The Albany Newspaper. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, October 2, 1891 Page: 2 of 2
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FRIDAY OCT. 2, 1891.
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McRimmon & Co.
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D. O. McKIMMON.
J. P. McDAKIEL.
DEALERS IN
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE.
We are now re-
ceiving our fall and
winter stock of dry
goods, boots, shoes,
hats, caps, clothing,
furnishing
notions etc.
goods,
SUBSCRIPTION PRICK »1.S0 l*r ANNUM
"ALASKA.
Red Mountuin of Alaska, Latitude
60, Longitude 134.
September 27th, 1891.
We find our ship driven by storm
and fog into Bartelette Bay, where we
cast anchor, and was bumped and
tossed by icebergs all night, and we
confess that it made a crawling sensa-
tion rim over ns to hear the ice beat-
ing against our ship, but we weather-
ed the storm and on the morning of
the ?8th we set sail for the Muir Gla-
cier at the head of Glacier Bay, but
holy honor in ton miles run we were
in the Polar sea to all appearances, as
it was a floating mountain of ice as
far as the eye would reach with the
field glass and further progress in this
direction was too perilous to mention.
Hump, blimp, went the ship and off
eoroe the stern, or a piece
] o feet long with iron plates an inch
tlmdi* this with the ladies crying and
ringing their hands was too much for
Strrfy Texan, and we felt a great re-
lief when the captain said to the pilot,
••turn her around,'* and this took full
two hours to float around and watch
the openings between the moving
mountains of ice, which threatened to
crush us every moment. But in three
hours we were again in open water, i ^ _ * X*
Though the sea was running high HinTKOt pl'lCO ±01' COU li-
lt was pleasant compared to ice flows, £3 _ _ _
' to we had to content ourselves witli
looking at the greatest (ilacier in ex-
istence at a distance. As we had now
been in floating ice two days and it
cold and stormy wo were glad to get
elear of it, but the storm increased in
fury and we run south, and at four
)>. m. it was blowing a gale and we
sought shelter in Pyrimid harbor, am.
cast anchor for the first time. And
as we looked out from our snug re-
treat at the white caps roll by we
thought of our mother and and thank-
,,,i |i,p (;iver of all <rood as has always ■ , .
w we uuu o J makes it pay the owners, who Uv
boon our custom anil under till trying
circumstances. For had this storm
caught us in tne ice, where we would
now have been, would have depended
partly on our past conduct and our
mothers prayers. The captain exam-
ined the broken ship but found no
leaks, and we felt quite safe, and re-
mained here until after the 80th and
visited all the villages around.
This is near the head of the Cli'l-
hat Bay, in latitude (>0, longitude 134
twenty-five miles from
yiver.
On the morning of the 31st we
were in Taken Bay, at Taken Glacier.
Here was more floating ice and one , .
11 , . , ! ai| but few fish get up the river
of the grandest glaciers on record. : ,
" . fiv()! walked up the river a few rods
A. J. CENTER
L.M.KEENER
CENTER 3i. KEENER.
At The Old Stand,
We also carry at all times a
tull and complete line of sta-
ple and fancy groceries, all
kinds of feed,, and pay the
try produce, hides, etc.
We ask the public to inspect
our goods before buying.
Conrad's old stand, Albany,
Texas.
Our Fall and Winter goods
are now arriving and the styl-
es are elegant; quality the
best, and the prices within the
reach of all. Don't buy until
you examine our line.
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ton but the magnitude of the mill
in
San Francisco and refused sixteen
million dollars for their plant.
This country is good only for mining
fishing, fur hunting and lumber men
and can never be made good for agri-
culture.
September 1st finds us passing 11.
Wrangle, a city of graven images
a short stop here and we sail for Yaas
Bay the, most picturesque place we
have seen and the greatest fishing cs-
the Youcon j tablishment in Alaska.
Here we taken live thousand cases
of canned salmon, here they have
traps, nets, scins, dams and wheels,
Indians and hooks, and between them
We
and
a grab hook
just below the dam the fish were thick
and he was taking them out as fast as
he could haul them.
He says, you want to catch one
handing me the pole at the same time
Shackelford County Court House,
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We were gently floating in fonr or
, . , ., . fa came to an Indian with
hundred yards of its base in fifty fa- _ ^ ^ ^ ^
thorns of water, i*9 there was no
chance to land for floating ice. And
8ueh would have been useless, as the
purpendieular wa'ls of rock or ice
we cculd not climb. We remained
.... . j... i we soon landed a salmot three feet
here an hour and looked on in woudti ^ ^ t,m|]k took the fisll
at the great work of nature | " ^ to thc sl„ got in n
Here before us .» a wall of ice our ^ ^ w(mt tQ Ul(J u,ip ll3 we
hundred feet above and three hundred . . ,
jiunureu leou au wmlU1 cu|l it a small correll made of
feet below the water, running baO. | nf the river
. , netting set in the mouth ot the rivci
no the Can von Bay «is far as we could ° . .
up tne j i j wit|i wings t0 it like one would make
see with the field glass, llius making , m tl.U net in-
, - - , f to correl wild horses. In this net 111-
u solid body of ice seven hundred lee | ^ tooU a bo;lt and hauled up
thick and five thousand feet long ^ and took QHt {rom
completely blocking up the bay, and ^ ^ ^ tll0Usand fish. U took
every few minutes great, blocks larger ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Qut
than our ship would tumble down ^ piutures of this with
and roar like earthquakes and rock , ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ them to
and toss thc ship lib* a rubber ball. ^ We ooulll Stl(J gr01lt schools of
a quarter of a mile away. | ^ om. sh,p at any
How old this Glacier is an«. how
much ice is contains we would like
you to figure out.
The Eagle and the Davis glacier
and many smaller ones to numerous
to mention.
The tourist on our ship, who saw
them say the glacier* in
dond't compare with* our glaciers, as
tJiey simply run down in the valleys
and rest on the earth, and do not
dome to water level and
nnd float out to sen as ours do. And
do not compare iu grandure witli the
Alaska glaciers.
Well we spent the summer iu the
ami have seen ice enough for
one August and now are homeward
bound. We have worn heavy winter
underwear, heavy winter suit with
overcoat, and Macintosh rain coat
And Arctic shoes, for the last two
weeks in August, and heat was run-
ning in our state room most of the
time.
x And our next landing was at Doug-
las Island. Here we visited the tread-
well mines and went into a mine
where two hundred- stamps aie crush-
ing rooks,all in motion at once, is im-
mense, and the deafening roar can on-
ly be imagined as yon are utterly
ly spcochless, you could not hear a
cannon fire, and one gentlemen said
this was the first place he ever saw or
heard of where a woman couldn't talk
and his wife wont crazy in live min-
ntos, and thc Stray Texan's wife made
signs for paper and pencil. We soon
got enough of this roar :u>d retired to
time while at anchor.
September 2nd we visited a fishing
establishment called Lowring, here we
found the wreck of the steamer An-
con, liigh and dry on the rocks where
a hundred passengers had to wait on
j t|u s|iore five days for the next chance
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but there was no loss of life, lleie
we taken five thousand more cases of
salmon. Herein the evening after
, ,, tiie days work was over the Chinamen
lU-' ° went fishing in the little shallow
stream at the cane-y, they had shov
els spades and clubs, and got all the
fish they wanted We sailed away
at midnight and the captain to his
great sorrow left his Nefoundland dog
(named Texas) on shore and never
missed him until next morning. This
dog was the only representative of
Texas wc found in Alaska.
September 23rd. We anchored at
Mary's Island, a lovely uninhabited
place. Here, by order of our govern-
ment thc Captain has selected a sight
for a custom house, to be built by this
and the British government this being
the line between Alaska and Britian.
Willie here wc avail ourselves of the
last chance to fish in. Alaska waters
we cast a line, as we think, to catch
halibut, but soon we are pulling away
and bring up a young shark about five
feet long this oinwcs quite a ripple of
excitement among the passengers to
think they have a real man eating
shark on board. All who can produce
uUtfieg try their hand and among
hands wc catch ten or a dozen smaller
ones, Ella and Eaton each catching
slaughter house, and t'»e passengrs
have lots of fun by tying floys to their
tails and throwing them overboard
alive and seeing them swim off in fly-
ing colors.
To-day we bid adieu to Alaska and
sail for America down through the
British waters, it being a pleasant af-
ternoon we saw many Indians out in
their litte canoes, they taking great
pride in saluting as with the British
flag from tlieii small crafts as we
passed by.
We are now passing down through
the Gulf of Geoigia, Vanchover Is-
land on our right.
It being a bright moonlight night
the Captain invited ivs on deck, where
lie j»nd his mates had violin, banjo
and guitar and invited the passengers
to join in the Alaska Ghost dunce,
better known in thc south as the Vir-
ginia reel in which they indulged and
enjoyed themselves immensely.
September 5th. We are passing
through Queen Tehartotta sound
where we can see many fish of many
sizes from whales down.
Wo are now nearing the American
coast and our jourr.eys end. We feel
like it was breaking tribal relations at
the thought of being separated from
our fellow travelers and especially the
ships crew from Captain- Hunter to
thc lowest oflicer, as we never expect
to travel with a better crew of officers.
And now after a twenty-two days sail
and three thousand miles of inland
sea travel we are landed safely back
at Tacoma and hope to reach Texas
in the early fall. We now bid you
adieu. Tour* 1 ruly,
Stkay Texan.
Mrs. J. F. Bennett and daughter
returned to their home in Griflir> Sat-
urday from a two months visit in Mi-
lam eoiiuty.
Messrs George Wright and Murray
Sebastian, of Throckmorton, were in
Albany Wednesday.
Uncle Tom Baker's cotton gin is
running to its full capacity now and
cotton is just beginning to come in.
The indications are that this will be
the largest cotton season that wc have
ever had in Albany.
the tunnels and seperaters, retorts and , ftr0 oft, ht by lhu niUives
other places of interest about *I for tlieiP ■ 0i| only and do not grow
mines. This is said to be the »«*•«?) ^ ^ _n ^ waters. TUe I
Mr. W. I). Reynolds and family
returned to Albany last Saturday after
several months visit in Diekcrson, Da-
kota.
Mrs. I. N Jefferies, of Drefcerson,
Dakota, is visiting her mother, Mrs.
Spears, and other relatives in Albany.
N.EBURNS &Co
DEALERSIN
Hardware,
Tinware,
Crockery,
W /
Stoves,
Wood and Willow-ware and
Farm Implements.
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.A-GKEHnTTS for
Studebaker Wagons,
Charter Oak and Brilliant
Stoves, Glidden Fence
WIRE,
Perkins Wind Mill, White and
New Home
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Uncle Jack Barcley started for Chc-
topn, Kansas, Thursday, and will re-
main with Mr. M. V. Hoover, for a
short time.
Mrs. Ingrm, who lias-keen staying
with Uncle .loc Matthews' family for
the past three years, left on the Cen-
tral Thursday.
Mr. W. II. Linam, of Throckmor-
ton county,was in Albany yesterday.
quartz mill in the world,
is low grade, seven to ten
the mineral
dollars a
back end of the ship looked like a
Try BLACK-DRAUGHT te»for Dyi|wp«i«,
Our stock of groceries is full and
complete, and we invite the attention
of parties buying. A T "D A TvTV
lltf. D. O. McBimtnon &Co., A.LDAIN I,
SPECIALTIES.
Glidden Wire, Baker Wire, Sfiutt Climer Wire, Stude-
baker Wagons, Abbott Carriages McCormick Mowers and
Reapers, Buckeye Hay Rakes and Grain Drills Budlong
Disc Harrows, Casady Riding Plow, Solid Comfort Sulky
Plow Perkins Wind Mills and Pumps, Duponts Powder.
We will meet the pricss of any town in West Texas, m
any of the named articles.
N. H. BURNS & Co.
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Cook, S. F. & Rye, Edgar. The Albany Newspaper. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, October 2, 1891, newspaper, October 2, 1891; Albany, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth416814/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Old Jail Art Center.