Alaska .Notes
Gathered Frem .Territorial
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William, ifiper,..:: resident* of . ..ies,
near Fairbanks, was fined $1-0 in the
commissioner’s, court.recently for vi
olation>\<b£.Jth% game law. Unable to
... able to - pay ..the fine, he is serving it
out.in the federal..jail. Piper was ar
, rested iby « Game Warden Sam O.
White .at, hia/eabin o nthe Cnatannca
. river, about, three miles .belo wOlnes.
It . was., aljeged he .had shot a cow
moose from his cabin doof a short
tJ time, before -his arrest. Portions of
. the carcass were said to have been
. found..in. his possession, as wer
. fragments. of two other moose.
Eorecaaling the development of
Central Alaska on a scale almost as
great as that of the Fairbanks Ex
ploration. Company near Fairbanks, a
. syndicate .of Hollanders, have organ
. ganized the Dutch Exploration Com
, pany*.at . Hague and have taken over
optiona.op gold fields controlled by
, British. interests. Engineers will
leave . Holland for Alaska and start
. operations this summer, it is said.
. The British holdings are handled by
. Lemons-Eoster, London, and are re
ported to be extensive placer areas
near Fairbanks and in the Susitna
valley region.
John and Leo Reinken, formerly of
. Valdez*.haye made a rich mining find
. .at Unalaska, according to an article
. recently, printed in the Cordova
imes. ...The article says:
“Last August, Leon and John Rein
ken, .prospecting on the island of
. Unalaaka,. located a large vein of
.. complex.ore that carries goqd values
. iq. gold., silver, cqpper, lead and zinc.
. This vein-shows on the surface for a
v distance, .of .approximately 400 feet
. and is from 18 feet wide at the lower
. end of the outcrop to 50 feet wide at
. thq .pper.end.
“Being situated at tidewater, with
„ a good-harbor, this shows promise of
. being, one. of the largest producers to
w the. .westward.
“Although very little work has
. tbeen done.on the property, it is evi
< dent that there is a very large body
c of-ore .in- sight. Several hundred
pounds .of.samples were token by the
Reinken .brothers and assays made,
:. and in. all the * returns frojn th> a's
. sayeru very good values vrere given.
The returns from numerous assays
gave .the; following results: u-n,
. from .$2. to 131.60; silver, 5 ounces;
lead, l pencent; silver, 1.5 to 2.9 per
■ cent; zinc, 7. to..65 per cent. The low
est assay showed $20 per ton.
“The .property is situated near the
‘ town .of Unalaaka, in a land-locked
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harbor, .with plenty of water for
large ships, giving ideal transporta*
tion facilities.
“From the results of the explora
tions by the Reinken brothers, they
believe that the mainland and lands
to the westward offer a virgin field to
' prospectors. . They have discovered
other bodies of mineral ores that will
bear further investigation and will
have engineers examine them this
summer.”
John Pabloff, of Minook, died a few
weeks ago. He was the son of the
Russian officer Pabloff, for whom
Pabloff Bay, in Alaska, was named.
The father piloted white miners into
the Lewis, Stewart, Forty mile, Koy
ukuk and the Circle mining districts.
! The Big Minook and the Little Mi-j
| nook rivers were named after the
i father of John, who was 75 years old. ■
John was sinking a prospect hole ]
near the Melozi river when he was
taken sick and laid for eight days in
his blankets without fire or food.
When found he was taken ti the hos-1
pital at Tanana, where he died a
week later. All whites and natives
| in the vicinity attended the funeral, j
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A dozen protests, based on Stewart
Edward White’s “An Emergency Is
Declared to Exist,” appearing in the
Saturday Evening . ost of April i.,
have Dipen received at the office of
Governor George A. Parks at Juneau.
All of them, accepting Mr. White’s;
charges as true, urged the Governor'
to take steps to prevent extinction of
the Alaska brown bear and to cease
destroying game trout. Communica
tions were received from California,
Michigan, Maryland, . ennsylvania
I ana rsew jersey, v^aniorma is rep-i
j resented by several writers. Only one j
of the writers, however, gave any in- J
dication that he ever intended to, visit
Alaska. All protests were turned
over to the Alaska Game Commission
to answer, since the game animals of |
Alaska are in its jursidiction. The
United States Biological Survey has
already issued a bulletin from its
Washington office pointing out the
misstatements made by Mr. White in
regard to brown bear regulations.
Even though no pensions are grant
ed and no increases are made in indi
vidual allowances now being paid per
sons receiving old age gratuities, the
Territorial pension fund at the close
of the present biennium will be a few
thousands of dollars short of actual
requirements, it was recently re
vealed by Governor Parks. During
the first year of the biennium, ending
March 31, last, the snm expended
was $85,470. Of this $180 reverted,
leaving a total of $84,890 for the final
year. Pensions granted since that
time wohld increase the payments
necessary during the coming four
quarters to $87,840, whirh is $2,950
in excess of the money that is avail
able. It is apparent that the number
of new pensions to be granted during
the next twelve months will be very
limited, and only possible where ex
isting pensioners are dropped « from
the roll from death or other causes.
The bill introduced in Congress by
Delegate Sutherland some time ago,
providing for the granting of per
mission of Southeastern Alaska In
dians to sue the Government f«r the
value of lands and other possessions
taken from them, is still, pending be
fore the committee on claims, to
which it was referred, according to
information recently received in
Alaska from Mr. Sutherland. The
Delegate says the telegram sent from
Washington by Thomas A. Marqquam
stating that the bill had been klled n
committee, was not founded on fact.
Sale of Alaska fur ami skins that
were sold for government account at
St. Louis, Mo., Aptilbrought; in
returns of $318,306.60, vihrmas i stated
by Henry O’Malley, commissioner 'of
the Bureau iof'Fisheries."Arbis-money
is tumid over to the Treasury 'De
partment after the cost of curing and
preparing the skins, for. .market is
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taken out. .Approximately 8,999 black
dyed Pribiloff Island skhu sold, .for
more than $L7.7,9Bg, .while 6,037 log
wood brown dyed skas sold for $141,
877.60, and: four skins that were.1
taken illegally sold for $16.50. .The
skins sold.are .those, of, the. .surplus
bulls of the headland aosc these
bulls have no part; in the propagation
of the herd, the.increase will not-be!
retarded. At the time the skins were
sold for the United States Govern
ment there were for sale for the gov
ernment of the Union of South Africa;
about 4,000 Cape of GoeduQope for:
seal skins, while skins for other atrip-,
pers from the Northwest Cape of
Good Hope and Lobos islands were
sold. The buyers of all these skins
varied from the large wholesale buy
ers to the small buyer who is in. the
retail business, it was said. j
Dan H. Leach, who during .con4
struction days was connected with
the Alaska Railroad, was. gravely in
jured a short time ago in an automo
bile accident in California. He suf
fered a fractured skull, severe cuts
and lacerations and a broken sixth
vertebrae of the neck. . The injured
man was under treatment at . the
Dameron hospital in Stockton*, where
his condition was considered serious.
In recognition of the splendid ser
vice rendered to Anchorage during
the several years Russell Merrill was
engaged in flying for the Anchorage
Air Transport, the Pioneers nf Alas
ka at Anchorage have launched a
movement which has for its objective
the naming of the new municipal air
port after the lost flyer and the plac
ing of a memorial there. Pilot Mer
rill was a member of the Anchorage
Igloo.
The New York Alaska Gold Dredg
ing Company, which has been oper
ating a dredge in the Bear creek sec
tion of the Lower Kuskoltwim for the
past few years, is said to have shifted
the scene of its operations this year, ,
to the Seward Peninsula country. The
Kuskokwim property is reported to
have been worked out, and it is under
Btood to be the intention to move the
dredge fro raits present location to
Candle creek, in the Nome section.
George W. Hutchinson, president of
the First National Bank of Fair
banks and a pioneer resident of the
Northland, died at Seattle a few days
ago, the result of a relapse from
stroke of paralysis.
George Hutchinson stampeded to
Dawson during the gold rush days
and went fro mthere to Fairbanks
when gold was discovered there. He
entered the employ of the First Nal
tional Bank when that bank was es
tablished during early Fair hanks days
and for a number of years past he
had been president and one of the
principal owners of the establish
ment.
The oldtimer suffered a slight
stroke last year and was taken to the
States by Mors. Hutchinson. He im
proved steadily in the south and a
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FLAT
Neaana__
ravern Roadhouse..
Knight's Roadhouse ..
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse
Diamond Roadhou
Roosevelt
Lake If inchuuuna
Trappers’ Cabin_
Lone Star Beadhonas
relida
Slow Fork loodhense
East' Fork Roadhouse
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Berry's Laadinf Readhoaae
Big River Readhoaae
McGrath .
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Iron Creak skelter cabin .
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few weeks ago he came up the coast
to Seattle on his way back to Fair-;
hanks, apparently almost recovered.
While.in the Puget Sound city he suf-,
fered .a relapse and was taken to a
hospitaL.in a nunconscious condition,
from, which he. failed to rally.
Another - of the Northlands out
standing characters crossed the last
divide recently at the Anchorage hos
pital when Benjamin Atwater passed
asray. as the result of pulmonary
pneumonia. He was 85 years old. At
one time in his youngertudayat Ben
Atwater was a national figure, hav
ing the reputation of being the
strongest man in the United States.
He toured the country , as the strong
man of America far a number of
years and eventually was attracted
to Alaska in. 1855, where he has spent
more than 60 years mining and pros
pecting and trapping. But little -is
known of the oldtimers family con
nections beyond the fact that he had
two nephews in the States from
whom he received letters occasionally.
Baheeach Moosehide Hitts and Booto
Furs Bought and Sold Clothing
. All Kinds of Nice Fresh Groceries and Finite
' Canned’.Goods of All Kinds Beds and Bedding I
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