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-4 message of encouragement for
Alaska was uttered'* few nights ago
byl Ernest. Walker Sawyer, executive
assistant to-Secretary of the Interior
^ ^bur, who • i n an; address made: at
tha banquet given in his honor by the
Fairbanks fSammerciaJ Glub revealed,
that the administration’s attitude to
ward the Terriory . is very sympa
helic and that” everything- possible. t»
•id the country will be done, says the.
FBairbanfcs MewviiMiner;.
Mr. Sawyer dwelt particularly with
Inferior conditions and problems, and
in ithe course, of his remarks outlined
plqns for, the most ambitious series
of <Aretie flights ever projected. Fair
bahks will be the base for the Arctic
work which is to be carried on by the
gi«nt German dirigible Graf Zep
pelin. .
Two months each year .for an un
disclosed number of. years the Zep
pelin will fly out from Fairbanks. It
will first be necessary, however, to
sr«ct a mooring mast here,, and those
interests are now preparing for the
masts construction.
P’onr. hundred and fifty acres will'
beLrequired for the-Zeppelin station,
hut no,-trouble is anticipated.in secur
ing-a '.sufficiently- targe area to serve
alh_n*»eds.
Lesten D_ Hencterson; whose term
}f.« office as. Territorial Commissioner
of«Education expires on June 30, left
Juneau, a few days ago for Berkeley,
Calif. He was accompanied by Mrs.
Henderson and daughter Joyce. Mr.
H&darson-will spend the ;next year
at; the University of California in
r -poft graduate work, specializing in
education.
The family will establish a resi
dence in Berkeley and remain there \
during his stay at the University. He;
hafe made no. definite plans beyond
that period.
Mr. Henderson, who organized the
department of education in Alaska,.
hafe been--in; control of it for the last
12.,years.. He.failed of re-election this
spring*„ the board of education elect
ing L. W. Brewer, superintendent of
-,h*i. Cordova schools last year. Mr.
Briewer is no win Seattle, but will re
tutn to Juneau early in July to take
aver the duties of his office. .
Game Wtfrdan. Sam- O White, sta
[ tictoed ..at Fairbanks, was painflly,
iufcned on the hands and burned to a
easer extent- about the face a few
ya ago when a half gallon of gasct
b. contained in, an open can near j
which he was standing exploded. The j
gasoline in the cane was exploded j
-when fumes which had traveled ten'
feet away to a smudge kettle were!
ignited. The. flames traveled across j
the intervenihg distance so rapidly
that Mr. White’s first intimation . of'
what had happened, came when he j
was enveloped in a blinding mass of!
flames.
He ran out of the flaming area and j
managed to beat out the fire before
his clothing began to blaze. Harold,
Woodward, who was nearby, seized a1
fire extinguisher and put out the fire
which had started to blaze on Mr.
White’s motorcycle. The latter was
using the gasoline go; dean the ma
chine when the explosion occurred.
In a single-handed raid,,Fred Han
dy, prohibition officer, surprised Char
lie Frase distilling liquor at. a large
moonshine outfit in the woods at the
head of Hidden Bay, on Prince of,
Wales Island. He .arrested Fraser,
seized a quantity of moonshine, and
burned two buildings to the ground.
Chartering a private boat, Handy
went to Hidden Bay. When he ar
rived at the scene. Fraser was inside
a two-story, building with the distil-1
lovir running -full Klact HtmHv
ed until Fraser had finished the run
and when he stepped outside the still
hohse placed him under arrest. . The
still had a capacity of 150 • gallons,
and when tested by Handy was capa
ble of turning nut-nne gallon of
moonshine in six minutes. There
were 245 gallons of finished moon
shine and a large quantity of mash,,
all of which were destroyed except
two kegs of lisuor and the still, whirh
were taken to Ketrhikan for evi
dently .
Two shots were.'fired, more than
250 bottles of intoxicating liquor
seized and one man -*was arrested in
a raid by the marshal’s office on the
second floor of the Davenport Hotel,
reports the Ketchikan Chronicle. The
shots- were fired when Cecil “Little!
Mac" McLellan, refused to halt when?
ordered to do so by the officers.
McLellan was leav ing the v Dastenr
port Hotel when the marshals ar
rived with a search warrant. . mf \v
rived, armed with a search warrant.
Disregarding a. command to halt, he
dashed away, and Deputy Marshal C.
V. Brown fired two shots from his
pistol. Brown said that he fired the j
shots “in the air'’ -ami not at McLel
lan, who was placed under arrest
when,he returned a short time later.
McLellan was chaged in commis
sioner’s court, under the Alaska bone
dr yact with possession of intoxicat
ing liquor in an information filed by
Walter King, assistant United States
attorney. Earl.Byers, owner.of the..
81 Taxi, and June Carrol also were
named in the information and war
rants were issued for their arrest.
Compehensive weather reports cov
ering’ the country from Cordova on
the south and Point Barrow on the
north are now being received atFair
banks through the agency of the
United States Signal Corps for use
by local airplane companies.
Reports are eing received twice
daily, giving all information concern
ing weathe at the points from which
tney an? sent. On* arrival of Howard
J. Thompson to establish the Fair
banks aerological station the reports
will be used in making' weather fore
casts.
To superintend the loading of min
ing- machinery on the steamer Yukon,
Frank G. Manley, prominent interior
mining man, and J. T. Logan left for
Nenana recently. The principal item
in the machinery is a big dragline
purchased by Mr. Manley ■ ■ several
years agp from the' Alaska Railroad.
Mr. Manley and Mr'. Logan are as
sociated in a mining project On This
tle creek, in Yukon'Territory, where
they are said to control nine miles of
ground, and the machinery will' be'J
shipped, there.'
Mrs. Henry LoTir suffered a frao
tured skull and an injury to a finger,,
and Ml-sr Earl "Young was severely
bruised in arc automobile accident
which occurred at.the turn just west
of Bently’s ranch, 'near Fairbanks, a
few days ago. v
LONE BANDIT ESCAPES
WITH $17,000 FROM BANK
BERKELEY, Calif., June 23.—.An.
unmasked bandit, armed with a small
pistol, entered • the. Dwight Way
ranch of the Bank of America after
closing hours and leisurely robbed
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Peter Davey, his heirs and afer.
and assigns: ■
You, and each of you, are hereby j
notified that I, the -undersigned, your<
co-owner, have expended in labor and '
improvements the sum of not less i
than one hundred dollars for the:
years 1921, 1922, 1923,. 1924“,: 1925,
1926, 1927,. 1928 and 1929 upon placer
mining, claim No. 3 Above , Biscovery
on Esperanto creek, a tributary of
Madison creek, in the. Innoko Mining
and Recording Precinct, Fourth divi
sion, Territory of Alaska, in order to
hold said claim under the provisions
of Section 2324 of the. Revised Stat- •
utes of the United Staes and the
amendments thereto concerning an
nual labor upon mining claims, being
the amount required to hold said min
ing claim for the period June 30,
1930.
And if, within ninety days after the.
publication of this notice, you fail or
refuse to contribute your proportion
of said expenditure, as. well as the
cost of recording the same, and the
costs of this advertisement, your in
terest in said claim will become the,
property of the undersigned, your co
owner, who has made the required
expenditures under the terms of said
Section 2324 of the Revised Statutes
of the United States.
JOHN KRIEGER,
• Co-Owner.
First publication May 4, 1929: Jast
Aug. 2, 1929.
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McGrath, Alaska
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five depositors and three employes of
sums totaling $17,000. The bandit es
caped in an automobile driven by a
confedesate. Two thousand dollars
belonged to customers, and the rest
was the batik’s receipt? for the day.
Mrs. George W. Clyde departed
Tuesday for Ganes creek, where Mr.
Clyde is at present located.
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