ANNUAL SESSION ALASKA
GAME COMMISSION ENDED
JUNEAU, Dec. 9.—The ninth reg
ular sisf.ion of the Alaska Game Com
mission adjourned here yesterday.
The meeting was largely taken up
with routine matters, and fewer rec
ommendations for ehanges in regula
tions were made than .at previous
meetings.
The recommended changes in game
ai.d fur regulations, when approved
by the Secretary of Agriculture, will
become eifective for the season of
1932-33, and will be announced in de
ta 1 in Game Law Circular No. 10,
which will he issued early next spring
and circulated throughout the Terri
_ tory.
Migratory Bird Recommendations
Responsive to requests of chambers
€ of commerce in the towns of South
er -fiiaska, the Commission
adopted a resolution asking the Ad
visory' Board, Migratory Bird Treaty
- Act, and the Department of Agricul
ture to zone the Territory and estab
lish open seasons for the taking of
migratory birds at a more suitable
time. The Commission’s resolution
asks for one zone to include .South
• eastern Alaska east of the 141st me
. ridian where the open season should
be from noon September .20 to No
vember 20, and the remainder of the
Territory west of the 141st meridian
in another zone, with an open season
.-from noon, September 1 to October
31, as long as the 60-day open season
1 is .retained.
The opening of the season at nnoon
is required throughout the United
; States and Alaska under the provi
sions of the Migratory Bird Treaty
Act regulations.
Under the treaty with Cannada,
September 1 is the earliest date that
the season can be opened in Western
United States and Canada.
Realizing the desirability of an
earlier opening date in the northern
part of .Alaska, the Commission pass
ed a resolution six years ago asking
<. that if and when the Treaty Act is
resumed a provision be made to per
mit the opening of a season in North
ern Alaska on August 15. This re
quest is still on record with the De
partment, and will undoubtedly re
ceive favorable consideration when j
.the treaty is is revised, as it is un
derstood some of the northern prov
inces of Canada have made a similar
request.
Game Refuges.
The Commission again endorsed the
proposed establishment of a national
park to include the present Glacier
Bay National Monument with adjoin- i
ing areas. There is but little com- j
mercial development in the propsed
park region. With its plentiful sup-,
ply of game and birds, including con- j
. siderable numbers of large brown and
grizzly bears, added to the many un- j
usual natural scenic wonders, it is j
believed the park would soon become
one, of th eoutstanding tourist attrac
tions in Alaska and serve admirably
as a game refuge to assure the per
petuation of the large bears about
which there is so much apprehension
In the States.
The southern boundary of the Big
Delta Game Refuge is to be changed
_ from Mle 257 on the Richardson
Highway to Mile 269, reducing the
size of the area from 23 miles of high
way to 11 miles. This refuge was
established last year to provide addi
tiunal protection for the introduced
buffalo ranging in that section.
This modification of the Big Delta
or McCarty closed area will open (for
hunting the region around Beal’s
Cache, the closing of which has been
>.ne principal complaint of some of
the Fairbanks residents.
Bear Protection
With the present libera! provision
n the regulations permitting a resi
ent to protect, his person and prop
erty from attack or molestation by
:aige brown and grizzly bears, the
Commission believes that these .an
mals are entitled to the protection of
a summer close season when their
hides are of no value as trophies. A
-lose season from June 20 to Septem
ber 1 has been recommended to apply
to both resident and nonresident hunt
ers m the coastal range of the large
brown bear. This range includes
Southeastern Alaska, the coastal
da inage and islands in the Prince
William Sound region, Kei.ai Penin
sula, the drainage to the west side of
Cook Inlet south of the Swentna river,
the Kodiak Island group .and the
Alaska Peninsula.
Bear hunt.ng in Alaska is attract
ing annually a larger number of big
game hunnters who spend many thou
sands of dollars in wages for guides,
packers, helpers, supplies and equip
ment. Many of these hunters have
also become interested in mining and
have invested largely in Alaska prop
erties.
No change was made in regula
tions affecting bears in other por
tionns of the Territory.
Guides.
The only changes in regulations af
fecting guides were slight modifica
tions to clarify the meaning of cer
tain nprovisions.
Fur-Bearers
One or two slight modifications
were made in trapping seasons to ad
just open and closing dates to con
form more clearly to climatic condi
tions.
The Commission is favorable to= s
continuance of the open season on
beaver during the spring of 1934, but
definite recommendations -will. be. post
poned until the results of .the open
season for 1933 can be ascertained.
Extension of the open season for 1933
was announced by the Commission
several weeks ago.
Predatory Animals.
The Commission adopted a resolu
tion asking for Federal assistance in
the war on predatory animals, con
tending that the annual kill of game
by wolves and coyotes is several
times that of hunters and trappers;
that the depredations of the coyote in
particular have cause a great curtail
ment in the normal catch, of fur
bearers.
GOVERNMENT MAY AID
PRIMITIVE NATIVES
The Very Rev. Francis .Menager,
superior general of Catholic Missions
in nNorthem Alaska, announced in
Fairbanks recently . that Eskimo resi
dents of the section between the Yu
kon and Kuskokwim rivers, described
as being the most primitive .people in
the world, will have their material
condition greatly improved if the Fed
eral Government proceeds with the
contemplated establishment of a rein
deer station in that .area*. An investi
gation is now under lay t o determine
the practicability of a reindeer drive
SOURDOUGH TRADING ROST
McGRATH. ALASKA
t Groceries Clothing
A'-AN’iTHING FROM A NEEDUS TO AN ANiUJOK
Except a Few Missing Links
Come and Look Things Over
W. T. VANDERPOOL
PROP.
from Mountain Village to Hooper
Bay.
While the natives of that desolate
region are familiar .with famine, they
were harder, hit than usual last winter
when a tidal wave destroyed their
homes, belongings and food. With the
aid of Catholic missionaries, they got
through the winter in fair shape, and
with the summer’s fishing theyii con
dition no wis not so desperate. How
ever, lire reindeer are needed, and a
herd at Hooper Bay would mea na
meat supply to draw from in times of
need.
ONE OF LrVEhXEBa: OF BEAL
SOURDOUGHS OF ALASKA
Under the caption “Old ..Trail .Blazer
Visits Anchorage,” the. Anchorage
Times.speaks as, follows of Edward
Duncan Ralston, -well knownn resinn
dent of McGrath:
“Edward DuncauiuiRAlston, one ouf
the liveliest of.the.iS’ai sourdoughs of
Alaska—forty-six jysear's in the land
of the Midnight Sur—is in Anchorage
today, shaking 'hand?- with others of
the early vintage, and meetinng fthe
chacns and bldtimers on every hand.
Despite his long <»*i er irt<the North,
he still has the spirit *i youth and
means to,take wings early nnext week
and push back, into the great Alaska
hinterland for, another winter in the
Innterior.
“This induirrirable .veteran came t*
Alaska in 1886, and then became a
member . bfd.tije Jumieau' Order of
Alaska Pioneers, of whom about, only
[ six memhers survive. In 189b he was
! at Forty mile;- and had the > honor of
| then ^participating in the organiza
1 non of the Yukon- Order of Pioneers,
I and became one of its charter mem
! bers." Something like 40 men formed
1 the lodge as then organized, with the
famous Jack McQuesten as its first
president. Captain William D. Moore,
i who lived 44 years in the Yukonival
! ley and was on the Alaska coast long
j before going rintdi the Intel jc r, also
1 was a member of the famous old -or
! der, and he and Ralston had a happy
| reunion today. Ralston last hight-at
tended the Anchorage Igloo of t the
Pioneers of Alaska and there met a,
number of other. oldtimers, some of
whom also were members of the. Yu
kon Order at Fortymile. Among those
members now in Anchorage are Jack
Kennally, whose brother discovered
the Circle digginys, ,and James Climie.
who was long a member of the Ram
: part Igloo.
“Mr. Ralston .last evening also at
! tended the frolic of the ‘Ice Worms,’
and was introduced as ‘An Ice Worm
who joined the order in 1835 In the
old gold rush days.' He gave sour
doughs throughout the Northland a
cheery greeting over the air.
“Mr. Ralston has ..been in the hos
pital at -Seward the last two months,
and is now in fine condition again, and
is en route back to McGrath, where
he makes his headquarters with the
Alaska Rivers Navigation Company,
headed by Captain Wallace Langley,
operating on the Kuskokwim river.”
CHICAGO MAYOR ORDERS
RRDIVE AGAINST GANGSTERS
CHICAGO.—“Put gangsters in jail
or the moigue,” was the order to Chi
cago police heads from Mayor Cer
mak, as he directed a campaign upon j
speakeasies, beer flats and gambling
places.
Incensed by the killing of a police
man nand seven others within a few
hours after he had issued an order
' holding police captains responsible
for hoodlum activities, the mayor
said:
“It’s time the police themselves j
start shooting. I told the captains
there is not one speakeasy in the city j
they or their men didn’t know about, j
but they had o have a policeman killed
o prove what-1 said is true.”
-,
In the United States Army there ;
are more than 4,000 enlisted negroes.;
St. Louis leads the world in maca;- |
roni output, making about 30,000,000
pounds annually.
WOULD CARRY RUTH JUDD
CASE TO UPPER COURT
Ft-QREi.CE, Ariz.—The attorneys
ior lurs. Winnie Ruth Judd said an,
application for a writ of habeas cor-|
; _s w..: be filed in nthe U. .S. circuit
couit and that it may become the
basis .for a later attempt to carry the
ca„e to the II. S. Supreme Court.
H.s declaration was made after a
ouference in her prison quarters with
h i husbannd and her father.
The writ will be filed on .grounds
of a constitutionnal flaw' in the set-up
of the Arizona supreme court when
the court denied Mrs. Judd a new trial
and set.February 17 as tbe date for
, . i
her execution.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Steve Bailey, his heirs, executors,
assigns ami successors in interest: >
You are hereby notified that I,
Frank J. Guskey, the undersigned,
ha y e been appointed administrator of
the estate of John Griffin, deceased. !
And you, and each of you ,are here- 1
by further notified that the said John ;
Griffin, deceased, through power of j
attorney from you (Steve BaileyX,
dated the 6th day of November, ex- !
pended for annual labor and improve
ments the sum of one hundred dollars
for each of the years 1923, 1924, 1926,
1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930 and 1931 !
upon the following described placer:
mining claim, to-wit: No. 4 Above!
Discovery on Ganes creek, a tribu
tary of the Innoko river, in the In
noko Recording Precinct.
That all of said work and improve
ments were required by law and were
put upon said claim in compliance
therewith in order to hold the same
for each said year and thereafter, all
of said work having been performed
by the aforesaid John Griffin.
. And if within ninety (90) days
after the publication of this nnotice
you, and each of you, do not con
tribute to the above-mentioned John
i-GrjJBu Estate your . proportion of j
said expenditures for each claim, for
each said vears, your interest in said
claim will become the property of the j
said John Griffin Estate, according to;
the provisions of Section 2324 Re
vised Statutes of the United States.
FRANK J. GUSKEY,
A Administrator of Estate of
John Griffin, deceased.
• Dated Takotna, Alaska, Dec. 24,
1932.
FirstjfubUcation, Dec. 24, 1932.
In the Probate CouxXJqi Otter -Rr»
cinet, Fourth Division,. Jemlojy df
Alaska, before Hon. D. E. BrOwuo,
Commissioner and ex-officio Pro
bate Judge,
In the matter of the Estate of
Joseph Neville, deceased. Probate
No. 6L
Notice , to Creditor*.
All persons having claims against
the Estate of Joseph Neville, de
ceased, are hereby required to pre
sent the same, under oath, to the
undersigned, administrator de bonis
non of the said estate, at his office
at Flat, Alaska, or at the office of
the Probate Judge at Flat. Alaska
on or before six months from the
posting of this notice.
Dated, Flat, Alaska. .November 14.
1032.
T. JH. ■GA'RmNT),
'Administrator de boriis non
Estate of Joseph Jfpville,
deceased.
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