NEWS ITEMS FROM OTHER ALASKAN TOWNS |
• Gathered From Our Territorial Exchanges •
Alaska Enjoys Greatest Year—
With its total commerce $115,913,
581 last year, Alaska enjoyed ore of
its most prosperous years in history,
according to the annual report of the
collector of customs. The greatest
single increase was shipments of can
ned salmon which reached the high
est peak both in pounds and value.
-A total of 407.619,414 pounds of can
ned salmon valued at $45,173,176 i
■were shipped through this port from j
Alaska. Gold and silver productions 1
-were the largest since 1909 and ag
fgregated $16,870,580. Pur shipments
also showed a large increase.
"Democrats Meet Soon—
Members of the A!:. Centra:
X'emocratic Committee v i meet at
'Fair-tank March 22, ... A. 8 nbeck.
•chairman of the Territorial Dernti
•cre.tic committee, announced this
•week in Anchorage. The committee
is composed of 16 members, two men
and two women from each division..
The March session -ail* deal with rou
tine matters, including endorsement,
if or appointment :<r reappointment to '
various positions, anc with any sp;c
'iai matters which may arise. M -rr. -
■bers of the committee in the Fourth
iDivisicn are Harry Phi.lips. Hugh M.
'Bin’ in, Mrs. Emma de la Ytrgne and :
"> rs. Llanche Burns, all of Fairbanks.;
TRa’lreed Official Passes—
Miss Ada Leeds of Anchorage, has
•received word of the death of her
usin, Francis E. Wadleigh. “2. fed
ral fuel administrator during the
:administration of President Harding.
:at Alexandria. Va„ recently. Mr.
Wadleigh has many friends in Alas
ka. He served from May. 1931. until
February. 1932. as consulting engin
eer for the Alaska Railroad during
•which time he traveled from Seward
to Fairbanks and made his home in
.Anchorage. Mr. Wadleigh was an
internationally known authority on
• coal and had served the government
. and private interests in many im
portant capacities. He d el fallow
ing a long i'ire=s.
;:>ees >o Danger from Glacier—
Irving McKreed. chairman of the
.Alaska Game Commission, returned
from a flight to the Tanar.a River
;an<j Big Delta areas and said the
Black Rapids Glacier has two miles
'to go before it reaches the river. He
. said be doubted if it would do any
: serious damage because its move
: meet is similar to ones in 1912 and
1920 and he says the glacier is no
farther now than it was in 1920 and
not as far as if was in 1912. The
commissioner saia the wild buffalo
Iherd in the Eig Delta area had in
• creased to at least 400 head from the
> original herd of 20 imported from
. Montana 13 years ago and that the
i animals seemed fat and thriving. He
sid he counted 40 moose in the same
. area.
' Will Ship Dredge by Railroad—
There is no intention on the part
of the Deadwood Mining Co. to
freight the new SI50,000 dredge to
< Circle via Skagway and the Yukop
‘ River, rt was said recently by H. C.
Fohc-Hansen. one of the partners in
• the company. At a meeting of the
Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce
there was considerable discussion of
the subject, several speakers expound
•ing the idea that every effort ought
to be made to induce the company
to ship the dredge to the Interior via
the Alaska Railroad. That course
■ will be followed, said Mr. Fohn-Han
sen. The company desires to bring
the-dredge in early and freight it
t to. Deadwood Creek over the snow so
that it will be ready to operate early
in the season. Were it to be shipped
■ dawn- the river, it would be sometime
•tl Jane before it could be landed at
' Circle. An order for the dredge has
1 "teen placed with Walter Johnson &
tCa. of San Francisco.
Berber Must Stand Trial—
Contain WdKam Fisher, supervis
■n r,-oector fer the federal bureau
marine ;R-j-eetjon and r.svieat:on,
{.’■ :n ently that the srovern
n c.'t inves‘lgstion board has filed
va., 1_ k t-f s.riT ar. las:
C Heinie Eerier >.f the rr -r
1 re- wh: e •.. ae
was :• ?t overboard in an Alaskan
s:cr:r. last November 22. Capt. Ber
ger is charged with * :r,-att:r.tion to
his duty while in char ire cf the Dis
coverer and not making any attempt
to rescue Byron Smith, second mate,
wh was lost overboard.” His trial is
set for March 17. Berrer said after
:h preliminary he:, :\-y that it was
• V ■ largest wave h ever saw at sea
vrich -wept Smith .vttbard. He
sak. h believed it was caused by ar.
eart b uake.
ret ■ • 1 he;y Scmrr-r—
E:timing- from a twc-msnths visi
i*. the .-tates. E. C. Jac bs. or >pri:
tor of trie Chena Ea% Far.bonks
ertrainca recently ! r - home c tv
. _ sway. Z he
■ €■ idpasttr pro.ee appeals to Mr.
; - - t is ''•rt
n ending in significance f:: enduring
ing growth, and has g'-wjug things
to set about the enterprise 'splayed
’.*<1-: KcCorc in putt in* the big
leal trough. McCord, he said. is re
: v .... , in the Interior a? a Territor
;al ersefaett r end *.-» only regret
is that there arei ot more ike him.
Nothing definite, said Mr. •’ eovs, can
b v . of the proposed " v rnment
plan for the Army alrbuse. t ut there
is general expectation that the pirn
a- ii-s -ussed will go through. If and
when it does. Fairbanks will be put
souarely on the map, not only as an
Alaska center of activities, fcufc will
gain nation-wide pro": 1 nonce - i.
and importance- From v.-hat be is
able to iearn, the Fairbanks business
man is confident Ut..: miring gener
ally will see a b,; advance in the
Interior, as well a= in other sections
of Alaska, panic Uarly mentioning
the Goodnews Bay.
Alaskan Gets tarnecie Vedal—
In Ancberage there lives a man
who has the distinction of holding- the
only Carnegie Hero Medal awarded in
Alaska. He is J. Roy “§iick" Tip
ton, an nnpreter.'ions, unassuming
fellow, almost shy hut takes a justi
fiable pride in isplaying to his
friends the award he received for at
tempting to save the life of George
Martin of Seattle at the risk of his
own in a howling blizzard on Valdez
glacier in January. li<35. The unu
sual feat wh-cfiTipton performed was
called to the attention of the Carne
gie Hero Fund Commission indirectly
through articles appearing in Alaska
papers following the glacier incident,
and directly through C. S. Brown, of
Everett, Washington, who was im
pressed by a strong editorial appeal
for a reward for Tipton’s gallant sac
rifice, and who urged the Carnegie
commission to investigate the case
Tipton suffered for many weeks in
a hospital, and eventually lost parts
of both feet and the use of one hand.
Tipton was informed his case merit
ed the Carnegie bronze medal, a cash
award of $2,000 and monthly grants
of $25 ' for the next five years.
Forced to incur great indebtedness
during his hospitalization, Tipton was
not able to earn full time wages after
leaving the hospital due to his disa
bility. The Carnegie award has en
abled him to clear these debts and al
low him to purchase a small busin
ess in Valdez which he expects will
provide him with a living the rest of
his life. The medal is a large bronze
piece embossed with the portrait of
its donor on one side while on the
other side is Tipton’s full name with
a brief legend of the deed be attemp
ted to perform, and the simple le
gend: "Greater Love Hath No Man.”
S.’ward Takes First Prize—
Seward and the Kraai Peninsula
for th* second time captured first
place in the petal© growing in the
'ational competition hold by the Bur
•ess Seed Company oT Galesburg.
; Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Ales S ‘lam,
| of Lake Kfnsi, have taken the first
prize for the pas: rw: years and Pat
; ricia Towle and Jack Lean tied for
second prize Mrs. Swan Lind, of
Seward, took fourth prize. All other
prizes were won ;n the States.
More Peop'e Staying in Alaska—
Definite and convincing’ proof of
Alaska's growth "was given by the
j disclosure in five 1936 U. S. Customs
report that more people came to the
Territory last year than in any year
j m the last two decades. The customs
' figures hark bad: as far as 1917, hot
the mark 33,653 arrivals in Alaska
i during 1936 will probably stand fa- •
vorably even with the late days of
the gold rash. With 30,897 persons
•departing, the Territory shows a
1 healthy population increase, of 2,666 j
persons from the Outside—the larg
: £5t increase, by the way, in the past
20 years. Only in the past three
years has the number of new arrivals
consistently exceeded the departures.
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Through Lawrence s Place you can obtair
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