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(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Feb. 17. — Agrleultura
statistics for 1915 relating to Eng
land and Wales have just been is
sued by the board of agriculture. Thej
show why, apart from the grow inf
difficulty of obtaining supplies fron
overseas, special attention is devotee
to increasing the home production ol
certain food staples, more particular
ly wheat, potatoes and pigs.
The area under wheat in 1916 am
minted to 1,912,208 acres, being 257,
962 acres, or about 12 per cent, leap
than in the previous year. The area
under potatoes last year was 427,
946 acres, 35,451 acres below that o(
1915. The total number of pigs raised
was 2,167,941, a decline of 252,086, or
nearly 10 1-2 per cent ns compared
with the preceding year.
On the other hand, the total num
ber of cattle returned last year was
6,215,781, the largest number record
ed since returns were collected and
showing an increase of 151,627 over
the total of 1915. English people are
the greatest consumers of mutton in
the world, and it is satisfactory to
note that the total number last year
was 17,951,123, an increase of 428,
546 as compared with the preceding
year. The total number of horses on
agricultural holdings was 1,359,566, an
increase of five and a half per cent.
The total area of land in England
and Wales is 37,137,564 acres. Of this
11,051,101 were returned as arable
land, 16,022,983 acres as permanent
grass and 3,816,083 acres as mountain
and heath land used for grazing last
year. These figures indicate an in
crease of 85,394 acres of arable land
and a decrease of 64,410 in perma
nent grass, while rough grazings in
creased by 51,377 acres. The total
area returned as fare fallow in 1916
was 421,886 acres, or 112,247 acres in
excess of 1915.
It is to the large area of land now
devoted to permanent grass that Eng
land must look for the means of any
considerable increase in her food pro
ducts. Meanwhile everybody is urged
to raise potatoes, pigs or poultry in
his back yard.
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GERMANY FINDS
SUBSTITUTE
FORTIN
(By Associated Press)
BERLIN, Feb. 17. — German inven
tive genius, under pressure of Mother
Necessity, has been applied success
fully to the discovery of a solder with
practically no tin, a metal not found
in German,
Resort was first had to cadmium,
a metal of the zinc group, found in
large quantities in Germany, and an
excellent solder was produced from
80 per cent lead, 10 per oent cadmium
and only 10 per cent of the precious
tin. This, however, could not be
used for making and sealing cans for
preserving foodstuffs, as lead when
brought into contact with fruit or
other acids produces poisonous salts.
Chemists then remembered bismuth,
another metal found in large quanti
ties within the empire, and from cad
mium, bismuth and some other Ger
man metals a solder was produced
which Is non-poisonous and almost
free from tin. Since a fourth of the
21,000 tons of tin which Germany Im
ports and consumes annually In peace
time is used in making solder, the in
vention will go far toward solving
Germany’s war time tin problem,
which recently led the government to
decree a general confiscation of the
tin tops of beer mugs and steins.
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WORKS OF ART FIND AAANY
PURCHASERS
(Py Associated Press)
LONDON, Feb. 17. — The huge am
ount of money which seems to be
available for the purchase of works
of art ia England at the present time,
la attractlng. the..attejntiori.Q,f^treasury
officials. Competition for works ol
first, secondary and minor masters
is keen, with values soaring in price,
A large proportion of the purchases
are known to have been made on be
half of America, but in expert quar
ters it is believed that quite a propor
tion of the buying is being done or
German account. Belief is expressed
that from funds remaining in neutra
hands and even in this country, Ger
mans are anxious to make an invest
ment in works of art which can re
main here for realization after th<
war.
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The Harper Syndicate, which re
cently took over the Westlake inter
ests in the copper property at Moin
sound, have commenced operations 01
the property, and have installed ai
ore crusher and concentrating machin
ery. They are employing about fil
taen men.
i SPORTS
Gosilp About Event* of National
Importance and the Person*
Who Are In the Head
Liner Clasae*.
(By Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17. — Golf
( er.thussiasts of Portland, Oregon, are
In hopes their new municipal links will
be ready for play in August next.
Portland is among the last of the sis
terhood of the far western cities to
own a public course. Virtually every
community of considerable size on the
coast now is provided with either a
nine or eighteen hole course, and In
every Instance it is reported they are
either self supporting or bring in a
small margin of profit.
The new Portland municipal links
embraces 151 acres lying between the
main tracks of the Southern Pacific
railroad near Kastmoreland and Reed
college. The course was laid out by
Chandler Kagan, former national
champion. He has taken advantage
of the fact that Crystal lake lies al
most in the center of the tract, by
making of it what is considered one
of the best natural hazards to be
found among the coast courses.
Two of the holes, the twelfth and
seventeenth, are short mashie pitches
over arms of the lake, and another
hole, the fifty-ward thirteenth, crosses
an arm of the lake proper. There Is
an abundance of young timber growth
on this second nine and it should be
a most picturesque and perhaps vex
atious nine-hole recration grounds.
The second nine will be 2,992 yards
long so the entire course will measure
6,233 yards In length. As the Waver
ley course is 6,211 yards long, the
two will be practically the same*
length.
Spokane is provided with two muni
cipal links, while the sport has proved
so popular at Seattle that the city is
arranging to open another course
within the year.
The annual meeting of the Pacific
States Tennis Association met this
week, was one of the most momen
tous ever held by the far western ten
nis heads. It is considered signifi
cant that it has been set for a date
closely following the annual meeting
of the national organization on Febru
ary 9, and upon what action is taken
in the east will depend the action of
the coast organization.
The outstanding question which the
United States Association will en
deavor to settle concerns the status i
of an amateur, the proposed deflni- i
tion of which does not meet the ap- i
proval of the Pacific coast. In the
event that the east adopts as a rul- i
Ing the proposal that players who are i
connected with sporting goods houses i
in the capacity of salesmen must be
considered as professionals, it is pre- ■
dieted that in all likelihood the coast
association will revolt.
Just what action will be taken still
is a matter of conjecture. A spirited
fight has already been made to defeat
the amendments, but if they should
happen to go through, It may come
about that the local leaders will start
another fight.
The proposition of launching an
other inter-club league and the classi
fication of Pacific coast players also
will be taken up.
That the favorable Impression mad<
on the San Francisco sporting publlt
by the two recent Santel-T/Cwls wrest
ling matches Is likely to be nullified
if the promoters begin to try and
stage unequal or unattractive matcher
between the better events Is the crltl
clsm being made both by the sporting
writers and the general public.
Ad Santel the Pacific coast heavy
weight champion, Is matched to wres
tie Kd Stetcher of Nebraska, on Feb
ruary 22. and In the meantime Pro
moter Frank Schuler apparently is
trying to put Santel up against what
generally Is considered to be infer
ior talent It is only since profes
sional boxing was legislated out of
the state that wrestling has been ac
corded another trial by the local pub
lic after a long porlod of time, during
which It found no favor.
With the sport virtually as yet on
trial, It Is generally believed a poor
match or a misstep on the part of
either the promoter of the wrestlers
would again give the game a setback
from which It would find difficulty in
recovering.
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PRINCESS TIKES
INTEREST IN
(By Associated Press)
ORPINGTON, Eng., Feb. 17. — The
Princess Patricia of Connaught and
Mrs. John Astor, the first wife of the
late Colonel John Jacob Astor, are
among the teachers In the new manu
al training department at the Ontario
Military Hospital here. The princess
Is a specialist in the use of chintz,
and has taught a number of men me
thods of using this material for the
manufacture of decorative lamp
shades and similar smaller articles.
Mrs. Astor has a class in wood carv
ing, her specialty being photograph
frames.
Princess Patricia visits the hospital
avery Thursday, usually bringing with
ler an assortment of bright colored
chintz which she has collected at
various places during the week. For
he use of the wounded men It is es
lential that the fabric be especially
;hosen for the definiteness of their
leslgn and the ease with which a con
valescent man can manipulate the
naterial and select the special fea
ures In its design which pleases him
nost.
The medical staff naturally welcome
hese occupations for the long dull
layB. They keep the men from brood
ng over their pain.
The hospital was founded by the
"fanadlan government about nine
nonths ago, and now has about
i thousand patients.
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John Strom, an employee on the
government railroad at Seward, was
:aken into custody at that place re
cently and will be examined as to his
sanity. Strom has a brother in the
Iditarod, and is suffering from the de
lusion that his brother was recently
in Seward and engaged in a fight with
mother man. using a knife.
.[BIRTH HE IS
DECREASED
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Feb. 17. — Not only Is
the nation's man power being reduced
on foreign battlefields, but the war
strain to the people at home Is killing
many men and women, says one of
the government's investigating bod
ies in its latest report on the birth
rate.
In the year in which the war began,
the report shows, there were 362,364
more births than deaths in England
and Wales. In 1916 the excess of
births over deaths was only 252,201.
There were 64,569 fewer births and
45,584 more deaths in 1916 than in
1914.
"The reduction In the number of
births,” says the report, "emphasizes
the importance of saving child life
and of Improving the health of all sur
vivors. There is no insuperable diffi
culty in reducing the total deaths in
childhood to one-half their present
number. In 1915, 98,447 infants died
in their first year after birth, and 55,
607 died at the ages of one to five.
The tuberculosis work of local au
thorities, the report says, has been
greatly restricted by the war, and It
adds that one of the most urgent of
after war problems will be to secure
the early resumption and extension of
this work.
Owney McFadden, Carl Anderson,
Jim Higgins, Pete Peterson and John
H. Thompson, until recently employees
of the Pueblo mine, near Whitehorse,
have taken a lease with option to
purchase, on the Empress of India
copper claims in that district, belong
ing to Miss Katherine Ryan, and will
commence development work on the
claims at once.
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The registration book of the town
of Cordova is now open at my office
at the Postoffice store. Second street,
Cordova, at all hours during the day
and evening. The registration book
will be closed at 4 o’clock p. m. Sat
urday, March 31, 1917.
CHAS. M. ROSSWOG, Registrar.
IN THE U. S. COMMISSIONER'S
COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF
ALASKA, THIRD DIVISION, COR
DOVA PRECINCT.
In the Matter of the Estate of A. B.
Cooper, Deceased.
NOTICE TO CEREDITORS.
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed, administrator of the estate of
A. B. Cooper, deceased, to the credit
ors of, and ail persons having claims
against, the said deceased to exhibit
them, with the necessary vouchers,
within six months after the first pub
lication of this notice, to the said ad
ministrator. at C. M. Frazier’s office
In the Town of Cordova, Territory of
Alaska, the same being the place for
the transaction of business of said
estate.
Dated February 6, 1916.
W. J. SHEPHARD.
Administrator of the Estate of A. B.
Cooper, Deceased.
First publication February 6, 1917.
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