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uiibLuLl LETTEfl : F10M COL HOFEfl Interesting Facts ; Gathered . on His Summer Trip to and Through! Alaska SHka, Alaska. July 8. Editor Statesman: i It was hard to pull away from Fort Wrangell, a Rnmtan outpost established by , Baron Wrangell, who' was gorernor of Alaska In 18 JO. He built a fort, but It was not easy to get the Episcopal mis aloaiyUo admit, that awTUwIan eVer'setloot la Alaska. XVS found the remains of the old American" fort and the ruins of the! Russian. Wrangell boasts more totem poles than any Alaskan town. Soma hare been repainted In gay colors. Bat groups stand on the hillsides, gray and hoary with age. - The cele bration crowded the streets. There was a tug-of-war. dog-tea in races, and a dance that was kept p till 2 a. m. ', Our ship laid oyer till morning to catch a more favorable; tide In the winding Wrahgell narrows that for 2 miles thread their way through the islands and I moun tains, with some Tery dangerous passages The captain takes charge! of the pilot house and never leaves it for three hours. Today TomorrowMonday 2 7rl5 9:15 p. m. 50c and 25c Matinee or Evening Eexcaad deer are clleu seen-fjoia. xusta tgn n ... fchonograpb, .saw iag the steamer. The "shores' "are a" machine or baseball , bats and stone's throw on either side and stores of food.'-' :4 7-3 ;! fn dangerous places we travel'on They, told as of one -Thlinket half speel. We passed the game squaw whose chief beat her ap a without murder and anchored at good deaL Wheri too drunk she Petersburg. The wife of the prin- j wonld retaliate with a piece of cipal mercnaui and dock owner. 1 woman of Indian blood. Is a great lover of sport, and" shoots deer, bear and water fowl In season. rubber hose with a heavy anion joint on the . end of it. At her funeral they buried her favorite weapon of defense with' her body "TEN NIG BAR ROOM" i - , WITH . . JOHII LOWELL AND ' "BABY" IVY. WARD Her husband, Mr. Hogue, is a bear and all the neighbor squaws hunter of some note, having killed brought pieces of hose with metal a large black bear last fall with ends and added to the collection, an automatic. The firm has a de- Celebrations Started at Ketch!- partmeht store, docks and power kan, continued at Wrangell and boats. A department store In sot the final touch at Petersburg. Alaska must be able to outfit a where an- InJian funeral was sawmill or cannery, a sealing or made a pan of the parade, with deep sea fishing boat, fishermen, the band playing at the head of loggers, hunters, trappers or min- t&e procession an exhilarating ers. The canneries in the Peters- Daylight has been extend- burg district put up large packs. fd four hours, and you could read Halibut and salmon are sent oat a newspaper at 10 p. m. No iced from glaciers, several large talk of daylight saving here. ice flows pouring into the channel Tough Rob of Lurk near by. Nine-tenths of the pops- Alaska business men will tell lation of Petersburg are Norweg- i ya of the territory's tough run tens. At Petersburg we met John ,urk- tn w" taking their men P .Hume, well known cannery op-loot, the ruin of the canneries by eratqr at Scow bay, and son of I 'ood administration policies, dis- one of the Hume Bros., who orig inated salmon canneries on the Pacific coast. R. D. Hume estab lished the Rogue river salmon In dustry In Oregon. He baa his own power yacht and has been enter taining the government commis sion making a tour around the world for the department of com merce: Assistant Secretary of Commerce Huston, Dr. Steininger, curator of the national museum; mantling or the Gastineau chan nel and Treadwelt mines, deple tion of the fisheries, etc. At one cannery they had the first fun of 1 fish in several years. Launches brought crowds and a band from nearby towns. They played and had a ball game on the tide flat and a dance at night. Some of the canneries run only 30 days in the year. The boom in lum bering has not hit - Alaska. Ef- Dr. Brooks, chief geologist, and I forts were made to form a syndi- Ward Bowers, chief of bureau of ate, put all six sawmills under fisheries, all of; Washington, Dl C. I008 financial control and saw to HI Fox Farming Region Air the island from Wrangell north are leased for fox farming -black, silver and blue foxes. Those who have been at if five or six years have made fortunes load ships for export. The tim- tber is here, but the plan failed. Ship loads of timber products could go out of here as well as out of British Columbia. Ameri can capital goes into the latter and now deal in the furry lite-1 country freely and seems to be stock. Skins sell for $200 to $300. 1 shunning Alaska. Too much reg Foxes are held only by a channel 4 ulation from departments five or of water a quarter of a mile wide f 8, thousand miles away. Judge or more. They, learn to cross rlv-1 John Winn of Juneau, in his ers when low and then swim when I Fourth of July address aboard, de they flood. They are fed raw fish I Pred the prevailing conditions and become quite tame; and in in Alaska and blamed It on too time fox farming will displace the I much long distance paternalism cruelties and barbarisms of trap- I The two hundred passengers ap- ping, and those who must have plauded. The land of the free Is furs .will wear them without be- still the home of the brave, but ing haunted by memories Of hor- it has too much officialism for the rors. A Thllitket Village Kake is a Thllnket town with native tillage, school and store. about 100 houses belonging to In-1 In and deserted city. Early-habit bravest citizen to cope with. Capital of Alaska Juneau society people retire at 12 a. m. and get up.at noon. Our ship landed at 4 a. m. In a sleep- by which men toiled veiwia the gold rush of 1 J 9S. la places, were, heaps' of bones where thousands of horses were abandoned to per ish- in the snow while their own- era packed on with their equip ment for the mines. On the sum mit of the range we begin to fol low small lakes and at one o'clock are at Lake Bennett. V Thre Days of Dawson It is about a day on the train from Skagway to White Horse and two days by boat to Dawson. There are about 1 people at Dawson and mining is about all there is there. Our train passes Lake . Linderman that was once part or the trail via Chilkat to Dawsoa. We stop 'for lunch at Lake Bennett, where the White Horse train meets as. From the summit of the White Pass we fol low a foaming stream' that falls from lake to lake and finally forms the White Horse, a trib utary of the Yukon. Near the summit we can see Lynn canal. 17 miles away. We are on the divide between the Yukon and the Pacific. Forty Mile Wonder The trip np the White Pass and down to Lake Bennett surpasses any 40 miles of wonderful scen ery on the continent. The can yon has walls of clear granite thousands of feet high, with lit tle parklike places set to ever green trees, with patches of snow on the grayish-pink walls berib- boned with cascades of foaming water. Half way up the train stops at Pitch far k fails, wilder than Multnomah and falling from glacier. Below Is the old trail and remains of a wagon road at the end of which is an abandoned group of houses built to accom modate the gold rush to Dawson in 1897 to 1910. Pathetic land marks are scattered bones of horses left, to die, or mercifully shot by more humane prospectors. Occasional crosses show where gold seekers fell by the wayside. The great plateau above the timber line extends for miles; above the timber line a waste of TO CIO I ns'sr Mrs. Wewcomb Will Again Attempt Ascent Gover nor Unable to Go Salem wilt be well represented in the Hood River American Le gion party which will climb lit. Hood Sunday, Mrs. Beatrice Crawford Newcomb, who became ill last year and was forced to re main over' night at , the forest rangers station will not climb to the top but will accompany the Salem party to the camp. Satur day night. Miss Myra Wohrer of Cleveland, 1 Ohio. a. guest of Mrs. Newcomb's. will be one of the climbing party. Miss Fay Hen drickson of Salem will also be a member of the party. . Secretary of State Sara' Kozer will be among those making the ascent. Governor Ben W. Olcott was, to have been a member of the party, but is attending a meet ing of the highway commission in Bend. ITER is sum FOB IRRIGATION in -ifarlon t eonntr.' ar"-TOi:oi approximately,. $250. -,-, By Mary W. Ruth, guardian for Robert ! Street . of Baker, cov ering the appropriation ; of water from Pine creek for domestic sup ply and for irrigation of 40 acres in Baker county. . 1 ; ; By John H, White oti Freewat- er, covering the appropriation .of water from: wells and from seep age, for irrigation of a 10-acre tract in Umatilla county. Ry J. fi. Loveall ot Aurora, Marion county, covering tne ap propriation! of water from Pud- Ainr river for Irrigation ox a. three-acre tract. , 1 4 By B. F. Prey of Asb,j Or.; cov ering the appropriation j of water from an unnamed spring for do mestic watfr supply in Douglas county. i By H. Wallenberg and A. tVol- lenberg of Roseburg, covering the appropriation of ater from South UmpQua river for Irriga tion of 40- acres In Douglas coun ty at an estimated coat of $1000. Gas Tank Ex;::.:..i f:y:; Causcs: Shop , j DALLAS,-Ore., Julf H clalj The explosion of a tank t acetylene gas used in the weld, department of ; the Dallaa 1 chine A Locomotive Works v. afternoon started a fire tn t building which necessitated t. calling out of the fire departmer The blaxe, however, wan ex.: gnlshed by equipment for fight . tires from the sawmill before tl arrival of Ibe department, Frj tunatcly no one was injured wi the tank exploded, although tW were reveral workmen nebj t the time. '. . .- - ' a Ki,iAiiMiMr e i ""l aT i Mn i an n r m thaMM J Douglas County Men Ask To Use Moisture From Umpqua River granite boulders, with pools of ows: Ten applications for permit to appropriate water from Oregon streams hare been received by Percy A. Cupper, state engineer. The applications are a fnl- snow water and not a sign ot bird or animal life, butt an occasional ptarmigan, or Alaska pheasant. You see the raven along the salt water, the allegorical bird of to temism. Saturday morning we leave By Enoch Huff and others of Junction City, coverinar the ap propriation of water from Fer guson creek for irritation nur- posea and for ranning a ram In Lane county. By J. W. Bush of La Grande, noon. Col. E. Hofer. dians. A ball game was on. as the tide was out. School children and population pour out on steam er day, but there is no stopping a ball game by rival Indian bush league teams. There are many tourists were up and made the 16- mile side trip to Mendenhall gla cier. Juneau is recovering from the slump. The Juneauf ' Alaska Gold Mining Co. is working mill and mine with 200 men. The Bun- baif breeds and fine looking chit- Hon mine across the channel dren. Two islands In the channel writ 60 men wages of miners are Covered with littlo toy houses, 5 to '6 a day. Common labor Duiua ucaij vaJalvur' wr KH3 T' -. , , bodies of dead are laid away. B-1 channel is a deserted, dying or f Argument sides the bodr each house eon- ed dtf. Miners say. the great tains those personal belongings of Treadwell mine caved because the the departed that he or she loved 1 8eTen COIumM OI rlcb ore that supported the roof were cut away. It fell and the water rushed in- Visit Glacier Skagway for Sitka, 150 miles covering the appropriation of wa southwest and near the 'Pacific Iter from Rock creek for irr lra- ocean, where we arrived Saturday tlon of 120 ocrea in Union county at a cost of approximately $300. By Lillian B. Smith of Hunting. ton, covering the appropriation of water from an unnamed spring for irrigation of one acre in Ba , ker cosntfj By A. W. and Bert C. Grater of Prineville, covering the appro priation of water from Allen creek tor irrigation of 20 acres in Crook county. By Donker Brothers of Aums- ville, covering the appropriation or water from Mill and Porter creeks for irrigation of 20 acres INCOME TAX POT OPTO ELECTORATE for Measure Is iled Relief Proposed For Farm Owners Even Slender Wdnieh need a little confincr for the hips and that firrnr com fortable support that only a corset can give. Warner's Rust-Proof Corsets include many sty tea which we especially recommend for slight figures Some of them are rubber-topped or topless, ; others merely short from the waist down. Most are very lightly boned. Let us show you these or oth er styles in Warner's Corsets ' the Guaranteed Corsets. $1.25, $1.50, $2.00 to $5.00 Gale & Company i Commercial and Court Streets 1 i. I "JtJ'!w' Jr!: V t (Old White Corner) t J JalemVrcjttest Wbrrien Apparel Store Remarkable Values Now Offered in Dainty new Waists and Blouses of. Georgette, Crepe de Chine, Pongee, Minnuette and Tricolette and some hand y made examples of skilled wprkers of Porto Rico, all arranged 1 in one price groups for your selection, on; sale Saturday. .. . : , $3 to $3.50 Valuet Now2.48 - ; 1 5 ; Great big assortment including broken lines of Crepe de Chine", Georgette and Pongee Waists and Overblouses in a good variety of styles and nearly all sizs. -" ' 1 : " $4 to $4.50 WalsU Now $2.93 This group includes an excellent assortment of over blouses in new and pretty colors, some Georgette and Min onette models, principally short sleevs, round, square or V shape neck3. $5 to $6.50 Values Now $3.95 beautiful group of new and pretty Georgette, Crepe de Chine and Taffeta Silk Waists and Blouses, very latest styles. $10 to $1150 Blouses Now; $85 . .We have selected from our regular stock about twenty five high grade novelty blouses in various colors and nearly all sizes ? 10.00, $12.50, and $15.00 values, now..: -$8.75 A statement, declaring that the July 7 we met the first Ice hergs I Income tax amendment Initiated floating; oat from the great Taku I by the State Taxpayers League of glacier. Before reaching it we I Oregon, will relieve the present pass a dead or receding glacier. "onerous tax on real estate," and Its front la slowing melting of f. I that it will "equalize the burden like a great snowbank; three mlels jof taxation without Increasing across and hundreds of feet high. I taxes." was filed with the secre- It no longer travels like the lit-1 tary of state, for publication In Ing glacier. Taku is alive fore-1 the voters' pamphlet, by the legis- inf out eight to 20 feet of its two-1 latlve committee of the league mile-wide solid wall of ice, which I yesterday. melts and is rent with crevasses. The icebergs are masses that crack and fall into the sea with a roar like thunder. The Spokane noses her way np slowly antif yon could almost make a' running leap and land On the ice. The Taku Parts of the statement are as follows: Our general property taxes have risen to such a point that many owners are pbliged to dis pose of their .holdings. TWs measure will relieve the property glacier is one of a group of seven 0wner and to Just the extent that glaciers, all heading toward the inlet, and all but one inactive. The Taku rtver heads fn British Co-taken oK real efltate. luiuuia. ioa wora means mm It furnishes such relief the tax wilt he levied against Incomes and means wind.". During the night we en tered Lynn canal, passing Haines, which is the entrance to the Por cupine placer district oa Porci pine creek. Skagway Is reached at 4 a .m. We no longer say day light, for night and day are hot far apart. Eastern tourists were reading newspapers oh the upper deck by full moonlight. We pass ed another glacier after midnight, and Lynni canal ' Is discolored by the streams of milky yellow liquid paint that flow from the glaciers. It is pure rock grfndings, which are crushed to powder, in the bed of the ice masses.' Port of the Yakon Skagway, the adventure city, port of entry into Yukon terri 'A man's income is an exaet measure of his ability to pay. Many citizens who now have sub stantial Incomes do not pay taxes. The property owner pays all. 'It is a legitimate, fair means of raising necessary taxes without unjustly penalizing any class of citizens, or having a tendency to drive from Oregon capital so much needed for the state's de velopment. "It does not in any way Increase public expenditure in any state department nor increase the tax levy as now existing. "It this measure is passed it will bring onto the tax rolls' millions in in comes that-now escape taxation and thus materially lower the tory, gate way to Dawson, .where I taxes of every present taxpayer in one of the Dalton gang opened I Oregon the Chileat pass to the White Horse country, only trail over uhr and Griffin wnich livestock could be driven Win Wav tn Plriak Into the Yukon eonntrvfamnnar M3! 10 finaiS for, Soapy Smith Is the home to day of the lovest woman tn Alas ka, the brilliant hostess of Che Pul leu hotel. Mrs. Pullen Is known to prominent people and officials of every western state. Her beauti ful home and grounds are open to tourists and she haa the larg est collection of curios, relies antiques, old ivory, native works of art a collection the future PORTLAND, July 14. Herbert Suhr and Elmer Griffin,, both ot San rranclsco, won their way here to the finals in the men's singles of the Oregon State ten nis championship. They, will play for the title tomorrow In the semi-final,. Suhr defeat ed Roger Macveagh of Portland. -2. 4-. -4, and Griffith wnn frnm Tfnrv flmv. a Ian of state of Alaska lir be Proud to Portland ln straight sets -1, -2. acquire some uay as an etnnoiog- tgjv uiuocuw. I . Tt tha flnttlai Af ffYia mon'l - I as- kuw saaaaM , wa mm finite Horse Pass . . IdnnhlA. trwlaY mmcr Griffith ieiore taaing me tram at Skag- teamed , with Henrv Stevens of way for the White Horse paas vis- Portland, won the doubles title Itora ' are shown Dyed canyon, from Cattlln Wolfard and Roger across the' canal; the old trail to MacYeagh. both of Portland. The Dawson via the Chilkat pass to The scores were 7-6, 4-Y C-2 aad the xukon. At noon we are on 1 7-5. top of the White Pass and. cross into Canada, both flags flying ap- Pteeiftorl KrTo' Tn Tha parently on top of the world. Be low were indications of the trail V :. :.o.f- . ir. . . ..J j. - : . " Statesman Bring Results i To you and the thousands who attended f his rrreat Kaeriflelnp event of stmner t goods never before have greater crowds gathered at any one store to buy and buy so liberally, so confidently In virtually every de partment For Saturday this stupendous nn mm L-3 Is practically renewed. New stacks of goods will be added to fill, up the. depleted tables and counters and yon will find unlimited numbers of entirely new bargains that will amaze you for their lowness "A Tremendous Succggs" ' was the First Day of this Event And why not when a store so whole-heartedly centers its mind and sou on clear ing and unloading of its surplus stocks of Summer Goods and above all when the reductions are so great arid real but come on Saturday and " ' see for yourself. Don't delay any longer, bring your friends ; iand neighbors with yorj but please fchop as early in the day as1 you possibly can. More extra sales people will be on hand to serve you and our store ' will be open till 9 p. m. ' ! . , ' - -t " Remember Coupons Given As Usual , r reTTnimn m i i a r Store Open Saturday Night Till ,9 p.m. X r i ' 1