WASHINGTON
CURRENT
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nery, with a view to bettering its
marksmanship. What constitutes
good shooting is a matter of opinion.
Proficiently along that line lits some
where between the skill of certain
Mexican Indians, who can split a
grain of wheat with an arrow at
thirty feet, and the efforts of the
young lady who missed a battleship
with a bottle of champagne at a
launching.
A man whose given name is Josh
is scheduled to address the Opti
mist Club of Washington. Every
thing taken into consideration, it
seems likely that a good time will
be had by all.
There was a period when the per
son who wrote a good hand had the
jump on his competitors for a job.
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Nowadays penmanship does not
count for much,yet there is one mer
chant who wishes that he were a
better writer. Desiring to reduce his
stock when the resulting ad announc
ed a special sale of oatmeal.
Indiana reports the case of a man
three score and ten who was knock
ed down by a train. The engine
and five cars passed over him, but
he got up and walked away as
though nothing had happened. Con
sidered from the standpoint of luck,
that is doing pretty well, but the
Hoosier track walker is not in the
same class with the California sail
or whom a wave carried off one
ship and landed on another, or with
the French boy who passed through
a grain binder and had to be treated
for nothing worse than fright.
Washington has the reputation of
being somewhat callous in its atti
tude toward celebrities. There are
many of them about. Great cap
tains with their guns and drums,
experts along various lines, scien
tists, and statesmen are simply folks
who have to be avoided and not
bumped into in the street, like oth
er pedestrians. Even their final ex
it and the ceremonies attendant up
on the same often fail to attract no
tice. The late Sterling Calhoun
was an exception. A thousand per
sons assembled to see him laid aw
ay. Sterling was a negro truck hand,
on relief at about $12.00 a week,
who was drowned while attempting
to save two white children from the
same fate. The cynical may con
clude that Washington simply has its
share of sentimentalists and thrill
hunters. Others may see in the in
cident an indication that the Capi
tal City is not blind to abiding mer
i it.
Precious Metal Is
Not So Precious
Can’t Dispose It
Glenn -F. (Mickey) Ellingsen is
disgusted with Ketchikan, Alaska,
and the country in general, say a
recent issue of the Chronicle.
The local trapper, laborer and
prospector has a half ounce of gold
and can't sell it. The precious met
al which has proved to be not so
precious as far as he is concerned,
conies from specimens of gold bear
ing rock that he has gathered from
time to time. Recently he extract
ed the gold from them with the in
tention of realizing "pin money”.
The amount of money that the
gold represents is too small to be
bothered with through the regular
channels with their restrictions on
new gold and "no one will believe
that it is old gold,” he complains.
Even bartenders and tradesmen
refuse to have anything to do with
the gold.
"I think I'll write President Roose
velt about it,” Ellingsen stated with
resignation, "I will tell him what I
think about his fancy gold laws!
Maybe he will buy it.”
Land Plane Lands
On Nunivak Is.
For First Time
Pilot Johnny Moore of the Star
Air Service who returned to An
chorage recently, had a very inter
esting story to tell of his recent vis
it to Alaska’s real "last frontier’—
Nunivak Island—the home of Ala
skas most primitive Eskimos.
Landing on the hard beach at
Nunivak, the first wheel equipped
plane to land on the island, the party
was greeted by William Sprunger, 1
known as the White King to the
Eskimos. Mr. Sprunger conducted
the party through the numerous old
villages, where they purchased many
pieces of ivory, baskets and other
trinkets made by the natives.
At Nash harbor they were shown •
through the only school on the is
land which boasts of two hundred
students, who are taught by mission- ]
aries. In this settlement there were
few houses, the majority of the na
tives still living in "holes in the
ground.” The visiting party was
shown through numerous homes and
were amazed at the confort in these
primitive abodes.
Many of the underground homes
boasted of such luxuries as home
made furniture, radios, and other
nic-nacs. On other parts of the is- ;
land the visitors were shown de
serted villages which had caved in
years ago, leaving large depressions
in the earth.
There were no churches on the is
land. It was reported the people
had never taken any interest in re
ligious matters but depended entire
ly on White King Sprunger for
guidance. He and the missionaries
held their revival meetings from
time to time in the school building.
—Anchorage Times.
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