ALASKA NOTES
(Prom our Exchanges.)
The Cordova Daily Times will issue
a Prosperity edition sometime be
tween August 1st and 15th.
E. J. Eiddicoat, a pioneer resident of
Skugway, died recently from convul
sions after a brief illness.
11. D. Clark, homesteader at Skag
way, will receive full title to his
homestead claim of 44 acres.
Residents of the Casey-Shattuck ad
dition to Juneau have formed a ten
nis club and constructed a court.
John ltonan of Seward has received
a telegram calling him to Kansas City,
Mo., where his wife is seriously ill.
A Miss Wallace, of Walla Walla,
Washington, has been chosen princi
pal of the public school at.Seward.
tile Berg, the Slrelna mining man,
arrived in Cordova recently from the
States, bringing with him a bride.
J. Rous sac, well known in the
interior, is said to be preparing to
launch a drug business at Anchorage.
W. A. Sherman of Anchorage has
announced his intention of engaging
in the sawmill business somewhere
in the vicinity of that town.
The "newsboys of the Anchorage
Times were recently treated to a
movie show, followed by ice cream
and cake for refreshments.
The Alaska Packers Association
has beeen granted a patent to ten
acres of land at Ruble station near
Tyonic, for a canning factory site.
Henry Steinfield, a Cordova fisher
man, has been arrested for violation
of the fisheries law for netting in
Mountain Slough on Sunday.
A small stampede is reported to
have occurred to some creeks on the
south side of the Koyukuk, where
prospects are said to have been found.
The tun of red salmon in the Cop
per river is now on in earnest and the
Cordova canneries are reported to be
getting all the fish they can handle.
Between three hundred and four
hundred farmers are reported to have
located in the Matanuska Valley and
are now engaged in cultivating crops.
At the celebration in honor of the
birthday of the king, held recently at
Whitehorse, Juneau won the baseball
honors with Skagwuy in on second
money.
Max Simel, the pioneer trader, well
known along the Yukon, will take a
large supply of goods to the mouth
of the Ditna.
1’. H. McCue, general superinten
dent of the Northwestern Fisheries
Company, is making arrangements to
rebuild the cannery recently destroyed
by fire at Kenai.
W. Cl. Stevent, who has a farm
about four miles above Matanuska
Junction, on the government railroad,
is experimenting with the raising of
watermelons and cantaloupes.
Government Tie Inspector Young
loaded his pipe recently with a 22
calibro cartridge along with the tobac- I
co, with disastrous results to the pipe
but fortunately without damage to
himself.
The steamer Nasutlin brought to
Dawson 350 tons of siilver ore, the
first shipment of the 1700 tons now
at Mayo. The ore will be sent on to
the Tacoma smelter via St. Michael
on the first lower Yukon river boat.
Corporal Toft, of the Northwest
Mounted Police is under arrest at
itegina on a charge of treason. He
is alleged to have approached men in
tending to Join the army and have
persuaded them not to.
Mrs. Charles A. Hopp, wife of the
former editor of the Douglas Island
News who was stricken recently, is
critically ill in one of the Seattle hos
pitals, according to a letter received
from her daughter.
Nick Schumakkoff, a Sitka, pros
pector returned to that place with a
bag full of ore that is literally brist
ling with f,.rid. The rock was picked
up at Filter 1-uke, six miles from Sit
ka.
Many parties coming up from the
states, bound for the interior by way
of Valdez and Fairbanks, are buying
Fold machines in Seattle, paying $70
freight on them, and going in over the
government trail with the machines.
As Folds sell for about $700 in Fall -
banks it is a good investment, as the
parties gel their trip free, the differ
ence between a machine in Seattle and
one in Fairbanks being about $200. And
the trail is in line condition this time
of the year.
The first herring of the season were
brought in from Port Conclusion re
cently by the Alaska Pacific Herring
Company’s tender Tordenskjold.
There were 280 barrels in the lot. John
A. Kinno, the company's northern
manager, who made the trip in on the
tender, says the herring run so far
is satisfactory and prospects for the
season are fair. The fish now being
packed are large and of good quality.
There are several other herring outfits
reported to be in the vicinity of Port
Conclusion. Petersburg Report.
WHY HE WILL
NOT FIGHT
LONDON.- Edmund Kmson, aged
23, conscientious objector to army ser
vice ut Jordans, Buckinghamshire,
William Penn's burial place, told ihe
local tribunal: "1 am quite prepared
lo l>c shot rather than undertake any
form of military service. If England
were occupied by savages I would lay
my head down on a block and say:
Here is my head; cut it off.” Exemp
tion refused.
WE CAN DO IT.
Dor llrsl class work and prompt deliv
ery phone Main 151 and the People's
Laundry will send and gel your laundry.
V\ . J. WILLIAMSON. Prop.
SOMETHING NEW.
Just arrived on the last boat over
500 of tliis seasons’ latest styles and
patterns, the most beautiful line of
woolens ever arrived in Nome. We
Invite you lo sec these samples wheth
er you buy or not. Jf you wish to
take advantage of this offer order be
fore the 30th of August, in order to
have order arrive on last boat.
We also make alterations, and we
do cleaning, pressing and repairing.
We appreciate your patronage. Yours
to please.
NOME TAILORING CO.,
Next door to Segerstorm * Hagen,
Jewelers.
OVERSTOCKED.
To I lie putillv.—
We have Just finished stock taking,
and ttnd that we tire heavily overstocked
so are making enormous reductions In
ttardware-as mueli as .fi per cent In
certain lines. Notwilhstanding immense
advunees outside, especially in Hard
ware and Metal Goods, we are still sell
ing on the jirisis of goods purchased the
past two or three years.
We will sell for easli only at these
prices, and for a limite, time, until we
bring our slock down to llie require
ments of the camp.
Jf you have an order to he filled, let
us figure on It; we can save you money.
We have proved It to others, we can
prove It to you.
DARLING AND DEAN COMPANY.
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DO IT NOW-NOW IS THE TIME
TO SAVE MONEY
Having purchased the Have JoJhnson mercantile business at Tay
lor and will take charge very s >on, therefore am now closing out my
entire new stock of quality groceries, in either large or small quanti
ties at reduced prices.
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COMING
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