Where they all go
PORTLAND
CAFE J. Collier, Prop.
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ENTERTAINING MUSIC
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Rooming house
Your patronage solicited. Open day and night
Mrs. Maud Pleming, Proprietress
Mrs. Helen McKay announces the opening of her new
store with a complete line of
Ladies Ready to Wear
TERRITORIAL TATTLE
George E. Walker ;of Little Salmon
was tried at Whitehorse for shooting
with a revolver at Capt. William Turn
bull of the White Pass steamer Daw;
son, found guilty and fined $25 anu
costs, which were paid.
Tommy Doyle early day hotel man
ager at Dawson but for the last few
years a miner at Chisana and on Bon
anza creek in the Klondike, has opened
the old Yukonia hotel at Dawson and
has declared he will finish as he started
in the north, as a hotel manager,
Capt. F.Kully, who for several years
has been captain of the Alaska Steam
ship company’s fre'ghter Ketchikan,
has received an appointment from the
government as a member of the board
of inspectors of hulls and boilers. He
will be stationed at Seattle.
The steamship Norwood took 750 tons
of supplies from Seattle to Akun for
the Alaska Sulphur company, including
the second large lot of machinery that
went there this year. Reports from
the mine indicate that the property will
be a big producer.
A movement has been started at
Dawson for government owned concen
trators to be erected in the silver-lead
mining area, as a means of assisting
prospectors and small, mining operators
to develop mining properties in that
district on grounds it would be benefi
cial to the whole of Yukon territory.
J.T.Cooley, oldtime Yukon miner,
who has been engaged on Kirkman creek
for several years has returned to the
creek for the winter. He says Kirk
man has kept 12 men bnsy this season,
and they have made good, and have no
complaints to make. Gold has been
produced by each man and they face
the winter comfortably fixed, A num
ber of others are expected to be added
to the Kirkman colony this winter,
Edwin Ernest Poiter, formerly mine J
operator and all round influential citi- I
zen of the Klondike, was decorated re
cently at Ottawa by the Prince of
Wales with the Military Medal and Bar
and the Distinguished Conduct Medal
for services in the war. Mr. Potter
participated in many hard fought bat
ties, became his company sergeant
major, and was wounded. His wounds
are still troubling him.
Mrs. Steinberger, a pioneer of Daw
son and the Klondike where she bore
three sons, and whose husband was a
victim of the Princess Sophia disaster,
has gone to California, her home before
she went north as Miss McGarvey, 21
years ago, and where she will start her
three boys at school. They are grad
uates of the Dawson high school, and
desire to become mining engineers. It
is Mrs. Steinberger’s first trip to the
outside since she went to Dawson in
1908. Her eldest son is 19 and the
youngest 14.
Poles ase up and wires strung for the
electric lighting system, and the Alas
kan Hotel proprietors are simply wait
' ing for the arrival of a dy.namo, when
they will be able to turn on the juice if*
24 hours. Bob Jamieson has had the
line extended to his lodge on Mirimachi
hill.
Fred Nagel of JAnchorage is a recent
arrival from the north. He ran a trans
fer business up there and expects to go
into business here. Tom was a pioneer
of Republic, Wash., when the big boom
started there in’97. He has the pio
neering habit.
Experiments covering a period of ten
years have been made in the develop
ment of alfalfa at the Rampart station
and one result has been a varietv which
possesses all the virtues of common al
falfa and which at the same time will
withstand the weather of the interior,
even to 70 degrees below zero without
any protection. Ten acres of alfalfa
was grown and harvested at the Ram
Eart station this year, all of which has
een saved for seed and from which all
Alaska will eventually be stocked with
this superior variety of forage.
JAS. MOWATT
Contractor and Builder
HYDER, ALASKA
NELSQN & HEATH
Clothing for the Working Man
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Complete line of High Grade Cigars, Tobaccc
Candies, Fruits, Magazines and stationery
Just received supply of Mackinaw coats and pants,
Goodrich shupacks and short rubber boots, woolen
shirts, pants, caps, etc.
Firstclass Barber Shop in Connection
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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
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