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Seldovia Fox Farmer
Departs for Interior
To Purchase Silvers
On his way to the Interior districts
to buy two or three pairs of silver
foxes, A. A. Burglin, who has been
conducting a fox ranch twelve miles
from Seldovia for the past year with
his partner, Louis Hooper, left Sew
ard yesterday morning. Mr. Burglin
said he expected to be gone for a
number of weeks and planned to're
turn to Seward in time to make con
nection with the next sailing of the
Starr in January.
At the present time the partners
have IS blue and silver foxes on their
farm. The progress made, thus far,
has been very good, Mr. Burglin said,
and he is confident within a few years
they will have a profitable industry.
They have a fine location in a small
bay, near enough to Seldovia so that
the isolation is never felt. Until his
entree into the fur farming business
Mr. Burglin owned and operated a
trading post in the Kuskokwim district
for 15 years. His partner, Hooper, is
also an old timer of the Interior where
he followed the mining game.
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Hurley Bringing Back
Fifteen-Ton Mill for
New Company, Nuka Bay
Dennis Hurley, general manager and
president of the Alaska Hills Mines
Company at Nuka Bay, who left Sew
ard Saturday on the Alaska, en route
to Sheldon, Wash., stated that upon
his return next March he was bring
ing back a fifteen ton Ellis Ball mill
for the Nuka Bay Mining Company,
which property is located near the
Alaska Hills Mines ground. The mill
was purchased through the local agent,
Nels Hagen.
The two companies mentioned are
two separate properties but Mr. Hur
ley is a stockholder in each. Opera
tions will resume in the Alaska Hills
Mines early in the spring and work of
installing the new mill on the Nuka
Bay Mining Company will begin upon
its arrival. The latter company is
owned entirely by local people and
has been pronounced as one of the
finest looking, claims in the entire dis
trict.
Miss Mary Larson, matron in charge
of an insane patient, who was brot to
Seward last week from the westward
left ofr Unga yesterday on the Starr.
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NEWS LETTER
FROM LONDON
LONDON, Dec. 8. (Jp)—‘The Lo
carno security treaty may go down
in history as having two fathers.
While in London Austen Chamber
lain, the foreign secretary, is given
the major credit for having engineer
ed the negotiations which culminated
in the agreement to be signed in
London Dec. 1, in Paris and else
where the continental newspapers in
sist on referring to Baron d’Abernon,
British ambassador to Berlin, as the
father of the pact.
Lord d’Abernon is credited with
having cooperated with the German
statesmen in the preliminary stages
of the security exchanges and with
having aided and urged Chancellor
I Luther, foreign minister Stressmann
and other leaders to do their utmost.
The French contend that this is
one of the British diplomat’s great
est achievemnets and that since it
is completed he will relinquish his
post after the formal signing and
retire to private life.
Always on the lookout for novelty
in fashions, Lond'an’s feminine popu
lation seems to be pleased by the
revival of a Victorian mode. This
is the wearing of mittens instead of
long sleeved gloves.
Women already have adopted mit
tens for theater going, anad the ab
sence of gloved finger tips makes
the handling of cigarettes less risky
than formerly. The modern mittens
are made of filmy lace or silk, in
tints that harmonize 'with the wear
er’s gown. Many of the more ex
pensive pairs are of gold or silver
thread with small precious stones
interwoven.
Oxford university has only 168
American students this year as com
pared with 203 last year and 266
in 1922. English educators have ex
pressed disappointment over the
steady decline in the American en
rollment, since they had hoped that
Anglo-American amity might he fur
ther developed through the presence
of large numbers of Americans in
English universities.
Oxford has failed completely to at
tract the type of American student
who was common in the German uni
versities before the war, partly be
cause of the costliness of an Ox
ford education and partly because
the university does not readily give
nor highly honor the degree of doc
tor of philosophy so much prized by
the American teaching profession.
Of the American students other
than the Rhodes scholars few re
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main at Oxford‘for the full course
of three years. Modern Oxford is
frankly disappointing to many Am
ericans for it is changing rapidly
from a small, quaint town to a large
and noisy one. The hand of the 19th
century fell heavily upon its herit
age of beauty and atmosphere and
the 20th is no kinder. The woods
and fields that a century ago lay
just beyond the college gates are
now laid out in monotonous brick
suburbs and great industrial plants
and in this dull wilderness of mod
ern buildings the university stands
as a tiny oasis of grey stone and
green gardens.
So many American antique hunt
ers have carried across the Atlantic
old fashioned English copper bed
warmers that the price of these arti
cles in London has trefoled in recent
months. The Americans seize upon
the warmers as fine things to hang
behind an open fireplace or to use
as chestnut roasters or corn poppers, i
The ordinary warmer is about the
size of a wash basin, with a lid
and a three-foot handle. In its hey
dey it was filled with live charcoal
and thrust between the sheets at nite
to take off the chill.
Children’s Sleeping Garments at
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Edith Williams, of Anchorage, who
has been employed as a clerk in one
of the Inlet city’s bakeries, passed
through Seward Saturday on her way
south.
A. Woberg, deputy U. S. marshal at
Unga, who recently arrived in Seward
with a prisoner and an insane woman,
returned to his westward station yes
(terday on the steamer Starr.
North American Fisheries
Pack 10,000 Barrels of
Herring the Past Summer
Approximately 10,000 barrels of her
ring were packed the past season by
the North American Fisheries plant to
the westward the past season, accord
ing to W. P. Studdert, manager of the 4
concern, who departed .from Seward 5
Saturday for the Seattle office, and
reported the season’s activities were
very satisfactory, and that next year’s
operations would commence early in
the summer.
During the past season about sixty
people were engaged on the payroll.
The schooner Rosamond, which was
used by the company the fore part of
the season, departed from Seldovia
for Seattle in September. Since that
time operations were carried on at
the plant at Seldovia.
“Uilcle Joe” Wilson, one of the most
widely known of the old timers who
helped make Alaska, is spending the
winter at the Seward Hotel. “Uncle
Joe” was born in New Brunswick 83
years ago, and came to this country
when a young man. He followed the
mining and prospecting game for many
years, being in most of the Alaskan
camps. He is hale and hearty despite
his great age.
Peter Vachon, fur trader and mer
chant from the Interior passed thru
Seward Saturday the latter part of
the week, en route to the States.
Judge E. E. Ritchie and U. S. Dis
trict Attorney Frank H. Foster, de
parted yesterday morning for Anchor
age where a brief term of court will
be held.