SHORT STORIES
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James Anderson and Louis Bour
vette were the first stakers in the
Mayo district, following the big dis
covery there.
Mrs. E. A. Wert a pioneer of Daw
son, recently passed away in Seattle,
following an operation for an ailment
of long standing.
Ford trucks are being purchased
by the natives at Metlakatla, to be
used in connection with the native
store and sawmill at that place.
Miss Claire Schwartz of Spokane
has been elected teacher for the pub
lic school at Seward to take the place
vacated by Miss Mary Baen Wright.
The steamship Burgel will make
Seward her home port in the future,
B instead of Kodiak, making one trip
a month to the westward and Bristol
bay points. k
Two automobile parties recently
left Dawson for Whitehorse, going up
the Yukon river to Carmacks. The
trip is expected to take about two and
one-half days.
The Juneau Empire is authority
for the statement that the towns of
southeastern Alaska are in a flour
ishing condition this year, owing to
the late run of fish which is swamp
ing the canneries.
Ensign Kerr of the Salvation army
is in the territory making a drive to
raise a fund for war work. The Sal
vation army has the earnest thanks
of thousands of parents for the good
work done by the organization in
France.
The Dawson News recently pub
lished a list of men from the Yukon
district who served under the colors
in the late war. The list is a long
one and shows many casualties. The
Yukoners were among the finest of
the allied troops.
The Dawson News is authority for
the statement that the Richardson
road route to the coast is attracting
considerable attention among the Yu
koners desiring to reach the coast
and a number have taken this route
Outside this year.
^ About half the midnight sun ex
cursionists this year left the boat at
the Tanana and went over the Rich
ardson road to the coast. This trip
promises to be a popular one in com
ing years, as tourists see both the
Yukon district and the Interior camps.
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Peter Vachon, the Eagle man who
was arrested for attempting to ship
skins Outside by mail, has been re
leased on $3,000 bond and has gone
Outside. Yashon, it is alleged, had
a number of beaver and marten skins,
the killing of which is prohibited by
law.
Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Johnson of
Fairbanks, who are in the States, are
having some difficulty in the settle
ment of their Alaskan and Washing
ton interests and have taken the mat
ter into court. Johnson is suing his
wife for property he deeded her sev
eral years ago.
An exchange says that men are
hunting mosquitoes in the Interior
for the ivory in their bills. They fly
down out of the trees, bite a piece out
of a man’s leg and fly back to the
trees to eat it. They have become
a serious menace to babies and pup
pies.
B. W. Gaither of Hartford, Conn,
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recently arrived at Eagle, where h(
will take the place of Bishop Burgess
as lay missionary under Bishop Rowe
of the Episcopal church. He was re
cently discharged from the army am
will devote his life to missionary worl
among the natives.
An unknown man was drowned ii
the Koyukuk river, according to th<
captain of the steamer Reliance wh<
says the man was washed off his fee
•while trying to ford the stream am
never came to the surface again. Hi
was loaded with a heavy pack whicl
held him down. The victim was ei
route to the Chandlar country at thi
time of the accident.
The fishing boat Olive of the Hid
din inlet cannery, was swamped re
* cently by having too much fisl
aboard. The Olive had been loade
to the plimsol line owing to the cai
tain expecting to meet the canner
tender. The tender was delayed an
the Olive started for the cannen
The boat began sinking and was thei
beached by the captain, after the bi
seine and other articles had bee
jettisoned to relieve the boat of its
weight.
About thirty ex-service men have
formed a branch of the American Le
gion at Juneau with others joining
rapidly. This organization promises
to become a powerful political organ
ization in the near future. The new
chapter was named the Bradford
post, in honor of Lieutenant Brad
ford, a former Juneau man, who was
killed in France.
W. W. Flynn at Mile 21 on the
Alaska government railroad recently
had an exciting experience with a cow
moose and her calf. He was riding
on a handcar and came round a curve
onto the moose and her calf. The
cow charged him and leaped upon the
handcar. Mr. Flynn found the car
was not large enough for both him
and the moose and sprinted for a tel
egraph pole with the enraged moose
tickling his neck with her whiskers.
The animal was too close to try to
climb the pole, and after dodging
about for some time some dogs near
by drew the animal’s charge and Mr.
Flynn again hit the handcar, with
the moose in pursuit. Rounding a
curve a number of section hands were
encountered who charged in mass
formation rescuing Mr. Flynn from
a serious predicament.
MODEL SUBURBS TO
RELIEVE CONGESTED CITY
LONDON, Aug. 23 (Correspondence
of Associated Press).—Millions of
pounds are to be spent in the creation
of a system of industrial garden cities
which ultimately will rim metropoli
tan London. The scheme, just out
lined, is the most elaborate city
building project ever undertaken in
England, and is an adaptation of the
model industrial towm idea originated
some years ago in the United States.
Building on the first of these
“flow^er garden” suburb cities is to
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begin next year north of London, ac
cording to newspaper announcements.
The town will be self-supporting and
will cover several thousand acres.
Within its precincts will be an agri
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cultural area. Its populace will be
supported by several engineering in
dustries to be located there.
The project is an attempt not only
to solve London’s housing problem
which has become a grievous one, but
to prevent overwhelming congestion
of the city’s industries and other com
mercial activities.
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COURT AT LEAST CONSISTENT
Judge Remitted Fine When He Com
mitted Indiscretion for Which
He Punished Lawyer.
Our famous president, Abraham Lin
coln. during his early career as a law
yer, traveled a circuit in Illinois. Judge
David Davis and Lincoln were close
friends, says the author of “Lincoln’s
Own Stories,” and the judge always
showed a keen appreciation of Lin
coln’s stories.
“I was never fined but once for con
tempt of court,” said a man who was
a clerk of court in Lincoln’s day.
“Davis fined me five dollars. Mr.
Lincoln had just come in, and, leaning
over my desk, had told me a story so
irresistibly funny that I broke out in
a loud laugh. The judge called me to
order, saying—
“ ‘This must be stopped. Mr. Lin
coln, you are constantly disturbing
lids court with your stories.’
“Then he said to me:
“ ‘You may fine yourself five dollars.’
“I apologized to the court, but told
the judge that the story was worth the
money. Shortly afterwards the judge
called me to him.
“ ‘What was that story Lincoln told
to you?” he asked.
“I told him, and he laughed aloud, in
spite of himself.
“ ‘Remit your fine!’ he ordered.”
Skeletons of Extinct Bird.
Of the ten known existing skeletons
of the great auk in the world, the
United States is the only country pos
sessing two. Greater Boston has these,
one being in the museum of the Bos
ton Society of Natural History and
the other in the Harvard university
museum.
The Boston museum contains also
an egg of this extinct bird. In view
of the fact that a single egg has
brought as high as $535, this is con
sidered a most valuable relic.
This flightless sea-bird formerly was
distributed along the northern coasts
and islands of North America. In its
coat of sober coloring with a vest of
sin y white it resembled nothing so
much as a short man in evening dress.
Since it was flightless, the bird was
easily exterminated, the natives relish
| ing it as a food. It probably was I
wholly exterminated by 1S44. j
Ancient Batt'.e Standards.
It is probable that the first -flag was
carried by the Saracens in their bat
tles with the Crusaders, the latter
adopting the idea, which thus spread
over Europe. Long before that there
; had been national standards, however,
| as the ancient Egyptians carried be
fore their hosts the figure of a sacred
animal on a spear. A stuffed cat im
paled on a stick was the forerunner of
| the banners now used. In the days of
the old Persian empire a blacksmith’s
apron was carried aloft at the head
of the army, while the standard of
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