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March came in like a lamb yesterday so perhaps it
will go out like a lion.
SHOULD HAVE BETTER MAIL SERVICE
At the last general election Kodiak precinct cast 336
votes. That bespeaks a population of 1344. Add to this
a native population of at least that many, quite a number
of whom are able to write enough to order goods by par
cel post and one has 2688 souls who are being served with
but little better than once a month mail. This is due to
the fact that during most of the winter the S. S. Starr and
S. S. Watson have been running on very near even sched
ules.
“You can’t arrast me; I’m an Alaskan politician,”
Robert Gates told a Chicago policeman, but he was wrong
and was fined $50.
NEW CURRENCY ON THE WAY
The Treasury Department has announced that the
new and smaller paper currency, which has been plenti
fully advertised, will not reach the consumer until toward
the end of the present year. Persons who have been sav
ing up their old currency with the view to turning it in for
the new money must hang on a little longer.
The new bills will be approximately one-third smaller
than those now in circulation. It is predicted that they
will be more convenient and durable. The estimated sav
ing to the government in paper will be approximately $1,
000,000 a year.
Frederick Overall of Braintree, Eng., was arrested
and fined $10 for tickling a girl while in church. Well,
of all places!
Heinrich Vittoren of Munich was sentenced to eight
years in prison for selling his daughter for $10. Some
would be willing to give ’em away.
When a Chicago doctor answered a call to see a sick
boy he found the “boy” to be 76 years old: The father,
95, had telephoned. Boys will be boys.
Ed Merrick, court clerk at Keokuk, La., is a sort of
self-appointed lieutenant to Cupid. He offers a free li
cense to any girl who will appear before him on February
29 and declare that she proposed to her man and got him,
He wants to find out whether there is anything to the
Leap Year idea.
It may be that alleged gentlemen prefer blondes,
chortles a Sewardite, but he-men prefer brunettes.
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Bunders’ Supplies
IC.M.B.
EXPECT BE RECORD
Receipts of the Alaska Game Com
mission will reach $60,000 for the
current fiscal year ending June 30,
it is. estimated by members of that
board and made known in Juneau.
This is the largest sum ever collect
ed by it and is but $13,000 less than
the sum appropriated for its opera
tions by the Federal Government.
Of the total receipts, 50 per cent
reverts to the Territorial treasury
while the remainder goes into the:
Federal treasury. License fees this
year, it is estimated, will be approxi-1
mately $40,000. Last year there were,
3,200 trapper’s licenses issued and it i
is expected that 4,300 will be issued
this year.
More and more the Commission is
studying the application of regula
tions to limited areas to meet con
ditions peculiar to them that do not
prevail elsewhere. Depletion o f
brown bear in Kenai and Alaska pen
insula districts is marked while in
some other sections, notably in Ad
miralty and Chichagof Islands they
have had a large increase. This dif
ference in conditions is said to be f
the result of excessive spring hunt-j
ing in the western areas while there •
has been very little of it done in;
Southeastern Alaska.
Mink, according to reliable reports,!
are virtually extinct in the Kotzebue
Sound district. Other varieties are
depleted in other localities while un 1
affected elsewhere. These conditions
call for special regulations which
take into consideration the status of
the supply and other factors, it was
pointed out.
What to do about wild dogs that
are working havoc on game animals
birds, fur-bearing animals and to
some extent preying upox reindeer,
is a question that is occupying con
siderable of the time of the Com
mission. The problem is said to be
made more difficult on account of
conditions in some sections of the
north where dogs furnish the main
source of motive power for trans
conation. In some of them food
supplies are difficult and sometimes
impossible to obtain. It is the cus
tom of the owners of the dogs, in
such circumferences, to let them run
free and forage for their own feed.
They do it successfully but with dis
astrous effects upon the wild life of
the neighborhood. The Commission
has not yet arrived at any means of
handling the problem, it was inti
mated.
IS A SERIOUS CASE
i i
[ Commenting today on the case of
| the young son of Mr. and Mrs. Hoto
! visky, of Belkofsky, who last month
i
i accidently shot himself through a
i
j knee-cap, Dr. Alcorn, of the Seward
General Hospital who made a special
trip to the village to treat the young
ster, says the boy is not out of din
ger by any means though he left him
in fair condition in charge of a cap
able nurse. The lad had lost lots of
blood in the eight days following the!
accident and prior to the arrival of
Doctor Alcorn. It is thought he will'
i
recover but the case is serious.
Mrs. Johanson, Kodiak resident, en- J
iered the Seward General Hospital j
todny for medical attention.
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Jack Pickford
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BEATRICE LILLIE
in the great comedy drama
“ Exit Smiling ”
Here is a very fine drama so full of comedy as
to make it possible to call it either a straight
drama or a straight comedy. A good combina
tion of both and the stars do some fine work.
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The English star is, in private life, the young
wife of Sir Robert Peel and is a famous London
comedy queen. It is her first movie.
Jack needs no introduction for everyone knows
he is the brother of Mary.
A behind-the-stage theatre play that's a good
one. A traveling troupe of actors sees more of
life than any other class, and this story deals
with their adventures in the “Tank towns.”
Then there is a good two-reel comedy
“BLACK AND BLUE EYES”
And a reel of Jokes. A tip-top program.
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