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LOCAL TOPICS
Walter C. Blanton, proprietor
of the Silver Grill, is back from
a business trip to Seattle.
Mrs. Thomas H. Evans was a
passenger on the Prince Geo
rge Thursday for Yakima, Wn.
where she will visit relatives.
Charles Carlson returned on
the Camosum from a visit of
several weeks duration in
Ketchikan and Rupert and de- j
parted for the former port on I
the Wales Thursday.
George D. Beaumont, United
States Marshal for the First
Division, spent a portion of
last week in Hyder, arriving
on the Camosum Tuesday
morning and leaving Thursday.
The Marshal was enroute to
his headquarters in Juneau af
ter a visit in Seattle.
W. C. Barron and Charles
’3c horn berg Will leave this
week to establish a logging
camp about thirty miles down
the Canal, where they will in
augurate loggfng operationB
for the Hyder Lumber Comp
any.
The Union Steamship Co. lin
er Camosum has temporarily
replaced the Cardena on the
Wncouver-Stewart run, the
latter vessel having laid up
for a general overhauling.
A delightful surprise dance
I was held at the Province store
Wednesday evening, when a
number of friends of Mr. and
Mrs. Province gathered at the
store and started the fe^fejv
tit'es. New arrivals gradually
increased the gathering until
some 35 or 40 couples were
present.
Music was provided by Chas.
Ridley and Victor Durand and
between the two accomplished
dispensers of real dance music
the crowd was provided with
some classy torpsichorean
trains and every one had a
splendid time until the,wee
small hours of Thursday morn
in j.
Neil Mathieson, a widely
kr.own old timer of this section
is in the Stewart General Hos
pi al suffering from several
broken ribs and a nasty aggre
gation of cuts and bruises on
the head ,as a result of a fall
sustained Tuesday morning
while enroute to Stewart from
I the steamer Camosum, on
i which he had just returned
from a visit to Vancouver.
Mathieson started from the
wharf along the abandoned
piled roadway. The end of the
old wharf approach was torn
| down last fall with the comple
tion of the new wagon road but
the gap is now bridged by two
planks. It was while crossing
the planks that Mathieson
slipped and fell onto a mass of!
broken rock and timber some
twenty feet or so below. He
ftvas picked up and taken to the
hospital in a row boat, where
his wounds were dressed and
at last account he was getting
along as well as may be expect-!
ed. I
HOT STUFF!
Fresh Bread Every Night at 5
o’clock. ..The Best and Biggest!
Loaf in Town. Try It at Blan
ton’s Silver Grill.
The Chas. Schomberg family
returned last week from a va
cation in the south.
Proprietor Albert J. Mayer is
fixing up the garage annex to
his machine shop, the roof of
which was caved in by the
heavy snow during the early
winter.
Hyder Igloo No. 20, Pioneers
of Alaska, has wired R. G.
Southward, at Nenana, to rep
resent the local igloo at the
meeting of the Grand Igloo,
now in session at Fairbanks.
The message also carried
the annnouncement that the
local igloo favors January 1,
1905 as the latest date for el
igibility for membership in the
order.
Proprietor Max Bdhrmann
has secured the service of a
new chef for his Ideal Cafe, the
increasing business of that up
to date establishment having1
necessitated an increase in the j
number of help employed.
Mr. and Mrs. Balch enter-1
tained a number of friends
at a card party at their home
in the Forest Reserve district
Tuesday evening.
A huge reel of cable for the
Premier tram arrived on the
Prince of Wales last Thursday.
The Independence Gold Min
ing Company will install a
compressor t plant, machine
drills and other equipment as
soon as the appliances, which
arrived Thursday on the!
Prince George, can be taken
I to the company’s properties on
Bear river. S. P. Fitzgerald,
president of the company,
brought in the new equipment.
Kingsley Brofherton McLeod,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Angus
McLeod, of Stewart, passed
away in his home on the morn
morning of March 27, as a re
sult of an attack of bx-onchial
pneumonia.
No event occuring in the com
munity for a long period of
has caused such universal re
gret among all classes as the
untimely passing of this 15
year old lad, who was known
to nearly everyone and highly
regarded by all. A brighter or
manlier youth could scarcely
be found in the North.
The deceased lad was a nat
ive of British Columbia, hav
ing been born in Rossland, B.
iC., where he resided with his
parents until 1911. Afterward
! he resided in Alaska for sev
eral years and finally came to
! Stewart in 1920, where he re
mained until, the final chapter
of his life was closed.
The remains were shipped to
Vancouver, B. C. for interment
,on the steamer Prince George
Thursday. Four of his class
mates in the Stewart public
'school, Arthur Hall, Stavely
;Mellor, Lome Jamieson and
Roy Workman, Vere among
the pallbearers and the entire
roster of public school pupils
formed a part of the funeral
cortege to the Stewart wharf
as the remains of their former
playmate and fellow student
were started to their last rest
ing place.
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