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Stop in and hear the newest Victor Records. We'll gladly play them for you. Victors $10 to $100; Victor- Victrolas $75 to $250. Terms to suit. Hear them at the NORTHERN DRUG CO. Cordova, Alaskn. Greater Godova's Greatest Newspaper wh* <**+•-•snujiBmtosr ~"t>— i ~m > -?j. $1.00 per month, $10 a year, if paid in advance. Our City Circulator J. 3". Way, will call 4 on you in a few days and solicit your subscription. * Associated Press Telegraphic Reports 1 | The following Is from a report of n Z Ice ure by Professor Kincaid, of the . University of Washington, published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: The fur seal it seems. Is not a true seal. Me is kin to the bear family. The true seal has no ears, but the fur seal and his big cousin, the sen lion, have ears like a benr or a pig. He is the lineal descendant of a bear w.hich has learned to swim The fur seal spends his winters In aristocratic ease around Honolulu, en joying the warm waters of the south ern oceans. In the spring the call of I the North gets Into his blood and n law, mysterious as that which makes the tide to flow nnd the salmon to turn their noses toward the rivers of their birth, stnrts t,he fur seal i i n ne,l < n tlin _t Ai . ■ UIIU Will mandor Islands, which lie, fog enscons cd, in the Bering Sea. First come the bulls, kings of the herd. These battie-Rcarred leaders pick out a home amongst the rocks, and hav ing established themselves In cozy nnartments by right of conquest, set tle down to await the coming of their consorts. The females arrive nex The year that Professor Kincaid spent on the l’rihilof islands, ns assistant commis - oner of the fur seal commission headed by Dr. David Stnrr Jordan, 'here were 10,000 hulls and 130,000 females. The seal is a polygamous brute, and tie gathers from ten to forty wives about him, according io his strength In battle and the chances of fortune; On the outskirts of this community gather the bachelors, young bucks who have not yet essayed to break ln •o the seal society, and the females too young to undertake family enres. The first duty of each mature fe male on reaching the land is to bring into Die world a pup. 'I his seal pup, barring human ha Hu*. Is ju t about the prettiest, ]|v liest, fattest, most playful little brat of all the animals tlint Ood put upon tlie earth. lie weighs about ten pounds at birth His coat is a rich soft black, like the finest black velvet. His great brown eyes are human in their beauty. The pups gather In groups, huddling together like dog pups nad playing like kittens, yapping and leaping and shaking their fat little sides with seal Inughtcr. When the pup is hungry he seeks his own mother, never another mother, and takes his refresrment as God de signed babies to do. The pup never feeds at any breast than his own mother's. Keep thnt fact In mind. A treat many years ago women be an to crave sealskin coats. Women’s ity drove the Russian explorers BtuuuuH, ana in his way the Pribilofs were discovered 0,1 • t’d the mist curtains which hung over Bering Sea. A Russian company first exploited the seal Islands. Two American com s "anil s succeeded, and now the Islands ' !|ro dosed to sealing. " ’’Ho **u> killing of seals was con tiued to the land, l’rofessor Kincaid believes, the harm done to the herds 'as slight. But the commercial con ditions. the lease of tho privilege to oao company, led to the deep sea, or pelagic sealing. Once a week the mother seal swims | out to sea for food. OIT shore, some fine morning, lies " BChooner surrounded by small boats, i 1 ml in each small boat are several i'-kill' d gunners or harpooners. I bo glossy head of the mother seal, I Spears a moment above the surface. There is a crack, crack of rifles and u swish of harpoons. \ stain of red spreads over the iter and the mother sinkH. Perhaps the boats reach her in time to gain a pelt: perhaps they don’t. But back On the beach there frol 1 H 11 roly-poly little pup, yapping for 1 s breakfast. in course of time the inevitable hap pens. The pup yap Its last. One of Professor Kincaid’s lantern slides showed a group of seal pups at play. The other was a grew some scene \L,ura ri.unnn _i, i:n*. -a beach block with dark little bodies, each the price of a pelt that went to make a ladles’ coat. Since Japan has joined In the in ternatlonal sealing treaty pelagic seal ing is becoming a thing of the past \ The government still takes a few pelts 1 on the I’rlbiiofs, kiiitng the mules from 3 to 6 years old. The slaughter makes little differ ence In the herd. For. by the scheme of things, n certain number of super fluous males nre fated to lay down their lives in battle. The announcement of this news wns the most cheerful part, of Professor Kincaid's lecture. I wonder If the yapping little ghosts of the orphans whose lives hnve been sacrificed to make up many a seal skin coat ever pursue the proud wear er of it. - o HOMESTEADS IN THE TUNA VALLEY According to tho records nnd fig ure!- of the Fairbanks United States Innd oflice, which embraces in its district the whole Interior of Alaska, an estimated area of 300.000 sptmre milcF, there are on this date only 55 homestead entries. They con ain an aggregate of 15,344.44 acres. Tills oflice is comparatively new so far as homesteading is concerned, as the government surveys were not ap proved and filed formally until this year. The first homestead entry was made February 12, 1914, by Alphonse Zehnder, and the last entry embraced is that of J. F. McOrath, November 2fi, 1914. Local officials estimate that 85 per cent of these homestead ers have been living on their land the last two years nnd over. Some of them have been squatters, how ever, for four and five years, and have inely cultivated ranches. Under the laws all they have had to do is to prove three years’ residence and bona fide cultivation of the land to ob tain patents to 320 acres, or the amount filed upon. The general homestead laws apply to the taking of land in Alaska as In the States, no special requirements or offers being made in the matter of proof. So far the government sur veys have been very limited, but with the coming of railways larger appro priations for this purpose are bound to be made and the area extended greatly. It is not possible to state offhand how innny acres of agricul tural land there nre in the Tatiana valley alone, but it will climb up in to the hundreds of thousands. The - government maintains a large exper tnent farm or station near Fairbanks, full reports of which for several years . back are available by writing the de- 1 part meat of agriculture at Washing- < ton, D. C. ! TERMINAL TOWN IS ON THE ALERT _ Ed. Hearing says the town of Chit ina Is very quiet, but everyoue is on the alert waiting for the purchase of the Copper River & Northwest ,\i railway by the government. The liveliest young men in Chlti nn is young Gregory Rockefellow, who is tlie five-year old son of the man ager of tlie N. C. stage station there. Young Gregory knows (he name of eveiy horse running into Chitina, and personally sees that the Ei a. m. stage leaves on time, and that the drivers take care of their horses. Fred Schoup has a sheet metal works and hardware store there. Mi ami Mrs. Chiis. Hull, who formerly had a restaurant in the location oc cupied by the Little Grill here, is now conducting a large grocery store and rectus to be doing well— Fairbanks News-Miner Our prices on Sugar and other staple Groceries are always the lowest. Call at our store and lie convinced. O’NEILL & SLATER Co. -— yn Kinney has 4 cornor on Coffee. What we mean Is COFFEE, not the wiehy-wiahy kind you havfc*' buying and nicknamed eoffte. One can of Dwight Edwards will convince Today’s news iu today’s Daily Times Northern Meat Market I t----— 1 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN Fresh Beef, Pork, Veal and § Provisions I g Particular Attention and Prompt Service Given to order* from jji; MINING CAMPS, ROADHOUSES AND INTERIOR POINTS X BRANCH MARKET AT CHITINA SMITH k GLASBRENNER, Prop*. HOISTING, DRILLING UNO MINING MACHINERY Manufacturers of STEAM ENGINES, HAND AND POWER HOISTS, CORE DRILLS, STEAM AND HORSE POWER PLACER DRILL8 Dealers In STEAM FITTINGS, CABLE. 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