Alaska Notes
■Gathered From Territorial
Exchanges.
Ross 0. Kirkpatrick, member of the
-Army expedition which made the £a
■ruous flight from New York to Nome,
’was killed when his air mail plane
'was caught in a small Illinois tornade
-about the -29th of May. During the
several days the expedition stopped
•over at Fairbanks .and Nome, Kirk
patrick -formed a wide circle of
•friends. He .resigned from the army
-some time after completing the north
■ ern flight, and .since then had been
• demonstrator far the Stout Airplane
•Company, an organization backed by
the Fords. He was known as one of
the best aviators in the United
: States.
Fred Umphrey, oldtime barber of
’the Interior country, having worked
..at Nome, F'airhanks, Ruby and Mar
shall in the early days of those camps,
sand recenth operating a shop at Ju
neau, died in the Capital City a few
«lays ago, following.a short illness.
Deputy Marshal William Butler ar
irived at Fort Yukon some days ago
with the body of Frank Patton, which
•was found in the Beaver river country
by E. H. Woodard, according to the
Fairbanks News-.Miner, and a verdict
• of suicide was returned by the coro
ner’s jury. A diary found in the man’s
■ cabin stated that he had heen sick
since .December 13. Succeeding en
ltries recorded Patton’s increasing
■weakness, and on April IB, the last
• day on which he wrote, '’Mv lungs are
ff!iled up and ! an choking to death.
'The end is not far off.*’
The sum of $580 was found in Pat
tton.’s. clothes.
William Tiernan was arrested at
eCordovu recently on a sanitary
•charge. He has suffered from mental
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trouble for some time past, and was
at one time at the Mon ngside sani
tarium. He fell otf a railroad trestle
a few days ago, for the third time in
30 days.. Efforts are being made to
place him in the Pioneers’ Home at
Sitka, as he is rational except for
brief spells. lie has lived in the Ter
ritory for 20 years, and in Cordova for
mine years.
Thomas S. Scott has been tempo
rarily appointed United States com
missioner .at Cordova to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of E.
| H. Boyer, who has accepted .a position
as U. S. deputy marshal at Kodiak.
In the flight from Fairbanks to
Whitehorse with -the International i
newsreel film of Amundsen and his
party .and the .Norge, .the fliers saw
thousands of caribou in .the district at
the head of the Chena river. Every
dull was covered by The animals, which I
were not massed and did not seem to I
be migrating.
For ha'ing undersized clams in
their possession, the Alaska .Clam
Packers, inconporated, were fined $2»
h.v United States Commissioner T. E.
Scott at Cordova, a few- days ago.
F. H. Foster appeared ns attorney
for the company., stating that it
seemed impossible to keep the diggers
from h-ingiiLg in clams smaller than
the four and one-half inch minimum.!
Seton Thompson, of the Bureau of j
Fisheries, made the arrest. He seized
one box at the weighing station which
contained 1.
clams.
.4 per cent undersized
For thi purpose of segregating the
reindeer herds in the Kuskokwim and
Iliamna districts, Earle E. Beck came
north on a recent steamer for the
Bureau of Education, which has
charge of the propagation of the an
imals by the natives. Many of the
animals are without definite owner
ship, and Mr. Beck will -supervise
branding them with native or govern
ment brands, which will do away with
further questions regarding their pos
The my sterious disappearance of
Robert O’Connell, caretaker of the
i Ibach fox ranch on Middleton Island,
was cleui cti up recently, when a
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searching party from the United
States Coast Guard cutter Unalga
landed at the island and found the-re
mains of a man. believed to have
been the missing caretaker. The body
■was found near the caretaker’s cabin.
Death had .evidently resulted from a
gunshot wound, apparently self-in
flicted and accidental. While there
were no means of positive identifica
tion, the body is presumed to have
been that of O’Connell. The remains
were interred on the island, near the
cabin, and the gTave marked with a
headboard hearing O’Connell’s name.
The town of Seward. has agreed to
bond itself for $25,000 to meet the re
quirement of Congress that the city
provide that amount to be added to
the $125,000 appropriation for control
of the flood waters of Lowell. creek,
which flows through the center of the
'town. The passage of the appropria
tion was contingent upon.the raising
of one-fifth of the sum required
among the citizens of that city. In
order to get prompt action by Con
gress the people of Seward have
agreed to meet the demands .made
upon them.
W-. M. Eddy, well known old time
Alaskan, lias been appointed a dppufy
by 1J. S. Marshal A1 White at.Juneau.
This appointment, is the second, made
by Marshal White since his confirma
tion, the other being Elmer. E.. Reed,
as chief deputy, a position which he
held under Marshal .Beaumont. Mr.
Eddy first came to Alaska in 1897,. to
Juneau, then to Skagway, <and then to
Dawson. He went down the.river to
Nome in 1899,.and visas the first chief
of police of that camp in .the early
days. He was city clerk .for two
terms and city assessor for five terms.
Mr. Eddy was secretary of the Senate
during the session of the -Territorial
Legislature of 1917-18. .He has held
many public offices and has .always
made a good official.
Jack Irwin, well known Alaska rail- (
road man, recently selected, to the po- ,
sition of tourist agent under G. C. ■
Dickens, left Anchorage some time <
ago on his way to Lawing. .His. mis
sion consisted of mapping out the
many tributaries to the many points
of interest contiguous to Lake Kenai,
says the Seward Gateway. Yesterday,
while Mr. Irwin was mapping some
trails in the lower end of Kenai lake,
near the loot bridge across the. river,
with his guide, the well, known .and
amiable Jack Lean, of-Riddiford, he
detected a cow moose, with two calves.
The mother, being somewhat alarmed
at the intruders in her pasture, im
mediately .took a funny notion that
the other side of the lake would be
safer for her and her babies, so she
immediately got busy enticing her
little ones to cross the icy waters. One
of the calves, just able to navigate on
terra firma, took the initiative and j
started to swim across, and at the
start showed considerable skill at the
aquarian art, doing several knots an
hour. The other calf, more or less
obstinate, stayed on shore with the
mother frantically coaxing it to fol
low the little leader, but her efforts
to make the latter take to the water
were fruitless. Jack, like the big
hearted boy scout, taking another look
over the swift-running river, observed
the lonely one had about all it could
do to keep its head above water, and
hastily rushed down several hundred
feet to the bridge and started across
to play the role of hero. The calf
was about to go under for the ’steenth
time when Jack arrived on the scene
of the near tragedy, hooked the little
animal .and . brought it safely to shore.
He then led the animal to the other
side of the stream, where the mother
and “scairt” baby were waiting pa
tiently, and returned it.to her. When
Jack turned it over, the calf, realizing
the deed of her (rescuer and new
found friend, was reluctant to stay
with her “ma,”and several times Jack
was compelled to carry the animal
back before it could be. made to stay
Such was yesterday’s happenings
down at Kenai Lake, .and the action
displayed by Mr. .Lean oji^y magnifies
the “softness aigl kindliness” dis
played by men who roam the wilds.
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NEW DISTRICT ATTORNEY
FOR THIRD DIVISION
Seattle.—On recommendation of
Senator Me Nary of Oregon, the. Attor
ney General has appointed. Cbvde R.
Ellis, of Independence1. Oregon.'as a"-’
distant U. Si district attorneyt'of the
third division, with, headquarters at
Anchorage.
Frank< Ouskcy, Billy "Case, John5
Dunn were Monday departures for
iown river. Also going down were
Mrs.' Woo and brother. Peter Robi-.
ieaux.
Charlie Ross, from the'Cripple aec ,
tion, was a Monday .arrival for a brief
visit here. ,
A traveler in' Scotland had .•ordered
whisky, andy wishing a .glass of water,
said he was sorry to traublehthe'dand
lord with fetching-water especially for
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
All persona having-elaimf?. against
the estate of Joseph Kermend, de
based, are hereby required to present
the same, under oath; to the under
signed,, administrator de bonis non. of
said estate, at the office.of thfe Com
missioner and ex-officio Probate
Judge, at Flat,' Alaska, or to the un
dersigned, at Faisbdnksl Aliska, on or
before January 31st, 1927.
Dated, Flat, Alaska, July 24th, 1926.
CKARLES.JEC.TAYmR,
Administrator of Estate of Jo
aepinW.-Kermend,adoceased.
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ways keep a drop on the pre.mises in
case -of firfe.”
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