' ALASKA INTERESTS AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
i Continued from Page I.)'
in Mt. McKinley Park. But the Pres
ident has not issued any such order.
The natives of Wrangell have been
fearing foT some time past that the
jf . white men would be allowed to get
title to what has been designated by
the government as “Indian posse
sses.” But their fears may now he
' • dispelled, for a. plat, has been made
showing the, claims, of .the various In
dians, and this has just, been ordered
t' , filed in the LandiOffice at Anchorage.
Commissioner Mhore has directed the
register in .Alaska,.that “This plat ex
hibits a subdivision of Indian posses
sions in Wrangell townsite and was
made foe the purpose of. permitting
the deeding of .said tracts to the In
dian occupants thereof-” J-* A. Ram
sey, chief of field division, will soon
issue the deeds to. the proper claim
ants.
John R» Rjmo secured a radio open
t ator’s license in 1925 and secured his
first position with.Libby, McNeill &
Libby, at, Nushagak.. Later he was
in charge of. KGB.U Station at Ket
chikan, and is now* employed with the
Boeing system Seattle. Last week he
had his name .filed with the civil ser
vice commission - in Washington, to
take the, examination next month for
the. position of assistant inspector,
radio enforcement.
At the Department-of Justice it is
stated that a.successor has not yet
named to. succeed Julius H. Hart, as,
district attorney at Nome, who retires
oq^July. 31. Charles P. Sisson, As
sistant Attorney General (adminis
trative),, has been in Alaska looking
oyer the situation,, and an appoint
menfc.will he announced shortly after
• hia return in August. He will he
somewhat delayed by going to San
Pedro, Calif., where his brother and
a .young son were accidentally, drown
ed while they were out fishing in a
small boat on the Pacific.
The Nushagak area was closed to
« sajmon fishing on July 15, for the rea
son given by the bureau of fisheries
that the run of red salmon was poor,
and there has been no improvement
since, which was a prediction made
long before the season opened. The
area will he opened August 3 for sil
ver salmon fishing.
A blueprint has been received here
of. a proposed laminated highway
from Ketchikan to the top of Deer
mountain, with a descriptive prospec
tus of an observatory with electrical
beacon lights, a golf course and vari
ous amusement features. The moun
tain is Tight back of the town and has
an altitude of 2JJ00 feet. It is he
lieved that the proposed resort, to be
known as Aurora Heights, will prove
a great attraction not only to tour
ists but also to the people of Ketchi
kan and Alaska. It is expected to se
cure the necessary permit for con
struction from the bureau of forestry j
and the bureau of public lands.
A suggestion comes from a former
Alaskan, now residing in California,
that the reindeer question of the
North could easily be settled by ship
ping the animals on hoof to Monterey
and there sold. He believes that the
project could be financed through a
loan secured from the Farm Loan
Bord.
The Federal Radio Commission has
granted license applications in Alas
ka as follows:: Alaska Packers As
sociation, Clarke Point; Hood Bay
Canning Company, Hoqd Bay; Radio
marine Corp. of America, King Cove,
Zachar Bay, Ikatan. All the above
licenses to expire October 15, 1931.
Libby, McNeill & Libby, Libbyville,
modification of C. P. to 200 miles.
A Washington paper the other day
published a four-column cut of seven
Alaska brown bear cubs, & months
old, each taking a refreshing- drink
these warm days from bottles of milk.
The cubs were being fed by their
owner, Richard Crowe, of Wayne, N.
J., and their deightfu tricks attract
many visitors.
Brother George U. Fetes, the “Fly
ing Jesuit,” started last week in his
plane on his transcontinental air jour
ney to the interior of Alaska, where
he will serve 27 missions, one of
which is within the Arctic circle.
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INTERESTING NOTES.
The motion picture business holds
fifth place among the largest indus
tries in the United States.
There are now about 2,000,000,000
people in the world and the number
i is growing at the rate of about 50,
1 000 a day.
More than 385,000 passengers were ;
| carried in airplanes following 34 ma
; jor routes in tKe United States last
i year, an increase of 133 per cent over
' 1929.
Be Definite.
Sambo—What time do dis train get
to Jackson?
Conductor—Four-five a. m.
Sanibo—Yassuh, but how long ’fo
ve?—Capper’s Weekly.
| Patron: “May I have some- sta
tionery?”
Hotel Clerk (haughtily): “Are you.
a guest of the house?”
Patron: “Heck, no. I am paying
$20 a day.” |
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NOISE OF CIVILIZATION
DRIVES OLDTIMER BACK
TO POINT BARROW HOME
(Portland Oregonian.)
Civilization is all right ior those
that like it, but not for diaries De
Witt Brower, 7Q, founder and notable
citizen of the town of Point Barrow,
Alaska—the jumping-off place for
Arctic explorers.
“In fact,” he said, “1 don’t like it
I’ve been down in the States since last
fall and I’ve had enough of it. I’m
ready to go home and stay for a
while. People move around too much
in the cities down here. People are
always bustling around and making
noise.”
That doesn’t mean Mr. Brower is
an uncouth visitor from the wilds.
The truth is, he sits in a place of
honor at the Explorers’ Club in New
York City, with his dress shirt shin
ing, with quite as much aplomb as
the next man.
He is a friend of Steansson and Sir
Hubert Wilkins, and of practically
every explorer and adventurer of the
American arctic. He was a close
friend of Amundson and Ben Eielson.
He has fitted out many of the expe
ditions into the northern sea..
“It’s just that I don’t care for it
down here,” he continued. “You see,
I went into Northern Alaska in 1884,
which is 47 years ago. In another
three years me and Northern Alaska
will celebrate our golden wedding an
niversary.
“I went there as a lad of 23 for a
San Francisco concern to locate some
coal for the whaling ships. That first
year I made 3,000 miles, mostly by
dog sled, and I was the first white
man ever to go through that northern
Alaska country. The coal proposition
didn’t work out, but I was sent back
to establish a whaling station at.
Point Barrow.
“Those were the old whaling days,
with the whaling ships thick on the
sea. Sometimes, there were wrecks,
and I had to look after the survivors
until they could he taken away. One
winter I had seyeral hundred men
saved from whaling ships.
“But women quit wearing whale
bone corsets, and whales became
scarce, and the fleet dwindled away.
It has entirely disappeared now. Then
we gave ourselves over to fur gather
ing and the inland trade. In 1906
Amundsen made his first appearance
at Point Barrow, and since then it
has been the North American head
quarters for. explorers.
“Sir Hubert Wilkins took off from
my front yard in his flight over the
Pole in 1926. It was while he was
there that the Norge made its flight.
Sir Hubert had kept in touch with it
by radio, and we had it timed within
ten minutes when we saw it appear
in the sky to the north, like a giant
cigar. It appeared in a bright blue
patch in the sky, and I never hope
to see anything more beautiful. It
passed within six miles of us and ran
into a storm to the south.
“I saw Sir Hubert in New York a
TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NfiNANA AND FLAT
Miles
Nenana _ 00
Tavern Roadhouse . 17%
Knight’s Roadhouse . 23%
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse. 68 ..
Diamond Roadhouse ..76
Roosevelt . 89
Lake Minchumina..116
Trappers’ Cabin . 132
Lone Star Roadhouse . 166
Telida Roadhouse . 169%
Slow Fork Roadhouse. 187
East Fork Roadhouse .) 206
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse. 227%
Big River Roadhouse.241
McGrath -- 263
Takotna .. 280
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse _ 291
Ophir ..300
McCafferty .306
Brown Creek shelter cabin_318
Fritz shelter cabin .. 333
First Chance shelter cabin _ 346
iSchermeyer R. H. .. 360
Iditarod.-...376
Flat ..._..... 384
Bonanzza sheler cabin, 12 miles
from Flat.
Crooked Creek shelter eabin, 19
miles from Bonanza.
few weeks ago, before he started
across the Atlantic. He wanted me to
go along on the Nautilus, but I’m a
bit too old. I’d like it, but I wouldn’t
be much use. By the way, Sir Hubert,
as you see by the pictures, still has
his beard. At Point Barrow we kidded
him so much that he cut it off. That’s
the only time I ever saw him clean
shaven.
“There’s a lot of work to do up
home. I spend a good part of my
time making collections for the mu
seums in the States, and I have been
working on a history of Northern
Alaska, which is also a history of my
own life.
“It’s nice and quiet at Point Bar
row, and it’s home. There’s the
United States Signal Corps man, his
wife and child; the mission doctor and
i his wrife; myself and my cook, Fred
: Hopson—-that makes up about all the
white population. Fred, by the way,
; has been my cook for forty years, and
he is the most famous cook in all the
| North. Besides us there are a few
hundred Eskimos.”
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT.
Estate of Joseph Lewis, deceased.
Mattie Crosby has been appointed
and qualified as administratrix of the
estate of Joseph Lewis, late of Kus
kokwim Precinct, Fourth Division,
Territory of Alaska, deceased.
Dated at Napamute this 6th day of
June, A. D. 1913.
GEO. W. HOFFMAN,
Probate Judge of said Precinct.
1st pub. June 27; last, July 25.
I Frank J. Guskey !
Notary Public J
$ Takotna, Alaska
Pompous: “You have askqd for ipy;
daughter’s hand in marriage! What,,
may I ask, are your financial pros
pects?”
Prospectus: “We have an income
of about $11,000 a year.”
Pompous: “Well, that’s not so bad.
With my daughters’ allowance of
$10,000 annually, you ought to be
able to get along.”
Prospectus: “Yes, sir; I—I—in
1 eluded that.”
Curse of Success.
“What’s the cause of her unpopu
i larity ?”
“She won apopularity contest.”
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