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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-05-29
Fantastic House Names.

Switzerland can show some house
names quite as fantastic as those In
Holland. There is villa near Bale
christened In way worthy or U1an
Heep-"Klein aber Mem" 1t would be
hard. however. to parallel Gustave
Dore's attempt in this direction. He
expressed the name Of his house at ST.
Cloud In a stave OF music with the
notes G EBA c d lido mi 81 la do rel.
which, being interpreted. means DOM
fcile a Dore.-Lond0n Standard
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-05-29
Pepys and His SpectacIes.

Pepys in his famous diary tells of
those devices which he used when his
eyes began to fail him. Aug. 81. 1868;
1.-THE month ends mighty sadly with
me. my eyes being now past all use
almost. and | am mighty let upon try
ing the late printed experiment OF pa
per tubes" A few days later he Is
"mightily pleased with trial have
made of the use of a tube-spectacle OF
piper. tried with my right eye And
80 It goes on. the tube being used hrst
for one eye. then for the other. ana
finally he has a wizard. into which a
tube for both eyes with glass In 1t is
fastened. Ii was of no use. and the
diary had to be discontinued. But
Pepys lived and saw and prospered
for many years after he had given up
tubes and glasses.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-05-29
FREEZING WATER.
Conditions That Cause the Bursting or
Cracking of Ice.

Cracking of Ice.
Ice never bursts from freezing. AS
soon as the liquid of which it is COM
posed is frozen solid expansion ceases.
The cracking or bursting Of ice is
brought about in this way: When wa
ter is subjected to extreme cold ice
crystals will gradually form on its sur
face until the same are covered with
thin coat Of what appears to be wet
snow. From this outer coating of ice
crystals all subsequent freezing goes
downward, the ice thickening accord
ing to the degree Of cold. The water
which is being converted into Ice now
begins to expand, creating a pressure
upon the unfrozen water below. This
pressure is both downward and out
ward, and in case the water under OF
servation is in a vessel the sides and
bottom Of the receptacle supply the r,
sistance.
AS the freezing process continues the
pressure upon the confined water and
air in the interior of the bulk increases
until something yields. If the vessel
be stronger than the ice stratum that
has formed over the surface the layer
of ice will be bent upward at the cen
ter, that being the weakest point, on
account of the fact that the outer
! edges Of the CONCEALED mass are frozen
I fast to the sides Of the vessel In which
the experiment is being made. In this
condition the center of the ice contin-
ues to rise or bulge until 1t bursts
from the resistance Of the water below.
Could the vessel be tapped from below
and the water drawn Off no amount of
freezing would be sufficient to crack
or bulge the ice layer on the surface.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-05-29
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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-05-29
a Fish With q Lantern.

No matter what animals OF groups
of animals are studied. 1t will always
be found that their leading physical
traits are exactly adapted to their hab-
its and conditions. A striking Illus
tration Of this fact is afforded by the
torch fish. This is deep sea fish that
carries on It's nose something like
short, thin bone. which 1t can ilumi'
nate with a phosphorescent light or
extinguish at pleasure. 1t does not use
this lantern to guide it on its way IN
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-05-29
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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-05-29
LEGENDS OF THE SWORD.
Curious Beliefs That lowered Round
the Ancient WEAPON


CouaTess legends and superstitions
have attached to the sword since the
days when lighting was the principal
occupation of life. So highly was the
sword esteemed that Mohammed In
the Koran declared 1t to be the key
to heaven and hell"
The warrior or knight gave a name
to bis sword. He vowed at the altar
never TO draw it in false cause. 1t
was his companion and friend and de-
scended from father to son for many
generations. One sword named Broth
er Of the Lightning" had a golden hilt
Inscribed with magic words. In times
of peace these were said to be lllegi-
Bile. but before a battle they glowed
red as blood.'
1t was believed, moreover. that q
sword after long use acquired life of
Its own. Many famous swords we're
said to utter cries before battle, and
after a weapon had killed FIVE score
men it became blood hungry and leap
ed from its scabbard at the approach
of foe. Certain swords were said
to refuse to give a wound In a bad
cause Among these was the brand
E1callbur. which was given to King
Arthur by fairy and which Richard
Occur de Lion professed to own.
In the east superstitious reverence is
still paid to the sword. The Daimios
Of Japan. when they voluntarily sur
rendered their rank. kept as rule the
wonderful blades which had been
handed down from generation to gen
era ton. in some cases for more than
thousand years. and which had alb
sorbed, as they believed. some Of the
character and life of the men that had
owned them. --Harper's Weekly.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-05-29
At q Disadvanta 90.

"a newly married man always has
great confidence In the superior wis
dom of his WIFE"
Naturally" replied Miss Cayenne.
"a man who has been accustomed to
eating with plain knives, forks and
spoons is likely to feel pretty humble
and subdued while he is being instruct
ed in the use of all the silverware that
came with the wedding presents. -
Washington Star.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-05-29

the depths of the ocean or to enable
1t to see what is going on in the neigh
borhood. The light is put to a more
practical use. When the fish feels hun
cry it lights up to attract smaller fish.
They dart for the light and find them
selves In the capacious mouth Of the
fish. How the lantern is lighted and
extinguished is not yet clearly under
stood.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-31
SEND MORE HAYNES
 VEGETABLES SOUTF'

The shipment of farm veg etables from Haines to tho South has proved profitable f one is to judge by the circum. stances that the first shipmen is being followed by more The Humbildt on her last trip took a shipment of 40 sacks O turnips to the Seattle markets The Seattle Post-Intelligen- cer, commenting upon the ar rival of the shipment says:
 "The vessel also discharge 10 sacks of turnips and ruta bagas, raised in fertile gard ,ns near Haines. The Alaske vegetables, which are said tU be fine stock, are consigned to Western avenue commission merchants. According to news brought by the Humboldt the potato yield in the vicinity of Haines has been unusually large and the little city of the North may have 'spuds' to sell in the Seattle market. There was also a fine strawberry crop near Haines the past sum- mer, and if it is as great next year Seattle residents will be eating Alaska strawberries.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-31
OLDEST PIONEER
 GOES TO SITkA

The man who hoisted the stars and stripes over the Ter ritory of Alaska for the fist time, in the capital at that time Sitka, on October IS, 1867, left Wrangell for Sitka last week. Ed. Ledecke, the man who has the this distinguished honor, is an old pioneer on the Territory, both in point of res idence in the Territoy and in years. He is now 70 years of age, and apparently hale and hearty, but has a longing for the old town and will there fore live in the Pioneers Home hereafter. He was accOmp- anied on his journey by John Beardsell, another we'll known old pioneer of Wrangell who came to the Territory in 1874. John Beardsell is an old Cas- siar miner and has made Wran gell his headquarters for years. He is 76 years of age.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-31
TO MANY WRECkS
 ON PACIFIC COAST

Ships. cost money; and very often they carry precious car goes. Navigation should be as safe in the waters of the North Pacific as they are in the Atlantic. To be sure, &C., cidents at sea, as accidents on land are bound to happen. But we have had too many wrecks on nthis coast, and it is largely due to the failure of the fed eral government to do for this coast in the way of providing aids to navigation what it is it's manifest duty to do. The fed eral government should do for the Pacific Coast what it has done for the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. It is criminal to neg lect this coast for precisely the reason that it is criminal at any time to expose either life or property to wholly unneces- sary dangers. Exchange.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-31
WILL WINTER SOUTH
DOUGLAS-JUNEAU BRIDGE

At the request of the depart ment of commerce and labor, the war department has in structed Lieut.. Glen Edgerton, engineer of the Alaska road commission, to immediately take steps to make the neces- sary soundings to ascertain the practiticability of constructing a government bridge from the shore line, above the Juneau townsite, to the east shore of Douglas island, connecting the Juneau and Douglas island government wagon roads, and opening for road traffic com munication both sides of Cas- tineau channel.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-31
ALASKA BORN WOMAN
 IN FINNISH PARLIAMENT

Peculiar interest attaches to the recent election as a mem Der of the Finnish parliament of Miss Anna Furujeim be- cause she was born in Alaska, a country which now has equal suffrage, but which was un- der Russian rule at the time of her birth. She is the daughter of Russian admiral who died a few years ago. Her father was next to the last governor of Alaska before it was acquir- ed by the United States. He belonged to the Swedish mo- bility in Finland, where his talented daughter is now a power in politics.
 Miss Furuhjelm is second vice-president of the Internat- ional Woman Suffrage alliance and attended the recent met ting of that body at Budapest, but she left the congress be- fore it had adjourned to re- turn to Finland and look after her candidacy for the parlia- ment. She was one of 21 wo- men elected to that body last onth.-EXchange
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-31
A LETTER FROM
 PHIL McCAlLIOf
Shushanna, Alaska.
 Oct. s, 1913

Shushanna, Alaska. Oct. s, 1913 Mir. J. R. Heckman-
 Dear Sir:
 1 did not write you befort this for the reason that I wan ed to know more about IT. camp and about what I coul do. l have built cabin ane have been on several creeks wherever bedrock has beer reached pay has been found There are about five hundred people in camp for the winte' and active prospecting ha now commenced and some thing will turn up.
 I have located two claim and I am leaving camp toda, to sink a hole, as my pan pros. pest showed up very wei. about s cents to the pan.
 The country looks good to me and the balance in cam have no kick. The fellow  who had the most to say neve got on any of the creeks ant know nothing about the country at all. The worl this winter will prove thu worth of the camp. Grub is from 75c. to $l.5D per pound With best wishes for every body in Ketchikan remair
 Yours Truly,
 PHILIP McCALLION
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-31
lEW REGULATIONS OF
 CAME KILLING ISSUED

Circular No. 3, of the Alaska 'ame Laws, just issued by Governor Strong, is just from ne publishers press in pam hlet form and will be ready or distribution by next week. The regulations are identical With those which have been published before with the ex- seption of the new regulations 'ssued by the secretary of az. 'iculture on June 23rd, 1913. These new regulations were elective August 1st, 1913.
 They are appended herewith:
 Regulation I.
 Sale of Deer.-The sale of eer carCasses in. Southeast 'rn Alaska shall be suspended lntil August 15, 1914.
 Regulations ?.
 Open season for Mountain Boats The season for killing mountain goats in Southeast m Alaska shall be limited to he period from August l to ebruary 1, both inclusive.
 The Game Wardens.
 A list of the game Wa. acns If Alaska is also contained ir he circular:
 Name Residence. Ndam Schneider Juneau :. l.. Larson Chicken
 9ert s. Mcdonald Fairbanks '. A.Baughman Seward \ron Ericsson Roosevelt 'ames Allen. (1) Petersburg leo. II Peterson Sitka '. M. Hunt CD Cordova V. G. Weifle (1) Ketchikan \. c. Cooper (2) Forester Is. (D Officer of Forrest Ser ice acting as game warden nder appointment by gover- or's office.
 {2) Bird warden, Forester sland bird reservation.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-31

Dr. D. H. Sleem, for many years a practicing physician al Seward and later at Valdez, died at the latter place October 1Ith. The funeral services at Valdez October if were gen erally attended. The schools were closed and the principal business houses locked their doors. Judge Fred M. Brown, of the United States district court, delivered an eulogy. The body was shipped outside for burial. Dr. Sleem was a member of the board of med ical examiners. He was a native of Syria Turkey, but came to the United States as a young man and practiced medicine in Nav York city un- til he came to Alaska a dozen years ago. He was 70 years of age.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-31
TWO WRECKS AT kASAAN

The big wind Saturday night drove the launch Spirit up against the piling at the Kas aan cannery aid came very close to sinking her. As il is her masts were both broken off short, her house smashed in and her hull strained. An other launch, small one, moored nearto the Spirit sank at the wharf.
 WILL WINTER SOUTH
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-31
MORE MISSING MEN

The Marshal's office is in re- eipt of inquiries regardinp he whereabouts of John IT. 'omeroy and Charlie M. Stove r
 James Schofield, former v )fJeffersOn, Ohio. Last hearG )f five or six years ago whe round Peavey and FairbanE He has also spent some tin tt Nome, Tanana and CircFe ity. Described as being si. eet four inches tall, rathe lender, smooth face anj lark brown hair. Relatives are anxious to hear from hin' Notify Governors office, Ju- neau.
 Byard Taylor, who forr'c
 we'd at Winters, Califo@- lysleriously disappeared
 I. 1913. He was last >o, Ferry Building. Deserip s as follows: Age, 25 year 1eight six feet, two inchee weight 210 pounds; blue eve. ight brown hair. Wal} wift rec swing; has mole od ehe' md a stiff littlc fiHaee
 ieved to have come To 'Iother anxias- fo hear him.
 AND THE rnr oeasr~ F
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-31

Chas II. Cosgrove and family expect to leave on an early boat for California, where they VII spend the winter, prob ably in San Francisco.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-31
< NORTHERN HAPPENINGS ! A A A .A . .k . ,& | . . = ,A . .

pleted for the Mother Lodt Copper Mines Co.,, and work is now being directed toward i'm proving the road from the tran to Mccarthy Creek, thereby completing the easy transpor- tatiOn of ore to the railroad It is expected to ship out 50C tons of high grade copper ore this winter.
 High water in the Big Cinema has resulted in damages to the Van Curler workings to the ex tent of at least $I0,000. The dam bas entirley washed away resulting in the flooding of the mine.
 Warehouses are being erect. ed at the mouth of the White r,ver and the movement for the concentration of supplies al that point is we'll under way. The request that a food in spector be appointed at Fair hanks has been refused by the department of agriculture. The Dawson Electric comp any is planning bringing power into Fairbanks. The line will be over 400 miles long wher completed.
 The Cordova Good Road. 7- co-operated with the Fair Ks commercial club for the pose of boosting good ads.
 Wm. E. Wood, deputy U. z 9'Shal for the Chitina pre- iact succeeds Joe Brown.
 Thirtieth Infantry bant Q turned to Fort Seward es. after being stationed "a months at Fort Liscun ez.
 inment Of tin ore valued 100 was shipped iron n inc steamer Navajo Dflry has assumed tn eers hip of the New Q at Fairbanks.
 ems to be cOnside understanding ant
 safaction with tI
 ha mining laws a. af Juneau and wriel
 effect on August resent year. The law
 to placer mining is
 on of the old ano eraI codes. togethel
 W territorial laws
 into effect the firs
 outh. The chic
 soute are those il
 he power of attorne
 es'ion of assessmel
 der the new law
 >ible for a locate a-ognized power 0
 lis possession to
 iaims for eacl
 ! torney which i
 2 limited to tw; CTS of attorney. Il IS possible under the for one person to lG
 laims of 20 acre:
 'or month. It t
 laer the preseEl
 afene the end
 which the claims e1, the lot tstor dt worth of assessment on each individual clair, ho has l',ated. The
 ovides fat no plac
 can be patented ontains a larger area hat fixed by law nol las a length that is Aan three times it's width. This clause
 essiblc the "choe
 ations of formel mes. from Juneau
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-31
The sixteenth annual report

of the Pacific Coast company and it's subsidiary corporations
 contains the statement that
 for the year ended June 30th,
 the net earnings of the Pacific
 Coast Steamship company in-
 creased $41,145,09 over the
 year previous, in spite of the
 fact that the cost of repairs
 and operating expenses for the
 same period increased $351,-
 147.73 to $42S,S3O.96.
 E. w. Griffin, for many years the largest competitor of
 the Northern Commercial Co.
 n the Tanana valley. has sold ais Cinema business to the | Northern Commercial Co. It
 is said that the purchase was
 made largely because Griffin
 was the heaviest shipper over the White Pass line of steam
 CTS, and the Northern Com
 mercial Co.,, desired to divert
 he freight to their own line. Juneau and Douglas both
 have strong football aggrega- tions and match is being ar
 ranged between the Alaska
 Gastineau and the Treadwell-
 Douglas teams.
 The Fairbanks camp, Arctic Brotherhood, ecently elected
 delegates to attend to the grand encampment in Vancou- yer. The delegates were pledged to warn outsiders that lever again would there be a grand encampment held out side of Alaska.
 J. c. Houlihan, formerly of Fox Creek, in the Fairbanks district, where he conducted a lotel, has leased the Simpson block in Juneau and will con- iuct family hotel.
 Two Dawson stampeders to he Chisana camp, one of whom was named Kline, lost heir way and nearly starved to leath before being picked up md taken to Fairbanks. The Fairbanks Times states hat the price of mink and martin skins are dropping bringing only S7 to 80 for the former and the latter $3 to $4 for good skins.
 There were 110 pupils atten- ling the Nome school in the middle of September. It is
 expected that the number will keep LID to that mark during the winter, as many of the children will go outside with heir parents this fall.
 The Skagway Alaskan takes exception to the statement in the Juneau Empire that the 'ecent shipment of vege- ables from Haines to Seattle | vas the first to be made from Alaska. It says that a ship nent of seed potatoes was ] made to California last year from Skagway.
 A soldier named Newman | was arrested at Fort Davis for
 stealing $500 worth of jewelry
 from Capt. Reed. He confes-
 sed and the jewlery was re-
 covered.
 Senator Henry Roden ex-
 poets to make a trip to Switz-
 erland next winter to wind up
 the estate of his father, who
 recently died there.
 The Johnson dredge, which
 was shipped to the Kotzbue
 Sound district, has been sent
 up the Yukon river and will be
 in stalled in the Iditrod. The Kotzbue proposition did not
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-31

The adninistrat.s
 Europe to understand that we wish. to have a free hand in Mexico and all the cards ex- posed. If Great Britian wants to set into the gamc ro~e must be new deal.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-31

Cleary Creek stage ran away re gently and tipped the rig over. There were several passengers in the vehicle and all escaped serious injury except Miss Emma Sullivan, who suffered an injury to her back, which has resulted in both limbs be- ing paralyzed.
 Dr. Carmichel, formerly of Fairbanks, is now practicing in Ruby, where his services were recently required to fix up the face of J. M. Clark, whose beauty was marred by stove pipe which fell from the roof of his cabin and split his nose open, necessitating several stitches being taken.
 Five hundred thousand dol lars! That amount represents the output of the Ruby mining district for this season. This amount is not mere guess work. The figures are talk en from statements made by officials in charge of Wells Fargo, Northern Commercial Company, and Ruby Commer- cial Company, respectively. At Fairbanks the Arctic Brotherhood has been giving series of three hour dances that are proving very popular A Portland paper tells of a fisherman trolling for halibut out near Unalaska, who caught a wolf fish, which, when pull led into the boat, bit the fish erman on the leg, and that's going some.
 Claim No. IT, on Goldstream Fairbanks, has yielded more that SI,500,000 and is not worked out. A crew of eighty five men were employed on the ground during the past summer and the output was in the neighborhood of $l36,00O. The 10 stamp mill that was established at Cinema three years ago largely as a public enterprise is in the hands of E. R. Jenson foreclosed a mort gage on the property, and it will be sold at forced sale.
 The most important case to come before the district court is soon to sit at Fairbanks will be the case of Receiver Moves against the directors, stock holders and officers of the de- funct Washington-Ala bank better known as the Barnett bank. This is a civil action to recover something like $400,- 900. One special action will be against the stockholders for the recovery of $S0,000 as a blow back.
 The richest quartz discovery ever made in the Panama val ley is said to have been made on the Spaulding mine. The discovery was made at the i00-foot level and 360 feet the shaft. It is said that the ore runs about $10,00O to the ton, but the extent of the ore is not known.
 Governor Strong has named the following delegates from Alaska to the sixth annual convention of the American be held in Philadelphia Oct. 20 24: B. L. Thane, Juneau; Chas. A. Sulzer, Sulzer; B. F. Mill lard, Valdez; R. s. Ryan, Kat ala; John Roman, Fairbanks; William Malony, Nome; Milo Kelly, Knik.
 Neal Baker, of Chatinika, and Peter Hughes, or Fairban- ks, arc two aged pioeers