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PROPERTY op
Alaska Agricultu _
anil School of Mi
McGEATH, ALASKA, MARCH 19. 19*21.
PRICE 25 CENTS
YOU- 3» NO? 18
$
TING
ENT
Arthur Berry Has Bad
ly Shattered Leg
and Foot.
In search of immediate met!
ical aid for Arthur Berry, who
was accidentally shot through
the right foot and left les: Thurs
day. Charles Nicolet arrived here
on Friday morning.
Mr. Berrv had been helping
Mr. Nicolet move a thawing
boiler frem the Landing to the
right limit of the East Fork, at a
point about thirty miles distant.
He hau.just unloaded and start
ed for home when, while going
down hill, hi.-, rifle. a thirty-thirty, was
discharged, apparently by a jolt of the
sle i. The gun, with a pair of'.snow
shoes, was enclosed in a-bag.'
The bullet cut a gash six inches long
through the right foot, ther.. turned
and entered the left leg sidewise, pass
ieg through- and. apparently breaking
the large bore.
The wound bled but- little, though
Mr. Bewas buffering great pain
when Mr. Nicollet left Berry’s home,
v> which he ha*!1 been rushed with all
possible sfreed.
John Vogtor, with a fast dog team,
brought Mrs. Archie Higgins, a sister
of Mr. Berry, from Tacotna to Me
Grath on the way to her brother’s
home.
Dr. Green, who had been called to
Flat professionally, is traveling day
and night to reach Mr. Berry.
John Vogtor returned to Tacotna this
afternoon, while Archie Higgins left
the latter place for Ophir to have fast
dog teams wherever necessary to relay
the doctor, it is expected that Dr.
Green will reach here tomorrow morn
ing, and Mr. Nicolet will be waiting to
ru<h him on to the Banding.
Maj. Geo. W. Albrecht,
Well Known Attorney,
En Route To Iditarod
Afieria winter spent in Seattle and
the Outside,, Mai. Geo. W. Albrecht,
well known Iditarod attoaney, arrived
over the trail yesterday, looking tht
picture of health, despite the fact that
he is suffering from a slight cold.
Charles E. Taylor, the Major’s law
partner, left Seattle on the loth, anc
after taking in the convention of Pio
u-ers of Alaska will come in oyer th«
tr iil to Iditarod.
Mr. Albrecht says that Henry Mar
tello, with three dog teams, conveying
Mr. and Mrs. Soupe and Mr. Soupe’:
two brothers, should be here alums
any time. Happy Jack Stephenson it
also due to return very soon.
Mrs. Dave Strandberg and baby lef
Seattle on the 11th, and should be in;
Seward tomorrow. They will return
with Mr. Strandberg.
j Ira Wood, well known transportation
1 man of Iditarod, is also reported to
| have left Seattle on the llih. Inci
j dentally, it mav be mentioned tiiat Mr. ,
; Wood will this year have charge-of all |
'white Pass consignments from Holy
, Cross to Iditarod. He will handle not
j only tLe freight. t)Ut all mail and ex
pre-s. the launches Prairie Bell and
j Nancy Bell being utilized in a onee-a
: wsek service.
Maj. Albrecht left this afternoon for
i Taootna,. on his wav to Iditarod..
Claod Baker, vice president, of the I
| M. & M. Bank at Iditarod, whose ill
| nes» was the occasion of Dr. J. B. i
! Beeson comir g from Anchorage, suf
I fered a relapse Tuesday, ft’>3 condi
tion is serious.
■
Sen. Cmnmins Wants a
Govt. Line, Seattle
to Seward.
Washington, March 18.—Sen
ator Cummins, chairman of the
| interstate commerce committee
j of the Senate, is advocating an
| appropriation of ten million dol
lars fur the purpose of placing
a Government steamship line to
plv between Seattle and Seward,
connecting with the railroad ai
the latter point, and at the same
offering low freight rates, as a
j means for the-opening up of the
Territory. Secretary of Interior
| Fall announces that he will give
the matter close study and at
| tention immediately.
Captain Wallace Langlev is sched
uled to leave Seattle on March 22. Ac
companying him will be Capt. George
Green. well known Yukon navigator,
who will come through with Captain
LaDgley to this place.
George Walters came in from. Can He
yesterday.
L. N. Wilson returned home Tues
day, after spending several days here.
John Sinclair came in from Candle
ou Monday to attend to a few business
matters, and left for home todav.
—
Jnck McDonald left forCandle todav,
after a stay of a couple of da\s here.
■ Paul Durean arrived yesterday from
■ Anchorage.
r -
Dave Clough left Thursday for a
- business trip to Nixon.
Among* other old-timers who came
in over the trail’ yesterday from An
chorage was Dr. D. Carter, dentist,
well known throughout the interior.
Following close behind is Dr. It. Fish
burne, also a dentist, who will be asso
tinted with Dr. Carter in the practice
of their profession. 131*. Carter left to
day for Flat, but states that be will
probably return to this place within
the next three weeks.
Among the late arrivals tonight,, and
registered at the Clough, are Superm
tendent Soupe, of the Flume Dredge
Company, Mrs. Soupe. Gus Ifosen and
J. Sanpi. all of whom came in from the
railroad line over the trail with Henry
Martello.
Henry Martello, who arrived here
tonight from Wasilla, making the
rouad! trip in fifteen days, will leave
for Tacotna tomorrow morning.
Is Suggested By Sen
ator Cummings in
New Plans.
Washington, March 18.—Sen
ator Cummings, chairman of the
Senate interstate commerce com
mittee, is urging Secretary of
the Interior Pall to eliminate
the army from any connection
with the Alaska Railroad. He
also suggests the removal of
Frederick Meat’s, chairman of
the Alaska Engineering Com
mission, and the establishment
of a civilian commission to con
trol, complete construction and
operate the road.
Bill Ainsley, who left Iditarod last
summer fur the Outside to secure med
ical relief, passed a wav at the home of
his mother in Alabama a lew days ago.
according to word just received at Idit
arod. Cancer of the stomach was the
direct cause.
Among others arriving over the trail
from Anchorage yesterday were John
Shaller and George Phillips., both
bound for Iditarod.
Ed Ryder, Tom Conquest, Tom
Brady and Tom Byrne, all from Se
attle, arrived over the tr^il from An
chorage yesterday.
C. B. Atwell arrived over the trail
yesterday from Anchorage, on his way
to Iditarod.
Seattle, March 16—The first ship
ment of structural steel for the Hurri
cane Gulch bridge, on the Alaska rail
road, has been shipped from the fac
tory at Gary. Indiana. Shipment will
'eave Seattle March 2n.
Ten Thousand Families
Are Hungry In
Seattle.
With wages cut on all sides, with un*
employment everywhere, tilings look
far different on the OutbidJ now than
the. did a year ago, according to J. K.
Beattie, who arrived here yesterday
irom Anchorage, after having returned
from a visit to Seattle and other coast
cii :es.
“In Seattle.” said Mr. Beattie, “you
will see a bread line a block long down
near Pioneer square. It is said there
;are ten thousand hungry families in
Seattle, and this statement is openly
made tu all the papers. You can hard
ly walk m block anywhere in Seattle
i before you are approached either for
me price of a meal or for enough to
pay for a night's lodging.' ’ .
The lumber camps, for the greater
part, according to Mr. Beattie, are
piac.icaily closed down, likewise many
of the sawmills, while the fisheries,
with a few exceptions, are uot work
ing. The tightening up of these fields
of employment has thrown a large
! number of men out of employment, to
say nothing of curtailment in other
branches of labor.
As for prices—well, they are getting
Pack to low levels. A suit of clot ties
lot which £80 was asked a year ago can
, now be bought for ?40. Potatoes are
cheap—-so cheap, in fact, that in some
cases they cannot be given away.
Anchorage looked better to Mr.
; Beattie than ever before. Everybody
there seemed busy. Hotels and res
taurants are crowded, and one is in
luck if he can have a bed to sleep in.
[t. is practically impossible to rent a
house:
There is quite a little stir for oil
along ihe coast, and quite a few people
are headed for the Cold bay iielus, on
the mainland across from Kodiak. It
is understood that four drills are either
on ihe tields now or are being taken in
there.
The depression ou the Outside has
turned the thoughts of many people
towards Alaska. Quite a number of
the old-timers are certain to return
during the coming summer, though a
few are already headed for the North.
“Yes, tbe people up here are fort
unate in being right where they are
away from the sight of bread lines,
away from the big slump and from
poor conditions generally. ’
Mr. Beattie left this afternoon for
Tacoma, on his way to Iditarod.
Nellie Bates is a lato ai rival, coming
direct from Anchorage and the Out
side. ____
Seat'le, March 1(5.—Libby McNeal &
Libby’s cannery tender \akutuall, the
first of the season’s fishing vessels left
for Alaska waters today. It is believ
ed the 1921 catch will be 50 per cent,
of last year.