ALASKA ITEMS OF
INTEREST AT THE
NATION'S CAPITOL
(By W.A.S-)
Mrs. Max Behlke of Fairbanks is
anxious to have her sister, Miss
Arna Quandt, come from Wismar,
Mecklenburg. Germany, to locate in
Fairbanks and join her in the
ladies furnishing and dressmaking
business. But there has been some
trouble about securing the neces
sary concular visa at Hamburg,
and Delegate Wickersham has been
called upon to get the matter
straightened out.
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Several communications have
been received lately from Alaskans
who wish to enter the Army avia
tion school at San Antonio, Texas,
but the applicants have either been
below or above the age limit for
entering the school, which is be
tween the ages of 20 and 27. Ap
plications are also frequently re
ceived by the Delegate from young
men who wish to enter either the
Military Academy at West Point or
the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
There will be no vacancy at West
Point for Alaskans until 1934, and
nothing at Annapolis until 1933.
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There is a desire upon the part
of some people in the Interior to
take over the leasing or manage
ment of the Agricultural Experi
ment Station at Rampart. The
Delegate has taken up the matter
with the Secretary of Agriculture.
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The Federal Radio Commission
has granted renewal of licenses to
R. R. Farish at Steamboat Bay and
Chatham Cannery. The Buchan &
Heinen Packing Company, and also
Karl Hansen, have applied for li
censes covering construction per
mits at Port Alexander.
* * * *
Benjamin D. Stewart, supervising
engineer in charge of Alaska work
for the Department of Commerce
and Department of the Interior,
came from his Juneau headquar
ters and is in Washington in con
nection with official duties.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is
considering the appointment of a
Chief of the Alaska division, with
headquarters at Juneau, which po
sition has been temporarily filled
by Charles W. Hawkesworth, who
has been serving as acting Chief
since the resignation of Jonathan
H. Wagner, who was stationed at
Seattle before the headquarters was
moved to Juneau. Two of the ap
plicants for the position will be in
Washington shortly to confer with
the Department. Both are very
high class men and one has spent
a couple of years in Alaska doing
research work.
Ernest Walker Sawyer has re
ceived a letter from Governor Ju
lius L. Meier of Oregon stating
that he was taking with the Port
land Chamber of Commerce the
possibility of arranging for a car
avan of writers and newspapermen
to drive to Hazelton, B. C., and re
turn, with a view to giving publi
city to the proposed International
Highway to Fairbanks, Alaska.
* * * *
The recent death of the great
philanthropist, George Eastman,
prompts the Eastern newspapers
to call attention to the fact that
two years ago, at the age of 75,
Eastman went to Alaska on his last
big game hunting trip and brought
down two grizzlies, a feat of which
he was very proud.
* * * *
The appointment of Ernest I.
Amundsen to be postmaster at An
chorage in place of Henry S- Sogn,
whose commission exnired January
10 and who wishes to be relieved
from office on April l, was sent to
the Senate cn March 18.
* * * ^
Lee D. Wakefield, president of
the Pacific Herring Packers Asso
ciation and who has himself op
erated in salmon canning and
herring mild curing in Alaska for
many years past, was a Washing
ton visitor during the past week.
He came at the behest of his asso
ciation to confer with Commission
er of Fisheries Henry O’Malley to
try to secure some change in reg
ulations. Mr. Wakefield says that
because of the low price of herring,
011 and meal, the herring men are
uncertain whether or not they will
operate in Alaska this season.
From here he went to New York to
dispose of a car load of herring for
any price he could get.
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Story of Umnakus
The Sun Child
By E. P. S*
Episode One
Near the southwest end of Um
nak Island, where the icy breath
| of the Bering Sea collides with the
j warmer zephyrs of the Japanese
I current, stands a monument. This,
I the sarcophagus of Umnakus,
points its triangular apex towards
the smiling face of Old Sol as he
emerges from the blue Pacific.
Two score paces from the apex
is a slight depression in the mound,
perhaps, indicating the final rest
ing place of this great chief.
* * * *
Timur Khan clapped his hands.
I Immediately four bodyguards step
ped into the room.
“Send Pish Wu, the builder, to
my presence at once,” commanded
Timur Khan.
“Thy will be executed, O Ruler
of the World,” and So-To, the
speaker of the mute bodyguards,
sent runners for Fish Wu, the
builder.
Fish Wu was secretly exulting
over his new toy, which would pro
ceed against the wind on his lake,
When Timur Khan’s imperial run
ner appeared and explained his er
rand.
Instantly, Fish Wu made ready,
for Timur Khan was stern in pun
ishment of' delay. He carefully
wrapped his toy, placed it under
|his robe, and mounting his palan
quin, was borne swiftly to the
Great Emperor.
Timur Khan was eagerly watch
ing the pebbled roadway and went
forward to greet Fish Wu, the
builder. Nay, he even assisted Fish
Wu to descend from his palanquin
and placing his jeweled hand on
I the shoulder of the (builder, he
| conducted him to his secret cham
ber.
“What prize dost thou clutch so
tightly?” asked the Emperor, and
Fish Wu, opening his robe, dis
played the toy boat which he had
been experimenting with on his
lake.
“This prize, O Ruler of the Land,
shall make thee Ruler of the Wa
ters, also,” said the builder, and
he placed the toy in the hands of
Timur Khan.
“Such is thy mission, Fish Wu
exclaimed the Emperor, “and ev
erything you need will be at your
call. The days are growing longer
and I shall want a great junk that
will travel across Tung-hui to the
nlace where the Sun God rests. Get
thou busy and I will send my son
Nackolus, the swimmer, to help
you.”
Fish Wu, the builder, set up his
shop on the shores of Tung-hai
and there Nackolus, the swimmer,
helped him direct the many work
men to build the great junk. On
this was constructed the sharp
keel to cleave the waves, and the
turning paddle that Nackolus lik- j
ened unto a fish tail, which sends j
the fish along. Every day, Fish |
Wu examined strong legs, for many j
men would be needed to run the
treadmill that worked the turning
paddle.
At last, the junk was finished
and the men selected for the jour
ney, but Timur Khan had been
stricken by the Tartary plague and
lay dying on his couch. Calling
Fish Wu near, Timur Khan said:
“Nay, come not too near, Fish Wu,
but listen attentively to my last
command. You shall guide Nack
olus to the resting place of the
Sun God and there leave him. This
morning, I burned incense to the
Sun God and his voice warned me
that my time was up but that my
seed would rule the “eaters of the
mighty fish”
“Go thou, with thy junk, moved
by the turning paddle, and return
not until. . . Timur Khan gasp
ed and died.
(Second episode will follow in
the near future.)
Inquiry has been received con
cerning the following person sup
posed to be in Alaska:
HOYT, ALFRED A. —An Amer
ican, age 54 years, and his wife
Ruth, age 30 years, along with their
three children, a girl Mary Vir
ginia, age 8 years, and twins, a boy,
John Alfred, and a girl, Thomie
Lee, both age six, left the city of
Glendale, Calif., for (as per the in
ference of Hoyt) Russia, but recent
developments strongly indicate pos
sible play, while on the other hand,
we have been informed that Hoyt
was seen in Juneau. The family
has not been heard from in a year.
Anyone having any information
about the above person, please
communicate with the Governor’s
Office, Juneau, Alaska.
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The motorship Polar Bear, of the
United Trading & Fishing Com
pany, Pete Wold, master, and C. E.
Anderson, manager, left the port
of Seward Thursday for the far
Westward.
Seven tons of Alaska sacked Evan
Jones coal was loaded aboard the
M. S. Polar Bear Thursday for
Westward delivery.
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