M cGRATH
Mr. Dunkle well known mining
operator in the Willow Creek district,
arrived here today on his airplane
bound lor Flat,, but owing to severe
snow storms had to lay over until
the following morning. The weather
was still bad so after going as far
.as Takotna, Mr. Dunkle returned '.o
✓ McCra.h and left the next day for
». Anchorage by way of Fairbanks as
the Rainy Pass route was not
leasable.
Mr. Fowler, partner of Mr. Twit
i chell in the reindeer business, has
been held up by storms. Mr. Fow
ler left with a load of freight on
; a Star plane for his camp.
Mrs. Chas. Koenig, who has been
visiting at Nicoli, returned with
. Pilot Winchell a few days ago.
Mrs. Joe Oates who was a recent
visitor from Takotna returned to her
. home by dog team.
Leo Ko.slosky and^ Scotty came in
• this afternoon from Flat on their way
to Anchorage with Pilot Steve Mills.
Pilot Neese is leaving for Takotna
fhis morning to take Chas. Cowan,
who is seriously ill, to Anchorage for
medical treatment.
King.
OFH1R
February 1st.
Cphir seems quiet with the cat
erpillar gone to Ganes and the buzz
saw in the shop. Winter wood is
hauled and sawed so the men have
transferred operations to Ganes,
Always glad to hear the boom of
the mail plane overhead—local mad
yesterday—Harold Strandberg was
a passenger with A1 Munson.
February 2nd.
Mike Caorme, Alfred Johnson,
Evan Jones, Frank McCafferty, John
Staten, Nels Vibe, all in from the
creeks today.
Frank McCafferty spent a day o»
Anvil Creek with Evan Jones.
February 3rd.
Mrs. Louise Livenhagen arrived
from Ophir Creek.
Four years ago a region in Itaty
known as Littoria was an uninha'o
' ited swampland. The government
has since reclaimed it by draining
the marshes and today it is being
farmed with 60,000 families livin"
< on it in modern family homes,
Littoria was received into the Ital
ian empire recently as its ninety
third province.
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Mrs. Fred Padtrssn.
Pilot Wincheli arrived at Iditarod
with Mrs. Charles Yost, Dave Su
andberg and Harold Strandberg as
passengers fom Anchorage. Spend
ing the night here Pilot Winched
continued on to Bethel with the
Srandbergs this a. m.
Mrs. Charles Yost came North on
the Yukon from Seattle, where she
spei.t the last four months visiting
friends.
The Star plane piloted by Littly
had Steve Mil.s manager of the Star
Air Service, Mr. Koslosky, a fur
buyer, ar.d Mr. D. Boyer as pass
engers.
M. Boyer, Teacher in the Govern
ment school at Shagluk, returned
from Anchorage where he has been
for the last two weeks for medical
attention. Mr. Boyer is feeling well
again and left for Shagluk this morn
ing with Pilot Lyttiy. Mr. Boyer
says there are twehy-three pupi s
attending the school at Shagluk.
The Pioneers were hosts to a
large* gathering last Saturday nit..-.
After the meeting the tables weV
spread with good eats, after th it
dancing was in order and all had i
good time.
On Feb. 22nd, the Loyal Order of
Moose will give a Masquerade bab
at the Moose Hall. Some very fine
prizes will be there for the lucky
ones. A fine lunch will be served
at mid-nite and there will be a spot
dance, also a door-prize for the
holder of the lucky ticket. Every
body welcome and a good time is
assured all who attend.
Paul Grotte and St-ury •Stendberg
returned today fom a prospecting
trip over on Michigan Creek.
HIHGEST TIDES IN THE WORLD
IN BAY OF FUNDY.
...According to the United States
Hydrographic Office, the tides in
the Bay of Fundy are the highest
known. The greatest difference be
tween high and low water is in Min
as Basin at Burncoat Head. Under
normal conditions it is 54.5 feet.
It is said that owing to local con
ditions of wind and weather th i
tide of the Bay of Funday has been
known to reach 60 feet. These hign
tides are due largely to the con.
figuration of the bay. As a gener
al rule bays which open directs/
into tile sea and which have narrow
heads exhibit this phenomenon.
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LOCAL
Pete Jensen and Owen Gray arr
ived in town Tuesday from Ganes j
r.d are stil snow-bound and waiting
for fair weather before starting to j
break trail back to the creeks.
John Repo and Happy Jacobson
novshoed in from Ganes Thursday.
According to Happy the going was
asy espec’ .lly with the snowshoes |
that he had. Both men visited Me-:
Grath by plane Friday and were
taken to Ganes by Pilot Goodman of
the McGee.
Mrs. Joe Oates and' nephew,
Chauncey Larson, went to McGrath
with dog team Sunday returning
Wednesday accompanied by Mrs. W.
f. Vanderpool. Due to heavy trail
they were eleven hours making the
eturn trip.
R. E. Lowrie left Saturday morn
in: rMot Goodman enroute to
Am . >m where he will fly t
to fcu to take the Steamer
Northwestern for Seattle. Mr. Low
rie is called out by business and will
•eturn about March 1st.
Mr. H. Dunkle, mining operator jf
Willow Creek and Flat, was storm
bound in Takotna, Wednesday and
returned to McGrath as he was un
abe to make Flat.
Chas. Fowler, prominent reindeer
man of this region, returned Wednes
day from a visit to Anchorage.
It was Mr. Fowler’s first visit to
the coast for several years. He
states that he met several old-timers
whom he had known thirty years
ago on the lower Kuskokwim and
greatly enjoyed talking ’ove> old
times with them.
Paul Keating, Tolstoi, who was
detained in town several days by the
storm left Saturday. for Anchorage
with Pilot Goodman.
SEES DECLINE IN POPULATION
OF U. S. BY 1940
WASHINGTON, D. C.—If present
trends continue, Willard C. Smith
of the census bureau expects the
population of the United States to
readh its peak about 1940 arid then
begin to decline.
Deserted farm houses and decreas
ed enrollment in the lower grades
of scholl were cited today by the
census expert as signs that popu
ation losses were not far away.
In 1933, he said, the number of
persons in the country increased
about 800,000 while an increase >i
1,800,000 was the annual, average
prior to the world war.
Predicting that the 1940 census
probably would show the first de
cline in hundreds of years, Smith
warned that his foreqast~wa« no sure
thing. Present trends may change
at any time, he said. A slight in
crease in marriages due to depres -
ion postponements has been reported'
recently.
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FIAT. ALASKA
PROSPECTOR MAKES RICH FIND
PHOENIX, Ariz.—Chn 'cs Willi
ams, 41-year-old Phoe-: ar vet
eran and amateui pv .or, miss
ing: 85 hours in the ouperstition
mountains, staggered into a camp 9
miles from Apache Junction, carry
ing an estimated pound and one
half of rich “free gold' he .aid li
found in an unnamed canyon.
The “nuggets were identified by
officers and prospectors as “almost
pure gold.” They appeared so rich
k was difficult to accept readily that
they had been found in the state in
which they were shown.
Old-timer: said, however, they
appeared to be “volcanic type" i
old which might contain some silver.
Williams was weak, apparantly
rom hunger, and almost incoherent
when brought to the sheriff’s off’e
by Ed Layton, J. A. Worsham and
Him Potter all of Phoenix, at whose
camp he appeared.
News erf William'^ find spread
rapidy and the sheriff’s office was
thronged with old-ifimers who were
speechless at the sight of the hand
full of nuggets Williams brought
with him.
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BUMBLE BEES FOUND INSiDii
ARCTIC CIRCLE.
The Academy of Natural Scicu
enees of Phi'iJelphb. has made pv. •
lie excerpts from the private log f
one of its museum staff memo .,
Harry J. Lance, Jr., who acc.m..
anied the Carpenter Greenland t •
pedition for the academy by It. - •
M. C.irponter of Willmington, i . -
iware, a member of its boa;d u
trust res.
The party returned recently fr •
the far north aboard Captain •
Isartlett’s sbooner, the Efik
Morrissey, with collection of Aw.,
birds, mammals, fishes and pier.-; .
Three bees, mentioned in t;..
Lance's log, were among the troph'
to attract general atteutiQn at t .e
j academy. They were caught far
j side the Arctic Circle, about '•
miles from' the North Pole. Lure
said they looked like “regular
bumble bees."
Discovery of a spinning wheel, a
bath tub and hot-air heating a’ par
atus in the ancient Roman vil’rg
of Casa Did Mar was reip'nt y an
nounced.
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