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Gathered Kruni Territorial
Hvcdtauges.
An inquiry has Keen received Te
'questing information concerning Wal
ter B. Osgood. He is supposed to
ihave come to Alaska ai)out 1909.
• Please send any information to the
tOovernor's Office at Juneau.
An instructed verdict in favor of
• the plaintiff was delivered a few days
;ago by Judge Cecil H. Clegg to the
.jury which heard the evidence in the
• :ase of Lester B. Walbridge vs. the
New York-Alaska Dredging Cotn
ipany, says the Fairbanks News*
- Miner.
The verdict finds for the plaintiff
in four causes listed in the complaint
On a sum totaling S30.035J5.3, which
Walbridge successfully contended was
tthe unpaid salary due him, including
interest, during the period he acted as
.■general manager of the company’s
: property on Bear creek, in the lower
iKuskokwim country.
Robert Hilditch, well known old
t timer of the North, came to his end
1 unexpectedly on Moose creek a few
1 days ago, while carrying some provi
sions to his., cabin from a handcar
' which he hacl pushed up the creek
■ from the junction, says the Anchor
; age Times. When found he was lying
rn the snow,'with-a box of goods be
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side him, and the supposition is that
he fell while carrying the box from
the car. To all appearances, it was a
ease of heart attack. The b^jy was
taken to Anchorage. *
The deceased had been a resident
of the rail belt for more than ten
years, having gone to Anchorage from
the Katalla district.
Horace ' Caldwell, principal and
teacher of the United States indus
trial school of the .Bureau of Educa
tion at Dillingham, was indicted by
the federal grand jury a few days
ago for improper relations with sev
eral native inmates of an orphanage
located near by, where he was also
instructor. He pleaded guilty to a
charge of assaulting a haifbreed na
; tive girl.
The strange barrenness of trees on
the Aleutian islands is told by H. W.
Jewell of the U..-.S. Biological Survey,
who spent part of the summer around
the Aleutians. Forty-four Sitka
spruce tr,ees were planted on a small
island near Unalaska in 1854 by
Bishop Inokenty, of the old Russian
Alaska Company. These trees took to
; their new surroundings and were ap
parently on the way to providing fu
ture timber on the islands, but for,
some reason unknown to scientists
they refused to propagate. No seeds
sprang up to make seedlings; no
shoots tapped off Hie roots to make
new growth. The 44 trees grew
slowly, reached a diameter of from 6
to 18 inches at the base, a maximum
height of 32 feet, and are still grow
ing, but when they mature-and die it
seems probable that the “forest on
the Aleutians”; will die also, leaving
nothing but tie luxuriant grasses
which abburd on tire islands, growing
to a height of six feet or more. With
the temperature on Hie Aleutians
being practically stationary, and
rarely below zero, and with a soil
promoting luxuriant growth of vege
tation, other than trees, the mystery
of the dying forest on the island re
mains another unsolved mystery in
nature’s puzzle book.
John dudo, 68 year* old, died at
! St. Joseph’s hospital, Fairbanks, a
few days ago. after a long illness,
caused by cancer of the stomach. He
arrived at Fairbanks some weeks ago
from Wiseman, where he had been en
gaged in mining.
Permission to remove the old Rus
sian blockhouse at Kolmakofski to
Akiak in order that it may be restored
to good condition and preserved has
been asked of Governor George A.
j Parks by the Eskimo residents of the
community. The Governor signified
he would approve of the request with
the understanding that no expense be
incurred by the Territory, which has
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P. O. Box, 1608, Anchorage, Alaska
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Wa have than in 411 sizes, (he largest being 90x90, the naxt being
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no finds far such purposes. The
task will he a large one. as the for
will have to be dismantled and taken
to Akiak, a distance of 120 miles, to
be rebuilt. The Russian settlement of
Kolmakofski ^as founded in 1822 on
the north bank of the Kuskokwim
river, about 200 miles from its mouth.
The original blockhouse was known as
Lukeen’s stockade, and a few years
later Alexander Kolmakof built the
fort which siill#stands. It is said to
be in very poor condition, and will
probably decay if left at its present
site for another few years.
Word of the slaying of an Indian
by another native in the Hoholitna
river country was receive l at- Fair
banKs a few days ago in the form of
I a wireless message ..from George W.
; Hoffman, United States commissioner
at Xapaimut. The; message, which
wa.-. rulcressed to Judge Cecil H.
Clegg, gave no detnil9>of the murder,
says the Fairbanks.News-Minor Mr.
Hoffman said he' would stort for the
-r guc of the slaying- as soon ns Dep
uty United States Marshal Wiseman
arrive.! Worn. Bethel.
The fact that the mnrd-r war com
mitted in the.Hoholitna river district,
which lies east of .Napainuit. has sug
gested the possibility that: the slayer
is Klutok, middle-aged native, who is
held responsible for ?tn unknown
number of murders. fit «is known to
roam in the Hoholitna country '-as
well as hi the vicinity of 'the Nushn
gak river, which has its origin south
of the Hoholitna. If the murderer is
other than Klutok, little trouble Will
be had in effecting his arrest, it is
believed, but should Klutbk be the
man wanted a long, hard chase is
almost :-a certainty.
IN A SOCIAL WAT:.
; Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Clongh gave
proper observance to New Year day
by entertaining a number 6f friends"
at an excellent dinner—turkey and
all the trimmin’s. Seated at the table
aside from the hosts were'Chris Pe
terson, Bert Goodpaster, Miss Mar
garet Clough, A. X. Grant.
Mail Carrier Charles Konig, with
the incoming mail, arrived Monday,
: proceeding on his way to Ophir on
Wednesday. ■
Henry Martella returned Friday
' from a trip to McGrath, taking down
| Halfdan Wiig.
! Frank Guskey, N/C. manager, was
| an arrival today from 'McGrath.
I NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF
FINAL ACCOUNT.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has filed his final account
as administrator of the estate of
! Harry Madison, deceased, and the
Probate Court for Insoko Precinct has
fixed the hour ol 2 o’clock p. m. of
Monday, February 18, 1929, at his
' Court Room in the Commissionet’s
Office, Ophir, Alaska, as the time arid
place for hearing same.
All persons having objections
i thereto t should file them dt that said
time. MAX SIMEL,
* Administrator.
Dated at Ophir, Alaska, this 17th
uay of December, 1928.
First pub. Jan. 5; last, Feb. 2, 1929
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A Recurd, But—
Edward A. Neylan, the new exalt
ed ruler of the New York Elks, said
at a dinner:
“I am afraid our airmen and our
automobile racers are trying, for im
possible records—impossible and dead- j
ly records. They remind, me of a
cory.
“A tramp was complaining that he'
had eaten nothing for three days, j
when another tramp called him down.
“ ‘Aw, quit yer complainin’. .A pal
o’ mine, -old Redface Leary, went for
52 days once without food or drink.’
“‘Gosh! Why, that. busted the
world record. How did it happen?’
said the first tramp, forgetting his'
own hard luck.
-Ketnace got locked up nara anai
fast in.a box car what w«is left in a1
lonely place ten miles -from nowhere.’,
“‘Gosh! I guess most guys, before
they could gd 52 days without food or
water, would have laid down and
died.’
“ ‘Sure,’ said t;.e other tramp.
That’s what Eedface'- did. He croaked
t’ree weeks before -they found him.’ ”
Lax' Justice.
The way rich 'transgressors manage
to keep out of jail-led Governor Mar
tinsau of Arkansas to say in Little
Rock:
1 “It reminds me of a sory. A may
was traveling in New- Mexico, and in
;a little town embowered in palms and
flowers the mayor seemed to be quite
.a character. . He-held all the offices—
judge, coroner, police captain and so,.
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forth—and whatever turned up to be
done, he was there to do i.
“After lunch, as he and his guest *
sat smoking in the garden, he turned
to the clerk and said:
“ ‘Higginson, by. the way, sneak
over to the roulette parlor and tell r
Don Juan Sereda I want to try -him
for that murder case.’ ”
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