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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-09-02


Lined up. ready for trial of speed.
In East River park. New York city. are
these three little barebacked boys.
Their lack Of clothes Is not so much
because they have no shirts as be-
cause they had Just emerged from a
swim when the idea OF foot race
was proposed. So they determined to
make the trial without the impeachment
Of useless apparel. That was when the
camera man caught them. Beside
them stood policeman. who cannot
be seen In the picture, and he gave the
word Go" II was short race and
quickly over. and doubtless the speedi-
est lad won. But OF that the photo
grapher has no record. They all were
far ahead Of him at the fipish line.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-09-02
The Old Woman.

mere was an old woman who lived in .
hat
Sne had bulldog and fat tabby cat:
one gave them some broth and q piece OF
rye bread
bed
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-09-02
FROM halifax
TO VANCOUVER
New 1ranscontlnenta| Automo-
bile Road.
IT IS ALMOST COMPLETED.

Motorists viii Soon Be Able to Go
From the Atlantic to the Pacific ovor
Beautiful Highway 5000 Miles
Long.
Douglas Island news., 1914-01-07
The NOrthIand
The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North. Condensed.
Information for Everybody.

Ketchikau has a new fire bell that weighs 2,700 pounds.
 The commissioner of the general U. s. land office considers 16o big enough for au Alaska homestead.
 wm. Ansley, the defeated candidate for ,he postmastership at Iditarod was supported by a petition signed by TOO patrons of the office, ali of which indi cates that the democratic machine is working nicely
 The Morning Mail of Ketchikan, comes out fat-footed in favor of pat- roniziug home industry and the con sumption of Alaska products, but is opposed Co the "dog eat dog" methods of the past
 During tbe past eight years approxi mately Sl5OO0 has been raised by bazars held for the benefit of the St. Mathews hospital ia Fairbanks. Dur ing the fair recently held more than s3OOO was realized and the expenses were believed not to exceed S350.
 Tbe Alaska Fish company, of Ketch ikan. has awarded a contract to Babare brothers of Tacoma for the eonstruc- tion of two fishing boats to be used near Ketchikau. The boats are to cost slOO00 each and are to be delivered within SO days
 A series of calamities is reported from The Westward Ed Temple, of Valdez, fell from a gasboat, and drown ed before help could reach bim; Fred Greuough, a prospeetor died enroute to the Nelchina placer camp; and the three little boys of Mir. and Mrs Frank Lawtou, of Katalla, were drowned by the overturning of a canoe.
 According to some of the Alaskan papers just to hand, there seems to be considerable dissatisfaction over some of the official appointments made in Alaska under our democratic regime. We'll. 'tis impossible to please every body. However, was glad to see one individual get a iob for the reason that it would enable bim to pay bis debts if he were inclined that way.-zoy, in Alaska Times.
 Word has just been received from a member of the crew of the cruiser Maryland, who is connected with the engineers department of the big ship, to the effect that the recent test of Alaska coal was far from the failure that has been rumored unofhcIally. The letter goes on to state that the test was taken shortly after the Maryland left Seward, and that the result was very satisfactory as far as the steaming quality of the coal was concerned, and the only com plaint possible wash the fact that the mine was not equipped with an efficient washer to was the coal before 1t was taken on board the ship.-Seward Gateway.
Douglas Island news., 1914-01-07

The latest move on the part of Brit ish Colum bia in the matter of restric- lions in immigration is causing no lit- tie comment and speculation on this side of the line as to the ultimate re- suit. By this ruling all labor, skilled and unskilled, will be barred from laudiug on Britieh Columbia soil for a period or three months or to March 3l, 1914. The fact that the ruling or order is limited to March 3l is evidence that it is experimental and may or may not be withdrawn after that time.
 In a country like Alaska, where fuel is costly, it seems strange that no seri- ous effort has been made to utilize the extensive peat beds of the territory. No estimate has ever been made of the area of these deposits, although it may be truthfully said that the whole of the northwestern portion of Alaska is one vast peat bed. Tn this section there is an excellent quality available, at comparatively small expense the fuel could be supplied at a reasonable price. A recent visitor to Iditarod, mun experienced in steam engineering and in dredging operations, stated that were he engaged in this region he would use peat for fuel, and seemed surprised that it was not in use here.-Pioneer
 The Seattle P.-L calls attention to the remark made by a pert paragrapher on the Chicago News, that "Alaska is preparing to be useful to others than the big interests. It would be inter- estinq to know what the writer had in mind. Wbcm and what has Alaska been useful to except to the man who went there and used his own hands and his own brains, or the capital that his own hands and brains created or ac cumulated for him in some other field of endeaverY To whom has Alaska been useful except to the man who worked? It is discouraging for the uuinformed to cloud SO vital and im- portant au issue as the welfare of Alaska with assertions so lacking in truth and fairness. It seems as if all the world, in it's relations to Alaska, has turned demagogne.
 On the return to Dawson of a fast dog team that left here Sunday for the Chisaua diggings, the distance between prominent points on the trail will have been measured and marked. The "Sledometer" is a wheel fourteen inch es in diameter, with quarter inch spikes am inch and a half apart on it's circum ferance. The wheel is mounted between shortened bicycle forks, and on the shaft by which it is attached to the handIebar upright of the sled. There is a universal joint which allows the wheel to always run in the packed snow of the runner track of the sleigh.  Attached to the fork in which the wheel revolves is a small meter, similar to the common oyclometer used on bicycles, but reading for a l4.inch wheel instead of the usual 28.inch bicy- ely wheel, The "sledometer" is the invention of H. O. Lokken, govern ment telegraph llneman, formerly at Big Salmon, but at present at Yukon Crossing He has used it on his sleigh for years, and has measured nearly every winter trail in Che Big Salmon country with it.-Dawson News.
Douglas Island news., 1914-01-07
DOUGLAS NEWS DEPOT FRONT ST. DOUGLAS, ALASKA

The editor of the Wranqel Sentinel must have been hungry wheo he wrote the following: "ReIdeuts of Alaska pay about two bits pound for neat while the halibut fishermen gets tons of nice tender juicy veuisou for noth inq and dispose of it below and pocket the proceeds, nobody ca,es, ibe straug- CT gets the best within. our gates gratis. Take them all hog; we'll statve.
 When the Alaska cable was ont of commission recently the government wireless station al Whitehead, near Cordova. accepted business to and from the outside via Sitka, Ketchlkau and North Cape at 30 cents a word, also charging for The address. As no press rate i allowed, the Valdez Pros pec,or agured that this service would cost about sl5O a day, and preferred to worry along without news from the great outside world.
 The pack of the Midnight Sun Pack ing company amounting to TOO eases of trout and 46 barrels of silver salmon bellios arrived on Dec. 8 on the Str. Corwiu. the company's vessel, having been caught in the ice while on trip to Point Barrow. Tbe small pack is explained by the fact that early in the sea on whale got into the spiIler of the only trap operated and after gorg iDq himself with it's contents, gave a hirt of it. tsil, which acattered the trap in all directions, irretrievably destroy ing it, aud then swan away
 One of the shipments which was lost lu the wreck Of the SJr Jeanio on Cal vert island was one Of eighty gae ac cnmmulators consigned to the local lighthouse headquarters and which were intended to be used ia maintain ing the blinker lights along the Alaska coast. This will seriously handicap the lighthouse service as they were in need of this shipment of tanks. More have been sent for with rush order but it is not known when they will ar rive. .-Ketchisan Miner
 After l4 years of effort n. D. Clark, Skaeway's leading farmer, is about to get patent to his homestead on the west side of Skagwsy river. In the l4 years that Mr. Clark has been running bis farm he has had four surveys made of his lands. The last one, according to the Skagway Alaskan, has been acc cepted and a patent will be issued on the showing made Mr. Clark's farm is the most famous in Alaska He has produced some record breaking crops on it, and his products have been sold at a profit in northern markets eXtend- ing from Whitehorse to Cordova, and in Seattle.
 Fairbanks, Dec 2O-The boiler house of Al Hnty on 1 below on Cleary creek, was destroyed by fire and is total loss. No one knows how the fire start ed and it is believed to have been the work of some discharged employee. Twelve hours after the ailty fire fire was discovered in the boiler house of Woods & Piper, on below on Cleary creek, and the entire plant was des- troyed. The origin of both fires is be- heved to have been incendiary and an investigation will be made by the fed- eral authorities.
Douglas Island news., 1914-01-07

John II. Baird, we'll known mining and business man from Iditarod and Fairbauks, who he's reached Seward from the big interior camp, says that at Su itna station on the way out he saw some of the richest quartz be has ever seen during a lifetime spent in mining camps. The quartz was a sam pie weighing l68 pounds and Mr. Baird says that at a conservative estimate there is over S1,OOO in free gold in the sample.
 "Our city occupies a peculiar posi- tion in the business world, for our suc- cess is assured for hundred years at least,n said Judge John R. Vim, of Juneau. to the Seattle P.-I. "I base my claims on the fact that enough pay ground has been tested and staked to keep our stamp mills going for that time. Our city is booming now and we expect it to become the great city of tbe territory. The reason for this is that we have the ore, the capital and the art"
 St. Michael.-In 1905 a halfbreed Russian named Pitka appeared in St. Michael with a sack of coarse gold, but would tell no one where he found it, and during the following summer, al- ways alone, Pitka went away and re- turned with more gold. He followed this up for sometime eacA year 1t would take him about thirty days to fill his sack with the yellow metal, say ing he got it on bar to the eastward, but would give no luther information. The so-called Pitka bar became famous locally, and many miners and proa- pectors for years sought to locate it- always in the neighborhood of Anvik- Owing to having performed some ser vice for the halfbreed, a man named Englestad became friendly with Pitka, and the latter agreed to take him to the bar. They set out with a sled, but Pitka died on the way, owing to ex- cesses in which he indulged in spending gold dust. He was hauled back to St. Michael, and the secret died with him. For the past two years miners have been working in the Andreafski dis trict with encouraging results. Now it is alleged that the Pitka bar has been relocated. Among the prospectors who are said to have sought the famous Pitka bar is Rhodes, the author of the Kuskokwim stampede in 1900. He sought some few friends here, aud was grubstaked by some St. Michealites, returned a few days ago with some thing over an ounce of coarse gold and nuggets. The exact amount is not known, as be was intensely secretive, this time conferring solely with his Qrubstakers. Three days later he and his packers to man started up the Yukon, telling no one of their destina- ton. Rhodes story has leaked out and it is to the effect that when he had about given up prospecting in the re zion, natives volunteered to show him where there was gold "heap plenty" and they brought him to 8 bar which is evidently a crossing of an old channel, and in two days he banned out the gold he had with him. The supposed strike is declared to be the famous Pit ka bar, and that it is according to Rhodes, the outcroppings, owing to the wash of the creek, of a rich old river channel which runs clear across the country and in the hills.
Douglas Island news., 1914-01-07
PROFESSIONAL
De Piperno R. Hector, M. D.

ITALIAN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Authorized to practice iu Alaska and outside. Twenty-seven years experience X-rnys and medical electricity used when nodded without extra charge. Never contract. ss -.e S2.50 for office and ort-ide calls. Speaks English, French Ttaliau and Spanish.
 orce-OiCONNOR BUILDING, THIRD ST.
 p,o,e a.e DOUGLAS. ALASKA
Douglas Island news., 1914-01-07

Aurora Encampment No. meets at Odd Fellows hall first and third Thursdays at p.m.
 Brothers of che Royal Purple are cordially inNl'e0' NELS ANDERSON, c. P. w.. H. MCLEAN, Scribe. Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. -,,ete at odd Fellows hou second and fourth Thursdays.
 visitors are cordially invited.
 MAGGIE BLOEDHORN. N. G- crpTprDF LAUGHLIN. Secretary.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-07-25

tied roam thoroughbred. which she
backed with nonchalant adroitness,
lifted one of those crooked eyebrows
which John Sargent has immortal
lied, and said:
"Since when?"
Her companion, Mr.. Adrian Want
ley, did not answer.
Even if you won't admit it, )" said
Mr.. Wantley, tits so, and you know
it. . 1t was always so,' he added
in big, sweeping way. when a girl
throws a man down, she gives him
certain rights. The right to criticize
if she doesn't find happiness with the
other man; the right to watch over
her interests and to protect them
when he can"
Mrs. Barr-Stokes said nothing.
eff l were an Arab" said he, I'D
be old enough to be your father
"You are old enough to be the Vim
cent girls father" said Mrs. Barr
Stokes tartly.
''What has little Vincent to do with
it?" said Wantley. eve are great
friends, she and II adore her.
''That doesn't matter said Mrs.
Barr-Stokes sweetly. ct isn't your
adoring her that worries US, it's her
adoring you. She does, poor kiddie.
You know she does"
Nonsense" said Mr.. Wantley,
'she rides my ponies for me"
"And all your other hobbies
''And still, Evelyn" said he, Gin the
face of this accusation l ask you to
pack the Ryder boy up in cotton and
send him home. He is making all
kinds of a fool of himself.
TITS bad taste, Evelyn. Shocking
bad. It's undignifed."
"Shan we turn in here?" she said,
''and have a gallop round the old
track?"
mo" said he. 81 want to talk. Let's
Ctiok tO tho CfraiCbt road -
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-07-25

my heart? What them"
Even then" said Wantley gravely,
81 say, 'Back-pedal' Nature. though
responsible for these Indian summer
inclinations, is against them, Evelyn.
Marry him and in ten years. -
81 know, l know" said she. :.
They rode for a little space in
silence.
Then it's bargain" she said sud-
denly.
"a bargain?"
"Of course. 1 give up Ryder; and
you make your farewell bow to little
Vincent
Shall we turn in here?" said he.
Where does it come out?"
81 don't know" said he. do you
care?"
She smiled at him, a smile that had
in it something little pathetic and
tired
mo-" she said. do your"
mo"
Jack Ryder had reason to believe
that he would find Mrs. Barr-Stokes
somewhere in her garden. So he tied
his horse to a chinaberTy that grew at
the side of the gate.
In the very center of the garden,
an octagon of pale green tiles sur
rounding a white Undetermined
pool, into which tiny nymph with
out clothes poured water from a
conch shell, he found her.
81 don't see my chair" said the
bold youth.
my butler" said she, has frown-
ed on your antemeridian calls, Jacko. q.
He has put his foot down. He is a
terrible stickler."
81 don't care who frowns," said
Jacko stoutly, eff you don't"
"But do frown," said she, and
showed him.
He laughed his clear, boyish laugh.
EtR11f I do ond ho dofoafod
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-01-08

''What part of Europe was so back
ward as church ridden Portugal?
None, excepting church-ridden Italy.
What portion of the civilized earth
was so iIliterate as were Portugal
and Italy? None, excepting those
where popery was equally predomi-
nant. ........... The picture is
ever the Same. Given popery, and we
have immortality, poverty, ignorance,
corruption, groveIEing, superstition"
From W0tson's latest book, "Open
Letters 20 Cardinal Gibbons Fifty
cents, postpaid. The JefRersonian
Publishing Company, Thomson, Ga
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-01-08


or less neatneSS.
A howl is going up from the press
because folks are worrying Wilson
with letters. Shucks-ain't he wor-
ried a lot of folks by passing the
biggest fool money bill that was ever
recorded? It's time for him to be
worried a little.
If the year 1914 will note any
Improvement in the method OF dis
pensing poisons, so that there will be
fewer people taking, as harmless
medicines, deadly doses, a great deal
will have been accomplished for les
SEEMING tragedy.
There seem to be still few speci-
mems of the old-fashioned women,
who are willing to take a chance
with matrimony: Canadian farmer,
after he had laid his crops by, adver-
tised for a wife, and he is getting
his mail in wheelbarrow lots.
It is almost time some one init
mated to Santa Claus that Whiskers
are not in good form any more, and
it is possible there might be a les
sening of fires from the cotton bat
ting limitations which his brothers
in-the-cause are obliged to don each
year.
Old Man Sorghum of The Corners
is happy; the Presidents Message is
out and he understands about as
much of it as he does of the gospel
of the HOttentOts, but his Represen-
tative has sent him a. copy, and thus
is assured of the Old Mans vote for
another term.
The Congregationalists OF Connec-
ticut protest against segregation of
negroes in Baltimore, Washington
and other Southern cities" And re-
calling the distance on the map be-
tween Connecticut and the cities q
named, we can understand the fer
Vor Of the protest.
Somehow it doesn't give US the
shock it did few years ago, to read
Of man suing for divorce, on the
ground that his wife beat him and
knocked out some of his teeth.
Since the suffys came on the scene,
we are accustomed TO Cu1NhlnS OIL
woman in the concrete as a husky
individual.
When the farmer reads all the out
side reports of those bumper crops"
and the enormous prices he got, and
the goodness of the Comment in
sending all that gold to him (Which
he got at eight and ten per cent from
the banks) doesn't it almost make
him wish he could make a living out
of making those reports himself, in
stead of having to get up with the
birds and bend his back to the hoe
all day?
While Tennessee has been maxim
strenuous bluff at following the
Georgia line of prohibition (Which
has only prohibited the State from
getting gobs of money that should
be coming to it,, the cheering news
is sent to the brewers that there
is a good business in near beer, all
over the State" And the rest is left
to the imagination Of the Chair
warmer Clubs that meet around the
Cross Roads store stove, these chilly
days.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-01-08
BY L. A. L.

these things.
Our girls go wrong, our boys slip
from us, our husbands desert US
and we wall to high heaven for the
cause, when it has been because we
refused, as women, to take to our
selves for all time, the things We had
promised to take as part of our re-
sponsibilities.
The moving picture" theatre and
the installment-plan house are an
offset, for the women, for the saloon
and the card game which seem to be
the leading vices for the man. And
all ARE vices, with the poor, inno-
cent, pitiable children thrown into
the discard, as paying the price in
commitments to homes for the
friendless, houses Of reform-and
the horrors of other houses, where
SO much is promised them that they
have learned to want, through the
selfish self indulgence of both par
ents.
Statistics are great things; get
list of some of them, and then figure
it out for yourself-and see what
YOUR part is, in the results which
have been compiled.
These reserve banks are fine
things-for the reserve bankers.
Oh well, there's the, opening of
the baseball season to look forward
to.
"Wilson at t1fty-seven" does not
make half as much good copy for
1osI
still on the Mexican situation.
Domesticity and the novelty of her
husband have evidently palled on
our only Lillian Russell; she is back
on the stage, and as beautiful and
popular as ever.
With the passing of Miss Phoebe
CouZzins, and the probably fatal i'll
ness of Mrs. Lille Devereaux Blake,
two of the most brilliant women will
have gone down into history.
The next dreariest thing to read
ing campaign news two months after
an election, is paying for the Christ
mas presents you sent to a lot of
people who never even thought of
you
And another boost has been given
to wife desertion, by the announce
ment that, under the income tax law
it is cheaper for man and his wife
to live apart, than to trot in double
harness.
Signs would indicate that, rather
than pay the income tax, some
women will wear a larger size of
stocking, with some safety appIian-
ces for holding the surplus cash car
ried therein.
Mr.. Huerta is finding it most diff
cult to get together any Of the
'sinews of war" without which one
cannot fight; and it also looks as
though the sinews in the legs and
backs of his army were getting
weak.
Tennessee doesn't seem to have
learned thing from the fiasco Geor-
gia has made of the prohibition
movement. The former State is go
ing to close the saloons, but will per-
NIT the sale of NEAR" beer. When
is near beer?
A waiting world would have liked
right well to have had dictagraph
account of that talk John Lind and
President Wilson had at the White
House, when John got back to tell
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-01-08
THE CLARIFYING QUALITIES OF
sESTATTSTTCS

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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-27
BITS OF NEWS

Arthur Mund, 1905 w. Harrison ST.,
rushed into police station telling of
holdup. Tale untrue. Locked up as
disorderly.
Death Of Gustave Novak at State
Hospital of the Insane to be investi-
gated. Some doubt as to cause of
death.
Mrs. Mary Zaremba, 1447 Emma
st., suicided. Gas. Four-year-oId
daughter, Mary, revived by pull
motor.
Baby boy two months old found in
basket at go Milwaukee av.
$500 reward offered by Henry H.
Banford, 900 Gait av., for return of
silverware and jewels stolen Feb. 10.
Mrs. Martha Pierce knocked down
by car Jaw broken
Andrew Lukas, TIA Barber ST., at
tackled and beaten in own home.
Skull fractured. Refuses to- name as
sailants.
b. [. Stick, SIS, collapsed on RAN
dolph st. Dead. Believed to be
caused by grief over death of son.
Mrs. Anna Runge, 1920 S. Sawyer
st., asphyxiated. Open gas jet.
Richard eonsidine, 49, missing. Po-
lice searching.
7Sd.ur i,ga % f9s5F $500 yAfy . 81 y
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-27

ley, president Chicago Dry Kiln Co.,
$72O.S0; Adolph Karpeh, secretary S.
Karpen Co., $5,883.10; Harry Squires,
president Squire-Hentges Co., S.
600.60; Chicago Tunnel Co., agent,
100000; H. G. Barnard, presi-
dent United Brewerfes Co, 81, 327.2S;
Howard S. Moy, president King JOY
Lo- Co., $674.69; Ludwig Holmeyer,
president Corn Products Refining Co.,
$3,734.20; w. H. Boettler, manager
Tosetti Brewing Co., $683.9f; Amer
lean Express Co., agent, $9,356.87;
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail-
road, agent, 81, 939.72.