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Hyder weekly herald., 1926-01-20

From the clouds thousands of dollars in gold dust fluttered down to the First National Bank of Fairbanks during the past summer, for, according to Noel Wien, interior aviator, he carried dust during the past season from the remote creeks to the Fairbanks institution. On his last flight from Mo Grath, Wien flew to Fairbanks with 2O1 pounds of gold, which was valued at $47,O0O. In addition, on this trip, he had aboard three men and their baggage, amounting to about 300 pounds. From the Livengood region he took out about $5O,00O in pokes during his seasons flight.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-01-20

Word received in Skagway recently states that Phil Abra-
 rams, one of the pioneers of that city, died in Seattle, on December 20, after a lingering illness. MT. Abrahams was per haps one of the best known men in the Skagway district. He went to Skagway during the Klondike rush, and opened a real estate office, handled in- surance and was justice of the peace, and in the following years had been mayor and councilman of that city. Fol several years past he had been in failing health, and several months ago went south for treatment.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-01-20

much at sea as to where he placed a considerable amount of money, bonds, and other val uable papers, his mind not .unctioning as it should , Sev- eral Treadwell employees who have known Beare for 24 years or more say he should have money, mortgages and bonds amounting approximately to $40,0O0. In his present mental condition he is unable to re- member where he lift them. Ii he deposited his wealth in a bank, safety deposit, or in some private safe, it will not be difficult to get track of it, but if, as feared, he hid it in some place unknown to any any one but himself, it may re- main hidden indefinitely uc- less he regains his mind
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-01-20


 The Premier mine employing 22 men at their Moose Creek property, in the Matanuska Coal belt, shipped 100 tons of bituminous coal to Cordova re- gently, in competition with British Columbia and Wash ington coals. The test ship ments will be followed by reg ular shipments if the compe- tition is successful.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-01-20

After four years of prospect ing and development work on his extensive holdings on Mill Creek, in the Fairview district, Matt Huggar, pioneer Alas kan, has found sufficient pay dirt to warrant the operation of the ground on a comprehen- sive scale, and he plans to get the work under way before the end of another season.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-01-20

Andy Anderson, aged 76, resident of the Klondike since 1898 and most of the time of Dominion Creek, died recently 1t Dawson following a long ill., ness. He was one of the best known miners of the Klondike.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-01-20
BRIEF ITEMS FROM ALL
 PARTS OF THE TERRITORY
EVENTS IN THE NORTH AS PORTRAYED IN THE
 PRESSxoF ALASKA

Anchorage has Radio Club, composed of the numerous radio fans of the Railroad City. It also has a new radio broad casting station, which was re- gently given a successful try out.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-01-20

George Beare, for years em- ployed by the Treadwell Com
 pany and who was taken to the hospital in Juneau las, summer after sustaining q stroke of paralysis is very
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-01-20

cinct to succeed w. H. Rager, resigned, and he assumed his new duties January 1. The new appointee is a pioneer of Alaska, having first come to the Territory in 1900, a mem- Der of the stampede to Nome.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-01-20

Capt. E. T. Barnette, found- CT of Fairbanks and for many years the leading banker and business man of the interior metropolis, is now. engaged in mining in Arizona and is also largely concerned in Old Mexi- co.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-01-20

The Washington Towboat & Barge Go. tug Wilson was in Ketchikan recently, enroute to Seattle from Tokeen, with a barge in tow loaded with marble for the new state build ing at Olympia, Wash.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-01-20

Arthur G. Thompson, a pio- neer member of the Anchor age bar, has been appointed U. s. Commissioner in that pre-
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-01-20
DEPARTMENT OF TIE INFERIOR
UNITED STATES LAND OF FICE. ANCHORAGE, ALAS KA, November 1s, 1925.

| FlCE. eANCHCRAGE, ALIAS KA, November IS, 1925.
 Serial No. 06553.
 Notice is hereby given that pursuant to. the Act of Con- gress approved May 10, 1872 and the amendatory acts there- of, Charles Fehring of Hyder, ! Alaska, in behalf of himself, has made application for a patent for 1498.5 linear feet on the Last Shot No. 1 Lode and 1900 linear feet on the Last Shot No. 2 Lode, together with surface ground, in width approximately 300 feet on each side of the Lode lines thereof; said Lode claims be- ing embraced in U. s. Mineral Survey No. 1909, and fully and accurately described up. on the official plat of said survey posted on the claim and by the field notes of said official survey on file in the United States Land Office at  Anchorage, Alaska, and more particularly described as fol- lows :-
 LAST SHOT NO. 1. LODE. I
 Beginning at Cor. No. l. from which U. s. L. M. No. 1909, at Latitude 55O 59' 19" N. and Longitude 13Oo O4' w., bears N. 570 AT 43" w. 1856.86 feet dist, thence s. 470 24' E. 1498.5 feet to Cor. No. 2 thence s. 40o 59' w. 584.6 feet to Cor. No. 3, thence N. 470 59' w. 1497.O feet to Cor. No. 4, thence N. 40o 59' E. 5000 feet to Cor. No. 1, the place of beginning; containing an area of 20.362 acres.
 LAST SHOT NO. ?, LODE
 Beginning at Cor. No. 1, iden- tical with Cor. No. 2 Last Shot No. 1 Lode of this survey, from which U. S. l.. M. No. 1909, bears N. 53o O5' 56" w. S341.- 98 feet, thence s. 510 OS' E. 1900 feet to Cor. No. 2, thence S. 400 59' w. 600 feet to Cor. No. 3, thence N. 500 28' W. a499.44 fit. to Cor. No. 4, thence N. 400 59' E. 584.6 feet to Cor. No. 1, the place of beginning, containing an area of 20.382 acres.
 The said Last Shot No. 1 and Last Shot No. 2 contiguous Lode Mining Claims are situ- ated in the Hyder Mining Dis trict, about one-half mile east of Salmon River and about seven miles north of the Town of Hyder, Alaska. On the northwest, End they join the Caribou Mining Claim, unsur- veyed, and on the other sides and end line by the unsurvey- ed and unoccupied Public Do- main of the United States, and are of record in the office of the Recorder for Hyder Pre- cinct, Territory of Alaska.
 Any and all persons claiming l adversely the mining ground, veins, lodes, premises or any portion thereof so described, surveyed, plated and applied | for, as the Last Shot No. l and Last Shot No. 2, Lode Claims, U. s. Mineral Survey No. 1909, are hereby notified that unless their adverse claims are duly | filed withinsthe period of pub l;aaA;A.. a.. ...:4h;.. o:e.hA ..ao..Aha 1
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-01-20

For Rent and For Sale signs at the Herald office.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-07-01
Mystery of Instinct
Puzzle to Scientists

How successive generations Of ants
learn to milk the aphides is mys-
terry that cannot be explained on any
theory of heredity, for the ants which
do the milking are workers, sexless
insects which leave no offspring. Il
is, therefore, quite impossible that
they should transmit their training
to offspring which they do not have
The milk" which the aphides give
up to the ants as contentedly as q
cow gives her milk, Is the Juice Of
plants sucked up by the aphides and
transformed in their bodies to strip
Of invert sugar or glucose. This Is
the so-called "honey-dew" often found
in vast quantities ON plants. Some
species of ants merely lick this up.
but others stroke the aphides to per-
suade them to "give down." just as
the hired man of the farm induces the
COW.
In return for this service the ants
fight the enemies of the aphides, carry
them to safety in times Of danger,
take care of their eggs, place the
aphides where they will get the best
of food, and shelter them in their
nests in cold weather.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-07-01
Disease Epidemics Not
Rore Among Cunories

That even canary birds are not i'm
mune from the ravages of disease cpl
denies is shown by report from
experts Of the New Jersey expert
ment station, published in the Jour-
nal Of Bacteriology.
The first outbreak of the epidemic
occurred among canary birds in a
bird store in New Brunswick, N. j.,
where a stock Of 200 birds became
badly infected. The total loss in this
store alone was about 20 birds, or
a mortality Of 35 per cent. Another
private breeder lost 25 out of a stock
of 30 birds. Many other owners were
losing birds from the disease in the
same period.
The canary bird fanciers had never
known Of disease which caused such
a death rate. spread so rapidly and
seemed to affect both young and old
BIRDS Nine of the birds which had
died from the disease were therefore
brought to the laboratory, where
post-mortem examinations were made.
By means of small glass tube a
sample Of blood was drawn from the
heart Of each of the nine birds and
cultures made from these samples re-
vealed in each case the presence of
a bacteria Of the para-typhoid group
The source of the infection could not
be traced.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-07-01
Pride of Scotland
Not Alcohol Addict

Sir James Crichton Browne, med
ical man, has published pOstmorten
diagnosis on Robert Burns, the Scotch
poet, which aims to break down the
sad and sodden figure of tradition
and substitute one Of an Ayrshire
plowboy who was ION the whole q
temperate fellow for his time" though
cursed with a poor constitution, the
New York Times asserts.
Sir James submits that heart dis
ease arising out Of rheumatism &C.
Quired in youth, and not drink and
debauchery, as generally held, caused
the poets Unconscious suicide" He
goes over the records and shows that
not single contemporary Of Burns
noted in him symptoms which might
indicate the effect, direct or Indirect
of chronic alcoholism.
The accepted legend springs ap-
parently from the Currie biography.
Now Currie, Sir James points out,
figured in his day as temperance
zealot. He gathered and preserved
in his Life of Burns" much informa-
ton that might otherwise have passed
forgotten, but the reformer won out.
He seized the opportunity to point a
moral, and in so doing deformed his
tale,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-07-01
Loin Cloths Common
to Tropical Dtuellers

Practically every primitive tribe
dwelling in the tropics that has
been studied by scientific observers
has been found to wear some form
Of bodily covering Of the lOin region
either in the form of paints Of various
colors, tattoo marks, strands Of beads
of various materials, beaten bast or
bark cloth, or Of woven girdles or
aprons Of cotton or other vegetable or
animal fibers. The inhabitants Of the
Nicobar islands and of Central East
Africa are apparently Of all tribes the
most free from loin coverings of all
sorts. Reasons given for the wearing
Of loin coverings vary. Native mod
esty is usually present in some form,
even apart from any influence that
may be attributed to the whites; tribal
and ceremonial painting or tattooing
is often a causative factor and may
supplement a woven girdle worn for
entirely different purposes, namely,
for the insertion of the hilt Of knife
and as a place of attachment for bur-
dens; most primitive peoples are bur-
den carriers. Protection against insect
pests is often attempted through the
agency Of breech clouts- Tradition
and native styles usually dictate the
use of certain forms of loin covering
even to the minutest detail.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-07-01
And They Believed 1t

At one time biology was one OF the
"stiffest" courses at Washington and
Lee university. Freshmen who dread
ed the course were led by upper class
men to the skeleton of Traveller"
the famous gray charger that bore
Gen. Robert E. Lee through the Civil
war, in the university museum. There
they were told that if they wrote
their names on that sacred relic or
southern biology" they would never
funk or fail in that subject. Hun
dreds of the freshmen believed it. AS
a result the skeleton of the famous
charger became covered with linked
and penciled names of five genera
tons of Washington and Lee students.
The white bones became black. SO
the authorities recently ordered the
skeleton given a thorough bath and
mounted high up on a balcony and
locked against those who might seek
to carry on the quaint old custom at
the Observation-Disclosures Magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-07-01
DEER PARK

Walter Hardesty, who left here at
the time that Gentry Bros. show Wis
tied Oakland, with which concern he
secured employment, returned to his
home one day last week, after going
with the show as far as Brownsville,
Pa.
Miss Elizabeth Sebold, of Cumber-
land, visited her cousin, Miss Mary
Sebold, recently.
Mr.. Salem Broadwater and son
Robert went to New Germany on Sat-
urday to visit the formers mother,
who is very i'll.
Mrs. Walter Friend and children
returned to Lancaster, Pa, after a
visit to relatives here on Sunday.
Mrs. E. B. King accompanied her as
far as Martinsburg, West Va.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce Lohr,
a daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Schley Nestor and
daughter Faith spent few days with
Mrs. Nestor's sister, Mrs. Ernest Sell
ders, recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alonzo Warwick and
family and Mr.. Robert Jankey and
daughter Mary were Barton visitors
on Sunday.
Mrs. Josephine Thrasher is able to
be about again after having been a
surgical patient at the Western Mary
land Hospital in Cumberland.
Mr.. Wilbur Jones and daughters,
Mae, Pauline and Winona, of Column
bus, Ohio, were Sunday visitors in our
town.
Mr.. Marshall Bobet is at his home
here for few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira M. Lipscomb, of
Shaffer, w. Va, spent the weekend
here with relatives.
Mrs. Susan Dawson and Mrs. Earle
George spent few days in Mountain
Lake Park recently.
Mrs. C. S. Refs and daughter Pleas
ant were in Oakland Tuesday.
Mrs. Rose deBerriz, of Baltimore,
and DR.. and Mrs. John Warder and
son, of Grafton, whose summer home
here was burned to the ground sew
eral days ago, have rented a cottage
at the Deer Park Hotel, where they
will spend the summer. A number
of the other cottages are now rented
and will be occupied in few days.
There are quite number playing
golf on the links nowadays and there
are number of guests registered at
the hotel.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-07-01
Common Legal Terms
Deriued From Latin

The words council and councillor
are derived from the Latin "concil-
ium," "con" or "cum,' together, and
"salo," call A council is a body
called together, and it has come to
mean such body as legislative
council or a city council. A member
of the body is councillor, usually
spelt in the United States councillor.
The word counsel is from the Latin
"consulo." to consult. The verb to
counsel means to give advice or
counsel. The noun, counsel, has sew
eral meanings. There is counsel, the
advice given, and then counsel Is used
to mean an adviser belonging to the
legal profession, and in this sense it
is either singular or plural-plain-
tiff's counsel may mean one lawyer
or several. This title is given to
lawyers specially commissioned to
represent the crown, hence called
kings counsel, but this distinction is
now also conferred by the govern
ment on prominent members of the
legal profession without regard to
service Tor the crown. Counsellor
practically means the same, that Is,
one who gives counsel. The English
form of the word is counsellor, the
United States is counselor. In Can
ada the English spelling is always
used.-Montreal Family Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-07-01
Had the Wrong Edible

An Englishman, on his first visit to
Boston, was having breakfast at the
Parker house. Of course, he asked
the waiter to bring him "some of those
Parker house rolls that we hear so
much about, and the usual Sunday
morning breakfast"
In due course the meal was set be-
fore him, and he speedily seized one
Of the little brown delicacies and took
q good bite. Unable to swallow the
mouthful, he removed the contents
with much embarrassment and as lit
tie ostentation as possible.
Summoning the waiter, he confided
that something untoward had hap
pened to the roll. Whereupon the
waiter exclaimed "Why, sir, that's
not Parker house roll it's a Goldfish
cake"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-07-01
Man Most Curious

It Is rather unfair to women as a
sex that they have somehow achieved
the reputation Of being curious. For,
as matter of cold fact, men usually
are far more bitten with curiosity than
are their sisters and their wives, says
P. Beaufoy in the London Mail.
Walk along any street at any hour
when road excavations are proceeding
and navvies are doing mysterious
things. You will at once perceive males
of all ages, sizes and classes intensely
watching operations which they must
have witnessed scores of times previ-
ously. But you will not see vestige
of anything feminine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-07-01
Importance of Pictures

A room without pictures is irri-
tating for two important reasons
The first Is that it brings the eye
to a stop at each of the four walls,
which makes one feel unpleasantly
crowded in. The second is that the
room is unbalanced, since the floor
has all the furniture and decoration,
and the walls give the effect of light
headedness. Decoratively it is just
as important to have the upper part
of the room interesting as the lower
part. No one wants to look constantly
at the floor for inspiration! The ten
dency, indeed, is to look at the eye
level, and if there is nothing but blank
wall, the effect is disconcerting and
foolish, and there is less of good op-
portunity to see something infinitely
worthwhile
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-07-01
First CROSSWORD Puzzles

The development of the acrostic into
the crossword, or at least the devel-
opment of the crossword principle be-
yond the initial letters of each line,
seems to have been the work of We
nautilus Honorius Clementiances For
tunatus, a Christian poet, who was
born in north Italy about 535 A. D.
He compiled verses in which both the
first and last letters of each verse
when read vertically added two verses
to the poem. He also made verses in
which the letters within the lines
make sense if taken in a cruciform
pattern This, of course, called for
a spacing of the letters to enable them
to be read horizontally and vertically
an essential feature of the cross
word. These poems were lost for
many years and were first published
in 1903 by Christopher Brewer, who
had discovered them in a manuscript
at st. Gall, Switzerland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-07-01
Presence of Mind

A recent ecclesiastical method Of
removing an evil spell from a church
yard seems to have been less simple
than that of Archbishop Thomson IN
exercising a ghost from a mansion
where he once spent night He was
lodged in the haunted chamber, and
in the morning his hostess inquired
anxiously if he had seen anything.
"Oh, yes" replied the archbishop, II
wakened to find an old pinched-look-
ing man in the room. 1 jumped up
and asked if he lived in the house.
He nodded assent. Was he a parish
Toner? asked. Again he nodded.
Then, said /, I should like to ask your
help for our new school building fund.
At that he vanished, and disturbed me
no more"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-07-01
EVANSVILLE

The home of Mr.. and Mrs. J. Nell
son Broadwater, formerly of Garrett
county, now residents of Barton, Md,
was the scene of beautiful wedding
Saturday evening, June 26, at 500
o'clock, when their daughter Flossie
L. became the bride of Sylvan c.
burst, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
burst, of near Grantsville. The ring
ceremony was performed by Rev. L.
G. Robinson, pastor of the Methodist
church, Grantsville, under bower Of
ferns, evergreens and flowers. The
color scheme was white and pink. The
attendants were Miss Josephine Cha
ney, of Frostburg, and William burst,
of Grantsville, with Cleo burst, sister
of the groom, and Evelyn Broadwater,
niece of the bride, flower girls. The
bride was attired in a gown of white
georgette trimmed in rose buds, with
silk veil, and carried a bouquet of
white roses. Miss Evelyn johnson, of
Barton, sang very beautifully 81 Love
You Truly" accompanied by Mrs.
Maude Moubrey, of Barton, on the
piano, who also played the wedding
professional. There were nearly 60
guests present, among them being a
number of relatives from distant
towns. A two-course buffet luncheon
was served. Mr.. burst is employed
at the Kelly Springfield tire plant in
Cumberland. The couple will reside
in Frostburg.
The Methodist Ladies Aid was en-
tertained at the home of the minister,
Rev. L. G. Robinson, Saturday after
noon. A large attendance was present
and very interesting meeting was
held. Refreshments were served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry burst, enter
tanned in honor of their son Sylvan
and wife with dinner on Sunday,
June 81. A bounteous repast was
served on the lawn which they all
thoroughly enjoyed, the guests were:
Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Broadwater and
son; Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Broadwater
and children of Barton, Md; Mrs
Darious Broadwater and children of
Elk Lick, Pa; Mr.. and Mrs. Delbert
burst, of Grantsville. Mr.. and Mrs.
Harland Nine, Gleason, w. Va; Gid
con Miller and Miss Hartman, of
Cumberland
At a meeting of the Mutual Tele-
phone Co., held at Springs, Pa, Sat-
urday, June 49,, plans were considered
for rebuilding the Telephone line and
moving the central office to Grants
vile, in the near future. They will
meet with the town council this even
ing Thursday, July ~ for consider
alton.
C. C. Nathan left Tuesday for Bal
timore to attend Summer school at
Johns Hopkins University.
Mrs. Anna Fahey, of Cumberland
spent several days with her son and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph F.
Fahey.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-07-01
Not Hard for Experts
to Detect Fake Gems

Jewel forgers have become so clever
that a special gem-testing institute
has been established in Vienna, says
Popular Mechanics Magazine, and SIM
liar studies are being carried on in
this country to detect limitations.
Imitation diamonds are numerous
and it is possible to make real ones
IN the laboratory, but the cost Of the
process is about 100000 carat, while
natural ones can be purchased at from
500 to 5000 a carat. Rubies can be
made by laboratory methods in about
six hours, and some of them are so
nearly like the real stones that other
tests than with the eyes are necessary
to distinguish them.
While the synthetic emerald has
brilliance and realistic color, it usually
can be told from a genuine one with
little difficulty. They are often built
up in three parts, which are fastened
by invisible cement. The top and
the bottom part may be glass crystals
cut In many facets with thin shaw
ing Of real emerald between them
to give the color. Others may have
a slight cavity between the two crys-
tails which is filed with green liquid.
Both limitations are easily detected by
submerging the stone in certain kind
of oil and holding 1t up to the light.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-07-01
Sweet Pea an Importation

The sweet pea is native of the
island of Sicily and was first men
toned in 1895 by an Italian monk,
who sent seeds to England and Hol-
land. The seeds of sweet peas be-
came an article of commerce as early
as 1924. Sweet peas have been grown
for more than century in America,
and all of the varieties known in Eu-
rope were grown here. There was a
wave of popularity for the sweet
pea in America between 1885 and
1900, while the tide which received
it's great impetus through the intro
duction of the waved, or Spencer,
type. was just beginning to rise at
the sweet-pea celebration in London
in 1900.