1 Alaska Notes I
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Exchanges. j
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While the Canadian Pacific steam-:
ship Princess Charlotte was lying at
the Skagway. wharf, recently, her
porter, a lad. of 17 or 18 years of age,
fleiiided tD scale the mountain at a.
point justr-baiek of the wharf. He no
ticed tviJtrfacfis of rock far up on the
mountainside had been painted, and
* he concluded that if painters could
scale tiiehpreeipitous cliffs he could do
lik' wi&e. All went well until he was
* several s hundred f get up the steep
mountainside, when a false step
•' msed-.-him to slip and he began to
roil. He kept rolling until within a
Ccf.' feit of the edge of a sheer drop
tif/.SJOOftfteet, when he managed to grab
a bush- which enabled him to not only
stop his fall but to crawl onto a small
stipli.’pforocks. The lad’s cries were!
heitrd- and attention was called to his
perilous position. Members of the
Charlotte’s crew got busy, but it was
several hours before the boy was res-!
* cued, ^nd found to have broken one of
hiS arms at both the shoulder and the
elbow,- and to have sustained several
cuts on his head, which required many
st-tches. to close. He was taken to the.
White . Pass hospital, in Skagway, j
where he was reported to he getting
along"- well considering what he had,
gone through.
Confident that mini; farming cyi
bo mad a very profitable when m tt.
=tgpd properly and carried on in a lo
cality where climatic conditions are
favorable, a group of Anchorage men
. have acquired the- Pollardplace, near
the avi it'c n field, and embarked in
industry on a large scale, ac
cording to the Anchorage Times,
which says that advantage is being
to tjen of ; the many experiments that
h.iVe .been carried &n in recent years
„ in the' railroad belt and elsewhere,
and the company is starting with the
choicest of the famous Susitna valley j
studs,1 ; gathered from established !
farms along the railroad within easy!
shipping- distance of Anchorage. The j
pens are- being filled with proven
breuderfc-of dark color as rapidly as
they-can; be; obtained.
The new company is,known as the
i Anchorage Fur Farm Association,;
and gs^aoon, as the venture has been
fully- financed the company will be in
corporated. . The company already is
a going concern, with nearly enough
units isold at $250 each to meet the
requirementts of further expansion.
For the present, Dr. C. A. Pollard is
acting as president, E. R. Tarwater
of .the' flank of Alaska as treasurer,
and William T. Murray, of the New
Method Tailors-Cleaners, as secretary.
The Pollard property, which: in.-1
eludes, a i modern residence and nine
v aert-s-of land admirably suited to- fur- ;
farming purposes, was purchased byi
the company as the first step, after
which' -came the erection of two- mink,
houses; each containing thirty pens.!
Ground has since been broken for a '
third house; which will contain forty
pens. These houses represent the last
• word" in- mink quarters, combining as
they db all the desirable features of
tire best mink houses in the Territory
i and some additional improvements de
vised fay R. M. White, an experienced1
mink fanner, who has been placed in
charge of the new ranch as manager.
The pens save a- concrete floor, and'
there is every facility for keeping
them clean and healthy under all con
ditions of weather.
The company has 36 mink in the
pens at the present time and more
have been contracted for, and when
the pens, are filled the animals will
represent, the pick of the district. Ten
females were received from the Ar
I nold farm yesterday..
Frank 6. Kappelman, a resident of
the North fining the stampede days,
has been appointed by District Judge
> E. Coke Hill to succeed W. C. Cuddy!
as clerk of court for the Third divi-|
•*iop, Mr. ..Kappelman assumed , hia.
duties at Valdez on October 1, reliev
ing George J. Love, chief deputy, who
was assigned temporarily to the post
following the appointment of Cuddy
as U. S. attorney to succeed VV. D.
Coppernoll, resigned.
Mr. Kappelman was one of the pio
neers of Alaska, having landed at
Fort Fidalgo in 1897. He went over
the Valdez glacier with the rush of
1898, was in the Copper. River valley
and Fortymile district, and went. to.
Dawson in 1899. A year later he left,
the Klondike for Nome, where be
helped to establish the first news
paper, the Nome News, the plant hav
ing been sent from Dawson by Harry.
Steel, present owner of the Cordova
Simes. Mr. Kappelman, in company
1th Duncan McDonell, spent a .year
or more i.if the Lower Kuskokwim val
ley, again returned to Nome, where he
remained until about 1909, following
which he engaged in successful busi
ness ventures in Washington State.
Announcement has been made by
H. W. Terhune, ex-officio officer of the
Alaska Game Commission, of the
shifting about of three of Alaska’s
game wardens, the transfer order tak
ing Frank Dufresne from the Fair
banks district to Southeastern Alaska
and replacing him with Sam O. White,
of_ the Fort Yukon district. George
W. Taylor, who has been in the Ju
neau district for some time, will re
lieve White. The transfers are effec
tive immediately.
Dufresne has been stationed in the
Fairbanks district for a number of
years, and is rated as a most efficient
officer. i
Captain E. W. Johnstone, who
wrested a fortune from the third
beach line at Nome and who made his
home in Seattle in recent years, died
recently, at the age of 68 years. He
was engaged in the transportation
and lighterage business at Skagway
and Dawson in the early gold rush
days, and stampeded to . Nome in
1900, where he engaged in similar ac
tivities. Later he acquired- two claims
on the third beach line, and returned
to Seattle in 1908 with a substantial
stake. The claims were the Three
Star fraction and No. 8 Cooper gulch,
two of the richest properties in the
camp.
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The many Alaska friends of W. A. [
Talor, oldtimer of the North, who is !
now making his home in New Jersey,
will be pleased to learn that he has
been successful in disposing of an in- i
vention very advantageously in the i
States, insuring him an income for as
long as there is demand for the de
vice which he invented.
The information coming is to the '
effect that Mr. Taylor sold his inven-I
tion for $50,000 cash and a royalty.i
He invested $30,000 immediatelyn in j
a home which he and Mrs. Taylor and j
the children are now occupying, and!
it is expected that the royalties will
be sufficient to preside the former
oldtimer with an occasional hunting
trip, without which living for him
would not be worth while. It is un
derstood that the invention is some
sort of an electrical device, or.e of a
number on which Mr. Taylor was
working before he disposed of his
Nenana jewelry Store and left for the
States.
Couldn’t Conceal It.
Senator Edward I. Edwards, dis-'
cussing prohibition, said at a Jersey i
City luncheon:
“The failure of prohibition ■ can’t be
concealed. Nothing can be concealed,
in fact, and the effortts of pur dry
friends reminds me of the colored 1
man’s efforts to conceal his- illiteracy.
“This colored man ha4< made his
pile in the whitewashing line, and he 1
decided to insure his life. - Sa’an in- 1
surance agent called by request and ,
drew up a preliminary -contract, and i <
then said:
“ 'Sign here, please.’
“ *No, suh,’ said the;, colofed man.
‘Ah’s In business in a big way, suh, :
an’ Ah haint got time fo’ small, no
’count details like signin’ mah names.
Ah alius dictates mah. name, suh!’ ”
Undress. *
Maurice Ravel, the French com
poser, was asked by a New York re
porter whether French women or
American women dressed the more
audaciously. He replied:
“It seems to me that women all \
over the world are equally audacious i
as regards dress. But we are quite i
resigned now to the extravagances of I
post-war fashions. We refuse any
longer to be. shocked.
“A beautiful girl pirouetted into
her unci-V library. She wits, going, to >
a masquerade ball, and she wanteo ,
him to see her costume.
“ ‘How do'you like me?’ she said,
continuing to' pirouette. ‘I*rri a salad.’].
“ ‘A salad,” he* said. ‘Splendid. A .
salad without the dressing!’ ” '
Taken -Down a Peg.
Bishop Anderson of Bdrston told a r
story at dinner.
“A young minister with a swelled j\
head,” he began, “preached a sermon
one Sunday down in Florida, and :
after it was over he spied his home s
bishop in the congregation.
“ ‘Bishop,’ he said, ‘I flatter myself ’
that was a good sermon—and what
do you think they are paying me for
it? Only $251’ j4
“ ‘Only $25!* said the bishop. ‘Why,
my ooy, I wouldn’t have preached
that sermon for a thousand!’”
No Loss.
William Howard Taft loves to tell
jokes on himself. This one concerns
one of his first campaigns, during
which he had to face down an un
friendly audience. He wanted to get
over some points, and finally ap
pealed to the presiding officer, say
ing:
“I have been trying for a quarter
of an hour, but there is so much
noise that I can hardly hear myself
talk.”
“That’s all right,” shouted someone
from the rear. “You’re not missing
anything.”
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TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NENANA AND FLAT
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Miles;
Nenana . 00
Tavern Roadhouse .. 17%
Knight’s Roadhouse . 11%
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% j
Big River Roadhouse .■>..- 241
McGrath . 263 i
Takotna . 280 i
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse ;•. 291
Ophir .... 300
McCaiFerty. 306
Brown Creek shelter cabin.318
Fritz shelter cabin .
First Chance shelter cabin .
Schermeyer R. H.
Iditarod .
Flat...
Bonanzza sheler cabin, 12
from Flat.
Crooked Creek shelter cabin,
miles from Bonanza.
333
346
360
376
384
miles
19.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
All. persons having claims against
the estate of Edgar Ryder, de
ceased, are hereby required to pre-j
sent the same, under oath, to the un
dersigned, administrator of the said,
estate, at his residence, at Flat,
Alaska, or at the office of the Probate
Judge at Flat, Alaska, on or before
May 31, 1929. !
Dated, Flat, Alaska, October 15, j
1928.
HARRY DONNELLEY,
Administrator of the estate of
Edgar Ryder, deceased.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
All persons having claims against.
the estate of Carl Alfred Johnson, de
ceased, are hereby required to pre- j
sent the same, under oath, to the un
dersigned, administrator of the said !
estate, at his residence at Flat/
Alaska, or at the office of the Probate
Judge at Flat, Alaska, on or before
May 31, 1929.
Dated, Fl&t» AlMka, October 15,
1928
HARRY‘DONNELLEY,
Administrator of the estate of
Carl Alfred Johnson, de
ceased, .
Babeesch Moosehide Mitts and Boots
Furs Bought and Sold Clothing
All Kinds of Nice Fresh Groceries and Fruits
Canned Goods of All Kinds Beds and Bedding
A. It Eldridge - McGrath
TAKOTHA ROADHOUSE
Best of Meals and Rooms
Where Everything Is Homelike and
Where You Are Cordially Welcomed
GOOD DOG HOUSES BATHS
Ivar Chilstrom - Prop.
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Rough and Dressed Lum- ;
her of All Kinds j
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