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’wolves becoming menace |
IN NORTH, SAYS TRAPPER
• (Fairbanks News-Miner.)
Wolves are a deadly menace to the
caribou, the fox and Site moose, of the
Birch creek district, says Fred Wiley,
who has been trapping with B. W.
Johnson in the Circle country and has
just arrived in Fairbanks. “I saw 19
wolves in one band, and trails that in
Idicated many more had: passed thru.
The oldtimers up, there on Deadwood
and Golddust and Madsen Dome say
that there are few* caribou or moose,
calves coming through, this spring
and that coyotes are raising hell
with the foxi"
Wiley and Johnson went in by boat
last fall from Twelvemile end trapped*
on> the Birch for lypx, fox and mink.
Theu-they went down the Birch 150
miles and trapped some more. Wiley
believes there should be a closed sea
son on some of the fur-bearing ani
mals in that section and that some
thing should be done to clean out the
wolves. In addition to the* bounty al
ready offered on wolves, there should
•be a bounty on the mother and pups,
even though ^the oups are* unborn.
That would save a lot of trouble and
damage, he maintains. ‘ The biddies
' have litters of eight And .nine, and
they are very destructive when they
are rustling food for, their yodng.
There should -be a new- game regula
tion that 'will give a bounty- on the
pups before they come into the world.
“There is another thing which I
think somewhatmnreasonable. They
wdnt the whole leg of a wolf up to the
shoulder to prove a bounty claim.
That means packing a whole lot of.
bones around. Why not the wrist and
a couple of claws? We ean’t manu
facture them and we certainly-are not
going to slaughter dogs for a-bounty.
We used to send our stuff .to . Juneau:j
We sent some wolf claws Gvthe com
missioner here, but he answered he
was sorry, we would have to . send '
more bone. Furthermore there .should,
be a method, easy to determine, on a
differentiation between the. bounty on
males and females. That’s a,- tough
country up there - where the wind
blows,, and it’s tough enough for the
trapper. The wolves and'coyotes are
making it. tougher,’.4
ALASKA CABLE ’SYSTEM
HAS WONDERFUL GROWTH
The Government’s cable and *- tele
graph system, connecting Seattle and
Alaska, is costing less and earning
more as time goes on, and made an
especially favorable showing in ' the
last fiscal year, as shown bf the an
nual report »of Major General Charles
McK. Saltzmanr chief signal officer of
the army, reccntly^made public.
During the^ year the- signal corps
tendered ;n* important and useful ser
vice to the-people of Alaska by means
of; the signal-corps cable system con
necting. Seattle with the principal
cities on the south coast of Alaska,
and the. chain of radio-stations in tha
interior of the Territory.
The sum «f $287,921.25 was turned
into the treasury of the United
States from tolls on commercial mes
, sages transmitted for the people. In
addition, the system handled Dree of.
charge official dispatches for various
, bureaus of the Government worth
$140,562.94; making the earning
power of the system $428,484.19.
The Washington-Alaska military
* cable and telegraph system was con
structed primarily for military pur
poses; now its greatest use is com
mercial, which- is reflected in the
growing receipts of the system. Since
1907 constant study has been given to
the question of replacement of the ex,
tensive land telegraph lines, in that,
year consisting of approximately 3,
000 miles of telegraph wire. The re
* placement of the land lines by radio
was initiated in 1908 by the installa
tion of spark sets with which it was
practicable to handle traffic, during
certain seasons only. Later, special
signal corps sets were installed for
the smaller stations, those having a.
range of 300 miles, and for the larger
stations,, those capable of working;
with every station in the Territory.
Upon the transfer of the Seward sta
tion in 1926 from the Navy Depart
ment to. the War Department, the last
leg of land telegraph, i. e., between
Valdez and Fairbanks, was done away
with. Seward handled the traffic by
radio, and this proved unsatisfactory,
asd the land telegraph is again used
between the coast and Fairbanks.
POSSIBLE FOR HOMESTEADING
SMALL TRACTS OF LAND NOW
WASHINGTON. — William Spry,
Commissioner of the General Land
Office, has recently sent out a circulav
to- officials in Alaska advising that
five-acre- tracts may be taken up for
homestead purposes, under the regu
lations adopted for the Alaska Rail
road and other laws laid down at that
time.
The circular, in part, reads:
Your attention is called to the act
of March 3, 1927 (Public No. 726), en
titled:
“An act to amend Section 10 of the
Act entiled ‘An Act extending the
homestead laws and providing for
right of way of railroads in the Dis
trict of Alaska, and for other pur
poses,” approved May 14, 1898 (Thir
tieth Statutes at Large, page 409),
which provides:
“That Section 10 of the Act entitled
‘An Act extending th'e homestead
laws and providing for right of way
of railroads in the District of Alaska,
and for other purposes,’ approved
May 14, 1898 (Thirtieth Statutes at
Large, page 409), be and the same is
hereby amended by adding thereto
the following after the word ‘other
wise’ in line 14 of the section:
“Provided, That any citizen of the
United States, twenty-one years of
age, employed by citizens of the
United States, associations of such
citizens, or by corporations organized
under the laws of the United States,
or of any State or Territory, whose
employer is engaged in trade or man
ufacture;
Fifth. The location of the tract ap
plied for with respect to the place of
business and other facts demonstrat
ing its adaptability to the purpose of
a homestead or headquarters.
Sixth. That the tract applied for
does not include mineral ,coal, ail or
gas lands, and is essentially non
mineral in character.
Seventh. That no portion of the
tract applied for is occupied or re
served for any purpose by the United
States, or occupied or claimed by any
natives of Alaska, or occupied as a
townsite or missionary station or re
served from sale, and that the tract
does not include improvements made
by or in possession of another person,
association, or corporation.
Eighth. Whether or not the land
abuts on any navigable stream, inlet,
gulf, bay or seashore, and if so that
it is not within 80 rods of any other
tract sold, entered, or claimed under
said act of May 14, 1898, as modified
by the act of March 3, 1903, as to re
served spaces.
The register will forward evidence'
of publication and posting and the
proof required without issuing final
certificate.
A man called on an optician to
have his eyes tested. The optician
held the’ test card forty feet away
and asked, “Can you read that?.”
“No,” said the man.
The optician came closer and’’
closer, but each time the answer was:
“No.”
Finally Ke stuck the card under the
man’s nose and asked: “Well, can
you read it now?”
“No," said the man; “L never
learned to rea«L”
Sweet Young Thing—I’ll positively
never marry a man who snores.
He—Good idea—but how are you
going to find out?
First Business Man^-By the way,
my grandson works 'in year office.
Second’.Sairne-^-Yes, I remember he
went to your funeral last Wednes
day; .
THE OTHER SIDE OF SEW
ARD SCHOOL BOND ISSUE
(Seward Gateway.)
The Valdez News-Miner takes ex
ception to the Seward school issue,
in this respect, that if Seward had
looked ahead ten years ago (foresight
they call it) there would have been
no need to go into debt at this time
in order that a new school house be
erected. “Hindsight is expensive,’'
Editor Wilcox says.
As the Two Black Crows would say,
“True, brother, true.” But if we
could see into the future—calculate
the changes which would take place—
we doubt if the majority of common
folks, like us, would like it. We weli
recall, during school days, the remark
a teacher made, that it would be a
terrible thing if one could see into
the future.
The fact remains the Valdez paper
has no argument whatever when it
deliberately goes out of its way to in
form the wide world that the bonding
of a town like Seward for obtaining
money with which to build a school,
is ridiculous when the final cost is
computed. Anchorage, also, is all
wet, the Miner says, for it extends
the years the bonds will run, and the
steadily mounting interest, showing a
staggering sum. From his standpoint,
not haoving all details at hand, nat
urally he goes off half-cocked, with
the result he will have planted in the
minds of many a seed of doubt as to
civic procedure which in the future
may mean to some other town, an ob
stacle in the path of progress.
So, in summing up in this case, as
well as over is Anchorage, we would
say to show signs of progress is j
worth almost any cost, and as an il
lustration of what this new school
house means to this community, we
would respectfully call attention to
the new spirit manifest in Seward, a
spirit of prosperity, the increased
building activity, the inquiries from
out of town business people with ref
erence to moving here, the new fam
ilies which are moving to Seward, the
savings to parents. But what’s the
use of continuing on in this wise, for j
the benefits are already accruing even
before the school has been built.
His Explanation.
Walter, who was having trouble
with subtrction, showed a problem
which he had just finished to his
father.
“Is that right, father?”
“No, son, it’s not right,” Dad re-!
plied. “I can’t understand why you
have so much troouble with subtrac- ;
tion,” he continued. “When I was j
in school I did it without any trou- j
ble at all.”
“I guess subtraction musta’ been
easy those days,” son replied.
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