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Spectators watch from the pier and Jeff Erickson stands by with the pike pole during the final moment of the log rolling tournament. In the end, women's champion Anya Pawuk fell from the log like everyone else who tried to outlast this year's overall champion Britton Erickson....
July 10, 1925 – “Alaska is the source of much interest to the people of the Scandinavian countries,” said Bergendahl, editor and author of Oslo, Norway, who is now making an extended trip of Alaska. “We read all we can find on the subject of Alaska, in fact, our reading of Alaska, fact or fiction, exceeds that of any other country or locality.” Mr. Bergendahl is the representative of 42 newspapers and journals in the Scandinavian countries, and he is also writing for six large Norwegian-American daily papers. He expects to spend more than four...
Heterochone calyx, also called the Goblet Sponge, is one of the largest species of sponge on the Pacific Coast. A type of glass sponge, H. calyx is often found in deep, cold waters, particularly on the western coast of North America. The specimen on display at the Clausen Museum was caught by the F/V Frigidland about 25 miles off the coast of Baker Island, just west of Craig, Alaska. In 2008 the boat was long lining for black cod when this beautiful specimen came up, caught by a single hook...
July 3, 1925 – For the past three weeks or more there has been feverish activity on the waterfront along Bay View Drive in the boat building line. As a result, recently, one “full-rigged power boat” was launched with all the necessary ceremonies, including a bottle of soda pop waved in front of the bow and then poured down thirsty throats. And another boat is about to be launched! Perhaps more than one neighbor has found pieces of boards and planks missing from their backyards – but each piece has been sawed off and neatly fitted to create...
June 1, 1925 – First the water was off. Then the lights were off. And, of course, the power went off with the lights. In the first instance the pipe at the intake of the dam had filled up. Under the capable direction of Hans Wick and Chief of Police George Nicholson, a crew of men had the intake cleaned out and the water running in a short time. In trying to get men to go out, it was demonstrated that idle men in Petersburg are as scarce as hen’s teeth. Thursday afternoon and Thursday night the lights and power were off most of the time. The co...
June 12, 1925 – Miss Mary Wolverton has returned from the Cassiar mining district and says: “Three experienced miners who went to Gold Pan Creek diverted a stream at their own expense, after two months’ labor, and took out $1.60 in gold. Very little gold has been found. Many Alaskan and Yukon sourdoughs who went in with dog teams are coming out and are on their way to other fields. The only real money made is in selling claims for hundreds of dollars. One school teacher put her savings of $600 into a claim and sent in two men with supplies. The...
June 12, 1925 – U.S. Deputy Marshall H.O. Campbell and Special Deputy Earl West returned Sunday afternoon from Little Port Walter bringing with them the body of Adolph Falt who they left Wrangell last Thursday to arrest for having shot John Dahlstrom, a troller, five times. The officers left Wrangell on the gas boat Standard, owned by C.R. Bell who during the trip rendered the officers much valuable assistance. The fugitive was apprehended about nine o’clock Saturday morning in Tebenkof Bay, 20 miles from Little Port Walter. Owing to the Sta...
June 5, 1925 – Much interest is evinced in Petersburg over the trip of Roald Amundsen to the North Pole. Those most familiar with his methods and resourcefulness express very little anxiety over his fate, believing that he will return to civilization only after he has made a thorough examination of the great waste lands he set out to explore. Frederick Nelson, local agent of the Standard Oil Company, has an uncle, Helmer Hanson, now in Norway, who was with Amundsen on his trip to the South Pole, and who was the captain of the sloop Gjoa in w...
Petersburg Indian Association disposed of ten junk vehicles from around the community last month. "Ten junk vehicles for people who couldn't get them up to the dump," said Brandon Thynes who oversees the Indian Environmental General Assistance Program (IGAP) for PIA. "It went really well, people were really up for it and it helped the community," said Thynes. "We contracted a towing company, and they towed the vehicle and took out the fluids and did the tires." More residents signed up than...
May 29, 1925 – Some 15 dogs in Petersburg have died during the past month and there is evidence that death was the result of a slow poison, administered in a form yet to be determined. The officers are working on several clues, and if evidence is secured that poison was put out they intend to make an example of the guilty party. Those who have lost dogs are willing to give a substantial reward for any definite information. Besides the fact that it is unlawful to put out poison, and that a person who would do so is of a low order of mentality a...
May 22, 1925 – John Thompson has the framework up for a two-story building, adjoining the Citizens Steam Laundry, to be used as a machine shop and blacksmith shop downstairs with living apartments upstairs. Alongside of the machine shops will be built gridirons for small boats and boats of a larger fishing class. Also will be built a covered runaway on the shore side where autos can be repaired. There will be a pit so that it will be easy to work under the machines. “And you may say,” said Mr. Thompson, “that my gridirons, when not in use, wi...
