OUR INTERESTS AT
THE NATION’S CAPITAL
(Continued from Page 3.).
callt.es mentioned, until they are
transferred or sold. For the enforce
ment of the provisions of the Alaska
game law the sum of 1703,5G6 was
appropriated. For investigations, ex
periments, demonstrations, and coop
eration in connection, with the pro
duction and utilzatiou of fur-bearing
animals raised for meat and fur, in
United States anc .Alaska, $62,453
•mis appropriated. A further, sum of
5 102,3.16 was designated for biological
investigations, r.-roeriments and dem
•„u =' rations in the establishment, im
pr.r cli ent and increase of the rein—
•i r industiy sn I of rnu»k ox amt
(•‘-..itain she .p in Alaska. For the
can loyment of corest superv. ers,
i Kirs, gua'iis, maintenance of
n.i...'ies, etc, i.s il e. adod'd-ii' ••.;.< r
of n .1 i nal fore-' region.-, Aoi-ka. 'lie
sum of $133,2H4 was appropriated.
The Board of 'toad Commissioners
>>£ Alaska, now operated under the
Department of the. Interior, will have
$494,310 to expend during the cur
rent .fiscal year. For betterments,
operation and jnaintenance, the Wash
ington-Alaska Military Cable and
Telegraph System, operated under
the War Department, will have $161,T
295 available.
For every, expenditure requisite for
and incident to the authorized work
of the Alaska Railroad $450,000 has
been appropriated, in addition to all
amounts received by the railroad
during the fiscal year 1932, but $200,
900 o fsuch fund shall be available
inly for such capital expenditures as
are chargeable to capital account.
For the care and custody of persons
legally adjudged insane in Alaska the
sum of $156,000 has been provided.
The Sanitarium Company, of Port
land, Oregon, or any other contract
ing institution, is not to receive more
than $564 per capita per annum for
the care and maintenance of these in
sane Alaska patients during the pres
ent fiscal year..
Continuation, of the investigation of
the mineral resources of Alaska has
been provided for in an appropriation
of $60,000.
There will be a large supply of seal
skins available to manufacturers of
women’s high-grade coats next year
from the Pribilof Island herd, accord
ing to reports receive din the Alaska
division of the Bureau of Fisheries
covering June sealing operations.
The report stated that 10,000 skns
were taken before July 1. On the
basis of this report the Bureau of
International
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Fisheries estimates that between
50,000 and 00,000 skins will be taken
from the herd this year, as it is in
July that the larger proportion of the
skins is. taken. The Prihilof Islands
seal herd, under the control and pro
tection of the Bureau of Fisheries, is
yielding, a larger “harvest” year by
year. This is said to be the result of
scientific taking of skins so that the
brood stock will not be diminished.
Last year the take was about 50,000
skins. During the period in which the
Bureau of Fisheries has had super
visory powers over the taking of
skins the herd has increased from
about 125,000 to fully 1,127,000.
On the afternoon of July 22 Presi
dent Hoover signed the home loan
bank bill, which applies to Alaska as
well as to the States. The bill will
not come from thd printers for a day
or two, but when it does it will im
mediately be mailed to all the news
paper sof the. Territory. The purpose
of the bill is to establish a series of
discount banks for home mortgages,
performing a function for home own
ers somewhat similar to that per
former! in the commercial field by the
Federal Reserve banks through their
discount faiilities. There are to be
eight, to twelve such banks established
in different parts of the country
with a total capital of $125,000,000, to
be initially subscribed by the Recon
struction Finance Corporaion. Build
ing and loan associations, savings
banks, insurance companies, etc., are
to be eligible for membership in this
system. Member institutions are re
quired to subsmribe for stork of the
home loan banks upon their notes to
be. secured by the collateral of sound
home mortgages. The home loan
banks are in turn to obtain the re
sources required by them through the
issue of debentures and notes. These
notes have back of them the obliga
tion of the members, the mortgages
pledge as securities of such obliga
tions and the capital of the home
loan banks themselves. The deben
tures and notes thus have a triple
security.
It has been officially announced by
the Department of Agriculture that
the open season for hunting wild
ducks and geese has been extended to
two months this year, instead of the
one-month season of last year. In
Alaska the hunting season will be
from September 1 to October 31. On
ducks the daily bag lmit remains at
15 for all species, of which number
not more than five may be eider
ducks and not more than ten of each
or n the aggregate may be canvas
backs, redheads, greater or lesser
scaups, ring-necks, blue-winged: teal,
cinnamon teal, gadwals, or shovellers.
This additional protection has been
given to these species, explained tha
Biological Survey chief because they
did not recover from the effects of
the drought that prevailed for sev
eral years past on their breeding
grounds to the same degree as other
species. The open season on wild
ducks, and geese has been set at two
months for th coming fall, by amend
ments to the Migratory Bird Treaty
Act regulations, adopted by Secretary
Hyde of the Department of Agricul
ture. and approved by the President
(July 20). The lengthened season, it
was explained by Paul G. Redington,
chie fof. the Bureau of Biological
Survey, which administers the Fed
eral game law and the regulations, is
made possible by a general improve
ment observed this year over the dis
astrous. drought conditions of. 1931,
when some species of ducks and geese
were so seriously affected that the
season had to be cut to one .month.
The earliest open season will be in
Alaska, Sept. 1, while in the States
the earliest opening date will bte Oct.
1, and the latest opening date- Oct. 16,'
with the exception of Florida, where
it will be Nov. 20. The new open sea
sons for ducks, geese, brant and coot
are as follows: In Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York
(except Long Island), West Vrgir.ia,
Oh o, Indiana Illinois, Missouri, Kan
sas, Oklahoma, N w Mexico, Arizona,
Idaho, Oregon, and Washington—Oct.
1G to Dec. 15. In Michigan, Wiscon
sin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska,
South Dakota, North Dakota, Mon
tana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and
Nevada—Oct. 1 to Nov. 20. On Long
isiand and in New Jersey, Pennsyl
vania, Delaware, Kentucky, Califor
nia, and in western and northern
Teras—Nov. 1 to Dec. 31. In south
ern and eastern Texas, and in Louisi
ana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennes
see, Alabama, Georgia, South Caro
lina, Virginia, and Maryland—Nov. 16
to Jan. 15. In Florida—Nov. 20 to
Jan. 15. And in Alaska, Sept. 1 to
October 31.
TEACHER LOST IN THE
WOODS FOR FIVE HAYS
Lost in the woods; for five days and
four nights was the harrowing ex
perience of Miss Agnes Schlosser, of
Point Agassiz, recently, according to
the Petersburg Press.
Miss Schlosser taught the school at
Point Agassiz last year and has spent
her vacation there. Planning to walk
to Thomas Bay. one day and return
the next, she fortified herself with a
small handaxe. and some sandwiches
and started out one morning. The
weather was favorable at the start,
but turned rainy during the day, and
meanwhile she lost her way. Her coat
and sandwiches had been put down
in her wanderings and. she was un
able to relocate them- or the blazing
she had done with the axe and was
forced to subsist on blueberries that
she found in quantities. She stayed
in a hollow log that night, getting
some rest and shelter from the rain
and cold.
The next day she traveled all day,
living on berries and water, and a
bear’s den formed a. dry and quite
comfortable shelter that night. The
following day was spent trying to
locate Bear Slough and the night was
spent on a ledge from which she
hoped to be ablet to get her bearings.
Her wanderings were resumed. about
noon on the fourth- day. and late that
afternoon she heard three shots and
decided that a; search party was in
the woods and that her energy must
be conserved so that she might be
heard when they came nearer.
It was not until the fifth day that
Miss Schlosser was found, The party
that had started out that morning
lost the trail, branched out, found it
again and located-her when her reply,
to their shots was heard. Miss Scfilas
ser was. said to be very much ex
hausted and had a momentary col
lapsed- She was carried the; three
miles to Point Agassiz andJ taken to
the Petersburg General Hospital.
MANY OLDTIMEHS WAITING
TO ENTER PIONEER HOME
(Anchorage Times.)
The Home at Sitka for indigent,
aged pioneers is filled to its capacity
at the present time and there is a
waiting list just now of thirty old
timers, according to information re
ceived in Anchorage this week from
the office of Governor George A.
Parks. Admissions will he made, for
the most part, in the order of the
filing of the applications, so there is
the prospect that new applicants will
have a long wait.
The Home has been filled to its
capacity for a number of years, mak
ing it necessary for oldtimers to wait
varying lengths of time to gain ad
mission, except in rare instances, but
never before was the demand for ac
commodations so great as it is at the
present time, which undoubtedly will
give new impetus to the campaign
which is being made by Anchorage
Pioneers to have a new and larger
home erected at some point in the
rail belt, preferably in the immediate
vicinity of Anchorage. An effort will
be made to induce the next Legisla
ture to authorize the construction of
a r.ew -home, using the funds which
o'ready have been set aside for that
m. jo: , and which are ample for
-,e construction of a cosmopolitan
.<: ructure.
There is an oldtimer in Anchorage
from the Bristol Bay district who is
i desperately in need of the hospital■
' facilities of the Sitka Home, but ap
parently there is not a chance to have
hi madmitted there. He was brought
from the westward several months
ago for hospital treatment, and the
cost of earing for him, and for others
similarly situated in various parts of
the Territory, is much greater than
it would be at the Home.
“Hiram,” exclaimed Mrs. Corntos
sel, “that candidate you don’t like is
coming up the road. What shall I
say if he wants to kiss the children?”
“Don’t say anything. Just call ’em
back to the kitchen and give ’em
plenty of bread and butter and co
lasses.”
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TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NENANA AND FLAT
Miles
Nenana _ 00
Tavern Roadhouse . 17%
Knight’s Roadhouse ._. 23%
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse_58
Diamond Roadhouse.'..76
Roosevelt . 89
Lake Minehumwa_U5
Trappers’ Gabin _ 132
Lone Star Roadhouse .— 160
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
Ophir.. 300
McCafferty_ 306
Brown Creek shelter cabin_318
Fritz shelter cabin . 333
First Chance shelter eabin_346
Schermeyer R. H. _ 360
Iditarod_ 376
Flat _ 384
Bonanzza sheler cabin, 12 miles
from Flat.
Crobked Creek shelter cabin, 19
miles from Bonanza.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
Notice is hereby given to F. W.
Carter, A. B. Ferguson, George C.
Friend, and E. Coke Hill, and their
heirs and assigns, that their portions
of the assessment work for the years
1924 to 1931, inclusive, done on the
Bonanza Association placer mining
claim, situated on Flat creek, tribu
tary of Otter creek, in the Otter Re
cording Precinct, Fourth Division,
Territory of Alaska, must be paid
within ninety (90) days from date
hereof, or forfeit all right and title
to said placer mining clasm.
PATRICK SAVAGE.
Dated Flat, Alaska. Jan. 16, 1932.
First publication, March 5, 1932.
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