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DENVER. Nov. 29, </P)—. Auto
mobile drivers played “peek-a
boo” getting their first glimpse of
winter in Denver through snow
covered windshields as the first
storm of autumn hit the mile
high city.
This pretty miss is giving the
windshield wiper a hand after it
stalled under the load of big, wet
flakes.
In other widely separated cities
the first blanket of white appear
ed. What was in some States a
record snow for the season, later
turned into heavy rains.
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Mayor Thomas B. Judson, of
Juneau,has gone to Warm Springs
bn a health trip. He will be gone
several weeks.
The body of Augustine Yerbich.
a victim of the coal mine disaster,
was taken to Minnesota for bur
ial by his brother.
John Baxter. 50. died at a Jun
eau hospital after a long illness.
Re was a mechanical engineer by
trade. He left no known relatives
Indicted for second degree mur
der, Frank and John McKinley
are to enter pleas. They are held
in the Juneau jail without bail.
Miss Elvi Brood of Wrangell
became the bride of Lewis Stone
recently. Miss Brood arrived from
thSfc States and was married as
soon as the boat docked.
Mrs. Helen Wilcox, wife of H. i
G. Wilcox, University of Alaska!
mining instructor, received a gen i
erous check for a 500-word article!
contributed to “This Week.”
Dan Moller, the first white child
to be born on Douglas Island, has •
returned to Douglas after spend-:
ing the summer at Tanacross. He
helped build the aviation field at
tha center. ,
Mrs. Robert W. Marcum, clerk!
in the U. S. Forest Service fiscal
office at Juneau, has been trans
ferred to the Portland, Oregon, j
office. Her husband is attending
medical school in Portland.
Three men were rescued from a
buoy near Kake after clinging to
it for 17 hours. The small boat
in which the men were traveling
became disabled and filled with
water and they were forced to
abandon it and take to the buoy.:
The men were suffering from ex-1
posure.
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A. J. SnydeT, alias George Mil
ter, former Chichagof miner was,
indicted in a true bill returned at;
Juneau.for the theft of 130 ounces,
of gold amalgam from the Chich-!
agof Mining Cofnpany. At the!
time of his arrest he had reenter-1
ed the employ of the mine and;
the marshal who arrested him!
found the amalgam in an old |
sock.
Alaska’s herd of muskoxen is
making itself right at home on
Nunivak Island, according to
word received by the Alaska
Game Commission from Paul Iv
anoff, native leader, school teacher
and muskox chaperon. Eight cal
ves were born to the herd of 27
this spring and all survived the
summer in healthy shape.
"Malamute-mobile” is the name;
o< the accepted manuscript and it j
describes the curious means of1
transportation called the pupmo-1
bile, which is now used on the;
Seward Peninsula. The dogs pull
a small flatcar on the old aban
doned Nome railway. When the
dogs strike a down grade they sit
°n a bench behind and coast
down grade.
The zealous pursuit of Mr. Jo
nah's four room bungalow nearly
brought disaster to a gasboat in
Bottle Cove recently. Harold Da
mon of Juneau took a party of
hunters to the cove on his cabin
cruiser, and everything was fine
until the whale hove into view
after a school of herring. The
tidal wave caused by the whale’s
antics threw the boat on its beam
ends, and bobbed her about like
a cork as the monster whipped
by within 50 feet of the boat.
A marriage license was granted
at Seattle to Lyman S. Ferris of
Ketchikan and Sybil A. Temple
ton of Seattle, both of legal age.
E. F. Roberts, of Cove, Oregon,
father of Dr. A. R. and Miss Eva
Roberts of Seward arrived in that
city recently and will visit for
the next six months.
The new grade school at Anch
orage will be bult on the location !
of the present structure, the town
council decided by a vote of 4 to
2. The WPA required that the
old structure be torn down if the
new one were to W built.
The Interior of the old Tele
phone and Telegraph building is
being remodeled at Anchorage
from top to bottom to provide ac
comodations from 40 to 50 CCC
men this winter. The second floor j
will be equipped with double;
deck bunks.
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Elmer Valdemar Larson, alias
Verner V. Larson, was given two
years on McNeil Island for biga
my. He was charged with marry
ing Frances Ruth Johnson in Ju
neau, October 15th, when he was!
already married to Dorothy Court
land Larson.
U. S. Commissioner A. H. Bry
ant of Seward, has been appoint
ed agent for Seward by the Alas
ka Department of Public Welfare, i
his duties being to complete ap
plication for needy aged people
by securing all necessary docu
ments that are available.
James F. Rogers, 20. Chitkoot !
barracks private, pleaded guilty
to a charge of contributing to the
delinquency of a minor, was sen
tenced to three years in the pen
itentiary on separate counts. He
was accused of attacking a native
girl at Haines, and when she re
pulsed him was badly beaten.
The threat of flood hung over
Skagway the latter part of last
month when an unusually heavy
downpour caused boulders and
trees to pile up around a railroad
bridge of the Skagway and White
Pass railway. The officials dyna
mited the bridge to allow the de
bris to float down the river. Sev
eral homes and the airport were
under water.
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Fishhook Inn, landmark on the
road into the mining district be
yond Wasilla. is to be rebuilt into
a modern rrsort this winter. C.L.
Cadwallader, owner of the pro
perty is modernizing the old place
and will specialize in chicken din
ners, overnight accomodations,
winter sports and summer out
ings. Built in 1916 the Inn did a
flourishing business during early
days. 40 or 50 men would be
found there at times as they trav
eled to and from the mines.
A second encounter with a big
bad brown bear was related at
Juneau by Kell Larson and Dick
Harris, after a Gamblier Bay
hunting trip. While calling a
deer in the hills Larson and Har
ris were surprised by a bear whi
ch had crept up quietly behind
them and was preparing to char
ge. Whirling when he saw the
bear young Harris pumped one
shot into the bear's chest and the f
animal instantly retreated into i
tn woods and the two hunters
hurried biick to their boat.
Weal her 'today
(U S. Wpather Bureau)
High pressure with the main
center over British Columbia and
another centered over northwest
ern Canada extending into the
interior of Alaska lias caused fair
and continued cold weather to
predominate over this vast area
with the exception of scattered
snow flurries.
A Low centered over Kodiak Is
land is causing snow and rain a
long th south Alaskan coast with
the greatest precipitation 1.45 in
ches at Cordova.
The highest Nome temperature
yesterday was 20 and the lowest
last night 9 degrees above.
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