ALASKA
NOTES
(From oar Exchanges.)
The Curdova Daily Times is the
name of a new publication in Cordova.
The publishers are II. G. Steel, C. H.
Wilcox and C. H. Seheffler. Mr. Steel
is it brother of Will Sleel, editor of the
Cordova Daily Alaskan. Mr. Wilcox
was formerly the publisher of the
Cordova Weekly Times. The new Dally
is a fine, bright seven column publi
cation and has succeeded In getting the
Associated Press service which speaks
volumns for the publishers' confidence
in the future of the city.
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A news special from Fairbanks says
that Captain Eldridge T. Barnette and
.Mrs. Barnette have tiled complaint
there asking the court to set aside a
trust deed In which he conveyed to
the defunct Washington-Alaska bank
in favor of depositors, a ranch in Mex
ico and real estate in Fairbanks.
Barnette's plea is that ho executed
lire deed while in fear of personal
\ lolence from an aroused public.
liie property in question is worth
perhaps $500,000.
SEWARD.—11 is staled in a lettei
which arrived from Beattie yeslerda)
that Commissioner Thomas Biggs ol
liie Alaska Bailroud commission in
timated in a speech in that city that
Bew.ird will be the terminal. The let
ter is written by Conrad Breeding,
formerly territorial senator, Breeding
says that after listening to the speech
of Biggs, "it looks like Seward.”
Die following story telling lliut Carl
Armstrong of Kodiak lias been in the
limelight is taken from an exchange.
TACOMA, Dec. 1 Tony Diplicpukla.
aged '12 years, a Greek convicted at
Valdez for ussuuli with intent to com
mit murder, tried to escape from
Deputy Marshal Carl Armstrong, ot
Kodiuk, while entering a launch at
Bteilacoom to go to .McNeil island.
Armstrong shot liie prisoner in the
left arm and the latter immediately
halted.
The wound is not serious.
The Greek shot and robbed his part
ner at Cordova. He was given the
limit by Judge Brown.
SEWARD.—Although it lias been ru
mored here ever since the resignation
of O. I.. Dickeson a few weeks ago that
the presidency of the W. P. & Y. Tl.
company would full upon !■’. Eliot of
Chicago, and the general management
lie assumed by Herbert Wheeler, sup
erlntendant of the mull service, the
mime of Al. Zlpf, c former employe of
the N. N' Co., ns general traffic malin
ger, has not been mentioned A press
dispatch reached here this morning
from Seattle, however, which announc
ed all three of the above appoint
ments.
JUNEAU.—Harry A. Bishop, the
United States marshal for this divis
ion, continues to Improve at the St.
Ann hospital. With continued good
care it is only a matter of time until
tie will be resuming his duties of office
again.
Dr. E. M. Bevls when seen yester
day stated that Mr. Bishop was re
gaining the use of Ills limbs which had
been parullzcd He is now sitting up
at the hospital and the paralysis Is
gradually leaving him
SEATTLE.—-One thousand cases of
canned salmon from Alaska were re
cently shipped to Belgulm, via Wash
ington, the gift of the packers here to
the starving millions In Europe. The
shipment Is worth $2,500
CORDOVA.—Dennis Fierce a mem
ber of the U. S Signal Corps, was
found dead on the Valdez Fairbanks
trail, about two miles north of Beaver
Dam recently.
Fierce was operator In charge of the
government telegraph station at Telk
hell. and so far as known was In good
health. He left thp station at Telkhell
recently to go to the station on the
summit of Thompson Foss and was
not heard from until his body was
found in the roadtwo days later. An
examination of the body revealed that
death was caused by heart disease.
W. S. Alexander of London, Eng
land passed through Cordova recently
ha\ ing walked from Circle to Chlllna
In H days, a distance of four hundred
miles, lie is a member of the Aus
tralian Mounted Horse and is return
ing home to Join his company and go
to (lie front.
Jl’XKAU.— Willis K. Nowell, agent
for the Alaska Steamship company
yesterday received 11,000 worth of the
new war lax stamps from the Seattle
office for the use of the local agency
According to the provisions of the new
law- all bills of lading, manifest or
shipping receipts must have the re
quired stamp affixed.
DAWSON.—George F. Johnson is
working on a plan to have apples
grown in the Yukon to supply Dawson
as well as cherries and some of the
other more hardy varieties of frultH.
He claims actuul experiments show
that fruit may he grown in the Yukon.
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EXPOSITION'
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A panoramic reproduction of the;
Grand Canyon of Arizona Is being
built at the Panama-Pacific Interna
tional Exposition at a cost of over]
*3O0,0li; over fifty thousand square
yards of linen canvas, Imported from
Scotland, are being used for the sol
pieces. Visitors In this concession will!
view the panoramas from observation
parlor cars, moved by electricity on an
elevated trestle, seemingly along the
irlm of the canyon. The observer will
be enabled to see eight of the most
distinctive points of the canyon and
the ride will last over half an hour.
Including, apparently, a Journey of
more than one hundred miles of the
great gorge. • Every resource of modern)
science Is employed In the work of
reproduction.
Officials of the Panama-Pacific In-I
ternntional Exposition have received
notification from the government ati
Washington that all l'. S. government
exhibits will be shown in the $600,000 ,
government building The available j
space in other exhibits palaces has
been greatly oversubscribed and this J
will relieve the congestion fo' the ex
position palaces.
forty foreign nations and forty-two i
states and territories are getting ready |
for the Panama-Pacific International
Exposition at San franclsco. Work on
the entire 035 acres is rushing ahead
and the progress may be sumed up in
a few words as follows.
Ten of the eleven exhibit palaces are
completed and the eleventh, the Pal
ace of Fine Arts, will be ready In a
few weeks. Festival Hall and the
Press Building are nearly completed
The great courts are receiving sculp
ture and painting and the "Court of the
Four Seasons" Is finished
The Honduras, Canada and Idaho
buildings are finished and those of!
New York, Oregon, Sweden. Bolivia.
Pennsylvania, North Dakota, Indiana. |
the Philippines, Hawaii, Maryland.!
(Ohio, Illinois, Virginia, Washington
Wisconsin, the Netherlands, Chln-t. f
Kansas and Massachusetts are well
along and will be ready In a short
time.
In “The Zone” three of the many
concessions are completed and twenty
one are in various stages of progress
with many others only a few weeks
from readynesa.
The mile race track is graded, the
polo Held is ready for the referee’s
whistle; the third of a mile oval cin
der track with the quarter of a mile
stralght-Hway Is receiving the final
coat of cinders; the amphitheatre for
13.000 persons lias been begun, the 435
foot steel "Tower of Jewels," is re
ceiving Its covering of 125,000 jewels,
the burn for the great l|\e stock entries
are under roof; the level roadways are
receiving the asphalt; trees of all
climes are in place along thp drives,
every part of the ground is alive with
the exposition colors; (he va Jit hnr
bor is ready; the great California Host
Building is soon to be dedicated, and
the daily paid attendance is far above
1,000 with a Sunday record established
L.f 7.054
"I have seen every Exposition since
the Centennial In 1S7*1 and I am sure
Ihat this exposition will tie for greater
than all others," said Commissioner VV
M Conolev of Florida when Florida!
dedicated the site of her state zulldlrig
an the grounds of the Panama-Pacific |
International Exposition. Other Flor
ida Commissioners present were, F. P
Felt and .1 W Sample. Preceding the
program on the grounds there was ni
luncheon at the Palace Hotel ''iyen hv|
the president and directors of the ex-1
position and a review of tire troops at j
Fort Winfield Scott
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For tin- first time in tin* history of1
Phina thnt notion will have machinery
exhibits at the worlds exposition when
t bo T*n nnrrm - Pad fir International K\
positlon opens in I9ir» Fblna bas
risked and has been granted 2.000
square foot in tbo Palace of Machinery '
the lartrost T tho exposition structures. j
Workmen have been at work for soy. |
r*ra1 weeks on tbo Phincso pavilion on
tho exposition grounds and the struc
ture promises to bo one of the most
Interesting of those being built t<» rep
resent forty foreign nations
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K Facts About Nome for Tourists g
The federal court liouso in Nome is
one of the finest government buddies-;
in Alaska, and cost approximately
*0,000.
A detention hospital to bo used as u
place of confinement for those who are
found insane during the winter months
has also been provided by tho govern
merit ns a cost of *12,500
The federal government la represent,
od at Nome by the following officers:
Etnmet ft. Jordan, U. 9. Marshal; John
Randolph Tucker, Judge of tho Dis
trict Court; Francis M. Saxton, District
Attorney; O. A. Adams, Clerk of the
Court.
A total of 2,652 civil cases have been
filed in tho district court to date.
Federal licenses collected In this di
vision last year amounted to *38,821.70,
of which *21,100.73 was from the city
of Nome alone.
The records af the district court
show but 27 cases of bankruptcy since
tho inception of tho camp.
Tho offices of tho United States Com
missioner and Recorder for tho Cape
Nome mining district are located in
Nome. James Frawiey is Commis
sioner and Recorder. F. R. Cowden is
Deputy Recorder.
The fraternal orders and otub organi
zations in Noma are tho Masons. Odd
Fellows, Eagles. Moose.Arctic Hrothot
hood, Pioneers of Alaska. Sons of tho
North, Knights of Robert Emmet ami
Miners Memo Club.
Thor* aro also chapters of the East
ern Star, Rebekaha, and a ladles’ our
11 lory of the Pioneers of Alaska.
Tho Kegoayah Kozgn is a strictly
local i lull composed of women member*
and is affiliated with the General Fed
eration of Women's Clubs
There are several clubs and other
organizations. 1
Telegraph communication is furnish
, d by the land line and wireless service,
maintained by tbe federal government
Thero is nlso an excellent telephone
system to nil parts of the Peninsula
and practically every mining camp i*
in constant touch with the metropolis
The city of Nome is situated on Bor
iug sea. about midway of the southern
shore line of Seward Peninsula. Tin
town derives its name from the pro
mintory somo fow miles to the easi
known as Capo Nome and. in a popular
sense, the name has been gives I" the
whole territory.
Nome is in every respect a modern
up-to-date city, having most of the
conveniences, and is also the second
city in Alaska.
Previous to the great storm of BBS
the assessed valuation of the property
of Nome was $1,7BD,322.
Th« present yearly assessment places
the valuation at $1,685,607, a decrease
in value which represents approximate
ly tiie loss occasioned by the storm.
those of cities of much greater size.
As Nome is the distributing point
for over 22,000 suuare miles of territory
the necessity of large and comprelien
sivo stocks of goods is apparent.
Probably no city in tlio world of etjunl
size can furnish such divers* assort
ment of goods ns is represented in tnr
stocks of locsl houses,
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