The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-10

passed by the legislature providing | for bounty of s10 for each wolf killed, it is provided that the Ter. l ritory keep the furs of the animals | on which the bounty Is paid and then market the furs.
 i A copy of the law was received i in Fairbanks on the last mail. and | from it's wording it seems that tho I Territory will lose but little by pay ing a bounty of s10 for each wolf hide, and then selling the hides to dealers
 The bill provides that in order to receive the bounty. the person kill ing a wolf must dress the pelt in a specified manner, so as to insure that it is marketable, and that when it is presented for sale, a hole must be punched in the ear. to show that tie bounty has been paid and to prevent it's being sold for the second | time. Then the belts must be sold and the money kept by the Terri | tory.
 Times In letter received here Dull on the last mail from Outside. an attorney in Portland. Oregon. it is stated that times there are unusually dull To illustrate how hard it is to get money there, he states that he has mortgage on a small farm for s1,000, and that his efforts to sell 1t for S250 have been fruitless T have never seen time in the United States when money was so close as it is now he continues, and from what I can understand this condition is general all over ne United States"
 But in spite of his complaint about the financial conditions Out side, the writer of the letter is able 10 look at it in humorous light, for he says:
 '1 note that you say that in In terior Alaska they never use any thing smaller than 25 cents. I am quite satisfied that that country must be far ahead of this in a financial way. Since the European war start ed, it has been the hardest thing in the world to find anyone here who has 25 cents.'
 Hunt Some people would rath- For Old CT hunt for supposed Treasurers. hidden treasure than
 prospect for gold. It seems that in Alaska, where there is gold to be found everywhere, prospecting would always be more attractive than looking for treasures Jf uncertain existence and more un- certain location
 The Seward Gateway says that over on the Kenai river, Deputy Game Warden Ericson says some of the men have taken up again the search for a treasure supposed to have been hidden there by the Russians.
 MT. Ericson has himself seen sev, eral old shafts and dumps dug long before Portage bay got the idea that it would be a railroad terminal He returned day before yesterday from that quarter, and at the time tie search was on.
 There are two stories about the gold. One is that it was hidden oy convicts, but for the sake of local color convicts are always drag ged into stories of Russia. It is said that some of the natives have nuggets in their possession from the hidden bunch, but they keep it quiet so as not to let the whites get too "wise'
 Kills Since it is against the Strange law to hunt ducks at Goose" this season of the year,
 it is not often one hears a good hunting story. How ever, here is a good story told about a prominent man of this city:
 It seems that the man, whom it may be we'll to call MT Blank, as he would not want his real name used, had an ambition to kill geese He had two friends who were each posing as good hunters, and at last the question as to which one would be the first to kill a wild goose came up for discussion MT Blank asserted that he was going out aft CT geese, and that he would certain y get one.
 With a gun and a gamebag, MT. Blank went hunting, and after being absent from town several hours re- turned with a broad smile on his face and a bundle In his gamebag
 His friends wanted him to snow them the goose, which he said he had killed, but he declined. He said that he had promised to give it to certain lady, and he was going to keep his word. After much coaXing, however, he was induced to open the bag for inspection, and there, much to the surprise of MT. Blanks friends they beheld. not a goose, but seagull. Up to last accounts the game had not been cooked.