The Kusko times., 1930-01-25
Alaska Notes Gathered From. Tesrn ~ isl
 Exchanges.


 : Agricultural .College and School of - Mines~with scholarships granted un- .s der anthorit yof an act passed by the last legislature. The scholarship in ,. each school goes to the student with | the. highest standing, and in case he < does moot desire it the one with the | next highest average is eligible. The ]. scholarships provide $10 a month for l. each. student to be applied toward the l payment of doEmitory rent. Scholar :. ship students now at the College are: Violet xLundeA, Douglas; John Meg , gitS Juneau; Jeanne Staser, Anchor :, age; sElora Macdonald, Fairbanks; ( Charles Wilcox, Valdez.
 Practically every cache ard cabin in the upper. Yertna and nahiltna vallevswas wiped out last fall by bears, according to reports from trappers. Trappers have practically been ,driven out of the country through the destruction of the iaches containing their winters supply of fogdstutfs and the smashing up of stoves and cabin furnishings. Charles Harper, one of the Hope district ! placer operators, and Carl Martin, city councilman of Anchorage, re- turned. from the Kahiltna recently p and reported that bears had dem0l- ished everything in their trapping : camp Mot content with destroying . tOadstulfs, the animals took the .~ stoves outside, jumpe. on them and smashed them into shapeless masses. :. Then they gathered the washtub and two water pails and stacked them in the doorway. where they had torn the door from the hinges. They then proceeded to pay their respects to the 1. rspt. tearing it off annd allowing the interior to become showed in. Matt HAmberger, another we'll known trap 5 per who with Joe Kroske works the , Kahiltna valley and Treasure creek, '-s are also sufferers, as well as Strum, Wagner and Ericsqn and doozen Aotaers scattered between Rainy Pass and Eache creek. If what the pros- spector4 and trappers promise the 'S-heaFs comes off next spring, the Alas .@skA.aSame Commission will be com sSpeiled to call for the U. $. Army to s enforce any regulations against the zlaEng of ears of all varieties. It ; is planned to devoote the spring < months te cradlcating the bears fro.ta s. the district. The result of the depre- .4daticns fthe bears has been to al most ecl:. se the enttire rapping sea- 5 son.. riE ,s- reported to be showing ! up,Aand ssiIl.eut supplies the trappers : have lifted :bt traps and made ther way tp.po;nts where they can secure food.
 fire of undetermined origin le- stroyed George Mutchler's Delco 5 electric light plant and the building : housing it, one morning recently. [ When. MT. Mutchler first noticed the
  flames, ,nabout 6:45 o'clock, the build ing was nearly burned down and the : plant was ruined. The loss is esti- < mated, 1t: $2.OOO.
 There was stove in the building. ssbut it had ,nyot had fire in it for
 over week, so it is supposed the fire started from the wiring system. No insurance was carried.
 l.. .I.. Baies. for over forty years ]. resiicrt If Inc Territory, excep! for the lat few ycais, died aoont Decam Der 15 ,s. luw Bay, better known as Bales Landing, about 20 miles this side of Sand Point. The body was taken by the steamer Starr to Kodiak, where interment was made. MT. Bales, who in 1904 was in charge of