«RS. ROilfi DIES
SUDDENLY AT HER
ANCHORAGE HOME
!
Mrs J. H. Romig. esteemed Aneh
urage resident, who came to. Alaslu
iff 181*6, died at her home in- Anch
stage New Years Day. She had eel
eh rated her 65th birthday, the pre
vk>us Monday.
DaatK came at.6 p. m. while" ha
husband, Dr. J. H. Romig, and threi
children. Robert, Howard and Mrs
Mangar-t Hannon,, stood at the bed
side.
Death was sodden., D.\ aod Mrs
Rorndp had gotte for an autoraobili
ride to their moosehom ranch cabii
daring the. afternoon. They returnee
borne at. ♦ o’clock when Mrs. Rdmi{
b®ame.ill. . She passed two hours la
ter.
Mrs. Rbmig was born .at Kingston
P^nn. Ste was a graduate nurse.
At Philadelphia she met a uoujj*
medical student, and ini 896 thej
were married ■_ Soon after their mar
riage, Of. Romig finished hip medico
studies a pi the two started for Al
aska. whmw.the hot hand had been as
signed as a me heal missionary f<y
the Moravian Church*
The young couple. sailed, frq*n;
Francisco on June 6, 1896. fop_i the
lahd. whepe they were to spend d-h J
lives in the service of humanity,
bringing their: medical skill into a
land where doctor*, and .purses were
oAmvq,
Dk. and M.-s, Romig for mans
years, wer- the er.lydoctorand grad
•t- nurse v, cst pf Sitka.
The loupl* landed-June go at Ungs
and fepra there went to Usaiaska,
where they awaited a sailing schooner
to t**e them^to..tbe Kuskpkwitn.Rny
-rr. They traveled upstream to Beth
el* which was to be their ©me for the
nert saver years. -
Sid: by s.ile with her stalwart bur
band!, Mrs. Romig foughtiovpr •Alas
tap tsaiis, musning behind dog team=
in wmaer and:, traveling in rough
boats in the summer, to bring aid. to
i» ir.'urtp native.or a *;cs. cuiW. No
trail vas too difficult for -her -to at
tempt, if it meant bringing an end
to paia and suffering to the people- of
the Northiani who rilore had-.never
cnpwrt modern *nec«*eal scienee*
Most of tne traveling was done bj
net husband-, but whtie" he was--gone
for weeks and sometimes months on
loOeh expeditions, MrsdRdSng"; man
aged the aifaira of the small mission,
performing minor surgery?-, setting
broken bones, sewing igi K aunas and
rendering the multiple tasks which
arose at the post. .
The isolation, of their lives is best
illustrated hy the fact that the Span
, ish-American ar was declared,
“ fought and ended*, before they knew
1 it.
During their years at the lonely
little post of Bethel, three of their
i children, Robert, Mrs. Daily and Mrs.
■ Hannon, were born.
I'* ear the turn of the century, the
- boat failed to arrive one year and
the post faced starvation. With sup
' plica nearly gone, less than 50 pounds
! of flour to the family, and only a few
.pounds of sugar, and other, staples
entirely gone. Dr. Romig took 26 na
trres and started for St. Michael, j
. They returned wth supplies by steam-!
er to. Russian Mission, and took them,
r over the old Russian. Portage to the
Kuskokwim.
While he was -gone, Mrs. Romigsa
, sumed charge of the stricken mission
rationed out the-feat dwindling-sup
. ply offlour and'kept up the morale irf
the post, not knowing wbemfcer Hus
band would return.
_
SEWARD PENINSULA COMING'
< TO THE FRONT SAYS'GAL VTN
f- *T look to - see the Seward Pen in
_sula the greatest mining vamp of Al
aska,” said J.’ G. “Jerry” Galvin in
. air interview with a representative of ‘
the Alaska Weekly in Seattle recent
ly. “Its production of .piacer gold is
steadily increasing and there are still
numerous opportunities in that field
, for men with even a modest amount
| of coital. Lode-gold mining is also
assuming important proportions in
'this area and every mining man will
admit that the field is almost virgin
territory in that respect. Tin will be
-heard of more and more and the day
will come when ar tin smelter on Pu
get Sound or on- the beaches of the
' Bering Sea will be an absolute essen
tial to handle the output of. this im
portant mineral. The entire district
! is alive with optimism and this spring
; will witness, not- only important de
velopments, but the hills will be fill
ed with prospectors and miners once
more.” ~
r Mr. Galvin is interested'in the AT
aska Homestake Goldmining Com
pany property at Bluff, on the Sew
|ard Peninsula. Extensive devrlop
of this quartz property will begin in
.the spring, he stated.
SIX KILLED- IX CRASH
BERLIN, Feb. 11—A big army
plane, flying in a blinding snowstorm
crashed into a high tension line in
the heart of the city. Two army
fliers and four civilians were killed.
FEDERALS START DRIVE OX
ALASKA FUR POACHERS
The federal government’s latest
drive to curb fur poaching in Alaska
began recently with the arrival in
Seattle of Homer Jewell, veteran Al
aska Game Commission warden, who
had opened inspection offices here in
another step to guard the Territory’s
$4.000.000-a-year fur industry.
Jewell, who has spent 12 years
tracking law violators, will check
all furs brought to Seattle from Al
aska. and see that none is smuggled.
Heretofore, the Alaska Game Com
mission has had no Seattle represen
tative to check furs taken from the
Territory. Jewell pointed out that
many poachers attempt to evade
game laws in Alaska by smuggling
the furs by airplane or sending them
by steamer in boxes labeled ‘'fish.”
Although Seattle fur dealers
have co-operated with the Game Com
mission to curb poaching, Jewell aid
thousands of dollars worth of 5 elts
are smuggled out of the Territory
each year.
Careful supervisoin of the trapping
of fur-bearing animals in Alaska has
assured the Territory of a continued
source of wealth, the official said.
Jewell predicted that the number
of marten furs on the market will in
crease this year, because the animals
may be trapped arithoutliir.it for the
first time in several years.
WORLD GOLD PRODUCTION^
REACHES PEAK DURING 1 ,36
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Treasury
eiperts recently calculated the
world’s 1936 crop of gold at a new
peak and pondered its possible effect
on international money markets.
Production estimates for the world,
including Russia, suggested that the
total output of the yellcw metal this
year might approximate 4C.000. 0fl
ounces compared with the previous
peak of 30,000,000 in 1935.
The tight grip maintained by g rv
emments now on their ir.onetzry
structures makes it difficult to pre
dict how the pouring out of this h'-ge
amount of gold will be reflected
in money, experts said. In their
opinion the effect will be cushioned in
the United States by the treasury’s
recently announced decision to “ster
ilise” newly-acquired gold to prt al
its use id credit inflation.
DuRand’s Cafe
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Everybody Welcome.
FLAT. ALASKA
-1---—
ESKIMOS CELEBRATE
RUSSIAN CHRISTMAS
BETHEL—Christmas Eve finally
fame to Eskimos in Southwestern
Alaska.
Pussy willow Christmas trees sud
denly burst into bloom in native vil
lages where the birth of Christ was
celebrated in a conglomerate Pagan
Christian fashion.
December 25 meant little to the Es
kimos in the Kuskokwim area; it is
January 7 that counts, for then it is
that Russians compute Ghrist's birth
day.
Since the early ldth century, when
the Russians established trading
posts, the Eskimos in the vicinity of
Rusian Mission, 150 miles north, hs\
been taught to portray the Russian
orthodox Christmas.
To the Russian ceremony, natives
have added the Christmas tree cus
tom and have a ceremony of their
own.
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