ly destroyed by fire about twc
weeks ago and Delegate Wicker
sham has received wires from
Alaska Associated Fishermen of
Nushagak and Igloo 28 Pioneers
of Alaska, volunteering to fur
nish whatever labor is necessary
to make required changes in re
modeling whatever building is
decided upon for use in estab
lishing a new- hospital. The mat
ter was taken up with the In
dian Bureau officials in Wash
ington and gratitude was ex
pressed for the kindly offer of
assistance. Assurance was given
that a hospital would be main
tained at Kanakanak and that
possibly the present school build
ing would be utilized until the
money could be secured for the
erection of a new building, for
which an appropriation will be
asked from Congress at its De
cember session.
Inquiry has been made of the
Delegate whether the War De
partment was surveying the har
bor at Attu, with the object of
Hunter & George Co.
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
and
FRESH FRUITS
ANGOON - - ALASKA
EUREKA TRADING CO.
Dealers in
General Merchandise
Kake.Alaska
ERNEST KIRBERGER
General Merchandise
Kake - - Alaska
Highest Prices Paid for Furi
KAKE CAMP
Alaska Native Brotherhood
Meets Every Monday
8 p. m.
President, Peter Hanson
Secretary, Thomas Skeek
CAMP 13
Alaska Native Sisterhood
Meets twice a month.
Mondays, 2: o’clock
£ Visitors are always Welcome^
Pres. Susie Abraham
Sec. Helen Bremner
$ CAMP 13
i
$ Alaska Native Brotherhood
£ Come to our A. N. B. business^
£ meetings and lets see whats£
what, where, who, when and$
'* why.
'v Jack Ellis, President
Yakutat, Alaska
Advances will be
made as usual when
requested. Transfer
red b y telegraph
if desired.
Special Sales held on
request of shipper.
Seat tie Iur Exchange |
6Pr^ARIOH. STREET VIADUCT
«!•,SEATTLE. U S A
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'establishing an aviation base
there. The Radio Division of the
Department of Commerce has
made inquiry and informs the
Delegate that the Department
(does not contemplate the estab
lishment of a station at Attu,
and advises that if a particular
individual from Alaska desires so
j to do that he should make ap
plication for station license in
the usual manner and for which
forms will be sent him.
* * *
Recent reports from Alaska of
the discovery of gold deposits on
Copper River valued at $300,000,
000 and rich ore in Nuka Bay, on
which valuations as high as
$50,000 per ton have been made,
have developed considerable in
terest in the gold possibilities of
the territory. Inquiries have been
received from persons in various
sections of the East and from
southern Florida, asking the
advice of the Delegate as to
whether they should seek for
tune in the new fields. Whether
the estimates of the probable
valuations are or are not correct,
at least the discovery of new
gold deposits confirms the pre
dictions of the Geological Sur
vey from a series of studies it
has conducted on the mineral
j potentialities of Alaska. Gold has
'been the most valuable metal
(produced in Alaska during the
past 30 years It is estimated that
the value of gold production has
amounted to $398,659,000 while
| the next most valuable metal
I has been copper, which has a->
(mounted to $213,964,000. Silver
j production has totaled $11,994,
000 and coal $7,940,000. As re
ported recently by the Geologic
al Survey, gold production last
year led all other mineral and
metal production and exceeded
by $1,000,000 the production in
1930. The value of gold produced
Jin 1931 was $9,507,000. Greater ;
interest has been centered on <
the discovery of new gold de- <
posits in Alaska since the Geo- ■
logical Survey published reports •
ion its studies of minerals in vari- ]
ous areas. In 1931 Congress voted j
$250,000 to continue mineral i
|studies in Alaska, and from the ;
j investigations under this appro- <
priation various studies have 1
been issued from time to time i
and will continue to be made. ,
* & *
Miss Dolly Bunnel, as a teach- i
jer in the Government school at i
Ketchikan, is spending a few
days in Washington during her
vacation period and wiU' also go «
.to her former home in North ]
Carolina before returning to 3
Alaska in September. 3
* * *
(
The- many friends in Washing- i
;ton of Ernest Walker Sawyer
feel a great sympathy for the
family because of the sudden
death in Los Angeles of the!
promising son Norman B., aged
21, who recently graduated from
a university in Washington D.
C. Mr. and Mrs. Sawyer imme
diately left for the Pacific coast
and were there to attend the
funeral.
* * *
On July 8th the advisory
board of the Bureau of Biologic
al Survey held a meeting and it
is reported that a recommenda
tion was agreed to and will be
submitted in turn to the Presi
dent if it is accepted by Secre
tary of Agriculture Hyde. While
no announcement is yet made of
the action taken it is believed
that the Board recommended
that the sportsmen of the coun
try, including Alaska, be given
at least two weeks more duck
and goose shooting than was al
lowed last year, when but one
month was allowed. It is ex
pected that the time of the sea
son in Alaska will be divided into
two different periods, as affect
ing the northern and southern
parts of the Territory. It is re
ported that extensive studies of
the duck breeding areas in Ca
nada show them to have been
restored, to a large extent, and
that the Biological Survey feels
that with the drought cycle la
the breeding area coming to an
end, the conditions which caus
ed the drastic curtailment of
the duck hunting season last
year from three months to one
month have been practically
abated. A movement to return
to individual State option all
hunting regulations about open
seasons on waterfowl is not ex
pected to get the sanction of
Secretary Hyde, in whose hands
the enforcement of the United
States—Canada migratory game
bird treaty and the fixing of the
open season limits rest. Biolog
ists of the Department of Agri
culture, who have made exten
sive studies of the habits of the
ducks which annually migrate
down the Atlantic Coast by the
millions, and on whose informa
tion the season was curtailed
last year, have been in the great
breeding areas of Southwestern
Canada and Northwestern Unit
ed States for some time and re
port conditions in the great
sloughs and ponds where the
ducks breed to be greatly im
proved over last year, when the
prolonged dougbt had dried up
about 98 per cent of the water.
Rains last Fall and Winter and
this Spring have given the ducks
nesting places, and a crop of
young birds, well above the num
ber which came down last year,
is expected to migrate next Fail.
* * *
The U. S. Geological Survey,
Department of the Interior, has
3ompleted a manuscript report
Eureka and vicinity, in the
Xantishna district, by Francis
D Wells. This mining district is
xbout 90 miles west of McKinley
Park station on the Alaska Rail
road. The part of the district
rovered by this report comprises
xn area of about 72 square miles
u the form of a strip 6 miles
vide and 12 miles long. Some
years ago about 1,300 tons of
sulphite ore, most of which as
sayed better than $157 a ton,
vith the major value in silvex\
;hen worth $1 an ounce, was
nined and shipped. The work
ngs from which this ore was
;aken are now inaccessible. Of
^04 samples taken from acces
sible quartz veins throughout
he district the highest assay
vas 3.74 ounces of gold and 6.41
>unces of silver.
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?heap Eggs Being
Lsed As Ammunition
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Current low prices for eggs
ire causing police trouble in Be
oit, Wis. More than the usual
lumber of complaints have been
nade to them of boys throwing
jggs at persons on porches and
n automobiles.
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TREASURY INQUIRY
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Andrew W. Mellon, Ambassad
or to the Court of St. James,
London, England, former Secre
tary of the United States trea
sury is returning to the United
States for a brief vacation. His
iuties have been too arduous for
tns frail constitution—he needs
the rest. Which reminds the
press that:
During the fore part of this
month, Representative McFad
ien of Pennsylvania introduced
a resolution in the House of Re
presentatives calling for an in
vestigation of the federal fiscal
affairs. This resolution was fav
ored by Speaker Garner and was
Dn greased skids for passage.
Secretary Ogdon Mills and
Eugene Meyer, governor of the
Federal Reserve Board and chair
man of the Reconstruction Fin
ance Corporation were to be in
vited to give their views before a
special committee that was to
make the inquiry.
Now it is to be remembered
that Republican McFadden in
troduced the resolution and it
immediately had the support of
Democrat Garner. Investigations
were begun but before it had
gene far Democrat Garner stated
in the House that he approved
the investigation but did not in
sist upon it because of the fear
that disclosures might do harm
to the country economically and
otherwise. He told newspaper
that if the Republican organiza
tion thought it best for the
country not to investigate the
treasury now, he would defer it
temporarily. This was done—in
vestigation to be next December.
Quoting Democrat Garner: “If
tne Republicans in the House are
ready to support the investiga
tion demanded by Representa
tive McFadden, then we are
ready to go ahead. We have suffi
cient data on which to make the
investigation.”
The investigation would be di
rected at the $3,733,000,000 re
bates, refunds allowed by the
Treasury Department during the
regime of Secretary Mellon—in
cluding $96,000,000 returned to
the U. S. Steel Corporation.
Representative Purnell of In
diana who is ranking Republican
on the rules committee protested
the appearance of Rep. McFad
den before the committee with
out treasury officials being pre
sent but he was overruled. Be
fore the meeting opened Repre
sentative Snell, Republican whip
in the House told newspaper
men that there would be no in
vestigation because “n one is
necessary.”
DORE DECLARES ROOSEVELT |
IS NATION’S HOPE
Declaring for a large scale pub
lie works program as the only
hope for the United States in
combating the depression, May
or John F. Dore pilloried Presi
dent Hoover and Governor Hart
ley for inaction in the economic
crisis.
The mayor spoke to the Wash
ington Voters Club on the an
nounced subject of “Why I arn
Supporting Franklin D. Roose
velt for President.”
“I am supporting him because
I am against Hoover,” he said.
“Roosevelt is so far ahead of
the man now in the White House
| that there is no camparison.
I “The policy that I am opposed
to is the policy, in nation and
state, that says that if you do
nothing there is a God that will
take care of fools.
“I firmly believe that Hoover
has no comprehension of the
[problems of the common people,
tie is just as ignorant of the pro. I
tiem as Governor Hartley is in
this state.
Reasserts Statement
“I said in Tacoma a month ago
that I believed Hoover was the
greatest menace to the nation, j
I was criticized for making that |
statement, so I made it the next [
day and I make it now, so there,
can be no doubt that I mean |
what I say.”—Seattle P-I.
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FISH TRAPS
| By E. Sj Hungerford
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Fish traps, as at present re
gulated and restricted, are a vio
lation to the code of the square
deal—they are special privileges.
As such, a fair minded adminis
tration cannot support them.
There are not to exceed twoi
hundred bona fide resident Alas
kans profiting by actual fish trap
concessions, the other sixty
thousand are suffering unduly
from this undue monopoly of
fishing privileges.
* * #
In normal years over three
million dollars is spent in the
construction of fish traps in
Alaska. Most of this money never
sees Alaska.
* * *
The elimination of traps will
create ten thousand more jobs
for fishermen every summer.
, * * *
' Ten thousand fishermen mak
ing this three million dollars, an
average of three hundred dollars
each, means safety for the fish
ermen and prosperity for the
Alaska towns.
* * *
| Trap fishing is not necessary
, and can not be excused in the
coliseum"
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interests of conservation.
British Columbia Packers of
salmon do not use traps, pay the
fishermen more for their fish
and employ three times the
number of fishermen in propor
tion to pack. They sell their pro
duct in the same worlds markets
as the Alaska Packers.
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PRESIDENT HOOVER
CUTS OWN SALARY
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President Hoover cut his sal
ary 20 per cent and ordered re
ductions of 15 per cent in the
pay of the vice president and
the cabinet members.
Instead of $75,000 yearly,
Hoover will now receive $60,000
and the vice president and cab
inet members will get $12,750
instead of $15,000.
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Here and There
In Alaska
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Stroller’s Weekly has started
the fall political offensive for
John Rustgard, attorney general
running once again for office.
Several columns of encomiums
are spread over the page.
Father Bernard Hubbard, S. J,
recently gave a lecture in Ju
neau on his travels in the vol
cano country, interesting sub
ject from an interesting man.
Several bureaucrats are off
the payroll-consolidation of the
Alaska Road Commission with
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“Where Your $ Hus More Cents”
General Merchandise -
- Fishermen’s Supplies
E. W. Harris, Proprietor
Sitka - - Alaska
the Department of the Interior
cuts off quite a payroll of car
petbaggers who are all headed
south.
G. E. Krause has started ex
cavating the grounds for a con
crete bulkhead to be on Sixth
Street, Juneau.
R. I. Whittby of Fairbanks set
fire to the city jail and was res
cued only by the heroic efforts
of the Fairbanks Fire Depart
ment who had to crawl on hands
and knees to rescue the man
(who smoked one cigarette too
(many while still sobering up in
the jail.
I “Capt.” O’Connor of the Meat
| Trust end of the Bureau of
^ Fisheries, is off on a tour of the
fishing country. He will find
|many Filipinos and traps work
ing—but not many residents.
Which is as the Czar wishes it.
Miss Ellen Reep, sister of Mrs.
Mary Torkelson of Petersburg,
is scheduled to give a concert in
Juneau soon.
B. D. Stewart, Jr., son of Alas
ka’s Mining' Engineer, was wed
recently in Fairbanks to Miss
Mildred Reeder of that city.
Stewart is a junior in the Alas
ka College.
Report comes that William
Peele, 28, of Hydaburg, is miss
ing. He had started for Water
fall in a rowboat which was
found in Skookum Chuch but no
trace of Peele could be found.
Pie had been picking berries
near Hydaburg and was going
to Waterfall to help his partner
jment a net.