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Entered as secona-elass matter An
it 20th, 1923, at the poatcffioe at
totrra, Alaska, under the Aat. . of
March «, 1879.
Takotna, Vlaska, February 7, 1931
11 Alaska Notes
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Frarrk Becker, well known oldtimer
s>f ( Alaska, and who will be well re
membered by residents of Iditarod
and Flat as having been connected
with the Iditarod Pioneer, died at
Seward on January 23, according to
the Seward Gateway, which says:
“Frank Becker, who has been on
the reporotrial staff of the Gateway
during the past three years, died this
morning at about 8:15 from acute
heart trouble.- He had been in the
Gateway office but a few minutes be
fore his sudden passing and appar
ently was in his usual good health,
for he had not complained of being
unwell; in fact he had never baen
heard to say that he was afflicted
wif,h heart trouble.
“A markari- talent f«r> journalism,
toppled with., an exceeding likable
disposition, created for him a wide
circle of friends. He-can be ranked
as. an oldtimer of Alaska, for it was
more than 20 years ago when he first
arrived in Alaska from the States, lo
cating in the Iditarod district. He fol
lowed newspaper work and mining
thpre for a couple of years, then'
went back to the States, where he
worked on many of the leading pa
pers until the “Call of the North”
became too strong. Three years ago
he returned and siince then had spent
his time between Seward, Kodiak and
Sitkalidak Island.
“Frank’s alma mater was the Uni
versity of Virginia, from which he
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J. P. TAYLOR
was a graduate of law. He seldom
spoke of his personal affairs,, but! it
is known he practiced law in the East
for a number of years, later chang
ing his vocation to that of reporter
He had also studied at twa-otiker col
leges, but for what degrees on length
of time is not known. He was a,ver
satile writer and had a veal affection
for Alaska. He had intended to even
tually enter the trading business and
is thought to have been in.. corre
spondence with persons in the In
tcrior.”
Father Aloysius Robeaux, earliest
of the Jesuit missionaries in North
ern Alaska, passed away recently at
Holy Cross. He was 75 years of age.
Father Robeaux came to Alaska with
Bihop Seghers and founded the Holy
Cross Mission, on the Yukon, in 1884
He traveled the muskokwim and
Lower Yukon rivers for many years
and with the- e$cepti<.»n of one brief
trip to the Outside had made Alaska
his home continuously.
A dispatch from Yakima, Wash,
recently, stated that Neil Faster mar
had bagged a wild goose near there
which carried a Fairbanks, Alaska
tag. Two others which he shot car
ried no identification marks. This is
the first time that migratory hirds
from Alaska have been shot there, sc
far as known.
A domestic rift which occurred sev
eral years ago and resulted in separa
tion was climaxed a few days ago at
Fairbanks, when George Hardy shot
and it is believed fatally wounded his
wife, Emma Hardy. Hardy used a
shotgun. After he had shot his wife
iTardy took his own life with the
same weapon. The shot Hardy fired
penetrated Mrs. Hardy’s- abdomen.
No hope is held for her recovery.
After Hardy entered his wife’s home
she arose find attempted to persuade
him to leave. The shooting fulfilled
threats Hardy had made at intervals
for a year prior to the .shooting. Two
daughters and, three sops, survive.
The Alaska Sea Foods Company is
the name of a corporation recently
organized at Cordova for the express
purpose of canning crab meat. The
new organization has obtained a fav
orable lease from the Cordova Hack
ing Company for the use of its build
ings and .eq,vupniont and accessories,
and a definite order for 2,0.00 cases
of the product per month from one of
the oldest established brokers on the
Pacific coast. It is expected that
when the corporation realhes normal
produstion it will provide . employ
ment for approximately 150 persons
and wil reease at least $200,000 an
nually in the rommunity. The rom
pany plans to lontinde operations
from ten to twelve months each year
and to begin active packing within
the next thirty days, if possible.
Investigation into the latest mys
terious death in the McCarthy district
was apparently closed when a cor
oner’s jdry found that Dan Person
committed suicide.
Many McCarthy residents, however,
disagree and insist that Person was
murdered, presumably by the same
same man who is suspected of being
responsible for a series of slayings in
that district.
Person was the man who fohnd the
body of Howard Foster, prospector,
and he always insisted that Foster
did not commit suicide bht was mur
dered, despite the findings of the in
vestigators. There are many who be
lieve that Person was killed in re
prisal for his forthright stand in the
matter.
The first special dispatch to the
Cordova Times from McCarthy tell
ing of the slaying reported several
bullet wounds were found in Person’s
head, but the coroner’s jury agreed
that he died from a self-inflicted
wound caused by a bullet from a .30
government model Winchester pfle.
Person died, said the dispatch, when
retiring to his bed, and when he was
' shot, either by himself or someone
■ elsov he had partly removed his cloth
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tended to end his life,. Person owned
j a blacksmith shop in McCarthy, and
those who believe he killed himself
said he did so because business was
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WOMAN WITNESS PORTLAND
MURDER CASE ATTACKED
PORTLAND.—Mrs. H. W. Howard,
o'>, was stabbed twice above the
heart, her face badly slashed and se
verely beaten last night.
She is one of the state’s witnesses
against Nelson Bowles and Irma
Loucs, who are charged with the mur
der of Mrs. Bowles.
Mrs. Howard’s . condition is such
.that police were not allowed to ques
tion her. A man leaped on the wo
man when she. went to the back porch
of her home.
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