ALASKA INTERESTS'.; AT
TH& NATIONAL CAPITAL
• (.Continued from Page 1.)
1 in the Territory of Alaska “for the
» season 1931-32. Reference is made
. to the issued.regulations, which re
. veal that trappers., are allowed only
sixty days in-which, ta-take fox, lynx,
t weasel and. land*, otter, and . that the
.taking of .naarten-jand. beaver is pro
hibited. It. is contended that under
,u these rastrietiensi it- will be impos
_ sible for. profitable-trapping to con
tinue, and particularly when so many
people .are unepxoloyed and who nat
urally turn >toi strapping for the ne
v cessities. of.lif e-. The contention upon
. * the part of* the Biological Survey that
. the region embraced, within the zone
<-■ of the Association, is being depleted
• of heaver is refuted by the Associa
_ .tion aneLthe-fagt pointed to that nat
.. ural. protection is given by many
. large streamsr.lakes and swamps anc
. the wide, area . of their distribution
..It is further.set forth that it might
be. of -Interest to. the .President and
i Dr. -Paul -Reddjngton to know the
type.of .citizen.who turns to the trap
_ line during-the..lcing winters when aL
»„ other, avenes for earning a living are
i closed. - . The ... Association numbers
j.s many, yopng. men, veterans of the
World War., with families, who have
w. created* comfortable, if crude homes
i- at,.distances from 50 to 100 miles
from business settlements. They have
...raised gardens, possess radios, books
^. magazines, and such refinements as
wAheir .meager incomes will allow. The
i .President has referred the matter foi
...the. consideration of the officials o:
•-.the Department of Agriculture.
..The lure of Alaska clings like i
.--halo, about Dr. R. E. Henning. He
K.sas first in the North in 1888, wher
...he worked for the Bureau of Educa.
i ..tion in connection with Governoi
,-Johc Brady. He was later in Alasks
in. 1914, and for some years past has
c resided in Washington. In a few days
_he will start for the West and ex
t, perts to sail from Seattle about the
. 1st. of August for Sitka, where he
. hopes to. get finaly located.
Milton S. Kronheim, Washingtor
U bondman, is exerting every possible
. effort to locate Thomas A. Marquam
•. of airbanks, who has been in and
about this city since the fall of 1927
j* but who disappeared January 19 last
..V ostensibly to go on a few days’ trii
*oto New York. Since that time he
... has. not been seen or heard from ii
any way. When Marquam was an in
«_ dependent candidate for Delegote t<
.Congress in November, 1926, hi
--failed to comply with a law requir
U ing that he file with the Clerk of thi
iLtHouse of Representatives a schedul
vf of his campaign expenditures. H
was placed under arrest for violation
of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act
and brought from Fairbanks. He was
under $5,000 bond, with four men
from his home town as sureties. The
grand jury here indicted him on two
counts and he was placed under $1,
000 bond, with Mr. Kronheim post
ing the amount, and thus releasing
the four sureties from Fairbanks.
One of the counts returned against
Marquam was a misdemeanor, and,
after some delay the District Attor- j
ney agreed that if Marquam would
plead guilty to the count, that would
only result in a fine, the other and
more serious charge would be dis
missed. But the District Attorney
has waited for nearly a year for Mar
uam to appear, get his sentence and
pay his money fine. And Kronheim
is anxious to be released as surety,
and letters to relatives in Portland,
Astoria, New York and the postmas
ter in Fairbanks have failed to bring
any enlightening response.
The Federal Radio Commission has
granted license applications in Alas
ka as follows: Libby, McNeill &
Liby, for Egegik, Libbyville, Nusha
gak, Ekuk, Hoggiung, Lockanok;
Alaska Packers Association, for Pilot
Point, Becharof, Kvichak; North
western Fisheries Company, for
Nushagak; R. P. Farrish, application
reconsidered and granted for Chat
ham cannery.
| Hon. Frederic C. Walcott, U. S.
I Senator from Connecticut, who is
chairman of the special committee
on wild life resources and who is now
touring Alaska, wired Delegate Wick
ersham from Juneau that lie would
be glad to meet with the fur farmers
in the neighborhood of Anchorage
‘ about July 27, and that he would so
inform the Chamber of Congress of
that town, so that the farmers may
be properly notified. Senator Joseph
T. Robinson, of Arkansas, who had
expected to accompany Senator Wal
cott’s party, is now hoping to arrange
his affairs so that he might sail flora
Seattle on July 18 and join the party
at Seward a week later.
The recent Legislature of Alaska
created a commission, composed of
the governor, superintendent of the
Pioneers’ Home, and the Territorial
highway engineer. Their duties will
include submission of plans for the
! erection of a permanent Pioneers’
Home to the next session of the Leg
: islature. They will also determine
i i the proper location of such home and
■ the status of the title to the land on
> \ which such home is to be constructed,
: | and the proper means to acquire title
■ j thereto. The present home at Sitka
> is located on land that belongs to the
i government, and the main building
; j was formerly used as a barracks. An
Revigator Restores Water’s
Lost Element
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THE most important thing in life is health. We cannot con
tinue to live healthfully unless we live with some respect
to the laws of nature. Life is but cellular buildiny and cellu
•^xlar elimination. This lost element of water is Radio-activity,
* which both creates cellular energy and removes cellular poisons.
HttSir Arbuthnot Lane, the great English physician, says “Most
.t<-diseases are directly traceable to bad drainage in the body”—to
’lethe .accumulation of clogging waste matter or poisons at vital
eugnm
FwFor centuries the world has recognized the value of health
-pagaiags, and medical officers now attribut the value of the fam
■' •W-springs to the natural radio-activity of their waters. This
. >.<tadio-acti vity is one of nd^ure’a ways of dissolving and elimin
ating these health-destroying poisons and building healthy cells
i and* tissues.
M It is now possible for everyone, sick or well, to have perpetu
ally,'and at reasonable cost, the splendid benefits of a genuine
radio-active health spring in the home through this invention—
-“THE?. REVIGATOR WATER JAR.
Order one today from any of the following sub-agents: Vic
Ebright, Flat; Tom DeVane, Ruby; Oliver Anderson, McGrath;
Fred Roethliaberger, Ophir; Chris Petersen, Takotna.
inquiry has been made by a member
of the commission as to whether the
Delegate could have a bill, passed by
Congress transferring title to the
Territory, if it was desired to con
struct the new building on the pres
ent site. It is believed that this
could easily be accomplished.
YUKON NATIVES MAY GO
HUNGRY DURING WINTER
(Anchorage Times.)
Unless the natives along, the lower
Yukon river lay away reserve, sup
plies of dog salmon, of which, there
has been an unusually plentiful! sup
ply this summer, these will be some
very hungry families during the com
ing winter, according to Charles Ger
hart, oldtimer of the interior,, .who
was in Anchorage last week on his
way to the Mayo clinic for a consul
tation with the specialists at that in
stitution. Mr- Gerhart is ,an olfl
timer of the interior and for a num
ber of years past has been operating
a trading post at Holy Cross. He has
left his wife in charge during his ah
sence in the States.
Scarcity oof furs and demoralized
market conditions have cut into the
incomes of native trappers to such an
extent that they have .strained their
credit along the lower river to ihe
limit and there is the prospect of a
hard winter ahead unless the natives
take full advantage of the foot! sup
plies which a bountiful nature is pro
viding this summer.
Like their white brothers in the
States and elsewhere in the world,
the Yukon river natives enjoyed a
large measure of prosperity during
the period of abnormally good times,
with furs plentiful and market prices
very high, and it has been a problem
for the mto get back to old standards
of living. They have continued to
buy everything the traders would let
them .have on credit until now they
are so far in debt the traders cannot
continue o iarry them.
Native women want the best they
can get in the way of clothing. They
like silk stockings, high-heeled shoes
and fancy frocks, just like their white
sisters, and it is going to be a prob
lem for them to get back to heavy
duty and low-priced wearables. Dress,
with many of them, comes ahead of
food, and there is not much planning
ahead for the lean, cold days of win
ter.
Aud the men are not much better
planners than their women. Almost
every native along the river thinks he
must own a gasboat, and some of
them have two boats to do the work
that used to be done with a canoe or
skiff and a pair of oars or pole. Pol
ing is almost a lost art these days,
and will «.o if i.ue to bo so '.'ng as the
native can continue .to get money -or
credit for gasoline.
The coming winter would not pre :
sent any difficulties if the natives
could be made to realize the import
ance of putting away some of the fish
which they have caught along the
river this summer. But by the time
TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NENANA AND FLAT
Miles
Nenana . 00
Tavern Roadhouse - 1744
Knight's Roadhouse _ 23%
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse_68
Diamond Roadhouse..76
Roosevelt _ 89
Lake Minchumina ....116
Trappers’ Cabin .— 132
Lone Star Roadhouse__- 168
Telida Roadhouse .. 169%
Slow Fork Roadhouse.. 187
■East Fork Roadhouse . ) 206
Berry's Landing Roadhouse. 227%
Big River Roadhouse__241
McGrath ....263
Takotna ....280
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse -- 291
2ph» .... 300
cCalferty--806
Brown Creek shelter cabin_316
Fritz shelter cabin -- 338
First Chance shelter cabin-346
Scfaermeyer R. H--360
Iditarod..876
Flat...384
Bonanxsa sheler cabin, 12 miles
from Flat.
Crooked Creek shelter cabin, 19
I: miles from Bonanza.
winter comes most of the caches will
be empty and the natives will be back
at the trading posts trying to get
credit for an outfit of fancy provi
sions. They will n>t have any money
and the fur they can catch during the
coming trapping season will not pay
up the old bills, left from last winter
: and the winter before.
HERE AND THERE.
The astronomer Schiaparelli ,is
1877. first told the world of the sys
tem of "catfal;:”, on the planet Mars.
Maine is the only state in the
j Union that adjoins only one other
.state. It is. cut. o entireffly from the
rest of the Union by New Hamp
shire.
f'i The. Bank of England has its own'
churchyard adjoining, where many of
the officials, have been buried.
QL the 36,000,000 telephone users
the world more .than half are in
North America,
Most. .Important
1 i> Uovesicfen&Kain—* n . ju ook?
' Grl—w, siunt- <a George.
Let’sJtakis-these- questions in their
proper .order.' : Thei matter of. eooking
is ol secondary importance.
Eoy-b-Ohl What is first?
Girhr-Uan you <pW>vide.ithe things
to ben-cooked 7
tfNOTIOE'W APPOINTMENT.
Estate of jJpaeph Lewis, deceased.
Mattie Crosby has 'been appointed
and qualified as. administratrix of the
estate of Joseph Lewis, late crf- Kus
kokv. im. Precinct, Fourth Division,
Territory of Alaska,, deceased.
iDaced .at Napaj»utft,thij Sth^day of
June,. A. D.1912.
GEO. Wt HOFFMAN,
Probate Judge .of -said Precinct.
1st pub. June-27; last, July 25.
Wearing Experience,
A man accompanied by his wife
visited a tailor to pick out a suit. The
wife disagreed with his selection.
“Oh, well,” she said after a lengthy
argument, “please yourself. I sup
pose you are the one who will wear
the clothes.”
“Well,” observed the husband,
meekly, “I didn’t suppose you’d want
to wear the coat and vest.”—Tit-Bits,
Talk Is Cheap.
“Your wife is talking of going to
France this summer. Have you any
objections?”
“No. certainly not. Let her talk.”
—Passing Show.
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