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BRIEF NEWS OF IRE NORTHLAND. I
The speedy little Fuget Sound
steamer Dart, the last of the McDow
ell fleet, for many years famous as
passenger and mail carriers between
Seattle and other points, has been
sold to Alaskan interests and will
shortly enter service as the mail boat
between Wrangell and points on the
west coast of Prince of Wales Island.
W. T. Hale and P. C. McCormick, well
known in southeastern Alaska, are the
purchasers. The Dart is a steamer of
74 tons gross register, and was built
by Matthew McDowell at New Cale
donia in 1911. She is 57.2 feet long.
17.4 feet beam and 5.2 feet depth of
hold. Her new owners have acquired
the mail transportation contract be
tween the points named for the little
steamer’s new service. She will touch
at Klawack, Sulzer and other west
coast ports on each voyage from
Wrangell.
The Douglas city council recently
lit Id a meeting and resolved to dis
pose of the “Dooley” family who have
long been quartered on the city and
are becoming so expensive that the
city can no longer afford to feed them.
It might be well to state that the Doo
leys are a pair of line black bears
which have been the pride of the
youngsters of the island city for some
time.
The Daily Prospector of Valdez an
nounces that it will suspend publica
tion until after the war. The V eekly
Miner will be continued by the Pros
pector Publishing company. The Pros
pector has been published as a daily
paper for more than thirteen years.
Snow and rock slides characterized
the spring thaw along the line of the
railroad in the Copper River section
this spring to a great extent than evei
before. Electric power lines were car
ried out at several places and railroad
traffic interrupted in many parts.
Capt. A. E. Lathrop, who will built
a concrete theatre building1 at Cor
dova this summer, is now in Seattle
assembling' the material for the build
ing. He purposes to have a theatre
at Cordova that will be second to none
in the territory.
John W. Dunn of Ituby, and George
\V. Pennington, of Xenana, both dem
ocratic nominees for the legislature
have charge of the four-minute mer
of their respective communities.
That the Tolovana camp will be
lively during the coming season is the
unanimous opinion of the mining anr
business men who are familiar witl
the situation over there, says the Fair
banks Citiven. Livengood will be the
scene of much activity, the big creel
now having several good-sized wintei
dumps all ready for sluicing as soor
as the water nans.
Jags have advanced in price. Ne
longer can the man who looks witl
favor upon the cup that inebriates ge
on a toot and get away with it for pir
money. Magistrate Buckley of Sel
dovia recently threw a $50 line at i
man for coming before him on i
charge of intoxication and would hav«
given him life, but could find no law t<
this effect. Alaska is ruined for tin
olhtimer.
The following recently appeared ii
a Juneau paper: Warning still hold;
good about the danger of snows! ide;
from the steep mountains surround
ing Juneau, and people who travel tin
roads, especially the Basin Road, ar<
cautioned to keep a sharp lookout
With the great quantity of snow 01
the tops of the mountains and thi
warmer weather that is being exper
ienced, there is bound soon to be con
siderable slides, some of which wil
no doubt avalanche across the roads
Especially are people cautioned abou
hunting in the hills.
The corpse of an unknown man wa:
recently found on a small lake abou
four miles from Wood river in th<
Fairbanks district by a native wh<
immediately notified the marshal’s of
fice. An investigation resutled in th<
decision that the man had frozen t<
death. The body was identified as that
of Casper Good, at one time in the em
ploy of the Alaskan Engineering com
mission at Nenana. He was 58 years
of age and as far as is known had no
j relatives.
We will soon be able to entertain
our readers with some Honest-to-God
bear stories. The effete Easterner is
not aware of the sport that can be had
with the average bear on a bright
spring day, so long as the bear does
not take it into his head to become
the party of the first part. Valdezans
are polishing up the old smoke-stick
i and training for a quarter-dash, and
the Miners expects to eat bear meat
soon and cheat old General H. C. L.
_
The Valdez Packing company will
enlarge its plant with the addition of
| another line of machinery and two
! large buildings this season. About 150
men will be employed, making a con
siderable and much needed addition to
the population of the city. If can
neries were compelled by law to em
ploy nice looking female operators
the bachelors of the community would
do the rest and make the population
permanent.
—
Bob Sheldon recently left Fairbanks
for his first trip over the Valdez trail
in his new Ford tractor, carrying with
him as passengers, C. A. Schonacker,
Seattle newspaper man, and B. E. Hol
lifield, formerly head of the electrical
department of the Alaskan Engineer
ing commission at Nenana. Sheldon
figures on making great time.
A writ of mandamus was recently
issued out of Judge Jennings’ court at
Ketchikan to show cause why Otto
Hivonen should not be granted citi
zenship papers. Hivonen, who is a
Finlander, had the legality of his citi
zenship questioned and the clerk of
the court decided to allow the matter
to go before the court.
Dr. Reiser of Juneau, has let a con
tract to Pet rich, the Tacoma boat
builder, for a new combination pas
senger and freight boat, which it is
his intention to operate on the Prince
of Wales Island run. Work on the
boat has just started and the owner
has purchased from the Pacific Net &
Twine Co. an 80 h. p. Frisco Standard
engine for the power plant.
E. Johns father of C'has. Johns de
puty collector of revenue, died recent
ly at his home in Tacoma, according
to news received by Mr. Johns while ir
Anchorage. He left Anchorage or
the first boat stating that he would
not return until November but there
would be other collectors through be
fore that time.
E. J. “Stroller” White, editor o!
the Douglas Island News, and one ol
the best known newspapermen ir
Alaska, was recently nominated at
representative for the First Divisior
on the democrati cticket.
The Chisana district is reported t;:
i have porduced half a milllion in go!;
since its discovery by Nelson an;
James. The present yearly output is
over $50,000. There is a resident popu
lation of 50 to 0 Gin winter and aboul
150 in the summer.
L. M. Cruse, a stranger, died at Ju
neau recently of apoplexy which cam;
on while he was a passenger on the
steamer Alameda on her last trip
south. He was unconscious wher
! brought to Juneau and it was with dif
ficulty that the relatives were finalh
located in Seattle.
John Nelson, one of the well knowr
cannerymen to the Westward, was
married at Squaw Harbor recently ac
cording to advices received at Sewart
I on the Dora.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Graverock re
cently left Juneau for Dutchie’s rancl
near the head of the island where the>
c .
intend to remain during the summei
and engage in the fishing business ant
growing potatoes.
LOST—A small sack of sugar ant
) three pounds of beans. Finder returr
to X. Y. Z. and receive ten dollars
reward. This is the way it will read
if the war continues another year and
the food shortage more acute.
A1 Patzack, a recent arrival at Fair
banks from Anchorage via Broad Pass
left for the Koyokuk where he will
spend the following season prospect
ing. He stated that his trip from An
chorage was made with very little in
convenience.
( .
Nat Swanson, a contractor at the
Ready Bullion Mine in the Juneau
vicinity, recently left that place for
Tacoma on account of ill health.
Miners and operators at Chisana
are reported to be paying from 25
cent sto $1.25 per pound to have their
supplies freighted in. A man will have
very few luxuries at this price per
pound.
The second division ,the Ukrania of
the north, recently gave Wm. Malon
ey, the Bolsheviki candidate for dele
gate, a majority over the regular
democratic nominee of 100.
Nenana people contributed $115.15
in one week to buy tobacco for the
American troops in France.
The Tanana Commercial club has
recommended that Superintendent of
Construction W. L. Parker of Nenana
be placed in full charge of the rail
road construction work at the Nenana
end of the Alaska railroad.
Copper River towns are furnishing
many men for the Twenty-seventh En
gineers’ regiment. The men are being
assembled at Fort Liscum.
Carl White, the freighter and mail
carrier between Fairbanks and Tolo
vana, has been given a four years’
contract to carry the mail between
those places.
—
Frank Hopkins, for many years a
1 resident of Fairbanks and other inter
j ior points at all of which he was fav
; orably known, died at Fairbanks April
16, aged 57 years. He is survived by
\ a wife and daughter, both of whom
: are in California.
—
H. C. Jackson, formerly a Fairbanks
! newspaper man, is now a captain in
the 348th field artillery, and is de
tailed as an instructor at Fort Sill,
Oklahoma.
Convinced that many articles of
value to the Red Cross Society are go
ing to waste in Nenana, Postmaster
Love has started a Spring clean-up
i drive for the purpose of converting
these cast-off things to the use of Am
erican war workers, according to the
j News.
—
Red salmon have started to run at
i Unalaska. This is the information
brought back to Seward by Harry
: Ellsworth who arrived there on the
Admiral Farragut. This inn is the
earliest in the history of fishing along
the coast.
Billy Butler, a famoous interior dog
musher, made the trip from Nenana to
Fairbanks in eight hours and three
> 'Inutes April 12. He left Nenana at
| 9:10 a. m. and arrived at Fairbanks
at 5:13 the same day. This is the rec
ord time for the trip.
Cleveland and Howell, the interior
miners, will operate a big outfit at
Woodchopper this year as well as at
Hot Springs, where they have been
working for sometime.
—
There were 49 students in the citi
zenship night school at Nenana last
month. Of the number 46 were men
and three women. The ages of the
students ranged from 20 to 54 years.
Alaska caribou herds migrating
southward last fall were the largest
in the history of this section of the
northland. Prospector’s said one herd
took four days to pass a certain spot
At all times during the four days
there were from 5,000 to 50,000 ir
I sight.
I Fairbanks again has a little scan
dal. It is reported upon fairly good
i authority that three Fairbanks worn
en, prominent in upper town circles,
visited the home of a former member
of the school board and pulled that i
lady’s nose collectively and vigorous
ly because of several uncomplimentary
statements made before the grand
jury in an effort to discredit a certain
public official.
As soon as the Dawson sedition
case is disposed of at Ketchikan the
court will take up that of Frank El
kins, linotype operator on the Pro
gressive-Miner. accused of assault and
1 battery upon his wife.
The halibut schooner Harder, dis
abled, recently arrived in Juneau, in
tow of the steamer Augusta. The
Harder ran on the rocks at Cape Strait
a few days before, sustaining rather
severe damages.
Sidney H. Grigg, brother of W. H.
Grigg, of the townsite office at Ne
nana was on the Tuscania at the time
the vessel was attacked by a German
submarine. He reached the Irish coast
in safety and at this time is engag
ed in active service in France.
Arno Reinhold, recently placed un
der arrest by Game Warden Stewart
Foster on the trail south of Nenana,
was given a hearing by Commissioner
McDonald on the charge uf having
I killed moose out of season anil fined
| one dollar and costs.
J. C. Hays, superintendent of roads,
was a recent passenger from Juneau
for Sitka where he will superintend
I the construction of a wagon bridge, 60
feet in length across the Indian river.
The bridge will be the connecting link
; in the Sitka-Jamestown bay road
which has been under construction by
: the Alaska Road Commission for the
past two years.
! Henry Alexander and Jim Sween
: ey, formerly contractors in the employ
of the Alaskan Engineering commis
‘ sion at Nenana left town recently on
; their way to the sunny south via the
Broad Pass route, dliey were making
the trip light, carrying no supplies but
living off the country. Alexander is
traveling on snow shoes and Sweeney
on skiis.
i Sitka has been very industrious this
winter, furnishing plenty of work for
everyone. The sawmill has been in op
eration all winter, getting out lumbei
for the construction of two canneries.
There is also a new residence being
erected in the Native village and a
I new store on the main street. Boat
I work, both new and repair is under
I way.
| A1 J. Johnson, of Fairbanks, offi
j cial photographer for the Alaskan En
gineering Commission recently return
ed to Nenana from an extended trip
from the line south of the town. He
j went as far as Lignite Creek and se
j cured a large number of very inter
i esting pictures of the railroad work
j at various intervals as well as several
; views of the coal fields.
J Although eagles typify freedom in
many climes, they are hunted birds
(in Alaska and the territorial govern
| ment has placed a bounty of fifty
i cents on every eagle trapped or shot.
The bounty is paid on the presenta
tion of the feet of the birds.
FIRST STEAMER
REACHES DAWSON
DAWSON, Y. T., May 25.—The
steamer Washburn arrived here from
Lake Lebarge yesterday, en route to
the lower Yukon. She is the first
boat to reach here this season. Among
the passengers are twenty men for a
new cannery to be started at the
mouth of the Yukon river.
WHO DID IT?
Now I am busted—doggon it!
My purse is as flat as a cake;
As though “Jumbo” had stepped
square upon it
But, ’twas all for Humanity’s sake.
Howsomever, it really don’t matter,
Cause payday will come soon, and
then,
If the Red Cross or Uncle goes busted
We’ll go “over the top” again.
—H. R. MILLER.
LOVE BUTTS
UP AGAINST
DUDE BARRIER
The case of Cupid versis Justice was
heard in the United States commis
sioner’s court last night and was dis
missed by Judge Leopold David for
want of jurisdiction. Love ran up
against an insuperable barrier when
the dusky children of the wilds at
tempted to roost on the altar of
Hymen without first satisfying the
prosaic demands of the law.
Six natives, half of the male and
half of the female persuasion, crossed
the sad sea waves of Cook Inlet yes
terday in order to take the initial step
toward acquiring a life interest in that
state of repose known as connubial
bliss. They came to be married and to
conform to the white man’s law. But
four of them failed to make the start
and Cupid is still with them.
Nick McCord, Matrona Longcarp,
Tyonek Sheadal, Cardina retroff,
Forma Stepan and Tunya Phillip are
the names of the brunette children of
the mossy glades who came to the in
hospitable shores of Anchorage only
to be sent back to their wigwams with
their object unaccomplished. Cardina
Petroff and Tunya Phillip are each
sixteen years of age and had to secure
the written consent of their parents
who are at present engaged in the
fishing game near Tyonic. When
Judge David learned this sad state of
affairs his brow wrinkled and his alert
mind became concentrated upon a de
sire to think up some form of relief
for the dusky maids. For a moment
the court room in which the ceremon
ies were to have been performed was
as silent as the tombs of the Pharoahs
and not a sound came from the assem
bled litigants, belligerent, well wish
ers and friends. Then from out of a
clear mental sky the judge announced
that all would yet be well and that he
would use his eloquence and powers of
diplomacy upon United States Com
missioner Sid Bettman, of Knik, who
is now in Anchorage, to accompany
the disappointed actors on the matri
monial stage back to their home in
Tyonic and there upon the shores of
their own camping grounds surround
ed by the odor of the little fishes that
flock there to be caught in the nets of
the fishermen to unite them and
make them man and wife.
While all of the above planning was
going on Nick McCord and Matrona
Langcarp were getting nervous and
were fearful lest the white man’s law
interfere with their plans. But such
was no the case. There was no obstacle
to prevent the culmination of their
tragic step and so the judge pro
nounced the fatal words that for all
time shall make Matrona the official
fish gatherer of the McCord tribe.
But more disappointed than even
the parties to the affair was Clyde C.
Coleman upon whose boat the braves
and the squaws were brought to An
chorage. Clyde brought them free and
promised the remaining sires in the
village of Tyonic that he would per
sonally look after them during their
stay in the White Father’s big city.
And now when he takes them back to
the land of their nativity these same
sages will look at Clyde and ask why
only one third of the task had been
done.
The members of the tribe regarded
Mr. Coleman as a chief among them
and did him much honor. Now he feels
that they will regal’d him in the same
light as the Indians did the white men
when they paid off the Indians in to
mato can wrappers for packing their
stuff over Chilcott Pass in the days of
’98.
Arriving with the Indian youths and
maids was Mrs. David Dunagan who
teaches the native school there and
who supposed that the legal age for
girls to marry without the consent of
their parents was sixteen instead of
eighteen years. Mrs. Dunagan and D.
H. Williams wrere the witnesses to the
marriage of McCord and Matrona
Longcarp.
The entire party will return on the
power boat Grizzly with Mr. Coleman
tomorrow. United States Commis
‘ sioner Sid Bettman will perform the
ceremony and attempt to explain to
the great wise men of the tribe the
whys and wherefors of the rulings of
the white man's law.
FATHER ENTERS
CUSTOMS SERVICE
(Juneau Empire)
Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff has been ap
pointed United States customs in
spector to be stationed at Hidden In
let, Alaska, and will leave for there
shortly to be gone three months. His
family will remain and a little later
will make a visit back to Sitka.
The Russian church property in
Douglas and Juneau will remain in the
charge of Archie Bielich, and any one
wanting anything during the absence
of the Rev. Father is requested to ap
ply to him.
Rev. Kashevaroff says there is no
change in the Russian church situa
tion in Alaska; that owing to the
revolution in Russia there has been
no church appropriations for some
months, and the idea of bringing the
Russian churches under a society in
America, has not yet seemingly made
progress. Father Kashevaroff has fav
ored the American plan and written to
those instituing the movement, but
has received no reply.
There are few better men known in
Alaska than Rev. Kashevaroff, who,
besides, is a well known authority on
Alaskan history and especially regard
ing the Russian occupation and every
thing pertaining to the Natives. Many
of the Russian churches in Alaska
contain valuable art treasures which
would net a huge fortune. The church
has been one of the most active or
ganizations in the Territory in civiliz
ing the Natives. While Rev. Kashe
varoff’s friends will regret to see him
leave the pulpit even temporaily, they
will be glad to know that he has been
given a good position for the summer.
PATRIOTIC CALIFORNIA WOMEN
LINDSAY, Calif., May 24.—Lind
say housewives have eliminated 81
per cent of their food wastage. In
obedience to the food administration’s
appeal they are endeavoring by all
possible means to eliminate the re
maining 19 per cent and do away al
together with the garbage can. The
garbage man of Lindsay, which
boasts a population of about 8,000,
declares his business has fallen off
so tremendously that he can feed only
38 hogs from the refuse gathered,
whereas a few months ago he fed 200
hogs and was planning to get others.
ADVICE.
i “Don’t talk too much,” said Peter
Parks,
“Don’t be a gabby pup;
Be careful how you drop remarks,
For they may be picked up.”
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE TO
CREDITORS.
In the Matter of the Estate of Ernest
Podboy, Deceased.
WHEREAS, on the 11th day of May,
191S, R. O. Albritton was regularly ap
pointed administrator of the estate of
Ernest Podboy, deceased, by the Com
missioner and Ex-Officio Probate Judge
of Knik Precinct. Third Judicial Divi
sion, Territory of Alaska;
NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to the
j law in such case made and provided, no
i tice is hereby given to the creditors of
said estate to present their verified
claims against said estate, accompanied
with proper vouchers, to said adminis
trator, at his office at No. 505 Fourth
Avenue, in the city of Anchorage, in
the Territory of Alaska, in said pre
cinct, within six months from the date
of this notice.
Dated this 14th day of May, 1918.
It. O. ALBRITTON,
Administrator.
ARTHUR THOMPSON,
j Attorney for Administrator.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior, U. S.
Land Office at Juneau, Alaska, January
30, 1918.
Notice is hereby given that Vinten E.
Caves, of Knik, Alaska, who on June 21,
1915, made Homestead application No.
01829, for W%N\VVi WUSW’i Sec. 26
EM>NE>4 E>4SE%, Section 27, Town
ship 16 N, Range 3 W., Seward Meridian,
has filed notice of intention to make fin
al three-year proof, to establish claim
to the land above described, before U. S.
Commissioner S. S. Bateman, at his of
fice at Knik, Alaska, on July 1, 1918.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Peter Jenson, George Gates, J. W.
Downing, William Marfit, all of Knik,
Alaska.
551 C. B. WALKER, Register.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the Commissioner’s Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division,
Knik Precinct, Before Leopold David,
Commissioner and Probate Judge.
In the Matter of the Estate of Henry
A. Tracy, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed, administrator of the estate of
Henry A. Tracy, deceased, to the credit
ors of and all persons having claims
against the said deceased, to present
them, with the necessary proof and
vouchers, within six months after the
date of this notice, or after the date of
the first publication thereof, to the ad
ministrator, J. T. Cunningham, the said
undersigned, at Room 8, General Office
Building, A. E. C., Anchorage Alaska,
which is the office of said administra
tor, for said estate and where the said
administrator will transact the business
thereof. „ .
Dated this fifteenth day of April, 1918.
J. T. CUNNINGHAM,
Administrator of the estate of
Henry A. Tracy, deceased.
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