I Alaska Notes
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Gathered From Territorial
Exchanges.
Dr. D. L. Fricks, physieian-in
charge of the United States Public
Health Service in Seattlejias an
nounced tha all passengers and crews
for Nome, St. Michael and other Ber
ing Sea ports this spring will be re
quired to obtain certificates of vacci
nation before allowed to embark. This
action is taken to guard against re
currence of a smallpox epidemic like
that of last year.
Tom McSmart, a well known young
man of the early Dawson and Fair
banks days, who went to war with
some of the first Canadian troops and
who returned t oCanada broken in
health as the result of being gassed
and wounded while in action, has late
ly been restored to health and is
thinking seriously of spending the
coming summer in the Cassiar dis
trict.
Seattle.—Taking over the canneries
and floating equipment of six packing
companies, the Alaska Pacific Salmon
Corporation of Ketchikan completed
the largest deal ,in the history of the
Alaska fishing industry.
The purchase includes the Deep Sea
Salmon Company, the Consolidated
Canneries, the Sunny Point Packing
Company, and the Steve Selig Com
pany. The Consolidated Canneries
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Ihone In Advance for Special
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A Short Drive Through De
lightful Forest Scenery.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
' Mutchler
Proprietors
uviud six canneries, the i-BuiiQy Foint
and Franklin four each,.and the Gor
man, Drop Sea and Selig one each,
giving the company 17. plants and .204
vessels, ranging from small craft , to
large cannery tenders. The Alaska
Pacific Salmon .Corporationvwill.con
trol approximately 30. per cent. of the
Alaska pack.
Leo Poveliak, known to .many old
timers as “Kobuk Ned,” was frozen
to death near Hot .-Springs, on thp
Woodchppper trail, some days a go, ac
cording to word recently .received.at
Wirbankx. |
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The engagement of Miss Ada Ar
thur, of Nome, and Noel Wien, well
known airman, was announced .at
Nome a few days ago.
Stockholders of the Kennecott Cop
per Corporation-have approved an in
crease in the authorized capital stock
to 12,000,000 shares, .from £,000,000
shares, and split up present outstand
ing stock two for one. They -also
voted to increase the heard of direct
ors to 18 members, from 15. There
are at present approximately 3,553,
000 shares outstanding.
Three great snowslides. one of
.vhich swept a car oc the Thane road,
and another that completely dammed
Gold creek, .occurred near Thane, re
cently. Two "were in'Gold creek'basin
and the third near Thane. The one,
on the Thane road almost cost Alex.
Kloh, dr., his life. He was driving to
.own when he heard the .Tear of the
approaching mass of snow, ice and
debris, and a rock coming ahead of
the slide blocked his path. He hur
riedly abandoned the . car and was able
to get out of the danger zone. .The]
car was either covered deeply by the;
slide or was carried out'into Gast-i
neau channel. The vwaters of the ■
channel were covered with cdebris ail-!
most across to Douglas Island, arid
snow and debris were carried over.to
the old Treadwell dock. A cabin own
ed and occupied by .a man by Hie
name «f Noah was destroyed by the
slide. The other two slides occurred
about midnight, and the roar was
plainly heard all over town, .and in !
some sections of the town .buildings
rocked and shook as if from the. ef
fects of an earthquake. Snow and ice
were hurled across the . hill that sep
arates the .basin ;_from town and fell
in considerable quantities almost to
the downtown section.
TOM KEENEY PASSES
AS THTCE ASPIRANT
Chicago.—Otto von Porat’s gallop
ing gloves pounded a requiem on Tom
Heeney’s heavyweight title aspira
I tions last night and sent the New
| Zealander to a hospital for repairs.
Eighteen stitches were required to
close an inch deep gash on Heeney%
F. C. H. SPENCER
Successors to Northern Commercial 'Co. At
Takotna, Alaska
Merchandise
1 p which Herat's right opened in the
fiahLeoand of .their 10-round bout.
Bont> was given.the unanimous deci
sion. He took rounds, lost two
and one was even*
1928 SHIPMENTS OF ALASKA
BELTS BEAT MARK OF 1927
Alaska furs shipped during 1928
exceeded by .a considerable amount
those of the previous year, according
to figures released by H. W. Terhune,
executive officer .of the United States
Biological Survey; with headquarters
in Juneau. Th etotal value of furs
shipped from Alaska during 1928 was
4,298,637.13, . nearly $600,000 more
than was shipped in. 1927.
The total value oof dicerent skins
shipped out is. divided, as follows:
Bear—
Black or glacier.$ 3,261.'40
Polar .„ 4,960.00
Beaver . 860,512.00
Coyote . 10,091,25
Fox—
Red_ 1.029,999.96
' Cross. 191,250.66
Silver .—. 85,668.00
•White .—. 206,261.50
•Bine ___... 519,107,52
Hare -- 459.00
Lynx. 460,328.25
Marmot_. 84.00
••Marten.. 4,125.00
Mink.. 513,442.11
Muskrat . 263,282.81
Otter. 78,753.88
Squirrel.. 486.20
Weasel .(ermine) . . 20,916.12
Wolf ._... 13,939.00
Wolverine ..'_ 17,675.37
-Total.. ...... *4,277,347.13
Pribilof Islands—
' (Foots, oofy)—
White ... .692.00
Blue... - 20,598.00
Grand. Total ..$4,298,637.13
•Not.including pelts f. om the Prib
ilof islands.
••No open season—strapped 1922-!
1923 season.
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Adolph Walstad,’aomjng. from Elat,
passed through Takotna Thursday, on
hia way to. Fairbanks.
Arriving in. a small Western town,
an Easterner waa attempting to start
a friendly conversation with, a native.
“Tell me,” heuaid. V'What is the
stains of the liquor.^supply -around
here?"
“Status,” mumbled the jvative. “I
dunno what .you mean.”
“I mean is it-egsy .Ao’ohtainl liquor
and is there much .of it. around here ? ”
“Well, mister,” maid the. rustic, 'fall
I can tell you is that a little while
bac kthey turned .off the water supply
for a week and ..nobody knew it ..till
the town hall caught afire.”
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Notice .is hereby given that dll per
sons having claims agaihst the estate
of Davie Grassman, deceased, to pre
sent them with proper vouchers at
tached totithe undersigned-at Bethel,
Alaska.
Dated* at Bethel, Alaska, this 16th
day of March, 1929.
ALEXANDER HATELY,
Administrator.
First pub., April 6, 1929.__
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.Notary Public j
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John B. < Dixie) Hall, formerly of
the N..C. Co. store at Nenana, was
an arrival at McGrath on Wednesday,
via airplane, by'■which he departed on
Wednesday for Bethel, to which iplace
he goeaito-assume charge of the N..C.
Co. store at tha place.
Sid Paulson left Ophir a few days
ago for his mining ground in ithe
Cripple district.
Diamond
Dick
Roadhouse
Takotna, Alaska
Dick Rhodes (Dtm«ii9 Dick)
may now be found in his new
Former McLean Roadhouse,
where he will' be -pleaded to
meet all old friends and to
set acquainted with new ones
'Good l>o:; Kennels
': lh Conreetion
Jesse Baugh, after a couple of days’
visit here, departed for Ophir an
Wednesday.
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