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(From our Exchanges.)
Seward has a female barber by the
name of Anna Kheln.
F. J. Hoy is preparing a directory
of Ketchikan.
Cook Inlet coal of good quality is
selling in Seward at $11 per ton.
Anchorage has a resturant which
bears the enticing name of the Two
Girls Cafe.
The Municipal magistrate at Seward
took in $240 in fines and forfeitures
last month.
The society bug has struck the new
town of Brooks, and social lines are
being strictly drawn.
A Seward hospital Helpers’ Asso
ciation has been opened by the ladies
of the Westward city.
Dr. Melville B. Evans, formerly of
Juneau, has opened a drug store in
the new Tolovania camp.
The Seward school bo..id expended
$5,200 for the (maintenance of the
schools for the past year in that city.
From Chatanika comes the report
that horse feed among the teamsters
;it Cleary creek is completely ex
hausted.
Win. Prentiss, of Douglas, has been
arrested on the charge of attempting
to bribe the cKy magistrate of that,
city.
Doctor Martin Damourette was in
dieted by the grand jury at Juneau
recently for practicing medicine with
out a license.
Sam' Goldstein was lined $5.00 and
costs recently in the Commissioner's
court at Juneau for selling venison
out of season.
Four cars of tnnsten ore from the
mine of Johnson & Ewers of Fair
banks creek have been handled at the
Chena stamp mill.
The Pueblo mine, copper, near the
i town of Whitehorse, is employing 95
men and taking out better than 200
tons of ore per day.
John Noon, a candidate for mayor
at the last election at Seward, has
been elected president of the Seward
Chamber of Commerce.
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The Presbytery of Alaska of the
Presbyterian church held a three-day
session at Hoonah last week. Fifteen
churches were represented.
Trappers in the vicinity of Tyonek
are reported to have been very suc
cessful last season, having trapped
large numbers of foxes.
Andy McDonald, who was recently
sentenced to serve throe months in
jail at Anchorage, made his escape
and succeeded in getting as far as
Bird creek where he was picked up
by the Deputy Marshal and returned
to jail.
Word comes from Dawson that the
body of Charles Tym, who disappear
ed from Granville last winter, was
found by Sergeant Evans on an old
road leading out from Granville. It
appears that Tym must have wander
ed up the road, lost, his way, and there
perished in the cold.
The many Alaskan friends of Wil
liam M. Wise, manager of the Hotel
Granada, San Francisco, and formerly
a resident of Candle, on Seward pen
insula, will be surprised to learn that
his wife has sued him for a divorce,
after having lived together for exactly
thirty-five years.
H. Benson, of Haines, will operate
a sawmill this summer on Dynn canal.
He has secured a timber tract con
sisting of about 2,000,000 feet of Spruce
on the south end of the canal and
will soon begin logging operations.
The steamer Hush made an unsuc
cessful attempt to pull the steamer
I’avlof off the beach at Tugidak Is
land, where she was wrecked Feb.17.
The two watchmen were taken off the
vessel and she was given up as a
total loss. Heavy seas have pounded
the steamer until she is badly strain
ed.
Surveyors have arrived in South
eastern Alaska to survey Dry Strait,
and if it is found feasible it is said
congress will make an appropriation
to deepen the channel so that it may
bo used by steamers instead of going
by way of Wrangell Narrows.
Ilev. Father Turnoll, of Skagway, re
el ally purchased the premises occupi
ed by a woman parishoner who was
about to be evicted for non-payment
of rent, and has offered her the pro
perty for so long as she desires to live
there.
Devi Dobbins, a pioneer of Ketchi
kan is dead at the Morningsiidc San
itarium, according to word received
today at the governor's olfice. Mr.
Dobbins was an old man and had lived
at Ketchikan since the town was es
tablished.
The Talkeetna Mining Company is
the name of a new mining corporation
that will operate in the Willow creek
diistrict. E. 11. Barlholf, and H D.
Hatcher are the principal stockholders
in the company, which will drive a
300-foot tunnel this summer in the
Talkeetna claim.
According to advices received from
Ester creek there is not an idle man
on the creek, every man having a job
or going to one. All of the plants are
now working to their full capacity.
There is plenty of water and the
operators are taking advantage of it.
W. E. Eckert, son of Mrs. J. H. Fat
toil, and formerly of Fairbanks, is the
youngest Captain under thcAmerican
flag. He has just been given com
mand of the steamship Justin. Mr.
Eckert is 29 years of age at this time.
The owners of the boat, the American
Tab company, hesitated in giving the
young man the ship because of his
youth, lull finally decided to give it to
him. The boat runs between Shang
hai, Honolulu anil San Francisco.
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