Ketchikan is busy with a very important municipal problem, they
are fighting for the ownership of light and water and at the same lime,
trying to thrash out that ancient puzzle of who gets it first.
They were busy days along about May 5 at the New England Fish
Company’s dock at Ketchikan. During the week the Prospector
brought in 55,000 pounds of halibut, the Briugold 20,000 pounds and
the Heleys 20,000, making a total of almost 100,000 pounds for the
week and nearly 1,000,000 since the beginning of the season. The
total product of last year was 1,500,000 and the indications are that this
year’s figures will reach 3,000,000 before the close of the season.
They will not stand for any Salomes in Tatiana City. A squaw
dance that was advertised as a “peacherino” was scheduled to take
place in Tanana recently, but was censored by the United States mar
shal. The marshal said that there “ain’t going to be no Indian Salomes
when he's around to put the bon on it.”
Winter work in the Fairbanks district has uncovered new pay in
several of the creeks of that valley that has led in northern gold pro
duction for several years. Late Fairbanks papers chronicle the dis
covery of dirt on Discovery claim, Chatanika river, running from $2 to
$3 per square foot. The strike was made a£ a depth of-76 feet by Rider
and Clark.
“Yes,” said Mrs. Furstwinter, “women who delight to own pretty
Alaskan furs have no realization ol the hardships the poor men undergo
who procure them. I see in the paper where one fellow dug a hole 57
feet deep on No Euck creek and only got a skunk.”—Douglas Island
News.
The sinews of war for further quartz campaigning were supplied
May 17 when a party of three, including Frank Berry and Tex Mellroy,
purchased a half interest in the Eureka, Norway, Whitehorse and
Yellow Jacket claims, lying at the head of Fairbanks creek next to the
Mizpah, and acqui.ed also options on an additional three-eighths of the
property. The original stakers, Goyette and Jacobson, still hold the
remaiuiug'one-eigth. A 50 foot shaft showing a three foot ledge has
been sunk on this property. A mill run on the ore gave values of $So
to the ton.
Owing to the reported strictures Upon the travel of mushers over j
the White pass by the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, Immigration
Inspector Joy ol Skagway has begun a careful examination of steerage
passengers before they land at the wharf. The report was that no
muslrer would be permitted to cross the boundary line at the summit
unless he has in his possession the sum of $50.
John E. Clarke, who found an exceedingly rich hit of quartz on the
East Fork in 1898, has gone back from Dawson to prospect for tbe
summer, because he believes tbe chances for finding rich ledges around
Skagway are better than in any oilier country he knows of.
The Yukon’s representatives for tbe coronation arrived in Vancou
ver on April 24 from the North. There were six in the party, all of
them being from the R. N. W. M. P. Inspector Wroughtou who bad
charge of tbe party formed of four men and a corporal. Constables
Haigh and Mansfield of the police, are from Dawson, and Constables
Walters, White and Corporal Scott are from the Whitehorse post.
The successor to L. A. Levensaler, expert mining engineer and
geologist for tbe Morgan-Guggenheim Syndicate, is J. F. B. Erdlets, of
New York City. The latter has been in Seattle for several days and
unless he is requited to make a trip back to New York, be will soon
sail for Cordova, to take up his new duties in the Copper River country'.
Mr. Erdlets is a young man, but has had considerable mining ex
perience. During the past two years he spent most of the time in
Mexico, looking after the interests of the men who are now sending
him to Alaska. Superintendent Emory, the new official who will soon
take charge of the Bonanza mine, has been delayed in going North be
cause cf illness in San Francisco.
Having made sufficient money off his fox ranch to insure him a
good income, “Captain” Smith, the Middleton Island king, will retire
from the venture and go mining. In the past five years he has earned
$10,000 from his fur sales besides several thousand more in other ways
which is invested in real estate, Cliff stock and other properties.
George Prendergast, arrested at Nome last fall on a charge of sell
ing liquor to natives and who “jumped” his bond o! $1,000 and escaped
to Susitna, was apprehended by Deputy Marshal Whittlesey, of Seward,
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upon telegraphic instructions from Nome. But Whittlesey lost his man
at Knik, Prendergast playing an old trick upon the deputy. He then
returned to Seward where he was grabbed by Deputy Marshal Dyer,
who was holding him until Deputy Marshal Darrah and Bert Brown of
Nome, arrived there. Cyclone Hansen and W. A. Kenna met the
deputies at Takotua, en route to Susitna.
The wrecked steamer Yucatan which hit an iceberg in Icy straits
more than a year ago has been towed to the dry dock in Seattle and will
undergo $80,000 repairs. She will be placed on the Nome run.
The wireless station to be installed at Nulato will be the most com
plete a~nd latest improved in Alaska. It is expected the station will be
finished and in operation by next fall. Contracts have already been let
and all is in readiness to begin work at the opening of navigation.
The order incorporating the town of Iditarod was signed by Judge
Overheld on the morning or May 18.
Frederick Sargent, aged 93 years, passed away at his home at
Kodiak, Alaska, on March 15, at 1:30 a. m. Fie is survived by a wife
and seven children. Mr. Sargent was undoubtedly the oldest white
man in Alaska at the time of his death. To him belonged the honor of
having raised the Stars and Stripes at Sitka when Alaska was trans
ferred to America by Russia, in 1867. He had been in Alaska some
time before the interesting ceremony was performed.
It is learned that the United States Smelting, Refining & Mining
Co. one of the strongest rivals of the Guggenheims in the United States,
has its eyes on Alaska, and that half a dozen agents of the company are
being sent to southeastern A.aska, and thence along the western coast,
from where they will go into the interior, with the object in view of
making quiet purchases.
HAWKINS AND MACK
REQUESTED TO QUIT
Upon discovering that Receivers
Hawkins and Mack of the Washington
Alaska bank had been helping them
selves to the funds of the institution
without authority of the court, Judge
Overfield requested and received the
resignations of those gentlemen and
appointed in their stead as receiver,
F. G. Noyes, who has furnished a cash
bond of $25,000 and is now in charge.
The discovery of the irregularity
was made by accident, the judge re
marking, during a conversation with
L. K. Pratt, attorney for the bank, that
neither of the receivers had drawn any
money is payment of their salaries,
Mr. Pratt thereupon informed the
judge that both Mr. Hawkins and Mr.
Mack had, as a matter of fact, drawn
a considerable amount, namely $1090
and $1,050 respectively. Upon this in
formation Judge Overfield immediately
demanded the receivers' resignation.
Jules Marion Wed in Dawson
Dawson—Jules Marion, superintend
ent of the Alaska mail routes, is to
be married here shortly. Miss Johan
na Erwin of California, the bride-to-be,
will leave for Skagway June 10 enroute
to Dawson. After visiting a while
here Lhey will leave for Tanana, where
they will reside.
Solo is an enjoyable game at the J
Sherborne.
List of Advertized Letters
Letters for the following persons are
lying at the local postofflce:
Adams, w Anderson, geo
A lekson,miss lizzie Anderson, rasmus 2
Anderson,mrsunie Andrews, bob
Anderson, axel Anlerson, anry
Anderson, bon a b Armeur, Charlie 1
Anderson, c o Austin & Fitzgerald
Anderson, fred b
Backman, chas Borkocki, john
Bader, liaakon Boucher, felix
Bailey, edd Boulanger, auguste
Banks, mrs p a Brannen, james a
Barclay, robt 1 2 Brannen, james
Barlond, sigvald Bresnahan, ed d
Beier, ernest Brookes, a j
Benson, howard Brown, j j
Berg, albert Burford, p j
Berglund, o e Burglin, albeit
Betsehart, frank
Cambell, josepli Clark, wm
Cameron, ed Cline, hurt
Cambell, s Connolly, frank I
Carlborg, carl Cook, tommy
Carrigal, neil h Cooper, john
Casey, thomas Cothran, shelley
Casey, pat Coulter, j p
Casey, patrick Cribbe, wra 2
Cenor, lena f Cridman, jack
Clancy, martin Cyr, johny
Dacam, sam Dennoven, jerry
Daly, a j 2 Don, robei t 3
Daniels, james Donnovan, jim
Davis, e j Doyle, wm s
Denne, mrs d j Dutton, warren m
Eakin, margaret Ericksen, hans 4
Eckman, Charlie Erickson, Charles
English, nora Erickson, ernest
Ericksen, ernst a
Fait, leslie Fraser, james
Fanlino, batis Friery, m j
Fitzgerald, s p FrisOy, j p 4
Gagnon, wm c Gobel, c
Gaidos, geo 3 Groskel, jonhas
Gardner, h c Grosso, stivi
Geiseker h Grubbas, alex
Getty, jas a Gunn, harry
Giarde, ole j Gunnary, b 1
Giovanni, paul 4
Hagen, ole Hegge, martin 3
Haley, j myrora Hendrikson, Sophia
Hansen, ejnar 2 Hill, lena
Hardon, r y Hines, oscar
Harrison, alex Howe, sam d
Haugan, e m Hunter, robert
Hayden, rav Hughes, a
Heilman, john 2
Jakinen, a Johanson, sam
James, mrs m 1 2 Johanson, wm c 2
Junis, j r Jones, w t
Kailman, anna Kindred, wm 8
Kaliman, geo 3 King, r s
Kavanaugh, jack Kirby, john
Keno & Demorki Kirby, John & jas
Kilgore, john
LaBoyteau, chas 10 Lemieux, james
Lumber, camile Lempinen, j
Lander, chas a Lescure, paul
Lakso, john Little, dune 3
Lang, andy Lockart, chas m
Larson, carl Lockart, w
Larson, hjalmar Lockridge, d m
Laisen, marius Lundgren, miss f s
Laurie, harry 2 Larange, mile eug
I-ayman, o
Madlock, j m 2 Mohrdick, petter 2
Markstrom, k th Moore, jas a
Marvin, emile 2 Magus, john 2
Merrill, e r 2 Morris, Matt
Merritt, john a Morrisson, matt
Merther, f Mullen, ed 2
Meyers, Bernard r Munger, james
Miller, ed Murray, j a 2
Minnicb, j d c
McAdam, edw McIntosh, archie
McCabe, owen McIntosh, mr 2
McClellan, v f McKinney, r f
McConaghy, james McMill, esq
MeCrimmon, a a McPhee, henry
McEntee, james McWhartar, harry
McGovern, m 7
Oie, ben 2 Oliseovitch, jos
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O’Hara, mr3 m 2 O'Neil, tom
Ohlson, raartha Ophir house
Palmer, john r.,jun.Platt, 1 a
Par.sson, mrs. carl Plein mining and
Patee, j s dredging co
Pearson, thore Plummer, b e
Perrin, Charles Poletto, john
Perry, fred (2) Powell, james
Peterson, axel ii Pritchard, b li
Phillips, w li Pruitt, henry d
Pitka, timothy Pulcipher, f
Plande. john
Reed, c c Rod, sam w
Rickard, n Roody, albert
Robinson, b h Roman, john
Sales, dora Smith, warriner e
Schmidt, max Smith, mrs w e
Schmidt, rudolph Smith, Charlie
Schraoker, robt Stacey, f s
Schrader, julius Stalt, ueter
Schrape, paul Standley, john
Shequine, sam Stenfeld, john
Seaholm, aiex Stevens, r m
Sharpe, percy Stevens, mrs may
Shomber, henry Stewart, william
Signior, marton Stiegler, john
Silver, t Stoigt, Stoiko
Sinclair, tn w Suciss, nick
Sjolberg, carl Sweeney, anthony
Skinner, b e Swittor, Charles
Smith, ira
Thompson, delbert Tovoroo, mitar a
Thompson, d h Turner, george
Touseth, thos
Verbom, Cornelius
Wallace, miss juneWilliams, w g
Wallison, fred West.erburg, geo
Walsh, al Williams, mr
Whalley, c e Willis, j j
White, guy d Wood, charlie
Whitney, Samuel Wright, f c.
Whitto, s
Yoeder, j o Young mrs a c
Zahn, joe
Steamer Tanana's Passengers
The following passengers arrived:
From Fairbanks—Mrs. C FI Clegg,
E C Raine, Mrs M Rippa, C J Hurley,
A S Erickson, J A Bullock, H Barthel,
Mrs D G Fergusson, L J Stevens, J W
Hill, H. S Lacey, O F Chapman, L J
Heacock, W F Copeland, R C Specht,
A Cunningham, L E Baldwin, Aug
Harralt, C D Bowdon, J Sterling,
Frank Straus, A McComber, E Fetz
nater, S Wilraer, P F Cummings, John
Keenon, Mrs M Anderson, John Jesson,
Wm Dobbins, Miss E Neal, W S Clark,
L Marvmount, H H McDonald, S Win
stedt, A Sellbv, Volney Richmond,
John Finland, E J Heacock, M Isaac
son, R Moore, Joe Mathews.
From Hot Springs—S Ono. S Wako,
John Wiggin, Ruby Eto, Mrs F G
Manley, B W Stickney, John Huck
field, J V Blan.
From Tanana—R F Lewis, W C De
Baum, W F Gilman, L Garfinger,
Harry Yaeger.
From Langley— Nels Glantz, C C
Pinkston, Master Strandberg.
From Dike man—Capt J Donovan.
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First ave. and Willow st. Second ave. and Willow st.
First ave. and Richmond st. Black and Caribou sts.
Second ave. and Richmond st. Nestor’s Corner
Third ave. and Black st.
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to all business houses and residences
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