RAILROADERS
GIVE AID TO
THE INDIANS
(Special to Daily Times.)
ANCHORAGE, .Ian. lfi. More than
$2,000 in food, medicine and service
was expended by the Alaskan engi
neering commission to aid Indians
along the line of the government rail
road in the Anchorage division dur
ing the recent epidemic of Spanish
influenza. Thirty-one of the natives
died of the disease. At times all the
Indians in some of the villages were
down with the illness, atul the sick
were cared for and the dead burled by
commission employes.
At Susitna. which is thirty-live miles
| west of Wasilla. a station on the gov
I eminent railroad forty-five miles north
i of Anchorage, twenty of the natives
died With the Anchorage Red Cross
chapter, the commission cooperated
in sending food, clothing, medicine
and nurses to the stricken village.
At Chiekaloon, which is on a branch
of the government railroad seventy
four miles northeast of Anchorage, the
natives underwent a siege of the in
fluenza and were looked after by the
employes of the commission. None
of the patients died.
Montana, a station on the govern
ment railroad ninety-five miles north
of Anchorage, is the home of two In
dian families. These were afflicted
with the epidemic. The condition of
three of the natives was so serious
that they were sent to Anchorage.
They were past improvement. One
died on the way and the other two
succumbed soon after their arrival
at the hospital that had been estab
lished for ailing natives in Anchorage.
At Question, a railway station 103
*• miles north of Anchorage, the entire
Indian colony was taken down with
the disease. Two of the children died.
Commission employes had to cut wood,
furnish and cook food and act as
jiurses for the natives.
At Talkeetna, which is on the route
of the government railroad 112 miles
north of Anchorage, Nlckoli, the chief
of the Talkeetna tribe of Indians, died,
also one of his wives, one of his broth
ers and an infant. The destitution of
the survivors was so deplorable that
until they fully recovered they had to
be taken care of by railroad workers.
At the request of Thomas Higgs, Jr„
governor of Alaska, in an effort to
relieve the residents at Kodiak, where
Influenza raged with great violence,
and where there was no physician,
th commission organized a relief party
consisting of Dr. H. P. Palmer, cap
tain in the medical corps of the
United States army, stationed in An
chorage; C. H. Thompson, steward at
the government hospital in Anchor
age, and W. (’. Hunt, marine engineer,
who worked for the commission. The
party, furnished with medical supplies
by the commission, was taken over
the railroad from Anchorage to Sew
ard At Seward it was thought that
arrangements had been made to take
the members of the party in a can
nery tender boat to Kodiak, but after
having waited in vain for the boat
at Seward for eleven days the party
returned . to Anchorage.
In Anchorage the commission sup
plied the stoves, cooking utensils and
other necessary articles to fit up a va
cant hotel building into a hospital for
the treatment of Indians ill of inllu
enza. Not only were the Indians liv
ing in and near Anchorage admitted
to the hospital, but natives from other
I towns along the line of the railroad
j were brought to Anchorage for treat
I nient. Many natives were treated in
the hospital. Only four died.
GOLD FROM IDITAROD
HAS REACHED SEWARD
SEWARD. Jan. lfi (by Associated I
Press).—Bob Griffiths of Iditarod, th4, j
veteran musher, arrived here yester- j
day with a heavily-armed guard con
voying two dog teams with $400,000
in gold bullion from Iditarod.
D. H. Sexton has purchased Robert
Gottschalk's interest in the Alaskan
hotel, and all persons having bills
against the hotel should present them
at once to Mr. Sexton, who has as
i sumed these accounts. 3-tf
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MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION
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! AN OPPORTUNITY IS OFFERED YOUj
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To Share In the Immense Wealth Which Every Season Is Taken From Local
Waters By the Canneries.
t Local Company Organized to Engage in the Salmon Industry and Keep the Profits at Home
LAY THE FOUNDATION FOR YOUR FUTURE INDEPENDENCE
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The Hinchinbrook Packing Company has been or
ganized at Cordova for the purpose of operating a two
line cannery on the site now occupied by the Ohm Fish
and Packing Company.
The new company has taken over the Ohm Fish and
Packing Company and will use the boats, gear, buildings
and other equipment of the latter company.
Gus Ohm, V. J. Swanberg and William H. King are
the organizers of the new company.
Everyone in Cordova knows of Gus Ohm. He started
at Cordova with a dory and fished for the local market.
By using sound business methods he prospered and soon
had a number of other fishermen working for him. Busi
ness men of the city became interested and he was given
capital to operate on a large scale, and finally the Ohm
Fish and Packing Company was formed, with him at
its head.
Now Mr. Ohm is convinced that although he has
made a success of the company there is more money to
be made in a salmon cannery than in fish packing, and
with the two men who have been closely identified with
him in the Ohm Fish and Packing Company he has de
cided to take over the latter plant and turn it into a
| salmon cannery.
But to do this will require a large sum of money.
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The new company will have a good start in possessing
the boats, buildings and equipment of the old company,
but money will be needed to buy additional machinery
and equipment.
The usual plan in such enterprises is to seek outside
capital—to go to the States and place the proposition
among men who are always on the lookout for such be
ginnings of successful industries.
But in this case the men interested have decided
that instead of going Outside for capital, and eventually
turning the largest part of the profits to people not of
the community, they will first offer people of Cordova
an opportunity to become interested.
The people here know something of canneries. They
know of the past successes of this industry in this imme
diate vicinity. They know that despite cries from the
cannerymen every year that their plants are on the verge
of ruin, yet every plant in the district is being enlarged
and improved and employs more men every season.
Fish packing is not a gamble, as is gold mining or
oil mining. The fish are in Prince William sound, and
when they are taken out they have a ready sale. The
industry yet is in its infancy.
Naturally it is impossible to guarantee a large return
on the stock, but people of Cordova who have seen the
canneries rise and prosper about the city can not doubt
the success of the new cannery.
Shares of the Hinchinbrook Packing Company have
a par value of SI.00 each, and will be placed on the mar
ket at par. All stock will share equally in the profits of
the company. Any quantity, small or large, will be sold.
No exaggerated statements about the company will
be made. A large and profitable fish-packing company
w'hich has every assurance of continued success is being
turned into a cannery because the men in charge believe
a greater success can be made. A man will be in charge
of the new cannery who has spent practically his entire
life in work connected with fishing and fish packing, and
who has made a success in this very community. Every
possible supply for the canneery will be purchased here
and local help and fishermen will be employed. The
profits will go to people of Cordova. Thus instead of
the largest part of the money going outside the city,
Cordova will reap the benefits in supplies purchased, sal- I
aries paid and profits distributed. i
This is an open statement of the new company and B
its aims. U
Remember there has never been a salmon cannery If
in this district that has failed. n
Look Into This Matter; Get In the Fish Game |
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Mr. V. J. Swanberg is at the Windsor Hotel, Room 9, and will be glad to give you detaileed information regarding the cannery. 1
Call personally or by telephone, or drop him a letter, and he will