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Entered as second-class matter Febru
ary 1, 1922, at the Post Office at
McGrath, Alaska, under the
Act of March 1879.
McGRATH, ALASKA. JAN. 24, 1922
Govt, to Stock Coast
Islands With Fur
The U. S. Biological Survey has ap
proved the plan of E. P. Walker, chief
of the survey in Alaska, for introducing
fur-bearing animals and game into
Alaska land suited to them, but on
which such animals have never oc
curred or from which they have been
exterminated, according to a state
ment made bv Mr. Walker. Plans
have been made for operation of the
undertaking as rapidly as funds permit,
says the Juneau Empire.
The plans for stocking Alaska land
with animals was presented by Mr.
Walker to Dr E. W. Nelson, chief of
the Biological Survey, at a conference
in Seattle relative to the work of the
service in Alaska.
The plans, as given by Mr. Walker,
contemplate the stocking of certain
lands in Southern Alaska with a rabbit
such climate and conditions, as food for
fur-bearers and man, tbe stocking of
the Prince of Wales group with mar
ten, which never occurred there, and
the restocking of Chmagof and Bara
no ft' islands with beaver, which were
exterminated on those islands many
years past. Mink are to be introduced
on the Kodiak-Afognak group, on
which islands they have never oc
curred. -
There have been requests from Sitka
and elsewhere for tbe stocking of
Kruzol island with elk, and the Cor
dova Game Club has asked that Mon
tague island be stocked with elk.” said
Mr. Walker. “While in Seattle Dr.
Nelson and I made arrangements for
obtaining elk whenever oircumstances
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warrant going ahead with the pro
gram.
“I examined a beaver trap, invented
by an employee of the bureau, which is
successful in catching beaver alive and
which will be a great aid in the stock
ing work. The trap has been patented
by the employee and the patent rights
assigned to the government public
use!”
Mr. Walker was accompanied North
by J. S, Ligon, predatory animal in
spector of the Biological Survey, who
is an expert wolf catcher. Mr. Ligon
was sent North at the request of the
communities south of Frederick Sound,
where wolves are killing far more deer
than are hunters, Mr. Walker said.
The officials were met at Ketchikan
by the Survey boat Sea Otter, from
which point they worked northward,
examining the country for proper loca
tions for beginning the wolf work.
Within fifteen davs after arriving in ;
that district the 41 Wolf Mao,” as lie is j
called, had three wolves, and within ;
another five days he had one more and ;
another had escaped from a defective :
trap. m
“Efforts are being concentrated on
developing trapping rather than poi
soning,” said Mr. Walker. "The lat
ter would probably be more effective,
but t he use of poisoo in Alaska must be
limited to responsible employes for the
sole purpose of wolf control, whereas
the development of trapping would en
able many private individuals to ea
gage in the work, in this way increas
ing the possible number of wolf hunt
ers, furnishing employment to more
people, and at less expense to the gov
ernment. As soon as the most satisfac
tory methods are determined by Mr.
Ligon, he will begin teaching local
trappers.”_'_
The ships we’d like to see Europe
scrap are receiverships.—Washington
Post.
About the only thing the war settled
is a mortgage on the civilized world.— i
Columbia Record.
The question is whether the Turkish
government will terminate or exter
minate.—Manila Bulletin
The monarchists seem to feel that
the war clouds in Europe presage a
reigny day.—Asheville Times.
Calling it a flexible tariff does not
necessarily mean that it isn’t about the
stillest yet.—Manila Bulletin.
When it comes to making an income
tax return, money talks with an im
pediment in its speech.—Columbia !
Record.
European statesmanship seems to be
a ship without a rudder, masts, sails,
propellers or engines.—Greenville
Piedmont.
If you don’t believe there are any
bone-dry sf>ots in America, just buy
some stock in certain oil companies.—
Washington Post.
Nations seem much more dignified
when fighting for the right than when
fighting for what is left1—Associated
Editors (Chicago).
What we would like to see is a real
cure for baldness that can’t get pushed
over ou one ear when you take your
hat off .—Washington Post.
Ambassador Harvey wants the Ten
Commandments rewritten. The next
best thing to that would be to have
them re-read occasionally.—Washing
ton Post.
j^Numberof horsrs in New York has
decreased 75,000 in the past four years.
It sometimes seems as though horse
sense had decreased at about the same
ratio.—New York American.
Bonar Law proceeded to illustrate
his point by telling the story of a High
lander who was lying ill in the last
stages of exhaustion in a hospital, and
asked that some one play for him on
PRESS SQUIBS.
the bagpipes. The nurse had a warm
heart, aud brought a piper into the
room to play bis entrancing music.
The Highland soldier recovered. But
other patients in the hospital all died.
—From a cable dispatch to the Toronto
Mail and Empire.
“Friend,” said (’actus Joe to the
stranger in Crimson Gulch, “you have
held four of a kind three times, a royal
flush twice, an' several ace fulls.’
“Lucky, I call it.”
“You’re luckier than you thiDk. The
boys here is willing to let you go your
wav intact provided you start immedi
ate There won’t be any gun play un
less you linger. The big luck fur you
is the fact that you happened to pick
‘Safety First’ week for your perform
ance at this here card-table.”—Wash
ington Tlveoing'Star.
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