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International Avenue - HYDER, ALASKA
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The House of Quality
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PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
1218
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
MEETS EVERY THURSDAY EVENING
STEWART, B' C. AND HYDER AEASKA '
HYDER M. E. CHURCH
Services Every Sunday
Sunday School at 11 o’clock
Classes for all ages
Preaching at 8 o’clock P. M.
F. E. REddick, Pastor
MRS. W. S. SULLIVAN
TAILOR SHOP
International & Premier Ave.
LOCATION NOTICES and
PROOF OF LABOR blanks at
the MINER office
Patronize your Home Town
Paper.
The 25th anniversary of the
birth of fraternalism in Alaska
was celebrated recently in
Douglas, when Alaska Lodge
No. 1, Independent Order ol
Odd Fellows, conducted ser
vices that were interesting and
impressive. A large crowd was
present from Juneau and other j
points on the channel.
In the Commissioners Court;
Territory of Alaska; Division
Number One; Hyder Precinct.
In Probate
In the matter of the estate of
Frank Johnson, Deceased.
Number 9 Probate.
Notice of hearing on Appli
cation for Appointment of Ad
ministrator.
Notice is heveby given that
Merle Thomas, of Hyder, Alas
ka, has filed in the above entit
led court a petition praying for
the appointment of admims-1
trator of the aforesaid estate, |
and that at the hour of 10
o’clock in the forenoon of Jan
uary 3d.,1924, at the United
States Commissioner’s office in
Hyder, Alaska, will be held the
hearing upon said petition,
when and where all persons
may have the opportunity to
be heard in connection there
with.
And notice is hereby further
given that it appearing to this
court that the value of the
aforesaid estate does not ex
ceed the costs incident to de
cedant’s last sickness, the fun
eral expenses and the costs oi
administration; therefore, an
order will be entered com
manding that said estate be
summarily closed and all per
sons may have the opportun
ity at the aforesaid time ana
place to make any objections
thereto. And it is so ordered.
Dated at Hyder, Alaska, this
3rd. day of December, 1923.
Chas. F. Sandford.
United States Commissioner
and ex-officio Judge of Pro
bate.
( OFFICIAL PUBLICATION )
REPORT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION
of
The Salmon River Banking Co. located at Hyder, Alaska
Territory of Alaska, at the close of business on the 14th. day
November, 1923.
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts . $30,748.10
Loans on real estate . 19,137.00
Overdrafts .,. 7,866.89
United States bonds and securities .
Other bonds and warrants . 360.00
Stocks, securities, judgements, claims,etc.,.. j
Banking house, furniture and fixtures .6,383.62
Other real estate owned . I
Due from other banks. 11,208.84
Checks on other banks and other cash items.3,167.63
Exchanges for clearing house. i
Cash on hand ... 8,917.64
Expenses in excess of earnings.:. j
rOTAL 87,789.72
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in . $15,000.00
Surplus fund .. 1,500.00
Reserves ...
Undivided profits less expenses paid .2,125.75
Dividends declared but unpaid.
Due to other banks . 383.16
Demand deposits . 67,435.81
Time deposits.'. 500.00
Cashier’s and certified checks. 845.00
Notes and bills rediscounted..
Bills payable (including certificates of deposit) for
money borrowed ...
TOTAL . 87,789.72
United States of America
Territory of Alaska ( ss
. Judicial Division
I, J. A. Hall, President of the above named bank, do sol
emnly swear that the foregoing statement is true to the best of
my knoweldge and belief.
(Signed) J. A. Hall
President.
( NOTORIAL SEAL )
Subscribed and sworn to be
fore me this 22 day of Novem
ber, 1923.
Ernest Blue
Notary Public in and for the
Territory of Alaska. My com
mission expires Nov. 17, 1926.
(CORRECT ATTEST )
Directors or Partners
SELDOVIA MAN UNDERGOES TERRIBLE
EXPERIENCE IN RECENT BIG STORM
While many tales of privation
and suffering have been receiv
ed in Seward from victims of
the recent storm,we believe
that the most terrifying adven- j
ture and ,miraculous escape
may be accorded Harry Leon- 5
ard, of Seldovia, who runs a
fox ranch at Bear Cove, with
his partner, Paddy Patterson.
Just before the storm broxe, j
Mr. Leonard left Seldovia for |
his home at the cove. Arriving
at a point off Yukon Island i
his engine broke down and he j
drifted before the gale witn 1
heavy seas threatening to
swamp his frail craft. Dr. Bur
gin, who runs a fox ranch near
this point, attempted to rescue
Leonard by towing him, but the
tow line broke and Burgin was j
compelled to run for Seldovia, '
leaving Leonard to his fate.
Arriving at Seldovia Dr. Bur
gin secured the services of the
Jugo-Slav, a 65-foot halibut
boat, and started out to rescue
Leonard.
In the meantime Mr. Leon
ard’s boat drifted down the In
let until it struck the Bluff
point trap, where it was dash
ed to pieces by the pounding
waves. Leonard climbed up the
webbing to the capping,, where
with line from his wrecked ves
sel he tied himself securely to
the capping timbers. The seas
at this time were washing com
pletely oyer the trap and tne
wind and rain beat upon the
defenseless man all througn
the long night and the follow
ing day. At this point Leonard
tried to loosen the lashings in
order to make an attempt to
swim ashore, but his legs ana
arms were so badly swollen
by cold and exposure that ne
could not untie the knots. He
spent a second night of horror
lashed to his precarious perch,
the heavy seas breaking over
him and the cold numbing his
vitals. His sufferings were inde
scribable, the unfortunate man
having by this time been with
out food or water for two and a
half days and with a body bau
ly swollen from exposure.
Meanwhile the Jugo-Siav
happened to run close in to
Bluff Point in search for the
missing man and heard his
cries for help and he was taken
on board more dead than alive.
It is said that the ropes were
so tightly drawn into his swol
len flesh that it was impossible
to get at them and the rescuers
cut them away from arouna
the timbers before the cast
away could be removed. He
was taken to Seldovia, where
lie was placed in the hospital
under the care of Dr. Burgm.
At last reports he was still m
a critical condition from ms
harrowing experience, it was
an experience that few men
could have survived.—Sewara
Gateway.
P. R. Strong, 8 raining man,
of the Anchorage section with
property near Mile 89 on the
government railroad, claims to
have radium ore. The vein is
from three to six feet in width
Col. Lee H. Landis, the new
general manager of the Alaska
Railroad, has announced that
he contemplates no changes in
the personnel of the road.
Miss Dorothy Hale, who has
been a reporter on the staff of
the Juneau Empire for the past
two years, has resigned her
position with that publication
to take a similar position with
the Anchorage Times.
L. L. Midlekamp, well known
mining engineer, for many
years a resident of the Prince
William Sound country, where
he had charge of the Ellamar
mine, is now concerned in min
ing in Mexico, and thinks well
of the mining possibilities of
that country.
In the Commissioner’s Court;
Territory of Alaska; Division
No. One: Hyder Precinct.
In Probate
In the matterof the Guardian
ship of Leonard Richard Trav
ersy, a minor.
No. 10 Probate
Notice of hearing on Petition
for appointment of Guardian.
Notice is hereby given that
Noel M. Traversy, of Hyder,
Alaska, has filed .in the above
; entitled court a petition pray
ing for the appointment as
guardian of Leonard Richard
Traversy, a resident and inhab
! itant of Hyder Precinct, Ter
ritory of Alaska, and a male
; child of the age of 8 year^.
And at the hour of 10 o’clock
! December 13, 1923, at the Un
ited States Commissioner’s oi
fice at Hyder, Alaska, will be
held a hearing on said petition,
when and where all persons
may have the opportunity to be
heard in connection therewith.
Dated at Hyder, Alaska this
1st. day of December, 1923.
Chas. F. Sandfora
United States Commissioner
and ex-officio Judge of Pro
late.
If you wont to buy any
thing; if you want to sell any*
thing, advertise in the Miner.
In addition to breaking all
range records for Springfield
rifles during the past season,
the garrison at Chilkoot Bar
racks also broke the world’s
record for automatic rifles.
John J. Jenkins, who haa
prospected and worked in
Southeast Alaska for a quar
ter of a century, died at Jun
eau recently from cancer oi
the stomach. He was a native
of Iowa.
The recent severe storm al
ong Cook Inlet caused con
siderable damage in the vicin
ity of Kenai and Kusiloff. A
number of boats were swamp
ed and the courses of Indian
River and Bear Creek were
changed. Chas. Wagner’s cab
in, which formerly stood about
five hundred yards from tne
water is now but a few feet
from the stream.
The holdings of the Bon-Alas
ka Mining Company, located
in Groundhog Basin, near
Wrangell, were sold at public
auction recently by Deputy
Marshal H. D. Campbell, to
satisfy a judgement against
the company. It was bid in by
C. J. Leeds, the judgement
creditor, for $8,200.37.
Whalen and Griffin have
leased the Treadwell 10 stamp
mill on the Kuskokwim and ex
pect to operate it this winter on
ore from their own properly.
Pearson and Strand also expect
to work property on which the
Treadwell company had held
an option, and will take their
ore to the mill.
Alaska’s bituminous coal,
when burned after scientific
washing, shows an ash content
no higher than that of'the coal
mined in the famous Pocahon
tas and Logan soft coal fields
of West Virginia, according to
Major John C. Gotwals, chiet
engineer of the Alaska rail
road. Coal run through the'
iwashery of the Evans, Jones
Coal Company at Jonesville
'and then burned in the loco
■ motives of the Alaska railroad,
i showed an ash content of only
ill percent, whereas before
i washing the residue was about
,24 per cent. This coal would be
marketable anywhere in the
world, because it is good coal,
Major Gotwals -said.
1 ’
COMPANY PUNS DIRIGIBLE AIR
SERVICF BETWEEN SEATTLE
AND ALASKAN CENTERS
“Just as certain as tomorrow is
Tuesday we expect to have a
first-class passenger carrying
dirigible balloon on the Seattle
Juneau route next year and if
the venture is successful—ana
we have every reason to believe
it will be—we will extend the
service to Southwestern Alaska
and the interior.”
This is the statement of O. A.
Campbell, representing the Al
aska and Northwest Dirigible
Company, receittly charterer!
at Juneau for the purpose o;
engaging in aero transportation
in Alaska. Campbell spent the
week end here, and will leave
this afternon for Fairbanks. He
will stay over here for several
days on his return from the in
terior, he said.
The company plans to buy a
semi-rigid twelve passenger
dirigible in Italy, which will
have a speed of fifty to sixty
:n.:les per hour and place it on
the run from Seattle to Juneau.
Th> i dirigible would cost
000 delivered in New York,
Campbell said. The second ship
would be larger, with accom
modations for fifty passengers,
and having a speed of eighty
miles per hour. This type costs
about i?125,000. Campbell saye
many cf these dirigibles are or.
regular schedules in European
countries. It is proposed to
c' arge S5o for passage Tram
a I tie to Juneau.
Oficers of the company arc
1; ted as follows: Harry H.
J.,nes, president, Frank Bisuop
r h, vice president, R. L Top
v. ?11, treasurer, L. F. Shaw, se:
rctary, Henry Roden, director
a :U attorney.
The incorporators of tne
c mpany include H. L Fauit
n r, of Juneau, and Henry Eod
c Campbell say3 every
liar of the stock will he sold
k Alaska. —Anchorage Timer.
BIG FIGHT ON ME ACT
’’EXCEPTING ALASKA’’ IS PROBALIE
That Senator Wesley L. Jone:
and all the members or tne
President’s cabinet who visited
Alaska this summer are in fav
or of eliminating the Alaska
clause in the Jones Shipping
Act, was stated by Attorney
General John Rustgard wlien
|at Vancouver on his way East,
according to an exchange. It is
this clause which requires tnai
goods originating in any part of
the United Stater, and coming
through Canada by rail must
bo carried from the Canadian
terminal port to its destination
in Alaska in an American oo:
!tom. Likewise it provides that
freight originating in Alaska
destined for any port in the lin
ited States over a Canadian
railroad must be carried in an
American bottom to the initial
point in Canada.
The Prince Rupert News,
which plays the story up
strongly, gives in a dispatcii
from Vancouver the following
account of the Rustgard intev
| view:
“ Southeastern Alaska is go
ing to make a great fight De
fore the Commerce Committee
of Congress when that body
next convenes to have Prince
F ’.pert made its principal ~n
i the deletion of the so-c» led
/ laska clause in the Jones
coastwise shipping bill ” Tins
is the statement of John **'t t
■' rd of Juneau. Attorney '' rn
... a! of ,A laska, who is in * an
•r on his way to Wa h:ng
■; i where he will direct the
f-. ,'ht on behalf of the great
i merican northern territory.
• At present we are practic
.11/ . hut out of British Ol im
h’ \ ports by the Alaska clause,
v> hich was slipped into the
•h;n:s bill without anyone re»:
: ing what it meant.,” said Mr.
F istgard. “ All the cabinet
cietnres who accompanied
i: :: late president Hording
n rth this summer agreed with
u that the clause works -
h h, n on southeastern Alas
ka, and they, together witn
Senator Jones, who fathered
the coastwise bill, have prom
ised to helo us in our aim.
“If the Alaska clause is delet
ed from the bill, it will mean
that Frince Rupert will become
our natural outlet and the
gjent shiping port for the Ter
ritory.”
FAIR SEX NOT INCLINED TO
ACCEPT JURY DUTY IN CAPiTAL
Reluctance of women to serve
as jurors at the November ses
sion of the District Court at
Juneau, caused considerable
delay in assembling the grand
jury, according to the Juneau
Empire, which says: “Reluct
ance of women to serve as ju
rors was said by cpurt officials
today to be likely to cause lur
ther delay in impaneling trie
grand jury, which had been ex
pected to be completed and be
gin its investigations not later
than tomorrow. No returns had
been mad^ today on the special
venire drawn yesterday, bu:
owing to the fact that so many
women talesmen had claimed
exemption, Judge Reed tnis
morning drew an additional
venire of five to fill out the reg
ular grand jury panel.
Six out of 14 persons drawn
yesterday for the grand jury
were women. It is understood
that only one of them, an In
dian woman named Fanny
Williams, residing in Douglas,
had not claimed exemption on
account of sex. Two women
were on the special venire
drawn today, the persons
drawn being Mrs. John A. Dav
ir, Thomas M. Dargy, C. H.
Nelson and George Sherbour
ru, of Juneau, and Mrs. Anna
Shudrhift, of Douglas. It was
reported that both women hau
claimed exemption and one oi
t’ne three drawn could not be
located for service. It was be
lieved that Judge Reed would
f:nd it necessary to., order a
third special venire drawn be
fore the grand jury panel could
be completed. Lack of r turns
made it impossible today to
determine the status of tne
special venire of 24 drawn ’or
tiie petit jury yesterday. Fif
teen of the 24 were women and
ii was reported that the major
ity of them,if in fact not all,
had claimed exempton, indi
cating a possibilty that Judge
Reed might be forced to call a
special venire in order to fill
the regular petit jury panel.
If Business is Dull—Adver
tise.