SHORT STORIES
ABOUT ALASKA
i A Rebekah lodge has been organ
ized at Seward.
Twenty-seven tourists from out
side points arrived at Dawson recent
ly and spent a day or so sight-seeing
Drs. Mellor and Martin, who have
been practicing in Southern Yukon
for the last four years, arrived in
Dawson recently and will open of
fices there. Messrs. Mellor and Mar
, Lovera Monarch
IIKE a time-tried friend,
4 you will find the Lovera
a gentle-spirited ci&ar, wel
come at all times, never
tiring, never &ettin& on your
nerves, yet always true to its
rich, clear Havana tobacco.
10c, 2 for 25c and 15c sizes
Queen size, 2 for 25c
Earl size . 2 for 25c
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tin are dentists who have their head
quarters in Seattle.
Mrs. Charles Drugan, a pioneer
woman of the Yukon, passed away at
her home in Klondike City recently
She is survived by a husband and
five children.
John F. Coffey, former timekeeper
for the Alaskan Engineering Com
mission, has been promoted to editor
in-chief of the Railroad Record the
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official publication of the A. E. C.
The auto-riding public at Anchor
age is taking advantage of a rate
war now on between transportation
companies carrying passengers from
Anchorage to Lake Spenard.
The Nenana Pioneers have taken
charge of the cemetery there and
recently put the place in good order.
’ But one clear day is recorded in
Dawson during the month of June.
Rain fell 23 days in the month.
Ike Weathers, of Juneau, an alleged
fish trap pirate, was re-arrested on a
charge of assault with attempt to
kill. His brother was also a defend
ant in the complaint. The Weathers
brothers are charged with assault
ing Captain Knutson at Admiralty
Cove on July 8. Their bonds were
placed at $3,500 each.
Chief Isaac, of the Moosehides, at
Dawson, reports that one of his tribe
while hunting west of Dawson re
cently, met an Indian of the Tetlin
tribe, located on the headwaters of
the Tanana, who reported that Chief
David of the Tetlins died recently.
He is reported to have been about 70
years old.
Dr. F. M. Bovle, Dr. Kirkham and
I. Bayles, of Anchorage, have been
appointed members of a board of
health to look after the children of
the public schools of the city The
territorial law allows a school board
to appoint physicians to examine chil
dren for ado toidfi and other .r.Jurhus
diseases.
G. A. Jeckell, who is in charge of
Indian affairs at Dawson temporarily
during the absence of Indian Agent
Hawksley, states that the Peel river
Indians who were in need of food
were supplied recently on application
to him and that he knows of no cases
of destitution or starvation among
them. The natives are said to be
very short of clothing, however.
The Anchorage school board has
chosen its corps of teachers for the
coming year as follows: Miss Irene
Major, who taught at Hope last year;
Miss Mabel Nettleton, primary teach
er in the Seattle schools for a number
of years; Miss Luzell Canfield of Bel
lingham. and Miss Carrie Reece, for
mery principal of the Valdez school.
Supt. Dunn selected teachers with
Alaska experience in each case.
"Arthur Wright of Nenana recently
found the body of a man floating
down the river, and secured it to the
bank with a piece of wire. It was
later identified as that of Charles
Craig, the Tolovana mining man, who
with his wife and little son were pas
sengers on the ill-fated launch Flyer,
which went down last fall. The iden
tification was made by the watch
found on the body, the numbers of
which were wired to Suter in Fair
banks, who stated that it belonged to
a watch repaired by that firm for
Craig about a year ago.
TRANSYLVANIA
GREETS RULER
WITH CHEERS
HERMANNSTADT, Transylvania.
July 2 (Correspondence of Associated
Press).—Ethnographic parades, in
which the people were dressed in
clothing of a thousand varieties, were
some of the picturesque features of the
recent visit of King Ferdinand and
Queen Marie to Transylvania, for
merly part of Hungary, but lately con
quered by Rumanian troops.
Four million Rumanians of Transyl
vania had looked forward for years
for this time to come when the coun
try in which they lived would again be
reunited to Rumania, and they saw in
the coming of the king and queen evi
dence that this was accomplished.
In quaintness, originality and color
the parades held in many cities and
towns for the benefit of the king and :
queen could hardly be exceeded. The
clothing worn by the peasants had
changed but little with the passing
centuries. Some looked as though they
had stepped out of the Bible. They
wore sackcloth, homespun, leather,
wooden shoes, the loose shirt with
flowing sleeves worn by the old Rom
ans, leather girdles for carrying weap
ons, highly colored sashes and shawls,
beaded aprons and buckskin mocas
sins. ,
Queen Marie, radiant and happy,
was the idol of all. Beside her stood
her favorite child, the little Princess
Ileyana, a prototype of her ibeautiful
mother. King Ferdinand was dressed
in the uniform of a general.
To the Associated Press correspon
dent, who Avas the only newspaper
man accompanying the royal party, he
said the cheers of the thousands as
they marched past compensated him
for the trials of the war.
In addition to the parades there
Avere numerous displays resembling
the county fairs of America. The
farmers and their Avives showered the
king, queen and princess Avith gifts.
Those of the queen included rugs, tOAv
els, table cloths, cushions, sashes,
shaAvls, ornaments and crucifixes.
Princess Ileyana received all kinds
of gifts, including live lambs and rab
bits.
RAILWAYS OF BRITAIN
TO BE BROUGHT UP TO
MODERN STANDARDS
LONDON, July 12 (Correspondence!
of Associated Press).—The vast scope!
of the work to be undertaken as soon
as the much-discussed transport bill
is passed by parliament Avas outlined
the other day in the house of commons
by Sir Eric Geddes, minister of Avays
and communications, who Avill head
the neAV, extensive reforms and im
provements planned for the railways,
| roads and docks. The program in
cludes the folloAving: Elimination of
all competitive services given merely
for the sake of competition; common
use by all lines of rolling stock; elimi
nation of privately-OAvned railway
cars; increase of traffic by judicious
electrification of certain lines; in
crease of the size of rolling stock, ne
cessitating the alteration of station
platform clearances, enlargement of
the entrances to warehouses, and the
like; standardization of rolling stock
and locomotives.
CONDITIONS IN SERBIA
SHOW IMPROVEMENT
BELGRADE, Serbia, July 5 (by
mail).—Workers of the Red Cross
commission in Serbia, who have num
bered about one hundred and seventy
five during recent months, when he
lief work was most urgent, now are be
ing reduced to about fifty. Captain
Harry W. Frantz, secretaray of the
Red Cross commission to Serbia, an
nounces that the fifty workers re
tained will devote themselves to med
ical and institutional work. He adds
that “the condition of the country is
so far improved that general emer
gency relief measures are no longer
considered necessary.”
PRACTICAL METHOD FOR
FIGHTING OIL TANK FIRES
BAKERSFIELD, Cal., Aug. 8 (by As
sociated Press).—Fires that occur in
the great storage reservoirs on the
“Link farms” of the Korn river oil
fields near here will be smothered
by a new sysrem of die control
adej ted by one of ihe larg -tst operat
ing companies in California.
Used in the new fire fighting plan
is a liquid effervescent chemical ex
tremely opposed to fire. It is formed
by mixing two separate fluids. These
v hen merged are spread as a seething
Riming mass upon the surface of
tb* burning oil, and exhaustive tests
mo said to ha e sluwn that this will
quickly extinguish the fiercest oil
tank fire.
The big containers for the fluid are
connected with the various oil tanks
so that in case of fire it is only neces
sary to turn on the main valve merg
ing the fluids and the valve leading to j
the particular tank involved.
Many hundreds of thousands of
dollars have been lost in these
fires in oil storage reservoirs. The
“tank farms” are comprised of idle
land on which are located scores of
concrete reservoirs each with a capa
city of 5,000 barrels or more of oil.
The petroleum when ignited in one j
tank frequently will boil over and
small rivers of flame set on fire oil
in nearby reservoirs. The “farms”
have been the scenes of many costly
and spectacular fires.
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work. Apply Mrs. Calvin C. Hazelet.
Phone 23. 8-tf
FOR SALE—A high-priced kodak,
complete. Apply at Times office. 6-tf
WANTED—Gasoline horizontal, sta
tionary engine. Apply Daily Times
office. 4-tf
FOR SALE—Household furniture. Ap
ply James Kennedy, Clayson’s
store. 2-tf
FOR SALE—Cabin at Alganik, Alaska,
partly furnished; 75 fish barrels,
two tierces and lot of fishing gear.
Apply to John Gillis. 25-tf
FOR RENT—Furnished cabins. See
Dooley.
FOR SALE—Good stock of rabbits for
breeding purposes. Apply A. Cohen.
Phone 167- 3 rings. 19-tf
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