Collector of Customs Pugh is ni ^>ty
proud of the record Alaska Is in iking
In the matter of commerce with the
States. Me declares that tli nine
month period Just closed. c< pared
with the same period for tic year
1913 shows a handsome Incron e both
in exports and imports to A >skn.
A glance through the records of
“Commerce Hetween the 11. i- and i s
Non-Contiguous Territory," scloses
some interesting figures. T month
ly summary of foreign con nerce be
tween the United States Mil Alaska
for the nine-month period railing Sept.
30 Inst shows that fhere v -htppe*
into Alaska goods to the val te of $18,
392,340, while fish, copper ores and
other goods to the amount of $14,
5.5,304, and gold to the \ ue of $10
710,989 was shipped to th< States. For
the same period In 1914 \laska re
ceived from the States g ods to the
value of $17,923,064 and shipped out
fish, copper ores and other goods
amount of $11,435,097.
This floes not take Int ( count for
the year 1914 the ret. >fng three
months which will show tremendous
increase in the exports i '-->m the Ter
ritory, especially in the aiue of the
fishing product*, which -as not com
puted at the time tli record was
made. The imports to AJ. ;ka for both
1913 and 1914 have eragcd about tin
same. The heavie items in imports
morn ctrnotiirnl m ‘ llu TT1 Ofl t S
dairy products nnd gonreal provisions
For each of these years manufactured
iron steel to the value of $4,000,
000 was imported, and for eacti year
meat and dairy products to the value
of $2,000,000 were imported; oils to
the value of $100,000; these being the
principal items eroc- clothing, cer
eals and staple grocer which do not
run Into large figur- The large
amount of structural ou and steel,
and manufactured in , and steel, is
amount of machinery l mining upor
accounted for by t tremendous
ations and for new indu ial construe
tion work. The oils, of urse, accen
tuate the importance tile fishing
fleets which consume 1. o quantities.
The meats and dairy p m- .- hipped
into this country indii the i>overty
of such industries wi the Terri
tory.
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PUNS LONG TRIP
IN OPEN MOTOR BOUT
William Stoneman, one of Idita
rod’s "gasoline kids," is planning a
unique and perilous trip lor the com
ing summer, incidental to a visit to
the world’s fair at San Francisco.
He proposes this win er to build ou
open boat, shallow but staunch, and
equip it with a powerful gasoline
engine. With this craft it is liis
intention to start from the Mitarod
on the opening of navigation in the
spring, proceeding to the mouth ol
the Yukon, whence he will tart on
a sea voyage to San Francisco Cross
ing Bering Sea to Unimak i ss, lie
will proceed from there d> i the
coast of Alaska, following :lt jK
known as the inside passage h'rom
Cape Flattery southward to Col
den Gate city will be the mot irdu
ous part of the voyage, hut B ex
presses confidence that ho wil
tiate the perilous trip with lie dis
comfort. He expects to s|> nd
most of the summer on 1., to go.
GEORGESON SELLS PART
OF GALLOWAY HE D
Professor C. C. Georgeson, head ot
the government agricultural expire
ment stations in Alaska, was tacts
ful in selling the Galloway cattle I
longing to the herd which was left
In the states at the time of the round
up because they had strayed aw..;,
and could not be found at the tim.
The choicest of the herd will contlnui
to breed oil the government farm,
of Kodiak island.
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FAIRBANKS CONTRIBUTES
TO THE RED CROSS FUNC
At Fairbanks f)htV efforts of th<
committee in charge of the raising o
funds for the Red Cross work ii
Europe, resulted in the tidy sum o
$650 being gathered for the work.
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One mnrt approach Cracow, as thf
Rusrinns now do, from the eastward
In order to set n proper impression
of the Polls h capital, now in the
i melancholy ’.unset of it" proud and
pleadld part. It is from the east
Hint one sees the multitude of towers
’id turrets, steeples and domes of
'meow, and sees them untarnished
y the network of narrow, tortuous
in! dirty streets which characterize
the city that was Mie glory of the
Polish kingdom when it was thp rival
of Russia n -.d Prussia.
In Crocow lived, Kasimir the Great,
11 he author of the eeleiirated edict of
‘ "derancp to the Jews In the fourteen
th century which fused Poland and
Lithuania. And here too, in 1562, the
fa'ai mistake was made by King Sign
mund of granting to Albreneht, of
P.randenberg, the Duchy of Prussia In
perpetual flef-that Duchy which in the
course of time grew to be the Prus
sia of Frederick the Great, the grave
digger of Poland. Although the capi
tal was removed to Warsaw In lfiOO,
he kings continued to be crowned
in Crocow and hurled in the Cracow
Kntedra, the cathedral which still sur
vives.
Back to Ninth Century.
Legend attributed the orgin of the
city to the Slav Sagas, Krakus, who
lived in the ninth century. Legend
ells, of hi s' beautiful daughter, Wanda
who was driven by the Importunity of
her numerous suitors to such despair
ps to throw herself into the Vistula.
or s>in it is that in the eleventh cen
’ury, Cracow, on the cross roads from
lisrce seas and four great rivers, en
jo od prosperity. It counted nmong
its bishops the martyr Stanislas, sub
sequently canonized by the Roman
Church, who had been slain before the
r.llar by King Bolesias the Great.
For three centuries during the feu
.in period it parsed from hand to
hand, now captured by the Germans,
no v sacked by the Tartars and again
seized by the Bohemians. Casimir
the Great was its greatest leader,
founding in 1364, the university which
two centuries ago, was to become one
of the seats of mumanism and the
arena of long battles between the Je
suits and the numerous students. At
hat time Cracow had a population of
100,000 and traded with all Europe,
including England. The city receiv
ed a mortal blow when the capital
was transferred to Warsaw.
In 10" Charles Gustavius of Swe
den sacked Cracow, disarmed Its citi
zens, destroyed the schools and
churches, and excated a heavy tri
bute. No sooner had he gone than
the Transylvania prince, the famous
Prince Bakoczy, came and completed
the work of devastation.
Plundered and Burned.
Again, in 1702, Charles XII., of
Sweden, suffering defeat on Cracow by
wrecked his vengeance on Cracow by
1 fundering and burning it. Russia
and Prussia were already on Poland's
track, and the so-called confederation
of the Bar, with Its seat, at Cracow,
was. found to offer resistance. But
Suvaroff took Crocow by storm in
1772. Twice was Poland partioned,
and then came Ihe great rising under
Kosciusko in 1794, which brought
the end of Poland. Cracow was pil
laged by the Austrians and Prussians
land the latter carried off the contents
of the royal treasury.
Cracow now became an Austrian
.city, hut with the restoration of Uni
Duchy of Warsaw, by Napoleon it was
of Vienna it was made an independent
state, but in 1864, Austria attacked
and annexed the little Republic
against tlie protests of England and
France.
Since that time the city has beei
turned into a fortress. The royal pat
ace is a military barracks and th<
university a German school, although
in -870. its Polish character was re
stored. *
The Russians will find it a diffleul
■ily to take, for there are two belti
of forts guarding it, one thirty, thi
other twelve miles in circumference
Mid barracks and depots without num
i! bir.
Skagway Generous,
dkagway’s Thanksgiving offering t
Red Cross society for the sufferin;
people of Belgium was $859.
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