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The Wrangell sentinel., 1924-10-23
MINING DISTRICT OF NORTHERN B. c. HAS
 NOT BEEN SCRATCHED
 SAYS GEO. CLOTEIEB

George A. Clothier, dist 'ict engi neer for the Department of Mines whose dominion covers the North western, or District No. 1, in which is included the Portland Canal dis trict, reached Victoria, recently. MT Clothier is quoted in Victoria news paper as saying that real mining boom is under way in the northern part of British Columbia; conditions are good and the outlook was never better for a season of active develop ment, especially in the Portland canal district. The Northwestern district comprises the Queen Char lotte Islands, Bella Coola, Skeena, Portland Canal, Stikine Atlin and Laird. The district is roughly 100 miles in length, of which the north ern part lies behind, or east, of the Alaskan panhandle.
 This vast territory, much of it un- explored, is scarcely yet scratched by prospectors and miners, and in it is situated the world-famous divi- dend producer, the Premier mine.
 MT. Clothier draws attention to two drawbacks to the progress of the mining industry.
 Exaggerated statements by pros pectors, promoters and building op- orators are ultimately derogatory to mining he says, land exaggerated prices for properties is about the surest way of holding on to them judge it better to sell five properties at say s10,OO0 each than hold one for s5o.oOo.
 "Prospectors," MT. Clothier contin- ued, "this season, like last, are de- voting themselves to exploration work on properties already staked rather than going far afield and ground they already hold"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1924-10-23

Word coming from Whitehorse Yukon, is that thousands of caribou are crossing the Yukon river within 20 miles of that place and treking westward, that the vast herd was three days in crossing the river Never before, or within the memory of any one now living there, have the annual caribou treks been with in 200 miles of Whitehorse or closer than the mouth of the Stewart river which is but 90 miles south of Daw- son. The report says many White horse people took advantage of the near approach of the animals to lay in a supply of meat for the winter.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1924-10-23
Reduced Rates for
 Alaskans Going to
 States Contemplated

Recognizing the desire of many Alaskans to spend the winter on the outside and the fact that many are prevented from satisfying that de- sire because of the expense involved, the Admiral Line is contemplating the authorization of reduced round trip winter excursion fares for the benefit of residents of the Territory
 The reductions contemplated would amount to twenty five per ent of the regular round trip fares which would afford residents of this city fare of s49.OO for the round trip to Seattle instead of s65.00 which is the regular fare.
 E. c. McMicken, Passenger Traffic Manager of the Admiral Line, who is working on the contemplated re- hopes to make them effect i've November lst. If his plans paterialize, tickets at the reduced fares would be on sale daily from November 1st to January 31st, and would be good for return passage any time up to and including March 1st.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1924-10-23
ANOTHER DAUGHTER IS BORN TO MIR. AND MRS.
 CHARLES FOLLANSBEF

J. w. Pritchett received a cable gram this morning announcing the birth of an eight pound daughter to MT. and Mrs. Charles Follansbee at Holden, Alberta, Canada. The baby will be named Margaret Catherine
 Before her marriage Mrs. Follans- bee was Miss Kate Pritchett. She was a member of the faculty of the Wrangell Public Schools for four years prior to her marriage in 1915. The baby born this morning is her second daughter, the first now be- ing 26 months old.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1924-10-23
PIT. A EXECUTIVE MEETING

At an executive Board meeting Of the P.T.A. held following the last regular meeting at which the sub ject of supporting the school athlet- ics was left to the Board, a full dis cussion of whether the P.TA. should assist in paying the rent for hall or work for a school gym resulted in a decision to ask the council to acquire the lot between the play shed and the residence of J. w. Stedman and to get back of build ing program. The Territory does not give refund on rent paid for school gym as each municipality is supposed to furnish a gym for the school athletics if one is required, and unless this expense can be borne out of city funds, 1t is necessary for an organization like the P. T. A.
 to. bear the expense or a part of 1t or
 the pupils themselves to assume it.. It is the opinion of the local P.T.A. officers that money spent for rent each year should be applied on the acquisition of suitable gym that would be permanent asset to the school system and the town, and a ccmmitte consisting of Supt. Hagie, A. B. Gurr and Mrs. M. o. Johnson, representing respectively the school, the school board and the P.T.A., and jointly, the P.TA Executive Board, found the city council heartily in accord with this plan. The lot in question, the most suitable location for school gym, can be secured on very reasonable terms from the own CT, J. H. Wheeler, and the P.T.A. will turn its attention to the erec- tion of building with a regulation basket ball floor so that the ques- tion of housing the school athletics will be settled for years to come.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1924-10-23
R. B. Bell took passage to Seattle on the Yukon.
eyar salmon.

individual will wish them success and continue in his way of building up fortune while at the same time enjoying some of the modern things of life
 The class of mining that will evert the greatest influence upon .en- eral prosperity and guarantee the longest era for building up a busi- ness bank account, is lode min ing, with free-milling ore leading and base ores to follow. The rail- road belt has an abundance of both, and it is only question of develop ment to see big results. These cres are like money in the bank be- kind community, and is entitled tc draw upon them in convincing the skeptical that Anchorage is a permanent and not . transient city.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1924-10-23
A. J. kalkinS
 Dies in Seattle

A. J. Kalkins. resident of Wran- gell for many years, passed away in Seattle last Friday following an op- eration. The body was shipped to Wrangell on the Admiral Rogers. The funeral will be held from the Redmen's Hall at 2 o'clock Sunday pices of the Wrangell Igloo, Pioneers of Alaska.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1924-10-23

For the next regular meeting of the P. T. A. which will be held Thursday evening, November 13, at the grade school building, the Nov ember program committee consist ing of Mrs. P. c. Mccormack, Mrs. N Lemieux and Dr. Diven, have arranged the following program Piano duet, Miss Laura Roaming and Miss Dorothy Johnson; address, Seventh and Eighth Grade Work. c. A. Shumway, Principal of the grade school, and vocal solo, Mrs. Johnson. The social committee for this meeting, Mrs. Gold, Mrs. Bjorge and Mrs. Case, will serve light re- treatments. The public is cordially invited. Cooperation with the Pr. A. and attendance at the meetings is necessary if that organization is going to achieve the best results. Visitors and new members are always well come, and parents, especially. are asked to set aside the second Thurs day evening of each month for the PIT. A.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1924-10-23
SHARP EYES IN ALASKA
 COUNT SWIMMING SALMON

ANCHORAGE-For the fourth consecutive year hundreds of thou sands of red salmon have been stopped and counted as they made their spawning run" from the Kar- lux river into Karluk lake on Kodi- ak island. The work was under the direction of c. H. Gilbert, fisheries expert of Stanford University.
 A weir, or fish fence, was built across the river during the fishing season. The salmon were forced to pass through small gates in the fence to enter the lake, A watch man counted them.
 Professor Gilbert points out that if the number of fish returning at maturity to the spawning ground in a certain year can be ascertained there will be definite information as to the number to be saved each year for reproduction. The count also will determine the maximum of the salmon run. Tabulation for the fourth consecutive year will en- ah1o tha nackarc to aeoarfo;n the number of four, five, six and seven- eyar salmon.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1924-10-23
SCHOOLS

After great deal of discussion
 pro and con following litigation
 looking forward toward the procur- ing of suitable place for high school basket ball practice the exec
 utive board of the P. T. A. recon rended that gymnasium be built on the lot next to the school play shed, provided the Town Council could be induced to buy property. dent of the P.TA., the Clerk of the School Board and the Superinten- dent of Schools met with the Council Saturday evening and the purchase of the lot was authorized. The Par ent Teachers Association, through it's executive executive board which had been empowered to act In the matter, placed all it's available funds totaling somewhere in the neigh borhood of $4OO0O into the enter prise. The school, through it's ad ministration and faculty is planning to take the responsibility of getting local talent organized into a five number lyceum course for the win ter, the proceeds to go toward the work on the new gymnasium. In this way high class of entertain ment can be had for the town to take the place of the chautauQua which had been subscribed for but did not come, and at the same time every cent of the proceeds kept for the upbuilding of the home com munity. The program committee is already at work and the first mum Der will probably be presented dur ing the latter part of November. In the meantime indications are that work can begin on the building as soon as plans and specifications are completed. Tentative plans call for standard sized playing floor 35 X 60 feet with a five foot seating space along each side and seven feet along each end, with two 12 16 it.. dressing rooms Eventually to be fit- ted with showers) at the rear, be- sides ' X 12 fuel room and a rear hallway. Provision will also be made for a seven foot seating gallery around the entire floor to be added as available funds warrant. Such a building would afford accommo- dations for tournament games should Wrangell be fortunate enough to be selected for the South eastern Alaska Meet.
 Basketball practice is now going on regularly in the cramped quar- ters at the St. Phillips Gymnasium. Both the boys and girls squads are showing up we'll considering the experience they have had.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1924-10-23
JUNIOR RED CROSS
 PLANNING CAMPAIGN

'...a 5unior Red Cross member
 ship drive for the 1924-25 school year has been launched along with an enthusiastic campaign by the students of both schohols to secure funds to contribute toward the pro posed new gymnasium. The Ameri- can Junior Red Cross organization provides that Application for En rollmeHt constitutes a declaration that each classroom in the school will undertake: 1. To carry on a local service program which shall have the approval of the Executive and Junior Red Cross Committees of the local Red Cross Chapter In or ganizing such a program, the educa- tional value of the projects and their adaptability to the curriculum and equipment of the school must De considered" It is further pro vided that, Pupils in an enrolled school may earn their right to indi- vidual membership by performance Of service in either of the following ways: 1. By engaging in individ- ual or group enterprises that are of service to their school, the Red Cross Chapter, he community, the nation or the world. The teacher or committee of pupils shall be the judge of the service rendered. 2.By taking a part, either individual, or through group enterprise, in raising the Junior Red Cross Service Fund. Individual contributions of money to the service fund are con- sidered as service only when the money has been earned by personal sacrifice. No pupil is entitled to sign the Membership Roll or to wear the Junior Red Cross button until the right has been earned in one of the above ways" One of the uses recommended for the Service Fund is in Financing local work carried on in the name of the Junior Red Cross"
 The campaign which the local Junior Red Cross are now engaged in involves the contribution of ten cents per week for ten weeks from money earned by the pupil or saved money as the basis for individual membership to the local Junior Red Cross unit, the money to go toward a gymnasium, which is considered a necessary addition to the health ac- tivities of the schools.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1924-10-23
NOT KEEN
 ON HAVING HER PEOPLE
 LEAVE FOR THE CASSIAR
Anchorage Alaskan) A BIRD IN THE HAND


 While there is a subtle lure in reported new placer strikes there fs no occasion for excitement over the finds in the Dease Lake region In all likelihood the discoverers of the new diggings let their friends into the secret in advance and choice ground is now pretty well located. In addition there are the usual camp followers waiting for a little excitement to set up business and gather the spells from the late corners.
 Many man has weighed his an- chor to follow a stampede on the Eaught chance that he would pick a lucky number, when he might have stayed with something perma- nent and have been well-to-do.
 The days of frenzied stampede in Alaska are over, not that there is not gold yet to be discovered, but because the popular mind has taken a different slant and tastes have changed. A man with a lucrative position or holdings in a permanent town which has opportunities for growing commercially has pretty good bird in the hand.
 There are many unattached who will follow the rush, but the wise
The Wrangell sentinel., 1924-10-23
YUKON GOES SOUTH

The following persons took pass age to Seattle on the Yukon.
 Sam c. Scottee, MT. and Mrs. Clar- ence Lewis, Walter Calvert, M. E. Leblanc, MT. and Mrs. F. s. Barnes, Alex Frazier. William Frazier, A. Smith, Rev. H. P. Corser, Jess Nevill Margaret Mary Cloudman, and six stesrags.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1924-10-23

MT. and Mrs. Frank 8. Barnes took passage south on the Yukon. They are en route to Portland where MT. Barnes will place on ex- hibition several pairs of Alaska blue foxes at the Pacific Coast Agricul- tural and Livestock Exposition. The family expect to return to wransell about the middle of November.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1924-10-23

Miss Nettie Prescott, who has been outside for several months, re- turned home on the Admiral Wat son.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1924-10-23
Scottee Finds Rich Ground
 In Cassiar and Acquires
 Eleven Dredging Leases

all the wealth of Northern British Columbia. He regards. the Cassiar as great mining district which is at last about to come into her own.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1924-10-23


 yon creeks, arrived from Telegraph Creek this week having come down the river in a row boat.
 MT. Scottee states that his leases embrace the finest dredging ground he has ever seen in the North. He is now en route to London. He ex- rects to return in the spring and have drills in operation by the first Of next June He is confident that the drilling will result in a showing that will justify the installation ot one or more dredges the following season.
 The London company which is row in course of organization fo1 the purpose of handling this propo sition will be known as the Colum- bia Northern.
 When Mr. Scottee returns in the spring he will be accompanied by H. Dearle, an engineer of London He also plans to take in ten head of horses on the first boat up the Sti- kline next spring.
 MT. Scottee is a man whose min ing experience has been almost world wide. He has mined in Africa Brazil, Peru, Patagonia, Mexico, and Interior Alaska. He has spent thir- teen years in the Cassiar, and ha stayed with that district longer than he has ever stayed in any other place because he considered it more attractive field for prospect ing.
 The story of how he came by his present holdings reads more like fiction and romance than an actual occurrence. Forty-three years ago a bunch of Cassiar miners came down the Stikine to Wrangell and left here for the Outside for tho purpose of bringing in better out fit to work with the following year When they reached Seattle they had in their possession s6,O00.00 in coarse gold which they had banned out in the Cassiar, but they took no one into their confidence as to what particular region of the Cassiar ii was that had yielded them such fab. ulous returns. This little party o1 Cassiar miners which were sticking together like brothers all took pas sage from Seattle to San Francisco on the Pacific, an old sidewheeler The vessel never reached San Fran cisco. and the secret of where the six thousand dollars worth of gold dust came from went down with the ship. The Summer brothers were among those who went down with the boat, and it was they who were reported to have made the discovery from which the gold was taken. They were we'll known to an Indian who Was young fellow at that time and who knew where they worked but did not know what they took out from the diggings. The Indian died at Caribou camp about three years ago at an advanced age. Before his death Scottee learned that he had been with the Summer brothers 40 years previous, and af- ter spending some time with him obtained information as to the local ity where the brothers worked. The Indian was too old to try to go with any one to the old diggings, and his directions, while undoubtedly given honestly, were hard to follow. How ever, during the past summer Scottee in his prospecting came upon the old placer diggings where the Summer brothers banned out such a big quantity of coarse gold more than forty years ago.
 MT. Scottee Is confident that now that he has found the ground which he has so long sought his most san guine expectations will be realized.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-28
Menus for the Week

Sunday.
Breakfast: Sliced pineapple. hon.
my with maple syrup, graham toast,
eggs in sunshine. and coffee.
Dinner: Cream of cauliflower, nut
shops Dreaded, sliced cucumbers. po-
tato surprise. orange ice and coffee
Supper: Canned corn, tomato and
endive salad and date sandwiches.
Monday.
Breakfast: Date toast, rice and
cream, kippers with cress, Parker
house rolls and coffee.
Luncheon: Crcamed spinach on
toast rounds, egg tima,les, plum pre-
serves. sugar waters and tea.
Dinner: Chowder of scallops. Bos-
ton crackers, veal chops. asparagus on
toast, mashed potatoes, rhubarb pie
and coffee.
Tuesday.
Breakfast: Fresh Strawberries. grid
die cakes, Goldfish omelet, buttered
toast and coffee.
Luncheon: Nut loaf with tomato
sauce. celery salad. little tea biscuits,
stewed pears and tea.
Dinner: Anchovy toast. roast duck.
currant jelly, potato croquettes Gu
cumbcr salad, snow pudding and cof-
fee.
Wednesday.
Breakfast: Grapefruit juice. bran
mush. soft boiled eggs, buttered toast
and coffee.
Luncheon: Fried oysters. shredded
cabbage, prune whip and coffee.
Dinner: Shadroe with bacon. vege-
table plate, apple dumplings and cof'
fee.
Thursday.
Breakfast: Broiled tomatoes on
toast. cornmeal mush with maple
syrup. buttered toast and coffee.
Luncheon: Onion soup with cheese.
graham bread sandwiches, fruit salad
and tea.
Dinner: Braised veal. mashed pota-
tees. dandelion salad, banana gelatin
and cocoa.
Breakfast: Planned fish. hash
Drowned potatoes. whole wheat rolls.
orange marmalade. coffee.
Luncheon: Spanish omelet. corn
mullins. crackers and cream cheese
with Guava jelly and tea.
Dinner: Fried founder filetS,
creamed potatoes. combination salad,
frozen custard and coffee.
Saturday.
Breakfast: Bananas and cream,
mutton outlets. mashed potato cakes,
toast and coffee.
Luncheon: New York state beans.
lettuce sandwiches. canned cherries,
ginger cakes and tea.
Dinner: Mutton stew, boiled pota-
toes, Endive salad, fruit compete, ma
caroons.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-28

White potatoes are really at the
head of any list of vegetable foods,
since, in spite of their 7S.9 per cent
water content, they furnish gener-
our proportions of easily digestet
starch, body building material and
mineral salts; they also help to neu-
tralize the acid forming properties
of certain other foods.
The best method of cooking po-
tatoes is baking, for this renders
the starch more easily digestible
than any other method of cooking.
Bake the potatoes in quick oven
for from 40 to Al minutes. A slow
oven destroys the good effects of
this method of preparations, as IT
allows the steam to soak into the
potato and to render it soggy. IL
the oven is not really hot cook the
potatoes in boiling water. In these
days of gas ovens, however. 1t is
comparatively easy to achieve any
temperature desired.
Other Ways to Cook Them.
The next most important process
in the preparation Of potatoes is
boiling. Both the baking and boil
ing are SO simple as to seem hard
ly worthy of a special place in any
discussion of vegetable cookery it
is because Of this very simplicity,
however, that we include them, for
experience has shown such course
to be worth while. The old adage.
familiarity breeds contempt" may
be applied to just such simple OPP
cratiOns as baking and boiling po-
tatoes, yet the writer has seen nu-
merous cases of Indigestion and
even malnutrition that might easily
have been traced to careless SIM
mering of potatoes in warm water,
;or of baking three valuable vege-
tables in a "cOolish" oven.
So, in boiling potatoes. select
those of medium size; wash well
with a vegetable brush and drop
in boiling sailed water. Allow a
tablespoon of salt and boiling water
to cover for each seven or eight
potatoes. Cook until soft enough
to pierce easily with fork. Drain
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-28

and keep in warm place, as on
top Of a warming oven, until ready
to serve, being careful to remove
cover as soon as potatoes are drain
ed. Send to table uncovered.
Here ore few recipes for pota-
toes that will give little more
character than ordinary ways Of
serving:
Potato and Cheese.
Make mound of mashed pota-
to in baking pan, Nabout three
cups. Combine half cup of cream
that has been well whipped with a
half cup of grated cheese. Spread
the cream and cheese mixture over
the potato mound and bake in a
hot oven until cheese is melted
and the whole is delicately Drowned.
Potato and Spinach.
To two cups of cooked riccd po-
tatoes add two tablespoons of but
ter. two beaten egg yolks. and q
quarter cup of chopped cooked
spinach. Season with salt and pep