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Entered as Rpcond-class matter August
99th. *923, at the Post Oifice at
ToKotna, Alaska, tinder the
Act o« March 3. 1878.
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. MAY 2, 1925
N o Good Reason for
Penalizing Trappers
Seward Gateway.
The last legislature passed a bill tax
ing fiars and fur buyers which practi
cally crippled the fur business, and
now comes the proposal to tax resident
trappers #1 per annum, and alien or
non-resident trappers $30. While it is
a good thing to keep aliens out of the
Territory 's fur pockets, it places an
other dollar of expense against local
trappers, who are already taxed to the
hilt by the government indirectly and
the Territory directly. The fur busi
ness is as old as the hills, possibly
starting soon after the weather became
too cold for Eve's figleaf parka. Up to
the last few years the trapper has got
by with little expense other thao for
outfit and supplies. Of late years leg
islators in the* i3tatei»iand in Alaska
have'looked with covetous eyea on the
fur business, and are loading it down
with restrictions and additional taxes.
Last year the closed season on beaver
expired, and many trappers left for the
hills early in Lhe fall, expecting to reap
a harvest, as these animals have multi
plied rapidly the last few years. After
they reached the trapping ground and
had started gathering fur the law was
suddenly changed, closing down oa
beavers, causing considerable loss and
annoyance to trappers who were far
out {n the hills and had no wav of
iearmDg of the change until they came
in wilh their furs,
Trapping is a precarious game at
best, with little money to be made at
the game. The man with a trap line
PIONEER
SHOP
Machine, Black
smith and
Sheet Metal Work
All Kinds of Repairs
Stoves Built
j
and Repaired
Robt E. -Lowrie
Tokotna, Alaska
n...■ ■■■■■—..
earus every dollar he gets, and more
His work is hard, in temperatures far
below zero, and he has few comforts ia
the woods.
I f a tax is to be put on furs, or the
trapper penalized, why not place the
tax where it will not hurt, the industry?
There should be some other way of in
creasing? our revenues without going
after the mao who makes only a few
hundred dollars a year our of the busi
ness. and who stands the losses occa
stoned by a bad seassn.
Fixes Regular Length
of Life at 100 Years
Chicago.—The average length of life
will reaeb 100 years by the year 2000,
Dr. Gilbert Fits Patrick, Chicago sur
goon and member of the Gorgas Me
morial Institute, declared at the Amer
ican Medical Association congress here
today. Life expectancy la steadily in
creasing, he said.
Dr. Fitzpatrick gave the following
table on life expectancy:
The arerage span of life in 1775 was
27 years: 1875, 37 years 1925. 57 years;
1975, 80 years; 2000, 100 years.
The big increase in life expectancy
during the past 50 years can be traced
to the “germ thaorvi! of disease, Dr.
Fits Patrick said. The germ theory
has made it possible to trace aDd iso
laie disease germs and tind cures for
ailments thought incurable, be said.
Better control of d;es, leas crowding
and other elements must enter before
the lOfryear stage is reached, Dr. Fits
Patrick declared. Ways and means
must be found to keep the air pure
balanced diet, lesser ■ ling and peri
odical examira:; ns . sicians are
essential, he h< A s.
“There must be /er-eating,’’ Dr.
Fits Patrick sti w will have to
have pleoiv .if frtv.h > d in which the
fresh vitam o ave I 'been killed by
poor methoti-i • preservation."
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How One Country
Editor Became Rich
Ad exchange savs the editor of &
weekly newspapeJ moved to town one
dav and deposited $50,000 in one of the
local banks. He had beet publishing
his little country paper for thirty yeans
and bad moved to the City with around
$50,000' to his credit. When asked.by
a reporter, for the secret of his great
fiDaDcia: success, he said
f‘I attribute my abilstv to retire with
a $50,000 banli account after thirty
years in the country newspaper field to
close application to duty, • always hew
ing to the mark and letting the chips
fall where they might; the most rigid
rules of economy; nevor spending a
cein foolishly; everlastingly keeping at
my job with a whole heart1, and the
death of an uncle who left me
999.50.”—The Manhattan /Montana;
American.
An enthusiastic editor in Paris, savs
that France ov/es the'Uni ted States a
debt she can never repay That con
firms the worst fears of our bankers.—
Southern Lumberman.
Chile has bsen threatened with a
civil war between its army and its
naw. This ought to interest General
Mitchell and Admiral Moffett.—Pitts
burg Chronicle,
Speeches at public- dinners in Japan
are made before the dinner com
mences. Now wc Know what is meant
by the wise mem cf ttre East.—London
Humorist. _..
Is Trotsky’s health improving? asks
a contemporary. Well, be certainly
doesn’t seem to die quite uit^ofica as he
he used to.— Punch.
Th® Literary Digest inquires, “Do
rayens think?” Perhaps not, but
thinkers sometimes rave.—Philadel
[>hia Record.
Man Dies On Trail,
Body Lashed in Trees
to Keep From Bern
Prince Rupert, B. C— Archie King,
postmaster at M ah sou Creek, near Ba
hine Lake, 150 miles northwest, was
found ill in his cabin by E O. Me
Corkell, a fur buyer King died eo
route to Babioe, by dog team, accord
ing to a dispatch from McCorkell, who,
immediately upon boding King, started
■out. with him for medical aid.
Before King died he made bis part
ner nis successor as posimaster, ami
the latter returned to his post, Mc
Corkell pushing on over unbroken
trails with King.
Fourteen days out from King's cabin
Kin ft died.
Biissards raged tbo entire time.
Provisions ran low, and McCorkell
killed three of bis dogs to supplement
the supply of flour and bacon. The
remaining dogs became famished and
attacked the corpse.
McCorkell lashed the borlv in trees
each night to keep the dogs from de
vouring it. Be reached Banderhoof, ,
75 mites southeast of Babioe, rested !
one day, and then pushed forward,
tinallv reaching the settlement.
Kid McCoy Given
Additional Sentences
Los- Angeles—Kid IvfeCby, sx pug-i
list, who is- ai» presect under sentence
of from one to- ten years for conviction
of manslaughter, received a sentence
today of from one to fourteen years
each on two counts, on a charge of as
sault with intent to eocr.rnit murder:
and six mom hs to one year oc a charge
of assault wi-h i deadly weapon.
McCoy wh* recently convicted of
shooting dur og a drunken-orgy last
August, after the shooting of Theresa
Mors, whom he is alleged to have
killed.
There have beeu times when those
opium conferees acted as if they were
full of their subject,.—Cleveland Press.
Notice of Appointment.
Estate of Cherles C. Worden, de
ceased.
Joe Konechney has been appointed
and cua-lifiea as administrator of the
estate of Charles €. Worden, late of
Kuskokvrim preeinet. Fourth division.
Territory of Alaska, deceased.
Dated at Napamute this 4th day of
April, 192G
Gho w. Hoffman,
Probate Judge of said p> ecinct-.
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
LAWYERS
George W. Albrecht,
Iditarod, Alaska,
Charles E. Tailor,
Kan-backs. Alaska.
Practice iu all Courts.
Mrs. Jean McLean
Notary Public
Tokotoa. Alaska*
Du Rand’s
Cafe and j
Hotel
Flat City
Tokotna
Pool Hall
Ice Cream
All kinds of Soft
Drinks
Stationery
Notions, Etc.
Where Oldtimers
Congregate
.
Jack Mutchler
Proprietor
Blackburn
Sc Eldridge
McGrath, Alaska
Hood Rubber
Boots
$10 PAIR
Hood1
Shoe Pacs
The Best Ever
$6.50 PAIR
•>
McGrath Pool Hall
George Matchler, Proprietor
GgarsJobaccos, Candies, Fruits
Old-Timers’ Popular Resort
Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valley
Napamute, Alaska
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Good Prices for Your Fur s
Em
Larson Roadhouse
Best of Home Cooked Meals. Prompt Attention
New Dog Houses.
Frank Larson
Proprietor
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamer®
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, Manager.
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