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GOING TO THE HILL8
Ed. Kerr the champion bear
hunter leaves for the hills near
the mouth of the Unuk tomor
row or Friday. Ed. purposes
doing a little hunting and
prospecting until winter, when
he will trap for a time.
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ANOTHER TEACHER
Owing to the great number
of children in the lower grades
the schoolboard has decided to
hire another teacher. A class
room will be fitted up in • the
basement of the schoolhouse.
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WILL TAKE A REST
Gapt. Hubbard of the Rough
Rider says he is going to take
a vacation. He is loading up
the Teddy with grub, and will
take his family and spend a
few weeks at the Hot Springs.
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IN THE BANK
Cieorge Gapp, for the summer
iu charge of the Thompson
store has been acting as Mr.
Mitchell’s' assistant at the
M. & M. Rank for several days,
the volume of business being
too much for the regular staff
to handle. George, who leaves
for California in a few days
may return shortly and accept
a steady position with the
bank.
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BUY THE WILDWOOD
——
The Beaver Falls Power Co.
have purchased the launch
Wildwood which they will use
for towing purposes in connec
tion with their mill on Georges
Inlet. They contemplate in
stalling a new engine on the
vessel.
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PAINTING HECKMAN BLOCK
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Manager Willis Bryant has a
crew of men at work painting
the exterior of the Heckman
store buildings and Xewman
the sign writer will paint a big
sign across the end of the con
crete block. •
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GOES SOUTH TO FUNERAL
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Mrs. Charles Taylor is a pas
senger south on the Humboldt
-eu route to Port Orchard,
Wash., whither she goes to at
the funeral of her mother Mrs.
J. L. Gorst, who died recently
at her home in that city.
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HAM ISLAND
CLOSED DOWN
1
The marble quarry at Ham
Island of the Vermont Marble
Co., was closed down indef
initely last week and tine men
took the last Dolphin for their
homes in the south. Dam Is
land has been worked for the 1
past year by the Vermont
Marble Co., in conjunction with l
their quarry at Tokeen but as |
the marble was of a much in- i
ferior quality when compared !
with the Tokeen marble that,
the experiment proved a fad- '
ure hence the closing of j
quarry.
CARD OF THANKS
On 1 elialf of my wife and my- !
self I wish to thank the good I
people of Ketchikan for their
help and sympathy during onr i
recent bereavement and assure |
them that their kind acts will |
never be forgotten.
EUGENE WACKEH. (
The Star 1 came in this mor 1
ning from Port Armstrong1
bringing one of the crew that1
was suffering from a broken
leg. lie is resting easier at1
present in the hospital under
the care of Dr. Daws.—Senti
nel.
News from Dawson is that
development on the Stewart
this year has been very satis
factory. The McWhorter sil
ver quartz property there has
developed a four foot vein of
$400 ore according to late ar
rivals at Dawson from Mayo.
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Editor W. F. Harrison, of
Ruby, was admitted to practice
law recently by Judge Frederic
E. Fuller, of the United States
district court.
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The Seattle assay office re
ceived $1,400 of Ghisana gold
September 18th. It was the
first shipment to that office
to be converted into money.
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The depositors of the de
funct Washington Alaska bank
at Fairbanks have petitioned
the removal of Receiver Fred
Noyes, and that the winding up
of the affairs of the bank as
soon as possible. The expen
ses of the receiver are eating
up the collections and have a
mounted to more than $50,000
already. The depositors re
ceived nothing during the past
twelve months and despair of
ever getting another payment
unless the receivers are chang
ed and the bank’s affairs
wound up at once.
AAA
The Cook Inlet cannery fleet
was favored by fine weather
all summer, but the pack will
be very disappointing. The
run of salmon was not as great
as in former years, and tlie
theory has been advanced that
the eruption of Mt. Ivatmai is
responsible. The fall of vol
canic ash is belived to have
driven the fish in great num
bers from the Kodiak island
and Cook inlet country.
* * *
Dispatches from Nome state
that the schooner Transit is a
total wreck near Point Barrow,
and that the Polar Bear, Alas
ka, North Star, Mary Sachs
and Belvridge are imprisoned
in the ice.
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An Alaskan stampeder is
something very much like a
youthful dog that follows a
ball at the end of a string held
in the hands of a boy, says the
Nome Nugget. lie only just
wants the gost of an excuse to
run from one end of the ter
ritory to the other. One day
there is a strike in the third
division and he gets there on
(he gallop, only to start on the
hack track when something
turns up at the place lie left.
Any man who boasts nowdays
that he passed over a place
where a strike was made after
wards proves himself a che
ehaco, for the real sourdough
has passed over so many places
that if therd is a square mile
of territory left that he has not
visited it must he blamed far
j away and out of the way. Pack
ing grub and blankets- on a
; back that Is the most health
,fnl and pleasant of occupations,
j Living on beans and bacon
for a month or two straight is
i well caculated to satisfy the
! most Lucullian, or whatever
i they call it,taste. The delight
j of getting up early in the mor
j/ii/lgaiid opening the door by.
sticking your head out of a
silvery frosted blanket might
inspire poetry in the most.
jprosnic of bosoms. Lighting ,
, n fire of willows without freez
; ing one’s hands tends to im
! part, a perfect knowledge of
i the Jaw of self preservation j
and making flap jacks without
| burning I lie bottom of the pan j
is an art which comes only
with great practice. The joys
of the beautiful open air life
id (lie stampeder can only be
expressed. They cannot he
printed without being hauled
up for sending obscene liter- j
lure through the mails.—Ex.
The Daily Miner, $1. per. mo. J
0
The U. S. coast and geodetic
survey boat Taku, Capt. Gilbert
Rude, returned recently from
Portage Bay, says the Cordova
Times. The Taku has been
gathering data for the govern
ment on the country between
Passage canal and Turnagain
arm- Capt. Rude -states that
the construction of a railroad
from the canal to connect with
the Alaska Northern railway at
mile 72, a distance of 12 miles,
is perfectly feasable. The pro
ject would necessitate the drtv
ing from two to three mile of
tunnels. This would provide
a short and easy route to the
Matanuska coal fields,
one of the machines on the
floor of their shop for exhibi
tion purposes. The Regal has
been making a good name for
itself among the gasboat men
and is recognized as an up-to
date machine.
The International Fisheries
has purchased the Lazier and
Harbor Packing Co., interests
at Tee Harbor.
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On August 20th, some of the
men engaged in mining near
Nome had to use hot water to
thaw out their boxes before be
ginning the day’s work.
R, 8. Me Donald, former
Fairbanks newspaper man, has
been appointed game warden
for the fourth judicial division
of Alaska by Gov. Strong.
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At Dawson the Yukon Gold
company and the Boyle Con
cessions, Ltd., have clashed in
a lawsuit over the ownership
of a st.ip of ground.
t t ♦
The Seward tax levy for JO 13
has been fixed by the common
council at six mills.
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Thomas McFarlnne Graham,
of Dawson, a Yukon pioneer,
was buried under the auspices
of the Yukon Order of Pione
ers at Dawson September 17Ih.
Graham was survived by a wid
ow living in Victoria and a
son in Portland. He was one
of the old sourdoughs of the
Yukon.
♦ * +
For the lirsl time of which
there is a record snow fell at
Ruby in August. The ground
was completely carpeted on the
morning of August 2Slh. at the
Yukon river town
♦ <• +
Following the discovery of
$30. ore at the 100 foot level of
the Newsboy mine in the Fair
banks district, a strike of $400
ore was made on an 18 inch
stringer of the Tolovana mine.
A Fairbanks dispatch says the
strikes cause a feeling of sat
isfaction in that camp that has
aspirations to become a quartz
producer
The suits of Receiver Frank
G. Noyes against the stock
holders of the late Washington
Alaska bank will be tried at
Fairbanks at the October term
of the district court. The suits
involve about $400,000.
+ + +
'Flip caribou trek came so near
Dawson (hi* yp;tr that hunters
took wagons with them when
leaving the city with which to
haul the carcasses home.
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It is said that a Socialist
paper will he established at
airl a”ks in the near future.
A five stamp mill and Blake
crusher for custom work is be
ing erpotpd in the Fairbanks
district by Ed. Connell. It
came from a Chicago house
and is the first of its kind to
be put up in the interior of
Alaska.
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At. Jones, a pioneer of Daw
son and Fairbanks died recen
tly in Okanogan where he has
been ranching the last few
years
The Dally Miner, $1. per. mo.
i
♦
The fourth annual Tanana
fair was indefinitely postponed
on account of the inclemenf
weather that set in before
September 1st, and continued
for some time afterward.
Fred Schutte, formerly book
keeper of the Northern Com
mercial company at Ruby, was
convicted of embezzlement
from the company at the re
cent term of the district court
at that place. llis shortage
was alleged to be between $2,
000 and $3,000.
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The Tanana Valley Railroad
is making a test of coal from
Coal creek on the Yukon river.
The coal was sent to Fairbanks
for the purpose of giving it a
thorough tryout. The road
is now paying $8 and $0 a cord
for wood, and is seeking a
cheaper fuel,
One cleanup on Sullivan
creek in the t Tanana llo
Springs district produced $20,
000..
R. M. Hall, who had charge
of the Iditarod station of Fal
con Joslin’s wireless company,
has gone to the Chisana dig
gings with the Kaltag plant of
that company", where he will
superintend the introduction of
wireless communication at that
camp,
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The contract for building the
detention hospital at Fairbanks
was let to II. G. Davis for $0,
050. The painting and dec
orating was let to Ed. Sloecker
for $740,
+ + +
Honey bees have been intro
duced in the Tanana valley.
Two loaded hives were taken
into Fairbanks by R. L. Vining
for Mrs. Ed. Wickersham and
Mrs. Truxton.
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A family of whales have
taken up their abode, presum
ably for the winter, in Skag
way and the upper reaches of
Llynn canal. These whales, it
is estimated, have spent sev
eral winters in the waters of
Llynn canal.
+ + +
A branch of the W. G. T. U.
was organized at Skagway last
week by Mrs. Lora LsMance,
national organizer of that fam
ous temperance organization.
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Charles T. Moeller, book
keeper in the Iditarod office of
1 he Yukon Gold company, a
Guggenheim corporation, com
mitted suicide at Iditarod Aug
ust 28th by hanging
* * *
A Dawson dispatch says ar
rangements have been perfect
ed for a mail route from Daw
son to (lie international bound
ry within 20 miles of Chisana: !
The first post will be located
at Donjek, the second at Snag
and I he third at the boundary.
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Mrs. Hans Clausen, wife of
a well known employee of the
Northern Commercial company
at Fairbanks and a Yukon
pioneer of fifteen years’ stand
ing, died at Fairbanks Septem
ber 1st. aged 44 years.
Ti)e members of the Inter
national Geological society,
who made the trip from Van
couver, R. C., to Skagway on!
k
the steamship Princess Mar-j
quinna, expressed their ap
preciation of the kindness ofi
the master, Capt. McLeod, by
presenting him with a purse
containing a thousand dollars
in gold.
The big game hunting sea
son o’i (lie Kenai peninsula
opcnc I' with a rush on Die HI
and al this early dale the hills
are filled wilh hunting parties
looking for record heads and !
trophies of Ihc chase. Reports !
from the different sections of:
the peninsula are that the
game is abundant this year,
in fact better than for years
past,
The drought that interfered I
•so greatly with mining oper- j
ations in the Tanana, Ruby, '
Iditarod and Nome sections of
*
Alaska during all the spring,
and most of the summer ex
tended to the Koyukuk, and in
formation from that district is
that the gold output this year
will be materially curtailed on '
that account.
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Billy Johnson, who grub
staked the men who discovered
gold in the Ghisana, is a laun- (
dry wagon driver at Dawson, j
lie has been named “Grub
stake” Johnson.”
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MACHINE WAS RUNNING
_ I
One of the members of the
Slnnderd Oil steel gang made
the discovery this morning that
Iho wheels at Solly’s carpenter
shop were turning. lie went
in and put his hand on the rap
idly revolving planer knife to
see if it was turning. It was,
and he is minus part of his
thumb as the result.
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SURVEYING A
PULP MILL SITE
Forest Supervisor Weigle is j
back after a visit to Shrimp
Roy where Ranger Barto is ,
surveying out a site for a pulp
mill contemplated by Texas
capital. Mr. Weigle stales
that Shrimp boy is an ideal
harbor, with deep water and
entirely free from rocks. On
its shoes and on the streams
tributary to it is timber enough
to last a pulp mill such as plan
ned for close on to twenty
years. A big creek with a fall
of over a hundred feet flows j
from a large lake at the lower
end of which is not over half- j
a-mile from the beach, and
there is a lagoon there capable
of holding millions of feet of
logs. .John Orchard and his
son S. C. Orchard both well- j
known in Alaska are at Shrimp
bay getting the data necessary
and promise a mill in operation
within a very short time after
the preliminary arrangements
are completed.
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SALVE 1000 TONS OF ORE
The Tatoosh, with the barge J
Washington in tow arrived I
over from Karla Bay during
Ihe night, picked up the Pal
myra at anchor here and is now
on her way to Seattle with the
two barges in tow. The former
is loaded with a thousand tons
of Mt. Andrew ore, which has
been salved this season from
the wreck of the barge Char
ger. The Palmyra has a load <
of gypsum on board.
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The Prince Olaf is having
her engines overhauled at Ihe
Northern Machine Works.
HEADED SOUTH
FOR THE WINTER
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The fine big cannery tender
Shakan belonging to the Gor- i
man cannery at Shakan, was in
port this morning on her way
south for the winter. She will
spend the off season in Ana
cortes.
BACK FROM SURVEY TRIP
Ed Williams and the gasboat
Teddy are bark from from the
boundary survey charter, work
on the survey having been pos
poned owing to (he death of
the two engineers in I lip slide
at Gape Muzon. Ed, says that
a thorough search was made
for the. meii and their camp
was found under fully fifteen
feet of debris but no vestige .
of either of either was dis
covered so the search was .
abandoned. j
The Dally Miner, $1. per. mo.;
Nome, Oct. 7—Fully four
hundred buildings were de
stroyed by the howling gale,
the worst in the history of the
north which swept over this
city yesterday. A blinding
snowstorm accompanied the
gale and is now piled up all
over everthing. The gale was
responsible for a tremenduous
sea which swept up over the
flats in front of the city and up
onto the beach, smashing all
(he buildings between Front
Street and the water into splin
ters- The notorious Sandspit
was washed completely away
and with it the buildings upon
it. Fire broke out on River
street and swept over all the
lower part of the city, blotting
it out of existence. Today the
wind has fallen, and refugee
camps are being established,
but the cold weather is hard on
tent dwellers. The loss it is
estimated will reach a million
and a half dollars, but fortu
nately but one death is report
ed. The steamers Victoria,
C.orwin and Navajo at anchor
when the storm broke slipped
their cables and putting out to
sea rode out the gale in safe
ty. The smaller craft unable
to ride it out were piled up on
Ihe beach and there smashed
flat. Many people who 00
hours ago were comfortably
well off are today paupers de
pendent on charity for Iheir
next meal.
Seattle, Oct, 8—The sailing
of the steamer Senator for
Nome has been postponed un
lit Friday to enable those seek
ing relief for Nome to get sup
plies in shape for shipping.
The Pacific Coast company an
nounced this morning that the
Senator would carry relief sup
plies free. The Sesnon Lighter
company, which handles the
Senator’s freight from the boat
to the shore at Nome has offer
ed its services free also. Word
was received from Nome last
night that the storm had com
pletely abated, and that the sun
was shining again. All the
needy are being cared for, tbe
stores donating food and
clothing for the time being.
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READY FOR BUSINESS
“Billy” Poison the assaycr,
who has been out of town for*
the greater part of the past sea^
son on various prospecting
trips is back for the winter and
has gotten his assaying plant
shape for business* He says
he will slay in town until the
call of the wild takes him out
into the hills again.
Washington, Oct. 8—The Sen
ale yesterday confirmed the ap
pointmenls of Tucker and
Sexton respectively Judge and
District Attorney of the Second
judicial division of Alaska.
The friends of Murane the
present judge are making a
hard fight to retain him in of
fice.
Washington, Oct. 4—Presi
dent Wilson today nominated
John Randolph Tucker, Jr., as
It. S. District judge at Nome,
and F. M. Saxton district attor
ney of the same division.
* * ! ’• s.
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Seattle, Oct. 0—The Alaska
Bureau of the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce today wired sev
en thousand dollars to Nome
to be used by the committee
in relieving the distress of the
storm sufferers. Supplies are
being received from various
coast cities and the Senator
will have a full load when she
pulls out today.
M. J. Rolie, skipper of the
halibut boat Sumner cut him
self badly across the instep at
the New England today while
dressing halibut.
mildcj
According to the customs
house manifest in Seattle, 4,
098 tierces of mild cured sal
mon arrived from Alaska dur
ing the period from May to
August 20. Of this, 330 tierces
arrived in May, t, 015 in June;
2, 411 in July, and 330 from
August 1 to August 20.
This gives some idea of the
large Alaska mildcure pack
which breaks all records of Ihe
north. As previously stated,
the large profits made in mild
cured last year attracted many
inexperienced men into the
industry this year. As a re
sult much of the Alaska pack
put up by individual operators
and small companies has been
poor. Many of the fish have
been small in size. This with
the inexperience of the oper
ators and the lack of proper
cold storage facilities has re
sulted in a product which is
either spoiled or such inferior
grade that the fish are a drug
on the market, and many will
lose money in disposing of
their pack. It is estimated
that probably one-half of the
Alaska pack is put up on spec
ulation while the rest is con
tracted for. The large por
tion of the pack was secured in
June. During July the run of
Kings decreased to a marked
degree and with the unfavor
able market many of the mild
curers suspended operations
Juring July, Early in August
reports were received from the
north, stating that a seeond
run bad set in off Forester Is
land, Ihe scene of the most ac
tive operations this year. How
ever, there were no buyers.
Several of the larger compan
ies were still operating in
August, but only those which
had contracted for their pack
■•arly in the season.
The large companies and
others fortunate enough to
have experienced men in
charge and were properly c
quiped, produced as a whole
an excelent grade of mildcure,
which was easily disposed of.
In the begining, $1.10 was
being paid for kings off the
west coast and $1 at Peters
burg, but about July 20 the
price was dropped as low as
50 cents, as the buyers could
not afford to pay more.
The prevaling price for Ala
ska mildcured up to August 8,
was 1 1 cents a pound for large
reds; 7 cents for small reds
and \ cents for whites. August
8 Ihe price dropped to 9 for
large, 0 for small and 3 for
whites.
B. Lindenberger, of the J.
Lindenberger, estimates that
his companie’s pack in Alaska,
at nearly 3,000 tierces. The
company was still operating
last month. Six plants were
operated. Of these the one
at Boe Point put up a good
pack, while the one at Craig,
was not so large.
The Toledo Fish Co*., organ
ized this past spring in Seattle,
with Capt. S. F. Kildall as man
ager, packed 70 lierces, aboard
the luanch Neptune. The com
pany operated out of Port
Armstrong, southeastern Al*as
k a.—Pac i fi c Fisherman,
Valdez, Oct. 4—The bodies of
•
two men, evidently murdered
were found on Willow creek
place on the Fairbanks trail
yesterday. The bodies are un
recognizable being badly de
composed, but the impression ■*
here is that they were murder
ed, especially as the skull of
one of the bodies is crushed.*
A coroner’s jury has gone out
to view the bodies and sur
rounding conditions.
Guy Chapin, mayor and head
of the police department at
Tokecn, is a local visitor.