BUSINESS DIRECTORY
A quick reference list of pro
gressive business firms which
advertise in the Herald and
what they handle.
Attorneys—
Ernest Blue, Hyder
Automobile Supplies—
Hydei Machine Shop
Hyder Garage
Banks—
Bank of Hyder
Barber Shops—
Traversy’s Barber Shop.
Northern Pool Hall Shop
Bakery Goods—
Ideal Cafe.
Hyder Grocery.
The Silver Grill Restaurant.
Blacksmithing—
Hyder Machine Shop.
Civic Associations—
Ilyder Chamber of Commerce
Curios—
Boundary Gift Shop
Hyder Drug Co.
Card Rooms—
Traversy’s Cigar Store
Northern Pool Hall.
Drugs—
Hyder Drug Co.
Boundary Gift Shop
Dairies—
Hyder Dairy
Explosives—
Hyder Fuel Co.
Hyder Dock Company.
Fuel—
Hyder Fuel Company
Hyder Dock Company
Groceries—
Hyder Grocery.
Gas Engines—
Hyder Machine Shop.
Hotels—
Golden Gate Hotel.
Jewelry—
Nugget Shop.
Hyder Drug Co.
Lumber—
Hyder Lumber Company.
Laundries—
Portland Canal Electric
Hills Hand Laundry
Lodges—
Loyal Order of Moose
Masonic Club
Machinery—
Hyder Machine Shop.
Hyder Garage
Notary Public—
Ernest Blue.
Chas. F. Sandford
Plumbing, Steamfitting—
Hyder Machine Shop.
Hyder Garage
Pool Rooms—
Northern Pool Hall
Professional—
Ernest Blue, Attorney.
Frank A. Metcalf, Surveyor
Photo Supplies—
Hyder Drug Co.
Boundary Gift Shop
Rubber Stamps—
Hyder Herald
Restaurants—
Ideal Cafe
Silver Grill Restaurant
Smokers Supplies—
Boundary Gift Shop
Traversy’s Cigar Store
Northern Pool Hall
Hyder Drug Co.
Golden Gate Hotel
Stationery—
Hyder Drug Co.
Boundary Gift Shop
Steamship Agencies—
Hyder Dock Co.
Tranfer Companies—
Hyder Fuel Co.
T ype writers—
Hyder Drug Co.
Boundary Gift Shop
Steamship Lines—
Noyes Boat Company
Toilet Preparations—
Boundary Gift Shop
Hyder Drug Co.
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
Frank A. Metcalf
BRIEF ITEMS FROM All
PARTS OF THE TERRITORY
EVENTS IN THE NORTH AS PORTRAYED IN THE
PRESS OF ALASKA
Albert Grant, 54-j'ear-old Sit
ka Indian, who has been on
rial at Juneau for the death of,
Thomas James, a Haines In
dian, at Sitka last August, Was
recently found guilty of sec
ond degree murder.
A storm which began Octob
er 23 and raged for more than
a week did considerable dam
age at Nome, crippled ship
ping and delayed the unload
ing of the steamers Victoria
and Sierra. The roadway was
washed out along the water
front as was the bridge at
Belmont Point, and high water
was undermining the bulkhead
in the rear of business houses.
The Victoria was anchored
•eveji miles off shore-and the
Sierra was near Egavik. Two
barges were sunk but other
vessels found shelter behind
Sledge Island.
Mrs. Harriet Conn, 28, was
burned to death recently at
Juneau and her husband, John,
was badly burned as he went
to her assistance, when their
home was destroyed by fire.
I heir son, aged three, was
playing out of doors and thus
escaped death. The mother wa»
alone in the kitchen cleaning
a dress with gasoline. An ex
plosion brought the husband
ushing from another part of
the house. He was severely
burned in an attempt to save
his wife. Mr. Conn was taken
Notice to Advertisers.
After this date special posit
ion advertising, either display
or reading, will be accepted
jnly at an advance of 25 per
aent over regular rates.
to the hospital in an unconsci
ous condition.
By cash payments made re
cently the interests represent
ed by George Lemons com
pleted the purchase of the
Howell tin properties on Sulli
van Creek in the Hot Springs
district, marking the conclus
ion of a deal of much import
ance to the Hot Springs dis
trict and the interior general
ly. The sum paid wa snot made
public, but it is understood to
have been large. Sixty-two
claims were included in the
transfer. The property has
been thoroughly prospected
and Mr. Lemons said his engi
neers “have found the richest
tin deposits in the world
there.” It is planned to install
two dredges on the creek next
summer. They will be equip
ped to recover gold, which is
found throughout the gravels,
as well as tin. There is approx
imately 15 miles of ground to
be dredged.
Fresh as a daisy after an
880-mile row from Juneau,
Hugh Clinton Smith arrived in
Seattle recently. Smith,-who
is a mill worker, was in Juneau
last August, when he got the
idea of going to Seattle for the
winter. The fare $23, seemed
steep to him, so he filled a
couple of gasoline tins with
fresh water, bought a few
pounds of bacon and soda bis
cuits and shoved off. He didn’t
have a sextant and never
thought of bringing along a
map, but he had a tarpaulin,
For Sale—McKee manifold
sales slips—Herald office.
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SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY FURNISHED
some blankets, a tin stove,
coffee pot and axe, so he made
out fine. Occasionally when
the beach was too far away
and a brisk wind or tide aided
progress, the navigator just
set his stove on the water cans,
fed it a few scraps of wood
and cooked his meal. Smith
made stops at Ketchikan,
Prince Rupert and other ports.
Ross Heckey, former Valdez
man, who is now operating a
coal property on Coal Creek,
in the Chickaloon district has
made a discovery of what he
believes to be Gilsonite, on
Boulder Creek, ten miles east
of Chickaloon, and has sent
samples of his find to the
States to have it tested. Gil
sonite is a dull black substance,
something like coal tar, and is
in reality a solidified petrole
um. It is worth about $50 per
ton and the only place it is
mined to any extent in the
United States is in the north
eastern part of Utah where it
occurs in vertical veins of 2 to
4 feet, extending for miles
across the country. It is used
in the making of varnishes and
hard rubber. It occurs on
Boulder Creek, it is said, in
great masses, indicating a
possible new source of wealth
for Alaska.
Charles Olson, an oldtimer,
committed suicide recently at
Long Lake near McCarthy, by
3hooting himself through the
head. Olson, was 50 years old,
the son of a former prominent
Alaskan, and recently received
a pension as a Spanish-Ameri
can veteran.
Rufus B. Barns, a well known
oldtimer of the Cook Inlet
country, was found dead on the
beach recently about five miles
from Seldovia. He had gone to
Kachemak bay to visit friends
at a fox ranch and was return
ing to, Seldovia when darkness
and the tide overtook him.
Barns was 81 years and 9
months old and a veteran of
the Civil War.
Mrs. Isabelle McGrew, aged
79, dropped dead recently
while walking along the street
in Juneau, from a heart at
tack. Deceased and her hus
band had been residents of
Juneau for about ten years,
going there from California,
where they were early settlers.
Besides her husband Mrs. Mc
Grew is survived by a daught
er, Mrs. Dona Rosevold.
Location of Fire Extinguishers
Hand extinguishers are locat
ed at:
Hyder Machine Shop
J. A. Hall residence
M. E. Church
Hyder Drug Company
Rozenstain Store
Golden Gate Hotel
Hyder Herald Office.
Malamute Cigar Store
Walter Blanton
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Howard Sheehan, formerly of
Anchorage, who at one time
served a year in jail at Valdez
for the theft of some fox skins
at Anchorage, was recently
sentenced to from 10 to 15
years in prison in Tacoma,
Wash., for complicity in the
holdup of a municipal belt
line car on the Tacoma tide
flats, on June 20, 1927. His
flapper wife was also convict
ed on the same charge and fo
awaiting sentence.
Many residents of Dawson,
who neglected to prepare for
the coming of winter by laying
in sufficient fuel to carry them
over the freezup period, are
confronted by the threat of a
fuel shortage until such time
as wood haulers can bring in
wood over the winter trails.
The coming of winter rarely
finds the Yukon city over sup
plied with fuel and consider
able scrambling and borrow
ing is necessary to tide the im
provident over until woodpiles
can be replenished from win
ter reserves.
A. A. (Scotty) Allan, one of
the north’s outstanding dog
racing .figures, returned to
Nome during the late summer
to obtain some photographs
and data needed in connection
with a story of theearly Nome
day^ which shortly is to be
published in the states in book
form.
Jack Mitchell, held in the
federal jail at Juneau for aid
ing and abetting the escape of
Charles Sinclair some time ago,
will be deported to England,
acording to W. G. Strench, dis
trict director of immigration,
investigation of Mitchell’s rec
ord is said to have discloesd
that he is subject to deportat
ion.
C. O. Driscoll, oldtimer of
the Fairbanks country, who
was lost recently for five days
while on a hunting trip, was
found by Jack McGuire, on
Sutherland Creek, a tributary
of the Tanana, west of Fair
banks. The oltimer was lying
down in the snow completely
exhausted, when found. He got
lost on Ester Dome and had
wandered for miles in the
wrong direction. Driscoll’s
hands and feet were badly
frosted, but it is Believed it
will be posible to save them.
The strange barrenness of
trees on the Aleutian Islands
is told by H. W. Jewell of the
U. S. Biological Survey, who
spent part of the summer
For sale—Beautiful Art Cal
endar samples; fine for home
decorations; less than outside
cost to close out line. Herald
office.
8 WE MAINTAIN A COMPLETE PLANT IN HYDER 51
5:
FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF
RUBBER STAMPS
ALSO A LINE OF DATERS, STAMP PADS, INKS
AND ACCESSORIES.
Work Guaranteed Satisfactory or No Charge.
THE HYDER HtSALD STAMP WORKS
around the Aleutians.
Fourty-four Sitka spruce trees
were planted on a small island
near Unalaska in 1854 by
Bishop Inokenty, of the old
Russian Alaska Company..
These trees took to their new
surroundings and were appar
ently on the way to providing
future timber on the islands,
but for some reason unknown
to scientists they refused , to
propogate. No seeds sprang up
to make seedlings; no shoots
tapped off the roots to make
new growth. The 44 trees grew
slowly, reached a diameter of
froip 6 to 18 inches at the base,
a maximum height of 32 feet
and are still growing, but
when they mature and die it
seems probable that the “for
est on the Aluetians” will die
also, leaving nothing but
the luxuriant grasses which
abound on the islands, grow
ing to a height of six feet or
more. With the temperature on
the Aleutians practically stat
ionary, and rarely below zero,
and with a soil promoting lux
uriant growth of vegetation,
ither than trees, the dying for
est on the island remains an
other unsolved mystery in
nature’s puzzle book.
Jack Manhattan recently
brought the following bear
story to Fairbanks from Nome
Cheek, where he was sharing
a cabin with Louis Smith,
prospector and trapper. The
wo men had been out hunting
and brought in two caribou
and a sheep and hung a quart
er of the sheep outside the
cabin door. Furthermore, they
were so energetic that they de
cided to clean out the cabin
and moved everything, includ
ing rifles, tables and chairs,
outside so they could muck
out. While busily engaged in
side the cabin, they heard a
noise outside and Louis look
ed out to see what it was
about. A big glacier bear had
orn a quarter of meat off the
hook and was about to enjoy
himself. The bear made a
swipe.at Louis which would
have torn him loose from his
mukluks had it landed, but
Louis ducked back into the
cabin and bolted the door. In
fact there was nothing else to
do. The two men were inside
and the bear was outside,
dragging the meat away. Louis
very cautiously opened the
door again and reached for
his rifle, just around the door
jamb, and then sighted thru
the latch hole, plugging Mr.
Bruin before he disappeared in
the trees. They thought he
had seriously wounded the ani
mal as he dropped the meat
and tore around in the under
growth. They were about to
sally forth armed to the teeth,
when another bear was seen
trying to climb the ladder to
the cache where the rest of
the fresh meat was stored.
They shot this bear and it went
off into the woods growling.
They waited for some time,
lot knowing how deadly their
shots had been, and here’s the
point of the whole story. When
'.hey finally went out to find
the two bears were dead, they
came back to inspect their
cache and found the meat all
?one. A third bear which they
believe had been reconnoiter
ing the premises, got to the
cache, got the meat and got
away.
Location Notice Forms and
Proof of Annual Labor Blanks
for sale at the Herald office.