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The theory that a heavy snowfall
lbrings many mosquitoes has been
lborne out this summer, the pests
(being more numerous than for sev
eral seasons past, says the Fairbanks
iNews-Miner. They are especially
Ibothersome to livestock. The mos
tguitoes were a bit late in coming, due
That Jim Burroughs, veteran in
tterior mining man and formerly
:game warden for the Nenana district,
lhas been missing since April 28 was
tthe word .brought out fro mthe Kan
itishna to Fairbanks a few days ago,
:says the News-Miner. The word
lbroughtaut by Mr* Howell was the
'first, received there concerning the
«oldtimer’s disappearance, and al
though search measures-were at once
instituted, hope of finding him alive
iis declared to be slight.
A thorough search of the district in
which lie disappeared was made by
Jfilot A. A. .Bennett in a flight made
tto the bead of theToklat with Mr,
IBoth the flier and Mr. Howell were
<on the lookout constantly for the
nnissing man, but .saw no trace of
Ibim.
Burroughs left Knight’s roadhouse
on -April -28 with a team of 14 dogs
••and 700 pounds of freight, headed for
Ihis mining propert yon Little Moose
•cr.eek, a tributary of the Clearwatei
iriver. He has not been seen since
■either at the creek or any point point
Ibetween there and the roadhouse.
Burroughs was an experienced
iinusher and familiar with the coun
try, but it is very possible, it was
ssaid, that he perished when the rivei
]ice, weakened by the warming rays o1
(the sun, gave way beneath the weighl
(of the loaded sled.
A heart attack which came on as
lhe was eating his supper caused the
•death a fe wdays ago of Charles Fre
imont, well known Alaska pioneer
■During recent years he had lived at
-Anchorage, where death came to him
Ibut prior to his residence there hae
Hived at Dawson and Fairbanks.
The old-timer apparently had
jpushed his chair back from the table
iin the kitchen, after completing his
•evening meal, and was sitting there
napping when his spirit departed
:says the Anchorage Times. A callei
ifound him very soon aftnrward and
summoned the authorities, and the
•oldtimer was still in his chair when
tthey arrived. His position and gen
eral appearance were so lifelike that
iit was hard to believe that death had
sstilled his heart. It was one of the
, very few cases recalled by Dr. A. D.
1 Haverstock in which death had come
with such slight disturbing effect.
Charles Fremont was a real old
timer of the North, having stamped
i ed to Dawson in the early Klondike
i days, and later followed the rush to 1
I the Fairbanks district when gold was \
discovered there. He was well ad
vanced in years and a cripple, and
during the last year his strength had
failed steadily, although his general
health seemed to be about as usual.
He made a drip downtown during the
aternoon and it is thought the exer-,
tion of the walk hastened his end. He
was a life member of Anchorage
Igloo, No. 15, Pioneers of Alaska.
I Ailing oldtimers of the Pioneers’ [
Home at Sitka have a new physician.
i to diagnose their ills, Dr. Hugh G.1
I Nicholson of -Charleston, W. Va., hav- j
I ing succeeded Jfr. R. W. Miller as!
| staff physician at the Home. Dr. ^
' Nicholson will also act in that capac- j
1 ity for the Sheldon Jackson .school
1 and will f>e acting assistant surgeAn
! for the United States public health
j service. He is a graduate of the Uni
i versity of Virginia and is a fellow of
i the American College of Surgeons.
Magnus Severson, employe of the
Shepard Point Packing Company,
in
charge of fishing boat No. 12, was
: seriously injured a few days ago in
j an explosion that completely wrecked
i the boat and threw him and his part
ner, Carl Louis Odland, into the
urofcv fi'n
' by other fishermen and rushed to
town, the Cordova Times reports,
j The explosion occurred, according
j to Severson, early in the morning,
when he got up to build a fire in the
j galley stove to prepare breakfast. He
placed paper and ’kindling in the stove
, and the nstruck a match. Immediate
ly there waas a terrific explosion,
which threw hi mviolently into the
air and down into the water. His
I arms up to his elbows were badly
I seared and blistered, while his face
was left a mass of burns.
Severson’s companion also was
: blown out of the boat and into the air,
but he received no injury.
Although tire cause of the explo
sion could • not be learned definitely,
i due to the complete destruction of
the boat, it is thought that a leak in
the gasoline tank permitted some of
the fuel to escape and that the fumejs
i collected in the galley during the
night. This highly-explosive mixture
of air and gasoline is then Relieved to
have been set' off by the match Sev
: erson struck, and to have reached the
main gasoline supply.
Julius Hart, whose nomination by
President Hoover as United States
Attorney for the Second division.was
i not confirmed by the Senate, has been
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F. C. H. SPENCER
Successors to Northern 'Commercial Co. At
Takotna, Alaska
Merchandise
given a temporary appointment by
Judge . J. Lomen, according to ad
vices recently received at Fairbanks.
No reason was given for the Sen- j
ate’s failure to confir mhis nomina-!
tion. Mr. Hart was formerly assist-!
ant under U. S. Attorney Shoup in J
the First Division, and more recently
has been in private practice in Ju
neau.
Fred Harrison, former U. S. Dis
trict Attorney stationed at Nome, but
who recently resigned on..account of
disabilities caused' by . paralysis, was
a recent airplane passenger from
Nome to Fairbanks, .en. route to the
Pioneers Home at Sitka.
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En .route to Seward Peninsula to
study and seek a means to eradicate
the warble fly grub from Alaska rein
deer herds, Dr. J. E. Dove, entomolo- 1
gist of the United .States bureau of
biological survey, left for the lower!
Yukon river section a few day^agp, |
after a brief visit in Fairbanks. He |
was highly endorsed for the Alaska!
investigation by Paul G. Redington.
chief of the bureau of biological sur
vey.
The warble fly problem is a very
serious one to those .engaged in the
reindeer industry. The flies lay eggs
in the skin of the deer and when the
grubs are large enough they .burrow
through the hide,. scarring it and \
greatly decreasing its market value, j
It is ..estimated. that the damage now
amounts to $600,000 annually. Dr.
Dove’s last-assignment was in Texas,
where he studied parasitic diseases i
affecting livestock.
Ralph A. Miller of the finance- de
partment. of the United States signal
corps, stationed at Seward, lost his
life in the Russian river, near that
place, a few days ago, when he
slipped and fell from the- bank into
the swiftly flowing river.
Miller is survived by. his widow and
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Peter I)avey, his theirs - and as-j
and assigns:
Yon, and each of you, are hereby
notified that I, • the undersigned, your !
co-owner, have expended .in labor and
improvements the sAm of not less
than one hundred dollars for the i
years 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925,!
1926, 1927, 1928 and 1929 upon placer j
mining claim No. 3 Above Discovery I
on Esperanto creek, a tributary of
Madison creek, in the Innoko Mining
and Recording Precinct, Fourth divi
sion, Territory of Alaska, in order to
hold said claim under the provisions
of Section .2324 of the Revised Stat-;
utes of the United Stags and the'
amendments thereto concerning an
nual labor upon mining claims, being
the amount required to hold said min
ing claim for the period June 30,
1930.
And if, within ninety days after the
publication of this notice, you fail or
refuse to contribute your proportion
of said expenditure, as well as the
cost of recording tins same, and the
costs of this advertisement, your in
terest in said claim will become the
property of the undersigned, your co
owner, _ who has made the required
expenditures under the terms of said
Section 2324 of the Revised Statutes
of the United States.
JOHN KRIEGER,
Co-Owner.
i First publication May 4, 1929; last
Aug. 2, 1929.
! Frank J. Guskey |
Notary Public
1 i
I McGrath, Alaska j
Du Rand’s !
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Cafe and j
Hotel !
Flat City
small son. He had lived at Sewar
about three years, and was on an out
ing at Russian river At the time o
the accident, \
Fairbanks was visited by tw.
slight ' earthquakes -a few morning
ago,, occurring within fifteen minute
of each other. They lasted only a fev
seconds and <no damage resulted.
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