For the Prospector
Can you make an accurate compass survey of your
claim?
The strange minerals you find in the hills—can you
determine what they are with the blow-pipe?
Do you know how to test your ore for various meth
ods of concentration such as amalgamation, cyani
dation, jigging, table concentration and flotation?
Do you know how ore bodies form and their habits?
If you do you can pick favorable areas for prospect
ing and eliminate much dead work.
Would you like to be able to assay your ore for gold
and silver?
Will not these aids better your chances of putting a
new mine on the map in Alaska?
TUITION IS FREE
Tin's is the nature of the work the prospector takes up
in the Mining Short Course at the Alaska Agricultural
College and School of Mines.
The first short course of 10 weeks duration begins No
vember 3rd. The work is repeated in another short
course beginning February 2nd.
The charge for books and supplies used, totals about
$25,00 for the complete course.
Work is offered in geology, mineralogy, mining meth
ods, ore dressing, and fire assaying.
There are no educational requirements except the abil
ity to read and write.
This is not a dressed-up course. Bring along your wool
shirt and overalls. You will need them.
, CHARLES E. BUNNELL
President.
(By Associated Press)
AMSTERDAM. Jan. 27—Discord
has arisen between Dutch holders of
Portuguese bonds and the Lisbon
treasury over the latter’s refusal to
pay interest on loans in Dutch curren
cy, which, bondholders claim, was ex
pressly stipulated by the terms of the
loans.
As a consequence, the Amsterdam
Stock Exchange announces that no
new Portuguese issues will hence
forth be quoted on the official list,
and this has drawn a statement from
the Portuguese legation in defense of
the Portuguese standpoint.
Amsterdam is a great clearing cen
ter for the collection of divident war
rants and cupons of all continental
loans and securities. Discussing the
whole subject of post-war internat
ional finance the Nieuwe Rotterdam?
sche Courant draws attention to a
number of what it holds to be useless
and vexatious obstacles to business.
“if foreign governments,” says the
paper, naming especially Portugal,
Argentina, Greece and others, “only
knew how all these hampering restric
tions like non-enemy declarations, for
eign ownership and the like are con
sistently being flagrantly evaded in a
wholesale manner by the huge, ingen
ious transfer system, they would soon
abolish them, as they are in the main
entirely ineffective; the only victims
being the small bona fide investor.”
TRADE INVADES
QUIET OF OXFORD
OXFORD, England, Jan. 27.—An en
tire block in the center of Oxford,
comprising some 40 old buildings, is
to be sold by the city within the next
six months. Several hundred years
ago the city bought this strip of waste
land, lying outside the walls and along
the horsemarket, for a mere song. Now
the leases are at an end, and the free
hold is extremely valuable. A por
Don already has been sold to a con
cern operating a cheap arcade and an
other sale to a garage company is un
der way.
As the block extends nearly the
. whole length of the Broad and back to
Ship Street, the university and es
i pecially Balliol. Trinity, Exeter and
Jesus colleges, are greatly concerned.
The introduction of large shops and
garages in this area would mar one of
the finest streets left in Oxford and
add to the noise and traffic problem as
well.
The university and the colleges con
cerned are too poor to buy the block,
so an attempt is being made to have it
, purchased by wealthy subcribers for
; university purposes. In the mean-1
while the city is going on with the '
1 sales. Now that the colleges have I
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taken to purchasing their supplies
from wholesalers outside Oxford, there
is no love lost between the university
S and city authorities.
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PICTURESQUE DRIVERS
AND HANSOM CABS OF
LONDON DISAPPEARING
(Hy Associated Press)
LONDON, Jan. 27.—A dozen feeble
I old fellows who belong to the dying
race of hansom cab drivers have re
cently been given annuities of $100
jeach a year for the rest of their lives
jin this motorized world. They were
selected by the Benevolent Associa
tion as the neediest and most infirm
of 77 applicants for annuities, all men
| who, with tall top hats and drooping
mustaches, once sat on their cab
i boxes adding to the easy-going ameni
ties of the streets of London.- They
were too old when autos came in to
learn the tricks of sliding gear trans
mission. Gradually taxicabs took
jaway their trade.
| Only a few of these oldtimers drive
cabs in London today. Everyone fa
j vors the taxi, and unless one takes a
I cab as a lark, their drivers must de
pend upon the few dowdy souls who
have never deigned to recognize the
! existence of automobiles,
j Nobody troubles to identify one
j taxicab drivers from another, but it j
'was different in the happy days of
horsedrawn hansoms. Many of the
drivers in those days had celebrated
nicknames, known to peer and tramp
j alike. They pine away their horseless
hours now in cheap homes for the in
firm poor, or pick up a few pennies
| opening and closing taxicab doors,
dreaming perhaps of the lovelier la
dies and more manly men of far away !
and long ago. From time to time j
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The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
8 A. M.
Monday and Thursday
TRAINS ARRIVE
8 P. M.
Wednesday and Saturday
STEAMSHIP ADMIRAL WATSON
Sails from Arrives South from
Seattle Seward Seward
Feb. 4th Feb. 12th Feb. 15th
Mar. 4 Mar. 12 Mar. 15
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports in eluding Seldovia and
Kodiak.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81 Res.. Madison 40
Pacific Coastwise Jerviee
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they die and are carried off to ceme
teries in automobile hearses.
GOVERNMENTS ERRED
IN HOLDING VESSELS,
SAYS LORD INCHCAPE
(F!y Associated Press)
LONDON, Jan. 27.—In competing
against ships which are privately own
ed, state-owned ships have come off
the worst, according to Lord Inch
cape, chairman of the P. & O. ship
ping company. He said that during
the war the British government built
a great many steamers but very wisely
after they war ceased they got rid of
them, and at high prices, for trade
was then booming. Not so wise were
Canada, America, Australia, Brazil
and Portugal, which held on to their
state-owned steamers. These vessels
had been competing with privately
owned vessels the world over with
the result that these countries had
lost millions of pounds which had to
be made good by the taxpayer.
It would, he believed, have paid the
ship-owning governments to have sunk
their ships rather than to have kept
them running during the last four
years. When governments rid them
selves of the incubus of state-owned
vessels, the public may see a moder
ate return to prosperity in the ship
building industry. Meantime the
shipbuilding yards of Great Britain
will be idle with resulting lack of em
ployment, but shipowners will not go
on building ships unless they can ex
pect a reasonable margin of profit.
Government would be better off,
concluded Lord Inchcape, if, instead of
competing with private enterprises,
they took a share of business profits
in the form of income tax. If they I
continued to run ships they would fail
commercially, and to make good their
losses, would have recourse to addi
tional taxation.
AGAINST MORE HOLIDAYS
Opposing a bill to make Lincoln’s
birthday a legal holiday in the District
of Columbia, Congressman Blanton of
Texas declared it be merely a plan to
give government clerks another hol
iday. It does seem we might take
notice of such anniversaries without
stopping work each time.
Eastman Kodaks and Supplies at
the Alaska Shop. tf
AN ANTI-GOSSIPING LAW
Kentucky has an anti-gossiping law
under which a woman was recently
fined $10 for saying that the police of
Owensboro divide 50-50 with the
j bootleggers. The most dangerous per
i son in the world is the gossiper who
| recklessly circulates stories calculated
to injure and have no foundation in
fact. But most of us have a sneaking
idea that the woman spoke the truth
at that.
If you don’t get your paper before
six o’clock please phone us and one
will be sent by special messenger.
Brunswick Radiolas, the Radiola de
Luxe at the Alaska Shop. tf
Stephens of
[ trated Trappers’ Boo'<
| to trap and handle Muskrats, Coyotos, Skunks
— all other furs, Game Lp.v.-s, Grading Rules, etc.
Big demand ail Western Furs this season — prices
high. Get ready to trap NOW.
Stephens sella Trap3, Animal Baits, Fur
Stretchers and Supplies direct to you at Rock Bot
tom Prices; saves you 3 to 14 days’
time and Big Money on transporta
tion. DENVER iti the closest and best
fur market for all Western Trappers.
U1UI1 ■ V
Stephens
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E. A. STEPHENS & CO.,
729 Stephens Bldg., Denver, Colorado
Sendma Big Fur Book. Trap Catalog, Fur Pries
List, Market Reports, Shipping Tags -- nil FREE.
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Southwestern Alaska Route Schedule
Vessel—
Alaska
Yukon
Alameda
Alaska
Yukon
Alameda
Scheduled
Lv. Seattle
January 17
January 24
January 31
February 7
February 14
February 21
Scheduled
Ar. Seward
January 24
January 31
February 7
February 14
February 21
February 2S
Scheduled Sail
from Seward
January 24
January 31
February 7
February 14
February 21
February 28
Steamers jn the above schedule will make all regular ports of call
in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
Freighter Nabesna is scheduled to sail from Seattle Feb. 5, and
will call at Seward if sufficient business is offered.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
PHONE MAIN 125 SEWARD, ALASKA
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AN EMPIRE BUILDER
As all railroads in years gone by have been the greatest
contributing factors in development of the regions through
which they passed, so also is THE ALASKA RAILROAD each
day accomplishing much towards the building of an empire.
In place of the old, tremendously expensive and inconve
nient methods of transporting supplies of whatever character
over rough trails from the coast, there is now a modern rail
road that carries supplies and equipment in greater quantities
to and from the Interior, and along the way, in much less
time and at far less expense than was formerly required.
This great steel highway offering regular twice weekly
freight and passenger service between Seward, Anchorage
and Fairbanks; and tri-weekly mixed service over the
Chickaloon and Chatanika branches, is at your service. For
further information write
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
mckinley park route
ANCHORAGE ALASKA
Special week-eend tickets (one and one-third actual fare) on
sale at all ticket offices