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Entered as second-class matter Au
gust 29th, 1923, at the postoffice at
'-Tokotna, Alaska, under the Act of
iSdarch 3, 1879.
Takotna, Alaska, March 2. 1928.
FAIRBANKS DERBY WILL BE
HELD MARCH 14TH; MANY TO
ENTER; WOMEN’S RACE. 17TH
(Fairbanks News-Miner.)
March 14 will be the date of the
/Masks} Sweepstakes-dog derby. This
• decision was made at a meeting of the
Fairbanks Kennel Club last evening.
-At the same time March 16 was se
lected as the date for the H. Wendell
Endicott race, and March 17 for the
'women’s race. The courses will be the
: same as last year.
The growing interest in the efforts
of the Kennel Club to make the derby
in outstanding event is shown by the
•increased attendance at each meeting
and by many inquiries regarding the
-ace received from communities on
tthe Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers and
iin the Iditarod district.
Information received by the Kennel
•Club indicates that the entries for this
year’s classic will be more numerous
tihan at any previous race.
Among them is Johnnie Mullen of
Xaltag, who has o fast team of Irish
tetters and maiamutes. Joe Stick
iman, Nulato racer who won the 1928
ISweepstakes,will be back again. He
’hopes to repeat his victory of last
year, and has even a faster team than
ie came up with then. If he wins the
derby two more times he will come
■nto possession of the U. S. Signal
/Corps trophy. Competition for the
■trophy began last year.
Another racer who will compete
; again is Walter Nollner of Galena,
'who placed first in the H. Wendell En
dicott derby in 1928. George Jimmie,
.also of Galena, winner of the Ruby
Long race, will come to Fairbanks t
itr.y his luck in the big derby.
Albert Brown of Ruby, known as
•the “Dago Kid,” will be here to try
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for the big prize. He has a speedy
team, say reports from the Yukon,
which has been showing up well in
local races.
A picked team of mail dogs, used
to hard going, will be entered by
Harry Pitka, Kokrines mail carrier.
Fred Stickman, now living at Nenana,
who placed in the 1928 Sweepstakes
money, is expected to enter a much
stronger team than he had last year.
Sig Wiig is training a team of work
dogs and will be here for the race.
Takotna will be represented by
Chester Brink, who is reported to
have the fastest team in that section
of the upper Kuskokwim river. Wal
ter Sackow of Flat will bring a picked
team from the winners of the Idit
arod-FJat races.
Among the local entries will be a
team chosen from the kennels of
Julien A. Hurley and William Corcey.
The team will be all-Siberian and will
be handled by Mr. Corcey, an experi
enced driver.
Thomas B. Wright will drive prac
tically the same team entered by
Adolph Muller last year, but he has
made a few changes to increase the
team’s speed. Judge Clegg’s team is
in excellent shape for the race arid is
expected to make an excellent show
ing.
There is also a probability of two
or more “mystery” teams -entering, it
is said.
RAIL BELT WILL HAVE
PLANT FOR TREATING HIDES
(Anchorage Times.)
There is the promise that the Alas
ka railroad belt will soon have a plant
in which it will be possible to tan
hides of all kinds, an industry which
Has possibilities of large-scale expan
sion. Plans for the launching of the
enterprise were discussed at a meet
ing held in Anchorage this week, and
it is the intention to get the project
under way just as soon as vats can be
made ready and a supply of hemlock
baric obtained forlthe processing.
The tannery, which will be in the
nature of an experiment at the start,
will be established at the Eklutna in
dustrial school of the Bureau of Edu
cation, and the Bureau will provide
the tanner and the necessary labor to
carry on the initial work; the vats
and hemlock bark will be provided by
the Alaska Railroad, and the hides
wnl be provided by the Department
of Agriculture to get the work under
way. It is expected that the plant
will be started with a supply of about
50 hides, obtained from the several
experiment stations. •
While the operations necessarily
will be limited at the outset to such
cattle and sheep and game hides as
can be picked up .locally, it is the in
tention ultimately to utilize the thou
sands of reindeer hides which are
made available by the annual slaugh
ter of deer in the Nome and Kusko
kwim districts and which are of little
value under present conditions be
cause of the cost of shipment to Out
side tanneries. It is expected that
eventually the local tannery will sup
ply all leather requirements of the
Territory.
Those present tat the meeting at
which plans were .formulated for the
establishment of the tannery were:
E. J. Beck,, superintendent of the cen
tral district of the bureau of educa
tion; -M. D. Snodgrass, assistant ag
ronomist in charge of the Matanuska
experiment station, representing the
DDepartment of Agriculture; Walter
G. Culver, representing the Alaska
Railroad.
There is an ample supply of hem
lock bark available close ‘to the rail
road, and the havesting will start just
as soon as it is possible to take the
bark from the trees.
WEALTH AND COMFORT
FOR TRAPPERS OF CANADA
OTTAWA, Feb- The fur - coat has
established itself as an economic fac
tor. Not only is it bringing wealth
and sttyle to the houlevard?, hat it is
sending comparative wealth and com
fort to the trapoers who obtain the
essential pelts.
According to advices received here
from the Canadian Nodthwest, trap
persare becoming prosperous, with an
average per capita income of $5,000
to $10,000, ranking among the highest
in the Dominion, and are using their
increased buying power to obtain elab
orate equipment for their woodland
shacks.
Men who mush out of trading-posts
with sled loads of furs return with
cargoes of radios, talking machines,
canned fruits, cigars :and other good
'h'ngs ctf modern civilization which a
few years ago were regarded in the
Northland as unattainable luxuries.
Tiadio sets are said. to be especially
popular because the. fur. region is shut
off from civilization, many months of
each year.
JUNEA1 ADVOCATING
OPEN ALASKA PORTS
The Juneau Chamber of Commerce
recently went on record as favoring
the amendment of the Jones shipping
act so as to permit Canadian steamers
: to haul freight to and from Alaskan
. ports. The chamber endorsed a reso
lution by'the Ketchikan chamber.
George F. Weisel, of the Juneau
! Lumber Mills, explained the extent of
, the hardship worked cm 'Alaska by
| the Jones shipping‘bill, which provides
j that products originating in Alaska
and destined to points in the Middle
West and East must be shipped via
! Seattle instead of via Prince Rupert,
and that by the former, in the matter
of Alaska spruce lumber, it arrived at
Seattle with a charge of $14.10
against every 1,000 feet, which fact
makes competition with Washington
lumber dealers impossible. All Mr.
Weisel urged was that steps be taken
to have the two words “excluding
Alaska” stricken from the Jones bill
: as it exists, thus putting Alaska n an
; equal footing with other sections of
j the country. The secretary was in
structed to wire the action of the
chamber in urging a change in the
; law to the authorities-at Washington.
Art and the Chorus Girl.
Seymour Hicks, the actor Arid play
wright, defended the chorus girl at a
| banquet in New York.
“Some old-fashioned people,” he
began, “would have us believe that all
chorus girls are as illiterate as the
one who went to the spring exhibition
of piettures At the Royal Academy.
That was an unusual move on her
part, and a friend, meeting her a few
days afterward at the Cafe Royal,:
a:d:
“‘Hello, Kiki! I hear-you’re inter
ested in art.’
“‘Art?’ said Kiki, and she frowned
over the cigarette she was lighting.
‘Art whoT ”
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