ALASKA NOTES
The Miners and Merchants
Bank of Iditarod, which has
been operated under the- laws of
Nevada for some years, has filed
articles of incorporation with the
Territorial secretary under the
laws of Alaska. As soon as the
fiscal year in Nevada is up the
corporation will be dissolved
there and will then operate un
der the laws of Alaska
The Alaska Oil and Guano
company, which formerly oper
ated an oil and guano plant at
•'Killisnoo, Southeastern Alaska,
has been re-organized and will
in future engage in preparing
herring and other food fish for
the market. The articles of in
corporation have been filed with
the Territorial secretary. The
new company is capitalized at
is 150,000.
E. J. White, better known as
the “Stroller,” who has success
fully conducted the Whitehorse
Star during the past fifteen years
is reported to be negotiating for
the purchase of the Douglas Is
land News. The latter news
paper is the*^ oldest weekly in
Alaska and has been operated
under the same management
since its founding eighteen years
ago.
William Lyscoll, of Juneau, is
a stubborn cuss. He recently
attempted to jump a piece of
waterfront property and when
the case was decided against him
by the court he refused to re
move the piles which he had
set up. He is now in jail for
contempt of court and will re
main there until he can make up
his mind to remove the piles as
directed by the court
The steamer Wellesley, which
has been chartered from the Parr
McCormick Steamship company
of San Francisco to be operated
in Alaska waters by the Admiral
Line, is a wooden vessel of 709
gross and 430 net tons cargo
capacity, 183.3 feet long, 38 feet
beam and 13 8 feet depth of hold.
She was built at Prosper, Ore.,
in 1907.'
At Fairbanks two men who
have been convicted of insanity
have applied for writs of habeas
corpus to prevent their incar
ceration in the asylum at Morn
ingsidc. The writs are asked
for on the grounds that their
conviction was obtained con
trary to the facts in the cases.
The applications are said to be
unprecedented.
The Skagway Alaskan recent
ly printed a dispatch under a
Washington date line to the ef
fect that the postmaster general
had designated eight offices in
Alaska as postal savings deposi
taries. The offices named in the
.announcement arc Fairbanks,
Juneau, Douglass, Treadwell,
Skagway, Wrangell, Ketchikan
and Petersburg.
The precinct of Sulzer, South
eastern Alaska, is without a Un
ited States commissioner and
there are no applicants for the
position. Anyone wanting the
position must be possessed of an
income or able to increase the
fees of his office in divers ways
known to the trained legal mind.
As a result of a recent order
received at the Juneau customs
house, in the future all blanks
used by the public and shippers
will be sold at the rate of one
half cent each instead of one
cent as formerly. The new rata
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ships manifests and entry mani
fests and entry manifests. It
applies also to all legal blanks
furnished by the customs house
J. H. Cobb of Juneau, territor
ial counsel, has gone to San
Francisco where he will present
the case of the Territory vs. the
Hoonah Packing company be
fore the Circuit Court of Appeals
This case is a test to see whether
the Territory has a right to tax
the fishing industries of Alaska
or not.
A number of Mctlakahtlans
have associated themselves to
gether for the purpose of opera
ting a general store to be opened
in the near future, and to be
conducted under the eye of the
government. Successful stores
are now conducted in the same
manner in the villages of Hvda~
burg, Klawock and Klukwan.
As the season advances the
estimates of the probable output
of the Tolovana camp next sea
son increases, and it is now esti -
mated that the new camp will
produce between eight hundred
thousand and one million dollars
Most of the gold will come from
the benches of Livengood creek,
but Mike Hess and Moose creeks
are expected to furnish their
quota.
Word has been received that
A. A- Isbell, construction en
gineer for the Marconi wireless
company, will arrive in Juneau
soon. The reason of his visit at
this time is not known, hut it is
believed he is coming to super
intend the erection of the new
station, the material for which
has been in Juneau for months.
W. J. Wright of the Ketchikan
lighthouse service had an exper
ience recently which he is not
anxious to repeat. He went out
in a small boat to repair a light
on Rosa Reef and was unable to
make a landing or return to Ket
chikan owing to thick weather.
He was rescued next day by a
launch which had been sent to
his assistance.
BRITISH MILITARY EXPERT
Col Repington, writing in the
London Times of February 22,
summarizes the present war sit
uation in the following manner
“We have stayed the enemy
but have not yet beaten him.
The God of Battles withholds
the decision because of the prac
tical balancing of forces, and it
is our main business to throw
more weight into the scales.
“We must reckon the German |
held armies at 0,600,000; Austri
ans 1,500,000 to 2,000,000; the
Turkish and Bulgarian armies at
about 1,000,000.
“The numerous superiority we
possess is not such as to promise
a decisive victory, judging from
merely the numerical point of
view.
“On the other hand, our re
serves or potential reserves arc
Superior. If we take 2,000,000
for the German figure of the
German reserves and from 1
000,000 to 1,200,000 for Austria
and make due allowance for re
serves Bulgaria and Turkey may
>till be able to bring forward, it
is certain that we allies can d >
much better.
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have nearly as many . men at
home as abroad, and a third force
about equivalent in strength, in
recruits, is assumed to be avail
able under the Derby scheme.
“'Thus we alone have reserves
nearh equal to those remaining
for Germany and Austria, and
our great task! this year is to
bring them forward for the field.
“France has not yet used her
19K) and 1917 ^clasises at the
front, while she has other men
at depots and older men who
might be called upon. Italy for
even man at the front has two
in the depots and another not
called up. Russia has actually
trained and available directly
with rillcs ready as many r<
-crvcs as Germany and an im
mense number still behind
"Thus we have on the whole,
leaving the oversea possessions
of the allies aside, a great pre
ponderance of reserves and the
result of the war will depend
largely upon the manner in
which these are utilized during
the months ahead ”
M. Pinska. a Dawson mer~
chant who is at tin; Butler on his
way east to buy a supply of
goods, luts a charge to perform
that is causing him more trouble
than all of his other business
worries says the* P. J. .Mr. Pin
ska was approached shortly be
fore lie left by a large and im
posing mining operator who hid
a pair of large and imposing 'eet.
1'lie mining operator, according
to .Mr. Pinska. is learning to
dance and feeling that a pair of
dancing pumps would peihaps be
the correct steps to take or at
least one of the first coireet steps
to take, commissioned Mr. Pin
ska to purchase .hem To date
Mr. Pinska has had no luck in
finding anything that would lit
and has about made tit) his mind
to call for sealed bids from local
shoemakers in the hope that the
contract male be completed be
fore the winter season is over in
Dawson.
The Juneau health authorities
ecetitly discovered a smallpox
patient in the city and have sent
him to the pesthouse. The dis
vase is reported to be in a very
mild form and that there is no
danger of it spreading. The man
is a foreigner and a new arrival
in Juneau and the authorities ar<
watching the crew of the steam
er upon which he arrived in or
der to detect any new cases
which might develop.
Silver Dow l reek received its
name Iron) a party of prospec
tors who reached its valley in the
vicinity of Duttc in 1868. \\ bile
discussing the best name for the
; creek the clouds broke away and
tbe sunshine falling >>n the creek
as it circled around the mountain
suggested the name Silver Bow
l'. S ficological Surrey.
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which furnishes the latest telegraph
news as well as local happenings.
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postoffice; you can have the paper
delivered to your home or office every
day day before supper is served #
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