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Entered as second-class matter August
28th. 1923, at the Post Office at
ToKotua, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. NOV. 29. 1924
ji Alaska Notes :
Gleanings From Territorial ]1
J Exchanges. ;>
Effective November 1 when Noel W.
.'Smith, special assistant to the Secre
tary of the Interior, left for Washing
ton tO sulfiiit his report on Alaska rail
troad matters, H. Horn, superintendent
-of tracks, bridges and buildings, be
came acting general manager of the
.Alaska. The temporary appointment
vwas tmnouneed by Mr. Smith in a gen
«eral circular issued on October 28.
Mr. Horn, the new acting general
manager appointee, has been in the
railroad game for over sixteen years,
shaving gained his railroad experience
<on the Ocean Shore line in California.
tHe came to the Alaska railroad last
April to accept the position of superin
tendent of traoks, bridges and build
ings.
Adother change in the personnel of
ithe railroad was made public when J.
.J. Donovan, formerly section foreman
at Healy, was assigned to relieve C. G.
.Jones as roadmaster, with supervision
.over all track and track employes from
Mile 381 to Fairbanks, and the Chata
tnika branch, with headquarters in Ne
mana. __
Fd Terrill, a pioneer Alaskan, died
irecently at Fairbanks, where he had
oeen in the hospital for some time
suffering from a paralytic stroke. Gan
grene set in and one leg was removed
tto prevent the spread of the poison.
iHe bore the operation well, but later
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PIONEER
Machine, Black
smith and
Sheet Metal Work
All Kinds of Repairs
Stoves Built
and Repaired
Robt. E. Lowrie
Tokotna, Alaska
began to sink until death came. The
deceased came to Alaska in 18i>8, and
never left the country. A graduate of
Columbia University, he drifted to the
North wheu the Dawson strike was
made. He resided in Dawson for a
number of years and then went to Fair
banks, where for the past few years he
had operated the Hume Restaurant.
United States Coramissione W. H.
Rager, <of Anchorage, served a warn
ing upon “gun toters,’ recently when
he assessed R. Cipila, otherwise known
as “Spanish Kid,” a fine of $100 on a
charge of carrving concealed weapons,
which the defendant confessed to on
trial. In addition to the dne a sentence
of thirty davs in jail was assessed.
Commissioner Rager says this goes for
all pistol toters and any other weapon
in this line save an ordinary pocket
knife.
James Hill. U. S. deputy marshal at
Anchorage, was shot in the back and
killed on October 31 bv William
Brooks, a homesteader. Brooks sui
cided immediately after the killing.
Hill and the Seldovia jailer were
raiding a still owned by Brooks. Thev
had found it and were looking for
Brooks, when be suddenly appeared
and shot Hill without warning. Brooks
is survived by a wife, and a boy two
years of age. Mrs. Brooks was former
ly Minnie Pops, of Anchorage.
Mrs. Crystal Mann and Mrs. Martha
Craig, of San Francisco, both daughters
of pioneers of earlv days, made a tour
of Southeastern Alaska recently. Mrs.
Maun is a daughter of Jack McQuesten.
who came to Alaska before the gold
rush. She was born at Fortymile and
left the countrv twenty years ago. Mrs.
Craig is the daughter of Alfred H.
Mayo, for whom the Mavo district was
named. Sha was born at Fori Gibbon.
A Novel Method for
Treating Paralysis
LondoD.— Believed fur ihe first time
in the history of medical science, one
form of death is being deliberately
played off against another with so far
the must satisfactory results at the
hospital of the Liverpool School of
Tropical Medicine.
it consists of the malaria treatment
for general paralysis, and is as yet en
tirely experimental.
Of eighty-four cases treated this way
at the hospital of the school and other
Liverpool hospitals, the physical and
mental improvement of twenty three
patients has been so satisfactory that
they have been discharged.
Seventeen others who underwent the
malaria treatment have shown distinct
improvement, while many of the re
mainder have improved physically. It
is worthy of note that no patient suffer
ing from general paralysis has ever
been discharged from these hospitals
before.
The original discovery of the treat
ment was a shot in the dark due to a
German who bad noticed that occa
sionally chronic diseases counteracted
each other completely in the tropics.
As is well known, general paralysis
is a late.manifestation of a certain dis
ease caused by spinal organisms, and
the object of deliberately inducing ma
laria is to raise the blood of the patient
to a series of such high recurrent tem
peratures that these organisms will be
killed. A^high temperature is oeces
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sary, and nothing except the injection
of the malaria germs has been found
successful previously.
The malaria is checked and counter
balanced by judicious doses of quinine
throughout the treatment.
Prominent English medical authori
ties believe that the treatment, opens
up an entirely new held of medical re
search and hail the doctors who have
conducted the experiments as men of
great courage.
The next step will be to test the ef
fect of the malaria organisms on oilier
deadly fevers at.d diseases.
Beaver Farming May
Be Lucrative Business
That beaver may be • scientifically
farmed in the not far distant future is
tbe question brought up in a recent
issue of ihe Fur Farmer magazine. The
business is safe, profitable, and a j >b
which a woman can handle. Thu mag
azine stales that a number of uses cau
be fouod for the animal as well as for
the fur, among which are:
As a food delicacy, beaver liver is
considered by the trapper as food fit
fer the gods.
Beaver tail soup was once on the
menus of early day hotels and pioneers.
Beaver castor when available was
the basis of high grade perfumes. It
is still in demand at high prices.
Beaver tail leather consists of a thick
skin covered with thorny-like scales of
a more delicate pattern than alligator
leather. There will be a big demand
for it when available in Quantity for
high grade wallets, fly bonks, e'C.
Beaver castor or beaver musk was
used bv old Hudson Bay trappers a-- a
specific for venereal diseases, also as a
specific for spotted or mountain fever.
Beaver sk.n, unlike (hut of most
other fur bearing animals, will not
peel readily from the carcass. It must
be cut inch bv inch, but one cui being
made in the sain, and that is from ttie
vent to the tip of the lowe- jaw. The
legs must be pulled through without
splitting, as with the front leas of a
mink or muskrat, stretched flat on a
board or laced in a hoop, and then
carefully fleshed. Keep in a cool, dry
place until ready for shipment.
Continuing, the Fur Farmer says
that once the most numerous of all fur
bearing animals, beaver could not be
caught in sufficient quantities to supply
the demand. Furs of the better grades
are getting scarcer aud scarcer every
day.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To R. H. Brown and Frankie Chew,
vour heirs and assigns:
You, and each of you, are hereby no
tified that I, the undersigned, your co
owner, have expended tn labor- and itn
provements the sum of not less than
one hundred dollars >>er tear for the
tears lt»21, 1822 at,. 1323 upon the
Pack Mule Association placer mining
claim, situated on Otter creek, a trib
utary of iditarod river, in the Otter
mining and recording precinct, Ter
ritory of Alaska, in order to hold
said claim under tbp provisions of Sec
lion 2324 of the Revised Statutes of
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
Iditarod, Alaska,
LAWYERS
Practice in all Courts.
Leon G. Loomis
Notary Public
Tokotna, Alaska
Mrs. Jean McLean
Notary Public
Tokotna, Alaska
the United States and the amendments
thereto concerning annual labor upon
mining claims.
And if. within ninety days after the
publication of this notice, you, or either
j of you. fail or refuse to contribute your
! proportion of said expenditures, as well
! as the cost of recording the same, and
the costs of this advertisement, your
interest in said claim will become the
property of the undersigned, your co
owner, who has made the required ex
penditure under t he terms of said Sec
t.ion 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the
Doited States.
D. S. McDonei.u
Co Owner.
Date of first publication. Sept. 20. 1924
Date of last publication, Dec 27 1924
In the Probate Court for Oiler pre
cincu. Fourth divutoD, I’erriioty
Alaska, before the Honorable E. ,J,
Steir. Commissioner and ex-officio
Probate Judge.
In the matter of the Estate of William
Pringle, deceased— Probate No. 50.
Notice of Final Hearing.
Not ice is hereby given that the hear
ing of objections to the final report and
account of Samuel Applebaum, as ex
ecutor of the estate of William Pringle,
deceased, will be held in the Probate
Court room at Fiat, Alaska, on Satttr
day, January 17 h, 1925. at 2 o’clock in
the afternooD.
Dated, Flat, Alaska, Sept. 27'h. 1924.
E J. Steir.
Probate Judge.
Blackburn
5c Eldridge
McGrath, Alaska
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