.’SHORT STORIES
ABOUT ALASKA
OCCURRENCES
The Juneau ball team recently de
feated the aggregation on Eagle boat
57 by a score of 7 to 1.
9 Col. Warren, who is employed by
the Alaskan Engineering Commission
at Anchorage, said the government
railroad would be completed by De
cember 31, 1921.
A regular caravan of autos left
Frankbanks recently for the coast
loaded with Midnight Sun excursion
ists who came over the trail from the
Tanana river town.
Donald H. Stevenson, the biological
survey expert, who left recently for
Unalaska to investigate game and
bird life, will determine if the Alaska
-a^lagle is a destructive bird.
Billy Hunter, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Hunter, was struck by an auto and
slightly injured recently. The boy
ran from behind one car and was hit
by another. He is out again.
Although but a little over four
months have elapsed since the oil
^ands were thrown open to entry over
350,000 acres have already been lo
cated, and applications are pouring
in to the registry office.
A. J. Sprague, who recently return
ed to Juneau from the Baranof island
fish hatcheries where several mil
lion eyed salmon eggs and young sal
mon have been planted at intervals
since last fall states that the exper
iment has proven a success.
A. H. Range of Portland, Oregon,
will build a crab cannery at Wran
gell. Mr. Range is the inventor of a
machine for extracting crab meat
from the shells by means of com
pressed air, one of the machines do
ing the work of 15 hand pickers.
Charles Williams, the Fairbanks
messenger, was arrested recently on
a charge of assault with a dangerous
• weapon on the person of Erick Eichel
on Jun 29. Williams secured a load
ed revolver and a knife and went
hunting for Eichel over an alleged
grievance.
Robert Leitch, pioneer of the
Klondike, died last week on claim
3! above discovery on Bonanza creek,
where he was living temporarily rep
resenting the claim owner. He was
formerly engaged for years in the
stage business between Dawson and
Quartz creek.
A renewal for sixty days of an op
tion granted the Juneau Commercial
association upon payment of $1,000
to the Juineau cold storage plant by
the association, was turned down by
the board of directors last week. The
members of the board agreed to pay
$1000 bonus in case the sale was
made on the basis of $24,000 within
9#days,
Anton Israelson, father of Andrew
L. J. and Theodore Israelson of Pet
ersburg, died in that city July 2nd,
and was interred in the cemetery at
that place. Death was caused by old
age. Mr. Israelson had been a resi
dent of Petersburg since 1911, and is
survived by his wife, two daughters,
5 sons, 28 grandchildren and six
great grandchildren. He was 80 years
of age having been born in Hemnes,
Norway, in 1840.
The celebration committee of Pet
ersburg engaged a speaker for the
Fourth of July celebration, who de
livered some remarks verey offensive
to the patriotic citizens. So much so
that the committee publicly apologiz
ed for the appearance of the speaker
* and his remarks, saying that he was
not known to any member of the
committee, but had been very highly
recommended.
Lieut. Dorey, U. S. army officer,
who has been running a line of taxis
between Hyder and Stewart, and
Frank Nagle, who operates an Amer
ican truck, had their cars seized last
week by the customs officers at Stew
art, following complaint by a Canad
ian who also was operating a truck
line with Canadian cars in opposition
to the Americans. The Nagle truck
was driven by Jack McCallum, who
deposited $400 with the officers to
secure its release. Dorey .was ac
cused of bringing passengers from
Stewart and unloading them without
crossing the line. There has been
friction over the Americans securing
most of the trade for some time,
Hyder residents say. The Canadian
inspectors say they will enforce the
^ law to the letter.
NATIVES HOUSE
THEIR FOOD
FOR WINTER
The native people of Alaska have
food very different from the food the
white people use. They gather ber
ries, sea weed, game and other Alas
kan products and store them for use
in the winter. Clams, fish and all
sea foods are used in a way. that will
preserve them for use during the
winter months when it is cold and
food cannot be obtained. These are
some of the methods used for stor
ing and preserving native food:
Meat is stored for the winter by
taking a slice of meat two inches
thick, a foot long and a foot wide.
Then take some sticks about the same
length and make them about the
size of a lead pencil; sharpen these
sticks at one end and run them cross
wise through the meat about five
inches apart. Have a stronger stick
to hold up this amount of meat. Run
this stronger stick right across the
center lengthwise of the meat by
bending the meat back and forth un
til the stick is thruogh. Then it is
ready to be roasted before a direct
fire.
Fish may be prepared in the same
way and all kinds of game, such as
wild ducks, geese, ptarmigan and
grouse. They are boiled also.
By slicing both meat and fish we
can dry and smoke them. The fish
is cleaned, then sliced and hung out
in the sun to dry with a little fire un
der to smoke it. Meat is prepared in
the same way. After they are dry,
cut in small pieces and boil. When
they have boiled enough, it is put into
herring or seal oil which well keep
it any length of time. Usually it is
put up for use during the winter.
Wild vegetables such as parsnips
and sweet potatoes are found in this
country and used for food. They are
usually boiled.
We also dry certain kinds of ber
ries such as soap berries and blueber
ries. First the berried are boiled
thick and then put on a tray about
six feet above the fire to dry. After
the fruit is dried it is pressed into
cakes. Some berries, such as high
bush cranberries and lagoon berries
are put into a can of fish oil and put
away for the winter use. Any kind of
berries may be put in oil but some
will not keep as long as others. Tf
they are kept in a cool, dry place it
will keep them any length of time.
Blueberries may be cooked and put
into jars, which is very common to
both native and white people.
Clams are one of the common food
used by the native people. When the
tide goes down they go and dig the
clams. Whn they get all they want
they take them home and boil with
the shells on. When cooked the shells
open and it is easy to get the inside
out, which is put on a string like
beads and hung in the sun to dry,
kept in a dry place and eaten when
wranted. The native people are very
fond of clams.
In the spring time of the year we
gather black seaweed off the rocks
at low tide. This is spread on the
rocks near the home or on a clean
cloth and dried in the sun. When it
is dried it is pressed into cakes and
put up for the winter. It is packed
in a box with young cedar boughs.
There is a different kind of seaweed
which is called the ribbon weed. This
is gathered in the same place as the
black seaweed. The rbbon seaweed
is dried in the sun. When it is dried
it is packed away in bags or boxes
and this will keep any length of time
during the winter if it is kept in a
dry place.
When the black seaweed is used
for food it is chopped up into small
pieces as fine as you want it. Uusally
it is boiled with the juice of clams
and a little grease added to give a
better flavor, just as people of today
use vanilla to give flavoring to cakes,
candies, etc.
Dried hemlock sap is another na
tive food obtained by removing the
bark from trees. This is done in
the spring. After one gets enough of
the sap he digs a hole in the ground
and puts hot stones into the hole. The
sap is then put in and covered with
skunk cabbage and hot coals or a
little fire is built on top of it over
night. In the morning it is dug out
and dried in the sun. After it is half
dry it is pressed into cakes very
much like sea-weed, then put out in
the sun to dry again until it is as
hard as hardtack. After it is dry it
is ready to be stored.
During the winter when the na
tives -wish to cook the hemlock sap it
is first soaked in cold water, then it
is put into a kettle of boiling water
and flavored with grease. After it
cooked enough it is removed from the
fire and served ready to eat.
These are common foods that most
of the old native people use and are
very fond of. The food of the white
people can never take its place with
the Alaskan native.—Christine Bates,
a Native Girl, in Sitka Verstovian.
Don’t ask for a raise on the theory
that the boss ought to give you more;
make yourself worth more than you’re
getting, and then ask what you are
worth.
Two ways of breaking a friendship:
strike a man on the bean or touch his
pocketbook. But for safety’s sake,
choose the lesser courses and leave his
pocketbook alone.
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Kodak finishing. Scarborough.
Graham Bread fresh every day at
the City Bakery.
Just received the new fall line of
samples of made-to-order rain coats.
Now is the time to order at Hubbert’s 1
Tailor Shop. 19-6t 1
The best of coffee at the Alaskan
Grill. 17-tf
If you change your address, do not
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