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SALMON ARE BEING
TAGGED LIKE AUTOS
PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 17.—Fish
can be trailed in their wanderings
around the oceans in a manner not
unlike police methods of tracing au
tomobiles by their license numbers,
according to Charles H. Gilber, pro
fessor of zoology at the Stanford Uni
versity.
Professor Gilbert explains that
“scales render a report on the bring
ing-up of the first as well as furnish
birth certificates and automatic age
reorders, and show the approxi
mate weight and seize at any time
during its past growth.”
A few scales are scraped from the
back of a salmon and stuck in a
book opposite a number. A small
aluminum tag bearing this number
is clamped on the fish’s tail and
it is thrown into the water. Under
Dr: Gilbert’s direction more than
10,000 salmon were tagged in this
manner last year.
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Laurentic’s Golden Cargo
Saved from Bottom of Sea
LONDON, Dec. 17—The task of
salving the gold on the Laurentic
has finally been completed, and 99
per cent, of the entire cargo has been
recovered.
Altogether 3,166 bars of gold have
been recovered by the divers from
the bed of the sea, and the Racer,
the salvage vessel that has been on
the scene of the wreck, summer af
ter summer, for the past six years,
will return there no more. Buried
several feet deep in sand and mud,
the remaining twenty-seven ingots
are considered out of reach.
The total value of goH recov
ered is 4,750,000 pounds. Besides
250,000 pounds worth of silver specie.
Never before has treasnre been
dragged from beneath the ocean
floor under such difficulties or in
such quantities.
Torpedoes by a German subma
rine in January, 1917, the Laurentic
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VALDEZ PIONEER
DIES IN TACOMA
“FATHER OF VALDEZ” SUCCUMBS
TO THE INFIRMITIES OF
AGE AT TACOMA.
Adam Swan, one of the earliest
arrivals at Valdez, and familiarly
known as the “Father of Valdez”
passed away at Tacoma last Monday,
says the Valdez Miner, from infirmi
ties of age. Mr. Swan went to the
States several months ago for med
ical and surgical treatment, having
been in poor health for some time.
At Tacoma he was operated upon
several times, and for a time appear
ed to be gaining, but later his illness
overpowered him and he gradually
became weaker until death called
him.
Mr. Swan was a firm believer in
the future of Alaska, and of Val
dez particularly. He never lost an
opportunity to boost for the land of
his adoption, and was ever in the
front of every movement for the bet
terment of the town and the Terri
tory. To all of the oldtimers of this
section the history of his coming to
Alaska is familiar through his writ
ings, which were published both here
and in the States, and the familiar
with his efforts to bring to the at
tention of the world the great resour
ces of the territory he loved so well.
No greater praise may be accorded
him that that he was a good citizen
in all trem implies.
Mr. Swan was born in Sweden
about 74 years ago, and came to
the United States as a young man,
residing first in Chicago, then in Den
ver and later in San Francisco, where
he lived at the time of the big rush
to Alaska in 1897, in which lie par
ticipated, arriving in Valdez in the
fall of 1897.
He is survived by several child
ren, Mrs. D. F. Millard of Valdez,
and several sons and daughters in
the states.
_a White Star liner of 14,900 tons,
acting as an auxiliary cruiser—sank
off the coast of Donegal, Ireland, in
ninety feet of water.
This occurred at a spot where the
full force of the Atlantic gales is felt,
parts of the vessel -were soon buried
under heavy accumulations of sand.
In 1920, two years after salvaging
was begun, it was reported that 250
tons of metal had settled over the
strongroom. Each separate piece of
that accumulation had to be hitched
into sling carried a considerable
distance and dropped into deep wa
ter.
That tedious process took nearly
the whole summer, and when work
stopped at the end of the season the
harvest was only seven stray bars
of gold.
But in 1922 the divers' luck
changed. The first man to descend
recovered nineteen bars of gold be
fore he had been down ten minutes;
and, in all, the catch that season was
more than 900 bars. This change in
fortune was brought about largely
by the use of Professor E. E.
Brookes’ gold-finder—an instrument
with a spear, which, when stuck into
the sea floor, registered the presence
of gold on the galvanometer.
The haul of 1923 was still better
and in April last, when the Racer
resumed her task, it was estimated
that only 154 bars of gold remained
to be picked up.
Since then 127 bars have been sent
safely to the Bank of England.
About a dozen of the most expert
naval divers have taken turns to
the sea floor. While the divers were
able to descend quickly to the wreck
and were in telephonic communica
tion with the surface during their
work, their emergence from the sea
was by very gradual stages, and the
ascent usually lasted thirty-three
minutes, with three long pauses on
the way.
Even then it was sometimes neces
sary to give them periods of rest in
a special compression chamber
aboard the Racer. But as they were
receiving half a crown—60 cents—
commission upon every 100 pounds
worth recovered, the divers were
usually eager to fulfill the whole of
their shifts.
Ladles’ and Gents’ Alfalfa Harvest
ing—O. K. Barber Shop. tf.
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A FEW XMAS
SUGGESTIONS
it
Hand Colored Alaska Scenes,
Ivory Curios, Indian Baskets,
Burnt or Beaded Moosehide Pillow Tops,
Alaska Birch Bark Xmas Cards,
Imported Perfumes, very select
Brunswick Phonographs and Radiolas,
Pyralin Ivory by the Piece or in Sets,
Sheaffer’s Lifetime Fountain Pens,
Manicure Sets in Leather Cases,
Highland Linen Stationery,
Fresh Candies in Fancy Boxes
Smokers' Articles, Meerschaum Pipes,
Cigars and Tobaccos in Xmas Packages,
Porcupine Quill Baskets and Canoes,
Ladies' and Gents' Genuine Leather
Purses,
Framed Pictures Packed Securely for
Mailing.
SCHALLERER’S
ALASKA SHOP
VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 17.—British
Columbia’s liquor bill, according to
returns from government stores was
$5,777,500 for the half year ending
September 30. This amount is said
to be the largest in the history of
liquor control in the province.
The previous six months which
contained the banner Christmas
trade, ran to $5,703,000.
MILK WITH A KICK TO IT
Yes, a genuine Jersey kick, the milk
that made the Durham’s jealous. Two
cans for 25c; fresh milk, a pint bot
tle for 20c. Don’t buy milk without a
kick or you lose and I lose. At the
Alaska Store. W. H. Dryden’s. tf
I
John White, who left Valdez re
cently for the States for medical
treatment, is in the hospital at
Bremerton, and is now on the road
to speedy recovery.
A sea lion will eat 40 salmon a day,
while boarders are forced to subsist
on 10 or 12 cans.
If your wife calls you a germ, look
at the dictionary. A germ is so small
a million of them could sit on the
point of a pin and still be lonely.
We know a man so stingy that he
has his wife visit relatives in the
states while he sits around the pool
hall stoves.
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from the
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