ALASKA MAN HAS HECTIC
TIME ON TRIP TO STATES
Chased by suspected bandits and
•careening madly down hill over the
.'Siskiyou mountains at top speed to
•escape thorn, wns among the experi
ences related by C. L. Lovgren, of the
(U. S. Signal Corps, when he returned
lo his home in Ketchikan, says the
Chronicle.
Mr. Lovgren returned home on the
'.Northland after touring the western
part of the United States as far east
;as Chicago and as far south as Texas
:aiul Mexico.
Mr. Lovgren said that conditions
were worse in the Middle West than
iin the South. In Ohio he said the
farmers claimed that the farm board
•was responsible for most of their ills
•that numerous small farmers who had
previously owned their land and had
ibeen prosperous were induced to bor
irow money to buy more land and ex
pand with the result that they cannot
pay and are losing everything. Car
penters are getting 50 cents an hour
in Ohio and most of them idle. He
:said the sentiment seemed to be Dem
•ocratic at the present time, with
iFranklin D. Roosevelt talked of more
tthan any other candidate.
In Louisville, Kentucky, he visited
ihis sister and brother-in-law. In Illi
nois he found that Alaska pink sal
imon was selling for 10 cents a can
;and in Texas for U cents a can.
He met Sam Hatfield in Los An
;geles, and the two motored to Tia
.Juana, Mexico. They entered the
.place which has the longest; bar in the
world, 241 feet in length, and he and
Hatfield were the only two men at
tlhe immense bar at the time.
In Dallas, Texas, Mr. Lovgren met
'TABLE OP DISTANCES BE*
TWBBN NGN AN A AND FLAT
Miles
31enaua .^___ 00
Tavern Roadhouse _ 17%
Knight’s Roadhouse . 23%
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse_58
^Diamond Roadhouse...76
IRooseselt .. 89
lAke Miaaknmina .....115
’Trappers’ Cabin . 132
JLene Star Roadhouse . 156
'TetiUa Roadhouse . 169%
iSlow Pork Roadhouse . 187
jRast Pork Roadhouse __) 206
Kerry’s Landing Roadhouse. 227%
IBig River Roadhouse..241
McGrath . 263
TekoUa .. 280
Kill Goss’ Roadhouse _ 291
Sphir ...860
cCafferty.806
Known Creek sheker cabin.818
JPritz shelter cabin . 383
]First Chanoe shelter cabin _ 346
JScherme j er R. H.. 860
Hditarod ......; 376
Koaaneza sheler cabin, 12 miles
from Flat
•Crocked Creek shelter cabin. 19
miles from Bonanza.
C. C. Spinks, formerly of Ketchikan,
who is traffic chief for the Associated
Press there. Spinks said his job was
fine, but he would like to return to ,
Alaska. In the naval hospital near
Los Angeles, Mr. Lovgren visited
Major J. S. M. Quist, who had just
been operated on for tonsilitis.
It was on his way home over the
Siskiyous that he was given a real
thrill. He had driven some 20 milea.
It was early morning and as he
passed a dark parking place he no
ticed the front wheels of a machine
without any lights move into the
road. The car turned in behind him
and he watched it in his mirror. He
put on a little more speel and the car
behind did the same.
Lovgren was going down grade
with turns and swings and cliffs to
round and, though unfamiiar with the
road, he shoved his foot on the gas
until the speedometer registered 76
miles an hour. The other car came
hurtling after him, blowing its siren,
and tried to pass him, but each time
he hogged the road, forcing it toward
the edge.
When he reached a lighted fuel sta
tion near Ashland, where there were
people about, Lovgren slowed down.
The other man came to a screeching
stop ahead of him and two men piled
out and came toward him cursing.
They looked at the license plate
and saw he was from Alaska.
“Say, feller, wnat’s the idea of all
all the speed?” one asked.
“Who are you?” countered Lov
gren. ]
“We’re prohibition agents, the
other answered. He added: "If yon
ever become a citizen of America
you’ll know enough to stop when a
siren sounds at you.”
“We were about to shoot your gag
tank full of holes,” the other supple
mented.
Lovgren noticed a Washington
state tag on their car, and he remark-.
ed that since they were not in uni-!
form or had shown any badge of au-j
thority, he did not know they were
government men.
“We don’t have to,” one of them
said.
“Well, anyway,” Lovgren replied,
“I must say you fellows are good
sports. You gave me a quarter mile!
start, and that’s something.”
Clerk (showing customer golf
stockings): “Wonderful value, sir.
Worth double the money. Latest pat- '
tern, fast color, hole-proof, won’t
shrink, and it’s a good yarn.”
Customer: “Yes, and very well
told.”
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FIRE MOST MYSTIFYING
Checking; op on th eincendiary fire
which rccenty gutted the interior and
destroyed the ' machinery of the
KGBU station at .Ketchikan, operated
by the Alaska Radio and Service.
Company, recently, the circumstances
are mystifying to 4th einvestigators.
One of the things they are up against
is to find a motive for the wanton de
struction. The party or parties set
ting fire to the plant, it is figured,
brought the five-gallon can of kero
sene near there in a boat and carried
t to the place. The top was cut off
and the nil poured, inside and a match
applied. The fact that several mat
ches were found near the windows,
indicating that the man must have
used matches to see to cut off the top
of the can. Harpy McCain, president
of the hoard of directors; James Brit
ten, treasurer; B. D. Blackwell, ad
vertising manager, and George Bur
eigh, director, are cooperating with
the officers in trying to solve the mys
tepy. Messrs. McCain and Burleigh,
after -a careful check, believe the
damage will reach $8,000, with no in
surance. The anxiety of the person
or persons setting fire to the place
to do a good job by using five gallons
of kerosene,-defeated his or their pur
pose by generating enough gas to
smother the ames before they ignited
the woodwork, otherwise the entire
building would have been destroyed,
together with the furnished apart
ments of Mr.-and Mrs. Britten. The
only exit for Mr. and Mrs. Britten
was cut off by the fire. If they had
been in the house at the time and the
fire had destroyed the building, they
could not possibly have escaped.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
United States Land Office
Fairbanks, Alaska,
September 17, 1931.
Notice is hereby giyen that final
proof testimony in homestead entry
No. 02046 for the land embraced in
U. S. Surrey No. 1961 situate on the
right bank of Kuskokwim river about
1 mile southeasterly from the town
of McGrath, Alaska, , in latitude 62*
57* 4tT N„ longitude 166* 37* W.,
whence >U. S. L. M. No. 1961 bears S.
87* 14* W. 27.67 chains, has been
given ihy William T. Vanderpool, en
tryraan, and his witnesses, Richard
Joseph McArthur and Charles Ed
ward Smith, all of McGrath, Alaska,
and is in the files of the local land
office at -Fairbanks, Alaska. All per
sons 'having adverse claims against
this entry are required to file the
same .with the Register of the United
States Land Office at Fairbanks^
Alaska, within the period of publica
tion or 30 days thereafter er* they
will !be barred by the provisions eif
the statutes.
ROBT. W. TAYLOR,
Ex-officio Registers
First publication, November 14, 1961.
i Last publication, January 16, 1832.
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Ralph. Anderson, A. X. .Grant.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
Notice is‘hereby given to F. W.
Carter, .A. B. Ferguson, George C.
Friend, and E. Coke Hill,., arid their
heirs and assigns, that their portions
of the assessment work for the years
192* to 1931, inclusive, done -on the
Bonama Association placer mining
claims situated on Flat creek, tribu
tary of Otter creek, m the Otter Re
cording Precinct, Fourth Division,
Territory of Alaska, must be paid
within ninety (90) days from date
hereof, or forfeit all right and title
to said placer mining claim.
PATRICK SAVAGE.
Datal Flat, Alaska, Jan. 16, 1932.
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