ANCIENT PIANO STILL
IN USE IT KODIAK:
GAME AROUND HORN
What is thought to be the old
est made American piano in
America is over at Kodiak and in
the possession of H. J. Hunt,
The Gateway is informed:
This piano was brought around
the Horn in the early days before
Alaska was purchased from Rus
sia, and was shipped in by Fath
er ShaishnikofT, head of the
Russian church who was then
stationed at Unala ska.
The following is an extract
from a letter received from the
Chickering & Sons factory in
Boston:
“Our records show that Chick
ering Square bearing number
1324 was shipped to Mr. C. Hall,
of Norfolk. Va., on December 13,
2832.”
The Chickering Piano Company
made their first pianos in 1823
which makes the Kodiak piano
one of their first and, it is be
lieved, that this is the oldest
American made piano in exist
ance. It has its original finish
and is still in every day use. It
is made of rose wrood and has
elaborately carved legs.
Baxter Felch. representative of
the Ball Brand foot wear rlfm,
is spending a week in the city.
ALASKA HIM ITEMS
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MYSTERIOUS TRIP
Considerable secrecy shrouds
the recent flight of Joe Crosson,
of the Alaskan Airways, who
made a roundtrip to somewhere
in little over four hours. With
him were two prospectors, John
nie Miller and Bill McConn, who
went out to a reported rich gold
strike some where north of the
Yukon River, reports the News
Miner.
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Returning from the Kusko
kwim River and Iditarod point,
Pilot Matt A. Nieminen of the
Alaskan Airways brought back to
Anchorage Alex Edberg, a sick
man from Bethel, for treatment
at the Anchorage hispital, says
the Times. Pilot- Matt also had
365 pounds of furs aboard.
WOULD BE VIOLATION
WASHINGTON, Mar., 24, (JP)—
The proposed limitation of oil
imports was assailed by Senator
William Borah who declared such
a plan will be a clear violation of
the anti-trust laws.
LEGAL NOTICE
List 8-130."C”-MAM
_ 1393678-1407135
KESTORATION TO ENTRY OF LA\I
, NATIONAL FOREST
NoUec is hereby Riven that the lan«
scribed below within the Chugach Na
te open to settlement an
tir at the United States Land Office %
chora ge, Alaska, under the provisioi
homestead law and act of June 11,
(34 Stat., 233), of entry by persons
uig within either of the two following cl
<1) Persons named after each tract
whose application the lands were list
any, who, in order to avail themself
Uie preference right, must file their
cation within sixty days prior to d*
opening; (2) Ex-service men, who, i
•iL to 8X8,1 themselves of the prof
right conferred by Congress under publ
solution No. 85, approved June 12, 1930
file application within one hundred ter
Erior to date of opening. All such ai
turns filed within the first twenty days c
period will be treated as simultaneously
at 9 a m. on the ninetieth day pri<
date of opening. Applications by ex-i
men thereafter, but prior to date of
ing, will be treated in the order in
filed
The general public may file applications
within twenty days prior to opening date
These will be treated as simultaneously filed
at. 9 a. m.. on date of opening, but no aj>
plication will be allowed prior thereto.
A tract of 7.29: acres, more or less,
described by metes and bounds as follows:
Beginning at Cor, No. 1, at a point on
north . shore of Kenai Lake, approximately
2V> miles from Lawing Station on the Alaska
Railroad, being a cottonwood tree squared
to 4 ’ and cut off 3 fe. above ground
and marked Hll MC, whence a cottonwood
tree 10" diameter bears N 71° W 13 links
distant marked W H|1 MC in blaze; a cot
tonwood tree 8” diameter hears S. 10°
II. 14 links distant marked W H|1 MC in
blaze. Thence by meander of said lake at
line of mean high tide S 64° E. 0 71 Chs.,
S. 76° E. 1.51 Chs, N. 60° E. 1.01 Chs.,
N E 1 36 Chs.,'N. 78° E. 1.09 chs., N
63° E. 1.24 chs., N 80° E. 1.01 chs, N; 72J
E.. 1.51 chs., S. 85° 30' E. 0.63' chs. to
cor . No. 2 and M. C. Thenoe N. 13° E.
6.18 chs. to Cor. No. 3. Thence West 10.65
chs. to Cor. No.’ 4, Thence South 7.95 chs.
to Cor. No. 1, the place of beginning List
ed noon the application of A. C. Wittner of
Lawing, Alaska, List 8-130.
Feb. 17. 1981 D. K. Parrott
Acting Assistant * •unmissioner
First Publication March 17, 1t)3t.
T-nst Publication April 7, 1931.
Pub. D—Mar. 17, 24, 31. Api 1 7, 1931.
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THE STOCK MARKET
A. Juneau 9, A. Can 25|%, Ban
corporation 22*%, Cities 20%, Cons.
Gas 106J/2, Zellerback 4%, Durant
2]/2, Motors 461/2, Goldman 10%,
Int. Tel. 36%, Kennecott 28*4,
Lehigh 6%, Radio 25%, Rich
field 4%, Stand. N. J., 45%, Car
bide 67%, Union, Calif., 23, Steel
146%.
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William Lawing left Monday
for the Lodge on Lake Kenai af
ter a few days in the city on
business.
The view that fur in the In
terior has been trapped off and
that it will be a long period of
time before trapping will again
be profitable is not supported by
observations made over a long
period of years by Robert Bloom,
Fairbanks merchant who is close
ly connected with the fur indus
try, according to the News Miner
Migrations are caused almost
altogether by * lack of food for
the fur-bearers. Last year the
period of depression set in and
the fur catch was light and this
winter’s catch will only be about j
40 per cent of 1930.
HOOTED AND JEERED
BOMBAY, Mar., 23, (A>)-Mahat- i
ma Gandhi, before whom millions j
| of Indians prostrated themselves, j
| was hooted and Jeered by com- i
' munists when he tried to make a j
speech here. Down tarith him, i
down with the congress, and down J
with British imperialism were the j
shouts of the communists as the j
gentile man climbed a platform j
in the center of a great crowd.
A quiet wedding was solemnized
in Anchorage recently when Mrs.
Ingeborg Lawson became the
bride of Kenneth Frawley, oper
ator-in-charge of the Anchorage
Signal Corps station says the An
chorage Times.
Fred Fitka, of Seldovia, suf
fered a severe sprain and a hurt
knee cap when he fell from the
upper branches of a tree reecntly,
says the Seldovia Herald. He was
engaged in gathering fuel.
Snappy »hon at pre-war price*. $5.00 io
$*•*#, Urbach and Valade.
Have you heard the new "OKEH” re
cords at Sylvia’B. They are wonderful.
unshine Mellows
Heat Purifies
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Everyone knows that
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— the Cream of the Crop—THEN
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TUNE IN
The Lucky
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Orchestra,
every Tues
day, Thurs
day and Sat
urday evening
over N. B. C..
networks.
The advice of your physi*
dan is: Keep out of doors,
in the open air, breathe
deeply; take plenty ofexer
dse in the mellow sunshine,
and have a periodic
check-up on die health of
your body,
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