ALASKA NOTES
(From our Exchan sea.)
An automobile club has been form
ed in Fairbanks and a campaign has
been inaugurated for good roads.
Permits for buildings, the aggre
gate cost of which will be $65,000, were
Issued in Juneau in June.
Residents of Brooks, In the Tolo
vuna district, claim to have the hand
somest town in the Tanana valley.
Bate reports reaching Fairbanks
state that the strike in the Goodpas
ter country is a very promising one.
Gus Peterson recently made a clean
up of $9,000 on his ground on the
Sunny bench in the Tolovana district.
The Alaska Engineering Commis
sion has 39S men employed on rail
road construction in the Talkeetna
district.
Win. Shepard, an old time mine op
erator of the Fairbanks district, is
reported to ii.ve died from blood pois
oning at a !;■ \ttle hospital.
I'om Kohoo, 'or many vr s a j p
ular purser of the Admiral line, has
unit the Pea, and is now engaged in
the soil drink business in Seattle.
The North Star baseball team of
Anchorage, composed of ladies, defeat
ed the Shamrock team of that city
recently by a score of 15 to 12.
Win. Boswell and James Casend
den, both old time residents of Cor
dova, were recently admitted 1o citi
zenship at that place by Judge Brown.
Robert Olyson, of Petersburg, has
gone to Seattle to bring back a big
cruising boat for San Diego capitalists
who will tour southeastern Alaska on
a hunting and fishing trip.
Helen, the nine year old daughter
of Captain Davis, of Fort Seward, died
recently on the steamer near Ketchi
kan while en route to the states with
her parents for medical treatment.
T. Zorn, an old time prospector of
the Bake creek section, says that
WAR ODDITIES
LIVERPOOL A local newspaper
anplico the fallow rg to to i cm. n" ;U 1
objectors: “A social anarchist with a
malady of abnormal egoism who flout
ed into modern notoriety on calf lymph
ami has reached his opprobatrious
apotheosis in a Pharisaical funk.”
DOLLY VERDEN SKIRTS
ARE ALL THE RAGE
ATLANTIC CITY—The Boardwalk,
most frivolous and cosmopolitan of all
thoroughfares, today bears a distinct
ly colonial appearance as the result
of the Dolly Varden skirt rage which
has just hit it. The pretty, flowing
flowered skirts have been fashionably
extinct for many years. The flowered
figures upon thegi are often five times
the size of the original.
GERMANY IS BUYING
GOLD FROM PEOPLE
THE HAGUE—In order to increase
German’s gold reserve and otherwise
to prepare to meet the enormous over
flow of specie to pay for needed raw
materials after the war, the Reich
liank is buying articles of gold from
the people and advising them to sell
precious stones to dealers in neutral
countries in exchange for gold. As an
inducement for the people to part with
their gold the bank is giving to every
person selling over five marks’ worth
a certificate to the effect that their
sacrifice was made for the defense
and honor of their country.
RUSSIAN EXPERTS SAY
WAR WILL LAST YEAR
LONDON—The Morning Post’s Pe
trograd correspondent while exulting
, in the success of the Russian push,
declares that final victory over Ger
many may yet be a year or more dis
tant, adding "for the German becomes
stronger as tho circumference of the
defense contracts, and he will be
■ longest when once more driven back
upon his own admirable home railway
system.
WILL HYDRAULIC
FOR TREASURE
VICTORIA, R. C.—Yet another ex
pedition is being fitted oui to search
for the treasure burled on Cocos Isl
and. Capt. Gus Whldden, local ma
riner, who has made no less than three
voyages to the famous island off Cos
ta Rica In an attempt to locate, the
there are more prospecting in that
country than ever before, and many
of them are meeting with fail success.
Charles M. Cavaness, a recent ar
rival at Anchorage from Michigan, is
convinced that cranberries can be suc
cessfully cultivated on the Matanus
ka flats and will make the attempt.
Capt. Alex. Olson, a Matanuska
farmer, says that the land in that sec
tion will produce bigger crops than
cun be raised in Washington and Ore
gon. Alex must be a newcomer.
Fairbanks reports a considerable
boom in real estate since the Alaska
Engineering Commission started to
work there, with constantly increasing
demand and a rapid rise in prices.
An interior exchange says that a
native who was shot in the Nabesna
country lias succumbed from his in
juries. A wound in that portion of
the anatomy must necessarily prove
fatal.
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II. I). Hall of Hope, 82 years of age,
had his Ill's! automobile ride a few
i ago while on a visit to Anchor
age. He was a resident of the Hope
country for more than twenty years.
I,. Selling, who is connected
with the Bahrcnburg & Bubb placer
property on Dollar creek, says that
eight miners are employed on the
property and they are working four
giants.
Churles N'. Hayes, foreman of the
cyanide plant at Treadwell and Miss
Martha .1. C. Olson, teacher in the
Douglas public school were uuietly
married recently to the surprise of
heir friends.
A team owned and driven by O. M.
Jorgenson of Juneau, attached to a
wagon loaded with Hand, backed off
i ten foot bluff, smashing the wagon
and harness. Jorgenson and the
horses were uninjured.
The Pictorial Heview edition of the
Nugget in magazine form to be pub
lished in October will tie the greatest
| issue ever published in Nome.
missing gold, is interested in. the new
venture and will be in command of the
vessel, which is to be equipped for the
iitest venture.
c'apt. Whidden will leave Victoria
tomorrow for San Francisco, where
proposes to complete arrangements
or an early start for .Cocos island in
search of the fabulous wealth, which
lie is convinced is buried away on the
land of romance.
The forthcoming expedition pro
poses to take south a hydraulic plant
and by this process C'apt. Whidden
believes the treasure can be found.
He is making inquiries with a view
of purchasing the pipe which will be
used in connection with the hydraul
ic plant.
The lust treasure expedition to sail
from Victoria was under Capt. Fred
Hackett, who went to Cocos island
with the Blakely, Capt. Whidden be
ing njate of the craft.
YUKON MARINE.
August 28, 1916.
Casca down Dawson.
Davis down Holy Cross 2 a. m. 26th.
Dawson in Whitehorse.
Delta down Nulato 26th.
Julia B. at St. Michael.
Reliance at Nulato.
Sarah up Kotlik 26th.
Schwatka down Loudon 3:30 a. m.
Selkirk up Yukon Crossing.
Sihiila up Rampart 26th.
Susie on Koyukuk 8 a. m.
Tanana at Fairbanks.
Vidette up Stewart river.
. Washburn up Holy Cross for Dike
man 25th.
Whitehorse up Stewart 4 p. m. 26th.
Yukon with two bagos down Circle
daylight.
Alaska with two barges up Hot
Springs 3 a. m.
OVERSTOCK P!l>.
Jo the pubrtw.—
We nave just finished stock taking,
and find mat we are heavily overstocked
so are making enormous reductions in
Hardware—as much as jU per cent in
certain lines Notwithstanding immense
advances outside, especially In Hard
ware and Metal Goods, we are still sell
ing on the basis of goods purchased the
past two or three years.
We will sell for cash only at these
prices, and for a llmlte. time, until we
bring our slock down to the require
ments of the camp.
If you have an order to bo filled, let
us figure on It; we can save yon money.
We have proved It to others, we can
prove tt to you.
DARLING AND DKAN COMPANY.
DREAM THEATRE
TONIGHT.
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! Str. Northwestern due Nome August 25th
Northwestern *ails from Nome August 27th
Via Cordova and the Inside Passage.
Alaska S. S. Co.
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R. A. Carroll, Agent, Nome
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TO SAVE MONEY
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lor and will take charge very soon, then-fore am now closing out my
entire now stock of quality groceries, In either large or small quanti- i
ties at reduced prices.
CONRAD FREEDING
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We deliver the Goods
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