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t >£ fhi» mMm of transportation has
continued. At present there are 61
aviation fields within the Territory
and five hydroplane ports. The land
* ng fields var yin size from from 25C
+A 600 to 400 by 1.4Q0 feet. Fair
banks and Anchorage fields have twc
v ways 400 by 2,000 feet. Governoi
George A. Parks states that the total
aid. to aviation has been approximate
1% $180,000 and that the economic
benefits have justified the expendi
V tures. In 1931 there were six com
mercial aviation companies, one eacl
located at Nome, Fairbanks, Anchor
age* Chitina, Juneau, and Ketchikan
Vjj airway weather service has beer
developed by the Weather Bureau be
cause of the progress made in avia
ion. Reports are made regularly
rad aerial' anvigation is aided through
„ cliis service. In 1927 there were ter
'-.onunercial planes. They transport
ed 16 tons of express. A total of 41E
passengers were carried 60,000 pas
Wenger miles. The machines that yeai
flaw 95,000 plane miles. In 1931 there
ware 26 planes, which flew 381,23-1
plane miles,, carried 7,947 passengers
and flew- 947,695 passenger miles, anc
carried 161,718 pounds of mail anc
express. In 1830 the 24 planes thei
in use carried 3,654 passengers s
-total of —.84,361 passenger miles.
'* The nomination of Charles D-. Jonei
as U. S. Marshal of the Second Alas
3cn division has been referred by th<
i. judiciar yeommittee of the Senate t(
Senators Dill and Blaine, who expec
to consider the appointment and mak<
-their report to- the committee withii
the next' week. Appointment o1
Judges for the Second and Fourth di
-visions are expected to be made verj
shortly by, the Department of Justice
The Alaska Women’s Primary Lav
dub directed a letter of inquiry
to Delegate WTcCersHSm as To hi
"Views on the primary law for Alaska
The Judge has replied that he has al
ways favored the primary for Alaski
and believes that it is highly essen
• rial that the present law should pre
-vail, otherwise there would b
■“proxy” nominating convention!
, dominated by a handful of manipu
la tors in both parites, who would thu!
prevent the thousands of men am
women voters from expressing thei]
preferences for the candidates whon
they desired as party nominees.
Delegate Wiekersham has, receive*
dozens of protests by wire fron
Southeastern Alaska ports agains
the passage of the Davis Mil, wHicl
would practically exclude passenge
traffic to and between Alaska port
by Canadian steamers. The bill ii
On February 4 the commission o
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Pacific
International
Airways
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AGENT
E. A. McIntosh as postmaster at the
re-established office of St. Timothy
went from Washington, as aso did the
office supplies. The mail will be sent
by special arrangements from Chick
n, coming to that point from Fair
banks.
strongly supported by interests on
the Atlantic coast, and the Delegate
, hopes to have an amendment adopt
; ed that would exclude Alaska from
' the jurisdiction of the bill, in the
I event of its pasage.
Commissioner of Fisheries Henry
O’Malley is quite proud of the fact
that soon a splendid new aquarium
will be operating in the magnificent
new Commerce Building. Tanks are
now being prepared and soon a reg
ular fish parade will head toward
the Capital City. In the ranks will
be rainbow, brook and land-ocked
, trout; salmon from inland streams
A the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and
small but beautiful fish from the sub
■ tropics. From an Alaskan hatchery,
5,000 miles away, will come the cele
brated black fish. Part of this jour
■ ney will be made incased in ice, so
hardy is this specimen. Officials say
l this fish can bounce like a rubber ball,
Joe Crosson, the famous Alaska
l flier, has been visiting the East dur
! ing the past couple of weeks and has
_ been entertaining the readers oi
newspapers with stories of the favor
ite pastime of the Alaska Eskimo anti
i the Siberian Chucksi. Eating is s
- serious occupation, an d Joe says:
i “The average meal lasts from three
i to four hours. It is served in courses
■ and they eat and eat. The Alaskar
Eskimo cooks most of his food, but
the chucksi eats raw fish and meat
and never uses salt. They drink greal
quantities of oil. In a two-day sta>
in a chucksi hut everyone went about
this interior palace naked. When you
crawl in your furs are hung on the
wall to dry and warm. The floors are
covered with walrus fur, and the in
habitants of the hut "simply stretch
out on the floor, pull another fur ovei
’ them and go to sleep.”
The Department of Commerce ap
' propriation bill is now before the
1 House. Last year the amount allowed
1 was 154,426,230, but the amount rec
' ommended by committee for the ap
; proaching year is $44,132,857. Foi
1 the Alaska general service under the
Bureau of Fisheries the last appro
k priation of $446,240 has been reduced
to $412,300. For the mining statior
and mine inspection in Alaska the
1 former s^.n of $11,460 has beer
1 slightly reduced, to $10,885. It is nol
> expected that there will be any fur
1 ther reductions in these figures.
i . The bill to repeal the Alaska Bone
! Dry Law will be given another hear
p ing on March 1, before the commit
. tee, when it is expected that a couple
of amendments to the old law will be
agreed to and which will probablj
meet the present opposition to the
law. There does not appear to be i
disposition upon the part of the com
mittee to favor the present bill to re
peal the Bone Dry Law.
The House has passed Delegate
Wickersham’s bill for a revision am
extension of the boundary of the Mt
McKinley National Park. It has nov
gone to the Senate and •will undoubt
edly be passed without objection.
George Parker and Pete Swanson
of Fairbanks, had a narrow escape
from injury recently when the Gold
stream bridge, on the Happy Gold
stream road, broke down as the met
were hauling a 20-horsepower boilei
across it with a “30” cater pilar trac
tor. The machine crashed; down 11
feet when the‘bridge fell, and * beavj
timber just missed the met*v wtlo, for
tunately, were protected by othei
wreckage. Application hasiftsen mad<
to the Alaska Road Comzasision si
Juneau for a new bridge..
Otto Edvordsen was instantly kill'
ed at his wood carnp, a.few.railas.oul
of Fort Yukon, when a tree he was
cutting fell on him. The tree struck
him on the head and he was probably,
killed instantly. Mr. Edvordsen had
been cutting wood for Fred Bohner,.
and his body was found by thfi latter.
He had been dead for some-time...The
exact date of his death is unknown,
but it is believed to have been-, about
January 20.
ORDER AND .NOTICE OF PRI
MARY ELECTION
To Be Held On
TUESDAY. APRIL 26,.. mz .
in the Office of the United states
Commissioner at Ophir, Alaska;
Fourth Judicial Division.
Now on this day pursuant to Chap
ter 39, Session Laws of Alaska, ap
proved May 3, 1919, entitled “an. Ait
to provide for the holding of primary
elections in the Territory of Alaska,
to fix the manner and time of holding,
the same, to prescribe the qualifica
tions of candidates to be nominated
at such elections, and to designate
the manner of filing and authenticat
ing their candidacy, and for ’other
purposes,” and in conformity there
with
i It is hereby ordered that for the
purpose of the primary election to he
held on April 26, 1932, all of the ter
i ritory in the recording district known
as the Innoko Recording District, out
side of incorporated towns, is hereby
established as one voting precinct, to>
be known as the Ophir Voting Pre
cinct.
i Said voting precinct is described
and bounded as follows: All the ter
ritory within the boundaries of said
Innoko Recording Distrirt, with poll
ing place at Ophir Road House, la
the town of Ophir, therein,
i Notice is hereby given that a pri
mary election will bo held on Tues
day, April 26, 1932, for the purpose
of nominating candidates to the vari
ous political parties for the following
offices, to-wit:
A Delegate to Congress;
An Attorney General for the Terri
tory of Alaska;
An Auditor for the Territory of
Alaska;
A Commissioner of Education for
the Territory of Alaska;
A Highway Engineer for the Terri
I tory of Alaska;
One Territorial Senator (long:
j term);
j One Territorial Senator (abort
j term);
Four Members of the House of
I resentatives of the Territory of,
i Alaska;
Two Road Commissioners for Road
; District Number Four;
i A Governor for the Territory of
i Alaska;
And for the purpose of electing the
! following Officers, to-wit:
A National Committeeman for the
Democratic Party of the Territory of
j Alaska;
j A National Committeeman for the
| Republican Party of the Territory of
' Alaska;
Six Delegates and Alternates to
the Democratic National Convention;
Two Delegates and Alternates to
the Republican National Convention.
The said election will be held in the
Voting precinct above named and the
polling place therein specified. The
said polling place will be open be
; tween the hours of 8 o’clock a. m. and
7 o’clock p. m. of said day.
Dated at Ophir, Alaska, this 16th
day of March, 1932.
CHRISTIAN BOLGEN,
i U. S. Commissioner for the
! Innoko Recording Precinct,
Fourth Division, Territory of
Alaska.
TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NGN ANA AND FLAT
Miles
Nenana .. 00
Tavern Roadhouse_ 17%
Knight's Roadhouse _ 28%
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse_68
Diamond Roadhouse__- 70
Roosevelt - 89
Lake Miachumina ,__U5
Trappers' Gabin _ 122
Lone Star Roadhouse __ 160
Teilda Roadhouse_: 109%
Slow Fork Roadhouse.- 187
East Fork Roadhouse-) 206
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse_227%
Big River Roadhouse_241
McGrath_____208
Takotna __ 280
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse _ 291
Ophir _____„_300
McCafferty ....... 806
Brown Creek shelter cabin ___ 318
Fritz shelter cabin _ 38B
First Chance shelter cabin — 346
Sehermeyer B. H. _ 860
Iditarod_376
Flat ____384
Bonanzas sheler cabin, 12 miles
from Flat.
Crooked Creek shelter cabin. 18
miles from Bonanza..
ELECTRICITY NOW SUBSTI
TUTING FOR FERTILIZER
HOUSTON, Tex.—Now they're sub
stituting electricity for fertilizer in
Texas vegetable patches.
Th*. device instaled is a simple coil
like, affair, buried several inches in a
soiLbed 6 feet wide and 24 feet long.
The coil and attachments are so ar
ranged that the bed is kept at con
stant, temperature whether it be sun
ny. or freezing outside..
The coil is automatically controlled
and. when the temperature rises the
elentcmity is shut off.
Winter.-grown plants, M. B. Vie
tnam .an. agricultural expert, said in
explaining the innovation, depend
chiaily. upon.fertilizer for heat. Elec
trical hutting .is not only more de
pendable, blit the apparatus costs less
than, $20.
“We- believe the electrical arrange
ment'wilt be a-big improvement over
the old-fashioned hot. bed,” he said.
The. farmec- may now plant seed at
any . timerhff'the. year and be assured
he willr-have-ntH.trouble from the
weather.”
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Slumgullion—Oh, ye^b? And so
does a woodpecker.
In the Probate Court for Otter Pre
cinct, Fourth Division, Territory
of Alaska.
In the matter of the Estate of
Edgar Ryder, deceased.
Notice of Hearing of Final Account.
Notice is hereby given that the ad
ministrator of the above estate has
filed his final report in the Probate
Court above named and that said re
port will be heard before the said
Probate Court for Otter Precinct at
Flat, Alaska, on Wednesday, the 18th
day of May, 1932, at two o'clock p. m.
of said day, at which time and place
all parties interested may appear and
show cause, if any they have, why
said report should not be approved
and confirmed.
HARRY DONNELLEY,
Administrator.
First publication. Mar. 19, 1932.
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