SUl’T. CARL LUTTSFELDT
TL8 OF WORK DONE FOR
THE KUSKOKWIM REGION
Having: completed a dog team trip
of 980 miles through the Kuskokwim
country from Takotua to Kanatak on
the Alaska peninsula, which occupied
a period of nearly two months, Carl
E. Lottafeidt, superintendent of the
Alaska Ru/iduCommission in the Kus
kckwim country; arrived in Juneau re
cently to- Compile his report for the
Commission. '-Lottafeidt made an in
spection of winter trails ‘and shelter
cabins constructed by the Commission
in the Kurtkokwim. and is the first offi
■'iai to undertake - such it mission in
t.nt'fmsi rh*ee years. He was accom
panied on hn.^-tript by Lars Lndegard.
The chi»*f "work which claimed Mr.
Lottsfeldt’s'attention wos the reloca
tioh of a 8fi-miie winter trail between
Fiat and Holy Cross. He and Inde
gard also placed smile, posts from Te
lida to 'Flat u.■>
Four new- shelter: cabins were con
structed in the Kuskokwim country,
last fall—one - on. the Iditarod-Shag
luk trail, at the Little Yentna river,
the ‘Second at tthe-foothiUs on the Tu
liksak-Bear creek trail, and the third
and fourth An the trail between Apo
kak'station and Quinhagak.
The1 winter trails and the shelter
cabins are all in good shape, Lotts
feidt told the Juneau-Empire.
Lottsfeldt and Indegard left Ta
kotna November 30 last and followed
the regular trail across ' country,
going through Flat and Holy Cross
and do»n- the Yukon river to FPai
mute, across the portage to Kaltshak
on the Kuskokwim river. From that
point the trail goes down the Kusko
kwim river to Bethel, thence along
the coast to Good News Bay, on to
Dillingham, thence to Naknek on the
Alaska peninsula, and on to Ugagjuk, j
up the Ugaguk river to Bacharof lake!
and thence to Kanatak, where connec
tions are matTe with the steamer
Starr for-Seward. They reached Kan
atsk January 17. Christmas day
Lattsieldt and Indegard spent ire' a'
shelter cabin on Indian-river,’between
Good News Bay and Quinhagak.
Their Christmas dinner consisted of'
beans and deer steak. New- Year’s eve
they were “siwashing” it in a. snow
bank on the trail.
The season is one of the best for
trapping red fox that has been known
in years in the Kuskokwim country,
according to Lottsfeldt. Some of the
Indian trappers are catching as much
as' one fox every day. Prices are re
ported to be very good.
A total of 1,500 red fox skins were
shipped on the steamer Starr, at Ka
natak on the trip last month, Lotts
feldt stated, and the entire fur ship
ment made from that point was said:
to aggregate about $50,000.
The country is well filled with fur
buyers, Lottsfeldt said, and a number
comical incidents occur in their work.
Two buyers were said to leave Ka
natak at the same time with dog
teams racing for the same objective,
and one, on discovering that his dog
team was bested by that of his com
petitor, returned to Kanatak, got into
a poker game with a party of men,
including trappers from whom he had j
purchased furs, and won a large sum j
f money, among which was the
amount hi' had paid the trappers for
their furs.
Two other buyers were on the trail
together, it was said, when differences
arose, chiefly, over an axe. One had
w.o axes, while the other had none,|
and the buyer who possessed the nec- j
essary trail implements sold one to
his aompanion for $10, the original j
cost having, been $2.50. A fight among j
.heir dogs finally terminated whatj
. 'ght have: resulted in a similar fray j
etween the two men, according to the
story.
It was said that on another occasion
a fur buyye- who preceded another on
he trail told the Indians as he passed
o g that the man following him was j
a prohibition agent, with the result
that the Indians took to the hills and !
c u..fortunate and unenlightened
. yor l ad difficulty in securing even
. 1 tr fpoH 1*»t filnnp m f»aro*n nf furs.
Lottsfeldt has been superintendent!
in the Kuskokwim country for the
Alaska Road Commission some time,!
and will return this spring to continue
his work. The chief operations com
pleted last summer, he said, were the
completion of a three-mile road be-,
tween Takotna and Ophir and con
struction of. an additional mile and;
one-half to the Little creek road to
the Ophir mining country, serving the
Flume Dredging Company and stveral
smaller operators in the Little creek
district.
ICE CONCRETE” A LATE IN
VENTION FROM FINLAND
“Ice concrete” is the name of a
new, porous and light building ma
terial recently invented in Finland.
This new substance is made of cement
and sand, like any other concrete, but
it differs greatly from ordinary con
crete in that it has been made ex
tremely porous by mixing it with
crushed ice and snow. Then the mois
ture is evaported through heating. By
this process the block or brick is
honeycombed evenly by the tiny
pores. No additional water in com
position is needed, since the water re
quired is formed through the melting
of the ice or snow. The degree of
porousness of this concrete can be ac
curately determined in advance by the
quality of ice or snow used. Conse
quently the weight of the material is
in direct relation to the number and
size of the pores. It is possible to
I
jse as much as from 50 to 80 per cent
if ice or snow in the mixture, thus
producing millions of minute pores
throughout the material- In Finland,
Sweden a::d Denmark numerous I
puddings have been erected, asing ice
concrete.
HEALTH SERVICE WARNS
AGAINST RABBIT FEVER
- i
WASHINGTON.—Warning to the .
public in general against a- serious!
and often fatal disease known as rah -'
bit fever or deer fly fever has been!
issued by Paul G. Redington, chief of
the Biological Survey, and approved
by the public health service.
The disease hrfs" spread so widely j
that a public warning was considered '
advisable. It is a plague like disease'
of rodents, transmissible to human
beings, and of 500 human cases re-!
ported in this country 20 have term!-'
nated in death.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
AH persons having claims against
the estate of Arthur Kijk, deceased,
or against the firm of Lindfors &
Kirk, are hereby required to present
the same, under oath, to the under-!
signed, administrator of the said es
tate, at his residence in the town of
Flat, Alaska, on or before the )lst
Jay of May, 1928.
Dated, latF, Alaska, November 28,
-927.
HARRY DONNELLEY, {
Administrator of the estate
of Arthur Kirk, deceased.
ORDE RAND
NOTICE OF PRIMARY 9LECTION
ro Be Held On Tuesday, April 21,
1928.
In the Office of the United States
Commissioner at McGrath, Alaska,'
Fourth Judicial Division.
Now on this day, pursuant to Chai>
.er 39, Session Laws of Alaska, ap
proved May 3, 1919, entitled “An Act
% "provide for the holding of primary
elections in the Territory of Alaska;
:o fix the manner and time of holding
:he same, to prescribe the qualifiea
;ions of candidates to be nominated at
such elections, and to designate the
nanner of filing and authenticating
their candidacy, and for other pur
poses, and m comormity therewith
It is hereby ordered that for the
purpose of the primary election to be
held on April 24, 1928, all of the terri
tory in the recording district known
as Mt. McKinley Recording District,
jutside of incorporated towns, is
hereby divided into voting precincts,
in each of which a polling place is
hereby specified.
Said voting precincts are described
and bounded as follows:
Polling Place; Precinct No. 1, at U.
S. Commissioner’s Office, Grath, all
the territory from the head of the
Kuskokwim river down to Swift
River, and all of its tributaries, except
Takotna river from the mouth of
Nixon river, to the head, and all its
tributaries, which shall be in Pre- j
cinct No. 2, Polling Place at Pioneer
Hall, Takotna.
Notice is hereby given that a gen-'
eral election will be held on Tuesday,
April 24, 1928, for the purpose of
nominating candidates to the various ]
political parties for the following
offices, to-wit: !
A\ Governor for the Territory of j
Alaska.
A Delegate to the House of Repre-!
sentatives from the Territory of:
Alaska,
An Attorney-General for the Ter*
ritory of Alaska,
One member of the Senate of the
Territory of Alaska,
Four members of the House of Rep
resentatives of the Territory of!
Alaska, j
Two Road Commissioners for Road <
District Number Four;
And for the purpose of electing the
following Officers, to-wit:
A National Committeeman for the
Democratic Party of the Territory of
Alaska,
A National Committeeman for the
Republican Party of the Territory of |
Alaska,
Six Delegates and Alternates to the
Democratic National Convention,
Two Delegates and Alternates to i
the Republican National Convention, i
The said election will be held in the
voting precincts above named and at
the polling places therein specified.
The said polling places will be open
between the hours csf'eight o’clock A.
M. and seven o’clock PP. M. of said;
Dated at McGrath, Alaska March!
19 1Qoa
WIT. VANDTSRPOOL,
U. S. Commissioner for the Mt.
McKinley Recording Precinct, I
Fourth Division, Territory of
Alaska.
The rule in the ■women’s clothing
>usmess today is all the traffic can
>are.—Arkansas Gazette.
In these days * murderer is crazy
f he doesn’t plead insanity.—Arkan
sas Gazette.
Chrislmasa is Over, bat don’t forget that the ofdti<B«r, Bert Eldridge,
has plenty of stock left yet.
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1 Babeesch Moosahide Mitts and Boots
\ Furs Bought and Sold Clothing
l All Kinds of Nice Fresh Groceries and Fruits
i Canned Goods of All Kinds Beds and Bedding
A. R. Bdridge - McGrath
I Larson Roadhouse!
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J Takothals Up-to-Dafe Hostelry i
j New Dog Houses
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| Ivar ChifStrom: - ~ Manager
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| Rough and Dressed Lutn
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