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Newspaper
Iditarod Pioneer
Location
Iditarod, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1918
Page
7
Alaska mail advices describe Chirikof Island near Kodiak as a ghost haunted, desolate place. Natives warn of spirits and chains from Russian penal days, with storms and reefs guarding its shores and legends keeping outsiders away.
An Anchorage Times excerpt describes a forsaken, dark region beyond mineral dreams where no prospector treads. The land remains unvisited and unspoken save for the wild soul and its ghostly inhabitants.
Rasmussen a Dane from Douglas was convicted by a jury of sedition after beating his wife over her Red Cross work and expressing anti war sentiment. Commissioner Henson sentenced him to six months in Juneau federal jail and imposed a fines and an additional three months in jail on default.
Samuel Deschamps, a woodcutter near Anchorage, was arrested for assaulting John Klonos known as John the Greek, after a quarrel over a patriotic parade. Deschamps allegedly pulled Klonos from a dog sled beat him, then fled to his cabin. bail set at 1000 dollars and paid by friends, he was released.
Orlando A. Somers, commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, said Civil War veterans die at about 100 daily. He noted roughly 367,000 living veterans and warned the nation will feel a great loss as they pass. He spoke in Philadelphia during Lincoln Day exercises.
Washington reports the Food Administration aims to reuse 13 million pounds of yearly kitchen refuse for glycerine soaps fats grease fertilizer. A survey in 780 cities seeks practical methods. A family of four could produce nitroglycerine three pounds and fifty soap cakes plus other by products and three bushels of wheat worth of fertilizer from last year’s garbage valued at over 11 million dollars across 29 states.
A late issue of the Alaska Bureau of Indian Education journal The Eskimo reports about 10 000 head of reindeer in Alaska as of June 30. It notes 73 herds statewide, 33 in the northwest district, with 50 370 deer in that district and 30 930 owned by Eskimos, plus details on Seward peninsula and St. Lawrence Island distributions.
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