NEW YORK, July 23— Mike Gib
bons, middle*‘tight, has reached vir
tually the same stage of operation
as where Johnny Kilbane stands.
These two master of their art are
practically out for the same fight. For
a lack of feathedweights of class, Kil
bane is being forced to take on the
light weights.
Gibbons, out of classy middle
weights is forced to just sit around,
for there are really few light heavies
who look attractive when compared to
Mike.
Mike's inaction, however, is far
from pleasing to the fistic public, al
though recognizing the fact that Gib
bons stands out over many would
be rivals, the fans would like to see
the St. Paul ghost take one moro fling
et the top-notchers. Jimmy flabby is
has beens and Jeff Smith insists he
can and always could whip Mike.
However, the most insistent critic
cries for attention from Gibbons are
coming just now from Soldier Bart
field, Ted Lewis and Mike Lord.
Lewis, a welterweight, has given
Gibbons one tough argument, and
Hartfield holds a newspaper decision
over the man that is recognized as
King of the middlewelghts. O'Dowd j
is a graduate of the Gibbons school
and is recognized as one of the best
men that the welterweight class has
seen In many a day.
Any of these trio of welters
would give Mike an argument—a hot
one. And then, if he could induce A1
McCoy to get into the ring with him
here would be another bout of more or
less possibilities. A1 is not a champion
and never has been, but he manages
to hang on to what little clai mhe has
on the title. Until he is soundly thra
Bhed by Gibbons or some one else he
will lay claims to championship and
some folks will believe him.
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nnc.n a i t«P, I IN M l-MOIV H
REACHED *48 A POUND
The highest price ever known to
he paid for steak was at Circle City,
Alaska, a town that sprung up al
most in the night during the Klon
dike gold excitement. The first steak
to reach there sold for *48 a pound
It waB a ten-pound steak and was
such a curiosoty that the miners all
turned out in a body to see It.
Of course every one who wanted a
piece of the precious meat and the
prices offered might have resulted
in a general mining camp quarrel
had not some one thought of raffling
the steak for the benefit of a hos
pital which a bishop was trying to
establish for the miners at Circle
City. Bids started at *5 a pound
and rose quickly to *35. At last.
In order to avoid posible trouble,
it was decided to sell tickets at
prices ranging from 50c to *2.50 for
the privilege of drawing a slice. Af
ter *480 worth of tickets had been
sold the drawing began, and to the
relief of those in charge of the enter
prise, no serious consequences re
sulted.—Spokane Chronical.
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Mra Olaf Arness haB purchased
the P. C. and N. C. Company saw mill
at Wrangell. This is the largest saw
mill in Alaska. The present equip
ment has a capacity of 35,000 feet per
day. This can, however, be doubled
at small cost. Mr. Arness will start
work of reparing and overhauling ma
chinery immediately.
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Plans have been completed for a
three story brick hotel, apartment and
store building 66 by 80 feet for the
Reward Apartment, Hotel, Light and
Heating Company at Seward. It is
proposed to use brick from the plant
of the newly organized Seward Brick
and Tile Company In the construction
of the building.
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The Panama Pacific Commercial
Company of Sitka, is completing a
plan for a pack of 10,000 barrels of
fish during the season.
INF HARDSHIPS
PALESTINE
MKMTOUKNK. Australia. July 23—
Hardships and discomforts of the
British campaign in Palestine and
Mesopotamia are the themes of many
letters written by Australian soldiers
serving under the command of Sir
Archibald Murray in Palestine or Ma
jor General Maude in Mesopotamia.
"If you want to see a muddle you
ought to see a camel convoy under
shell fire", writes one man from the
vicinity of Gaza in southern Pales
tine.” "The natives who lead the
camels run away at the first shot and
then the white men try to induce, by
nil the profanity they can muster,
those camels to horry out of range or
under the cover of a hill. All the
time good lives are being lost trying
to save the convoy, which perhaps
lias the water supply for thousands
if men in the firing line."
HUS! llPill lint) (Tinc.nrn
worst plagues of Mesopotamia front
he soldier's standpoint, writes one of
the privates who suffered from thorn.
'To you,” he adds, "the flies would lie
quiet Inconceivable. They settle nt
great clusters on everything. Some
:>f them can sting and bite severely.
With the coming of nightfall the or
dinary flies disappear and the mosqui
toes and sandflies take their place.
The sandfly is an insidious plague.
You have to wear a very fine suffo
cating mesh on your face and at night
you must spray thin acid over your
face to get any peace. The tempera
ture goes up from 110 to 142 degrees
in the shade. The morning’s work
being done you lie in your tent with
the flap up. Vou almost gasp for
breath. Anxiously you wait the going
down of the sun. You wear a toupee
ar a wet towel on your head. One
very rarely wears much clothing and
you lead the simple life. The heat
lakes all pride from you. You are
iust bathed In dust ami swot.
You can gut sunstroke through the
small of your back. The hot wind,
pad as it is. is better than the com
plete stillness, although it bounces off
Hardships and discomforts o fthe
he earth flinging sand and dust all ov
>r you. You eat sand and breath it;
,'ou lie in it; it's in your month, eyes,
pars and clothes. These things will
eave Mesopotamia burnt in your mem
pry for ever.
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