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Marr Building
Company
Will contract for anything in the building line
JWothing too big for us to handle
Nlothing too small for us to overlook
Absolutely expert work guaranteed on all jobs
J. W. Mark, Manager. Office, Hotel Hyder
HYDER LUMBER CO.
LUMBER
jReugh
jEfressed
Flooring
Ceiling
Rustic
Wainscotting
From a sliver to a cargo
TERRITORIAL TATTLE
The Sitka city dock is being ex
tended fot greater capacity in hand
ling freight and the Booth Fisheries
dock is also being enlarged.
The Sitka postoffice has install
ed 128 combination lock boxes, and
this improvement, together with
the glass doots, gives a modern ap
pearance to fhe building.
Miss Margaret Keenan, former
principal of public schools at Skag
way and Fairbanks, was recently
married to Martin Harrais, mining
man of the Fairbanks district. Mr,
and Mrs. Harrais are spending the
winter mi a ranch at La Mesa, Cal.
Joe KriStovich, a former tool
sharpener at Treadwell, who was
6ent to Leavenworth penitentiary
for a six-year term three years age
for assaHlt with intent to kili, has
been paroled. He stated he was ir
Chicago but unable to get work.
Joe took several ehots at a riva
for the affections of a Jtineau worn
an before he was committed.
Col. .John C- Gotwals of the Alas
ka Road Commission left Juneai
recently for a two-menths’ trip ovei
roads of the Interior. He will g<
from Nenana down to Ruby aiu
from there through the Rainy pas
to Anchorage. The trip will be itiadi
with Leonard Seppula’s prize Siber
ian dog team. The road work thi
year will open Up in May and aboti
500 men will be employed in thi
various districts in the Territory.
Two blue ribbon pigs, registered !
pedigree Cheshire Whites, valued j
at $1,200, were recently shipped,
to the Saltchuek mine.
H. Hill is now operating a fox
farm on Sullivan Island, about tei
miles south of Haines on Lynn Cat*.-1
al. Mr. Hill lias about 60 blue;
foXes on the island.
A petition from the people of I
Cordova for an addition to the pres
ent townsite, which was forwarded i
to Washington several weeks ago
by Surveyor General Sommers, has
been favorably acted on by the I
General Land Office.
John Sundeen, an oidtimer of the \
Interior, was claimed by death at |
Nenana recently due to heart fail
ure. At the time of his death he
was loading a team of horses into a
car and dropped down and was
dead before his fellow workmen
could reach him. He was a mem- j
cer of Fairbanks Igloo, I>o. 4, Pio-1
neers of Alaska, and was buried by J
. them.
i In accordance with plans decided
■ on by the A. K. C., fliveral depart
i mental officers will be moved from
1 Nenana to the end af steel. The
s transfer of office activities will in
; elude the disbursing office, time
• beeping department, drafting and
i voucher department and will leave
t but two officials in Nentkha, who
. will move into smaller quarters and
close the big railway building.
SALMON RIVER BANKING CO.
OF WYDER
Incorporated under the laws of Alaska
Capital Paid Up $15,000.00
Commercial and Savings Departments
Domestic and Foreign Exchange
Money Telegraphed to all Parts of, the
United States
HYPER PAINT SHOP
TraVersy
Painting, Paper hanging
Kakomining
Bros!
SIGNS
Paints, Oils, Stains, Varnishes. Shellac. Wallpaper, Deadening Felt,
Cheese Cloth, Kalsomine.
Temporary quarters Portland Cafe Bids
The Matng Bot
tio soon after you light your fire
J it will give you the surprise of
your life—nil in unlimited quantity
—and you dont have to put in an
expensive water-works system.
yyith Harry Hanson’s patented
hot water coil in your cook*
stove you can have real hqine com
fort. Al! the principal hemes of
Rupert are so equipped and Stewart
forks are installing the system as
fast as Hanson can do the work.
r'orae on over to Stewart and see
how it is done. Anyone there
can t-ell you where -to find
Darm Bang-on
HYDER, ALASKA
Gateway to the Great Salmon River Mineral Area
At the Door of the Famous Premier Mine
You Have to Come to Hyder to
Reach the Mines
FASTEST GROWING TOWN IN THE NORTH