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Hotel Seward
HgJ* Seward's Leading Hotel ®
Fifth Are.* Between Adams and Washington Sts.
CONVENIENT To DEPOT and DOCK.
M. A. HORNER, Mgr.
Hotel Sexton
® Where the“Oldtimers” Meet®
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TAN GILDER Building-Phone Adam 71
; Office Hours 9 to 12 A.M.-ltoiP.M.
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happenings of the Week Culled From (har Exchanges
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A bowling tournament baa started
jn Gastineao channel
A large pack of wolves 1s roaming
i ound the Mendenhall glacier dis
trict according to James Crowell who
* tilled five of the animals recently.
Sam Katson and Katy Jimmy were
nited in wedlock at Juneau recently
it the same time that Frank Shorty
and Esther Na-Nahke were wed.
A unique game of basketball was
played betwen the male and female
members of the Sheldon-Jackson
School at Sitka. The men won.
Bobby Bruce, formerly of Juneau,
who left that dty when the U. S. en
tered the war, is soon to bemmrried
in Shanghai China, where Mr. Bruce
'now is.
Robert Lowe, a prominent buainess
man of White Horse and Ruth Mar
iem Hillman were marled on Decem
ber 16th. Mr. Lowe has been in busi
ness in Whitehorse for years.
Delbert Roper, who shot and dan
gerously wounded Mrs. Georgia Stan
ton at Juneau last month, after which
he shot himself with the intent of
suicide, has recovered and has been
arrested for assault with intent to
kill
Dawson Lodge No. 1, I. 0. 0. F.,
i scently held thdr semi-annual in
stallation of officers in connection
with Yukon Rebekah Lodge No..l, and
Klondike Encampment, January 4.
Duncan Robertson was of.
ficer.
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At a dance given at Sitka last week
^225 was netted for the purpose of
uonating to the fund being raised to
jend Louis F. Paul to Washington*
| J. C., as a representative of the Al~
! aska natives in presenting the cause
to congress.
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Compared with last April's prices
xor silver fox skins, prices paid at
;iie New York Fur Auction gales last
wek averaged fifty per cent lower.
->ecunes were noticed in gray and in
J*ue foxes, forty per cent on white
.ox, forty-seven and a half per cent
on cross fox.
Cmerson O'Neil, who recently died
..w ^awson, a former resident of Ju
aa was one of the fjrst men totake
1.0. ses to Dyea during the rush to the
i^oudike, for use on the Chitkotft famt
«-a-i. He went from Dawson on to
..ouie when the stampede was in that
^.ow.ict and later returned to Dawson.
^iiief Isaac of the Moosehide tribe
Dawson was a caller at the Daw
-o. Now office, where he expressed
•— wish that all would attend his
o'-oo for Christmas cheer. The chiex
• Jw.U he was long on grub but chon
o.* wups and spoons and asked his
—ts to bring the necessary imple
ments with them.
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v/orlors at Dawson recently played
w*. g^me with the mercury registering
*0 oelow and a considerable crowd
...imbed the fun.
uikft Ethel Anderson of Corddva
wee injued last week while coesting
~.<u ia being nested st the general
-oapitt. "
ihe Club Cigar store, opened for
outness in Ketchikan recently by W.
*-evy, is one of the finest pieces is
the dty.
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The largest nugget chain in the
•vOiid is displayed in a oJnejfu win
uow, the article of jewelry weighing
oa and a half ounces. Its veins is
shout |700l
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That life aloof Lake Baoaett dur
•of to# wiatar ia jufcail ft h#d otmtao
■* provaa by the fotlpwtof fetor aaya
*o» WhltehoiM «KJ ..*ptfitar.Jda*r
-tor 1mA you would put toifwwUa
at dte Star. A Arrow ffiaoay from
'toarttof to IMA of Mik VaaatolA.
kiget Bees at Bweaglt the eoiddt dey
wo kid thia m&mati 'Mmm m
4 ia oolydru to Ua Twodteobd ataato
townsht him honi. A **A
jreakinff seen an the Heed er that
-4 oecepwl fra* Frowtef to Id
and Bad to wate fee tilngdji
vsm W| reached the fteddrcMim
to Skaowar ha V** wm^mSSS
i *.! „ .i' *i;:. ;*.vs . /jj'jl avvaV v^ . % \ *•£
3 hand the cis of a Pee he also had
atak of Ghil Blaine of the Brain.”
• The famous old placer townsite of
onansa, better known as Grano
arks, located at the Junction of Bon
insa and Eldorado creeks, 18 miles
:rom Dawson will soon be buried
iaep beneath thousands of tons of
-ravel The new hydraulic work of
/ old Hill will bury the last vestige
f the old town deep from mortal vis
>tl At one time Bonansa boasted of
, vo thousand inhahit|mts and was the
: enter of activity of about one thous
and more. Today, only a handful of
people remain.
The fhmily of G. G. Keesling, an
•raploye at the Lighthouse dock in
Ketchikan, has been undergoing a sei
<:s of misfortunes recently. A few
lays ago. Mr. Keesling, while going
own the beach to his boat, slipped
nder some pilings, and in an attempt
o release himself sprained his foot
. form of rheumatism followed whicl
sabled him. Friday, his daughter Ag
es, while coasting* fractured a leg
nd sprained an ankle. Saturday,, Mrs
'eeeling had to have medical aid her
aelf.
A snow storm at Wrangell Nar
owb proved the decided factor in t
:I|se race between the Admiral Wat
ion and Northwestern on their waj
ip the coast on their last trip.Both
boats left Ketchikan together, with
he Watson tstftng the lead. For foui
lours they ran neck and neck, each
living the engines all steam available
ind at no time were they more than
three miles apart On aproaching the
Narrows a snow storm was met Gapt
Glasscock forced the Watson through
but Captain Jensen held back and sac
rificed the race rather than bock the
storm. As a result, Capt J. V. Davis,
of Juneau, wins a wager of $125
made with a Northwestern passengei
on she first bdat to reach port
Wm. Hamilton, proprietor of Bill’s
Boarding House at Hyder, died last
! week, addle talking to a number of
friends. Heart disease.
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N. N. Armstrong, a pioneer miner
who operated at Chicago!?, as well as
on the Siberian coast died In Seattle
Jan. 22.
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Dorman H. Baker Post American
gion is making an active canvass
»t members at Fairbanks, and is one
>: the most progressive posts of the
nterioy. ▲ campaign of activity for
10 year was outlined at a recent
meeting.
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James Dougherty, one of the old
juard at Dawson, ha# been stopping
n Anchorage awaiting the arrival of
us partner, Gordon Betties, from the
States, when the two will leave for
tndian river to develop their mining
properties.
Charles Sampson was . appointed
fire chief at; Fairbanks last week for-'
mer chief Hfnry Gohree having left
for his old home in the states and
mailed bit resignation. The new chiefs
first actions wers to warn th* citi
zens to give their stovepipes a rigid
inspection.
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I Nellie Neel* the pioneer roeAonae
[manager at peadhorae, hiaa detteg
Ved ell Alaalpina to a dog race* and
offers to drtye her own five-dog team
in eompetttfen wtyh any in the i^orid.
A sweepstahas nee will probacy hr
Staged la the near More as the world
a a large jta* aid haa predated a
number of wwUt dogs.'
from Dawson, where he died during
the KUftUkc excitement. , .
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Wbl ifmt, tnptoyed at tin Alaska
?nmaa ktto. was injured fteantfy. bjr
abbot •
Tba Copper River and Northwest
m failway cut wages February 10th.
Mente Snow, former resident of the
.^atlneau channel, is covering Alaska
ents for the Seattle P. L
Timber sales in the Chugmch for
- reserve haVq fallen off during the
t six months.
Ians R. Sahl has resigned from
e board of directors ofthe Peters
g hospital association.
L. Hogue resigned as a member
-he city council of Petersburg and
3 successor will be appointed.
Jharles A. West has been appoint
l steamship agent fpr the AUyira
.earnship Company at Petersburg, to
ceed J. W. Stoft .
Edgar L. Dale, radio operator at
yJer, and Miss Adeline Hayes Cel
yham, a Seattle girl, were married
ast week.
One hundred and fifty men are em
loyed by the Navy Department de
loping the Eslca creek mines in the
hickaloon district
3. Shirold, an insane Japanese of
lotchikan, who was sent to Morning
de in 1920, was deported to his own
ountry recently.
The Boy Scouts of Skagway are
ctively preparing for the 2nd Class
.animations.
Norman Watt formerly of Dawson,
. now secretary to T. D. Patullo,
linister of lands, with headquarters
n Victoria.
Eouis Anderson, was sentenced to
n days in jail at Cordova last week
j violating the Alaska dry law and
Vnton Peterson received three months
o** the same offense.
The town marshal of Wrangell has
notified ewpty dealer in town to re
frain from totting tobacco in any
child under 17 years of age, not even
for their parents toe without a writ
ten order.
H. R. Dykes, formerly of the Daw
son electric light company, who was
at the front during the recent war as
an aviator, was recently married in
Oakland.' *
P. Percy Snyder, old time pros
pector of Dawson, who left the In
terior two years ago for his home in
Grand Rapids, Michigan, is now to
tally blind from cataracts on his eyes.
In writing to his Dawson friends he
says he expects that thre operations
will result in the recovery of the sight
of at least one eye.
Teddy Kremmer Former Yukon
Gold dredge master on Gold Run,
Dawson, is now on a dredge at Tilla
mook, Oregon. *
The Skagway Eagles have decided
to deport the “ginks” who have late
ly ben giving dances and dressing in
the height of fashion. The Eagles
plan to give a series of dances, the
feature being the taboo on ‘glad rags.’
R. B. Hyett, formerly baggageman
on the White Pass Route who sus
tained an accident last fall in which
one of his legs was fractured in two
places, is now hobbling around on a
crutch at Whitehorse and will soon
be back on the Job.
William* Aldcroft, long time in
charge, of the C. K. M. machine
shpps at eBar Creek, Klondike, will
shortly open a public garage in Daw
son.
Frank E. Davidson, old time Yu
koner, plans to take 50 men over
the trail to. Dawson and then to Ft.
Norman, the new oil land fields, be
fore the snow goes, according to ad
vices received from Vancouver, in
Dawson.
Charles Isaacs, nldian of the Big
Lake tribe, was recently fined $17 and
costs at Whitehorse, for killing a fe
male caribou, which is contrary to
the Yukon game ordinance.,
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Alaska — Washington — California
Sails from Seattle Sails from Seward
Feb W ADMIRAL WATSON Mar. 3
I Watson does not go west of Seward this trip
The Company reserves the right to change I
schedule with notice
Wayne Blue, Agent - - Seward, Alaska
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