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After having.','.operated its pubic
utilities plant-afNfenana at a loss for
a aiumbar of years,- the Alaska. Rail
road diacontinuethsupplying light and
steanu to»the interior community a
r'eSv days.ago, while the water service
* will be discontinued on June 15. The
annual loss had reached such propor
tions. that thk management of the
. railroad fait that the burden could be
no longer esxried,,and the suspension
was ordered at ths time so that Ne*
nana citisoni.would have the cppor
* tttnity' tcVmake other arrangements
during the summer for providing
themselves with light.during the. com
ing winter. It is understood that
plpns arc being-considered for the in
stallation* of a diesel’ plant. The
* Waechter Bros, company, already has
installed a-’small diesel outfit, for.
meat market purposesi
Henry Kbden, Juneau lawyer, and
Ldwrenca-Karr, experienced court rer
porter amLcleric of'the House of Rep
resentatives at the recent session of
the Legislature, have been engaged
by John rlUfetgard, attorney general
of the Territory, to compile and anno
tate .under his direction the. laws of
4 Alaska.
The work has been started. Mr.
Eoden will occupy by himself a room
. in the Capitol building, and Mr. Kerr
vdl havo quarters in the suite occu
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Robdrt H. Romig
AGENT
Anchorage, Alaska
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pied by the atorney general. Toward
the expenses of the task the recent !
Legislature appropriated $12,000.
“Mr. Roden will compile and anno
tate the civil code and Mr. Kerr the
the criminal code,” explained the at
torney general. “1 do not think the
time intervening between now and
the next Legislature or the appropri
ation- of $12,000 will suffice for com
piling and annotating the laws and
making a. list of cited ca ws, but we
shall go as far as possible.
“1 have- competent helpers.. Mr.
Roden is acapable lawyer of long
standing before Alaska courts. Mr.
Kerr’s experience in courts of the
Territory extends over a period of
more than thirty years. He has been
court reporter and clerk in the office
of United States attorney. He has
had valuable clerical experience with
legislatures of Alaska. Both are em
nently qualified for their tasks.”
Approximately 25 men were sent
north from Anchorage a few days
ago to begin work as an extra gang,
their destinaton being the Healy dis
I trict. It is understood, says the An
chorage Times, that this gang will be
enlarged in size as rapidly as more
men can he used on the work advan
tageously.
As previously announced by Gen
eral Manager O. F. Ohlson, it is the
intention to have a large number of
men in the. field this summer to carry
on the rehabilitation work which was
started last summer,, the purpose
being to put the roadbed in such con
dition that annual maintenance costs
will be materially reduced, and it is
expected that the working forces will
• be kept in the field as long as
weather conditions will permit.
Earnest. Emit Porter, a resident of
Anchorage since earliest construction
day son the Alaska Railroad, and a
pioneer in. the service of that big gov
ernment organization, passed away in
that city a fe wdays ago. Death was
caused by pneumonia.
Mr. Porter was born at Salem,
Ore., in 1872. He came to Anchorage
road construction and entered the
almost at the commencement of rail
service of the Alaska Engineering
I Commission in 1915 as timekeeper,
j He soon was advanced to foreman
j timekeeper and in 1918 he became
chief, timekeeper, a position which he
held continuously until, his death.
An Alaska College romance culmi
nated a few days ago in the marriage
at Fairbanks of Miss Olga Strand
berg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dave
Strandberg of Anchorage, and Larry
Doheny, graduate of the Alaska Col
lege, class of. 1930. The bride is at
present a junior of the College.
Since leaving College Mr. Doheny
has been in the employ of the Fair
banks Exploration Company and s at
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1 Kevigator Restores Water’s
Lost Element
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TUB NEWEST MIRACLE OP MODERN SCIENCE
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'I fit ME most important thing in life is health. We cannot con
I tiaue to live healthfully unless we live with some respeet
I ™ to the laws of nature. Life is but cellular buildiny and cellu
| lan diaiattitn. This lost element of water is Radio-activity,
j which both creates cellular energy and removes cellular poisons.
Sir Arbothnot Lane, the great English physician, says “Most
diseases are directly traceable to bad drainage in the body”—to
the accumulation of dogging waste matter or poisons at vital
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Fdr centuries the world has recognized the value ef health
j springs, and medical officers now attribut the value of the fam
\ : | ons springs to- the natural radio-activity of their waters. This
| radio-activity is- one of nature’s ways of dissolving and) ellmio*
■ ating those health-destroying poisons and building healthy cells
and tissues.
It!h new possible for everyone, sick or well, to have perpetu
i ally, and at reasonable cost, the splendid benefits of a genuine
radio-active health spring in the home through this invention.
j TRB RHVIGATOR WATER JAR.
; I Older one today from any of the following sub-agentst Vio
j Ebright, Flat; Tom DeVane, Rdhy; Oliver Andersen, McGrath;
| Fred Roethlisberger, Ophlr; Chris Petersen, Takotna.
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present situated at Chatanika, where'
he and Mrs. Do hairy will make their;
home durin gtkc summer. When col
lege opens in the fall they will re
sume their studies, Mr. Doheny to!
earn his degree of master and Mr3.
Doheny to obtain her degree as bach
elor.
Michael Joseph Sullivan, one of the
most widely known oldtimers of the1
interior, passed away at Fairbanks-a
few days ago. He wasa resident of
the Manley Hot Springs district dur
ing eary mining days in that camp,
and was one of the founders of .the
Tar Fagan, famed early-day organ
ization of the interior camp.
After leaving the Hot Springs dis
trict Mr. Sullivan made his home in
the McKinley Park district, although
for several years past he had worked
for the Alaska Road Commission.
ANCHORAGE PIGEON RE
TURNS AFTER TWO YEARS
(Anchorage Times.)
The Carnation company has noth
ing on Anchorage. In fact, this city
can boast of more than contented
cows, for there are pigeons here that
like their surroundings so well they
simply cannot be driven away from
them. This much is known to all
Anchorage citizens who have seen the
scores of birds grouped about friend-:
ly business places waiting for their
daily handouts of grain, so tame they
are not disturbed by passersby who j
pick their way carefully among the
birds to avoid stepping on them.
But it is doubtful if many are
aware of the presence of a pigeon in
the community which possesses not
only an unusual fondness for Anchor
age but also a super memory. Such a
pigeon is the property of “J” Truitt,
young son of Mrs. Vella Truitt-Moeh
ring, being the surviving member of
a pair given to him more than two
years ago by Judge Thomas C. Price.
It is a White King from the cote of
Sam Keist, and at the time it came
into the possession of “J” it was very
young.
The male member of the pair met
a tragic death beneath the wheels of
an automobile while still a very
young bird, and the remaining Tillie,
grieving deeply over the loss of her
mate, was returned to Mr. Kiest and
sent by him to Centralia with a ship
ment of pigeons. That was about
two years ago, a long time in the life
of a pigeon, but Tillie is not like
other pigeons, being more like an old
sourdough Alaskan who finds it im
possible to be contented in the States, i
At any rate, at the first opportunity!
Tillie broke away from the new home:
in Centralia and heade dstraight for j
Anchorage, arriving at the Truitt!
home several days ago, very tired and '
hungry.
Ecorts are now being made to as
certain when the pigeon started the
flight from Cenarlia and other de-1
tails in connection with Tillie’s es- j
cape.
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TABLB OP DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NENANA AND FLAT
Nenana __
Tavern Roadhouse....
Knight's Roadhouse ___
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse..
Diamond Roadhouse__
Roosevelt__
Lake Minchumina__
Trappers’ Cabin_
Lone Star Roadhouse_
TeDda Roadhouse __
Slow Fork Roadhouse_
East Fork Roadhouse _)
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse __
Big River Roadhouse_*_
McGrath_
Takotna ___
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse_
Ophir__
McCafferty_
Brown Greek shelter eabia
Frits shelter eabin_
First Chance shelter eabia_
Schermeyer R. H. ..
Iditarod_
Flat_;_
Bonansaa sheler eabin, 12
fram Flat.
Crooked Greek shehar etfUn, 19
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Rot-n ^eaeneabec.
AMONG THE MISSING.
Inquiries have been received at the
Governor's office concerning the fol
lowing persons -supposed to be in
Alaska:
Kyle B. Brownlon—Was working
for fishing company whose ships plied
between Seattle and Nome or San
Francisco and Nome in 1926. Was
supposed to have been drowned in the
Bering Sea and buried on shore some
where in Alaska.
Dominick Hagerty—Was in Mc
Carthy about 15 years ago and in Ne
nana in 1918, but has not been heard
from since.
Bill Baldwin—A trapper, who was
last heard from in August, 1930, at
Quinhag&k.
Patrick Madden—Was last heard
from in Alaska. Should be about 70
years of age.
John S. Myers—68 years of age in
March; height 5 feet 10 or 11 inches;
broad shouldered; gray eyes; small
ears close to head. Came to Alaska
within the last twenty years and was
supposed to have done some pros
pecting and mining.
A. R. (Rufe) Simpson—Supposed
to be in Dawson, but has not been
heard from in several years.
James P. Hawkins—Last seen in
the Klondike. Reported that he is
married and has two children.
Anyone having any information
about the above persons, please com
nicate with the Governor’s Office, Ju
neau, Alaska.
A woman motorist was driving
along a country road when she no
ticed a couple of repair men climbing
telephone poles.
“Fools!” she exclaimed to her com
panion; “they must think I never
drove a car before.”
“Well, old Jenkins has played his
last practical joke.”
“What was that?”
“Just beforer he died he bequeathed
his brains to science.”
FUR FARMS, EASTERN* CANADA
There were 1,922 fur farina in the
province of Prince Edward Ilsland,
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in
1929, according to the Dominion Bu
reau of Statistics.
Of these, 1,861 are classed as fox
farms, 36 as mink, 9 as raccoon, and
16 as muskrat. These farms held
44,466 silver foxes, 828 cross foxes,
381 red fores, and 827 mink. Tho
farms are valued at approximately
$10,000,000, and the live stock at
$6,961,930. In 1929 Prince Edward
Island produced 6,754 silver fox pelts,
Nova Scotia 1,724, and New Bruns
wick 3,250 pelts.
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