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sIcGRATH, ALASKA. JULY 1, 1022
Chicago to Detroit in
Plane in 2 1-2 Hours
Detroit.—Breakfast in Chicago—two
houi’s and 32 minutes of driving through
the air in Eddie Stinson’s big Junker
plane at the rate of 110 miles an hour
lunch in Detroit.
This happened Sunday morning. A
Detroit-Chicago party of seven persons
made the trip, the first time the inter
city flight has ever been accomplished
to comply with a meal schedule. The
3tart was made from the hangar at
Ashburn Field, Eighty-sixth street and
Forty-eighth avenue. Chicago, at 10:01
a. m. It was enactly 12:32 p. m. when
the Junker’s pneumatic-tired wheels
taxied along the grass of Morrow Field
after a perfect landing. Tho time is
said to be a record over this route for a
machine carrying seven passengers
Twenty-eight gallons of gasoline were
consumed on the trip
Climbing from the Chicago field,
Stinson, who is the holder of the
world’s record of 23 hours and some
minutes of sustained (light, maintained
an altitude of 3,000 to 4,000 feet
throughout the whole distance, until
he neared Detroit. The Junker, with
Us load of seven persons, traveled
smoothly, with no perceptible vibra
tion.!
Below was the panorama of field,
lake and river, gridironed by white
lines that indicated roads. Fields of
black loam, splashes of green, growing
wheat, big farm houses with barns and
silos painted red. villages that look
like tbe toy subdivisions in the real
estate broker’s window, lakes of black
vater, blotches of white that meant
orchards in full bloom—all slipped by
with an easy glide. In an aeroplane
there is no sensation of speed. From
3,500 feet up id the air, a square mile
looks to be about the sice of a city
block. _ , _
Fairbanks baseball fans, enthusiastic
over the outlook for a big season’s
sport, subscribed more than §1.200 as
an initial fund to start off tbe organisa
tion of a baseball team to represent the
town. Fairbanks and Nenana teams
will play several series with each other
and with teams from towns along tbe
railroad.
PROFESSIONAL
W\ F. Green—
M. I)., D. D. S
Office: McGrath, Aaa.
Albrecht and Taylor
3 ED. W. Albrecht, Iditarod, Alaska
Chas. E. Taylor, Seattle, Wash.
Practice in all the Courts;
vsilttle Ijaw Office: L. C. Smith Bleb*
Elliott 1642? •
Alaska News Notes
Rev. Fr. Alosius Jacrjuet, who built
the first Catholic church at Nome, died
recently at Montreal.
Glenn Bartlett, formerly manager of
the Gastineau Hotel. Juneau, has taken
the management of the Busch Hotel,
Seattle.
A number of'permits have been is
sued for the capture of live moose on
Kenai peninsula for shipment outside.
A number have already been taken.
It is announced that tho Rae-Wallace
property, in the Willow creek district,
will be operated on a considerable scale
this summer and that a new mill will
be installed.
Fishermen arriving at Craig report
having seen several large herds of fur
seals west of Coronation island. They
also report t hat halibut are very scarce
in that section
Ole J. Berg and wife, of Strelna, left
for the States recently, where Mr.
Berg expects to finance his mining
property, near Strelna. well known as
the North Midas mine.
John Richards, superintendent of
the Alaska Juneau gold mine, and for
mer president of the Alaska Society of
Minins? Engineers, died at Juneau re
cently of heart disease, aged 4!' years.
The Carlisle Packing Comjwny is
said to be preparing to move its can
nery from the lower Yukon river,
where commercial fishing has been
prohibited, to some point in the Rering
sea district.
The Canoe Pass Packing Company
and the Carlisle Packing Company, at
Cordova, will join forces this season.
Roth companies will semi out their
fishermen, but the fish will all be
canned at the Carlisle plant.
The Ready Bullion mine, near Ju
neau, is now being operated by electric
hoists for both men and ore. Elec
tricity, it is stated, will effect a saving
of about $2,000 a month in the opera
tion of these hoists over steam, as pre
viously used.
Gus Johnson, an employ© of the
Alaska Juneau Mining Company, re
cently received injuries which resulted
in his death A piece* of falling rock
struck him and threw him. down a
chute a distance of fifty feet, badly1
fracturing his skull.
John Frainev and Mike Trepte are
preparing to install a hydraulic plant
on their ground in the Totathinika
country. They have tapped Iron creek,
a tributary of the Totatlanika. with a
ditch at a point approximately 5,000
feet above their claims, which will give
them a fall of 10 feet.
Advices received from Anvik. on the
Yukon, state that the Episcopal mis
sion church at that place was destroyed
by fire recently. The priest in charge
there, Rev. John W. Chapman, is the
oldest missionary of any church in ser
vice in Alaska. He has been at work
continuously for more than JO years.
With $500 as an initial subscription,
the Presbyterian church at Juneau has
started a campaign to raise $4,000 for
the purchase of the Held property, be
tween Seward and Franklin streets, on
Fourth, in Juneau, to be used in con
nection with the present church prop
erty for the erection of a $30,000
church.
S. O. Grover and Jerry Hunter have
struck it rich on No. 1 Daniels creek,
at Bluff, in the Nome district, which
they are working under lease from lia
D. Orton. The strike is said to be the
best made since the Monument creek
benches were uncovered in 1918. Han
p>ngs taken from the shaft reveal a
mass of pay dirt ten feet deep and still
going down, and the pay is said to run
from $1 to $10 per pan.
The body of George S. Allsopp, which
was found recently in a tent near Broad
pass, was taken to Anchorage, where a
coroner’s jurv returned a verdict that
the deceased catne to his death by his
own hands. Allsop was bi) years of age
and was a member of the Nome igloo,
Pioneers of Alaska.
On the recommendation of National
j Forest Examiner Wellman Holbrook,
j over 3.000,000 acres in the Petersburg
j division of the Tongass national forest
has been permanently classified as
more available for forest than for other
| purposes. This makes the non-listable
acreage in the Tongass boundaries
nearly 10,000,000.
Joseph White, 38 years of age, a
brakeman on the Copper River &
Northwestern railroad, was fatally in
jured recently by an accident, and died
in the Cordova hospital a few hours
later. Ho fell from the top trf a cat
while the train was passing through a
snow cut, and then rolled down undet
the wheels of the train, which severed
both of his legs and indicted other in
juries.
’Cazis Krauczunas, formerly of the
immigration service in Alaska, and
one-time socialist candidate for dele
gate to Congress, has left Seattle,
where he has been practicing law for
several years, for Russia, to seek a
brother who was in the Russian army
! until the overthrow of the monarchy
and then taken prisoner, since which
time Krauezunas has not heard from
fate brother.
Deputy Marshal Getcholl, of D:>tig
las, recently found a concealed cham
ber beneath the house of or.e Joe Bo
zich, with the following contents: One
K-gallon still complete, I largo grinder
for preparing fruit, 10‘ quart bottles of
liquor, four half-gallon jugs of liquor,
2 gallon jugs of liquor, 1 5-gallon demi
john of liquor, 1 50-gallon barrel of
wine, 1 30-gallon barrel of blueberries,
one half barrel of prunes and other
fruits in a state of fermentation, ahd 1
10-gallon keg of blueberry juice.
Baldy Allen, formerly of Nome, king
of the Alaska huskies, died at Berke
ley, Cal., recently, at the home of his
owner. Scotty Allen, who drove him in
the Alaska sweepstake races from 1909
to 1917. The teams in which Baldy
won included the (irst three Alaska
sweepstakes and the three later ones.
Baldy was 15 years old, deaf and partly
blind. Everything was done to make
his old age enjoyable and to ease his
last hours. He was buried in Scotty’s
back yard, and a tombstone will be
erected over his grave.
Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the *
Kuskokwim Valley,
Napamute - Alaska
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating: Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, Manager.
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John E. Baker
Independent Candidate
for
Territorial Representative
-Paid Advt.