Alaska Notes j
Gathered. IT real Territorial
* Alteraiions to the steamer Mexico,
to be leehristfenei the Aleutian when
she sails north under the home flag
, of the Alaska Steamship Company,
are being made at the West Seattle
shops of the company at an approxi
mate. cost of ¥1,000,000. The vessel
was purchased from the New York &
Cuba Mail Steamship . Company,
Known as the Ward lane, and brought
around to the west coast from the
Atlantic seaboard via the 1'anama
canal. She will sail from Seattle on
May 3 on her first voyage to Alaska.
> When rebuilt anu refurnished sue
Wi.i nave 145 Staterooms, of which 14
will be de luxe accommodations with
twin beds, tub and shower batn.
There wul be 20 two-bertn- rooms in
pairs with connecting bath between,
28 rooms with twin beds arid a Pull
man upper bertn over the inside bed,
* and 20 two-berth rooms with special
accommoaations. There will be hot
and coid running water in every
stateroom.. Outer features of the
snip are two shelter promenade decks,
a spacious observation room and so
cial bail and a lounge all on. “A” deck
-au a smutting room on “o" deck. The
dining saioon will accommodate 160
passengers at one setting. There will
be. several lobbies where writing
desks and other accommodations will
be provided. The new Aleutian is
416 feet .long, 50-foot beam, and of
10,000 tons displacement..
Junes uis somewhat concerned lest
there should be a big rush into the
new Taitu district next spring by men
who wilL not have, sufficient finances
to carry, themselves through and who
may tinu themselves stranded, it is
believed., that one., thousand - stam
peders wli pass through Juneau as
soon aa. weather condtions permit.
The mining committee of the Juneau
chamber of commerce has been com
missioned to prepare figures on the
cost of a season s prospecting in the
‘llaku and to assemble other data re
garuing the district for the ben. ben
efit of., those who contemplate going
there.
Seven years in the federal peniten
tiary, at. McNeil’s isiand for assault
ing a jailer was the sentence meted
out to John £. McMasters by Judge
Cecil .H.. Clegg in the District court
at Fairbanks a few days ago. In ad
dition McMasters was given one year
in the penitentiary for larceny. The
sentences are to. run concurrently.
Arrested in the. tatter part of .De
cember aa. a. suspect after a number
of robberies had., been committed in
rapid succession^ McMasters soon
confessed that he was guilty. He told
officers be had served two years in
Oregon prisons, two years in Califor
nia,. several months in Valdez, and
was a parole violator from Folsom
prison in. California.
Some weeks ago he escaped from
the .Fairbanks jail after assaulting
the jailers and made his way to the
Nine-mile roadhouse before he was
caught.
In passing sentence Judge Clegg
counseled . McMasters to mend his
before it is too late. The youth of
the defendant—he is only 29—was
taken into consideration by the court.
At Fairbanks a few days ago Doug
lks Broom was sentenced by Judge
Clegg to a year and a day on each of
two counts of an indictment charg
ing him with violation of the prohi
bition laws. . The terms are to run
concurrently.
The defendant had entered pleas of
gpilty to booth counts,, the first of
which charged him with possession
et a still and‘the second with operat
ing it.
Called eat/off the Cushman street
bfith houses Fairbanks, about 5 o’clock
iiL.the afternoon,. a few days since,,
by Max Rode, Vox merchant, Leonard
Kin? wiw shot through the upper
part of the left leg. The wound was
] not serious and Kin? was able to be
I about the following day.
He had just come into the bain
house with his bride of a week, Mrs.
Grace Kede Kin?, when Kede entered
J the place and asked Kin? to step out.
i The two men walked across the
street and around the corner of Cush
man on fourth, where the shootin?
took place. *
Accounts of thet rouble differ, Kin?
claim in? that he was shot at without
warnin?, and Rede statin? he acted
in self-defense. He bases his self de
fense plea upon thie finding of a
second gun int hhe snow at the scene
of trie fight. -
Tno small herd of yaks recently
landed at the Fairbanks experimental
station from Wainwright national'
park in Alberta, Canada, came thru
the cold winter weather with flying
colors, according to F. L. Higgins,
who is in charge of the station. The
yaks were left in the open at all
times, having only an open shed for
shelter at night, and the cold did not
appear to bother them in the least.
“They arrived here in very good
condition, considering the long trip,”
Mr. niggins tells the Fairbanks
News-Miner. The herd consists of
three cows and one bull. It is intend
ed to use the new stock tq breed the
pure yak strain and to continue the
cross-breedng experments wth Gallo
way cattle. Previou s experiments
have shown the hybrid to be a good,
vigorous animal, very well adapted
to the northern climate. The aim is
to build up a good beef animal.
| Before the arrival of the herd from
Wainwright park the experimental
station had oinly one yak.
It was in 1919 that the first cross
breeding experiments with yak and
Galloway cattle were begun. At that
time a pair of yak was obtained from
the Canadian government. They
were the offspring of yalc brought
from England some years previously.
| Yak and cattle are very commonly
j crossed in Asia, where te former
thrives in a wild or domesticated
state at elevations of between 10,000
and 16,000 feet. It is the domesti
| cated bovine of Thibet and adjoining
regions of India, Mongolia, Siberia1
and China. The animals are hardy,
inured t oextreme cold and not par
ticular as to their food and shelter.
. They have very sho^t legs and a
heavy coat of fur which fringes the
shoulders and the sides and is excep
tionally long on the lower part of the
neck and around the belly.
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Five thousand cons of coal were
purchased by the Alaska Railroad,
during December. Practically all of
' this was furnished by the Hcaly
River Coal Corporation and tne Alas
ka Matanusa Coal Company.
ORDER AND NOTICE OF PRI
MARY ELECTION
To Be Held On Tuesday* April
29, 1930.
in the Office of the United States
Commissioner at McGrath, Alaska,
Fourth Judicial Division.
Now on this day pursuant to Chap
ter 39, Session Laws of Alaska, ap
proved May 3, 1919, entitled “An Act
to provide for the holding of primary
elections in the Territory of Alaska
to fix the manner and time of hold
ing the same, to prescribe the qualifi
cations of candidates to be nominat
ed at such elections, and to- designate
the manner of filing and authenticat
ing their candidacy; and for other
purposes,” and in conformity there
with
It is hereby ordered that for the
purpose of the primary election to be
held on April 29; 1930, all of the ter
ritory in the recording; district known
as Mt- McKinley. Recording District,
outside ol incorporated towns, is
hereby divided into voting precincts,
in each of which a polling; place is
hereby specified.
Said voting; preeintcs am-described
and boundeda# follows:
Voting Ftecinct No. 1:—Polling
place, Pioneer Hail, in the town of
Takotna. All the territory from Big
River to the head of the Kuskokwim
and Its tributaries! also Nixon River,
kno’wn.aa, Voting^ftecinct.No, 3, poUr
ng p.ace at Nixon Quartz M.ne
i.uildings.
place at U. S. Commissioner’s Office,
McGrath. All the territory from Big
River to the mouth of Swift River,
including all tributaries except Tar
kotna River from the mouth of Nixon
Fork to the head of Moose Creek and
its tributaries, which constitutes
Voting Precinct No. 2—Polling
Notice is hereby given that a genr
eral election will be held on Tuesday,
April 29, 1930, for the purpose of
nominating candidates to the various
political parties for the following
offices, to-wit:
A Delegate to the House of Repre
sentatiev sfrom the Territory of
Alaska; !
A Treasurer for the Territory .of
Alaska;
An Auditor for the Territory of
Alaska;
A Commissioner of Education for
the Territory of Alaska;;
A Highway Engineer for the Ter
ritorp of Alaska;
One Member of the Senate of the1
Territory of Alaska;
Four Members of the House of
Representatives of th eTerritory of
Alaska;
Two Road Commissioners for Road
District Number Four.
The said election will be held in
the voting precincts above named and
at the polling places therein speci
fied. The said polling places will be
open between the hours of 8 o’clock
a. m. an 7 o'clock p. m. of said day.
Dated McGrath ths March 18th,
1930.
W. T. VANDERPOOL, I
U. S. Commissioner for the Mt.
McKinley Recording Prerinct,
Fourth Division, Territory of
Alaska.
NOTICE OF SALE.
Notice is hereby given that at 2:00
p. m. of Saturday, the l&tth day of
March, 1930, at the front door of the
Commissioner’s Office in the town of
Ophir, Alaska, the undersigned Ad
ministrator of the Estate of Hubade
Hebertt, deceased, pursuant to an
order of the Probate Court for the
Innoko Precinct, Fourth Judicial Di-1
vision of Alaska, dated February 12,
1930, in which Court said Estate is
being probated, will offer for sale and
sell at public auction one undivided
half (1-2) interest in placer mining
claim known annd described as NO. 2
EELiOW DISCOVERY, and also one
undivided half (1-2) interest in
placer mining claim known and de
scribed as NO. 3 BELOW DISCOV
ERY; both of said claims situated on
Yankee Creek, a tributary of the In-j
noko River, in said Precinct and Ju-1
dicial Division, said property being
the property of the above named
estate. Terms: AU cash at time of
sale.
The undesigned reserves the right
to reject any or all bids.
H. C. WALLICK,
Administrator.
First publication, Feb. 15.
NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT.
The above sale is hereby postponed
until Saturday, April 5th, at the
same hour and place.
H, C. WALLICK,
Administrator.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS:
All persons having claims against
the estate of Alex. Jerue, deceased,
are hereby required to present the
same, under oath, to the undersigned,
administrator of the said estate, at
his residence, at Flat, Alaska, on or
before the 31st day of August, 1930
Dated at Flat, Alaska, February
21, 1930. I
HARRY DONNELLEY, l
Administrator of the estate
of Alex. Jerue, deceased.
TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NENANA AND FLAT
Miles
Nenana . 00
Tavern Roadhouse.— 17%
Knight’s Roadhouse . 23% I
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse.58
Diamond Roadhouse .- 76 |
Roosevelt .... 89 j
Lake Minchumina ... 115
Trappers’ Cabin .— 132
Lena Star Roadhouse ..._. 158
Telida Roadhouse . 169% i
Slew Fork Roadhouse . 187
East Fork Roadhouse .) 206
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse. 227%
Big River Roadhouse..241
McGrath __—. 263
Takotna ..... 280
Bill Gobs’ Roadhouse _ 281
Ophir__300
McCafferty ...306
Brown Creek shelter cabin.318
Fritz shelter cabin ... 333
First Chance shelter cabin . 346
Schermeyer R. H. _ 360
Iditarod_376
Flat .... 384
Bonanzza sheler cabin, 12 miles
Crooked Creek shelter cabin, 19'
mil«*« from Bonanza,
fiwtlht.
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Babeesch Moosehide Mitts and Boots
Furs Bought and Sold Clothing
All Kinds of Nice Fresh Groceries and Fruits
Canned Goods of All Kinds Beds and Bedding
A. R. Eldridge - McGrath
TAKOTNA ROADHOUSE
Best of Meals and Rooms
Where Everything Is Homelike and
Where You Are Cordially Welcomed
GOOD DOC, HOUSES BATHS
Ivar Chilstrom - Prop.
Rough and Dressed Lum
ber of All Kinds
INNOKO LUMBER CO.
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