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ONE OF OUR GREATEST BATTLESHIPS AT ANCHOR During the big naval parade at New York oue of the vessels that aroused the most admiration was the elec trically driven dreadnaught New Mexico, which is here shown at anchor in the Hudson. MANY NEW WAYS TO AID ALASKANS Washington.—While educators have spoken of what education ougiit to do, and have propounded theories the bur den of which has been that education and life should be synonymous, one part of the United States has been ex periencing such an ideal in actuul practice. In Alaska each school house la a social center for the accomplish ment of practical ends. Many of the buildings, in addition to the recitation room, contain also kitchen, quarters of the teacher, and a laundry and baths for the use of the native com munity. Every teacher is .a social worker. Every district superintendent, in visit ing his widely separated schools, must travel vast distances by sled over the frozen, truckless wilderness. Fre quently he must risk his life on treach erous, tempestuous waters In a native canoe or small power boat. He must mdure the violence of the northern storms, the rigors of the arctic winter, and the foulness of the dative huts In which he must often And shelter. Directed by Bureau of Education. This work Is carried on under the supervision of the bureau of education, and the details of current operation are reported upon by William Hamil ton. He tells that there are in Alaska approximately 25,000 natives In vil lages ranging from SO or 40, up to 800 or 400 persons, scattered along thou sands of miles of coast line and on the great rivers. Some of the villages on remote Islands or beside the frozen ocean are brought into touch with the outside world ouly once or twice u year, when visited by a United States coast guard steamer on Its annual cruise, or by the supply vessel sent by the bureau of education. Many of the settlements have no reg ular tnall service and can communi cate with one another and with the outside world only by occasionally passing bouts in summer and sleds In winter. During eight months of the year nil the villages In Alaska, with the exception of those on the southern coast, are reached only by, trails over the snow-covered land or frozen rivers. In spite of the dlfllcultles of the problem a United States public school has been established in each of sev enty villages. In many Instances the school Is the only elevating (lower In the community. Tuberculosis, pneumonia, rheuma tism. and venereal diseases prevail to an alarming extent in many of the nntlve villages, and In Its endeavor to safeguard the health of the natives of Alaska the bureau of education main tains hospitals In five important cen ters. It employs physicians and nurs es. who devote themselves to medical nnd sanitary work, and provides medi cal supplies and textbooks to the teachers to enable them to treat minor ailments and Intelligently to supervise hygienic measures. There are exten sive regions in which the services of ALLIED SUBS PERILED London. —tine of the greatest perils to allied submarines during the war was attack by friendly destroyers. A submarine was assumed to be an ene my when sighted by the ships of any allied nation and it was up to the sub marine to show recognition signals If she was not German. . Hut if it was a destroyer that sight <>d the submarine she was nlways mak ing tor the little craft hy the time the recognition signal* could be shown. A slight hitch In getting up u ting or Br ing a rocket would mean the snhms riuo would bo forced to seek safety beneath the surfsee. Probably the Inst nttnck of this sort was made by Araericnn destroyers on n new British submarine of a lnrge type. She v.as being tested when sighted by th« destroyers and they innde for her full speed. Something happened to the Signal system, nnd the under-wnter vessel submerged ns depth charges began to tenr up the water. One charge shook her until a physician are not obtainable. Ac cordingly, it Often becomes the duty of n teacher to render first aii| to the Injured or to care for a patient through the course of a serious illness. Supervise Co-Operative Store. Another duty of the teacher Is to su pervise the co-operative store which Is owned and managed hy the natives, who deul in everything hut refrigera tors. Strange to say. the government of the white inan has to protect the nutlve from white man himself. To secure the native from the Intru sions of the unscrupulous trader, the bureau of education has adopted the policy of establishing reservations fo which large numbers of natives can be attracted -ami where they can obtain fish nnd game and conduct their own industrial and commercial enterprises. The settlement nt Noorvlk. on the Ko buk river. In arctic Alaska, Is one of tlie most conspicuous successes of this policy. With their advancement In civiliza tion the Eskimos living nt Deering. on the bleak sen <*nast. craved n new home. Lack of timber compelled them to live in the semi-underground hovels of their ancestors, while the killing off of game animals made It increasingly difficult to obtain food. An uninhab ited tntet on the hank of the Kobuk river, 15 miles square, abounding In game, fish and timber, was reserved hy executive order for these Eskimos, and thither they migrated in the sum mer of 1915. On this tract in the arc tic wilderness the colonists, under the leadership of the teachers, within two years huve built a village with well TO USE WHALE MILK Salem. Ore.—Whale milk may some day settle the question of milk supply for Oregon, according to State Veter inarian Lytle, who is entirely serious In the matter. ' “The milk shortage,” said Mr. Lytle, “may be swatted some day hy domes ticating the whale. With the whole Pacific ocean as a farm the domesti cated whale would put the Oregou dairy business on a mammoth scale. Whales are mammals, each of which furnishes about a burrel of milk at a milking, and while at present they are a little too shy to be exactly classed as-easy milkers, some day they will be domesticated." Doctor Lytle suggests placing a sheep or two on every lawn in Oregon as a more immediate means of curing the milk nnd wool shortage. “A good sheep of long or medium wool will give ak much milk as a $75 milch goat, and It is the finest obtain able for'infants. In addition, from $6 to $8 worth of wool can be ob tained. If the lamb is raised, $lO can the crew thought she was doomed. submarine wns constructed to dive 320 feet, but that was forgotten ns charge after charge exploded neat by. Finally she struck bottom at 300 feet and It was found she was not badly damaged. She was kept on* the bottom until her commander was cer tain the destroyers had gone. Then she was cautiously brought to the sur face. “She don’t need any more testing after that experience,” the comman der reported to the officer in charge of the submarine base. Hog Weighed 712 Pounds. Keyser. W. Va. —The largest hog ever killed in this section of West Virginia, dressed recently, weighed 712 H pounds. The meat will bring more than $l5O. The development of ore mining In eastern British Columbia show's a steady progress. THE ELK MOUNTAIN PILOT. SIR DYCE DUCKWORTH Sir Dyce Duckworth.‘one of the best known of England’s prominent physi cians, served on the naval medlcln® consulting board. He is active and honorary member of many of the world’s most famous medical socle ties. He sacrificed thousands of pounds yearly practice by devoting much of his time to the affairs of the board. inld-out streets, neat single family houses, gardens, a mercantile company a sawmill, an electric light plant, and wireless telegraph station which keep5 them In touch with the outside world. be obtained for it at three months, but. of course, if the milk is wanted the lamb must be sacrificed." NEGRO IS FATHER OF FORTY Had Eighteen Children by*First Wife, None by Second and Twenty- Two by the Third. St. Louis. —B. B. Banks, a negro, who lives In Benton. St. Louis county, says he Is the father of 40 children. Banks asserts .that all his “babies’* are alive. He says he lias six sons in France. Banks was discovered in Division No. 5 of the circuit court, where he wns n plaintiff, in an action ngulnst the Clover Leaf Casualty company, seeking Judgment of SSOO for alleged personal injuries suffered while em ployed ht a steel plant. “I’ve been married three times," Banks said. "By my first wife I had 18 children. She’s dead. My second wife had no children. I divorced her. I had 22 chlldreu by my third wife." COAL COMING FROM ALASKA Railroads Planned for Development of Big Fields in the Far North. Seattle, Wash. —Development of the coal resources In Alaska which have been .locked up through federal iatfs has been greater in 1918 than In all previous years combined, according to advices received by the Senttle cham ber of commerce, due to the construc tion of the government railway. The first shipment of Alaska anthra cite coal to reach tidewater was de livered at Cordova October 24. An other shipment 100 tons Is now on route to Seattle. The Alaska anthra cite railway hns been completed from tidewater on Bering river to the coal mines of the Alnska Petroleum and Coni company, 22 miles. It is planned to extend this rnilrond eight miles from its present tidewater terminus to deep water on Okalee channel. Controller bay. where coal can be discharged direct from the cars to ocean carrier*. MARKET QUOTATIONS W«»(«ru Newspaper Union News Service. DENVER MARKET. Cattle. Fat steers, grassers, choice „ _ , to prime $13.00@14.i0 Fat steers, grassera. good to choice 11.50@12.50 Fat eteers, grassers, fair to good 10.00@11.00 Heifers, prime 8.75® 9.60 Cows, fat, good to choice.. 8.50® 5.25 Cowa, fair to good 7.26 @ 8.25 Cows, medium to fair 6.60 0 7.25 Cows, canners 6.00® 6.25 Bulla 6.00® 7.00 Veal calves 8.00@12.00 Feeders, good to choice... 10.60® 12.00 Feeders, fair to good 9.50® 10.50 Stockers, good to choice... 9.00@10.00 Stockers, fair to good B.oo® 8.75 Stockers, medium to fair.. 7.25@ 8.00 Good bos, 11C.60® 17.00 Lamb., f.t “rr: *14.7501640 Lambs, feeders, good 14.50® 15.00 Lambs, feeders, fair,,..... 13.50® 14.50 Ewes B.oo® 8.75 Ewes, feeders 6.00@ 7.50 Yearlings ■ 10.00@ 11.00 Wethers Jf... 9.00 @IO.OO Hay sad Orala Market. (F. O. B. Denver. Carload Pries.) Hay- Buying Prices. Colorndo. upland, per t0n..522.00023.00 Nebraska upland, per ton.. 20.00@21.00 Prairie hay. Colorado and Nebraska, per ton 20.00@21.00 Timothy, per ton 23.00024.00 AVfalfu. per ton 1V.00@20.05 Soutli Park, per ton 22.00@2J.60 Gunnison Valley, per ton.. 21.00022.00 Straw, per ton 6.00@ 5.00 Urals. _ . Oats, Nebraska. 100 lbs., buying.. .$2.45 Corn chop, sack, selling 3.10 Corn, in sack, selling 3.06 White corn meal, per 100 lbs 4.00 Yellow corn meal, per 100 lbs 4.06 Gluten feed, sacked, selling.' 3-34 Bran. Colo., per 100 lbs., selling... 1.75 Klssr. Hungarian Patent. 98 lbs., sacked, subject to discount $5.14 Hungarian. 48 lbs., sacked, subject to discount 2.67 Hungarian. 24 lbs., sacked, subject to discount 1*32 DRESSED POULTRY. The following prices on dressed poul try are net F. O. B. Denver: Turkeys. No. Is 34 Turkeys, old toms 26 @2B Turkeys, choice 18 @lO Hens, lb 20 @22 Ducks, young 24 @26 Geese 24 @26 Roosters 12 014 Live Poultry. Turkeys, 9 lbs. or over >* Hen. . IS 023 Ducks, young 22 @24 Qeese 20 @22 Springe 20 @26 Broilers, 1H to 2 lbs SO RABBITS. Jacks, dosen $1.5001.75 Cottontuils 1.5002.25 EGGS. Eggs, strictly fresh, case count $16.75017.00 Batter. Creameries, ea. Ist grade, lb. 63 Creameries, let grade, stor age 64 061 Creameries. 2d grade (cold storage), lb *. 52 061 Packing stock 40 041 Fruit. Apples. Colorado, box $2.0003.56 Tears, cooking 2.26 @2.76 Vegetables. Beans, navy, cwt 10.00012.00 Beane. Pinto, cwt 7.000 7.60 Beene, Lima, lb .14 Beane, green, lb 25 0 .SO Beans, wax, lb -250 .80 Beets, new. cwt 2.00 0 2.50 Cabbage, new, Colo 2.000 2.50 Carrots, cwt 1.750 2.00 Cauliflower, lb 150 .17 Celery, homegrown, /lorn.. 400 .60 Cucumbers, hothouse, ds. 2.500 S.OO Lettuce, head. Colo., dos. 1.250 1.50 Onions, table, dos 600 .74 Onions, cwt 65 0 .80 Potatoes, new. cwt 1.400 2.00 Radishes, long, hothouse .30® .35 Radishes, round, hoth’se. .25® .35 Spinach, lb 090 .10 Turnips, cwt 1.50® 1.75 HIDES AND PELTS. Dry Fllat Hide*. Butcher, 14 lbs. and up 26e Butcher, under 16 lbs. 26c Fallen, all weights 27c Bulls and stags 17c Culls 15c Dry salted hides. 6c per lb. less. * Dry Pllat Pelts. Wool pelts 26c Short wool pelts 20c Butcher shearings 15c No. 2 and murrain shearings 10c Bucks, saddles and pieces of pelts.. 15c Green Malted Hides, Rtr. Cured hides, 25 lbs. and up. No. 1..15c Cured hides, 25 lbs. and up. No. 2..14c Bulls. No. 1 lit Bulls. No. 2 10c Glues, hides and skins 6c Kip. No. 1 16 018 c Kip. No. 2 14® 16c Calf. No. 1 26®28c Calf. No. 2 24026 c Branded kip and calf. No. 116 c 3runded kip and calf. No. 2 16c Part cured hides, lc per lb. leas than cured. Green hides. 2c per lb. less than cured. Green Salted Hsreebldes, No. 1 $5.0006.00 No. 2 4.0005.00 Headless. 50c less. Ponies and glue $2.0002.00 MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS. New Verb C'nttoa Exchange. Month. Open. High. Low. Close October 23.00 23.80 28.00 28.08 .tanuury 28.90 28.90 28.60 28.80 March 27.26 27.42 27.15 2..20 May 26.20 26.87 26.11 26 i7 July 25.60 25.66 26.40 25.48 Spot 81.85—26 c up. Metal Markets. Bar silver, fl.Ol^t. Copper, per lb., JSc. I.«euti. $6.00. Spelter, $7.51. Tungsten concentrates, unit, ft 7.000 22.00. Da tilth classed. Duluth.—Linseed. $3.600 3.62. Liberty Bead Qnotations. open. High, l-ovv. Close. Liberty 3V£s... 99.58 99.60 99 50 99.60 Ist 4a 93.00 93.00 93.00 93 00 2d 4* 93.00 93.00 93.00 93.00 Ist 4‘ 4 s ....96.46 96 46 96.46 96 4- 2.1 4148 . ... 95 24 95.26 95.20 95.26 3d 4‘ lS 96.26 96.28 96.20 96.20 4th 4 4 * ....95.66 95.68 95.60 96.66 Live Stork Market. Chicago.—Mokh— Bulk of sales. $17.55 @17.86; butchers. $17.65 017.95; light. $ 1 7.20 0 17.85; pat king. sl7.oo‘frl> 6 throw outs. sl6.oo'a 16.90; pigs. $16,250 17.00. Cattle—Reef onttle, good, choice and prime. $ 16.40 m 20.00; common and me dium $‘1.75016.40; butcher stock, cowr and heifers. SB.OOO 14.25; canners anu cutters. $7,000 8.00; stockers and feed ers. good, choice and fancy. 810.50® 14.00; inferior, common and medium. $8,000*10.50: veal calves, good and choice, $17.000 17.50. Sheep—Lambs, choice and prime, I $17.25 017.40; medium and good, $15.50 | 0 17.25; culls. 111.75@ 14.25; ewes, choice and prime. $ 10.75011.00; medium and good. $9.25010.75; WESTERN MINING AND OIL NEWS Arizona. The Johnson strike near Quartzsite reported sold for $30,000. Commonwealth ships copper ore av eraging $3,000 s car from Pearce. Recent strike in Hardshell mine at Hardsaw is running SIOO in silver. Bad weather has caused suspension of work on oil properties at Holbrook. The Consolidated Arizona is aver aging around 1,000,000 pounds copper per month, according to reports. Yavapai county’s copper production to continue on large scale until de mand shows signs of falling off. Specimen of pure copper weighing 113 pounds taken from Emerald Isle mine. Production United Eastern Mill for November, 6,873 tons, valued at $176,833.62. Wrigley Sulphide Mines to be reopened upon stabilizing of metal prices, says reports from King man. Wyoming. One of the biggest filing fees ever received at the office of the Secretary of State was paid when the Liberty Potash Company of Salt Lake City filed its articles of incorporation at the statehouse. The capitalization of the company is $11,000,000, and the fee was $2,206. The new concern will operate in Sweetwater county. The Fenex Oil Company has re- Sirted another well on its section 10, ig Muddy lease, the flow being en countered at a depth of 3,214 feet. The well is said to be producing over 300 barrels of crude daily. The Fenex Oil Company was organized by local business men last fall and owns the royalties on some of the most valua ble wells in the Big Muddy field. A decision rendered recently by First Assistant -Secretary of the In terior Vogelsang states that carnotite and other radium, uranium and vana dium compounds are not metals. The decision was rendered in the esse of the Consolidated Ores Mines Com pany, whose application for land grants was canceled on the ground that carnotite is not a mineral. All limitations on the kind or amount of fuel coal, food and other ship supplies which vessels outward bound from American ports may carry were removed in orders issued by the war trade board. Licenses for bunker coal will be issued in the same manner as heretofore, however, and thru this the board wjll continue to control the destination of the ships. New Mexico. Lead and zinc production comes from the Magdanela District in Socor ro county, the Steeplerock District in Grant county and the Cook’s Peak District, Luna county. While lead alone is mined in the Central District, Grant county, the Victorio District, Luna county and the Organ Mountain District, Dona Ana county, and zinc in the Hanover and Pinos Altos Dis tricts. The reflort of the United States Geological Survey on the output of the mines of New Mexico for the first eleven months of 1918 and the esti mated output for December shows a decrease in all metals. The total pro duction was $681,000 in gold, 868,000 ounces of silver, 9,250;0C0 pounds of lead, 98,690,000 pounds of copper and 25,000,000 pounds of recoverable zinc. The total value waa $28,625,000, as compared with the 1917 output, valued at $34,986,765. Copper, of course, is the principal metal produced in New Mexico. The larger part of production comes from the Chino Copper Company’s de posits at Santa Rita. This is a low grade ore which is milled at the com pany’s immense plant at Hurley. The Phelps-Dodge mines at Tyroqe and the Eighty-five mine at Lorasburg also enter into the production figures.. Other copper mining districts in the state are the Magdalena District in Socorro county, the Orogrande Dis trict in Otero county and the Cara-, cito District in Torrance county. In gold and silver production the Mogollon District in Socorro county leaas with an output of $115,948 in gold and 312,000 ounces of silver, which is less than half of the output of this district in 1917. Other dis tricts producing gold and silver are: The Aztec mines in Colfax county, White Oaks, Parsons and Nogal in Lincoln county, San Pedro in Santa Fe county, and the Orogrande District in Otero county. Colorado. Over 100 men are employed by the Primos Company at Camp Urad. Un der the management of Mr. Matthews this plant is running to full capacity. During the past season an increas ing number of Boulder mining men have taken up the spar mining at Jamestown, as well as others engaged there in gold and silver mining. The fifteen principal mining coun ties in Colorado are Boulderfi, Clear Creek. Eagle, Gilpin, Gunnison, Hins dale, Lake, Mineral, Ousay, Park, Pit kin, San Juan, San Miguel, Summit and Teller. The assessed valuation of these fifteen counties on mining property only in 1 1916 was $32,905,117, and in 1917 was $108,474,000. In 1918 the assessed valuation was $144,301,- 691. The stockholders of the Wellnigton Mines Company, ouwer and operator of what is conceded to be Colorado’s largest zinc producer, on January 2 received a dividend of SIOO,OOO, or 10 per cent on the company's capitaliza tion. In the San Juan region the situa tion as to labor, mining costs and in fluenza was particularly arduous, but despite these difficulties San Juan county’s production fell off only $60,- 000 in gold, 200,000 ounces of silver, 1,000,000 pounds of lead and 600,000* pounds of copper, and equaled the out put of 1917 of 3,200,000 pounds of zinc. HUSBAND SAVES WIFE From Suffering by Getting Her Lydia E. Pinkham’a Vegetable Compound. Pittsburgh, Pa.—“ For many months I was not able to do my work owing to a weakness which !lll!!)li!li!ll!lli caused backache mmiuiliim anc j headaches. A friend called m y attention to one of your newspaper advertisements and immediately my husband bought MjHßSall three bottles of LvdiaE. Pinkham’s L 'S* Vegetable Com pound for me. • After taking two ~J bottles I felt fine and my troubles caused by that weak ness are a thing of the past. All women who suffer as I did should try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Mrs. Jas. Rohrberg, 620 Knapp St., N. 8., Pittsburgh, Pa. Women who suffer from any form or weakness, as indicated by displacements, inflammation,‘Ulceration, irregularities, backache, headaches, nervousness or “the blues,” should accept Mrs. Rohr berg’s suggestion and give Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound a thorough trial. For over forty years It has been correcting such ailments. If you have Srsterious complications write for rice to Lydia E. Pinkbam Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. Stop Losing Calves To* c*n s £Ounp Abortion Out ef YOUR HERD and Keep It Out By the dm of DU. DAVID BOBIBTS* MB “Anti-Abortion” Sail] Exmom ImSt Applied. Sure Results. Used successfully for M yesrm. Consult D». DAVID ROBERTS about all snlmc.l raiments. In formation free. Bend for FREB ssev of "The Cacds Sooctalist** with full In for nrnmn co. mm*., wt Cuttcura xyjoi For Baby’s Itchy Skin Pep*. S. Bratea.” DRAW POISON THROUGH SKIN Baltimore Physician Believes Ho Has an Effective Cure for Rheuma- New Idea. Dr. Fred Prldhnm of Johns Hopkins hospital In Baltimore has devised n treatment for Joint uffectlons, such ns rheumatism, that is being used very successfully nt the military hospitals where It has been introduced. He uses n mineral, double uitro-peroxlde, which nctually extracts the Inflamma tion. The salt Is mixed with a starchy substance which holds its action until It Is placed on the skin over the dis eased bone, from which it extracts the Impurities, the germs and their poi sons. The mnterinl Is sprinkled on lint or gtßrae and placed on the skin over the diseased hone. When the doctor removes the dressings, from six to twelve hours later, there will he seen blisters on the skin. If there is no infection the salt will not affect the skin. How It Turna Out. “Love Is blind," luunched out the chronic quoter, for the ’steenth time. “Quite true," agreed the henpecked man, glancing furtively about, “but after murriage a man has his eyes opened and a woman develops u keen sense of touch.” The Underworld. Silas (in a whisper)—Did you git s peep nt the underworld at all while you wuz in New York, Ezry? Ezra —Three times, b’gosh ! Subway twice an’ ratscellar once.—Buffalo Ex press. Save Sugar by eating GiapeNuts as vpur cereal dish This standard food needs no added sweet ening for it is rich in its own sugar, developed . from wheat and barley by the special Grape-Nuts process of cooking. “77 iara'a a fiaoson"