Alaska Notes i
Gathered From Territorial
Exchanges.
A bad fire swept th< business sec
tion of Hyder one afternoon, some
weeks ago, entirely destroying the
.Province Storm Hums’ meat mar
ket, thhe poStoilice. tb»> marshal’s
office and jail, the Behnmann restau
rant, .the. McDonnell, gasoline station
and several .small buildings. The
Bank of Hyder was only saved by the
heroic efforts of residents who made a
hard fight , against the advancing
lames.Starting at 12:15 in the af
ternoon. the flames swept through the
auildings, then spread to the hillside
along the tramway, threatening a
spreading forest fire, but before 3
o’clock the flames .were under control.
The, marshal’s office and jail were
housed in the building owned by Bill
McDonald, former deputy marshal.
McDonald, also lost a 1928 model,
high-powered car. which he had stored
in his garage. The postoffice was lo
cated in the Dren Hill drug store, in
dicatimjfrt loss of that building as
well. The origin of the fire has not
been determined. It started near the
Provence store, and all available fire
fighters wore unable to check the
blaze, due to the continued dry
weather. A total of nine buildings
were destroyed in less than thirty
minutes. Dren Hill saved his life by
jumping through a second-story win
dow. He suffered two broken ribs.
Marshal Martin was slightly burned
about the face and head, while several
others suffered slight injuries. The
loss is estimated at more than $150,
000, while . insurance covers only
about §30.0:00
M. 0. Solberg, Nome pioneer, diea
in the Virginia Mason Hospital at Se
al t’e recent’v, after a long illness. He
ttnductci aha City Bath House and
Barber.£\bop in Nome since the early
days of the camp. Mr. Solberg went
Outside last, fall for medical atten
tion and had intended to enter the Pi
oneer Home this summer. He was on
his way to Sitka when taken to the
. Seattle. lypspital.
Seventeen head of cattle belonging
to White. & Wingfield, who have a
stock, xalneh at Kizuhak bay, 30 miles
. northeast of Kodiak, were killed by j
. brown, bear a few weeks ago, accoad-;
ing to a dispatch to the Seward Gate-j
' way, which said: “These monster!
. predatory animals, which the lavv
protects, makes useless any attempt
to graze cattle, sheep or hogs on Ko
„ diak.and Afognak Islands.”
A novel experiment will be tried
out at the Alaska Agricultural Col
I legfc and School of Mines, when six
Eskimo boys arrive to take scientific
<■ courses in reindeer husbandry. By
* selecting a picked group of boys and
giving them thorough* inctructions in
the xare of reindeer, the information
s will, it is believed, be spread gradual
ly among all the natives engaged in
reindeer work. These six boys, whose
. ages- will be between 16 and 21 years,
\ will remain at the College for a year
. ahd take supplementary courses to
equip them for the work they have
. chosen. If the experiment proves suc
cessful, other groups will be sent to
the College.
In a rail made recently in Cordova
by Deputy Marshal Close and Assist
ant U. S. Attorney Hodge on an es
tablishment in the rear of the pool
hall operated by H. D. Waltz, one
five-gallon keg of whiskey, one gallon
Jug half full of whiskey, four quart
bottles of whiskey, two pint bottles of
whiskey, one quart bottle half full of
whiskey, one carton containing one
gallon jug of whiskey,' 256 pint bot
tles of beer, five quart bottles of beer,
20 gallons of beer in bulk, and a hun
dred or so of of empty or partially
filled beer bottles and enough other
paraphernalia, including whiskey
glasses, corks, hops, a cqpper boiler.
syphons, hoses, funels and measures
to make two truck loads, were seized.
Waltz was also taken along as having
a possible connection with the illicit
goods, but he denied ail knowledge of
them.
Frank Gustafson, a pioneer of Val
dez, was drowned some weeks ago at
Bay of Isles, Knight island. .VIr. Gus
tafson, who with his partner, George
W. Hayes, was engaged in getting out
piling, lost his footing while poling a
raft out in deep water and was
plunged into the bay. He was un
able to swim and called for help, hut
before Mr. Hayes could swim to Iris
assistance had gone down. A skifF
was brought out and the body loiated
in 12 feet of water.
Sam Alstead, 23 years old, a bull
dozer in the Alaska-Juneau mine, is
in a Juneau hospital suffering from
injuries /eceived when he lost his
balance and fell down a chute in the
mine. His ribs and back were hurt
and physicians fear his lungs were
crushed.
S. R. Samuelson, representative of
the General Petroleum Company, re
turned to Juneau recently from Yaku
taga and said the company’s drilling
outfit was being taken from the field
and would be shipped south. The
company has discontinued all opera
tions there.
Thansplantation of 400 trout from
Otter lake to Lake Spenard has been
made by George Baker of A nchorage,
assisted by several ardent fishetnen i
of the coast city. They were trans
planted with a loss of only three fish.
Mr. B.aker believes the trout will in-;
crease in numbers and provide An
chorage citizens with some fine fish
ing. No fishing will be permitted for!
a season or two in order that the,
trout may be given an opportunity to]
multiply. At Lake Otis a like e:tperi-l
ment was tried and is Said to ije meet- i
ing with success.
Fifteen thousand cases of salmon!
and 400 barrels of herring, compris
ing the largest fish shipme nt to reach
Seward this year, were brought to
the Gateway City recently from the
westward on the steamer Redondo. |
ORDER AND
NOTICE OF ELECTION
To Be Held On
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6. 11)28
In the Office of the United Stat*'?
Commissioner at Ophir, Alaska,
Fourth Judicial Division.
Now, 0,1 this day, pursuant to nr
>.t T Cot {tress approv 'd May 7,1906. ,
entitled "An Act Providing for the
Election of a Delegate to the House
of Itepres- ntatives from the Ttw* ror <
of Ala-ha,” and an Act of Congress 1
auprov -d August 24, 1912, entitlec
“An Act to Create a Legislative As- •
sembly in the Territory of Alaska, ti i
Confer Legislative Pov/ers Thereon,
and for Other Purposes,” and in con
formity therewith,
P' is hereby ordered that for tb>
purposes of the general election to be
held on November 6, 1928* all the ter
ritory in the Recording District
known as Innoko Recording District
outside i f incorpora1 ■ 1 towns, is here
by divided into voting precincts in
each of \vh:ch a polling place is here
by specified. _ .
The : aid voting precincts are desig
nated, described and bounded as fol
lows: _ j
1. Ophir Voting Precinct: Em
bracing ell that portion of the Innoko
Recording District south of and in
cluding the watershed of Beaver
Creek, with polling place at Paulson’s
Roadhouse, in the town of Ophir.
2. Crirple Voting Precinct: Em
bracing all the not otherwise included
portion of the Innoko Recording Dis- j
i.rict. v. 'th polling place at Peterson's
Roadh-us , in the town of Cripple.
Notice is hereby given that a gen
eral election will be held on Tuesday,
November 6, 1928, for the purpose of
electing the following dicers, to-wit:
A Governor for the Territory of
Alaska, (
A Delegate to House of Repre
sentatives from the Territory of. |
Alaska,
An Attorney General for the Ter
ritory of Alaska,
One Member of the Senate of the? j
Territory of Alaska,
Four Members of the House of
Representatives of the Territory of j
Alaska,
Two Road Commissioners for Road
District No. 4.
The election will be hedd in the vot
ing precincts above named and at the
polling places therein specified. The
said polling places will be open be
tween the hours of eight o’clock a. m.
and seven o’clock p. m. of said day.
Date ■ at Ophir, Alaska, September
30th, 1928.
CHRISTIAN BOLGEN,
U. S. Commissioner for the Innoko
Recording District, Fourth Divi
sion, Territory of Alaska.
Mr. Hoover will not fall for the1
blamliis/nments of those Lone Star
coyotes who want to run him as a
Jeffersonian Democrat, as he has been
a life long Republican now for almost,
eijyht- years*—Washington. Post.
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There a? <■ now enough autds ir
America to permit every man, wo mar
and child to ride at the same time,
and pretty soon all the care will be
able to get gas simultaneously.—
Brunswick (Ga.) Pilot.
' Babeeseh Moosehide Mitts and Boots
j Furs Bought and Sold Clothing
All Kinds of Nice Fresh Groceries and Fruits
♦tanned Goods of All Kinds
Beds and Bedding
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Best of Meals and Rooms
Where Everything Is Hemelike and
Where You Are Cordially Welcomed
GOOD DOG HOUSES
BATHS
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He has serve ou four terms, faithfully,
conscientious’. rod his record proves
him an A> oho works for Alaska.
K cep him hi ere. Show your appre
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lues Jay, Nov. 5,1928
Paid Advt.
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