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4 Alaska Notes
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Several cases of reindeer meat were
arVned recently by the Alaska Rail
rodd cannery car, in continuing ex
periments to learn more about the 1
.•artning of. reindeer as a commercial
enterprise. Offlbiak of ti.« railroad
who hare eaten the canned meat say
that it has «a fine flavor and tastes
somewhat like weal. As the meat is
codked in the can, none of the, mois
ture. which contains the flavor, of the
meat., escapes in cooking. Mpre of
the meat will he‘canned and half a
dolen eases'will be shipped to Seattle,
where it will probably • be used at a
Chamber of Commerce dinner or car
ried on the menus of one of the prin
ciftal hotels. By. workingup interest •
iTwtfc.is.way, Dewey Metzdorf, general
storekeeper, believes that capital may
become interested-, in putting a can
nery ih operation for the canning of
reihdeer.
Whethew plarrii igairare sub-jact > to j
epidemic or not, reports from the In- i
tenor indicate that these birds are
m&ee scarce this year than for maty
years. In some sections the presence
of'havks and eagles is given as the
•afise of th* decimation of the pros
pector’s friend. Some observers lean
Mutton
! PICKLED TONGUE
PIGS* FEET
i BOLOGNA SAUSAGE
In Variety
PORK SAUSAGE
HEAD' CHEESE
;o the epidemic theory, through hav
ing found the birds unfit for food late
n the spring, having been made ill
ifter eating them. A marked scarcity
)f spruce hens (Franklin grouse), is
ilso reported.
Five years of hard work and the
imployment of practical methods
lave ^brought a fdir measure of sue
:ess to Bert Olson, and O. Ottoman,
vho are engaged in raising mink and
lilver black foxes at fekoir Lake Cas
vell fo» farm, four miles east of the
'itsjwell Stationi.om the Alaska Rail
•o.id! The enterprise was- started in
.021 with some tvilcl mink that -.were
rapped in that section, and the-’fol
owing year foxes-were-rstocked. To
iay there are 35 sKVer black foxes
ind 113 mink on tbe*f«rm, and,'in ad
iition, the taro partners have disposed
>t breeding stock valued at $900,
Leonard Scppala, noted Nome dog
nusher'; arrived in Seattle recently
vith 52 nialamutes, on his way to Cali
fornia for the .’movies. He is to enter
;he Canadian -and United States dug
races during the winter. .
The Norwegian .whalers Retina, An
fidyr, Diomede, Behring and Elcano,
with the motor ship Commanderon,
Captain Paij.st commanding, left Dutch
EiarbOr recently, en route* to,-Seattle,
with' 11,000" barrel 6i oil. The vessels
took 285 whales duiung the .season ail
Kamchatka.
A most successful' Reason- was
brought to a close whejuthe. Port Hob
son whaling station, shut down late in
November. A total, of 242 humpback
and 1 right whale was taken during
the season, which commenced on J4il>
18, with two whalers, and- on Octobei
5. these. were; joined^ by1 four othei
boats from the Akuhan fleet. At.Aku
tan 339 whales were caught,. which
number was slightly, under last sea?
son’s catch.*.
The Circuit Court of Appeals.* has
affirmed the verdict of the . Districi
Court in'- the Charles Hoxie case
Hoxie was convicted otcbrrapir jng- t*
commit a crime against the United
States- and was sentence# to twc
years’ imprisonment and to pay: a fine
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of $4,000, The case involved alleged
violation of the National Prohibition
At and attracted wide attention.
The Chandlar mining district is
now in communication with' the out
‘side world, the radio station installed
there, and known as Little Squaw, |
having started to function a few days
ago.
Richard Howe,, pioneer merchant of.
the Ruby camp, hut for some- years
located at Poorman, died at the . latter
place some weeks ago.
The mining short course .urtfcsfetf by
the A-iaska College, is attracting much
favorable attention. In a recent mai*
the college received a letter from two
men in British Columbia, in which
they stated they were sailing on the
Alameda and expected to reach Fair
banks .in time to enroll for the .first
short course. Two'.prospectors .from
the Ketchikan district arrived in Fair
banksxrecently,.having come north for
the express purpose of’ taking this
training for prospectors.
J. F. Bowman, a carpenter, aged 53,
employed at .the Big Missouri mine,
near Hyder, died suddenly recently.
He had taken 27 grains of quinine to.
break up a cold. And this is said to
have been the cause of hia death.. He
was from Newberg, Ore.„.where .his
mother resides.
The first carload of ore shipped this
i year by the Porter-Idaho mine, in; the
| Hyder district, yielded thei handsome
I sum of $10,064.50. As the carload
was slightly under weight,, being a
• trifle under 38 tons, this means an
average of $283 per ton gross. Al
lowing $16 per ton freight and smel
ter charges, the net return _on< each
ton of the shipment amounted to
$265.30, according to the smelter
statement.
ALIEN.PROPERTY GRAFTING,
u IS CAUSE OF NEW-SCANDAL
NEW, YORK.—The Washington
correspondent of the New .. York |
World,.is authority for the. statement'
that Comptroller General McCarl, who |
hias just completed an investigation
of the affairs of the -alien property
administration, has submitted a.: spe
cial report to President Coolidgp, ini
i which there are revealed many irreg- i
! ularities in the handling of the alien
i property seized during the war, val
| ued at half a billion dollars.
The Washington dispatch to the
j World says the transcript of the Mc
| Carl report shows that “excessive
I amounts," aggregating millions of i
dollars, were paid to attorneys, and
j that corporations, supposed to be
; liquidates, were permitted to con- j
tinue .for years for the benefit of
their officers and attorneys* .-Salaried
government employes were paid ad
ditional amounts from trust funds.
The Congressional limitation on ex-1
penses was disregarded. Funds were,
3>ft in the,possession of certain per-'
i sons for several years without at- j
i tempt to collect.
| “Trust funds, and interest were |
jj withdrawn from the treasury, which'
'j paid more than four per cent, and de- j
posited in banks .paying less than
three per , cent Securities are so.'
scattered ..throughout the nation that;
their administration is needlessly ex
pensive; individual trust accounts ire'
incomplete. Half a million- dollars in1
. alleged undistributed assets, trans
ferred from a prior custodian* were
■ withdrawn from the treasury in vio
lation of the trading with the enemy
act.”
. WASHINGTON.—Senator Borah
declared that McCarl’s- aliem prop
Laundry
FVeat 8tract, Toketna
I Mrs. Feed Dubois - Prop.
erty administration report has dis
closed the worst system of looting
this country has ever known.
HOW FUNDS ARE DIVIDED:
Sixty-five percent .of.the funds col
lected from licenses and trades out
side incorporated towns and credited
to the Treasurer of the United States
and by'him credited to the! Alaska
fund is appropriated for repair and
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McGrath; Alaska
Groceries’
H. dware
Miners Supplies
< f All Xfod*
Ladies’ Ftarnishfaga
Flirt Bought and Sold
Moose Skin Mitts snd Boots
King Island Mukluks
Babeesh,1 ernSled Lashing
Voigt’s Dog Harness, .the very
Beat
FRKSH GARDEN SEEDS
Aiffi! EJdridgc
construction of roads and trails out
, side of incorporated towns and exgenr
j ed under the direction of the Alaska^
i Road Commission; 25 per cent is ag*
l propriated for the maintenance . of.
schools outside of incorporated tawn.v
- andt ltt per cent is , appropriat«L>for. -
the relief of indigents.
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