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SEW vUl>. ALASKA, SATl Kl> \ \. OCTOBER 16. 1915.
Readers of the Gateway yesterday might have noticed the story to the
effect that Ophir is to be joined up to the Seward- Iditarod trail this winter.
It was a very small story taken from another paper, the Iditarod Pioneer,
but it is an item of real significance to the people of this city. By the con
necting of Ophir with the Seward trail Ruby and all the country around
it is brought also to the Seward trail. From Long creek, Ruby, one can set'
the hills around Ophir easily. The distance is only a little more or less than
a hundred miles. This connecting up of Ruby with the Seward trail would
mean connecting the Yukon river and all its trails below the mouth of the
Tanana river with Seward. So, if the trail really is to run from Ophir to
the lditarod-Seward trail this year we ought to have quite a lot of travel
from that direction.
People ought not to forget to cut out the map in the Gateway and send
it broadcast. Send it to Tanana, or Fort Gibbon, to Ruby, to Nulato, to the
Koyukuk, to Iditarod, to Ophir, to Melozi, to Rnltag, to Nome, to Candle, to
the Koyuk to Council to all the roadhouses and telegraph stations along the
Yukon and its tributaries, to men you personally know everywhere.
It is the simplest method possible of drawing attention to the tact that
the Sew ard route is the best and easiest from the vast territory tiibutaiy to
the last thousand miles or so of the \ ukon.
Th»>ce prohibition towns are as a rule delightful examples of virtue. It
us clear now that the government is about to make of Anchorage a model
village possessing all the sanctimonious traits which have distinguished min
ing and railroad camp* from the beginnng. The miner and the mucker are
two gentlemen who required on y the saintly touch of grandmotherly gov
ernment and a strong dose of grapcjuice to direct them on the road that ends
with a pair of wings and a halo. It is evident from the latest news from An
chorage that the evolution of the oldtime Alaskan and ol the railroad follower
from a gambling, drinking, cussing, and good all round reprobate to a person
ality of shepherdly gentleness was always m matter of extreme simplicity,
requiring only a ukase from the reprobate’s imperial masters in the national
capital. To change human nature it was only necessary to coddle the people
of the new city, to show a deep and abiding interest in their spiritual—also
financial—w el/are and ^o lead them to the light and to happiness from the
edge of the yaw ning abyss. How has it succeeded ?
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QUARTZ BOOM PREDICTED
WHEN RAILROAD IS DONE
SEATTLE, Oct. 2.—With the com
pletion of the government railroad in j
Alaska will come a boom in quartz
mining that will even eclipse the
placer record already made, says M. j
C. Tynen, of Anchorage, who is in
Seattle to purchase machinery and
supplies to develope a group of
claims at the head of Peter’s creek,
near Knik Arm. “There is a lot of
high-grade quartz ore that is just
awaiting better transportation facili
ties to begin to produce,’’ said Mr. j
Tynen yesterday at the Seattle.
“There are three groups of claims
near mine that are now being worked
and, on my holdings l have a force
of fifteen men that will be increased
to twenty-five for the winter season, j
l am out here getting water wheels, J
a ten-stamp mill and other needed
machinery. There is such a wealth
of water power to be had that once
machinery is installed there is little
expense in operating.’’
According to Mr. Tynen, Anchor
age, for a new town, is rapidly losing
i
its raw and crude appearance. “The
timber has been cut off and the
streets graveled,’ he said. * A num- :
her of good frame buildings have
gone up. and I understand, that be
ginning next summer brick and stone
will make its appearance as building
material. The record for a town that
was nothing but tents this summer \
is pretty good.’’—Post-Intelligencer.
WILL MANDAMUS GOVERNOR
JUNEAU—The Eagle River school
board hired an attorney and threaten
ed to mandamus Governor Strong for
maintaining schools nine months in
the year when the law provides for
only five months, unless funds were
forthcoming for the Eagle River
school, which had ben notified there
was no money in the Nelson fund.
Governor Strong, however, has in
formed the Eagle River school board
that he has enough funds to provide
a term of school there as well as for
two other districts recently created.
A great many people outside and
inside Alaska are now anxious to get
any news they can of the place where
the government railroad will be. To
save writing letter? you could send
the Gateway, either your own read
copy or get another.
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COMMISSION WORK AT
MOOSE PASS FINISHED
The road building of the Alaska
Road Commission out of Mile 29 into
the Moose Pass country has been
ocmpleted and the men came in from
there last night on the ear. The
road has been built out fifteen miles j
from the Moose Pass station on the
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railroad, bringing it a short distance j
beyond John Gilpatrick’s headquart
ers in the Moose Pass. Those who ^
have seen this piece of work apeak |
very highly of the condition on the
road and its width. In fact some of
the old-timers out there describe it .
i
as a boulevard.
Martin Lanning, with a couple of
• i
men, remain out there till Monday
putting up mile posts along the now
road and doing other small pieces of
work preparaotry to bringing in the j
tools and material. !
FRIENDS FEAR GUS liAKKE
HAS ENDED HIS LIFE
JUNEAU—The mystery concern
ing the disappearance of (Jus Hakke
had not been solved up to a late
hour this afternoon, although the
police and the friends of Hakke have i
been using every effort to locate the ■
missing man. i
The last seen of Hakke was on the J
night of September 24th when he |
was in a cabin belonging to Tom Con
nors, an old-time friend. Hakke had
been drinking and seemed rather des
pondent when he left the cabin about
10 o'clock. It is thought likely that
he threw himself from one o£ the j
wharves into the bay, upon leaving ;
the cabin. Tom Ashby, who has
known Hakke for the past thirty ;
years, stated he was certain that (
Hakke had committed suicide, because
he was sure Hakke would tell him of i
any intention of leaving town. An- |
other thing that lends color to the
suicide theory is the fact that Hakke’s
room has been searched ami shows
no sign of preparations to leave.
(Jus Hakke is one of the best known i
men in the North, having spent over
thirty years following every “rush”
in Alaska and the Yukon. He has
been identified with about every min
ing camp in the North. In ’98
joined the stampede from Juneau to
the Klondike and in partnership with
Hob Insley ran a saloon for the next
three or four years in Dawson. He
left Dawson for Nome and later took
in the Fairbanks stampede. He
drifted back to Juneau about two
years ago and worked at the Opera
House Kar for Ashby and Endleman
i until last spring. He had not been
working for the past summer—
Empire.
Hats, coats, shoes waists, skirts
and dresses, at cost. This week only,
for cash.—At Ellsworth's 10-14*3
The Christian Science meetings are
being held in the Pioneer hall (for
merly A. B. hall) every Sunday at 11
o'clock and Wednesday evenings at 8
o'clock. 9-13—tf.
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IN PROBATE COURT FOR KENAI
PRECINCT OF THE THIRD DIVI
SION OF THE TERRITORY OF
ALASKA.
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IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF No-....
JOHN A. MATHISON,
DECEASED.
NOTICE OF HEARING FOR PROOF
OF WILL AND ISSUANCE OF
LETTERS TESTAMENTARY.
Notice is hereby given that Tues-1
day, the ninth day of November, 1915,1
at two o’clock P. M. of said day, and
i the court room of the above Court in
the office of the U. S. Commissioner ’
for the Kenai Precinct, Third Divisio;
of the Territory of Alaska, at Seward,
Alaska, have been appointed as the
time and place for proving the will of
the said John A. Mathison, deceased,
and for hearing the application of
Charics S. Mathison for the issuance
to him of Letters Testamentary with
the will annexed, heretofore filed and
made in this court.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, M. J.
Convoy, United States Commissioner
! for the Kenai Precinct of the Third
Division of the Territory of Alaska
and Ex officio Probate Judge for said j
Precinct, has hereunto set his hand
and affixed the seal of said court at
Seward, Alaska, within said precinct,
this 1st day of October, A. P., 1915.
(Seal) M. J. CONROY,
United States Commissioner and
Ex officio Probate Judge*
The All-Alaska Review
Features in October Number:
Richardson-Wickersham Controversy
Stories of Discoveries in Alaska
The Discovery of Chisana
The Discovery of Nelchina
The Discovery of Nome
Alaska Gold Mines
By Eminent Engineers
Ri se and Fall of Alaska’s Home Railroad
Alaska at the Panama Exposition
Personal News from Every District
MANY OTHER FEATURES
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