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jgust 29th, 1923, at the postoffice at
Tokotna, Alaska, under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
TAKOTNA, ALASKA, DEC. lo',"l927.
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•SAYS COYOTES ARE MEN
ACING GAME OF ALASKA
Anchorage Times.
The predatory anima lsituation in
Alaska has reached th ep noit mfw f
Alaska has reached the point where it
is a real menace to game and fur life
and should have the very serious
consideration of Alaskans, according
to K. K. Stewart. Territoria lnerdui
<o-t yranmail hunter, who arrived in!
Anchorage on Saturday, and who;
will remain here until the end of the
'Week for the purpose of acquainting ■
trappers and prospectors with the j
best methods of trapping coyotes and j
.wolves.
Mr. Stewart has been in Alaska
since last July, having spent most of;
that time in the Upper Tanana coun
try, where he found abundant evi
dence of the rapid spread of coy
otes. He worked his way slowly
(down the valley toward Fairbanks
and found many coyotes all along the
way and out along the railroad to
ward Healey and Cantwell. More
.evidence of the animals was found on
the Anchorage side of the summit,
giving encouragement to the belief
that they are invading the Territory
•over two routes, one being down the
Tanana valley toward Fairbanks and
the other across the Alaska range
toward Anchorage. There apparently
is a small area between Anchorage
and Fairbanks, along the Alaska rail
xoad, which has not yet been invaded,
but Mr. Stewart believes that region
.also will be overrun shortly.
Mr. Stewart came to Alaska to in
vestigate predatory game conditions,
and in connection with this $rork he is
.demonstrating methods of trapping
coyotes and wolves showing trappers
And prospectors where to place their
sets and what to use to attract the
animals. He has prepared two form
ulas for this use and is arranging
with drug stores in various towns
visited, to supply local demands. It is
the plan to secure the cooperation of
trappers and prospectors in all sec
tions of the Territory which have
been invaded by the predatory ani
mals, and a neffort is to be made also
to interest the federal government in
the work which is now being carried
on single-handed by the Territory.
In addition to preying on the young
of moose and caribou and consuming
the food rightfully belonging to fur
bearing animals, coyotes are direct
ing their attention to the breeding
grounds of water fowl. Between the
coyotes, eagles, hawks and two spe
cie sof owls which prey on the nest
ing places, ducks and geese are de
creasing rapidly in numbers, Mr.
Stewart says.
Mr. Stewart points out that t* ere is
real money in trapping coyotes in ad
dition to the assistance rendered in
controlling the predatory animal situ
ation. There is a bounty of $15 for
each coyote taken and the pelt has a
market value of $10 and upwards.
Mr. Stewart will be pleased to con
fer with trappers and prospectors. On
Saturday he will leave for the coast,
en route to the headwaters of Copper
river, where he will continue his inve
sigations, working down toward Cor
dova. Later in the winter he will go
to Southeastern Alaska, working
among the islands, where wolves are
causing havoc among the deer. He
will return to the railroad belt next
spring probably, and plans to spend
the coming summer in the interior,
continuing the work which he started
UNITED STATES HAS 14,000
MILE SYSTEM OF AIRWAYS
WASHINGTO N. —Although the
aeronautics section of the Depart
ment of Commerce has been in opera
tion a relatively short time, it as 1
ready able to present a map showing
that by the end of its first full year
of service, December 31, approxi
mately 14,000 miles of standard air
ways will be available for non-mili
tary aviation in the United States.
A standard airway, as the section
grades it, must be for the airplane
what the highway is for the motorist.
Dangers and difficulties ordinarily en
countered by the sky traveler must be
reduced to a minimum.
A number of the sections of the
airways thus far approved are lighted
and equipped with with emergency
with emergency landing fields at fre
quent intervals, with beacons to
guide and fairways to alight upon if
necessary, making flying almost as
safe at night as by daylight.
The network reaches from coast to
coast, and from border to border, and
the lines are expected to branch out
in the next five years to make an
even more comprehensive system.
Three-fifths of the original timber
supply of the United States is already
gone. /
Takotna Pool Hall
Fresh Fruits Candies Soft Drinks
Tobaccos Cigars Cigarets
Apples Oranges
Mutcliler Gold Storage Barge
Pork Beef Veal Mutton
Boiled Hams Pickled Tongues
Sausage in variety Head Cheese
DAVE MUTCHLER , - PROP.
SB
SANITARY EVOLUTION.
| The course of sanitation, as out
lined by Pierre Van Passen in hii
I "World’s Window,” has been slow and
the point reached by progress simply
marvelous, says the Medical Times
(New York), which says:
"In the case of the Puritan-Calvin
ist Dutch it was good hygienic form
to wash one’s hands frequently, one’s
feet very seldom, one’s head never.
The washing of his feet was so extra
ordinary an event in the life of Pepys
that he marked it down in his diary
, as having occurred on May 30, 1663.
A great event in 1645) was the coming
to Paris of a Russian prince-to have
his teeth cleaned.
“The kings of France had no bath
I rooms or washtables, and seldom
washed at all. In 1780 a student in
the theological school at Leipzig Uni
versity was not allowed to pass his
examination for the doctor s degree
because of his modernism, which con
sisted in washing his whoie body; it
was whispered that the miscreant act
ually took baths. A Belgian medicau
authority, in the eighteenth century,
advised that if bathing is too difficult
an undertaking, people ought to put
on clean linen at least once every six
weeks. It will be seen from the fore
going that we are in an advanced
state of sanitary evolution today and
that there is no reason for pessimism
regarding the matter of public hy
giene.”
SITKA.—A monument marking
the actual spot where the actual
transfer of Alaska from Russia to
the United States was made sixty
years ago was dedicated by Governor
George A. Parks on October 18. As
the memorial was unveiled the Gov
ernor said Alaskas should be remind
ed of the "privileges we enjoy and
the possibilities we have assumed as
citizens of the United States.”
Navigation on the lower Yukon
river closed on October 5, when the
first heavy ice formed.
The Flemish bow string has been
made in one family in Belgium for
300 years.
In the Probate Court for Mount "Mc
Kinley Precinct, Fourth Division,
Territory of Alaska, before Hon
orable W. T. Vanderpool, com
missioner and ex-officio probate
judge.
In the matter of the Estate of Jean
McLean, deceased.
Notice of Finad Hearing.
Notice is hereby given that the
hearing of objections to the final re
port and account of J. H. McLean, as
administrator of the estate of .Jean
McLean, deceased, will be held in the
probate court room at McGrath,
Alaska, at 10 a. m. on Tuesday, Janu
ary 10, 1928.
W. T. VANDERPOOL,
Commissioner and ex-officio
Probate Judge.
First publication, Dec. 10.
Last publication, Jan. 7.
FORFEITURE NOTICE.
To Frank Irwin, his heirs, executors,
assigns and successors in interest:
You, and each of you, are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex
pended for annual labor and improve
ments the sum of one hundred dollars
($100.00) per year for the years 1914,
1915, 1916, 1917, 1920, 1921, 1922 and
1923 upon the following described
mining claims in the Innoko Record
ing District, Territory of Alaska:
No. 4 Above Gold Run Group, on
Little creek, a tributary of Ganes
creek;
No. 5 Above God Run Group, on
Little creek, a tributary of Ganes
creek.
That all of said work and improve
ments were required by law and were
put upon said claims in compliance
therewith in order to hold the same
for each said year and thereafter:
And if within ninety (90) days
after the publication of this notice
you, er any of you, fail to pay youi
portion of the amount expended or
the above claims, your interest ii
said claims will become forfeited U
the undersigned co-owner, accordinj
to the provisions of Section 2324 Re
vised Statutes of the United States.
WILLIAM SCHNEIRLA.
Date of first publication, Dec. 1C
1927.
Date of last publication, March 17
, 1928.
CARBON MELTED AT LAST.
The long-sought process of meltinj
carbon, which has stood in the way o:
the manufacture of .genuine diamonds
has been discovered by a group o:
German chemists, - according to Sci
ence Service’s Daily Science Newi
Bulletin, which says:
"Carbon has been one of the most
heat-resistant substances known, anc
for this reason has been used in an
; lights and carbon filament lamp:
where a poweful current sent througl
this substance found such resistance
that it raised it to white heat without
: melting. But the existence of dia
I monds, which are pure crystallizec
carbon, tantalized chemists for years
; because it proved that at some time
: in the past carbon .had been ia i
molten state before it formed the
I transparent eight-faced diamond crys
tal. Graphite has been known for i
long time and can be made artificially
but, unlike the diamond, it is softer
opaque, and forms six-faced crystals
Dr. Alterthum and his co-workeri
heated a graphite cylinder, about five
and a half inches in length and ai
inch and a half in diameter, the thick
I ened ends of which were set in cop
| per electrodes, by means of an elec
trie current. The various tempera
tures attained were measured at th<
middle of the cylined through ar
opening. It was definitely deter
> mined that some degree of melting
; actually occurred within bore of the
carbon cylinder, and the melting
[ point was determined as about 4,300
. degrees Fahrenheit.”
In 1925 there were 209,10© produc
ing oil wells in the United States.
Takotna
Cigar Store
Tobaccos
Cigars
Soft Drinks
Fred Dubois
Proprietor
Max Simel :
. Pioneer jfl
Trader
STATION: FAIKVIEW, INNOKO RIVER.
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General Transportation .
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Joe Ferris
Takotna