ALASKA NOTES
(Pram our Exchanges.)
The Willow Creek Mining Company
is crushing forty tons of ore a day,
and the company him enough ore
blocked out to keep the mill running
throughout the season.
The Worthen mill at Juneau re
cently cut a timber 31’ by 37 inches
and twenty-eight feet long, containing
3,7ii3 feet board measurement, from an
Alaska spruce tree.
The Loyola Social Club is the name
of a new Catholic organization form
. 1 in Cordova, and the large hall in
the Windsor hotel has been secured
for its quarter.
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A representative of the Universal
Film Company took a moving picture
of Juneau’s Fourth of July prepared
ness parade, which will be exhibited
throughout the country'.
The launch Buffalo, Captain Hogg,
has been chartered by the Alaska En
gineering commission for use by a
surveying party which will be em
ployed in tlie vicinity of Kodiak.
The Cache Creek Dredging Com
pany is the first mining company in
that section to take advantage of the
law governing the ten acre coal leases
and are now taking out enough coal
lo supply all Iheir fuel needs.
Four hundred and iifty dollars was
reel'll fl y raised in Fairbanks at a
baseball game given for the benefit
of Leslie Bennett, alt old time ball
player on the Fairbanks team, who
is compelled to go outside on account
of illness.
Under the license law passed by the
last Yukon eouneil, saloons in the ter
ritory must close from midnight until
ti o'clock in the morning on week
days, and from midnight Saturday
nights until ti o’clock -Mond™ morn
ings.
An arrival at Fairbanks from the
Tolovunu camp say that a shortage
of water is hampering the mining men
and a shortage of currency is causing
the business men considerable both
er. All transactions are by means of
checks.
A. i'\ Mahaff}.;, a member of the
Dawson public school staff, has been
appointed a lieutenant in the Cana
dian army service and will be con
nected with Uie Yukon contingent
which left Dawson recently for the
front in France.
Alex Irvine arrived in Fairbanks re
cently from Circle and reported
linding the skeleton of a man in u
pool of water near the Miller creek
divide. It is believed to be the re
mains of a Frenchman who was lost
in 1904 or 1905.
An inquiry has been received by the
Cordova Chamber of Commerce from
a fertilizer manufacturing concern
regarding the possibilities of obtain
ing sufficient fish offal there to war
rant the establishment of a factory at
that place.
Volney Richmond, manager for the
Northern Commercial Co., with head
quarters at Fairbanks, has recently
returned to that city from a trip down
the river, and says that the Ruby dis
trict is one of the most prosperous
of Ihe north.
At a recent meeting of the Mabel
Mining Co., held at Anchorage, W. F.
Rarthholf was elected president, Fred
l-aubner, vice president and T. Cavny,
secretary. These with Harry Barth -
holf and Wm. Martin constitute the
I olid of directors.
After an absence of more than two
yeais in the Rake Minchumina coun
try, Stephen Foster and Walter Ames
have returned to Fairbanks. The Ru
iop. • n war had been in progress more
R an eight months before they learned
ef it from travelers.
Johnny Nelson, a native about 27
years old, attempted to take his life
near his home in the old town, Cor
dova recently. He used a 30-30 rifle
and shot himself in the abdomen, the
bullet splintering several ribs. Nel
son was educated at Chemaiva, Ore.,
Indian school and gave as the reason
for his rash act Ihe fact that he was
i. I of the life he was living.
.1. D. Jefferson of Valdez, is the
owner of two pairs of cross foxes pur
chased from the interior, which ho in
tends as the nucleus of a fox ranch
he will start on an island in Prince
William sound. The animals are very
indsome specimens, quite tame, and
will be kept here for a time until Mr.
Jefferson is ready to stock the island.
Others will lie addeu to the number
from time to time, and by spring Mr.
Jefferson intends to have a number
of breeding animals on the island.
Seward had $314.40 left of its Fourth |
of July fund after all expenses were
paid, it has been suggested that this
sum lie turned over the baseball team.
John it. Patton and Fred Pauli re
cently took a lease on Cal Franklin's
ground in the Tolovana district, and
have uncovered pay as rich as any in
the district.
For several months past Cordova
has been suffering from a house fa
mine, men arriving with families find
ing no place to house them except in
the hotels.
Spanish war veterans of Juneau,
Perseverance and Douglas met recent
ly in Juneau and steps were initiated
to start a camp of Spanish war vet
erans in that city.
Nat Moore, engineer for the Pacific
Coast Steamship company, has been)
in Juneau preparing plans and getting
bids for a dock to cast $100,000 to be
built opposite the Dispatch office.
Wilfred Turner, a fifteen year old
boy, was brought to Cordova from the
clam cannery at Whitshed, suffering
from a bullet wound in his right leg,
the result of carrying a revolvei in
Ins lii11 pocket,
Joe Stitt,, a bartender nud a well
known gambler in the early days in
the north, especially at Dawson, Fair
.milks and Nome, dropped dead recent
ly in Seattle while dealing the cards
in a friendly game of poker.
The longshoremen on the dock at
Whitehorse, who were receiving from
i to jo cents per hour, according t«
tin- work they were doing, struck for
,3 rents per hour. Their places were
immediately lllleil by Indians.
A suit case, found on the beach
i Hie vicinity of Auk buy, and evi
dently tiie property of a Jap, has tieen
turned over to the Dispatch in Juneau,
and the question is raised as to wha1
nas become of the owner.
David Troy, the father of John Troy,
owner and publisher of the Juneau
Umpire, yvus killed recently when an
automobile in which he was riding
jumped the dock at Port Townsend,
Wash. It is believed he was injured
when the machine Jumped the dock
and was unable to help himself, go
ing down yvitli the auto. Mrs. Troy,
wife of the victim, was also an occu
pant of the vehicle, but her clothing
held her afloat and she was rescued
by boatmen as the tide was carrying
her out lo sea.
The body of u man thought to be
K. Schwab, an old man who disap
peared from Juneau several months
ago, was recently found in the woods
near Valdez by H. L. Crowther and
Victor .Manville. who were running a
survey line. When found the body
was in the woods 200 feet from the
road and a half mile beyond the J4uvis
cabin. The body was lying face up
with one leg doubled under and with
an empty bottle which smelled .strong
ly of whisky lying near. There was
no evidence of foul play and it looked
to be a case of suicide.
All the Cordova canneries now are
running to capacity and the pessimis
tic feelings of the cannerymen which
were-occasioned by the small run at
tiro beginning of the season, have
given away to broad smiles, which all
‘he managers are wearing says the
Coitina Leader. The Carlisle Lacking
Company, is now receiving an average
of 40,000 fish daily, mostly humps, but
containing a fair number of reds. This
company now has packed more than
.0,000 cases, with the humps now run
ning strong, and the silver salmon yet
to make their appearance.
The humps this year are running
stronger than ever before in the his
tory of Cordova, and according to Nels
.lawkingson, manager of the Carlisle
I‘ticking Co., are of an exceptionally
good quality. In fact he asserts they
compare very favorably with the best
red.s
Hawkingson expected the silver sal
mon to he running in about two weeks.
Get your JOB PRINTING
done by the Nugget office.
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