Alaska Notes
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There >s n<- danger of a meat short
age in the Kotzebue district, accord
ing to reports from that section.
Ptarmigan, cover the country in in
numerable thousands, it is said, hav
mg returned after an absence of sev
eral years. Fish are extremely plen
tiful and are being caught m great
abundance. The presence of bird life
leads to the hope that fur will be
more plentiful than in the last few
seasons. Dr. Rex F. Schwartz flew to
Kotzebue from Nome to operate on a
man with a ruptured appi ndjx, The
>poration was successful,
Shipwrecked iiy a whale near the
mouth of Glacier bay wns the exjieri
enne recently of John F. Flagg, wire
less operator, and Joseph Anderson,
both if Hoonah . The .leviathan
smashed the boat—a JQ-fpot gasoline
potyer crafts—to pieces, and. the. occu
pants were glad to escape with then
lives, to the spit ..of a nearby island,
given over to fox,.rai$ing, where they
were marooned for a. day or two.
Flagg and Anderson, left Hoonah in
thejr little vessel, op » fishing and
hupting trip, fin entering Glacier bay
they saw a whale .and., took a shot at
it. ; The mammal .thereupon swam to
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wards the boat. Its occupants, reali
ing their danger, quickly launched
skiff, got into it with a rifle ar
rowed ashore. The whale capsize
the gashoat and then, In lashir
around, broke it into piaces.
Tho final act of the Territory
withdrawal from the fish, hatchei
business took place recently wht
Governor George A. Parks signed
bill of sale formally transferrin
ownership of the hatchery buiidir
at Eyak Lake to the town of Cordov
The other building, formerly used f(
the same work at Ketchikan, wj
transferred to that -Community sc
eral weeks ago. The transfer ws
made under an authorization from t!
Alaska Legislature . which direett
the disposal a* made by the governo
I Alaska is now without any hatchi
! property. The buildings have bet
■ leased for several year.s during whic
time the Territory did no propagatic
nor planting of fish..
1 The diversion of water from tt
head of the Chatanika river to tl
Davidson ditch of the Fairbanks E:
ploration Company has ended for tl
season, freezing weather having m
cessitated the closing of the ditcl
This automatically brings to an eg
for the year the stripping and thav
ing operations of the big compan;
The several dredges of the compan
are continuing operations, and wi
remain on the job as long,as .weatht
permits. The two Cleary dredge
1 are working steadily towards eat
other, one going down, and .when the
lliv-l-l, VM^J M Ul tvtl il U11U *»
hack through ground that was n<
touched ia the first dredging.
I Back from the western .roast c
Alaska, just north of the mo.uth. <
the Kuskokwim river, where some c
the Territory’s most primitive «u
lives make their habitat, Pilot Harr
Blunt, of the Pacify luternatiom
Airways, returned recently to .Anct
orage with a.plane load of gold. If
dian baskets and other curios picke
up along the way.. The gold ,*s
taken aboard at Akiak, being a clear
.up of the New Yark-Alaska dredge o
Bear creek, and numerous of the bas
kets and other things were presente
to him by natives, the majority c
whom had never seen an airplan
previous to his arrival among them.
A. Rasmussen, superintendent c
the Wrangell' schools, shot a blac
wolf recently on the beach in front c
his place, out of Wrangell on th
Shoemaker bay road. The wolf trot
ted out from the woods and crosse
the road in front of his car. The ca
seemed to bother the wolf and it tro1
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v ted along the beach; keeping ahead of
a the car but not crossing back into the
d woods. When in front of his place
d Mr. Rasmussen was able to kill him
g at the first shot.
The Granby Consolidated ’Mining,
's Smelting.& Power Company has put
y into effect at the Anyojc mine and
n smelter a 10 .per cent wage reduction,
a The entire crew of one thousand men
g. is affected. Charles Bocking, superin
g. tendent and general manager, ex
1, plained that the necessity was regret
n ted, but that, the continued low price
is ..of copper made th eaction necessary
- if the company was to remain in pro
is, duction at Anyox. The. Copper Moun
e tain plant of the sajne company near
d Princeton, B. ('., is closed,
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Robert Myers, aged. 6$ years, died
at the aFirbanks,hospital September
30. He was.a pipnepr resident of the
Territory, and, formerly Resided in the
Anchorage district., .
Trial of the criminal. calendar . at
e Juneau was halted recently when
■" George B. Grigsby, attorney for J.
*■“ W. Roberts .indh'tedrfor alleged viola
fion of the Alaska bone dry law, filed
1 a plea in abatement,. attacking the
^ drawing of the grand-jury. The al
legation was made-that .the grand
’ jury, as constituted, was not legally
y drawn and that it was .drawn with-j
" out authority of-law, .and asked that
r the indictment be quashed. It was
IS charged that the grand jury was
^ drawn from a box which did not con-,
J tain at the time of. the drawing the
k names of at least four-fifths of all
^ persons resident of the First judicial
I dibision. who .voted at the last elec-!
| tion; that the said box contained less
f than 1,600 names, while more than
f .5,000 persons voted in the First divi
f, sion in the lapt election.
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FLAT, ALASKA
Will be in Flat Early
September Until De
cember 1.
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Flat,
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Lever Kuskokwim,
FLAT AND IDITAROD
FLAT.—Harry AgolT with .Ed and
John Hooverson, left for Ctdoked
Creek with their big dog team. .
Eli Linn and John Erickson^ ar«
working on quartz property on Gram
ite Mountain.
Scotty Dundas is reported to have,
shod another horse yesterday.
Pilot Monsen of the Pacific Inter
hational left yesterday, with Miss
Helen Rieck for Takotna, and Roy
Matthews for Anchorage.
Dona LaChance and his brother
Wilfred arrived in Flat for the winter
season fro mtheir mine on Willow
creek.
Harry Agoff has completed a pipe
dam on Prince creek.
Ed Hunter* now making his home
in Iditarod, was a visitor to Flat yes
terday.
Joe Loranger has arrived in town
for the winter.
The Pioneer Lodge gave a big
dance Saturday night, and. it was a
huge success. A fine bean lunch was
served at midnight, and the dance
broke up at daylight.
Cap Decker, well known pioneer of
Alaska, has arrived in Flat from Bo
nanza.
Frank Anderson is cutting wood on
Black creek.
Mrs. John Beaton is reported to
have had a narrow escape from injury
when a rock went through a window
of her home, as Alex Mathewson was
dynamiting froen zground where the
Beaton dredge is operating. The
dredge now has passed the Flat
Flat creek cRIhhvbgk vbgk E OIF
creek road, headed up Flat creek.
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| Frank J. Guskey *
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Takotna, Alaska
In the Probate Court for Otter Pre
cinct, Fourth Division of Alaska.
In the matter of the Estate of Mayme*
Wroten, deceased.
No. 69.
Notice of Hearing of Finals Account,
' Notice is hereby given that the ad
ministrator of the above estate has
hied his final report iin. :tnO> Prebate *•
Court above named And that-said re
port will be hdard before :the said .<
Probate Court for Otter «Ptecinct, at
Flatjv Alaska, on Mondaja ^hfc- 30tlr.i
day of November, 19Sl,Tat»W tb’clctek
p. m. of said day« at whibfr itime and
place all persons interested to&yijapt
pear and show -cause, eif Janpv tfaeer.
have, why said report, shduldjwti .jbi-*
approved and confirmed.
THOS. M.‘GAREAN®,^.
Administrator.!.
First publication Aug. :2aj'313®; i.
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