MERRILL RISKS NIGHT FLIGHT
TO SAVE LIFE OF TEACHER
(Anchorage Times.)
Braving the peril of a night (light
from Ninilchik, with the temperature
more than 20 degrees below zero and
with mind filled with uncertainty re
garding his ability to make a landing
on the unlighted Anchorage field.
Pilot R. R.. Merrill unhesitatingly
took off from the lower inlet after
darkness had set in last.night and
headed the cabin ship of the Anchor
age Air Transport for for Anchorage
base. The long chance was taken
because the iife of Miss Joan Bess
Howe, government teacher at Ninil
chik, who had accidentally shot her
self in the abdomen, was hanging in
the balance. If she could be brought
to the Anchorage hospital immediate
ly there was the hope that her life
could be saved; if she remained there,
she might not live through the night.
So Pilot Merrill readily assented, to
attempt the flight, and after the
young woman had been made as com
fortable as possible in the cabin of
the plane he and Dr. A. D. Haver
stock, who made the flight to Ninil
fcmk in the plane, climbed aboard the
ship and set out, fully aware of the
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tneir chance with the patient.
in anticipation of the return of the
piane iast evening, flares had been
prepared at the aviation field, and
wnen Pilot Merrill circled low over
the city to get his bearings, a number
of automobiles were driven hastily to
the field and with the aid of their
lamps and flares the plane was
brought safely down, but not without
careful, an<* skilful maneuvering.
About an hour was required, to make
the flight from Ninilchik.to Anchor
age.
Pilot Merrill left Anchorage on
Thursday in response, to. an S. O. S.
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call from Ninilchik, anci the plane ar
rived there late that afternoon, after
I having left Fred Spach, of the Alaska
Road Commission, at Kenai, and Tom
Cdale at Kusilof. The only landing
place near Ninilchik is a lake about
seven miles back cf the settlement
and the landing was made there fit
about two feet of snow. Dr. Haver
1 stock, Alaska Railrood surgeon, and
Pilot Merrill mushed from the lake to
the town, through deep snow, and re
turned to the plane yesterday with
Miss Howe, the trip requiring the
greater part of the day and involving
great difficulty. When the plane was
reached it was dusk.
! An operation was performed at
; the Government Hospital as soon as
Miss Howe could be prepared for it,
and the report from the hospital this
1 afternoon is that she has a fighting
chance for recovery. The bullet from
the revolver, which was discharged
while she was cleaning it, passed
. through her abdomen and emerged
from the back.
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j MOUNTAIN PEAKS OF ALASKA.
I Alaska is a land of high mountain
1 peaks. Within her borders there are
eight peaks higher than Mt. Whitney
(14,562 feet), the highest mountain
| in continental United States. In all,
her mountain ranges contain nine
peaks which tower from from. 14,000
feet to 20,380 feet above sea level,
while just over the border in Yukon
Territory are there are two mountain
peaks of similar altitude—Mt. Alver
ston, 14,493 feet, anr Mt. Logan,
19,540 feet, the second highest moun
tain on the North American continent.
I In addition there are more than a
score o fpeaks ranging in altitude
from 7,000 to 13,940 feet, the last fig
ure representing the height of Mt.
Hayes, in the Alaska range. Fore
most among all the peaks in grandeur
and height is Mt. McKinley, whose
' snowclad summit is 20,300 feet above
sea level, the highest elevation on the
i 'North American continent.
Following are the principal peaks,
together with the altitude of each,
and the mountain range in which it is
found:
Feet.
McKinley, Alaska range. 20,300
Logan (Y. T.), St. Elias
range . 19,540
St. Elias, St. Elias range .. — 18,024
Foraker, Alaska range . 17,100
Sanford, Wrangell Mts.. 16,210 !
Blackburn, Wrangell Mts. - 16,140
Vancouver, St. Elias range . 15,680
Fairweather, St. Elias range.... 15,390
Hubbard, St. Elias range . 14,950
Wrangell, Wrangell Mts. . 14,000
Hayes, Alaska range . 13,811
Newton, St. Elias range . 13,811
Cook, St. Elias range . 13,755
Natazhat, Wrangell Mts. . 13,480
Regal Mtn., Wrangell Mts. 13,400
—Alaska School Bulletin.
J. H. McLEAN.. ]
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Kinley Precinct, Fourth Division.
Territory of Alaska, before Hon
orable W. T. Vanderpool, com
missioner and ex-officio probate
judge.
In the matter of the Estate of Jean
McLean, deceased.
Notice of Final Hearing.
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administrator of the estate of Jeanj
McLean, deceased, will be held in the
probate court room at McGrath,
Alaska, at 10 a. m. on ' esday, Janu
ary 10, 1928.
W. T, VANDERPOOL,
Commissioner and ex-officio
Probate Judge.
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