VOL IV., NO. XXIX
HYDER, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3,1923
FIFTY CENTS AI (IJH
FAMOUS GOLD CAMP
COMING BACK TC LIFE
Nome, famous bonanza camp
of the early days, which in late
years seemed on the verge of
falling into that state of decay
which has overtaken so many
of the early day camps, is now
on the threshold of a new stage
of development and bids fair
to again become a great gold
producer, according to James
P. Daly, Nome agent of the Al
aska Steamship Company, in a
statement to the Seattle press.
Nome’s prospective comebacK
is to be the result of the advent
of the Hammon Dredge Comp
any’s entry into the dredging
field last year. The company
has already installed two mam
moth dredges on ground on tiie
famous “third beach” formerly
owned by the Pioneer Mining
Company and is' preparing to
add four more to the fleet dur
ing the next two years. The
program outlined contemplates
an expenditure of close to four
million dollars during that per
iod. Daly predicted that the
gold production of the camp
would be close to a million dol
lars this year.
J. N. Loken, rancher, who op
erates a farm a short distance
from Palmer, on the govern
ment railroad,boasts of having
raised a cabbage this past sum
mer, which weighed 29 pounds.
Shooting at a distance or sev
eral hundred yards, Mrs. Park
Reed, of Valdez, killed three
caribou recently in the Cant
well district. The three caribou
were close together when Mrs.
Reed came upon them and be
fore she could get within close
range they caught her scent
and started off at a headlong
pace. Following as fast as pos
sible, Mrs. Reed finally got a
good sight of them and picked
them off one after another.
I*!h -
Twenty Indian houses at the
Bella Bella, B. C., cannery ot
the Gosse-Millard Packing Co..
Ltd., were burned SeDiemoer
27 with a loss of five lives, ac
cording to the Pacific Fisher
man. The death list was made
up of Indian children. The
cause of the fire is unknown.
The cannery itself was not
damaged by the blaze. The In
dian houses destroyed were
among the best on the coasr
and a source of great pride to
the company, which has taken
measures for the assistance ol
the former occupants who Were
burned out.
Bella Bella is located on the
Inside Passage on Canadian
waters.
The badly decomposed re
mains of C. F. Miller, alias C.
F. Kelly, were found recent
ly on the outskirts of Seward
by two hunters, who saw tne
white skull through the bush
es and took it for a rabbn.
From papers found with the
body it was learned that Miller
had been working under the
name of Kelly at the AlasKa
Sulphur Company mines at
Lost Harbor, before coming to
Seward last spring. Shortly al
ter arrival, he disappeared and
is believed to have walked out
to the place where his bouy
was found and after piling
his papers and $7.25 on a near
by stump, bad laid down on
his back and slashed the ,‘u --
ular vein, watching himself at
his grisly task by means ot a
small hand mirror. A coroner s
jury returned a verdict of in
tentional suicide.
Just arrived—a new assort
ment of solid white gold wrist
watches in the latest styles, at
the HYDER DRUG COMP
ANY, “The Po3toffice Store.”'
Two black bear’s, two sheep
and a treat were bagged near
Coal Creek in the Chickaloon
district by W. R. Mathewson,
Tom Haines and A. Corliss,
who recently spent a v/eeK
hunting in that district. The
bear were bagged by Mathew
son, the sheep by Haines ana
the goat by Corliss.
All efforts to locate Ed. Mil
ler, an employee of the Grover
Cleary fox ranch on Strait is
land, who is reported to have
disappeared September 1'J.,
have proved futile. Searching
parties sent out from Peters
burg have failed to find any
trace of the missing man.
John Carl, a former resident
of Nome, who#recently killed
his landlady in Tacoma by
beating her over the head
with a hammer during a quar
r) over rent, was convicted ot
•first degree murder at Tacoma
and was sentenced to life im
prisonment. Carl, a short time
before slaying the landlady,
was pardoned for the murder
of Harvey Frye, of Nome, some
years ago.
William Gates, better known
to residents of the north as
Sviftwater Bill, who was one
of the noted characters of the
Klondyke in the early days,
and who won and lost several
fortunes, passed away in South
A meriea recently, ^according
to information received in Se
attle.
The announcement has been
made by the United States Geo
ographic Board that- the name
of “Harding Gateway” has
been officially bestowed on an
unnamed passage along tne
south Alaska coast, through
which President Harding’s ship
passed last summer on its way
to Seward.
This action by the board puts
the name on all government
maps.
Fortuna Ledge, the prosper
ous little mining camp on the
lower Yukon, is to be connect
ed with the outside world by a
government wireless station.
Cant L C. Parsons, officer
in charge of the first section of
tie Washington-Alaska mil
itary cable and telegraph sys
tem, has received instructions
to install a wireless early next
spring.
The Hammon Company, ot
Nome, expects to continue tne
operation of its dredges until
January 1 or later, owing to the
mildness of the weather in that
section, says an early Novem
ber dispatch from Nome. The
weather conditions are describ
ed as remarkable, the dispatch
stating that it had been ‘Tike
summer” up to November 2,
when a heavy rain storm occur
ed.
The mining season was one of
the most prosperous in years.'
$1,123,000 in gold bullion
was shipped to the States <iur
ing the season.
The last steamer of the season
left Dawson for down river
points on October 10, one of
the latest departures of recent
years. Ice was reportedfloatmg
iii the river but it was not froz
en up at any point.
Th§ tourist season was the best
Dawson has ever known, the
Dawson paper claiming that
30,000 people visited the city
during the summer.
Grubstake Gulch, a tributary
of Willow Creek, is paying El
der and Thorpe $30 a day, in
a reported new strike of gold,
according to apparently au
thentic reports.
The gold, which is described
as being decomposed quartz,
is being extracted by rocking.
Further development will be
necessary to establish whether
the veiq. is a fissure or pocket.
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* PROCLAMATION * ;
* IN TRIBUTE to the twenty i 'nth President of the Un- *
* ited States, WARREN GA M’LIEL HARDING, and in *
* recognition of his services to this country December *
* Ninth to Sixteenth next, in elusive, will be observed *
* throughout the land as HA RD1NG MEMORIAL WEEK. *
* In conformity with nation al decree and proceedure, I, *
; * Scott C. Bone, Governor of Alaska, do therefore call up- *
* on all the people of the Terr itory to join in such observ- *
* ance and thus in union and by concei ted action make *
* newly manifest and forever memorable our affection for *
* the departed president and his efforts in our behalf. *
* His beautiful and epochal journey to this Northland *
* was the sad climax of his dis tinguished career and the *
* fact will everbe remembered that his last public utter- *
* ance was delivered in the ca use of Alaska. *
* Deeply conscious of his work and worth, and poign- *
* antly mourning his demise, it, becomes a privilege to *
* have a part in permanently perpetuating the name and *
* fame of this great and good friend of Alaska; and so let *
* it be said and remembered by Alaskans in every part of *
* the Territory. *
* Given under my hand and the seal of the *
* Territory of Alaska, in Jun eau, the capital, this 30th. *
* day of November, 1923. *
*
* Scott C. Bone. *
* ( SEAL ) Governor of Alaska *
* *
Carl Thiele
Ex-officio Secretary
of Alaska.
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CHARGES SEATTLE RESPONSIBLE
FOR DISCRIMINATION OF JONES ACT
That Territorial Attorney
General John Rustgard is de
termined on making a desper
ate fight against the present in
hibitive transportation condit
ions and that he is not in the
least intimidated by the fact
that he is opposing the mosi
powerful influence in territor
ial affairs, is well indicated by
the following direct-from-the
shoulder statement made by
turn to the Seattle Star of Oct
ober 18.
“A new fight for cheaper
transportation to and from Al
aska is certain to be made in
the next Congress. This is the
word brought to Seattle by
John Rustgard, attorney gen
eral of the Territory, who is
on his way to Washington.
“Rustgard says that Dan
^Sutherland, Territorial Dole
gate, will seek to have tne
Jones law, which discriminates
against Alaska, amended. Rust
gard makes sensational char
ges of unjustly high rates and
[.unduly big profits on the part
of the steamship companies.
“Also he accuses the Wash
ington state delegation in Con
gress of opposing the best in
terests of Alaska, and the Seat
tle Chamber of Commerce oi
assisting and indorsing both
the high rates and the legal
discrimination against the ter
ritory.
“ Under one section of the
Jones law, freight from Alas
ka points cannot be shipped in
a Canadian steamer to a British
Columbia port and thence on
a Canadian railway to Amer
ican cities. This, in spite of the
fact that the Pacific Coast
states can, and often do, route
freight in an exactly similar
way.
“For instance, Rustgard says,
nearly all the automobiles that
come to Seattle from the East
are routed over the Canadian
lines and are brought down
from Vancouver, JB. C., by Can
adian boats. Alaska is specific
ally excepted, under the Jones
law, from enjoying such a priv
Iliege. This discrimination
hurts the Territory, Rustgard
says, especially in the fresh fish
trade. The numerous fishing
ports of Southeastern Alaska
would naturally send their
halibut and other catches to
Prince Rupert, less than 400
miles from Juneau, thence over
the Canadian National to Chi
cago and other American cities.
This would save heavy icing
costs, save two days in time 01
delivery (a highly important
factor) and it also would add
an element of ompetition ben
eficial to the Territory. But un
der the Jones law these ship
ments are obliged to come to
Seattle,1,020 miles; here ie
loading is necessary, and when
the fish reaches its destination
is at least two days older than
by the other route. Commoa
itias destined for Alaska from
the East and other northern
producs, such as clear spruce
lumber seeking an Eastern
market, are similarly hand
icapped.
While the first resuit of
eliminating this discrimination
might be to cut down Seattle’s
business a trifle, Rustgard
urges that a broader view
ought to be taken by business
men here. He argues that Se
attle is going to profit from all
legitimate- commercial progress
Alaska makes, and that oy
helping to build up. its name
industries Seattle will soon
find new lines of business de
veloping in the North which
would far more than offset the
temporary loss. The result of
opening the Prince Rupert out
let to Alaska is startling in us
results on the price, as past ex
perience has shown, Rustgard
says. When the fish can be sent
that way the fishermen profit
through receiving a much high
er return. All the Southeastern
Alaska communities boom, liie
box plants are busy anu money
flows in. Such a condition, ne
points out, redounds to Seat
tle’s benefit, even though at tile'
same time Seattle might lose
the credit for some of the hal
ibut trans-shipment business.
“It is for some of these reas
ons he condemns the Seattle
Chamber. It is the chamber, he
declares, which helped get tne
excepting Alaska” clause m
the Jones bill and helped line
up all the Washington con
gressmen and both senators be
hind it. It is the Chamber, he
says, which has been a big bar
in Alaska’s way and when a
fight was made for lowei
steamship rates, the cham
ber’s traffic expert, he says,
recently appeared before the
house committee on territories
to testify that the rates were
not unreasonable.
“ Potential settlers and invest
ors are kept from going to Al
aska by the discrimination ana
the high rates, Rustgard de
clares. And the business 01
those already there is throt
tled.”
W. G Cheney, indicted at Ju
neau last spring for the sale of
false securities, and returned
recently from Southern Cal
ifornia,where he was arrestee
after a search covering sev
eral states, pleaded guilty to
all five of the indictment
against him when arraigned
before Judge T. M. Reed at Ju
neau last week. He was senten
ced to imprisonment for one
year and ten days in the fed
eral penitentiary at McNeil’s
Island, according to the Ju
neau Empire.
Purchase of the Toiovana
;tram road by'the Territory f o
$8,500 has been recommended
j by the Alaska Road Commls
sion. The purchase of the tram
road was authorized by the
i Territorial Legislature in a
special act passed last spring,
! which carried a special appro
priation for the purpose. The
| tramway is 13 miles long, ex
tending from a point known a:
Trapper’s Cabin to the mining
camp of Livengood.
Late reports from the Cold
Ray oil field are to the effect
that everyone in Kanatak, In
cluding the crew and officials
of the Standard Oil Company,
believe that the company is
going to strike oil. The hole is
now down 600 feet and good
progress is being made.
The city council of Skagway
j believes in taking things easy.
The city dads recently passec
art ordinance whereby automo
biles are allowed to run at i
'speed of but six miles an hour
jin the city limits. As the towr
has only a few cars and a very
j few miles of road outside tiK
c:ty, auto owners are naturally
iraising a howl. Six mile' as
hour must appear i>kc a dan
igerous speed to some old i\n
ers on the Skagway council
says an exchange in comment
ing on the situation.
Five white cheeked Canadiai
geese from Alaska will he cion
idled in the wild bird sectio
of the National Zoologie;
Park at Washington, D. ti;
first of the species that insti u.
ion ever had. The birds are be
ing sent to the park by E i
Walker, the Alaska agent o
tiie U. S. Geological Survey.
A recent report from Tunnel,
a stairon on the Alaska rail
road, states that from 40 to 42
inches of rain fell there during
the recent severe storm a lent
the lower Alaska coast last
month. It was said that for twi j
days an inch of rain fell evert
five minutes.
Commenting on the shooting
of a moose with antlers having
twenty eight points and a
spread of fifty five and , oiu
fourth inches in the Casstai
country recently, the Fairbanks
News-Miner says Dr. Elting
killed one on the Richardson
Highway last month that had
antlers with fifty four points.
'By a premature explosion o
I dynamite, Hjalmar J. Ander
son, an employee of Seims aiici
Carlson, had his left hnne
blown entirely off and the
right hand badly mutilated,
the thumb and forefinger be
ing entirely gone.
To exist in a small town like
Hyder, a newspaper must have
the fullest support of everyone.
Are you doing your bit to keep
jit going? Why not?
ANCHOVY lMWr
NEWEST iNr _ iRY
OF KCFuII/ID
The Valdez Anchovy Packin'?
Company, of which Arthur S’i
? arman is the promoter an 1 the
| r arpor.e of which is the e t;.\
i jhment at Valdez of a plant
I for packing anchov:e3, was
uucently incorporated. Cm
U ruing the new connar.”,
i which proposes.to establ' h an
| e ntirely new industry in t* •
' erritory. the Valdez Miner
“It i.s probably new? to
. aidezanr and to a ma.i , 'ey of
Aiaskans; that this small ani
: lothsonie fi§h is a denizen o:
: Alaskan waters, but neverthe
less this is a fact, as vouched
for by government authorise?
1 > whom specimens? were so:.',
by Mr. Silverman.
Mr. Silverman told a re—•
itentative of the Miner that he
secured the secret of the Fu w
an method of packing ancho
\ ies from a feilow countryman
in Russia .several years a->
1 he Russian method, is cla'm d
t > yield a product superior to
the Norwegian and will be u ei
, entirely by the companv.
Mr. Silverman stated that his <
I attention was directed some
years ago to vast school? o' a
i small fish in the bay by me
gulls, which were feeding mm
. them. Obtaining some of them,
! h c ascertained that they were
genuine anchovies and for sev
eral years past he has p’t up
each winter a number of jars
for b;s own use. Last winter
b e put up 118 jars, a num’oer
:A which he has distributed,
a id they were pronounced of
e xcellent quality. B Tuving
jtuat the industry may be bu■ i
i n to a business of a magn' ug~
cond only to the salmon Am
ies, and lend emplovraeni to
i many persons, Mr. Siivernr n
■ has incorporated the a' ovo
' amed company for the pur
pose of starting the init:al plant
here. He asserts that th to ha.?
not been a winter during tna
past twelve years when there
has not been a huge run oi
hese fish in the bay, and in
most every winter they can be
caught right off shore in from
of the town. In one or two win
ars, however, they have no
come so far up the bay.
Iditarocl City liar the ditinet
ion of bein'? a city v\ itho it tr->
3?. The city has $3,500 in its
reasurv and as there is more
than enough money received
'Vom federal license taxes o
I veep the city running, there i >
10 need to levy taxes.
Robert Edwards, of Seattle,
was convicted at Valde ■ Nov
ember 15 of second decree
murder for the slaying of heo
rge Edwards, on the tra I on
the Alaska Peninsula lit Aug
ust. Ralph Wolfe, also charge a
v/ith murder for an alleged
part in the crime, pleaded
guilty to second degree m ircRr
on the second day of t.i:.l
| and the court accepted it..
A movement has been rtvt.d
I by Rev. Kashevaroff, of Jun
eau, to build aGreek church n
the Eyak Russian reserva ",n,
on the shore of Eyek lake, n-ear
Cordova.
Smoking Sets, Ash
: if to that please, at d'* T Y*
DER DRUG COMPANY, “The
Postoffice Store.”