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MCGRATH, ALASKA. MAR 28/1923
Youth Traps 100-Lb.
Wolf, Ties Him Up,
Carries Home* Alive
Walter Stsnsland. 17, son of the pro
prietor of Scensland’s Dairy, found a
one-hundred-pound black wolf in one
of bis traps on Gravina island when he
was rhaking-the rounds of his trap lino
recently, says the Kenana News:
Young Steas’.and, who was alone at
the dime, deslrod very much to take
Mr.i Wolf home and keep nim ss a pet.
i-Ie considered the advisability of going
for aid,'but fearing that, in bis absence
the wolf might break loose from the
trap and escape, he decided to make
t he best of the situation and tackle him
alone*;
A wolf weighing oue hundred pounds
is, a very mean adversary, to say the
?ery least, but young Stensland made
a noosf* ia a rape, and maneuvered
about the beast uatri he finally suc
ceeded in slipping it over his jaws. He
pulled the rope taut, tied it securely
I'jii ib, 10 hjw recnaiiiuer • in se*
curing the animal's feet. This was a
more'delicate matter than the initial
operation,-&9 the wolf had become en
raged over the impromptu muczling
tnd fooght with every ounce of his
hundred pounds. After what seemed
an eternity to the young man, he suc
ceeded in trussing the animal up in so
secure a manner that be made a very
handy bundle to~‘be thrown over the
shoulders and packed home.
His enthusiasm over the acquisition
of something new-in the lice of domes
tic petu was somewhat dampened on
his arrival nome, as the other mem
metnbersof the Stonsland*family called
to mitad several species of four-footed
beastb much more to be desired as an
object of- abaction, and young Stens
iand came to think more along the
same linebv the time Monday night
had arrived, and the animal was killed.
The young man will receive a bounty
of $15 from the government, besides, if
ho cares to sell the pelt, from $14 to
$23, according to tbe size and quality.
Thi3 is a remarkably tine specimen,
pure black and strictly prime.
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
LAWYERS
Iditared, Alaska
and at
;0» L.1 C. Smith Uldg., Seattle, Wash
P?a3tioe in all Courts.
I Or. W. F. Green
:
| McGrath, Alaska.
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Reorganization Plans
Are Being Considered
Washington.—Details of the pro
posed reorganization of government
departments have been forwarded to a
joint committee, which is expected tc
use them for at least a basis for further
study of the plan.
One of the outstanding features ol
the proposals is the suggested consol
idation of the war and navy depart
ments under a department of national
defense, with three under secretaries
in charge of the army, navy and na
tional resources, respectively. The
plan includes the establishment and
disposition of a national welfare de
parturient.
Other proposals include the transfer
of all non-military functions from the
war and navy departments to civilian
departments, chiefly the de; .rt.ments
of interior and commerce; the elimina
tion of all non-fiscal functions from the
treasury department, and the change
of the name of the postoffice depart
ment to communications, which will he
expected to develop telegraph and tele
phone communications, including wire
less, for the public benefit; the transfer
of the bureau of insular affairs from
the war to the state department. Tsru
merous changes of bureaus are sug
gested, but the control of the forest
lands would remain under the control
of the department of agriculture
Freaks From the Alaska Press.'
A Ketchikan logger is reported tc
have a crew of trained woodpeckers
which bore holes in the logs for ra't
Lng purposes. Owing to a rush order
recently he was forced to put a steel
bill on each of the birds.
Dr. .Jensen, of Seldovia, has a cat
with only three legs, one of the legs
having been lost whew the animal was
caught in a trap The eat has a hard
time catching ground souirrels, on ac^
count of its lost limb, and Doc recently
made a wooden leg and strapped to it
The animal took to the innovation so
well that it runs the squirrels down
and beats them to death with the
wooden leg.
It i9 reported that in the old days at
Valdez, the city of the deep' snows, a
resident of the town made considerable
money from chechaoos by placing
stovepipes around in the snow and sell
ing them the cabins supposed -to ae
under the pipe*.
Recently an Alaska trapper rras
treed by four timber wolves. £oon
two of them moved off. Shortly after
ward the two animals were seen re
turning with a beaver botwoen them
They forced the beaver to begin work
on the tree, but before it had quite
finished gaawiug through the trunk a
party of hunters came along and the
tragedy was averted. The trapper quit
his hunting grounds, saying the wolves
were getting too well educe,ted for him
to keep up with them.
Plans for one of the greatest print
paper mill projects in the country were
laid before Congressman Curry, chair
man of the House committee on terri
tories, recently at Washington by Isa
dore Xellerbacb, of the Zeilerbaoh
Paper Company of San Francisco. The
plant is to be erected in Alaska. Tbs
company wants a 30-year lease on a
large tract of laDd covered with sprues
and hemlock. Under the plan submit
ted all cutting of limber would be on a
rotating basis, so that no part of thi
tract would be entirely cleared. Z© 1
lerbach said the rotation system woult
insure a permanent supply of timbers
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOF
PATENT
United States Land Office Nome
Alaska. April 22, 1922.
....Mineral Application No. 0550
, , NOTICE LS HEREBY .GIVEE
T—
i that William Schneirla, whose post
1 office address is Ophir, Alaska, ha
made Application before the Unkte<
States Land Office at Nome, Alaska
on behalf of himself, and his co
owners, Jacoh W. Schneirla Charle
: Schneirla, and Edward Schneirla
. for a United States patent for th«
| Consolidated placer mining clain
i bearing placer gold, known and des
cribed as No. 13 Above Gold Rut
and No. 14 Above Gold Run, sit
uated on Little Creek, a tributar;
of the Innoko River, about twelv>
miles southeast of the town of Ophn
i in the Innoko Mining & Recordin'
i District in the Territory of Alaska
| said Consolidated Placer Minim.
Claim being designated by the Uni
ed States Surveyor General of sai<
District as United States Minera
Survey No. 1279, the exterior boun
daries of which, according to the
plat and field notes now on file ir
this office with a magnetic varia
tion of 24 deg. 37 min. E. are a.‘
follows:
1 NUMBER THIRTEEN ABOVE
r GOLD RUN ON LITTLE CREEK
Beginning at Cor. No. 1.
A hewn spruce post, 4 ft. long, 1
ins. s<p, in earth mound scribed 1-12
Y9-I3Ab; whence: U. S. L. M. No
1278 bears N. 56 deg. 22 min. 5C
sec. E., 1003.99 ft.; thence S. 4'i
deg. 47 min. W. 681.7 ft. to Cor. No
2; thence N. *6 deg. 29 min. W. 64C
ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. 28 deg
51 min. E. 701.5 ft. to Cor. No. 4
thence S. 45 deg. 49 min. E. 868.C
! ft. to Cor. No. 1. and place of be
ginning, containing 11.740 acres.
NUMBER FOURTEEN ABOVE
GOLD RUN ON LITTLE CREEK
Beginning at Cor. No. 1.
Identical with Cor. No. 2. No
43 Above, this survey, previously
described; whence:- U. S. L. M.
No. 1278 bears N. 52 deg. 54 mirt,
12 sec. E. 1680.23 ft; thence S.
52 deg. 52 min. W 624.6 ft. to Cor,
No. 2; thence N. 38 deg. 55 n.in
W. 514.9 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence
N. 40 deg. 39 min. E. 560.9 ft. tc
Cor. No. 4; identical with Cor. No
3 No. 13 Above this survey, pre
viouslv described; thence S. 45 deg
.29 min. E. 640.0 ft. to Cor. No. 1
and place of beginning, containing
an area of 7.800 acres.
Total acres contained in said Con
soiidated Claim is 19.540 acres.
Said Consolidated Placer Claim
is situated on Little Creek, a tri
butary of the Innoko River, aboul
twelve miles southeast of the towr
of Ophir in the Innoko Mining: &
Recording District in the Territorj
of Alaska.
The adjoining: claims are on the
northeast No. 12 Above on Little
Creek, unsurveyed; on the south
we;jt No. 115 above on Little Creek
unsxrrveved: on the northwest anc
soiitheast claims unknown and un
surveyed.
U. S. Location Monument No
1278 is a hewn spruce post 8 ins
sq. 5 ft. above Ground, painted blue
with stone mound around same anr
chiseled U. S. L. M. No. 1278
whence:- W. Twin Peak bears N
49 dec. 30 min. E. E. Twin Teal
bears N. 51 degr. 40 min. E. No. 1
Dome bears North 23 deg;. 43 min
Lat 63 degr. 04 sec. N.
Long:. 1156 deer. 25 min. W.
JOHN SUNDBACK
lte^ister of United States Land Office
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOI
PATENT
United States Lind Office at Nomi
Alaska. April 22, 1922.
Mineral Application No. 0546.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEi'
that William Schneirla, whose post
office address is Ophir, Alaska, ha
made application before the U. S
Lana Office at Nome, Alaska, or be
half of himself and his co-owners
Jacob W. Schneirla, Charles Schnebr
la and Edward Schneirla, for
United States patent for the Assci
ciation Placer mining: claim, beai
ing placer gold, known and descri
bed as No. 1 Below Gold Run o
the b'athergill Association Place;
on Little ^reek, a tributary of Ir
noko Hiver, and situated about tc
miles southeast f the town of Ophi
in Ine innoko Mining and Record
| ing district in iihe Territory of A'
■ aska,' said Association Placer clair
beiiig designated by the U. S. Sui
, veyor General of said Territory a
U. S. Mineral Survey No. 1275; th
exterior boundries of which, accorc
1 ing to the; plat, and field, pote
i
! thereof on file in said Land Office,
5 with a magnetic variation of 24 deg-.
I 35 min. E., is as follows:
, “Beginning at Cor. No. 1,
A hewn spruce P'>st 4 ft,, long. 4 in.
i sq., in earth mound, scribed 1-1275
. B; whence U. S. L. M. No. 1274
bears S. 68 deg. 21 min., E., 267'.85
i ft.; Thence S: 44 dog. 20 min E.
1291 ft. to Cor. No. 2; Thence S.
1 37 deg. 01 min W. 5101.8 ft. to
Cor. No. 3; Thence N. 56 deg. 22
’ iin. W. 739.3 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
Thence N. 31 deg. 17 min E. 5360
ft. to Cor. No. 1, the place of be
ginning, containing 120.205 acres.
The adjoining claims are, on the
southwest Discovery on little Creek
on the northeast No. 2 Below Gold
I
- - -
■ ■ atf
JmliV
Run on Little Creek, both unsur
veyed and claimant unknown; and
on the northwest —' «'"-*heast
claims unsurveved nr»d claimants
unknown.
U. S. L. M. No. 1275 is a hewn
spruce post 8 in. square, 8 ft long,
chiseled U. S. L. M. 1275, sitauteii
on the left limit of Little Creek,
about 50 feet above the bed thereof,
whence West Twin Peak bears N.
58 deg. 29 min. £}.; East Twin
Peak bears N. 57 deg. 56 min E.;
Roch on top of high mountain at
the head of Little Creek beans
S. 34 deg. H min. W.; Iht- 63 deg.
C min N.; long. 156 deg. 22 min.' W.
JOHN SUNDBACBL
Register U. S. Land Officer
LOUIS GORMAN
Big' River
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General Supplies Fresh From the.
Outside
Furs Bought and Sold .!
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Larson Roadhouse
(Formerly The McLean. Taeotna.>
Best of Home Cooked Meals. . Prompt Attention
New Dog Houses
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Mrs. Frank Larson - - Proprietor *:
Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the kuskokwinv Valiev
Napa mute Alack* ;
Will receive by first boat a'atg er and < more varied
stock of goods .than ever before.' .
i Good Prices for Your Fur
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ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY.
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim. ■
Capt. Wallace ikajigl^y, Manager;:».
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Arrange to Spend the Night at the v
Big River Roadhouse
Best possible .meals.. . Private rooms.
New dog kem<ete; and the best of lower river ifisii,
for dog feed.
Diamond OIck J-~ - - - - Proprietor
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