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Disappointed with the result of its
effort to promote reindeer grazing
Umong the Indian tribes of Interior
•Alaska, the Federal Bureau of Educa
tion is about to abandon the work and
•dispose of its experimental herd.
’Caribou are too plentiful and easy to
slaughter for the Indians to take an
interest in the care and breeding of
the domesticated animals. Several
iye-ars ago the government brought a
herd of several hundred deer from the
■Kuskokwim with a view of introduc
ing the breeding ami grazing industry
along the line of the Alaska Railroad.
-It was located at Cantwell, where
.'grazing conditions were favorable.
The herd thrived and had a normal
increase, but the Indians whom it was!
•sought to interest were indifferent to i
begin with and remained in that
Mate. They could not understand
Vhy it was beneficial to them to play
^nursemaid to a drove of domesticated
•animals when all they had to do if
*they wanted meat to eat or skins for
Xise for parkas or other clothing was
bo step ryutside of their villages and
•'slaughter afew caribou, the wild
•counterpart of the deer. They didn’t
bake to the herding idea, either kind
! lv or otherwise. Thus faced with a
lack of interest among the people it
; was seeking to educate, the Bureau
; has decided to go out of that line of
i endeavor in the Interior. It will be
! queath the herd to the three Eskimo
herders arid one apprentice who were
: brought to Cantwell with the herd,
1 except for a small band of 15 deer,
which has been donated to the Alaska
Agricultural College and School of
1 Mines for experimental purposes.
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In a duel in which knives and
| cleavers were used, the night cook’s
| helper, Peter Jacobs, was killed, and
| the night cook, Andy Wall, was him
self seriously injured at the Dunaas
bay cannery of the Northwestern
Fisheries Company, a few nights ago.
The cannery wired to Juneau, ask
ing that \\ all be taken to the hospital
there, but not waiting for his arrival.
Commissioner Boyle, Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Folta and Deputy Mar
shal Garster left Juneau immediately
to make an investigation.
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En route to a remote section of
Alaska, vaguely described as the Mt»
Foraker district, where they will con
duct a search for the rich Wilson pay
streak, Tom Kinney and Mike Sherry
left Anchorage recently with a dog
team and 800 pounds of provisions
and other supplies. This will be Kin
ney's third attempt to reach the dis
trict, where an old friend named Wil
son discovered rich pay a number of
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fided his secret to Kinney and sup
plied him with a map of the district,
showing him how to reach the district
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time later Kinney organized a party
and a start was made for the district
with seve al pack horses. Some trou
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ing the long journey and the expedi
tion was jibondoned. A second start
another year ended in the same man
ner before the district had been
reached. Through all .the years Kin
ney has guarded the map jealously,
refusing to let even his most intimate
friends examine it. It. is understood
that a number of .Anchorage men are
backing the present expedition.
W. A. Vinal, former United States
commissioner at Ophir for a number
of years, has been appointed by Judge
E. Coke Hill, of the Third division, to
be commissione.r at-Seldovia, succeed
isg A. L. Peterson, .resigned.
Edward Hall, who deserted frim
the United States Signal Corps at;
Chilkoot barracks several'weeks ago,
was apprehended and brought back
to Chilkoot a few days ago. Hall
successfully eluded for a long period
a detachment of United States sol-J
diers and deputy marshals sent out to
search for him.
A telegram .received in Juneau re- .
cently ajinounced the death in Bel-j
lingham. Wash.; of Lafe E.. Spray.
The deceased was well known in
Alaska from Ketchikan to Nome. For
many years he was employed on the
news and editorial staffs of news
papers throughout the Territory, his
last work in that line .being in Juneau,
nearly a dozen years ago. He was
later appointed clerk in the office of
the clerk of court at Juneau, which
position he resigned about four years
ago, going outside with his wife. Mrs.
Spray died hetween two and three j
years ago. There were no children.!
Mr. Spray was fib years of age.
Dr. Charles H. Gilbert, aged 69, j
professor af zoology at Stanford Uni- j
versity since the inception of that in-,
stitution, in 1881, died at Palo Alto j
recently, after a brief attack of bron-!
chitis. Mr. Gilbert,-who was an inter
nationally known authority an fish
eries, was studying Alaska salmon
packing for the Bureau of Fisheries
at the time of his .death. He was
connected with the fisheries commis
sion at various times during his life,
retiring from that work in 1925.
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Judge James Wickersham, former
Delegate to Congress from Alaska
and Mrs. Grace E. Bishop, of Juneau,
are to be married in ‘Seattle after the
holding of the Republican national
convention, according to announce
ment made a few days ago. Judge
FORFEITURE NOTICE.
To Frank Irwin, his heirs, executors,
„ assigns and successors in interest:
You, and >each of you, are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex
pended for annual labor and improve
ments the sum of one hundred dollars
(1100.00) per year for the years 1914,
1916, 1916, 1917, 1920, 1921, 1922 and
1923 upon the following described
mining claims in the Innoko Record
ing District, Territory of Alaska:
No. 4 Above Gold Run Group, on
Little creek, a tributary of Ganes
creek;
No. 6 Above God Run Group, on
Little creek, a tributary of Ganes
creek.
That all of said work and improve
ments were required by law and were
put upon said claims in compliance
therewith in order to hold the same
for each said year and thereafter;
And iff ’within ninety (90) days
after the publication of this notice
you, or any of you, fail to pay your
portion of the amount expended on
tha above claims, your interest in
said claims will become forfeited to
the undersigned co-owner, according
to the provisions of Section 2324 Re
vised Statutes of the United States.
WILLIAM SCHNEIRLA.
First publication, March 3, 1928.
Last publication, May -26, .1928.
! WicJuersham .sailed a few days ago
for Seattle, and Mrs. Bishop expects
to leavr for the States soon.
Wickersham came to Alaska as., a
Federal judge in 1929* while Mrs. I
Bishop has been active in school -af
fairs in Juneau for a number of
years.
FORFEITURE NOTICE.
To H. VV. Strangman, Jack Lament,'
Janies McHugh, J.* N. Anderson,
E. Coke Hill, and all persons
claiming by, through or under
them, or any of them, and their
heirs, executors, assigns and sue-,
cessors in interest, greeting:
Yon and each of you are hereby
notified: That during each of the
following- annual labor years, to-wit: j
the years ending July 1st, 1922, 1923,:
T924, 1925, 1926 and 1927, the under
signed put one hundred dollars
($100.00) worth of work and improve
ments on the certain placer mining
claim on Long Creek, in the Nulato
Recording District, Territory of
Alaska, known as Buckeye Associa
tion.
That all of said work and improve
ments were required by law and were
put upon said claim in compliance
therewith in order to hold the same
for each said year and thereafter;
That during each said year and at
all times thereafter the undersigned
was and is a co-owner of each said
claim, and if within ninety (90) days
after the ninety (90) day publication
hereof, to-wit: ninety days after the
28th day of April, 1928, you and each
of you do not contribute to the under
signed your proportion of said ex
penditure for each said claim for
each said year, your interest in said
claim will become the property of the
undersigned.
That the sum each of you should
contribute for each said claim for
each said years bears the same rela
tion to one hundred dollars ($100.00)
as your undivided interest in each
said claim bore to the entire interest
in said claim, during each said .year.
ELLA A. CRANE,
Ruby, Alaska.
.First publication, April 28,. 1828; .
last publication, Aug. 4, 1928.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND
DEBTORS.
In the Commissioner’s Court at Opbir,
Innoko) Precinct, Fourth Division,
Territory of Alaska, before Chris
tian Boigen, U. S. Commissioner
and ex-officio Probate.Judge.
Iri the matter of the estate of Hu
bade Hebert, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been duly appointed ad
ministrator of the estate of Huhade
Hebert, deceased.
AU persons having claims * against
said estate are required to present
the same, duly verified, with-proper
vouchers attached, to the undersigned,
at Takotna, Alaska, within six months
from date of this notice.
Notice is also hereby given, toruall
persons knowing themselves to be in
debted to the Estate of the said Hu
bade Hehert that they must make or
give report of same te aforesaid Ad
ministrator within the limits of this
notice.
Dated Takotna, Alaska, May- 4,
H. C. WALLICK,
Administrator.
First publication, .May 5, 1928; last
publication, June 2. 1928._
Frank J. Guskey
Notary Public
McGrath, Alaska
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