Halibut Boat
Helpless At Sea
From Fire
SEATTLE, (/P) — The Coast
Guard cutter Washusett raced Sat
urday from Ketchikan toward
Cape Decision where the stricken
halibut boat, Fay, of Seattle lay
drifting with a crew of seven men
aboard.
Seattle coast guard headquar
ters reported that the Cape Deci
sion light station sighted the fish
ing craft late Friday wallowing in
the ocean swells and drawing
gradually nearer the Narrows be
tween Coronation and Kiui Is
lands.
The Wachusett, based at Ketchi
kan, was ordered immediately to
proceed at top speed to the area,
almost due west of Wrangell. The
cutter expected to reach the crip
pled Fay about 10 a.m. ‘PST>.
Several days overdue, the Fay
signaled the light station it had
been put out of commission by a
fire at sea. The blaze was extin
guished without injury to the
crewmen, but its extent was not
reported to the station.
The fishing vessel, which left
Ketchikan July 1 for the Gulf of
Alaska, said it had 3,500 pounds
of halibut aboard and urgently
needed a tow to port.
No other information was im
mediately available, the coast
guard said.
J. H. BONTRAGER GUEST OF
REV. AND MRS. LOVELESS
J. H. Bontrager arrived in Nome
via Alaska Airlines on Friday. Mr.
Bontrager, a Christian business
man, a graduate of the Moody
Bible Institute, is an electrical
contractor at Wakarusa, Ind. In
terested in gospel work he will be
the guest of Rev. and Mrs. Geo. H. |
Loveless of the Nome Gospel Mis
sion while on his vacation in
Nome. He will be speaking Sun
day evening at 7:30 p.m.
The chinchilla averages about
two litters a year, each litter con
sisting of two animals.
ACS Offers Two
New Services
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The ACS rs now making avail
able to the public two more tele
graphic services which have prov
ed to be highly popular with Alas
kan residents. These two new
services are overnight telegraphic
money orders and the inclusion of
supplementary messages with tel
egraphic money orders. This was
announced yesterday in Seattle
by Col. T. J. Tully, commanding
officer of the ACS.
This new service is provided by
the ACS between their own of
fices and to those money order
offices on connecting telegraph
lines having similar service in
cluding Western Union in the U.
S. The cost of sending money by
means of the new overnight tele
graphic money order service is
the charge for a twenty-five word
nightletter to the point of destin
ation plus one per cent of the to
tal amount of money being tele
graphed. If the sender wishes to
include a message with the money
the charge for the supplementary
message is based on the nightletter
rate for the number of words con
tained in the supplementary mes
sage.
Supplementary messages may
also be included if the sender so
desires in a regular telegraphic
money order. Regular telegraphic
money orders are normally deliv
ered on the same day filed and
the cost is the charge for a ten
word fast day message to the
point of destination plus one per
cent of the total amount of money
being telegraphed. Charge for the
supplementary message is based
on the fast day message rate for
each word contained in the mes
sage.
Heretofore the only telegraphic
money order service provided by
teh ACS was the regular tele
graphic money order, and accom
panying messages were sent sep
arately and not included in the
money order. Further details con
cerning this new service may be
obtained from any ACS station in
Alaska.
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“Soapy Smith Can’t
Hurt Me Now;
He Is Dead!”
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SEATTLE, (/P> — Some of the
yarns are slightly hemstitched,
but most of the experiences being
retold at the international sour
dough reunion don’t need any em
broidery.
Consider Mrs. A. J. Goodard of
Woodinville, Wash. She went in
over one of those tough old passes
to Lake Bennett at the height of
the Yukon gold rush to visit her
husband and found him ill with
typhoid. She nursed him back to
health and stayed on to aid other
stampeders who had fallen ill.
Even the name “Sourdough” has
its origin in fact. The miners and
trappers of pre-gold rush days in
Alaska got the name because they
carried sour dough from camp to
camp for their biscuits and bread.
Ethel Anderson Becker, whose
hobby is chronicling the gold rush
and collecting its pictures, doubts
a new story first, then checks it
and usually finds its true. She
went in over White Pass in a pack
train with her mother when she
was a small girl, so the story of
Mrs. Pullen of Skagway rang
true.
Mrs. Pullen, a widow with four
children, took them across the
Pass in a pack train and support
ed them by baking pies. Later she
started a restaurant in Skagway
that became its famous hotel, the
Pullen House.
There was the grandmother who
took a party of 11 boys over Chil
koot Pass and made them halt ev
ery Sunday, dress up and hold
church services whether they were
camped on a quiet stream or neck
deep in a blizzard. There was
Molly, her last name forgotten,
who was the little Samaritan of
the Skagway trail. She operated a
trailside restaurant and doubled
as a nurse for the men who were
injured or ill.
“Names weren’t too important
on the trail of ’98,” said Mrs.
Becker. “A man said he was
known as Sourdough Bill or Skag
way Joe and that was enough.”
"I sure wish,” put in an old
timer, J. H. <Herb» Carter, “I
knew the last name of my partner.
All we ever called him was Jim.
He and I put up a striped tent at
the top of Chilkoot Pass and sold
hot coffee.” Mrs. Becker didn’t
know Jim’s last name, but she
leafed through her mammoth
stack of pictures and found one
showing the striped tent.
She had some of Skagway, too,
showing the dock where the in
famous gambler, Soapy Smith,
was killed in a duel with vigilan
tes. “Right over there on that
other dock” said Ellen C. Quinn,
“my husband and I were standing
when they killed Soapy. Those
vigilantes wouldn’t let us go home
until 11 o’clock.”
Freida Jacquot Griggs was just
a little girl. She had gone to the
store for her mother and a vigil
ante told her to scoot back home
and stay there, because Soapy
Smith had just been killed.
“Why should I?” said little
Freida. “If Soapy’s dead he isn’t
going to hurt anybody.”
SEATTLE, </P) — Two hundred
pullets will be flown from Seattle
today to one of North America’s
most remote chicken farms — on
Kodiak Island.
Charles R. Walters of Bothell
is shipping the 10-week-old chick
ens via Northern Airlines. The 12
hour trip in specially constructed
crates is expected to cut down the
shipping loss.
Whirling Propellor
Decapitates Man
SEATTLE, i/P) — An airliner’s
whirling propellor killed Robert
J. Scoggins, 36. of Tacoma at the
Seattle air port Friday night
shortly after his arrival from
Alaska.
Coroner John P. Brill, Jr., said
Scoggins, an Alaskan Salmon can
nery employee, was partially de-1
capitated when he strolled over to
a Pan American Airways trans
port after debarking from his
Alaska plane. He apparently was
unaware of the spinning propel-1
lors as mechanics who were test
ing the engines were unable to
make their warning shouts heard
above the roar.
Scoggins’ operated a salmon
cutting machine at a Libby, McNeil
and Libby cannery at Ekuk, Alas
ka, near Naknek, according to in-,
formation obtained by police. His
mother, Mrs. Susie Scoggins, lives j
at Eatonville.
Mother To
Evict Daughter
CHICAGO, UP)—A request by
Mrs. Clara Burger for the eviction
from her apartment now occupied
by her daughter and son-in-law
and their two young children—her
grandsons—was granted in rent
er’s court Friday by Judge Sam
uel Heller.
Mrs. Burker, divorced from her
husbanw, John, told the court she
wanted to move into the apart
ment occupied by Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Rausch and their two chil
dren, Jerry, 8; and Jimmy, 4.
Rausch told the court his fam
ily would be “glad” to have Mrs.
Burger live with them, but she
said: “No, that won’t do.’ ’
The court ruled Mrs. Burger
had every legal right to the apart
ment and denied Rausch’s request
to stay the eviction.
Mexico has an estimated popu
latioh of more than 19V^ million.
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