ALASKA NOTES
The temperature at White-1
horse for the month of January j
averaged 26 below zero.
A Spin9ter’9 Matrimonial Club
has been organized at Valdez
with a large'membership
Fifty-two Oo watt electric lights
will illuminate the streets of
Petersburg. That town is com
ing.
Mr. House, a dentist from An
chorage, broke a hip while on his
way to Anchorage from Seward
sometime ago.
The beluga hunters of Seldovia
arc trying to devise some way of
catching the elusive fish, but are
meeting with poor success.
The mail carrier from iditarod 1
to Seward encountered a temper
ature of 71 below zero and was.
forced to abandon horses for a
dog team.
The story has gained circula- i
tiop that many persons recently :
married in Alaska are not legally I
wedded because a revenue stamp)
was not affixed to the certificate, j
The Pacific Coast Steamship j
Company has purchased the!
steamer Raville for the South-;
eastern Alaska trade, to take the
place of the Delhi, lost in the.
North about a year ago.
An exchange says: That man
Wickersham is most interesting!
Even one who never might vote j
for him in a thousand years finds |
it hard to say anything against!
him personally. No one would I
try to deny that he can represent j
the territory ably. Mr Wicker-1
sham has ability.
Men on whose property boo' ■
leggers have been arrested at An
chorage are preparing to make a
strong fight against confiscat ion
of their property 1 ndcr the p v
vision in the deeds prohibiting
the sale of liquor a. Anchorage,
a prov.s'on wh' 1 the g“tv al
land office is deCrmined *; en
force.
Because they believe market
conditions during the next few
years at least will warrant con
siderable investment in the sal"
inon industry of the North. C.G.
Burnett, A. B. Penneycook and
f. H. McGehee have decided b
put in a mild curing plant and
saltery for salmon at Wrangell
narrows with the idea of getting
a cannery equipment later.
Fishermen and others in the
districts near Katalla use distil
ate instead of gasoline in their
engines, says judge Robert D.
Gray, trustee in charge of the re
finery owned bg the Alaska Oil
& Refining Company at Katalla.
For a long time the users of our
products insisted on using gaso
line,” he said. “Now we sell
very little gasoline, the fishermen
preferring the heavir and more
powerful fuel, as is the case with
fishermen of the Puget sound
region”
The cannery tender Fanshaw,
recently launched at Seattle,
obeyed the dry law in that the
wash from the bay wet her bows
for the first time. The Fanshaw
is_named after Cape Fanshaw,
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HRE MB SIGNALS
U.,..vStandard Oil Ck>.
14.. ... .Canton. Cold Storage
14.J. J. Season Co., office
14.. ..... Headquarters Saloon
*1. .. The Lobby
44 ......Pioneer* Igloo
*1.-Fire Department
44.Discovery Saloon
44* ».Torkay'a Cigar Store
4t.Third Are. and LaneTs Way
.. JBnglne House, Phene Main 47 ..
Complete”race story7
A complete story of the All Alas
ka Sweepstakes Dog race, day bj
day, with the score card wan
printed in issue of April r«j
Nome Daily Nugget. Extra cop
ies will be on sale at this office.
which is located on the shore of
Frederick sound, Southeastern
Alaska She is building for the
Weise Packing Company, and
when completed will cost ap
proximately $12,000.00. The
launching was the first of the
year and was the first since the
state-wide prohibition law went
into effect.
Seattle is to meet the competi" I
tion of Prince Rupert as a gate
way to Alaska. Cheaper fares
via a more direct route as a re
sult of the competition of the
Grand Trunk Pacific railway
company’s transcontinental line;
for * time threatened to cause an
important amount of travel to be
diverted by way of the North
Pacific’s newest port, but action |
by the North Coast Passenger
Association removes this danger
and puts Seattle on an equal foot
ing with her Northern neighbor.'
Following a meeting of railroad
and steamship officials at Port
land recently came individual
notice by the Northern Pacific,
Great Northern, Union Pacific
and Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul railway companies and the
Alaska Steamship Company, the
Pacific Alaska Navigation Com
pany and the Border Line Trans
portation Company of their in
tention to establish the same
through one-way fares between
Alaska ports and Eastern terri
tory via Seattle as now applv via
Prince Rupert.
New laid eggs $1.25 per dozen
Prosser's Harness shop Phone,
Black 5.
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WE CAN DO IT
For first cra»s work and prompt de
livery phone Main 151 and the People’*
Steam Laundry will tend and g*t your
laundry.
W. J. WILLIAMSON. Prop
The Nugget 1* giving Its subscribers
more telegraph nwv« than any other
paper In Alaska and will continue to
do so. Send In your nurne and have
•he Nugget delivered to your home or
■ tlice. Do It now.
The plaoe to get your job printing at
•ight Prices and prompt delivery i*
-t the Nugget office.
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orders for acetone have already
been placed in Canada. The gov
ernment there, however, has not
yet been asked to commandeer [
any of the distilleries, and it is!
not thought, probable, that such |
action will have to be taken . 1
COMPLETE RACE STORY.
A complete story of the All Alas
ka Sweepstakes Dog race, day by
day, with the score card was
printed in issue of April 15
Nome Daily Nugget. Extra cop
ies will be on sale at this office.
FOX RAISING ON THE
SHUMAGIN ISLANDS
Raising foxes on the Shumagin
islands, Alaska, can be made a
profitable business, and will pay
as regular dividends as any com
mercial enterprise, says Andrew
Grosvold who for the last fifteen
years has been gradually building
up his fox raising farms until he
values his holdings at more than
$100,000.
Mr. Grosvold uses different
methods from the ordinary fox
raiser, as he has unlimited isl
ands at his disposal, and when he
wants to increase his production
he take another island, stocks it
with ten pairs of foxes, hires a
watchman and waits for results.
Because of the fact that he im
ported blue foxes to start with, he
savs that lie does not have to
worry about feeding the animals,
as they are clam eaters, and like
the Indians, when the tide is out
their table is set.
Mr- Grosvold went to Alaska
in 1886 fls a hunter and trapper.
He tried his hand also at fishing
and mining, but finally decided
on raising blue foxes. Time has
proved the wisdom of his plans,
tor he now lias an annual output
of about 150 to 200 skins worth
from $50 to $250 each. He also
operates a store and between thls
and his foxes, keeps busy. Last
year, at considerable expense, he
imported seven silver gray foxes,
and hereafter will -devote consid
erable attention to them. The
silver grays are hunters, and
rarely eat anything they do not
kill themselves. They require
special attention, and the corral
to hold them cost $3,000 to in
stall. The blue foxes, on the
< ther hand, get their living from
shell fish and fish cast up by the
sea. On all the islands J have
selected there are reefs that i
stretch out into the open water!
and form natural hooks to catch :
all the drftiug fish or seal or j
whales. Then when the tide is
low the foxes set forth to see |
what the waves have brought. I
Should there be nothing in the j
fish or whale line, they immedi-;
atelv set to work picking up shell '
fish, and thus require nothing
but a watchman to keep poachers
away,
ALCOHOL OSLO
FOR EXPLOSIVES
. Tile war is coining to the res
cue of the distillers in Canada.
Large quantities of alcohol are
required by the British govern
ment for the manufacture of ex
plosives. From alcohol is manu
factured acetone and acetone is
largely used in the manuacture of j
cordite. The British government
has already commandered distil
lories in the United Kingdom, so
as to control output of alcohol,
needed for the manufacture of
explosives. Canadian distillers
are now being asked to augment
the British and I-rerich supplies,
and it is understood that largi
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SPRING MEDICNE ‘
A good spring tonic taken at this time of the year is of
great benefit to everybody.
Among the simple and < riicient spring medicines the fol
lowing are recommended:
CASCARA BARK
SASSAFRAS BARK
Sulphur and cream of tartar
Also
APARIENT POWDER.
I Which contains Sulphur, cream of Tartar and other valua
•!>le ingredients
SOLD ONLY BY US.
HILL’S PHARMACY
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SOME T H i NG~ NEVT^
Last fall we had a few cases of Ranch Eggs put up in
sealed cans according to th e government formula, liquid
glass. They have kept so perfectly that you cannot detect
the difference from Nome laid eggs.
They are $5.00 per can 0 f nine dozen or 75c per single
dozen.
Telephone White 17 for a dozen.
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