The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-07-22
ALASKA NEWS ITEMS
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1 A field meet will be held at Fort Davis by the soldiers on Sunday. July 1S, 1916 starting promptly at p. m. Events will include 100 yard dash, high hurdles, barre. l fights, obstacle race, pie eating con test etc, etc., and a general good time in the athletic line is assured. Fort Davis auto bus will leave Bar rack Square starting at 1 p. m.
 The Belvidere, Captain Jochin- sen, arrived in the roadstead yester- day morning at two o'clock after spell trading along the coast of Siberia. The Belvidere had fairly good weather and everything was uneventful. It brings word however that Max Gottschalk got five years at hard labor for the offense charg- i ed against him by the Russian off, cials. It is believed that Max will not be transported to the mines but will instead put in his time at Pe- tropavlosk. When at Anadir, the ice broke and the Belvidere was carried down with the breaking river five miles amid the ice. This ice had to be contended against for some time. They brought Billy Thompson from Anadir to Plover Bay and report that he may be ex. pected. here in a few days.
 
 Local furmen state that the market never was so uncertain as at present altho it may we'll be the darkness before the dawn. The simple fact of the matter is that the market is overstocked and the supply is gralater~ than the deraanu.' No one is keeping for hope of a rise. and the dealers are delivering direct to manufacturers for. spot cash as soon as they acquire the furs. In some cases they buy only when they know that they can 50 dispose of them. Europe normally consumes seventy per cent of Am erican and Canadian furs and with Europe fighting there is no money for spending upon furs. How the demand is under the supply at the present time is instanced in lynx ,.hiaa up to last winter owing to q scarcity held up fairly well, because at the present time fashion die tates that long furs (fox, lynx, etc.) be worn. Last winter how ever lynx in exceedingly large numbers were caught in the Yukon country and in consequence the bottom has dropped out of the market and sales can hardly be made at remunerative figures, some who held their stocks too long be- ing unable to dispose of them. AS one furman puts it, these are hard
 
 and everything is uncertain.
 Ben Nygren will return just as soon as it calms down a bit to his whaling station and has all his gear ready to commence snaring the all bine cetaceans. By the way, Ben is reputed to have sprung one on chechaco reporter who became in terested in his method of catching big fish. The process as Ben ex- plained it was something as fol- lows: we sink a dead man ashore and through it send line from an eye, the end reaching out to sea be- ing baited, The other end passes through block and also is laid out 0 sea and also baited. The first end cannot be pulled out by a system of blocks. A whale comes along and takes the bait. It's foundering attracts another, from the school and this grabs the other bait dashing off with 1t to sea while in doing so it drags the other ashore where we grab and attend to it''. Suppose the first fish is heavier?" asked the reporter, Well them, told his informant "the heavier fish drags itself out to sea-. Then Ben moved on.
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