, qUAKE CAUSES MUCH
DAMAGE IN THE INTERIOR
KEN AX A—Shelves in stores in
tfcis interior town were prety well
cleaned of goods shortly after seven
o'clock the morning of July 22 by a
severe earthquake lasting more than
ttro minutes. Minor quakes and
temblors followed almost continuous
ly for an hour. A strong odor of
whiskey in the downtown section in
dicated* that liquor sores were am
cng the heavy quake sufferers.
An excited hotel guest tossed a
rope out of his window and descend
ed clad only in his pajamas. Aside
from these few highlights, the earth
quake caused no undue concern.
Three Heavy Shocks at ..Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS—Earth quakes that
! bcgr.t. at 7:09 in the morning and
contained intermittently every few
minutes throughout the day did no
damage here except to.break a few
wind ows.
Arrivals in cars from points south
westerly along the Richardson
Highway reported the quake cracked
the earth and sent gushes of mud up
four to six feet in the air.
The towns of Circle, Manley Hot
Springs. Fort Yukon. Jack Wade
and Tanana all reported the shocks.
Suburban and long distance and
half of the city's telephone lines
were out of service for a short time
bat were soon repaired.
The quake was apparently the se
verest to the southwest of !•<;’-<•
The University of Alaska Seisroe
grsph showed the first and most se
vere jolt at 7:09’e. The second se
vere shock was recorded at V5o and
a third at 8:01.
The first shock was so strong it
-pu the north-south motion of the
seismograph ■ out 6f commission
while the east-west -needle went to
he limits of the tape.
The epi-center of the qnake was
estimaed to be southwest of here
and Dr. E. Bramhall, physician at
the University and a member of the
-eccnd Byrd polar expedition said he
r-pes with reports from Sitka to de
ermine the exact origin of the
shocks.
An Alaska Road Xomirrission sur
vey revealed that a s!:ce feet
long at mile 33 south of Fairbanks
buried the road. Traffic scheduled to
go that way was temporarily divert
ed to the Alaska Railroad.
Road Commission officials also
said that starting at a point about
15 miles cut of Fairbanks and con
tinuing as far as the north end of
the slide, the road is laced with
crocks from two to six inches wide.
Plane surveys of the surrounding
t- miry are planned.
Practically every home was vaca
ted for a few minutes when the first
quake was felt.
Schoolmaster: “What is the mean
ing of oik twenty-fifth 7”
Boy: “I don’t remember.”
Schoolmaster: “If you had 2c
friends visiting you and only one ap
ple for them, what yon do?”
Bey: “I’d wait till they’d gone,
and then eat it myself.”
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CAT WITH SIX
LIVES IS FINALLY SLAIN
MAYFIELD, Ky.—George Bing
ham. who writes a daily front page
editorial column in the Mayfield Mes
senger, got a letter from Kaye
Wyatt.
It speaks for itself:
“My father, Denver Wyatt, of
Mayfield, discovered that a very
mean outlaw tom-cat had been eating
our chickens. He shot the cat two
times Friday morning, then knocked \
him in the head with a stick and j
threw him into a cistern which was <
about 12 feet deep. The cat weighed
12 pounds.
"Sunday evening as my father was
fixing to milk the cows, this same
mean tom-cat had come back to earth
having climbed out of the cistern
and was full of fight.
"My father yelled for my brother
to bring the gun right quick, and the
cat was again shot two times, and
it ran off about 33 yards and climbed
a tall sapling, and then the cat was
shot out of he tree, and ran off
some distance further.
“Then our neighbor and his fox
hound came over and our little fox
terrier and the hound got into a big
fight with the tom-cat. and the cat
bit the little dog through the leg,
also bit the big dog.
“Then the cat was again shot for
the sixth time and knocked in the
head, and was then thrown into the I
cistern with a big rock tied around
his neck, and he hasn't come back
any more.”
PLANE HITS FISH BOAT—
Three passengers and the pilot
were injured in an airplane crash re
cently. it was reported in Anchorage.
The plane, piloted by John Littiey.
was taking off from Egegik and
bound for Kanakanak when it crash
ed into an anchored Columbia River
fishing boat, shearing off the pon
toons, causing the plane to upset
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