Active work on the driving of the
n«*w 5,000-foot tunnel at the Julian
mine near Juneau is under way. The
job has been let on the bonus system,
which will give the men a chance to
earn better t ban wages.
The Nenana river went on a rampage
and carried away six bents of the pil
ing at the big bridge at 43-mile cross
ing on the government railway.
The Cass'iar News, the latest paper
to be started in the Portland-canal dis
trict, is now issued regularly at Stew
art, making its first appearance May 30.
Louis Levenseller and W. H. Sea
grave have taken a hond on the Cliff
mine, near Valdez. The Granby com
pany is installing a hydro-electric plant
and Ray Maillard has bonded the Chris
Peterson ground, in the Port Wells
district.
The young girls of Cordova who par
ticipated in the Fourth of July parade
raised $50 more than was needed for
decoratfng their float, and this amount
was turned over to (lie Rev. E. P. Zieg
ler. chairman of the monument fund,
to go toward paying for the bronze tab
let upon which will be inscribed the
names of the Cordova boys who sacri
ficed their lives in the service “over
there” and “over here.”
1 hree army auto trucks arrived re
cently at Cordova, and will be taken to
Chit in a for u>e on the government
trail by the signal corps.
By a unanimous vote the Tanana
Valley Agricultural Association deter
mined to buy and eperate a warehouse
for the benefit of its members. The
building will be used to store crops in.
and will be in oreration next fall. No
one will be allowed to purchase stoca
but members of the association.
A good lead of ore has been struck at
the Saltchuck mine, near Ketchikan, at
the end of a tunnel which taps the vein
at a depth of 300 feet. The vein is said
to he rich in copper, paladium, plati
num, gold and silver, and is 15 feet in
thickness. In addition, 35 feet of ore
of lower grade has been encountered,
according to the Ketchikan Times.
A branch of the Alaska Labor Union
has been organized in Petersburg with
more than 100 members. Jehn A. Bad
land is secretary and treasurer.
Petersburg is to have a $40,000 power
plant, including a transmission line and
machinery, a dam 120 feet long and 10
feet high,and all electrical attachments.
The company financing the proposition
will issue bonds to the amount of $40,
000, secured by a mortgage, to provide
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Front St., Flat
Regular Meals, Short Orders
Fresh I h ead, Pies and Cakes
Always on Hand
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“So Nicely”
for the cost, of building the plant. The j
generators will be installed at Five
mile creek.
Frank Spalding, a one-armed fisher
man of Wrangell, recently had a run of
luck, taking 1,336 pounds of red king
salmon and 350 pounds of white kinds
in one night, for which he received a
check for $164.46.
S. H. Millwee, formerly of Juneau,
but for the past two years a lawyer of
Fairbanks, has left that place for the
Texas oil fields.
“Con” men at Juneau are said to
have taken over $2,000 from a syndi
cate of Japanese residents recently, and
departed with the rnonep. Several
kegs, supposedly containing the finest
booze, was the device by which the
Japanese were separated from their
money. The kegs were camouflaged
by a small cup of whiskey which was
fastened under the bungs. The Japs
opened the kegs and siphoned not the
liquor, but when the kegs were later
tupped they contained only water. The
swindle was not reported to the police.
Mike Kosoff', who left, Nenana in
July, 1818, writes friends that he is
Mairizwa, Siberia, and working for six
rubles a day (about 2$.06), an unheard
of price for that country. Kosoff says
that, conditions there are very good,
the people being betteroff and happier
since they are relieved of restrictions
imposed by the former Russian gov
ernment.
Morte Powell and Dan Crowley, of
Nome, late last spring made a trip to j
Council with a motor sled invented by
Powell. The trip was made without
incident, the sled working perfectly in
the snow.
Senator John Honan, who recently
left Juneau for Stewart, B. C., has
taken up the mining game in Canada.
Zina R. Cheney, tne widely-known
Juneau attorney, died at the Minor
hospital in Seattle on July 12. Fie is
survived by a wif<*. Mr. Cheney was
one of the most prominent lawyers of
Alaska, having practiced law in Doug
las and Juneau for the past In years.
He was tlie Democratic national com
mitteeman for Alaska during President I
Wilson’s first term. i
JERRY IS ON THE JOB
(Anchorage Times, July 10.)
Jerrv C. Murphy, of Anchorage, has |
been appointed attorney-general of the
territory of Alaska, to till the place
made vacant by the resignation of Geo.
B. Grigsby, delegate to congress. The
appointment was made by Gov. Thomas
Riggs. jt\, today, and Mr. Murphy was I
notified by wire of his selection. The I
wire requests the new at torney -general I
to take the oath of office and take up
his duties as soon as possible. Mr. Mur- |
phy informs the Times that he will I
leave for Juneau on the next steamer. J
While a tew intimate friends of the j
new attorney-general knew that hisi
name was being considered in this con I
necLion and that he had strong personal !
and political endorsements for the j
place, to most people the announcement j
will come as a pleasant surprise.
Mr. Murphy is an old-time resident •
of Alaska. He is a lawyer of good abil-j
ity and of extended experience, both in i
Alaska and in the States. He possesses j
a genial personality, winning friends
by the wholesale. He is a stanneh
Democrat, and is recognized as the
leader of the party in the Gook-inlet
country. He is at. present an assist
ant district attorney, a position he has
tilled with credit, to the government
and to himself, and to the satisfaction
of the people.
General Murphy was a stampeder to
this camp in 1910 and remained here
abouts until the spring of 1914. shortly
after congress enacted the government
railroad legislation, when he hiked
over the ice for the coast of Alaska,
and his been an active and enterprising i
citizen of Anchorage ever since the!
townsite was surveyed. Mr. Murphy
has many friends in this community
who are greatly pleaded to learn of his
appoint il ent.
We Can Recommend This ;
A business man ot our camp—a busy
one, too—upon learning that The “in
neer would resume publication, sent in
a list of four former residents of this
district with instructions tu regularly
forward the ‘'fireside companion” to j
litem. Thank you ! Who's next V
_Closing-Out Sale !
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BELOW COST.
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AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
Leaving on the Last Boat.
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Miners & Merchants Bank
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital and Surplus, S75,000.00
CORRESPONDENTS: Scandinavian American Bank, Seat
tle; National Park Bank, New York City: Anglo London
Paris National Banlt, San Francisco.
We Sell American Bankers’ Checks.
Fourth Liberty Loan Bonds for Sale.
OFFICERS:
CHARLES ROSS, President
CLAUDE BAKER, Vice-President
R. C. BUTTON, Cashier
TOM MHAHON BURIED
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 25:
Thomas McMahon, aged 58 years, whose
body whs recovered two weeks ago
from the wreckage of the Canadian Pa
cific sie; rner Princess Sophia, which
foundered on Vanderbilt reef, 12 miles
from Juneau, Alaska, on the night of
October 20, 1918, was buried from Bon
ne.v-Watson’s chapel yesterday after
noon. Rev. YV. A. Major conducted the
services under i he. auspices of the Ma
sons. of which Mr. McMahon was a 52
decree member.
The body was tecovered by a diving
party two weeks ago and sent to Seat
tle at the request of his wife. Mrs. Luis
McMahon, 1025 Bellevue avenue.
Interment took place at Lake View
cemetery. The pallbearers were all
former associates of Mr. McMahon, who
had been a merchant in various Alaska
cities since 1897 and who was makilig
his first trip “out” since that time,
when the Sophia was sunk. The pall
bearers were 'Thomas MacEwan. Harry
Leland, Percy Palmer, John Auld, Ray
Lungtin, and Grant Murdock.
May Go to Siberia
Dawson News. July 1(5: M. H. Bou
| lais, old-time Dawson prospector, wrk
i ing from St-. Michael under date of
, June 15, to Joseph Beaupre, of this
i city, says:
I “There is nothing of any account at
; the new strike. I am bidding goodbye
i to the Lower Yukon. I am going to
Nome, and. if possible, then to the Si
berian goldfields, otherwise to the Out
side this fall.”
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