Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-02-11 | Page 4 | Alaska Woman Pioneer Tells Perils, Delights of Far North

She Hunts Big Game Gam Game e And Also Tourists s F r rs s II III rb I r i iD D t w F. F b ad a NELLIE OF ALASKA PAYS VISIT TO S. S L. L C. C IAN WOl Mrs 1 Nellie Neal Lawing left and Mrs 1 Winifred P. P Rails Ralls T Alaska W Woman Pioneer Tells Perils Delights e b is o of Far North She boasts of 63 years years' she manages an Alaskan tourist resort single handed she keeps bears and wolves Ives for pets she has looked imminent death in the eye many tim in the big game fields of the far north and so well is she known as Nellie of Alaska that letters addressed merely with those words invariably reach her from all parts of the continent By full name she is Mrs Nellie Neal Lawing Lowing of the resort community community com corn of Lawing Lowing 23 miles north of Seward on Kenai lake and she Is s in Salt Lake City on her return home from a month four-month trip which followed the rim of the United States and crossed criss-crossed the country country coun- coun try ry several times Alaska Booster Guest here of the family of her law in aw J J. J T. T Neal 2531 Orchard Orchard Orchard Or Or- chard avenue avenue Mrs Lawing said she was on a sponsored self promotional promotional promotional pro pro- motional tour in the interests of Alaskan trade and tourist facilities and when not discoursing on the hibernating habit of the brown bear bearor or the intelligence of the mountain goat she was generous g with fig fig- ures ures describing the agricultural mineral minerai fishery and other resources of her territory s s Preparing to le leave ve Saturday she called on Mrs Winifred P. P Rails Balls president of the Salt Lake City Business and Professional Women's club Mrs Lawing is a a. member of the Seattle club She and Mr Lawing were married at Seattle 15 years ago after she already had spent years in Alaska He died two years ago Since then the n she has been alone in the management management management manage manage- ment of the tourist resort Hooked Fish Rings Bell My kitchen is built over thE th e lake she said and I have an arrangement arrangement ar by which a bell ring when the line Une I hang out of thE th window hooks a fish she said The trains on the t railway line near by stop 10 minute at my place to permit tourists t tc o oe view my collection of big game gam e trophies the largest in Alaska I Her narrowest escape from death at t the claws of a maddened animal was vas not on a a. hunting expedition she he said but took place a a. short distance distance dis- dis tance ance from her home as she was defending a pet black bear from the he assault of a wild brown bear measuring nine and one-half one feet from rom nose to tail The animal clawed and bit her but she escaped ran an to the camp returned with a a. rifle and killed the marauder