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LOYAL ORDER CF MOOSE
MEETS EVERY THURSDAY EVENING
STEWART, B- C AND HYDER ALASKA
Dr. Richard F. Butler
DENTIST
PORTLAND CANAL NEWS BUILDING
STEWART, B. C.
HYDER M. E. CHURCH
Services Every Sunday
Sunday School at 11 o’clock
Classes for all ages
Preaching at 8 o’clock P. M.
Rev. F. E.Reddick Pastor.
NOTICE
Weekly Miner subscribers are
herewith notified that in the
event of our carriers being un
able to make deliveries because
of deep snow or unbroken
trails, their papers will be leftt
at the Hyder Drug Company
store or mailed.
GAME LAWS
Open season for—
Moose, Caribou, Sheep, Rams
only, limit 2. Aug. 20 to Dec. 31
Deer, males only, horns 8 in
ches or longer, limit 3. Sept. 1
to Nov. 15.
Mountain goat, males only, lim
it 3. Aug. 20 to Oct. 31.
Brown Bear, limit 3. Oct. 1 to
July 1.
Grouse, ptarmigan, limit 25 in !
possession in one day. Sept. 1
to March 1.
Duck, goose, brant Wilson
snipe, plover, yellow-legs, coots
or Gallinule, Sept. 1 to Dec. 15. 1
Limit 25 ducks, or Wilson
snipe, or coots, or Gallinule, i
or 8 gejese or 8 brant or more
than 25 in all in combined pos
session in one day, 15 plovers
or yellow-legs in one day.
Martin Nov. 16 to March 31;
muskrat, Dec. 16 to April 30;
land otter, ming, weasel, Dec.
16 to March 31.; fox, except
blue, Lynx, Dec.^1 to Feb. 28.
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letterheads, billheads, state
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job work of this character
will find it to their advantage
to secure our prices before or
dering elsewhere.
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World Flight Planes To
Visit Five Alaska Towns
The four army air planes
to participate in the forth
coming attempt of American
army flyers to encircle the
globe, will land at six points in
Alaska enroute to Japan, ao
cording to the latest announce
ments regarding the itinerary.
The points in question will be
Wrangell, Katalla, Seward,
(Kodiak, Unalaska and Attiu,
the latter the farthermost west
erly island of the Aleutian
group. The flight will start
from Los Angeles. Large quan
tities of highly refined gasoline
will be placed at all the indi
cated points, as well as quanti
ties of engine supplies, and
plane parts, to guard against
breakdowns.
Big Mine Merger Reported
Under Way In Yukon Terr.
A Canadian Press dispatch
from Dawson says a vast amal
gamation of the big companies
operating placer properties in
the famous Klondyke gold
camp is reported on good au
thority and will likely be con
summated in the near future.
The properties involved com
prise thousands of claims, in
cluding hundreds of miles of
gold creeks. Several subsidary
companies of the Gold Fields
American Company are being
merged under one parent com
pany. A. C. Treadgold, of
London, the man who original
ly organized about 75 miles
of the richest creeks in the
Klondyke, which were later ac
quired by the Yukon Gold
Company, is understood to be
the moving spirit in the new or
ganization.lt is also unofficial
ly reported that they have also
entered into negotitions to ac
quire for the merger all inter
ests in the Klondyke Mines
Railway and of the Yukon
Gold Company,
ONE TROUBLE
WITH ALASKA
Some one asked not long ago: t
“What is the matter with
Alaska?” and if we mistake
not, this is one of the things
that is most the mater with her.
Halibut Cove, Alaska, is the j
greatest herring ground in the
world, according to C. B. Mey
ers, Seldovia canneryman, who
is at the Hotel Butler, says a
recent issue of the Seattle Post- j
Intelligencer. “Out of a la- I
goon a mile long and half a j
mile deep, 22,000 barrels of i
herring were taken during the :
past season. The fish rush into |
the lagoon in billions early in :
the winter to escape from
whales, seals and sea lions. The
lagoon is about forty fathoms
deep and is probably the crat
er of a more or less extinct vol
cano. Occasionally gill netters
bring up herring from the bot
tom cooked so thoroughly that
the flesh drops off the bones.”
PRINCE RUPERT TO HAVE
GRAIN ELEVATOR SOON
G. B. Coles, one of the largest
grain shipping men of the
West, arrived recently in
Prince Rupert for the purpose
of arranging for a grain el
evator at that place, says the
Juneau Empire. The Canadian
National Railway agents at
Prince Rupert announced that
when the elevator is construct
ed there will probably be a
twice-a-month Oriental service
established with that place.
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Just For Fun
"Johnny Jones, what is an oy
ster?” queried the teacher.
There was a painful silence
as Johnny groped for the an- j
swer; then:
“An oyster is a fish built like l
a nut.”
And here is another by “little j
Johnny”—long may he flour
ish!
Teacher.—“Johnny, give me ;
a sentence using the word
‘diadem’.”
Johnny—“People who drink i
moonshine diadem sight quick-1
er than those who don’t.”
It’s a funny world. When two j
trains come together we call it i
a collision, but wheq two kids I
come together we call them \
twins.
“Memory brings back the
time,” said the man in the vil
lage grocery store to the group i
around the stove, “when I used
to stand up in Sunday School
and sing ‘I want to be an angel'
when what I really wanted was
to go fishing.”
And it’s no joke either.
The Blueberry Kid says many
a man keeps his nose to the
grindstone so that his wife can
turn hers up at the neighbors.
And some of the hyper- crit
ics will probably come in and
tell us it is not grammatical.
i Aftera run of seven days dur
ation, the Fairbanks flour mill
recently closed down for the
[winter. The output of the mill
for the season was twenty tons
of flour all of which was taken
by Fairbanks merchants.
Naval Airmen
Start For Nome
Over Winter Trail
E. C. Jack, naval constructor,
and three assistants are now
enroute to Seward on the first
stage of a winter journey over
the ice to Nome, for the pur
pose of building a big mooring
mast in the vicinity of the Ber
ing Sea metropolis for the ac
comodation of the great naval
dirigible Shenandoah, during
its proposed flight to the North
Pole during the coming sum
mer, according to recent an
nouncements.
From Seward the party will
proceed via the Alaska rail
road to Nenana, and from that
point to Nome by dog team.
FOR THE
SPORT FANS
Jack Dempsey and Tommy
Gibbons are to meet again at
the Polo Grounds, New York,
on Saturday, May 31. This is a !
guess by the New York sport
writers, arrived at by the well
known process of putting two
and two together, says a dis
patch. It is certain that they
are going to fight again for
the championship early in
June. Tex Rickard has said so
in a direct, statement to the
press, but was unwilling to
name the exact date. It’ is
known, however, that Rickard
has an established preference
(for dates near a holiday. Mem- j
jovial day, as it happens, comes j
i on Friday this year and in
; Greater New York it is the cus-1
!tom of commercial and profes
sional firms to declare the
week-end off when a national
holiday falls on Friday.
' Dispatches from Chamonix,
i the winter resort in the Swiss
j Alps where the Olympic
| ice championship contests are
.being held, announce that the
Canadian team won the Olym
I pic hockey championship from
j the American team by & score
j of 6 to 1.
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Petitions will circulated in
in California to secure the nec
essary signatures to place
the November election ballots
a proposition that ten-round
boxing bouts be legalized in
California, according to a re
cent announcement by State
Assemblyman Harry Morrison.
A state boxing commission
would have control of boxing
and the profits would go to the
state homes for war veterans
if the pr^osal is ratified.
Tentative arrangements have
been announced by the Alaska
Siberian Navigation Company
of San Francisco, for a direct
steamship service from that
port to Seward. The new ser
vice will be used for the trans
portation of Alaska coal di
rect to California. It is said
the company is seeking pref
erential r^tes on the Alaska
railroad so as to make it pos
sible to compete with Austral
ian coal in the Frisco market.
The company’s service will in
clude three freight steamers.
Court Upholds Right To
Seri Separation Envoy
To Washington D. C.
A suit brought in the District
Court at Juneau by Emery Val
entine to prevent the city of
Juneau from making use of
city funds to defray the expen
se? of sending a special repre
sentative to \Yashington to
present Southeastern Alaska's
plea for a division of the Ter
tory, was dismissed by Judge
T. M. Reed, shortly before
the close of the last term.
Valentine secured a tempor
ary restraining order which
was later ordered vacated
iwhen the plaintiff counsel,
V/ickersham and hoe, re
fused to make a ? ’y to the
City’s answer, afk^> entering
a demurrer thereto. Judge
Reed overruled the demurrer
and upon the refusal of the
plaintiff to make reply order
ed the city’s attorneys, Messrs
Hellenthal and Hellenthal, to
prepare an order vacating the
temporary restraining order
and to prepare a judgement
dismissing the action.
Canada Appreciates Value Of
Communication With Frontier
ions of life in the great, lone
land, Herschell island and
points along the great water
way system will be put in con
stant touch with the outside
world, its markets, its doings,
and—perhaps not the least ap
preciated—the concerts which
are broadcasted from all the
larger centers of population.
Private receiving sets will be
come common at isolated posts
clear down to the Arctic coast,
and the most isolated trader
or policeman will be able to
learn the news of the day and
to keep posted on matters af
fecting his business or his of- i
ficial duty.
With apparently much great
er appreciation of the value of
developing mean3 of commun
ication along her frontiers than
is displayed by the United
States, Canada is establishing
a string of powerful wireless
^lephone stations down the
Mackenzie river to Herschell
I land, situated near the mouth
o' that stream on the Arctic
coast, according to the Edmon
ton Bulletin. Materials for the
construction of a plant at Ft.
Murray are on the way, the
Bulletin says, and the stations
may be working by this time
next year. The enterprise
will revolutionize the condit
BRIEF ITEMS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE TERRITORY
Apparently overcome by an
attack of heart failure, Edwin
Robinson, of Seward, -was
fourtd dead in his cabin recent
ly by a friend who had gone to
his home to make a call. Roo
inson had lived in Alaska foi
any years and was well known
over the Territory. He left a
family, residing in Seattle.
Four years ago Raold Amund
sen the noted Arctic explorer,
mailed a letter in the far north
to a friend in Minneapolis. Al
ter various adventures the com
munication reached its des
tination a few days ago, bear
ing on its face an epic of the
postal service at the world’s
edge. Eskimo carriers and dog
teams who had started with
the letter across the Siberian
wilderness, had succumbed to
cold and starvation and their
mail pouch laid for nearly
four years preserved by ice
and snow until last summer,
when a party of Russians dis
covered it. They sent the letter
to Amundsen’s brother in Nor
way ,by whom it was sent to
its Minneapolis destination.
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| An effort will be made during
| the present session of Congress
to secure legislation providing
I for a closed season on halibut
in Alaskan waters. A 90-day
closed season is to be sought,
extending from November 10
to February 15, annually. This
period is generally conceded
to be the spawning season for
halibut. It is also the most
itormy season of the year on
the North Pacific and lives and
boats are annually lost on fish
ing trips during the period,
while severe hardships are en
countered by every boat en
gaged in the industry.
A large flock of ptarmigan
flew along Second Avenue*
this morning and made a land
ing in the alley between oei
• nd and Third Avenues, oppo
site the Dawson Hardware Co.
Perhaps the feathered visit
ors feel immune in Dawson be
cause there is a local ordinance
saying: “Thou shall not
firearms within the city lim
its.”—(Dawson News)
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