VOLUME NO. 5.
PETERSB' RG, ALASKA. JULY 1^1930
NO. 1
Fishing for Salmon Not
So Good at Seward
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Less than 3500 salmon had
been caught in Resurrection Bay
from June 15 up to July 4, ac
cording to local figures.
Some of the vessels, fishing
with four men and 800 fathoms
of gear, have, on some days, brot
in but four fish. The top catch
appears to have been 68 salmon.
It has been common for a boat
to return with only two. The
average catch hit around the 20
mark.
Malutin, fishing outside, brot
in catches of 185 and 271. Some
silvers and dogs, less than 200
were caught during this inter
val.
Fox Farmer Tries
Mix Withjrizzly
Pete Madsen, fox farmer cf
the Kuslof district is reported to
have had a very narrow escape
from death recently while hunt
ing bears with Ed Lovdahl in
the vicinity of Polley Creek, re
ports the Anchorage Times.
Madsen and Lovdahl had shot
at what they thought was a
thicket of alders, ant they were
taken considerably by surprise
when a big brownie, angered by
a bullet wound, emerged from
the thicket and charged them.
Both took to their heels but
Madsen tripped and fell directly
in the path of the infuriated
bear. The brownie attacked
Madsen without ceremony and
undoubtedly would have killed
him had not Lovdahl gone to
the rescue, at no small risk to
himself. From a position not
more than seven feet, he sent a
bullet into the head of the bear,
dropped mm oetore ne could do
any more damage.
Madsen was taken to Snug
Harbor and returned to his Ku
silof home on the M. S. Discov
erer. He escaped serious injury
but will carry the marks of the
encounter for a long time.
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Yakutat Newsletter
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Fine weather favored us on
the Fourth. Patriotic services
started the day at the A. N. B.
Hall. Baseball games between
A. N. B. and Libby McNeil teams
was most exciting and won by
the A. N. B. team. The sports
program was exciting from start
to finish.
We were all glad to see our
sister, Mrs. Jack Ellis, return to
us again after spending many
days in the hospital at Juneau.
The extended close season for
commercial fishing brings the
men home each week. After one
weekend, the Rolfe, New Eng
land Fish Co.’s tender took out
17 fishermen, 3 boys and 1 wo
man besides her crew to Alsak
river. At the entrance to the
river the Rolfe turned turtle and
stayed killapi for 15 minutes be
fore she righted herself again.
George Cartwright, mate of the
Washington and Andrew Charlie
financial secretary of the A. N.
B. , were drowned. Charlie is
survived by his daughter and
wife. A reward of $100 was offer
ed to anyone finding the body of
Charlie but to date it had not
been found.
Pilot Scott and mechanic Sie
by operating a Gorst plane were
• muced between Katalla and Ya
kutat by th seaplane Taku. Their
plane was wrecked by wind and
waves on the beach.
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Port Althorp cannery has pul
up 20,000 cases of salmon.
Wm. A. Dunkelberger
Dies Suddenly
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The good people of Petersburg
were stunned, Wednesday morn
ing, when word swiftly passed
i from person to person and house
to house that William Allen
Dunkelberger had died during
night in the Petersburg hospital.
He was a big man and outward
ly showed no indication of be
ing anything but well and he
was not one to bother others
with what to him seemed trivial
ailments.
Coming in from the day’s fish
ing he showed plainly that he
was sick so he was easily persu
aded to see the doctor who im
mediately ordered him to the
hospital and to bed so that a
blood transfusion could be made.
Two hours after he entered the
hospital he was unconscious and
never again did he recover his
conscientiousness and by one
o’clock he had gone over the
Great Divide.
William “Bill’ Dunkelberger to
all who knew him, was born on
the 24th of October, 1892 at
Genoa, Nebraska. He attended
the grade schools in Nebraska j
until 1904. The family moved
to Washington and he was grad
uated at the Olympia High
School.
When the country called hen
men to arms to meet the enemv
in a great war, Bill responded
and served overseas with the 91st
Infantry and saw service that
tried the spirit of men. He was
wounded once in the head by a
shrapnel and once on the heel
with a bullet.
He .first came to Alaska .in
1916 and began to work for Mr
Ohmer, on a shrimp trawler. In
1924 he met Anna Lewis, who
later became his bride in Wran
gell, the result of which union
being a daughter, Wilma Ann,
now four years of age. He is sur
vived by his widow Mrs. Anna
Dunkelberger, daughter Wilma
Ann, two step children, Myrtle
and Malvern, his mother Mrs
Lydia Dunkelberger now living
in Olympia ar.d brother Harold
J. Dunkelberger and two sisters,
Mrs. Calra Learning and Mrs
\aomi Tobin ail in Olympia.
William was serving a second
trtrm as Post Commander of the
Petersburg Post of the Ameri
can Legion ard as President oi
the local Parent-Teachers’ As
rociation. He was a public spir
ited citizen and always ready to
put his shoulder to any load to
make it lighter. His cheery
greeting and winning smile will
long be remembered by all who
Knew him.
. .Funeral services will be held
•n the Sons of Norway Hall Sat
urday morning beginning at
9:30 o’clock. Immediately fol
owling the funeral service the
remains will be taken to Wran
gell for burial. Mr. Ohmer has
placed his fleet of boats at the
disposal of all who wish to go
to Wrangell as a last respect to
a departed fellow citizen. At
Wrangell, the American Legion
will have charge of the services
and interment.
KETCHIKAN
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1 The Lebo Reduction Plant at
Ward Cove, was destroyed by Are
this wek. Amount of damage
losses not ascertained.
Dr. Thomas Rhone spent sev
eral days in the hospital, receiv
ing medical attention.
Richard E. Eisner, territorial
legislator in lf;21 was accidently
killed on the Copper River and
Noi thwestern Railroad.
Gold Found in Chicken’s
Gizzard
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After all efforts to find the
source of gold nuggets taken
from a chicken’s gizzard on the
farm of Bert Phelps, Quinter,
the owners believe they have the
light explanation.
In the neighborhood of what
is now the Phelps farm is a very
old cross-country trail which
it is said was used by the “49ers”
on their way home from Calif
ornia gold rush. It is believed
the nuggets were lost by return
ing prospectors. The small par
ticles of gold taken from the
hen are said to be worth about
$40. A search for the “mother
lode’’ continues.
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Ketchikan Resolution
Grizzly Bear
The bugologists, mammalo
gists, nationally known writers,
game magazines and what-nots
have protested the recently pub
lished regulations which permit
legal killing of brown and griz
zly bear. Ketchikan Chronicle
offers a counter resolution for
the consideration of the exter
mination alarmists, which is
herewith published:
WHEREAS: Certain eastern
societies and individuals have
expressed the desire to perpetu
ate and protect the brown bear
and grizzly bear; and,
WHEREAS: There are none of
the species extent in areas more
easily accessible to these east
erners than Alaska; now, there
fore,
BE IT RESOLVED: That all of
Pennsylvania, Maryland and
New Jersey be set aside as brown
bear sanctuaries; and, further,
BE IT RESOLVED: That Alas
ka permit the removal of all
brown bear from Chicagoff and
Admiralty Islands to populate
those eastern areas with the
species.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED:
that the game societies, sports
men, sportswriters and others
shall aid in stocking ail of the
national parks and private pre
serves with these animals in or
der that the extermination of
the species shall be prevented.
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More Planes for Alaska
Airways Company
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The Alaska Airways line has
purchased two new Lockheed
Vega seaplanes and have aug
mented its service by including
Cordova as a regular port of
call. The first plane will leave
Juneau on the 19th for Cordova
while the other plane will be us
ed by the Alaska-Washington
Airways of British Columbia .to
take care of increased service
between Seattle, Victoria and
Vancouver. Effective immedi
ately, Port Townsend will be
made a port of call for the Vic
toria bound planes with irregu
; lar service to Port Angeles.
The new planes were secured
at a cost of $40,000.
A REAL BOOTLEGGEER
John “Shorty” Rhodes of Col
orado, Ark., was recently arrest
ed on a charge of bootlegging.
When officers entered his home
to search for liquor, he poured
four quarts of beer into his boots.
When booked in the jail, he was
charged with bootlegging.
f'ears-Roeouck and Montgom
ny Ward Co:s have declared a
10 per cent cut In catalog prices.
O’Malley Closes the
Bristol Bay Area
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. .Reports from a reliable source
, yesterday stated that the Bristol
Bay area has been closed to com
mercial fishing by United States
Commissioner on account of the
failure of the salmon run this
year.. Reports a few days ago
indicated that O’Malley was not
a little concerned over the poor
run and he recently published
additional fishery regulations to
close the Bristol Bay area to fish
ing for 120 hours each week.
Reports from the Prince Wil
liam Sound are also anything
but satisfactory.. The run in Icy
Straits is now said to be pretty
fair—all thing being considered.
In the Ketchikan district, only
the traps are making any catch
es and they are .nothing .over
which to become excited.. The
fishermen are frantically run
ning from one to another, from
one channel to another, looking
for salmon but so far no crew
has paid for oil let alone paying
for grub. The Anan run over
which fishermen and packers
all got excited i$ now virtually
over. The ““big run” was due to
the fact that the traps in the
southern end had not had op
portunity to catch the first run
which went by. This run to the
Anan section is said to be “the
greatest run in years.” So far
big catches—five to twenty-five
thousand, formerly .common in
that section—have not been re
ported. However, more salmon
were seen in that section than
has been for several years.
The Ketchikan packers are
now paying 11 cents per fish for
pink salmon.. Prices reported by
the different canners including
Kake, Petersburg, Wrangell Nar
rows Packing Co., .Lake .Bay,
Wrangell, .and .Burnett .Inlet,
range from four cents to .ten
cents for pinks.. Prices are so
unsettled that some of the fish
ermen have refused to go out as
operation costs are prohibitive..
Bristol Bay pack is reported
as being 500,000 cases short, ac
cording to Frank H. Foster of
Cordova and it being a conserv
ative report, the shortage in all
probability is a lot greater.
The Aalska Peninsula fishing
was pretty spotted; Kodiak run
.a .failure and Prince William
Sound and Cook Inlet report very
short and light runs.
O’Malley has left for the Ber
ing sea area to personally .in
spect that area for .the .finny
tribe he is alleged to have con
served so nobly since he under
took conservation of traps.
HUSTON SURRENDERS
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Republican party leaders have
intimated that a private ar
rangement has been made by C.
Huston, chairman of the Repub
lican national committee where
by he will resign that office im
mediatele after the senate ad
journs. This was agreed to by
the national leaders in order
that he would not be the cause
of a controversy in the Senate.
It was teh Senate Lobby Com
mittee which made the Muscle
Shoals lobbying funds disclos
ures upon which the demand for
Huston’s resignation was made
and members of the senate could
be expected to make much po
litical capital out of the situa
tion. The particular charge and
which was shown in the record,
being that Huston used Party
funds for private speculation.
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Capt. H. Berger of the Discov
er says that no red salmon have
been taken in Bristol Bay.
Goes Up in Air Plenty
With Machine
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Fifty-six times around the
earth at the equator; one mil
lion four hundred thousand
j miles!
That’s the impressive total
flown in airplanes by three fly
ers of Portland in the Pacific
Northwest. Tex Rankin, the vet
eran of the trio and he one who
taught the other two to fly, has
more than 6000 hours in the air
in the 12 years he has been fly
ing, making an imprssive total
of 600,000 miles. Art Walters,
| whom he instructed eight years
ago has 4000 hours or 400,000
miles; and Dick Rankin, Tex’s
brother in his class eight years
j ago, also has 4000 hours or 400,
000 miles in the air. «
Last week the three flyers—all
instructing students in the Tex
Rankin School of Flying—check
ed up on their hours and found
that they probably have the
most hours in the air of any
three men in the Pacific North
west.
After two years of flying in
France and England during the
war, Tex Rankin returned to
Spokane, Washington to start
his first school. It was there
that he taught his two assistants
to fly in an old war-time Jenny.
Later he moved to Portland—
seven years ago—and has oper
ated a school continuously ever
since with “Dick” and “Art” as
instructors. Among the three
of them they have turned out
hundreds of students. They are
known as the Three Horsemen
of the Air.
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Fishermen Blown up
At Tyee
James Sharp and Eli Katinook
of Angoon were taken to Jux
on the 12th suffering from s<;
vere burns about the head, arms
jand hands. Physicians rjport
jed them in serious condition
They were loading gasoline on
the gasboat Clara Blanche at
iTyee cannery when an expiod vi
joccurred. There was no fire.? on
j board and it is not known what
caused the explosion which blew
jihem off the deck The vessel
I sank immediately.
ABERDEEN APPRECIATES ITS
FISHERIES
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Construction of a public wharf
in the sheltered cove just inside
Grays Harbor at Westport has
brought to that community an
industry with a payroll of more
than $400,000.
Salmon trollers who operate
out of that port will be paid more
than $300,000 for their catch
this year. They started fishing
iin April and to date have deliv
ered 425 tons to various buyers
! at Westport, all for the fresh
fish trade. Prices ranged from
26 cents per pound in the spring
down to 15 cents a pound as of
date.
The fishing industry is believ
ed now to be a permanently in
that section as a result of which
many trollers who previously
had no fixed home, have estab
lished residence there.
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TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT
Press report dated at Istanbul
declares that a Turkish passport,
giving owners’ birth year as
1774 and stamped with a six
months United States visa, will
carry Zaro Hiha toward New
York:. He claims he is the old
est man in the world, his age is
given as 156 years.
Mooney Witness Is
Perjuror He Says
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John MacDonald, principal
witness against Tom Mooney
and Warren Billings, in a signed
statement last Saturday Jsaid:
“I John McDonald, aged .58
years, never saw Mooney until
taken into the Hall of Justice in
San Francisco.. I was told by an
officer, ‘this is Mooney,’ point
ing him out to me.
“My testimony in the various
cases was untrue and false.
“The authorities got me to tes
tify.
“I identified Mooney but this
is an absolute falsehood.’’
Desirous of undoing the great
wrong he had done in helping to
secure conviction of Mooney and
Billings for their alleged bomb
ing which killed several in 1916,
McDonald made this confession
in Baltimore, Maryland. .
Idaho Census Shows
Plenty Game
North Idaho’s big game and
furbearing animals show an in
crease of about 50 per cent in
the last five years, while preda
tory animals are fewer in num
ber, according to a forest service
census taken by the state
game department. Noteworthy
in this census is an increase of
25 per cent in the grizzly bear
population.
Deer, despite the fact that
they are the most easily slain of
any of the game animals, have
north of Salmon River.
There are now more than 22,
000 deer in that part of the state
that lies north of Salmon River.
The 1929 census showed 5,828 elk
472 moose, 135 mountain sheep
and 1890 mountain goats, 2747
black bears and 85 grizzly bears
Among the predatory animals
the coyotes are most numerous
there being 6,281. There are 1,
427 lynxes and bob-cats, and 227
mountain lions. Seven thousand
beavers were listed in the census
960 foxes, 8355 martens, 6,875
mink, 783 otters, and 22,080 mis
cellaneous smaller fur-bearers,
mostly muskrats.
The territory, the census
shows, was visited by 3,626 hunt
ers last year. These hunters
killed 294 elk, 902 deer, 11 sheep
or goats, 226 black bears, and 5
grizzly bears. The report urges
the necessity of a buck law to
protect the game and increase it.
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Federal Probe of Gasoline
War in States
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A federal investigation of the
Pacific Coast gas war is under
way as a result of complaints
filed with the federal trade com
mission for relief. The conflict
is between the huge companies
which have hammered gasoline
prices clear out of sight.
Requests for a federal inquiry
were threatened several day;
ago by Herbert MacMillan an of
ficial of a leading independent
company who asserted many of
the smaller companies were be
ing forced out of business by the
conflict.
COURT TERMS CALLED
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Judge Justin W. Harding now
on his vacation left instructions
for terms of court to be called at
Juneau and Ketchikan on the
20th of August and September
29, with both grand and petit
juries in attendance.
Divisional Notts
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WRANGELL
Bill Bitters left for Cordova.
A daughter was born to Bar
ney Konanesty.
..Ernest Walker Sawyer, assist
ant secretary in the Department
of the Interior, visited with oclal
eelebreties while the Aleutian
was in port. Mr. Sawyer expects
to make an investigation of cer -
tain charges against the Lomen
Reindeer Corporation of Nome.
A. Rasmussen, superintendent
of schools left for Oxford, Ind.,
to visit with friends and rela
tives.
. .Albert Diemart of Towanda,
Kansas, father of Mayor G. E.
Diemart, died in his home last
week.
Mrs. Don Miller was brought
in from Lake Bay suffering with
heart trouble causing facial pa
ralysis.
Mrs. Oscar Carlson has been
appointed resident manager for
the Nu Bone Corset Co., and her
field extended to the entire
Southeastern Alasko field.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Cunning
ham left for Juneau to visit Ber
vl Patricia, their newest grand
•hild.
Dr. S. C. Shurick, age 53 years
died Sunday night. He had
Practiced medicine in Alaska for
)ver 25 years. Was Commander
of the American Legion in 1925
ind member of the Elks and
Masonic lodges.
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HAINES
James Shortridge, 13 year old
hoy, was arrested last week and
bound over to the grand jury.
He will be held in the Federal
Tail at Juneau to awn it the next
term of court in September.
HYDER
Paul R. Vernon of Ketchikan
was appointed deputy collector
of customs at Hyder. He relieves
J. L. Abrams who will be sent to
Petersburg to relieve Frank R.
Havens who is to be transferred
to the Seattle district.
HOONAH
W. V. Propst and Eugene Butts
fishermen operating the troller
Balto were arrested with a small
quantity of shine on board. On
board the vessel were two small
pieces of seine and fish which
looked suspiciously like trap
fish as there were no pue marks
showing any handling. The men
are residents of Anacortes, Wn
Skagway
Walter G. Bernthan, son of
Rev. G. Bernthal of San Francis
co, fell off the lake steamer Tui
shi in Lake Atlin and was
drowned. The body was not re
covered.
JUNEAU
Senator Frank Aldrich is re
covering from his breakdown
it is hoped will be out two in or
three weeks. Intermittent loss
of memory is reported his most
serious trouble.
..Mr. Boyle, candidate for the
legislature, returned from a tour
are leaving for Seattle on the
of the world.
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SEATTLE IN GAS WAR
The big fellows against the lit
tle fellows—gasoline prices went
down to 51/2 cents and in one or
two instances buyers were given
five gallons of gasoline with the
purchase of change of base oil.
prices along the Highway were
down to 8V2 cents and for 5 cents
a gallon with change of oil.
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| Charged with illegally fishing
at 5:30 o’clock Monday morning
near Port Alexander, Nick Anas
tasia, T-1116, was taken to Ju
[neau before Commissioner Fox.