- ALASKA INTERESTS AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
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issued an ordet hat this section be
ehraced on the route from November
, 1; 1931. The postmaster at Quin
hagak has removed his place of resi
dence and the vacancy will likely be
* filled by the appointment of Charles
B. Michael. A petition has been filed
with the Department asking for the
i reestablishment of the pastoffice at
Alatna and. the naming of Carl Gus
taf Frank as th'e postmaster.
The possibility, that with depth de
velopment. a .sufficient ore hody will
be developed' to warrant a second
milling plant for the Alaska Juneau
Mining Company, and that it will be
located on the Treadwell property on
Douglas Island, has again brought to
the frontt . he necessity for a bridge
across GasJtineau channel.. The; Dele
gate has been broached on the sub
ject, and his answer is that, in his
political platform,. he declared his in
terest in this bridge and promised the
people of Douglas and Juneau to sup
port the; project in Congress. He
stands ready to do .everything within
his power to bring about the desired
result when.:,the-.; interested parties
giye the word to.start action.
Eastern paper mills are urging
Ptesident- Hoover to take action to
hallt pending negotiations for the sale
of. National. Forest timber int Alaska
for conversion into pulp and news
print. It is alleged that this addi
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AGENT
Anchorage, Alaska
tional production of pulp in Alaska
would “thrust” unwarranted produc
tion upon an overexpanded industry
struggling with a diminshed demand
and vanishing- profits. The matter
has been referred to the Interior and
Agricultural Departments, where it
is stated that action by the Govern
ment to prevent development of the
industry in Alaska is not probable at
the present, time, as the forests are
ripe for cutting and considerable
cost is involved in deterioration. It
is stated that conditional permits for
the purchase of two important west
coast groups of 10,000,000,000 board
feet of pulp wood in the Tongas Na
tional Forest are involved in the ne
gotiations. It is expected that large
waterpower projects near Juneau and
Ketchikan would furnish sufficient en
ergy to produce, between 200 and 500
tons of newsprint each day. There is
sufficient timber to keep the plants
running fifty years. The promoters
of the Alaska development have been
tendered a license by the Federal
Power Commission for power pro
jects. Neither has accepted. An im
provement in the newsprint market
conditions it is expected will govern
their acceptance..
Residents of Livengood have writ
ten the Delegate in appreciation of
his efforts to securer a wagon road
from Fairbanks to Livengood. A sur
vey is now being made by Hawley
Sterling on the line from Fox to
Olnes and across the Chatanika river
and on to Livengood. It is hoped that
eventually this road may be extended
to Rampart and across the Yukon
river to the Koyukuk and Chandlar
sections. To do that, however, the
Delegate would be expected to secure
a large appropriation from oCngress.
In July 1909 the National Editorial
Association held its annual meeting
in’ Seattle and one of the strong
drawing cards that induced a decision
to go to the Pacific coast was a prom
ised excursion to Alaska. One hun
dred berths were reserved on the
steamer Northwestern, but over 150
editors and their wives from all over
the United States finally made res
ervations, but only 135 could be ac
commodated. And that number sailed
from Seattle on July 24, returning on
August 12, being the largest tourist
! party that had made the trip up to
i that date. And they certainly had an
! enjoyable trip, that took in South
! eastern Alaska, Cordova and out to
1 Mile 50 on the railroad then build
i ing, Valdez, Seward, and a side trip
to Kodiak Island and Cook Inlet. The
writer was the chairman of the com
mittee on arrangements and was re
minded of the big event by’ a pencil
pusher in Washington the other day
who submitted a copy of a rather fa
cetious article that one of the excur
sionists published after his return. It,
Revigator Restores Water’s
j 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
i to’the laws of nature. Life is bat cellular buildiny and cellu
' Larr 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
i diseases are directly traceable to bad drainage in the body”—to
| the accumulation of clogging waste matter or poisons at vital
.organs*
j For.'Centuries the world has recognized the value of health
1 springy 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 ndfure’s ways of dissolving and' elimin
ating these health-destroying poisons and building healthy, cells
i and tisanes.
It is new 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 snb-agents: Vic
Ebright, Flat; Tom DeVane, Ruby; Oliver Anderson, McGrath;
Fred Roethliaberger, Ophir; Chris Petersen, Takotna.
may prove interesting reading now,
and is resubmitted, as follows:
“Alaska is a syndicated, refriger
ated Territory of the United States,'
bounded on the north by the Polar
scandal, on the east by the North
west Mounted Police, and on. the
south and west by the Japanese seal
poachers.
“The Territory is inhabited by Fed
eral judges, Esquimaux, pelagic seal
ers, faro dealers, mining engineers,
Athabasca Indians, and the United
States Signal Corps.
“The government is administered
by the Secretary of the Interior, the
revenue cutter service, and the Camp
fire Club of New York.
“Alaska produces gold,, coal, fur,
fish, icebergs, totem poles, reindeer,
and Congressional investigations.
“The climate compares icily with
that of Blitzen and Etah.
“Mining is carried on by the most
approved red tape methods.
“Fairbanks, the capital of the In
terior, is named for the discoverer of
the buttermilk cocktail.
“Alaska possesses the higest moun
tain on the North American conti
nent, Mt. McKinley, now famed in
history as the receptacle of the lost
copper cylinders of Dr. Frederick A.
Cook.
“Concerning Alaska, our friend, G.
Pinchot, says, ‘Conserve it!’ L. R.
Glavis says, ‘Investigate it!’ S. Gug
genheim says, ‘Syndicate it!’ Rex
Beaeh says, ‘Copyright it!’ and R. A.
Ballinge rsays, ‘Forget it!’ ”
CONTROL OF MOSQUITOES.
Although to most people a mos
quito is just a humming insect which
goes around puncturing skin-., there
are many different kinds of them,
says the United States Department
of Agriculture. There are m . quitoes
which breed in old tin cans contain
ing water and in rain barrels, mos
quitoes which breed in swamps and
ponds, mosquitoes which are f ;und in
clear cool water, and mosquitoes
which are most at home in the stag
nant water of sewers.
Workers use this knowledge of the
different mosquitoes in their cam
paigns to eradicate the pests. For
one type of mosquito they conc entrate
on the rain barrels, tin cans, and
other receptacles near home . Often
water-lily ponds or stock ponds are
breeding places of mosquitoes. Here
the placing of top-water minnows or
goldfish is effective, for all mosqui
toes pass through a “wiggle-tail” or
“wiggler” stage, and the fish feed on
them. Frequently the mosquitoes
breed in swamps and ditches. If it is
too expensive to drain these areas,
the method most widely used is that
of spraying fuel oil On the surface of
the water. This destroys the wiggle
tails. Oiling should he done every 10
days during the summer to catch each
new crop of wiggle-tails.
Roast duck is said to be good for
rheumatism.. It sounds like a quack
remedy.—Passing Show (London).
TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NENAXA AND FLAT
Miles
Nenana ...„. 00
Tavern Roadhouse _ 17%
Knight’s Roadhouse ._. 23%
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse __ 58 ..
Diamond Roadhouse.. 76
Roosevelt .. 89
Lake Minehununa ... 115
Trappers^ Cabin . 132 i
Lone Star Roadhouse .. 150
Telida Roadhouse ..169%
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.
LAW FOR PROTECTION OF
SHELTER CABINS, SIGNS
The following law for the protec
tion of shelter cahins and structures
and signs or signals on public high
ways was passed by the last Alaska
Legislature and signed by the Gov
ernor and is now a law:
Section 1. Any person who shall
wilfully destroy,' injure or deface any
sign or signal or shelter cabin erected
near or along any public highway, de
signed to aid or inform the travelers
on such highways as to distances or
directions, or giving shelter or warn-1
ing or notice as to grade, curve or
crossing, or otherwise designed to
make travel safe, or signs designed
to mark the lines or limes of game
reserves, shall be guilt yof a misde
meanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be punished by a fine of not
more than one thousand dollars or by
imprisonment for not more than one
year, or by both such fine and impris
onment, in the discretion of the court.
Section 2. Any person guilty of vi
olating any of the provisions of Sec
tion 1 of this act shall be answerable
for damages for any injury sustained
in person or property by any person
or corporation as a result of such de
tion, injury or defacement of any
such sign or signal as described in
Section 1 hereof.
Jail life proved so popular with the
Eskimo at Point Hope, Alaska, that
: the deputy United States marshal,
Bert Merrill, had to cable to Seattle
j for a new and larger bastile to be
! sent north on the schooner Holmes.
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J Frank J. Guskey
! Notary Public
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| Takotna, Alaska I
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Captain John Backland, of the
schooner Holmes, said that Merrill in
formed him that he arrested two Es
kimos some time ago for minor law
violations and placed them in jail.
The prisoners found they were so well
kept, so warm and well fed, that
when they were released at the ex
piration of their sentences, they
spread the glad tidings. As a result
other Eskimos have begun breaking
all kinds of kinds of laws and then
rubbing to the deputy marshal to be
sentenced to jail. Consequently the
jail is so overcrowded that the mar
shal is unable to accommodate all
those who seek admission.
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