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Interesting Items About Alaskans
The Bureau of Mines has issued a
Minerals Year Book, 1934 the second
volume being released.
Declaring that publicity is one of
Alaska’s greatest needs at the pres
ent time. James Marshall, veteran
Seattle newspaper feature writer,
was a Juneau visitor recently. Mr.
Marshall was greatly pleased with
his'trip and said Seattle residents
ishould make the trip in winter to
get a sample of Alaska climate
The Alaska Native Brotherhood
withdrew from the Fishermen’s con
vention which met in Juneau recent
ly. The Brotherhood said they would
withdraw until they could approve
of the general aims of the conven
tion. which they did not do at the
time. It is said the Native Brother
hood are averse to calling a strike
during the fish runs.
C. LfSJiaw, 66, a fisherman, was
killed and seven families made
homeless by a snow slide which
tumbled down from a 500-foot cliff
above the village. The Mounted
Police ordered several homes va
cated and provided shelter for those
made homeless. Cape Mudge is
east of Seymour Narrows between
the Narrows and the Hole in the
Wall, a small, boat pass.
Cordova Lodge IOOF installed of
ficers recently as follows: Fred Cor
dovoway, vice grand; Earl Jacobson
secretary; John Vinquist, treasurer;
'Edward Munsen. warden; Ben Hun
ger, conductor; Walter Ives, chap
lain; James Brady, RS of NG; Ern
est Johnson, RS of NG; John Hed
strom, LS of VG; Emil Larson, inner
guard; Paul Bruckner, outer guard.
» Last winter Dorothy Griffin and
William Lempke attracted consider
able notoriety when they were mar
ried on the stage of the Coliseum
theatre at Ketchikan, as an added
attraction to the film production
“Double Harness.” played by Ann
Harding and William Powell. Last
week the team was visited by the
stork, an eight pound boy being
born to the young couple.
The former, German trans-Atlan
tic liner Soxonia, which has been a
U S. vessel since the world war,
may be in Alaska trade, according
to an announcement made by the
Northland Transportation Company
which has purchased her, The ves
sel is 5755 tons displacement, and is
400 feet long. She was built in Ger
many in 1899. This will augment
the Northland’s fleet to five vessels.
Gains in value of blue foxes and
in reindeer meat shipments and
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losses in canned salmon and gold
shipments over the same period of
the year 1933 were noted in the cus
toms office at Juneau. The value of
blue foxes shipped was $22,050.00;
reindeer meat at $13,585. Canned
salmon fell off approximately $80.
000 from 1933. Gold slipped from
$1,662,640 in 1933 to $1,092,929 in
1934.
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Fred Nichia. 36 years of age, a
miner employed by the Alaska Ju
neau mine, died at the Columbus
Sanitarium. Nichie was injured
when he slipped from a ladder
while drilling an upraise in the
mine. He fell to the bottom of the
shaft suffering head and body in
juries,, He was paralyzed, losing his
power* Of speech An operation was
performed on his brain, but he died
as a result of a blood clot.
The Wrangell City Council has
been asked to stop radio Interfer
ence by G. M. Bidwell, who says'his
patience has been exhausted by use
less noises. “Nearly all this inter
ference can be eliminated by the in
stallation of a small filter which will
be supplied locally at the lowest
cost. The radio is the greatest sin
gle pleasure that we have in Wran
gell and it does not seem fair to the
majority that a few should deprive
them of this pleasure.”
A J. Dawson, who lives on his
patented homestead near Ward
Cove, on Revilla Island, says it has
more natural resources than some
of the small countries in Europe.
"There are valleys in the center of
the Island with rich bottom land
covered with grass four feet high.
There are ledges of quartz in which
free gold can be seen.” It would
open the eyes jof a lot of Alaskans
if they would make a trip to the in
terior valleys, he says. But there
is no i4ad, a man being forced to
carry a pack and siwash it at night.
Approximately 400 cases of flu
were under the care of local phy
sicians during the Tatter part of Jan
uary, according to estmates made by
Juneau doctors. With an estimated
hundred or more cases which have
not been reported the number of
people who haye or have had flu
within this period is approximately
w if
500, a concensus of the physicians’
estimates revealed.
While the type is not particularly
severe a number of peopl|, have suf
fered relapses which are' rh'ore seri
ous than the first attack, and ven
turing out too soon after recovery,
,In general the current type of influ
enza seems to affect the nose and
throat and to show a tendency to
develop into pneumonia if not pro
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Dr. W W Council, Territorial Heal
th Officer, advised all those coming
down with the flu to go to bed and
stay there until they have permis
sion from a doctor to go out.
“There is nothing alarming in the
situation whatever. If people will
only take care of themsleves and not
attempt to keep on working or at
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stay home and obey directions,
there should be no serious conse
quences.
Three youths aboard the steam
ship Alaska on a recent trip were
taken ofl, the boat at Ketchikan by a
deputy marshal. They were taken
before the U S. Commissioner and . a
hearing made, and ordered returned
to where they came from. A1 Blake
and L. B. Nelson, both of Phoenix,
Arizona, asked for leniency on the
ground they had, invested their en
tire resources, $90 in food at Seattle
and shipped it to Juneau, where
they planned to spend the winter.
The commissioner allowed them to
wire their families, who sent money
for their fares. Their companion,
Herbert Kant, was returned to Seat
tle on the Yukon as a work guest of
the steamship company. Asked as
to why • they came to Alaska . for
work he said that he was certain
that the territory offered more for
a willing young man than did any
other place. He said, too. there was
something about Alaska that ap
pealed to one. He was in the terri
tory last year, employed in*a cann
ery. After the season he went to
Seattle where he picked up his com
panions and pooling ther resources
bought the foodstuffs and shipped
them to Juneau.
Territorial Treasurer Walstein G.
Smith received from the U S. Land
Department of Agriculture $10,466 -
03, which represents the Territory's
percentage of receipts from the Na
tional forests in Alaska for the fiscal
year ending June JO, 1934. This
amount represents 25 per cent of the
total income of the National forests.
Of this amount 25 per cent has been
placed in the Forest Reserve Fund,
25 per cent in the Territorial school
fund and the remainder to the Gen
eral Fund where it is credited to
the road appropriations.
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