LOVE CHANT OF BEAVER
TO HIS FAITHFUL MATE
(Cordova Times.)
The love chant of a beaver to its
captive mate led Faddy Walsh, vet
eran trapper, to liberate one of the
animals he had captured recently in
in the Tesanuna country for the
Alaska Game Commission. Walsh
and Jake Harris, both of whom came
ito town yesterday from Mile 75 on
-.the Copper River, had a government
•contract to take live beaver daring
it.he summer for the purpose of stock
ing Kodiak Island.
“Beaver, when you get to know
•them, are more like human beings
than any animal I’ve ever seen," Mr.
Walsh remarked this morning. “When
their babies cry their voices sound
like those of an infant.
“But the most striking thing I wit
messed was on a moonlit night when
we were in camp and had about 16
beaver sitting around in boxes. A
,big male beaver came to a point about
‘20 feet down the stream from where
the boxes were placed, and, sitting
upon its tail, with its forefeet crossed,
it commenced the strangest conversa
tion. As it talked, the beaver in the
iboxes answered it in turn. That fel
low was talking to his mate. We had
.captured her and his grief was evi
• dent. It got the better of me, and I
let her go.”
The trapper explained that when
ibeaver are two years old they mate.
In order for the men to take them
alive it was necessary for the men to
rout them out of their homes after
first stretching a king salmon net
:around the dwelling, although the in
habitants in one instance ran as high
.as 12. One time the men captured a
mother and three babies. Another of
the beaver brought in was a huge
; specimen, weighing over 100 pounds.
“The country along the Copper
river from Mile 31, upstream, is
alive with beaver. We saw many of
rthe houses they had abandoned when
the structures became too old. You
could tell the deserted ones because
there was no brush around them.
“The beaver has a pool near its
door and works all summer dragging
brush there. This freezes over in the
winter, but the brush is beneath in
the water, and the beaver can reach
it to eat. The houses are very com
plete affairs, having two tunnels
reaching down into the water. Above
these is a drying room. There is a
big dining room in the lower part,
while all of the bedrooms are above.
Each beaver seems to have its own
room, where it sleeps in the daytime.
This is equipped with clean, dry hay.
“Beaver are slow and good na
tured and seldom bite, although their
mouth is their only weapon in a
tight. Mostly when they seem about
to take a nip at a person it is only a
bluff.”
The trappers’ principal difficulty
this year was in finding high enough
water in the Tesanuna to get their
boat upstream. They camped on the
fiats, in the midst of the beaver
houses.
Orientation.
“Before prohibition,” said the girl
at the switchboard in the big hotel,
“I w'ould sometimes get a ring from
a room upstairs and a husky voice
would ask: ‘Say, what’s the name of
this hotel?’ Now, I sometimes get a
ring and the same kind of a husky
voice asks, ‘Say, what’s the name of
this city?’ ”—Life.
There’s a Golden Mean.
Be thrifty, but not too thrifty. You
owe your family at least as much as
you owe your descendants.—Houston
Post-Dispatch.
Knew All About Them.
Old Sailor—Yes, m’um, that’s a
man-o’-war.
Lady—How interesting! And
what is that little one just in front?
“Oh. that’s in -t a tug.”
“Oh, yes, of course, tug-of-war.
' I’ve heard of them.”
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F. R. CAMP TELLS OF HIS
FIND ON STONY RIVER
Speaking of Prank B. Camp, well
known Alaskan, who left here several
months ago for Seattle, the Alaska
W* akly says:
“Frank B. Camp, newspaperman,
author of the popular book, ‘Alaska
Nuggets,’ who came south on the
steamer Northwestern, after passing
five years in Alaska, has accom
plished the object of his mission to
the I,and of the Midnight Sun, name
ly, the rediscovery of a placer gold
creek that was found during the
years 1005-6 by Ed Sterling, who hi
those early days was well known in
the Knik country. This creek is lo
cated in the Stony river section of
the Kuskokwim country. Sterling,
employing only a nicker in his opera
tions, took out a small grubstake. He
then went Outside, got into an auto
mobile accident, lost both arms and
was otherwise incapacitated for a life
in the hills. He met Mr. Camp And
gave him a map of the creek and the
surrounding country. Camp, some
two years ago, quite by accident,
found the markings on a tree made
by Sterling. He had killed' a large
marten, and was in the act cif stretch
ing the pelt on this particular tree,
larger than those about it, when he
saw the Sterling markings. For some
ten months Camp was the sole inhab
itant of the creek valley and is well
satisfied with what he found. He
plans to return there late this sea
son.
PUT MORE TEETH IN LIQUOR
LAWS. URGES VOLSTEAD
Granite Falls, Minn.—“The prohibi
tion law is accomplishing fine things,
i and I am strongly opposed to any
[ modifications of its provisions,” An
drew Volstead, author bf the law, de
clared today.
“If the law is changed, it should be
made more stringent rather than
more liberal,” said the representative.
“I have paid no attention to the
brewers' propaganda, but if the modi
fications they suggest include legal
izxition of light wines and beer, I am
beers, I am certain they , will never
receive indorsement of the Anti-Sa
loon League.”
Volstead declared the report of the
Federal ’Council of Churches was a
manifestation of “cold feet.” He ex
pressed confidence that nothing would
come of the liberalization scheme.
.’A' Catching Sign.
A publican had for some time dis
played in the window a card in
scribed “Bitter Bear.”
A stranger entered one day and
drew, the proprk:bor’9 attention to the
spelling.
“Haven't any of your visitors told
you of it before?” ha asked.
“Hundreds of them,” replied the
publican, “bub. whenever , they drop in
to tell me they always spend some
thing.”—London Tit-Bits.
Two of a Kind.
“Story-telling is an art,” said the
kindergarten teacher.
"So is lying,” replied the rounder.
—Cincinnati Enquirer.
With the object of curbing the
trade in spurious pictures, artists in
France are registering their work by
putting their finger prints on the
back of them.
Huh!
"No,” he swore, “it was simply a
stag party. There wasn’t a single
married woman there.”
“Huh!” snapped his wife, who b«
dieved he. had piit one over on her.
"By single married woman do you
mean grass widows?”—Cincinnati
Enquirer.
—
An artificial ice box, that is said to
operate like a coffee percolator and to
generate cold from heat, has been in
vented by two Swedish engineers. The
chest has no movable mechanical
parts. Operation is initiated by heat
that acts as ammonia solution in mo
tion in a small boiler.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the Probate Court at Ruby, Nulatc
Precinct, Fourth Division, Ter
ritor yof Alaska,-before <Aj Day
ton, Alnited States Commissioner
and ex-officio Probate Judge.
In the matter of the estate of
Thomas Byrne, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that'the un
dersigned has been duly appointed ad -
ministratoor of the estate of Thomas
Byrne, deceased.
All persons having claims against
said estate ^ are ..required to present
them, duly verified, with proper
vouchers, attached, to the under
signed, at the United States Commis
sioner’s office, Ruby,, Alaska, withir
six (6) months from date of this no
tice. »
Dated Ruby, Alaska, Nov. 13, 1925
JAMES BYRNE,
Administrator.
JOHN -W. DUNN,
Attorney for Estate.
Laundry
Front Street, Tokotna
Mrs. Fred Dubois - Prop, j
REPORT SAYS OIL FIELDS
EXIST IN THE ARCTIC
Seattle.—Gerald Fitz Gerald, head
of the U. S. Geological Survey party
which spent the last spring and sum
mer in the Arctic investigating the
naval oil reserve, returned to Seattle
on the steamship Victoria this week
fro mNome, and says “ml exists in
the Point Barrow- district and can be
developed economically if the field
will produce on a large scale.”
Continuing, Fitz Gerald said: “We
spent the . ring and summer map
ping the upper Colville river district,
to tally with the unexplored country
and the southwest corner of Naval
Petroleum Reserve No. 4. We mapped
geologically and topographically
seven thousand miles of wholly unex
plored country to determine the ex
tent of the oil area. This we accom
plished. Our mission was to deter
mine the source of the oil rather than
whether it can be produced in paying
quantities. The details of our inves
tigation cannot be given publicity
now. We traveled 1,000 miles by dog
team and 600 miles in canoes.
Fitz Gerald and W. R. Smith, ge
ologist, came from Washington last
March and went into the northern
country by way of Seward, Anchor
age, Nenana, St- Michael and Kotze
zebue. On the way they picked up
Fay Ilelzene and W. R. Blankenship,
mushers, making a party of four.
They went up the Noatak, across the
Brooks range to the headwaters of
the Colville river, and down that
stream to the Arctic ocean.
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