Where they all go
PORTLAND
CAFE J- Collier, Prop.
MEALS AT ALL HOURS
Service, Quantity and Quality
ENTERTAINING MUSIC
SINGING
TAe Star
Rooming house
Your patronage solicited. Open day and night
Mrs. Maud Fleming, Proprietress
Mrs. Helen McKay announces the opening of her new
store with a complete line of
Ladies Ready to" Wear
TERRITORIAL TATTLE
The Alaskan Engineering Commiss
ion moored a large barge alongside the
dock at Seward to be used in docking
fishing craft.
Dawson has heen asked to name del
egates to the Canadian Mining Insti
tute which will be held at Vancouver
November 26, 27 and 28.
An earthquake shock which lasted
for fifteen seconds recently made doors
electric lighting fixtures and other loose
articles rattle at Seward.
Dan Daxon, a large property owner
of Anchorage, has gone south for the
winter. He intends to locate in Hyder
in the spring.
Samuel Brightwell, formerly United
States deputy marshall at Cordova, and
Mrs. E.Beyers, also formerly of Cor
dova, were married at the Multnomah
hotel, Portland, Oregon; October 3.
Grouse are so plentiful at Fairbanks
that they invade the town. Papers
there say that one recently walked into
the hardware store of Simson brothers.
The season that has just passed at
Nome has been cold and discouraging
and the gold output—just over $1,000
000-the lowest since the discovery of
gold on Seward peninsula.
V.L.Sedgewick, oldtimer of Valdez
and for a time deputy marshall at the
westward, and Mrs, Sedgewick, have
left for New Haven, Conn., where they
will reside in the future.
The Whitehorse—Dawson mail rotue.
is now being traveled by the White
Pass winter stage service. Dr. Wm.
Turnbull recently took a fine string of
horses to Whitehorse for the winter
service.
Ronald Ferguson, pioneer Yukon
miner, for a long time operator on (Ra
cier creek, died recently at Dawson
after an illness that began last spring
He had been in St. Mary’s hospital at
Dawson since last May.
The Moose lodge at Valdez will give
a "frontier dance” Thanksgiving time.
The ballroom will be made to resemble
an oldtime Alaskan dance hall, with its
gambling games, bar. costumes and
other paraphernalia.
Thawing shafts in the placer mines
of the interior is coming into general
use. It is said that about one-fourth
of the labor is required and that about
$300 worth of fuel is saved daily on
each shaft in cases where a full crew
is working.
There will be two weekly mail stages
between the coast and Fairbanks over
the Richardson road during the early
winter, and three a week later. Each
mail will be limited to 80J pounds. It
is believed this will handle practically
all the mail offering.
John Anderaon was acquitted at Val
dez of involuntary manslaughter alleged
to have been committed at Naknek iast
summer. The evidence was that dur
ing a drunken_orgy a shotgun which
was being handled by Anderson wes dis
charged and Chas. Cline was killed.
The mill on the Venus mine, Conrad
district, near Carcross, has been com
pleted, and made one successful run.
On account of a shortage of fuel it will
not be operated regularly until next
spring. Development work will be
prosecuted on the mine, however, all
winter.
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At Ketchikan Fred Patching was in
dicted by the grand jury on three counts
charging embezzlement from the Heck
man Wharf Company in amounts aggre
gating $4,457.50.
Messrs. Stanton and Barnett, twc
well known Valdez miners, have gone
to Culcross island where they have a
• contract for rnnning 250 feet of tunne!
on the Thomas Culros property. The
work wili be pushed rapidly aud the
contract completed as soon as possible.
The property is already in a high state
of development, having a mill building
which was erected in October, 1916.
NELSON <&, 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
Johnston <&> Aagaard
General Contractors and Builders
HYDER BATH
HOUSE Mrs*R0SE L*WALKER> Prop
New, Neat and Modern in Every Respect
OPEN DAY AND MIGHT
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