The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 17, 1935, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, SEPT. 17, 1935. "BRINGING UP FATHER M THE LAUNDRY | | | YES MR JIGGS - BOY AN’ I'M I'M SORRY WAITING FOR : THE LAUNDRY TEAREM By GEORGE McMANUS YOU WILL NOT BE BOTHERED-HE REFUSES - TO GO THERE ANYMORE- HE SAID THE BUTLER INSULTED HIM AND FURTHERMORE DONT SEND HIM TO MY HOUSE AGAIN il Inc,, Grese Bticain rights reserved. -.' <2 et — [ , Collection of Firearms by ortip ki s gl ord Truesdell Is Perhaps Most pont trophy for 100 gr more suc~‘ Valuable in United States cessive hits is no longer awarded. Last June The Empire’s “20 Years | Aga” column contained an account Mort H. Truesdell has a collec- 18 of that model. I have one of |today. tion of firearms in his gun shop the original 18. They were too ex-| Thelocal trap range had not been on Seward Street that is prebably|pensive. Guns were cheap in those | used for threc years. Truesdell re- lected guns from all over the world, | dition and is the only one in work- | was in readiness he tested his skul,i but one of his most valued posses-|ing order in existence. |“T told them I would 'keep shooting | if he thoughi he could do as well in the United States. He has col-|one I have is in good shooting con- |little success. When everything | TINITIATED :inxtianon last night was the pres—ime Alaska Juneau Gold Mining ence at the table with the new Company, has signified his accept- DOUGLAS imembvrs. of John Feusi, the lust‘ance of an invitation to be present jremaining charter member of the at the regular meeting of the |Aerie on the Channel, | Douglas Chamber of Commerce NEWS e, | Wednesday evening. A very inter- ROAD SURFACING HAS |esting session is in store for the | REACHED LAWSON CREEK | members who are urged to be pres- | ent, as well as all others interested. The adding of the base-fill on| The meeting is scheduled to start the new highway leading into|at 7:30 o'clock sharp. Douglas yesterday reached the| e |Lawson Creek bridge or two-thirds | BORSEN IMPROVED BY EAGLES AT iof the’ distance to be covered. By | |the last of September is the ap-| Ben Borsen, who has been a pa- |proximate date when that Work|tient at St. Ann’s Hospital since ‘.wlll be finished and the puttlngis(,plemher 2, when he was struck fon of the finishing surface of um»‘by a gravel truck on Willoughby -~ |FRIGIDAIRE AWARD | MRS. CARTER IS ‘ STILL UNCLAIMED VISITING HERE: | Mrs. N. R. Carter, the former 1 At a joint committee meeting | Miss Josephine Gilpatrick of Jus yesterday at which members of |neau, recently arrived from her |the American Legion and Fair As-|Sitka home, and is now the ' guest |sociation were present, a decision |0f Mrs. Carl Collins. |was reached that the holder of| Mrs. Carter says she has heard | ticket number 1115 would have un- | from her sister, Georgia, now Mrs. |til October 1, to present that|Jack Littlepage, saying that she |ticket and receive the Legionairre and her husband are now in Ne- |Frigidaire as a reward. Should|vada for a three-months’ vaca~ the winning ticket not be present-|tion from Mr. Littlepage’s position ed by that time, No. 911 was|as @ mining engineer for the So- |drawn, by the joint cofmittee as Viet Republic. The couple expect |second choice, and number 995 as|to return to Moscow this fall. third choice. | Mrs. Carter will return to Sitka' The Legion's smoking stand is|o" the North Sea.: still waiting for number 789 to| claim it. If this is not done be- Ifore October 1, number 370 was |drawn as second choice and num- ber 14 as third choice. GALLEMORE IN HOSPITAL W. A. Gallemore, A. J. employee, was admitted to the hospital yes- terday for medical treatment. H NORTH l:nq = {of Truesdell’s exploit in 1915. Some | of his friends jokingly asked him the most interesting and valuable days and the .45-70 double-bm‘rel;pnired the eqripment and tried to| group of weapons in Alaska, if not|Colt soid for $175 and $185. The revive interest in trap-shooting with | sions is a .38 calibre Smith and e A Wesson revolver, former owner un- known, which was recovered by div- |swear that there never was a dou- | there and he broke 46 or 47 out of | ers from the Sofia. .The origtna!;ble,b,n-el high power rifle made in |50, black walnut handles have been re- | placed with walrus ivory handles elaborately carved in a dog’s head them several years ago about am- beautifully checkered stocks and | design. | Another item in Truesdell's col- lection is what he believes to be the oldest known cartridge gun, a .22 rim fire rccolver made before the Civil War by Forhand and Wadsworth. Mass.,, patented Sep- tember 24 and October 22, 1851. He also has a powder and ball pistol of the type carried by United States Army officers during the Civil Wzr, which is in perfect working cond;-‘ tion. Belt Gun A 44 calibre “Pocket Army” belt! gun made by Merwin and Hul- bert about 1880, has interchangeable barrels, one lbarrel about 4 inches long for use when the gun was to be carried in 2 pocket, and another barrel 7 inches long for use ig a holster.. In 1882, Truesdell said, Smith and Wesson bought the pat- ent to the “Pocket Army” revolver and took it off the market. A .38 calibre Colt’s powder and ball pistol and a 56 calibre Spencer manufactured about 1860, found beside a human skeleton near the head of Hoonah Bay, are included in the collection. The revolver which was in a leather holster that protected it to & ocertain extent, has been put in working condition by Truesdell. ‘“T've shot it he! said, “It took a lot of time and| patience to put it in shooting con- dition. The rifle was too badly rusted to fix.” | | Purchased 25 Years Ago Another interesting exhibit is a silver-mounted, pearl-handled .38/ calibre revolver with a gold-plated cylinder, one of a pair of special target guns purchased 25 years ago, from Smith and Wesson by Joe Mc- Donald, Superintendent of the' Treadwell mine. | A vicious-appearing engine of de- struction, a “swivel gun,” stands in the window of Truesdell’s shop. It was designed for use on a pivot on the bow of a boat and is really, a small muzzle-loading cannon. lt; was made about 1860 by E. Rzm-] ington and was brought to Alaska for sea otter hunting. ~Asked about ! bullets used in the swivel gun, Truesdell replied, “They loaded it with anything they could get into it—nails, gravel, shot or anything handy. I won a hat on that gun. A man was Lere from the Reming- ton factory. He told me I could always get parts for any gun ever made by the Remington people, so I bet him a hat he couldn't furnish a hammer for a Remington I had in my shop. T had to take the swivel gun apart and show him | where it said ‘E. Remington' under | the form before he would pay me‘ bet.” . Biz Game Gun Most Alaskan hunters carry .30.06 rifles, Truesdeli said, but all sorts of guns enter the Territory in the possession of tourists. “Big game hunters come in here sometimes with a .375 Magnum or a 35 Win- chester,” he said, “But a .30.06 in proper hands is big enough for any- thing in Alaska. Some of these fellows that don't know about a gun just shoof at the bear. With a .30.06 you can't do that without taking chances of ‘getting your pants tore off. You have to hit him where you can.make it count.” However, some local hunters do carry heavy calibre rifles. “The 375 Magnum with a muzzle energy which equals 4000 pounds, compared to a muzzle energy of 29 pounds for the :30.06, is a very popular gun in South Africa,” Truesdell said. “I sold the first one that came up here to Ed Jahnke about five years ago. It is only six or seven years| since they started to make them. I sold one to Johnny Hermle and | another to Wright, the road con-{ tractor, and I have one. H “They make a double-barrel hlgh-g power rifle in Europe but we don’t| 4 make a double-barrel in this coun- | try. The only good one ever built| # in the United States was made by Colt in 18¥14-and they only ‘made | P | munition Gives Proof “Some fellows will stand and Even the Colt I wrote to the United States. Factory disputed it. for my rifle. They claimed they never made any such gun. Three years later a man from Savannah brought one of the guns to the factory to prove they did make it. They finally found an old man that used to work for them years ago. He said he made 18 of them in 1871. Some of their papers were destroyed in a fire long ago, so that they didn’'t have any record of the most powerful gun made in 1871. It shoots a 500 grain bullet.” Extraordinary Marksman Truesdell is an extraordinary marksman. , He has won several shot-gun championships here and in Yakima, Washington, wkere he lived for several years before he lived before he came to Alaska. The Nobel Ballistite cup, won in Yaki- ma, stands in his window. Ques tioped about other trophies, he said, "Oh, I've got a half dozen or more around here somewhere. When my wife came up here in 1913 she left about a wheel-barrow load—we got tired of looking at them.” In June, 1915, he won the only Dupont ‘“‘Long Run" trophy evernipped. MONDAY MEET Douglas Aeric’s Member- ship Being Boosted as carved handles, “I do very little| Prosperlly Returns jof that work for anyone but my- mpay pouglas Aerie 117, Fraternal [self,” he said. "It s hard on eyes, | ger of Eagles, is well abreast of ‘but if Iget in a gun .I_tnke a fancy | o approaching better times for [te I fix 1t up to sult myself. I pqugq5 45 evidenced by the recent am now starting checkering the increasé in new membership. At |stock of a .22 automatic Winches- ine regular meeting last night seven {ter. Tdon't like it the way it is.” .| candidates were initiated as fol- | % lows: Richard MacDonald, Marcus F. Jensen, James E. Blis, Tauno | Niemi, Harry J. Peterson, Walter H. Bacon and Carl Lindstrom. |Earlier in the week, James Man- | ning, Orrin and Glen Edwards A heavy frost struck this area‘ple‘iged their affiliation to the during the night. Sidewalks In Ju-| A°Tie: Ineau were slippery early this morn-i During the 30 years lha.t the ing until the sun came out and got Eagles have had their organization in its work. here they have been leaders in all .| movements tending to advance the On the Eagle River Highway, ice g jnterest of the town. During ;‘:: ;‘?}:}"&Egiefi;‘: ;‘w“fi:: ::fe 0 the long years of local depression [pites, OMO” their membership became scattered 5, throughout the States leaving but On portions of the Glacier High-|few at home tc carry on the strug- | way there were traces of ice and gle for existence. Now, however, the ground in places was slightly with the Douglas Bridge soon to be frozen. opened to travel the rapid restora- | Many gardens and flower bcdfl.‘linn to its former standing position |look a trifle ill this morning andis inevitable. crops, plants and bushes were | Noteworthy in connection with | the banquet which followed the| r r |until I missed,” Truesdell said: | broke 84. Dr. W. W. Council was | |form crushed rock will start. Avenue and apparently suffered a | s 2] fractured skull, is reported much MR. BRADLEY TO BE GUEST | improved. Hospital authorities sald‘ Bill Kirk had a lucky day and } : LOCAL CHAMBER WEDNESDAY | today that Borsen will probably | { 25." many guns | broke 24 ot of Truesdell has |leave the hospital within a few | Philip R. Bradley, President of'days. with PAY AS YOU WASH $3.00 DOWN $5.00 MONTHLY General Electric Thor Easy We handle three leading makes of Washing and Ironing Machines and sell them on very easy terms at reasonable prices. Alaska Electric Light and Power Co. JUNEAU—Phone 6 DOUGLAS—Phone 18 heres MILDNESS Jor you mildness without flatness mildness with taste here’s one cigarette that really does SATISFY © I””, Ligozrr-& Mygrs Fosaced Co, * Completely Air-Conditioned for genuine travel comfort. No gritty film to wash off. No drafts to dodge. No sweltering stuffiness on this train. The traveler's idea of heaven? 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