* >
Alaska Notes
I
(lathered h'rttm Territorial
Exchanges.
One thousand and fifteen beaver
skins, declared to be contraband,
were seized recently in Seattle by U.
S. cutoms authorities and are being
held subject to orders from the Alas
ka Game Commission. The names of
shipper and ^consignee were not re
vealed, but it is said that at least one
. arrested is expected within a few
.days. The market value of the pelts
is approximately $30,0000. All are
said to have been taken during the
protected season and to have been
-smuggled into Seattle. The shipment
was found in the cargo of the
steamer Starr, Captain C. E. Ander
son. It is believed probable1, that the
pelts were taken along the Alaska
Peninsula and in the Bristol Bay
areas. They were consigned to Kan
sas City and were billed and marked
as “dried fish.”
John C. McBride, collector of cus
toms for the District of Alaska, has
been appointed custodian of the Cap
itol building at Juneau, formally des
ignated the Federal Territorial build
ing. The appointment was made b
James A. Wetmore, supervising ar
chitect of the Treasury Department,
Washington, D. C. Mr. McBride was
authorized to select an assistant or
acting custodian, and he has named
for that position M. S. Whittier, as
sistant collector of customs. Mr. Mc
Bride was empowered to create the
Dorbandt
and
Cope
Fly in comfort tv. all points in
AI ska in our four-passenger
cabin plane. Large baggage
compartment separate from the
cabin. Equipment for water
landings.
Sig' -seeing trip , any tim *.
$5.00 pe. passer„er.
For Kates to Alaska Points
SEE
J. P. TAYLOR
following positions in connection with
the care and maintenance nf the
building: One assistant custodian
engineman, one engineman helper,
one fireman laborer, three firemen
watchmen, one foreman of laborers,
two elevator conductors, one elevator
conductor laborer, seven laborers, five
charwomen. All these positions will
be filled through civil service exam
inations to be held in Juneau prob
ably this month. Mr. McBride is di
rected to take over custody of the
building as soon as it is completed,
from J. I. Marshall, construction en
gineer. The capitol building will be
ready for occupancy early in January.
Grizzly bears are reported to be
crossing the country near Suntrana
in unusually large numbers. They
started from their summer feeding
grounds with the coming of cold
weather. A few days ago a caribou
hunter shot across a valley near Sun
trana at what he took to be a good
sized caribou, only to see it rise up
eti its hind legs and disclose itself as
an immense grizzly. The bear start
ed for him, but turned back when her
cub began to whimper. The next day
the same hunter, again looking for
caribou, was walking along the trail
when he saw another big grizzly.
Having only two cartirdges left, he
gave it a wide berth. Another hunt
er, soon afte, put three bullets into
a grizzly, but it got away. Its body
was found a few days later on a
nearby hill. Shortly after this two
men were leading two horses along a
narrow trail beside a cliff when a big
grizzly came into view. The men,
being unarmed, made haste to leave
the immediate vicinity, and one of
the horses did likewise. The other
horse was cornered, and rather than
face the bear, jumped over the cliff,
breaking a leg on the rocks below.
Captain A. E. Lathrop sent a crew of
men up to rescue the animal and they
succeeded in bringing it back to Sur.
trana. An effort was made to save
the animal, despite the nature of its
injuries.
Wolves are very numerous this fall
in th* •'Hvrtrn river d Vrict aid they
! ,ti. rar ing havoc with the you: . of
mountain sht ep and cariboo, accord
ing to E. H. Bartholf, veteran Aia-i.a
piospecur, who returned to Anchor
age a few days ago from a prospect
ing trip into that remote region, ac
companied by Jack Borland.
The prospectors saw many of the
wolves and a number of dead lambs
which the predators had killed. They
also took particular note of the sheep
I and caribou seen along the trail and
observed that there were vew lambs
among them, indicating that the
losses of young animals have been
very heavy this season.
There did not appear to be much
fur in the* country, but more rabbit
tracks were seen.
Revigator Restores Water’s
Lost Element
THE NEWEST MIRACLE OF MODERN SCIENCE
THE most important thing in life is health. We cannot con
tinue to live healthfully unless we live with some respect
to the laws of nature. Life is but cellular buildiny and cellu
lar elimination. This lost element of water is Radio-activity,
which both creates cellular energy and removes cellular poisons.
Sir Arbuthnot Lane, the great English physician, says “Most
diseases are directly traceable to bad drainage in the body”—to
the accumulation of clogging waste matter or poisons at vital
organs.
For centuries the world has recognized the value of health
springs, and medical officers now attribut the value of the fam
ous springs to the natural radio-activity of their waters. This
radio-activity is one. of nature’s ways of dissolving and elimin
ating these health-destroying poisons and building healthy cells
and tissues.
It is now possible for everyone, sick or well, to have perpetu
ally, and at reasonable cost, the splendid benefits of a genuine
radio-active health spring in the home through this invention—
THE REVIGATOR WATER JAR.
Order one today from any of the following sub-agents: Vic
Ebright, Flat; Tom DeVans, Ruby; Oliver Anderson, McGrath;
Fred Roethlisberger, Ophir; Chris Petersen, Takotna.
KODIAK BEAR, SWIMMING,
IS LASSOED FROM VESSEL
(Ketchikan Chronicle.)
This is a bear story.
The reader can take or leave it—
but anyway it’s a new bear story.
According to the recital, given
along the waterfront, Charles Kirk
land, now in the city, and E. Uricon,
also a Ketvhikan man but not here
now, were members of a crew 'on- a
seine boat to the westward this sum
mer.
The boat sighted a big Kodiak bear
which was swimming along quietly
minding its own business. Those on
board gave chase, desiring a elnse-ur
view. The boat overtook Bruin and
slowed down, and the men on board
became interested spectators. They
got a great laugh out of seeing the
bear hit it up on all eight, trying, to
kep out of the way of the boat and
turning its head to watch the men.
Now, it should be mentioned that,
Birkland comes from Montana, the
land of cowboys and he-men, and
two-gunmen, where they speak in a
soft voice and are uick on the trigger
and shoot from the hip. Birkland is
said to have conceived the bright idea
of lassoing the bear
He coiled up a rope with the regu
lation cowboy loop, swung it around
his head a few times and let loose.
The loop, landed squarely over the
bear’s head. The end of the line was,
snubbed and the t’un began.
The bear fought the rope, but was
brought alongside of the boat, half
choked. It managed to get a claw
h((ld on the side of the boat, and in (
less time than it takes to teil it was,
over the rail.
One man went up the mast. The;
sky was the limit, but he could not;
get any further than the mast reach- j
ed. Another dived head first into the
fo’castle. The man in the pilot house
TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN N-ENANA AND FLAT
Miles
Nenana . 00 1
Tavern Roadhouse . 17% i
Knight’s Roadhouse . 23%
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse . 58 ..
, Diamond Roadhouse .— 76
Roosevelt . 89 |
Lake Minchumina . 115 i
Trappers’ Cabin . 132
Lone Star Roadhouse . 158
Telida Roadhouse . 169% j
Slow Fork Roadhouse . 187
East Fork Roadhouse . .) 206
Berry's Landing Roadhouse _ 227%
Big River Roadhouse . 241
McGrath . 263
Takotna ... 280
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse . 291
Ophir . 300
McCafferty . 306
Brown Creek shelter cabin . 318
Fritz shelter cabin . 333
First Chance shelter cabin . 346
Schermeyer R. H. 360
| Iditarod . 376
Flat . 384
Bonanzza sheler cabin, 12 miles
from Flat
Crooked Creek shelter cabin, 19
miles from Bonanza
s
I
I Pioneer
Shop —
Blacksmith,
Machine and
all kinds of
Sheet Metal
| Work
I
Safetys
Stoves
ROBERT LOWR1E
Proprietor
i
slammed shut the doors and windows
and looked scared.
For the moment the bear was
“proud monarch of all he surveyed.”
He traveled as far as the snubbed
rope would let him and in a playful
humor chawed out half the side of a
skic.
Finally after he had quieted down
somewhat, Birkland thought he might
snatch the rope loose so that the
bear could get away. After having
picked out a place for a quick get
away, he cautiously approached and
made a quick grab for the loop, but;
the bear made a quicker swipe and |
tore off part of his coat and shirt. j
A consultation of war was then
held. The man on the niast shouted
advice; the man in the pilot house
swore and also shouted advice, and
Birkland eyed the bear, and the bear
returned his gaze with interest.
Birkland conceived the idea of cut
ting the rope, after the boat had ap
approached the shore as close as was
safe. But the bear was too watchful.
Then he climbed to the top of the
pilot house, took, a long pike pole, and
after a number of attempts got the |
hook under the lqop and pulled it off
the bear’s neck. Then everybody be
gan to shout and make as much noise
as possible. The bear plunged mu
the water, swam to the beach, stood,
there a minute, shook its shaggy
sides, reared up and took a look at
the boat, and then disappeared into
its native haunts.
Wise—Where do the jelly fish get
their jelly?
Guy—From the ocean currents, I
guess.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
You, Ralph J. Rivers, flans Gal
neck, co-owners with the undersigned
in the Garnet Lode Claims No. 1,
No. 2, iNo. 3 and No. 4, situated on
the reght limit af Otter, on Mala
mute Pup, in Otter Recording Pre
cinct, Territory of Alaska, will please
take notice that the undersigned, for
the years of 1927, 1928, 1929, did
perform more than fl,200.00 worth
of work for the fcenelt of the above,
described claims. If each of your
proportionate share • of assessment
work dues is not paid within ninety
days after last publication of this no
tice, your interest in each of the
claims will become forfeit to the
undersigned in accordance with the
provisions of Section 2324 of the Re
vised Statutes of the United States
RASMUS NIELSEN.
First publication, September 27,
1930.
Last oublication, December 27r
1930. 21
Babeesch
McosehiJe Mitts and Boo*
Furs Bought and Sold Clothing
All Kinds of Nice Fresh Groceries and. Fruit*
Canned Goods of All. Kinds Beds and Bedding
A, R. Hdridge - McGrath
—III ■!—mill III! Ill mill II III——Mil—I I —III! III! BIIIH11 11II ■! II llll 111
■■■■■■■■■■■HMRISBSSaBMHHHHHHMIBHK&isfllHMHnHHHnnKM
f
■**
Rough and Dressed Lum»
her of All Kinds
1
<
\