AIRPLANE SQUADRON
READ! PROCEED
ON WORLD FLIGHT
DUTCH HARBOR, Apr. -’3.— 1 lie
three planes, Chicago. Boston and
W>v Orleans have been completely
ov<'hauled and nr tin readiness to
l.oo off as soon a- Commander Mar
tin arrives *Tr ’i Kanatak. 1 he next
scheduled step wilt bo Navan, 330
milts west of Dutu. Harbor.
MARTIN AT KANATAK
KANATAK, Apr. 23.—Major Mar
tin who has finished installing a new
motor in his plane, may leave tomor
row. A snowstorm prevented him
from leaving yesterday, after lie was
all ready to go.
WASHINGTON, Apr. 25.—The dis
covery was made today by the com
mittee investigating tlnj affairs o> II
M. Daugherty, that vital papers and
records in possession of the former
attorney general have been stolen or
taken from the committee’s safe by
some person unknown.
BELGRADE, Apr. 25—Jugo Slavia
has notified France that she will co
operate with Rumania in case of war
between Rumania and Russia over
the seizure by Rumania of the prov
ince of Besarabia.
SEA1TLE, April 2o—Lieutenant H
B. Wyatt, who arrived here twc
months ago to start preliminary worl
on the proposed flight of the dirigibh
Shenandoah from Alaska to the Nortl
Pole left here yesterday for San Dieg<
where he will spend some time. Hi;
departure is taken to mean the fina
abandonment of the project for thi:
year at least.
CANOE PASS AND SEA
FOOD CANNERYS UNITI
The Shepard Point Packing Com
pany recently incorporated at eSatth
with a capitalization of $150,000 is i
consolidation of the Canoe Pass Pack
ing Company and the Alaska Sea F oot
company, Milton Henderson of Port
land, Ore., head of the former concen
is president, with J. B. Reagh, of th<
Alaska Sea Food company is vice
president.
The Unakwik Packing Company ha:
been incorporated with a capital of fif
ty thousand dollars by E. B. Hanley
Joe E. Most and Wm. R. Gilbert of th<
Copper Rievr Packing Company. Th<
new corporation will place the Kinj
Salmon cannery, purchased last fall
in first class condition, to be operate<
during the pink run of salmon th<
coming season.
The Carlisle Packing Company ha:
chartered the steamer Cadaretta, o
the Nelson Steamship Company, fo
four months during the salmon season
She is due in Seattle to outfit for th«
company’s Bristol Bay cannery.
MAHER TO BE GAME WARDEN
FOR THE M’CARTHY DISTRIC1
Thomas J. Maher received a tele
gram from Governor Scott C. Bom
last week informing him of his appoin
ment by the governor, as game wardei
at McCarthy.
Mr. Maher was an applicant for th<
position of special agent for the sup
pression of the liquor traffic amon;
Indians, a post to which Claude She;
has just been appointed by the govern
or.
DAVIS CUP COMMITTEE
PICKS STARS FOR TEAM'
NEW YORK, April 21—The Davi;
Cup committee of the United State;
lawn tennis association picked foui
men and four women stars to com
pose the American team for 01ympi<
competition. W. Tilden, Vincent Rich
ards, Watson M. Washburn and R
Norris Williams compose the men’s
% team.
PISPERS DUD SPEECH
PRESIDENT COOLIE
LONDON, Apr. 23.—English paper*
laud President Coolidge’s New York
.speech and wonder if the French gov
ernment will torpedo his new peace
move.
RIVER BOAT CAPTAIN
WILL NOT RETURN NORTH
FAIRBANKS, Says the News-Min
er: Captain W. H. Bergman and son,
Captain Guy Bergman, who were on
the steamer Jacobs last season as cap
tain and pilot respectively, will not re
turn north this season. Capt. W. H.
Bergman has started the construction
in Seattle of a $100,000 apartment
house, which will be completed early
during the summer.
BOAT STIES BERG
AND GOES TO BOTTOM
Petersburg Report
The gasboat Eurus, owned by Paul
Keegle of Ketchikan, was sunk Friday
While traveling in the evening the
boat hit a submerged iceberg which
stove in the bow, Paul Keegle and as
sistant immediately starting for lane
at full speed. The Eurus sank a little
way from Reed Island. Mr. Keegle
had a radio outfit on board and was
selling radio outfits to the fox farm
ers. The gasboat Ester, brought Pau
keegle to Petersburg, where he wil
purchase material and try to salvage
the Eurus.
SPRING VERY BACKWARD
IN WASILLA DISTRIC1
Duke Stubbs, well known Alaskan
writing from Wasilla, states that the
spring is very backward, no geese 01
ducks having been seen, and nr
muskrats out yet.
Mr. Stubbs states that his foxes
mated very late this year.
He also approves of the way Dep
uty Marshal Staser tied in to condi
tions at the sanitarium at Morning
side.
CONTESTANTS ENTERED FOR
GIRL TO ACT AS MAY QUEEI'
Voting on the most popular youn;
lady to act as May Queen, started to
. day with the following contestant!
1 entered: The Misses Thelma T alia
: sen Marit Eide, Patsy Ray, Thelm;
s Ellsworth ,Melba Johnsrud, Beatric
i Baughman, Clara Perry, Marjorie Ne
> ville, Alice Murphy, Edith McIntosh
5 Cecil Leslie.
1 Votes are being sold at ten cent
; , at all business houses in town.
JOHN ANDERSON FOUND
DEAD ON KOYUKUK TRAI1
John Anderson .said to be a pionee
Interior prospector, was found dea
two hundred miles up the Koyukuk, ac
1 cording to the Anchorage Daily Alas
' kan. The discovery was reported b
I Tom Cook, trapper, to the deputy a
’jNulato, who wired the Fairbanks of
II fice.
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KLAN HEADQUARTERS AT
PEORIA TWICE FIRED 01
51 PEORIA, 111., April 25—Severs
■ I shots were fired into Ivu Klux Kla
. headquarters here last night from
speeding automobile containing five o
six men. No one was hit. Another at
tack had been made an hour earliei
, Several hundred Klansmen were sum
1 moned to guard their headquarter:
; while police instituted a search for th
| mysterious automobile.
The KOHLER
Automatic POWER
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—requires no storage batteries
for power and light
—produces standard 110 volt
electricity
—has a capacity of 1500 watts or
two electrical horsepower
—operates simply at the touch
of any button anyw’~“re on
the circuit
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GENERAL DAWES, IN COVERING
LETTER, SAYS PLAN MEANS
PEACE AND PROSPERITY
PARIS, April 23—Brigadier Gener
al Charles G. Dawes, unofficial Am
erican representative on the first com
mittee which examined into the eco
nomic and financial situation in Ger
many, in a covering letter to the re
port of his committee tells the repara
tions commission that the committee’s
recommendations must be considered
not as inflicting penalties but as
suggesting means for assisting Eur
opean peoples and the entry upon a
new period of happiness and prosper
ity unmenaced by war.”
Once back in the days when Alaska
was a wilderness, one of the small
towns of today was a flourishing min-|
ing camp. This certain winter for two I
or three weeks there had been no fresh
meat brought in by native hunters and
as this wTas the staple food of the
people, the dearth caused much dis
comfort and grumbling .As most of
the miners were working for a corpor
, ation, they naturally blamed it for the
deficiency and the mine superintendent
was hard put to keep his men from
quitting.
I The situation, which may seem lu
; dicrous was in realty growing more
I serious each day until it appeared des
■ I perate to the harassed superintendent
• who made daily trips to the local dis
i penser of fresh game with inquiries as
to whether the natives had secured
; any meat.
Now' the butcher, “Alaska Jones,”
was a thorough Yankee and was pos
■ sessed of proverbial Yankee shrewd
• ness so he made plans whereby the
famine would be reliev’d and also inci
dentally fill his pocketbook.
That night his native workers took
l his half dozen pack mules out in the
woods and next morning returned with
■ a supply of fresh meat which appear
■ ed to be perfectly good venison. When
> word reached the mine of the fresh
■ meat the superintends immediatly
1 went to the butcher shop and arrang
- ed for the greater portion at a fancy
' price. Everybody was feeling better as
> the meat famine was broken, yet it
seemed to a few’ customers that “Al
5 aska” grinned overmuch when serving
them even if he were doing some fine
business.
The next morning the butcher shop
j was closed and “Alaska nowhere to be
seen, so the people investigated and
l' breaking open the door of the shop the
1 first thing to greet their eyes was six
- fresh mule hides and it was then the
- unsuspecting miners first discovered
7 the trick played on them and the rea
t son for “Alaska’s” mirth of the day
- before.—Pirre De Cille in Northern
Lights.
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ASHES OF ISLAND CAPTAIN
BE SCATTERED AT SEA
i According to advices from Seattle,
a the ashes of Captain John Backman,
r of Orcas, San Juan Islands, who died
- February 24, 1924, in a Seattle hos
pital, twenty years after his retire
- ment from the sea ,are to be scattered
>» on the ocean by the master of one of
e the Cary Davis Tug and Barge com
pany’s tugs. An urn containing the
ashes has been received by George R.
Cary, president of the company, and
they will be scattered far out at sea,
in accordance with his last request.
Captain Backman will be recalled by
old-timers as the master of the lumber
schooner J. M. Weatherwax, which
made many long voyages on the Pacif
ic when he was pacing its decks. He
retired from the sea about twenty-one
years ago and settled at Orcas.
Aleak in a barge loaded with sec
ond grade Premier ore, while loading
at the Stewart wharf a few days ago,
cost the company the good sized sum
of $25,000, according to unofficial re
ports. The loss was due to the ore
barge ^ringing a leak after being
loaded with about 1000 tons of ore
concentrates destined for the Granby
smelter at Anyox. Efforts to check j
the water failed and an attempt was j
made to beach the barge on the shal- j
low tide flat south of the whaft but
before it could be done the barge at
tempted a head-end dive, dumping the
ore into the channel before righting
itself.
BRITIAN RECOGNIZES GREECE
ATHENS, Apr. 25.—England has
recognized the government of the new
Greek republic.
NEWSY LETTER FROM
RAMPAIiT HOUSE, January 11—
The Indians at Rampart House are all
well at present. They have had a splen
did season so far as the country is
alive with caribou. The caribou were
here all summer and the natives put
up enough dried meat to carry them
through the winter ,and since the win
ter caribou have been here in thous
ands, are in splendid condition.
The Indians had a great time here
at Christmas and New Year’s, feasting
and dancing. The ball opened on the
night before Christmas and was kept
going until January 8, and only stop
ped when the three fiddlemen played
out.
It is too bad we have no school
teacher here, as there are over thirty
children here and about 22 who are of
school age. We have a fine school
house, but it never has been in use
yet for that purpose. We also have a
very fine church, nicely lined inside
with beaverboard, but it has been lock
ed up for three winters. The Indians
cannot understand why the country up
here has no school teacher or minister
after the great promises that wei'e
made to them.
Last fall Archie Linklater and fam
ily returned to their home here; also
William Bruce, Ben Kusse and Peter
Moses from Old Crow. Peter Moses
has built a cabin on the river bank,
in front of the church. Peter went to
Herschel Island with Sergt. Thorne,
arriving there December 6.
Captain Klinkenberg passed thru
here a few days before Christmas on
his way to the States from Victoria:
Land.
Mr. Hall and Mr. Godsall, of the
Hudson’s Bay Company, at Hershal
Island, are here now, on their way out
to Victoria.
The winter so far has been the fin
est ever. There was no snow until the
third of November, and then only a
few inches ,and the thermometei fiom
6 above to thirty-two below, except for
three days when it reached 48 below.
There will be no ful's from Old
Crow flats this year, as there are no
rats, and, consequently, no mink or
fox, but, fortunately there are lots of
caribou. There are a great many foxes
this year on the river and some of the
natives from Rampart House who
were south nearly to the fishing
branch of the Porcupine, report quite
a few signs of fur over there, and
there were caribou all the way. The
natives are now getting ready to pull
out to their trapping ground, most of
them across to the fishing branch, to
come down the Porcupine in the spring
time. They have been delayed a great
deal on acount of no snow and so much
meat out that had to be hauled in.
The Indians report that quite a lot
of wolves are following the caribou.
Siwash Dan came in yesterday with a
load of meat, and he saw eight wolves
in one band. They were right among
the caribou. What a pity the Yukon
government does not pay a bounty on
wolves, imagine the damage this one
band of eight wolves will do in one
year. The prize offered by the Yu
kon government for the greatest num
ber of wolves will do absolutely no
good. The natives here, when told of it
said, ‘‘No good; nobody can kill fifteen
wolves in one season.” And they are
right.
j NUKA BAY SCENE OF GOOD
STRIKE; QUARTZ IS RICH
A rich ledge of ore has been struck
at Nuka Bay by J. H. Foster, accord
ing to a reliable report received in this
city recently, and from the looks of
the samples, it is of high value. The
strike was made a few days ago on
the opposite side of the mountain from
where the Alaska Hills Mines Com
pany property is located and found in
the creek bed. 1
Six prospecting outfits are now in
the field, according to the report and
two other outfits are at Seward, wait- ,
ing for marine engineers to install
them. The engineers are now in Sew
ard and will leave for Nuka Bay in the ■
near future. '
KETCHIKAN SCHOOL HOUSE
IS PROGRESSING RAPIDLY
The work on the newT $150,000 school <
house at Ketchikan is progressing rap
idly under the superintendency of the
Warrack Construction Company. The ^
forms are now going up for the con- <
crete walls and everything is now
cleared for constructive work. Mr. <
Warrack is to have the building ready <
for occupancy by the first of October
and he is striving industriously to ,
make good.
H. H. BROWN CAR FOREMAN
A bulletin over the signature of R.
H. Hale announces the appointment of
H .H. Brown to be general car fore
man from Seward to Fairbanks. The
appointment became effective March
24.
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OTTO MEYER TO FARM AT
SPRINGS DURING SUMMER
Otto Meyer, new proprietor of the
Chena Hot springs, intends to devote
the coming summer to intensive farm
ing, reports Louis Golden, merchant,
returning from a sojourn at the Hot
Springs. Mr. Meyer will raise every
thing in a vegetable line that will
grow in this favored spot, and will fill
his stoi'ehouses next fall in prepara
tion for a busy winter.
It is also reported by Mr. Golden
that the Springs proprietor will clear
a field 300 feet by 1,000 feet in dimen
sion as a landing field for airplanes.
Harry Raymond has purchased the
Bell Island Hot Springs property and
will make extensive developments
there this season. It is the intention
of Raymond and his associates to
make the Springs a tourist resort as
well as a hospitable place for all who
want recreation. These Springs are
known to possess great medicinal qual
ities and for the last 20 years have
been a resort for the rheumatic and
dispectic unfortunates.
A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. J. G. Gottstein of Anchorage.
Mrs. Gottstein is in Dos Moines, la.
PROPOSITION IS FLAYED
WASHINTON, D. C., April 23
Procedure for consideration of the bill
passed by the house authorizing ac
ceptance of the offer of Henry Ford
Muscle Shoals was discussed today by
; the senate agriculture committee with
j a view to beginning public hearings
i later this week.
Senator McKinley, of Illinois, a re
j publican member of the committee, at
i tacked the measure in the senate yes
| terday, charging that the government
would be put to considerable expense
under its provisions and that the man
ufacturer would obtain the project al
most without cost and with no obli
I gations to do anything.
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FIRE AT NENANA
The Union Hall and Charles Th rg
i man’s carpenter shop at Nenana burn
| ed the first of the week, according to
a report received by Manager I3urns
of the Liberty. Mr. Burns had a
new gold fibre aluminum curtain for
moving pictures stored in Union hall,
which was lost in the fire.
Buick Body Construction
In constructing its open car bodies, Buick uses
bolts in fastening the metal braces to the wood,
instead of ordinary screws. These bolts pass
ing completely through the wooden frame
prevent joints from loosening under driving
strains. A more than usual number of bolts
secure the Buick body to the chassis, holding
it rigidly in position and entirely eliminating
all squeaks and rattles.
When better automobiles are built
Buick will build them
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