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’ifet 29th, 1923, at the poatoflSce at;
T-ofcotna-, Alaska, under the Act of'
M torch 8, 1879.
lakntna, Alaska, June f8„ 1932. . |
BEACH LURING GOLD
SEEKERS. NOME REGION j
(Anchorage Times.)
There is more than the usual ]
amount of mining activity in the Sew- j
awl Peninsula country this summer,
according to E. J Beck, superintend-j
ent of the Nome schools and former
resident of Anchorage, who passed
through this city last week on his
way to the States to tend the annual
cimvention of the National Educa- j
tinnal Association, as one of Alaska’s;
delegates. In addition, to the dredg
ing operations of the Hammon coni-1
pany, near Nome, there are many'
smaller outfits at work throughout
the district, and at the time Mr. Beck
left Nome there, were quite a number ,
of- men at work along the beach, with ;
rockers and Long Toms, working over
the sands from which millions were
extracted during the gold rush days.;
The cleanups from the beach diggings ■
are not what they used to be, but'
numerous of the workers are taking
out $4 and $5 a day and some of the
cleanups weigh as much, as a nounce.
The arger cleanups are not common.!
however.
It is the belief of Mr. Beck that
the placers of the Seward. Peninsula
district are very far from being
worked out, notwithstanding the
large scale operations which have'
beien carried on by many big enter-1
prises in years gone by, and the pres-1
ent extensive operations of the Ham-1
mon company and others engaged in |
dredging in various parts of the!
camp. There appears to be a steady !
increasing number of small operators,
and prospecting is being carried on
in:many localities, with very encour
aging results.
There was not any unemployment1
prpblem confronting Nome at the
time Mr. Beck left there, but it was
expected that the first boats from j
the States would bring in a lot of:
job seekers, probably more than will
be! able to find employment. Plants
were able to get under way with, full
crews at the very outset of the sea
son because more than the usual num
bed of oldtimers in the district,
through the winter, kept at home by
reports of unfavorable conditions in.
the States. They were on the ground,
ready for work at the first sign of
spring.
Mr. Beck ikes Nome and the real
Alaska spirit so much in evidence
there, and he has the distinction of
being one of the very few sehooL;
superintendents to get through a.:
term with such general satisfaction
that he has been requested to remain
on the job another year, lie has
found the work there very pleasant j
and is rather proud of the showing ‘
made by the school under his direc
tion.
The winter was a. particularly act
ive one at Nome in. a social way, with,
so much going on that it w as difficult [
for the school to find dates for its
various entertainments. There seem
ed to be something doing, every- night,
and there is the promise of additional
entertainment during the coming win
ter as the result of plans now under
way to introduce the talkies, the en
terprising manager of Nome’s only
theater having decided to install. the
necessary equipment this summer toj
provide his patrons with- the best in;
the way of motion picture entertain-i
meat. This involves heavyr invest-1
rr.ent in equipment and considerable'
of a problem in the matter of trans- i
portation, with steamers operating
only during the summer mouthsi; But.
with airplanes operating regularly
between Nome and the Alaska Rail
road belt it will 6a* possible to make
shipment of films at regular intervals*
in the event that it is not possible to
obtain a winter’s supply 'of .pictures
on the last boat vn the fall- .
I
LEAF YEAR.’?
The reason fbr- leap year is 'appar
ently a puzzle to many'persons and
is explained as follows; '
The fact that the earth does not
make a revolution around’ the’ sun in
an even number of .days has caused
much difficulty in making a calendar
that would hold good river any consid
erable length’of-time. In fact, such
a calendar has never been devised, but
the one in present use is accurate'
enough for practical purposes.
In reforming the calendar in 47 B.
C., Julius (Jdesarconsidered a year to
be 365 1-4 days, so h& added a day’
every four years to'rake'.up the frac
tional excess. But the true year is
only 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes and
45.51' seconds, so an theacourse of time
the Julian calendar, based on a., year
some 11 minutes; too long, became
more and more inaccurate. To cor
rect this, Pope Gregory in 1582 caused
10 „hys to be -dropped! from the cal
endar, and alko. modified the rule for
leap years by omitting the extra day
from the ending year of each century
except those divisible/ by 400. Thus :
the year 1600 was a leap year, while
the years 1700, 1800 and -1900 were
not; 2,000 will be a leap year, and
so on.
Even with this correction there will
be an error of one day in 3323 years,
a discrepancy hardly great enough tt>
worry about.
One disadvantage of leap year is
that a person bom on February 29'
has a real birthday anniversary only
once in four, years—if that is a disad
vantage. Based/ on the law- of. av
erage, only one person, in about 1,461
would be thus handicapped.—Ex.
A man in a hospital for- mental
cases sat fishing in a flower bed. A
visitor approached and wishing to be
affable; remarked!
“How many have you caught?"'
“You’re the ninth,” was, the reply...
FIRE INSURANCE
i-4
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l idftthe sake of your credit and your peace of mind,
■j Needless to say this insurance should be of the very
1 highest quality.
That’s the Kind Written By.
j Alaska Insurance-Agency
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animation disclosed, that his death
had been caused, by. a heart attack.
Melville Dollar came to Vancouver
15 years ago. when the. Robert. Dollar J
company was organized. Five yearsJ
later he became head of the Canadian
American Shipping Company, with a;
tleet of ocean steamers. His brothers
are li. Stanley and J. Harold Dollar,
both residing m San Francisco.
WASHINGTON. — The California
Congressional delegalio nis worried!
today over an advancing group of |
California jobless veterans. Eighteen'
hundred veterans are due within a few !
days, and 350 are already here. Lead-- !
ers of the bonus army here were I
lighting to maintain their, ranks., in I ■
the face of threatened foot shortage, I j
further storms that turned their •
camps, into seas. of . mud, and the.cer- j j
tainty that the honus will be killed by
President. Hoover, if it passes . the
Senate- .
- ALBUQUERQUE, N- M,—Captain .
James B. Dickson, en .route to the.
West coast with three passengers on
a transcontinental flight -record at
tempt, landed his craft, here. at. 2:47
p. rn., Mountain standard timeu Dick
son hopes to-land in-Los Angeles at .
4:30 p. m., as he started from. New
ark, N. J. .
MADRID.—luan March was arrest- .
ed \\ ednesday night shortly after the
Government had imprisoned a group .
of asserted leaders in a March plot.. .
March ava. sarrested.cn charges, of.
irregularities in obtaining the Moroc-i
can tohacco monopoly during.the-dic
tatorship of Prima Rivera, prior, to
the fall of the monarchy. The Cortes
previously had voted to waived par*
liamentary immunity .to permit. . his
imprisonment...
ROME.—Lieutenant Neri. attained,,
an estimated, speed of 700 kilometers. .
or 434.7 miles, an hour in.an official,
attempt at the world’s seanlpne.rec
ord^ on Lake. Desenzano, it was- an*
nounced today. The flier escaped.in*,
jury when the. losa.ef.a. rudder-forced .
him down. .
LAKEHUEST, N, J.—The navaL.
dirigible Akron was back ir\ its home
hangar today, after a ) 1-day trans
continental round trip. When the big,
air cruiser .settled down.toAhe moor
ing mast here its skip&er, Lieutenant
Commander E. Rosendahl, relinquish-,
sd command. -
McGRATH NEW8 ‘NOTES.
McGRATH, June 17.—Mrs. Oliver
Anderson gave a dinner party last
evening in honor of. Mrs. R. A. Mes-<
pelt, who had been visiting in Mc
Grath for a few days. The guests,
were Mrs. Winnifred White and MisB
Margaret White, John Sinclair and.
Stanley Jl Nichols..
Recent arrivals in McGrath include.
Bob Stone, Victor Nystrom and Fred
King, who brought in. their winter
winter catch of fur and returned to
their various headquarters with, nec
essary supplies.
Lee Page came to McGrath andi
spent a day or so, returning to his.
eamp on the Nixon.
Mrs. Joe Condry, Elsie and Joseph
ine, are scheduled to return here
From Fairbanks almost immediately,
rhey return much: improved in health.
Mrs. Dan McRea, of Seattle, com
ing by S. S. Tupper to Bethel, was an
arrival here on the Tana,
Archie Higgins left today for
Ganes creek. Also going out was
Miss Mary MfcLean.
“I’ll get square with you.”
“Good! I'm tired of seeing you
round.”
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