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Inquire of Jack Singleton, Healy.
K FOR SALE—Good brood sow with
ten pigs averaging 30 pounds.
None better in Air ska. Will be
sold at a bargain for spot cash
C. N. Creamer, Fairbanks.
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Fairbanks
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Pelican up Melozi, 8 p. m., yes
terday.
Prairie Bell leaves Iditarod for
Holy Cross today.
Pollywog (Captain Dunlap) left
Gibbon today for Nenana.
Reliance left Tolovana Tuesday
morning for Kantishna.
Tanana at Fairbanks.
Nasutlin, up Yukon Crossing.
Kestrel at Dawson.
Sibila due at Gibbon today.
Mail launch up Stewart today.
Yukon up Dawson for Mayo on
Tuesday.
Kotlik at Kotlik yesterday.
Alaska at Dawson.
Canadian up Eagle last report.
Carl White up Tolovana last night
at 7:45 for Fairbanks.
NENANA WILL CELEBRATE;
BIG BLOWOUT IS ASSURED
The Eagle will scream, as usual,
in Nenana on the Fourth of July—
only more so. This decision was
reached at a meeting of citizens
held at the Coliseum on Tuesday
night, pursuant to a call issued by
Mayor Joe O’Connor. There were
quite a number present and plans
for the celebration were discussed in
a general way, Dr. J. R. Bowen
officiating as chairman.
| The principal work done, how
ever, was the selection of the cere
bration committee, which will have
entire charge of the arrangement
of the program and the staging of
the festivities.
Deputy Marshal J. L. Anders, who
is stationed in Nenana for the sum
mer, was appointed general chair
! man of the celebration, the other
i members being Joe O’Connor ami
i
i Joe Fischer. A finance committee
| consisting of Alf Ekeland and Mar
j tin Nash, was also appointed, and a
decoration committee headed by
Jack Donnelley, of the local signal
I corps station, with power to ap
I point all the assistants he may neeu
to put the town in holiday attire.
The committee will have a meei
i ing tonight to discuss publicity
work in connection with the cele
bration, and it is expected that the
finance committee will alos begin
its work immediately.
While it is too early to state
definitely what features will he ar
ranged, there is the assurance that
there will be an automobile race,
with at least four cars entered, and
probably several horse races and a
baseball game.
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Successors to St. George Realty Co., and St. George St Cathcart
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA
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SUPERINTENDENT KARSTENS
READY FOR WORK IN PARK
Harry P. Karstens, wellknown
oldtimer of Interior Alaska, who
recently received from Secretary of
the Interior Fall an appointment as
superintendent of Mount McKinley
National Park, arrived in Nenana
yesterday on the train from Heaiy.
Mr. Karstens came North on the
steamer Northwestern, in company
with Cadastral Engineer Woodbury
Abbey, and made the trip over the
“hump” with him.
Nenana has been selected by Su
perintendent Karstens as his head
quarters, and will be the future
residence of his family, who are
now enroute to Nenana by way of
Skagway and the Yukon. Mr. Kar
stens came North in order that pre
liminary work in the administration
of America’s largest park can be
taken in hand and, consequently,
was given the tentative appoint
ment of chief ranger, which office
terminates on the last day of June,
when he will assume his duties as
superintendent. Mr. Karstens will
have the right of selecting his as
sistants who will act as rangers
and wardens, and will see to it that
the laws are properly observed. Foi
the present, he will be assisted by
one man, experienced in the admin
istrative work of the National Pari
Service, and it is the intention oi
the superintendent to fill vacancies
in the park ranger service latei
on by appointing sourdough Alas
kans. These appointments, however
will not take place for some con
siderable time.
Superintendent Karstens has ha>
wide experience in outdoor life :r
the Northland and is very thoroughlj
familiar with the country in anr:
around Mount McKinley, much oi
which is within the limits of the
National Park. He first went intc
that region some years ago wit!
the late Archdeacon Hudson Stuck
and later spent considerable time
there with a hunting party oi
young millionaires from New York
He was one of the principal mem
bers of the Stuck party when the
ascent of Mount McKinley was
made. He is therefore, eminently
fitted to fill the position to whicli
he has been appointed by the secre
tary of the interior.
With a view to making the pari
easily accessible and attractive tc
tourists and lovers of nature gener
ally, in the shortest possible time
Mr. Karstens will immediately tra
verse the great reservation careful
ly for the purpose of selecting am:
recommending a route over which
the National Park Service will build
a road to serve as the main artery
of travel within the park limits
and from which trails will radiate
to the many points of scenic at
traction situated deeper in the
range.
The selection of Nenana as tJhe
headquarters of the superintendent
means much to the town as regards
i'ts future prosperity, and it is of
the utmost importance, it is pointed
out, that the residents of this dis
trict co-operate heartily with the
park authorities, in order to insure
its success as a drawing card to the
patronage of tourists and travelers
generally.
The Mount McKinley National
Park will be conducted along lines
similar to those in force in the ad
ministration of the Yellowstone and
other National Parks in the States
and, in addition, will be a game
sanctuary. The limits of the park
contain the natural habitat and
feeding grounds of the vast herds of
caribou, mountain sheep and moose
whose very existence was threaten
ed with the completion of the Gov
ernment railroad, which will ren
der their haunts easily accessible
to market hunters and wanton
slaughterers of game. The law goes
into effect immediately and a pro
per observance of it will be backed
up by Superintendent Karstens and
his assistants that a perpetuation
of these beautiful and useful game
animals for the enjoyment of future
generations will now be made pos
sible.
The act of Congress, approved
February 26, 1917, creating the
Mount McKinley National Park con
j tains the following provision: That
, the said park shall be, and is here
, by, established as a game refuge,
and no person shall kill any game
in said park except under an order
from the secretary of the interior
for the protection of persons or
to protect or prevent the extermina
tion of other animals or birds; pro
I vided, that prospectors and miners
engaged in prospecting or mining
in said park may take and kill
j therein as much game or birds as
may be needed for their actual
necessities when short of food, but
in no case shall animals or birds
be killed in said park for sale or
removal therefrom, or wantonly.
Several sportsmen of New York
endeavored to obtain an order from
the secretary to hunt such animals
as would be destructive to others,
within the park limits, but their
requests were refused. The proviso
under which the secretary may Is
sue permits only refers to such
animals as bears and wolves.
Superintendent Karstens says it
in not the intent of the law to work
a hardship on prospectors, but that
the indiscriminate slaughtering of
game for the market will be dis
, couraged, flagrant violations being
adequately punished,
i Conditions are not improving very
rapidly along the Pacific coast, ac
cording to Harry P. Karstens, who
arrived in Nenana from the Out
| side yesterday. He traveled along
the Pacific coast by auto, taking
j in all the cities along the way, and
' he says he found only two towns
in which conditions appeared to be
anything like normal as regards
prices. The places were San Jose,
California, and Albany, Oregon. In
almost every other locality, prices
were abnormally high and there
appeared to be a marked tendency
, toward graft of every sort.
Grafting had become so general
, in California when Mr. Karstens
was in that state, that auto travel
ers were starting a movement to
avoid the Poppy State altogether.
But Mr. Karstens found, upon his
arrival in the Puget Sound district,
that similar conditions existed there,
only more so, with the possible ex
ception of one or two places. lie
found the people of Portland dis
posed to be reasonably decent in
their treatment of strangers.
Mr. Karstens was at a loss to ac
count for the low prices—almost
prewar—prevailing in San Jose, but
says one of the merchants of Al
bany, when asked for an explana
tion of his fair dealing, merely
stated that he did not have the
nerve to continue charging war
time prices.
] Traveling by auto along the
, coast, Mr. Karstens says, is botn
1 enjoyable and inexpensive, provid- j
i.
ing one is prepared to camp along j
the highway. Camping grounds arc !
to be found at convenient distances,
and eggs and milk and garden truck
are obtainable almost everywhere,
except in the towns, at reasonable
prices.
But if one has to stop in a town
every night, the cost of traveling
mounts rapidly. Hotels which adver
tise moderately priced rooms, have
only high-priced apartments avail
able when a weary autoist requests
accommodations. And the restau
rants have a way of pricing meals
that is very telling on the pocket
book. In many of the places, a
dollar bill will not begin to satisfy
a robust appetite.
Mr. Karstens met a great many
former Alaskans in his travels and
more than a few of them appeared
to be disappointed with the Out
side. It costs most of them so much
to live and keep up appearances
that there is not much money left
at the end of the month.
Many oldtimers, Mr. Karstens
says, are looking with longing
toward Alaska, and he predicts that
there will be an influx before the
summer is over. The tourist travel
toward the North also will be heavy
this summer, he says, reservations
for the Interior trip already having
been made by a large number, both
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FRESNO HAS TON WAR
FRESNO, June 9—Three mem
bers of the Hop Suey tong were
killed here last night and foui
others were wounded in a tong out
[ break in the Chinese district. The
police say the attack was made by
Bing Kong tongmen. Six of the
victims were shot and the seventh
was stabbed.
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