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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1907)
Luscious Pomeg'ranites, Hubbard Squash, PumpKins. y;. A. V. ALLEN. PHONES BRANCH UNIONTOWN MAIN 711, MAIN S871 PHONE MAIN 713 Sole Agents for Baker's Barriugton Hall Steel Cut Coffee AE FOR PRESIDENT Costly Curios' Gathered by His Boyhood Friend. SOUVENIR OF THE ARCTICS Ctptaia John Backlund of Schooner Volute Brings Real Kyak For Native Boy at Tacoma Whalebone Shafts Fof Roosevelt. JsliiUXh;. ucu li. i-Tora the jcy wtreats of the Arctic circle a tribute to tie friendship of the nations chief ex cutive in the shape of two costly shafts f polished whalebone reached Seattle m the schooner Volante, in charge of Captain John Backlund, The shafts some from C H. Hawsworth, a boyhood friend f President Roosevelt. Aside from the distinction of being the most Ssrftwlj curios ever sent the president, they are of such a character, and around each is entwined such weird legends that It is probable they will occupy a unique position in his collection. Mr. Hawsworth secured the whalebone shafts from the old-fashioned grave of an Eskimo chief. The grave in keep mg with ancient custom, stands several feet above the stretch of ice and snow year Point Barrow. Mingled with the iones of the dead chief the whalebone shifts were found, turned to a deep Srown from years of burial and the action of storms. Mr. Hawsworth se-em-erf the relics for a few yards of hright calico cloth. He then employed m expert scraper and polisher to work the shafts into presentable shape. Then burnished and carved the shafts were sewed into canvas bags. Haws worth then turned the presents over to Captain Backlund, with the parting in junction to guard them until they eonld be entrusted to a reliable express ' wO SPICES, C) COFFEEJEA, BAKING POWDER, fmmim extracts MlukPuriry, finest Flavor, Grtartsr Stench, fcasonle Pric! CL05SET&DEYEBS f PORTLAND, OREGON, C company. Captain Backlund, whose home is in Fremont, brings some other interesting curios from the land of the Kskinios, As he watched one of his sail ors pile $3500 worth of whalebone on a truck at Pier 6 yesterday he exhibited several ivory implements and wild ani mal skin ol enormous value. TluV said Captain Backlund, exhib iting a watch chain carved from ivorv. "took two months of hard work. The Eskimo who wrought it from a solid piece of ivory used fco sit for hours pol ishing and whittling. Throughout the Arctic day of six months the workman often slept as he sat. Awakening to his Usk, he would take a mouthful of seal blubber and renew his polishing and carving. Hours at a stretch the stolid fellow labored. It took him many months to finish the chain, and then I bought it for a small sack of sugar, I tried hard to find a silver-tip fox, but J this species is fast disappearing. "A feature of Eskimo life which, has been inaugurated by the missionaries is the Christian buriau of Eskimo. No longer are the bodies raised above ice and snow, according to the ancient cus torn. All are now interred. This Kyak, or canoe, of sealskin," continued Captain Backlund, "has an in teresting story behind it. The kvak will be shipped to Tacoma, where an Eskimo boy may paddle in it to his heart content upon the waters of Puget sound. Away up north this little fellow who is now down here lor an education, was bom 14 years ago. His father and mother wrote to him as often as slug gish mails allow. Each letter from the the little fellow brought a. plea for a kyak. He would not entrust himself to the supposed perils of canoe or row- boat. He wanted a kyak. So with in finite pains the father and mother con structed one. I should like to see the little fellow's face when his kyak ar rives. "These two white foxes," resumed Captain Backlund, "were captured at Point Hope. They are three mouths old. rhev will be shipped to John Haekman nd Hans Konag, who live on a farm near Tacoma." Captain Backlund's personal collection of curios secured on the trip is price- Fantastically carved ivory buttons, each havinj a hi-torv; wtrirled mas todon teeth, crude native implements of material which can not now be found in the Arctic ieigons, and an experience of a lifetime were brought from the frozen Arctic by Captain Backlund. 1LM Ifour Property ' With We handle All Kinds of Real Estate, Buying and Selling. Having recently Incorporated our company and opened offices in the Odd Fellows Building we arc prepared to take advantage of the many years of experience of our officers for the benefit of our patrons. Call and See Us and Profit Thereby. miuni&ll Tirastt G. WINGATE, Manager. Odd Fellows Building, lOth and Commercial Stse. Astoria, Ord QUEEN OF THE SEAS Lusitania Accorded Ovation New York. by STORYOFHOWTRICKWAS DONE CITRUS CROP LARGEST EVER. LOS AXf.KLES, Cal., Oct. ll. 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All New York welcomed t he record breaking l.usitania as she swung into her duck bearing the title of Queen of the Seas, wrested from her German rivals. Three hundred and twenty-three firemen under orders to work to their limit, fed the furnaces with between 050 and 1000 tons of pick ed Briti-h navy Welsh coal each day, in order that thi-t result might be ob tained. On Tuesday night the officers gave each fireman a bottle of ale. in apprecia tion of their effort. Next day the Lusitania broke all rec ords by reeling off fill' knots and made an hourly record of 24.70 knots. BROOM CORN IS A SUCCESS. Portland Firm Has Started a Factory at Gardens. WALLV WALia. Wash., Oct. 11. i What i thought to be the fltst attempt to raise brvomeorn in the Walla Wulla district has been a succe this season, and the product will be worked up into brooms within a very few dais. The brooiiicoiii was raised at Cardena, uu irrigated district about 15 miles from this city which was opened up nearly two years ago. 'Hie product is of an exceptionally good quality and makes the best com mercial brooms manufactured in the wc-t. F.arly hint spring a 1'urtlarid firm experimented with the article. Alter u Millicieiit growth part of the product was taken to Portland and made into brooms, with the result the company has purchased a small manufacturing plant and installed it at Cardenn and will turn out several hundred brooms this ear. Several hundied acres will be planted by the company and land own ers next year and a larger factory will be installed. 1 H IRVING'S Apricot ffirandy NOTHING FINER JAMES WHALEY SELLS FARM. He Intends to Move to Seattle in Short Time, PLAZA, Wash., Oct. 11. Mi's. Newell Patterson has purchased 240 acres and the improvements from James Whaley for $12,000, .$50 an acre. Mr. Whaley to move to Seattle noon. Also W. E. Dickey, w'ho is now occupying the place, is selling out his effects and will move his family to Seattle, where he will engage in the drug business. Messrs. O. and H. Wills have rented the O. B. Gal laway place here of 240 acres and are moving on it. This fine weather enables the threshers to make a dry cleanup of their season's work, which is very nearly lone. More than half of the outfits have novel to their homes, having finished 'or this year, and those outfits that con tinue in the business are running short handed owing to the scarcity of labor. MUCH WHEAT IS COMING IN. FA1RCI11LD. Wash., Oct. Jl. (irain has been coining into the warehouses in Fairchild so rapidly that the warehouses are becoming congested. 'Hie Centennial Company of Spokane, of which D. C. Savior is the manager, has been com pelled to build a platform adjoining the warehouse as a temporary shelter for the grain. 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