Duiing the past few weeks there
has beee considerable 'discussion in
Wrangell regarding the matter of en
forcing the game laws, with the re
sult that there is a determination on
the part of the representative citizens
to aid the officers in every way pos
sible in the apprehension of violators
of the game law.
The latest addition to literature of
Alaska is "The Story of'Sitka” from
the pen of C. L. Andrews. At one time
Sitka was one of the most progressive
towns on the Pacific Coast for over
half a century it being a big fur trad
ing post. It had a foundry, machine
shope and military post. Here the
first steamboat for California was
built, and bells cast for California
missions.
Mrs. Mary E . Holland, Superintend
ent of the Denver Children’s Welfare
Bureau visited in the territory recent
ly. Mrs. Holland is spending a vaca
tion in Alaska and at the same time
studying conditions here in their rela
tion to the field in which she works.
The Dominion radio telegraph sta
tions for Dawson and Mayo district
will be installed and start operating
before the close of navigation this
season. A letter received by Gold Com
missioner Mackenzie, states that the
radio experts in charge of the equip
ment will arrive in Dawson in August
with the material and proceed at once
to install the same. The material for
Dawson will comprise a complete
standard radio set.
With a total of 90 island blue fox
ranhces in Southeastern Alaska at the
beginning of the present year, the pan
handle of the Territory has more than
all the other sections of Alaska com
bined, acocrding to a list of ranches
in operation at that time compiled by
the Bureau of Biological Survey and
issued for distribution through E. P.
Walker, chief of the Bureau in the
Territory. The total number in the
territory on January 1, 1923. accord
ing to the Bureau’s compilation, was
146, Southeastern Alaska having 90,
Prince William Sound and the lower
Cook Inlet region 33, Kodiak-Afognak
13, and West of that district 10.
KENAI LAKE SERVICE
THE GAS LAUNCH
KENAI
Making regular trips twice a
week from Roosevelt to Coop
er’s Landing, lower Kenai, with
passengers and freight. The
habitat of the moose, sheep,
and bear. Guides furnished for
hunting parties, and caCTlis for
tourists. Special trips made on
request. Write to
LOUIS BELL, Master
Roosevelt, Alaska
“There are moose, caribou and oth
er game by the tens of thousands in
Yukon Territory,” said Georye Black,
M. P. for Yukon, “but there is one
species of game that seems to have
transfered its habitat from the Yukon
to Ontario. You don’t fina any of them
1 up here now, but I believe they are
j very plentiful in British Columbia. I
refer to the “blind-pig.”
Arrivals in Dawson from Keno Hill
bring word that Jack Carpenter, Char
ley Coutts and Dan McLean left there
recently with pack horses and an out
fit for prospecting in the Beaver river
district, about fifty miles westerly
from Keno Hill. Last year many fine
claims were located in the Beaver dis
tricts, some of the most extensive ga
lena prospects ever discovered being
located there.
That there is a strong probability
of the establishment of an all year
radio service at Yakutat for the bene
fit of the halibut fleet fishing off Icy
Straits and in the Gulf of Alaska, is
indicated in advices received at the
Juneau Customs office, acording to a
statement made by Collector of Cus
toms, John C. McBride. Negotiations
are pending for the service between
the Department of Commerce and in
terested parties.
In the year 1S90 Captain J. F. Jones
commander o* a vessel, died near Sit
ka. Today, after thirty-three years his
daughter, now Mrs. Edwards, return
ed to Sitka to visit the grave of her
father. She went to the Franklin ho
tel, w’here she and her mother had
stayed, during that previous visit and
found their names still clear in the
register of that day.
Mrs. Anna Morrison, well known pio
neer resident of Y’ukon. ^ proprietress
of the roadhouse at Minto, on the ov
erland winter trail, arrived in Daw
son recently, after having traveled all
alone in a small boat from Minto. The
distance covered in the little craft to
tals 215 miles. Mrs. Morrison carried
with her a grub-box, roll of blankets,
a rifle and other equipment, and re
ports having enjoyed the trip immense
ly.
The barkentine Russell Haviside, j
which has been idle for two years at j
Port Blakely, will be the fourth ves- j
sel to load a cargo of AJaska spruce |
for Australia. The barkentine Anne |
Comyn, which loaded at Ketchikan, j
last November, was followed by the j
Alicia Haviside and the Phyllis Com- j
yn.
One of the heaviest salmon runs in
the history of the packing industry in
Alaska is reported in the Suotlieast
ern Alaska. All of the canners are
putting up heavy packs.
That Yukon is in the motor vehicle |
world is evidenced by the number of j
licenses issue in Dawson this year. |
The total number issued so far is 79.
Norman Faber, a waiter on the S.
S. Jefferson, was taken suddenly ill
near Ketchikan, and was taken ashore
to the hospital at that place.
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The cannery boat, Aberdeen, owned
by N. Andriejezich of Ketchikan, was
burned recently at the north end of
Gravina island, while chaptered to
the Stuart Packing Co. The boat was
insured. Loss $17,000.
The revenue cutler Smith departed
from Ketchikan in great ha&te re
cently, leaving some of her crew be
hind. The gas boat Gravina was in
distress at Ship Island, her engines
having broken down. She was towed
to a place of safety.
E. J. Matthems who arrived in
Nome a few weeks ago has submitted
a bid to the postoffice department
for an air mail route from Nome to
Kotzebue Sound.
A ten Ford truck belonging the cit:
of Ketchikan met with an accident
recently while being driven up an in
cline which is elevated from the sur
face 11 feet. The engine stopped and
the car backed down the hill and fell
on its side upon the ground beneath.
No one was injured and the truck was
nor badly damaged.
George Eastman, of Rochester, N.
Y., the man who perfected the Kodak
of Eastman fame, is visiting Alaska
and the Atlin country on a big game
hunt. He was born in 1854 and is a
bachelor. He has given away several
fortunes for charity.
Harry Caldwell, an old time sour
dough who has spent 22 years in the
Territory, and Ed Mullen another old
timer, have organized the White Cliff
Fox Co., and will stock White Cliff
Island with 25 pairs of selec* blue
foxes. The company is paying $300 a
pair for its animals.
Miss Dora C. MacDonnei and Mr.
Henry Olsen were united in marriage
at McCarthy recently by Judge Cop
pernoll. The bride is the daughter of
Mrs. Willis of McCarthy and the
groom operates a local garage.
J. C. Towers, of Fish Bay, has 65,
000 feet of yellow cedar cut into 13
foot lengths ready to ship from Sitka
to the United States. This is the fin
est boat lumber in the world and is
equal to cypress.
The new Fordson tractor, the first
in the Klondike, which left Dawson
recently for Miller creek, about fifty
miles away, climbed the ridge road
and crossed the high trail all the way
to Miller with trailers carrying two
tons of freight and landed at the des
tination with the machine and every
thing in fine condition. The tractor is
to be used in improving the Dawson
Miller trail, under arrangements with
the Yukon government.
John Burwash, an Eagle river ranch
man pleaded guilty at Juneau to the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquor. He was given 60 days in the
Federal jail and a fine of $100. Eight
gallons of moonshine were seized in
his stillhouse.. The still was a crude
affair, made of pails and bound to
gether with paste, solder, tape and
wire.
In response to a questionnaire sent
out by the biological survey, 44 out
side sportsmen who have nunted in
Alaska reported expenditures in the
Territory totaling $107,586-50. Of this
sum $5001 was for licenses and export
fees. The remainder was paiu to the
guides and merchants. This averages
about $1,972.87 per trip. Three hun
dred and twelve game animals were
taken at an average cost of $328.70
per animal. Of the 44 individuals who
reported seven has since become fin
ancially interested in the Territory.
Caught by tons of rock in a stope
in the Alaska Juneau mine recently,
Nick Zukoff, a Russian about 29 years
of age, lived 13 hours, his body being
taken from the stope by a force of 30
men, who worked unceasingly the 15
hours required to remove the barrier, j
Zukoff was conscious all the time, and i
talk to his rescuers, advising them as
to the quickest way to gei him out.
The last two hours he w^s silent, and
when reached was found to be dead.
His head was slightly crushed and
suffocation finished him.
John Edward Hogg, of Los Angeles
is in Juneau gathering material for a
ten thousand word article descriptive
of the inside passage from 3kagwa'
to Seattle, and to contain fifty photo
graphs for the National Geographic
Magazine. He is accompanied by L.
W. Wiedey, of Los Angeles, who is
assisting him with the photographic
work. They have a Harley-Davidson
motorcycle and a motor boat and will
make trips to all points of scenic in
terest thru the passage.
On their first trip out since they
came North, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Quig
ley lef Cordova for the states last
week. In 1891 Mr. Quigley crossed
Chilkoot Pass and drifted down the
Yukon years before the Klondike was
discovered. Mrs. Quigley is hardly
less a pioneer, having taken in the
big stampede in 1898, and since then
held closely to the advance line of the
Northern frontier.
RESTORATION TO ENTRY OF
LANDS IN NATIONAL FOREST
Lists 843, 44, 45,46,
4-354 f
Notice is hereby given that the
iands described below, embracing
423.71 acres within the Chugach Nat
ional Forest, Alaska, will be subject
to settlement and entry under the pro
visions of the homestead laws of the
United Slates and the act of June 11,
1906 (34 Stat., 233), at the United
States land office at Anchorage, Al
aska, on December 11, 1923 by any
qualified person in the absence of en
try by persons coming within either
of the two following classes: (1 Per
sons named after each tract upon
whose applications the lands were
listed. Such persons, in order to avail
themselves of their preference rights,
must file their applications on or af
ter October 12, 1923 but prior to De
cember 11, 1923. (2) Exservice men,
who served during the war with Ger
many. Such ex-service men, in order
to avail themselves of their prefer
ence rights, must file (heir applica
tions on or after August 22, 1923, but
prior to December 11, 1923. All such
applications filed on or after August
22, 1923 but prior to September 12,
1923, will be treated as simultaneously
filed at 9 a. m. on September 12, 1923.
All such applications filed on or af
ter September 12, 1923, but prior to
December 11, 1923 will be treated in
the order in which filed. Applications
may be filed by the general public
within 20 days prior to December 11,
1923 and will be treated "s simultane
ously filed at 9 a. m. on December 11,
1923. A tract of 12.95 acres, more or
less, described by metes and bounds
as follow’s: Beginning at Cor. No. 1,
a squared spruce post, 4”x4”x5\ set
30” in ground marked H|l, thence W.
6.21 chains to Cor. No. 2 M. C.; thence
by meanders along east shore of Ke
nai lake S. 4 deg. W. 6.33 chains; S. 27
deg. E. 6.06 chains; S. 38 deg. E. 6.06
chains; S. 46 deg. E. 3.64 chains; S.
55 deg. E. 3.49 chains; S. 74 deg. E.
1.82 chains to Cor. No. 3 M. C.; thence
bv meanders along right of way of U.
S. Railroad N. 36 deg. W. 1.52 chains;
N. 26 deg. W. 1.52 chains- N. 24 deg.
W. 1.52 chains; N. 21 deg. W. 1.52
chains; N. 19 deg. W. 1.52 chains; N.
15 deg. W. 15.15 chains to Cor. No. 1
M. C. the place of beginning. Listed
upon the application of Howard L.
Long, P. O. Box No. 1452. Seward, Al
aska. List 8-43.
A tract of 93.74 acres, more or less,
described by metes and bounds as fol
lows: Beginning at Cor. No. 1 M. C.
identical with Cor. No. 9 of H. E. S.
No. 135, thence by meanders along
right-of-way of U. S. Railroad S. 18
deg. 30 min. E. 3.76 chains, S. 20 deg.
E. 1.52 chains, S. 24 deg. E. 1.52 chains
S. 32 deg E. 1.52 chains, Su 36 deg E.
1.52 chains, S. 40 deg. E. 4.26 chains
S. 36 deg. E. 1.52 chains, S. 35 deg.
E. 1.52 chains, S. 28 dee. E 1.52 chains
S. 18 deg. E. 1.52 chains, S. 9 deg. E.
1.52 chains, S. 2 deg. E. 1.52 chains,
S. 1 deg. W. 1.52 chains, S. 1.52 chains
S. 1 deg. E. 1.52 chains, S. 2 deg. E.
20.45 chains to Cor No. 2 M. C.; thence
W. 23.33 chains to Cor. N*b. 3; thence
N. 45.30 chains to Cor. No. 4 identical
with Cor. No. 10 of H. E S. No. 135;
thence E. 12.40 chains to the place of
beginning. Listed upon the application
of Frank Roycroft of Moose Pass, Al
aska. List 8-44. Lots 6 and 11, SE. 1-4
SE 1-4 Sec. 13, T. 3 N., R. 12 W., and
W. 1-2 W. 1-2 of Lots 3 and 4, Sec. 18,
T. 3 N., R. 11 W., S. M., containing
157.12 acres, more or less. Listed upon
the application of Abram Erikson of
Kusilof, Alaska. List 8-45. E 1-2 SE.
1-4, Lot 10 Sec. 12, T. 3 N., R. 12 W.,
and W. 1-2 of Lot 3, Lot i Sec. 7, T.
3 N., R. 11 W., S. M., containing 159.90
acres more or less. Listed upon the ap
plication of Allan L. Peterson of Kus
ilof, Alaska. List 8-46.
Dated July 16, 1923. «
D. K. Parrot,
Acting Assistant Commissioner of the
General Land Office.
Publish August 18, 25, September 1, 8,
1923. «.
TERRITORIAL NON-RESIDENT
HUNTING LICENSE ABOLISHED
For the benefit of persons interested
Game Warden Cotter announces that
the Territorial non-resident hunting
license of $200 was abolished by ac
tion of the last legislature at Juneau.
This license was formerly required in
addition to the Federal hunting li
cense, and much adverse comment
from visiting sportsmen resulted from
it. Money was kept out of the Terri
tory because of this extra tax, of
which the sportsman did not learn un
til he arrived ready to hunt. The re
sult in cash receipts was small com
pared to the general loss from irritat
ed persons, tired of red tape from ev
ery source, deciding to remain where
it could not entangle them.
SMOKE HOLDS UP WORK
After spending the past month in
classification work extending from the
Chickaloon flats to East Forelands,
Wellman Holbrook was compelled to
return to Anchorage owing to the
numerous forest fires in the district,
Frank Kempfer, well known mining
operator, arrived on last night’s train.
Mr. Kempfer reports the country in
the Willow Creek district swarming
with grouse and ptarmigan. He also
reports that the strike in the interior
did not materialize as expected.
Donald McLean, a former Valdez
boy is among the crew of the Stan
dard Service.
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INTERNATIONAL COMPLICATIONS MAY ENSUE
OVER MURDER OF S1ITESMEN BY GREEKS
ASSASSINATION OF ITALIAN MILITARY LEADERS
MAY INVOLVE COUNTRIES IN WAR—ITALIAN
GOVERNMENT DEMANDS THAT MURDERS BE
HANDED OVER AT ONCE.
ATHENS, August 29—General Telini, and Lieuten
ant Conati, Italian members of the commission charged
with the delimination of the great Greco-Albanian fron
tier were killed by unidentified assassins, as they were in
their car near the Albanian border. The chauffeur and
Dragoman of the party were also killed. The news of the
assassinations comes from Janiat, Albania.
The Italian government has threatened reprisals for
the assassinations and has demanded that the Greek
government turn over the murderers immediately.
Whole Italian Mission Assassinated
ROME, August 29—It has been officially announced
that the entire Italian mission assigned to the work of es
tablishing the Albanian-Greek frontiers, has been massa
cred by Greeks. The first report had only General Telini
assassinated, but Doctor Scorte, and two other members
of the mission were murdered.
The Italian government has taken severe measures
that the extraordianry gravity of the situation warrants.
There is intense excitement here over the incident and the
Greek Foreign Office has expressed to the Italian minister
at Athens, its profound regret.
THREE WORLD’S RECORDS BROKEN BY AVIA
TION OFFICERS IN FLIGHT—REFUELED AND
FED FROM OTHER PLANES—IN AIR OVER 37
HOURS CONTINUOUS.
SAN DIEGO, August 29—With the engine of the air
plane apparently functioning property, three world’s rec
ords of speed having been already shattered, Capt. Lowell
Smith and Lt. John Richter, army airmen, late Tuesday
gave every indication of hanging up several more marks
before the end of the endurance flight, which was started
Monday. They are being refueled and fed from other air
planes.
SAN DIEGO, August 29—Smith and Richter landed
at six-twenty last evening, having flown fifty-three hun
dred kilometers at a speed of eighty miles an hour. They
were in the air thirty seven hours and fifteen minutes, a
new world’s record.
PROVINCIAL LIQUOR BOARD PLANS TO USE AIR
PLANES IN TRANSPORTING LIQUOR OVER
PANHANDLE OF ALASKA—OFFICIALS CLAIM
U. S. JURISDICTION EXTENDS UPWARD ALSO.
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 29—The plan before
the Provincial liquor board at Vancouver, B. C., for using
Airplanes to transport liquor into Yukon Territory across
the strip of the Alaska Panhandle, is regarded by interna
tional experts here as promising important developments
in the laws of the nations.
It is the opinion of officials that prohibition extends
upwards in the air infinitely over American Territory.
Thev hold that liquor cannot be carried over Alaska under
any circumstances. This view is based on the Supreme
Court decision in the shipping of liquor and other cases. *
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE SAYS COUNTRY
NEEDS FEELINGS OF STABILITY
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 29—President Cool
idge’s first pronouncement on the general business situa
tion was made at the White House through an authoriz
ed spokesman. The President said that all the country
needed was primarily feelings of stability, confidence, re"
assurance, and the knowledge that things are running
along smoothly.
TAFT WANTS JUDICIAL REFORM IN U. S.
MINNEAPOLIS, August 29—Congress and the state
legislatures should be awakened to the importance of ju*
dicial reform, Chief Justice Taft told the American Bar
Association delegates, at their meeting here yesterday.
NATION WIDE INVESTIGATION GAS PRICES
MINNEAPOLIS, August 29—A nation wide investi
gation of gasoline prices has been decided upon by the
national association of attorneys general in a resolution
passed today.
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