VOL. I
PETERSBURG, ALASKA AUGUST 20 1926
NO- 6
COMMUNITY FI TO
BE GIVEN AT
With the appointment of a gen.
..■ral committee to make the prelim
inary plans and to appoint sul)
committees, the Civic Club took the
first step last Saturday in the Pre
parations for the Community Pair
which will be held in Wrangell
early next month. The date has
been set for September 3 and 4.
The committee appointed by th
president, Mrs. I. C. Byorge, con
sists of Mesdames Johnson, Brown
and Cochrane.
While the Fair is being sponsored
by the Civic Club, an appeal i
nade to the general public to get
behind the undertaking. It is
the plan of the general committe
to make th fair chiefly an exhibi
tion of home products. Ribbon
will be given for the best in fruit
vegetables and flowers; for various!
items of handwork, for curios and
antiques and other things of inter
cst. Mining men will be asked t.c
exhibit ore from nearby mines.
Sideshows' and other attractions
will be features of the evnings on
which the fair is held, and the pro
ceeds will be given to the hospital
a fact which should add to the in
terest in the undertaking. Folders
with detailed information will be
distributed at an early date -
Wrangell Sentinel.
We are boosters' for fairs just
such as Wrangell is putting on.
Its aims much more worthy than
ihe spending orgy featured at Jun
eau. At one of the recent fairs the
oliicials of that fair estimated that
the natives alone spent over $*0,000
and received doubtful benefit. The
spending of but a part of that
sum in Wrangell or Petersburg
would be of tremendous benefit to
ewery business interest of either
town.
PULP ENGINEERS
Hydro-electric engineers Breck
and Day are in Southeastern Alas
ka making prelniinary examination
of resources for a large pulp and |
paper concern which which is in
vestigating the possibilities of such
an industry in this division. This is
the report of B. F. Heintzelman of
the U(. S. Forest Service.
The engineers have made an ex
amination of the resources in the
Ketchikan district and are now in
the Wrangell district making a
survey of the possibilities there.
When they have completed there in
vestigatons around Wrangell they
will put in some time looking into
the resources around Petersburg.
. HEADQUARTERS AT JUNEAU
Lieut. Ben H. Wyatt, command
er of the aerial mapping expedition
is quoted as saying that Juneau
will continue to be the headquar
ters of the expedition until the
work is completed.
Some what like appropriations
for roads. Petersburg gets the
Gnnnet and the fliers for a few
hours. Wrangell, Ketchikan ana
Ji neah gets their full appropria
tions for repair of roads while
Petersbcrg gets $150. to repair a
three mile road. There’s a some-;
thing rotten in Denmark and we
have a mighty good hunch we know
just what it is.
GIRL NEAR MT. MCKINLEY
Miss F. Dickinson a tourist from
Wisconsin approached Mt. McKin j
ley in a flyiny machine last week.
Owing to the extreme cold she did
not attemp to r each higher than
13,500 feet.
She declared herself delighted
with the trip and scenrey and hop i
ed to have oppootunity of flying
cved and around the highest peak
some other time.
NEW POWERHOUSE FAIRBANKS
A new power plant to cost ap
proxmately $1,750,000 for the Fair
banks Exploration Company ha
been started in Fairbanks. Thi
plant will furnish power for th
dv edges to be operated on Gold
stream.
Let’s try a Rainbow Special at
the Totem Pole.
BUREAU SCHOLS TO OPEN
Schools will open in Southeast
Alaska on Tuesday morning Sep
tember 7th, announces Mr. Chas. W.
Hawkesworth, superinendent of the
Bureau schools in this division.
He stated that regularity of at
tendance last year excelled all pre
vious records. The final reports for
the year , of 17 schools of the Dis
trict, showed an average percentage
of monthly attendance of 91.6 per
cent.
GREEN HOUSES IN ALASKA
H. A. Smith, president of the
Alaska Garden an<i Greenhouse Co.,
purchased the Seydel property in
Juneau with the view to establish
ing a greenhous in Juneau. .It is
th«* plan of the company to estab
lish greenhouses in the different
towns in Southeastern Alaska.
. .Executive offices of the company
are in Ketchikan where they ex
pect to have a plant in operation
very shortly. .
. .The Wrangell Chamber of Com
merce offered this company three
acres of choice land if they would
establish a greenhouse in that, com
munity.
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LINOTYPE REPRESENTATIVE .
IN PETERSBURG
Mr. Draper, Mergantheler Lino
type Company representative, is
in Petersburg this week looking af
tf:r the interests of his company.
The service that Mr. Draper is
rendering users of his machine is
invaluable but typical of the com
pany he represents. We have been
accused of being against “big com
panies so most emphatically assert
that if alj “big” companies were
as considerate of the “little” fel
lows as these people, much of the
misunderstanding and disagree
ments would be done away with.
Mr. Draper and other representa
tives of the company through their
kindly courtesies and willingness to
help users of their machines out
of difficulties, gives a personal touch
to their company that makes it
more human than corporation.
.. . NORGE PASSES SEWARD .
The dismantled dirigible Norge
p.issed through Seward duing the
past week on the freighter Tanana
ounroute to Seattle. The Norge
completed the first air voyage from
Europe to Alaska across the North
Pole. i
HALIBUT VES
SEL DESTROYED
The halibut schooner Lincoln was
sunk by an explosion and destroyed
at Prince Rupert Wednesday the
18th. The explosion split the vessel
from stem to stern and threw de
oris all over the water front. Capt.
ML Fottland was killed and two
members of his crew seriously in
jured.
Word of the accident was sent to
the U. S. Customs office at Juneau
by the customs officer at Rupert.
The Lincoln wa<s built at Seatle
in 1912 and was 55’ 6" long, 15'
G" wide, 7' 11" deep and was re
gistered as bieng 34 gross tons and
25 tons net.
Cold storage holdings of fish in
the United States in June of this
year amounted to 31,290,025
pounds, more than two percent de
crease from the holdings on the
same date in 1925, but above the
five year average by 20 percent,
the Department of Commerce re
port. The fish frozen during the
month amounted to 989,191 pounds
more than during the same period
last year.
In Canada 1,676,096 pounds of
halibut, 5,844 pounds of markerel,
685,759 pounds of salmon, and 7,
5 60,888 pounds of other varieties of
f:ah were oe hand June 1.
The Monte Carlo Fox and Fur
Company reports that the 160 fox
they shipped to themselves at
Kallispell, Montana, reached there
without loss of a single fox. Speaks
well for the care in shpment.
Miss Reep, former teacher in the
Petersburg Public School, is here
enroute to Kake where she has
accepted position under the U. S.
Rureau of Education .
A new judge in town. Commis
sioner Clausen was passing around
the cigars Monday afternoon when
he announced that a six pound boy
and future judge had stopped at his
l ome. The doctor reports mother
and little one as doing very nicely.
“Skipper” Dick Hanson is install
ing a converted Ford in his yacht.
Some say “it can’t be did” but Dick
is doing it just to prove it can be
clone.
TROLLER BURNS
The gasboat “Kathleen,” Capt.
George Alexander, burned to the
waters edge the latter part of July
; The captain was a mile off shore
av d barely escaped alive. Anothe
troller went to his asisstance. Thia
is probably the same fire reported
by local men who were so far from
the scene that they could only
see the suddn flare of smoke in the
distance.
KETCHIKAN BUYS HALIBUT
One day last week the fish buyer
in Ketchikan bought 250,00
pounds of halibut as against 28,000
that went on to Rupert. Righ
prices and not legislation will bring
fishermen to American markets.
RITCHIE IN ALASKA
Leonard Ritchie, assistant to Sec
:etary of Commerce Hoover is re
ported as being in Alaska. It is his
! plan to study the fishery conditions
I throughout the several divisions and
wllj probably not return east un
til late in the fall.
The representatives now in con
ference at Geneva with the view of
limiting arms through internatonal
agieement ha,ve failed to come to
any understanding. They could not
agree on methods of measuring na
val strength or control of methods
of disarmament. The meetings will
adjourn in a couple of weeks but
will meet again in October.
The Secretary of State, Mr. Kel
lcg denied that the administration
contemplated withdrawing from the
conference.
Three thousand members of the
American Legion and Auxiliary are
expected to attend the convention
Friday and Saturday. Plans are un
der way for the biggest Legion con
vention in the State of Washngton.
Longview will be host to the veter
ans of the late war.
23 FOR GRAND JURY
i Tweny-three names have been
, drawn in the United States Court
for the grand jury panel for the
i
Ketchikan term which opens the
latter par of this month.
The jury will convene at Ketchi
kan on the morning of August 26.
Talesmen on the panel are: P.
R. Aiken, A. S. Barnes, Mrs. J. R.
Peegle, J. A. Carlton, James Cole
| man, G. Helgren, L. K. Jensen, Lil
lian D. Johnson, Peter Johnson, J.
! Knaplund, Chas. Lovele.ss A. J.
| McBain, Mrs. Robert McGlashen,
Mrs. E. A. Moore; Edward Morris
| scy, James Newman, J. S. Pitcher,
j H. J. Stier, Mrs. C. B. Taylor, L. C.
Thornton, Frank J. Wadham, Wm,
Dettleson, Ketchikan; L. M. Chur
chill, Wrangell.
TAKES ’EM OUT
l
U. S. Marshal A .White arrived
i
in Petersburg on the Alameda and
rook Al King and Bessie Casperson
to Morningside. These two were
• adjudged insane during the past
week by a jury upon evidence sub
mitted to them. Marshal White al3o
had two others enroute to the in
sane contract hospital near Port
land.
More than 1,000 immigration
appeal cases cases are heard month
ly by the Immigration Board of Re
view according to a report from the
Department of Labor.
Vicente Fanz, Filipino, shot and
killed three Chinamen at dinner on
August the 11th. Fanz is being!
held for trial at the next term of|
Court. He gave no motive for the
shooting.
The three Chinese died Instantly
• then the slayer attempted to shoot
the Filipino foreman.
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A tourist called our attention to
che garbage dumps in town. Our
back doors are the front entrance
for all visitors on every steamer.
The hunters are getting out
up. The deor season is but a short
while away.
Membership of national organi
zations of oil well workers affiliat
ed with the American Federation
of Labor as the International As
sociation of Oil Field, Gas Well,
and Refinery Workers of American
is 5 31,200, the Department of La
bor announced recently.
Mr. and Mrs. William Gribble
made a flying visit to Juneau this
week, returning on the Queen.
Hire’s Root Beer on ice at the
Totem Pole.
WRANGELL GETS
A new road is to be built from
the beach to the Mill Lake mining
properties in the Gtonnd Hog Basin
near Wrangell. The Highway, Capt.
Ed Clark passed through Petersburg
this week with the floating camp of
the Highway Commission. The camp
will quarter workers on • this new
road.
NAVIGATION CHANGES IN
WRANGELL NARROWS
Collector of Customs J. C. Mc
Bride has received the following
from Assistant Superintendent of
Lighthouses Elliot, at Ketchikan:
“Request you odvise all vessels
following ihanges aids navigation
marking newly dredged channel
north end Wranell Narrows:
Middle ground light Wrangell Nar
rows moved August 17 about 200
yards, 148 degrees true from old
position into 21 feet water. Light
thows from dolphin 18 feet above
water.
“Petersburg bar beacon, a red tri
angular day mark, 16 feet above
water on white pile established
August 17 on southeasterly side
dredged channel in 21 feet water
above 665 yards, 51 degrees true
from Turn Point light.”
The Democratic State Executive
Committee certified the names o
Governor Miriam A. Ferguson and
Attorney General Dan Moody for a
run-off primary for the Democratic
nomination for the office ofGovern
or. The date set for the contest is
August the 28th, Charges of al
leged irregularities were made in
an effort to disqualify Moody. Be
fore the election “Ma” agreed to
withdraw from the contest if she
did not get alarger number of votes
than Moody.
EXAMINE SWEDISH EMIGRANTS
After the first of September
Swedish emigrants will be examin
ed in Sweden before embarking fo
the United States under an agree
ment entered into between the two
countries. This eliminates deten
:on at Ellis Island except those re
quired of all passengers on incom
ing ships. When this agreement
goes into effect 77 percent of the
emigrants enterng the United State
will have assurance of entry befor
taking ship for the United States.
GUILTY CONSCIENCE •
A soldier declaring that he had
taken a pair of shoes not belong
ing to him wrote the Quartermaster
Genertl requesting that he be per
mitted to clear his conscience.
Cash Cole’s gasboat “Jazz” has
been chartered by the Coastwise
Transporta ton Co., to operate on
the Sitka-Juneau run. She displac
es the Euros whose charter expired
i ecently.
TRANS-ATLANTIC AIR SERVICE
It is reported that Germany i
building sixty passenger airplane
for trans-Atlantic service. It is ex
pected that they will be in servic
before the tnd of the year.
Try John Fanning for Arch Sa
ver Shoes for men, women and chil
dren. First class hosery on hand.
Word comes that a new and rich
discovery of gold has been made in
tlie Cassiar country. Samples of
gold brought to Telegraph Creek
range in size from the flne dust to
the size of a five cent piece.
The first word of discovery was
made when Jim Morley returned to
Telegraph so that he could get
power of attorney from Carl Carl
son in order that a claim for him
might 4 be staked. When Morley
surted tj> return to his claims he
found a regular stampede behind,
him so he returned to town and is
awaiting power of attorney which is
now on its w'ay up. From every in
dication this is a strike that will
lut that country on the producing
map. Wrangell will also get its long
looked for boom.
About three o’clock Monday
morning a fire was discovred in the
second floor of the Hadlund build
ing. An alarm was turned in and
in spite of the early hour an im
mediate response was made by the
firemen.
It is-eupposed that the fire was
started by a lighted cigarette being
thrown amonst some clothing. The
rooms upstairs were pretty well
patted by the fire before it was
checked by the good work of the
firemen. The proximity of other
buildings would have entailed a
very heavy loss to the business of
Petersburg.
Several hundred dollars will put
the building in first class conditon
again. All in all the town may
consider itself lucky in that lives
were not lost or more damage
done.
PORT ’O MISSING MEN
An inquiry has been received for
information as to the whereabouts
of John Currie, born in Michigan
May 20, 1887, height 5 feet 6 inches
weight 150 pounds, dark brown
hair, blue eyes, known to have
! worked at logging at one time. In
formation in regard to him should
be sent to the office of the Governor
i at Juneau, Alaska.
-ALASKA BANKER DIES
Funerai services for Meyer Blum
was held in Seattle during the past
week. Blum for many years was
acti vely associated with the finan
cial and industrial development
of Alaska. He was president of the
S. Blum and Co., of Valdez, and
tbe Blum-O’Neil Co., of Cordova,
and also president of the First
Bank of Cordova and of the First
Bank of Cordova.
REGISTERED AT ARCTIC
HOTEL THIS WEEK
Ross Draper, San Francisco, W.
S WARD, L. Peterson, C. F. Shoe
maker, E. V. Edwards, Seattle, R.
H. Pradwick, Seattle, J. A. Had
iund, Mr. and Mrs. F. Johnston and
daughter Audrey, D. M. Bothwell,
«uneau, Albert Brown, Juneau, C.
M. Jones, Juneau, H. I. Lucas, Jun
noau, Fred Patten, Storm Island, E.
McKenna, Seattle.
Lime Crush and Lemonade at the
Totem Pole.
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