The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-11-03
NEWS FROM ALL OVER
 ALASKA


 who is making her mark in grand opera. Miss Tramontin, lived in that section of the territory Tor number of years. Several years ago her father was killed in the mines at LatOuehe.
 H. ". Nagley. U. s. Commissioner at Talkeetnas reports everything and everyone doing well in the Cache Creek region. to which country TaI- keetna is the front door. MT Nag ley has some excellent gold nuggets, running from S1O to $40 apiece. that came from his mine holdings in tue district, this summer.
 
 H. ". Betts, collector of customs at Dawson, took his first airplane ride with Aviator Bennett a few days ago. At the conclusion of the flight Mr. Betts said, T can but say in all truth that 1t is the grandest mode of progression that l have ever ex- perienced, far exceeding relaying an outfit over the White Pass trail of s."
 Articles of incorporation have been filed in the office of the Terri torial Secretary by the Kenai River Packing company, whose principal place of business is in Seattle. The incOrporators are J. T. Hansen, and N. G. Hedemark of Seattle
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 The steamer Alameda sailed for Seattle from Nome last Friday with 237 passengers and gold bullion valued at S27O,000. A big ship ment of reindeer also was carriea for Seattle. Leonard Seppala. famed Nome serum dog team driver his wife and daughter, left also, talk Ing 20 dogs for races in the eastern states this winter.
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 Through the courtesy of T. Gilbert Pearson, LLD., president of the National Association of Audubon Societies, the publisher of the Sew ard Gateway has been issued a com plimentary membership to the Roose- eYelt Bird Sanctuary at Oyster Bay, New York. This bird sanctuary is owned and maintained by the soci- ety for the protection of wild birds and animals as memorial to Theo- dore Roosevelt.
 
 Expectations of predatory ami mals in Alaska and the need of their control were discussed at a public meeting held recently in Fairbanks under the auspices of the Tanana- Yukon Protective Game Association The principal speaker was R. k Stewart, formerly assistant leader of predatory animal control in Cal ifornia.
 A corporation, to be known as the Alaska Range Mining and Develop ment company, incorporated under the laws of Alaska with 2,500,006 shares, is now in process of forma- ton, at Anchorage. This company will develop the gold quartz proper ties which have been located by L A. Powless and associates, in the Valdez creek district.
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 Edward Louis Booth pioneer Alas kan. met his death at the govern ment hospital in Anchorage this week, when he fell from the second story while trying to escape by means of a small wire. He entered the hospital for treatment for ear trouble and during his stay there de- yeloped marked signs of mental un- balance and it was while he was la boring under one of his delusions that he tried to make his getaway.
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 An expedition to study the un- known PaYlof volcano group of is lands of the Alaskan peninsula will be sent north next April by the Geo. graphical Society. Dr. Thos. A. Jag ger, director of the Geographical sur Yey station at the Mount Kilauea Volcanic laboratory in Hawaii will lead the party which will also ex- plore the region west of Mount Kat mai, one of the worlds largest active volcanoes, and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes.
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 School conditions in Western and Interior Alaskan towns are better al the outset of the current year than at anytime since the establishment of a Territorial Department of Edu- cation, featured by higher enroll ments, enlarged curricula and i'm proved school plants and facilities. This is the summarization given by Commissioner L. D. Henderson, up- on his return to Juneau, after an absence of six weeks during which he visited 25 schools.
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 Mike Knowles and Oscar Back man, who for several years past have been developing an exceedingly promising quartz property on Stew art Creek, in the Teikel district gave bond and option on the prop erty to w. B. Hancock, the well known mining engineer, who for some years was in charge of opera tions in the famous Mother Lode mine near Kennecott. MT. Han cock is said to represent eastern capitalists in the transaction.