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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-05
Speed Stuff

Speeu SCuft
An old Kentucky colonel of the fast
vanishing breed loved to brag about a
race horse he owned, but finally over
stepped the limits of credulity by Of
fering to bet that the animal could
beat a train in a 100 mile race. A few
DAYS later his friends came out to in
spect the horse and have some fun at
the expense of its proud owner
The colonel, however, saw them
coming and hastily explained the sit
uation to his darky trainer, who re-
piled:
"Boss, you-all done hide yoseff an
leab eberything to me-"
where's the boSs?" the visitors de-
manded as they rode up.
"Well, sub, white folks, All doan
know" said Sam. "He left foh New
Yawk yesterday an was comm back
by Chicago today. All specks him
back most any time now."
what did he do? Go by airplane?''
asked one Of the visitors.
mo, sub, mister; he done rode dat
haWss OBJ hiSn."
'LlnQDerSnS 'CIlle1 ClCIe 10 Cne Ilaue
of Lucky" lies in the fact that he
doesn't have to deliver all the mail
addressed to him.
A Slip of the Tongue
The minister who was conducting
the funeral services was unfortunately
addicted to getting his tongue tangled
at crucial moments
Death" quoth he, ''lives mining
shark"
Whereupon four stockholders and a
man from Colorado got up and quietly
left the church.
Une: Dey tells me Sam is an un-
dertaker.
Deux: Is he a good one?
Trois: Man, he knows his buries-
Carolina Buccaneer.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-05

Lindbergh's chief title to the name
of Lucky lies in the fact that he
doesn't have to deliver all the mai
addressed to him. f
The Alaskan., 1927-01-07
FUR SALES

A special sale held on the 3Oth o. pecember on the Seattle Fur Ex- change showed an active market on all fresh items excepting wolves, V hjch lacked a demand.
 Mink averaged $12.6O with $2O for top price.
 Red fox averaged $2O.23, and for tops and best lots, $23. The three best specimens brought $40.
 Aluskrat showed an improve rent.
 Blue fox sold very well. One lot containing all grades brought $65. The average of the entire collection was $51.O0.
 The next sale will be held in Se- attle January 26th.
The Alaskan., 1927-01-07
SPEAKS WITH BROAD EXPERI-
 ENCE ALASKA FUR FARMING

tcrature that is sent out to each l member per year. costs more for
 postaeg than the $10.0O member ship fee, and this literature is worthwhile.
 The Association registered foxes in Alaska this year. and will next year: the herd book closes Febru- ary 1st. 1928. and all foxes that are not registered by that time will never be eligible for registration unless their sire. and dam are re- g.s,ered. I advise every one in Alaska, that has foxes, to join the association and apply for registra- tion by July 1st, 1927 so as not to be left out.
 If I can be of assistance to any one, I will be only too glad to do so.
 MT. E. r. Walker, of the Biologi- cal Survey, Juneau, Alaska, recog- nizes the advantages of registra- ton for tn. Alaskan F ur Farming. and I am sure he will lc only too S ad to help out in a,.y way pos S, le. He has done so this year, and expressed himself for next .tar
The Alaskan., 1927-01-07
TELLS STORY OF COURAGE
 AND BRAVERY N. [. RELIEf

Last week we published a letter
 from J. R. Heckman of Ketchikan in which he promised to write the story of a man who almost single from death. His letter is as fol lows:
 Christopher c. Thurber was and
 is an up-standing six footer. Five years ago he was running success fully an orphanage somewhere in
 the United States. His Church,
 the Protestant Episcopal, released him to the Near East Relief, that he might have charge of an orphan age in northern Turkey. On his arrival, he found 5000 orphan chil- cren. He also found orders from the Near East Relief not to take any more children because Ameri- ca was tired giving. It was at this time that the last great drive of the Turks began, when more than a million people were driven from Turkey chiefly into Greece. Fast Thurber's Relief Station there surged 80 to 90 thousand people, not ten percent of whom ever lived great mass of suffering humanity to get to the Coast Out of this MT. Thurber gathered up 4,000 children and for eight months fed the 1000 children out of funds supposed to be adequate for only 5000.
 "One day, on account of an i'm aginary crime, Thurber was beaten by the Turks into insensibility, the soles of his feet pounded into jelly his ribs crushed, and he was left unconscious all night without medi- cal care.
 After he had recovered from this torture, he and the three Am crican women with him were thrown into prison because they re- fused to pay $5,OOO income tax on their combined salary of $2,SOO. One of the women went insane, Thurber was unconscious with ty- phus. A relief worker trying to come Ito their rescue died in the at tempt.
The Alaskan., 1927-01-07
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

Sealed proposals will be received at the U. s. Engineer Office, Burke Building, Seattle, Washington, un- til 11:00 a. m. February 10, 1927, and then opened, for dredging and rock removal in Wrangell Narrows, Alaska. The quantity of material to be removed is estimated as ap- proximately 4,037 cubic yards of rock and 161,500 cubic yards of other material, at submarine depths varying from 13 feet to 21 feet M. L. L. w. Contract form and maps, plans and specifications may be ex- amined at U. s. Engineer Offices, Juneau, Alaska, and Seattle, Wash
 All proposals must be made on forms and in accordance with in structions. l-S-z7
The Alaskan., 1927-01-07
II SCHOOL
 PAPER CONTEST

Opportunity to take advantage
 of the benefits afforded by the Co., I.,mbia Scholastic Press Association of Columbia University, New York City, is presented to Alaska high st thocls which publish newspapers
 or magazines (uot annuals)r The A Assooiation holds an annual con vention at which school newspapers and magazines from all parts of the
 United States are exhibited. Prizes and other awards are made to su- rerior publications The next con yention will be held on March II and 12, 1927. MT. Joseph Murphy Secretary of the Association. has invited Alaska high schools to par tjciuate. If a sufficient number of high schools submit publications in the contest it is possible that a special certificate for the best hlgn school paper in Alaska may be
 awarded Alaska School Bulletin.
The Alaskan., 1927-01-07
WRAYGElL
 EXPORTS

X recent shipment for the town Wrangell totaling 30S boxes of salmon to the European market is a very good beginning in the fish export business And from these initial shipments it is expected that an important foreign trade in connection with fish business will be developed which will mean r-uch to wrangell.
 c c. Mundy, we'll known To- cal fish buyer, has already made the following export shipments:
 To Antwerp, 20 boxes of salmon.
 To Liverpool, IA boxes salmon
 Tc London, "A boxes of salmon.
 The fourth shipment, consisting of 200 boxes of salmon, will go to London, and will be shipped from Wrangell on the Alameda, sailing from this port on January 20.
 An important export business for Wrangell in more lines than enc is slowly but surely coming to i, be a reality. Four months az tho big steamship Commercial Guid' tied up at the local sawmill .docl flo take on a big. cargo of lumber wh.ch was the first shipment oi lumber to go from Alaska to thu Atlantic Coast via the Panmaa Ga nal. This was in reality forefgl shipment inasmuch as the carg'
 upon its arrival in New York wa
 divided up and reshipped to varl ous points in the United Kingdom l That an export fish business c
 no little importance Is already lir cd up for 1927 is indicated by tn announcement of MT. Mundy the he has contracted for the entir
 cold storage space of the Wrange l Ice and Storage Company. the con ling seasn.-Wrangell Sentinel.
The Alaskan., 1927-01-07
FOOD FUR FISH

Finny inmates of the Kansas fisl ] hatchery at Pratt, Kansas are re- ported as thriving on a diet oi l iodine.
 Several aquariums were treated with iodine, and comparison show.
 ed that the growth of fish in those pools was much more rapid than that of the tiny denizens of the oth- CT reservoirs. The output of the hatchery, which totals more than a half million 'fingerlings" a year, Is expected to increase materially.
 It might not be a bad idea for the Alaska Fish Commission to try few barrels of iodine on the fry they hatch out each year. We might further suggest that both the Com mission and Prof. O'Malley spend few millions on Mothers Oats or some good corn meal, as in the old days, putting it where the "dogs humps and reds can see it, or else put notices Food for fish" or vice versa and the escapement to spawn ing ground will take care of the fu- ture, of course by putting in more traps, and cutting out the seines.
 In the army the medical corps gave the boys iodine for headaches and "CC' pills for chilblains. A treat combination that those in
The Alaskan., 1927-01-07
MARSAiL S1AStR
 Rt|NSIA1tO

It is reported that Marshall Harvey Sullivan received a letter from the Department of Justice re- calling the dismissal of Deputy Marshall Harry I. Staser of Anchor age and requesting his reappoint- 1nent.
 staser was dismissed for alleged derogatory remarks about Anchor ago in repeating a remark made by Major Kemp that Anchorage was II mighty wide open town and that it was practically impossible to get any action to shut down dispens- or:es of white mule" and other high power drinks.
The Alaskan., 1927-01-07

After being freed from priso. I hurber was ordered to leave T,u key taking with hi1 the 5000 children for whom he caring. Over two ranges of u4.~.,.-.. through the snow he brought ouG his children, some on foot. the lit. tie ones on the backs of horses ami dorkeys, without the loss of sing le child.
 Upon recovering he went back to to find thousands of refugees dying of typhus, typhoid, cholera, small FOX and scurvey. He lived among them day after day and thousands owe their lives to this uan's cour- age.
 Broken by his experiel he re- turned to America for a { but is now back in Greece an.t.... the children for whom he repea; lisked his life. He finds tE:: living in mud huts, holes in th ground, and sleeping on rc flnors or in the lofts of factor,es whect lhey ' ork and earn ftylc t.5elye tf ti.!"ty cents a day viii l. rg co, as high or higher than they are il Alaska. He is establ sang homs for these boys where they can make q 'rrcess sfuI fight against fnrarcu- losia and other diseases which have been ravaging them. He is do- ing two mems work or more every cay and is giving all of Lis own meagre funds to relieve lre suffer irgs of the boys. He asks only fOr funds sufficient to encourage he boys, as they make sGch a he rizc fight. to support themselves To me, Thurber is the Near East Relief and the least we an 70 is to unite his hands and Ike it possible for him to rescue !. boys who are fighting so valian. for tbeir places, in the world.
 Yours very truly,
 ..., J. R. Hickman,
 The Alaska and Western Vash- ington Near Relief Headquarters are at 339 Burke Building, Seattle.
The Alaskan., 1927-01-07
By PERRY A. COLE, Inspector of American-National Fox Breeders Association
Continued from last week

FOlygamous mating will be car Tied on more extensively as the < ,ancher gets accustomed to it, and he semi-circle yards will be big help in watching the animals, as you are able to see every animal at all times, providing they are not in holes, which is most of the cases in Alaska. I think it is a very good thing for foxes to dig holes, for the cAe1 else, but it is my opinion they should be filled each time before the animal gets out of sight; as one will lose a fox once-in-awhile by the ground caving in, and some times a whole litter It has been my system that when the cause of losing fox, to keep thinking or observing until I rectify it; that is one of the reasons why I use a ma ternIty hospital, cut tushes on males, use the round bottom nest box, etc.
 l find few that are a little dis couraged with the fur farming I.,, hut hot will 14 {x1 business. Fur farming is here to stay, and the ones that observe and use a little good judgement will have a very interesting and profitable business The fur mar ket will vary, without a doubt, all markets vary, but they are bound to increase in time.- Silver fox ie one of the most beautiful furs that is known and beauty will win with our fair sex.
 American-National Fox Breeders Association, 424 Mcknight Build ing, Minneauolis, Minnesota, is run by it's members, and not a profit organization, and the .$1O.00 for membership dues is money well :pent and has a lot to do about ad- vancing the business. To members of the association, the registration is $2.00 less on each fox. The li-
The Alaskan., 1927-01-07
"DO UNTO OTHERS"

Judgie Ritchie fired Commission CT Arthur G. Thompson from his office in Anchorage because he IRitchie) thought that official pa 'tronage ought to be passed around. have numerous friends I would like to do something for, but the hardest part of parcellin out pa tronage is choosing between friends" He declared in his let ter to Thompson that ''your work has been entirely satisfactory"
 Just case of carpetbager pass ing out his last gasps.
The Alaskan., 1927-01-07
Editor The Alaskan Petersburg, Alaska

Petersburg, Alaska
 Dear Sir:
 tention a letter by J. B. Johnson, published in the Press. wish a little space in your paper to reply to the display of ignorance of a man more generally known as Herring" Johnson. suppose by virtue of his name he is an auth ority on herring fisheries. But he reminds me of the Irish lad in the Army On parade out of step with the whole company but when the platoon he was in passed the point where his mother was viewing the boys, she said, "And begorrah, they are all out of step, but my Pat" So Johnson would have us believe that we are all wrong on this tm- portant question but himself.
 will bother about answering and in dealing in personalities for tte question is above that. will go into facts. The run of herring in Tebencoff and other Chatham Straits bays is one that must be met squarely. The run of herring Il those bays has been growing less for the past five year> The run of herring ir the Westward dis U icts was a complete failure this summer: the normal winter pack being 35,O00 barrels yet the pack. CTS are leaving with a pack of only 4.OOO barrels at this writing. A Japanese fish buyer and pack CT who was at Ketchikan last sum mer stated that Japan was facing depletion of her herring fisheries MT. Johnson Evidently knows more about the North Sea herring fisheries than does the American Consul who stated early this fal that owing to reckless fishing, tn
 industry (herring) was in danger
 That up to August 8, hardly more
 than 10000 barrels of herring ha'
 been salted on the North Coast a
 against 100, ,0O0 barrels by that tim
 last year."
 | From 1926 bbls. In 1916, tn
 Alaska pack increased to 145,32
 bbls.. and now averages about 10t lc00 bbls. year" ."-Pacific Fisher
 man. I quote further from this ol gan of the Packers: "ths ioutpu
 of herring oil and meal. which la
The Alaskan., 1927-01-07
DANGEROUS DAN" REPLIES
 10 HERRING" JOHNSON

IyCar-ameHnted to about a million gallons of oil and meal**will prob ably be increased this year by ov- CT 50 percent, Government figures for 1923 when ONLY SIX PLANTS OPERATED-MO OF THOSE ON A MUCH SMALLER SCALE THAN AT PRESENT"
 The State of California through it's Fish Commissioners carried in- to the courts a case against the California packers of sardines who were making the same destructive practices as are the Alaska herring packers today. The Packers were not content with the ruling of the lower court which upheld the Com missioners against wasteful prac- tices, so they carried the case be- fore the Appellate Court and there, again lost. Today the California. sardine packers are putting up a fine pack of sardines and not vast ing for fertilizer good food fish. would recommend that Her ring" Johnson send to the Cali fornia courts and get the decision in that case. It stands in the same relation to the wasteful practices iii the herring industry of Alaska
 At least three thousand fisher men are indirectly dependent on the herring for their livelihood. The herring industry supports, ac- cording to the Pacific Fisherman just SIP persons. The Territory | an afford to lose the herring indus try with it's questionable benefits a whole lot better than 1t can af- ford to lose three thousand fisher men who outfit here as aainst the Packers in Seattle, mantain homes here as against the Seattle "birds
 and taxpayers.
 It is time that MT. Johnson ge' \
 wise to the fact that he is defend, ling system that takes value iron The future of the Territory withou giSing adequate return.
 Much more can be said on tnl Important subject but beiieV
 Ihave said enough to hold MT Johngonand other pro-destruction- lists for awhile
 \ Yours very truly,
 DAN ABSTAIN. | Petersburg, Alaska
 tI Tanuary 2. 1927
The Alaskan., 1927-01-07
CHASING FOXES

A shipment of fifty blue foxes to Dr. R. N. Monahan, of Anoka, Minn. made it's getaway causing the staging of an unique fox hunt.
 Mounted National Guardsmen of Anoka, Minneapolis and St. Paul. and citizens and hunters from oth- CT places, on skiiis joined the search. (Wonder if the hunters got close enough to put some salt on the tafls?)
The Alaskan., 1927-01-07
ON AS-
 SAULT CHARGE

At a preliminary hearing recent 1y Erling J. Peterson, IS year old youth, admitted having assaulted a sixteen year old white girl. He la ter made complete confession, giv- ing details of the crime to U. S. Marshall Humber of Ketchikan- The victim of his attack identified him in the Commissioners court.
 He was bound over to the next grand jury sitting with bail set at |.s2.5OO.
 It is believed that the young man 1 is the victim of deranged mind.
The Alaskan., 1927-01-07
LOCAL CANNERYNTAN SUED FOR DIVORCE

Mrs. Henrietta G. Archibald filled suit here (seattle,) yesterday for divorce from Ernest schoenwald, head of the Petersburg Packing company, charging that March 1s he began and practiced a course of systematic and studied abuse of an unusual, brutal character. ."-Ketch l ikan Chronicle.
The Alaskan., 1927-01-07

A record in rock breaking was set in Juneau recently when the Alaska Juneau mine in single shot brought down 5,O00,000 tons of rock. Ten and half tons of powder were used in the blast.
The Alaskan., 1927-01-07

charge of our fisheries have not tried on the poor fish, the industry or themselves. We recommend it as relic of the army.
The Alaskan., 1927-01-07

The Ketchikan Alaska Native games with the local Hi and Town teams for next week. See The Alaskan for arrangeemnts.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24
ENGINEERS NERVES ARE
 PRAYED BY AUT0ISTS
Veteran Locomotive Pilot Condemns Race Made Motorists on
 Highways.

Champaign, H., Feb. 24 Pl- Careless automobile drivers are de- stroying the nerve of locomotive en- gineers, H. w. Howard, Champaign, an enginer for 40 years, today told those attending the highway short course of the University of Illinois.
 The sensation of sitting in cab and watching locom otive blow into an automobile load of people is a terrifying experience, he declared.
 Sunday is the engineers day of dread. Many of our engineers lay off Sundays, fearful of these horrible grade crossing accidents. There is always the possibility of bad wreck of the train itself with more than a chance that the engineer, as well as the passengers, will meet with sudden death. If the automobile goes under the locomotive a derail- ment is almost certain. In 1926 twenty-seven derailment3 occurred. killing 59 enginemen and injuring 1SS passengers"
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24
KILLED BY GAS FUMES
Milford Man, Preparing House for New Tenant, Overcome - Wife Finds Lifeless Body.

Milford, .Teb. A P-Charles Pa lau, S5, an insurance agent, was found lifeless on the floor of one of
 his vacant cottages at Myrtle Beach
 today by his wife. She moved the body to the door in belief that life
 might exist, but a physician who was
 called said her husband had been
 dead two hours. He had been over
 come by illuminati.I g gas.
 Palau, who lived across the street.
 rose about o'clock and went to the
 cottage to prepare it for a tenant.
 He had apparently turned on the gas
 and was repairing leaky pipe when he was overcome. His wife two
 hours later. went to call him for breakfast.
 Palau was president of the Third District Republican club and was re- elected Monday night after con-
 test. The medical examiner gave a verdict of accidental death.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24
Bobby Jones Finally
 Makes a Hole in One

Atlanta, Ga, Feb. 24 R-Bobby Jones, open golf champion of Great Britain and the United States and for the past 10 years regarded as one of the greatest players in the world, has just made his first "hole in one"
 He did this yesterday afternoon while playing with his original in structor, Stewart Maiden, over his home course, the East Lake Coun- try club of Atlanta. Bobby was practicing for the southern open tournment to be held on the course March 23-26.
 The eleventh hole, a neat and well trapped green for an iron shot, was the scene of the champions induc- tion into the "Dodo Club" It takes shot of about ITO yards, and Bobby used a half swing with a number four iron, the ball hopping twice and then trickling straight into the hole.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24
JUDGES DAUGHTER IS . MISSING IN NEW YORK
Police Search for 15 Yr. Old Kasia Mahoney,
 Gone Since Monday

New York. Feb. A P-Alarm was broadcast today by the miss ing persons bureau of the police department for Kasia Mahoney. 15 year old daughter of Supreme Court Justice Jeremiah T. Ma honey, who was last seen on her way to school Monday.
 Every effort was made to keep the disappearance police secret. but 1t leaked out when reporters noticed that the girls address was the same as Justice Mahoney's and the jurist confirmed it finally after refusing for hours to make any statement.
 Even after acknowledging that it was his daughter whose descrip- ton had been sent to police throughout the country the justice declined to give any details Of the girls disappearance. Police were likewise uncommunicative.
 Records of the missing persons bureau listed the girl as being five feet, four inches high, 119 pounds. blue eyes, blond bobbed hair and light complexion. When last seen she was wearing brown coat, hat. dress and shoes.
 Police Commissioner Mclaughlin went to the corut where Justice Mahoney was sitting and court was adjourned while they went into conference. Back at police head quarters Mclaughlin issued statement in which he said the girl had never had any love affairs and that her hobbies were ath- letics and reading.
 ''She is most studious," the statement read, land somewhat advanced intellectually. She is linquist of ability and possesses linguist in writing. Her health is most excellent as are her personal habits. She has great confidence in her ability to make a career. Her parents have every confidence in her ability to take care of herself. They are most anxious for her to return and are confident she will communicate with them in . very short time."