I Alaska Notes
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A herd .'of '34/ young musk oxen
shipped from Greenland via Norway
at the direction»of the United States
Department o£ - Agriculture, arrived
at New York on September 15 on the
. steamship Bergensfjord. They are on
, their \yay...to. Alaska to replenish their
kind. E. A. Breble, of the Bureau of
^Biological Suryev, and L. J. Palmer,
*. chief .of .the bureau’s reindeer experi
. mental station near Fairbanks, met
«.the ship. After a short quarantine
i the animals will be sent to Fairbanks
1 t»y way.of Seattle and Seward in sare
i of Palmer. The animals will be kept
in a lgrga. .enclosure similar to their
l natural range for -study and breeding.
The company of rangers in charge I
of Chief . Banger Fritz Nyberg came
in to .McKinley Park on September
14 from the search made for Tom
Kinney.:of.Anchorage and Dan Keeler
of the. Kantishna, says a special to
the Fairbanks News-Miner.
They ;first ./found Dan Keeler, who
it will /.be remembered had been laid
up three with an injury to a
knee .while; building a camp fire and
then, due ta heavy snows and swollen
streams, .had. been ten days without
food. The lingers split their provi
sions with, him and he came on on to
the Park..'under his own power.
The rangers continued searching
for Tom Kinney, and on September 3
found his lifeless body, lying straight
-out, face .uns and arms to his sides,
. apparently-having fallen over in a
faint from, starvation. The body had
lain exposed to the torrential rains
and burning sun, and was blackened
and shrunk,’ but otherwise undis
turbed.
Tom Kmney was first missing July
19, and -until death brought relief
from his famishing condition he had
traveled a distance in a straight line
of about eight miles, but over a re
gion eraeiedingly difficult to pass
through. ’ He had made numerous
i camp liiri s; but without an ax, and
had plenty, of blueberries, cranber
ries and currants.
Front; the number of camp fires he
had built (at one of which he had
left his raincoat), and other evidence
found, the rangers believe he lived at
least fifteen days after becoming sep
arated from his partner, Thomas
Black (colored), and may have been
aive twenty days. He was living dur
ing and .'after the time the first lone
rangerrewfint out from the Park head
quarters to search for him.
Kinney apparently had no pencil
with him. for no notes of any kind
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were found. U. S. Commissioner
Irundy, of the Kantishna, acting as
coroner, called a jury, who found
death, due to hunger and starvation.
Burial was made near where the
body was found.
At his last camp ,in a sheltered
grove of willows, he had gathered a
lot of dry wood, which was not all
burned, and had gone back and forth
to the bar on Mud river about 300
yards, where any rescuers who might
pass would be more than likely to dis
cover him. It was on this bar where
the body was found and within six
miles of an unoccupied ranger sta
tion, the park now being patrolled in
summer.
Casey Moran, picturesque early
day Alaska newspaper man, died in
Venezuela a few weeks age. News of
his death was received by his son,
Captain B. H. Moran, skipper of a
bureau of fisheries boat which was
stationed at Kodiak this summer.
For several years Moran had been
publishing an English language paper
in the South American country. He
was one of the best known characters
of the North. He went to Juneau in
1895 and supplied the town with ice
which he obtained from Taku glacier.
He trailed into Dawson, and while
there on the newspapers conceived
the idea of “Noah’s Ark” having had
its setting in the Arctic. This was
ronsidered a rlassih of prartiha im
ayination an dwas widely hopied in
papers and magazines.
From Dawson Casey drifted to
Fairbanks and worked on local papers
there for a number of years. From
there he went to Seattle and gradu
ally worked his way south to Venez
uela via Mexico and Latin America.
A long illness res .. . n the death
a few days ago a; St. Joseph’s hos
pital, Fairbar.i: Me .in R. Sabin.
He passed away quietly just two
wees to the day from the time he had
entered the hospital.
In point of continuous residence
Mr. Sabin was one of Fairbanks’ old
est residents. He had made his home
in that city or in the near vicinity
ever since arriving there, 26 years
ago.
ORDER AND NOTICE OF GEN
ERAL ELECTION
To Be Held On
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1930
In the Office of the United States
Commissioner at Ophir, Alaska,
•Fourth Judicial Division.
Now on this day, pursuant to an
Act of Congress, approved May 7,
1906, entitled “An Act providing for
the Election of a Delegate to the
House of Representatives from the
Territory of Alaska,” and an Act of
Congres sapproved August 1912,
entitled “An Act to Create a Legis
lative Assembly in the Territory of
Alaska, to Confer Legislative Power
Thereon, and for other purposes,” and
in conformity therewith
It is hereby ordered that for the
purpose of the general election to be
held November 4, 1930, all of the ter
ritory in the recording district known
as Innoko Recording District is here
by established as one voting pre
cinct.
The said voting precinct is desig
nated, described and bounded as fol
lows: All of the territory embraced
within the boundary of said record
ing district, to be known as Innoko
Voting Precinct, with polling place al
Erickson’s Roadhouse, 'm thie town oi
Ophir, in said precinct.
Notice is hereby given that a gen
eral election will be held on Tuesday,
November 4, 1930, for the purpose oi
electing the following officer’s, to-wit:
A Delegate to Congress;
A Treasurer for the Territory of
Alaska;
An Auditor for the T Territory of
Alaska;
A Commissioner of Education Xoi
the Territory of Alaska;
A Highway Engineer.’ for the Ter
ritory of Alaska;
On Member Of 'the .Senate of the
Territory of Alaska;
Four Members of the’ House of
Representatives of the Territory of
Aaska;
Two Road Commissioners, for Road
District NoJ 4.
The electiwri will be held in the
voting precinct above named and at
the polling place therein specified.
The .said polling place., will be-open
between the hours of ft o’clock a m.
and 7 o’clock p. m. of^said day.
Dated at Ophdp, Alaska, October ft,
1930.
CHRISTIAN BOLGEN,
U. S; Commissioner for the
Innoko Recording Precinct,
Fourth Division, Territory
of A la ska
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
You, Ralph J. Rivers, Hans Gal- !
neck, co-owners with the undersigned
in the Garnet Lode Claims No. L,
No. 2, iNo. 3 and Noi 4, situated on
the reght limit qf Otter, on Malu
mute Pup, in Otter Recording Pre
cinct, Territory of Alaska, will please
take notice that the undersign ecR for I
the years of 1927, 1928, 1929, did 1
perform more than $1,200.00 worth
of work for the benelt of the above
described claims. If each of ycrur
proportionate share qf assessment
work dues is not paid within ninety
days after last publication of this no
tice, your interest m each of ' the
claims will become forfeit to the
undersigned in accordance with the
provisions of Section 2324 of the Re
vised Statutes of the United States.
RASMUS NIELSEN.
First publication, September 27,
1930. !
Last publication, December 27,
1930. ’ 21
Territory of Alaska—Mount McKin
ley Precinct—ss.
To all persons to whom these pres- ;
ents shall come, greeting:
Know ye that it appearing to W. T.
Vanderpool, United Stated Commis
sioner, that F. C. H. Spencer has died
intestate, leaving at the time of his
death property in -this1 district, the
aforesaid Commissioner has duly ap
pointed Chris Peterson, of Takotna,
Alaska, administrator of the estate
of F. C. H. Spencer, deceased. This,
therefore, authorizes the said Chris
Peterson to administer the estate of
the said F. C. H. Spencer, deceased,
according to law.
In testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand and affixed my offi
cial seal this 12th day-of September,
1930.
W. T. VANDERPOOL,
U. S'. Commissioner and ex
19 Officio Probate Judge.
TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NENANA AN© FLAT
Nenana ..... 00
Tavern Roadhouse ... 17%
Knight’s Roadhouse .:. 23%
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse..< 118 .. ;j
Diamond Roadhouse... 76
Roosevelt _ 89
Lake Minchumina_ 115
Trappers’ Cabin . 182
Lone Star Roadhouse .. 150
Telida Roadhouse ...i. 169%
Slow Fork Roadhouse__ 187
East Fork Roadhouse .i...) 206 /
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse. 227%
Big River Roadhouse..— 241
McGrath ..... 263 •
Takotna ..... 280 .
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse _: 291
Ophir ..800
McCafferty . 1 306
Brown Creek shelter cabin__ 318
Fritz shelter cabin .. SS3
First Chance shelter cabin _ 846
Schermeyer R. H..860
Iditarod...876
Flat . 884
Bonanzza sheler cabin, 12 miles
j from Flat.
Crooked Creek shelter cabin, 19
i miles from Bonanza.
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