STORY REVIVER OF
RICH HOOSIER MINE
BCOXVILLE. Ind. — Somewhere
among the brush-filled. abandoned
•iuBt- workings along the Lynnville
Bt-enville road ‘old timers’ say there
age riches awaiting a lucky discov
-Jgr.
The bearded veterans hare told
uast same alluring information to
Iavelers and townspeople for more
an a half century. Today, how
ever. the “silver secret” Solomon
Turpen carried to h;s grave seems as
secure as it was back in 1887 when
he displayed a handful of silver
nuggets and ore to a disbelieving
audience in the general store.
Close-mouthed and taciturn, the
lucky miner refused to say where he
had made his discovery.
Excitement ran high in the town
that day.” recalled Albert Hart. 71,
who lives near the abandoned work
ings. “It was even worse when met
allurgists analyzed the ore and re
ported it contained a high percen
tage of high-grade silver.
“Through it all Turpen was pretty
close-mouthed. The up-shot of the
situation was that a shaft was
started near his property on what is
known as Dyson Knobs.”
But the diggings were destined for
a discouraging end. The silver sup
ply began to run low and finally pe
aered out all together. The well-like
shafts gradually became filled with
dirt and debris. The road cut from
the Knobs from the highway grew
up in bushes and trees.
“Nothing is left up there now ex
a few shallow holes in the ground
and a coup’ of he old timbers used
t 'tic** t: .-alls of the shafts.”
J”*
5 ... angle to the story
6 ■ -O' . ne—one that indi
ct . .-s • cf these days some lucky
p< rs- >n is likely to stumble into
w alt!, somewhere along the Boon
villc-Lvnnville road.
Matthew Turpen of Evansville, a
brother of the secretive miner, is
still living.
“My brother never told where
he found that silver.” Matthew said
after a visit here. “It happened he
had a lease on he Knobs land people
jumped to the conclusion he found it
th. re.”
“But I don’t believe rt was there
it all—it was some place along the
iTynnville-BoonviHe rcad.
Sol might have intended mining
Be stuff himself later on. but he
yled too soon.”
Vl.L EQUIPMENT BROUGHT
FROM SCENE OF CRASH
Valued at more than $3,000. all
equipment from the wrecked refuel
-sg plane which crashed near Fair
banks recently, ws salvaged by a
party under the direction of T. E.
Hoffman, president of the • Alaska
Airmotive of this city, says the
Fairbanks News-Miner.
Four men packed the equipment
two miles from the scene of the
crash to the Tanana River, where it
was brought to Fairbanks in a Pa
cific Alaska Airways pontoon plane
piloted by Murray Stuart,
The equipment, weighing more
than 800 pounds, was taken from
the wreckage in less than two hours.
Included in the load was equipment
used by Admiral Byrd in the Ant
arctic, such as rubber boats, ice
sleds, and scaling picks. Other equip
ment brought here included cameras,
refueling hose and pumps, and lug
gage and persona! belongings of
the refueling party.
Garland Lincoln, pilot of the ill
fated craft, has placed all salvage
work on the plane under the direc
tion of the Alaska Airmotive. Pilot
Lincoln has charge of the refueling
operations for Jimmy M attorn.
C.OMES IN FOR VISIT—
Claude Nyberg arrived in town
this week from the Puntilla dredge
>p Little Creek to spend a few days.
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A young man In college wj.s ap
plying pressure for more money
I from home.
*‘I cannot understand why you call
yourself a kind father,” he wrote
his dad. “when you haven't sent me
a check for three weeks. What kind
of kindness do you call that?”
‘‘That's unremitting kindness,” •
wrote the father in the next letter.
The guide had taken him to the
top of the mountain, when TO .1
top of the mountain, and he gazed
long at he scenery. Then he took
ou ta notebook and commenced to
write.
“Pardon, m'sieu.” asked the guide,
but what are ze notes you mak»?”
“Oh,” said the tourist, “I’m just
jotting down the things that have
left an indelible impression on my
mind so that I shan't forget them.”
Wrder (at 1 a. m.)—“Ain’t you
asleep yet ? ”
Burglar—"No, it’s strange to be
in bed in the middle of the night.”
The conversation had turned on
the ways of wives.
“Well,” said Brown, “when my
wife and I have an arpument I al
ways have the last word.”
“Oh," someone exclaimed. “You
do?”
Brown nodded, “Yes, I apologize.”
GIRLS HIDE UNDER
ROBERT TAYLOR'S BED
NEW YORK—Two girls were
hauled from under the bed in the
stateroom of Robert Taylor, the mo- j
tion picture star, on the steamship
Berengaria. and hundreds of other j
young women were held back from ;
him on the ship’s pier recently in
New York just before the vessel
sailed for Europe.
Afterward stewards on the vessel
hauled out the two girls who had
hid under the bed. they pleaded to
see Taylor, but he would not meet
them.
A girl on the pier who reached t
the actor and with whom he shook ,
hands, exclaimed:
“I shall never wash my hand j
again."
As the boat got under way, Tay-!
lor declared that while be usually
likes to have admiration demonstra
tions, nevertheless sometimes he!
gets awfully tired of them.”
Taylor is going to London to make
a motion picture He will be absent
from the United States about six
months.
TIM TWITCHELL ARRIVES
FOR VISIT WITH FATHER
Tim Twite hell arrived this week
to visit his father for a short time
before going to Eklutna to teach
school.
He has been working the Liven
good district for the summer. He
reports much activity in that section
this season.
NENANA MAN FOUND
DEAD IN HIS CABIN
Ed Lund, secretary of the Pio
neers’ lodge at Nenana. passed away
in his cabin recently, it was report
in Fairbanks by W. A. Coghill, Ne
nana merchant. Death resulted from
an internal hemorrhage.
SEA WOLF BRINGS LOAD
The MS Sea Wolf arriivd last
Tuesday afternoon with o.'aont 35
tons of freight, most of it being for
the Road Commisrion.
ENROUTE TO BETHEL
Sam Kraskoff of Anchorage, was
an arrival in Takotna this week and
expects to leave for Bethel with Pi
lot Ralph Savory today.
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CARD OF THANKS
Oscar Winchell wishes in behalf
of the Star Air Service to. express
their thanks to all who aided in the
rescue of the crashed plane at Moore
Creek this week, and especially the
following ones:
A. H. MacDonald _ Tom Hanes.
Eddie Koenig, Tony. Garliksey, Pat
O’Neill, Harry Lundall, Jim Sadler,
Dick Storch. Si Ingalls. Elmer Ke
turi, Don Slater. Frank Hatten. Paul
Grote, Philip MacDonald. Charles
Uotila and last but not least. Lena
Toner, the cook who kept, the grub
coming up.
We acknowledge our sincere
thanks also to Mr. Keturi of Moore
Creek and Frank Lot at Flat for
standing by their radio stations and
rendering valuable service thereby.
STOREKEEPERS KINDNESS
TO PIGEONS BRINGS GRIEF
This business of being kind to*
feahered friends has its limitations,
Joe Dimond, Anchorage grocer, stat-.
ed in no uncertain terms recently •
after an experience with four pig
eons that nearly wrecked the inter- ■
ior of his store.
It has been Joe's habit for many
years to throw some grain to the
pigeons in front of the building.
This morning bolder than usual,,
they followed a trail of rice right
into his establishment and when Joe ■
“shushed" them, instead of walking
out the door again, they took off
for the upper reaches of the canned!
goods.
No amount of coaxing and cooing
c-ould bring them down so Jbe
took after them but the pigeons
timed Joe’s shelf climbing nicely -
and always managed to keep one |
jump ahead.
George Vaara joined forces with*
the storekeeper and late this after
noon the pigeons were cornered.
“I shoulda made a pot pie out of.
the bunch," Joe was heard to re
mark, as he tossed the last of the
unwelcome visitors out the door,
earlier this week birds once more
took the center of interest for ten
ants of the block between E and D ■
when what was described as thous
ands of small birds swarmed over
the buildings late Tuesday night.
Mr. Vaara believes they were*
young sparrows, starting a southern
migration. Bill Holt said he savr the
birds.
“There was a continual humming
and chirping,” he said, “and they
were as thick as a swarm of bees."
He said he found a number dead-’
in the alley behind his store where
they apparently dashed themselves l
into telephone wires.
NOME IS NO LONGER
CUSTOMS PORT OF ENTRY
WASHINGTON—The White House
announced today President Roose
velt signed an order abolishing the
city of Nome as a customs port of*
entry. The order becomes effective
on September 28.
BELGIUM THREATENED
BY BANK SCANDAL
BRUSSELS—The cabinet decided
to ask King Leopold to call an ex
traordinary session of parliament to
air the national bank controversy
which threatened to cleave Premier
Van Zeeland’s government.
The crisis evolves the reported ]
payment by the premier of secret*
bank fund bonuses while be was sell'
the vice governor of the Bank -jg;
Belgium. *
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