v COLONEL STEESE TELLS OF
ALASKAN SUMMER TOURS
Washington.—“Alaska is rapidly
. becoming a tourist paradise,” accord
*' inK to-Colonel James Gordon Steese,
for the last six years president of the
- Alaska Road ^Commission, who ie
' cently .reached Washington to testify
• on Alaska matters' before various
c Congressional committees. “During
the past soason. every boa. plying be
tween Seattle and Southeastern
Alaska, lasded tourist parties at r
dova, Valdez or bewa-d to make so
Golden Belt Line tou>\
‘‘This Golden Belt. Line tour.” he
■ -continued, “includes.a trip by ocean
liner through the In:dd> Passage and
across the Guf of Alaska between Se
at tie and Southwestern Alaska ports,
raii travel over the Alaska Railroad
and. the -Cjopmer. Rare. £■ Northwest
*. ern Railroad, and automobile travel
over- the -Richardson highway. The
t. trip is . made from Cordova or Valdez
to. Seward, via Fairbanks and vice
- versa. There, are. two regular auto
< transportation companies operating
«’■ oa the Richardson, highway.
“The . most, important road-building
job under.,the direction of the Alaska
. Road Commission at the present
i time,”- -said ..Colonel.ofiteese, “is the
• completion to automobile .standard of
l the Richardson highway, which has
* been an. important over and.route for
some twenty years. The Richardson'
L highway.between Va!deE,r.Chitina and
Fairbanks fs 410,miles in length. The
constructio of a l(i0-rnile extension to
* Circle, oh. the. Upper Yukon'riyer> is
j now-well along and should be open
j for traffic within: threw years. The
< completion of this Extension* will per
mit of-a complete circular tour of
Alaska, rrncudjng the inside,., passage
to Srcagwo-y., the .White.Pass Route to
Whitelrorsesand «Daw$»n, down the
Yukon river; • tot. .Circle,, iuitomobile
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travel from Circle and Fairbanks, a
distance of 160 miles, continuing to
Valdez or Cordova by auto, or to
Seward over the Alaska Railroad, and
return to Seattle by one of the Amer
ican steamship lines.”
When asked about the new McKin
ley National Park road he stated: “It
has now been completed from McKin
ley Park Station, Mile 348, the Alaska
Railroad, to the Sanctuary river, a
distance of 23.1-2 miles. During the
[last season it was open for tourists
for about 14 miles, and many hun
dreds of tourists took this oppor
tunity of getting into Mount McKin
ley National Park far enough to .en
joy the magnificent scenery and th<
unusual experience of getting close-to
caribou, mountain sheep and other
wild animal life.”
CORRESPONDENTS EN ROUTE
BARROW TC COVER FLIGHTS !
(Fairbanks News-Miner.)
William . C; Lyonand Leo W.’
Bundy, special representatives- of the
New York Times, arrived in Fair-.)
banks on Tuesday night’s train en
route to Point Barrow to report the
progress of thewarious polar expedi
tions centering .at Point Barrow in
the near future;. bT-hey will leave Fri
day morning for Nenana, whence they
start by dog team for the Arctic.
Messrs. Lyon and Bundy will fol
low the mail' down the Tanana and
Yukon rivers, to. Kaltag and Unala
klik, across- or around Norton Sound
to Kotzebue, and thence along the*
coast trail to Barrow. They aim to
irdach/Point Bararov by May 1. .'They.s
are. taking in a .special radio equips
ment with'which they, seek to estab
lish wireless-.: communication with the.
Amundsen dirigible Norge upon its*;
.arrival at Epitzbergen and hope to
maintain direct communication with
the Amundsen expedition during its
voyage, across froxn Spitzbergen to
Barrow and thence to Nome. They
will also endeavo to handle wireless
communications from the Byrd expe-'
dition, which will attempt to fly
acros* the Pole from Etah and with
.the Emneh mavaJ flyers, who will also
make the attempt from Spitzbergen.
Mr._,Lvon an.independent writer,
resident in*:-Seattle, and makes the
present £rit> jesneeially for the New
York .Tames.and., the. Consolidated
Pess Association. *?He met the Am
undsen Maud expedition last summer
at. .Nome, as- it cams out. from its
three-year cruise in . the Arctic thru
the Northwest Passage. Mr. Bundy
is a member of the staff of the United
.States gignjil Corps Alaska (’.able
System, stationed in the Seattle office.
He was formerly operator in charge
of the.adio Station at McGrath, in the
Kuskokwim country, and is an old
fimer in Alaska. Mr. Bundy is a rel
ative of Major General Omar Bundy,
U. S. A., retired, who commanded the
Second division of the American army i
during the World War.
Having ruled tnat mere is no cruel
ty in the Florida bull fights, the Hu
mane Society may now pass on to the
real estate business of the sunlit
state.—-Toledo Blade.
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SEVERAL PLEAD GUILTY
IN COURT AT CORDOVA
Cordero.—L'ue to- tfce unexpected
action of all defendant* in pleading
guilty, the district: term of coufrt here
is practically ended, and Judge Kitehie
left for the States Monday.
Walter Shuflloff, 15-year-od Kodiak
robber, who stole a $200 sack of reg
istered mail, was sentenced to a fed
eral reformatory until he is 21 years
old.
Walter I. K. Webb, who pleaded
guilty to violating the Territorial nar
cotics law, was sentenced to; McNeil's
island foor two years. Webb is said
to have spent 2'J of .his 50 years in
penitentiaries, and is warttea iii Se
attle for forgery. The ’judge \ was
lenient in pronouncing sentence.; ^
cause the defendant, posing as a doc
tor, gave excellent medical assistance,
at Kodiak, whieh -place was without «
regular physician when Webb was a - -
rested. Webb went to Kodiak last
fall, posing a* a doctor, having, stolen
'office furnishings and the check ibook
of Dr. A. E. Ribbon, whom he met
while serving a term at McNeil’s
island.
James Shea, of Kodiak, pleaded
guilty to manslaughter, and, was sen
tenced to 18 months at, McNeil’s
(island, having killed P. ,1. Galvin when
he refused to pay a debt. She
claimed that he -/did not know the
blows he struck were fatal and that
'Galvin had heart, disease. Officers
found Galvin dead in his cabin some
(hours after the trouble.
Cecil Kirk and Oliver NeUhert. An
•xhorage soldier^, pleaded guilty to lar
i'teny, while ther-case against William
Pitts, indicted with the pair, was dis
missed because of insufficient evi
! donee. Among the loot the pair ad
mitted stealing was aoBible .and a vol
: ume of “World Heroes."
The One Cure.
Mayor Everett Snedekef, of Haver
straw, who recently refused with in
dignation a bootlegger’s’'offered bribe
of $10,000, said in an interview:
“The Prohibition amendment will
not abolish drunkenness. There is
only one thing that might abolish it,
and if I wee Providence I’d certainly
'put this thing in operation.
“It is very simple. It consists
merely in transferring the sick head
ache of the da vaftei .to the day he
I foe.”
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CHARLIE’S
LAUNDRY
McGrath, Alaska
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LEO W. BUNDY EN ROUTE
TO POINT BARROW WITH
COMPLETE WIRELESS SET
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and (rave me every assisance within
their oawer to have the completed ap
paratus' ready. It was a close shave,
hut the night before we were to sail
I and Mr Brown of the company, com
pleted the assembling of the set. The
equipment was designed ny Mr. Simp
son, of the corporation, and was as
sembled and made utuies my personal
supevvision, with a view to the end
that it would have' to stand rather
severe trail conditions in the trip
from Nenana to Barrow.
W’hile dropping o ffat Anchorage
for luncheon today I was most agree
ardy surprised to meet Mr. Monfcman
also Mr. Vaughn, of McGrath. Frank
Hart is a fellow passenger with me
cm-tire tran, too, and 1 presume is
going u Takotna. Met Mr. and Mrs.
j'Downet at' Anchorage, *oo. They
i were both looking ver cell, hot both
: looked so very differ* ro m uaen I
liast sa Vi- them} that 1 . rid not have
I knowh tnem had not Downer intro
| duced nraselr |
Mr Lyons and i arc now m route
; tor Firirbanlfs. We are going to make
j the final arrangements there with the
Signal t'orps- radio, station to co
operate with us'in handling traffic to
'and from Barrow. Then-begins the
tong trek overland.
We have been' entfejiv oring to per
-suade Krg' Wirg tuvoc companyion on
the trip ahd land us in Barrow with
his teatn, but it we are finable to per
suade him that He should go we in
tend to go down the' ukorr with the 1
mail to such a point-as we c.d» secure j
a good-team for the -trip; .rod nthen
mush our crwn hounds iipotfind Ay ’the 1
jnail trait.
We arc. going, of course, to rover all
news from Barrow of interest to our
service, but we are pa rt iorfariy inter
ested iri Amundsen’s eomihg dir igible
flight across the: pole this summer.
We had a long talk •with him tn fie
aitle before starting on- the trip, ajnd
have arranged to endeavor and rwajn
tain two-way communication rwjth
Kim at Spitzbergen and dll ttwr.way
across the North Pole, as his dirigible
is supplied with radio equipment very
similar to ours. We don’t at present
see any particular obstacles to this,
and hope that wc can effect the fulfil
ment of that, part of the program
fully and with credit to ourselves and
the Times.
I am on a six-months* leave of ah
sence from the Signal Corps by spe
cial authority of the Secretary of
War (by grace of the Times’ request
to him) in order to cover this assign
ment, and when it is completed ! shall
return to Seattle. At present our
plans are rather indefinite as to the
exact time of this return, but we will
probably return on the cutter Rear
when she makes her annua! call at
Harrow. In fact, Mr. Lyons and my
sef have an invitation from Captain
Wishaar to make the return trip to
Seattle as his guests. Whether we
will be able to take advantage of his
kindness remains yet to be seen, how
ever.
1 guess Billy Stanton told you I
saw him rn Seattle Didn't have the
slightest inkling of this trip when 1
was with him last. Oh, yes, and Cap.
Geiger was down at the flock when
we sailed, i had a chance then to in
troduce bim to my wife and to my
15-months-old boy, Jean Davis. Mrs..
Bundy is remaining in Seattle with
her mother at our home while I'm on
the trip. 1' know she would like to
join me in sending all best wishes and
kindest regards.
PROFESSIONAL
Mrs. Jeari McLean
Nptary >PdbItr
Tokotrta, Alaska
Laundry
Street, Tokotaa ,
Mr*. Fred Dubois - Prop.
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A Dredging or Hydraulicing
Preposition/ Yankee Creek
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Aboui 7 miW long, extending from No. i below discovery to
the mouth of the creek.
Pay located.all »i teg for a distance of about three miles froru
upper end, and pretty well prospected and cross-cut.
Average depth of ground is from 7: to 30 feet. Top is all black
muck,that can be scraped freely. No rock bigger than one’s fist.
v Ground will go from IB.cents'to $1 per square foot of bedrock.
' Ditch on the ground, 3 miles long, together with water rights.
> . Ground is pretty well cleared. There is also a drain, 3 miles long.
' 'Also a water-right on Heady Bullion creek, from which water can
be brought to Yankee creek with a, ditch less than a mile long
<4,S00 feet), with a pressure ti 120 feet, being 1600 feet to the
work from the ditch.
After doing away with muck there will brfrom 4 to « feet ef
"dirt to handle.
M
Oftly about $11,000 has been taken out.
Prospecting work during the past winter has resulted in finding
values that run up to $1 per (bquare foot of bedrock.
I Will either sell the ground or give a lease on it. If the prospect
»» satisfactory to the huyor, a cash payment will be expected.
Fer further information, terms, etc., call on ground, or write or
telegraph at.
ED NOLl.ETTE,
Tokotna, Aldtfka.
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