IMUrtb RENEWED IN EFFORT
TO GET GOLD OFF ISLANDER
The Islander, famous gold ship that
went down in Stephens Passage 32
years ago, is again the scene of act
ive salvage work as the Curtis-VViley
Marine Salvage Company with a crew
of thirty men left Wednesday in an
attempt to raise the vessel from the
gea floor, says the Alaska Press of
recent date. Captain Frank Curtis
superintend the work, along with
Captain C. A. Hayes, associated with
previous attempts to raise the Isl
ander. A large barge, two scows, a
powerful steam tug and a gasboat
comprise the floating equipment.
Cable is to be used in an effort
to refloat the Islander. > It will be
beached in Geen Cove, Admiralty
Island. Donkey engines, on scows on
both sides of the wreck, wiil be used
for the ifting. The Griffson, the
barge now over the scene, wil be the
center of the salvage work. The craft
was obtaned from the U. S. Shipping
Board and is said to have comfort
crew quartes aboard.
The equipment used previously by
the Wiley interests will be employed
again, it was said. This consists
largely of diving paraphernalia, but
it is doubtful that a great deal of
diving will be necessary, other than
the placing of the rable and general
observation.
The new outfit reached the scene
of operations Tuesday. The Griffson
and one scow and th esmall gasboat
were towed north by J. C. Browfield,
Seattle, which will be used in the op
erations. The barge was put into po
sition Wednesday.
MATTERN OFF FOR STATES
(Continued fro mPage 1)
place to land safely within giving dis
tance, he came down as best he could
and fetched up with a crash which
put the plane out of action. Fort
unately, Matter nescaped with only
minor lacerations and bruises. His
food gave out after three days, when
he turned to fishing and hunting. Fi
nally he hailed some fishermen, who
took ihm to a point near Anadir,
where the Soviet guards picked him
up and gave him shelter.
Bart Buckley was a Sunday de
parture for a visit at McGrath.
Frank J.Guskey
Notary Public
Takotna, Alaska
FI NDS ALLOWED TO AID
SALM<|N FRY IN ALASKA
I _
As a measure of relief‘to unem
ployed among natives of The Bristol
Bay and Alaska Peninsula area, some
$22,500 will be expended in trout ex
termination on the red salmon spawn
ing grounds this season, it was an
pounced a few days ago by Governor
John W. Troy, says the Juneau Em
pire,
Of th:s sum the Territory furnishes
$7,500 from an appropriation made by
the leeent Alaska Legislature. The
othe $15,000 has been put up by the
Bristol Ba ysalmon packers, the gov
' ernor said.
The field force of the United States
Burea uof Fisheries cooperates with
1 the Territory and the packers in the
work, ooking after the payment of
vouchers, etc.
The funds are disbursed among
, hundreds of individuals in Bristol Bay
' and Alaska Peninsula villages. Trout
tails are used there widely as barter
money and are accepted by the mer
| chants as legal tende. Families use
i them to purchase food and clothing,
j and a few simple luxuries on occa
■ sions, and the kids keep themselves
in all-day suckers and chewing gum
if there is a surplus fro mthe family
treasury.
The trout—Dolly Vardens—are tak
en in great quantities on the spawn
ing beds where they destroy enor
mous numbers of salmon fry as well
I as consuming myriads of eggs. They
, are cured for food foe humans as well
I as for dog food, and the tails dried
! and kept under close watch to be used
as money.
Territorial authorities estimate
that thousands of dollars have been
saved to the indigent and relief funds
in the past few years by the expendi
ture of money for this purpose, and
that material consevatian has been
•effected in the salmon fishery by it.
SPECIAL KIDNAP GUARDS
PUT ON AT WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON.—Concerned over
the many, kidnapings in the United'
States, although no threats have been
received, the secret police have ex
tended a ‘ guard over the President’s
grandchildren, namely, the children
of Mr. and Mrs. James Roosevelt, El
liott Roosevelt, and Ms. Anna Curtis
Dali.
The scarcity of water in the Idit
arod, Flat and other nearby areas has
caused the curtailment of many hy
draulic and other mining operations,
and will reduce to a large extent the
placer output. Many men in the dis
tricts are idle who would be afforded
work if the water were available for
mining purposes.
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Everyone Welcome.
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Mr& John Rieck : Prop.
• BRISTOL BAY ENJOYS
RE<pOR DRI N OF SAM* ON
(Anchorage Tmes)
Not in the memory of the oldest in
habitant has there ever been a larger,
if as large, a run of red salmon in the !
| Bristol Bay area, greatest red sal
i mon section of the world, as there is
today. The run there now is at its
height and somehing tremendous. Ev
ery cannery will have the limit. It
means the 1933 salmon output of
Bristol Bay will bring a return of
millions of dollars.
Such is the good news 'broyght to'
Anchorage by James S. Truitt, At
: orrey General .for Alaska, who ar-*;
ved here last ev .ning by plane, after
hav ng made a tour of a week to all
i the main points in the Bristol Bay
I area. ,
1 was at Naknek, Dillingham, kg
egik, and numerous other places,*’!
sa d Mr. Truitt, “and visited the can
neries and contacted many fishermen,!
j and I never saw such a plentiful lot
of salmon. The canneries :are run
ning to capacity and practically are
swamped with fish. Every cannery
that is operating will put up all that
the law allows. The fishing boats arc
coming in with the limit every day,
and many places I sa wthe red flags
out, indicating the limit catch.
“Fishermen and packers are dated
ed over the big run. .Some of the can
neries have installed fast, new ma
chinery which enables the mto put up
the pack twice as rapidly as before,
four-line, canneries now handling as
much as they did with the old eight
line equipment.
“The Alaska Packers’ cannery, op
posite Naknek, is putting up 8,500
cases a day, and other canneries in
the vicinity are puting up nearly as
many cases daily.
“It is generally conceded there
never was a better run, while many
claim this run is the greatest of all
in that region. \
* I went to the Bristol Bay area to
investigate the labor conditions, and
to see if there is any discrimination
in he way of putting on Outside labor
to the exclusion of native help. 1
found practically all the native or res
ident population who wanted to work
in the canneries or in connection with'
the fishing conditions engaged, and
learned of no violations of existing
laws.”
Fitting Epitaph
Tombstone Dealer (after several
futile suggestions): How woold just
a simple “Gone Home’ do far an in
scription?"
The Widow: "1 guess that will be
all right. It was always the last
place he ever thought of going."—
Wisecracker.
Miss Bezae Boyd left a few days
ago for a visit at McGrath.
When In
Fairbanks
cmSieifSSSB
' Try The
18-Mite
Roadhouse
Mr. oa lbB.Cn.
Matdfler
KATE ROCKWELL TO BECOME
BKI1US OF ALASKA MINER
■VANOOUVER.-^-A seem > romance
['bom onXlhriRtmas. day, 1S100, during
the gold ruAh days in -Dawson,vwibh a
n gintervening absence .' from each
»th*r,'-brings ■Klondike Kat&” Rock
well, noted mueen vef the dance halls
those days. -snd r John .Mattson,
Alrrika miner,. into the limelight to
7 ,$/. JlaUso nis here en'-route from
North to meet JCaij in Bend,*Ore
•*m, where abei'.lhas made char .Ipad
quartefs the last several ryeai*, ; nnd
near where ..hhe -has.. homcster.drd a
ranch. It is undesteod .tr.vy will he
ma ried this •w.ek.
Kate Rockwell >/wnnt.i bo i.the Klon
dike from Spokane, Wash., in thego’d
rush days, -andAwasStheni-av charming
young "woman. While- there ahcv.'as
the dose friend of ..Alexander Pon
tages, later whose king ®f the Pacific
aoast. Fantages is said to'have bean
financed hy.*Kateybef are >he became-'a
success in the show world.. Afterward
he married -on the coast, - and&Kate
has ..txavdled ‘in singledrnarness ever
since. Year4,before Jasst hhe was -a
guest of honor at the. Sourdough tallj£
n Portland and t was known as th<
‘’Sweetheart" qf -the ratty, and .giv<
a big .wehxune. -hy the mayor ..a:
others.
Big Business. f
“We had a. large party.: to^upperf;
last nitfrf.” I
“Business acquaintances?” . .
'"Noj uart the wife ’s-mtktheTi’WTid
Bits (London). ft
A**2
a Kusko Times Subscriber t -
tbe merry throng ?
Phi,Up Smith, ‘ Yuuk.e creek, was *
among yesterday town visitors.
. ArnOlf-dCjelde, Ganes creek, was a
yesterday* arrival foe k brief visit. *
NcrtiE pra< r x:rfd itor s
In the Probate^ Court at Kalskeg, ^
Kuskokw i Precinct, Fourth divi
sion,. 3ii rriterrjrfof Alaska, before
George IcpagnirisJitJhited States Com
.■ missioner; nPid t'jKK-dfficift Probate
Judge.
In! tia>.matter fofhthe. estate bt Ora
Bainhr.rt, deceased.
Notic idierebyginen that the ttn
dcr*. ignedb&adk-fcee it’ n±u ly appointed
"'’mi ' Ftratrr.;.of’ttihe; featate of Ora
BartAdri,:'o£ Sltpiy Point, Kuskokwim ,
I Precinct, aiecended.
All poisons inuring claims against
saidatstafcjTOrseraBuired to present
litiom, ’ duly v veditfVd, with proper
- voi&ters&k&leifcd, t to "tfche under- *
signed, .«afc£McGrhth,! Alaska, within
s j.: (fi) numthsi fram. the. date of this
notice..
Dated. .MdGttofch,A Alaska, July 13,
aasa.
J. I. WILLS,
Administrator. *
First pub. July 15; last Aug. 12 33
Dr.‘C. D. Carter
matM'isT
"'Wini'ifctin(«t^ircGnth wly
■in'the snmrtteBv?after which he
~#ni Tiirit~T»hetaut end Ophir.
” WHHbe-M"Wat'’lbont the mid
^•dte'ef July
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f for .the 1
BudwelseriBeer
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