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Interesting Items About Alaskans
Mr and Mrs. Bernard McCafTer
ty of Hurricane, on the Alaska R.
R. are the parents of an 8 pound
daughter born at Fairbanks recent
ly.
Christmas greetings and New
Years cards were sent to residents
of Fairbanks by Secretary of Com
merce Daniel C. Roper and son
They visited in Fairbanks last sum
mer.
John Herley, 75, died recently in
the hospital at Fairbanks of para
lysis. He went to Fairbanks from
his home in Wiseman. Deceased was
born in Wisconsin and came north
35 years ago. He is survived by a
daughter in Wisconsin.
A fire gutted the home of Mrs.
Blanche Cascaden at Fairbanks, re
cently.
Tipping the scales at four pounds
Alaska’s alleged champion radish
was grown in the Morrison gardens
at Anchorage last summer. The
huge specimen is of the Black Span
ish variety and so far as reported
is the peer of many other fine rad
ishes. Alaska raises luscious straw
berries, beautiful delphiniums and
potatoes.
Included in a bag of birds tak
en by Emmet Food at Cordova re
■ cently was one bearing the metal
tag of the U S Biological Survey.
The duck was released at Ladner,
B. C., 1932 by G G Reifel
The magazine American Boy in
cooperation with the Alaska Steam
ship Company, the Canadian Paci
fic, Burlington Northern Pacific and
Canadian Railways is making ar
rangements for a boys' tour to Al
aska next summer. Instead of us
S''
, ing a regular liner, the freighter
Lakana will be used the boat mak
ing many out of the way places that
a regular liner does not make. The
tour starts in Chicago traveling to
Seattle thence by boat with a stop in
Vancouver. The age limits for the
youths are 12 to 21 years. Accomo
dations for 854 are being prepared
Miss Ahfrid Torget and Sverre
Sallup were married at Ketchikan
recently.
Two orange trees with fruit ripe
enough to pick are a unique sight
in the window of a store at Ketch
ikan. The trees, which are two
years old were shipped from Cal
ifornia to Mr and Mrs James New
man of the first city. The trees are
about three feet high.
Cornell University’s famous totem
pole, the handiwork of Alaskan In
dians, now rests on land formerly
roamed by the red men according
to a bulletin from the State Colle
ge of Agriculture. Designed and
carved by natives of the far North
the totem stands 35 feet high and
is about three feet in diameter at
the base. It weighs about three
tons and is remarkably preserved,
except for its long nose, which has
been broken off. Six totems are
carved into the trunk.
Thelma Olson, a four-year-old
girl of Nushagak who has been in
the Anchorage hospital for a dislo
cated hip, was given special treat
ment recently and is on the road to
health. The dislocation occurred i
about four years ago but it is hop
ed to replace the bone in the socket
so it will remain permanently.
Citizo _hip papers were granted
recently at Anchorage to Peter Ma
rius Olsen and Nicholas Culis The
name of Culis was changed at his
request to Nick Soulis
Work of surveying a road from
Anchorage to connect with the Mata
nuska road system is being made
by Donald McDonald locating en
gineer for the Alaska Road Com
mission The road now extends 32
miles from Anchorage to the Ek
lutna River and the portion to be (
completed extends about 20 miles
longer between Eklutna and Mata
nuska When completed the road |
will extend 52 miles from Anchor
age
The fur catch at Fort Yukon is
said to be unusually good this sea
son, being thick and of fine quality.
A son was born to Mr and Mrs
Joe Devlin of Beaver November 13,
in the hospital at Fort Yukon.
R E Steel has been appointed U
S Commissioner at Eagle by Judge
E Coke Hill of Fairbanks Mr Steele
was formerly commissioner at Eag
le and will succeed John B Powers,
resigned Mr Powers is a member
of the Territorial Legislature.
Rev William W Lumpkin now of ,
Boston whose father the late Rev.
H H Lumpkin was rector of the St
Mathews Episcopal Church in Fair
banks from 1914 to 1919 was mar
ried recently at Madison Wisconsin
to Miss Louis Dallas Hirst of Madi
son. The Rev. Lumpkin lived in
Fairbanks as a boy.
Carl J. Brun a pioneer of Chig- ,
nik was visiting in Seward recently
taking treatment for a bad fall suff
ered two months ago at his home.
Mr. Brun discovered and attempted j
to develop coal mines in the vicin- .
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Opposite The Bank
Clothing Pressed And
Cleaned
Laundry Work At
Reasonable Prices
TUB BATHS DAILY
10 AM. TO 10 PJW.
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Cavev's Bakery
OPEN FROM 6 A.M. TO 1 A.M.
GOOD ClIP OF COFFEE
BEST PASTRY IN NOME
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FOR ALL KINDS OF
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BUILDING or CONTRACTING
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Industrial Workers
Of Alaska
Meet Every First
Thursday of each Month
Nome, Alaska
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BOILER, MARINE, TRACTOR. ACETLYNE AND
ELECTRIC M ELDING
MATERIAL STOCKED : SHAFTING, STEEL, BRONZE,
BUSHING, BABBITT, ACCESSORIES.
Prompt Attention to Local and Out of Town M'ork
Telephone Black 110
ty of Chignik, in the early days,
md in company with J. S. Osmond,
•anneryman. sunk a 130-foot shaft,
lisclosing a six-foot vein. But their
ictivities were curtailed by the
ilight of Pinchotism, and after that
Hr. Brun turned his attention to
isliing. The coal is still waiting to
ie mined and coal is badly needed
.o the westward.
Mike Malloy of Seward and two
issociates are shipping frozen trout
Tom Bear Lake to the States. The
ish are caught through the ice with
;ill nets, and when thrown on the
jake covering of ice quickly. About
tOO pounds were sent out on the
steamship Yukon recently. The
prices received give the men wages.
Charles and Bob Mathison, two
mothers of Hope, were driven into
he attic of their cabin at Hope, re
cently by lrgh water, and were im
prisoned there for 72 hours with
lothing to eat but soda crackers.
I'he lower floor was entirely sub
nerged with cook stove and living
irrangements being under water.
Tom llambnght a Seward pio
leer, died last week, at the age of
74 years his body being found in
his cabin by a neighbor. The body
was found lying between the stove
and the bed and the presence of
kindling and an axe showed that
deceased was trying to start a fire
when he was overcome by heart
failure. Mr Hambright went to
Seward in 1903 and took up a home
site near Mile seven. He worked on
the railroad and interested himself
in trapping and mining. He was a
former Odd Fellow, but not affiliat
ed with the Seward lodge.
Mrs Ruth Beran was installed as
worthy matron at a meeting of An
chorage lodge, O E S recently.
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SAILING FROM SEATTLE
S. S. DELLWOOD May 25th
S. S. DERBLAY May 29th
S.S. VICTORIA June 1st
S. S. DELLWOOD July 3rd
S. S. DERBLAY.Aug. 14th
S. S. DELLWOOD .SEPT. 11th
S. S. VICTORIA.Oct. 9th
The Victoria and Dellwood on their voyages will
call at Nome, St. Michael, Golovin and Bonanza.
The Derblay will call on her voyages at Nome, St.
Michael, Golovin, Bonanza, Unalakleet, Teller,
Cape Prince of Wales, Shishmaref. Deering, Kee
walik, Kotzebue, St. Lawrence Island, and other
ports where business warrants.
Jas. P. Daly, Agent.