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TOKOTNA, ALASKA. JUNE 30. 1923
Amundsen Not First
to Try Flight to Pole
The plan of Raold Amundsen to at
tempt a flight from Wamwright across
the North l-'ole to Spitsbergen is not
exactly a new departure in polar ex
ploration. Airplanes have been used !
recently in South Polar exploration,
and The Alaska Weekly recalls that
Professor S. A. Andres, the Swedish
scientist, and his companions. Knut
Eraenkel and Nils Strindberg, the last I
a cousin of the dramatist, believed they j
could accomplish a polar flight in their
free balloon. They left Spitsbergen on
a July afternoon in 1897, carrying
pigeons to keep the outside world in
formed as to their progress. They were
never seen again. It was generally
thought that the balloon hadbeen
forced down on top of the North Green
land glaciers, from which there could
be no escape or hope of rescue except
by .means of the air. A few years ago |
another party of explorers heard from !
a tribe of Eskimos a strange tale of t
how their fathers had once harpooned 1
a whale so large and cumbersome that j
tboy could not get it ashore. <t is said 1
that in the huts of the tribe bits of 1
rope were found resembling that used
on .balloons.
There appears to be more foundation 1
for the story that the Andree party I
really did pass over the North Pole j
and was lost in the extreme part of j
Northwestern Siberia, while eu route !
homeward bound. John Haugen, an ;
American miner, was prospecting fori
placer diggings on the Tcbutotsk pe
ninsula about the year of 1903. He
came upon an Eskimo village some
ways from the coast. 'The Eskimos are
keen on bartering their carved ivory
curios for almost anything a white man
may have, especially chewing tobacco.
Out of the curios offered him was one
that attracted his particular attention.
Tt was a very crude imitation of a bal -
loon, carved out of a walrus tusk, nau
gep was puzaled as to how an Eskimo
could make a replica, crude as it was,
of a thing that he could not possibly
know anything about. n reply to the
jupry as to how he (the Eskimo) got
the idea, he replied- ‘’Long time ago
me see ail same this way up in air.”
Haugen, knowing of Andree’s fate, was
'Irmly convinced, after seeing , the
curio, that he was lost in Northeastern
Siberia.
PROFESSIONAL
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McGrath, Alaska
PRES?> SQUIBS.
The balance of power is a bank bal
ance.—Tacoma Ledger.
“What is the dangerous age?” asks
a writer. This is.—Columbia Record.
Bryan says wealth is a disease, but.
does not tell how to catch it.—Green
ville Piedmont.
The sawhorse has contributed more
to the good of mankind than the race
horse.— Detroit News.
"That European critic who says Amer
ica has no leisure class should watch
our officeholders.—Parkersburg Sen
tinel. |
Still, the house with the largest car
parked in front of it may be the one
with the largest mortgage on it.—Mil-'
waukee Leader.
The Senate has passed the farm aid
bill, and that’s all right. But when is
C'orgress going to pass a consumer aid
bill?—Detroit News.
We don’t suppose Old King Coal
realises any more clearly than George
111 did how near his subjects are to re
bellion.—Boston Traveler.
The younger set in King Tunk’s day
undoubtedly behaved in a way that
brought blushes to the checks of the ■
older mummies.—Boston Transcript.
Twelve thousand persons are said to
have been killed by motor cars in 1922. !
There may yet be a monument to the
Unknown Pedestrian.—Brooklyn Eagle.
The fact that there were no automo- i
biles in his day may account, to some j
extent at leass, for the advanced age of
Mr. Methusaleh.—Columbus Dispatch, i
If the immigration laws could sud
denly be tightened, the exodus of sen--1
a tors to other lands might be made to
work to the national advantage.—Cin
cinnati Times-Star.
The charge that a senator at Wash
ington was too drunk to reply to roll
call may result in a change of rules so !
that there will be fewer roll-calls.— !
Indianapolis News.
it is announced that Russia will per
mit the manufacture of liquor for eco
nomic reasons—the same reasons for 1
which this country forbade their man
ufacture.—Tacoma Ledger.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Bennett .Tames, John Holmgren,
Charles R Taylor, George W. Al
brecht, and Edward McArdle and
Charles Knell, and their and each
of their heirs, executors, adminis
trators. successors iu interest, and
assigns; .
You and each of you will please take
notice that the undersigned, a co-owner
in placer mining claim No. One above
Discovery on Moore creek, in the Mt.
McKinley mining and recording pre
cinct, Alaska, has caused the annual
assessment work to be done on the
above described claim for the years
11)20 and 1921, amounting to one hun
dred dollars for each year, and for each
of said years has paid for said work,
including the proportion due from the
above named parties;
And you are further notified that,
unless you and each of you pay your
proportion of the assessment work done
on sttid ground for each of said years,
within ninety days after the last pub
lication of this notice, your and each of
your interests in and to said property
will become forfeited to the under
signed, as provided by Section 2324 of
the revised statutes of the United
States and amendments thereto.
Joseph H. Smith.
Date of first publication, June 9,1923.
Date of last publication, Sept. 8,1923.
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