Summer Contest
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For Boys
The Times is going to give away
to the two best hustlers
in Cordova
Bicyclej
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A Gold Watch
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These two articles will be given away on July 30 to
the two boys having the largest number of votes to their
credit at G o’clock on that date. The boy having the
largest number of votes to his credit will be allowed his
choice of the articles.
The contest is open to all boys of 16 years and under. '
All who wish to enter the contest must first leave their
names at the Times office.
All that is necessary is for the contestants to see
their friends and acquaintances and get them to sub
scribe for the Times.
This will entitle them to a specified number of votes,
which will be credited to them. Mail subscribers count
the same as those in Cordova .which is as follows:
New subscribers, one month. 50 votes
New subscribers, six months. 500 votes
New subscribers, one year.2000 votes
Weekly subscriptions count one-fifth the number of
votes as the daily.
Present subscribers who pay in advance will be en
titled to one-half the number of votes as new subscribers.
All subscriptions must be paid in advance, and in order
to get the votes the money must accompany the order.
The subscription rates are:
One month.$ 1-00
Six months (in advance) . 5.00
One year (in advance) . 10.00
Circulation Manager, Times:
Enclosed please find $., advance pay
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period of.
Please place.votes to which I am
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ADDITIONAL NOTICE. \ * |
The Contest will be closed to entries at 6 o’clock the
afternoon of July 20. Any boys who yet wish to enter
the lists for a try for the watch may do so up to that time,
but thereafter the contest will be confined to the boys in
the running at that time. »
Get busy. All it needs is a little hustling.
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None of the boys yet have much of a start, and a good
brisk'campaign'will put any hustler‘in the“lead! “r"‘
WHERE LIE THE BURIED DEAD?
Every Alaskan of experience haa
read column* of strange stories told
of Alaska and conditions here, of
alleged performances and achevements
and hardships which stultify the Alas
ka they know, and which are told In
the public print* by writers who may
be never saw Alaska or who at least
have had but a coast-glance at the ter
ritory. Some times they are said to be
told by Sourdough friends visiting
outside, but the Sourdoughs always
deny telling such stories. At times
we must marvel at the strange man
ner of the country they are making
of our* In the outalde press, and at
times we also marvel that the tellers
of such stories can believe and re
peat such stories.
After twenty yeara In the north,
during which years we have traversed
every trail to here except the Dalton
trail — the Tesltr, White Pass, Chll
koot. Valdez and Chltlna. and negoti
ated every foot of water between Tes
llnk lake, Wrangell and Olenora, tbe
summit of the f'hllkoot, to the mouth
of the Tanana river In scows, small
boats and steamboats, at times with
some pain but mostly with much plea
sure — we are forever hearing stories
of those old trails In the days when
we knew them Intimately, and the
stories are nothing like the trails as
we knew them by actual experience.
W'e are able to make allowances for
credulity and faith and gullelessness
on the part of the writers who tell
a good story of the north at the ex
pense of the truth, for the truth spoils
many- a good story, hut we must ask
for further particulars, and one of
those times is when some new Alaskan
brings the stories to our home town
and tells them to our own home peo
ple as living truths.
In lecturing last Friday night upon
the past, present and future of Alaska,
Mrs. Hatcher confessed to only a
seven years' experience with Alaska,
and then told a story of Alaska of at
least seventeen years ago, and pro
bably no less than eighteen years ago.
She stated that when Alaska was
prohibition, the officers of the gov
ernment used to search the packs of
the mushers who were wearing their
vitality out in the attempt to climb
the Chilkoot, and used to take from
those parks the flasks of liquor they
found therein, as they considered the
use of liquor on the Chilkoot danger
ous to life and limb.
It Is probably unnecessary so far
as the oldtlmers are concerned, _ for
us to comment upon this story. Com
iraent might spoil it. Still, the living,
breathing days of the Chilkoot in its
glory of difficulty is so vivid In our
memory that we cannot get away from
the picture painted for us now of the
Chilkoot as ft waa then. We see
again in living memory the long line
of human beings in endless procession
slipping and panting and falling and
sweating and swearing and toiling
their way over the almost inaccessible
Chilkoot, Just as we met them on the
trail and saw them on the down grade
while they were coming up—saw them
far above; from a box sliding down
the aerial tramway towards Dyea. v\ e
met them on the summit, where wood
was five cents a pound, and there was
no fire to dry their wet clothes; met
them in the dining room at Sheep
Camp, and in the tents along the way.
We studied them and knew them as
they were; knew their point of view
of things that were and understood
and appreciated their feeling in the
matter. We saw from the Canadian
Hide of the Chllkoot the long line of
pack mules loaded each with two kegs
of whiskey which had come over the
Chiikoot on the tram, the train start
ing off along the slippery shelves
which formed the sides of the little
rivers and lakes on the way to Daw
son and the American Yukon. We did
not drink and did not want liquor, but
at no tent we stopped at was there
an absence of liquor, nor was a climb
er denied a drink if he wanted it or
needed it —and there was no drun
kenness while climbing the Chiikoot.
Again, we stood with hat off and
gazed upon the mounds where were
buried the dead men who were caught
in the great slide on the Chiikoot, as
well as the brave men who died from
one cause or another, from disease
or accident or intention, to a broken
heart, along the Chiikoot trail. Until
now we had believed that we knew
every monument on the Chiikoot trail,
be it a monument to the living or to
the dead or a monument of green and
beauty erected by the Master Hand In
the growing season. However, Mrs.
Hatcher's story of the Chllkoot opens
to us au avenue of knowledge hither
to closed to us, and as earnest seek
ers after knowledge we feel compelled
to aBk for one bit of further informa
tion, which Is the proof of the truth
of the story, and that is this;
"Where lie the remains of the reve
nue officers who opened the packs of
the Chiikoot mushers and took there
from the flask that might have been
and probably was therein?"
To our knowledge no marble shaft
or pine board marks such a spot on
the Dye* trail. To the knowledge of
every Alaskan Sourdough who knew
the trail in the early days, the con
ditions which governed Its ascent and
the manner of brave and determined
men who accomplished that ascent,
there would have been such mounds
had the story of Mrs. Hatcher been
lived In real life In the real days of
the Chllkoot Pass and the Dyea trail.
—Fairbanks News-Miner. It
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TOKIO, July 28. — The army con
scription examiners in session at a
town in the interior were astounded
recently when a young Japanese wo
man, dressed fashionably and carry
ing a parasol, walked into the office
and requested examination for mili
tary service. When the applicant ex
plained that "she” was a man and
not a woman, the examiners recalled
an old Japanese custom of concealing
sex, a custom which, as It afterward
appeared, the applicant was following.
Old-time tradition held that a phy
sically weak boy should be brought
up as a girl from the belief that the
child would thus escape the curse of
death. The boy was attired in fe
male costume and his hair was al
lowed to grow long like a girl’s.
Yasuklchl. the son of Kinzo Mishi
kawa, the army applicant, was brought
up under this tradition, which is fol
lowed now only in remote districts.
He learned to sew and to cook. He
entered a cotton mill at Osaka and
worked as a female operative. No
one suspected his real sex.
The examiners found the young
man of perfect physique and health,
and he has entered the army In man’s
clothes.
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WIRELESS TELEPHONE
THROUGH GROUND.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 28. — Dr. H.
Barringer Cox, known in the world
of electrical science as an inventive
genius, announced here today that he
had perfected a subterranean wire
less telephone, and that, incidentally,
he had discovered a new law of phy
sics — that electrical energy can be
transmitted over a single conductor, i
For the last five months Dr. Cox
has been working at Ia>s Olivos, Cal.,
with the United States forest service,
in an effort to perfect a system of
wireless signals for forest fires. It
was while so engaged, he said, that
he discovered the possibilities of
transmitting the human voice through
the ground. He will leave in a few
days for the east to obtain patents
and arrange for equipping the Califor
nia forest district with instruments.
The equipment consists of an ordin
ary telephone transmitter connected
with a battery and special Instrument
—Dr. Cox’s secret — with a ground
wire.
At the receiving station, five or fifty
miles away, is a similar equipment.
The only connection between the two
stations is the ground through which
travels the current carrying the voice
impulses.
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MEDALS FOR MUSIC.
LONDON, July 29. — Two Scotch
soldiers, who "at a critical moment
steadied the men by getting up on
the parapet of a trench and playing
mouth organs while exposed to hoavy
fire," have been given the distin
guished conduct medal. They are Com
pany Quartermaster Sergeant E. S.
Beech and Lance CorpornI Vickery, of
the Seventh battalion, Seaforth High
landers.
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Traveler (on Irish.railway) — Will
there be time to get a drink here,
guard?
Guard—Yes, sir; plenty of time.
Traveler — What guarantee have 1
that the train would not go without
me?
Guard (generously) — Oh, begorra!
I’ll go and have one along with you.
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