NEWS ITEMS FROM OTHER ALASKAN TOWNS ;
• Gathered From Our Territorial Exchanges •
TWEET FAMILY ENJOYS
LIFE IN FAR NORTH
By FERGUS HOFFMAN
(In The Alaska Dai.y Press)
Mr. and Mrs. James Monagle were
getting acquainted with their three
grendehi’dr n and teetr son-in-tcw
today and the children were solemn
ly Inspecting “Monagle Grandma and
M- nagle Grandpa”—who had prom
ise Ve them to something
oaj-ed *:i ie ’ so n.
The chijuii-n's mother, Mrs. E. S.
Tweet, is Mr. and Mrs. Monagh-’s
da.- htcr. Graduated from Juneau
E -h School in 1918, she studied at
Bellingham Normal Schrol and re
turned to Alaska to teach, but 12
years ago. she met E. S. Tweet in
T rr—where this atory begins.
Teller. iSO miles r rth of Nome,
has ttcr. the center of Mr. Tweet's
world since 1903, when his parents
moved from Minnes ta. bringing
their infant son with them to the
Arctic post. He has not been Out"
side since. With his parents and
three brothers, he holds a partner
ship in Tweet ar.a Sons, a gold
dredging company.
“I met Mrs. Tweet while she was
Teller,” he ex
plained today. “We were married
and for 12 years we have betr. plan
ning to come to Juneau to see her
mother and father, but someth'ngr sl
p vent from mak
ing the tr-p Tfcls year, the erf re
c'wpan;- de ided tc boss th« work
instead . f It ing the work boss us.
We j-ist shut tic—n rpcrations three
w tits early rnd h v: are'”
r? — pt roily w.'I spend two
or . week - hire beftrs going
Ct; to spend the winter. They
d : knew where they ore g'ir.g—
r.f.yb: through the Far.sr 3 C3nal
when the winter <rets tec long n *he
States”—bat they':? gcug to have a
grand time, for it will be the :.rst
Otttside trip that four of the five
Tweets have kr.own. Mr. Tweet • es
r’ remember the States and the
three children Evelyn,?: Phyllis, 5,
and Edgar Glen, nine months old,
have parsed all their lives at Teller.
The children art real Alaskans.
Th y d'-n't like real milk—canned
eii’k was all they ever knew before
they left Teller on the airplane a
week ag j. They had never seen a
tree until they made the aerial jour
ney. ard they have never seen a
moving picture show. Eat “Monagle
Grandma.” as they call her, is going
to fix that:
“We’re going to see a lot of mov
i?3, now that we have our grand
ehildren wnh us for ..lie first time,”
Mrs. Monagle exclaimed. “Mike,
Rose Ellen, our two other children,
will be home soon, so we are going
to have a re a' family reunion.”
Eat T-aflrr is the real home of the
Tweet family, so they will be go'ng
home in the spring. In Teller, the
Tweets say, you get perfect radio
reception from Europe 21 hours a
-lav and tl e regular rows broadcat
'r - 7 r-i - at 5 'clock in the even
ir is a dady n‘.. They keep up
with the w :!d by listening to the
English broadcasts from Paris, Ma
drid, Rome and Lcndon.
However. Mrs. Tweet has to do
her Christmas shopping early in Tel
ler. The average open season is
about 100 days, during which the
first ship from the south arrives
around tkg end of June and the last
boat about the end of September.
Mr* Tvoet orders he- Christmas
supplies in July, so they will arrive
on the last September boat.
“We even heard Juneau a few
times this summer,” Mrs. Tweet
said. “The European reception is
better, of course, because it comes
straight across the North Pole, but
we iso listen in on the States and
Canada.”
Remember the Advertiser*
(COYOTES PLENTIFUL—
Tom Moore, Eagle River trapper,
ha? already caught 22 coyote?. Frank
i Glaser of the Alaska Game Commis
sion reported in Anchorage recently.
Mr. Glaser come to Anchorage from
he Matanuska Vallty when h Las
b:en visiting ard aiding trapr-ers..
* There are mere coyotes in this re- .
gion than anywhere in Alaska that
I’ve been.” Glaser said.
VETERAN GUIDE CHALKS
UP SIX EROWN BEARS
Bears, brown or black or grizzly,
are n hlr.g to get excited about, ac
. r-sing to Johnny Harris, veteran
Tvr :ar> g-.'.ck-. but even he will admit
tba* six brownies on one trip are
w .thy of mention, says the Alaska
Daily Press.
V i h Pat Hollywood, Ketchikan
guide. Harris took the Richard Mel
ts rarty hunting -n Ch’. hagof,
Psran^f ar.d Admiralty Isplands in
September. In the party were Mr.
and Mrs. Mellon end Mr. and Mrs.
lohn M. Leaear, all of Pittsburgh.
(Mellon th= nephtw otf the late
Andrew Jlelloti.)
'The party bagged six brown
beers ?! of them over eight feet in
!e- rth end four of them over nine
- it.” Harris sa:d. ‘ The women each
U: : one and the men bagged two
apiece.”
iti: biggest Dear, snot Dy oieiion,
was I’ fee:, two inches long and
ine ft—:, ten inches wide—skinr •
but i.nsiretched, Harris declared.
The nest largest was nine feet, five'
!r..';es by n:ne feet, ur Inch®*.
“There were five yachts hunting in
~ e rfz.3n as we were,” Harris;
r ;-a!!®d. “so I didn’t expect much.
But that was a record trip—I haven t
seen luck like that in 23 years. The
big bears ustd to be plentiful, but
it’s a rare day when you can shoot
so many of them on cne trip now-j
adays—too marv mothers’ with cubs !
arc bmag killed in the spring now.”,
In h:s ser'cnal report to the Alas
ka Gnm.e Commission this year. Far
ris protested the lack of protection
given to mother bears and cubs. He
"■ n"or that hunters, heir-* per
mit :®d to shoot any hear, often leave,
m-fcs to starve after their mother is.
rhot.
‘ We ought to hve a ’aw forbidding;
the bagging of female bears in the1
spring season, Herris believes. “I’ve;
hunted and guided since 1907, so I
kr.ow how the bear population is do-;
creasing in Southeastern Alaska. If
the law will protect the cubs and
mothers in the errir~ e’-e v~— v ,
in- in this part of the Territory will
last for a long time.”
ro» n rhinos i« cents
PREMIUM IN EUROPE
LONDON—So keen was the de- j
mand for gold here recently that
T on don free market buyers raid as
high as 18 cents an ounce premium I
over American parity prices for ap-'
proximate!}’ 82,000,000 worth that
wa- available.
The purchasers were said to repre
sent continental interests who de
sire the yellow metal for hoarding
pusf-oses.
Today’s free masket price was |
?"4.94 which included the highest ‘
psemium of the yiar.
Uncertainty cf future c-ntinental
currencies and reports of short term
bank balances being transferred to
New York and Far!' were said to be
responsible for the hoarding demand.
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EVAN JONES MINE m
HE CLOSED INDEFINITELY
The Evan J ernes Coal Mine aft'
JonesviDe wOl be dosed indefimtdy,
M.d Oscar Anderson, president, a*
he left Anchorage recently far ihe.
mine. |
Mr. Anderson said there * saanM
cicnt market to i Mt~rai»' qpexatianwj
■without the Alaska Railroad as
purchaser of coal and that the firm
could not go to the expense of bring
ing coal miners from the States to
operate only a short period.
The a nr oun cement by Mr. Ander
son disclosed that the city of Anch
orage is to be witbsut its - usual
source of coal. Col. O. F. Ohlsan,
general manager of the Alaska Rail
road. was out of the city and could'
not be reached to learn whether toe
railroad could supply the city with
coal. ;
Mr. Anderson said his oenrpany ban
been given full authority to i1 —
operations but that doing sa would
be unwise under present conditions
A mine uperurtendent and minew
wouici have to be brought from toe
States and when sufficient coal wna
m.ined to provide far Anchorage, they
w eld have to be sent hack to toe
’x‘e: rr.d tie property elcsed down.
**T c bare r nly two carloads of
ial at the c ine available for opera
ting the mine boilers, “Mr. Andersen
said. “We are using it up rapidly
and it it necessary to make a general
shutdown at this time. Our plans
f:r the future are indefinite.”
Anchorage coal dealers said they
have a good supply of steam coal cm
hard and can provide for the imme
diate needs of the city for the next
two months. There is not * great
supply of nut ccal, however, they
said. —- - -
After using the food chopper for'
anything sticky, moist - or - greasy,'
rnn a few era-kers- through" to push
~nt the last bits of material and t»
.'implify cleaning.
Finely chopped pineapple mixed
vr; h the cheese makes an excellent'
* --fii for sandwiches or for toasted :
bread or crackers for afternoon par
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