LOCAL TOPICS
L. E. Bigham returned this
morning ifr cm an extended bus
iness trip to the south.
Ccming on Ketchikan boat
Tuesday— Mr. Colman, with
latest styles in frocks, coats,
suits, hats and blouses. For
one day only. See Mrs. Trav
ersy.
Mrs. Ernest Blue and Mi«s
Helen Hall left Monday even
ing on a visit to Prince Kupent.
Miss Hall returned today.
Don’t miss the Rexall Health
and Beauty Sale at the Hyder
Drug Co. (the Postoffice Store)
The 51,863 (ounces of gold
produced by the local Premier
mine last year represented 21.
88 per cent (of the gold product
ion of Brutish Columbia and
1.75 per cent of the .total Can
adian production.
The 1,145,043 ounces .of sil
ver produced during the same
period amounted to 10 per cent
of Canadian production and
17 per cent of British Columbia
production.
The Premier payroll averages
arfound $38,000 per month and
totaled $370,000 in 1933.
Premier spends about $28,
000 a month for supplies and
the value <of stocks of supplies
on hand att all times ds around
$114,000.
The Premier has now dis
tributed in dividends a total of
$17,258,074.89, o r slightly
more than $3.45 per share of
stock, and equal to 345 per
cent upon the original invest
ment of $5,000,000.
Three Alaskans Suicide
Two Alaskans committed sui
cide recently in the interior.
B. J. Everman, 66, killed
himself by shdoting on the
Steese highway about 8 miles
from Fairbanks, and Peter Ol
sen, 67, shot himself in his cab
in at Slaterville.
Frank Johnson, cannery cook,
; also attempted to shuffle off
j the mortal coil at Juneau last
j week, slashing his wrists with
pocket knife in a fit of despon
dency due to ill-health. He is
; expected tb recover.
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Good Progress On
Pioneers’ Home
Progress on the new Pioneers’
Home at Sitka is bringing the
structure to an anticipated
completion, set fbr January 1,
despite the fact that the ship
ping tie-up has seriously re
tarded jthe progress of the
work, according to a recent
statement by J. B. Warrack,
head of the Warrack Construc
tion Company, holder of the
main construction contract.
The first concrete for the ini
tial story of the building was
scheduled to be poured on
Wednesday last week and
would foi’m a part of the first
1200 yards going into the
building.
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Alaska Promoter
In Law Toil* On
Bad Check Charge
Jack McCord, prominent
Alaska promoter, was arrested
last week at Cordova on
charges of having passed al
leged worthless checks totaling
$155 in Juneau four years ago.
McCord was released on
$2000 bonds to appear in Jun
eau for preliminary hearing
July 10.
McCord has recently been
engaged in promoting cattle
and sheep ranches in south
western Alaska, claiming to be
affiliated with the Frye Pack
ing Company.
Former Alaska Jurist Dead
Gudbrand J. Lomen, former
federal judge at Nome and the
man who was chiefly respon
sible for the commercialization
of the Alaska reindeer indus
try, passed away in Seattle last
week after a short illness at
the age of 80 years.
Judge Lomen was a pioneer
of the Nome region, and a col
orful figure in the gold rush
days of that camp. A native of
Iowa, Judge Lomen went to
Nome in 1900 and was mayor
of the city for a time. In 1914
he and his. five sons started the
Lomen Reindeer Corporation,
which now controls hundreds
of thousands of reindeer in
Northwestern Alaska and con
ducts a large packing business.
Flor services rendered to Ra
old Amundsen in connection
with his flight over the north
pole, Judge Lomen was pre
sented with the Order of St. Ol
af by the King of Norway. He
is survived by a widow, 'one
daughter and by five sons, all
of whom are prominent in
Alaska affairs.
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