TO SERVE ISM
WILL ACT AS TENDER TO THREI
FOR ISLANDS OF KANAGA
RANCHING COMPANY
KODIAK. Oct., 4, (Special to th(
Gateway)—Steaming- proudly ink
Kodiak harbor, the huge stee
motorship Alutian Native, Captair:
Harold E. Bowman, has just brot
lomantic tales of the great blue
fox ranch of Uncle Sam's farthest
west, the Kanaga Ranching Co.,
with its three great islands of the
Adreanof group almost 500 miles
beyond Unalaska and almost at the
uttermost tip of the great Aleutian
chain reaching far out towards
Asia.
She is on her way to their
Westward home, having just been
purchased from the City of Port
land where she was built for a har
bor fireboat and will be one of the
largest motorships in Westwaid
waters, making the fourth of the
fleet of ships now belonging to the
ranching company. She sailed
across from Cordova to Kodiak and
after lying in this harbor for two
days, proceeded to Unalaska, carry
ing a cargo of lumber and meiehan
tile supplies for the two big mer
chantile stores operated by the
company together with new mana
gers and their families.
According to Captain Bowman,
principal owner and manager of
the Kanaga Ranching Co., the pro
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V. S. LAND OFFICE, ANCHOR
AGE, ALASKA.
NOTICE IS! HEREBY GIVEN
that RALPH SPARKS, entryman,
together with his witnesses, HAA
KON SUNSBY, and THEODORE
ALBERT NUTBEEM, all of Sel
dovia, Alaska, has submitted fin
al proof on his homestead entry,
^rial 06799, for lands embraced
in U. S. Survey No. 1541, Longi
tude 151° 12' 30" W. Latitude 59°
36’ N. containing 17.55 acres.
If no protest is filed in the U.
S. Land Offiee, Anchorage, Alas-1
ka. within the period of publica
tion or thirty days thereafter
said final proof will be accepted
and final certificate issued. The
proof is now in the files of the
local Land Office at Anchorage,
Alaska.
J. Lindley Green, Register
First publication August 20, 1929.
Last publication October 30, 1929.
THE PALACE
John Mattich Paul Svedeen
:: Proprietors ::
POOL, SOFT tmtNKS AND
CIGARS
Furnished Rooms
Phone Main 55
Orlander
Jeweler
Dealer in watches and
clocks, nugget jewelry,
old ivory, curios and a
full line of goods us
ually carried in a first
class jewelry store.
Watches repaired on
short notice.
jj.ect was started in 1924 and now
'represents an investment of over
|half a million dollars. They have
|three big islands now, the largest
[of which is approximately 27 miles
[square, stocked with over 7.000 blue
fcx the income from which last
i season amounted to $250,000 and
I |will be greater this seasoft with over
i 70 natives engaged in trapping.
The islands are the Kanaga, Tan
' aga and Ilak and besides the Aleu
tian Native, the boats owned by the
company are the Iskum, Nmnnk
Native and Kanaga Native, all big
. motorships that ply between the
i islands keeping track of the com
pany catch. The Aleutian Native is
a new boat 127 feet long,' 25 foot
beam, 13 feet deep, powered by two
200-h. p. Washington Estep Diesel
engines.
After being constructed for a f;
[boat she was rebuilt to meet tlv'
needs of the company. In addition
;to Captain Bowman, the chief
backers of the company are J. W.
Rafferty and H. C. Derry of Seattle
with offices at 632 Republic Build- i
ling.
“We are taking lumber for a
i building 35 by 150 feet preparatory
! to feeding foxes which have here
tofore been foraging for them
! selves. We must also build some
additional dwellings and ware
houses. We propose to introduce !
muskrat on our islands on an ex
tensive scale next spring. We have
a delightful climate out there and ,
jour fox pelts average up with the I
best on the market and with the
increase in the, popularity oi the
blue fox \ye see no reason to appre
hend anything but success for the
future now that our heaviest ex
pense has been passed.’’
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FIND SOVIET PLANE
SEATTLE, Oct., 5, (/P)-Two c
I the Russian aviators reached Crah
!Alaska and reported that the plan
Jhad been forced down at Waterfal
[Alaska, 200 miles south of Sitks
I The fliers are unhurt. This is th
i first word received from the Alask;
(Cable operator at Craig.
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LONDON, Oct., 5, (/P)—King’s
Counsels are finding it had to mak<
a living in the law courts thes<
days owing to an increasing ten
dency on the part of the public t(
avoid litigation.
It is declared that the legal yeai
i’.st closed has been the worst ir
the memory of the bar. Many ex
perienced junior counsels uid nd
earn $4,000 in the year and some oi
the rank and file were reduced ic
penury.
No more beaver are wanted by
the Alaska Game Commission
for stocking purposes, reports
the Cordova Times.
The Gateway leads—others follow
Perhaps our artict
should have made
it clearer. Folks
are satisfied after
they eat here. Our
bill of fare makes
you hungry on
purpose.
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PARIS, Oct., 5, (/P)—Soviet Rus
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triate the bodies of French soldiers
| who died in Russia in the World
War and Albert Thomas, war-time A
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