JURY SOAKS POPOVICH $500
A jury in Commissioner Winn’s
■court last Friday decided that Dan Pop
<ovieh had "swiped” Mary Zuboko
vicli’s furniture, and gave her a judg
ment of $500. The case has been ap
pealed.
As told exclusively in the Sourdough
Mary Zubokovich brought suit a couple
of weeks ago against Popovich, alleg
ing that when he accompanied Marshal
Schaffer to interpret a "Notice to
quit,” which the marshall served upon
her, he had taken advantage of his po
sition as interpreter to "glom” her
household goods.
In the case tried last week, the
woman testified that Dan and the mar
shal had come to her house where she
was keeping borders, that the marshal
had read a paper to her, and that Dan
then told her that it was an order of
fourt for her to get out of the house
and to leave the furniture, which a
anan would come after. Mary testifi
ed that she had a wholesome respect
for the courts of this foreign land, and
that she immediately got up, leaving
everything in the house, and left. Vid
ak Sogorra testified that he wras one
of the boarders, and that he was there
-at the time, and that Dan made the
very remarks which the woman accus
ed him of doing. Subsequently it was
shown that one Mike Mush came and
took the property, and Mike Mush tes
tified that it was true, and that lie had
sold it for $250. Mush, however, said
that he was not sent by Dan at all, but
•by Louie Selig, and that he turned the
money over to Louie, and not to Dan.
It was testified that Louie Selig had
financed the boarding house, and that
there was a balance coming to him, but
was less than $250, the selling pricgf,
by a hundred dollars or more.
Dan Popovich testified that he had
merely interpreted the paper for the
marshal, and that he knew no more
about it. lie denied that he had told
the woman to leave her furniture. Mar
shal Schaffer was out of town on a
prospecting trip, but, as the attorneys
for the plaintiff contended, he could
not testify that he knew what Popo
vich had said, as the marshal is not a
Slavonian.
COMMISSIONER FLOER RESIGNS
Who wants to be United States com
missioner at Sitka?
Sidney E. Flower, who for many
years has occupied this position at Sit
ka, has resigned, and Judge Lyons is
looking about for his successor.
The courtl expects to find a new com
missioner at Sitka, and will leave for
that place the last of this week, al
most whoely for that purpose. There
is no great money in the job, and prob
ably everybody will not speak at once.
“The problem of governing Alaska
is more difficult than many people
think,” said a court official. “There
should be a commissioner not only at
Sitka, but at Tenakee, oonah, Port
land on the canal and at Metlakahtla,
but there is now none at any of these
places. The fees are of no consider
able importance, and few people want
fche job. ’ ’
Last fall an effort was made to se
cure authority from Washington to put
the United States commissioners on a
salary of $150 a month, but it fell
thorugh. In the cities of the United
States the tendency is all to put the
.justices of the peace on a salary, and
Lhus put them beyond the possibility
of being influenced by the fees in a
case, and undoubtedly, the government
should provide for salaried commission
ers in Alaska.
BUYS INTEREST
George Spence has bought an inter
est in the Douglas Island concrete
works, and will superintend the manu
facture of concrete blocks Spence
lias had considerable experience in the
manufacture of concrete blocks and
building concrete houses in England.
There is still some call for chimney
ibloeks in Douglas, and the Douglas Is
land concrete works are shipping
Mocks to Haines and Petersburg, and
•expect to furnish the blocks for sev
eral Juneau chimneys yet this fall.
"They also expect to furnish this fall
the blocks for some basements which
tare to be built under Juneau houses
The Douglas Island Concrete Works
expect to receive some concrete block
machinery by spring, and to do a con
siderable business in the manufacture
of concrete blocks for building pur
poses next summer. There is little
question but that concrete blocks are
the ideal material for building pur
poses in this climate. A way to keep
water out of a concrete building has
been devised, and the saving in fuel,
in a single winter in a climate like
this, will go a long way toward mak
ing up the difference between the cost
of lumber and the cost of concrete. The
Treadwell sand, from which the Doug
las blocks are made, is regarded by ex
perts as ideal material for concrete
purposes.
WELCOME FOE PINCHOT
Whether Katalla’s nerve has held
out, no word has come, but she certain
ly planned to receive the arch-conser
vationist in appropriate style.
As they . planned it, the following
song was posted all over town, though
it is probable nobody sang it:
Hail to the Chief!
The conquering hero comes too late
To view the corpse in its last estate.
With the sword of power in the hand
of greed
Marvel not at the fatal spirit on the
storm
That sweeps from glacial heights and
Echoes the means of the last brave
fights
They have blocked that trail that the
brave have trod
And fenced the land from men and
God.
All hail to the chief of Alaska’s de
famation!
Pinchot platform to have hung in
another place was as follows:
Eastern coal vs. Alaska coal.
Conservation and lunacy vs. progress
and sanity.
The eastern coal barons vs. the coal
of Alaska.
Pinchot vs. Oh, Pshaw!
Another banner announced that the
ceremonies will be followed by a ban
quet in the Chugnac Forest Reserve,
with the following menu:
Porcupine Soup
Porcupine Mulligan.
Roast Porcupine
Porcupine a la mode.
Grand final course: A practical
demonstration of the way we do by
gum shoe men.
TELLS OF COMING COUNTRY
Captain Albert Rhodes, prospector,
pathfinder, sailor and philosopher,
dropped into Iditarod the other day
from the Kuskoquim, by way of Ta
kotna. Years ago Rhodes was a miner
on one of Nome’s famous “beach
lines,’’ and fortune smiled upon him.
Then he started out to make new dis
coveries. He has stampeded from Daw
son to Point Barrow, where he hunted
the white bear and the whale instead
of gold, ever smiling, always cheer
ful.
“But I don’t stampede any more,”
he said. “That is, I don’t follow the
crowd any more. I was within a few
miles of Iditarod two years ago. I
heard they had made a strike here, but
I did not come. I want to find a new
district for myself.” And Capt.
Rhodes says that the next great min
ing camp of Alaska will be located at
the headwaters of the Swift and Stony
rivers, tributaries of the Kuskoquim,
which head up in the Alaska range
of mountains.
“It is the best mineralized country
that I have ever seen,” he said. “I
have found many varieties of minerals
in that section, some of whose names I
do not yet know. One kind of mineral
I found with the aid of a camp fire
that I had built alongside a ledge of
rocks. The heat from the fire melted
the rock, and the metal dropped do-wjh
like molten lead. No, it was not lead,
nor silver, or copper. I don’t know
what it is, but I’m going to find out.”
Captain Rhodes says the country
drained by the Swift and Stony rivers
is difficult to get into. Both rivers are
swift and filled witb boulders, making
navigation almost impossible. He will
return to that section and continue
prospecting.—Iditarod Nugget.
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