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While motion picture cameras
.clicked, Governor George A. Parps at
12:55 o'clock on the afternoon of Sep
tember 18 turned the first spadeful of
.earth on the site of the Alaska capi
itol building at Juneau, starting con
• struction on a project which is to cost
three-quarters of a million dollars
iand which has taken nearly 20 years
to secure. It is expected the building
-\will be completed in about two years.
Nome.—Pilot .Frank Dorbandt of
-.the Alaska Airways, Alfred J. Lomen
«of the Lomen Reindeer Corporation,
^and A. W. Porsill .representative of
.the Canadian government, took off
jthis morning to prepare for the most
important reindeer drive in history.
The drive will commence from
jKotzebue Sound and head along the
Arctic coast of Alaska to Kittigazuit
peninsula, on the east side of the
Mackenzie delta in Northwest Terri
tory, Canada.
The plane will fly to the head of
,the Colvile rivercmfwyp cmfwyp mf
the Colville river, covering in eight
,hqrs what will take the moving herd
yearly a year. Camping and feed
ing grounds will be picked out on the
^aerial suvey.
The Canadian government has con
tracted with the Lomen Corporation
/or delivery to the Canadian ministry
<of the interior of 3,000 selected rein
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deer. The caravan will be fully
equipped. There will be 40 trained
sed reindeer to transport provisions
and reindeer clothing for the per
sonnel.
The men will be. aided by trained
reindeer sheep dogs from Alaska and
Idaho. The drive will cross the Amer
ican Arctic through an untimbered
and little known section for a dis
tance of 300 miles.
Made desperate by the agony of
constant pain and the knonwledge
that he could not recover his health,
Tom Shaw, pioneer of the North, end
ed his life at Anchorage a short time
ago by shooting himself through the
head with a revolver. His body was
found by a chance caller at his apartl
ment on K street, and the authorities
informed. The oldtimer was on the
floor, where he had fallen when the
fatal shot was fired. Death apparent
ly was instantnaneous.
It was a clear ease of suicide,
everything pointing to self-destruc- '
tion. One of the bits of evidence
gathered was a note signed by the
deceased, telling of his intention to
take his own life. Another note, ap
parently intended for some friend but
not addressed to any one, and un
signed, contained much the same,
statement as the signed note. The
note read as follows:
“I have got cancer of the throat. I
hate to do this, but I can’t stand it:
much lonnger. You will find the
money in a tin dish in my shirt
pocket. I do not belong to no lodge.
No relatives. * Tom Shaw.”
“Say, old man, I hate to leave you.
The cancer is getting terrible bad.;
The taste in my mouth is terrible. I
hate to do it, but I can’t help it. Good
by.”
Shaw was born in Scotland and was j
about 65 years of age at the time of'
his death. During construction days j
| Shaw was section foreman at Stand
, ard, about midway betweenn Nenana
I and Fairbanks, and later he entered
j the employ of the Fairbanks Explora-!
tion Company, remaining with that
company several years.
That wolves are on the increase
in the sheep hills is the opinnion of;
George Keys, engineer at the Alaska ;
College, who recently returned to;
Fairbanks from a trip to Valdez. De-!
crease in the amount of bounty al-1
lowed by the Territory is laid partly 1
responsible for this growing menace:
to wild life. Says Mr. Keys:
“A few days ago on our way back!
from Valdez and Chitinna, Egan Pet
rokov, Fred B. Parker and his sons,;
Ernest Wakwitz and J wentn on a
sheep-hunting trip. On our way up
a canyon we found a big bull caribou,
which had recently been killed by
wolves and lay about one-fourth
eaten. Wakwitz got a shot at the
wolf and killed him. He was huge.
“With the wolves in the hills we
F. C. H. SPENCER
Swtessorn to Northeriv*Commercial Co. At
Takotna, Alaska
realized that '.he sheep hunting would
be poor, but we did not expect to find
it as bad as it was. We found fresh
wolf signs everywhere, even on the
highest feeding grounds. The sheep
we saw were wild. Last year, in the
same place it was fairly easy To get
within range of them.
“After spending about seven hours
in the hills we returned to the place
where the big bull caribou had been
killed. Y. o've- had been there in our
absence and had stripped the bones
bare.
“I have talked with all the trappers
and hunters I could find. They all
agree that the bounty of $10 is not
sufficient. Most of the wolves killed
th;s past summer have not been
skinned, for the men feel that it is
worth $10 to skin one, let alone hav
ing to carry in the evidence of the
kili. They are at a loss to under
stand why the law was changed, re
ducing the bounty to $10 and requir
ing the hide to be shown. Of course,
it might be reasoned that every one
will kill a wolf every time he can, re- j
gardless of the bountny, but the man
in the hills who must think of his
supply of ammunition may become
discouraged. And if the wolves are
not killed, how long will we have j
game in Alaska?”
Attracted by quartz discoveries in!
the Keno district in Yukon Territory,;
their lot with the new camp, says |
a number of Fairbanksans have cast;
Stanndish O’Sullivan in writing' to|
friends there.
“Dan Nicholson and I name over j
here on Galena Hill on June 1,” he j
writes. “We have considerable work,
done, but so far have not found the j
high grade veins, though at times it
looks-good. We had a heavy fall of
rain lately and it threw us back a!
week by filling the shaft with water.
The little highgrade we do get assays j
fair—20 ounces and over in silver and
86 per cent lead, which is $200 per
ton. That would leave us a good
prolt if we could only get a vein
about 18 innches in width.
“Dan Nicholson came up last Oc
tober from Fairbanks. He met an old
schoolmate of his named McLeod who
has several claims here. We bought
his interest in three claims and got
a trree-year lease on them. ,
“The west side of Galena Hill is
showing up well. They struck good
pay on the Silver King, Tom Aitkins’
property, and sold to the Treadwell
Yukon Company. There are about 60
men working on a new road to the
west side of the hill. ”
Nelson F. Patton, long a resident
of Fortuna Ledg, on the lower Yukon,
died recently from heart trouble, in
Seattle, where he went a short time
before for medical treatment. The
oldtimer was born in Sherbrook, Que
bec, and was about 58 years of age
at the time of his death. He was
widely known along the Yukon river
and in the Nome district in the early
days.
Found on a fox island, to which he
had fled after escaping from the
Morningside- Sanitarium, Chris Rice
was placed in custody and was soon
on his way to the asylum again in
Frank J. Guskey ;
Notary Public j
McGrath, Alaska 1
Du Rand’s
Cafe and
Hotel
Flat City
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charge rtf Marshal H. V. SSIRvan of
th* Third division. Expense of re
tununjr Ku-r to Morningside will have
to be Uwm- by that institution. Itice
was emtatitted from Petersburg and
on eseapirsf.' made bis way back to
that usssirntionn.
DORKAflUT FRINGING FURS
AVD FOXES FROM SIBERIA
SEATTLE. Oct. 30.—Pilot Frank
Dorbandt helped off from Teller,
Alaska, yesterday morning to begin
tiie transportation of six or more sil
ver foxes »r»d six tons of furs from
North (Zap*. Siberia, to Nome, and
arrived itX M* destination late yester
day.
Jake’s Job.
“A pmoir defense.”
Pres \i»n t Green, • of the American
Federation of Labor, was condemn
ing the. communists.
‘That defrn.se of the communists,”
he went mu “reminds me of Mrs. Mil
ligan’s defense of her husband.
“Mrs. Milligan was a washer
woman, her husband was a loafer, anct
When the 'minister called afcthe Milli
• pan home he would always find Jake
sitting in a Tocker with his: news
paper and pipe.
“But one day f Jake’s rocker was
empty.
“'Don’t tell me;* said the minister
—‘dbn’t tell me, ma’am, that Jake’s
workihp.’
“‘Yes, he is,’ said Mrs. Milligan;
‘working hard.’
“ ‘Goodness gracious 1 It seems in
credible. What’s he adding,’
" ‘Six months.’ ”
Patient—Doctor, how are my
chances ?
Doctor—Oh, pretty good, * but' I
wouldn’t start reading Any ctfntinheri
stories.
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