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PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
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LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
MEETS EVERY THURSDAY EVENING
STEWART, B* C AND HYDER ALASKA
Dr. Richard F. Butler
DENTIST
PORTLAND CANAL NEWS BUILDING
STEWART. B. C. '
HYDER M. E. CHURCH
Services Every Sunday
Sunday School at 11 o’clock
Classes for all ages
Preaching at 8 o’clock P. M.
Rev. F. E.Reddick Pastor.
, . NOTICE
Weekly Miner subscribers are
herewith notified that in the
event of our carriers being un
,able to make deliveries because
of deep snow or unbroken
jtraila, their papers will be left
at the Hyder Drug Company
store or mailed.
GAME LAWS
Open season for—
Moose, Caribou, Sheep, Rams
only, limit 2. Aug. 20 to Dec. 31
Deer, males only, horns 3 in
ches or longer, limit 3. Sept. 1
to Nov. 15. #
Mountain goat, males only, lim
it 8. Aug. 20 to Oct. 31.
Brown Bear, limit 3. Oct. 1 to
July 1.
Grouse, ptarmigan, limit 25 in
possession in one day. Sept. 1
to March 1.
Duck, goose, brant Wilson
snipe, plover, yellow-legs, coots
or Gallinule, Sept. 1 to Dec. 15.
Limit 25 ducks, or Wilson
snipe, or coots, or Gallinule,
or 8 geese or 8 brant or more
than 25 in all in combined pos
session in one day, 15 plovers
or yellow-legs in one day.
Martin Nov. 16 to March 31;
muskrat, Dec. 16 to April 30;
land otter, ming, weasel, Dec.
16 to March 31.; fox, except
blue, Lynx, Dec. 1 to Feb. 28.
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BRIEF' ITEMS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE TERRITORY!
.... .
John Moldenes, web boss for
the Smiley cannery, died re
cently at Ketcrikan. He was a
native of Norway, aged about
35 and well known in the
Ketchikan section.
Chas. R. Setflemeir, editor of
the Dawson News for 20 years
past, recently retired to give
his attention to mining invihe
Yukon section. He went to
I Dawson in 1900 and worked on
, the News every day since that
period.
i Seward has had .more snow
this winter than for many years
past, according to the Seward
Gateway.
The steamer Victoria arrived
in Juneau recently with her
hull sheathed in ice and her
deck rails coated, the result of
encountering a severe gale and
heavy seas in the Gulf of Alas
ka, which delayed her about
15 hours.
The Alaska Railroad has leas
ed from the White Pass R. R.
the river steamer Yukon, one of
the largest and best vessels op
erating in the North, to assist
the railroad fleet in handling
what promises to be a record
breaking volume of tourist
traffic next summer.
In a letter from Keno City,
Archie D. Martin, former mem
ber of the Yukon legislature,
said that t he Beaver district, 60
miles from Keno Hill, prom
ises to be .a second Keno. Mar
tin stated that assays of the
ore found there ranging from
900 to 1200 ounces were com
mon.
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The controlling interest in the
Alaska Weekly, until recently
owned by Chas. E. Herron, has
ben taken over by Frank Cot
ter and Earle Knight, the lat
iter formerly associated with
the publication as advertising
solicitor. L. F. Shaw, to whom
is chiefly due the credit for
placing the journal in the fore
rank of Alaska publications, is
still associated with the paper.
The Markovitch brothers are
sinking on the ore of a vein at;
the head of Spruce and Little j
Eldorado creeks ,in the Fair
banks district, where they
claim to have good gold quartz.
They plan-to take out a quan
tity of ore for a mill run in the
spring.
Anchorage is taking vigorous
action against persons who are
doing businessin the city with
out a federal license. Offenders
are haled before the city mag
istrate and fined. The city Is
i interested in collecting the lie-;
lenses because the money de-j
rived from the federal taxes
is turned over to the city.
Mrs. Jack Sullivan, a widely j
known roadhouse woman of \
the Fairbanks country, died re-1
cently in Fairbanks, following |
a paralytic stroke. She was the I
wife of the proprietor-of the!
Eighteen-Mile roadhouse on
the Valdez-Fairbanks trail.
A. M. Young, veteran post-!
master at Nations, a miners'
center about 50 miles north of
Eagle, died recently, following
a stroke of paralysis. Percy De
Wolf, mail carrier, found him
alone and helpless in his cabin.
Young had been in this condit- i
ion for three days before De-!
Wolf arrived, and was almost
frozen, not having been able
to make a fire. DeWo’lf stop
ped over to nurse him, but he
died three days later.
FOUR BOATS TO WIRE
DRAG ALASKA WATERS
NEXT SUMMER
The United States Coast and j
Geodetic Survey boats Exploi- j
er, Discoverer, Surveyor and
Pioneer will engage in a hunt
for pinnacle rocks along the
Alaska coast during the com
ing slimmer, according to an
nouncements made recently
by Commander R. R. Derick
son, director of operations oif
the Pacific Coast.
The operations will extend .j
from Dixon’s Entrance to Una
laaka and are scheduled to
start March 15.
FOR THE
SPORT FANS
Bud Taylor, challenger for the 1
flyweight and bantamweight
titles, and Pancho Villa, the
world’s champion flyjvefght|
will meet in New York during
early March, according to Ed
die Long, Taylor’s manager.
The outlook for an early
meeting between Mike Mc
Tighe and his principal rival,
Harry Greb, is considered
anything but prohiising by the
sporting scribes. Greb is pre
paring to visit the Pacific coast
to engage in a number of bouts
before tackling the tough Mc
Tighe. Tex Rickard has been
vainly attempting to match the
pair. - #
Somehow it reminds us of that
old saying, “One’s afraid and
the other dassent, for the re
doubtable Mike appears no
more anxious to tangle with
Greb than the latter is to risk
his title while the easy pickings
last. However it is a poor ad for
the game when the champs and
near .champs befray obvious
desire to keep away from ;
the real tough birds. Down in I
the benighted Argentine they !
compel reluctant champions to
m >et challenging opponents or
forfeit their title, all of which
indicates that the Argentinians
h-ve no regard for the com- j
mercial aspects of box-fight- j
ing.
Mike McTigue, light heavy
weight champion of the world,
and Young Stribling, coming j
G eorgia youth, have signed an i
agreement to meet in Newark,
N. J. in a return match on Mch.
3T, acording to New York dis
patches.
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Middleweight champion Har- j
ry Greb won the decision after ;
a 4 round session in Oakland,
Cal., with Jack Reves, San
Francisco boxer, Feby. 23.
Young Stribling, touted as a
prospective light-heavy weight;
champion, lost the decision in
a six round contest at Buffalo
tc Jim Vatery. The bout took ,
place February 26th.
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THE WEEKLY MINER JOB SHOP
IS PREPARED TO DO JOB PRINTING OF -
...EVERY KIND...
BIIJ< HEADS, STATEMENTS’ LETTER HEADS, ENVELOPES, CARDS, INVITATIONS.
TAGS.' ETC. ESTIMATES; CHEERECLLY GIVEN
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Hyder Miner Job Shop
Hudson’s Bay Company Officials
Mush From Herschel Island
Completing a forty day jour
nay from Herschel Island over
the vast trackless wastes of
northwestern Canada and the
northeastern corner of Alaska,
H. H. Hall, superintendent of
thi> Mackenzie river section 01
the Hudson’s Bay Co. posts,
and P. H. Godfell, general in
spector of the same company,
arrived recently in Seward en
route to thp States. The party,
left Herschel Island December
29, after spending Christmas
at the post, making their way
up the Mackenzie to Ft. Mc
Pherson, thence down the Por
cupine to Rampart House, then
to Fort Yukon and Cirele,
where they ieft their dog
teams, taking the stage line to
Fairbanks. The weather, while
intensely cold at times, Was
good practically throughoui
and the party made what is
considered a record trip from
Herschel Island to Fairbanks.
While coming dori the Por
cupine river, the trr ier3 saw
literally hundreds < 10 .sands
of caribou, the pa... *r .veling
through vast herds of the an
jimals for days and days, the
I trail being so well broken by
;them as to make for fast travel.
I The herds were apparently
! working toward the upper Por
jcupine this winter and the In
dians along that stream were
| found to bo enjoying a season
of unusual prosperity, having
an abundance of food. The
i travellers reported that fur
animals and other wild l:fe is
abundant in the Porcupine
country this year and the catph
for Arctic foxes has been unus
ually good.
Legends Say Mastodon
Still live In Alaska
Ileports, both white and nat
ive, of the finding of huge
tracks or other evidences that
the mammoth or mastodon
still roam the vast, unexplored
reaches of Alaska and North
ern Canada, are frequent. Oc
casionally someone claims to
have heard or caught sight of
a gigantic beast. There is one
legend to the effect that there
is still an unnamed valley be
tween the Colville and Porcu
r n'a rivers, where natives claim
to -have discovered monster
tracks and other evidences of
seme prehistoric animal roam
ing about. A similar story at
taches to the Coppermine river
(region oi Canada. Evidence ad
duced at the trial of two Es
: '{'mo who killed two white inis
! tionaries in that section in 1915
I was to the effect that the
■ m-iests tried to force the nat
iivts to guide them across the
enchanted country, or wh°re
the “big beasts” roamed. The
sr me story was told in connect
ion with the killing of Radwe'l,
the American explorer, in the
barren and almost unknown
r 'gioii between the Chipman
and Coppermine rivers. There
are regions into which it is im
possible to induce an A-ct*
coast Eskimo to ventur e ow'rn;
ito their fear of “great beast"”.
Babe Huth’s contract with
the New York Yankees has
three years more to run at an
annual salary of $52,000. This
is said to be the the result of
the club’s decision to exercise
their two-year option,, received
when Ruth signed a 3-year
agreement in 1922. In round
figures Babe’s salary will be
a quarter million for the five
year period. A clause in the
contract 4s designed to keep
the swat-king on the straight
and narrow path of good con
duct. Under it the Yankees
hold back the salary of every
ither month until the end of
the season, when the slugger Is
handed a check for $26,000.
FHOZEN NENANA MAN
HAS FOOT AMPUTATED
Eli Borich, who was brought
nto Nenana recently, severe
ly frozen while on the trail
iju the Ka*it|shna, has had
me foot amputated in the hos
jital at Fairbanks, as well as
joth thumbs. He may have
hher digits amputated unless
urculation can be restored.
Borich ran into an overflow j
lear the 12-mile relief cabin, j
retting T>oth feet Wet.
Hie Best Advtg Medium For j
2uick Sales—Little Black Ads.j
YOUTH OF SIXTEEN
WINS ANNUAL DOG
DERBY IN IFAKO
Olcott Zarn, a sixteen year
youth, captured the annual 25
mile dog race held at Ashton,
Idaho, beating a number of vet
eran dog. mushers, including
“Smoky” Gaston, winner oi
last years’ contest.
Although not considered a
dangerous contender, Zarn
managed to hold his own with
the veterans until a short dis
tance from the finish, when
he suddenly swung into the
lead and came across the line
in two hours, 22 minutes, 40
seconds, with exhausted dogi.
Warren was second and Gas
ton third. Montreal’s leaderbss
team came in fourth.
ANCHORAGE WANTS
HARBOR DEVELOPMENT
The Anchorage Chamber
of Commerce is working to
secure money to improve the
harbor and dockage facilities
at that place. A committee
recently reported that a good
harbor and docks are feas
ible for that place and has tak
en the matter up with Dele
gate Sutherland: