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near Kodiak, comprising an area of
31) square miles, it is stated at Ko
diak, have been acquired by a party
of capitalists who plat nto stock the
land with, large, herds of cattle and
theep and sheep this spring.
The tract is adjacent to the gov
ernment experimental station at Ko
diak Bay and is 16 miles south of the
town of. Kodiak. The stock to be
placed on the range will be in addi
tion to 1,500 sheep and 400 head of
cattie, now on the island. Herdsmen
will be equipped with high-powered
rifles to cope with. bear.
Establishment, of the ranch, it is
felt, will expedite highway construc
tion. on the island..
Frank Dufresne, foovmer game
- warden at hairbanks, and now sta
tioned at.Juneau, reports that a big
four-year-old hull elk is king of Kru
< zof island and rules there with an
iron hand. The hull has no fear of
man and has. pjoved his courage hy
attacking every one attempting to
land when. he is around. There are
only, two elk. on. the island out of a
herd of seven planted there three
years ago.. The. bull and a lone cow
• have the island, which is a^ame re
serve, all to themselves. Behhy pick
ers, fishermen and casual visitors to
the island have, had encounters with
the big buu and in every case he has
successfully defended his domain.
Chariest Wallen, well known An
chorage oldtimer, was frozen to death
S in the Chestochino district, according
to word received, at Valdez. The wire
from there .recenttly sated that Wal
len had been found frozen on the
Chestochina. and that his body was
at Chitinn .pending shipping instruc
tions from hisparents, who live at
Medimont, Idaho.. Wallen left An
chorage last fall to. trap in the Ches
tochina country...
Mink..farms around' Juneau are
dying off..the “fat of the sea” as the
result of; ^Captain. Martin Borleck of
the tishing boat Wilson having caught
a. sea lion weighin. gabout 1,500
pounds in aseine- in Barlow, cove.
The sea .lion was killed with one snot
from a..rifle. Theie were aboyt 2M>
others in..the vicinity at the time, it
was said..
Drifting for 36 hours ini an open
skiff in the . dutch, of the North Pa
cific ocean,. James Glares, fisherman,
was blown ..ashor eon Hindunbrook
island and , dropped exhausted in
front of .the cahin of Ed Hoeck.
A government relief party located
Glares after a., four-day search, and
brought , him to the Cordova hospital
Bis two hands were badly frozen, and
it may . bw necessary to, amputate
them-. '
Worn, rto the limit of his endurance
by a.^terrific struggle through the
deep. snow, on the nine-mile trail be
tween the. Georgia river mine and
the besah. camp on the Portland
canal, a 8.miles south of Hyder, Har
old Beaton,, only, son of Wellington
Beaton, Vancouver financier and
president ) of (the Georgia River Mines
Company, lost Jis lire as a result of
exhaustion.and .exposure a few days
ago.
Beaton, who was but 24 years old,,
left the mine at 12:45 Saturday
morning and was last heard from
when he telephoned back to the mine
at 3:30.p. m. the same afternoon from
a .traiL cache located one and a half
miles fro mthe. mine, according to
evidence given at a. coroner’s inquest.
The hard traveling encountered by
the unfortunate ymmg man is shown
by the fact tthht he had consumed
2: hours amt J45>' minutes in covering
the short distance- between the mine
gad the, cache. He was advsed on re*,
po. tng from the cache to stay there
over night, but replied that he be
lieved he could make it throough al
though the going was hard.|
j The body of the young man was
{found the following Tuesday Tuesday
I forenoon by J. H. Peterson about one
' and a naif miles from the beach
camp. The body lay under a tree a
few feet from the trail. Peterson
testified that it took him over two
and a half hours to reach the place
where the body lay, after leaving the
beam camp to break the trail to the
mine. As the telephoone line was
down between the cache and the
beach, Mr. Beaton’s failure to arrive
at the beach was not known to those
at the mine, while those at the beach,
who included his young wife and
child, were not aware that he had
left the mine. The discovery of the
body by Petersoon was due to his
finding footprints in the snow and
following them.
Death came violently to Jack Ben
nett, oidtimer of the Interior, in his
homestead cabin near Nenana, a few
days ago. When passersby failed to
see any sign of life at the cabin a
report was sent to Deputy Marshal
Jack U’Connoor, who made the trip
out by dog team, and upon entering
the hoouse found its occupant dead
at the hotloom oof a deep cellar. The
cabin had been cold, it was estimated,
about three days when the deputy en
tered.
Indications about the cabin pointed
to excessive drinking. Empty bottles
were strewn about, and a mattress
had been removed from the bed and
placed near the cellar door. It is be
lieved Bennett laid down on the mat
tress and, roiling oft, fell through the
open trap to the bottoom of the cel
lar. He was clothed only in under
wear.
Bennett was a former resident of
Fairbanks, and while there was en
gaged as a tinsmith. Later he took
up a homestead on the flats outside
of Nenana.
Colonel E. K. Stivers, deputy col
lector of customs at the port of Hy
der since 1921, has accepteed the po
sition ot deputy collector of customs
at Nome, made vacant by the trans
fer of K. W. J. Reed to Wrangell.
Colonel Stivers intends to remain in
Hyder unttil June, when navigation
opens in Bering Sea. He is well ac
quainted with the Nome district, hav
ing resided there for several years
during the gold rush period.
Orders for Sitka spruce seed are
being tilled by the U. S. Forest Ser
vice at the Juneau office. It brings
$10 per pound. Already orders from
Copenhagen, Berlin, Iceland and east
ern portions o£ the United States
have been tilled. They are being used
for promoting natural growth and for
experimental purpooses.
Mrs. Lucy Big John, native woman,,
about 4& years old, living at Cutoff
Village, on the Koyukuk river,, about
100 miles northeast of Nulato, was
reported as having been, frozen to
death on Big Lake, near her home..
She had broken through, the ice while
snoowshqeing, and had snowshoes on.
when found.
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Charles J. Anderson,.. aged ahiout
76, passed away at Fairbanks a few
days ago from a stroke of paralysis
which he suffered early the same
morning. He never regained con
sciousness after being stricken.
He had made his home in Fair*
banks continuously since 1904 or
1905, and before that time had been,
in both Nome and jJUawaen, having
stampeded to the Klondike n 1898.
Cancer ef the stomach*.from which
he had been* a-sufferer. for a number
of years,r caused the death , at Fair*'
banka secentl yof Jim Duffy, widely
known, oldtimer. of. the. North.
A stage: .driver and teamster since
the Dawson days, JKr. Ducy“. had fol
lowed that business until Ulnesspre
vented him from working any more.
He had been a patient at the hos
pital for about two weeks.
ORDER AND NOTICE OF PRI
MARY ELECTION
To Be Held On Tuesday, April.
29, 1930.
In the Office of tho United States
Commissioner at McGrath, Alaska,
Fourth Judicial Division.
Now on this day pursuant to Chap
ter 311, Session Laws of Alaska, ap
proved May 3, 1919, entitled “An Act
to provide for the holding raL primary
elections in the Territory of Alaska
to. fix the manner and time of hold
ing the same, to prescribe tho qualifi
cations. of candidates to he 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 fox 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 i&
hereby specified.
Said voting precintcs are described
and bounded as follows:
Voting Precinct No. 1—Polling
place, Pioneer Hall, in the town of
Takotna. All the territory from . Big
River to the head of the Kuskokwim
and its tributaries 1 also Nixon River,
known as Voting Precinct No. 3, poll
ing place at Nixon Quartz Mine
Buildings.
place at U. S. Commissioner’s Office,
McGrath. All the territory from Big
River 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
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
sentatiev sfrom 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
Territory of Alaska;
Four Members of the House of j
Representatives of th eTerritory df,
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,
U. 3. Commissioner for the Mt.
McKinley Recording Prerinct,
Fourth Division, Territory- of.
Alaska
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Ail 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
Nonane - 00
Tavern Roadhouse_ 17%
Knight’s Roadhouse_ 28%
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse-58 ..
Diamond Roadhouse_ 76
Roosevelt __89
Lake Minphumiaa_116
Trappers’ Cabin __ 132
Lone Star Roadhouse- 156
TeUda Roadhouse.-. 169%
Slow Fork Roadhouse_187
East Fork Roadhouse ..> 206
Berry’s Landing Roedhouae — 227%
Big River Roadhouse..241
McGrath<___268
Takotna _ 280
Bill Goes’ Roadhouse_291
Ophir_800
McCaFerty_806
Brown Creek shelter cabin-818
First Chance shelter cabin — 846
Schermeyer R. H._860
Iditared_____876
Flat __884
Bonmnzza sbeler cabin, 18 miles
Crooked Creek shelter cabin, 19
miles from Pint-**
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!. Babeesch Moosehide Mitts and Boots
[ Fura Bought and Sold Clothing
All Kinds of Nice Fresh Groceries and Fruiti
Canned Goods of All Kinds Beds and Bedding
A. R. Eldridge - McGrath
TAKOTHA ROADHOUSE
Best of Meals and Rooms
When Everything Is Homelike and
Whore You Are Cordially Welcomed
, GOOD DOG BOUSES BATHS
Ivar Chilstrom - Prop.
Rough and Dressed Lum
ber of All Kinds
INNOKD LUMBER CO.
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