CHITIHA, ALASKA. SEPT. 11, 1932.
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FIVE MEN TAKEN BY COPPER RIVER Mon
day# 5 fine men were drowned when
the R.R.boat pwlled under. One of the
men was Mr.Swalley who went Outside
a couple of years ago because he thot
the river might get him because it
had gotten his friend Charlie Mayman
who was drowned off the bridge some
yrs ago. So he went Outside & start
ed a chicken ranch,but as chickenra
nching didn’t pay during the depres
sion,he had to come back up here and
take his old job at the bridge to get
some more money together so as to go
back down to the States to make it
pay.'The other men Were:Elmer Sand
berg ,Erick’Pearson ,Neil Noonan, a*d
Frank Nord. While they were taking a
line across the river the current s
took them downstream. They were tied
to the bridge debree by a rope 8c wh
en the rope tightened it towed their
boat under.They tried to save them
selves when they saw what was happen
ing by throwing the ax that was in
the other end of the boat so they
could ..-eut t he .’rope ,but could nH do
it quick enuf.Some of the men swam a
long way & one till he got into wat
er only up to his waste.But thre was
quicksand underneath him 8c he fell ,
down 8c was not seen again.This water
is very cold as it comes directly fr
om the glacier headwaters,& is so ve
ry full of sediment that it fills up i
one’s clothes.If they had had an ex
tra boat they could have saved them
but it was at Cordova being repaired.
It is a great sadness to Chitina. It
is too bad to lose so many men in one |
day in this little town of 120 or less j
and especialy to lose s»ch fine men j
as these men were. !
i
WILLIAM A. H E S S E
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
for
HIGHWAY ENGINEER
Election on November 8,1932. Advt
t j
Altho copper is still around 6, the
Kennecott Copper Stock took a quick
jump-up this week & sold for 18-g-.
Cnpt.Lathrop can feel all pepped up.
HORSE AUCTION, if 13 SURELY A PITY
when the Govt has to pay $1175,00 for
9 head of horses to use for a summer
Sc has to ltt them go for $25.00 for
the outfit, in the fall .When the Geo
logical horses first arrived in Chit
inn a few days ago,Mr.Moffit had to
buy 6 bales of feed to last them till
the auction ?rcd.The Govt cannot help
letting them go sc cheap when nobody
will pay much for them as it costs so
much to feed horses thru the lorg win
Cant, from Column One,' AUCTION
er. It costs about §40.00 a month
to feed a horse hcre.Vern Robinson
was Auctioneer.Billy Tibbs bot 5 ve
ry nice ones.The little one with a
pretty white mark down his nose,he
got for only $1.Bog-musher Johnson
got a couple of fast ones.0.A.Nelson
bot Mr.MoffitT s pet,& another gentle:
saddle 8c pack horse,one for his 2
boys & one for his 2 girls. Mike
r.mowles of Upper Tonsina bid in 2.
He paid $5.00 for one very fine pa
cker & took them over the Trail in
big Carl Carlson1s truck.In Alaska
many horses have to get killed for
foxfeed on the foxranches as it is
so expensive to winter them.
DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY SOME MALT HI OF
up from Cordova,wild berrie juice ,
yeast,hopes,sugar 5c a lot of other
junk,made Charlie Phillips & JoeE
Escalita some of the strongestwhoo~
tch* known in the history of this
Valley .When they decided it was a
bout 0 K to drink,they invited Gene
Ring over 5c they drank 5 gallons of
it they said,& made whoopee. They
started whooping & hopping around 5c
calling everybody all the profani
ty they could think of 5c said they
were going to kill Marshal Sorby &
Mr.5c Mrs. Delehant.They were so ve
ry wild that most of the Datives 8c.
all of the dogs were scared.lt took
a dozen strong Datives to tie them
up & send for the Marshal 5c even t
then they still made a howl of a'
racket.Mr *Sorby came out in a car,
& took them to the jail.They made
so much noise in the car that peo
ple could hear it way down the road.
The Commissioner gave Shaflie 5s Joe
2 months in the Can & $25.00 apiece
fine,5c since Gene didnftmake ithe
just has to pay the fine.Well the;
are in the Jailhouse now.The fight
between Gene 5c Charlie started in
the same old way, they both ho-ve tl.c
same idea about the same girl.
Martha Arnott who was tried twice
for shooting her husband John Arn
ott when he was in bed asleep has
been a guest at the Chitina Hotel
for the last few weeks. She left
”'ed. for Valdez in a Transportat
ion Co. trucl^ut the Chitina Hotel
kept her trunk because she was
leaving withcujf paying her bill.The
first vote of the jury in both tr
ialswas 7-5 for conviction. After
she shot her husband she never
saw Tom Larson who was killed by a
fall from a cliff in Kctsina^this
summer. But as Mrs. Arnott wts
leaving she said.-"It v/as too bad
about Larson,!was going tc mariyhim?