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' „ BrJ'Maurice E. Corthell of Oregon
1. has. been appointed as . physician for ^
S the Federal Bureau of Education for
the..Copper River valley region, fic
»: cording to information recently given
»■ out by Governor George A. Parks.
Corthell is the first doctor ever to
t he .assigned to the Copper River dis
i trict. Occasionally physicians rep
i, resenting the Bureau have, visited the
\ village there, but no regular medical
service has ever- before, been estab
lished for it.
The extension. of. medical service,
• *. Governor Parks said, was made pos
l . sible .at..this time through the co-op
. eration of. the Alaska. Road Commis
.i sion. t will provide facilities for Dr. j
.V Corthell and sustenance for him
while .he is out in the field along the
Richardson Highway and connecting
roads and trails on which it maintains i
crews. ;.In. return for this Dr. Corthell j
will. act. as physician for the employes j
... of the. Commission and their families!
in that, section. A small hospital for
emergency services will be fitted up
. at one. of.the commission’s permanent
camps.
Alaska Notes j
'. Gathered From Territorial j
Exchanges. j
Aoagng passengers on the steamer ]
Alice recently arriving at Nenana
were Dr., and Mrs. Chapman and Miss
Chandler-, from Anvik.
Dr., and. Mrs. Chapman are on their
\ way to.the Outside to remain, having
a turned .over, their work at Anvik to
-their aon, Jtev.JI. H. Chapman. Dr.
Chapman ..hegan the work at Anvik
,. forty or more years ago, when there
- were no. buildings on the mission site.
_ He nowJias a..church and a boarding
school, of. 25 ^pupils, which maintains
„ a staff, of six
Miss. Chandler is going out on a
furlough,, haviny. spent three years in
Alaska.
Pete.Madsen,;fox farmer of the Ku
silof district, is reported to hape had
a very .marrow escape from death re
- ceritly. while huntinv bears with Ed
^ Lowdahl ,in:.the vicinity of Pelley
* creek... The. stpry was brought to An
u chojrage>.v Captain Heinie Berger.
Madsen. and Lovdahl had shot at;
. what they.,thought was a black bear,1
partially concealed in a thicket of
alders,-and they were taken consider
ably by surprise when a big brownie,
angered ,by. a pullet wound, emerged
from the thicket and charged them.
Both , men took to their heels, but
liadsen. tripped, .and fell directly in
the pafchbf Die infuriated beast. The
brownie ..attacked Madsen without
ceremony: and undoubtedly would
> have killed him had. not Lovdahl gone
i to the rescue .,at. no small risk to
t
Pioneer
^Blacksmith,
^Machine and
; all kinds of
l Sheet Metal
.Work
SSafetys
Stoves
ROBERT LOWRIE
I Proprietor
himself. From a position not more
than seven feet distant, he sent a bul
let into the head of the bear and
dropped him before he cocld do any
more damage.
Madsen was taken to Snug Harbor
for treatment, and later returned to
hs Kcslof home. He escaped seriocs
njury, bet he will carry the marks of
the encocnter for a long time.
Ed Mullen, former well known
sourdough Alaskan and in the Daw
son days a well known packer in the
North, has been reported dead either
in the Cassiar or over in the Laye
Atlin country.
In 1927 Ed Mullen came into the
Cassiar with a team of bulls, which
he used for packing out to the Gold
Pan creek stampede. Later on in the
summer he made a trip over to the
Chesley, but returned that fall and
wintered with J. Frank Callbreath,
the well known pioneer trader of Tel
egraph creek.
Last winter in a letter from Tele
graph Creek it was rumored that Ea
Mullen- had crossed over tne last di
fide, but no details of his passing was
contained in the letter.
The appointment of Julius Loftus
as Territorial veterinarian was re
cently announced. His appointment
as Veterinar ysurgeon and livestock
inspector will become effectipe on
August 1, according to Governor
George A. Parks. Dr. Loftus, a :or
mer student at the Alaska College,
secured his veterinary training in
Colorado.
Until recently he was,, pathologist
at the Colorado Agricultural College,
and Experiment Station, Fort Collins,
Colorado, and since then has been as
sociate biologist for the United States
Bureau of Biological Survey. He is
now doing special work for the Sur
vey at its New York fur farm.
Dr. Loftus succeeds Dr. E. F.
Graves, who has resigned. Dr.
Graves has purchased a fur farm on
the Washington-Idaho State line at
Spokane Bridge and intends to spe
cialize in raising blue fqxes.
Details have been received of the
accident i nthe swift waters of the
Yentna river ,in the Anchorage dis
trict, which cost the life of George
Thompson and fro mwhich his broth
er A1 escaped with difficulty. The vic
tim was a brother of Charles O.
Thompson, business manager of the
Eielson memorial committee at Fair
banks, says the Fairbanks News
Miner.
The two brothers were freighting
their outfit down the Yentna in a
small boat after spending the winter
fh the upper reaches of the river,
trapping.
Their boat ran into a small sweepei
and upset. George Thompson disap
peared from sight beneath the swifl
stream and A1 made his way to shore
with difficulty. When he reachec
safety he coul dnot see his brother 01
the boat. Five dogs and the winter’s
fur catch were lost.
The surviving brother made his
way downstream 18 miles to the Me
Ilroy camp and fro mthere startec
down stream again in a small boat
He was picked up by William Pat
terson and Scotty McLean and accom
panied the mto Anchorage.
Mrs. Wilfred J. Evans of Alatm
died at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Fair
banks, a few days ago, following s
long illness. She had been in the hos
pital for several weeks.
Mrs. Evans was only about 2J
years old. Surviving her are hei
widower, three children, aged from
one to three and a half years, and
her father and mother, all residents
of Alatna.
Mrs. Calvin W. Franklin of ; Fair
banks passed away . at. .'Rochester,
Minn.|, a few days- ago.. Death fol
lowed an operation perforjned .several
weeks ago at- the Mayo^Clinic. Mrs.
Fmn)$n’wfQli^ftferi hacb Lean pro
nounced very ferious and" her death
was not entirely unexpected.
./Surviving her Jaeside .Mr^ Franklin
are-a daughter, Helen, of Fairbanks,
and a son, Calvin, J>., now in Se
attle.
Austin Oars of Ne.nana is recover-'
ing from exposure and starvation at,
his hoome there aftpr a harrowing
experience in McKinley Park that
nearly cost him his life, says the
Fairbanks News-Miner.
Mr. Oars went into the Park for
a distance of about 30 miles to get.
some samples from quartz claims
While tryin gto climb over a bluff, he
lost his footing and fell 20 feet to the
base of the cliff. i
His back was badly hurt in the fall, |
and for several days Mr. Oar lay!
there in a semi-conscious condition,]
without aid of any kind and without
food.
He gradually recovered strength
and was finally able to crawl back to
| the highway, three miles away.
I He was picked up there by a trucic
driver and taken to McKinley Park
station. He was very weak from his
j long-enforced fast, but soon regained^
■ strength enough to retrun to Nenana,
; where he is rapidly recovering.. His ;
hands and feet were slightly frozen,
! due to the fact that he lay only a few
due to the fact that he lay only a few
feet away from a glacier.
Fifteenth census returns for the
Circle recording district have been
released through the office of Gov
ernor George A. Farks, and show a
population of 631 as of October 1,
1929, as compared with — on Janu
ary 1, 1920. Two farms were enum
erated in the district, which includes
the communities of Circle, Circle Hot
Springs, Fort Yukon, Fishhook, 01?
! Rampart and Salmon.
The population of ^Circle Hot
Springs at the time the census was
• taken was 17. There are no com
parative figures with 1020.
i Circle had 50 residents on October
1 1 of last year, compared to 96 at the
; previous census.
Fishhook, first enumerated in the
nfteenth census, had a population
of 38.
Fort Yukon lost slightly during the
decade, the population last year being
3 4, as compared with 319 in 1920.
Old Rampart has a population of
30, and Salmon is exactly the same
size.
John Axton, bedridden for several
weeks from a general breakdown
brought about by old age, died at St.
Joseph’s Hospital, Fairbanks, a faw
days ago. Death was not unexpected,
The oldtimer had gradually been
growing weaker for the last several
months. He was 81 years old on
April 19.
Mr. Axton had lived in Alaska and
the Klondike for the last 33 years, his
home having been in Fairbanks most
of that time. He followed teaming
■ and mining during his active years.
Jack O’Connor, deputy United:
States marshal at Nenana, has re
signed, to accept a position as game
TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NENANA AND FLAT
Miles
Nenana ...00
Tavern Roadhouse .— 17%
Knight’s Roadhouse . 23%
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse.58 _]
Diamond Roadhouse.76
Roosevelt .~. 89
Lake Minchumina..-.115
Trappers’ Cabin .. 132
Lone Star Roadhohae -.— 15®
Telida Roadhouse .......10®%
. Slow Fork Roadhouse-187
East Fork Roadhouse .) 206
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse. 227%
Big River Roadhouse..241
McGrath ... 268
Takotna .... 280
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse __ 291
Ophir_300
McCafferty---806
Brown Creek shelter cabin-318
Fritz shelter cabin __ 388
First Chance shelter cabin . 346
Sehermeyer R. H. ..— 860
Iditarod_376
Flat__384
Bonanza sheler cabin, 12 miles
Crooked Creek shelter, cabin, 19
miles from Bonanza.
I from flat.
and fur warden with the Alaska
Game Commission. He will be sta
tioned atHoly Cross. His successor
as deputy at Nenana has not been
announced.
Gabriel Vendetti, resident of Fair
banks .since the early days of the
camp, passed away at that place a j
few days ago. Death was causeed by
pneumonia attended by heart compli
cations.
. Vandetti was born in Italy 64
years ago, and spent 33 years of his 1
life in Alaska. At one tHne'linc
hawked produce from bouse to house
and earned the lasting nickname of
‘two-for-a-ouart” front offering ap
ples two forZTi cents with this ex
pression.
A brother, Felix Vandetti, survives
n in Tacoma,
In 1926, 2.68 'per cent of the na
tional income was spent on public ed
ucation and an additional .51 per cent,
was spent in this year an private ed
ucation.
. .Babeesch Moosehide Mitts and Boots
. Furs Bought and Sold Clothing
../All Kinds of Nice Fresh Groceries and Fruits
Canned Goods of All Kinds Beds and Bedding
A. H Eldridge - McGrath
TAKOTNA ROADHOUSE
. Best of Mealsand Rooms
Where Everything ‘la'lemelilce end
Where *<m Are CerOaHr Wekomed
- <«OOD DOG HOUSES
BATH 6
Ivar Ghilstrom
Prop.
Sough and Dressed Lum-[
her of All Kinds !
INNOKO LUMBER CO.
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