their dreams-gray haired
men-many Of them veteran seamen.
wept
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Astronomers have discovered a new
star in the heavens. Theatrical mana
gers discover them In any old place
nearly every day. and when the nat
ural supply gives out they manufac.
ture them
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Laced boots with spats have been
authorized by the kaiser with the un.
dress uniform Of German soldiers.
German army officers may have spats.
but they are forbidden to have duels
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Because she had q revolver In her
stocking a Los Angeles woman was
arrested for carrying a concealed
weapon. Her hobble skirt must have
been longer than most of those that
are seen hereabouts.
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A. Maurice Low In . lecture at Yale
the other night characterized newspa-
per reporters ~ men Of trivial
minds without perspective and with.
out education" Some reporter had
probably rsfsFred TO Mr.. Low a. one
Mo also spokA.
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A New York physician who married
q doctor wants divorce because all
his patients deserted him and went
to her for medical advice and treat.
ment. Some men are SO exacting that
they are not satisfied merely to have
e all IN the family.
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Andy Carnegie arises to remark
that the farmer Is the only happy man
IN this country. And yet We seldom
hear of q steel magnate dying Of
grief.
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The attorney general of California
has decided that when q California
woman becomes the wife Of an alien
she loses her vote. Does a German
girl who Is married to an Irishman
become Irish!
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ANXIOUS OVER BUTT.
President Has Frequent Inquiries
Made Concerning the Safety Of
His Aide.

Washington.-Presid Taft had
frequent inquiries made Of the news
paper offices and the steamship COM
panies for his aide. Major Archibald
w. Butt, one of the passengers on the
Titanic. No word had been received
at a late hour at the homes of Frank
ID. Millet. the painter; Colonel Archi-
bald Oracle. or Clarence Moore. the
three other Wsshingtonians aboard.
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LIES TWO MILES DOWN,
No Hope Of Salvage From Wreck Of
the Titanic.

Halifax.-The death bed Of the $10.-
10000 steamer Titanic is two miles at
least below the surface of the sea.
About 500 miles from Halifax and
about 20 miles south of the Grand
Banks is where the Titanic is believed
to have gone down.
This location IL midway between
Sable Island and Cape Race.
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Mrs. Astor Saved,

New York.-According to best in
formation here. Col. John Jacob Astor
is among the lost. but his bride. who
was Miss Madeline Force. a daughter
of Frank Force. is saved. Mra. Astor
was reported to be in a delicate con-
dition
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A Cleveland preacher says the Amer
lean home is rapidly disappearing. He
must be missing the old-fashioned din
uers he used to be invited to.
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A man In Yonkers tried to kick
dog anI fell with his legs paralyzed.
Even nature has Joined In the general
objection to kicking dogs around.
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Two New York motormen ran over
the same unfortunate pedestrian.
Those two men are wasting their tai
ents by not getting into Wall street
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A Partisan philosophe. says that vio
lent movements produce violent
thoughts. He must have found a slip
perry sidewalk somewhere.
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Minneapolis People on Board.

Minneapolis.-Mr. and Mrs. Walter
d. Douglas and Mr.. and Mrs. John
Pillsbury Snyder were on the Titanic
Mr.. and Mrs. Snyder were returning
from their honeymoon. Mr.. Douglas
was formerly of Piper. Johnson 4
Case, commission merchants.
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One Killed; Many hurt.

Lima Center, Michigan. - One man
was killed and almost a score of
passengers injured when two inter
urban cars on the Detroit United rail
way met In q head-on collision about
two miles east Of here.
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Position Of Olympic and carpathia.

Position Of Olympic and carpathia.
New York.-rhe White Star officers
figured from their data that the Olym-
pic was 40 miles from the scene Of
the Titanic's sinking when she sent
the news Of 1t. At that hour the
Carpathia was estimated to be 1850
miles east of Sandy Hook.
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1t is said that 200 former criminals
are driving taxicabs In New York. In
reading the above sentence the FOR.
mer" Is silent.
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Sarah Bernhard will get $1,000 a
week for playing in vaudeville-ai.
most enough to buy fresh eggs every
morning
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This Is not such an extravagant ma
ton after all. A New Yorker was kill.
ed crossing the subway tracks to save
q nickel
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Proprietors Of Ithaca soda fountains
will not hail with Joy the news that
Cornell students have adopted the no
treat rule
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The New Jersey assembly has
passed bill imposing a 81 tax on
female cats. Is there q mouse trap
trust?
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A preacher says that the saddest
hour Of the day comes after sunset.
That's when most Of the vaudeville
stunts are pulled OF.
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Alfred G. Vanderbilt Safe.

New York.-Mrs. Cornelius Wander.
bilt received a cablegram from Alfred
G. Vanderbilt, her son, saying that he
had not sailed on the Titanic and
was safe In London
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A Missouri girl wants $1,000 for
seven kisses: One would almost i'm.
agine from that that kisses are scarce.
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Butter can be made directly from
grass. says a scientist Possibly q
uisprint, for grease"
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Ten aviators have been killed 30 far
this year. compared with four In the
same time last year. Does this indi.
cate how aviation progresses!
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The Countess OF Warwick says that
. woman is at her best at fifty. Guess
how old the countess IL.
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Being shot at occasionally is not
one of the legitimate annoyances OF
a kings Job.
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A California woman with a model
husband" has been granted a divorce.
She deserves II.
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A Judge in New York rules that
mother love Is not necessary to a
child. In some cases We are In favor
of the recall.
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Another blow to woman suffrage.
An Illinois genius has invented an
unbreakable window
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The cellar Of Pennsylvania farmer
has dropped into a coal mine. Lucky
man
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Gen. Bliss Nav Succeed Grant.

Washington, ID. c. - II was in
dicated that Brigadier General Tasker
H. Bliss may be promoted to the rank
Of major general in succession to the
late General SreAerick d. Grant.
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Our own weather ia bad enough.
but In China they are having a reign
of terror.
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Every little presidential candidate
has q keynote Of his own.

In case of a coal strike will the coal
Din give space for q mushroom bed?
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The early bird doesn't get the worm
merely BY being early.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-06-03

o"h such fittings as were absolutely necessary. C. eompany's machine shop produced pretty good i'm Hation of diving helmet. Local talors fashioned a suit not of armor but f supposedly waterproof cloth the seams of which healed with vscoized rubber. And the B. H. K machinists devised an air pump Inc men were ready 10 commence and es'ed crowd of experienced @ divers who had done deep water stunts on street corners gathered t1 witness proceedings their advice After sounding and locating the exact position of the derec he diver novces took at the submarine part of the work although Campbell did was done under No p@noons other universally acceped appliances in modern ship salvagng pressed into service, but the preliminary work progressed just the Daily the onlookers descend through holes in the ice to the river bed in water While repairing the most gaping the ships side Campbell was under ;he water three hours without once Gong to the surface. telephone transmitter in side ct Lis helmet enabled him to communicate his wishes tc those above. Blu; after the hulk had been patched he m tedious part work was Yet to be done, as the hold oogged full packed river mud some of it. in the from end, being frozen A boil CT was set up on the Front bank dam built to the surface around one of the hatc ches: steam forced through the length and breadth of the sunken vessel 10 thaw and loosen her weighty ballast two sixinch sand pumps put down through the coffer dam and the slow of removing the and river sediment of ice was cut through equal to the opening the Lotte would c1rdng to her length and beam The all-mportant question whether the hold. full of air would raise the huge block of ice above her But she proved equal to the emergency and without ado With the clearing of the river she Heated a couple of hundred yards down O a safer place There she rests blocks today cost her new own CTS over $4000 10 redeem her. The city gave them $500 for removing danger wreck. Otherwise they have realized nothing for their Some time she may bring her good price the merchantabe timber in her sides. Bu ros where she is through the years may go she is none the less gl wing rbue the "sticktoiveness" of the sal of the North.
 The Alaska Citizen is the Biggest and Best Weekly Paper in Aaska-Subscrbe
The Alaska citizen., 1912-06-03

2A the oft-repeated axiom. But those who
 0k give that aphorism a second thought can
 Tt deny that ingenuity is be rele gated to back seat regards the cf nven 'ion. Every idea is concrete thought in making and every thought is he forerunner of an established fact. providing. everything being equal the promo trs originality is fortified with enough stamina 10 say his conviction through thick and thin. AasNa has both the necessities abundance and walking hand in hand herewith the geniuses Farbanksans are te" whose ruminacons pause and outsiders know of instance of remarkable resourcefulness the result of which is an everpresen witness the caliber of brandnew civilization. the refinery the melting pot-Alaska
 In the spring the first flow of ice in the breakup roaring. tearing which knew no ob- structiOn it's progress. Down bore and the big river boat Lottie Talbot. shouldered brun of it's rounding. lied up she where the swing in the Cinema back of the Nordale hotel the narrowing of cAe channel tha, point makes the impact of any float ing douby great. The Lottie was pierced and sunk opp site From street Several weeks later Fair banks was visited by the disastrous her s1oii history. The upper works of the Lote petey fireswept. All protruded above the water burned off but the hull remained intact on the bottom f the river. During the summer she was jsrked the beach opposite the ice the following spring again hid her view the waters. This time. it seems she perforated in many places. No effort made salvage her until 1909. when, in the winter time. three husky Fairbanks whom :deness doubt palled contemplated raising hulk is can cant" quick. up here. William J Camp he'll, called Billy. J. A. Mcfarland and Dan Mcfarland said it could be done None were divers. There vas diving suit in Alaska, their knowledge But little thing like absence of the necessary ap- purtenances to the successful accomplishment their Ians constituted hndrance these north eners They vert about and mprovsed with their hands and with he aid of the best mechanical skill
The Alaska citizen., 1912-06-03

Sad lneeed.-"Well that that jackass Elder berry has gone and his head the moose again." said Hawkins
 worse than that, said Banta. Hes got it in the moose papers,"
 Puzzns-"They that your Ned's wanted by the police
 Well. there's accounting for tastes"