Gen. Nobile
Is Rescued
HIT HIS 5 COMPANIONS STILL
REMAIN AIAROONEI) ON
ARCTIC ICE.
ROME, June 26.—General Umber
ton Nobile, east away on the Arctic
ice since May 25, was rescued Satur
day by Captain Tom Berg, in the
Swedish plane Upland. His five
'companions are still marooned on the
Hce.
Nobile has a crshed leg. He was
’placed aboard the base hospital ship
*Citti di Milano Natale Ceecioni. The
'motorship Italia was also rescued.
iDirigible Italia Caught Fire in Fall.
ROME, June 27.—In the opinion of
‘General Nobile, the dirigible Italia
vaught fire in falling, after which one
>of the gondolas was torn off the air
■ship, says an official communique is
sued by the Italian government.
ROME, June 28.—General Nobile
'will return by air to direct the
■ search for the icebound crew of the
Italia.
•CORPORAL ASKS DISCHARGE
SO HE CAN SPENNI) S 10(1,000
SEATTLE.—Corporal Edward L.
'Nelson, stationed in China with
United States marines, has nineteen
’months of his enlistment period re
maining, but wants to get into mufti
:and back to the ‘States right away.
Corporal Nelson, youngest son of
(the late N\ B. Nelson, Seattle mer
chant, will Begin receiving an income
<of $100,000 a year in July, on his 21st
ibirthday, as stipulated in the will of
Ibis father.
Nelson’s brother, F. Creigh Nelson,
Ihas gone to Shanghai in an effort to
persuade Brigadier General Smedley
Butle to recommend the young man's
-immediate disrharge.
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UNITED STATES ONCE HELD
MILLION INDIANS, SAY ETH
NOLOGISTS, TRACING DECLINE
WASHINGTON.—The white man’s
diseases, his unfamiliar forms of dis
sipation and his firearms were the
principal causes of the decline of the.
Indian race on the American conti
nent north of Mexico.
This is the burden of the first com
prehensive scientific study of the ab
original population of America, un
dertaken almost a quarter of a cen- .
tury ago by the late James Mooney
for the Bureau of American Ethnol
ogy and just published by the Smith
sonian Institute, as compiled from his
manuscripts, notes and tables by
James R. Swanson, of the Bureau. |
From an estimated population of
1,153,000 before the white man came,
Mr. Mooney’s tables disclose, the ab
origines had dwindled by 1907 to
406,000. Many trtbes had passed out
existence, others had dropped off to a j
handful of survivors, and still others
had been absorbed by more powerful
tribes and confederations. Relatively
lew showed a numerical increase, and
in almost every instance that was at
tributed to the intermixture of white
or negro blood and the absorption of
smaller or inadequatelf armed neigh
bors.
Slave raids, intertribal wars, hope
less resistance against the newcomers,
confinement in missions, the white
man’s progress, added to the .ravages i
of his vices and diseases, of which
smallpox was the most destructive, in
the process of bringing down the red 1
man, Mr. Mooney found. Discussing
the fate of the numerous tribes in the
Gulf States region, he told how, in j
the period between 1690 and 1720,
which embraced a great smallpox epi
demic, “slave raids organized by the
English of Carolina were very de
structive of Indian life, the jChicka
saws and Creeks, armed with guns
furnished for the purpose, being the
principal agents in the destruction.”]
In California he found the causes ]
of decrease to include widely preva- i
lent infanticide among the Mission j
Indians from 1769 to 1834 and “whole- i
sale massacres, clearances, and rob
beries of food stores by American
miners and settlers from 1849 to the
clos eof the Modoc war in 1873, to
gether with the general demoraliza
tion consequent upon association of
the two races.”
Within 20 years after the Russians
settled in Alaska the Aleuts had
been reduced at least one-half, he
esetimated, and the number continued
to decline until the Russian govern
ment interfered for their protection,
shortly before 1800,
SEEKING MEANS OF AS
SISTING MINING INDUSTRY
WASHINGTON. —With depletion
of mineral resources going on at a
rapid rate, “geologic research with a
new purpose and perhaps with new
methods” is demanded, Dr. George
Otis Smith, director of the United
States Geological Survey, believes.
Federal agencies, however, are un
able at present, he feels, to provide
an adequate national program of geo
logic work specially planned to aid
mining. Laying the situation before
the mines and mining committee of
Frank J, Guskey
Notary Public
McGrath, Alaska
the Senate, he pointed out that, while
the volume of mineral output had in
creased 40 per cent since 1919, Fed
eral funds for geologic work had been
reduced. The 1919 appropriations
amounted to less than one one-hun
dredth of one per cent of the value
of the year’s production.
“It is the ever mounting curve of
mineral production,” said Dr. Smith,
“that I interpret as peculiarly ex
pressive of increments in civilization.
The contrast between mining and
agriculture is significant in two re
spects. In the vrst place, with refer
ence to demand, one generation re
quires about as much food per capita
as another, but its requirements in
the stuff that civilization feeds on—
metals, fuels and building materials—
change with every discovery and in
vention. In the second place, with
reference to supply, mining is a pro
cess of depletion, whereas agriculture
harvests annual crops.
“There are two and only two ways
of adding to the country’s available
mineral assets—by getting a larger
recovery from known deposits and by
finding new deposits. To keep up the
pace already set by the demands of
civilization today—not to mention the
demands of tomorrow—we oneed t
apply to our task more and better '
technology and more and better ge- j
ology.”
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FORFEITURE NOTICE.
To H. W. Strangman, Jack Lamont,
James McHugh, J. N. Anderson,
E. Coke Hill, and all persons
claiming by, through or under
them, or any of them, and their
heirs, executors, assigns and suc
cessors in interest, greeting:
You and each of you are hereby
notified: That during each of the
following annual labor years, to-wit:
the years ending July 1st, 15)22, 1923,
1924, 1925, 1926 and 1927, the under
signed put one hundred dollars
($100.00) worth of work and improve
ments on the certain placer mining;
claim on Long Creek, in the Nulato
Recording District, Territory of
Alaska, known as Buckeye Associa
tion.
That all of said work and improve
ments were required by law and were
put upon said claim in compliance
therewith in order to hold the same
for each said year and thereafter;
That during each said year and at
all times thereafter the undersigned
was and is a co-owner of each said
claim, and if within ninety (90) days
after the ninety (90) day publication
hereof, to-wit: ninety days after the
28th day of April, 1928, you and each
of you do not contribute to the under
signed your proportion of said ex
penditure for each said claim for
each said year, your interest in said
claim will become the property of the
undersigned.
That the sum each of you should
contribute for each said claim for
each said years bears the same rela
tion to one hundred dollars ($100.00)
as your undivided interest in each
said claim bore to the entire interest
in said claim, during each said year.
ELLA A. CRANE,
Ruby, Alaska.
First publication, April 28, 192S;
last publication, Aug. 4, 15)28.
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