FOUNDER OF TOWN KETTLES ON
KOYUKIK RIV. WILL SPEND THE
WINTER WRITING ALASKAN EPIC
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the University of Alaska. It was a
Gordon hand press. No big type
for a heading, for the paper was
sent with the other type. When I
asked for something Prevost said
he would get it. He hitched up the
dugs, mushed over the ice 250 miles
to Anvik, on the lower Yukon and
was back in a few weeks with as
pretty a piece of carved wood let
ter work for the heading as you
ever saw. It was made by one of
the missionaries, an adept in carv
ing. We got the paper out occasion
ally and grapevined news to a large
extent. The few copies circulated lat
or sold for as high as $100 each. Jud
go Wickersham has copies in his
collection at Juneau, including first
copies of all pioneer papers of Al
aska.”
Betties moved up the Koyukuk in
1894 to a place called Arctic City,
now no longer on the map. Next
year he moved to Bergman, also
now in the limbo of forgotten towns.
In 1898 he established Betties, still
an outpost of note, and was there
five years. He had the first steamboat
on the Koyukuk known as the Koy
ukuk. When the big Klondyke stam
pede brought a flood of people to
the Yukon, 58 steamboats nosed
their way up the Koyukuk and spent
the winter of 1908 there. There
were hundreds of steamers on the
main river from St Michael to Daw
son and Whitehorse
Betties traded in the Koyukuk at
various points for years, and dur
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Jack Solomon, Prop.
ing his time handled, he reports,
no fewer than 100,000 martin skins
to say nothing of others. In 1890
he was a member of the posse of
22 prospectors and traders who
trailed an Indian up the Koyukuk
from the mouth, and took him to
the mouth of the river, tried him
before a miners’ meeting and hang
ed him for the murder of John
Bremner, who was killed by the
Indian at a point on the Koyukuk.
This was one of the first executions
in the Yukon, and had great effect
on making good Indians of others
who might want to defy the white
man’s laws. Mr. Betties will tell
of his murder and execution and
other similar cases in the publica
tion of his book.
One of the earliest murders of
whites on the lower Yukon was
when Mrs. Bean, wife of a trader,
was slain in 1878. Lieut. Bernard
was murdered by massacre at Stony
River and a Russian trader fell vic
tim in 1851.
Mr and Mrs Betties are compil
ing the facts in these cases, and will
chronicle them in Mr. Betties’ book,
which he will get out with aid of
Judge Wickersham of Juneau, for
mer Alaska delegate to Washing
ton. Mr. Betties says no stones or
markers are over the graves of
these pioneers who gave their liv
es to Alaska and he is starting
a movement to get proper markers.
Mr. Betties will work on his book
this winter. He has been married
twice. The present Mrs. Betties, who
arrived here with him from the
mouth of the Koyukuk, is a teacher
in the service of the Bureau of In
dian Affairs, to which she has been
attached for years. Both she and Mr.
Betties have been in the service the
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
In the Probate Court for the Cape
Nome Recording Precinct in the Se
cond Division of the Territory of
Alaska before C. C. Tanner, United
States Commissioner and Ex-Officio
Probate Judge.
In the matter of the Estate of NELS
TROLSEN, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given to the heirs
of Nels Trolsen, deceased, if any,
that the Executrix of Nels Trolsen
deceased has filed in said Court her
Final Account, as such Executrix,
and that Tuesday, the 29th day of
October 1935, at the hour of ten o’
clock in the forenoon of said day has
been fixed by the Court as the date
of hearing the objections if any, to
the said Report, and at the same
time and place, the Judge of the
Probate Court will adjudicate, and
determine who the heirs and dist
ributees of decedent are.
ANNA DICKSON,
Executrix.
Publish—Aug. 29, Sept. 5, 12, 19
1935
last nine years. For several seasons
they were in the Good News Bay
area and at Quinhagak. During the
present summer Mrs. Betties attend
ed the summer school at Eklutna.
Mrs. Betties will teach a school of
the Indian Department this winter
at Chenega while Mr. Betties works
on his book.
Mrs. Betties has a daughter mar
ried to Jim Dolan, mail carrier on
the run to Tatailik, near Valdez.
Mr. Dolan is a member of the well
known pioneer Valdez family of
which Miss Anna May Dolan well
known and popular assistant clerk
of the Third Judicial division of
Alaska, is a member.—Anchorage,
Times.
Find A Peculiar
Formation May
Be Foot Mastarion
A strange replica of replacement
in sandstone of the foot of a giant
pre-historic animal, possibly one of
a mammoth or mastadon, was dis
covered recently on Cache Creek,
famous old placer stream in the Tal
keetna district. Hawley W. Sterling
assistant chief engineer of the Al
aska Road Commission, and William
Neimi, assistant superintendent,
made the discovery while on a visit
to the roads of the locality. They
took a fine picture of the strange
find.
The phenomena appears in a thin
layer of coal lying in the bed of the
creek. It resembles the bones of the
huge animal. Five big, sprawling
toe bones, and connecting bones
running back and including the
heel are perfectly formed. The im
print is about lfi inches long. Mes
srs Hawley Sterling and Neimi are
sending a picture of their find to the
scientists at the University of Alas
ka so that they may investigate
further if they desire. The imprint
or replacement, they say, probably
could be carved out of the place in
a block and preserved—Anchorage
Times.
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