'ABLY BOOKING OF TOUR
ISTS DECLARED HEAVIEST
The Alaska Steamship Company at
■o present time has; more advance
: ookings for the 1931 tourist "•asm
han at the same period of an car
n ita previous history, L. W. i'a scr,
ueral passenger and freig e t,
•' Id tke Juneau Chamber if Com
merce a few days ago. And despite
•he general decline in travel ,it car
ried more tourists to Alaska in 1930
han it did in 1929, he added.
Advertising was directly responsi
ble for last year’s trade as it is for
his year’s bookings, Mr. Baker said.
rn 1930 the company spent $5,000 in
.vo magazines and Eastern and Cali
fornia newspapers. This year it has
et aside $20,000 for advertising in
,\velvr nationally circulated maga
zines, newspapers in. the East and
MINK
Clough Sc
Brink
Dark
Interior
Pen-Bred
Wire Orders
Takotna, Alaska
California, and three radio stations.
“Money so spent is the finest th ng
we can d6, for we know that we get
returns from our advertis ng expen
ditures, he'declared, as he ur : he
hamber to continue its own . ..sty
mpagns. “The*tourist - e
f the best \te get, f... ~ of
o stays in the town 'is
pent.”
i LAN GRAZING OF tii
IN LAKE NIPPON. C,s..s , AI PE A
FORT ARTHUR, Ont.—N. H. Di
mond, one of the owners of the Di
mond Reindeer Company of St. Mi
ehaei, Alaska, and Charles Botesom,
owner of the Dimond reindeer ranch
at Grand Marias, Minn., arrived at
Lakehoad to arrange for grazing
privileges in the Lake Nippon area.
They plan to bring 1,000 reindeer
from Alaska soon. They said the
Ganadian climate is suited for the
reindeer and the moss for feed plen
tiful.
ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR
ARCTIC EyPEDITION
CHICAGO.—Donald B. MacMillan,
explorer, today annohnced plans for
an expedition to the north polar re
gion. Baffin Land is the main objec
tive. Glaciers will be stsdied to de
termine the possibility of another
glacier age. The expedition will be
composed of three sections. The first
sailing will be from Wbcashet, Me.,
on Jdne 20. MacMillan will be fol
lowed by Dr. Alexander Forbes of
Boston and Sir Wilfred Grenfell of
London. Three airships v.ill be used
bj' the expedition.
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STUFFS RECALLS EARLY
D .Y IDITAROD NEWSPAPERS
ward Gateway prints the
■ o merest iqg letter .from
D bos, who tells of :tews
e early days of Iditarod:
-Y PARK.—Bdit.tr Gate
way d with mo h interest the
m . n the issue of December 9
”• . :ncey Boyer of Kodiak
. ..tors and printing plai.ts in
Al. ..a.
Alter the passing of George Ar
Lk.civ whose iast work was the
printin gof the Iditarod Pioneer, the
administrator, with gcod intentions
and not much knowledge, sent the
No. 8 mill (Merg) outside and set
-he estate back $400. The Washing
ton hand press, two jobbers and much
material are at Iditarod, or what is
left of it. Mr. Arbucklc, known lo
cal.y as “Buck,” took his outfit to
Iditarod from Chena (pronounced
She-no-a; very lony a) and began
publishing early in 1910. Paper was
made up and ready to go to press
Friday night and run off Saturday
morning. “Buck’s” first, editor was
a young n.an who posed as a lawyer,
but was soon fired for trying to hold
down two jobs at once—writing edi
torials and trying to dry up the
booze supply by consumption.
Major J. F. A. Strong landed at
Iditarod with his printing plant about
July, 1910. He had been printing the
Katalla Herald until the Iditarod
boom. Traffic on the Iditarod river
was handled mostly by gasoline craft
and was badly jammed, so that the
Major had quite a job getting his
plant landed.
As soon as it was landed Major
Strong employed the writer to help
him set up the stands and lay the
cases and get ready for publication.
As the publication day of “Buck’s”
Pioneer was Saturday, the Major de
cided to issue Tuesday, and as we got
started late the first two issues were
brought out between Sunday and
Tuesday.
The new paper was tbe same size
as the Katalla Herald had been, and
when I put the old “head” on the gal
ley to remake it I asked the Major,
who was sticking type, what he was
going to .call the ne winfant. He
studied for * .minute, then said, as he
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Dr. von Zesch
Dentist
Headquarters:
FLAT, ALASKA
Will be in Flat Early
September Until De
cern Her 1.
ITINERARY:
Flat,
Ophir,
Takotna,
McGrath,
Lower KusUohwim,
Bethel.
Du Rand’s I
Cafe and
Hotel
1
Flat City
I
always liked the name of Nugget, he ^
would call it the lditarod Nugget. j
lovbably nothing in any paper in
the North has been talked and writ
11 about as much as the motto of
the lditarod Nugget- This is the
first time I have ever told how the
octo happened. .When I got down
o s he motto L asked the Major what
would be. His reply was: “I don’t
i.n w, Duke; make up une yourself.”
As lditarod wus then a city of
exits, to fil. up the space I set up.
Out of the Moss and Niggerheads
Arose lditarod.” When the Major
; .cad the galley proof of the head he
laughed and said, “That’s fine; we’ll
et it go at that,” but he changed the
last word, so it was run in the paper,
“Out of the Moss and Niggerheads
Arose an Inland Empire.” I
After that whenever "Buck” re-!
ferred to the Nugget he would call it
the “Niggerhead Empire.”
Many wierd stories have been
printed about the origin of the motto,
less accurate the wording of it.
After the Nugget suspended pub
lication the plant, with the exception
of the Washington hand press, was
shipped back to Sea' Me.
The late W. F. 1. nomp ; n of the
Fairbanks News-Miner wus a bril
liant writer, but bedause of nedessity
j his stories were of a local nature and
outsiders could not understand them.
He was less famous than he desrved
t^ be.
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McGRATH, ALASKA
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cho-analysis,”' the late Bishop John
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timore, “is’due.t.O'<his--fhct:l .Psycho
analysis, as-it is intprpteted to us,
tells us that the things- iwa want to
do are the things we ought* to do. V A
very attractive crded.
“Psycho-analysis' rernfnds t-rnie of
the schoolboy who rhads.tA define lib
erty of conscience.
“ ‘Liberty of conscience w-weans
doing -wrong and *not worrying abdut
t afterwards.””
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