NEW SNOW MOTOR
CREATES INTEREST
(Fairbanks News-Miner.)
Much interest is centered upon the
trial of a new snow motor received a
few -days ago by the Alaska Road
Commission, which, if it is found to
be successful in its adaptation to
local conditions, may be used exten
sively by the Commission and by in
dividuals in haulage where trails are
i broken. The machine, which is put
out by the Snow Motor Company,
3nc., of Detroit, Mich., consists of a
regular Fordson tractor., with the ex
ception that; 'he Fordson traction is
Teplaced by two. cigar-shaped cylin
ders, parallel with the direction of
travel. Stoerrng is .accomplished as
• on other caterpillar types, by control
i of the cylinder.
The new .tracts) was taken on a
trial trip yesterday by Chief Me
chanic Frank Mef.afferty and Me
chanic Earl Borland, who' will drive
‘tit to Tenderfoot, hauling a load of
;. bridge timbers and supplies. The re
sult of this trip will probably have
■* nenmictataflle 'tearing' upon 1 the use
i that the machine may be put to ,by
Cthe Commission. So far,- Superintend
ent Edmunds' tsays, the rrtotor has
been successful, 'although a thorough
test has been’ hampered by lack of
3'snow.
According <to 'the description re
ceived through the Associated Press
' dispatches, it is believed that this
snow motor is the type of tractor to
be used. by”the polar expedition soon
to start’ from Nenana to Point Bar
»• row.
A Lesson for Wifey.
Hubby—Miss Judson is a very
' bright’woman, judging by my con
versation with her.
Wife—What did she'say?
Hubby—Not much, but she ap
proved of everything I said.
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Fresh Fruits
Fresh \;egetables
Plenty of Nuts
Choice Canned Goods
Meats
Masks for the Big Masque Ball
Mukluks or Shoes for the Dancers
GREAT NUMBERS OF CARI
BOU SEEN ON ANNUAL RUN
(Anchorage Times.)
Caribou appeared recently in the
vicinity of the Sourdough Roadhouse,
on the Valdez trail, in greater num
bers than were ever seen there before,
according to Charles H. DeWitt, well
known resident of the Interior, who
arrived in Anchorage Saturday from
that section of the country, where he
spent several months.
DeWitt saw thousands of the cari
bou, and evidences of the migration
in the form of a trail through the
timber which was larger than aything
of the kind he ever saw before. The
trail was eight or ten feet wide, and
the moss had been completely worn
from the ground by the thousands of
animals. The oldest Indians did not
recall having seen so many caribou.
DeWitt caught sight of a bunch of
the animals in an open place along a
river, where they had bunched. They
stretched along for a distance of four
miles and about 400 feet wide, . and
were so close together that their
horns touched, the sound of the scrap
ing being audible for a considerable
distance.
i lie caribou . came tram the direc
tion of the Dawson country and were
heading' west. They crossed the
White river and Shushana districts,
and it was thought they might event
ually reach. the.Kuskokwim region.
They were traveling ■ leisurely and in
a straight line, taking, the country as
they found it, through the timber,
across rivers and -over the highest
mountains, by twos and fours where
their way lay through 'the timber,
spreading out in the open places and
narrowing dowrUto single ifiie on tie
mountain tops. They were days pass
ing some pointa-.and so numerous that
it was'Pot possible,to count them. It
was estimated -that .there were hun
dreds of thousands of.it.hem.
. The coming-.of the caribou was
most opportune, foi‘ the natives of
that region had experienced a short
age of fish for winter use, and they
were all out getting meat
TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NENANA AND FLA1
Mil- S
Nenana to Tavern .. .. V
Tavern td'Knight’s . 24
Knight’s to 19 Roadhouse . . 19
19 Roadhouse to Riffle-Pole. Road
house . S'
Riffle Pole Roadhouse to Diamond 11
Diamond Roadhouse to Roosevelt.. 13
Roosevet to Lake Minchumina ... 25
Lake Mitrchumina to Lone Star
Roadhouse . HI
Lone Star to Telida . 18
Telida to Tent Roadhouse . 10
Tent Roadhouse to Slow Fork ti
Slow Fork to East Fork .22
East Fork to Nicoli . 10
Nicoli to Big Riiver . 21
Big River Roadhouse to McGrath 25
McGrath to Tokotna . .. 18
From Nenana to Tokotna . 281
Tokotna to Bill Goss’ Roadhouse... 12
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse to Ophir ... . 10
Ophir to Jerry's Roadhouse .83
Jerry’s to Schermeyer's Roadhouse 27
Scherniejar’s to .Iditarod . If!
Iditarod to Flat S
From Nenana to Flat . 387
Many harsh things have been said
and written about the federal jail at
Fairbanks in the years before and
since Vuco Perovich was confined
there under sentence of death, says
the Anchorage Times. Grand juries
have condemned the building, news
papers have referred to it as an unfit
place for the confinement of prison
ers, and federal officials have ap
pealed in vain for funds for the erec
tion of a new building. But with all j
its shortcomings, the accommoda
tions have never been nearly as bad !
as statements made at Leavenworth j
recently, in connection with the re-:
lease of Perovich from the federal j
prison there, would have the public j
believe. “For four years,” one of th — 1
statement reads, “Perovich, a man six1
feet tall, was confined in a dungeon
four feet wide, ten feet long and five
feet high. A United States marshal
was indicted for the cruel treatment.”
The writ of habeas corpus which freed
Perovich from the federal prison was
issued by Federal Judge John t'. Pol
lock on the contention o’ Perovich
that in 1909 President Taft did not
have the power to commute.his sen
tence from death to life imprison
ment. The witnesses who testified
against him at the time of his con-i
viction in Fairbanks, he now claims,
were men with whom he had quar- j
reled over a claim. They “framed”
the charge, he asserted, and there
never was any proof that he had com
mitted the ci'int efor which he was
convicted.
A breakfast preparation company
has been organized in Berlin for the
delivery' of luncheon .sandwiches into
homes or offices between 8..’5ti and 10
a. m., in time 1'oe the .second of the
German’s five meals a day. Posters
of the concern announce that the
luncheon package consists of two bun
sandwiches sis mornings a week for
85 cents payable weekly in much fhe
same manner a newspaper subscrip
tions. Subscribers have a choice of1
cheese, egg salad, ham, cold roasts ot
isage, t •' iii mv order a dr'e:- ni
variety each' da - —Ex.
At' the' C ustoms Dock.
“I asked binr i. . he thought a <te
scendant of. a signer and a daughter
< f the Jit-volution would stoop to such
a thing. ’ i
“And did you gi-t. away with it?"
“Sure.”
Tokotna
Cigar Store
Tobaccos
Cigars
Soft Drinks
Fred Dubois
Proprietor
CHARLIE’S
McGrath, Alaska
| A Bath in a Real
Bath Tub
Shoe Repairing
Sign Writing
Paper Hanging
Charles Rebhun
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WORD RECEIVED AT NOME OF .
MISSING TRADING PARTY
Nome.—Word has been received
here by mail from Point Barrow that
C. K. “Geepole” Larson, captain of
the schooner Duxbury, which left
Nome three years ago on a. trading
expedition, was drowned when he fell
through the ice to the eastward of
Point Barrow.
During the first winter the pho
tographer of the party, a man named
Scarbough, was lost in a blizzard
when he wandered out on the ice of
the Arctic ocean and disappeared.
Robert Jones, officer for the sup
pression of liquor traffic among the
natives, is dead as the result of a fir*
in his home this week. He was badly
burned about the face and hands.
Senator Edge, of New Jersey, and
Senator Brute, of Maryland, engaged 1
in a discussion of. national prohibition |
on the floor of the Senate chamber
earrly last month, and the following 1
morning there appeared in the Wash-'
ington Post a statement by Wayne B.
Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-1
Saloon League, in which he re-!
marked:
“If prohibition isas much of a fail-1
ure as these two wot senators claim, [
they would not complain so much '
about it. Their arguments do not
come from the fullness of their
hearts, hut from the emptiness of
their stomachs.”
"Senator Bruce read the comment,
and that afternoon rose to a question
of personal privilege in order to call
the attention of his colleagues to the i
article, which he read to them.
“All I wish to say in reply,” he de- I
dared, “is that from specimens oi i
Mr. Way lie B. Wheeler's reasoning
which I have read in the press from
time to time, I am convinced that, his
arguments come from the emptiness
of his head.”
Whereupon the august body pro
ceeded with the regular order of bu-i
ness.—Ex.
I’erlecth.
“1 suppose it is natural,” writes a
waggish correspondent, “that the old
maids like to attend the ‘Pop con
certs.’ ”
The Next Great Invention,
It’s a wonderful thing for tire
women—
The popular permanent wave.
Now it's np to some struggling in
ventor
To get out a permanent shave.
—Penn State Froth.
The proprietor’s wife was in at
tendance when ye village cut-up en
tered the general store.
“Madam, can you give me a yard
of pork?”
“Certainly,” she replied, and, turn
ing to the boy at the back of the
slore, called:
“Willie, giv>- this -gentleman three
pig’s feet!”
Real T ire Insurance.
“Is this a fire insurance office?’’
“Yes, sir; can we be of service to
you?”
“Perhaps you can. You see, my em
ployer threatens to fire me next Sat
urday, and I’d like some protection.”
—London Tit-Bits.
Another Paradox
“You say the prisoner came to your
house after dinner, and, yet previous
ly, you testified he came before din
ner. Which statement is correct?”
“Both, you honor; he came after
dinner before dinner, as all dinner
guests do.”—Boston Transcript.
FOR SALE.
Large tank heater. Inquire at
Kusko Times.
PROFESSIONAL
Mrs. Jean McLean
Notary Public
Tokotoa, Alaska
Laundry
Front- Street, Tokolna
Mrs. Fred Dubois - Prop.
Sough and Dressed Lum
ber of AH Kinds
A Dredging or Hydraulicing
Proposition, Yankee Creek
About 7 miles ion*', extending from No. -1 below discovery to
the mouth of the creek.
Pay located all along- for a distance of about three miles from
upper end, and pretty well prospected and eross-eut.
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 per square 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 tlian a mile long
(4,900 feet), with a pressure of 120 feet, being- 1600 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 satisfactory to the buyer, a cash payment will be expected.
Par further information, terms, etc., call on ground, or write or
telegraph me.
El) NOLLETTE,
Tokotna, Alaska.if