ALASKA
NEWSY
ITEMS
Ike P. Taylor, of Fairbanks, has
b« en appointed assistant engineer of
tfce Alaska Road Commission with
headquarters in Juneau. Mr. Tay
Iot was formerly on the staff of the
Alaska Engineering Commission, as
assistant do Frederick Drowne, en
gineer in charge of the interior rail
way construction at Nenana. He
entered the employ of the Alaska
Road Commission in 1921 as assist
ant engineer at Fairbanks.
At a recent meeting of tihe Doug
las City Council it was decided to
give Alaska coal a trial, so an order
for 100 tons of Evan Jones coal
was sent to Anchorage.
Roscoe Max and Floosie George,
two new pupils recently registered
at the Sheldon-Jackson School at
Sitka, hail from Point Barrow, hav
ing traveled thirty five hundred
miles in search of an education.
Seventy pairs of blue foxes were
recently shipped to the Vendova Is
land fox farm, Inc., of Seattle, from
Southeastern Alaska. The foxes
were secured from the Sukoi Island
Fox Farm Co., of Petersburg, and
the York fox farm at Sumdum.
Charles Brown, former construc
tion engineer on the Alaska Rail
road, in charge of the Nenana end
of the work, and Mrs. Brown now
have a fine country home and con
siderable acreage near San Diego.
Advices from Seattle receatly tell
| of the passing of R«r. Charles H. H.
I moor, at his parish at Jacksonville,
j Florida. He was one of the best
I known Episcopal ministers in the
! West, and from 1900 to 1906 was
! stationed at Nome. Alaska, where he
' built St. Mary's Church.
I -
t Bulkeley Wells, a director of the
[ American Smelting and Refining
j Company, vice-president of the Rio
Grande Southern Railway, and also
connected with the Guggeoheims.
together with his wife, arrived-at;
Seward recently and will spend acv-j
eral weeks hunting on the Kenai
Peninsula, with Andy Simmons as j
The Slate, Creek Company, of
which J. M. Elmer is manager, and j
which entered the Keno Hill. Mayo, j
district about the same time as the;
Yukon Gold and Yukon Tread well !
companies began operations there. |
has retired from the field, having ;
turned its property over t*» the Onek ;
Company, of the Marcus Daly inter- I
•Seattle hotels and apartment hous
es now have their usual quota of Al-j
askans wintering here, and it is ;
noteworthy that men who have been j
going to the Territory for many J
years are more hopeful of develop- j
ment progress than ever before.
In timber and power circles it is
reported that quiet investigations
are being made in various parts of i
Southeastern Alaska relative to op-1
portunities for paper pulp making.
Business continues good in the
Puget Sound region and all previous
building records are being smashed.
Lumber production is high and the
Japanese disaster has stimulated
shipping and much emergency cargo
is moving over the Seattle docks.
Demand for salmon is good and pro
duction in both Alaskan and Puget
We are giving a reduction
of 10% on ladies and child
rens goods until January
15th. 1924.
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SHIP ALASKA FURS QUICK!
We're paying big prices for Alaska furs—demand strong.
We are the largest buyers of Alaska furs in this big
central market and we must have all kinds for quick
sale at present high prices. Money sent same day ship
ment comes in—cash, draft or money order, whichever
you want. ACT NOW—if you have one skin or a
hundred. Ship to us at once.
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Fonk. Grading ALWAYS Make* Your Fur Check* Bigger
Sound waters of canned salmon has
been high. latest estimates being
no re than 6.000,000 eases for the
North Pacific.
Answering recent charges that
steamship companies operating to
Alaska have made excessive profits,
Kenneth Kerr, editor of the Rail
way and Marine News, points out
that comparing rates to Alaska
with those charged by steamers to
the Atlantic Coast is unfair because
in the past year 20.000.000 tons of
cargo were handled by intercoastal
steamers while the total tonnage
handled by both Canadian and Am
erican steamship companies operat
ing to Alaska d.il not total one-half
a million tons. He points out that
the steamers operating between the!
Atlantic and Pacific Coasts have so j
much cargo offered the year around
that new steamers are constantly be
ing added, while the Alaska traffic is
seasonal, ship Insurance is much ,
higher, operating costs higher, and •
whereas intercoastal steamers, for;
instance, load 6.000 tons at one j
■shifting at Seattle's docks that the .
Alaska steamers take only a few j
hundred tons and then have to put\
into Alaskan ports for a few tons of;
freight during the off season. He j
points out that the average freight ]
<*n a pair of shoes to Alaska, using j
a rate that is higher than is now j
charged, amounts to 24 cents per
pair. Tilt* Alaska Steamship Com- j
pany recently published an answer j
t«. charges made |»y certain Alaska |
office holders relative to alleged ex- |
cessive charges. |
Congressman ('has. F. Cun*y, of
California, a good frieml of Alaska
and chairman of the Territorial
Committee. has been the enest of
the Chamber of Commerce, and stat
ed: "Alaska’s future depends entire-1
Iv up.rn what Alaskans are permltt-f
• d to do. He urged that capital bet
given an opportunity to develop
mines, coal fields, pulp industry and |
other resources.
Convinced that summer tours to
Alaska will be popular, the Ameri
can Exi>osition Association has out
fitted an 110-foot Diesel power,
ocean-going yacht and the first
charterer. William Lloyd, wealthy
Chicago man. made a cruise toAlus
The celebration of Alaska week
will be an annual event in Seattle \
hereafter, under the supervision of1
the Young Men's Business Club,
which has named a standing comm I
ittee to take cart? of the work as a .
result of the success of the recent
Alaska Week. |
Charles Kraeuier and John Paul- i
soli arrived at Ooruovu recently!
from Slate Creek, the mining sea-1
son i heir having closed.
It is reported that tht* cleanup
of the Dan Creek Mining Company
ior the past season lies been bet
ter than for several years past.
George L. Morrison and a Mr
Milligan. both of Prince Edward
Island, have purchased the stock
of George Bull's fox ranch, which
One of the largest herds <it' car
ibou ever seen in that vicinity,
passed Cantwell, ou the government
railroad, a few days ago. It ifc esti
mated that there were full) 3.000
caribou in the herd.
Vic Olsen and associates have
taken a lease on the Rawsou Coal
Mine on Moose Creek, and left An
chorage a short time ago for the
purpose of starting preliminary
work prior to the opening of the
mine In another month.
Seventy five blue foxes, constitut
ing the first of the animals for the
Goldstein Glacier fox farm, were re
ceived at Juneau recently, and were
taken at once to the ranch where
they were turned loose In the pens.
Halibut landings at Prince Rupert
during the first nine months of the
present year have totaled 22.591.
000 pounds, as compared with a
total of 25.600.000 pounds for 1921.
The highest price paid during Sep
tember was 18.7 and 11.5 cents.
Mr. Zimmie of Haines, accident
ally shot himself recently with a 22
calibre Tifle while out on a hike with
Mrs. Zimmie, and f<*r a time it was
believed the wound would prove fa
tal. but th© attending physician now
believes that he has a chance to re
The Grand Jury at Ketchikan has
returned over one hundred indict
ments. the majority of which are
against Individuals, firms and cor
porations engaged in fishing, who
are charged with violations of the
Territorial fishing laws with respect
to the closed season.
A prize of a combination rifle an<!
■ pistol offered by Thatcher & Collins,
! hardware and sporting goods deal
; ers of Ketchikan, for the largest
1 deer killed during the month of Sep
; teniber. was won by George Looker,
[who bagged a deer weighing 137 Ms
| pounds dressed.
Kverett Wilcox, an old pioneer of
the Pioneers’ Home, died there on
September 30 after an illness of sev
eral years. Mr. Wilcox went to the
| Home in 1916 from Petersburg.
■ where he had been engaged in fish
! ing and logging. He came to the
Territory in 1889 from Toledo. Ohio.
| where he was born.
| H. W. Hollander, representing Se
! a file capital, is securing options on
i ground on Metal creek, and it is ex
i pec ted that hydraulic operations on i
t a large scab* will b»* Instituted there j
next summer. Metal creek is about j
forty miles from Matanuska and i
about twenty eight miles from the J
railroad.
The Kvan Jones Coal mine at J
.lonesville. *>n the Alaska railroad.1
has received au order for seven j
hundred tons of coal from Juneau
parties, which will be shipped in the j
near future. The recently installed j
coal washer at the mine is said to he j
working in fine shape and producing
The body of the woman found i
floating in Lowe inlet, near Prince J
Rupert, has been identified as that
of Misw Mollie Iverson. »» school j
teacher of Mankato. Minnesota. !
She disappeared fn.ni the steamer ‘
Alaska on September 13. whit en- |
route from Anchorage to Seattle, j
She was a sister of Iver Nearhouse ]
(,! Auchorage. witn whom she ha-' ;
Carinou head hunters, it is report-j
ed. are wantonly destroying game in i
the interior, according to trav-;. vs [
from Nenana to Fairbanks. Car. i j
ses of a number of caribou. from |
which the heads had been chopped, j
were seen along the imo ..f the road,
ft ; t said that one can shoot the ar.i
trom the train, the caribou run]
oa - S-. close to th - railroad right!
many po'
After a residence of twenty seven
1 years in the Interior. Charles Smith,
miner and prospector, is taking his
j first vacation outside. Mr. Smith
was one of the first arrivals on the
! scene of the Fairbanks* strike, fol
i lowing right on the heels of Wad i.
the Jap. He remained in Fairbanks
; until the Iditarod stampede. in
, which he joined. Ife has been in
! nearly all the stampedes of th**
j Northland.
i'pon questions presented by
! Grand Jury at Ketchikan as to the
I validity of the Act of the last Legis
! Inture providing for a closed season
I for salmon fishing in Southeastern
i Alaska. Judge Reed instructed the
(Grand Jury that as the Court is at
* present advised the Territorial law
i i-- a valid, existing law under which
i i> is the duty ..f the Grand Jury !•>
j find Indictments against all persons
! v horn they find have been guilty of
: fishing during the closed season in
A recent inquiry from the office «.f
the Governor as to the wher. about*
of Kd. Woods. brings the response
fr*>m George Hull, of StreJ-na. that
Wood was drowned in the Chitina
ll;v*T about three years ago. IF**
had been employed at the Kenne.
early July. |f»2b. whet
nier district. While
moss the Chitina riv«
Lake, he was drown
party made a search
bur owing to high w.n
>t unable
Th* volume of water th** Twelv
Mile ditch near Dawson was greatl;
reduced by th** dry spell last stlm
Helen Ruth Chamberlin, formerlv
of Ketchikan and Janies Lee Tuck
cent!) at Santa Monica. Calif.
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Alaska, by Walter .1. Marx.
A N'KW YEAR'S MKIllTATIO*
(Contributed.)
The calendar as we measure time is
• Man made. By man observed, ap
praised by man alone.
I We measure time by days .vnd years
as seasons come and go.
| Infinite mind. Eternal plans. Are
j never measured so.
! We count our sorrows one by one.
I Not so. With endless mode that
Yet (iod computes our every grief.
1 Records them one by one.
i Without regard to solar time, or
progress of the sun.
Just on.- eternal day with Him.
Extent and opportune.
shades of the Noetun:
And yet He scales the mountain:!
vast and gives the seas th-ir bounds
Commands the winds, desist their
blast and sways the stars in end
less rounds.
God s calendar not known in creeds.
Are thoughts of men and kindly
Though often hid from mortal view
As underrate as summer dew.
He holds the sacred trust alone
Balanced !•> enduring crac
l ove tempers I! s endulgent throne.
As in Thy sight O. God
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NEW YEAR’S EVE
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At Large Eagle Hall
A large menu of fine eatables beverages.
Cigars and Cigarettes at prevailing prices.
A fine entertainment intermixed
With Dancing
General Festivities at 12 o’clock
Table Reservations at Lomen’s
General Admission 50cts