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NEWS FROM THE WESTWARD
FOX FARMERS
(Blue Fox Magazine.)
Louis Melsing, Fanny’s Island, is
-dated over the success he is having
with the drying and the feeding of
Iried fish. Louis erected a small
hying shed last spring on one of
the points of his island exposed to
he wind and sun. The shed has a
ight roof with open sides covered
with fly screen to exclude small in
sects of all kinds. The salmon were
split and carefully cleaned arid hung
on the sunny side of the shed, great
’are being taken to prevent fly
blows The racks of fish were shift
’d back from the sunny side as new
tish were hung, until the shed was
tilled.
J. \V. Walker, Geese Islands, also
dried some fish under screen, when
naif dry a part were cased in seal
bellies, and a part were put down in
small barrels. He reports that the
rish have kept perfectly when the
containers remained airtight. This
method of handling fish closely fob
ows that suggested by Andy Gros
void as published in The Blue Fox
luring the past summer. Wherein
ie put half dried salmon in hundred
gallon gas drums, sealing the re
moved top of the drum after it had
been filled, with soft soap.
New members since the last is
sue of The Blue Fox are Harry Carl
son of Uyak and Iver Wallin of
Chignik.
Mr. Wallin has his headquarters
u Chignik and is operating the Se
inidii Islands under lease from the
Biological Survey. He is raising
blues. He reports that he has had
the hard luck of having the islands
aided. He states he desires very
i much to get into communication with
j some responsible party interested in
| acquiring in a fox ranch, that he
may restock the islands and get into
production as soon as possible. The
Semidii are proven islands having
been utilized for Blue fox propaga
tion very successfully by the Semi
dii Propagating company as early as
35 years ago. Any one desiring to
get into the Blue fox game can make
no mistake in acquiring a sizeable
interest in the Semidii Island ranch
es.
Preparations are being made on
several island ranches to install one
or more pens for the raising of pen
bred foxes. While the ultimate pur
pose of all island ranches is the pro
duction of pelts, it is seen that the
demand next year for pen bred blues
is going to assume considerable pro
portions and no difficulty should be
encountered in disposing of all the |
pen bred foxes that can be raised.!
The superior quality of Southwestern
Alaska Blues is being recognized,
with the result that the few who are
pen raising foxes have more orders ■
than they can possibly fill.
Andrew' Grosvold of Sand Point re
ports a costly encounter with a fake
fox purchaser who agreed early last
season to purchase some 200 pairs
of live foxes from him Andy w'rites
that the business of the transaction
consisting of numerous letters and
i telegrams between himself and the
prospective buyer, covering a period
of six months had all the appear- j
ances of a genuine trade except the
man failed to appear with his money
when Andy had the foxes collected
and ready for delivery at the date
upon which they had agreed.
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MAN AND SON ARE
FROZEN PT, HOPE
SEATTLE, Mar. 19.—Captain Jos.
P. Bernard, former skipper of the
trading schooner Teddy Bear, of
Nome, was informed today that the
bodies of Joe Farrio, 70, one of the
last survivors of the Portuguese wha
lers on the Arctic coastline, and his
halt-breed son, 16. were fouud frozen
to death near Point Hope, near the
place where Ferrio’s Eskimo wife met
a similar fate two years ago.
Ferrio’s body was found in his
sleeping bag with his boy. Nearby
the half starved and nearly frozen
dogs were found huddled around the
bodies. Farrio had braved the dan
gers of the trail to replenish the food
supply for his camp at Point Hope.
NO LOSS OF LIFE AT TOKIO
TOKIO, Japan, Mar. 19.—No loss of
life is reported from the fire which
destroyed 3.000 homes here yesterday.
ATTEMPT MADE TO SOLVE
POISONING OF EDMONDS GIRL
SEATTLE, March 19. — Coroner
Fickel, and Prosecutor Roscoe of
Snohomish county were here recent
ly to confer with relatives of 18
year old Lavina Bittman, who died
in Edmonds December 14 and to de
termine, if possible, where the poi
son, which caused the girl’s death,
was purchased.
Hoscoe said he believed that the
poison was obtained in Seattle where
the girl visited a few days before
her death.
Because of evidence that no one
was with the girl at the time of
her death and that food partaken
for supper was eaten by another
person, the authorities virtually re
jected any theory of murder.
WASHINGTON SENATE ENDS
SPECIAL SESSION TODAY
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 19.—
The Senate ended its special ses
sion this afternoon.
CONVICTED OF JAIL BREAKING
SEATTLE, March 19.—John Sou
day, pardoned for the murder of Miss
Blanche Coleman, was convicted of
jail breaking and given the maximum
penalty of ten years.
RESCUERS FIND NO TRACE
OF ENTOMBED MINERS
FAIRMONT, March 19.—Rescue
workers continued their efforts to
reach the entombed miners here but
so far no sign of the 34 entombed
men has been found, or any indica
tion given that they are alive.
Gateway want-ads bring results.
Clearance Sale
TO MAKE ROOM FOR OUR NEW
SPRING STOCK WE OFFER A
20% Discount
ON ALL OVERCOATS AND
MACKINAWS
$40 Coats at
$35 Coats at
$30 Coats at
$25 Coats at
$32.00 $20 Mackinaws at $10.00
$28.00 $15 Mackinaws at $12.00
$24.00 $12 Mackinaws at $ 9.00
$20.00 $10 Mackinaws at $ 8.00
at Urbach’s
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Dowager Countess His
Only Means Support
LONDON, March 19.—The dowager
Countess Carnavon took the stand
today in the suit against her husband
Colonel Ivan Denniston by his di
vorced wife Muriel.
Denniston on the stand had ad
mitted the Countess had supported
him before he was , married to her,
and replied to the demands of his
former wife for return of loans with
the testimony that his only income
is from the countess.
GENERAL BACKS LEGION
PLAN FOR CONSCRIPTION
SPOKANE, March 19.—Arbitration
treaties backed by a prepared citizen
ry were advocated by Major General
W. H. Johnson, commanding the Third
division of the United States Army,
with headquarters at Camp Lewis, be
fore the Spokane chamber of com
merce yesterday.
“Let the world know that every Am
erican citizen is ready to fight for
his country and no nation will ever
step on America,” he declared.
He said lie favored the American
Legion plan “of conscription of every
man and woman, including congress
men.” and added, “then congress wont
vote for war and no nation will de
clare war on us.”
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Newell and Clarence Lambert and
their brides of Smith Center, Kansas,
were principals in a double wedding
a year ago. Recently the two wives
became mothers of baby boys at the
same hour.
ADVERTISING MATTER ON
POSTAGE STAMPS TRIED
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 19.—
The Italian government has recently
put into operation a system of adver
tising by which postage stamps sold
within the country serve as advertis
ing mediums, according to consular
reports received by the department of
commerce. So far, the report said, f
only stamps of the 25 and 50 centime
denominations are being used for this
purpose.
The new stamps are the same as the
old ones, except that they are twice
as large as the ordinary stamp the
lower half being used to advertise
some product.
A Roman advertising agency has
been given an exclusive contract by
the government to handle the solicit
ing of business. The agency receives
39 per cent of the receipts while the
other 61 per cent is turned into the
Italian treasury.
Some sections of the Italian press
have criticised use of stamps for ad
vertising on the ground that such pro
cedure is undignified for a great na
tion.
Weak Eyes? Camphor
If you have weak, aching eyes try
simple camphor, witchhazel, hydras
tis, etc., as mixed in Lavoptik eye
wash. One small bottle helps any
case weak, strained or sore eyes. Al
uminum eye cup free.—Seward Drug
Company.
My Made to Measure Suits always
satisfy in fit, workmanship and qual
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