The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-11-17

The town council of Tanana me for the last tIme on last saturdas night. turning over the town fuud Co the Territory and completing tH process of dissolution of ineorpora tion of the town.
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 : cal for a Democratic Divisional convention to be held at Ketchikau on Dee nber 15 has been issued by James @ Gonnors. acting ehairmai of Che committee for the First Div sion. The Territorial Democratic convention will be held in Seward January 16. 1928.
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 Jack |. Dawson of Nome plans dog team trip from Nome to Petro grad across Boring Sea and Siberia. a total distance of 4000 miles He will use Siberian dogs which are particularly we'll adapted to the colo weather. l Los Angeles movie con eern will furnish the necessary fiz nancial backing for the trip. #
 In answer to a letter of inquiry from the Ketehikan C ommereia l J of Fisheries, replied that the Whal ing industry did not have any effect on herring The belief had been eX pressed that killing of whales kept herring from being driven into shal low water.
 \ man named Allen who boarded the steamer Admiral Watson a Seward for Ketchikan is supposed to have jumped overheard while crossing the Gulf of Alaska. He was missed 5efore the vessel reached Ju neau and no trace of him could found on the ship 4 search of hi belongings yielded $20oo in bond and $40 in cash.
 * M. D Williams. District Enginee of the l. $. Bureau of Public Roads leaves this month for Washington D. C.. to confer with his chiefs r. garding road building activities f. Alaska next summer. On his return from Washington he will stop off a Cleveland. Ohio. to attend the Ma tional Good Roads convention whicl convenes in that city on January 3 # *
 Bart b. Thane, who for ten years was manager of the Juneau gold mines, died in New York last week after an illness of but three days Mr Thane was recently interested in mining manganese deposits in Russia. He is survived by a widow and a daughter who is a student at the University of California.
 
 Noel W. Smith, general manage of the Alaska Railroad. is now il Washington. While at the Nationa capital Mr. Smith will endeayor t6 have the headquarters of the Alaska i Division of Education moved to An l chorage. The present headquar- ters are located in the L. c. Smith Building, Seattle.
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 Otto W. Geist. scientist, will thi month turn over 10 the Alaska Agri cultural. College and School of Mine at Fairbanks 70 boxes of anthropo logical sDeciments which he collect ed during the past summer on Sl Lawrence Island i'll the Boring Sea Old ivory, bone, curios. implement. and weapons telling the life story of the prehistoric inhabitants 0. this island are included in the speci mems which will be displayed at tho college.
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 Jack McCord. one of the most re mantle figures of the NorthIand is now in New York where according to one of the Seattle newspapers, he has secured the backing of 30 Wal Street bankers for a stock raising venture on Very large scale in Al aska. The gigantic project contem plates the development of a practi cally uninhabited strip of islands HOO miles long and extending far i out into the Boring Sea toward Si beria. McCord reports that so far has leased the 90,000 acre island O Sitkalidak as a base for the McCord Alaska company for raising live stock, reindeer. fur and sheep, ane for fisheries, and has started wor' as vice president of the Aleutia Livestock cOmDauV