RANGER VISITS
FOX RANCH ON
WINGHAM ISLE
SURVEY OF NEEDED TRAILS IN
KATALLA DISTRICT IS COM
PLETED BY DEPARTMENT
Forest Ranger E. M. Jacobson re
turned to Cordova last week on the
Shamrock, from a ten day trip to the
Katalla district, announced the Cor
dova Daily Times.
During this time he apraised Wing
ham Island, which has been lately
added to the Chugach National For
est by presidential proclamation.
Wingham Island has been operat
ed successfully as a fox island for
over twelve years, and during this
period the operators have held the
island under what is known as the
“squatter’s rights.” Up to the time
when it' was included in the Chugach
Forest it was administered by the
Government Land Office, which can
not issue fox island permits under the
existing regulations.
Mr. Jacobsen reports that the is
land is well stocked with blue foxes
and is very well adopted to its pres
ent use. During the last trapping
season a dead whale drifted ashore
which resulted in the operator be
ing handicapped in trapping foxes,
because finding so much meat they
would not visit the baited pens, and
the food houses where they ordinar
ily obtained their food. This island
is operated by Frank Townsend and
Otto Koppen.
SPITZBERGEN
SETTLEMENTS
ARE FRENDLY
NY AALESUND, Kings Bay, Spitz
bergen, Aug. 21 (,/P)—To talk to Nor
wegians about Kingsbay is to invite
trouble. They in/ist that the name
of this settlement is New Aalesund,
because it is owned by a Norwegian
Coal Company, whose headquarters
are at the old city of Aalesund on the
west coast of Norway.
There is much good natured rivalry
between the two Norwegian settle
ments, Long Year City and Ny-Aales
und. The former boasts of having
the most northerly church, the latter
prides itself on the most northerly
railway in the world just below the
79th degree north latitude. The fa
miliar sound of a locomotive whistle
breaks the Arctic stillness with an
eerie effect. The track is a couple of
miles long and connects the local mine
with the pier.
There is not a tree in the whole of
Spitzbergen but botanists say that
there are 130 species of flowering
plants to be found in the short Arc
ti csummer.
At Ny-Aalesund were the only ex
amples of carefully tended graves.
Two mounds on the bleak headland
behind which Amundsen’s polar plane
sheltered, cover, according to inscrip
tions the remains of a young mother
and a two year old child.
One senses tragedy at the sight of
these two lonely graves, but it is dif
ficult to contemplate the hundreds of
namesless graves further north on the
island without a shudder at the thot
of the sufferings of human beings who
perished in these Arctic wastes. Most
of these graves reveal half cohered
skeletons w-hich have been disturbed
by polar bears and other wild animals.
George Land, new premier of New
South Wales, sold newspapers as a
boy on the wharves of Sydney.
W. I. Kelly, blind and 73 years old,
flew from England to Paris and re
turned in an airplane.
E. J. O’Mara of Elgin, 111., was fined
5100 for whipping twro boys whom he
caught trespassing in his fruit.
Never be without n
for it immediately eases sud
den, severe, colicky pains ant
cramps in stomach and bowels,
deadly nausea and weakening
diarrhoea. For children ant
grown-ups use
CHAMBERLAIN’S
COLIC and DIARRHOEA
. .REMEDY
Take it with you when you travel
Keep it always in your home.
Magistrate Bruce of New York up
| held Wilson Hungate for refusing to
pay his fare when a taxicab in which
he was riding broke down.
A narrow gauge railway was dis
covered as part of the equipment of
a large moonshine still near Balti
more.
Trustees of the estate of Ponzi, the
sensational swindler have returned
more than $1,200,000 to his dupes, but
their losses were much more.
John Hubert, executioner at Sing
Sing, has electrocuted 13 men this
year for which he received §1200 in
fees besides his regular salary as elec
trician for the prison.
SURVEY AMERICAN
INCOMES SHOW HOW:
MONEY FLUCTUATE
NEW YORK, Aug. 21 (/P)—The to
tal “current income” of the American
people rose from §67,254,000,000 in
1919 to $74,159,000,000 in 1920 and de
clined to §62,736,000,000 in 1921. These
figures are contained in a report to
be issued by the National Bureau of
Economic Research which summar
izes the results of an exhaustive in
vestigation upon which Dr. Wilford
I. King, Maurice Leven and a corps
of assistants under the general direc
tion of Dr. Edwin F. Gay and Dr. Wes
ley C. Mitchell, co-directors of re
search of the bureau have been engag
ed since the summer of 1922. Anoth
er outstanding revelation by the re
port is that 34,000,000 persons engaged
in “gainful occupations” do not re
port taxable income and do not pay
income taxes.
The sharp drop of eleven and one
half billion dollars from the inflation
period of 1920 to the depression year
of 1921 was the greatest fluctuation
in the nominal total national income
recorded in the bureau’s income stu
dies running back to 1909.
In the latter year the total income
is shown to have been §27,000,000,000.
It rose steadily to §32.000,000,000 in
1913 and then dropped to $31,600,000,
000 the next yea^. Beginning in 1915 j
the trend started upward again mak
ing annual leaps until the peak was
reached in 1920.
S. B. COMBEST
IS KILLED BY
FALL AT MINE
CHICHAGOFF MINE SUPT. FALLS
DOWN SHAFT AND IS KILL
ED, SAYS EMPIRE
A telegram received by H. L.^aulk
ner, last week at Juneau, advises that
S. B. Combest, acting superintendent
of the Chichagoff mine fell down a
chute and was killed. The body was
brought to Juneau on the motorship
Virginia IV.
Mr. Combest was about 38 years of
age, and was a former resident of
Douglas Island where he was in
charge of the cyanide plant of the
Treadwell mine when it was in op
eration a number of years ago. Sev
eral months ' ago he returned north
to take charge of the cyanide plant
at the Chichagoff mine. He was made
acting superintendent of the prop
erty when George T. Jackson, man
ager, left last week on a business
trip to the states. Mr. Jackson, now
in Seattle, has been advised of his
death.
Mr. Combest is survived by a wife
and two daughters, who are at Chi
chagoff. Mrs. Combest was before
her marriage Miss Mabel Michaelson,
and is the neice of Ed Andrew’s, the
photographer of Douglas. She met
Mr. Combest in Douglas when he
came there to visit writh her uncle
and they Avere married ten or twelve
years ago.
Mrs. Lola Dixon o£ Hagerstown,
Md., is only 30 years old but is a
grandmother. The mother of the lit
tle grandchild is but 15.
When bullfighters at Mexico City
refused to fight on account of a mud
dy arena, spectators staged a riot, in
which 13 w’ere wounded, some fatally.
Several hundred unemployed com
munists in Vienna stopped traffic by
lying down on the street car tracks
and it took police several hours to
pull them o^.
Mrs. Rachel Abrams of New York
gave birth to a baby while on an all
day steamboat excursion trip.
I
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bacon
Bye cure
natural quality
The natural quality that is the
result of using only the choicest
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Hams and Bacon is perfected
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These sweet flavory products come to you
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DEFENDANT WINS
SLANDER CASE
PROVING ILLUSION
BERLIN, Aug. 20 lb—Professor A.
Moll, one of Berlin’s foremost psy
chophysicists was victorious recently
in a slander suit brought against him
by Frau Rudloff, a spiritualistic me
dium for criticising her performances.
He said that no one could speak of a
spiritualistic phenomenon only then,
if every step of the seance could be
carefully watched and controlled by
some licensed state institution, such
as the Techno-Physical institute.
As the trial progressed Professor
Moll proposed that a seance be held
in the courtroom and that Frau Rud
loff be requested to show her tricks.
She strongly objected, however, stat
ing that the atmosphere of a court
room was not conducive to summoh
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ing spiritual phenomena. Professor f
Moll then played the part of the spir
itualist without darkening the court
room and requested the judge to be
the medium. The latter’s eyes were *
covered and the professor placed both
points of a drawing compass in his
hands and then removed them. The
judge failed to notfce this and main
tained that both points were still
resting on his hands. Several other
experiments of a like nature were
made by Dr. Moll to prove that many
things that to the occultist may ap- %
pear like something supernatural in
fact have quite a rational explanation.
The court found Dr. Moll not guilty
of the charge.
Herman Frey of Los Angeles wants
a divorce because his wife made him
quit his job because she believed the
world would come to an end last Feb
ruary as predicted by Mrs. Rowen.
A couple at Murmansk, Russia,
were married by radio by a soviet
official in Alexandrovsk.
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