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Salmon were caught in the Yukon
river at \V3iitehorse. last summer, hav
ing come 2.O<i0 miles in fresh water
from the mouth of the Yukon.
A crew of men working at the new
i . rk In Ketchikan, recently dragged a
heavy stump across the city water
main causing a leak and putting the
system out of business until the pipe
• ouhl he repaired.
Henry Wnnko, the 7 year old son
■ if Henry Loiing. lost all the fingers
hut the small one on his left hand.
While playing with a blasting cap. he
struck a match and held it to the cap
to see if it would go off. It did. and
tool; his fingers.
Albert Cllnkenhcrg. at one time em
ployed In . sawmill in Douglas, re
eently contributed a sad and senti
mental piece of poetry to the fordova
... per. We have often wondered what
John and Henry, the two young
sons of lies, and Mrs. H. H. Lump
kin. of Fairbanks. ;.!<■ in the hospital
at Ketchikan suffering from ptomaine
poisoning. The hoys were taken sick
hospital.
trift arrived in Fairbanks recently
until iifter the freeze-up. N'othing in
From All Par
Dr. H. H. Ward, Prof. Oldfather.
and J. 11. Ilusse! alleged bureau of
fisheries experts, who hav< been in
vestigating the Popper river have com
pleted their investigations and loft fori
the States. They found the fishing op
erations in the Copper does not Inter
fere with the propagation of fish and
that the Copper river Indians are not
deprived of any fish by reason of the
canneries fishing in the stream.
The government school teacher of
the government school at Hydaburg,
with Miss I'na Reynolds, Miss Mildred
Bozworlh and Miss Mary Myrhe. teach
ers. arrived from the States recently
and will open the s.hool shortly. The
course of study will Include ninth
grade pupils this year. V sawmill
will Ik* established and a Ford truck
will do the draying. This is one of
the most modern native towns in the
territory.
Sportsmen and other who are inter
ested in the preservation of wild Kamo
will be glad to know that deer which
some time ago were placed on Hin< h
inbrook and the Hawkins Islands by
the territorial game authorities have
been extended further protection, mid
Ithey will be given an opportunity to
propagate without molestation. Great I
interest has »*een displayed in the
transplanted animals, and reports brot
from the islands from time to time j
[doing fairly well in their new habitat
Oapt. I.. Hagen, who has been
commander of the lighthouse tender
Fern for the j»ast two years, will leave
shortly for Portland to take command
of the tender Hose. This is an ad
vaneement for Fapt. Hagen as the j
Hcj.se- is a much larger vessel. Fapt.
Hagen has been in the governmental j
service for some time and is well j
known in Alaska. He will be sue- ]
oceded on the 'Pern b> William Har- I
ton. it present first officer on the Co- \
dar. The position <>f the first officer1
on the Cedar will be vacant tempor
Thos. P Aitken, the well known
Alaskan mining operator, arrived in
Fairbanks recently on Tom McKin
non's Jauneh. direct from the Kant
ishna district where he, has been for
several clays inspecting the silver lead
j proposition wliich he became interest
ed in last spring. With him were J
I A. Haney and Tom McKinnon, lie is
I planning to continue the development
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men will be employed in the work for
the winter. This means development
work on an adequate scale.
SEWARD-IDITAROD MAIL ROUTE
TO BE ABANDONED
Xccording to a southeastern Alaskan
I**per. the postofTlee department has
decided to abandon the Seward t<> Idlt
aro-l mail route and the mail for Idit
jrod and that district he routed via
Cordova. Ohitnia, Fairbanks and Ituby,
ind thence to Iditaro.j. The change
in rniiting was recently announced by
Alvnh Fames, chief railway mail clerk
It Cordova, who has charge of the
routing of mails from that point. The
service over the Seward trail last win
tisfactory and at tunes taking twenty
live days to make the trip from Sew
ard to lditarod. There is very little
travel over the trail and the heavy
snowfall on the coast end makes it
slow and difficult travelling. The dis
tance is approximately 500 miles over
the old route, while via Fairbanks the
mail must travel several hundreds of
miles more in order to effect delivery.
HUGE EAGLE SHOT NEAR SEWARD
Jl NKAI Alaska—An American
eagle with a stretch of wing of seven
feet two inches was shot in the Turn
again Arm district recently by an cm
ploy.- of th«- Alaska Hngineering Com
mission .
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MONDAY
(GOVERNORS OF COAL STATES
HOLDING CONFERENCES
CHICAGO, Dec. 1—The governor's
of the seven states which produce the
hulk of the nation's coal supply arc
meeting in conference to discuss
means of increasing the national coal
production to meet the strike shortage,
which is now becoming acute.
The first meeting of the gubernator
ial conference was held here at
the suggestion of the governor of llli
Inois. I^ater conferences will be held
in the various coal states as the emor- ■
gency suggests. At Saturday's con
ference the governor's agreed that the
various shite governments should take
all possible steps to obtain a sufficient
production of coal to carry the nation
through the present crisis and recom
mended to the federal government that
a complete fuel administration with an
administrator for each state approved
by the governor be perfected immed
iately as a means of handling the coal
situation in the most effective manner.
Another conference called by Gover
nor Gardlnier of Missouri will meet at
St. Isolds ne*t Sunday to take further]
COAL SHORTAGE CLOSES IOWA
AMUSEMENT PLACES
DBS MONIES, la,. Dec. 1—The
Superintendant of Public Safety here
has issued an order closing all
churches, theatres, pool hulls and other
amusement re-sorts, and also the cigar
stores, owing to the severe shortage
of coal developing as a result of the
coal strike. The drug stores have
also I neon ordered to close, with the ex
ception of their prescription depart
ments. The coal shortage is said by
the Public Safety department to be fast
approaching the dangerous stage, the
• luantitics available being far from ad
equate to meet normal demands.
SENATOR NEWBERRY INDICTED
FOR ELECTION CORRUPTION
GRAND RAPIDS. Mich., Dec. 1 —
Senator Newberry has been indicted
by.the federal grand jury in connection
with his election to the senate over
Henry Ford, the automobile manufnc
The indictment charges Newberry
[with corruption, and conspiracy in
connection with his election. The
evidence on which Newberry was in
dicted was laid before the grand jury
j by the federal judge of this district
and discloses the fradulent expenditure
of nearly a million dollars in electing
him to the senate.
Thirty three other persons were also
[indicted in the same connection for al
leged participants in the conspiracy.
One of the, additional indictments is
against John C. Newberry, the brother
of the senator. The returning of the
indictments was expected, owing to,
the general knowledge that a large
amount of money had been expended
by Newberry and bis backers in order
to defeat Ford.
RADICAL LABORiTE COUNCIL
ELECTED AT WINNIPEG
WJ XXI PEG, Dec. 1—Complete re
turns of the municipal elections held
last week disclose that a council com
posed of seven radical luhorites has
been elected to control the administra
tion of city affairs. Two of the men
elected to the new council were Indict
ed in connection with the general
strike development here Inst June and
nearly all were prominent in carrying
on the agitation Which provoked the
great-walkout.
The electors refused Mayor Gray
and seven citizen candidates placed in
opposition to the radical labor candi
dates. The labor candidates are hold
ing the balance of power by a majority
of three thousand.
GOVERNOR STEPHENS DECLARES
MOONEY ARCH-MURDERER
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 1st —
Governor Stephens has no intention of
either pardoning or reducing the sen
tences meted out to Tom Mooney and
Warren K. Hillings in connection with
their trial and conviction for partici
pancy in the Preparadness Day bomh
explosion at San Francisco.
The. governor made public today a
letter indicating plainly that he has
no intention of extending executive
clemency to Mooney or Billings. The
letter characterizes Mooney as "an
arch-murderer" for whom no leniency
GOV’T ORDERS DEPORTATION
OF EMMA GOLDMAN
WASH., Dec. 1—The deportation of
Emma Goldman, the notorious woman
anarchist agitator and the alleged fo
mentor of numerous radical disturb
ances during the twenty odd years she
has been In Apt erica, has been ordered
by the Department of Labor, according
to announcements today.
(effective I Seemlier 1st. 1913. *»m- price of Wellington Coal will
be forty dollars per ton in the yards of the Alaska Lighterage & t om
merci^l Company—terms STRICTLY CASH. 'All coni purchased
prior to December 1st. 1919. must be hauled from yards by that date.
Commencing November is. 1919 and continuing until further
notice, delivery hours at yards and warehouses will he as follows:
COAL, PEARL OIL, GASOLINE, ETC.,
(From 9 a. in. to 12 Noon, Daily.)
CRUDE OIL—(Associated Tanka)
MONDAYS—WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS
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