Liwitftnaut^Cotoiwl Prank d. Griffin^
recently succeeded Col. Hartman
M.t.he*d'°*-the Washington-Alaska
Military Cable and Telegraph System.
sp**t a^fMrdajwin Fairbanks recent,
^accompanied by Mrs. Griffin^
C61o*iel'.Griffin expressed himself as
betnq v/avocably. impressed with, the
coentry... To the; Fairbanks News
Miner lie ' said tha’main need as he
sees it 4* fo ran incsease m popola
tion, and in this connection lie com
mdndaiMihtf eokmiaatioa. program of
General Manager Otto F. Ohlson <rf
thi Alaska. Railroad*. •
Questioned' concerning" the^ pessibiU
itji of the cabk cable, .system .being
supplanted by radio, of which, there
hat been seme dismission, 6ol. Griffin
said he did not believe 'this would oc -
cut. ThW cable* line* between Seattle
and Seward -is functioning veryi effi
eitfntlyv 3ie^<aid. and has 'pronounced
advantages over radio. In the last
fivte years>4heie vhave *been 'only four
brloks in the cable-and three of tht><u>
wtVe' in harbors.>
The--Signal .Gor.psr-is constantly re
quested to establish tiewi .stations in
AbbkaiXbL'firiflki.SBidi but much as
thfey 'would like to extend the system
*.h*y hre ^Wot-alwayprafale rto do so* It
is *not' weneratty understood* he eon,
tirtupA, thaWthe-operations in Alaska
art conducted-ati*loss to the Govern*
mint but that the . service is- carried
on* to aid in.developing the. Territory.
Rates are lower than in the States
and the- service baa- reached a high
point of'efficiency* .
Whoa ashed whether it. waa.fiis in
tention to- continue the-Point Barrow
station,. CoL Griffin answered emphat
ically in., the. affirmative. Although
the .station has. been established less
than a. year, it has already resulted in
a saving, to .American agriculture of
millions of dollars, .hehas. been told
by* weather huseau officials. Weather
forecasts, throughout the . United
Sthtes are .now based largely pn • the
daily, reports received from .Barrow.
Coh aad Mm. Griffin were .guests of.'
tehor of i the .executive committee of
tha Fairbanks. Commercial Club at,a
luAcheon. ..
Cchiaplftioa-of th eAnchorsge. light
IrfPower- Company’s - hydro-electric
eonstrustida program. at Eklutna can
bei expected about the 1st of July* ac*.
sotdiag to*Fraak. L Reed* head -of the
company*
Thfc;188fcfobt> tunnel has now been
driven AMfcfaol, leaving, ihceoropar* ■
■Uvely/shOvtt.distance of .820 feet yet
tolgo. ■ Th* peaatook is practically in i
“position. Concrete. for the plant
foundation. is being poured and as
soon as the material arrives for the
power house the crews now at work
on the dam .and penstock will be com
nfried- on power-house construction*
The steel- for the structure- and the
big turbine- which .will operate the
generator have been, shipped from
the States.
' Charles E. Taylor, .of the- firm of
j Albrecht and Taylor, Fairbanks law
| firm, left for Nome recently t aact as
United States attorney during the
forthcoming court term there, called
for July 8. Mr. Taylor previously
Served the Second division as assist
; ant district attorney, necessitated by
j the. illness of U. S.. Attorney ■ Fred
Harrison.
t A Chandler sedan which was sold
| by the U. S. Marshalls office in Fair
banks this spring , has recently .been
| the subjected of a hotly contested
| legal battle in the. commissioner’s
court there*. The can car? says the
• News-Miner? which had been left in
the town by Mort Cass, owner of a
local taxi service, when he. went Out
side, was attached -during his absence
by Mrs. Susie A. Stewart and upon a
court ■ judgment being obtained was
sold by the marshal to a party repre
senting Mrs. Stewart. Recently Mrs.
v.oss repievieu uie car. ana pm up
' bond to secure possession. This ac
tion -was i followed by Mrs. Stewart
putting- up a redelivery bond, which
■ gave her possession, once more..
Mrs. Ben Evans;-school-teacher at
Wainwright, died on *May 23.from an
attack of pleurisy. Point Barrow
teachers rushed medicine and the doc
tor at Kotzebue wired instructions to
' Wainwright, hut to no avail.
The hody. of Mrs. Evans was. buried
at Wainwright. Mr. Evans will carry
on the school work there during the
coming year;
Rumors o fa smallpox epidemic at
Point Barrow, Wainwright and Cape
Beauford are ungrounded, according
to recent advices,,which state .‘that;
health conditions .ire • fine at. those,
places.- .
Alaska far seal .skins, .taksaLon -the
Pritrilof Islands last season. . neitrtk
the Government the sum ..of- . $469,- j
442.50 ata.public auction-held r.ecentr
ly in St. Louis, it was stated by. the
DDepartment of Commerce. Alto
gether 15,224 ‘skins ware-sold it the
• auction;' , 9,834. • skins-; dyed -logwood
broWn (Boise de Campeche) brought.
$354,456* tha regular skins- of this dye '
selling, at an average of $38.38 each,!
and scarred and faulty skins at an.
average of $27.10; 5,334 black-dyed
skins-sold fdr.$T14,973.50, the regular
skins at an average of $33.92, and six
miscellaneous skins brought $13. At
the tast preceding sale on October 15, |
11)28, logwood brown skins of the reg
ular class averaged $51.35 and thf?
regular blacks averaged $29.81. The
regular logwood brown skins declined
2 per cent, and the regular blacks ad
vanced 18 per cent, at the sale of
April 9.
W. J. KefFer, electrical foreman at
the Hirst-Chicaircdb mine, in South
eastern Alaska, was electrocuted re
cently as a result.of touching a heavy
duty wire in the. transformer house.
He had just, completed the installa
tion of a transmission .line which is
to carry power from the Chicagof
Mines, Ltd., to the Hirst-Chicagof
property, and was showiag ,e book
keeper one point in- the transformer
house where he bad. insulated the line
so that it would.ba^safe.for -anyone to
touch. By way of demonsttration
Keffer put his hand on the insulated
line, which carried 6,50© volts,., and
was killed almost instantly,. .
i H. L. Reed, representing ,the Alas
: ka branch of the Piggly Wiggly com
j pany, arrived in. Cordova recently for
| the purpose of looking over the field
there with the' idea of establishing
one of the chain grocery stores in
Cordova. They ara at -pr.esent operate
ing at Ketchikan, .Juneau and Peters
burg, and expec tt oope nstores at
Cordova, Seacard, Anchorage.. , and
Fairbanks.
Stanley . Krasso, who was., found
j guilty of violating the prohibition law
at Juneau, on four counts, possession,
manufacture and possession of prep
erty. designed for the manufacture of
liquor, was given <a. sentefiee of im
prisonment for .one year and fined
$500 by Judge -E. Coke HUL .
Cliff A mess was. arrested recently
at Petersburg on a. charge of driving
an automobile while under the influ
ence of . liquor and was. sentenced. to
jail for six monthd1 .
NOTICE-OF FORFEITURE. .
tTo Peter Davey, his heirs, and as
and assigns:
You, and ^ch of yqn, are hereby
notified: that. I, the. undersigned*.your
co-owner, have expanded in iahor and
improvements the sum of not less
than one hundred, dollars for. r that
years 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925,
1926, 1922* 192& and 1929.unqn. placer
mining claim No. 3 AboyeDiscovery
on Esperanto creek,, a tributary, of
Madison creek, in the Innoko Mining
and Recording Precinct, Fourth divi
sion, Territory of Alaska, in order to
hold said claim under the provisions
of Section 2324 of the Revised Stat
utes of. the..United. Staes and,, the
amendments thereto concerning, an
nual labor upon mining claims, being
the amount required to hold said min
ing claim for the period June 30,
1930.
And if, .within ninety days after the
publication of. this notice, you fail or
refuse to contribute your proportion
of said expenditure, as well as., the
cost of recording J;hie same, and the
costs of this advertisement, your in
terest in said claim will become the.
Pr9perty of the.undersigned, your co
owner, who has made the required
expenditures under the terms of . said
Section 2324 of the. Revised Statutes,
of the United States.
JOHN KRIEGER,
Co-Owner.
First pqblication May 4, 1929; last
Aug. 2, 1929.
Frank I. Guskey, :
Notary Public.^
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American, cup on behalf of Sir Thos.
Lipton. effective in September, 1930
Bud Riley, after a sojourn of sev
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