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RESOURCES OVER ' | 1 J A MUTUAL
TWO MILLION / SAVINGS
DOLLARS J5L SOCIETY
The Modern Way of Saving
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NOTICE TO WATER CONSUMERS
This Company has spared neither time
nor expense to give Cordova a continuous
WATER SUPPLY. To do this the Company
must have your co-operation to stop the waste
that occurs from letting the water run to avoid
freezing the pipes. Where we find this con
dition still to exist we shall SHUT OFF THE
WATER for the winter without further notice.
ALASKA PUBLIC UTILITIES
First Street Phone 13
STEVENSON HAD
PENCHANT FOR
GHOST STORIES
PAPETEE, Island of Tahiti Jan. 2
(Correspondence of the Associated
Press).—There Is living toda/ in Pa
pee<e an old man known as Donat,
and in no heart among the many who
^orc honored by the friendship of
Robert Louis Stevenson is the ro
manticist's memory more reverently
eiiLhrined than in the heart of I onat.
Donat, a half-cast gentleman, was
immortalized by Stevenson’s “In The
South Seas,” wherein the autno.* de
’cribes the b lord-curdling ghost
stories of the Paumotus recounted to
him by Donat. The many kindnesses
shown Stevenson at Fakarava by Do
ust made the latter an object of af
fectionate remembrance throughout
the author's si.bsecuent life.
Together they passed a month at
Fakarava. Stevenson, wearied by
the long voyage through the Marques
sas islands, had rented a house in
order to rest ashore for a season.
Donat, in the temporary absence of
the administrator of the Tauniotus,
was in charge of the affairs of the gov
ernment house nearby. In the grounds
of the latter was the only vegetable
garden on the island. Many tons of
soil had been brought from Tahiti to
make it productive as the natural
formation of all the Paumotu islands
is coral, sand and nibble.
Donat knew that nothing could be
more welcome to a white man after
months of sea fare than such produce
as the garden afforded. Accordingly,
every morning at 8 o’clock, a great
basket of fresh vegetables and drink
ing cocoanuts would arrive at the
Stevenson house, and later in the day
Stevenson would go over to the gov
ernment house to give thanks and
stay for a chat—and so the friendship
began.
“Ah, that was a fine man," says
Donat, “so kind, so gentle, so gra
cious to everybody. He was a true
democrat.” Nothing more delights
the old gentleman than to talk of his
gentle friend, and the days when they
were together.
Often he talks of ghosts, for Donat
believes in ghosts. Indeed he has
planned again and again with the cor
respondent of the Associated Press
that they go together to that cave in
Haamuta valley where, on a certain
night of the year, the shades of nat
ives of the long ago sing and dance
to the music of ancient magic flutes
which are said to be deposited there.
But, for one reason or another, the
trip never has been made, but Donat
still will tell his folk-lore tales, as he
says he did to Stevenson, who would
listen for hours with his great, black
eyes glistening with excitement as
the weird yarns were being spun.
But it is of Stevenson that Donat
most loves to talk. He gives an inti
mate picture of Stevenson’s simple life
at Fakarava—of his rambles on the
beach and through the cocoanut
groves while clad only In his pajamas,
barefooted and a great palm leaf hat
on his head. He tells of Stevenson’s
kindly Intercourse with the natives,
whom he likened to the gods of
Greece. Stevenson writes of these
things of a dead past. Donat is the
living voice of that past, and Steven
son’s companion through It all.
The day the "Casco” sailed for Ta
hiti Stevenson had Donat aboard for
dinner. When the repast was over
the author drew from his Unger a
handsome diamond ring and, handing
it to Donat, begged him to accept it
as a souvenir of their friendship. Do
nat demurred and asked for a keep
sake more modest. The tears sprang
Into Stevenson’s eyes and, going to
his cabin, he returned with a ring of
lesser value which Donat accepted,
and they parted.
So Stevenson sailed away over the
western horizon, leaving behind him
in the heart of Donat a memory and a
pride of friendship that have been
cherished as precious possessions
through these many years. Tears
come into the eyes of Donat when he
speaks of Stevenson.
“Ah, he was a good man—a great
gentleman,” says Donat.
LABOR IN ENGLAND
GETS INCREASED WAGES
LONDON, Jan. 2 (by mail).—The
steady rise in wage rates and the
recognition of the eight-hour day for
railway workers and the engineering
industry has been the outstanding
feature of the industrial year, says a
labor correspondent of the Yorkshire
Post.
The advance of wages of fifteen
principal industries from January to
November 30, affecting 5,557,000
workers, totals 2,138,300 pounds
weekly. In addition, advances have
been granted to other workers, mak
ing a net increase of 3,000,000 pounds
weekly or 156,000,000 pounds a year.
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NOME’S SEVERE WEATHER
DISASTROUS TO TRAVELERS
Wireless reports from Nome and
Seward peninsula report the present
winter a record one for cold weather.
During the greater part of January
the temperature in Nome averaged 40
degrees below zero, the lowest re
corded being 57 degres blow zero.
Similar weather has been reported
from nearly every point on the penin
sula.
Severe storms have prevented
travel to the Teller district, north of
Nome, for the past month. One man,
John Hengess, who essayed to make
the trip to Cape Prince of Wales, got
lost on the trail, and finally arrived
at Lost river with but half his dogs,
the rest of the team having succumbed
to the cold. B. Neilly, also bound
from Nome to the Cape, with supplies
for the natives, lost most of his dog
team of fifteen near Cape Wooley.
After two days spent in a sleeping
bag under the snow, Neilly escaped
with frozen hands and feet.
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MEXICO’S OIL PRODUCTION
SHORT OF POSSIBILITIES
MEXICO CITY, Jar;, 17 (by mail).—
Mexico produced in 1918 a total of
58,156,239 barrels of petroleum, ac
cording to official announcement,
which adds that this is only a frac
tion of the potential production of the
Helds. The daily potential production
is estimated at 1,422,626 barrels.
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