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Sintered as second-class matter Febru
ary 1, 1922, at the Post Office at
McGrath, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
McGrath, alaska. jan. 6. 1922
Dick Hussey Tells of
Conditions in Siberia
Fred Martin, secretary of the An
chorage Order of Elk9, is in receipt of
a letter from M. R. Hussey, well known
old-timer of the Interior, who is at Ok
hotsk, Siberia. The letter, printed in
the Anchorage Times, reads as fol
lows:
Dear Brother Fred:
We arrived here a few days ago.
Had a fine time getting our goods
ashore, from the steamer, which was
anchored two miles out in the bay. It
cost us $20 a ton to get it in, and then
the Japs stole $75 worth. You cannot
leave anything unprotected here for
one minute. My time is very limited
for writing, as Mr. Holmes, with whom
we are staying at Okhotsk, is leaving
for the States, via Hakodate, Japan, in
two hours. He has a 1,600-ton schooner
chartered, and loaded with fish.
As to that rich pay streak in Okhotsk,
it is all gone, Fred, if they ever did
have it. That maD Hoffman, who wrote
Anchorage aDd also Seattle about the
Koreans knocking out $250 a day, never
saw Okhotsk when he wrote, lie just
wanted fellows to bring in goods here,
hoping he would fall heir to them. Ar
tbur Mallette and partner, whom he
induced to come from Seattle, were
going to lynch him when they found
out how he had fooled them. He is
known here and also in Alaska as an
infernal liar.
There are two claims here that three
or four hundred Koreans are working
and making two or three dollars per
day. The ground is 120 feet deep and
wet. They are hoisting by windlass;
McGrath
Pool Room
and
Cigar Store
For Sale
Mrs. E. P. Werner j
Proprietor I
four men iD the hole, four on the wind
lass, two getting wood, one running
the pump. They have twelve or thir
teen ineo in each gang and are work
ing from about twenty shafts.
Charles Wolf has been ground sluic
ing shallow ground all summer and is
shoveling in now with three Koreans,
and on!v making about $8 a day to the
man.
There are now. all told, twenty-Bve
Americans, including three naturalized
Russians, in this section. We are all
going to the hills and scatter in all di
rectlons to prospect. If we don’t find
anything I will go on towards the Lena
in July. The ice is to the bay here
now and will stav until that time.
Odp of our party, A1 Wine bell, got
cold feet when he found the real condi
tions in the camp and saw that there
was no paystreak in Bight. He went
back to Seattle. I could write vou a
whole lot of interesting matter, but
time will not permit. This note is for
the purpose of heading off any of the
Bills who may have a notion to coma
here in the spring. Tell them to stay
away.
The whites are in control here. The
bolsheviks are expected most «dv dav,
so we will get away before the shoot
ing starts. About 1.500 in this cold,
bleak, hungry-looking village. Eight
or nine hundred Koreans, two or three
hundred Russians, some Chinks, one
hundred soldiers, and twenty-five
whites. They asked us to give up our
guns. We told them we did not have
any. We start in tomorrow freighting
to the creeks and will put in the win
ter prospecting.
The people are all quiet and peace
able now. but you cannot tell when
trouble will start. Two nights -ago I
was on the beach watching our goods;
one of the partners, Frad Meehan, was
coming to relieve me at 12 midaight.
Just then someone began shooting.
The guards got sight of Fred and ar
rested him, thinking it was he who «um
doing the shootibg: They took hisc to
Holmes’ house, where we are livisg.
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Fred’s mission ia being oat at that
time, so they turned him loose; then
they went and arrested a drunken -sol
dier who had been doing the shooting.
In the morning Murray sent word to
the barracks that if they persisted in
molesting Americans there would be
trouble—that every man had a gun and
we would hold on to them. They
haven’t interfered with any of us since
One has to take a firm stand here,
otherwise they will annoy you.
No chance to get any mail before
June. Regard to all Bills.
M. R. Hussey,
Care Denbigh & Co., Hakodate, Japan.
Alaska Reindeer Herds
Show Healthy Growth
Seattle. — Seymour Hadwen, chief
veterinarian of the department of agri
culture, and L. J. Palmer, of the bu
reau of biological survey, who spent
last summer investigating the reindeer
industry in Alaska, have made thetr
report public,’and a copy of it has just
been received by the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce.
The report says that the reindeer
tiken to Alaska by the bureau of edu
cation thirty years ago have assisted
the Eskimo to assimilate civilization.
The number of reindeer now in the
Territory is estimated at between 130,
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
LAWYERS
Id 1. .4 rod A’asSAv
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,■ C. C. Stn’t ij tong , ■ - ‘i ^ t
ir'rai.iiice_iu.aii Court*.
GOO to 200,000. and :-it '4s* asserted that >1
there are gracing areas there capable (
of supporting three err four..-.million i
animals. The report recommends the {
digging of cold storage chambers In '
the permanent ice for the- storage of- i
reindeer meat. ' <
Woodburv Abbey, of the-cadastral
survey department of the.’General Land
Office, and who spent last summer in '
the Ml. McKinlev National Park with
a crew of men doing survey work, sees y
| wonderful possibilities in the park re- '
gion, and if the National Forest Ser- {
vice acts favorably on his application i
ie will establish a tourist service ,ic
be park next summer, and -will com
neoce work immediately. He has
>140,600 behind the proposition. and
• 111 lav out routes, provide transporta
ura. and construct at least six log
:abin hotels.
Fewer Yanks in Mexico.
MexicoCit.v—Spaniards lead in num
>ers in Mexico City’s population, with
2,053. a? against the French, who are
econd. with 2.652. Americans number
i.382; Germans. 1.223; British. 610 It
s estimated that there are about 8.000
Americans now.in Mexico, as compared
mh 25.280 in 1910.
LOUIS GORMAN
Big River j
General Supplies Fresh From* the{
Outside
Furs Bought and Sold
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Larson Roadhouse!
(Formerly The McLean, Tacofana.)
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Best of Home Cooked Meals* Prompt.Attention ;
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New Dog Houses Under Construct inn.
Mrs. .Frank Larson - Proprietor'
Geo. W. Hoffman;
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valley j
Napamute, Alaska
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New Goods Have Arrived (
One of the best stocks ever brought into the %
Kuskokwim Valley. Yes, the prices are right
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
GOMPANV
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Operating Light Draught,Steamers }
On the Kuskokwim.
42apt. Wallace Langley/ Manager. |
Arrange to Spend the Night at the j
Big Miner Roadhouse
Best possible me’als. Private rooms.
New dogkeimels, and the bestof lowo* river fish!
for dog feed.
f -Jisxnoi^ci Dick • • Proprietor