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I Alaska ^Notes
Gathered From Territorial
I^Kkugw.
- Graduates <^f live Territorial high
schools are now attending the Alaska
» Agricultural .College and School of
, Mines , with scholarships granted un
•' der authorit yof an act passed by the
. last legislature. . The scholarship in
<- each school goes to the student with
i the highest, standing, and in case he
v does noot desire it the one with the
i next highest average is eligible. The
. scholarships provide f 10 a month for
. * «- each student to be applied toward the
1 payment of dormitory rent. Scholar
■ ship students now at the C61ieg« are
« ■ Violet'LundeH, Douglas; John Meg
-V git/ Juneau; Jeanne Staser, Anchor
age; .1 Flora. MacDonald, Fairbanks;
< Charles-Wilcox, Valdez.
Practically. every cache and cabin
rn the upper* Yentna and aahiltna
V valfeya-was wiped out last fall by
bears, according to reports from
trappers. Trappers have practically
I been <. driven out of the country
through the destruction of the iaches
* containing their winter’s supply of
foodstuffs and the smashing up of
stoves and cabin furnishings. Charles
Harper, one of the Hope district
> placer . operators, and Carl Martin,
city councilman of Anchorage, re
* turned ■ from the Kahiltna recently
. and reported that bears had demol
ished everything in their trapping
«. camp- Not content with destroying
* fouds-tims, the animals took the
i staves outside, jumper on them and
* smashed them into shapeless masses.
- Then they gathered the washtub and
* two water pails and stacked them in
» the doorway, where they had torn
* the door from the hinges. They then
i proceeded to pay their respects to. the
f- aapif^ tearing it off annd allowing the
interior to become snowed in. Matt
. Hamfeerger, another well known trap
. per who with doe Kroske works the
* J4ahiltna valley and Treasure creek,
J—are also sufferers, as well as Strum,
V Wagner and Ericsajn and a doozen
* others scattered between Rainy Pass
and Cache creek. If what the pros
I pector* and trappers promise the
- "-bears comes off next spring, the Alas
. kaiiame Commission will be com
jv petted to call for the U. S. Army to
*- enforce any regulations against the
f. slaving of b ears of all varieties. It
-- is planned to devoote the spring
* months to eradicating the bears fro' •>
t. the district. The result of the depre
' -dation* o fthe bears has been to ul
. mosieclij-j tbe enttiie rapping sea
eon.. Pur reported to be showing
' up,iand witl-cul supplies the trappers
* have, lifted tin traps and made their
! way to "points where they can secure
. food.
Fire; of undetermined origin le
: ttroyed George Mutchler’s Delco
c electric . light plant and the building
*■ housing it, one morning recently.
When-Mr. Mutchler first noticed the
i flames,habout 6:45 o'clock, the build
ing-was nearly burned down and the
i: plant-was ruined. The loss is esti
k mated at. 92,000.
There was a stove in the building,
' hut it had jn^ot had a fire in it for
over a week, so it is supposed the
• fire started from the wiring system.
No insurance was carried.
Li.-I*.’ Hales for over forty years a
■ ■■ reridcrt of the Territory, except for
the lat few yea is. died aoont Decom
l her 15 ,t» I ox bay, better known as
bales Landing,1 about 20 miles this'
aide of Sand Point. The body was
i taken by the steamer Starr to Kodiak,
where interment was made. Mr. j
bales, who in 1904 was in. charge of
the Alaska exhibit-at the World’s
Fair at San Francisco, was undoubt
edly one of the best kngwn oldtinfers
in the Territory. He came up from
i the Outside just a few weeks ago,
going west on the Starr to his old
t.' home, where he intended to establish
»*-* XSindeer business. He was in ill,
' health on leaving the .Tease’., but flatly
; refused to remain .aboard, insisting
i on being put ashoore.at dus. destina
tion. On the southbend ..trip the
Starr again put into -Fox Bay, and
oflicers going ashore .found the aged
man dead in his sleeping bag. . He
apparently had passed away peace
fully sno had been dead, it was
thought, about four or five fays.
j Roger Cosner, better known ho his
! many Alaska friends as “Rody,"
reached the end of the long Nrtthern
; trail at the Anchorage hospital a
tew days ago, a victim of lung trou
ble. He entered the hospital October
4, with no outward appearance of
iliness beyond the fact that he could
not peak above a whisper. As time
passed, however, he loost weight rap
| idly and at the time of his passinng
| he was emaciated to an extreme ex
! tent.
J The oldtimer was a native 6f lre
land, 09 years of age. He came north
j during the gold rush days and lo
cated a rich claim in the Iiewson
j country. He lost the property, how
j ever, before he had taken much of
j the gold frup the ground and later
i drifted to the Alaska side of the in
I ternational line. He joined the con
( struetkm foorces of the Alaska Rail
j r*iil soon after building started at
j M enana, and in recent years had
j worked on the Anchorage end of the
system.
Recently a hunting party, consist
ing of Mr. and Mrs. Ora 'loss, Isabel
Cashop and Hill McGhee, all of Doug
las, went to Green’s Hay on the iat
ter’s gasboat. On ;hi homeward
journey the engine backfired while
being started, sotting tire boat afite.
1 he party had only lime to get in the
skiff and save h-msylve.',, for before
they reached the .‘he,re the shells
which were cm the boa- exploded,
making it one mans of flames. An
Indian boat, weied was .passing, saw
their signals an.l rejoii.-i the patty,
bringing them safely into town.
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G. H. Sweeney, veteran rancher of
the Fairbanks uitrict. was found to
be of unsound mind at a sanitary
hearing held a tew nays ago in U. S.
Commissioner Boyd's court,. He was
committed to Mornb.gsiae Sanitarium
for triatnvnt.
Earl Ohmer of PeersbuTg .has
shipped to fur farmers in the Juneau
district 40,000 pounds of flounder to
be used as feed. The total flounder
catch for the season was around 100,
000 pounds, which does noot include
the summer catch used at Peters
burg.
Charge'd with being the head of am
organization that supplied drugs to
the entire Ketchikan district, Dr. H.
C. Storey was placed under larrpst m
the First Citty by Inspector Miller of
the narcotics squad. He was 'bound
over to the grand jury under f 1,&00
bond. Dr. Storey has lived in Ket
chikan for many years and was ai i
one time city health officer..
The Alaska Steamship Company
has 500 lnei: workin* ir: a Tacoma
shipyard on the steamer Mexico,
which was “purchased on the Eastern
coast for Alaska service. The big
vessel, which will be renamed the
Aleutian, is being completely over
hauled and rebuilt. When completed
she will have accommodations for 37g
first class passengers and will have
more de luxe accommodations than;
any otoher boat running to Alaska.1
•She will be ready for service in May.
Frizes for the 1928-29 forest essay
contests have been awarded. The
winners were Roald Capsteaad, Ket- >
chikan, and Louise Harlan, of Nome.;
Both were sthdenta in the eighth;
grade in Territorial schools. Win-j
ners in the Bureau of Education di
vision were Isabel Wilson, Kake, and
Lorena Lincoln, Kotzebue. Louise
Harlan's essay wa judged the best ox
the four prize winners.
The winners were awarded bronze
medals and the schools are to get a
Iqrge.. bronze, medals-monot#d,-ta.Jba
retained for the year, or to be -re
tained permanently if won three
years in succession.. No essays were
submitted from the Third and. Fourth
divisions. School children all over
the Territory were invited, to compete
in the .1929-30 essay coon test. - Any
regular student of the eighth grade
or under, ierritoxial or Bureau of Ed
ucation school, is eligible to compete
.by submitting an essay .of approxi
mately 700 words, covering some
phase of Alaska foorastfcsy.
hire, the origin of which-, har-not
been exactly determined, completely
ruined. Judge Cecil H. Clegg’s .garage
at Fairbanks a few days ago .and de-.
stroyed. an automobile owned..by.. Her
bert Lawrence.
Judge .Clegg’- loss is-hard..to esti
mate, .as -many, personal belongings
which cannot he replaced were stored
in the - two-ntory building which
served-»s.a;.garage. It will probably
be at least $2,000* .of which >$500 was
coverede by insurance.
The loss hy Herbert Lawrence,
driver of Judge Clegg’s racing dog
team, who had .a room connected, with
the garage, will be’several hundred
dollars. His Chevrolet roadster was
completely destroyed, many. of. bis
personal b elongings were lost and an
outboard motoor owned by- him . was
ruined. He carried no insurance.
The annual Christmas fundi.collect
ed by W. D. Gross for the pjoneers. of1
the Sitka Home totaled $4,616.91,
from ail sources, and this. wa*< dis
tributed Christmas morning equally,
to the Pioneers hy Superintendent
Theodore Kettleson.
On Christmas afternoon the: .pio
neers wired W. D. Gross.that. they,
wanted to wish everyone who had do,
nated a Merry Christmas:.* and..
Happy .New Year.
Ur. YV. H. Chase, chairman of: the
Alaska Game Commission, recently
confiscated -all wild game birds: Held
in storage in Cordova. .This confisca
tion was made under the*, provisions:
of the game code prohibiting, posses
sion of migratory game birds: later
than ten days after the season, opens.
The confiscated game, 26 ducks .and 6
geese, were turned over to: the Salva
tion Army for distribution .where.they
will do the most good.
John Hnseth, member- of! the
maintenance of way forces oof the
Alaska railroad, is in a critical condi
tion at the Anchorage hupital, with
both of his legs badly crushed;
HunSeth was doing some work in
the shoops, o ntfae runway of the
overhead crane, high above- the shop
floor. So busily engaged was he. that
he did noot see the crane' c^sr ap
proaching him, and neither: wa« he
observed ctoy the operator of the crane
until it vwas .too late to stoop tile
heavy equipment. The result vms
that both of Hunseth’s legs: were, ter
ribly mangled and his conditioon is
regarded as extremely grave.
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TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NENA^A AND FLAT
Miles
' Nenana .... 00
Tavern Roadhouse __ 17%
Knight’s Roadhouse . 28%
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse.58 _
Diamond Roadhouse.-.. 76
Roosevelt ... 88
Lake Minchumina.. 115
Trappers’ Cabin .: 182
Lone Star Roadhouse . 158
Telida Roadhouse .169%
Slow Fork Roadhouse ....187
East Fork Rogdhouse _) 206
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse_ 227%
Big River Roadhouse..241
McGrath .. 263
Takotna ....... 280
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse ..291
Ophir..806
McCafferty...306
Brown Creek shelter cabin_818
Frits shelter cabin . 888
First Chance shelter cabin_846
Schermeyar B. H. ...— 886
Iditarod...876
Flat __ 884
Boncnsza sheler cabin. It miles
Crooked Creek shelter eaMo, 19
miles from Bonanza.
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Canned Goods of All Kinds
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