WOMAN MINER HAS
STRUCK IT RICH
To every pioneer in Alaska it will
be good news to learn that Cleveland
& Howell, of Woodchopper, are
again to take out a big fortune in
that camp during the coming season
Their first big cleanup, made recent
ly, amounted to $68,000, according
to advices from the lower river
While all will be glad to wish Mr,
Howell, who is a progressive miner,
the best of luck, all old-timers will
be delighted for Mrs. Cleveland’s
sake, for no woman that ever lived
in the North has done more than
she to develop the country.
For almost twenty years Mrs.
Cleveland has bees spending money,
tens of thousands of dollars, in de
veloping the country and opening up
new mining ground, to say nothing
of the thousands she has given to
grubstake prospectors.
On Gold Run, in the Dawson
country, during the early days of the
Klondike, she owned one of the
largest mercantile establishments in
the district. For several years she
did a big business, g' ’ting good
profits on all goods that she sold,
but her generosity to prospectors
finally Broke her. She grubstaked
hundreds of them during the course
of her life in the upper country and
in the Tanana valley, not so much
with the hope of reward, but with
the idea of helping out the old
timers and with the idea of opening
up virgin fields of gold.
After having had several fortunes
of some size, and after having sunk
them in trying to develop the coun
try, many men and almost any
woman would have quit in despair.
But not Mrs. Cleveland, for she al
ways looked at the mining game
philosophically, ready to make
changes as they came and believing
that when the beans and bacon were
growing low in the cache it was time
to expect something to nappen.
Besides her mercantile venture on
Gold Run, she spent a fortune min
ing on lav.reka creek, a tributary of
Indian river. After spending thou
sands of dollars preparing to hy
draulic, they discovered that the
pay was not as good as it appeared
at first, and she atrain lost another
fortune.
On Woodehopper creek, in the Hot
Springs district, Cleveland & Howell
started to prospect and put a good
sized fortune into the property be
fore anyone knew whether or not
they would ever take out enough to
pay their labor, to say anything of
their expenses. And now they are
taking out big money, and many
mining men who have looked over
their proposition think that they will
take out more than a million dollars
this season.
If they have this good fortune,
which appears to be in their hands
now, Mrs. Cleveland will certainly
have the distinction of being the
Hetty Green of Alaska. And it will
be a safe w'ager that the more money
she makes the more prospectors
there will be who will have a friend
to whom they can turn for assist
ance in an adverse hour. That's
why she will be unlike Hetty Green
of New York.
WOMEN ARE USED FOR
COX VENTION CHEERI \G
CHICAGO, Ju-e 16.—The Repub
lican convention of 1880 was the
first in which a woman spectator was
‘ used” to force a demonstration by
brandishing a flag and shouting a
candidate's name. The same ruse
has been used in practically every
convention of both parties since.
History records that the 1880 Re
publican convention cheered Blaine’s
name 35 minutes and Grant’s 30
minutes. This was the first “long
distance” cheering record.
Demonstrations in conventions
sine* that time have frequently con
tinued for 45 and 50 minutes, and
indeed, in 1908, at the Democratic
convention, Bryan’s adherents cheer
ed and applauded the Nebraskan for
nearly an hour and a half.
Articles Are Filed.
The Strelna Copper Company, an
Alaskan corporation of Anchorage,
has been formed to develop mining
claims in the Strelna district, with
a capital stock of $1,000,000. The
incorporators of the company are all
Anchorage men. Articles were filed
today in the office of the Secretary
of Alaska at Juneau.
It is up to the business men ol
Anchorage to support the Anchorage
band and can do so by buying i
ticket to the big dance next Tuesdaj
night at Robart’s hall.
SHl’SHANXA MIXER WRITES
OK RECENT PLACER STRIKE
Lo iis McCallum, one of the locat
ors of the ground in the Shushanna
district, on which the recent placer
strike was made, writes his brother
at Valdez as follows:
"I suppose reports have magnified
the prospects. We have a shaft
down ninety feet and struck water,
which, after a depth of three and
one-half feet, was greater than we
Could handle it with a three-quarter
inch ejector.
"The gravel panned coarse colors
as we got down, and there is every
indication of a large pay channel. 1
have ten claims located for us,
which I consider good locations, as
I was in on the ground floor. Of
, course, this is deep and wet ground,
and will require a pump to reach
bedrock.
"I would advise no one to stam
pede here unless well equipped to
prospect. This creek is cutting large
| dykes of porphyry, lime crystals,
I quartz and hornblende granite,
i which is thought to be the source of
i the gold.”
WEIS WIN BY A
Numerous inquiries have been
made at this office for the result of
the recent local option vote in South
eoastrn Alaska, and for the informa
j tion of those interested the following
returns are published:
Juneau cast only 1,056 of her
1.779 regictered votes, but 417 un
registered voters swore in their
votes. The poll showed 772 for wet
and 274 for dry. The votes of the
417 unregistered were sealed and
will be returned to the court. But
even should all the sealed votes
favor the wagon, Juneau is still
damp by a safe majority.
Douglas was wet on election day
in more ways than one. The win
dows of heaven were ajar and rain
poured all day, but for a’ that 684
of a total of 997 possible votes were
polled, of which 477 were in favor
of continuing to license saloons,
while 207 wanted the town to take
passage on the water wagon.
Ketchikan favored continuing the
1 cense system bv a vote of 451 to
I 206 .
Haines was carried by the wets by
an overwhelming majority, 78 to 27.
Skagway voted dry by 193 to 153.
No reports have as yet been re
ceived from Petersburg or Wrangell,
but it was predicted both would vote
wet.
MANY ALASKAN VIEWS
EXHIBITED IX EAST
—
The following clipping from the
New York Times will prove of inter
est to Alaskans:
More than 10,000 persons visited
the art exhibition of “The Mystic
North,” a series of paintings of Alas
kan scenery by Leonard Davis, on
view during the last three weeks at
the American Museum of Natural
History,
The exhibition, which was ar
ranged in the West Assembly Hall of
the Museum, closed yesterday, and it
was announced that the eight paint
ings is the group had been acquired
by New York collectors. These are
the titles of the pictures purchased
and the names of the buyers:
“Lynn Canal, Alaska,” Miss Maud
Powell, the violinist; ‘ Coast of Alas
ka, Morning,” Marion Hamilton Car
ter (author); “The Mountain Spirit,”
Miss Mary Cinthia Dickerson, editor
of the American Museum Journal,
published by the Museum; “At Val
dez, Alaska,” Mrs. Hedwig K. Ko
chaw (musician); "Above Wrangell
Narrows,” on the coast, George Ob
erdorfer; “Sunset, Alaska,” Mrs.
Henry Steigner, and “The Spirit of
the Morning,” A. C. Heaphy.
The artist has spent many years in
the wilds of Alaska and has traveled
extessively along the coast and up
the Yukon river sketching scenery of
that region.
If you have a case, suit case or
any kind of case, let the yellow car
handle it. 6-14-6t
She won’t be sore if you forget
all about her at the “Movies" to
night.
Doc buys everything. tf
THE MODEL
Has fresh stock of cigars, candles,
photo goods, stationery, etc.
It was particularly gratifying to
hear both Mr. Lambson and Mr.
Guberstein say that “business is
fine.”
FAIR SEX TURN
TO SNAKE STYLE
"In the olden days ’twas a wily
snake
Got the best of Mother Eve;
But the times have changed for that
serpent bold
You may well indeed believe;
For down at her feet, on her dainty
boots
And up in the air on her hat,
The modern Eve has the best of him
now.
And what do you think of that?”
NEW YORK, June 16.—Don’t be
worried and sign the pledge hastily
if you see snakes these days. They
are being worn in the best of fami
lies and every fair charmer looks
like a snake one since the latest fad
of serpents has come to light.
Just to turn the tables on the old
snake for wearing Eve’s nerves, her
granddaughters are wearing him on
their feet and heads.
It surely is going back some to go
back to the Garden of Eve for our
fashions. We began by decking our
selves out in apples, and now we are
up to the snake. Let's hope we stop
at that and don’t revive the tig leaf
fcr the summer months.
At first glance these new high
boots of grey kid appear to have tops
of mottled silk, but a second glance
confirms your sneaky, shaky suspi
cions. They are very stunning, of
course, and when worn with a wide
brimmed sailor hat with a crown of
the same mottled silk the effect is
not garish or bizarre, as you may at
first suppose, but conservatively rich
and original.
Belts and pocketbooks also are
shown in the snake skin.
The summer girl is very keen for
beauty patches. Indeed, she seldom
appears in a barefaced condition
without a tiny black heart, diamond
or dot enhancing the dimple in her
cheek or the corner of one eye.
However, beauty patches aren't
the only patches on the 1916 beauty.
Altogether, they may well be said to
have gone to her head, for the very
newest sport hat is a crazy affair
made exactly like your grand
mother’s silk patchwork quilt. It is
a soft, crush hat, and the gayest
scraps or silk are used in its hit or
miss construction. They are set to
gether with fancy long and short
stitches, or feather stitching in a de
cidedly quiltish manner. Nuts on
golf or tennis will feel very much at
home in one of these new crazy
patch headpieces, and to designate a
fair lady as crazy in the head will
imply rather a degree of smartness
than a stigma of addle-patedness
henceforth.
Do you know how to crochet an
edging on wash cloths and bath
towels? If so, cease such superflu
ous embellishments and turn your
knowledge to more wearing and
wearable adornment. If you don’t
care for the crazy patch sport hats
and still desire to be a smartly hat
ted sport, purchase a broad-brimmed
hat and a hank of yarn and then get
busy with your crochet book. Just
imagine your hat is a wash cloth
and edge it in a vivid shade of green,
cerise, yellow or purple and you will
have a simply stunning chapeau. If
you are a versatile crocheter you
can make a hectic yarn flower with
a leaf or two to put on the front of
the crown, and you will find that you
have hooked the most attractive
sport hat of the season with your
little crochet hook. This is a true
little yarn.
ALASKA GLACIERS ARE
REPORTED RECEDING
Fifteen years ago members of the
United States Geodetic Survey
mapped the front of Barry glacier,
which is in the northwest corner of
Prince William Sound, Alaska. In
1910 it was found that the frost of
the glacier had gone back about
three miles from the position it occu
pied in 1899. B. L. Johnson, of the
Geologic Survey, examined the front
of the Barry glacier in the fall of
1914 and determined that the total
retreat of the glacier between 1910
and 1914 appeared to be about 8,200
feet, a retreat of four and one-half
miles in fifteen years. A short ac
count of the retreat of this glacier by
Mr. Johnson has just been published
as Professional Paper 98-C. It in
cludes a sketch map showing the po
sition of the glacier front in seven
different years asd several reproduc
tions of photographs of the glacier.
A copy of the report may be ob
tained free on application to the Di
rector of the United States Geolog
ical Survey at Washington, D. C.
Join the crowd and read the An
chorage Daily Times.
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Men’s Worsted Trousers .$2.00
Khaki Pants .$1.50
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We are Closing Out our entire stock of Cigars '
and Tobaccos at less than wholesale cost, as we
are crowded for room; therefore we will throw at
your mercy 60,000 Clear Havana and Domestic
Cigars. Free samples to every man who enters
our stores. Come and sample our cigars and be
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Imported Manilla Cigars,
6 for 25c, $1.50 box of 50
Domestic Cigars,
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