HYDER - FIRST ALASKA TOWN THAT CAN BE REACHED BY THE PACIFIC - YUKON - ALASKA HIGHWAY
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SPECIALIZING IN
MINING NEWS OF THE
PORTLAND CANAL
DISTRICT
HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
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VOLUME 8, NUMBER 45.
HYDER, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20,
BY THE YEAR $3.00
0. F. HILL, T. WALTERS
RELIEVED DROWNED
That Oren F. Hill, HyUer
postmaster and proprietor ol
the Hyder Drug Company,
and Thomas Walters, nephew
of F. R. Reichenback, of the
Hyder Grocery, were drown
ed Sunday afternoon in the
icy waters of Portland Canal
was generally conceded here
^VVednesday with the finding
of Mr. Hill’s 16-foot out
board motor sea-sled, “Tonic,”
partially submerged and bot
tom up after an intensive two
day search of the Canal by
American and Canadian mot
orboats and naval vessels and
an airplane from Ketchikan.
The sea-sled, with only a
foot or so of the hooded bow
protruding from the water,
was found early Wednesday
afternoon drifting almost in
the center of the Canal near
what is known as Ford’s Cove,
about three miles south of
Georgia River, by Louis Lewis,
of Stewart, who in his own
boat, with a number of local
men on board, was assisting in
searching for the missing men.
When located by Lewis and
his companions, the bow of
the sea-sled was pointing up
ward at a sharp angle, the
stern being held down by the
weight of the heavy engine in
the stern, and apparently kept
afloat only by the air com
pressed under the hooded
bow. On being hauled up on
the Lewis boat, it was found
that the oars continually car
ried by Mr. Hill were missing,
as were also two of the four
life-preserver seat cushions
with which the craft was
equipped. Mr. Hill habitually
kept two of these free for em
ergencies, the other two being
fastened to the seats. The lat
ter were in their usual place
but the others have not yet
been found. A repeating shotj
gun taken by Mr. Walters on 1
the trip was also in the boat, j
the weapon having been
caught and held in by the cov
ering over the bow.
The engine throttle was
found wide open, indicating
that the boat was running at
high speed at the time of be
ing submerged through what
ever accident was encounter
ed. The gasoline tank was also
found to be virtually full.
Aside from a few unimport
ant scratches, the craft bore
no sign of damage.
Mr. Hill and Walters left
Hyder about 2 o’clock Sunday
afternoon, intending to go
down as far as Glacier Bay,
taking along two sandwiches I
for lunch. The weather was i
excellent at the time, with |
scarcely a ripple on the water. ;
How far they proceeded be
fore the accident occured will
probably never be known, as
no one appears to have sight
ed them after leaving the
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Prospectors Leave For
Interior By Airplane
Bound on a three weeks’
j prospecting trip to the head
i waters of the Unuk River, a
party of three Premier resid
ents headed by Thomas B.
MacKay and including Harry
Melville and William Prout,
left Stewart Monday in an
airplane of Canadian Airways
Ltd., piloted by E. P. Wells,
with J. W. Faulknelr as a|r
engineer.
The party was landed on a
■ lake situated at the head
; waters of the Unuk and about
75 miles north of Stewart, at
which point the party will es
tablish a camp and prospect
i the adjacent territory, which
is known to be highly miner
alized.
The lake at which the party
| will camp has been named
j MacKay Lake after Mr. Mac
f Kay, leader of the expedition.
After landing the party,
the plane made a second trip
to the lake carrying approx
imately 1500 pounds of pro
visions and other supplies,
i The trips from Stewart to the
lake took about 1 1-2 hours
each and the return trips
about 40 minutes.
The plane, a Super-Fok
ker, Wasp powered plane,
came over from Burns Lake,
B. C., via Smithers and Mez
iadin Lake and landed here
at 12:30 Sunday afternoon
after a 2 1-2 hour flight.
Pilot W'ells and Engineer
Faulkner will return here
about September 9 to bring
the party out.
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LOCAL NOTES
Eddie Finlayson returned
Monday evening from a visit in
the south.
C. Klunk, of Premier, was
among the number leaving for
the south Saturday.
O. B. Bush, veteran mining
man, left for Vancouver Satur
day after several weeks in the
district looking after his min
ing interests.
Mrs. R. E. Haack and daugh
ter, of Stewart, left last Satur
day to visit in Vancouver.
Mrs. Ivan Chase and Mrs.
M. L. Brunswig of Chehalis,
Wn., arrived last Saturday to j
visit Mrs. J. L. Campbell. The j
visitors, who are old friends
of Mrs. Campbell, were en
route to the Yukon country !
and resumed their journey
northward Monday evening.
Alaska Judges Get Salary Cut
Federal Judges in Alaska
have been ruled by the Comp
troller General of the United j
States as subject to the salary j
reduction provisions of the nat- j
ional Economy Act passed by I
the last session of Congress.
Under this ruling judges re
ceiving over $10,000 will be
cut to $10,000, while those re
ceiving $10,000 will be cut 10
per cent.
BRITAIN INVITES (1, S,
TO DISCUSS SILVER
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Great Britain, through her
embassy in Washington, has in
vited the United States to at
tend a proposed monetary and
economic conference, accord
ing to recent reports from
the national capital.
The invitation said that the
question of silver will be
among the monetary matters to
be discussed. The invitation
specifically excludes discussion
or reparations, debts and tar
iff rates at the proposed par
ley.
Although evidently intended
for the near future, no time or
place for the conference was
indicated in the invitation.
The United States was also
invited to name a member of
the organizing committee at
Geneva, which it was indicated
is arranging for the conference.
This country was also re
quested to name an economist
and a financial expert to assist
in drawing up the program.
The state department has in
dicated willingness to accept
such a conference invitation
provided that debts and tariffs
are not to be discussed.
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Unemployed Situation
Bad In Stewart
That unemployment condit
ions in Stewart have reached a
stage where a considei’able
number of men are absolutely
without food and hungry was
disclosed last week when rep
resentatives of the unemployed
appeared before the Village
Counsil asking that something
be done to relieve the situation
pending a settlement of the dis
pute between the unemployed
and the B. C. government, in
which the former contend that
it is impossible to live on the
small sum offered by the gov
ernment in return for short
time labor.
Messrs. John Ellis and Geo.
Adams, the unemployed repre
sentatives, pointed out the lab
or dispute, combined with the
recent closing down of the gov
ernment relief camps had cre
ated a precarious situation. Mr.
Ellis cited one instance of a
man who up to that time had
had no food for two days and
estimated that there were
some twenty or twenty-five
men in the town who were en
tirely without food or means to
procure any.
Following extended discuss
ion of a proposal by the unem
ployed to work 50 hours for j
the city at 50 cents per hour, j
the Council appropriated $25 I
for the purpose. It was decid-1
ed to employ the means at
cleaning up the streets and,
brushing out a number of all-!
eys.
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James Morrice has been ap
pointed postmaster of Stewart,
cive G. P. Heinekey, resigned.
DEER-GOAT HUN#
SEASONSTARTSTODAY
The annual open season for
hunting (leer, mountain sheep
and mountain goats opened to
day, August 20, and will con
tinue until November 15 in the
case of deer and until Decem
ber 31 with respect to sheep
and goats.
The game regulations provide
that only male deer can be tak
en and then only when having
horns not less than 3 inches in
length above the top of the
skull. The bag limit for the
season is three deer.
The shooting of mountain
sheep is confined to male ani
mals only, females and kids
being exempted. The bag lim
it in this part of Alaska is 2
sheep only.
Both male and female mount
ain goat may be killed during
the open season, but no kids.
The bag limit is two animals.
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No Suspension Of Alaska
Railroad Contempleted
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That the Interior Department
has no intention of suspending
operation of the Alaska Rail
road during the coming winter
was declared recently by Ern
est Walker Sawyer, assistant
to the Secretary of the Interior,
during a recent visit in Juneau.
Mr. Sawyer said he was di
rected by Dr. Wilbur to say to
Alaskans that he had nothing
of the kind in mind. ,
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W. L. Paul To Contest
For Attorney Generalship
W. L. Paul, Indian leader in
Southeastern Alaska and form
er Territorial legislator, will
run as an independent candi
date for the office of Attorney
General of Alaska in the No
vember elections, according to
reports from Juneau.
Paul’s entering the race will
make a three-cornered contest
between himself, John Rust
gard, regular republican candi
date, of Juneau, and James S.
Truitt, regular democratic can
didate, of Anchorage.
It is said that Paul believes
he can win in a three-cornered \
fight for the office, backed by
the solid Indian vote, which in
cludes a large percentage of
the entire vote of the division, i
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More About Taxes
The 1932 Revenue Act im
poses a tax of 10 per cent of j
the amount collected for the
use of any safe deposit box.
There is also a tax of 2 per]
cent imposed on every check,
draft or order for the payment1
of money, drawn upon any
bank, banker or trust comp
any. Every person paying anv
of these instruments is obliged
to collect the tax and charge
it against any deposits to the
credit of the maker or drawer.
Believed Alatka Will Have
To Borrow Funds For
Unemployment Relief
Reports from Washington
this week say word lias come
to the Alaska Delegate’s office
from Ketchikan and other
sections .of Alaska that the
large amount of unemploy
ment in the Territory will
make it necessary this fall and
winter for Governor Parks to
seek a portion of the $300,000,
000 made available to the Re
construction Finance Corpor
ation for loans to the various
needy states and territories for
the relief of unemployment
and destitution.
Under the act authorizing
such disposition of funds, if the
resources of Alaska are inade-.
quate to meet its relief needs,
the Governor is authorized to
borrow from the Corporation
such amounts as may be
necessary at the rate of three
per cent per annum. The funds
funds thus borrowed would be
administered by the Governor
or under his direction.
l ne suggestion has also been
made that in the buying of sup
plies needed for the unem
ployed and unfortunate a
general pi ice agreement be se
cured from the retail merch
ants and that the supplies be
purchased in the communities
| in which they are dispensed,
| thus assisting both the needy ]
and the business interests of
the various communities, who
in a majority of instances have
already extended a large
amount of credit to their un
employed patrons, with little or
no prospect of early recom
pense.
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New Camp On American Cr.
The Northern Aerial Pros
pectors, Ltd., of Stewart, has
established a permanent pros
pecting camp near the divide
on American Creek in the Bear
River district in preparation
for prosepcting activities in
that section.
Supplies and equipment for
the camp were taken up last
week by the Crawford Trans
fer.
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Jack Steele On Way
Back From Washington
A recent Minneapolis news
despatch reported that 75
ragged, tired and disappoints
ed members of the veterans' j
bonus army passed through!
that metropolis enroute to their
homes in the Pacific north
west and that the group in
cluded John L. Steele, return
ing to Hyder, Alaska,, where
he left in April to join the
bonus army.
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Moose Water Sports Sunday
The postponed swimming
gala and water sports of the
Mcose lodge will be held Sun
day at Moose Park, starting at
2 p. m. Everyone is welcome.
Bring your lunch baskets.
Coffee, sugar and cream will
be provided by the Moose.
DISTRICT irate
CANADIAN WARSHIP
The visit of H. M. C. S.
Skeena, of the Canadian navy
was an interesting event of the
past week, to the residents of
the district as well as to the
ship’s personnels To the Can
adian residents of Stewart it
was also of historical import
ance, as it was the first visit
of a Canadian warship..
The vessel arrived Monday
afternoon and remained until
Thursday morning. As the vis
it was informal, no ceremon
ies marked the vessel’s stay
beyond the tendering of the
district’s welcome by H. P.
Gibson, chairman of the Stew
art Village Council, and a
committee composed of the
principal organizations of
Stewart and Hyder.
Tuesday afternoon the vis
itors were regaledwith a pro
gram of athletic sports in
Stewart, followed by a dance
in the North Star Hall in the
evening for the officers and
crew. The funstion was at
tended by a large gathering
from both sides of the inter
national boundary and was a
most enjoyable entertainment.
A sightseeing trip to Texas
creek glacier for the sailors;
an afternoon tea for the of
ficers at Premier, at which
Mrs. Bert Smith was hostess,
and visits of local residents to
the warship, comprised the
Wednesday program.
H.M.C.S. Skeena is a trim
but powerful looking vessel of
the torpedo destroyer type
and carries a powerful arm
ament, which includes eight
torpedo tubes; two high
range anti-aircraft guns of the
latest type; four long-range
guns of 4.7 calibre, and two
rapid fire guns. The vessel is
fast; having displayed a speed
of 36.3 knots (about 40 miles
an hour) on trial trips about
two years ago. She carries a
crew of approximately 150 of
ficers and men and is under
the command of Commander
G. C. Jones, R. C. N;, with
Lieut. Commander F. T.
Houghton and Lieutenant H.
N. Lay and Lieutenant K. F.
Adams as his principal offic
ers.
The Skeena was the third
warship to visit the district
during the past two years, the
others being H. M. S. Des
patch of the British Navy and
the U. S. S. Detroit. A fourth
naval vessel. H. M. S. Delhi
of the British Navy, is sched
uled to visit the district dur
ing the latter days of the
present month.
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Wellington Beaton, manag
ing director of the Georgia
River Gold Mines, Ltd., left for
Vancouver Saturday after or
ganizing the season’s work on
Georgia River.