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i Alaska Notes
leathered From Terri’.»rial
BiekwgM.
Louis 'Tinkler, former member of
the Signal Corps staff at Seward and
more recently wireless operator at
Kanakan&ic, has been appointed by
District Judge E. Coke Hill to serve
the Bristol Bay district as United
States commissioner. He succeeds J
riampton. Miles,, deceased
Len B. Adsit ot Juneau died a lew
days ago in Los Angeles, to whici
place he went shortly before for the
cancer serum treatment.. He had been
I ill for the wist two years and went
south in the hope that the serum
fouid save, his life, but the trip south
weakened, his condition.
Mr. A'lsit was a. well known trave,
ing salesman,, having represented
various mercantile houses in the
States. He came.'to Alaska in 1921,
. and leaves? a widow and mother and
sister in San Diego.
With only one-third of the citizens
voting, the unoppose dso-called coali
tion tfcket,, headed by Mayor Chase,
took ottice in the quietest election
ever held at .Cordova. The ticket was
as. follows: Mayor, W. H. Chase;
counciimen, Wm. B. Phinn, Haro
Chadwick,, Henry Wolking; clerk, V.
J. Swan berg; treasurer, S. N. Laurie;
school board, Chester T. Davis.
In the recent, election at Ketchikan
Norman R. Wai..er, uruggist, was
elected mayor, get. ng 314 more votes
than .he- 'comhine vote of Axel Os
born and Carl J. r'oss.
Counciimen elected were W. P.
Boos, - every Erwick ant a. P. Han
sen, e .imnating Harry G. McCain,,
the only ybther candidate. Jack Talbot
was elected.*' member of the ..school
board, aefeatng Mrs. Wiliam L. Paul
by approximately a two to one vote.
Sol Uriei formerly attached1 to> the
Signal Corps at Seward, and his fam
ily have returned there after spend
ing a few.months in. the States. “1
would rather eat pork, and beans
every day-in the week and live in
Alaska uthha eat chicken and ice
crea mevery day in the States,” he
sad.
John h.. Marshall, the first deputy
prohibition, administrator to be ap
pointed f or-Alaska, died at a hospital
in.Juneau a.-fd-wdays ago from an in
ternal hemorrhage, resulting from in
Uhenza. . iffc was 56 years of age.
He came <to Alaska in 1912 and was
titter admitted to the practice of law,
and was subsequently appointed
United States commissioner at Ju
neau amL-then deputy prohbitiop ad
ministrator, which office he held for
several years. He was then trans
ferred to Washington, D„ C., and was
connected with the legal prohibition
department of the United States. He
resigned about two years ago and re
turned to Juneau, where he had. been
conductng a fur farm and practcng
law.
Seldova s hard hit by the shortage
of herring, reported Captain Heinie
Berger 9!' the motorship Discoverer
on arrival at Anchorage a few days
ago. The herring season, which is
counted upon to bring considerable
money to Seldovia during the winter,
was a complete failure. Residents of
the town had to provide for more
than 30 natibe children during the
time the Discoverer was in port there,
and before the boat pulled out a com
munity soup kitchen was placed in
operation. It had been expected that
a cold storage plant would be built at
ScLdovia, but plans for that are now
said to be very indefinite.
"“Robert Prosper, son of a Des
Moines, Iowa, publisher, and former
reporter on a Juneau paper, who con
fessed the robbery of three mercan
tile establishments, was indicted by
the grand jury at Juneau recently,
and is being held on $5,000 bail.
Fighting stubbornly to retain his
hold on life and hopeful almost to the
end,, “Uy” E. Robinson lost the bat
tle, the end coming at the Anchorage
hospital a few days ago, says the An
chorage Times. He had undergone
several operations after entering the
hospital.
Robinson went to Aiichorage dur
ing construction days and was long
engaged in looking after property of
H. T. Fowler, which included a num
ber of Anchorage business blocks. He
continued in that capacity until the
last of the Fowler property was dis
posed of and then entered the employ
of the Alaska Railroad, joining one
of the road outfits as “buB" cook and
general utility man. He was a hard
worker ant through frugal living and
worker ant through frugal living and
wise investment of his savings he ac
cumulated considerable money, a sub,
stantial part of which is invested in
property in the States. He was rated
as one of thf wealthiest men in the
service of the Alaska Railroad. He
was 72 years old at the time of his
passing.
Instead of going to the States last
afil, when his outfit was disbanded
for the season, hr found a new job at
urry for the winter, and was engaged
iii his work there when stricken sev
eral weekks ago.
The Alaska headquarters of the
United States Bureau of Education
will be moved from Seattle to Juneau
about May 1, according to advices re
cenly received at Juneau.
(OFFICIAL PUBLICATION.)
Report of th» Financial Condition of the
Miners S Merchants Bank of Iditarod, Alaska,
'; Located tit: Flat, Territory of Alaska, at the close of business on; tHe
1st day of April, 1930.
Rosonrees Liabilities.
Loans and discounts.$35,136.63 Capital stock paid in..$25,000.00
i Overdrafts -.. 411.82 Surplus fund .-. 10,00.00
' United States bonds Undivided proiits less ex^
owned_ H’,000i00 penses paid .—. 993.92
• Other Mods and war- .... Individual and savings
rants-owned .... 47,427.50 deposits . 91,962.68
Dob from ®ther banks.... 20,358.60.... Demand and time cer
' Checks on otMar banks titicates of deposit- 2,338.62
i and othemcash' items.. 47.42
; Chshi oir hand .. 15,698.50
iOdld bnlUdnau__ 214.75
, Total_$130,295.22 Total ..$130,295.22
United States of America, >
I Territory of Alaska, \ so.
Fourth Judicial Division. ’
Hr Hhi Donnelley, President of the aboove' named bank, do sol
emnly swear that the foregoing statement is tree to- the best of my
knowledge wad belief. , H. DONNELLEY, President.
(Notorial; seal) (Correct Attest)
H. P. SHEPPARD,
M. S. DONNELLEY,
Directors.
Hnliwrlhid tad sworn to before me this 5th day of April, 1930.'.
D. E. BROWNE,
Commissioner and ex-officio Justice
of the Peace. I
ORDER AND NOTICE OF PRI
MARY ELECTION
To De Held On Tuesday, April
29, 1930.
In the Office of the United State?
Commissioner at McGrath, Alaska,
Fourth Judicial 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
(flections in the Territory of Alaska
to fix the manner and time of hold
ing the same, to prescribe the qualifi
cations of candidates to be nominat
ed at such elections, and to designate
the manner of filing and authenticat
ing their candidacy, and for other
purposes," and in conformity there
with
It is hereby ordered that for the
purpose of the primary election to be
held on April 29, 1930, all of the ter
ritory in the recording district known
as Mt. McKinley Recording District,
outside of incorporated towns, is
hereby divided into voting precincts,
in each of which a polling place is
hereby specified.
Said voting precintcs are described
and bounded as follows:
Voting Precinct No. 1—Polling
place at U. S. Commissioner's Office,
McGrath. All the territory from Big
Kiver to the mouth of Swift River,
including all tributaries except Ta
kotna River from the mouth of Nixon
Fork to the head of Moose Creek and
its tributaries, which constitutes
Voting Precinct No. 2—Polling
place, Pioneer Hall, in the town of
Takotna. All the territory from Big
River to the head of the Kuskokwim
and its tributaries; also Nixon River,
known as Voting Precinct No. 3, poll
ing place at Nixon Quartz Mine
Buildings.
Notice is hereby given that a gen
eral election will be held on Tuesday,
April 29, 1930, for the purpose of
nominating candidates to the various
political parties for the following
offices, to-wit:
A Delegate to the House of Repre
sentatives from the Territory of
Alaska;
A Treasurer for the Territory of
Alaska;
An Auditor for the Territory of
Alaska;
A Commissioner of Education for
the Territory of Alaska;
A Highway Engineer for the Ter
ritorp of Alaska;
One Member of the Senate of the
ritory of Alaska;
Four Members of the House of
Representatives of t.i eTerritory of
Alaska;
Two Road Commissioners for Road
District Number Four.
The said election will be held in.
the voting precincts above named and
at the polling places therein speci
fied. The said polling places will be
open between the hours of 8 o’clock,
a. m. an 7 o’clock p. m. of said day.
Dated McGrath ths March 18th,
j.930.
W. T. VANDERPOOL,.
1). S. Commissioner for the Mt.
McKinley Recording Prerinct,
Fourth Division, Territory of
Alaska.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
All persons having claims against
the estate of Alex. Jerue, deceased,
are hereby required to present the
same, under oath, to the undersigned,
administrator of the said estate, at
his residence, at Flat, Alaska, on or
before the 31st day of August, 1930
Dated at Flat, Alaska, February
21, 1930.
HARRY DONNELLEY,
Administrator of the estate
of Alex. Jerue, deceased.
TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NENANA AND FLAT
Miles
Nenana . 00
Tavern Roadhouse ..17%
Knight’s Roadhouse . 23%
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse . 58 ..
Diamond Roadhouse .1.76
Roosevelt . 89
Lake Minchumina. 115
Trappers’ Cabin . 132
Lone Star Roadhouse . 159
TeMa Raadhouee._ 169%
Slew Fork Beadhouse. 187
East Fork Roadhouse .) 206
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse ...... 227%
Big River Roadhouse.— 241
McGrath. 263
Takotna . 280
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse . 291
Ophir.—. 300
McCafferty.306
Brown Creek shelter cabin.. 318
Fritz shelter cabin . 333
First Chance shelter cabin _ 346 '
Schermeyer R. H. . 360
Iditarod_ 376
Flat •_. 884
Bonanzza sheler cabin, 12 miles
Crooked Creek shelter cabin, 19
miles from Bonanza.
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Babeesch Moosehide Mitts sad Boots
Furs Bought and Sold Clothing
All Kinds of Nice Fresh Groceries and Fruits
Canned Goods of All Kinds. Beds and Bedding
I A. R. Eldridge -
McGrath
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TAKOTHA ROADHOUSE
Best of Meals and Rooms
Where Everything Is Homelike ea4
Where You Are Cordially W deemed
GOOD DOG HOUSES BAM
Ivar Chilstrom - Prop.
! Rough and Dressed Lum
ber of All Kinds
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