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VOL. 3. NO. 30.
HYDER, Alaska, July 5. 1922
FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
HYDER AND STEWART
JOINTLY CELEBRATE
COUNTRIES’ BIRTHDAYS
T\ominion Day, the First of July, which marks the transition of
■L' Canada from a collecton of individual uncoordinated provinces
a cjruilidation that was the foundation of a nation, and the
F >urth of July, which was the birthday of the United States of Amer
ic i, were celebrated in the twin cities of the Portland Canal Mining
District jointly, each being depopulated on the day that the other
claimed. The spirit in which the residents helped to make the cele
bration in each town a decided success is typical of the good fellowship
that has always existed here, and bound the final tie that shall enable
Hyder and Stewart to grow side by side to commanding positions among
the cities of their respective countries. It was fitting that the recog
nized national games should go to the side of the line where they be
long, though the results of both football and baseball could not be
forecasted before the games. In the minor sports it was natural that
home folks should predominate amongst the winners, though Hyder
won some events in Stewart, and Stewart some in Hyder. But the
outstanding fact is that both towns helped each other through the-two
days, and the celebrations eclipsed any that have ever been held on
Portland Canal,
SPORTS - RYDER
Hail driving, Mrs. Geo. Mehlfeld
^00 yd. dash, Wylie Graham
Throwing baseball, Ray Carrol
Tug of war, Hyder won from Stew
art
50 yds boys under 12, T. Hanson
50 ” girls under 12, Joan Mellor
25 ” boys under 6, Billy McDonald
25 " girls under 7, Violet Watson
Sack race, Dorothy Mehlfeld
Fat men's, R. E. Lundvall
Three leg, Gray and Benson
Pick-a-back, Gray and Benson
Ladies' Edith Crawford
Sack race. Jack Gray
Baseball; Hyder 10. Stewart 7.
GREAT EXCITEMENT WHEN—
Harry Gibson donned a rug for a
eiurt and timshed last in the ladies'
lace.
Mrs. Mehlfeld split a 12 x 12
timber with a clawhammer.
Bill Tonkin finished ahead of Bob
Jamieson in the fat men’s race.
Billy McDonald and John Thom
ey ran neck and neck until the lat
!
ter fell a yard from the tape.
Pat Benson went into the box
for Stewart and shut out Hyder in!
the last three innings.
The r#pe broke twice in the tug,
of war.
Jim Mooney came with a new
fope.
Square-shooter Charlie O’NeilL
fell down on his job of umpiring
by reason of watching Pat Benson
ir. and Harry Lyon Jr. battle in a
oaby carriage for the possession of
a rattle.
For rent, slore building. Premier and
International Ave. W. S. Sullivan.
(>ne-hfllf interest in a lot on Premier
avenve, Lindeborg addition, for sale for (
oi.e-ba'f the original cost Ask Joe Green j
SPORTS - STEWART
100 yd dash, J. W. Wilson
100 yds. boys under 15, Bill Tonkin
Girls under 15, Helen Crawford.
50 yd. sack race, Edith Crawford
50 " three lejr, Wilson and Gray
50 " girls under 10, Joan Mellor
50 " boys under 10, W. Hanson
50 " fat men, Grant Mahood
50 " ladies, Edith Crawford
50 " three leg, Miller and Hall
One mile, O. McFadden
Ladies’horse race, Mrs. Elmer W.
Smith
Gentlemen’s horse race, Geo. Turner
Football, Stewart 5, Hyder 1
Football Line-up
Hyder
Martin
McLeman Allen
Orr Dorey Watson
Lyons McComb Potts Elder Tonkin
Stewart
McFadden
Scarlett Haddon
Lawrence Bacon Seim
Anderson Wilson Broad Holden
Turner
Goa's; Elder, Holden 2, Bacon.
Broad, Anderson
Sideline; for Stewart, H. S Bennett
for Hyder’ Cy Jackson
Referee, Joe Cullen.
OUTSTANDING FEATURES
Flags of allied nations displayed
in profusion.
An afternoon drizzle that con
stituted the only rain for over a
month but dampened no one’s
ardor.
Streets crowded with visitors like
in the boom of 1910.
A dance unique in some respects
and the best ever held in Stewart.
Four Hyder football players put
hors d' combat, (Dorey is still on
crutchei.)
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT
If it isn't to b«
E'ound elsewhere try
The Midget Emporium.
Meet me at the North Star.
Send this paper to your friend.
Ketchikan Chronicle at the North Star
A! Sweeney was down from Fish creek
for the holidays.
Jas. Pitcher has gone to Juneau on a
short business trip.
Mr. and Mrs. Buster Brown of Premier
spent the holidays in town.
John Lox, of the 6aly Alaska force,
spent the holidays in town.
Mrs. Angus McLeod left Sunday for a
visit with relatives in Duluth.
Fred Elder came down from the Pre
mier to celebrate Dominion Day.
Louis Johnson, electrician at the Pre
mier, came down for the celebration.
Bob Andrews, sawyer for the Hyder
Lumber Co., is down with pneumonia.
John Erickson, who has been more
than a year at Alioe Arm, has returned.
The Anyox took out 1000 tons of Pre
mier high-grade ore this week to the Ta
coma smelter.
Andy Sinclair, former skipper of the
Azurite, now occupies a similar position
on the Amur.
W. J. Asseltine. in charge of the Pre
mier concentrating mill, took a holiday in
Stewart on Dominion Day.
Among the members of the Premier of
fice staff to celebrate in town were I >ave
Sutherland, C. W.Pease and Jas. Dunbar.
F. J Rineheart. a mining man of Pu
yallup. is in to look over the Common
wealth and other properties of the c9mp.
Arthur G. Hill, representing the Unit
ed States Steel Products Company of New
York, is in camp to remain for a week or
more.
Carl Collins, chef on the Carmen, suff
ered an attack of appendicitis while the
ship was in port and was treated by Dr.
Cbace.
Pat Daly left on the Prince Rupert for
Vancouver to attend a meeting of the
I Daly Alaska Mining Co.. of which he is
managing dtrector.
A forest Are that started near the don
key engine at the wing dam, spread near
ly to Kish creek and endangered several
of the tram towers.
The Daly Alaska Mining Company
have opened a local office in Boh Jamie
son’s building on Frazer Drive, at the
rear of the Hotel Hyder.
Dalby B. Morkill, B. C. land surveyor
and author of the two large maps of this
district, has returned from Vancouver to
take up his season’s field work.
G. A. Clothier, resident B. C. mining
engineer, arrived Sunday from Rupert
and has gone with a party to pioneer a
trail from Meziadin lake to Alice Arm.
Ben Barry, the populrr salesman for the
Denver Rock Drill Co., spent most of the
week in camp, renewing old acquaintan
ces and interviewing the mining opera
tors.
Commissioner Frame has appointed
Edwin Evans as administrator of the es
tate of Henry Bibinger, and Harry Hum
mell to administer the estate of Ira
Evans.
|
T, V. Wilson of Seattle, who is inter
ested with E. H. Bartholf in properties
of the upper Salmon basin, arrived Sun
day and has gone up the valley with Mr,
and Mrs. Bartholf.
But any way, Mrs. Elmer W.
Smith brought home the bacon for
Hyder in the ladies’ horse race)
1
Lon R. Iroggett returned this week from
a business trip to Juneau. He has leased
the International roadhouse at Eleven
mile to Magnus Meisingseth, who is an
experienced caterer from the Interior.
Harold M. Roscoe, representing the
Giant Powder Co., visited the local trade
this week, Mr. Roscoe is well known in
this section, having been connected with
the Granby Company at Anyox for some
time.
Wayne Graham, who assisted his
father, T. H. Graham, in the construction
of the Premier tram last summer, has re
turned from Seattle where he is taking a
course in mechanical engineering at the
University of Washington.
Bernard McDonald, son of J. A. Mc
Donald of Seattle, wha had a bond on
the Unicorn in the spring of i920, is
spending his summer vacation with Geo.
Tolin of Stewart, with whom he has been
attending college near Olympia.
Alex Frazer and Jas. Pitcher have been
looking over a group of claims on Texas
creek in which they are interested with
Max Nelson and John Charles. They
have a big quartz lead that looks like it
might be a winner if developed.
Gus Erickson and Alex McPhee have
taken a contract to fall and buck 250,000
feet of sawlogs for Lloyd Snider, who has
a contract to supply that amount for the
Hyder Lumber Co. The timber Is a few
miles down the canal near Glacier Hay.
A subscription list circulated for Oscar
Nelson, who has been sick for neasly a
year, netted him $195, and he has gone
i to Bell Island hot springs to recuperate.
: Oscar wishes to thank the friends who
I have given him a chance to regain his
> health.
I
j Al«x Gallagher who. it will be remem
bered, broke a leg last July at Thirteen
mile and was in the Rupert hospital for
j nearly a year, again fractured the same
| leg while getting out some piling across
: vhe canal. He is now in the Stewart hos
’ pital under care of I»r. Cliace.
i
I A. H. McCallum has returned from
Victoria, where he spent the winter. Be
sides being: associated with C. A. Mc
Kenzie in the ownership of the M. C.
group, Mr. McCallum is agent for the
Indian motorcycle and Princess side car,
and for the Western Radio Distributing
Co. of New York, San Francisco and Se
attle.
Alex Findley, chief engineer of the
Anyox brid a graduate of the Dundee
Technical College, helped make the 4th
of July celebration hum. Mr. Findley
expects to bring his family north on a
trip within a short time, as he is enthus
iastic regarding the scenic grandeur of
the section and greatly impressed by the
hospitality of tqe people living here
NOTICE OF SEIZURE AND SALE
Office of Collector of Customs, Juneau,
Alaska, June 16, 1922.
Notice is hereby given that sale at
Public auction to the highest bidder for
cash will be held on August 2, 1922, at
10 o’clock a. m„ at the Custom-House,
Hyder, Alaska, covering one (1) piano,
imported via highway July 1921; this
: merchandise having been seized and
! forfeited to the Government of the
United SiateS.
John C. McBride,
Collector of Customs.
First publication June 28, 1922
| Last publication July It, 1928,
FIND NEW SHOWING
ON GEORGIA RIVER
• • -
, J.O.Stenbraten (Stampede John)
: and A. M. Durback have returned
I from a prospecting trip to the head
waters of Georgia river, bringing
with them samples from a new find
which looks as though it might ful
fill the most optimistic prospector's
dream. The ore is a hard, white
quartz, carrying a considerable
amount of galena and a bluish
metal, the nature of which can be
determined only by an analysis,
which is now being made by John
Hovland. The find is about eight
miles from tidewater.
Where the discovery was made
the vein is cut diagonally by a
creek, and Nature has done a con
siderable amount of preliminary
development work in showing up
the size of the vein, as well as its
strike and dip. The vein is four
feet wide and stands practibally
perpendicular. It is a contact fis
sure, lying between granite and
greenstone, and exceptionally free,
having from four to six inches of
talc on each wall.
Some exceptienally fine float has
been found on Georgia river, carry
ing free gold and other metals, and
a number of years ago the B. C.
government built a trail several
miles up the river to encourage
prospecting. Stampede John has
made a number of trips into the
district, and now believes that he
has finally found the answer to the
“hunch” that caused him to persist
in his efforts.
REPORT OF THE FINANCIAL
CONDITION OF
The Salmon River Banking Company,
located at Hyder, Territory of Alaska, at
the close of business on the 30th day of *
June, 1922.
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts . $20,476.201
Overdrafts . 1,763.44
Other bonds and warrants
owned . 360.00
Banking nouse, furniture and
fixtures . 6,279.77
Due from other banks. 4,203.31
Checks on other banks and
other cash items .. 563.83
Cash on hand.. 3.559.25
TOTAL •• • $37,205.8'’
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in . $15,000.00
Surplus fund . 1,500.00 j
Undivided profits less expenses
paid . 522.43 j
Individual and savings deposits 19,340.441
Demand and time certificates
of deposit . 747.78
( ashier's and certified checks 95.15
TOTAL .... $37,205.80
UNITED STATES OF A MERIC A )
TERRITORY OF ALASKA V SS
FIRST JUDICIAL DIVISION )
I, J. A. Hall, President of the above
named bank, do solemnly swear that the
foregoing statement is true to the best of
my knowledge and belief.
J. A. Hall
President. I
(CORRECT) Daniel Lindeborg
( ATTEST) Andrew Lindeborg
Directors
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
6th day of July, 1922.
Loretta C. Hill
(SEAL) Notary Public in and for the
Territory of Alaska.
My commission expires Nov, 1, 1928.
JACK M'CORMACK
mikes mm
ass THE LINE
Ja«k McCormack, who plead
guilty a short time ago to having
liquor in his possession and was
sentenced to three months in jail
and $500 fine, is free, though forced
to remain on the Canadian side of
the line. By the simple expedient
of pushing Deputy U. S. Marshal
McDonald from a narrow board
walk down onto the tideflats he
was able to effect his escape across
the line, and the authorities in Ju-’
neau have decided to not bring ex
tradition proceedings for the rea
son, so it is understood, that the
offense for which he was convicted
constituted a misdemeanor and not
a felony.
On the morning of July 1 Mc
Cormack had been down town in
custody of the deputy marshal to
settle up some business affairs.
About noon, as they were returning
to the local jail, the escape occurr
ed. They had turned from Volun
teer Drive onto the board walk
that leads t© the upper part of
town, and when between the cus
toms office and the commissioner’s
office, McCormack shouldered the
deputy off the walh. There is a
drop of about ten feet at this point
and the mud is soft and gooey
Jack turned and ran back to Vol
unteer Drive, only a few feet, and
then across the line, being shielded
from view of the deputy by the
customs house woodpile. When
the deputy was able to regain terra
firma, which he was forced o cross
the line to accomplish, Jack was
well on his way toward Stewart.
He remained on the hillside un
til night and then surrendered to
Constable Scarlett of Stewart and
claimed protection as a Canadian
citizen. This was accorded pend
ing action by the United States au
thorities, and now that the latter
have dropped the case, Jack is safe
as long as he doee not return to
this side of the line.
The escape was witness- d by a
large number of Hyder residents
who were waiting near the head of
Main street for conveyance s to take
them to Stewart for the Dominion
Day celebration, and constituted
the ehief topic of conversation
throughout the day.
Pure, clear, spring-water ICE!!
Order from Potts or Traversy.
Russian steam baths $1. II. J. Scott.
Lawrence. Watchmaker.
Cabins to rent. Blondy Charlton.
Don't go home hungry. Get a lunch afl
the Ocean View.
Rainier draff on ice. Hotel Hyder.