The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-02-27
PanOr0nd By KINEMA

The federal jail at Juneau is re- ported to be the best boarding house in Alaska. according to one Of the inmates. He boasts of hay l ing been the guest" of some thir- ty-fiYe jails in his somewhat hectic career. but the Juneau jail is by far the most pretentious.
 This chap is said to earn better than SITS a month keeping books for various business firms in the capital. and has no trouble getting permission to go down town to look after his affairs. His principal ob- lection is the deluge of invitations to play bridge in the evenings.
 Up at Dutch Harbor on the fringe of the Aleutians. the Alaska Con- mercial Company is planning a new $100.00O dock. This is the last stronghold of the oldest trading concern in Alaska For many years after the Russians abandoned the territory, the A. c. Company held the sealing monopoly in the Prib- 1 ilof Islands, and it still produces l great quantity of fur from the far flung islands of the Alaska Penin- i sula
 Dutch Harbor is situated at the l crossroads of the North Pacific Ocean. where oriental liners ire quently call to replenish their fuel, and where all the shipping of Der l ing Sea and the Arctic call on the | way to or from the north. It is a | coaling and oil station. and head quarters for the Boring sea patrol | of the coast guard. Up until R year or two ago there was no hotel at | the settlement, but the chance trav- eler could always find accommoda tions in the home of some of the hospitable Russians.
 4 box on the ear from a grizzly bear was the experience of Pete Morrison, well-known trapper of Stewart, B. C., who recently return ed from his trapping grounds near Bowser Lake In making his rounds he came to the spot where a grizzly had killed a goat; further investi- gation revealed that the bear was still hanging around, for the next thing Morrison knew he was the re- cipient of a clout on the ear. A bullet from his rife put an end to the bout, but it was two weeks be- fore Morrison recovered from the blow.
 What ship is that?" shouted chief signalman Cox, of Prospect Point, B. C., as the S. g. Ouiachouan passed in the fog. and the ship re- piled .eWichwan."
 That ship. you darn bargees!" Cox shouted in anger.
 Faintly came back the jeering answer, "Wiehwan."
 On the same day he reported, among other vessels that passed, the Bunnys Ears and the Bootlegger Maru. The former was, of course, the Buenos Aires. and the latter was the Hikawa Maru.
 The 200-mile dog derby at The Pas is only a curtain raiser com pared to the gruelling race being organized at Moscow, U. s. S. R. In order to test the endurance of sleigh dogs the Soviets' Aviation Chemical Society is planning a race from Petropavlovsk. Siberia, to Mos COW. a distance of 5000 miles.
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 Lomen charges that the weak ness of government supervision is responsible for the poor results ob- tained by Eskimo reindeer herders in Alaska. Government school teachers are not qualified to deal with the livestock business, he said, and a great daal of the criticism against the Lomen Reindeer Com pany was due to the ignorance of these teachers who jumped to nasty and unwarranted conclusions. Char lie Brewer, pioneer trader at Point Barrow, was a witness before the investigating committee at Wash ington.