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Bxchan;'e'
H. I. Reedi president and general
manager of the Alaska Piggly Wig
gly organization, arrived in Fair
banks a few days ago for the purpose
of opening a Piggly Wiggly store in
that city- The Fairbanks store will
be the sixth Pigg’y Wiggly ^tore in
Alaska, others having been estab
lished at Ketchikan, Juneau, Peters
burg, Cordova and Anchorage.
William Wag er, radio electrician
for the Signal Corpe, will install a
new radio station for the army at
* Kodiak. The work will be completed
in a month.
Writing to a friend in Anchorage,
Mrs. Thyra S. Merrill, widow of the
late Russell H. Merrill, the former
Anchorage woman said she had re
ceived her commercial license. Mrs.
Merrill has been taking instruction in
aviation at the Curtis-Wright Airport
at San Diego, Calif. From her ob
servations, Mrs. Merrill believes that
flying is on the increase and that
Alaska in general is keeping pace
with the States, if not leading many
portions in this respect. She has been
working for months on. her book, ex
tolling aviation in the North, and in
, the completed work will appear Alas
ka pictures showing planes of the in
trepid Ben Eielson, Earl Borland and
Russell H. Merrill on “The. Last
‘ Flight.”
With six prisoners under sentences
ranging from 45 days to one year in
the local federal jr! mid fines in vari
ous amounts, Deputy United States
Marshal George Jones arrived in Ju
neau recently from Hoonah. It re
uired the services of three small
gas-boats to transport the six, wit
nesses, guards and four small chil
dre-n directly affected by the sen
“ tences.
Ali of the prisoners were tried, con
victed and sentencsd by United States
Commissioner Edwin Cooper, who is
, also teacher of the federal govern
ment school at Hoonah. The cases
were brought under the Alaska Bone
Dry Aif for possession and barter of
illicit liquor.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack .Austin, Indians
who were each fined SI,000 and sen
tenced to one year in jail, had ti
. bring with them four children wht
were to be turned over to the boar(
of children’s guardians for Terri
torial support while the sentences
run, as there is no other source o;
sustenance for them.
J. D. Houston and John Marks weri
also fined $1,000 each and sentence!
to one year in jail. Doc Silvers, ex
prize fighter, drew six months in jail. (
The sixth defendant, Frederick Law- t
re nee, was sentenced to serve 45 days ,
in jail. £
Funds in the Territorial treasury
decreased $114,428.53 in the year
which ended December 31. On Janu
ary 1 of this year the cash balance
i reasurer W. G. Smith reported, was
$552,820.31, as compared with $.367,- |
_:48.84 on January 1, 1930. I
A large increase will be made in
.he balance before the Legislature
.onvcr.es on March 2, as most of the
taxes on fisheries, paiticulary canned
almon, are still to be received.
However, the tresury will not be ,
as well supplied with funds then as
it was two years ago. It is known
that the salmon taxes for 1930 will
be materially below normal owing to
Ihe failur e of the red salmon run '
and the pack in Bristol Bay last sea
son. It is be {ved the receipts may
run as much as $450,000 to $500,000
loss than the average.
Gus Berg, Cordova Isherman, lost
his life when the boat which he and
two companions were trying to land
capsized off Montague Island. Berg
started to swim toward shore, 200
yards distant, but became exhausted
when only 50 yards away.
The other two men clung to the
boat and managed to paddle it
ashore. One of them immediately
went out to aid Berg, but he was al
ready dead. The body was brought
ashore and a vain attempt was made
to revive him. Ber gwas 27 years
old, and is survived by a brother,
John Berg, who is trapping in the hi
dalgo Bay country.
Brown bear in the Becharof Lake
district have already affected the red
salmon spawning and interfered with
the the takin gof predatory salmon
trout, according to advices received
by the United States Bureau of Fish
eries. One Indian trout Isherman was
killed, another seriously injured, and
a third had a narrow escape, reported
Warden \V. E. Sullivan of Kanatak.
Owing to the attacks on fishermen
it is difficult to get Indians to carry
on the campaign against the destruc
tive trout, it was said.
In his letter to the bureau Warden
Sullivan said in part:
“The brown bear have curtailed
fishing operations to a great extent,
for us on three different occasoin.
They have attacked natives fishing
for us on three different oclasions.
One native, Fred Zanoff, died from
injuries so received four days after
the encounter.
“Another, Mike Kalmakoff, has
; been disabled, probably for months
; to come. Another time a native es
caped when rushed by a bear, by
> throwing his cap, making his get
I away while the bear was tearing the
- cap to pieces. His dog helped him to
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scape. It is almost a certainty that
hese attacks were made by more
iian one bear, because two men were
ttacked on opposite sides of the lake.
“This naturally makes the natives
ather timid about fishing alone, or
n any place that is not n the open.
“Ihe bear have destroyed a great
un.Ler of red salmon on the spawn
beds this year, the smaller creeks
>eing practically cleared out by
hem.'’
Anchorage ranks third is popula
,ion among the cities of Alaska, but
io.ds first in all the divisions except
he First, where Juneau leads the
territory with 4,01 G, and Ketchikan.
:omes next with 8,780. The popula
,ion of Anchorage is 2.2C8, according
X) the preliminary report of the cen
sus bureau. The standings of the
various Alaska cities of importance
follows:
First Division.
Juneau ..— 4,010
Ketchikan.. 3,780
Petersburg . 1,217
Sitka ...-. 1,520
Wrangell . 910
Douglas . 591
Skagway . 507
Second Division.
Nome . 1,213
Third Division.
Anchorage -. 2,00!
Cordova . 977
Seward .. 86i
Valdez . 441
Fourth Division.
Fairbanks . 2,071
Nenana . ..— 291
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Notice is hereby given that I, th(
undersigned, have this day been ap
pointed administrator of the estate oi
F. C. H. Spencer, deceased. All pel
sons having claims against the estati
of the aforesaid deceased F. C. II
Spencer must present them, wit!
proper vouchers attached, to th<
aforesaid administrator within si:
months of the date of this notice.
Dated at Takotna, Alaska, this the
12th day of September, 1930.
CHRIS PETERSEN,
Administrator of the Estate o:
23 the aforesaid deceased.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
You, Ralph J. Rivers, Hans Gal
neck, co-owners with the undersignet
in the Garnet Lode Claims No. 1
No. 2, iNo. 3 and No. 4, situated or
the reght limit of Otter, on Mala
mute Pup, in Otter Recording Pre
cinct. Territory of Alaska, will pleas<
take notice that the undersigned, fo
the years of 1927, 1028, 1929, di<
perform more than $1,200.00 wortl
of work for the benelt of the abovi
described claims. If each of you'
proportionate share of assessmen'
work dues is not paid within ninety
days after last publication of this no
tice, your interest in each of th<
claims will become forfeit to thi
undersigned in accordance with th<
provisions of Section 2324 of the Re
vised Statutes of the United States
RASMUS NIELSEN.
First pub. Jan. 31, 1931; last, May 2
1931. 2
TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NENANA AND FLA7
Mile
Nenana . 00
Tavern Roadhouse .. 17V
Knight’s Roadhouse . 23 V
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse . 58
Diamond Roadhouse . 76
Roosevelt . 89
Lake Minchumina.. 115
Trappers’ Cabin .... 132
Lone Star Roadhouse .. 158
Teiida Roadhouse . 169V
Slow Fork Roadhouse .. 187
East Fork Roadhouse .„...) 206
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse _ 227V
Big River Roadhouse ....241
McGrath ... 263
Takotna ... 280
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse ... 291
Ophir ..... 300
McCafferty ... 306
Brown Creek shelter cabin_318
Fritz shelter cabin .. 333
First Chance shelter cabin . 346
Sehermeyer R. H... 360
Iditarod .... 376
Flat .. 384
Bonanzza sheler cabin, 12 mile
from Flat.
Crooked Creek shelter cabin, 1!
tullee from Bonanza.
MODERN POACHERS RIDE TO
WORK IN PLANES AND AUTOS
NEW YORK.—City Dianas arc
going back to the woods. Women by
the thousands are turning nimrods,
and the rough sport of hunting in
some circles isn’t what it used to be,
according to figures checked by offi
' cials.
.More than 3,0C0 women hunted '.1
Pennsylvania this year. An increase
n ihe number of feminine sportsmen
t\.w comments in news statements
from several other states, and in
Michigan a wife from Battle Creek
achieved equality by dropping a deer
beford obtaining - license. Her hus
band refused to assume responsibil
ity, so she paid a fine of S50 and
costs.
The flocking of modern women to'
the woods is coincident with a new,
| era touched with luxury in certain
fields of the sport, the officials found.
Hunting lodges have sprung up all
over the country in the wake of finer
roads. Most big game sections, no
.Completely furnished. A
good place for man and
wife. Reasonable terms to
rigqht party.
Write or wire to
P. W. CARLSON,
Ophir, Alaska.
FOR SALE
Roadhouse
■ atter how rugged, can now be
reached in comfortable car3.
“The shacks of former years,”
commented a report from Pennsyl
vania, “have been followed by sub
stantial log or stone cabins with
great fireplaces, and often electric
lighting systems powered by nearby
streams. Frame bunks have given
way to soft cots. High-class camp
chefs are at a premium. The average
layman can indulge today in the
luxury of hunting today in the same
manner as his richer cousins on the
moors of Scotland.”
STOCKHOLM. — Captain Einar
P:. ;1 Lundberg, rescuer of Nobile
fi m an ice floe in the Arctic, died
from injuries received in the crash of
a plane he was testing for the Swed
ish government.
Pioneer
Shop —
Blacksmith,
Machine and
all kinds of
Sheet Metal
Work
Safetys
Stoves
ROBERT LOWRIE
Proprietor
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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 Beddinf