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GUESTS GAMBLE GRATIS
LE TOUQET. France, July 16. (JF)
—The precedent set by a host here
who gave his guests $40 each with
which to start play at the Casino
after dinner, has few followers.
Costs of entertaining at fashionable
resorts are already sufficiently high,
society seems to have decided.
ALL ACCOUNTS
if paid by
I SATURDAY, JULY It
■will be discounted 10 per
i cent.
Mint Strikes Confederation Medals
t
ABOVE are shown two medals
• which have been struck by the
Royal Mint at Ottawa in com
memoration of the celebration of
the Diamond Jubilee of Confed
eration. The larger medal is that
which is to be awarded in gold, silver and bronze to the win
ners of various competitions. Twenty-six hundred of these
are being issued. The smaller medal is that being issued to
every school child in the Dominion. Two million of these were
required for this purpose.
•1
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Electric and Acetylene Welding, Plumbing,
Heating, Sheet Metal Work
Ford Sales and Service
Agents for Fairbanks Morse Station
ary and Marine Engines
* FIRESTONE TIRES AND TUBES
CHAS. LECHNER, Proprietor
A charge of second degree murder <
was filed against Bert Taylor iollow- 1
ing the hearing in Skagway, in the
case in which Albert Chisel was shot
and killed at Haines last Monday.
* * *
Ketchikan police officers were kept
going 24 hours a day through Ket-j
chikan’s three-day celebration start
ing the day before July 4, a total oi
25 persons having been booked on
! drunk charges during that period.
• * *
Silas Calderhead, son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. W. Calderhead and formerly
a resident of Fairbanks, graduated
from the United States Naval Acad
emy at Annapolis last month.
» * *
Three divorce suits were filed in
the district court in Fairbanks last
week. William A. Appleby vs. Soph
ie P. Appleby; Anna Swanson vs.
Hans E. Swanson, and Martha Young
vs. Frank Young.
• * *
Mr. King, who is interested in tlu
Chatham dredge, reports that there
is a serious shortage of water. The
hydraulic plant has been shut down, ^
and there is barely enough water in
the pond for the dredge to operate. '
• • »
What might easily have proved a
fatal accident -was averted when the (
Rev. Bernard J. Hubbard rescued (
Karl Tangley, his glacier climbing j
companion, from a cravasse of Men
denhall Glacier 40 feet deep into ,
which the latter had fallen.
* * *
The motorship Margnita met with •
a slight accident July 1, in the inside
channel at Slocum Arm on the west ,
coast of Chichagof Island. The mot- ,
orship hit an unchartered rock. The
boat completed the run and arrived
in Juneau later. Little damage was
sustained.
• • •
Work on dredging and rock exca
vation at Wrangell Narrows is well
ahead, of schedule and by the end of
this week, the project will be com
pleted for the first 12 or 13 miles on
the north end of the Narrows. A
statement to this effect was made by
Col. James G. Steese, District engin
eer.
* * *
Servillano Guzman, 46 year old
Filipino cannery worker at Kasaan
was brought to Ketchikan by two
companions who told police that
Guzman has been “acting funny,”
was judged insane by a jury in Unit
ed States Commissioners court. The
virdict which commits Guzman to
Morningside, was delivered after a
five-minute discussion.
Amongt he score of cases handled
by United States Commissioner J. W.
Kehoe in Ketchikan as a result of
Ketchikan’s three-day celebration
was that of Dave Simpson and Ed
Burton, which? according to federal
officers, is the first on record where
in natives have been accused and
found guilty of manufacturing intoxi
cating liquor.
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Arrested as a result of what police
declare was an argument between
sevefal friends in the course of a
drinking bout. W. D. Edge, Ketcnikan
barber, was lodged in the federal
jail on a charge of assault with a
deadly weapon. During the argu
ment Edge is accused of having fired
a revolver twice, the bufets flying
at random and causing no damage.
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; After making expenditures of ap
; proximately $100,0(H) in prospecting
' for suitable marble deposits on the
1 wrest coast of Prince of Wales Island,
the Vermont Marble Company has
discovered a high grade of deposits
at El Capitan and Calder, it is re
|ported by Tom Burns, superintendent
of the firm’s Alaska quarries.
* * *
Attacked simultaneously by two
irated bees wTiile driving his car in
Fairbanks James Findley let loose of
the wrheel to conduct defensive ac
tions and a few seconds later found
the auto climbing over the sidewalk.
Only quick work on Mr. Findley’s
part prevented the car from going
through a fence. Outside of a bent
'fender and a few broken boards,
there was no. damage done.
A contract for the erection of a
school building at Yakutat has been
iwarded to C. T. Bunker, according
0 an announcement from the office {
>f Lester D. Henderson, Commission
?r or Education. The building is
peing erected in accord with a spec-}-*
al appropriation in the amount of S
£7,000. made by the legislature for (
:hat purpose. The plans provide for '<■
:wo classrooms on the ground floor 1
md four rooms as living quarters for (
:eachers on the second floor. The
auilding will be heated by means of
stoves. ]
* * * I
Mrs. John Renner, aged about 60 ^
years, a Russian native of Alaska,
tXJrn at Sitka, died in the govern
ment hospital at Anchorage after an
illness extending over five weeks. ^
Mrs. Renner was highly educated 1
md for many years was in demand '
is an interpreter in court proceed- ^
ings in Alaska, because of her know
ledge of many languages and ability
:o speak them. She is survived by ^
per husband, at present in the Wil- {
ow Creek district, and by a son at *
Seldovia.
1
* * *
The body of Michael Boulie, who
lied in Goldstream, was brought to
Fairbanks for burial. Whether his
leath was due to a stroke of paral- t
ysis or drowning was not definitely
mown. It is said that Boulie first i
lame to Alaska in the early ’90’s. (
He remained for some time at Jun
?au and in other parts of Southeast
ern Alaska and traveled to Dawson ^
n the boom days. Since that time {
le has resided in various parts of (
he Territory. About six years ago
le spent considerable time in the t
Fairbanks district for more than a
r'ear and was employed by the Fair
panks Exploration Co., during most
)f that time. He had been on 21 \
Joldstream for about three months, j
• * *
Two men received painful but not
serious knife slashes and two 'others
]
ire in the federal jail as a result or
<
lights which took place recently in
Ketchikan. Frank O. Ojida, a Fili
pino cannery worker will go before
Judge 2. u. Kehoe at a preliminary
herring on an asn";.. with a deadly
weapon chaigt. h.min , been arrested
by chief of police Hum ter fcr kuif- 1
]
ing Joe Manila„ e.r-p.^e fighter and
taxi driver. Pete Valenzuela, a Mex
ican,w as lodged in jail for stabbing
Joe Major across the left hand, sev
ering the cords. Valenzuela, accord
ing to the police, said he thought
Major had stolen his money but that
he found that another friend had
taken it to keep for him.
* * *
Carl Havorson, a native of Norway,
who is believed to be in Alaska
somewhere, probably in the Interior,
is one of the heirs of Halvor Kalsta,
his uncle, recently deceased at his
home, Kragea, Norway, who left a
large estate, according to Martin
Halvorson, third cousin of Carl Hal
vorson, who is at the Alaskan hotel
from Hood Bay. Carl Halvorson, ac
cording to his cousin, would be about
60 years of age. He is a working
man and had little or no money
when he last saw him. A large part
of the uncle’s estate was represented
in the ownership of ships, though
there was other property. It is be
lieved that Carl’s interest in the es
tate is worth a considerable amount
of money. Martin Halvorson sug
gests that any one knowing the j
whereabouts of Carl Halvorson should j
ask him to write back home or com- j
municate with him in Juneau.
« * »
One hundred thousand dollars w’ill
be expended in the near future on
Mason Creek, a tributary of the
Yukon river, according to Frank
O’Farrell of Fairbanks, who is inter
jested in mining property there wftli
Col. C. H. Mason and the Collumbe
estate. The money will be spent in
purchasing additional hydrolic equip
ment and extending ditches. Mason
Creek is 45 miles below Tanana, on
the right limit of the Yrukon. A trail
built by the owners of the property
runs from the river to the creek, a
distance of one and one-fourth miles.
Good pay has been taken out for tne
last 11 years, Mr. O’Farrell said.
The average depth to bedrock is 14
feet. All the ground is thawed.
O’Farrell recently returned to town
after doing assessment work and
prospecting on Alder Creek, near
1 Ester, with William Gorbracht and
Albert Bell.
THIS UNO THAT
An old friend of Anton Eide and
U Davis, also one of the pioneers of
Seward, R. L. Rogers, is in town to
lay. Mr. Rogers is now operating
l fox ranch on Prince William Sound
lear Latouche and is returning home
m the steamer Alaska.
R. C. Ingram, Bureau of Public
loads engineer, arrived from Moose
3ass yesterday to meet his chief, M.
). Williams, wrho arrived from Jun
;au headquarters on the S. S. Alaska.
G. A. Johnson of Astoria, Ore., is a
jrief visitor in Seward enroute to
he States. M^. Johnson has just
:om,pleted the Yukon River trip from
Daw'son.
J. N. Nettleton, rancher at Mile 4,
las been flooded out, it is reported,
lue to the glacier stream which has
■ut across and is now' pouring into
lear Creek. The immediate vicinity
las been flooded for the past week,
dr. Nettleton is in town today.
Noel W. Smith, General Manager
if the Alaska Railroad, arrived in
>ewrard last evening to greet the in
:oming Congressmen and Henry O’
dalley. The party left for the north
in today’s train.
Tonight’s public dance at Odd Fel
ows hall will be bigger and better
han ever. The popularity of these
lances is growing each week and a
ecord crowd is expected to attend
onight. Dancing begins at 9 o’clock.
F. S. Gordon, who a few days ago
mrchased the Ellsworth interest in
Seward, was among the arrivals yes
erday from Anchorage.
Ross H. Hale, superintendent of
notive power, Alaska Railroad, came
iver from his Anchorage office yes
erday.
Mrs. Stine W. Dunkle, wife of the
nanager of Frye-Bruhn’s Meat Mar
cet, is returning to Taco-ma tomor
'ow on the S. S. Alaska. Mrs. Dun
tie contemplates returning soon with
ler children.
Mrs. E. Coke Hill, wife of Judge
Rill, is leaving for her Valdez home
:omorrowr on the steamer Alaska.
Mrs. Chase and Mrs. Millard, mem
bers of the Federal court party, will
return to Valdez headquarters tomor
row on the steamer Alaska.
Harry E. Ellsworth who during the
past week disposed of all his local
interests to F. S. Gordon, prominent
Alaska business man, will be among
those departing for the South tomor
row on the S. S. Alaska.
W. B. Lawing, wrho, with his wife,
the former Nellie Neal, conducts the
Lawing Lodge on^ Lake Kenai, came
in from the beautiful resort last
evening. Mr. Lawing is registered
in the Sexton.
LOTS OF BUSINESS
Seven passengers on the S. S.
Alaska, which arrived in port today
from the South, plan to journey to
their several places, after their arriv
al in Fairbanks, via the air cruisers
of the Fairbanks Airplane Corpora
tion.
The S. S. Admiral Evans, of the P
S. S. Co., is due to arrive in port
from the Westward tomorrow' morn
ing enroute to the South.
1
I
D. J. Williams, manager of the
Hirst-Chichagof Mining Company, and
close associates, wTho include W. A.
Eaton, well known mining man, have
taken an option on the Sourdough
group of mining claims situated on
the north end of Chichagof Island,
about two miles westerly from Port
Althrop. Mr. Williams says prelimi
nary work will be started on the pro
perty soon. The Sourdough group
was located last fall. The ore vein
was discovered by M. J. Marvitz, and
the prospecting that has been done
on the property is highly encourag
ing, High grade ore occurs on the
surface in such quantity that the dis
covery has caused a great deal of
comment among those interested in
mining.