Alaska Notes i
Gathered' From Territorial |
Exchanges. j
The Department of. Agriculture
supply bill, signed recently by Presi
dent Hoover, carried an item of $40,
000 for experimenting with musk
oxen in Alaska, to be carried out by
the United States Biological Survey.
It is planned by the Survey to bring
a .herd of the animals tq Alaska from
Greenland. The experiment, will he
conducted, by L. J. Palmer, in charge
of the reindeer, experiment station of
the Biological Survey sCt the Alaska
Agricultural College and School of
Mines.
This appropriation is the culmina
tion of several, years’ effort. For the
p$st three years the Biological Sur
vey has included estimates for the
work in its annual estimates to the
Bureau of .Budget, but. until this year
they were always disapproved.
The Biological Survey has already
made some, preliminary, investiga
tions into ,#Hs.' cost of procuring the
animals. It is believed with the funds
appropriated a herd of 30 to 40 an
mals can be purchased an dplaced at
or near Farbanks. Some action is
expected' to<bci taken this year.
Two'Laplanders, Pher Ailaksen and
hts nephew, Mathias, Anderson Sara,
left Seattle a few days ago for Akiak,
the completion of .‘which will mark a
10,000-mile! journey front Beisfjord
narvik, .Norway.
A mummified ' Chinese child was
ftiund recently by.'I.. M.. Dahl while:
prospecting in the-TRom < Bay coun
try, according- to the Petersburg
Press. Thfc mummy was found in a
small cave; Ohr entering, Dahl saw a
. small chAst and proceeded to open it.
The baby form was covered with a
blanket and 'a Chinese necklace was
around th6 neck. Dahl summoned an
• other man to th'e sc^ne to help him*
investigate the strange find.
J. Casey . McDAoel, prominent An
chorage resident' for many years,
reached the end of life's journey at
the Anchorages Hospital a few weeks
ago. Hit pasting was caused by can'
cer of the stomach and other internal
disorders.
Ben Simson,- pioneer resident of
the North, who has been making his
home in th* States for the past few
years, died'at Reno, Nev., a- few
weeks ago.
Ben Simscncame north to Dawson
dhring th* gold’ rush, and went from
there to Ntifcne, and later to Council,
in the Seward Peninsula district. He
also was engaged in business in Fair
' banks for a number of years, and was.
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Pioneer
Blacksmith,
Machine and
all kinds of
Shteet Metal
Work
Safetys
Stoves
ROBERT LOW^IE
Proprietor
one of the first to engage in business
at Nenana. After leaving
he made a trip to Germany and was
married there. At the time of hi:
passing he was operatin ga chain oi
stores in Nevada.
The story about A. A. Johnson's
family of nine silver fox pups, which
appeared in a recent issue of the Sel
dovia Herald, and which suggested
the. right of Mr. Johnson to claim the
Alaska record for the largest litter
has drawn fire from Duke E. Stubbs
who operates the very successful Mt
McKinley Pox Farm at the entrance
to McKinley National Park. Stubbs
has written the editor oi the Herald
as follows:
“Our attention was called to an
item in the Herald of a record litter
of silver fox pups o.n the ranch of A.
A. Johnson. This certainly is a re
markable litter of pups.
“However, we have a silver black
vixen that has whelped six litters
with six, seven, eight, ten and nine
pups at a litter, and raised all of
them in every litter.
“Dr. Earl S. Graves, former Terri
torial veterinarian, made a special
trip-to our ranch to see the litter of
ten pups (1928), made a record of it
and said he helieved it was a world
record for silver fox. Anyway, it is
something for brother ranchers to
shoot at.”
AtasKa Drown Dear seem to nave
taken a decided grudge against For
est Service officials, says a statement
issued from the headquarters of the
Chugach National Forest at Cordova,
which cites an attack a few weeks
ago on Trait Foreman Paul Jones and
Ranger Charles H. Forward. For
ward and Jones were locating a trail
on the southeast end of Hinehinbrook
Island. They had just left the beach
and rad progressed some 500 feet,
followin ga grade along the sidehill.
Jones was unarmed, and Forward
was carryinb a 30-06 Winchester.
Jones’ attention wa sattracted by a
movement on a cliff forty feet above
them. At Jones’ cry of warning For
ward wheeled about just in time to
see the bear leave the top of the cliff
and make toward them. Fortunately,
instead of launching his attack di
rectly over the tap of the cliff, Mr.
Bear angled around the end of it.
This placed Mm out of Forward’s
sight for as second or two and gave
time to prepare for the reception.
The bear- made the bottom of the
clc, turned sharply and made directly
for the men. As soon a she did so,
Forward fired, hitting the beast above
the eye and stopping him within 15
feet of his intende dvictims. The bear
proved to be a 500-pounder, which is
small for adults of the species. He
had two old bullet wounds, one of
which was through the fore leg and
unhealed. The fact that the men
were making considerable noise and
that the wind was carrying directly
to the bear, indicates that the attack
was made deliberately and with mal
ice aforethought.
Almost 33 1-3 per cent gam in pop
ulation was made in the' Bristol Bay
section of the Third division in the
last decade, according' to preliminary
announcements issued' by Charles E.
Naghel, supervisor of the census: The
population is shown to be 1,283; as
compared with 966 tabulated in 1920.
The present figures show the popula
tion to be: Clark’s Point 25, Dilling
ham 80, Ekuk 37, Ewak 40, Igushik
28, Kanakanak industrial school 89;
Kulukak 28, Nunachauk 32, <Nusha
gak 43, Togak 71, Tokelung 39/ Uia
vigakamut 63, Waad river 55, balance
of Bristol Bay district 565:
Dean Patty, of the Al&stor Agricul
tural College and School of Mines, is
Bufferng from & broken arm and.jmi
nor injuries as the result of an en
counter with a snowslide at the fler
shey mine, near Hope. He and'threfl
other men- wvee just coming out of"
the mine portal rwhen down came a
mo wshde. Abide fro mone \ other
man being knocked, off. his feet, the.
Dean, who was on the outer edge of
the group, was the only one caught.
Down he plunged for 200 feet, while
above him, horror stricken, watched
the other three. These men later in
formed Patty that each time he was
glimpsed emerging from; the slide he
was fighting fik a wildcat; Hie-Dean
said he realized he- had to fight hard
to get to the side of the slide, because
if he once gave up it was all over
with him. So he continued to fight
his way to the side as he was carried
tinned on for probably 800 feet more,
and ydled down, and about 200 feet
down he broke free. The slide com
tinued on for probably 800 feet more
First aid treatment was given him,
Mr. Patty directing the arrangement
of splints on his broken arm. Later
he was taken to Seward and placed
under the care of Dr. Haverstock.
i _
Suffering from paralysis of the
j legs, Dan Callahan, one of the pio
neers of Fairbanks and a member of
the sixth Territorial Legislature,* was
removed from his home to the Fair
; banks hospital for treatment. The
j stroke followed several months of ill
health.
Arthur Evans, two-year-old child of
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Evans of Koyu
kuk station, was bitten recently by a
dog at a fish camp located*at Bishop
' Mountain. The child was taken to
jjtuby on a gas launch for medical at
tention, but died just as the boat
landed. Abdominal wounds caused1
his death.
ur x* d._n_ail _•»
» vilt UltU UlO TY 11 v
arrived recently in Fairbanks, where;
. Mr. Revelle and his son will engage
in the freighting business. The
Colonel used to carr ythe mail by dogj
team from Seward to Iditarod' and'
also from Seward to Anchorage be
fore the Alaska Railroad was built.
“My advice is to stay with Alaska,”^
“My advice is to stay with Alaska,”
he said; “times are tough Outside
now.”
I SENATOR JOHN W. DUNN
CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELECTION
To the Alaska Voter:
I am a canddate for re-election to
the Alaska Senate. I stand absolute
ly on my past records.
The following is my platform:
We must help and encourage pros
pectors to go into ne wfields, and thus
discover new mining camps.
Let os work for more roads and
trails in Alaska.
| We. must encourage the develops
I ment of the Alaska Railroad for the
purpose of developing the Territory.
We must encourage fur farming,
: stock raising and agricultural indus
try.
1 We must make liberal appropria
tions for all schools, including the
Alaska College.
X believe that we should have small
community canneries established: on
the Yukon river, and the local inhab
itants allowed to can the line king
j salmon for commercial purposes,
which is now being wasted.
I believe that the Alaska Legisla
TABLE OF DISTANCES BE*
TWEEN NfiNANA AND FLAT
MU«8
Nenana . 00
Tavern Roadhouse_1714
Knight’s Roadhouse_2314
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse_58 ..
Diamond Roadhouse. .78
Roosevelt _;_ 89
Lake Minehuaina_115
Trappers’ Cabin _—. _132
Lone Star Roadhouse_159
Telida Roadhouse_18914
Slew Fork Roadhouse_187
East Forte Roadhouse..) 208
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse_22716
Big River Roadhouse __241
McGrath___283
Takotna __.... _ _ 280
BIB Goss' Roadhouse__ 291
Ophir____ _300
McCafferty_... _306
Brown Creek shelter sabin_318
Frits shelter cabin__ 333
First Chance shelter eahia_346
Sehermoyar R. H.___ 360
Iditarod___376
Flat-384
Bonanssa shelar eaUn. 12 milee
na shelar
from Flat.
Crooked Creek
ailiiiksa
shelter cabin, W
tur eshould have the power to make
the lawa for the fisheries, fur and
game of Alaska.
I Bet os encourage the building of
! the International Highway.
We need all the Alaska laws com
piled into.a new cole, so that the peo
ple may know what the laws are.
If elected I shall work for the en
actment of laws in accordance with
the above stated principles.
Yours vary truiy,
JOHN W. DUNN.
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