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Hyder weekly herald., 1926-09-27
WORK SUSPENDED
 ON CHIEF METALS

Work on the Chief Metals properties has been suspended for the season, but will be re- sumed next spring with in- creased vigor and with ma- chinery equipment superced- ing the hand labor methods carried on during the summer under the direction of Mana ger Emil Davis.
 MT. Davis states that the main tunnel was extended on the ore an additional 100 feet dur ing the season and is now in 1855 feet from the portal. The ore body is over six feet in width and is a good milling grade gray quartz carrying sphalerite and galena, with a vein of shipping ore on the foot wall which assays over $100 to the ton. Ore of ship ping grade is also found at other points on the property but their extent has not been determined.
 MT. Davis states that the com pany officials, headed by O. H. Ebbinghouse, plan to run an- other tunnel next summer to cross cut the main vein about 100 feet below the present working level.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-09-27

Pioneers of Alaska. He was a kindly and generous person ality, industrious habits, and we'll liked by all who knew him.
 The final obsequies were held Sunday afternoon in the Pio- ner Hall under the joint aus pices of the Pioneers of Alas ka and Moose orders, with a large number attending.
 The services were in accord ance with the Moose ritual and the funeral sermon was deliv- cred by Rev. A. w. R. Ashley, chaplain ,of the lodge. At the conclusion of the service the remains of the unfortunate man were laid at rest in River view cemetery.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-09-27

The motorship Border Queen of the Borderline Transport, ai;on Co.,, arrived from Seattle on Her first visit to th:s port at l2:30 p. m. Friday evening The vessel brought a consign- ment of coal for th~ Hydel Flel Co.,, in addition to b quantity of general merchahd ise for several local con signees, 40 tons in all.
 The Border Queen is a mod ern vessel of about 75O tons cargo capacity and has accom- modations for 16 passengers. Capt. E. McGregor is the com mander. After discharging the vessel left for Ketchikan ana will sail from Seattle for Fly erd again about October 9th.
 The vessels arrival marked the opening of a new trans portation channel between Sc. att1e and Hyder, as it is the present intention of the Bor derline company to make Fly der a regular port of call for it's vessels at 20 day intervals. in the future.
 According to Manager Holgel Johnson of the Hydef Dock Co.,, who arranged for the new service while in Seattle re gently, the Borderline com pany has been engaged ir the Alaska trade for somc time and has established per manent traffic between Sc attle and most of the south eastern Alaska ports.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-09-27

A vein of ore carrying sen sational gold values has been located on the EEagee prop erty in the Marmot River section, according to announce ments made in Stewart last week by H. c. Magee, one of the owners. Assays of the ore disclosed gold values in excess of 139 ounces, in addition to Q silver content amounting to S17 per ton. Like the rich gold vein found at Six Mile by o. G. Carlson two years ago, the Marmot vein is very narrow, ranging from two to four inches wide, but is of suf- ficient richness to warrant ex- ploration.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-09-27

The motorship Norco of the Northland Transportation Go. arrived from Seattle at 9 p. m. last evening with III tons of local cargo. Thirty tons of the consignment was baled hay ;or the Premier company and was landed at the Stewart dock. Of the remaining 81 sons landed at the Salmon Riv- er dock, 31 tons was cable for she Premier company, the bal ance consisting of general mer- ,handise for various local con- 5ignees.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-09-27

Capitalization of Alaska bur. eaus is stressed in a pample3 issued by the Department ot the Interior. Secretary Work -Ays in the pamplet that Alas
 ka's progress has been retard- ed by a multiplicity of federal activities" which should be centralized by reducing the number of executive depart ments having supervision over the Territory. The Secretary also asserts that he will recon mend to the next session ot Congress a revamping of the federal laws dealing with pub lie lands, s,many of which have been on the statute books fol more than half a century.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-09-27

A motion picture display at the M. E. Church Thursday evening failed to attract the patronage deserved but prov ed an interesting entertain- ment to those attending. The program embraced five num- bers, a fanciful picturization of a transatlantic flight, a nature study, a travelogue and a merry comedy.
 Rev. s. V. Warren has an- nounced another display for the evening of October 1. The program will include a fable, entitled Monkey Business a nature study, Animal Cam ouflage," a Pathe Review and a two-reel comedy, Dogs of War" The display is schedul- ed to start at 8:30 p. m.
 This show was originally set for October 5th but has been dated ahead.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-09-27

Frank Stander, an oldtimer of the Chatanika district was recently adjudged insane by a jury in the commissioners court at Fairbanks, following complaints made by residents of the Chatanika district. He will be committed to Morning side Sanitarium.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-09-27

Information as to the where abouts of John Currie, born in Michigan, May 20, 1887, height 5 it. 6 in., weight 150 lbs, dark brown hair, blue eyes, known to have worked at logging at one time. ls sought by the Governors ol- flee, Juneau.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-09-27
MACHINERY FOR OUTLAND BAR
 NEXT SUMMER

Concluding a season of de- velopment work filled with pleasant surprises and decid- edly gratifying results, MT. F. c. Outland, head of the Out land Silver Bar company, left Sunday for his home in Se- attle with the intention of re- turning next spring with a compressor and other mine equipment to continue the de- velopment of the highly prom ising ore bodies opened up on the Outland Silver Bar this year.
 MT. Outland spent the en- tire summer on the property directing operations and was rewarded by the opening up of several fine bodies of ore which give every promise of developing into high grade producers. The most important of these was a huge deposit of galena 12 feet in width and carrying excellent values af far as explored. What is be. lieved to be a continuation o1 the same ore body was also en. countered about 200 feet be. low the point where the bic !.'5ge was located.
 A fine vein of ore was alst opened up at a point still farther up the mountain and a number of veins of lesser magnitude elsewhere on the property, were also explored Six tunnels of varying length were driven during the season. in addition to a large amount of open cut work at various points on the surface show. ings. MT. Outland stated be fore leaving that the results in practically every instance were of such decidedly grati flying character that both he and his associate, MT. c. F. Hubbard, the we'll known Se- attle fur importer, are con vinced that the installation ot machinery equipment is fully justified. MT. Outland said that about three tons of ore will be shipped out for smeltel tests. Part of the shipment is composed of ore from the high grade deposits and the bal ance from the lower grade bodies. in order to determine fully the average smelting val ues of all the ores found.
 Two men are still at work or the property extending the tunnel on the upper showing in an endeavor to reach the hanging wall. At the time MT Outland left, the tunnel was six feet in the ore, and will be extended another 10 feet if necessary to determine the width of the vein.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-09-27

Capt. Duncan MacVichie, not ed western mining man and prominent figure in he Big Missouri Mining Co.,, arrived from the States Sunday in con- nection with the affairs of the company.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-09-27

Major c. B. North, superin- tendent of operations on the B. c. Silver, left last week on a business trip to Vancouver.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-09-27

Elmer E. Reed, chief deputy in the office of the U. $. Mar shal, who recently spent sev- aral days in Hyder, has re- signed his position and left for Nome, where he will become clerk of the district court for the second division, a position made vacant recently by the death of the incumbent, A. N. Kittelsen.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-09-27

E. E. Hall, Winnipeg capita list and holder of tAe control- ling interest in the Riverside mine, arrived from the south last Monday, accompanied by his son, Frank Hall.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-09-27

c. H. Jarman, San Francisco attorney, who is interested in the Washington group on the South Fork of the Marmot, visited that we'll known prop .erty last week.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-09-27

By vote of the directors held n Victoria last week, the cap ital stock of the Dunwell Mines, Go. was increased from S7OO,OOO to $1,OOO,O0O, ac- cording to the Vancouver pap CTS.
 The increase is intended to provide means for enlarging she present development plans.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-09-27

The town of Rake, Alaska, was recently almost wiped out by fire. 30 houses being de- +stroyed, leaving 70 persons lHneless
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-09-27
SAM WALL KILLED
 IN TRAM ACCIDENT

Struck on the head by a load ed ore bucket in the 9-Mile angle station on the Premier \ tram line about 3 p. m. We'd nesday afternoon, Sam Wall, well known tram crew en- l ployee, sustained injuries from which he expired about two hours later.
 No one witnessed the fatality, which undoubtedly resulted from the failure of the clutch on the ore bucket to maintain it's hold on the running cable while the heavily loaded ore conveyor was traversing the steep grade at the foot of which the angle station is To- cated. Freed of the control of the running cable, the \ big iron bucket with it's load of ore apparently dashed into the angle station at high speed, ] striking down the unfortunate bucket tender and doing con- siderable damage to the inter- for of the station. Owing to the sharp incline of the tramway at that point the runaway bucket was probably not seen 3 by Wall until it was almost , upon him. From the position 1 in which the wounded man lay it is thought that he may. have heard or caught a mo- mentary glimpse of the on- coming car and turned to flee before he was overtaken by the hurtling mass of stone and iron. When found by fellow employees 8 few minutes later Wall was lying on the floor unconscious and with the back 1 of his head crushed in. Broken fender boards and sections of the guard rails, torn from their 1 fastenings, gave mute evidence i of the cause of the accident. ] Dr. J. H. Carson was hastily
 summoned from Premier to at tend the sufferer and was lat 1 CT joined by Dr. H. A. Whil- lans, of Stewart. Examination disclosed that the unfortunate mans skull had been fractur- 1 in several places by the tre- mendous impact of the bucket, but he was otherwise uninjur- ed, save for a few bruises on the head and body. The phy- sicians employed every means at their command to save Walls life, but beyond brief rally displayed by the suffer CT shortly after Dr. Carson's arrival, their efforts were una vailing and he passed away without regaining conscious ness.
 The deceased was a native of Norway but came to the Unit ed States at an early age and later became a citizen. He was forty-eight years old. Practic- ally nothing is known regard ing his relatives and no ad- dresses of surviving relatives
 were found among his effects. From remarks made by him during Conversations with friends it is possible he may
 have left a daughter about 13
 years of age but her where
 abouts had not been deter
 mined up to. the time of writ | ing.
 Deceased came to Alaska
 during the gold rush to Nome
 in 1900 and has resided in the i Territory almost continuously
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-09-27

A shipment of five tons of pipe and other equipment ar rived last week for the B. C.. Silver.
Evening star., 1926-10-03

| peculiar grating cries blended into a
perfect tempest overhead.
Outside, the surf doomed up against
the rocks, filling the cave with rever-
berations. Inside the swells came
| rolling through the passage and
swashing loudly up the pebbly beach,
while to all this the guacharo birds
| Joined their ceaseless din, drowning
our own voices so completely we could
be heard only by shouting in each
others ears
AT first the darkness was so COM
plete we were utterly unable to shoot
any Of the birds. In sheer helpless
ness we began to search for nests and
eggs to occupy the time while our
eyes were becoming accustomed to
the darkness.
We soon found nests aplenty on
huge mass Of fallen rock, which on
one side of the cavern formed series
Of lodges 80 feet high. The nests are
composed chiefly of undigested fruit
skins and seeds. We found between
20 and 80 nests, and the number of
eggs in each varied from one to four
BY the time we had collected a satis-
factory lot of nests and eggs our eyes
had so adjusted themselves to the
place that we could dimly see the birds
that still circled about in the top of
the dome. With the first shot the
cavern roared like q peal of thunder,
but no bird fell
It was like shooting at midnight in
a forest. Many a shot we fired in vain,
and friend Basanta shouted out his
fear that the heavy and continued re-
verberations would bring down rocks
upon us.
AT last we found a way to bring
down birds. The reflected light from
the water in the passage threw a
broad though feeble beam across the
Evening star., 1926-10-03

''Close up, Close up an keep to
the right of the road"
"Camions! That's a sign they want
us bad somewhere on the line" COM
mented the lean first lieutenant who
hiked at the head of the 49th Com
pany. "Walter"-the officer beside
hint wonder what happened yes
terday an today with all that shoot
ing?"
Don't know. but this Chateau
Thierry salient is mighty deep and
narrow, unless the Boche spread him
self yesterday. If we were TO break
into it near one of the corners"
Yes, Well. we're right on the tip
of 1t here. Can jump either way.
Lord. there's a lot of these convey.
ances"
Later the battalion knew what had
happened on July Is, when the Boche
made his final cast across the Cham
pagne country toward Rheims and
Epernay, and his storm divisions
surged TO the Marine and stayed and
Tapped around the foot of the gray
mountain of Rheims and stayed. Just
now the battalion cared for none of
these things. 1t had no supper. Il
faced crowded trip Of uncertain
Evening star., 1926-10-03
May Destroy System.

SOME neglected weed. in tho hands
of a skilled botanist, may overturn
large part of our system Of agrtcul-
ture. according to statements made at
the recent International Congress OF
Plant Sciences. We are faced with
this possibility because OF the fact that
despite the almost innumerable books
and papers relating to species Of plants
we know, there Is still a far greater
part OF the plant kingdom that man
has never yet touched. What may
come out of this unexplored mine in
the future no one can predict.
Very few of the species that we do
know something about are cultivated.
There are about 100000 species OF
known and named higher plants. OF
these only 10 per cent are cultivated.
only an incidental way. Fewer than
100 species supply us with food. fiber
and timber, the three great staples of
our daily life There IS evidently
plenty of room for surprises when
scientists begin cultivating some OF
the 500 900 more intensively. and. hn
addition, perhaps discovering new
species with novel properties highly
beneficial to man.
More than oou POUNDS pressure 10
the square inch Is exerted by some
plants in getting water from their
root tips to their tOpmost leaves. ac.
cording to another paper read before
the meeting by DIR. Ursprung OF
the University of F'reiburg, Switzer
land. This high mark is reached In
some petals and soma leaves. More
remarkable still. the power sometimes
differs by as much as so or IS pounds
q square inch between opposite sides
of the same plant cell. though they
are literally only a hairs breadth
apart.
Suction pumping Is the method used
by plants to exert this tremendous
force. The cells themselves are the
suction pumps. Their action. now
ever. Is not pulsating or hearthke
but steady and even, and is due TO the
suction power of the sugar and other
substances contained in the cells.
Evening star., 1926-10-03

thunder and white stabs Of lightning
that intensified the dark. The picked
might of France and America toiled
on that road through the Villers- Cot
terets forest that night, like q great
battle ever tried them half as hard
as the night road to Soissons.
The rain ceased and the sky grew
gray with dawn. The traffic thinned
and the battalion turned off on q
smaller road, closed up, and hurried
on. Five minutes by the side of the
road to form combat packs and strip
to rife and bayonet. Fall in, quick
lyi Forward
Overhead the clouds were gone; a
handful Of stars paled and went out;
day was coming. The battalion, light
ened. hastened. They perceived, dim
ly, through a mist Of fatigue. that a
cloudless day was promised and that
the world was wonderfully new
washed and clean-and quiet! Not q
gun anywhere. and the mud on the
road muffled the sound of hobnailed
boots. Double time! Close up. Close
up. there!
There had been fighting here: there
were shell holes. SCARED and splin-
tered trees. The battalion painted to
q crossroads where stone buildings lay
all blasted by some gale of shell fire
And by the road what looked like a
well! The files swayed toward 1t,
clutching at dry canteens. Back in
ranks! Back in ranks. YOU"
Then. barbed wire across the road
way. ard battered shallow trenches
Evening star., 1926-10-03

called the company officers around
him. and spread the map on the
ground. He spoke briefly.
We're in the Villers-C -Cotterets
woods-the Foret de Retz. At H hour
on d day. which l think Is tomorrow
morning, although the major didn't
say. we attack the Boche here" point
ing, "and go on to here-past the town
Of VierZy. Eight or nine kilometers.
Three objectives-marked so-and so.
The I'd Division, with one Of the
Infantry regiments leading, and the
5th Marines attack with the LIST
Moroccan Division on our left. The
Frog Foreign Legion is somewhere
around, too, and the 1st American
Division. It's Mangin's Colonial Army
the bird they call the butcher
TT was dark when the battalion fell
in and took the road again They
went into single file on the right, at
the very edge Of it, for the highway
was jammed with three columns Of
traffic, moving forward. 1t began to
rain, and the night, there under the
thick branches, was inconceivably
black. The f1les couldn't see the man
ahead, and each man caught hold of
the pack in front and went feeling for
the road with his feet. clawing along
with the wheels and the artillery
horses and machine gun mules. On
the right was a six-foot ditch. too deep
in mud to march In. The rain in
creased % o sheeteA downpour and
continued all night, with long rolls Of
Evening star., 1926-10-03

cave. and against the opposite wall.
we'll up. We found that as the birds
flew across this beam we could see
them we'll enough to aim, and our
guns began to bring them down.
The next moment, so 1t seemed to
us, Basanta came running up from
the waters edge and shouted in our
ears:
'"rhe sea Is rising. menl We must
get out Of this. quick. or we'll get
caught"
WE stood not upon the order of our
going. Dead birds. nests and
eggs and guns were hurriedly deposit
ed in the boat and three Of us took
our places. The negroes f1oated the
boat and waded beside 1t until Ba-
santa shouted, Now, them" when
they leaped in and pulled hard for
daylight.
Halfway out a big roller met US,
lifted the boat with a vicious jerk.
banged it's bow against the rocky roof
of the tunnel and filled 1t nearly half
full Of water before it passed on. An
other like it would surely swamp U.S.
No wonder the negroes pulled hard
and quick and yelled.
AS we cleared the mouth Of the
passage our rudder gently kissed the
outer edge of murderous-looking
rock we had safely passed over. but
which had been instantly laid bare by
the on-rushing wave. The water that
raced and foamed off it's ragged top
fairly hissed with baff1ed rage. and on
both sides of us, less than an oars
length away, lay other rocks like that.
When we reached deep water we
lay on our oars, baled out the water
and counted our trophies. We had
Evening star., 1926-10-03

were lifted and carried forward by
one swell after another, we crouch
ed low, and but for the skill of those
handling the boat we would certainly
have dashed against one side or the
other.
nESPITE the chances against us,
~ all went we'll After traversing
passage about so feet long, our
keel grated on a sloping bank of
white pebbles, on which we quickly
and thankfully landed, and drew the
boat up high and dry.
The guacharo birds were there. The
moment we entered the cave hun
perches on the walls and circled about
the rocky dome, filling the cave with
a storm Of harsh, rasping cries.
A thin streak of reflected light shone
in the passage, but everything else
was Egyptian darkness. Turning our
faces inward. we groped forward,
staring resolutely into the darkness,
so that we might accustom our eyes
to it as quickly as possible.
BE quick as ye can. men," entreat-
ed Basanta. I'm 5 minutes the sea
may rise, and make us fly for our
lives
We stood in an immense rocky
dome, about 70 feet in height, and
hundred and fifty wide at its widest
part. No fewer than 200 guacharo
birds were wheeling and circling in
the top Of the cavern close to the roof
or fitting noiselessly. like huge brown
bats, within 10 feet Of our heads.
Although they were thoroughly
alarmed, not one of the foolish crea-
lures flew out by the passage, whittier
all might have escaped in minutes,
had they only known it. The cave
literally swarmed with them, and their
Evening star., 1926-10-03

Marine brigade was swinging down
the Marne in the slanting sunlight.
Very solid and business-like the
brigade was, keen-faced and gaunt and
hard from the great fight behind
them and fit and competent for greater
battles yet to come. The companies
were under strength. but they had
the quality of veterans. They had
met the Boche and broken him, and
they knew they could do 1t again. The
rumble of the guns was behind them.
and the rumor of the leave area still
ran strong enough 10 maintain a slow
volubility among the squads. They
talked and laughed, but they did not
sing Veterans do not sing a great
deal.
=
IT was getting dusk when the 1st
Battalion OF the 5th, leading.
rounded turn in the road and came
upon an endless column of camions
drawn up along the river road as far
as one could see. The companies be-
came silent.
"Camions! They rode us to Chatto-
Terry In them busses.'
"xehi An It was a one-way trip
FOR rA-hau OF lot Of us. toor'