NEWS ITEMS FROM OTHER ALASKAN TOWNS j
• Gathered From Our Territorial Exchanges • *
Xoom Menace to Woodsman—
Belligerent moose are both a nui
sance and a- menace to Tom O’Dale,
veteran ■woodsman who fives- in a
cabin on the shore of Tustamena
Lake on Kenai Peninsula. O’Dale
has been obliged to build a fence
around his cabin to keep the moose
away from his dwelling. Often when
he goes to get water he has been
chased up a tree by the animals, and
on occasion has been kepVup a tree
for las long as half a day." He now
carries a rifle • and scares the moose
away by firing bullets vn the snow
near them.
t rapper Held FcrrMurder—
Owen MeEnteei a .trapper, is held
by federal office, s in Kokrir.es i u.
connection witr the fatal shooting, of
Joe. Wright, a native. , recently.
Thelmas Long.. deputy marshal at
Ruby and U. S. Cammii-sit-ner George
Warner reported to the marshal's of
'.re in Fairbanks that the verdict, of
he coroner’s jury was that Wright
let death at the hands of McEntee.
he defendant was arraigned., out
rived examination and was bound
,ver to the grand ;ury. He furnish
ed $3,000 bail. . MoEnte- is an oW-i
time resident of the section and. has
a good, reputation. " !
Plane Party Forced Down—
Forced dowfi recently two -miles
htai -side of Koyukuk while esroute j
to Fairbanks froth .Nome. Pilot Dor. j
Emmons and passenger? took ^refuge i
it a native eat-in. and were maroon- i
there and report having had the
r.ususi experience of encountering a
iolently insane- native woman itr, the
abin of their refuge. Arrivals -. on
he plane report that about the i-ane i
-ney repaired to the cabin .for refuge
intil they could get their ship ready
or another .takeoff,, the native wftm
i suddenly-" became deranged and
' so violent h was necessary to
. her with force. Application!
n&s. been made in Fairbanks for a
marshal -to be. sert tbere; to take..the
woman into •custodynh .
Labor Dispnte Unsettled—
Pickets by mem._-era- A the Alaska
Fishermen’s Union, against the Pacj
nc -Salmon - Company, continues to
prevent the sailing of the-.company s
rcnnery vender Virginia - in Seattle,
recently. Conrad Espre, Justness:
agent for the Seattei . unit - of the
Cannery Workers and Farm Labor-.
ers. Union, announced, that: negotia-!
riorts between union- representative?
and; operators of the major fish can
neries ia Allaska would be opened
very soon in an effort to settle wage
issues before-the opening of the car.
3jr.fr season this month. Espre de
clared the union wants an under-1
standing as to wage scales and em-.
ployment conditions in connection!
with 3,000 men arid women employed
in Alaska fish canneries.
Fox Pehs in Demand—
In announcing recently anotner fur:
auction to be held April 14. the Se-1
attle- Far Exchange* declared that
Match, sales brought advances of 5
per cent in silver fox and bine fox
ized last February. Buyers took ail.
relts as compared with figures real
10 per cent of the 750 blue fox.
pelts offered at prices ranging fronw
$17 for the Northwest States ranch
variety to $60 a pelt for Alaska Arc
tic variety. Buyers snapped up vir
tually all nf the 2£60 silver fox
pelts offered at prices ranging from
$16.ior the black variety to $160 a
peltj-inr the better quality of full
silvers. Other fox sales were: Red
fox. *£00 pelts which brought prices
r&ngiagrlfrom $10 to $20 a pelt.
Whfcei.fiax, £50 pelts, $14 to $32.
Cross sax. 75 pelts, $25 to $60. Pric
es of other pelts at last week’s sales
were practically unchanged from the;
figures that ruled in the February
, Anchontr Expects Big Sum—
To make preliminary estimates for
3 PWA loan of $226,000 for erection
of a public school building in Anch
orage. Harry K, Wolfe, an architect
of Palmer, has been engaged by the
Anchorage municipal authorities.
Sentenced For Having Poison—
Charged with possession of poi
sonjvar Peterson, trapper, was fined
$25. and given a six-months sentence
Oy -'United States Commissioner A.
T.Rowe at Fort Yukon recently. Sen
tence was suspended. Fur worth
$2^900 was confiscated by the warden,
2nd released to the Game Cion'mis
sion by Peterson. Peterson had been
trapping in the Beaver Creek district
about 60 miles by trail from Fort
Yukon.
Alaska Pays Big Tax—
A total of $44 *1,890.44 was collect
ed from Alaska- in interna! revenue
taxes during the fiscal year ended
June 30, 19-46, "the report of the com
missioner of internal* revenue reveal
ed ,rt- <ist!y. The sum represented
ohe-bundredth per cent of the total
amount collected*, from all states and
territories. This' compared favorably
with Alaska's . population-o* 61,500,
which !$• five-hundredths of the total.
The figures, when brt-kwn -down,
showed that $312,825.44 was collect
ed in Alaska in income taxes, of
two-hundredths per-cent of the total.
Miscellaneous internal*, revenue -col
lections amounted ? to $100.204281,
while only $560.1V Wa? • collected in
the. territory ns ragric-wltural-adjastt
ment, oodectins. - -
Douglas Busy Rebuilding— -
Recently swept by a Tire' tAaf laid
waste- the business district and con
siderable ’<rf the residence area.
Douglas, famous camp on Gastineau
Chaimei, is do the 'threbhhold of one
of the greatest -baildif,g ^periods in
her career. Tne.-'new structure? will
bt- better than the 'old ever were.
Plans are-^oing forward for the er
ection of a "fine city hall, of a- sciiool
house and for extensive'street and
sidewaht improvements.- Construc
tion of business places are under
way. Funds for the public institu
tion are expected in the form of a
loan and grant from the Public
Works Administration, rln addition
to rehabilitation work, there will be
a- great deal of residence construc
tion- work this summer in Bouglas.
The bridge betweiw Juneau and
Douglas and the. large area available
for dwellings on the Douglas side
makes it desirable as a place for
homes for persons whose work or
places of business are in Juneau.
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E»il Hurja to Quit—
Emil Hurja, former Alaskan, who
for more than four years has been
associated with the Democratic Na
tional Committee and who called the
turn for it on the two Roosevelt
presidential elections and intervening
congressional election, is going back
to private business, according to re
cent word from Washington. The
gentle-voieed; expert, on election fore
casts and political, .patronage, who
volunteered his .services in 1932 to
James A. Farley, chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, said
he would quit his political position
within 60 days. His friends reported
he w31 go to work for a New York
insurance firm. Hurja, in comment- \
ing on how he guessed right in three
successive elections, once said; “Pol-1
itics is largely a matter of geog
raphy.” Hurja’s first job -was on a
newspaper in Fairbanks; He . earned
his way through' the University of
Washington by doing correspondence
and reportorial work on the Seattle
P-L Mrs. Hurja, whose maiden j
name was Gertrude Andersen, also
lived in Fairbai&s when a girl. Af-j
ter graduating from the University |
of Washington, she became society
editor of the Post-Intelligencer.
Investigate Train Wreck—
An investigation to determine the
cause of the passenger train wreck
which occurred : recently at Mile
85 1-2 was launched last week by
! Alaska Railroad officials. The de
railment occurred approximately in
the center of a trestle which is about
160 feet long and 15 feet high at
the deepest point of a gully. 150
feet of track was torn up on the
trestle. The engine -plowed on across
the trestle, traveling a distance of.
about 25 feet before coming to a
halt. The engine tender, also de
railed, remained with the engine and
came to a halt upright on the track
bed. Three cars following left the
track, with a freight car, which was
immediately behind the coal car, and
the mail car finally coming to rest
on -their sides m the bottom of the
gully after diving off the 15-foot
trestle. The baggage car, the third
car to tip over, came to rest with
its lower end resting in the gully
and on the mail car, and the upper
end still coupled to the first pas
senger coach, which stopped our. on
the trestle just before it reached
the torn up crack. The front trucks
of the first passenger car were off
the rails but the car remained up
right on the trestle . and the passen
gers were uninjured. The remaining
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