HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Established 1924
Published Every Saturday at the Herald Building,
Second Avenue, Hyder, Alaska.
Telephone? No. S2
Chas. F. Sand ford .. Owner and Publisher
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Hyder,
Alaska, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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Tnis newspaper is not connect ed in any manner with any
nock brokerage firm or other establishment associated in or
interested in the sale of mining shares and publishes no in
rormation relative to local mining development that is not be
lieved to be in full accord with fact.
Whales Cut Hog Demand
It may sound strange, but is
nevertheless true that the
whaling industry, which forms !
a part of one of Alaska’s out
standing industries, is having
an adverse effect upon the de-;
mand for hogs. In several for
eign countries whale oil is be
ing used for making margar
ine, thereby reducing the mar
ket for American lard.
One large packing company
reports that the production of
whale oil has increased nearly
300 per cent in the last four
years, and now equals one
half of all the lard produced
in the United States. This has
been due to the discovery of a
process whereby the fish taste
of whale oil may be removed,
making it more palatable for
human food.
To supply this vast quantity
of oil, about 30,000 whales
were killed last year, each
yielding more than 100 barrels
on the average, there being
400 pounds of oil to the barrel.
In modern whaling the animals
are killed by an explosive car
ried by a harpoon fired from
a gun, and the carcass is re
duced to oil, fertilizer and
canned meat, usually by a
large ship on the spot equip
ped for that purpose. Whale
meat is not very desirable for
food but on account of its
cheapness it is used in some
Oriental countries.
The use of whale oil in the
United States is confined large
ly to manufacture of soap and
lubricants, none being used
here for margarine making.
But in foreign markets the
A'hale is becoming a real com
petitor of the American hog.
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Laws And Lawyers
Taken man for man, it is
probable that the lawyers of
the country illustrate as high
a type of citizenship as can be
found in the ranks of any other
profession or calling. It is not,
therefore, the purpose of this
article to cast any reflections
upon lawyers, collectively 01
individually, so far as their in
tegrity is concerned.
It is nevertheless true that law
yers are in the main to blame
for the mutiplicity of laws
with which this country is
buidened today, as well as for
the dilatory tactics exhibited
by our courts of high and low
degree.
Some time ago the Illiuois
Bar Association declared thai
“the subject of law reform i.
technical and the lawyers must
deal with it, yet they do noth
ing. or are'hopelessly divided.’
No less an authority than Chief
Justice Taft condemned oiu
system of criminal proceed
ure. A similar expression was
made in a resolution of the
American Bar Association.
Congress and state legislat
ures are, dominated by law
yers; all laws are framed by
lawyers, (many of them to be
later declared unconstitution
al by other lawyers acting ir
the capacity of judges) ; al
_’ourt proceedure is establish
[ ed by lawyers—yet the high
| est authorities among them ad
mit that they have made s
sony mess of it all.
What is the remedy? Wc
don’t know. Ask a lawyer.
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Expecting Too Much
Small town hotels have beer
the objects of criticism, ridic
ule and sneers on the part o
their guests from time immem
orial. But most of them an
probably furnishing the bes
accomodations they can unde:
he circumstances.
Travelers who are accustom
ed to modern conveniences and
comforts in larger hotels prob
ably expect too much when
they strike a village hostelry..
As a reminder of this fact,
one country town hotel-keep
er placed signs in his rooms,
which read as follows:
“This ain’t the Waldorf
Astoria—If it was it wouldn’t
be here—You ain’t J. P. Mor
gan—If you was you wouldn’t
be here—We know this hotel
is on the bum—Well, how
about yourself?”
Just for Fun
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We spend so much for fun
i and have so little of it.
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An optimist is one who lists
his 1923 car as an asset.
This often seems to be the
: land of the free and home of
| the easy.
Monday papers are interest
I ing if you care for mortality
| statistics.
Once the unsophisticated
! thought the world flat; now
they think its square.
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It takes a lot of hard prac
tice to give.some girls charm
! ing naturalness.
One reason Why living costs
more is because affixing a
patch is no longer an art.
The swell-head germ is no
! body’s fool. He always man
ages to pick out an empty one.
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Too True: Many a man who
is a big bug at the office is
nothing but an insect at home.
1st. Man: “Do you know any
thing harder than a diamond?”
2nd Man: “Sure, making a
payment on one.”
Teacher: “What is meant by
the yellow peril.”
Pupil: “A banana skin left on
the pavement.”
Brave Man: “I don’t know the
meaning of fear.”
Sweet Young Thing: “Why not
look it up in the dictionary.”
Household Hint: Cooks who
are in the habit of puting their
. heart into their, work should
refrain from baking a cake
when they are heavy-hearted.
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INTERESTING NOTES
Libraries of the University
of Iowa now contain more
than 336,000 volumes.
California dairies ship but
ter valued at more than $ 1
000,000 to foreign ports an
t nually.
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There are about 12,340 build
ing ami loan associations in
the United States.
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Between 90 and 96 per cent
j of the watches made in Swit
. i zerland are exported, the Unit
• ed States being that country’s
best market.
The goldenrod is the state
■ flower of Alabama, Kentucky,
Nebraska and North Carolina.
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder Alaska Minor
October 12, 1921
The lower tunnel of the Riv-j
erside group is now well into j
the ore at a depth from the :
surface of $ibout 60 feet. The i
tunnel is in over 100 feet and
there is a full face of ledge !
matter, with about 21/^ feet of i
solid ore.
Never in the memory of the 1
oldest inhabitants have the |
rivers and creeks of this dis
trict reached such a high stage j
as they attained last Saturday J
morning. Every stream in the
district has misbehaved itself
in scandalous manner, accord
ing to all reports. Bear River
and Salmon River constituted
a menace to the safety of
Stewart and Hyder, because of
the tendency of glacial streams
to change their course and a
large part of the forest reserve
addition and the Lindeborg
townsite in Hyder were inun
uatcu.
The new government bridge |
just completed across Marmot!
River was washed out, and the j
bridge across Davis River was
also swept away. Emil Davis,
who had charge of construct
ion of the latter bridge, said
yesterday that it was built in a
gorge at least fifteen feet
above the normal level of the
river. Two spans of the long
bridge across Bear River a
short distance north of Stew
art were taken out and the!
bridge will have to be prac- j
tically rebuilt. Bitter Creek
and American Creek bridges i
up the Bear River Valley were j
also taken out.
At one-mile bar just below
the first rock cut on the Sal
mon River road, the Salmon
! River overflowed its banks
I and sweeping down into the
! north end of Hyder covered all
the land on both sides of the
road almost to the tram office.
The Hyder sawmill and scores
of residences were surrounded
and numerous woodpiles and
small outbuildings were car
ried away. A boom was run
around the sawmill lumber
yard, but not soon enough to
jsave all the lumber. The mill
I was out of commission for
1 about three days. Pioneer hall
j escaped having the floor cov
| ered only by a few inches and
j the walk from International
Avenue was afloat over its
entire length. The creek
which heads into the forest re
serve and flows along the foot
i of the bluff was a raging tor
j rent and spread over a large
! portion of the townsite, its
waters being augumented by
J the overflow front the river.
Rozenstain’s store, built di
| rectly over the creek, appear
; ed to be in danger of being
undermined, but a jam of
j brush and logs formed against
j the piling and broke the force
of the current, besides deposit
ing several cords of firewood
there. All bridges along the
! creek went out, as well as one
bent under the bridge on In
j terriational Avenue near the
I Nick Belyin building. The O
■ Conner building, used as the
, school house, was kept from
' toppling into the river only by
pulling it forward. Lowlying
bridges along the upper Sal
mon valley were all taken out
but the Salmon River road as
a whole was not materially
' damaged. The most serious
| damage was done at Seven
mile bar, the river taking out
about 150 yards of the road
bed.
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
1218
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Howard Campbell, Dictator
P. S. Jack, Secretary
Meets Second and Fourth Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
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* Rev. H. R. Cross, Pastor *
* Sunday School at 10:30 a. m. *
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* the services. •
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