The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 26, 1915, Page 12

LONELY CABIN: Special Correspondence RUBY, June 1.—-(By Mall.) How did death come to the old man whose bones were found recently in a lonely cabin the Koyukuk river, 200 miles from the mouth, in the vicin ity of Big Bend? Did it stalk over him sud @enly as he slept? Or did he suffer for days—possibly weeks lying in his bunk, with friendly hand to minister to him, no cheering voice to wish | hie speedy recovery, no human on no Voice to break the horror of the |; vast silence? It may have been he met with An accident—a broken leg, a cut foot, a gunshot wound; that he erawled back to his ca and after his food gave out, lay th 8 pitiful helplessness, ravag t Nonger, slowly starving Was he,/ perchance, driven mad—did his rea-| gon depart before the Grim Reaper ended his miseries? Just Another Mystery The manner of his tak Just another of the mysteries writ {nto th the great Northland ireds of history Hundreds of Miles from another human habita tion when he died, there probably will never be an explanation as | to what befell him } Oh, the loneliness of it all! | This is definitely known: The body was that of an old man, for} the hair was gray—tho possibly | } this may have been brought about} by the terrible mental and physt al agony he underwent | Only a Skeleton ' ‘The head was pillowed either on fome clothing or blankets. The man had been dead a long time, and When found little remained, appar. ently, but a skeleton. Hugh Marlin, tramping across the Darren wastes, found the desolate eabin and the body. Because of the snow he could not see it fully, and he avoided disturbing it be @ause by doing so he might have destroyed papers or other means of Wentification. ‘The snows are clearing rap- Idly now. in a few days Mar. fin intends going back to the ecene of hie gruesome discov- _ ery. He hopes he may find some clue which will lead to _ Identification. ] Paul Qualquiokovski, who has returned to Seward, Alaska, arrested in Ger spy during his travels; year and had a most difficuly, to prove his innocence. As those who know Mr. Q—, ” know Mr. Q. can see, he looks "ike a Frenchman, has a name _ that sounds ilke’ Russian, least at the windup of it, and English. This combi was too much and when to pase thru Germany was captured, kept three months working and finally away by appealing to the * iiarican consul, After leaving Alaska last sum- » Mr. Q. hit out for his home the Balkans. He went by way of England and unlucky enough to pick up surveying instruments, which carried along with him on his thru the continent. | a _ The surveying Instruments, his English, his Gallish appearance, ul his patronymic—particularly | “You have witnessed 10 yeare of adversity, and the question today is, can you stand pros his opening shot. tis, ‘tle true, gained have prosperity. not been Many men within my hearing will gain great wealth before the year passes and now is the time for them} }to consider how they will shape their future lives. Thousands of people are com-| ing here and there will be many] problems for you to solve. There will be the vice question, and the saloons—twin cousins to sudden wealth, But bear tn mind these things The old regime has passed. “Well do | remember in the days of railroad building from here and Cordova, when men, with families dependent on them in the states, came in from a season's work in the wet and cold, only to be relieved of their earnings in a night thru the curse of drink. These wild orgies will not be repeated here.” After the meeting the whole town repaired to the ratlroad build ing and danced till the wee small hours in celebration of the great event During the afternoon Judge Brown considered a petition from a hundred beachcombers, who had been ordered from their homes by the Alaska Northern. He didn’t hear their attorney, he heard the men themselves, and his decision shows that Alaska has developed a remarkable man in Judge Brown “It seems that your houses have’ | N ‘No More Gold-Rush Orgies MAN FOUND in Alaska, Ruling of Judge yuntry Must Realize That Frontier Days Have ¢ s0Ne} Forever, He Declares BY E. 0. SAWYER been butlt along the beach on ratl SEWARD, Alaska, June 19.—(Ry | Pad land, and that you are at d te Fan Star) a iq Pretent unable to move without jMail to The Star.)-—The oldewild ioging your all. Naturally you don't days of the North are gone. expect to live on this beach for all Seward stands off ly Informed time, I take it that you are tn the today, that no matter how great the same plight that I was when I tampede, there will be no such janded on the beach in Valdes 10 es as were witnessed at Nome | years ago. Mon and women | 4 Fairbanks, let alone the Klon-|ing means to buy land at tts pr ent high price, men who have come mr of the third here to better themselves tielal distr aska sounded Good times are co K, noon you the warning at a i meeting held | wiil have le to move to celebrate the ection of this'tn the meantime I will say this place as the government railroad) Since the order was {saued for you terminal . to mov off the ratiroad land, the It was a peculiar meeting. The) road has become go ent prop town Was so 0 ome by the good! erty The title to the land you ws that nothing was done for! now occupy Hes in the government hree dys and in the meantime just the same as tho it had never Judge Hrown arrived on the first heen granted to the Alaska North stear am Valde ern. Ad was de pd on and the “It Is not within my power to ud od to open the festivities. | JUDGE FW BROWN Judge who has warned people of Seward, Alaska, not to lose their is when United States railroad G8 prosperity. present when you shall as the president has put the building of this road tn the hands of Mr. B Lieut, Mears and Mr Riggs. These gentlemen will prob ably be here soon, They will un doubtedly give you plenty of time to move, in order that no injustice be done. In the meantime, I sug gest that you prepare, as far as possible, to move Compared with the judge at Nome tn 1900, who called for troops to drive men off the beach, that certain politicians might occupy the ground, Judge Brown seems to have advance veral miles be yond the himself Why June 21 Is Alaska’s Biggest Holiday The 2ist day of June might al. most be called Alaska's national holiday. Why? Because it is the longest day of the year. It does not get dark and there is direct sunlight for from 20 to 22 hours of the day So on June 21 everybody cele brates. There are picnics every where, by preference to an ele vation from which one can best watch the near-departure of the midnight sun. At Fairbanks and several other towns where league games commonly are played at § o'clock in the even ing, there is an annual midnight baseball game, very special privileges being extended to the small boy for the occasion. In deed, this going to bed in the daytime is little to the liking of most Alaskans, so exquisitely beautiful are the long sunsets that become long sunrises with. out a break. ote ote ofe ote ofe ote vfs ate ate ate ofe ate ote ote TOO MANY TRY FOX FARMING Many failures in the new indus try of fox farming In Alaska are recorded by E. Lester Jones, dep- uty commissioner of fisheries, in the report of his recent investiga tions in Alaska for the department of commerce. He finds that the promise of big profits caused many to rush into the business, and small fortunes were sunk by men who did not understand the difficulties of the Industry IN ALASKAN TOWN No saloon license will be grant ed at Katalla, Alaska, after July 1 because of the withdrawal of the deputy marshal from the oll city, and no saloons are to be allowed in towns where no police officer patronymic—were his undoing. | Les | /8 stationed. ote ote ofe ote ote ote ate ote Heffernan Engine Works SEATTLE. WASH., U. S. A. STAR—SATURDAY, $20,000,000 GOLD COMING FROM ALASKA Alaska hae been for several years yleiding between $13,000, 000 and $15,000,000 In gold an nually, and thie y 1915, it Is estimated by experts that the yleld will reach $20,000,000. Over $4,000,000 Is the yearly output of copper Her fisheries yleld neatly $15,000,000 annual ly commercial Alaska has more gold th California, more coal t Pennayivania, more copper than Michigan and Arizona, the only tin mines in the United States, the greatest domestic reindeer herda, and 9,000,000 acres of ricultural lands to be bought by Sec ward for seven million, two hundred thousand Dollars ($7, 200,000) It has paid for itself 45 times over in gold, copper and fish eries, and Is twice the size of the German empire, 7 times as large as Kansas, 10 times the size of either Pennsylvania or New York IN FACT, IT HAS THE LARGEST TERRITORY, THE HIGHEST MOUNTAINS, THE SMALLEST DEATH RATE, THE HIGHEST BIRTH RATE, HIGHEST WAGES AND SAL ARIES, THE SMALLEST POP. ULATION IN PROPORTION TO AREA, THE HIGHEST PROPORTION OF PROSPER ITY, THE FINEST PROS- PECTS ANO OPPORTUN ITIES, AND (UNTIL NOW) THE LEAST CHANCE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THEM OF ALL THE COUN TRY OVER WHICH THE AMERICAN FLAG FLOATS. HERE IS BEAR OF A STORY ABOUT BEAR AS BIG AS A COW SEWARD, June 15.—(By Mail) On the last trip of the Santa Ana came the skin of a brown bear hat must have been larger t o a big ox. The animal was killed somewhere near Unga by Oncar Olson, 4 the skin, now hung up fin a ab near the wharf, ures 12 feet long and over 10 feet in width MAYBE IT’S THE SCOTCH IN HIM! There iives at Seldovia one of Alaska’s most distinguished citizen Hie name is John Ballin, He Is of Scotch de scent, On the 24th day of June he will be 100 old. He born on Prince Edward Island and lived at in, Me., until his 2ist birthday. He comes from old New Jersey stock. Most of his life he has spent on the sea as a ship carpenter and sailor, He has made 19 trips around Cape Horn, He came to Alaska about 1880, according to his best recoilection. ALASKA VALL Le SUPPORT MILLIONS ‘The Alaska census of 1910 showed 64,000 people in ka, The gov erament estimates over 9,700,000 acres of agricultural land in the Susitna and Tanana valleys, teh will support several million people. This wonderful valley plain thru ite whole length will be traversed by the government raliroad, the ocean terminal of which will be Seward. ote ote ofe ole ol'ele ofele “yey “eye ye a a a ae ae ae ae a a eee W ee ofe ojo ojo ojo ojo eje efe eje efe wje we ee oe meas | JUNE 26, 1915. PAGE 12. | CREOSOTED | PILING For Immediate Delivery Thousands of lineal feet of creosoted piling awaiting your order in the big storage yards of the Col- man Creosoting Works. Note the four traveling cranes, capable of the expeditious handling of many tons at a load. MAKE YOUR PILING LAST TEN TIMES AS LONG! é bes Teredo makes short work of your dock construction if you use untreated. piling. 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