Thousands of Owl Land Staked After Oil Leasing Bill
Reports from Seward Cordova and other north coast towns say thousands of acres along the Alaskan coast from Mount St Elias to the Yukon boundary have been staked by locators after President Wilson signed the coal and oil land leasing measure. Stampedes rivaled earlier gold rushes as locators rush to Kenai peninsula Cold Bay Shelikof Strait Katalla and Yakataga with wireless alerts and chartered launches. An English company at Katalla drilled a fractional claim of about 34 acres. conservation orders discouraged broader development while some wells patented since 1912 yield distillate for fishing boats.
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Seattle
Mount St. Elias
Boundary Line
Yukon
Alaskan
Wilson
Seward
Cordova
Kenai Peninsula
Cold Bay
Shelikor ‘Strait
Katalla
Yakataga
Bering
Malaspina
Washington
Denounce Employment of Young Strikebreakers in Hawaii
George O Hilton told the Honolulu central labor council that using college and school boys as strikebreakers on Oahu sugar plantations is wrong while Japanese and Filipino workers continue a strike since January 19. The Japanese federation rejects ordering members back to work but will negotiate on wages. The planters’ association vows to continue the fight. Reports show about 1800 strikebreakers at work and around 2000 of the original 2600 Filipino strikers have returned to jobs.
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Honolulu
T. H
Oahu
George O. Hilton
Ohau
Utah Irrigated Lands Count May Reach Two Million Acres
Utah state engineer Geo F McGonagle reports about 950000 acres of irrigated lands are under cultivation in Utah. He estimates conserving all water resources could enable irrigation of 1800000 to 2000000 acres, contrasting earlier belief that only about 200000 acres were irrigatable.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Geo. F. McGonagle
McGonagle
Community Ironing Day In Snowflake Area
In Snowflake Taylor and Shumway Mormon communities a community ironing day is planned on a Thursday. Water power provides electricity to heat irons for housework as women prepare garments across the colonies. Regular days bring power only after nightfall for lighting.
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Ariz
Snowflake
Taylor
Shumway
Woman’s Hen Lays Unusual Double Egg
Mrs. Robert A. Ferrell of Dallas boasts of her Rhode Island Red Red Beauty whose egg weighed half a pound. Inside the white yolk and a second perfectly formed hard shelled egg appeared, an unusual poultry feat for a domestic hen in Dallas.
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Dallas
Tex
Robert A. Ferrell
Beauty
Rhode Island
Alaskan Railway Motor Car Runs From Fairbanks
Gaystad of Fairbanks Alaska owns a 15 mile wooden rail line from Tolovana head of navigation to placer mines 75 miles away. A 1916 Dodge Brothers motor car hauls up to six tons, making 8–9 trips daily and logging over 6000 miles in a season. He notes 23 hours of daylight in summer and that better roads will boost Alaska as a motor vehicle market.
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O P. Gaystad
Fairbanks
Alaska
Allways
Tolovania
Dodge Brothers
Gaustad
Tologana
Tidewater
Yukon River
Holsteins Bring High Prices at Auction Sale
Sacramento reports the Pacific coast classic auction set an average of 901 per cow for T1 registered Holstein cattle. buyers from Oregon Washington Iowa Nevada and California attended. top cow Ida Lotta Winifred Burke sold for 2300 to R L Holmes. Ensign Komoyke Model Pontiac bull sold for 2050 to H H Sisson with consignors including James J Jeffries of Burbank. Two cows from Jeffries joined David Maxwell's Waterloo Iowa herd.
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Sacramento
Calif
Washington
Nelvada
California
Oregon
Iowa
Nevada
Hawaiian Islands
W. J. Higdon
Tulare
Cal
Ida Lotta Winifred Burke
R. L. Holmes
Modesta
Pontiac
A. E B. Smith
Sumas
Wash
H. H. Sisson
Willitts
James J. Jeffries
David Maxwell
Waterloo
Towa
Return of undesirables to England met with cool receptions
Large numbers of Germans and other deported individuals have returned to London after wartime deportations. They face wary welcome as their identities are uncovered. The reports describe how they attempt to cross from the continent and are met with caution and scrutiny by authorities and the public.
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London
England
Germans and locals clash over wartime tensions at home
Two days after arrival, boarders turned out a German resident. a German butcher in a London suburb was barred from reopening after neighbors objected. The steamer Spica’s crew were not allowed ashore at Methil and the German flag was not flown. In contrast, Covent Garden saw a revival of Tannhauser with an all English cast drawing a crowded, appreciative, society audience.
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Ing
London
England
Spica
Firth
Forth
Methil
Covent Garden Opera
First word received from the top of the world
Royal Canadian Mounted Police patrol reports Native communities in the Red River region face famine due to scarce game. The long isolation of Arctic mainland and islands ends as dispatches reach the outside world.
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Dawson
Y. T
Arctic
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Red River
Polish President Eligibility Set by Constitutional Commission
Warsaw. The constitutional commission of the diet adopted a resolution outlining that a presidential candidate must be of Polish nationality, at least 40 years old, and Roman Catholic or Protestant in religion. The commission has been framing the Polish constitution for nearly a year.
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Warsaw
Constitutional Commission of
Diet
Paper Miles Drive Buys Alaska Pulp Establishment
Officials of the government forest service seek to lure paper manufacturers to establish pulp mills in Alaska. Ketchikan area is targeted as a potential site as officials push for new industrial development along the coastal region.
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Alaska
Kietchikan
Government Forest Service
Alaska paper mills eyed amid forest plan says Flory
C H Flory Alaska forest supervisor says active steps toward establishing mills will be taken soon. He denies blocking efforts by the Forest Service and asserts better inducements than Canada are offered to aid paper mill development.
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Alaska
C. H. Flory
Prizefighting Hobbled in Manila Philippines
Prizefighting once thriving in Manila and surrounding provinces was halted last December when opponents pressed the law. A 15 year old Philippine commission statute bans prizefights, though not enforced until recently. Since then no bouts occurred except on U.S. government property, with promoters hoping to revive boxing and push a repeal at the recent legislative session.
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Manila
United States
Hen Lays Twin Eggs at Gold Hill Ranch
Twin eggs nearly normal in size were laid by a hen on C. D. Morgan’s ranch near Gold Hill Oregon. A narrow shell fragment accompanied the eggs and they are being saved for exhibition at the state fair this fall. No prior record of a hen laying two eggs in one day or such a freak existence has been reported.
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Gold Hill
Ore
C. D. Morgan
Viscount Astor Buys Part of Jura Island
Viscount Astor has purchased part of Jura island off Scotland’s west coast and plans to build a mansion and several smaller houses, apparently for occupation on the property.
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London
Viscount Astor
Jura
Scotland
Lord and Lady Astor Residency on Jura Deer Season
Lord and Lady Astor will reside on Jura island only during deer stalking season. Jura, about 25 miles long, is described as a mountain range rising from the sea and a natural deer forest.
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Lord and Lady Astor
Jura
Alberta premier says no liquor law amendments before plebiscite
Edmonton Alberta Premier Stewart announced in the legislature that no amendments to provincial liquor laws will be introduced until a plebiscite is held on liquor importation under federal sanction and forbidding wholesale liquor houses except under Dominion government control.
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Edmonton
Alta
Neenge
Stewart
Alberta
Fern starch industry found on Hawaii Island
Census enumerator T H A P Christian reports a new industry in Hawaii Island. A Japanese worker in a distant district processes fern roots into starch in the large fern forest behind Mountain View.
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Hielo
Island of Hawaii
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