f:;ys!cian-m3yor
SiYS kVIL SPIRITS
vJGK HIS ELECTION
i Seattle Tinies t
I . I. H. Rom ip. retired chief sur
ge r: of the Alaska Railroad, was
prit*y sure here that certain evil
spirits had caught up with him at
lusi.
The doctor, 62 years old. white
haired and genial, was elected mayor
of Anchorage Alaska, again, defeat
ing ’he former mayor by a vote of ;
4 • 10 2»0. He'd forgott.-n about, it
K ing election day and when he was
tciid at the Olympic Hotel, he siebed
and said:
“Doggone it. 1 didn’t want to he
mayor.'
“ y friends kept coming around \
and a king m? to run for mayor,” he 1
"I tinaily gave in. But the .
net ay I went over to Horb Brown.,
my opponent, ana told ; m to run j
ny campaign, too. and th.n I goT
cut of town. I came dow n her- r :
to 'k it easy. 1 thought if 1 didn't
do any ranpaigninp I w uldn't get i
elected.
“Tv. been an official of the rall
r . d of the Bureau of Indian Af
fair? r s, methin.tr ever since I can
remen ber," he said. I retired from
th • abroad this year, and my “*.
I r. K. G. R.-.-r.ig. is taking over my
practice. 1 thought I’d just have
so ire *.:n this year and knock
Tiit -loctor sighed.
Eu* what about the evil spirits?
Th- Joct r grinned.
“We:!,' he said. “I've been in Al
as ..a a I'-ng time. I went there in
ISfeG—just a ycung doctor out of
medical school. 1 was 2: years old.
There »vrt only a few white people
in the country—the lnd' -ns and Es
kimos didn't think much cf them.
They baa the idea the wb -t-s were
jus* a few wanderers who had been
focky en-.-ugh to fin: the promised:
l~nd.
Modern Med.cine Man
“I'd been sent north by a mission
aiy society.” he ?aid, “to w«.rk among
the natives. Their medicine men did
n' iike it. Medicine men were pow
erful. The natives thought sickness
caused by evil spirits, and al
rr st everything- was c * tr lied by
e. 1 spirits of some kina. The med
i.ine men acted as inttrait-diaries be
tw en the pe pit and the spirits. If
I e -.pie got sick, the medicine men
would drive away the spirits.
“So I t».ld them I was a medicine
man. : *j. After their medicine men
did their stuff. I’d do mine. I could
d it better than the natives. After
I'd fixed up a man's hand, and ampu
tated ar. arm. and put a dislocated
1- - in "lr.ee. they began to think 1
was pretty good.
Talked Fast For Life
"But an epidemic came along—
measles Erd influenza together—and
a • ..f natives died. They thought
I turned against them and they
v.. te going to get me. I talked for
t- 'o h -urs to a bunch of them before
they relented. I told them another
e ids-mic would be along pretty soon
and they'd need me. They decided
t wait and s -Sure enough in a
c< tple of months, a nice harmless
whoopmg c-ugh epidemic came along.
Ifixed .hem up and they all got well.”
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iOVISES IMINST
sn VPSOINS INTO
FCCCflEWS IRE*
The last thing Alaska wants is a i
taty.r-ede to the Good news Bay re
on. B. D. Stewart, Territorial Corn
. lissioner of Mines declared in Jun
au recently.
The Goodnews area is a treeless
barren, windswept stretch of coast,
and f r men to rush into the region
. sr. 1. ■ ubstake and no equip
'.iert would be to duplicate the ter-.
ibie 'raci- Ts which took place in;
the K; . • and Nome bonanzas..
Stewart believes.
“It - • a tlace for a man with
el." he said. “Almost
1 n- nir.r whether platinum or gold.
r • h dr lls. The remote
v. - Bay alone war
nsidergHe backing before a
h uld start for the country.”
wart pointed ut that the big
r. - have •>dl v e n located since
1 . and hiv * ■ _n w rked every
. jmr •_r -ir thtn. Th» present rush,
h said, *« be? tr < a used not by any
' v strikes. ... by large-scale pro-,
u.-ticn wl ' h is going on at those
air - which :e already being work
ed.
The commissioner viewed with dis
favor any attempts to keep out bona
fide miners from the regb n on the
ground that the best part of the ore
has been staked out.
“T ore are unknown possibilities
in the area surrounding these known
claims.” Stewart sa'd. “It should be
w rth any well-eouipped prospec
tor’s while to investigate them.”
There may not only be gold in
them thar hills — but platinum as
well.
GO! D RUSH BY PLANE
WAU, New Guinea—New Guinea
is convinced it, is ahead of the rest
f the world ;n operatinsr “g-old rush- ‘
• When veld was discovered up
the Screw River, virtually every
prospector made the “rush” by plane
in 30 minutes.
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With the expenditure of S56.0S5 for
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