Alaska Notes
Gathered From Territorial
Exchanges.
Judge E. -Coke Hill has been hold
ling a term of court at Cordova lately,
it he trial of criminal cases taking up
;a major part of the court’s time there.
In the case of U. S. vs. George To
:leas, in which the defendant was ac
cused of illegal possession of ten bea
wer skins, the jury brought in a ver
idjct of not guilty, after having been
iout only five minutes. Tokeas is a
{trackwalker in the employ of the
•Copper River & Northwestern Rail
road. Ernest Michaelson, charged
with illegal possession of liquor and
sail attempt to bribe an officer of the
♦court, withdrew his plea of not guilty
.-and entered a plea of guilty. He was
.-sentenced to ,a year in the peniten
tiary on the bribery charge and fined
i?250 on each of the four- counts in
.the liquor case. In the case of U. S.
ws. ^Gordon Selmyr, the defendant was
{fined $50 and given a suspended sen
tence of 90 days. In the case of U.
,'S. vs. Chris Johanson the jury
(brought in a verdict of not guilty af
ter deliberating 30 minutes. Frank
•Cunningham, indicted on six counts,
♦charging violation of the dry law.,
(changed his earlier plea of noi guilty
tto guilty, and at the request of his
♦counsel .the court deferred sentence
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for a time to permit Cunningham to
arrange a few business affairs.
The plant of the Trinity Packing
Company at Three Saints Bay, in the
Kodiak district, was destroyed by fire
recently, after having been closed
down for the season." In ddition to
razing the main cam; .iiding the
fire also consumed ?s of sal
mon awaiting shipne ' ;he States.
The loss is estin * about S-10,
000, partially if not .vnolly covered
by insurance. The plant will be re
built next spring.
The Three Saints Bay cannery is
one of the unique cannin goutfits in
the Territory, says .the Anchorage
Times. It is owned in the States, but
notwithstanding the fact that it is
. situated in an isolated area, it is not
necessary to import labor from the;
; States. There .are natives in the vi
| cinity who gather at the cannery
i camp at the opening of the season
! and who are capable through long
, years of service to perform all the
work necessary to operate the plant.
Last seasin the operating head of the
company was the only “outsider” at
i the camp.
j GASOLINE RESPONSIBLE FOR
TRAGEDY AT ANCHORAGE!
i - i
•(Anchorage Times.)
Two members of the Emil Savola!
family are dead and the attractive:
farm home of the Green Lake home-1
steader is in ashes as the result of i
the explosion of - gasoline with which i
Mrs. Savola attempted to start a fire j
in the kitchen stove, thinking it was j
kerosene. Mrs. Savola and Anna, 16- j
year-old daughter of Mr. Savola, were!
fatally injured, both passing away at!
j j the Anchorage hospital during the !
; night, one shortly after midnight and
the other at an early hour this morn
; ing.
Mr. and Mrs. Savola and their
j three children were in town yesterday
afternoon for the purpose of attend
i ing the funeral of the late Onni Tu- i
omi, former neighbor, and it was
shortly after their return to their
; Green Lake home, about five miles i
; north of the city, on the Loop high- j
; way, that the tragedy occurred,
j Mr. Savola, who has not been well
! lately, went to his room as soon as he
I returned home, while Mrs. Savola and
: Anna went into the kitchen to make
j preparations for dinner. Within a
j very few minutes after he had thrown
himself across the bed Mr. Savola
heard an explosion in the direction of
the kitchen and rushed downstairs to
aecertain the cause. When he opened'
the kitchen noor flames burst out atj
him and prevented him from entering.
He then went around to the back of
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the house and found both his wife and
[laughter in the yard, enveloped in
[lames, the daughter ronning about in
a sort of dazed condition, and bis wife
rolling over on the ground in an ef
fort to extinguish her blazing cloth
ing. The frantic father tore the
Nothing from the two and then
plared them in the bark seat of their
automobile and rushed them to the
fiospital, first making sure that the
two younger girls were unharmed.
I’hey were not in the house when the
explosion occurred.
Although suffering terribly from
har burns, Mrs. Savola wanted her
husband to try to save their home,
which by this lime iwas enveloped in
dames, but he realized the serious
ness of the condition-of the fire vic
tims and made all possible haste to
reach the hospital with them
The two-story log house of the Sa
volas, a model of construction and
me of the most .attractive farm
houses in the district,.representing an
investment of upwards of $8,000, was
completely burned, nothing remaining
today but the .cement basement and
the chimney. No insurance was car
ried.
BOAT SCHEDULE CUT FOR
WINTER; TRAINS CHANGE
(Anchorage Times.)
Beginning October 12 and continu
ing throughoutt he winter the Alaska
railroad will operate its passenger
trains between aFirbanks and Seward
on a new schedule. The change does
not mean a curtailment of train ser
vice, being merely a rearrangement
of operations to conform to a new
schedule which the Alaska Steamship
Company and the Pacific Steamship
company will inaugurate next month.
There will continue to be one train
each way every week, but instead ol
arriving at Anchorage from the north
on Fridays the train will reach the
city on Tuesdays southbound, and re
turn from Seward northbound on
Wednesdays, the hours of arrival and
departure being the same as at pres
ent.
Instead of continuing its weekly
service throughout the early part of
the winter, as in previous years, the
Alaska Steamship Company will have
jnly two boats on the Seattle-Seward
run, and the weekly sailing schedule
will be maintained thrnugph a ojint
arrangement with the Pacific Steam
ship Company, which will operate one
aoat on the run, as hvprevious win
ters.
The change in the steamer schedule
is explained in a bulletin issued by
the Alaska Railroad, as follows:
“Effective October 6, 1931, and con
tinuing to and including March 15,
1932, the steamers Admiral Evans,
Alameda and Northwestern will alter
nately sail from Seattle each Tuesday
I
morning, arriving Seward late the
following Tuesday or early Wednes
day. Alaska Steamship Company
steamers will depart Seward south
bound each Wednesday morning. Pa
cific Steamship Company steamers
will depart south from Seward Sun
day morning.
RADIO PHONE INSTALLED
AT MARSHALL, ON YUKON
SEATTLE.pAnauncement) .made by
officers of the United .States Signal
Corps states that the first commercial
radio telephone service in. Alaska was
placed in service Sunday at .Marshall,
on the lower Yukon river. A similar
station is to be installed at. St. Mi
chael shortly.
| There are a.' number .of amateur
j radio telephone stations in operation
! in various ^sections of the Territory
and regular communication is nrnin
; tained between, them.
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I A. H. Twitch 11 returned here Fri
day from.a visit of a few.days at Mc
Gwrth.
"NOTICE.
To Whom It May Concern: !
Notice is hereby given.* that I, the
undersigned, will not be responsible
for any debts incurred or contracted
by -Mrs. Ivar (Helen) Chilstrom.
Takotna, Alaska, Aug. 29, 1931.
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Id the Probate Court for Otter"'Pre
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In thematter of the Estate of Mayme
Wroten. deceased.
No. 69.
Notice of Hearing of Final’ tvccount.
Notice, is hereby given thaftthe ad
ministrator of the above restate has
fil£d his final report in'thfcotPbobate
Court above named and tha&xsiid re
gort will be heard before H’the skid
robate Court for Otter Preefhct, at
Flat, Alaska, on MoftdayJ 'the^ 80th
day of November, 1931, jj' dlclock
p. m. 'of said-day, at which time aind
place all tpersons interested: way ap
pear and show 'cause,, lfiany J they
have.why said -report bshtunlilonot she
approved and confirmed.
TWOS. M. GATtLAND,
Administrator.
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