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4 NORTHERN HAPPENINGS 4
Fairbanks shipcd strawber
ries up the Yukon as far as
Dawson this year,
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Alaska can support three
million farmers, says Prof. C.
C. Ocorgeson.
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A moose weighing 1,800
pounds was recently kiled near
Ruby. '
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Adam Shneider has been re
appointed game warden for
Southeastern Alaska.
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Rishop Rowe will mine coal
and pray for the natives of the
far north. The yhite folks al
so need coal.—Douglas News.
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Rev. J. H. Condit, formely of
Fairbanks, has been appointed
head of the Presbyterian mis
sions in Alaska, with head
quarters at Juneau.
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Tlic forest service has been
having a real serious time with
fires on the Kenia peninsula.
Thu assistance of campers and
legers has been asked.
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The Cordova Chamber of
Commerce has a force of men
employed putting the trail in
condition for summer and
winter travel between Mc
Carthy and the new gold fields.
Assays running as high a*
$45,000 to the ton, and clean
ups of J45 ounces in twelve
hours run by a two stamp mill,
is in brief the latest report of
the Engineer mine, Atlin.
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The name of Mrs. James
Wickersham wife of the del
egate from Alaska, is noted
among the speakers at the Nat
ional Council of Women
Yolers.
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Fairbanks,— The stampede
ardor has about run its course
and no more men are leaving
the city for the upper Tanana.
The conflicting reports rece
ived here are such that,consid
ering the expense of the trip,
and the hardships of poling up
the river or crossing the coun
try, the outlook is not promis
ing.
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Thedrought. of the past few
havoc on the mining industry
near Nome this summer, said
1!. L. Robinson, a well knowm
minning man of that city, to a
Seal tie reporter. “There was
•'*,00 men idle in Nome when I
lefl (here early this month.
• Old timers predict a hard win
ter, because, they fear the rain,
when it arrives, will be acc
ompanied by a severe cold
that will make minning im
posible.” '
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Placer claims on Kenia river,
from Lake Kenoa to Lake
Skilnk, have been taken under
option by parties seeking!
dredger ground and drills will
be placed in operation as soon ,
ns possible to determine the
gold contents. If the values ,
prove satisfactory to the pros
pective purchasers, the bigest ,
deal ever pulled off on the
Kenia peninsula will result. ,
—Seward Gateway. (
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If the United States govern
ment can afford to spend four
hundred million dollars dig- ,
{.ing a canal across Panama, it ,
surely can afford to spend
foity million in Alaska. I’m in |
favor of government owned
railroads in Alaska, and am
•urging and shall continue to
urge a complele system of op
’ ening the coal and also the ng-!.
r'icultnral lands. I have faith .
that my son will live to see
Alaska with a population of (
from six to ten millions of '
people.”— Secretary of th In- 1
tcrior F. R, Lane. 1
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New Tongass Trading Co. Building
The Aimer takes great pleas
ure today in presenting here
1 with a halftone illustration of
the Tongass Building—Ketchi
kan’s newest business block,
and Ihe best and most up-to
date structure in all Alaska.
To those who live here and
l ave watched its steady growth
under the able direction of A.
W. Quist, it is a personal
pride—we saw its birth and
have watched it come up out of
the foundation excavation,
from the very rock itself, un
til now it stands a credit to the
builders, the Tongass Trading
Company, and a monument to
Ihe growth and permanancy of
our little city.
The building as the illustra
tion shows is three stories in
height, covering 50x05 feet. It
is Ihe latest style of modern
reinforced concrete construct
ion of pilaster, beam and cur
tain wall design. The pilas
ters are 24 inches in diameter,
each reinforced with eight six
teen pound steel rails with
spiral windings. The curtain
walls are twelve inches thick
in the basement, ten inches in
the first story, eight in the
mezzanine and second floors
and six inches in the top story.
The floors are of the type
known as mill construction,
eliminating beams and joists
and using only heavy girders
spaced al the greatest possible
span. The flooring being 2x0
Puget Sound fir set on edge,
overlaid with matched tongue
and grooved flooring, that on
(lie lower floor being maple.
This type of floor which has
teen thoroughly tested in var
Bergstresser, photographer.
ions cities of the Sound coun
try has been found to be prac
tically fire proof and reduces
the probability of combustion
to a minmum.
The lower main floor is built
to carry three hundred pounds
to the square foot, with a fae
lojy safety of three limes that
amount without the least sign
u( a deflection. The upper
floors are designed for a 250 j
1 ound load with like safely
precautions.
The building is so planned
that an additional two slories
can be added at any time in
case fill tire business warrants
i(, as the skeleton of the struc
ture is amply strong enough to
carry such additional weight.
The first and mezzanine
I floors of the building are used
for store purposes, being o ;
cupied by Ihe Tongass stock of
general merchandise. The two
upper floors are divided Into
office rooms on the street
sides, the inside being used for
reserve stock storage and show
rooms, by the Tongass, an Otis
freight elevator being instal
led in the rear of the building
for the purpose of handling (he
goods to the upper floors.
The building is healed
throughout by steam from a
modern tubular boiler with
return steam system, which
has proved very satisfactory.
Such in brief is a technical
description of the building of
which the town is justly proud.
It is located on the corner of
T)ock and Front streets, where
less than fifteen years ago the
Tongass Trading company
started business in a little
shack which has gradually un
der the guidance of Fred C.
.lohuslone, president of the co
mpany, Fremont 'King t’«e
manager and I. G. Pruell the
l.Uter’s assistant, Outgrown the
different buildings of (he com
pany until today it occupies
the beautiful structure here il
lustrated.
A. W. Quist & Go., building
contractors of Seattle, had
charge of the construction of
the building and can proudly
not their last venture into the
point to it as their first, but
building business in Alaska.
J lie record of exports from
the Puget Sound customs dis
trict shows that for the fiscal
jear ended June 30, 1913, the
shipments of merchandise to
Alaska amounted to $17,5535,
099.
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Valdez is becoming quite a
metropolis; Hie city council
there decided to replace a
pari of the wooden sidewalks
now in use with cement.
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With the completion of the
new station at Auidir, which is
in frequent communication
with Nome, a round-the-world
wiieless system has been suc
cessfully established.
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W. D. Close, head of Close
Pros. ik Sons, the English bank
ing firm controlling the White
Pass & Yukon railroad, has
declared in favor of a line of
railroad owned modern steam
ships between Skagway, Van
couver and Puget Sound.
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An important quartz strike
is said to have been made in
lire past few days at Windham
Pay. As far b aek as 1870,
placer mining was conducted
on Sylvester and Spruce creeks
two small streams flowing in
lo Windham Bay.
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Juneau, Sept. 3-Secretary I)is
lin today announces that his
office is ready to make deliv
ery of the Session Laws of the
recent Territorial legislature at
$5.00 per volume, of the House |
Journal at $7.50 per volume!
and the Senate Journal at $9.
50.
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FORMER KETCHIKAN
MAN HEARD FROM
'.Vck Zimmerman was in re
ceipl of a post card this morn
in? from A. B. Crane, formerly
in the cable office here. Mr.
crane is now in Manilla and
writes that he is having a good
time. He asks to be remem
bered to his Ketchikan friends.
Seattle, Sept. 3—The board
of inspectors which has been
investigating (he State of Cali
fornia wreck has finished its
work in this city. It is under
stood that the finding of the
board will absolve Capt. Gann
of all blame. The responsibil
ity for the wreck will be placed
on the government on account
of insufficient charting of the
waters of Gambier Bay.
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PREDICTS LOWER PRICES
f.. A. Simms, one of the larg
est independent cannerymen
of the Sound country passed
through town on the Alameda
yesterday. lie predicts a
slump in the price of pink
salmon owing to the large
run of reds on the Sound.
Mr. Simms owns the Hillside
and Key City canneries on the
| Sound, the cannery at Hoonah
I and has a large share in the
slock company owning and
operating the cold storage
vessel Glory of the Seas.
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A considerable extension of
activities of the Alaska Fisher
ies Service of the United
Stales Bureau of Fisheries is
< onlemplated for the fiscal
vear 1914. in a communica
tion to the secretary of the
treasury, later submited to the
speaker of the house of rep
rie'sentutives, Secretary [Wil
liam C. Bed field asks for the
appropriation of an additional
sum of $109,500 to provide
tor a sea going vessel, a tug
and six fast motorboats, and
the increase of the staff by five
assistant agents. This is the
greatest expansion of the
Alaska Fisheries Service since
its establishment. The sum of
*100,000 is expected to pro- j
' ide for the construction of a
vessel suitable for making
trips to points anywhere be- 1
tween Seattle and Unalaska, a
light draft tug for use in the
Bristol bay region, three laun
rlies for Central Alaska and
three for Southeastern Alaska.j
I SHOULD ENFORCE
ORDINANCE
, Steamboatmen arc clamor
ing for the enforcement of the
tone limit on the
I lock Street cil They
say that launch emain tied
I up the re for ^fays blocking]
jlraffic and generally interfer-j
ing with waterfront business.
With the Newtown float for
the express purpose of tieingj
up to it. is hardly a. square j
deal for the -smaller boats to
slay there as long as they do
m many instances.
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It will be unfortunate for
Seward if the government
should figure out a more ac
rcssible way of reaching ihe
Mqlannska coal fields. The
people of that town have dem
onstrated so much pluck in
placing llieir faith m the fu-|
lure importance of their de- j
jlighlfiil liltie city that they
deserve (o see a growth, rapid
end substantial. And they
will have it if the government
accepts Seward as the term
inus of a railroad to (he Mat
armska coal fields and Kusk
ckwim gold country. They
have one of the prettiest town
sites in Alaska and a substan
bally huilt little oily, populated
hy enterprising and hopeful
people. —Ex.
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, Fairbanks, Sept.3— The
steamer White Seal with a
small crowd of gold seekers on
hoard got away for the Shush
anna last night. She had con
s.derahle supplies for those al
ready there and in addition has l
in a complete wireless plant!
which will be erected at once
and work in connection with ^
the plant here and on Ihe coash
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Cornish, Sept. 2—President!
Wilson enjoyed a genuine holi
day yesterday, playing gnlfj
will) old time friends, lie start
ed for Washington today and '
will be at/ his desk tomorrow 1
morning. I
THEY PLAYED DOG ....
Dale Hunt had to buy a new
hat today owing to enlarge
ment of the cranium because
he was the only one in a party
of five to bag a deer on their
limit yesterday. The rest of
I lie crowd tell a different story
that Dale who claims that he
stalked a fine two year old
buck and got hi mwith a clean
shot through the head. The
other fellows say that all they
could locate on the island
they were hunting was one
poor lit He motherless fawn
which they drove down where
Date was standing, and he af
ter two or three shots landed
it. The Miner Man presents
both sides of the tale so that
Ins readers can draw their own
< nnclusions. Those in the par
ty were Ed. Parker, I). W.
Hunt, Sieve Selig, Harvey
Slnrkpole, Jack Davies and
Pryant DeBar.
NEW CLOTHIER ARRIVES
W. P. Murray, recently of
Seattle arrived up on a recent
bout and is now behind tha
counter at P. J. Gilmore’s clo
thing and gents’ furnishing
store. Mr. Murray knows the
business from A to Z and will
no doubt prove a valued addi
lion to Hie store. Rumor has
t that “Billy” Short is figur
ng on going into business on
iis own account having a deal
>u at this lime to that end.
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THE PLUMBER MOVES
1’oorft (he Plumber has mov
'd his shop (o his new location
n (he Heckman building on
Haiti street. The new shop
•.<:- a display room In front
\ here Mr. Foot'd has his stock
>f up-to-date plumbing sup
•iics on display. The shop in
he rear is roomy and well
applied with tools so that he
•an take care of the ever in
ieasing business that comes
iis way.
MAKE A SHORT STAY
Thfe steamer Maquinna with
the special excursion of min
eralogists on board made port
yesterday morning, and after a
short stay here proceeded on
her way to Treadwell where
her passengers will go through
the big mine, and also that of
the Alaska-Gastincan company
back of Juneau. From there
the vessel will go to Yakutat,
and thence to Skagway where
the greater number of the ex
cursionists w’ill take train and
then go down the Yukon. The
Maquinna, which is the latest
addition to the G. P. R. fleet on
(he northern Pacific coast wall
call in at Ketchikan on her
wav south, arriving here Sept.
f<\ She will take on passen
gers for points south on her
way down.
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HEARS FROM SON
IN MEXICO
Judge Stackpolc was in re
ceipt of a telegram from his
: son, M. D. Stackpole, telling
that all was well with him in
far away Mexico. Tic is in
charge of extensive mining op
erations near Cedral, in the
San Louis Potisi district and
fortunately has been little in
convenienced by the unsettled
conditions of Mexico.
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SAMPSON IS CROWDED
With 2.‘It passengers on
board, probably the biggest list
on any boat passing through
Ketchikan this year, Ihe Admiri
al Sampson was in southbound
last night. Many of her passen
gees were stampeders return
ing disgusted with the alleged
gold strike on the Shushanna.
Ten of her passengers were
the officers and crew of the
lug Kyak, wrecked on Ocean
Cape, near Yakutat last Tues
day, during a storm and driv
ing rain and mist in which the i
snipper lost his bearings and
the tug piled up high and dry.
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TANKS TC Z~ ZZZ'V
WITHOUT DELAY
A recent wire from the Stan
dard Oil office ,Seattle brings
the news that the material for
the crude oil and naphtha
tanks here is due there at any
time, the expectations being
dial it will arrive in Seattle in
tune to come up on the next
trip of the Alki. G. F. Edmond
son, who will have charge of
the erection of the tanks left
for the south on a recent boat
for the purpose of getting his
building gang together, and
will return on the boat bring
ing the steel. The two tanks
will then be rushed to comple
tion without further delay, the
intention being to get them in
operation for this winters bus
iness.
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GOV. SULZER DEVOID
OF FEAR
Governor William Snlzer, of
New York asserts he has no
fear of the ultimate result of
the impeachment proceedings
which has been instituted a
gainst him.
Mr. Sulzer says none can
conceive the obstacles which
beset his path. He asserts the
charges against him are
groundless and says Charles
c\ Murphy, leader of Tam
many Hall and his followers
know there is no base for the
publicity campaign they are
conducting against him but are
pursuing it with knowledge
that it may prove disconcerting
to him and worry Mrs. Sulzer.
ARGONAUTS HEARD FROM
Pat Gilmore was in receipt
of letters on a recent boat
from Phil McCall ion and Geo.
Irving. The letters were writ
ten at McCarthy and state that
the writers were to start the
next day for the diggings.
16,000,000 turned loose
Fred Patching, superintend
ent of the hig Fortman salmon
hatchery, was a local visitor
yesterday. He reports that his
hatchery tried a new experi
ment this year in the handling
of the salmon fry. Heretofore
the practice has been to turn
the young fish out shortly after
H e egg sack had become ab
sorbed. This year about six
teen millions of the young fish
were kept impounded in spec
ial ponds until they were from
two to two and one-half inches
in length. The idea is to see
if the young fish will be the
better able to take care of
themselves when held until
they are this large.
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WILL RE-OPEN
STEDMAN CAFE
For the purpose of caring for
the guests of the house and
regular boarders, Capt. Connell
will re-open the Stedman Cafe
tonight. He says however that
he will make no attempt to
cater to general business.
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WILL VISIT OLD HOME
Hoy Myers will be a passen
ger south on the Sophia Satur
day morning. He will go as
far east as Kansas City, Mo.,
near which place Mrs. Myers
and the children arc now visit
ing and will bring them back
with him after a vsit of about
a month at old home points,
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ENDORSE WILSON
Montreal,Sept. 3—The Amer
ican Bar Association yester
day passed resolutions endor
sing President Wilson’s act
ions with regard to Mexico.
They went on record as op
posing armed intervention in
Mexico by this government.