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VOLUME NO. 8, NO. 30.
HYDER, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1932
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DIAMOND WINS IN
DELEGATE CONTEST
Anthony J. Diamond, Terri
torial senator for the Third Di
vision and mayor of Valdez, is
undoubtedly the winner of the
three-cornered race for the
Democratic nomination for del
egate to congress. Although the
returns are not complete, Mr.
Diamond is so far in the lead
that there is no prospect of his
being overtaken. The vote so
far reported is as follows: Dia
mond, 1915; Grigsby, 1253;
Zeigler, 1162.
In the race for attorney gen
eral on the Republican side,
John Rustgard, incumbent, de
feated his opponent Frank H.
Foster, nearly three to one, the
vote being at present 2179 to
901.
Cash Cole, incumbent, also
made a runaway race for nom
ination for Auditor on the Re
publican ticket, the vote being
Cole, 1900; Lucas 762; Charles
616.
In the contest for Demo
cratic territorial committee
man J. J. Connors has a lead
of more than 600 over his near
est opponent. The vote stands
as follows: Connors, 1774;
Frame, 1152; Hardcastle, 800.
In the Republican contest
for the same position Rasmus
son has defeated White by a
large majority, the vote being
1907 to 799.
Joe Green, local candidate
for legislative nomination on
the Democratic ticket, is in sec
ond place and appears assured
of nomination. The vote stands
as follows:
Judson 1185
Green 1115
Baronovich 1109
Kehoe 1073
Peratovieh 1034
Wile 917
Helgeson 751
Sorri 613
Dr. Chase of Cordova leads
in the Republican contest for
nomination for delegates to the
national convention by more
than 500, with a total of 1827.
Thiele is second with 1391 and
Hungerford and Davies have
974 and 924 respectively.
The standing of the Demo
cratic candidates for national
convention delegates is as fil
lows:
Morton 1738
Shonbeck 1663
Kirk 1628
Troy 1623
Deal 1554
Heath 1505
Rice 1468
Moran 1383
Walmer 1381
Wacker 1367
Wakefield 1328
Hoskins 1314
The following unopposed
candidates were nominated:
Democratic—
James S. Truitt for attorney
general; A. E. Karnes, commis
sioner of education; Wm. A
Hesse, highway engineer; F
Two Months’ Duck
Season Recommended
The Special Committee on
Conservation of Wild Life Re
sources, headed by Senator
Wolcott, held sessions recently
in Washington, at which over
100 sportsmen were present
from various states in the East,
South and West as far as
Idaho. Different opinions were
expressed as to the shortage of
wild ducks. In some sections
the shortage does not seem to
be pronounced and it is urged
that the three months shooting
season be restored. In other
sections there has been a great
diminution of ducks and it was
recommended that the season
again be restricted to two
months.
Paul G. Redington, Chief of
the Biological Survey, gave a
lengthy dissertation on the sub
ject and expressed the view
that possibly it would suffice
this year if the season were
fixed at two months. It is ex
pected that whatever the cur
tailment of the shooting season
there will be two periods in
Alaska, as in the Southeastern
section the birds do not appear
until a couple of weeks later
than they do in the northern
section.
Cars Must Be Licensed
Before Being Operated
The attention of motor car
owners and operators is direct
ed to the 1932 motor license
i law requiring that all motor
driven vehicles shall be li
censed before operation. Each
day a car is operated without
license subjects the operator
to liability to arrest and a max
imum fine of $100 and costs of
action and each day of oper
ation without license consti
tutes a separate and distinct of
fense under the law.
The law also imposes on U. S.
marshals and other law en
forcement officers the duty of
i seeing that its provisions are
! strictly complied with.
Motorists will therefore take
due notice that all future in
fractions of the law will sub
ject the offenders to arrest
and prosecution without ex
ception or favor. If you have
no license for your car, leave it
in the garage until license is ob
tained and thereby avoid un
pleasant complications.
A. Boyle, auditor: Norman R.
I Walker, First Division senator.
Republican—
James Wickersham, delegate
to congress; F. E. Wann, high
way engineer; W. K. Keller,
I commissioner of education; J.
E.Johnson, senator, First Divis
ion; Albert White, alternate to
Republican national convent
j ion; II. P. Hansen, L. H. Kub
, ley, R. N. Scruby and G. C,
| Winn, for territorial represent
! atives.
j A heavy democratic vote was
registered throughout the Terr
itory. Close to 7,500 vote;
have been reported so far.
REMAINS OF BOB
LAW RECOVERED
That Robert Law, long miss
ing Stewart miner and trapper,
died of exhaustion and expos
ure on the Tide Lake trail
while enroute to Stewart in
the latter days of February to
secure medical attention for a
frozen foot, was definitely re
vealed last Saturday with the
finding of his frozen and ani
mal mutilated corpse some 17
or 18 miles north of the Big
Missouri mine.
The remains of the unfortu
nate man were found by Tim
Williams of Stewart and Peter
Morrison, Bowser Lake Indian
trapper, after a n arduous
search, following their discov
ery of Law’s snowshoe trail
from his isolated cabin at the
North end of Bowser Lake.
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| The trail was of such meander
j ing character as to indicate
j that the maker was lost or un
! able to see his course. Follow
I ing the erratic trail, the seareh
| crs finally came upon the body
| lying under a tree, where Law
apparently had taken refuge
from the unprecedented snow
storms which broke over the
district shortly after he had
departed from his lonely cabin, j
; leaving a note dated February i
| 19th, in which he stated that
! lie was going to Stewart to en
1 ter the hospital and have some
j of his frozen toes amputated.
' The note was found three
j weeks later by Mrs. Morrison,
! wife of the Indian trapper, and
| was brought to Stewart by
! them on March 22, nearly a
month after Law had set out on
his fateful journey.
The investigations made by
Williams and Morrison leave
no doubt that Law had become
lost among the nearly mile
high mountains in which his
body was found and had wan
dered at times far from his
route before finally taking ref
uge under the spreading
branches of a tree near the tim
ber line. They found that Law
had walked many miles far
ther than the distance between
' his cabin and the Big Missouri.
| The trail at one point swung
j far to the west, indicating that
Law was pursuing the usual
j circular route of those who be
Scome lost or confused. Add
ding further to the pathos of
j the grim tragedy, it was found
I that Law had failed in his
struggle against the snow and
I cold when within a dist
! ance of one mile from the Sal
mon Gold camp, which he ap
! parently had been unable to
j see. Remains of one camp fire
and a pile of unlighted timber
j close by his bed of boughs dis
: closed that Law had fought a
i bitter battle for life while l.v
; ing cold and exhausted under
the tree, which only partially
i sheltered him from the uneeas
j ing downpour of snow. Twice
I the ever encroaching snow cov
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SILVER ADVOCATES
ADOPT NEW TACTICS
Senator Pittman of Nevada,
in a recent congressional dis
cussion of the silver situation,
charged that president Hoover
will not call an international
conference to discuss the silver
question and anounced the in
tention to make no further at
tempts in that direction be
cause of the presidential atti
tude.
Pittman indicated that ef
forts to secure an international
conference would be replaced
by activities to secure legislat
ion authorizing the purchase
and coinage of silver which
would restore the price of sil
ver to 60 cents an ounce.
“We cannot get the confer
ence, so we have quit trying to
do that,” Senator Pittman said.
“All we can do is to remove
or offset the unnatural dump
ing of silver by India. We
could stop it by a conference,
but we cannot get a conference
because the president will not
call one. We can buy with sil
ver certificates the American
supply of silver at the world’s
price and store it, redeeming
the certificates if presented
with silver dollars. That would
restore silver to 60 cents an
ounce.”
Senator Pittman also criti
cized the Treasury Department
for classing silver as a com
modity, while he claimed that
it is money and more valuable
than a commodity.
Chamber of Commerce
Dinner Meeting Wednesday
The postponed monthly din
ne rmeeting of the Hyder
Chamber of Commerce will be
held in the small Pioneer Hall
next Wednesday evening, May
llth, commencing at 6 p. m.
The dinner will be provided
by the ladies of the Friendship
Club, which insures that those
attending will enjoy a culinary
treat.
The meeting will be open to
all who wish to attend, regard
less of whether they are mem
bers of the organization or not,
and there is no obligation be
yond the payment of the regu
lar dinner charge. Ladies are
as welcome as men and will un
doubtedly find much to inter
est them in the proceedings of
the Chamber, in addition to the
enjoyment of an excellent meal
of “home cookery.”
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SCHOOL CELEBRATES
MOTHER'S DAY
The pupils of the Hyder public
school observed Mother's Day on Fri
day with an excellent program of lit
erary and scholastic exercises and al
so exhibited an interesting educational
and art display. The exercises were
attended by quite a number of par
j ents and others interested in school
activities. The literary program in
cluded recitations by Jewel Rice. Sar
ah Flnlayson and Peggy Reid; read
ings by Eric Liudegaard and Frances
(Sandford; songs by the school and e.x
ainplifications of class work by the
pupils of the first and second grades,
in all of which the youngsters acquitt
ed themselves most admirably.
Wickersham Halts
Division Merger
An arrangement had been
made by Delegate Wickersham
with the Chairman of the
House Ju die ary Committee
that he was to appear before
the Committee when the bill
was considered to merge the
Nome and Fairbanks judical
divisions into one division,
with one set of court officials.
At a meeting of the Committee
on April 5th the bill was in
advertently taken up and
favorably reported, because of
the presumed saving to the
Government of $25,000 yearly.
When the Delegate learned oi
the action taken he requester,
of Chairman Sumners that he
hold up the report until he
could be heard in opposition to
the bill. This was agreed to
and April 13 was fixed as the
time for the second hearing,
when the Delegate presented
his objections and secured ar
annulment of the previous
favorable report. Thus the bil
stands as it formerly did, am
is in the same position as is the
Senate bill on the same sub
ject, and neither will move for
ward until a favorable report
is filed in Congress.
Liquor Violations
Continue Low
Only 25 cases of liquor law
violation were recorded in the
First Division in March, ac
cording to a statement issued
by the U. S. Marshal’s office in
Juneau. Of the 25 persons ac
cused, 19 plead guilty and 6
not guilty. Fines assessed to
taled $2,185; jail sentences
aggregated 2 years and 4
months and suspended senten
ces totaled 45 days.
Fifteen arrests occurred in
J u n e a u, 4 in Haines, 4 ir,
Ketchikan and one each in Pet
ersburg and Ho>onah.
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New Alaska Air Transport
is Company Organized
Anscel Eckmann, noted Alas
ka airman, in association with
Nick Bez, prominent in Juneau
mining and fishing circles, has
organized a new air transport
company to operate in Alaska
with headquarters in Juneau.
The company is known as the
! Alaska Southern Airways. Mr.
! Bez is president and Mr. Eck
I mann is vice-president and
general manager, as well as
| head pilot. The company ha?
j purchased the seaplane Pet
ersburg from the Washington
j Alaska Airways and have re
j named it Chichagof.
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Mayer Sawmill Rebuilt
| A. J. Mayer has'completed
i the rebuilding of his sawmill
! in the upper Texas creek dist
rict and is getting things in
shape to resume active lumber
cutting operations. The new
mill structure replaces the one
built last year, which was
! crushed in by the unusually
! heavy snows last winter.
U.S. ENGINEERS MAKE
FURTHER RIVER SURVEY
(!. Truitt, Resident Engineer of
tlie United States Engineers Office in
Juneau, and Lieutenant Berton, who
is also associated with that office, ar
rived in Hyder Friday on the Forest
ry Service motorboat Ranger to make
a further survey of conditions on
Salmon river in connection with the
Hood control project recently recom
mended to Congress by the War Ue
partment Engineers. The army offic
als were accompanied on the trip by
Mr. Edwards of the U. S. Forest Serv
es office in Ketchikan. The Ranger
Is commanded by IT. It. Aikens, veter
an skipper of the Forestry motorboat.
The object of the river survey is to
ecure additional data for use by the
Engineers office in the event of Cong
ressional sanction of the flood con
sul plans submitted by the War De
partment last January and may re
mit in some modification of the plans
as originally drawn by Mr. Truitt last
year. Included among the proposals
to be examined is one involving the
clearing of a portion of the timbered
flood plain along the west side of the
river to straighten and divert the
course of the stream still farther to
the westward.
Mr. Edwards will be in charge of
the Forest Service trail construction
work in this part of Alaska and is
here to look over local trail condit
:ons and familiarize himself with lo
cal requirements.
It is understood that the Forest
'rail bureau contemplates some work
n the district this summer and that
Messrs. C. M. Archbold and W. J.
McDonald of the Ketchikan office
will be here shortly in connection
with the program now under consid
eration. This will probably include
construction of the much-needed trail
from Salmon River highway to the
vicinity of the Crest and other high
lying mining properties on Salmon
River ridge opposite Eight-mile.
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Coogan—Mellor
Miss Winnifred Mabel Mel
lor, popular Stewart miss, be
came the bride of Mr. Arthur
Denby Coogan of Premier at a
pretty wedding ceremony per
formed in St. Mark’s Chui’ch,
in Stewart Monday evening.
The nuptial service was read
by Rev. G. H. Moody, pastor
of St. Mark’s. The church was
beautifully decorated w i t h
wild flowers. Miss Joan Mel
lor, sister of the bride,acted as
bridesmaid and Master St.
John Moody officiated as page
to the bride. D. M. Coulter, of
Premier, was groomsman and
Messrs. J. B. Pearcey and T. B.
MacKay, of Premier officiated
as ushers.
The wedding was followed
by a reception at the home of
"he bride’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. Mellor, poineer Stew
art residents, which was hand
somely decorated for the occas
ion.
Following the reception the
happy couple left on the Catala
on a honeymoon trip which is
expected to include a visit to
Hawaii. On returning to the
district they will make their
home at Premier.
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Senator Britt Passes
William Britt, former Terri
torial legislator, died recently
in Juneau as a result of a skull
fracture sustained when his
car crashed into a telephone
pole when the brakes slipped.
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Born—In Prince Rupert Gen
eral Hospital, April 28, to the
wife of Rev. Evan Baker, Stew
art, B. C., a son.