PNEWS ITEMS FROM OTHER ALASKAN TOWNS j
| • Gathered From Our Territorial Exchanges • j
COMPLETE NEW BOAT—
Dredge builders by the Arctic
Cirde Explorat;rn Company will have
t m- feted a new boat on Candle
Cre- k. The hull is of wood, the
dredge to be powered by electricity.
M r- rnr "0 Eskimo laborers are
working n the dredge building. The
run of sidricm on the Kotaebue has
been poor this jvar. '
MANY ALASKA FLOWERS—
Alaskans might not believe 80 dif
ferent kinds of flowers can be found
sr . wing on Eagle Summit. Edith
Scawman; botanist for a herbarium
liam-ard University, has the evi
dence—every kind she could find
pressed between sheets of fibrous pa
ntr. She has collected more than 400
c!jTer;-:-; kinds f flowering plants in
Alaska. and hopes to find 100 more
before fall. Her collection will be
classified at her herbarium next win
ter.
CASE DISMISSED—
Lillian Davis, of Dawson, appeared
in the police court before Mag
Dinning on a charge of permitting
her premises to be used as a disor
V-rly house. After a plea of not
, uil;y by the ac used, police witnes
ses nt id told f a search of
Miss Dav home early one morning.
>'o • ‘ was presented by the ac
cused. ' i ng ergu-.d by her counsel
-t, v -. ruse to answer. After
r- ?. tnts rf prosecution
.nc un e, the magistrate decided
n favor of Miss Davis,, and dismis
sed thjf action.
TOl'RIST DISGl'STED—
‘.Driver, what makes the glacier
so blue.'” inquired the tourist for
the 19th time recently as a party of
Californians were being- shown Men
denhall glaeier. “Lady, I guess
yon’d be blue too if you were that
cold, responded the weary driver. And
there was the tourist who stood be
fore the glacier for a minute, then
reached in his pocket for a small po
lice whistle. Its shrill blast pierced
the air time after time. Finally the
tourist gave up in disgust. “People
must be crazy. I can’t make a single
piete of ice fall from the glacier by
whistling at it.”
V-, PROSPECTOR dies—
John Cotnm Jenkins, a veteran of
gold rush days and famed as the
prospector who dug a hole so deep he
could not get out of it, died
at; the Pioneers' Home in Sitka. He
first came to Alaska in 1898 going to
Skagway, thence over the trail to
Dawson, where he remained until
1904. He then moved to Fairbanks
where he remained until he entered
the Home at Sitka in 1936. During
h_- years in Alaska he acted as U. S.
Commissioner, Deputy U. S. Marshal,
and held other positions and engaged
m numerous mining ventures. But
the one for which he is remembered,
occurred on the lower Yukon. Jen
ains joined the stampede and was
quick to locate a claim. He set to
work digging and by nightfall he had
a big hole dug. When he failed to
show up at his tent that night, his
friends went out to look for him and
found him stuck at the bottom of
his hole, 11 feet below ground. He
had forgotten to .figure how to get
out.
OLD PAPER—
The Alaska Forum, published at
Rampart, September 27, 1900, to
August 4, 1906, was an 8x10 four
page weekly with W. R. Edwards,
.ditor and J. B. Wingate, manager.
The paper sold for 25 cents a copy.
The- four towns in the Territory with
a population then over 1,000 were:
Nome with 12.486; Skagway 3117,
Juneau 2125, Sitka 1306 and Valdez
1605.
SECOND DRAGLINE GOING IN—
Capacity of the Stuyahok mine op
erated by Vance Hitt will be doubled
next summer when a new dragline is
installed, Mr. Hitt announced recent
ly in Anchorage as he prepared to
return to the mine. Mr. Hitt, with
his partners Ed Dodd and Joe Woitek,
purchased the new dragline while in
Anchorage recently. The mine is al
ready operating one dragline with
success. About 150 tons of freight
end supplies were purchased by Mr.
Hitt to be freighted to the mine this
fail. With the supplies on hand, the
mine will be able to get an early
start next spring.
PROSPECTING PROFITABLE—
Prospecting is more profitable than
gold mining as far as L."McGee is
concerned. “I took out more gold
’e-. year in prospecting than I will
•h's year mining," he said recently
-n Anchorage after returning from
a visit to his property at Hughes
near Utopia Creek, a tributary of the
Koyukuk River. Mr. McGee said work
is being carried forward at the minu
“but I haven’t seen a color yet.” " It
is expected the mine will be on a
producing basis next year. Work this
summer consists of ground sluicing,
six or seven feet off the surface and
digging a diteh two and one-half
miles long from Utopia Creek to the
gold-bearing ground. The dragline
outfit sent north this summer is being
used in digging the ditch.
WORK-CREDIT GOES Ol'T—
A new Rural Development Program
replacing the “Work-Credit Program"
went into effect September 1, in the
Colony at Palmer. At that time, all
transactions between members of the
colony and the management, went on
a cash basis. Exceptions were made,
however, for rental charger on heavy
farm machinery which is used in the
development of the farms. The new
program is designed to insure the
farmer of an adequate cash income
while he is developing his farm. The
individual cash income has been fig
ured to provide feed for a minimum
amount of foundational livestock. All
feed purchases are now on a cash ba
sis. However, the colonists who re
ceived newly hatched chicks between
May 15 and June 1, may receive a
15-day supply of chick feed on credit;
and those who received chicks after
June 1 may receive a 30-day supply.
The management of the project has
urged all members to put up as much
wild hay as possible. It is felt that
it will be practically impossible for
either the colonists or the ARRC to
pay the high prices required for hay
from the States. It was recently an
nounced that the work-credit advance
would be increased from $5 to S6.50
a ton for wild hay put up in the stack.
The limit of $100 for hay advances
has also been removed.
STAR AIR SERVICE
INCORPORATED
It is our intention to serve
those living in the Kusko
kwim as efficiently as pos
sible and to the best of our
ability.
THREE RADIO STATIONS
GOVERNMENT APPROVED! REPAIR STATIONS
LICENSED PILOTS - LICENSED MECHANICS
DOCTOR IS VICTIM—
Offifficials in the Alaska medical di
vision of the Bureau of Indian Af
fairs have become accustomed to re
ceiving telegrams telling of epidem
ics breaking out Among the Indians
in remote sections, but recently they
were surprised to receive a wire from
Dr. Arnold E. Fiborg of Tanana ask
ing for assistance, and stating he
was a victim of scarlet fever, the
only case in the village.
PIONEER FARMER DIES—
Wm. G. Marsh, pioneer farmer
and owner of the Aberdeen ranch on
the Loop road near Matanuska, died
recently following an operation for
appendicitis. Mr. Marsh was bora at
Lawton, Mich., June 21, 1866. Mr.
and Mrs. Marsh wore married March
26, 1887. at Grayling, Michigan, the
family roo.ving to the Pacific Coast
in 1910, making their hone at The
Dalles, and later at Aberdeen, Wash.
In 1915, he was engaged with others
to build the Pioneer cannery at Cor
dova. Later he homesteaded on the
Loop road. Eight children and the
widow survive.
ui5i kilt touKi uisrusw
OF TWO POWER SUITS
VALDEZ—Judge Simon HeUenthal
delivered two opinions here recently
affecting utilities firms in two Third
Division cities. One cleaned the way
for the City of Seward ic build its
own electric power plant, and the
other compelled the town of Cordova
to pay the same rate for lighting its
municipal building as is charged to
residents of the town.
The Seward case involved an at
tempt by the Seward Light and Pow
er Company, a private utilities con
cern, to get a restraining order
against the City of Seward to pre
vent it from constructing a munici
pal power plant.
The Seward Power and Light Plant
based its request for the stop order
on the facts that the new plant pro
posed by Seward would be inadequate
and incapable of supplying the pro
per amount of current for the city
and that it would mean increase of
rates over those charged by them.
They also said Mayor Brownell used
FRESH STOCK
OF FINE
DOG
SALMON
Selling for the present at
12c PER LB.
As we are short of
Storage Room
TAKOTNA
CASH STORE
A. H. TWITCHELL
Proprietor
' fraudulent means in ebtoining the
PWA loan and grant for constructing
j the plant.
The litigation held up the start of
construction work since June when
the firm of Bennett and Taylor of
i Los Angeles was announced the suc
i cessful bidder on the project.
Judge He'Ienthal said the city of
Seward was entirely within its rights
in building the municipal plant and
found the entire procedure regular.
He denied the application for the re
straining order.
The Cordova case grew out of a
disagreement between the town and
its inhabitants with electrical energy
and water. When the city’s new
municipal building’ was completed,
the town claimed power should be
furnished at the rate of five cents a
kilowatt, the same rate as applied to
the fire hall and street lighting sys
tem. Judge Hellenthal ruled it would
be unlawful under the franchise
granted the light company to furnish
electricity to the city hall except the
fire hall, for less than the rate
charged the inhabitants of the town
which is based on a sliding scale, top
bracket of which is 11 cents a kilo
watt.
Remember the Advertiser*
I
Eight P & H Draglines sold in
Alaska this season.
These machines are built es
pecially for dragline purposes
and have many special fea
tures.
Write for particulars.
BARRINGTON & JONES
91 Columbia St, Seattle, Wash!
DISTRIBUTORS FOR ALASKA
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FREIGHT & PASSENGER SERVICE
•
New Heavy Duty Ford V-8 Truck
And A Lighter Ford Truck
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Outfitting Headquarters
Groceries
Other Supplies
OPHIR STORE
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