Alaska Mosquitos i
Mere Imitations
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Anacortes, Wash.,
June 20, 1947.
Dear Mother:
So you think you have mosqui
toes up there. You should see the
ones at Cedar Falls. They are as
big as airplanes up there. They fly
in pairs. One of them will pick a
man pu by the head and the other
by the feet and fly off with him.
No fooling, I was working in
^the woods one day when a pair
of them came along. I picked up
the sledge hammer and backed up
to a tree about six feet through.
They both rushed me at once, and
I had an awful time for about
^ half an hour keeping them away
from me.
Well after about half an hour I
noticed that they were not coming
i. at me quite as fast and sure
enough only one of them was left.
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I though that was rather strange
as they hardly ever desert their
partner unless one of them gets
killed in some manner, and I
knew I hadn’t killed either one of
them, as they are just too tough
to hurt with a sledge hammer.
Also I could see a diabolical
gleam in the eye of the one that
was left, which meant that he was
up to mischief of some sort, but
he was keeping me too busy to
look for the other one.
All at once, I felt something
sticking me in the back. Do you
know while the one was keeping
me busy, the other had sneaked
around behind me and bit clear
through that big fir tree to get me.
Well I just whirled around and
bent about a foot of his bill over
with the sledge hammer and he
couldn’t pull it out. I knew I had
them licked then because the one
wouldn’t leave the other, so I just
walked off.
About ten minutes later, I saw
the fir tree being dragged across
the side of the mountain. Do you
know they dragged that tree
across the mountain for two weeks
until they had finally worn the
end off the one mosquito’s beak
and he could get loose.
After that the loggers used to
delight in getting a mosquito to
bite them through a tree so they
could bend their beaks over. They
bent over so many that they final
ly started a new breed of short
beaked mosquitoes.
Yours for bigger and better
Alaskan mosquitoes,
Your son, Bart.
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Name Of Hanna
Glacier To Be
Changed To Peters
(By Vern Haugland)
<(£*) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Unless
objections are raised in the next
30 days, there no longer will be an
Alaskan glacier named alter Mar
cus Hanna, the Cleveland political
leader who twice helped elect Wil
liam McKinley President.
Instead, the Hanna, second
largest northward-flowing glacier
in the Alaska range, will take its
original name in honor of W. J.
Peters, one of the geological sur
vey engineers who pioneered the
area. The glacier, 13 miles long,
encircles the northwest of Mount
McKinley.
A. H. Brooks and D. L. Raeburn
of the geological survey, the first
white men to set foot upon Mount
McKinley’s slopes, named the gla
cier for Peters in 1902.
Two years later, the same year
Hanna died, the U. S. board on
geographical names, by “special
request,” renamed the glacier for
Hanna. The name was never ac
cepted in Alaska, and except on
official maps the glacier has con
■ tinued to be known as the Peters.
One name, that of Mount
Wright, south of the junction of
the Sanctuary and Teklanika riv
ers, perpetuates the memory of
George M. Wright, naturalist who
discovered the first nest—the only
one yet found—of the rare surf
bird. Wright was killed in an au
tomobile accident near Dcming,
N. M., in 1936.
Official sanction was given to
the name of Mount McKinley’s
two spires-20,300-foot south
peak, highest point in the North
American continent, and north
peak, about 19,000 feet high.
Tiagara village, given its Eski
, mo name officially in 1905, will
I hereafter be called Point Hope—
principally because the lighthouse,
mission and postoffice on Point
Hope never became popularly
known as Tiagara.
| The westward-flowing, 16-mile
long stream which empties into
the Nenana river in the Fairbanks
meridian, and which was named
Hoseanna creek in 1916, will be
come known officially as Lignite
creek—the name Alaskans have
used all along.
Some Mount McKinley fea
tures named—long enough ago to
become widely accepted — for
persons prominent in Alaskan his
tory, and row recommended for
official recognition:
Archdeacons Tower—a granite
towerlike peak on the summit
mass of Mount McKinley, altitude
19.600 feet, half a mile northwest
of south peak. Named for Hudson
Stuck, Episcopal archdeacon who
led the first ascent of south peak
in 1913.
Harper glacier, between south
and north peaks and descending
northeastward about three miles,
I and Harper icefall, a 3,500-foot
icefall separating Harper glacier
i from the head of Muldrow glacier
—for Arthur Harper, a member of
the 1913 expedition and first man
to reach the top.
Karstens Ridge, descend i n g
from the base of Browne Hower
northeastward for two miles to
Karstens Pass—for Harry P. Kar
stens, guide for the 1913 expedi
tion.
Mount Tatum, 11,100 feet—for
Robert Tatum, member of the 1913
party.
Pioneer Ridge, descending
northeastward for almost 10 miles
from north peak to Gunsight Pass
—named for the party of sour
dough miners, including William
Taylpr, Peter Anderson and two
men named McGonegall and
Lloyd, who made the first ascent
of north peak in 1910. Also Ander
son Pass, at 6,000 feet overlooking
the Muldrow glacier valley—for
Anderson.
Parker Pass, 14,600 feet, leading
to Parker glacier, and Browne
Tower on the southwest end of
Karstens ridge—for Herschel C.
Parker and Belmore Browne, who
almost — but not quite — reached
the top of Mount McKinley in
1912.
Mount Koven, 12,130 feet, near
Karstens Riuge, and nearby Mt.
^arpe, 12.500 feet—for Theodore
Koven and Allen Carpe, killed in
a descent near Muldrow glacier
in May, 1932.
Other names approved in the
Mount McKinley area: Mount
Brooks and Brooks glacier, for A.
H. Brooks: Mount Mather, for Ste
phen T. Mather, first director of
the national park service; Mul
drow glacier, for Robert Muldrow
of the geological survey; Wicker
sham Wall, for Judge James
Wickersham who led the first at
tempt—an unsuccessful one—to
climb Mount McKinley, in 1903.
Also: Carlson creek, Clearwater
Creek, Mount Deception, Farthing
Horn. Gunsight Pass, McKinley
River, Muddy River, Mount Sil
verthorne, Traleika Glacier and
West Fork Glacier, in the Mount
McKinley area; and Cliff Creek,
Cynthia Falls, Forty Creek, Kai
kema Creek. Hardy Creek, Haven
strite Ridge and Tonnie Creek,
elsewhere in Alaska.
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