News Items From AH Parts of Alaska
Ketchikan taxi drivers have form
eel a union to keep up prices.
Cordova school teachers were given
a bonus of $100 each by t ho school
board at the end of their term.
Petty thieves are operating at Pc
tersiiurg. Two motor Puts were re
cently stolen.
The Si'ward li tev.uy !ias adopted
a n*-\v slogan, and one which is very
appropriate: "Sew..’d. the Gateway.
Don't Knock, -lust Enter.”
“The Midnight •Sons," . soda! or
ganization of unmarked males, gave
a party .it Cordova recently. Every
town lias a number of members eligi
ble to Join an order of this kind.
.Tint Samson and Charles Ginn form
ally opened the sluicing season at
f»rooks when they started to shovel
pay dirt. They have out one "f the
biggest dumps in th- section.
Joseph Johnson, well known Daw
sonite, accidently shot and killed him
self in Vancouver recently. The de
ceased was a pioneer in the Klondike.
He leaves a bortlier. Robert Johnson,
who resided in Dawson.
On July 1. the Anchorage Tintts
boosted its advertisement rates be
tween 25 and 33.113 per cent above Its
former rates. It also changed its
fize from a six column, six page to a
seven columr four page daily.
Two larg~ cranes for use 1 y the Al
aska Engineering Commission in the
erection of the big steel bridge across
the Susitna River recently arrived in
Anchorage. One of the cranes, built
especially for the A. E. C., lias an
erection capacity of 100 tons.
During the recent flu epidemic a!
Nenana the one remaining member of
the fire department who was not on
the sick list inserted an ad in the local
paper asking people to kindly refrain
from fires until the other members
recuperated. The telegraph offle - was
also closed as all the operators were
William Isaacson and Lewis Mc
Donald, two small boys of Petersburg,
found a number of old shot gun shell
on the beach and. extracting the pow
der, touched a match to it t<> see wli.it
feet In the Veil
being put
The hospital board at Brooks an
nounces that the quarantine on tra
vel will not be lifted until after a period
nf two weeks after the end of the
epidemic at NVnana.
Tin Tolovana Keystone Develop
rnent company has statted its big drill
in tl^js district with Ben Bromberg in
The Standard Salmon Backers Bo.,
Jkee, recently fil-d articles of Incor
poration with the territorial1 secretary.
TREADWELL PEOPLE TO
OPEN A NEW CAMP
A number <*f horses ami some min
ing equipment recently |kiss- (1 through
Dawson ,cnrout<- t" the lower Yukon,
to he transferred from Mitarocl over
land to the Kuskokwim, for the Tread
well people, of Juneau. Mr. Bradley,
president of the company: Mr McDon
ald and Mr. WVrnecke. of the com
pany. were in Dawson last summer,
looking for a property that would fur
nish ore to their large Treadwell
plant. They seem t<» have i«assed the
Mayo camp a little too early, hut to
have found something promising else
where. The Cordova Times recently
The Alaska Treadwell (’.old Mining
company has taken a bond on twelve
gold quartz claims at Nixon Fork,
near McGrath, on the Kuskokwim riv
er. At present time Livingston W'er
nec.ke. representative of the company
and formerly connected with the Cop
per ltiver & Northwestern railway, is
on the ground, doing development
An outfit costing in the neighlor
hood of $20,000 is being assembled at
Juneau for transportation to the Kus
kokwSin as soon as navigation opens.
In the outfit is a portable air compress
-or. drilling machines and everything
else th: t goes to make a quartz min
This outfit is, being assembled by
Charles Horner, who will leave soon
in e-harge of it and a crew of men for
McGrath to assist in the development
of the claims.
■Livings!on Werneche. geologist for
the company, left for McGrath sever
al weeks ago. going to the end of steel
on the government railroad and then
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For mother,
father, the boys
and tfirls. M’s
the sweet for all
aees—at work or
play.
When you’re
nervous or tired,
see how it
refreshes!
The Havor
Lasts
A-9
Sealed
Tight
Kept
Right
traveling twelve days l»y dog team to
his destination. His report on the
claims is said to have been favorable,
end he was authorized to go to work.
He has been working with a crew of
twelve men in opening up the pros
The option on this property tomes
as the culmination of the endeavors of
tin Treadwell eompany last season to
get hold of some good quartz proper
ties in tc interior of Alaska
SEATTLE—That the Alaska Tread
well flold-.Mining company will oper
ate its recently acquired quartz claims
near .McGrath. on the upper Kusko
kwim, on a large scale is indicated
by telegrams received here. Thesc
I telegrams say that SO men are being
, recruiited in interior Alaska to work
j the properties.
Supplies are being gathered here
for the work. An electric power plant
is in course of installation. Assays
of the ore are reported to show hig'.i
| values, and the steamer Ozmo will
bring south the first 500 tons of ore for
treatment in July.
Livingston Weineche. geologist for
the Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining
company, has been on the ground for
the last several months, and Charles
I Horner, a mining engineer for the
[company, went in on the first Yukon
I river steamer, to have charge of devel
opment work on the claims.
I If work Is started on the scale In
dicated by the Associated Press tele
gram it would mean that the Tread
well properties would lie the largest
quartz mines In the interior of Alaska
and would mean a great deal for the
BARRY KEOWN :
LOCATED IN
; SOUTH AMERICA
I Barry Keown. widely known Nome- .
ite, is now located in the Repu’ lie or
t ’oluurvbia. South America, accord ng to ;
1 letters from tin* genial Barry himself
I reaching Jas. Swartzcll. proprietor «>f
j the Golden Gate Hotel. Keown is
! employed by a mining concern known
las the C’ompania Minera Ob co Pa
j eifleo and is located near the town of
; Quibdo. Under daite of July 8th, he
J “I am sorry I was not able to go
| l>ut I hope to be there next year. There
is a chance to make a little money
' down here this summer so I thought
I would stay with it and also spend
' one summer' in the tropics and get
| boiled out. Well 1 sure got it. All
i the seal oil is out of my systom. As
j I have been down with the fever for
j over a month and I am now in the
j light weight class weighing in at 135
lbs. It is a very unhealthy country,
j worst in Columbia but we are very
! fortunate in having a good doctor. He
| was a Major in the army and served
| At present 1 am drilling for the
company on the Atruto River. At the
dredge camp on the other side of th?
Range (Pacific side) there are about
j ?0 white men) Harry Welch is the
dredg;- m ist^r and our mutual friend
iCapt. Wright, the engineer for -the
j Sawtooth Power Co. is the new *4uper
I lntenden*. He arrived here on July
! 1th. He * "ild me that money was so
j tight they could not raise the money
| to ahead with tch project this year
j but that it was not dead.
) It is too hot down here for an Al
i askan and not any of the boys like It.
Several that came down at the same
time I did have gone back and some
sent bat*, could not stand the climate.
But I will stick this summer if I can
avoid the fever again.
How are things at Nome this sum
mer Jim? .1 have not heard a word
j about Ncime since I left last fall and l
j would sure like to know how you all
best regards to Nugget
LATE
TELEGRAPH
SOVIETS FORCE OUR DEPORTED
REDS TO WORK
Washington, Sept. 10—The State
Department has learned that the Rus
sian Bolshevik! sympathizers and' un
desirables deported: to Russia some
months ago by. the United States were
at once put to work by the Soviet
authorities, despite the protests of
many of the deportees who were sup- :
idled with funds. Some of them were
put to work repairing railroad" beds.
A number escaped' from Russia, under
assumed names, while others .ire un
der arrest and in the hands of an “ex
traordinary commission" for punish
BOLSHEVISTS MAKING
REPRISALS ON AUSTRIANS
Washington, Sept. 10—The trai' "f
a number of Hungarian Rolsheviki ad
herents in Vienna have led to reprisal's
in Soviet Russia, the State Department
has i fcn informed through diplomatic
channels.
According to the advices, ten prom
inent Austrian officers are being held
by the Rolsheviki as personal hosv.n,oe
for the safety of Hungarian Bolshe
vists and one thousand more Austrian
officers have been imprisoned.
'SOVIETS DISSATISFIED
WITH RUSSO-POLISH
PEACE ARRANGEMENTS
Warsaw, Sept. 9—The Russian So
viet government has sent a wireless
message to Roland asserting that the
Russians are dissatisfied with the ar
rangements made for the Russo-Polish
peace negotiations at Riga because the
Letvin guarantees are insufficient.
OLIVE THOMAS DIES
FROM POISON
Paris, Sept. 10—Olive Thomas,
picture star tiled this morning at
XeuilTy from the effects of poison tak
en Sunday. Whether°thc poison was
taken with suicidal Intent Is not de
rate life Mrs Dick Pickford. .
HUERTA CLOSES BORDER
GAMBLING HOUSE
Owl", a local gambling house known
throughout Mexico and the T’nitdd
the recommendation of provisional
president Huerta by General Louis M.
PROOFS OF LABOR BLANKS
ON SALE AT NUGGET OFFICE
Johnson. Frank Shaw, Louis Erickson
Eric Johnson am! all the rest of the
boys I know there.
If you come out this fall. I will
probably see you in the States this
winter. He sure and write and let me
know, as I would like to have a nice
little social session with you, Jim.
Wishing you all sorts of luck this
summer and hoping to see you in! the
WANTS NEWS OF
MISSING HUSBAND
Mrs Pearl Hamnes, of Mantico. Cal
ifornia, writes to the Nugget seeking
information concerning her husband.
Chris Hamnes late a business man of
Mantico, who disappeared Aug. 4 1920
and is supposed to have come to Alas
The wife also sent an addressed let
ter to her husband in care of this pa
per. She says the- missing man is in
terested in mining ground in this sec
tion and has visited Nome several
times. Hamnes, who, up to the time
of his disappearance, was a cement
contractor, left his home on a short
trip to Stockton, telling his wife he
would be holme about seven in the
evening. He departed rn Ms automo
bile, leaving a considerable amount of
money outstanding and without pay
ing his workmen. No trace of either
he or his auto has since been found.
His business was a profitable one, his
business standing was excellent and
the reason foV his strange disappear
ance is a mystery to his wife and
friends. Anyone knowinr; of t his
whereabouts will confer a blessing on
the distracted wife by communicating
with this office or Mrs HamneiL
Address Box 241, Mantico, Cali
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