"HE KUSKO TIMES
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TOKOTNA, AL.ASKA. MAY 10, 1924
Morningside Hit Hard
by Anchorage Marshal
Anchorage Times.
Rack from escorting two insane per
rons to tbe privately-owned sanitarium
naarPortland, Ore., where Alaskans
who have been adjudged insane are
‘■treated” under the contract system,
Harry J. Stasar, deputy marshal, said
today he would rather attend a man’s
funeral than to place him in Morning
aide.^
Deputy Staser said that the unfortu
nate inmates of the Morningside hos
pital, which is operated by Dr. W. W.
Coe, .are herded together like sheep
*nd that their care seems to be a sec
ondary consideration of the maoage
aaentjOf the sanitarium.
’’Right now there are 273 unfortu
atte'Alaskans in Morningside,” said
Mr. Staser “and very few of them ever
come,out. The government pays $48
per iponth per patient, for the care of
ibese Northerners, but any visitor to
ihs sanitarium can see that something
is radically wrong with the institution.
Whether it is the contract system or
lha superintendent, or both, I don’t
inow, but I would rather bury a man
'■ban fiend him to Dr. Coe’s place.”
Alaskan s Daughter
Receives $5,000 Estate
Seattle.—How Mrs. J. lh. White, of
Brooklyn, mother of five children, re
ceived a little fortune from ber father.
John Corcoran, who died at thereof
75 ia his cabin near Woodchopper,
Alaska, on October 18. 1920, waa toid in
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superior cpurt before Judgq C. V. Dyk.
man, yesterday.
After Corcoran'e death, gold seekers
plundered his cabin. Early in Decem
ber the Dexter Horton Bank of Se
attle received a letter from W. D. Mc
Laughlin, a friend of Corcoran, who
waa then at the head of the Charley
river, beyond the Arctic Circle, saying
that Corcoran wrote a will a month be
fore his death and that McLaughlin
witnessed it.
As a result of McLaughlin’s letter
$f>,000 was found on deposit in the bank
to the credit of Corcoran. His daughter
was found after loog search.
I Shipments of Beaver
During Closed Season
Seward Gateway.
Since the closed law has been estab
lished on beaver in Alaska inquiries
have been made as to whether beaver
ooula be shipped out during the closed
season. This question was taken up
with the Bureau of Biological Survey,
and we quote below a letter received
from the department
“We note your request for inforraa
| tion regarding the shipment of beaver
skins from Alaska because of the closed
season on the animals during the pres
ent trapping year.
“There is no regulation in effect in
regard to shipping beaver skins from
the Territory, and you have nothing to
fear in handling these skia9 at any
time of the year. In promulgating the
closed season it was not deemed advis
able to provide for any affidavit or
statement to be suomitted accompany
ing shipments, as it would result in
much confusion and misunderstand
ing’’
From this we understand that beayer
pelts that were on hand before the
closed season began can be shipped out
of Alaska and tbet we are at liberty to
offer and sell such skins.
Belligerent Bull Now
Beef and By-Products
Chicago.—Flatfoot, an enormous bull,
is now prime beef and by products, but.
a few hours before a butcher tapped
him between the horns with a mallet
he staged a performance that will be
the talk of the Rowley Packing Com
pany, offices in Racine, Wis., for many
days.
Flatfoot was about to be led to the I
saoriSeial altar, when he turned and
pursued Harry Rowley, president of
the company, up a flight' of stairs.
ROwley dodged through a partition,
but the bull, carrying the partition on
his - horns, kept’ coming. Rowley
dropped behind an adding machine,
but the bull hit the machine ODe wal
lop and the tape showed a total of
7,411,094 on the charge.
■ Rowley dived through a second par
tition and Platfoot removed the parti
tion. An advertising man managed to
divert the attention of the bull until
Rowley and other attaches could get
out on the fire escapes, but a stenog
rapher, wearing a hectis red waist,
was revealed when Fiatfoot overturned
a filing cabinet.
The girl darted down the stairs, with
the bull in hot pursuit. She lodged
into a doorway, and the maddened bull
crashed head-on against the brick
walls. While he was recovering from
the dace, a butcher patted him on the
head with an iron mallet, removed the
glass partitions and other souvenirs
from his horns and transplanted him
imo beef.
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
Iditarod, Alaska,
LAWYERS!
Frastifa in all Courts
Alaska News Notes
Howard Sheehan, 22. was taken into
custody recently at Anchorage, charged
with grand theft from the Parsons
hotel of fox furs valued at *1,500, the
property of Hjahnar Evan*. Sheehan
went to Evans and told him he knew
who stole the 47 fox skins and told him
he would recover the skins if Evans
would pay him *200. He explained to
Evans that the thieves had confided in
him and that he knew all about things.
Evans summoned E. R, Tarwater, cash
ser of the Bank of Anchorage, and the
three were driven out the Lake Spe
nard road. At Chester creek, uear the
old brick yard, Sheehan said, “Here it
is,” and the auto halted. Sheehan led
the way to the fur cache, a hole in the
bank about 200 feet irons the railroad.
Sheehan was later taken into custody.
He protested his innocence, but the au
thorities say Sheehan was seen at the
Parsons hotel the night of the robbery
and that he was also seen at Chester
creek the same day.
The' plan to can salmon heads od a
large scale and to use the product as
food for foxes will be considered at a
meeting of the Southwestern Alaska
fur farmers to be held at Kodiak early
in June. In the meantime W. T
White, assistant in charge of Alaska
agricultural stations, is endeavoring to
secure data regarding the cost of in
stalling machinery and containers for
the canning of salmon heads and re
jected fish to he used as fox food, the
containers to be of two and five gallons
in sise.
Bread made from wheat grown with
in seven miles of Dawson was placed on
sale id the restaurants of that place, a
few days ago. The quality of the bread
was declared to be equal to that made
from No. 1 northern. The wheat was
growu on the experimental iarm, with
3 yield of thirty bushels to the acre,
and the flour sells locally at 810 per
hundred.
F. A. Hansen, formerly superintend
ent of maintenance of way for the
Alaska railroad, has been named su
perintendent of the Copper Diver rail
way, with headquarters at Cordova.
He succeeds Caleb Corser, who re
signed several months ago.
According to word received at Fair
banks, E.M, Sutphen, a sourdongh of
the Koyukuk district, is seriously ill at
Wiseman, and steps have been taken,
to send him to the Pioneers Home.
Claude Shea has been appointed spe
cial agent for the prevention of the
sale of liouop to Indians, succeeding
Dr. J. Lindley GCeen, with headquar
ters at Seward.
Max Simel
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