Of Local Interest
From Friday’s Bulletin.
The Yucatan and Pennsylvania
have sailed from Seward and the
Penn is billed to leave here for the
South tonight. The Yucatan will
fail Sunday night.
The Valdez Ilock Co. will here
after have charge of the steamship
agencies, the coal business and the|
wharves. A* new corporation has
been formed under the above name
which will take over the wharves
and in a few days will take charge ■
of the steamboat agencies. The'
offices of the A. C. Co. and the X. j
\V. S. S. Co., will he combined in
the present office of the Northwest
ern, and will be in charge of Al.
Grigsby, who will also manage the
express business.
Kenai will have a fishing plant
this summer which will employ
sixty men. This industry will be
established by the.San Juan Fish
Company, of Seattle, and the bargei
Amelia is now on the wav north
with lumber and other material
for the buildings. The Amelia i.~
towed by the Grant.
i ne report mai me yuiggen
heims i.ave bought a controlling
interest in the Treadwell mines is .
current in Juneau, and seems to be!
growing to such an extent as to in- j
dieate that it may possibly be
based on actual truth.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hazlett enter- j
tained a number of friends yester
day evening at Five Hundred.
Mrs. Bunnell won the ladies prize;
anil T. J. Donohoe captured the
gentlemans prize.
W. H. Triggs, agent of the North
western Steamship Co., will leave t
for Seattle on the Yucatan.
From Saturday’s Bulletin.
Julius Singer, of the Happy
Jack Mining Co., is in town today j
to take his launch to Hogan bay
where it will he used getting in
piles for tlie wharf which he will
start building immediately. Th»*
nile driver used by Geo. Barrack I
at Latouche will be moved to
Hogan bay. Mr. Singer reports
that he has two camps established
and the men at work on the prop
erty, a tunnel having been driven
hi ten feet already.
The sailing dates of the Yuca
tan and Pennsylvania have been
changed, the former leaving here
at noon today and the Pemisvl-j
vania sailing at midriight tomor
row. The latter boat will stop at
Catalla. to unload the freight which j
was carried by on the trip up.
Joe and Ambrose Bell and Nor
man Merchant leave for the Sound
on a prospecting trip today with
their new launch.
Fritz Yoges was arrested yester
day'on a warrant alleging that lie,
was endangering the public health
by refusing to remove the bodies
of some dead dogs from his lot.
The dogs were poisoned some time
ago and Fritz 1ms refused to move
the carcasses. The trial was set
for four o’clock yesterday hut was
postponed until this afternoon to
enable the defendant to prepare
his case.
A. J. Meals was a passenger on
tlid Penn, for Catalla.
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A rich copper strike is reported I
from Knights island, bat the par
ties who made the find refuse to
disclose the location or any of the
particulars.
Jos. A. Bourke, of the Standard
Copper Co., is in town today from
Land lock bay. lie sa\s the sr. ow
is practically all goi e at the mine
and work will soon be under way.
A t iephone line has been built
trom ihe mine to the beach this
spring and the tram will be com
pleted in a few weeks.
Joe IMeringer returned yester
day from Knights Hand. H<- re
ports that the snow w ill be off by
the loth of the month enough to
allow work on \ t j-.iy to
start. A two sto :n • «e 'ibx
oU has just been completed, and
the Knights island l oppt r Co.
now lias acconimodatioiia K»r 40
men.
Capt. Moore, who was acting as
pilot on the Benn. will ao to .''cat
tle on the Yucatan and will come
north in command of the Sauitoga.
Mr-. A. L. Levy ha.- been quite
ill for several days, but is now
much better.
From Mondays Bulletin
l litre i- some taik oi inaugurat
ing a dog license in Value/. Peo
ple who own good dog.- are i:i i. -
vor ot the measure, and it nil. Le
the means oi keeping the worthies
mangy curs oft the street.
The Bertha arrived yesterday
wi n the following passengers tor
Valdez: H l \\Oolev, Mrs A
Thomas, B M Llliott. »> N F tuna-.
Alex Nusman. Nels I'lamiar, t .k
Scott, F Johnston. T A Francis 11
Clibb. S Akasove, F Armstrong, F
Larson, Carl i* Hemple, M Kap
ciiasi, J Kasa, C A Filch, S Mazan,
l1 M Brown, Harry Brown, M
San u, A From a ter II Kennedy.
Henry Maillard, win* formerly
conducted a soda works at Seward,
has moved t<» \ aide/ and opened
business in the l»ro\vn building,
opposite Yaksbaw’s. He will
manufacture aJi kind- of seltzer
an l sodas. His plant is complete
in every respect and he a!readv
l»as a good trade established at
points along tiie Sound.
The committee in charge of the
minstrel show to be given June 1.
is making elaborate preparations,
and promises a lirst-clnss produc
tion. At a meeting yesterday a
number of new artists were s cured
and the talent already booked will
insure a show the equal of whi< h
nas never been presented in \al
hez.
Advices from Seattle are that
the Yucatan will take the run of
the Saratoga leaving Seattle May
11th.
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Notice Of Forfeiture.
To T. '.V. Kittlcson:
You are hereby ootiried that the un !er
sitru. d has expcndi'd find in labor and impr-uv;
•n lit.- i n the claim knoftn tin; “Bekka
|i de claim, situated near i n head of Trail
creek a tributary of the K- nncoti river, and ,
recorded i : Hook'ii, lv.se ITT or Uo-re. ords of I
the Valdez Recording District. Alaska, in order
to hold -aid mining<laim under the provisions
;,l j:;j4 of t la* fl• v^tatsit1*- of tin* f uit* • 1 ,
State', t* -111-' the amount i pit red to hold -aid
mining claim for tin year 1 And if .vithin
nine: v (Hn> day - from the -• rv - ■ • l tai - notice,
or tin" complete pnbln atiou there you tail or (
refus toeontribute your pro| Tlmo of s id*-x
rvllditlire i»'eo-ov. n r. your one mil ,Merest
in said claim will be-..me the joperty of Hie
undersigned under and p 11.-uant of 'aid >ee.
JJJl of the Revised Statute- of tiie ' Hit.* i
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 7th lay of
March, 1907:
Cunts, rjo.- Wo
First publication March 7, 190
Last publication June C, 1907.
A large shipment of supplies for
the Crown Copper Co. mine north
on the Bertha, as well a- a num
ber of men who will start work
immediately ou the property. T.
1). Bradford, Sr. is expected on the
Clara today with additional sup
plies.
.fas. Fish has landed all of the
freight of the Great Northern Dev
elopment Co., at the mines on K<»t
sina, and is now on the wav out
wi’h his stock. It is reported that
he sold all of his horses, but seven
to Mr. Gray. Some of the men
who were working with the outfit
came m yesterday.
F. M. Brown and Harry Brown
returned from Catalla on the
Bertha.
Frit/. Yoges was fined five dol
lars Saturday in the. Municipal
court for allowing the carcasses ot
dogs to remain on his premises. He
paid the fine and r» moved the
animals.
Pete Jensen was before the mu
nicipal court this morning charged
with assault on Joe the Turk. IB*
pleaded guiitv and was fined
The grippe fin ml has his clutches
on the Puosi’Et iok office, and two
of the force art* confine I to their
hods as a coiwpioner.
From Wednesday’s Bulletin
Mr*. L. A. Depuv is confined fflf
her bed hv an attack of grip,
Huie Goodell and W. A. John
son returned yesterday from Ian *
hay and report a find of high grade
copper ore on tin* beach* They
had only been out a f**w days wheif
thev made the discovery and re
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I turned immediately bringing sev
eral hundred pounds of the ore.
I'he rock is rich in copper sulphide
and carries some hornite. Long
l>av i- just below Clavier hay. Ccl
ineau ami Mowers and Harrington
, also have good property in this*
'neighborhood on which consider
able development work has been
done. S. A Crandall i* interested
with Cnodeli and Johnson in the
new find.
Inspector and deputy coliecfor
Willi*, of the Juneau office, will
make the inspection of the offices
on the Yukou and Nome, and to
the Westward this year in place of
Collector Hobart who hu> made
two such tour*. Mr. Willis will
leave Juneau for the trip about the
first of June, going via Dawson,
Kagle, Fairbanks and other Yukon
points to Nome, and will return
\ !a Seward and Valdez.
Quartz and Placer Locations at
the Paosukctoi: Printerv.
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