FOR HIRE OR CHARTER
MOTORSHIP DISCOVERER
Leaving Seward for Cook Inlet, lliamna, Kenai and other
ports: Aug. 4, 13, 25; Sept. 8, 22; Oct. 6. 20.
Capt. Heinie Berger Seward, Alaska
The Alaska Railroad
(Mr. McKinley Park Route)
TRAINS ARRIVE TRAINS DEPART
Each Thursday 6:30 p. m. Each Friday 9:00 a. m. Mc
Kinley Park and way points.
Each Friday 6:30 p. m. Each Saturday 7:30 a. m. Fair
banks and way points.
Mixed train from Anchorage and intermediate points ar
rives each Wednesday p. m.
Mixed train for Anchorage and intermediate points leaves
not earlier than 10:00 a. m. each Saturday.
Mixed train carries a coach and handles passengers.
J Alaskan Airways Inc.
Fly With the Mail on Weekly Schedule
To All Interior Points
It is to your advantage to make arrangements for trip
after seeing our pilots:
JOE CROSSON MATT A. NIEMINEN
NOEL WEIN
Anchorage, Alaska
STEAMSHIP STARR
CAPTAIN C. E. ANDERSON
NEXT SAILING SEPTEMBER 1
SAN J AUN FISHING & PACKING
COMPANY
Chas. A. Jansen, Agent
Phone Madison 139 Seward, Alaska
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Travel by the
Dollar Steam
ship Line from
Pacific Coast
ports to New
York via Pana
ma Canal.
Vessel
Watson
Cvans
V. at son
Seattle Arrives South
Leaves Sewrd Seward
Aug. 5 Aug. 12 Aug. 17
Aug. 12 Aug. 19 Aug. 24
Aug. 26 Sep. 2 Sep. 7
Pautnger accommodation* on all
Admiral Line vessele kin been cem
»l*tely and materially improved. Ten
will find them very attractive aad
comfortable.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
ADMIRAL LINE
I
Alaska Steamship Co.
SANTA CUUS SI TO j
START EARLY FOR THE !
FAR KUSKOKWIM RIVER
Alaska’s most storied region, the
great Kuskokwim River district,
famed for its gold bearing sands,
its “white whale” and its pictur
esque natives, will be visited again
this year by the steamship W. M.
Tupper of the Santa Ana Steam
■ ship Company.
The Tupper, commanded by
Capt. C. S. Carlson, veteran mar
jiner, who has been sailing to Al
jaska waters for the last 15 years,
i is posted to leave Seattle August
14, laden with passengers and
freight.
The voyage will take the Tupper
in sight of Shishaldin volcano,
which was in eruption in May j
last year when the vessel rounded
Unimak Island of the Aleutian |
group. Captain Carlson witnessed |
the weird sight from the bridge j
of the ship at midnight.
Volcano Lights Sea j
“Bering Sea was lighted up for i
many miles and the reflection of '
I the volcano on the ocean beggared .
* description,” said Captain Carlson.!
j “Passengers of my ship gazed in i
I awe at the strange spectacle.”
! Ten days after the Tupper leaves |
Seattle she will sail into the broad
mouth of the Kuskokwim and j
make her way slowly up stream!
; to where the mission pilot boat
j Moravian awaits to conduct her
safely through the tortuous chan
nels, marked by cement buoys.
Whistle Salute
Approaching Bethel, the largest
| settlement in the Kuskokwim Val
ley, the Tupper sounds a whistle
j salute. Instantly hundreds of Es
jkimos set out in motor boats and
; canoes and soon are circling the
ship. Malamute dogs howl their
welcome in chorus. Natives in gay
| attire line the banks of the river
I! for the arrival of the Tupper, the
only transportation link between
the Kuskokwim Valley and mod
ern civilization,. is the signal for
a holiday. Traders and trappers
arrive in motorboats, accompanied
by members of their families.
There are many stores in the
Kuskokwim Valley, operated by
shrewd and prosperous merchants
who study the needs of the natives
'and always keep a liberal supply
of food and merchandise on hand.
Aluch of these goods are carried
to Bethel each year by the Tupper,
and varied cargoes are loaded in
exchange.
Foxes for Ranches
Trapping and hunting is the
main support of the country and
the shipment of furs brought to
Seattle by the vessel are valued at
millions of dollars. Furs are ac
cepted in exchange for merchan
dise by the traders and are the
principal medium of exchange.
One hundred live foxes were
part of one of the cargoes of the
Tupper from the Kuskokwim. They
w7ere destined to Europe to stock
fox ranches.
Five dredges are in operation in
the Kuskokwim Valley. The gold
taken out is shipped to Seattle on
the Tupper.
Young women of the East, leav
ing broken romances and heart
aches behind, go to the Kuskok
wim Valley. They teach the Es
kimos the three R’s, sanitation
and health and train them in the
art of homemaking. One pretty
miss discovered that with each
lead pencil, a comb was issued by
the Bureau of Indian Affairs. She
was puzzled at first, but soon saw
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF PETER HOROSHUFF,
DECEASED
Notice is hereby given to all per
sons having claims and demands
against PETER HOROSHUFF, late
of Atka, Alaska, deceased, to pre
sent such claims to the undersign
ed at Unalaska, Alaska, within six
months after date of this notice.
R. W. NYE,
Executor.
Unalaska, Alaska, May. 20, 1031.
Publish: July 17, 24, 31, and Aug
ust 7, 1931.
they were needed in correcting i
the ungroomed and unkempt ap
pearance of her Eskimo pupils.
Santa Claus Ship
A Kuskokwim River trapper, a J
weather-beaten man in the late I
summer of life, sits in his cabin,'
hands outspread to the cheerful
fire in the crude Alaska stove as
the wintry wind whistles outside.
The long Alaska night casts its
shadows about the room, dimly il
luminated by the rays of a kero
sene lamp. Behind a stubby beard
remains a trace of a former caste,
of the environment of society.
Some tragic episode in early life
may have sent him to this far
north country to forget business
failures or to ease heartaches from
a past romance.
The Tupper will be a Santa
Claus ship when she sails from
Seattle—a Santa Claus ship in
August. She will have several
tons of Christmas presents for the
isolated settlements along the Kus
kokwim. which is ice locked long
before the holiday comes around.
On her homeward voyage the ves
sel will carry several hundred live
reindeer, which will serve as teams
for department store Santas in
the East.
WILD DUCKS DEMISED
AS RESULT OE DIPT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug, £
(JP)—Drought conditions during re
cent years have caused a serious;
decrease in the numbers of w,ilc3
ducks, the U. S. Biological Survey?
announces.
Preliminary investigations of the
survey indicate this year’s wild
fowl hatch will be the smallest ora
record. Game birds of North*
America are confronted with the
most serious situation in U. S
history, biological survey officials;
contend.
Shorter shooting seasons and!
other restrictions to reduce the
kill of waterfowl this year have
been authorized by Arthur M..
Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture, i'sa
an effort to conserve the supply
of game birds.
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stopover privileges. Return limit Oct. 3L
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Seward, Alaska
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