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Jgust 29th, 1923, at the postoflice at
'Tokotna, Alaska,' under the Act of
jyiarch 3, 1879.
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Takotna, Alaska. April 13, 1929.
<GAME STOCKING PROGRAM
MAKES GOOD HEADWAY
Satisfactory progress is reported
Ny the Alaska Game Commission in
■its co-operative game and fur-bearing
‘animal stocking program, in which
•funds provided by the Alaska Legis
lature are mainly used. Beaver and
‘muskrats have been planted at several
4ikely places, elk in two localities,
‘and buffalo in another.
The biennial report of the Commis
sion to the Legislature, which has just
‘been made public, recommends but
few minor legislative changes in ex-;
-isting acts, the most important of
'■which is the continuation of unex
ipended balances of previous appropri
ations so they will be available for
♦expenditure after the appropriation
iperiod has expired.
Another important recommendation
'is the removal of the legislative re
strictions against starting more than
"one project in one division at the
i is pointed out that this
• inhibition, *r at least two instances,
.prevented carrying out projects pre
viously started and for which funds
'Were actually available for continu-!
‘ance.
The Commission -began the bien-1
inium with a total of $16,106.78 on
•hand. It expended during the two
iyear period the sum of S6,392.07,
■leaving an unexpended balance of
$9,774.71. Since the game stolking
[program was adopted by the Legisla
ture in 1926, the Commission has
iplac-ed beaver on the Kodiak—Afognak
‘landed group, on Kruzof island, elk
'on Kruzof island and on Kodiak
'island, mhskrats on the Kodiak-Afog
•nak group, and a herd of buffalo in
‘the Fairbanks district.
The fur-bearers have done splen
'didly, it reports, and line increases
‘are recorded in every instance. The
'experiment with the game animals is
‘still too young to proclaim it a suc
cess, but reports indicate that both
>the elk and buffalo are becoming ac
'climated and finding ample forage of
‘a suitable kind.
Stocking of mountain sheep on
^Seward Peninsula, authorized b ythe
1927 Legislature, has not been under
taken. The Commission reports that
‘it made efforts to let contracts for
‘taking the animals, but that it was
impossible to find anyone willing to
ibi don the work.
SCIENCE HAS NOT AS YET
SOLVED ORIGIN OF OIL
The origin of oil is something that
;scienoe has never been able to solve.
It ifc largely a matter of conjecture,
but the conjectures are most interest
ure. Geology is the history of ages—*
billions upon billions of years~>-mrit
ten in the rocks. These rocks have
been classified so that they can be
■recognized wherever found. In each
“age” is an unwritten Lirtory of life.
The rocks show that there have
been alternate periods of marine and
'animal life. Some scientists Save
exaieluded that the bodies of fish and
sea life, decaying through the cen
turies, form petroleum. Others think
that oil comes from chemical reac
tions in the earth, just as minerals
are supposedly formed. This has
given rise to two principal theories.
One is called organic, and the other
is called inorganic.
Those who do . not believe that
chemicals—the action of water on
metallic carbides in the earth—form
petroleum quote Stigand as an au
thority. He says:
"The existence of improbably large
quantities of metallic carbides, within,
access i nthe earth, would be required,
if orfiy to sutfice for originating the
amount of petroleum which has been
produced, as the amount of metallic
carbides demanded is is very great in
proportion to the petroleum that can
be produced from them. Furthermore,
the circumstances that large deposits
of of bitumen ctr petroleum are only
found in the stratified rocks, that the
deposits found in the strata of
younger age predominate, and that
ver yfrequently barren porous beds
are are intercalated in the petrolifer
ous beds, or the strata subjacent to
an oil series do not contain petrol
eum, all tend to constitute evidence
contrary o the supposition of deep
seated origin.”—-Ex.
CHICAGO GANGSTERS
HELD IN MASSACRE
CHICAGO.—Rocco Fanelli, Capone
gangster, was identified by a witness
today as one of two men who entered
the North Clark street garage where
seven men were shot down, some
weeks ago. The witness said he had
seen Fanelli and a companion walk
into the place about the time of the i
murders. Deputy Polioe Commis
sioner John Stege said the witness
was one of those who had also point
ed out Jack McGurn. recently cap
tured, as an occupant of the death
car.
McGurn, who is also another mem
ber of ScdtjjjCe A1 Capone’s gang,
has been ideiitified by witnesses as
having been pt the scene. McGurn
and a woman companion were found,
in a hotel irt| which investigators of
the massacre had made their head
quarters, and Fanelli, second of 17
men ordered arrested in connection
with the killings, was seized on a
West Side street corner. The police
said hey knew the identity of three
other men who comprised the execu
tion squad.
ROOSTER KILLS EAGLE IN
FIGHT TO THE FINISH
SARASOTA, Fla.—Ed Zwinggli, a
dairyman, brought to Sarasota today
a story of a finish fight between a six
months-old Plymouth Rock rooster
and an eagle, in which the rooster
came out victorious.
He exhibited the wounded rooster
in support of the tale. He and his
wife heard a commotion in the barn
yard, he said, and, distinguishing a
whirling melee of feathered bodies,
went to investigate just as both com
batants collapsed.
The eagle, measuring six feet one
inch from wing tip to wing tip, was
dead; the rooster was badly hurt.
A local taxidermist, to whom the
eagle carcass was brought for mount
ing, expressed the belief that the
j rooster delivered a chance blow in a
! vulnerable spot just as the eagle
swooped dow.n.
HOOVER WON’T REVAMP
FEDERAL JOB-HOLDERS
WASHINGTON.—President Hoo
ver said today that he plans no exten
sive changes in the personnel of the
government.
| The chief executive declared he
i proposes “to adhere to he principle of
retaining as many as possible of
those public servants who have given
honest and zeal ons service.*’
“It is traditional,” he continued,
“for the principal directing heads of
the government whose appointments
are at the pleasure of the President,
boh at home and in foreign service, to
tender their resignations with the ad
vent of a ne wadministration.
“Out of several hundred such offi
cials, there are probably not more
than 20 or 30 changes likely to be
made at the present time. Some of
these are the result of the determina
tion of the incumbents that they have
given sufficient of their time to public
service and wish to take this occasion
to retire to jprivate life.”
JONES 1.AW ALREADY HAS
EFFECT AMONG BOOZERS
WASHINGTON.—Already the fa
mouse Jones law. which provides
marimum sentences for violations of
the liquor law of five, years in prison
or $10,000 fine, or both, is having its
effect on the-Capital.
Many bootleggers, fearful of prose
cution under the new law, have al
ready evacuated the city, while others
more nervy have raised the prices of
their wares until customers have de
dided to “hoard the .water wagon.”
Many of the stores that sell “ah
dessories” for brewipg beer- and ron
docting other alcoholic beverages
have begun to close up or eliminate
goods that might, be considered ob
jectionable.
GOVERNEMENT WIL SPEND
THOUSANDS ADVERTISING
WASHINGTON.—The federal gov
rnrnent is planning to enter the field
advertising in a neffort to sell the
dea of law enforcement to the Amer*
can people.
Believing that law enforcement can
be stimulated throdgh the widespread
dse of posters, Commissioner Doran
..f the prohibition bureau announced
a plan to disseminate illustrations
picturing the evils of liquor traffic
and the henefitts from prohibition.
The campaign will be financed
through the $50,000 made available to
the bureau for educational purposes.
A Good Job.
A young lawyer had a foreign
’.lient in police court the oher day. i It
looked rather bleak for the foreigner,
and the lawyer fairly outdid himself
in trying to convince the magistrate
hat the client was innocent.
The lawyer dwel on the other’s ig
orance of American customs, the
traightforward story, and enough
>ther details to erterid the talk fully
15 minutes. His client wasi acquitted.
Tn congratulating the freed man
the lawyer held out this hand in an
absent, though rather suggestive
manner. The client grasped it
warmly.
“Dot was a fine noise you make,”
he said. “Tanks. Goo’bye.”
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