Alaska News Notes
In its final report to, Judge Cecil H.
Clegg, recently, the federal grand jury
at Fairbanks declares that destitution
* among the Indians of the Fourth divi
sion has become an acute problem, and
rebukes the federal bureau of educa
, tion for its alleged neglect of the na
tives of the interior section. The re
port says the Fourth .division is not
getting its share of the bureau funds
allotted to Alaska, and declares fur
ther: “While the bureau of education
is fitting out a vessel, such as the
* lioxer, for a cruise along the coast,
giving instruction in navigation and
mechanical arts and as a general plea
sure excursion, here in the interior
* private citizens have to go down into
their pockets and subscribe for food
medicine and clothing for sick and |
starving natives.”
A native known as “Jimmie the
Tough,” says the .Nome Nugget, states
that in an igloo, quite a distance from
Council, three Eskimos were engaged
in a game of poker, making the sky
the limit and playing for large stakes.
Through some quarrel, supposedly
brought about by the players indulg
* ing too freely in moonshine, two of the
natives began fighting with knives, and
aftfer fighting for some time they both
_ at approximately the same time suc
ceeded in stabbing each other, and fell
dead together. At the sight of hia
dead companions lyipg on the Hoo:- and
the money scattered about, the tbiid
native became scared, and running inio
the snow a short distance away from
the cabin, he shot himself
Tom Blaylock, one of the most wide
ly known of the oldtimers of Interior
Alaska, is on his way to Rochester,
Minn., where he will try to find relief
at the Mayo clinic. He has cancer of
the stomach, and is so enfeebled that |
he is compelled to make the long jour- i
. ney on a stretcher, being unable to
walk. He is accompanied by a friend. !
Blaylock was a resident of Fairbanks!
for many years, aod recently staked a i
number of claims on Indian river, in
theKoyukuk district, where he and his
partner did considerable development
work last summer. He was preparing
to make another trip to Indian when
his illness compelled him to seek med
ical relief in Fairbanks.
The Treadwell operations at Mayo
during the past winter produced 4,500
tons of ore, most of which has been
hauled to Stewart river and is in readi
ness for shipment as soon as navigation
opens. The production during the win
ter<iust ending is slighilv larger than
the one preceding, when 4^000 tons of
ore were mined. No decision on the
question of putting in a milling plant
will be reached until neat July. It is
expected that the company will have
gone 500 feet further in depth by that
time aDd will be in a better position to
determine the need for milling on the
ground. _
A site for tbe new Alaska railway
hotel at McKinley Park Station has
»been selected on ground adjoining the
roadhouse of Maurice Moreno, who is
understood to have agreed to turn over
a large parcel of his ground in order to
get the railway*hotel located on the
railroad instead of in the park itself.
The plans for the new hotel call for a
building one and one half stories in
height and 166x400 feet in dimensions.
Provisions are made for seventy-two
rooms, of which forty four will have
private bath. The building will be of
logs and stucco.
A new transportation company was
formed recently by several men of
Fairbanks, and they have named it
the Alaska-Jewett Transportation Com
pany, with headquarters at Fairbanks.
J, G. Rivers, Fairbanks attorney, is
named as manager. The purpose of
the.compahy is to handle tourist traflic
on the RiehHrdson highway. To that
they have puichased several Jewett
cars, and immediately upon the open
ing of the trail will put t wo of the cars
on the run.
Mis. Arthur G. Thompson, of An
chorage, who has been visiting in Los
| Angeles during the winter, has been
! employed by the Metro Moving Pic
tures Corporation in publicity work in
connection with tbe big production
"Scartnouch,” recently released m that
city. She is also taking an acti ;e part
in the Coolidge campaign, and made a
Lincoln anniversary address before the
Los Angeles republican club.
Archie Wright and Fernend Cnlliartl
have made application in the Anchor
age land office lot 320 acres of land four
miles southeast of Wasilla under the
homestead laws, and have announced i
that they will' engage in fur farming |
on the land in the near future. The i
tract contains a lake in which the
young men expect to raise muskrats
and other fur bearing animals.
A communication from Point Harrow
to Dr. C. C. Welch, in Nome, states
that the former place has experienced
an epidemic of llu, which resulted in a
number of deaths among the natives at
that place.
The appointment of J. Lindley Green
as register of the U. S. Land Office at
Anchorage has been confirmed, accord
ing to recent advices. Frank A. Boyle,
whom Mr. Green succeeds, will leave
Order and Notice of Pri
mary Election
To Be Held On April 29. 1924
In the Office of the Uuued States Com
missioner, at McGrath. Alaska.
Fourth .Indicia! Division.
Now, on this day. pursuant to Chap
ter 39, Session Laws of Alaska, ap
proved May 3, 1919. entitled “An act to \
provide for the holding of primary
elections in the Territory of Alaska, to
tlx the manner and time of holding the
same, to prescribe the qualifications of
candidates to be Domronted at such
elect ions, and to designate the manner
of ti in.: and authenticating their can
didacy and for other purposes,” and in
conformity therewith^
It is hereby ordered that for the pur
pose of the primary election to be held
on April 29, 1924, all of the territory in
the recording district known as Mount
McKinley Kecording District, outside
of incorporated towns, is hereby divid
ed into voting precincts, in each of
which a polling place is hereby speci
fied. Said voting precincts are de
scribed and bounded as follows:
Polling places dt—
Pioneer Hall at McGrath, Alaska:
Pioneer Hall at, Tokoma, Alaska.; i
Notice is hereby given that,a general
election will be held on Tuesday, April j
29, 1924, for the purpose of nominating I
candidates to the various political par
ties for the following offices, to-wit:
A Governor ft>r the Territory of
Alaska;
A Delegate to the House of Ilepre
sentatives from the Territory of Ala-ka:
An Attorney General for the Terri
tory of Alaska;
One member of the Senate of the
Territory of Alaska:
Fonr members of the House of Rep
resentatives of the Territory of Alaska:
Two Road Commissioners for .liuad
District Numner Four;
And for the purpose of ele< tiog the
following officers, to-wit^
A National' Committeeman for the
Democratic Party of ihe„ Terri lory of
Alaska;
A National Committeeman for the
Republican Party of the Territory of
ltisk a 1
Six Delegates and Alternates to the
Democratic National Convention;
Six Delegates and Alternates to the
Republican National Convention.
The said election will be lit Id in the
voting precincts above named and at
the polling places therein specified.
The said polling places will be opeti
between the hours of eight o’clock a. m. '
and 7 o’clock p. in. of said day.
Dated at McGrath, Alaska. March 15,
1924. VV. T. Vandeepool
U. S. Commissioner for the Mt.
McKinley Recording District,
Fourth Division, Territory of
Alaska.’
Anchorage as soon as relieved of his
duties and will go to .Juneau, where he
will engage in the practice of law.
Dr. Frank R. de la Vergne, of Fair
banks, who left Seward on the last trip
of the Alaska, with several prisoners,
was unfortunate in breaking a shoulder
blade on the trip out. The boat en
countered very rough seas iD the Gulf
of Alaska, and the doctor was thrown
down, breaking bis shoulder.
Fox furs valued at approximately
$1 500 were stolen from the room of
Hjarmal Evans in the Parsons Hotel
in Anchorage, recent]}', while he was
either asleep or during a brief absence.
The Northern Commercial Company
will have a new 6f>-foot boat, driven by
Diesel engines, on the run between St.
Michael and Holy Cross this season.
At a recent meeting of the residents
of Haines it w.as unanimously voted to
erect a new schoolhouse iu that, town.
The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
Miners’, Prospectors’
and Trappers’
Supplies
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Steamer Service On the Inoka
River.
Ask the People of Ophir about :s.
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STATION
McGrath, Alaska
Provisions Notions Furnishings
Indian Mitts, Moccasins and Snowshoes
Furs Bought and Sold iVVhite Fish and Dog Feed
DogHarnessCollars Sled Lashings Tank Heaters
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, Manager.
DIRECT SERVICE
Seattle to Kuskokwim River
Via Inside Passage
Personal Attention Given to Freight Ordered
for the Kuskokwim. Send in Your Orders.
For Rates and Accommodations apply to
Kuskokwim Fishing & Transportation Co.
7 Col man Dock. Seattle, Wash.
Hydraulicing
rgnkee Creek
I am the principal owner of a block 'of'ground
on Yankee creek.' about seven nines long,'extend
ing from No. 4 Below Discovery down to the.mouth
of the creek.
Pay has been located all along for*’a di3tance'of
abqut three miles from the upper end, and pretty
well prospected and cross-cut.
The average depth of the ground 'is from seven
to twenty feet. The top is all black muck, that can
be moved freely.# No rock bigger than one’s fist.
The width of the pay. for a distance of about
three miles, ;is from 100 to 200 feet. Crosscuting
work indicates that the ground will go from. 15
cents to $1 per square foot of bedrock. My belief
is that the paySwill average 50 cents perfoot.
i have a ditch OD'the ground, three miles long,
together with water rights. The ground is prettv
well cleared. There is also a drain, three miles
long, with the water right. 1 also have a water
right on Ready Bullion creek, from which water
can be brought to Yankee creek with a ditch less
than a mile long (4.000 feet), which will give four
sluiceheads of water, with a pressure or fall of 120
feet, being 1000 feet to the work from the ditch.
After doing away with the muck, there will be
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from four to six feet of dirt to handle. The pay
runs mostly in the bedrock of porphyry and date.
The ground is virgin, only about 811,000 having’
been taken out by windlass in prospecting.
Prospecting work during the present winter has
resulted in finding values that run up to per
square foot of bedrock. ,
The Flume Dredge Com party has a d-edge above
this ground, which has been in operation for the
last three seasons.
The Government road crosses Yankee creek, f
also have a road down the creek that connects with
the Government road.
I am also the agent for owners of ground other
than that held bv myself.
The ground can be worked either with dredge,
drag-line scraper, or by hydraulicing.
I will either sell the ground or give a lease ou
it. If the prospect is satisfactory to the buyer, a
cash payment will be expected. A good bargain
will be given to the right party.
For further information, terms, etc., call 0«
ground, or write or telegraph me.
ED NOLLETTK.
Tokotna, Alaska.