I Alaska Notes
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'■ Gathered From Territorial
Exchanges.
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Profits from the fish canneries
have enabled the Indian village of
Metlakatla to celebrate the erection
>f <a $50,000 town hall, the largest in
Alaska. These profits also enabled
the people to present the 63-piece
band with $3,000 worth of new in
struments this year, marking further
improvements in the band, which has
been in existence for 52 years. Met
lakatla has a population of less than
'00, but its system of keeping down
administrative expenses of govern
ment and it« situation of having little
required of the city government en
ables it to devote the cannery, money
foB civic enterprises.
Judge Harding, of the district court
if<the First division, recently handed
down his decision in the Auk Bay
trespass case,, brought by the For
estry Bureau against William Mur
phy et al., finding for the Forest Ser
vice and giving Murphy )4 days in
which to remove his partially com
pleted home from the Auk Bay cove,
which had been thrown open by the
forestry officials as a bathing apd
recreation beach. In his decision.
■Judge Harding ruled,that the act of
Cotigress of May 17; 1884, under
which the Indians claimed ownership
toUhe land, aid ,uot. give the Indians
or anyone prior rights to the land
only so long as they occupied it. If
they surrendered ,possession by re
moving to other sites, their title was
rendered null by their acts. Judge
TABLE OF DISTAJiCBS BE
TWEEN .VENANA- AND FLAT
Miles
Ndnana . 00
Tdvern Roadhouse .s... 17%
Kdight’s Roadhcusa . 23%
Nineteen-Mile Ro&dhoece ». 58 ..
Dihmond Roadhouse . 76
Roosevelt . 89
Lake Minchumina.:.._115
Tappers’ Cabin .. 132
Ldhe Star Roadhousa ._. 166
Tidida Roadhouse . 169%
Slow Fork Roadhouse . 187
F.aist Fork Roadhouse .) 286
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse.. 227%
BiJ River Roadhouse .24L
McGrath . 262
Tdkotna ... 280
Bill Goss’ Roadhouss . 291
Ophir ... 300
McCatTerty . 306
Brown Creek shelter cabin .318
Fritz shelter cabin .. 333
First Chance shelter cabin . 846
Schermeyer R. H. 360
IdDtarod ..376
Flat ... 384
Bonanzza sheler cabin, 12 miles
Crooked Creek shelter cabin, 19;
miles from Bonanza.
Harding held that the testimony
showed that the Indians had removed
from the site many years ago and
the land was not occupied by them or
any of their descendants until the
building of the Glacier highway in
creased its value an hundredfold.
Meantime the land had been included
in the Tongas Forest Reserve, ad
ministered by the Forest Service, and
was set aside by them for recrea
tional purposes. The court upheld
the right of the department to do this
and declared the Murphys in trespass.
As a result of bums received while
washing clothes in gasoline at her
home in. Fairbanks, Mrs. William Kel
ler passed away a few,days agu. The
blast made a flaming torch of her
body. The gas ignited,by static, gen
erated in the frictbnrof. .rubbing the
clothing. The ensuing fire did con
erable damage to the .building. Mrs,
Keller went to interior Alaska in 1907
and with the exception of. a short
time spent outside ‘bad . lived there
ever since.
Munroe Ka'st; 79/ pioneer Alaskan,
is developing a placer property on
Poornian creek, a tributary to Peters
creek, in the.Cache Creek district.'He.
recently went to the Outside to .buy
$20,000 worth of hydraulic machin
ery, including two rams, capable of
lifting water over a hill for the oper
ation of two or three hydraulic gianta,
After having been cast into the
ocean at Yokohama, Japan, June 15,
1928, a message. waritteiujbjgbp. Ka
zama, president of Risho University,
was picked up in Prince William
Sound recently and taken, to Cordova.
The message was one ^ofi twenty-five
sent out to commemorate the twenty
fifth anniversary of tha .founding of
the university..
Alaska’s mining industry ^et. a' new
record- for safety, it was discovered
recently by D. {B. Stewart; .acting
Territorial mining engineer. There
were «nly five fatalities in 191,’ two
les& >han in .1930,' he .-.aid. While
complete records of non-fatal acci
dents are not available yet, reports
so far received: by Mr. Stewart's office
indicate there will be a material re
duction is. that, class of mishaps, he
said. .
Robert J. McChesney, dO, one of
the oldest and best known printers of
Alaska, died in Seattle a few days
ago, following a short illness. He was
manager for the Alaska Printing
Company in that city for a number of
years, going to Seattle from Alaska.
“Bob,” as he was known to practi
cally every oldtimer in the Northland,
owned and published the Fairbanks
Daily News during the balmy days
a
of the Interior camp, later going to
Cordova, where he worked for several
years at the printing game. Later he
went to Valdez, where he was inter
ested with Elliott Stewart and others
in the Weekly Miner, which was later
consolidated with the Prospector, a
daily paper.
Clarence A. Withrow, superintendr
ent for the Alaska Pacific Salmon
Corporation at Funter Bay, ha» ar
rived at the cannery and reports the
plant will operate this season with a
skeleton crew with a view of holding
the trapsites and keeping the equip
ment in running order.
Paul Putnam pleaded guilty in U.
S. commissioner's court on January
18 for violation of. the Alaska game
laws. He. was chraged with trapping
without a license and trapping during
closed season. He was lned $150.
Putnam has been residing for some
months past at Pat’s creek, and was
arrested on complaint of Game War
den Homer F. Jewell.
THOMAS BABE, RESPECTED
OLDT1MER, BURIED AT QPHIR
, The; last tributes. o£ respect, to
Thomas Baire, esteemed oldtimer,
were paid at mournfnul funeral cere
monies at Ophir on Sunday last. The
ceremonies were attended by practi
cally everyone in the Ophir section,
numbering about fosty. U. S. Com
missioner Chris Bolgen and Eric Hard
gave nice direction to the last rites.
•Covering the coffin were many pretty,
artificial floral pieces, the handi
work of the ladies of Ophir. The
services, as,, a whole, reflected the
high esteem in which Thomas Bare,
genial, cheerful soul and and respect
ed citizen, was held hy all who knew
him.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
United, States Land, Office
Fairbanks, Alaska,
September 17, 1931.
‘ Notice is hereby given that final
proof testimony in homestead entry
Noi. -0204b for. the land embraced in
U. S. Survey.,Nb. 1961 situate on the
right bank ofiKuskokwim river about
1 mile southeasterly from the town
of McGrath, Alaska, in latitude 62°
57' 40'* N.v longitude 155° 37' W.,
whence U, S; L. M. No. 1961 bears S.
87° 14'i •W. 27.67 chains, has been
given by William T. Vanderpool, en
trymanji and his witnesses, Richard
Joseph McArthur and Charles Ed
ward Smith, all of McGrath, Alaska,
and is m-the files of the local land
office at Fairbanks, Alaska. All per
sons haVmg adverse claims against1
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 or they
will be barred by the provisions of
the statutes.
ROBT. W. TAYLOR,
Ex-officio Register.
First publication, November 14, 1981.
Last publication, January 16, 1982.
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1 FLAT AND IDITAROD
FLAT.—Olaf Olson, a well known
oldtimer hereabouts and on the Kus
kokwim, was drowned at Crooked
Creek some days ago, according to
meager advices received from that
pojnt, which stated only that his body
had been recovered.
The body of Jack Whittaker, a
well, known oldtimer of these parts,
was found in his cabin in the vicinity
of the Schermeyer roadhouse a few
days ago. Nothing is known as to
the causes of his passing. Deputy
Marshal Sam Kincaid, with assist
ants, left yesterday for the cabin
home of the deceased.
Tests by the Forest Service have
shown that hickory is the heaviest
wood grown in the United States, and
western red cedar, when green, the
lightest.
McGRATH
POOL HAIL
Under New Management
Fresh Fruits
Candies
Tobaccos
Pipes
Cigarettes
Soft Drinks
Cigarette Holders
Charlie Smith
Proprietor
Charlie Goebel, after a couple of
days in town, left Friday for Ophir,
on his way to his headquarters at.
Ganes.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE...
Notice is hereby given to • FY'.W.'.
Carter, A. B. Ferguson, Georg* - CT-.
Friend, and E. Coke Hill, and‘■their.''
heirs and assigns, that their portaboss
of the assessment work for the years .
1924 to 1931, inclusive, done on the
Bonanza Association placer mining
claim, situated on Flat creak, .titibiNs
tary of Otter creek, in the Otter Re* -
cording Precinct, Fourth Division,,,
Territory of Alaska, must be paiti.i
within ninety (90) days from date.*
hereof, or forfeit all right and titlfc'!
to said placer mining claim.
Patrick satage:;.
Dated Flat, Alaska, Jan. 16, 1932*..
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