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- OF ALASKA TRIP ““the sidewalks or streets of Daw- BRINGING Ui FATHER | HOPE AFRICA (S A SMALL < Wl & O W CAN TUNNEY HOLD HIS TiTLE AGAINST THESE FIVE CHALLENGERS? The next twelve months should see the Amping on Gene Tunney’s trail. England’s “white hope” (upper) h i(right), Australian slugger, has made several im gure prominently in the forthcoming free-for-all, 'WE SENT FOR COL, CAPETOWN TO LIVE YOU SOME INFORMATION ABOUT AFRICA ! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE. THURSDAY, OCT. 20, 1927. e S0 YOU KNOwW 'AFR‘CK‘. il A o) EVERY INCH OF \T- {one of the most dangerous, as well as colorful, contenders. - ACKERMAN IS STILL WRITING ‘Editor of Sportmen’s Guide Writing Interesting Notes of North The Sunday edition of the| Cleveland News of October 2 con-| tains . the tollowing ftems under | ‘the heading, “Ackerman’s Notes,”| written by Morris - Ackerman, noted sportsman and 'writer and editor of Ackerman's Sportsman’s Guide, who made a trip to Alaska' last summer and spent seme time (n Juneau: £7.4p fellow’in Dawson offered to bet me a hundred dollars that he tould pan gold from any spot in son. Can you imagine living in a “place like that? Of course the net result of the panning might: net 4 mighty little “dust.” But at that one is glad ‘to ‘know he can placer in his own front yard. Summer moskeets and black flies. Sixty below and the long winter night is the reason, A “lving” won’t make a feller forsake the comforts back home. “The insect life of Alaska and Yukon compares very favorably with that of Labrador and New- foundland. The farther morth you go the hotter the “flies.” I took three makes of fly dope with me —and used’ 'em all. ~!{But it's nothin’ in the summer compared to the spring,” emphasized Oscar Olsom; Taku guide. “In the spring we got snowshoe moskeeties in this country. They come down the ‘when ‘the ice breaks up.” Zingo! 4 “Up Alaska way the coastal lolk| are & lot. better off for wmr!o'l' (Inte mess of young sea gulls. 1 don't know who gets the best of it. The Siwash lives on tish and may bo| The young ;:ull: I'lives on anything he can get. Bu! ten years old. if he is very young he doesn’'t 1 get much. “Totem poles. When you. trav- el north from Ketchikan you'll see them at every boat stop and at many “live” and “dead” Siwash villages along the way. Most folks think the totem pole is a thing of worship.' It ‘isn’t. 1It's in a fact a coat of arms, or a family tree, Each Indian tribe has its own insignia. When u new member comes from another tribe into ‘the familly one more | “ball and chain” is added to the pole. - That's how it is. '“How old is the mammoth anc walrus fossil ivory dug from the tundra of the far morth? , Millio; of* souvenirs have been manufac- tured from this ivory. The Smith- sonian institution estimates the stuff to be not less than one hun- dred thousand years of age. Think that over. The Christian era is two thousand years old. King Tat lived four thousard years ago. A difference of .196,000 years ahead of King Tut. Yea, brother. “Ten times to one when you meet up with a great brown bear that bear Is going to run from ypu. The eleventh time he'll come to- wards you, and “for” you. , Then you want & tall tree or a big gun. Paolo Uzcudun (lower left) onal Newsreel) greatest activity In years in the ranks of the heavyweights. Jack Sharkey of Boston (left) is sure to make a determined- bid for the prize. Phil Scott, % as_just arrived in New York and will shortly embark on a campaign to win recognition. Pack Dempsey (right center) promises to meet all comers and is begging for a third crack at Tunney. Tom Heeney pressive sfarts since coming to the United States, and experts say he may , the Basque woodchopper, is also rated as night is not what I calls on pleas. ure bent. “It wasn’t bad enough®to have | Alaska and Yukon infested with the massive and savage timber wolf. The coyote has had > {move up that way. The coyotes \are so thick in some parts now the natives have become fed up on them, Where did they come from? That's what the combined Alaskan ‘and Yukon governments are trying to figure out. They're gonna hire experts to try and lo- cate the route the coyotes take from the south and head 'em off. Are you a expert coyoter? If so, iyou're wanted—quick. “Devil club. Ever hear of it? Well, it's all the name implies. Grows amongst the alders, stunt- ed spruces, blueberry and salmon berry bushes of the Alaskan {islands. Devil club forms the 08 | 4wire” that makes the Alaskan jungle on the islands of Chichag- of, Baranof and Admiralty nigh impossible to penetrate. In fact, the growth is so thick that bear trails are the only ones through jit. And what a place to meet a brown bear! It would probably take a man as long to walk the 130 miles from end to end of Ad- miralty as it would from the At- lantic to the Pacific on our high- ways,” |PAOLINO INJURED; SCOTT MATCH OFF The favorite stunt of the brown| Npw YORK, Oct. 20.—Paolino fellow is to let you pass and then 'yzeyqum, Spanish heavyweight, come upon you from the rear. As wiji not be able to meet Phil my Alaskan friend, Jack' Ritten-|geott - British champion on No- house, says, “You need four eyes |yember 4 as the result of sprain- when rummagin’ aroun’ in this|ing his back im training. country. And them four eyes got- ————— ta be placed just- right, too.” NEW .m AT “I had several experiences o1 BOSTON, Oct. 20, ‘Welker traveling through fields of ice- bergs on dark ni _Some of the' bergs - were little and some|Cochran, 18.2 balklipe billiard were big. But, readers, when you |champion, established a new rec- consider that seven-eighths of A ord here last night in a match berg is under water .it don’t take against Eric Hagenlacher @ Mitle boat— \making & high rum of 261. The record was 241 made by By GEORGE McMANUS WELL- WHAT DO You | TS A FINE KNOW ABOUT r‘—‘ KIMBERLEY 2 ASK ME SOMETHING © 1927 v InvL Fearure Senvice. Inc., Great Britan rights reserved [BASEBALL HAS GOOD YEAR ON PACIFIC COAST J ant f amento were the other teams 20—Th> league finished 2 W 927 campaign in a sea- on marked by large aitendance:, lose rivalry and the winning of he pernant by a club that had ‘10t tewched the top rung for 14 vears. : Oak'and, winner, captured ast pennant in 1912, This with a team composed largely youngsters developed from rookie stage, the Oaks hrough easily, leading the from shortly after the first few lays of play. They clinched vic- ory nearly three weeks bhafore cason’s end. 1 Francisco, k[.m.\hill}: in the first division. i | o th romped Seattle, New attendance records wern !7egorded at both the Oakland land San Francisco parks with |crowds being turned away for {lack of capacity on several occa- | sions. i e | |WOMEN TENNIS | ! NEW . YORK, Oct. 20—Along pWith the onward march of women .in the playing of tennis comes the vindication that they are taking lover management of their branch lof the sport as well. Observers {have noted. this season an in- jicreased list of tournaments in {which women have officiated as |referces. In the East these have included the metropolitan clay court championship, conducted by Mrs. Frederick Schmitz, and the Qonnecticut State Champlonship tfor women, at which Mrs. J. P. H. Perry was referee. — - Try the new Spanish chrl, pap- er curl, or brush wave. Given by |Mrs. Webber at No, 1, MacKin- {mon Apts. Also all other Hnes of Beauty Culture given. Phone bhaT. —adv. Four of them are Gas Makes People Nervous and Restless I Gas preeau.r:—_l;-the abdomen vauses a restless, nervous feeling and prevents sleep. Adlerika re- SPECIAL SHOWING OF FIGHT FILMS = | oo e o e smases, and FOR GOV. PARKS o1d waste matter you never | | thought was in vour system. 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Pltagugs AT ALL 0600D,GROCERS SELECTION LIBRARIAN, y As provided for under Onlln-‘ ance No. 200, The Common Coun- cil ot the City of Juneau, will at |its next regular meeting, Frida: | October 21, 1927, select a Librar ian to serve until rirst regular meeting in- April, 1928. 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