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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Monday, May 26, 1952
THAT AWFUL FEELING OF BEING FOLLOWED
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ALASKANS SHOULD BE IN ON HEARINGS
On June 4th there will be hearings in Washington,
D.C., on the H.R. 7648, a bill to amend the organic act
of the Territory of Alaska and to turn over to the
Territory all fisheries control except the seal fisheries.
This is an important bill for Alaskans. It seems
odd that the hearings should be held in Washington
instead of in Alaska where Alaskans can speak for
themselves.
There are good and bad points to the bill which
need careful consideration. Alaskans are more than
willing to assume any part of handling its own affairs
and getting away from bureaucratic controls and should
be on hand for the hearings.
AIR FORCE ACE IN THE HOLE
The world’s fastest bomber, the U.S. Air Force’s
B-47 stratojet, now has an operational range of more
than 4,000 miles. This means that the medium bomber
could deliver the A-bomb to most points inside the
Soviet Union.
Perhaps of all of the weapons the United States
possesses, with the exception of the atom bomb, the
B-47 is the most terrifying threat to the Russians. It
is a bomber capable of carrying an atom bomb and hold
ing its own in a speed race with jet fighters. As far
back as 1949 one of these speedy medium bombers
crossed the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific
in less than four hours, averaging over 600 miles
per hour.
Compared to the United States’ heavy bombers,
the B-47 is much faster, and would represent a harder
target for enemy fire to destroy.
QUEEN MARY OF ENGLAND
CELEBRATES 85TH BIRTHDAY
LONDON, (JP) — Queen Mary
was 85 years old Monday.
The first to deliver their con
gratulations in person were her
royal great-grandchildren, Prince
Charles and Princess Anne.
The two children of Queen
Elizabeth II drove from Buck
ingham Palace to Marlborough
House, the dowager queen’s home,
with bouquets of flowers. Charles
will be four in November, Anne
two in August.
West Berlin Paper Reports
Arrest of 21 Soviet Off icers
BERLIN, (/P)—The arrest of 21
high Soviet officers* among them
eight staff officers of the Soviet
army of occupation in Thuringia,
was reported Saturday by the
West Berlin newspaper Telegraf.
The officers were said to have
been charged with taking part in
“c o u n t e r -revolutionary move
ments.”
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West Allied authorities were
unable to confirm the report.
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Ruckn eyer Pioneer Trek to Lost River
Recalled by Huber’s Article in Nugget
Black Hawk, Colorado
May 17, 1952
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Editor, Nome Nugget:
It was cheering to read in the
Alaska Weekly that “Louis R.
Huber, writing in the Nome Nug
get of a recent trip to Lost River
headquarters, states that Lost
River is America’s first productive
tin mine.” <
I believe that I was with the
original discoverer of the Lost
River tin lodes in 1903. I arrived
in Nome in June, 1899, from the
Klondike and went up to the town
of York in August, where I be
came recorder of The Kanowgok
Mining District.
Among the men living in York
was Barney F. Anderson of Hou
ston, Minnesota. In September,
1903, Barney told a number of us
that he had discovered a tin lode
on Lost River and offered to take
a number of us out to it to stake
claims. We made up a party of
about six of us to make the trip.
As I remember it now, besides
Mr. Anderson and myself, Pat
Cavanaugh, Dr. H. S. McDonald,
M. A. Domingo and Harry Cole
were in the party.
We took a tent, camp outfit and
grub to last a few days and star
ted over the hills with packs on
our backs one morning and trav
elled in an easterly direction from
York. We reached Lost River just
a few miles from Bering Sea late
in the afternoon, where we
pitched camp. Anderson showed
us the tin lode which contained
rock of a blackish color from
which he had obtained an assay
of tin. We delayed staking claims
until the next day.
About daybreak next morning
a terrible gale and snowstorm
struck our camp ^ith such vio
lence that it blew the tent down
and we could not keep it up long
enough to cook breakfast. There j
was nothing to do but go back to
York. We ate some raw bacon
and dry rice and started home.
I became lost from the rest of
the party during the trip and
when I came to the Anacovik
River it was running bank full
of slushy snow. I wore rubber
hip waders and made several at
tempts to wade it, but had to
swim a few strokes to get across.
Once across, I took off my waders,
poured the water out of them and
wrung out my socks.
Starting again for York, I had
not gone far when I sprained my
ankle and had to crawl on my
hands and knees about three or
four miles to York. The boys
helped dry me out and warm up,
but when I awoke next morning
I had the rheumatism so bad that
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I could not walk. In a few days
the ankle healed and the rheuma
tism left me.
It was perhaps ten days later
when the news came that the ex
revenue cutter Corwin was at
Port Clarence and would take
passengers for Seattle. I put a
pack on my back and started
down the coast, going inland at
one place to avoid some precipi
tate cliffs on the coast. I arrived
at a vacant log cabin on the coast
towards nightfall, where I made
preparations to stay overnight.
I had been there only a short
time when a boatload of Eskimos
arrived. I explained to them that
I was only there for the night,
which was OK to all of us. After
supper the natives got drunk and
had a jolly fight.
The next morning my rheuma
tism had returned and the natives
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put me in their boat and took me
down to where the Corwin was
anchored and carried me on
board, and would take no pay for
it. I went to Seattle and never
came back to Alaska. /
Barney Anderson died at his
home in Houston, Minn., some
years ago and M. A. Domingo
died in Nome about five years
ago. As far as I know, all of the
members of our party who went
out to Lost River together have
now passed away.
On a map which I have I notice
that there is a creek up in the
Lost River country which is
, named Anderson Creek and I sup
pose that it was named after Bar
ney Anderson who took us out
there in 4903.
When I left Alaska I had a
tin placer claim on Buck Creek,
a tributary of Mint River, about
12 miles northerly from York.
I sold the claim to Tex Rickard
in Omaha in the winter of 1903
04, but still have a large piece
of cassiterite (tin ore) which came
from Buck Creek. Tex gave me
$250 for the claim and I was
glad to get it as I never cared
to go back there.
I will enjoy hearing from any
of the old pioneers of Nome, York
or Lost River. I wonder if “Simon,
the Waterman,” who sold water
for 25 cents for a five-gallon can
in Nome in 1899 and “Spoon,”
the native who was in the scrap
at the cabin near Port Clarence
in 1903, are still alive.
If I was a swearing man I
would say that' was a “Heluva
Trip” to Lost River in Y903.
I have rather abbreviated the
description of this trip, but I
can tell a lot more about the trip,
the town of York, Cape Prince of
Wales, Wm. T. Lopp, John Mc
Nally, “Power of Attorney”
Brown, and other old settlers —
and I wonder if any of you knew
“Checkers” McAdams?—or Frank
Noyes, “Mickey” Hayden or Tom
Eagan?
Clarence Reckmeyer
P.S. I still have a copy of “The
Eskimo Bulletin, the Only Yearly
in the World,” published at Cape
Prince of Wales in 1897. It con
tains a news item headed “Bryan
Elected^’
U.N. Forces Do Not
Yet Have Control
Koje POW Camps
KOJE ISLAND, Korea, {fP) —
Informed sources said Monday
Communist and anti-Red prison
ers of war battled each other for
control of barbed wire POW en
closures for five riotous days in
what Koje veterans call “bloody”
September.
The five-day struggle—not yet
officially announced — caused 100
POW casualties, including 15
killed by prisoners. U.N. guards
wounded 14 with gunfire and 22
with bayonets, quelling the riots.
U.N. hospital officials say Red
POWs treat each other with such
barbarity that they have killed
' more prisoners than have Allied
guards in suppressing three POW
riots announced this year.
Camp officials concede they do
not have control inside the barbed
wire enclosures. Red leaders have
organized prisoners into a crude
but disciplined army, equipped
with stones, clubs and weapons
fashioned from cans and metal
bars. They also have pistols seized
from guards in riots or bought
from civilians.
At least 115 prisoners have died
from brutal beatings, hangings or
torture in clashes between die
hard Communists and anti-Com
munists within the barbed wire
enclosures, hospital records show.
The temperature of the bodies
of birds is higher than that of
mammals.
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CIGARS, CIGARETS
TOBACCO
ANNOUNCING ...
The Summer Opening
of the
Quianna Club
Thursday, May 29
6 p.m.
Johnnie Owen
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