LOCAL TOPICS
Charlie Lake, well-known
mining man, returned Monday
from a visit of several months
in the south.
Mrs. Fred Young of Stewart
left Thursday for Prince Rup
ert to obtain medical treat
ment.
Lloyd Snyder left Wednesday
fcr Ketchikan enroute to inter
ior Alaska, where he contem
plates locating.
One Ic-f the latest heavy snow
storms of recent years struck
the district early Tuesday
morning Before the down
pour ended around 3:30 Tues
day afternoon more than a
foot of snow had been deposit
ed on the landscape.
Delayed by the bad weather
Tuesday, the Ketchikan mail
boat failed to arrive until 3:30
a. m. Wednesday morning.
In addition to the mail, the ves
sel brought over a small quan
tity of freight for local dealers.
Under the new sailing sched
ule the mail boat is slated to
leave Ketchikan at 5 p. m.
Monday evening and should
arrive here around nioon Tues
day.
The Post Office Department
has rejected bids for mail serv
ice to Hyder, Metlakatla and
the west coast of Prince of
Wales Island. A new schedule
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of routes has been perpared
and bids for the contract per
iod from July 1, 1934, to June
30, 1938, will be received in
Washington until 4:30 P. M.
May 4.
Reasons fior the rejection of
the lowest bid for the Ketchi
kan-Hyder route, submitted by
A. W. Angellsen, 'owner of the
mo'torship Tuscan, and calling
for payment of $9,600 per an
num, were not given.
Mr. and Mrs. A. (“Jimmie”)
Hill, former operators of the
Hill bath house and laundry,
who took over the Lambert
place on Lincoln Channel and
resided Ithere during the past
three years, have decided to
forsake the simple life, accord
ing to' letters received by local
friends.
Mr. Hill is now enroute to in
terior Alaska with Fairbanks
as his probable locating point.
Mrs. Hill has gone tO' California
where she will visit with rela
tives.
Dale L. Pitt, manager of the
Premier company, was the
principal speaker at a lunch
eon meeting of the mining bur
eau of the Vancouver Board of
Trade held on Wednesday, ac
cording to reports from the
south.
The subject of Mr. Pitt’s ad
dress was “gold,” a topic on
which he i3 especially profi
cient and informative by rea
son of his long mining exper
ience and extensive study.
Early Ice Breakup Expected
A news report from Anchor
age says the opinion prevails
that the ice at Nenana should
break up comparatively early
thig year because heavy snow
covered the river ice last fall
and prevented the ice from
freezing deep. Heavy snow at
Tanana is expected to give a
large volume vof water, which
usually is a main factor ii\ shov
ing the ice out early.
Buzby Wins Dog Derby
Robert.Buzby was the winner
of the eighth annual Signal
Corps Dog Derby, held recept- i
ly in Fairbanks under the aus
pices cf the Fairbanks Kennel
Club. It was Buzby’s second
victory in ithe event, which
ranks with the Solomon Derby
at Nome as one .of the North
land’s great sporting events for
dog teams.
His time for the two thirty
mile heats was 5 hours, 8 min
utes and 51 seconds. Julien
A. Hurley was second, seven
minutes behind Buzby, and
Thomas Wright was ithird.
Eleven teams started and all
but one finished.
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