\ Alaska Notes
Gleanings From Territorial
? Exchanges.
Arnold F. George, Dawson news
paper editor from 1398 until 1008.
dropped dead recently at Medicine
EJa't, after stepping out of a car.
For the ten years he resided in Daw
son, Prof. George was one of the best
known citiaens of Yukon Territory. He
was editor of the Dawson Nugget for
two years, and then for several years
he was editor of the Dawson News.
About two vears ago he went to Cali
fornia and bought a farm, but soon
tired of it, and again returned to Daw
sod and journalism, m 1900 he accept
ed a position with the Canadian immi
gration department. In 1909 he was
in charge of publicity in the Canadian
building at the Alaska-Yukon-Paciflc
Exposition at Seattle, and lectured
there daily.
At the time of his death Prof. George
was a resident of Calgary, where his
widow and little daughter survive him.
Another daughter, who is married and
is the mother of several children, re
sides in New York.
The Alaska seal herd numbers at.
present close to 700,000 hea l, an in
crease of about 50,019 over last year,
according to the annual report of the
commissioner of fisheries to the secre
tary of commerce.
The head contains more than 90 per
cent of the fur seal of the world. The
industry centers in the Pribiloff
islands, in Bering sea, where the herds
gather during the breeding season,;
under the protection of the government
and United States coast guard vessels.
On St. Paul island there is a plant for
washing and blubbering the skins be i
fore they are cured, and fifteen trained
whites and a number of natives tend
the animals and take the pelts in sea i
son. The law requires the reserving !
of not, less than 5.600 three vear-old
males a year. Last year almost 1,000 j
were marked bv shearing fur from
their heads and were set aside for
breeding purposes alone. A total of
15,920 skins were taken last vear.
Lieut Norman C. Stines, genet al
manager of the United States Smelt
ing, Refining & Mining Company, of
Boston, arrived in Seattle recently, en !
route to the company’s properties in I
Alaska. Lieut. Stines said. ''We ex-i
pect a big increase in gold production j
iD the Nome district, where we have ;
three dredges in operation.” He de- ■
dared Nome will continue to develop |
as a treasure producer.
Before the war Lieut. Stines was at-1
tached to the American embassy at
Reirograd, now Leningrad, and offered j
much platinum to the United States at
cost. He gathered 21,000 ounces, val
ued at 82,200,000, and engineered it to
America at personal risk.
James E. Wilson, a former resident
of Valdez, and well known throughout
the Third and Fourth divisions and
also in Dawson, where he rar. a large
freighting outfit in the early days of
that camp, died at Anchorage a few
weeks ago. Mr. Wilson went to Valdez
in 1908, from Fairbanks, aud was en
gaged in the freighting and trans
portation business there until 1920,
when he moved his out fit to Mata
nuska. In 1916 tie was elected Terri
torial road commissioner, and re-elect -
ed in 1918.
L. L. Roach, of Seward, was recently
appointed United States commissioner
at Kodiak, succeeding C. A. Bettman,
who has been in poor health lor some
time.
After the body of David Englund,
who died at the Anchorage hospital a
few weeks ago, was taken to the Wil
liams undertaking parlors, O. W. Wil
liams, in looking over the effects of the
deceased, noticed that the insole of one
of the shoes seemed a little raised, and
looking under the strip of leather
found $1,300 folded up in .he shoe.
Science and Invention.
Copper was the first metal discovered
bv primitive man.
The use of radium and the X-ray
form the greatest sLep in present-day
science.
The world's smallest dictionary was
made in Pompeii, Italy, and is only one
inch long, three-fourths of an inch
wide, and a quarter of an inch thick.
A process has been discovered that
makes it possible to obtain brass in
colors ranging from bright yellow to
j orange and from red to'blue.
More than 1,000 different pieces of;
material, varying from felt to wood,
ivory and many kinds of metal, enter
into the makihg of a high-grade piano.
A total of 3.317 dogs were sacrificed
in Paris in the interests of science last
year. Lost dogs, no matter what their
value, are sold for about 23 cents each.
A kiln has beeu invented for quickly
drying lumber, at the same time re
moving much of the residue and vapor
ising the turpentine, which is recov
ered.
Miss Edna C. Johnson, of Atlanta.
Ga , is the inventor of a machine that
writes faster than one can speak. A
complete word is written at every
touch of the key.
To determine whether a singer really
has a‘"voice.” a device has been per
fected, resembling a gas mask, which
tests the quality of the voice by a line
registered upon a cylinder.
In making an ordinary shoe today
there are 174 machine operations, per
formed upon 134 different machines,
and 36 hand operations, or altogether
210 processes by a proportionate num
ber of work people.
To reduce repair bills and to obtain
full service from the uppers, shoes
with detachable soles and heels ha\e
becD invented. It is said that the but
tons cannot rip off and that anyone can
put them on in a few moments.
A sirpn mounted on an electric light
post has been installed in Boston, that
also carries a lire alarm bos, which
sounds its sh.iill warning when fire ap
paratus or ambulances must have the
right of way. It can oe heard for half
a mile, and when it sounds all traffic
must halt.
Max Simel
The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
Sold
Miners’, Prospectors’
and Trappers’
Supplies
Steamer Service On the Inoka
River.
Ask the People of Ophir about us.
STATION
Fairview, Innoko River
Spring quickens the sap in the trees i
and slows op the sap in the o’liee.—
Louisville Times.
Science says that sleeping- will some
day be unnecessary. It’s almost ins
possible now.—Dayton News.
PROFESSIONAL
Mrs. Jean McLean
Notary Public
Tokotaa, Alaska
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Albrecht and Taylor ,
LAW YERS |
George W. Albrecht,
lditarod, Alaska,
Charles K. Taylor, j <
Fairbanks, Alaska. j J
Practice in all Courts. i 1
CHARLIE’S
LAUNDRY
McGrath, Alaska
A Bath in a Ileal
Bath Tub
Shoe Repairing
Sign Writing
Paper Hanging
Charles Rebhun
The Handy Man
Are You Going to Build?
We have in stock lumber of all kinds, rough and
dressed. Lately we have added a few linos, such
as Rustic and Shiplap, 4 and 6-inch Flooring, Win
dow and Door Casing, Window and Door Stopping.
Boat Lumber of all kinds.
And if you are goinu to build a sled, call on as. Wa have the
best hickory in Alaska.
LUMBER CO.
The Kusko
Times
$1 Per Month
\ Dredging or Hydraulicing
Proposition. Yankee Creek
About 7 miles long, extending from
No. 1 below discovery down to The
mouth of the creek.
Pay located all along for a distance
of about 3 miles from upper end, and
pretty wrll prospected and cross-cut.
Average depth of ground is from 7
to 20 feet. Top is all black muck,
that can be scraped freely. No rock
bigger than one’s fist.
Ground will go from 15 cents to $1
persquare foot of bedrock.
Ditch on the ground, 3 miles long,
together with water rights. Ground
is pretty well cleared. There is also
a drain, 3 miles long. Also a water
right on Ready Bullion creek, from
which water can be brought to
Yankee creek with a ditch less than
a mile long [4,900 feet], with a pres
sure or fall of 120 feet, being 1600
i feet to the work from the ditch.
After doing away with muck there
will be from 4 to 6 feet of dirt to
handle.
Only about $11,000 has been taken
out.
Prospecting work during the past
winter has resulted in finding values
that run up to $1 per square foot of
bedrock.
I will either sell the ground or give
a lease on it. If the prospect is sat
isfactory to the buyer, a cash pay
ment will be expected.
For further information, terms,
etc., call on ground, or write or tele
graph me.
ED NOLLETTE,
Tokotna, Alaska.