NEWS ITEMS FROM OTHER ALASKAN TOWNS !
• Gathered From Our Territorial Exchanges •
W. H. Edwards Dies in Anchorage—
William H. Ewards. 81 years old
succumbed recently in Anchorage t<
a stroke of apoplexy. He came U
Alaska in 1£<©0. He had mined ai
Council, Qm Vie Seward Peninsula. H«
had lived-in Anchorage since 191S
Mr. Edwards is survived by his wid
ow who lives in Anchorage, and bj
two daughters and a son who reside
in the States.
Cotter Wins Liar Title—
With a story about alphabet soup
that had tv be translated to be eaten.
Pat Cotter, former Alaskan and now
business manager of the Alaska
Weekly, which is published in Seattle
won the title of “the Biggest Liar
That Ever Came Out of the North,"
at the banquet recently in Seattle of
the Daughters of Alaska and Yukon."
Two hundred attended the banquet
Gwodpaster Property InrorpwaiHi—
Articles of incorporation were filed
by the American Smelting & Refin
ing Company with the Territorial
auditor, naming R. H. Geohegan of
Fairbanks as Alaska agent, and
placing capital stock at $72,400,000.
Filing fee and tax for the company
was ?S5o. 'ne of the largest fees
paid in the Territf ry. The company,
which'owns the Tacoma smelter, has
acquired a large block of lode claims
in the. Go^dpaster country, near Fair
banks.
Fneriag Man Suicides—
United s(fct.es Commissioner Harry
Creep of Circie Hoi Springs, tele
graphed Fairbanks recently that Pe
ter Blooms, a trapper, wag found
dead with a rabbit sna. ti puded tight
around, tu- m ck- I hath was evident
ly from suicide .Greep said, after
Blooms* broke through the tee cross
ing a creek and started to freeze U
death. Be said the number eight;
wire was so placed around his neck
that when Pis logs started up he was
strangled.
■‘Baddy” Shaw Passes—
Noble Shaw, .better known a.- i»ac
dji Shaw, died in Los Angel's just
before Ch’TS-rrj« at the ad vs.' red age
of *2 years. He was know: a.* the
man with a “million do'iar smile.”
For many years ne < wnei f od ,*t
itgd the Shaw Hotel at 1 a.roat.ii*
and also did considerable mining in
the Territory. He was in xceiient
bea.ih right un ta the .aat. ac -ord.r.g
to Mrs. Anna V. H .rner wht saw
him frequently. His death was due
to, a sudden hearc attack
Establishes Viriine at St» aro—
Pilot John Littley recently an
B<juneed i he establishment of the.
Seward Airways, at Seward, Alaska,
proposing to serve the Kenai Penin
sula and vicinity with three planes..
He took off last week to fly a !aad •
of, 1,009 pounds of rtce, milt;
tobacco and shortening- to Xinilchik
village on tb*- Eenai Peninsula. which
is reported suffering fr-rrr, a food
shortage' on account of the recent
-act of transportation and- iacx- of-,
reads.
APother Colofiist Family Leaving—
Guilford Lemmon, of Hoochichine"
Canny. Minnesota, filed aptijcatioc
last week to withdraw from the Mat
amska colony. Mr. Lemmon sai
forth that he was a mechanic anc
n/g a farmei asd would return to
work in his line in toe States. Mr.
arjd Mrs. Lemmon came to Palmer
with the dm group of colonists from
Minnesota. They were married short
ly Before leaving the States and wen
known among the new Alaskan farm
ers as the “Colonist honeymooners.”
I' hen the Lemmons return to the
-States, there will be three travelers
-Had of two. A baby was bohn last
March 13. George Lemmon, a brotb
*■*. left the colo.iy last June 10 and
••fin, retp.-ned to the States.
Ask? for Large Appropriation—
j Senator Elmer Thomas - of Okla- I
from a. asked congress recently to ap-:
prbpriate $2JKK>,000 for the secretary!
of the interior to buy reindeer;
slaughterhouses and other equipment
* necessary to operate the Alaska rein
deer industry under the control of
the federal government or through
cooperative associations. Participa-;
tion in the benefits would be limited j
1 to Eskimos. Indians and Aleuts. The j
bD] is a companion measure to one '
by Delegate Dimar.d callirg for a
similar appropriation to “rive the;
reindeer back to the Eskimos" whi.h.:
was introduced yesterday.
*Cat Driver Dies in Plunge—
Stanley B. Caster, 2S years Id.'
i met sudden death in the icy waters
: of the Chatanika dredge pond when •
| the big tractor he was driving, drop
; ped through the ice at 1:30 in the
morning. Thurman R. Curtis, exper
ienced diver, went down in a diving
j suit in an attempt to recover the
: body which was trapped in the top
: 2nd side curtains of the tractor.
, Luckily Casters swapper, Ted Wil
liam*, was on the deck of the dredge
j when the tragedy occurred. Hearing
a crash, he turned to look but only
j saw a water hole where the "fid
I had been.
J Goodpaster Gets Freight by Plane—
Heavy machinery and camp sup
. plies totaling 37.051 pounds in weight
; have been flown to the G<-odpaster
' this winter by Wien Alaska Airlines.
The landing field is three -mil- * north
east of 'he American Smelt'ng Co '
Blue Lead Extension Vein. It is a
one-way field, on the sloping tundra,
now covered with five- or six feet of
soow. The field is so- steep, aceord
ir.gw Pilot Herman Le.-dahl of W.
A.A., that a plane eonnot taxi up the
landing. The altitude is > "d*® feet
above sea level, above timberline on
the side of 9 mountain. Most of the
machinery, such as. compressor, mine
car and steel rails, have been flown
Wer during January and February.
S c.- of the pieces weighed as much
as 1 JjOQ pounds each; .
Wants Natives to Own Reindeer-*
Ownership of all ’•eindeer in Alaska
should be vested in natives, aeccrd
:ng to the terms of a bill iatrooceed r
in tte House recently by Delegate
Dimood. The measure proposes - an
appropriation of $2. to pur
chase the herds now-owned by white
citiz-mj of tbe United States and by
those Laplanders who are connected
whr reindeer, industry in the Terri-’
tory. “White men never should have
been permitted to have the reindeer,'
the d^dejrate dec lard. From the be- j
ginning of ownership by white mer. ‘
there has been constant conflict be
tween them -and native owners of.
reindeer. Ey giving the natives ex
clusive owners nip, peace wiH be re
st red. and i natives will be ren
dered largely dependent.
Rendeer Arrive in Time—
To relieve faai d a -threatened na
tive* along the Arctic eoast cP Al-'
arfca, -1.0’ 0 reindeer vrere success
fully driven for a distance af approx
imately S50 miles from Point Bar
row eastward to Barter Island, ac
cording to reports received recently
from Point Barrow ' y the Bureau of
Indian Affairs office in Juneau. The
dr,vers report losing ohiy 17 deer
on the long drive. They reported
dir- conditions among the natives on
the Arctic rim. No fur has been taken
only a few seals have been killed and
the caribou meat, o&tained last fail,
is exhausted. There is no ammuni
tion. The crivers de lated, however,
that tbe reindeer arrived r. time to
avert starvation. Frank Daugherty,
Indian Bureau teacher at Point Bar
row, reported to the - -ureac’s offices
in Juneau that the {"Tire fox catch
totals fewer than 100 skins.
Dr. URof Plus Wolf Rant—
Dr. Bart LaRue, .flying dentist, is
in Uwn again, and looking around
for a gatling gun with which to slay
the wolves he sees in his travels, ac
cording to the Fairbanks News-Miner.
Doctos LaRue has reported many in
stances of the predator}- packs sur
rounding moose and caribou in this
winter's deep snow. He is much in
terested in Archie Ferguson’s success
with shotgun and plane in wolf erad
ication. Piloted by Norris Johnson,
Doctor LaRue will leave Fairbanks
soon for the mouth of the Yukon,
stopping eBroute to treat patients at
-viouatain ViiV»ge and Marshall.
Near Victim of Mad Moose—
C. J. Lincke, veteran Alaskan of
. '.-per Creek on the Kenai Peninsula,
t.ar Seward, was saved from injury
and possible death by a pet cow
Moose recently. Lincke said a large
moose purused him. near his home
nod that only by the. .timely interfer
ice of his pet was he able to take
uge in his root ceHar. Apparent
. believing be was going to get her
-:er daily tidbit, the cow mc»o9e ran
-.twee® Jack and the wild bull,
ocking the animal until Lincke -
aid get into the root cellar. Later
emerged and killed the moose with
his rifle. Lincke said he believed it
was the same one that attacks Jack
Lean, a trifle, on his dog sled rf«*
days ago.
l>redges Will .Start March 25—
Plans are completed for carrying
on the big -operations of the Uniteo
States Smelting and Retiring Com*
pany in the Fairbanks area, said Roy
B. Earling. general manager of the
company, according to recent dis
j patches from the north. Mr. Earling
' returned to Fairbanks recently from
a visit of several months to the home
office of his company at Boston and
other scenes of the c: mpaiy’s <cttv
itieS. A normal employment will he
afforded if no downward circum
stances develop, and the company
plans to have its present fleet of
five dredges all in operation by
March 25. This will include the
aredge which has been moved frbm
Cldary to Ester this winter, and is
now well along ir the new setup at
Ester. The other four dredges Will
coatinue work on Cleary^and Gold
stream where they tdft off last fall.
Men will start the spring overhaul of
the Cleary and Goldstreafn dredges
about the- middle of March. Fifty
men are now engaged rebuilding the,
dredge at. Ester, and will have the
greater part of the work completed
by April 1. says Mr. Earling. Thaw
ing and stripping operations will be
gin after the dredges are under way.
and will include the continued work
on the large area at .Cripple Creek.
Death Recalls Early Days—
Another pioneer Alaskan, resident
; of the Territory many years before
the gold rush, went his way along
the Last Trail last week in Anchor
age. He was Richard J. McArthur,
intftnate friend of the. famous nov
elist, Rex Beach. Among the mourn
ers at the services was Mrs. M. J.
Cronin, perhaps one of the few per
sons a! we in Alaska today who lived
in Circle City at the time Mr. Mc
Arthur did, which was before Daw
sor. became a roaring gold camp.
Standing close to the casket, Mrs.
Cronin was photographed because of
the historical connection of her past
life with that of Mr. McArthur. “1
was iust a young girl in Circle City,
then," Mrs. Cronin recalled. At tSat
ti.-.w Circle City was a community
of about 200 men and less than a
down white women. She lived -with
her two brothers -and the wife of one
of the miners of the town. “Dick,
as Mf. McArthur was known, was a
fine big man," Mrs. Cronin said,
“who always was a man of import
ance in the town and had lots of
influence." She recalled his close
friendship with Rex Beach, who, she
said, lived, in Ctrcie City at that
time and later went to Dawson, as
did McArthur. "Rex Beach was al
ways bothering us'for material for
his writing." Mrs. Cronin said. “We
never thought anything about it un
til his books were published years
later."
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