Jeff Dowling, formerly employed at
the Bonanza mine, Kenneeott, but for
the past two years a resident of Ju
neau, has brought himself consider
able renown of late through the in
vention of a shell for use in trench
warfare, which promises to complete
ly revolutionize the present war me
thods, and make the trench, now one
4L of the most relied upon methods of
defense, obsolete.
Mr. Dowling's invention is along en
tirety new lines, and promises to su
persede the present shrapnel shell en
tirely. The shrapnel shell, as now con
structed, consists of a ease, filled with
an explosive and a large number of
bullets, which is exploded by a time
fuse, the bullets scattering over a
wide area.
In Mr. Dowling's Invention the shells
are filled with a series of small bombs
which do not explode until they strike
the ground, thus giving the double ef
fect of an explosion and a missile. Mr.
Dowling has made a model of a
ti-inch shell, a description of which will
give an idea of the principle on which
the shell works, and in fact, this shell
is identical with all other sizes with
tile exception of the number of bombs
grouped three series of bombs, each
series numbering eighteen, or a total
of f>i within the body of the shell
Through the center of the shell runs
a circular opening of small diameter
which in practical use is filled with
explosive. At a predetermined in
fant this explosive Is fired hy a time
fuse, rupturing the outer shell and
scattering the inner shells over a con
siderable area. The rupture of the
outer liell also sets in operation the
mechanism for exploding the inner
shells. These small shells are provid
ed with a tail which causes them to
fall point downward and on striking
the ground they are exploded by the
blow driving a small plunger against
a percussion cap. In the event the
shells strike in the mud or extremely
soft ground so that the plunger fails
to explode the shell a time fuse de
\ ice insures Us explosion.
This shell is expected to make
trem-li warfare impracticable, being
far more destructive in its effects
than the ordinary shrapnel, in that
when the range has once been estab
lished (he small shells can be dropped
into the trenches in numbers, explod
ing in the trenches and making their
occupation untenable. The shell also
has a great advantage over the much
used and deadly weapon of trench war
fare, the hand grenade, as it can be
used at any distance within the range
of modern cannon, whereas the limit
of |he ordinary grenade when thrown
by hand is but a few yards, but with
trench mortars a little over 500 yards.
Mr. Dowling has been to the states
recently with his model and drawings
and has submitted them to several
ordnance experts, who have pro
nounced the invention a great advance
over the present form or shrapnel
shell, and the firing device the most
simple and efficient yet submitted, lie
also submitted the model and draw
ings to agents of the warring Euro
pean nations, and has received a great
deal of encouragement from them, and
he has been requested to make a test
of tfit' sliell before them, which he
will arrange to do in the near future.
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SEWARD CITIZEN GETS A
SEVERE SENTENCE.
Robert Hangs, a resident of Seward,
wan yesterday tried before the U. S.
commissioner at that place for assault
and battery. lie was found guilty
and sentenced to imprisonment for
six months in the Valdez jail and to
pay a fine of $500.
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FAIRBANKS SAID TO BE
ALASKA’S LARGEST TOWN.
Doan's Directory of the United
States gives Fairbanks credit with be
log the largest town in Alaska. It is
listed with having a population of 4,
200, while Juneau’s population is given
as 1.820. Cordova haB 1,275 people;
noughts, 1,900; Ketchikan, 1,7S0;
Nome, 2,840; and Treadwell, 1,350. All
of the above figures were taken from
I loan's directory.
HAS INVENTED FLEXIBLE
WOODEN SOLED SHOE.
HUDAPEST, Aug. 24. — Bams S
Kohlener, an Hungarian captain ol
cavalry, whose military usefulness tat
ended when he lost an arm. has de
voted himself since his incaoacitation
to inventing a wooden soled shoe thal
shall have the virtue of flexibility, and
announces that he has solved tub
NEW PRECINCTS CREATED
VALDEZ DISTRICT
New Precincts Created.
An order and notice of election cre
ating new precincts for the Valdez re
cording district has been isRued by
United States Commissioner Gove.
Owing to the taking into the city of
what was formerly known as the re
servation precinct, a complete revis
ion of the voting precincts was made
necessary.
Under the new order the following
precincts have been created: Gran
ny, Cliff, Teikell, Fllamar, Gandlock,
Granite, Gatouehe, Port Wells and Fl
dalgo. With the exception of the
Granby, Cliff and Fidalgo precinctR,
the remainder are the same as two
years ago, with the exception of the
Valdez voting precinct, which now con
tains a portion of what w-as then
known as the Reservation precinct.
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After spending several months in
the Broad Pass country, where they
have been doing assessment work, Dr.
K. Renter and brother, Charles Ren
ter, have arrived in Fairbanks. They
report that thev. together with a man
named Miller, from the coast, and
several others, have made the great
est quartz strike ever found in the
Interior. The strike is along Ohio
creek, and of such proportions that It
will he worked on a very large scale,
as soon as the railroad is constructed.
Dr. Renter states that the strike is
about seven miles from the railroad
and so located that it will be a simple
matter to haul freight from the rail
road. The ledges are exposed for
hundreds of feet and contain gold,
silver and lead.
Miller &■ Company, an outfit from
the coast, which has been working-in
the district for some time, have sunk
a shaft for a distance of 200 feet and
have been able to trace the same ledge
which appears on the surface.
Representatives of the Rockefeller
family are in the district now investi
gating some property which is owned
by Dr. J. II. Callie, of the coast.
There are about twenty men in the
district now prospecting and doing
assessment work. All are pleased
with the outlook for the district and
confident that there will be smelters,
a town and a good mining camp there.
SCHOFIELD FILES HIS
NOMINATING PETITION.
Advices received from Nome state
that the nominating petition of George
Schofield. Republican candidate for
territorial attorney general, has been
filed with the clerk of the court at
that place. This petition completes
the filings of all the territorial offi
cials. The petitions of Charles Al
Sulzer and Lena Morrow Lewis, the
Democratic and Socialist candidates
respectively for delegates to congress,
have been filed in Juneau, and that
of James Wiekersham, the I’rogres
sive Democratic candidate nominee at
Fairbanks. The petitions of George
i Grigsby, the Democratic candidate for
attorney general, and of George Scho
I field, the Republican candidate, have
been filed at Nome, and that of J.
H. Cobb, tile Progressive Democratic
candidate, at Juneau.
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RADIO IS IN OPERATION
NOW AT LATOUCHE
Advices received at the local cable
office this morning state that the Da
touche island radio station is now
open for commercial business. The
rate for ten word messages, via the
navy wireless station at Cordova is
$1.10, plus the regular rates from Cor
dova to destination. A night letter
service has been Instituted, but no
night rate on commercial messages.
COURT RENDERS DECISION
IN FAVOR PLAINTIFFS
The case of K. D. Ford and N. Drake
vs. Mike Martin and wife, has been
completed in the district court, Hnd a
decision rendered for the plaintiffs
for the construction of a house at
l.atouche insland, the amount claimed
being $124.28 for Ford, $149.90 for
Drake and $100 for attorney’s fees.
The defense set up that Ford has con
tracted to do the work for $100, and
that this amount had beeu tendered in
settlement, but refused.
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Joe Polloatrini was found guilty re
< ently of assault and buttery on the
person of Mrs. Petree, in the munici
pal court at Fairbanks, and was fined
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At Port Armstrong a great school of
whales is sporting and cavorting in
the clear, cold water and heading, as
It were, for the big rendering station.
Woe betide the unfortunate mammal
if he comes under the watchful eye
of the man behind the gun, for the
gunners on any one of the "star" whal
ers are as quick on the draw and trig
ger as the baddest man who ever
"shot up” Medicine Bend.
I’ort Armstrong is the summer
home of the United States Whaling
Company, it is a Norwegian concern,
very largely its owners and chief of
ficers being experienced Norwegian
whalers. The winter home of the
fleet is Seattle, and the general agent
is the well known firm of Balfour,
Guthrie a Co. The fleet consists of
the Star I, Star 11 and Star III, with
the usual outfit of small boats. At
Port Armstrong the plant is well
equipped and remarkable success has
attended the effort of the company to
establish there a large whaling indus
try.
Port Armstrong is on the Chatham
Strait side of Baranoff island, that
historic bit of land named for the
"Little Czar of the Pacific,” who many
years gone by ruled the mystical re- |
gion of the north front his castle above j ■
Sitka the Beautiful.
The station is about ten miles from
Cape Ommaney, the lower point of the i
island where it juts out into the broad :
Pacific.
The season is from May 1 to October j
1, and each year the fleet assembles
early for the campaign for bone, blub
her and oil. The vessels cruise some
:’,ii miles off shore, in the ocean from i
Ommaney to Kdgecombe, and some
times in Chatham strait, for, as at the j
hour of writing, great schools of the
valuable Bea animal come within har- '
pooning distance of the station itself.
The development of the United
States Whaling Company Is an inter
esting chapter of. the industrial up
building of Alaska, and is but one
more illustration of the vast riches j (
that are Included in the products of
he sea along the 26,0110 miles of coast j ;
line of that interesting territory. The |
waters abound in sperm, sulphur bot
tom, humpback and finback whale, the |
first beinK the most valuable. This ^
season the catch will be a great one; .
how great no whaler can predict, but j
in one season in the past upwards of')
300 whale were raptured, of which 72 ,
were sperm, whale.
Kach vessel is equipped with mod- \
ern harpoon guns, and each carries a
htef gunners and his assistants. All
the regular harpoon and boat equip
ment is also carried along, and if a
large school is encountered each
whale is pumped with air to make it
float while the fleet chases the others.
Hater the course is retraced and the
floating whales picked up and towed ^
to tlig station.
Here every modern facility is at
hand for cutting up the whale and ex
tracting oil, blubber, bone, etc. No
thing is wasted. The refuse is made
Into fertilizer, apd at the end of the
season the fleet returns to Seattle
loaded down with the oil in barrels j
and all the other products ready for !
shipment to the market.
Truly, this is a land, not only of big
mines and vast area, but of bij, whales j
and while more or less an infant indus- ,
try, the time is surely coming when ;
the Alaska whaling fleet will dominate I,
the world's market in that special in- j
duBtry.
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR
UNIVERSITY IS NAMED.
SEATTLE, Aug. 26. — Dr. William
Speldel, president of the Univer
sity of Washington Alumni Assoela
tlon, has anno meed the personnel of
his executive committee, which is to
have charge of alumni affairs the com-;
ing year under his direction. Those
flamed are: J. E. Chillier, ex-'87; Jas.
E. Gould, ’Sfi; Or. Walter Griswold.
Hit; Walter McLean, '05; Victor Zed
nick. ’07, and Nelson Hartson, ’12;
William A. Simnionds, ’12, executive
secretary.
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PROTECT THE BABIES.
Whooping cough cases must lie iso
lated for a period of five weeks from
the beginning of the disease — or
longer If the "whoop'' persists. Con
tacts who have had the disease will be
permitted to attend school. This dis
ease ranks third among the fatal dis
eases of children, and should lie given
serious consideration. Strict quaran
tine must be maintained in all cases
occurring outside the town limits as
well as within,
W. H. CHASE,
Asst. Health Com.
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Mlchelson <&. Currier Building.
FOR HOME COOKING.
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Fancy Pies, Cakes and Jellies.
Hot Waffles with Home-made
Jelly.
Home-made Bread.
Board by the Month.
MRS. SMITH—MRS. BURKE.
Proprietors.
INSURANCE
FIRE, MARINE, LIFE and ACCIDENT
Insure your property against fire in
reliable Insurance Companies,
We represent the Niagara. London,
Phoenix, Hartford, Northern, Globe
and Hutgers, and others; all strong
Board Companies.
We also represent the Maryland
Casualty Company, and Issue Fidelity
and Surety Bonds.
Northwestern Realty & Trust Co.
when in McCarthy
You Will Find Your
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lies! of Hand Work, (live l's
a Call.
TAILORING
CLEANING AND PRESSING.
Detmor's Woolens for Ladles' and
lents' Suitings. Prompt Attention to
leniodelling of Ladies' and Gents':
iuits. Reasonable Prices. Satisfac
Ion Guaranteed.
GRAVES & VAN.
•hone 130, Mickelson Building.
Sheldon Auto Stage
SERVICE,
CHITINA TO FAIRBANKS.
Starts June 15.
Cars Now Running Regularly.
Weekly Trips.
Fare $75.00.
40 Pounds Baggage Free.
Office: Chitina Hotel, Chitina,
Alaska.
FOR SALE
for $G,000, real estate with
a monthly income of $145,
besides a furnished cot
tage of five rooms. Inquire
at the Times office.
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FREIGHT
to haul to any part of the inter
ior inquire for
Mike Johnson
In cure of CHITIN'A CASH
STORE, Chltinu, Alaska.
Cor Sale Practically new Under
wood typewriter. Apply Box 271. 25-tt
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Good hunting and fishing. Also fish
and game for sale In season. Boats
for rent, good meals and beds. Rates
$2.50 per day.
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ALAGANICK, ALASKA.
Twenty Miles From Cordova.
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THE HOUSE OF COMFORT
THE BEST EQUIPPED HOTEL
IN ALASKA
Hot and Cold Water, Electric Bells, Electric
Lights, Steam Heat, Suites With Bath.
Bar in Connection
ROBERT GOTTSCHALK Proprlteor* ftRT CLONINGEK
CORDOVA, .... ALASKA
Sixty Steam Heated Rooms Eletric Lighted
Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
With or Without Bath.
Cordova House
H. C. ROSS, Proprietor.
Headquarters for Railroad and Mining Men
Satisfaction Guranteed
Rates Reasonable
The Lang Stove, born in Alaska.
Is the Stove for Alaskans.
Body made of Arrnco Rust-Resist
ing Iron.
Polished Cooking Surface.
Will hold fire overnight with wood
or coal.
Will burn green wood.
Ask your dealer for a Bang Stove.
If lie cannot supply you writ. us.
Our line is complete from the.
smallest I'iimp stove to the larg
est hotel range.
Any sounlouffh will tell you about tho
Lung Stove. They all know it.
F. S. LANG MFG. CO.
SEATTLE, WN.
TOOLS FOR THE TOILET
such as brushes of all Kind- combs,
nail polishers and malic are goods ul
1 ‘vorj (lesi riplinn should l>" high class
in order to gh e adequate ser\ ice. I hm
is the only Kind we handle No mat
ter what you buy here and how little
you pay for it. you ran rest assured
that no better article is to he had
. anywhere at any price.
Northern Drug Co.
MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION.
Foos Gas Engines
4 to 5.0 Horse Power
General Electric Motors
Roebling Tramways
Pelton Water Wheels
Chicago Oil Engines and Compressors
Regal Boat Engines
Harmon Machinery Co Inc
Oxy-Acetylene Welding.
CORDOVA. ALASKA
NORTHERN MEAT MARKET
WHOLESALE AMD RETAIL DEALERS IN
Fresh Heel, Pork, Veal, Mutton §
and Provisions
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