ALASKA NOTES
(From our Exchanger)
A. Erickson and L. B. Woody, with
a motorcycle and side car attach
ment, made the trip from Chitina to,
Fairbanks in three and one half days
recently.
J. W. McCord and Daniel J. Mc
Carthy have purchased three and one
half miles of ground on Moose creek
and have secured a boiler to prospect
the ground.
Two halibut schooners, the Chica
go and Zupora arrived at Ketchikan
V recently with catches of 120,000 and
136,000 pounds of halibut respectively.
A portion of the Union dock at
JuJneau fell into the bay a few days
ago, taking with it a chemical en
gine and a portion of Henry Berry’s
curio store.
Charles Sweeney, a Fairbanks
rancher is held in Fairbanks on the
charge of assault with intent to kill,
pound and maim. The complainant
Is B. W. Johnson.
It is a fact worthy of mention that
some of thfc most prominent govern
ment officials connected with the En
gineering Commission the republi
cans.
H. H. Sargeant of the United States
geological survey is spending the sum
mer investigating the mineral re
sources of the Marshall City district
of the lower Yukon.
Harry Bluderson, the popular as
sistant cashier at the Bank of Seward
has been elected to the position of
cashier by the directors of the in
stitution.
H. M. Lawrence, millwright at the
Worthen mill, fell from the dock to
a boom of logs below, striking on the
side of his head. His condition is con
sidered serious.
The Northern Club of Cordova, has
reorganized and has taken quarters
in the Burkhart Building. Twenty
three new members were rectnly ad
mitted to the club.
Jacob Philo, proprietor of the Alas
ka Harncs & Shoeshop has entered
the Seward general hospital with a
had case of blood poisoning caused by
an infection in his hand.
J. Halvor Johnson was recently ad
mitted to the bar at Fairbanks. He
is the first person ever admitted in
that division under the law permitting
the taking of examinations.
Prince Arthur, declared to be the
largest dog in tho world, is now in
Juneau. He is 3 feet.l inch in height
and weighs 210 pounds. He is the
property of John S. Barnes.
A largo number of buildings, in
cluding dormatories, warehouse, load
ing platforms, storehouses and ma
chine shops are being constructed by
the railroad commission at Anchor
age.
W. G. Whorf has filed notice with
Fnited States Commissioner Ennis at
Seward of location on a fishing site
at the entrance to Heldova bay*and
also on a clam packing company site
at ynckeluff bay.
A large black bear was seen on the
mountain side at Seward the other
day, and the entire city turned out
and watched a dozen hunters stalk
Mr. Bruin, who finally escaped up the
mountain side.
The Herron dredge at Sunrise has
been sold to the Noorchina Gold
Dredging Company and will be oper
ated on the river by that name. A
new hull for the dredge is now being
built nt Seattle.
Advices have been received in Ju
neau that Simpson McKinhon, who
graduated from the Juneau high
school last month, has beeq appoint
ed midshipman at Annapolis by Dele
gate Wlckersham.
The Charles H. Hilly company of
Seattle, capitalized for $300,000 and
empowered to engage in a general
seed and feed business have filed ar
ticles wl^h Secretary C. E. Davidson.
Harold H. Post is designated as the
Alaska agent for purposes of sum
mons in case of suit.
A coroner’s jury injuiring into the
death of Alfred Boots, a wireless op
erator who died suddenly at Ketchi
I kan, returned a verdict that death was
occasioned by unknown causes. The
stomach of the deceased will be sent
to Seattle for examination to ascer
tain if he had taken poison.
Sam Bernard, president and gen
eral manager of the American Dredge
Building Company says that if the
ground on I-ewis river comes up to
expectations lie will put two dredges
there at an early date.
The gas boat Onward arrived In
Anchorage recently with a scow load
of coal for the Happy Valley Coal
Company. This is a high grade lig
nite, and the company expects to
make regular shipments to supply An
choruge customers. Mr. David Gross
is the companyl’s Anchorage represen
tative.
Two thousand six hundred cases of
salmon arrived in Seattle recently
from the Cordova cannery of the Car
lisle Packing Company, the first ship
ment of the season from Alaska.
Fred Chiller, a Spanish war veter
an and restaurant keeper of Cordova
has communicated with Governor
Strong with n view to organizing a
company of militia at that place.
A crew of five men under C. E.
Swanson are establishing a camp at
Mile 13 on th ■ Copper River road for
the crew which is to erect the big
naval radio plant there this summer.
Sixteen la irs, eleven brown and
live black, were seen by Dr. Baugh
man of Seward, on a recent trip along
the shore of Cook inlet, and the doc
tor was not hunting for bear at that.
Deputy Marshal Frank Hoffman of
Matanuska Mates that Matanuska
has a ball team that can defeat any
thing in Alaska. Jimmie Hill, former
ly of Valdez, is captain of the team.
The game warden at Knik states
that he has found the carcasses of
many young moose frozen to death
last winter. The deep snow and in
tense cold worked a great hardship
on these noble game animals.
The Douglas high school team has
become ambitious and has challeng
ed the baseball team of the fire de
partment to a series of games to lie
played Sundays or evenings.
W. H. I.indig, an old timer of Cor
dova, and well known to all Alaskans,
has returned to the Copper City after
an absence of four years. He says
Alaska is good enough for him.
Farmers of the Matanuska valley
have more than 100 acres of land un
der cultivation and among other crops
expect to harvest not less than one
thousand tons of spuds this fall.
David Gross Robert M. Airstrop and
J. It. Chi, three residents of Anchor
age recently formed the Happy Valley
Coal Company and the articles of in
corporation were died today in the
office of the secretary.
The Cache Creek Dredging Com
pany will commence operations nt the
mouth of Nugget creek this summer
and work up stream. It is estimated
that it will take eight years to work
out the company's ground.
Capt. T. .1. Martin, a 77 year old
resident of Juneau, and a veteran of
the civil war, says he is ready to en
list for service in Mexico and asserts
that he can still hold his own with
some of the younger ones.
Charles A. Seiffert, who was com
mitted to Morningside sanitarium
early this spring front Juneau, has
been discharged from the Institution
as cured. He left Portland for Cali
fornia, where he will locate.
Frank B. Canno of Knik and W.
J. Conroy, of Anchorage, have start
ed work on their quartz claims on
Anchangel creek. They have strip
ped the ledge for 800 feet and have
uncovered ore hnving a value of $50
per ton.
Ranchers along the government
railroad believe sugar beets will soon
bo raised in that section In such
quantities as to become a big factor
in fixing the price of sugar in the Uni
ted States. These heets were success
fully raised by J. J. O’Brien last year
near Knik.
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