DEER STROLLS
. INTO KITCHEN
FOR CARROTS
WILLIAM FREEBURN, OF CHI
CHAGOFF MINE, SAYS ANI
MALS LOSE TIMIDITY.
HARD WINTER ON WILD GAME.
Mining Man Visits Juneau tor I ur
pose of Employing Workers, But
Laborers Are Said to Be Scarce in
Territorial Capital.
“This has been a hard winter on
deer,” William Freeburn, of the
Chichagoff mine is quoted as saying
in the Juneau Dispatch, “but there is
one herd on Chiehagoff island which
is doing well. Some of the boys have
treated a herd of them with so much
consideration that the animals have
taken a mile when an inch was given.
Ore of them walked right into the
kitchen recently. Carrots and othei
vegetables seem to have been the at
traction that led this particular deei
into the house.”
Mr. Freeburn was in Juneau look
ing for a few men for special work,
but idle men seem to be few and fai
between. When asked at what age he
■considered a man was past his use
fulness he emphatically stated that
there is no age limit.
“We have a man at our mine ~
vears old,” he said, “who goes out in
to the woods, hews down the timbers, j
works them down to the beach, and
tows them with his little power boat
to the mine, without assistance from
any man; and there is many a young
er man who could not accomplish the
work this so-called old man does.”
News from Point Barrow indicate
that nearly all the ptarmigan in that
country have died. ‘‘It is not known
why a land which produced them in ;
such quantities should be found sud- j
denly bereft of nearly all of them,” i
says the Juneau dispatch. “However,,
it is known that ptarmigan bury them j
selves in the snow at night, and a i
sudden change in weather during the
night from a soft snow near melting j
to a heavy fall of sleet and snow j
sometimes freezes them in. so that
thy smother or starve to death. Oth
ers contend that ptarmigan will emi
grate from a country because of lack;
of feed. It is well known that they
emigrate into parts of the country
where feed is plentiful.”
Acting on petitions of creditors,
Judge R. W. Jennings, of the United
States district court at Juneau, signed
an order adjudging the Seeley Drug
company of Juneau a bankrupt and
the affairs of the concern will be re
ferred at once to A. H. Ziegler, ref
eree in bankruptcy. The assets of
the concern will amount to approxi
mately §4,000, with liabilities of ap
proximately the same amount. Guy
McNaughton was appointed tempo
rary receiver under bonds of §6,000.
At the suggestion of the governor’s
office, the secretary of agriculture has
added Hawkins island, in Prince Will
iam sound, to the list of islands on
which it is unlawful to kill deer. The
department regulation, issued August
1, 1917, for the protection of deer on
certain islands in Alaska, as now
amended, reads as follows:
“The killing of deer on Kodiak isl
and and Long island, and the killing
of deer on the following islands in
southeastern Alaska: Duke island,
near Dixon inlet; Gravina island, near
Ketchikan; Kruzof, west of Sitka;
San Juan island and Suemez island,
near Klawak; and Zerembo island,
near Wrangell, is hereby prohibited
until August 1, 1918; and the killing
of deer on the islands of Hawkins,
Hinchinbrook and Montague, in Prince
William sound, is hereby prohibited
until August 1, 1919.”
The deer on Hawdcins island were
recently transferred from southeast
ern Alaska, under authority of an act
of the 1917 session of the Alaska leg
islature, which made an appropriation
for the purpose.
Job printing at the Times office.
COAL, GOLD, WHEAT, FLOWERS
AND STRAWBERRIES AMONG
ITS RESOURCES.
ROMANCE IN ALL OF THEM.
Lecturer by Emphasizing Them
Shows He Knows Mob Psychology,
and Alaskans and Yukoners Should
Grasp Opportunity.
“The land where there is coal
and flowers, strawberries, gold
and wheat.”
Such are the words glaring in the
advertising columns of New York
papers over the name of Burton
Holmes, lecturer, in his announce
ments that he would speak at Carne
gie ha!! on Alaska.
When he speaks of Alaska he
speaks also of Yukon, says the Daw
son News.
“Burton Holmes knows his busi
ness,” continues the Dawson News.
‘He has not followed the call to the
platform and purveyed information to
the masses these last twenty years
without learning the secret of mob
psychology. He has learned that
what the masses are interested in
nort is what they want most, and that
s why he puts ‘Coal, gold, wheat’ anti
.he like in glaring letters in his ad
vertisements.
“Holmes knows that the word ‘coal’
is on the lips of every householder in
he older communities of this conti
nent today; likewise ‘gold’ ever has
its lure; and ‘wheat’ at the present
lizzy price and its famine-time scarc
ty is a word with which conjure.
Much Coveted Articles.
“It i. now the enchanted momnt
to call the attention of the world to
the fact that these much coveted ar
ticles are in this northland. Every
one hearing a lecture or reading an
article setting forth the great possi
bilities of getting these commodities
in a new land will be fascinated. The
new field for such rich products will
be as a Mecca for the perishing. Add
to the facts these staples are in the
north the further fact that the land
produces ‘flowers’ anti ‘strawberries,’
and the glamor of all that grips one
to a country as a haven for home
making and a land of happy lives is
complete.
“It is no deception that Holmes
practices. Yukon and Alaska have
what he advertises and far more. He
will give them the detail. He reaches
many, but he should not be left to
i till the great unschooled field of the
masses alone.
“The press and the people generally
of the north must do their share to
help disseminate the truth about this
Eden of the Arctic. The war opens
the way now for the northland to
present its case. The outside world is
anxious to know of the riches that
can make up the deficits of the older
lands to the south. The north does
not have to spar and hammer and ca
jole now in order to make others sit
up and notice this northern wealth.
“The thing to do now is to parade
the goods. Put the products of Alas
ka and Yukon mines, fields, fisheries
pastures and farms on the outside
market; tell the story in every wa>
in legislative bodies and through mag
azines and daily papers, on the pic
tured screen, and on the platform
Then down will go the walls of pre
judice now lifted against this land.
Will Come to Make Homes.
Once the national agencies and the
northerners get to exploiting the pos
sibilities of this great realm in con
cord, people will come this way tc
make homes; the central governments
will vote sums for northern railways,
as already started in Alaska; and the
general public and private exploits
will herald to the world the fact that
Yukon and Alaska are a part of the
earth.
“Let everybody join in the good
work. Spread the gospel of the pro
ductive north.”
Subscribe for Alaska’s Leading
Daily—The Anchorage Times.
THILL IN
LOOKED INTO
JAWS OF DEATH
J. F. FYFE, WHEN MOUNTED PO
LICEMAN, MADE TRIP TO
FORT MacPHERSON.
WENT TO RESCUE PATROL
Three Missing Men W’ere Found
Dead, Having Starved and Frozen
to Death, and Searchers Returned tc
Dawson Safely.
J. F. Fyfe, who for several years
has been employed at the Treadwell
mine, says the Douglas Island News
his most recent job being that of
feeder at the Ready Bullion mill, has
been ordered to report at the Nugget
creek power house, where he will be
in the employ of the same company,
his new position being that of oper
ator at the power house. Fyfe is one
of the heroes of a terrible experience
in the northland.
Six years ago he was a member of
I the Northwest Mounted Police and
I was stationed at Dawson. It was a
| hard winter, intensely cold and much
j snow, stiff winds blowing at 50 below
I zero, something unusual in that coun
| try.
L,eave ior ,uaci nerson.
However, and early in January the
; police started its annual patrol from
Dawson to Fort MacPherson—on the
Mackenzie river near the Arctic ocean
—the expedition being in charge of
Sergeant Fitzgerald, who was accom
panied by two other police and two
Indian guides. (Just why this haz
ardous trip is made every year and
in the dead of winter is not apparent
unless it is merely to test the endur
ance of the men who make it. True,
the patrol carried mail to and from
Fort MacPherson on the trip but as
there are no white people reached by
the service aside from a missionary,
two police stationed at Fort Mac
Pherson and, a few squaw men, it
would seem that they might well do
without their mail until the following
July when navization in that country
opens.)
Abandoned by Guides.
On the trip in question the Indian
guides and dog drivers got cold feet
and deserted Sergeant Fitzgerald and
his associates. The police continued
on, however, and when they failed tc
return to Dawson as expectee
and when nearlv a month ovei’due
‘
a searching party in charge of the
present Treadwell man, J. F. Fyfe
was started to look for them. The trip
was another test of endurance. They
| pushed on and when within less thar
100 miles of Fort MacPherson, foun<
| a deserted camp, and, on searching
around in that vicinity, found the
frozen bodies of all three of the miss
.
j ing men.
They also found a diary kept by
Sergeant Fitzgerald which told o1
j their slow death by starving anc
freezing, of how they had eaten one
i dog after another and the suffering
they had endured toward the last. The
diary was later published, first ai
Dawson and later all over Canada
and was the most gruesome history
ever chronicled of the Broad White
North.
The Fyfe party buried the bodies
near where they were found, bringing
the effects of the men and a detailec
report back to Dawson, where £
monument has since been erected ir
Barracks Square to the memory o;
Sergeant Fitzgerald and his unfortun
ate companions.
Employed by Mining Company.
Fyfe did not long remain with the
police after his faithful but bitter ex
perience as head of the searching par
ty. Apparently' he wanted to gel
away from the surroundings which
daily reminded him of what he hac
gone through. Taking his discharge
—honorable and richly deserved—he
went to Treadwell and has been in the
employ of the big mining company
ever since. He married after reaching
Treadwell and a stranger would nevei
imagine to meet the happy-go-lucky
“brau” Scot, that he had practically
entered and returned from the yawn
ing abyss of death.
BUSINESS UNI
PROHIBITION IS HAVING SAME
EFFECT ON DOUGLAS AS IT
HAS ON JUNEAU.
PETTY CRIME ERADICATED.
Revenue of $100 Per Month Was De
rived from Fines Paid Into Police
Tribunal But Now There It Nothing
at All.
From an average of more than $100
per month to absolutely nothing is the
record of the police court of Douglas
within the past few months, says the
Douglas Island News.
United States Marshal J. M. Tan
ner, of the first district, said the pro
hibition law had made criminal cases
almost unknown in Juneau, and the
same condition seems to obtain at
Douglas.
“Up to the time,” continued the
Douglas Island News, “when the pop
ulation of the island was materially
| lessened by the mine disaster of last
| April the receipts of the police court
! more than paid the salary of the city
j clerk and police magistrate and fre
j quently left considerable surplus in
j the city exchaquer. P»ut it is differ
ent now.
“There has been but one city pris
oner in the municipal jail since the
first day of the present year and that
was January 2, and the culprit was
i wearing a hold-over jag of mammoth
j proportions. He paid a fine, the last
i one imposed by City Magistrate Ben
j nett. Two or three federal prisoners
j have occupied the jail since that time,
“The above condition is proof posi
tive that this portion of Alaska is
! conforming to the “dry” law without
j deviation. If any caches were made
here the first of the year, they are not
being depleted to any noticeable ex
i tent but are still intact. While it is
| said that the market price for booze
I is $25 per gallon, no transactions at
i that or any other figure have been re
ported. Certain wiseacres contend
! that there are many ‘caches’ in this
part of the country and that they will
I be ‘tapped’ later on and when the fish
ing season is further under way. How
; ever, it is not generally believed that
this is true, as it is pretty fully real
I ized that too much risk is run in tv
ling capita! up in contraband goods—
that the eagle eyes of the federal offi
cers are too watchful to warrant en
gaging in the sale of liquor as a bus
iness.
“But the fact remains that, in mak
ing up the budget for Douglas this
I year, nothing can be counted upon or
j expected from the police court as a
I revenue producer. It is in the same
! class as a flooded mine.”
PUPILS AND RED CROSS.
SEATTLE, Wash., April 13. — Two
bootblacks stands operated by stu
dents of the Summit school here, havt
netted $49 for the Red Cross in sever
weeks. The stands were made by boys
in the manual training department of
the school, and the polishing outfits
purchased by money raised through
subscriptions among the pupils. The
students took turns in operating the
stands.
INSURANCE IN SWEDEN.
STOCKHOLM, April 13. — Sweden
has enacted state accident and sick
ness insurance patterned after those
in Germany. Under this legislation
nearly all employes are benefiteel
whose yearly pay does not exceed
$1,330.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the Commissioner's Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division,
Knik Precinct, Before Leopold David,
Commissioner and Probate Judge.
In the Matter of the Estate of Henry
A. Tracy, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed, administrator of the estate of
Henry A. Tracy, deceased, to the credit
ors of and all persons having claims
against the said deceased, to present
them, with the necessary proof and
vouchers, within six months after the
date of this notice, or after the date of
the first publication thereof, to the ad
ministrator, J. T. Cunningham, the said
undersigned, at Room 8, General Office
Building, A. E. C., Anchorage Alaska,
which is the office of said administra
tor, for said estate and where the said
administrator will transact the business
thereof.
Dated this fifteenth dav of Aoril, 1918.
J. T. CUNNINGHAM,
Administrator of the eptat® of
Henry A. Tracy, deceased
404
YUKON GATCH
CANNERY NETS AND TRAPS ARE
FORBIDDEN ON WATERWAY
FOR ENTIRE LENGTH.
NO RESTRICTIONS ON INDIANS.
Natives Are Able to Lay in, During
Open Season, Large Supplies Not
Only for Themselves, But Also for
Their Dogs.
Millions of salmon run every sum
mer in the Yukon river, Alaska's
great inland waterway, and its tribu
taries, but by order of the United
States government, not a cannery dots
the hundreds of miles of shore line
on the American side of the Yukon
boundary, according to mail advices
from St. Michael.
Alaska’s interior river salmon are
reserved for consumption by the men
I and the sleigh dogs of the north, and
| are not to be exploited commercially,
1 the government has ruled. The same
i orders are enforced on the Canadian
side of the Yukon boundary, it is be
| lieved here.
Although the fish may run free
j without thought of cannery nets or
i traps they are caught in thousands
by the hundreds of creaking fish wheel
; traps operated by the white residents
and the Siwash Indians of interior
Alaska. Smoke from scores of fish
curing camps rise along the river
banks every summer.
The ^ ukon is closed the greater j
part of the year by the ice, but i
enough fish are caught in the summer 1
months to feed the dogs the year j
round and the inhabitants during the
open months. The portion of the!
catch not consumed is cured over open |
fires and stored away for use as win- :
ter dog feed.
I A fish diet is said to form not only |
; the cheapest food for dogs but is also i
the best food for keeping them in
good condition for their winter work I
of pulling sleds on the snow trails, j
PUBLIC SERVICE EXPENSE.
Great Britain Borrows Heavily on
Ways and Means Account.
LONDON, April 13.—The revenue
returns for last month show that the
treasury has borrowed something over
£222,000,000 on “ways and means” ac
count for carrying on public service.
The directors of the Bank of Eng
. land while agreeing to a further ad
vance called the treasury’s attention
to the large amount outstanding and
j expressed the hope that the chancellor
of the exchequer would realize the in
advisability of an increase in these ad
; vances and their earnest desire that
measures should be taken for repay
ment.
In reply the chancellor of the
exchequer, assured the directors of his
desire to confine the advances out
, t
standing to the narrowest possible
limits.
SENATOR STONE
HAS PARALYSIS
CONDITION OF MISSOURI LEGIS
LATOR, WHO IS 70 YEARS
OLD, IS SERIOUS.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 13.—
Senator William J. Stone, democrat of
Missouri, suffered a stroke of para
lysis last Wednesday while aboard a
street car in Washington city. His con
dition became worse today after hav
ing spent a restless night. His con
dition is regarded as erious by attend
ing physicians.
Senator Stone is 70 years old.
El Sitka Hot Springs
These springs are five in
number and one of the old land
marks of Alaska. The Russians
had a hospital there in 1841,
where they sent patients with
diseases of the skin and consti
tutional blood disorders.
The temperature averages
145 degrees Fahrenheit at the
Spring. The baths are effica
cious for rheumatism, stomach
and liver troubles, kidney and
bladder diseases, and for consti
tutional disorders.
These springs are in charge
of Dr. F. L. Goddard. The
terms for room, board, and
baths, $2 a day and up. Cabins,
S7.50 per month and up, includ
ing furnishings, except bed
ding. ADDRESS
F. L. GODDARD, M. D.,
SANITARIUM, : ALASKA
4th Ace., Bet. C and D.
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