*■ ALASKA INTERESTS AT • j
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
(Continued from Page 1.)
■j to run during the Winter months. In
■. quiry.at .the Post Office Department
brings out the fact that not one air
mail contract.has been made in or for
Alaska; that.the.contract referred to
was given to the Alaska-Ainyays of
Anchorage, who are privileged to
carry the mail fro mKanatak’ to Dil
lingham overland, as is. customary, or
by airplane,*as it is evidently the in
{ tention to .do.. -uAs- their .base is at
Anchorage,* the Department would
. have-no .objection-to picking up the
i mail, there or., at Seward, providing
... the cost was -no-greater. It is real
ized that a much, better service could
thus be rendered, and the matter will
lr he taken up at once with the Seattle
i. office to see if they can arrange with
...the Alaska Airways to satisfy the re
quest of the Bristol Bay people. The
- Department officials explain, that if
i- airmail, contracts were given in Alas
; ka. the increased airmail fare would
be exacted and only first-class mail
.-carried. But when a star route eon
. tract is served by an airplane com
j pany all classes, of mail are carried.
< Uol. Lee H. Landis, who was gen
oral manager of the Alaska Railroad
i in 1924, was in Washington the past
v week undergoing a course of train
ing as a member of the Reserve
v Corps. He is now receiver of the
Wichita Northwestern Railway Com
, pany, with headquarters at Hutchi
son.
It now looks as though there would
»■' be no construction on the Fairbanks
publis building this season. The su
, per vising architect’s office states, that
. a postoffice inepector- on returning
. from Fairbanks insists that the type
< of concrete building planned could
1 not be erected iri the Fairbanks soil.
The matter is being given further
consideration, and.the announcement
comes that the plans may have to‘be
; altered again.
Since Colonel Lindbergh definitely
; announced that'he would make, his
flight across the Pacific via Alaska,
• during July, it is generally believed
that all similar flights will he via the
. northern route. The two globe flyers,
Wiley Post .and Harold Gatty, had no
hesitancy in deeding that their flight
from Russia to the United .States
would be via Nome and Alaska.
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Members, of an expedition that is
spending the summer in Alaska have
. reported to the Smithsonian Institu
tion the discovery of a cave full of
mummies on an uninhabited island in
Bering Sea. The cave was found on
Wislow Island, off the northern coast
<• of Unalaska, by Messrs. Chambers
and Ford. It was the only evidence
that the lonely little island had ever
been occupied by man. The mummies
had been desecrated and the bones
scattered over the cave floor in con
fusion. Besides the mummies there
were found fragments of closely
woven fabric, coarse matting, parts
of the frame of a boat and other
artifacts, which, with the bones, will
be brought, to Washington.
Some of the members of the Con
gressional party that will inspect In
terior Department projects in the
Western States -and Alaska have al
ready left Washington. They will
sail from Seattle July 18 on the
Coast Guard cutter .Tahee. Governor
George A. Parks and Delegate James
Wickersham have been invited to ac
company the. party through Alaska.
The Delegate cannot leave his duties
in Washington, but the Governor is
expected to join the party at Ketchi
kan on July 20. They will then pro
ceed to Wrangell, Juneau, Cordova,
Valdez and Seward, .arriving at the
latter city on the 24th and leaving
the following morning for Anchorage
and spending the night at Curry,
leaving on the morning of the 26th
for McKinley National Park, where
they will remain until the afternoon
on the 28th, arriving at Fairbanks
that evening. They will leave the
latter eity on the morning of the
30th, via the Richardson Highway,
and arrive at Chitina on the night of
the aist, remaining there until the
next noon and proceeding over the
Copper River & Northwestern Rail
way to Cordova, connecting there
with the Tahoe ond th eAlaska
Steamship .Company steamer. They
expect-to reach Juneau August 3,
kan the 4th and Seattle the 6th. They
will then view some irrigating pro
jects in Washington, .Oregon, Idaho,
returning to Washington on August
20th.
Willia mSulzer, for 17 years a
member of Congress and then gov
ernor of New York, came over from
New York last week to attend to
some business before the Depart
ments, which included a talk with
Arch- Coleman, First Assistant Post
master General, on behalf of W. T.
Pinkerton, whom he seeks to have re
stored to the position of postmaster.
Governor Sulzer can fairly be con
sidered as an Alaskan, as he has been
operating in the North since his first
trip Id the Yukon river in 1884. He
expects to soil from Seattle in early
July and stop at Ketchikan, Juneau
and Valdez. From the latter torwn he
will fly to Fairbanks and go from
there by plane into the Chandlar dis
trict, where he has mining opera
tions. I
Complaint has come from Kodiak
that a loan of money made and goods
Revigator Restores Water’s
Lost Element
THE NEWEST MIRACLE *OF MODERN SCIENCE
THE most important thing in life is health. We cannot oon
tinue to live healthfully unless we live with some respect
to Hie laws of nature. Life is bat cellular buildiny and cellu
■ lar elimination. This lost element of water is Radio-activity,
' which both creates-cellular energy and removes cellular poisons.
Sir Arbuthnot Lane, the great English physician, says “Most
"■ diseases are directly traceable to bad- drainage in the body”—to
’< the accumulation' of clogging waste matter or poisons at vital
■ organs.
-For centuries the world has recognized the value of health
M springs, and medical officers now attribut the value of the fam
-v ous springs to the natural radio-activity of their waters. This
• -radio-activity is one of suture’s ways of dissolving and elimin
- ’ ating these health-destroying poisona and building healthy cells
and tissues.
I' It> is now possible for everyone, sick or well, to have perpetu
1 ally* and it reasonable cost, the splendid benefits of a genuine
‘ radio-active health spring in the home through this invention—
TUB ^REVIGATOR WATER JAR.
Order one today from any of the following sub-agents: Vic
' Ebright, Hat; Tom DeVane, Ruby; Oliver Anderson, McGrath;
Fred Roethlisberger, Ophir; Chris Petersen, Takotna.
furnished an employe of the Depart-1
ment of Commerce has been allowed
attempt at lifuidation. The matter
to run for several years without an
attempt at liquidation. The matter
was presented to the higher officials
here, with the assurance that “as to
the attitude of the Department in
such matters, you are informed thatj
the Department will not tolerate em-!
ployees who do not meet their just
obligations.” An investigation is
being made.
Henry B. Collins, -/Jr.,' . assistant
curator of ethnology, Smithsonian In
stitution, recently .returned froijri.
Alaska, where he has conducted re
searches for the past four summers.
He states that James A. Ford and
Moreau B. Chambers are carrying on1
excavations this summer looking to
the origin and spread of th»-Eskimo.'
Mr. Chambers is on St. Lawrence'
Island, just below Bering Strait,;
while Mr. Ford is on the schooner
Patterson, following the retreating1
ice pack up the Arctic coast to Point
Barrow, where he will conduct ex- j
cavations. Mr. Collins says there is
no doubt that both the Indians and
the Eskimo came immediately from
that part of Asia just across Bering
Strait. Be states that the Institu
tion now h as a fine collection of har
poon heads, adz and knife handles,
scrapers and ceremonial objects,
mostly of walrus ivory and often
carved with curvilinear and flowing
designs. These have . been dug up
after centuries of burial during ex
cavations on the sites of ancient Es
kimo villages in Alaska.
The postal clerks in one of . the
large postoffices of the Territory
maintain that the high cost of living
entitles them to increased salaries.
The matter was taken up with the
Postoffice Department, and it was
stated that there was no fund avail
able to pay higher salaries. It seems
that up to 1925 a bonus of !}300 per
month was paid clerks, but after the
salaries were increased the bonu.
abolished. And the desire is to have
the bonus restored. Mr. Flaherty,
secretary of the National Federation
of Postal Clerks,..has also been com
municated with, but he said that
nothing could be done at present
FAMOUS GOLD RUSH SHIP
IS RETIRED FROM SERVICE
(Ketchikan Chronicle.)
Next to the old U. S. S. Oregon,
“bullog” of the navy, the wooden
passenger steamer Humboldt is prob
ably the most famous ship afloat in
the Pacific v/aters of the United
States. This vessel has made her last
voyage in the coastwise trade be
tween San Pedro and San Francisco,
and is now reported to be ready to
join the “Hollywood navy,” says the(
Pilot News of San Pedro, which
means that she will end her days in
motion picture work. The Humboldt
figured .prominently in the Klondike
gol drush of 1898. Later she carried
thousands of miners to and from the
gold fields of Alaska. Since 1897 she
has been in the costwise service be
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TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NENANA AND FLAT
Miles
Nenana ____ 00
Tavern Roadhouse ..17%
Knight’s Roadhouse ... 23%
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse ..58 _
Diamond Roadhouse___76
Roosevelt ___ 89
Lake Minchumina _115
Trappers’ Cabin ..132
Lone Star Roadhouse__ 150
Telida Roadhouse ... 169%
Slow Fork Roadhouse__ 187 !
East Fork Roadhouse _) 206 !
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse_227%
Big River Roadhouse_241
McGrath ____ 206
Takotna ... 280
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse _ 291
Ophir___800
McCafferty ___800
Brown Creek shelter cabin_318
Fritz shelter cabin - 388
First Chance shelter cabin__ 846
Schermeyer R. H. _ 860
[ditarod___ 876 ]
Flat ... 884 J
Bonanzas sheler cabin 12 miles
from Flat j
Drooked Creek shelter ott, aS
miles from Bonanza.
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tween the two principal port3 of
California. In all, she has seen 35
years of constant service, without
serious mishap. The veteran Captain
Baughman has been her master for
the past 34 years.
Recently it was announced that the
Humboldt had been tied up at San
Francisco to await the outcome of
motion picture contracts pending.
Two film companies are now negoti
ating for her charter or purchase. If
either deal is completed the vessel
will again steam to Southern Cali
fornia waters. Captain Baughman,
after all his years on the bridge of
the ship, has reluctantly transferred
his sea chest to the steamer Cello,
which the Los Angeles & San Fran
cisco Navigation Company has just
purchased to replace the Humboldt
in the coastwise trade.
Launched in Eureka Bay. in the
spring of 1896, the Humboldt son
afterwards entered the run between
Seattle and Alaska. She had just
been “broken in” to her duties when
gold discoveries in the Northwest
Territory of Canada sent thousands
of fortune seekers .to the Klondike.
Captain Baughman took command
just.before.the gold rush. His ship
is said to have brought hack some
thing like $100,000,000 in gold nug
gets, dust and bullion-to the. United
States.
Once a daring cobber' ywas staged
aboard the historic vessel, which soon
gained the name of the Gold Ship of
the West. , Two bandits substituted
lead for gold in a chest and got
ashore with their loot. They were
later captured and all hut $50,000
was. recovered.
On.the Humboldt Captain Baugh
man made a close friendship with
Robert W Service, poet of the North
west apd cold rush fame. “Soapy”
Smith, the famous bandit, frequently
commuted, between the United States
and Alaska on the. little ship.
The B.umbcldt is a vessel of 213
feet in.length, 31 feet in beam, and
has a gross tonnage of 1075.
After the Apple Episode.
"So glad to see you, dear. How-art
you getting on now that you are mar
ried?”
“It’s just like the Garden of Eden.”
"I’m glad to hear that.”
“Yes, we have nothing to wear and
are in daily fear of being turned out.”
Flattering.
The waiter was taking the order of
a pretty girl who was. accompanied
by a florid, podgy, middle-aged man.
j “And how about the lobster?” the
waiter inquired.
“Oh, he can order whatever- he
likes,” came the startling reply.
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