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FEATH CLAIMS NURSE—
Mrs. Theodore Van Bibber, 72 years
eld. away at her residence in
Fj.i'-hart»s leontly. Death was caused
be r.oart tr iable. She is survived by
J.r. \ an Bibber who has been for
jr.ary year- a p. Me and trapper in
this .1 ; iv. The Vrn Bibbers have
been r V dents rf Fairbanks since
130'.!. Mrs. Van B bber was a nurse
< - :’ie st: if oi Su Joseph’s Hospital
for i0 years.
r \*1 \ LYSIS AT JUNEAU—
very of two suspected cases of
1 vfentre raralysis, both children in
homes along the Glacier Highway
roar Juneau, resulted the morning of
F p rr.ber 2~ in *h Territorial C m
r : • e* of II th, Dr. W. W. C j’Jn
eib ! in r nil schools closed for an
indeftni'e period, and notifying par
ents to keep their children on home
premises, to prevent them from going
rn streets, to'forbidding them from
rlr • a with other children and to
stop them from attending any public
gatherings. The order closing the
shools is direct d to all of them—both
grade and public schools, parochial
schools and the Federal ogvernment’s
native school.
ASKS ALASKA DEVELOPMENT—
To C-. e ‘be grafting of a propram
to or r" • ■ : an orderly devclop
r ni 'i a n'= resources, Delegate
1 • - r rn ear-'.' recently before the
* st'nna! Reso’-rots Commission. In
t - appeal the delegate said that ini
:a! development should be based on
r.-a.K air transportation, forests and
minerals. He added: “V'ith these as
s foundat: n, ord rly development will
in n other fields.” The delegate
lain Y: that therfonnnission should
seek the cooperation of local Alaska
ar.nirg councils in,mapping a long*
■rm program. The hearing before
the commission is inconsequence of a
solution adopted at, the recent ses
sion of congress asking the President
v t- it. to the Federal lawmakers
at their revt session a program for
the development of Alaska’s re
sources and Alaska’s commerce. The
commission is expected to report the
recommendations to the President.
ARRIVES IX FAIRBANKS—
Serg . 'V’l’iam Vanert, the man
from Purgatory, was in Fairbanks
recent'" for medical treatment, but
«e still appears hale and handsome,
despite his 73 years. Sergeant Yanert
and his brother. Herman A. Yanert,
74 years old, have lived at Purgatory
on the Yukon River since 1902. Their
cabins are -‘0 rules below Eeaver as
tie river goes, or 103 miles airline
north f Fairbanks. The only resi
dents of the two-man community, they
make their living trapping. Sergeant
Yanert is a field soldier of the old
school, having served in the regular
army in the western frontier from 1883
till 1898, and from ’98 till 1902, he was
a scout and topographer in the ser
vice in Alaska. After that, he settled
down at his present location on the
Yukon, and named the place Purga
tory because it was a sort of a place
to live. But the years he has spent
there were happy ones, he believes,
for he enjoys solitude. The sergeant
is a life member of the Fairbanks
Igloo of the Pioneers of Alaska.
WAGES ARE FOOSTED—
Wage increases of 10 per cent, are
provided in agreements signed recent
ly in Cordova by the managements of
the Copper River and Northwestern
Railroad and the Kennecott Copper
Mining Company and representatives
of employees of the two companies.
The wage increases are retroactive
and are effective from last April 15.
The agreements are to continue in
force until April 15, 1P38.
FINED ON LIQUOR CHARGE—
Morris Plotkin and Herbert H. Ode
kirk changed their pieas to “guilty”
n U.' S. Commissioner’s court at Fair
banks recently. Jud^e William N.
Growden assessed a $250 fine against
Plotkin and a six-months suspended
sentence against Odtkirk. The de
fendants were charged with liquor law
violations, in a complaint filed by Dis
trict Attorney Ralph Rivers. They
changed their plea; from “not guilty”
o “ruilty” cn advice of their counsel.
T. G. Rivers and Julian A. Hurley,
coring ihe- trial. Both Plotkin and
Cdekirk were arrested in a raid by
F leral officers on Noble street, one
ha'f bloc k beyond the city limits. As
manager of thr h use, Plotkin was
fined. Oder i t .established in court
tha- he was not a partner in the bus
in but was merely employed as a
wo.her. His 60-day sente nce was sus
pended, pending good behavior, for a
period of one year. Charges against
he defendants were: illegally selling
liquor, keeping liquor for sale with
out a liesr.se, and selling intoxicating
liquor to an intoxicated person.
DR. IIAVERSTOCK DIES—
Dr. A. D. Haverstoek, widely kr.own
and popular surg-on at the Seward
Hospital, died recently at the Potten
•rer Sanitarium at Monrovia. Cal., ac
cording to word received in Anchor
age by Jadgc and Mrs. Thomas C.'
Price. Dr. Haverstoek. with Mrs. Hav
erstoek; went to the States last April.
His death came as a shock to his
many friends who believed his health
was improving since his departure
for the States, Dr. Haverstoek was
well known in Anchorage. He was a
surgeon on *he staff of the Anchor
age Hospital for several years. Since
1931 he practiced in Seward and many
of his friends went there for his aid.
The doctor was born and reared in
Philadelphia. He came to Alaska in
1923 as a captain in the army medical
corps. During the war tie made a no
table record in army service and was
honored for his work. He served at
the Walter Reed Hospital in New
York. While in the service of the
army in Anchoraee. Dr. Haverstoek
was called to the Letterman Hospital
in San Francisco. On the evening of
his departure he married Lois Price,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C.
Price. She went to San Francisco
and they resided there more than a
year before returning to Anchorage.
In 1931 Dr. Haverstoek removed to
Seward to become chief surgeon of
the Seward General Hospital. He and
Mrs. Haverstoek built a picturesque
log cabin as a summer home just out
side of Seward that has attracted
many visitors as one of the show plac
es of the vicinity.
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FLAG CEREMONY POSTPONED—
Plans for hanging the original Al
aska Territorial flag in Independence
Hall, Philadelphia, have been indefin
itely” postponed, Delegate Anthony J.
Dimond announced recently in Wash
ington. The flag is in the possession
of Mrs. Carl J. Lomen of Nome and
Seattle. The delegate said he expect
ed the emblem to be placed in the his
toric shrine at Philadelphia even
tually.
NEW INDUSTRY DEVELOPING—
Building a new industry in Alaska,
two livestock corporations have 200.
000 acres of grazing land and 50.000
head of sheep in the Aleutian Islands,
it was reported in Fairbanks recently
by A. C. Kingsley, agent for the De
partment of Interior. Mr.- Kingsley
had just returned from a tour of in
spection in the Westward. His job
has been to investigate grazing leases
for the department. The two lar • t
companies interested in the sheep in
dustry in the Wesward are the Aleu
tian Livestock Co., and the Western
Pacific Livestock Co. Mr. Ringoley
said that the Aleutian Co. has head
quarters in Salt Lake City, Uuah. end1
the V estern Pacific Co. offices are in
Portland. ftn»
FEDERAL TAX TOTALS SOAR—
Startling gains in tax collections,
from five and one-half million dollars
in ’32 to twenty-eight and one-hrlf
million in *37, are reported by Thcr
W. Henricksen, collector of internal
revenue for Washington and Alaska
largest tax district under the U. S.
flag. The $5 barrel beer tax during
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1937.
amounted to almost as much as the
total collection of Federal taxes in
Alaska and Washington during the
fiscal year ’31-32. A thorough canvass
to check up on Social Security pay
ments is to be made of every town in
Alaska. “Every employer is liable un
der the Social Security Act,” Mr.
Henricksen said. “If he employs eight
or more persons, he is liable for an
additional tax.”
VISITS FAIRBANKS—
Mrs. A. A. McCandless, one of the
best known pioneer women of the*
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FRESH STOCK !
OF FINE
DOG
SALMON
[Se ifjrth2 present at
12c PER LB.
As we are snort of
Storage Room
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TAKOTNA
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A. H. TWITCHELL
Proprietor
I North, who, with her husband, has
been in many of the northern camps
and is still very actively engaged
I with him in their mining enterprises,
was in Fairbanks recently on a visit
' from Greenstone Creek, in the Ruby
dis Ruby district. She expects id be'
there about two weeks, and to then
return to the creek where McCand
less is mining. Mrs. McCandless was
the first woman to live on Jack Wade
Creek in the Fortymile country.
The creek was struck in the spring
of 1899 by the Abell brothers, who
named it after an old-timer of the dis
trict. Another woman, who stamped
ed there to stake, was the first wo
man on the creek, but did not live
there, says Mrs. McCandless. In go
ing to Jack Wade for the first time,
Mrs. McCandless mushed in over the
trail over the ice up the For^mile
River. We had air exceptionally dry
■ season on Greenstone for our hydraul
ic operations,” says Mrs. McCandless.
“There were 55 dry days until about
the middle of August. Since then we
have had a good many rainy days,
giving a total of about 40 for the sea
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