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MEETS EVERY THURSDAY EVENING
STEWART, B- C. AND HYDER ALASKA
Dr. Richard F. Butler
DENTIST
PORTLAND CANAL NEWS BUILDING
STEWART, B. C.
HYDER M. E. CHURCH
Services Every Sunday
Sunday School at 11 o’clock
Classes for all ages
Preaching at 8 o’clock P. M.
Rev. F. E.Reddick Pastor.
NOTICE
Weekly Miner subscribers are
herewith notified that in the
event of our carriers being un
able to make deliveries because
of deep snow or unbroken
trails, their papers will be left
at the Hyder Drug Company
store or mailed.
GAME LAWS
Open season for—
Moose, Caribou, Sheep, Rams
only, limit 2. Aug. 20 to Dec. 31
Deer, males only, horns 3 in
ches or longer, limit 3. 8?pt. 1
to Nov. 15.
Mountain go; *, lim
it 3. Aug. 20 to
Brown Bear, limit (; .. 1 to
July 1.
Grouse, ptarmigan, limit 25 in
possession in one day. Sept. 1
to March 1.
Duck, goose, brant Wilson
snipe, plover, yeltow-leg coots
or Gallinule, Sept. 1 to Dec. 15.
Limit 25 ducks, or Wilson
snipe, or coots, or Gallinule,
or 8 geese oy 8 brant or more
than 25 in all in combined pos
session in one day, 15 plovers
or yellow-legs in one day.
Martin Nov. 16 to March 31; I
muskrat, Dec. 16 to April 30;
land otter, ming, weasel, Dec.
16 to March 31.; fox, except
blue, Lynx, Dec. 1 to Feb. 28.
WEEKLY MINER WILL
DO JOB PRINTING
Included in the equipment
of the Hyder Weekly Miner is
a complete job printing plant,
capable of filling all orders for
letterheads, billheads, state
ments, cards, circulars, invita
tions, etc. Those who desire
job work of this character
will find it to their advantage
to secure our prices before or
dering elsewhere.
..LOCATION NOTICES and
PROOF OF LABOR blanks at
the MINER office
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Describes life In Arctic Wilds
North Of Continental Shelf
W. E. Wyant, who owns a
trading post on the shores
of Bailly Island (Lat.72 N. Lon.
128 Wests), left Anchorage
recently on his way home over
the winter trail, a mush oi
many weeks across Alaska
and along the Arctic coast to
| Ilerschel Island, from which
j point he will make his way to
:Bailly Island over the frozen
j Arctic sea.
! The following items taken
J from an interview published in
"he Weekly Alaskan provide
an interesting view into the life
j and conditions in those far
northern regions.
Trapping and trading pro
vide practically the only occu
jation. There are only about ten
! white people in the district,
|the number including a corp
Joral and a private of the
Royal Northwest Mounted Pol
ice, who established a post J
[there last year. The nearest
post and settlement in the Hud
son Bay dist2-ict is only about
200 miles away.
The principal fur catch is;
white fox, of which over 20,000 s
were caught last year. Twelve j
thousand of this number were |
secured by the Hudson Bay
company stations.
Winds of unusual vigor blow
frequently; one gale last win
.ter continuing for twenty days
with the mercury 55 below
zero. No one ventured out of
doors without good reason ana
practically all activities were
suspended. Deer skins provide
the main articles of clothing.
Two suits of deer-skin gar
ments are usually worn in the
winter period, one with the fur
turned inside, the other with
the fur outside.
The prices for commodities
' make the high cost of living in
the states appear trifling by
| comparison. Flour sold last
winter for $16 per hundred;
bacon $1.25 per pound and
other food commodities in pro
portion. Vancouver coal sold
itwo years ago for $260 per ton
but last year whaling vessels
sold the same product at $80
per ton. Trappers’ licenses
are; issued by' the Canadian
government and impose a
heavy tax on the alien trader,
apparently with the aim of
keeping all but Canadians out
of the field, if possible. Aliens
are required to pay $150 per
year for the first five years for
trapping. British born traders
pay $75 per year for trapping,
$150 per year for trading. Can
adians are charged only $2
year for trapping, $5 per year
for trading.
FOR THE
SPORT FANS
BOXING
Firpo, the giant Argentinian,
who gave champion Dempsey
the toughest battle of his car
eer, has been matched for a 15
round battle with Harry Wills,
the negro .contender for the
heavyweight crown.
Lewis Raymond, a represent
ative of the newly organized
New York Syndicate, has an
rmnced that Firpo has accept
ed an offer of $250,000 for a
i5-round bout with the negro.
Wills had already accepted,
the announcement said.
An offer of $100,000 for two
fights, one with Younfc Strib
ling and the other with Car
pentier, has been made to Mike
McTigue, world’s light heavy
weight champion, by the Nat
ional Sportsman’s Club of New
ark, N. J. McTigue countered
with a demand for $250,000
for the two battles.
The city of Shelby, Montana,
where Dempsey and Gibbons
fought last Fourth of July and
left a trail of disaster, has
again appeared in the lime
light as a seeker of further
championship battles. Shelby
has made an offer of $500,000
for the 1924 version of the
Dempsey-Gibbons rivalry, ac
cording to a recent announce
ment by Tex. Rickard.
“Shelby is game anyway,”
said Rickard.
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Tommy Gibbons, when in
formed that a return match
had been made between him
self and champion Dempsey,
declared it to be the best news
he had heard in a long time.
“It means that I will be the
next heavyweight champion of
the world, which is the acme
of my ambition,” said Tommy.
“I feel sure that I can defeat
the champion and this will be
my continual thought until the
time for me to climb into the
ring.”
Johnny Dundee, feather and
junior lightweight champion,
has been matched for a battle
for the 130 pound title with
Jose Lombardo, the Panama
featherweight. The bout is to
take place in Panama February
22, with a $15,000 guarantee
for Dundee. Lombardo is but
little known outside of Central
America. In 1922 he scored 11
knockouts in 12 contests, four
of therp in one round.. He won
the decision in his other con
test. He is 23 and weighs about
129. He was born in Panama.
The South American Boxing
‘ Confederation has passed a j
'resolution declaring that Firpo j
must accept within 60 days
from Dec. 8 last, the challenge
of the former Chilean heavy
weight, Quintin Fomero-Rojas,
now living in France, for a bat-1
tie for the heavyweight champ-!
ionship of South America, now '
held by Firpo. It has also rulea
that the match must take place
within 90 days of the same
date or Firpo will be deprived
of his title. No dodging the is
sue down there when the chal
i
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HOW THE POLITICAL
POT IS BOILINC
With the closer approach ot
the final day for filing declar
ations of candidacy for the
April primary, a veritable rush
of candidates is developing in
the First and Third divisions.
A majority of the aspirants,
however, appear as republic
ans and democratic office seek
ers appear relatively scarce.
With so many in the field,
for the republican nominations
the situation indicates a decid
edly lively campaign before
the votes are cast. ^
There are now two candidates
listed in the gubernatorial prefr
ex*ential primary. Cash Cole,
whose candidacy was an
nounced in the Miner last
week, has a formidable op
ponent in the person of Emery
Valentine, veteran politician,
six times mayor of Juneau, and
former leader of the Wicker
sham forces in the First Divis
ion. The Juneau Empire says
that while he has made no plat
form or campaign announce
ments, it is understood that, as
usual, he is against the organ
ization. Old timers will recall
that it was Valentine who led j
the Roosevelt supporters back
in 1912, called the first insur- j
gent convention held in the j
Territory, and was National
Committeeman for the “Bull i
Moose” Progressives.
it is also reported by a Seattle
paper that George D. Schofield !
has filed for the governorship
nomination on the republican
ticket but the statement has
not been confirmed by an*
of the Alaska papers to hand.
The list of candidates for the
lower house of the Territorial
legislature on the republican
ticket now includes the names
of Leroy E. Noland, of Juneau,
and Perry M. Hern, of Skag
way. Mr. Noland is a World
War veteran and superintend
ent of the Juneau telephone
company. M. Hern is a twenty
year resident of Skagway and
is in the drug business. W. u. |
Grant, of Wrangell, is another
F.rst Division republican aspir
ant for a seat in the lower
house. The latest list to hand
includes the names of H. R.
Shepard, Trevor M. Davis, C. j,
J. Skuse and Leroy Noland, all ,
of Juneau, W. D. Grant, 01
Wrangell, Perry M. Hern, of j
Skagway, and W. L Paul, of
Kechikan. (
In the Third Division there is ■
a lady Republican candidate i
for the lower house in the per- j
son of Miss Selma Scott, of Val- (
dez, who was chief clerk at j
the last session of the! Territor- ]
iul senate and is also a member <
of the bar. At present she is
chief deputy clerk of the Third i
Division district court.
i
--..H
lenger looks too rough, as they |
do in the good old U. S. A. ,
Charges that boxing in Amer- j
ica is dominated by a powerful
combine consisting of Tex Rick- ^
ard, John Ringling, circus king,
and the Sports Alliance, and
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Wallace Opposes Reorganization
I Of Alaskan Ccntrcl
•
A Washington dispatch as
serts that secretary of agricul
ture Wallace is decidedly op
posed to relenquishing the ac
jtivities of his department in
Alaska, particularly the For
est Service, to the department
of the interior, as proposed un
der the Brown plan for the re
organization of the executive
departments of the govern
ment, which provides that Al
aska be placed under the sole ;
| supervision of the interior de- I
| partment.
i Appearing before tfyp com
mittee engaged in considering
the plan, Secretary Wallace in
sisted that the work of his de
partment in Alaska is the same
Jas in the states and that Alaska
! will suffer if deprived of the
benefits of the research and j
technical work which his de
partment has at its command.
He referred especially to the
national forests in Alaska. In
reply to an inquiry regarding
I his opinion of the present divis- j
ion of authority in Alaska, he
said that some reorganization
cculd be effected with benefit
to the Territory. It was his
opinion that that the adm.nis
tration of the public domain
and the national part’s, recla
mation service, aud -jj^eau
of Fisheries shoulr .1 come
under thejurisdict if hia de
partment. As it now is, the
parks, the public domain and
the reclamation service are
controlled by the inter.or de
partment, while the bureau of
jfi -heries is Under the junsdict
jien of the department ox com
imerce. The other cabinet
members affected by the pro
posed cm*hge will aLo appear
before the committee Le.ure a
report is submitted to Con
gress.
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McKinley Park, containing,
the highest mountain in Nurdi
America, has been increased in
a. an to more than 264b squaie
n. las, making it the second
Largest park in the United
BRIEF ITEMS FROM
PARTS
nj
JULi
t A
f THE TERRITORY
Charles Anderson arrived in
McCarthy recently from a trap
ping trip in the Long Lake reg
ion, bringing in, among other
furs, a big coyote skin. He said
these animals are becoming
quite common in that locality.
Jerome Drumheller, president
of the* Fern Gold Mining Com
pany in the Willow Creek dist
rict, expects to resume operat
ions at the mine on a large
scale this spring, according to
advices received at Anchor
age. recently.
J. E. Ketdhum and Richard
Edwards have organized the
Anchorage Furniture Company
and will engage in the wood
working and furniture manu
facturing business in Anchor
age. They will utilize the large
quantities of Alaska birch
in that locality for material.
Two of the many large
frame buildings on the aban
doned military reservation at
St Michael will be given to the
Catholic Church authorities
there for use as a hospital, uu- !
der the terms of a bill recently
introduced in the House o. j
Representatives by Delegate
Sutherland.
as long as the combination !
fastens a grip on sports few
championship bouts will ever I
be staged outside of New Yoriv
were made recently by mem-!
bers of the National Boxing
Association at its annual con
vention in Louisville.
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The people of Ketchikan re
cently voted 160 to 44 to ajj:
i Congress to authorize increas
ir. j the bond issue for the p .r
?jso of erecting a new school
bedding at Ketchikan , Ir^m
!$-00,000, as heretofore au.ho.
ized, to $150,000, it huv.nj
been found that the original
s m will not be sufficient to
c: vef the cost of the building
| d jsired.
Dan Terzik and Mrs. Mary
|F takanine, formerly of An
chorage, were recently arrest
ed at Boise, Idaho, on a charge
I of violating the Mann A .t.
Terzik and the woman, who
is said to be the wife of Kal h
Paakanine, known as "Russian
Ralph,” trader and fore farm
er of Uyak Island,eloped from
Anchorage last October.
George E. Mann, for the pas
oven years secretary of the
Board of Steamboat Inspector>
at Juneau, resigned recently
and left for the States. Ill heal
th extending over several
months is given as the cause
of his retirement from the ser
vice.
Everybody in the earl ' days
of Valdez knew Chick N 1 on,
who invented a new svstem of
beating the "wheel," which did
not work very well. Leaving
Valdez, he later went to the
Copper river country and turn
ed his inventive genius to de
veloping a new type of tootn
brush, with the result that he
has produced a brush which
he believes will revolution'".''
the tooth cleaning industry. He
loft for the states recently for
the purpose of placing his in
vention on the market.
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