LYONS’ MEAT MARKET
Our Goods “The Empire’s
Standard”
Meat? kept in first-class cooler during the hot weather
Trv Our SHAMROCK BUTTER, EGGS, LARD.
HAM and BACON. HOME-MADE PORK SAUSAGES.
J. O. Lyons, Manager
NORTHERN POOL HALL
‘■Where Good Fellows Get Together”
Robert C. Jeffery, Prop.
HYDER LUMBER CO.
Rough
Dressed
LUMBERS™"
Rustic
Wainscotting
From a sliver to a cargo
TERRITORIAL TATTLE
Livingston Wernecke will install
a ten-stamp mill this season on the
Treadwell quartz properties in the
Kuskokwim river section.
A large female wolf was killed re
cently near the Perseverance mine
at Juneau by R. E. Glass, who saw
the animal playing about his yard.
Falcon Joslin, head of the Chilkat
Oil Co., has returned to Seattle from
Los Angeles where he met many
men interested in western oil devel
opment. Mr. Joslin is convinced
that it will be only a short time
until Alaska will be a very heavy
producer of oil.
Jens Madsen, a prominent opera
tor from the Dime section, who de
parted last fall with a comfortable
stake from Nome writes friends
that he and his wife have been on
a sight-seeing tour of the Pacific
coast for seveal months, but intend
to visit the old country in the nea*
future.
J. H. Miles, a former manager of
the Alaska Mines Corporation, and
Dick Lisson, a former employee of
the same, arrived in Nome from
the Outside after mushing over the
winter trail from the coast. Mr.
Miles is there in charge of the work
of removing the Bangor creek
dredge to anew site on Anvil creek
for operatioh this sd.ntner. He will
be assisted in the work by Lisson.
Mr. Miles made a portion of the
journey from Seattle to Nome in
«n<H'nnrmm
company with Marshal E.R.Jordan.
The two pasted company at Tah
keetna as Miles desired to await
the arrival of Lisson, who left Se
attle a week later.
Mrs. E.A.Williams has circulated
«
a petition requesting appointment
as postmistress at Nenana. She is
the only person thus far to make
application for the place.
The story is told of a second mate
on a passenger ship bound from
Seattle to Alaska. There was "a
new quartermaster on board who
was given the wheel by the mate.
The Q.M. was given the course and
told to stay on it, and the mate sat
down and fell asleep. He was awak
ened by a crash, Said the Q. M.,
“You’d better take her now mate.
I'm not much good In the timber!"
Friday, May 13, was an unlucky
day for McCarthy. Fire destroyed
the McCarthy Hotel, barn and
chicken house with 100 chickens,
Mrs. Kennedy's eight-room resi
dence, coal warehouse, two-stoty
unoccupied store building and resi
dence owned by M, V, Lattin, Seat*
tie, unoccupied building owned by
Gus Anderson, Vancouver, and the
Spencer cabin. The loss is esti*
mated at $60,000 With no ihstir=
ance. The fire started in the Me*
C&rthy Hotel ahd in thought to
have been caused by a cigdretl
thrown tin the floor by a careless j
lodger,
mtr
Going from Hyder to Stewart
Stop at the
OCEAN VIEW
GOOD MUSIC
SOFT DRINKS
TOBACCOS
G. E. Hodgkinson, : proprietor
Electric
Laundry
^ Ketchikan, Alaska.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
See Fred Durey for shipping
instructions;
SALMON RIVER BANKING CO.
OF HYDER
Incorporated under the laws of A laska
Capital I'aid Up $15,000.00
Commercial and Savings Departments
Domestic and Foreign Exchange
Money Telegraphed to all Parts of the
United States
Regular Boarders Taken
$1.80 per day
BREAD & ALL KINDS of PASTRY
JIMMY GARTER »> “OLD BILL'S PUCE"
HYDEIi PAINT SHOP
Painting, Paperhanging
KaUotnining
Travessy Bros.
SIGNS
Paints, Oils, Stains. Varnishes, Shellac. Wallpaper, Defttlttihig felt
Chfeese Cloth, Kalsotninei
Sutherland Building, Main Street
ROM
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HYDER, ALASKA
Gateway to the Great Salmon Rivet Mineral Area
At the Door of the Famous Premier Mine'
YoU Have to Coiite to Hyder tot
Reach the Mines
Fastest GBOWinO TOwn in the NORTH