Alaska Notes
Gathered From Territorial
RxrJtangea.
After adopting a resolution provid
Jng for the construction of u promi
nent moniinicnt to Alaska Pioneers,
'the Grand Ik loo convention adjourned
•on February 2d, and the delegates be
!gan the long mushes to their homes
'throughout the Territory.
The next convention will be htld in
'Anchorage on March 4, 1030.
Officers elected include: President,
‘Paul Rickerl, of Fairbanks; first vice
president, Dr. W. II. Chase, Cordova;
second vice president, Herman
'Gcntsch, Anchorage; secretory, Geo.
>Love, Valdez; treasurer, Cul Brosius,
•‘Seward.
The first halibut of the season, 65,
1000 pounds from 11 boats which were
)at sea only three or four days, was
’shipped south from Juneau on the
; steamer Queen, a few days ago. The
Ihnlihut sold at 14c to 8.1c and 13 1-2
'to Oc. Most of the fish were of me
• dium size.
One of the lurgest sized and best
:nirplane landing fields in Interior
.Alaska will be opened up at McKinley
tPark. This will enable ships from
■ Fairbanks to go in from the east, on
Itheir way to the Kantishna and Kus
Ikokwim sections. The route is said
• to be-shorter, safer and to have more
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landn.a.—. ai.u a greater amount of
visibility than any other route. Ships
from Anchorage will also use this
route in traveling to Nome, Iditarod
and Kuskokwim, as they will have a
lower divide, better landmarks and
more visibility, 'fhis point on the rail
road is said to be many hours’ flying
time nearer all Western Alaska for
both freight and .passengers.
Friends gathered at .the chapel of
the Anchrage Funeral parlors a few
days ago to pay their respects to the
memory of Alexander (Sandy) Wil
son, highly respected ami widely
known oldtinier of the North, whose
death occurred at th$ Anchorage hos
pital a couple of days previous, fol
lowing u stroke, the third sufFered by;
him during his many years of resi
dence in the North.
Alexander Wilson was born in the
State of Maine,in the year 1856. lie;
moved to Colorado in .1893, and wasi
engaged in mining and freighting,
there until the Klondike strike, when
he went to Dawson, arriving there in
1898. He stampeded from Dawson to
Fairbanks in 1906, and went from that
camp to Valdez creek, and then to the
Iditarod district. He mined and
freighted in the North , and was
known in all the camps as a man of
the highest integrity.
Washington. — Appropriations for
roads nnd trails in Alaska for the
next fiscal year have been fixed at
$800,000 by the action of the House
and Senate conferees on the army ap
propriation bill and the adoption of'
these figures by the House. The bill!
as originally passed by the House car-!
ried $500,000 for Alaska roads and
trails. The Senate increased this to,
$1,000,000. O nthe plea of Senator
Jones of Washington the conferees!
agreed to compromise on $800,000. j
Seattle—Twenty thousand Alaska ]
reindeer, almost double the shipments;
of last year, will be distributed from i
Seattle this year by the Lomen Rein
deer Corporation of Seattle, Carl Lo
men, president, announced today.
With the development of the Lo
men corporation Seattle will become
the world’s largest reindeer distribut
ing -point. The last-shipments doubled
those of 1927. Lomen says the rein
deer herds in Alaska by this July will
number a million head, of which the
Lomen Reindeer Corporation owns i
200,000.
The indictment against John Bur
chard was dismissed in the district
court at Fairbanks a few days Itgo on
motion of the United States attorney
by reason of the fact that the judg
ment in the commissioner’s court at
Tanami committing Burchard to a
yevar in the federal jail for violation i
of the dry law included the charge;
upon which he was indicted.
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The indictment charged Borchard
with assault and battery upon the
person of his wife. Burchard there*
upon was released from jail, having
completed his sentence.
TOWNSIE MAT BE LAID
out at McKinley park
Seward.—It is reported here that
the General Land Office will shortly
iay out a townsite at McKinley Dark
and sell lots at auction. With the
building at the Park of a large hotel
by the Alaska Railroad, an aviation
field and expenditure by the Alaska
Rood Commission and Park Service of
$100,000 for roads, the future for the
Park is bright.
Mr. and Mpe. Warren Alford were
among Wednesd&jcarrivals, after hav
ing traveled fro Nenana with Jo
Oates, father of Mrs. Alford.
Mail Currier (Charlie O’Halloran,
bringing tbe incoming mail, arrived
Tuesday, and continued on his way on
Thursday.
Eli Walker,<dfter a day*in town, re
turned to McGrath on,Thursday.
Manager Frank Gufekey, of the N.
C. Co., returned to McGrath on Wed
nesday, a passenger of Henry Mar
tella.
Charlie Goebel artd '■'Owen Gray,
after a few days in 'town, left for
their Spruce .headquarters, on Satur
day.
Oddie HoHson, 'game warden, re
turned here Tuesday from McGrath,
and left Tharsday for Ophir on his
way to his headquarters at Bethel.
Mail Carrier''Charlie'Konig, with
the outgoing mail, arrived Thursday,
and continued to McGrath on Friday.
Ivar Chilstrom -returned Saturday
from a trip to McGrath
Some Speed.
Mosc Jackson, black, was up before
a magistrate for assault.
“What’s your name?” asked the
judge.
“Well, judge,^your honah, ev’ywhere
Ah go they gives me a new name, but
mah maiden name < was Mese.”
“Tell us, Mose, did you strike this
man in an excess of irascibility?” the
lawyer for the prosecution asked.
“No, boss, Ah done hit him. in the
stummick.”
“Now, Mose, tell us what he did
after you hit him,” pursued* the pros
ecution, which wanted to prove that
Mose’s blow had incapacitated the
plaintiff.
done ran.”
“You say he ran?”
“Yessah, yessuh, -he done ran all
right.”
“You’re sure he Tan?”
"Ah sure is.”
“Well, did he run fast?”
of agriculture.
“Did he run fa—say, boss, ef dat
culled man had a had just one pin
feather in his hand he’d a flew!”
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Hopeless.
The minister had been talking to
the little son of a neighbor.
“It grieves me very much, my
young friend,” he remarked, “to hear
you say that you pray for your moth
er arid not for your father. Now, tell
me the. reason.”
“What’s the use?” returned 'the
boy. "Mama -says that dad is beyond
all hope.”
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