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A^JT TOWN
(From Monday’s Daily.)
Chief Operator Stine reports the
Admiral Farragus is due in Seward
at 1 o’clock tomorrow morning.
The Anchorage band played on the
streets Saturday night, advertising
the Knik excursion, to the enjoyment
of the people.
A carol club was formed Saturday
night for the purpose of promoting
the musical interests of Anchorage.
Mr. Coberly was named as president
and much enthusiasm was mani
fested by the local musicians.
The tickets for the dance to be
given by the lire department the
night of the Fourth are meeting
with a ready sale and from all in
dications the attendance record will
be broken on this occasion.
The launch Pioneer will leave An
chorage at 4 o'clock tomorrow morn.
Ing for Turnagin Arm points.
Sam Soupcoff and Attorney Earl
Wooley will leave lor Seward tomor
row morning, going as far as Sun
rise with Captain Tom Parker on
the launch Pioneer and mashing
over the trail the balance of the
way.
Newt Kemp, who has been em
ployed at the Alaska and Free Cold
mine in the Willow creek district for
the past nine months, is in Anchor
age waiting for the Admiral Farra
gut to take him to the great outside
where he will spend his poke at his
old home in Jacksonville, 111.
A. S. Koch has been appointed
chairman of the committee in charge
of the Fourth of July parade, and
Immediately started the wheels to
working by arousing the interest and
getting the assistance of the Anchor- :
age Women’s Club, Miss Clark. Dr. '
McBride and the Labor Union.
J. A. Anderson one of Billy Mar- i
tin’s hard rock men, is down from i
the W’illow creek country getting 1
an outfit together to spend the bal- 1
ance of the season developing his I
quartz claims at the head of the lit- <
tie Susitna river and in a line with
the producing properties of that dis- i
trict. 1
Joe Spenard caused considerable I
excitement Saturday afternoon when I
he attempted to drive his yellow’ car <
through the doors of the Robarts <
pool hall. He made the attempt for <
a box of cigars promised him by <
Jack Robarts if he accomplished the I
feat, otherwise he was to pay the !
damages. Joe is still smoking his
pipe. 1
The steamer Tyonic, under com- <
mand of Captain Rufus Bowen, an- t
chored in Ship creek Saturday night i
and delivered a cargo of coal to Me- 1
Nally & Maitland. The Tyonic is
under charter to McNally & Maitland ■
and returned this afternoon to Bluff i
point, in Kaehemak bay, for another
cargo of coal for this enterprising .
firm. i
Roger Summy, manager of the i
Lumberman’s baseball team that 1
was organized for the express pur- 1
pose of beating Billy Greer’s team i
composed of the staff and employes .
of The Daily Times, has issued a call i
for members of his team to meet
this evening at 7 o’clock at Recre- 1
ation park for the purpose of get- I
ting a line on the players and go <
through signal practice. 1
^nanes reiers, me man uemnu
the throne, came down Saturday af
ternoon from Moose creek to take
in the ball game and be present at
the socialist address by Attorney
Charles Canty, last night, at the
Labor hall. Charles says the big
Moj^se creek store is about completed
and they are doing a satisfactory
business. Mr. Peters will be down,
with the balance of the people from
that section, to participate id the big
parade and help to make the Fourth
of July celebration a success.
Captain Sid Barrington gave a
number of his Anchorage friends a
trip to Knik and return on the Hazel
B No. 2 yesterday.
“Red" Loleen, one of Knik’s pop
ular young society men, spent Satur
day afternoon in the city, getting a
line on the baseball dope for Fourth
of July. Mr. Loleen says the whole
of Knik is planning on coming to
Anchorage to take In the Independ
ence day festivities.
Among the Anchorage visitors
who came in on the Mariposa were
Mrs. L. Chappelle and Miss Emma
Riggs, of Portland, Or. Mrs. Chap
pelle is the guesT of Miss Orath Dee
Clark. Both Mrs. Chappelle and
Miss Riggs express themselves as
much pleased with the trip and with
Anchorage.
L. A. Brown, the mainstay on the
city team’s pitching staff, has accept
ed a position with Ray C. Larson, t
the glass man, as city salesman. i
A. S. Koch and A. Bade satisfac- ]
torily bandied the money and grand
stand tickets at yesterdays’ baseball j
game for the Anchorage Athletnc t
association. s
Peter Combolos, Christ Collias, 1
Louis Tondas, Michael Dermigis,
Nicholas Bellalis and Antonio Gle- i
gorakls acted as pallbearers at the (
funeral of their countryman, George c
Jekos, Saturday afternoon. o
A meeting of the chamber of
commerce will be held on Tuesday a
evening next and a full attendance t!
of members is requested. t
Philip Abrahams, secretary of the n
uuuutvu uiuiiou m m iw»
treasurer of that town.
Dave Barnes, one of the mill men
of the Alaska and Free Gold mine,
In the WHlow creek district, was an
Anchorage visitor Sunday.
..
(From Tuesday’s Dally.)
Mrs. Rev. Howard, of Knik, is vis
iting friends in the city.
Wm. Banker, the mall carrier for
the commission, left for the front
this morning after si ending a few
days in Anchorage.
Mrs. Chas. Spaulding came over
from Knik yesterday to visit An
chorage friends for a few days.
As there was not a quorum pres
ent the Anchorage Woman's club
did not hold their meeting at sched
uled yesterday afternoon.
The City and Commission teams
will play a game of baseball Wed
nesday evening at Recreation Park.
Game called at 7 o’clock p. m.
A night school intended principal
ly for the benefit of the adult foreign
male population is planned by the
Alaska Labor union, to be opened
this fall and to be conducted during
the winter
The W. C. T. U. meets Wednesday,
June 28, with Mrs. J. P. McDonald,
corner of fth and F streets, in the
McDonald apartments. All mem
bers are expected to attend, and a
special invitation is extended to
newcomers.
Members of the Anchorage Cham
ber of Commerce are requested to
be on hand at the meeting tonight at
3 o’clock, as important matters per
taining to the Fourth of July cele
bration will come up for discussion
n addition to the reading of the
financial report.
F. B. Giddings, an employe of the
Alaskan Engineering commission, is
uuuug iuc iaLtJ aiuvaiD ciuppiug ai
he Crescent.
One of the principal events to be
lulled off Fourth of July, and that ig
irousing considerable interest is
he hose cart race between two of
he fire companies and for this rea
son a meeting is called for Wednes
lay night at 8 o’clock at the cham
>er of commerce and every one who
las signed the roll of the Anchorage 1
ire department is earnestly request- :
sd to be present.
The Alaska Labor union at last
light’s meeting authorized the
rustees to make arrangements for
he immediate completion of the in- I
erior of the building, including the
lormitory, reading and club rooms
m the second floor. Only the laying
>f the dancing floor was contemplat- ■
>d at the previous meeting when '
umber was ordered by cable from 1
Seattle. 1
It was a simple case of taking up i
lis bed and hiking, and Bob Math- '
;son followed the Biblical instruc
ion as nearly as possible. Mr. Math- i
;son moved the Pioneer Lodging
louse yesterday on board the Hazel i
3. No. 2 bound for Talkeetna where :
le has secured a location for a
•ooming house. ]
The management of the Martin
rones wrestling match, that is caus- 1
ng so much excitement in the sport- '
ng circles wishes to , announce !
hrough the columns of the Daily <
rimes that special seats will be re- 1
lerved for ladies and many of the !
Anchorage ladies have signified their
ntention of attending. 1
Miss Elizabeth Bennett who has <
lad charge of the Knik schools for '
he past session is stopping at the <
Crescent awaiting the arrival of 1
he Admiral Farragut when she will <
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ner with her uncle, District Attor
ley Spence.
T. B Watson, the courteous and
iccommodating agent for the Adml
al lines, has been making marked
mprovements to his residence in
he west end of the city and other*
vise fixing it up for Mrs. WatBon and
wo children who will arrive In An
horage tomorrow on the Admiral
rarragut.
Tony Martin was in the city yes
erday recording claims on the
luartz property recently located by
rohn Rudy, D. Georgoff and himBelf
>n the Eklutna. He says the assess
nent work has produced some prom
sing looking quartz and is optimis
1c over their prospects.
Geo. Reed, a prominent mining
nan from Pioche, Nevada, is regis
ered at the Crescent, and in talking
n regard to general conditions, Mr.
teed said that while there were no
tew strikes In Nevada that the old
tamps were experiencing good times
md the state in general was in good
Inancial condition. Mr. Reed ex
»ects to spend the next two or three
nonths in Anchorage and will prob
ably take a trip into the adjacent
nining districts before returning to
Jevada.
(From Wednesday’s Daily.)
J. R. Krumm, the real estate man,
nnounces the sale of lot 7 in block
9 from A. Cunningham to Max J.
'’inch.
Miss Ethel Forgy, former princi
al of the Seward schools, was an
rrival on the Admiral Farragut to
ccept a position with the Alaskan
Engineering commission.
Geo. Osborne, a Cordova jeweler,
i in town visiting his brother, t
reorge Osborne, who will shortly f
pen a jewelry store at the corner a
f Fifth avenue and D street. a
Mrs. T. B. Watson, wife of the t
gent of the Pacific-Alaska Naviga- n
ion company, accompanied by their ii
iro children, arrived today and will
take Anchorage her future home, a
4 (twM. b w Pnnara who rears- V
Bouts iuo uupiivr xvi yor « nvrwi*
western railway at Cordova, Is on a
business trip to Anchorage, and will
remain here until the steamer Alas
ka sails south.*
Stenographer Bennet, connected
with the department of Justice, madfe f
the trip over the new railroad line
yesterday and was very much im
pressed with the headway being
made by the Alaska Engineering
commission.
The game tonight between the
City team and the Shamrocks prom
ises to be good and while it possi
bly will not have the big league ear
marks that featured Sunday’s game
it will be well wqrth patronizing.
Fleishmann and Wible will officiate
as umpires, which fact guarantees a
good clean game.
(From Thursday’s Daily.)
The steamer Alaska is reported
due in Seward at 7 o’clock tomorrow
morning.
Con Sullivan came over trom
Hope this morning on the Pioneer
and is stopping at the White House.
The barge Sperm has been beached
ror a thorough overhauling, prepara- 1
tory to sending her to the Susitna
river.
Capt. Tom Parker came in with
the launch Pioneer from Turnagin '
Arm points at 1:30 o’clock this 1
morning.
Frank Pierre left on the morning 1
train to accept a position as time
keepef with the Alaskan Eng!neer
ng commission.
Mrs. Felix Brown, who has been
risking her friend, Mrs. Gustav Sief
fert, at Hope, returned on the launch <
Pioneer this morning. :
All members of the Elks’ club are I
uuuueu umi me regular wbbkij •
meeting has been postponed until to
morrow night at 8:30 p. m
The Commission has the river
boats B. and B., No. 1 and No. 2, and
:he Matanuska now in service on
Susitna river and two additional tun
lel boats under construction for
river work.
Mrs. C. C. Scott made the round
:rip to Anchorage on the Admiral
Parragut. Mrs. Scott is principal of
he Katalla publfc schools and spent <
several hours last evening on shore.
,’isiting friends.
Owing to the wet weather th9
laseball game scheduled last even
ng between the City team and the
Shamrocks was postponed to a tu
rn re date, which will be announced
n a later issue of The Daily Times.
Picking the winner in advance the
luneau Empire has wired The Daily
rimes for a game with the winners
>f today’s baseball game between
;he Lumbermen and the team
'rom the staff and force of The Daily
rimes.
Some petty thief stole a racing
sled from the premises of L. P.
Bryne at the corner of 6th avenue
ind C streets within the past week
ind the party has been spotted and
vill probably be apprehended in the
lext few days.
The steamer Omineca is making
ler trial trip to Susitna river, and
ipon her return will take the barge
Sperm, with a capacity of 700 tons, 1
o Croto, 18 miles above the station,
o be used as a transfer barge for
Susitna river freight.
R. M. McLIain, assistant superin- \
endent on the Matanuska branch, £
•ame down from the Junction last (
light and will return tomrrow {
norning. Mr. McLain says he will t
>e in on the excursion train and c
ipend the Fourth in Anchorage. \
Robert Ashland, a large property f
iwner in Seward, arrived in Anchor- 1
ige on the Admiral Farragut bring- t
ng with him a Kelly-Springfield s
our-ton motor truck. Mr. Ashland t
s getting a line on Anchorage real g
estate and may decide to locate in
his city. C
Not satisfied with Anchorage ma
erial, the manager of the Lumber
nen's baseball team sent to Seattle
or his brother Archie Summy, who t
irrived in the city ou the Admiral j
•'arragut. Mr. Summy is a Junior f
it the University of Washington and a
rill spend his vacation in Anchor* I
ige. 1
• Managers Summy and Greer held t
l meeting behind closed doors this 1
Lfternoon and decided to postpone I
he baseball game scheduled for this ♦
ivening between their respective I
earns. The game will now probably i
>e played some time next week and 1
rhe Daily Times will always be glad I
o mention any further postpone- I
nent, as well as the actual date of a
his game.
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(Prom Friday’s Daily.)
Secretary A. S. Koch is planning
.n excursion party of 30 or more
teople to take the trip up the line
lunday, leaving Anchorage at 9:30
i’dock in the morning and return
ng in the evening of the same day.
This is a splendid trip, full of
arious points of interest and one
f scenic beauty and well worth the
Ime and money. In addition td the
leaBure of a day’s outing the excur
lonist can get a good idea of the
rork that hag been accomplished by
he Alaska Engineering commission
rithin the past year.
Any person desiring to make this
rip will please see Secretary Koch
rior to noon tomorrow (Saturday)
s it will be necessary for him to
dvlse the commission definitely so
hey can make the proper arrange
lents The fare for the round trip
i $2.90.
Joe Morris, formerly of Seward,
ad representing the MatanuBka
Wholesale Produce and Storage com
pany, uhh ciaiea » uem wuu me
Alaska Realty company for lot 11 in
Mock 4,
Mr. Morrifi left on the Admiral
Farragut for Seward and the out
side but before leaving said that the
sompany would erect a two-story,
Frame building with a concrete base
ment, to bo used as a warehouse and
storage, plant, on this property in
the near future. This company will
handle all varieties of local produce,
but will make a specialty of the fa
mous Matanuska potato.
The building will be 60 by 70 feet
find the location, opposite the com
mercial freight depot, is an ideal
ane for this line of business. Mr.
Morris will visit the Yakima valley
ind other fruit centers on business
In connection with his company be
fore returning to Anchorage about
the first of August.
The municipal block is assuming
the looks of a real park and work is
progressing nicely. It is the inten
tion of the administration to lay off
the tennis courts within the next ten
lays and a movement has been
started to organize a tennis club
imong city players and later ar
•ange a tournament with the com
nission.
Principal P. X. Karrer and four
teachers of the Fairbanks public
ichools, have resigned in a body. The
'easons for the resignations have
lot been made public.
WILLOW CREEK ORE
IS SHOWING UP FINE
P. Spangler, from the Willow
treek district, came over from Knik
"‘Bterday on the launch Swan on
>usines sconnected with the Alaska
md Free Gold mine, and returned
ast evening. Mr. Spangler has an
mportant mill position with this
nine, and says the ore is showing
ip fine and that Mr. Martin will no
loubt have an exceptionally good
ear. He says it will be impossible
or any of the boys to get away to
ittend the Fourth of July celebra
ion, but they would be down this
all in full force.
COMMISSION LAYS OUT
TOWNSITE AT TALKEETNA
Bob McIntosh writes Anchorage
riends from Talkeetna that the com
nission has laid off 80 lots at that
ilace for the benefit of the squatters,
'alkeetna is a regular tent city and
loasts of a population of 200 people,
n addition to the government em
doyes and this number is being add
id to daily by prospectors, laborers
.nd men seeking locations.
Mr. Roberts, who has established
i store at Talkeetna, reports a very
mod trade and has sent to Anchor
age for additional supplies.
The Hazel B No. 2 has taken a
arge number of passengers to this
dace and other river points but will
lot make another trip until after
he Fourth of July, as the crew and
.11 intended passengers want to re~
nain in Anchorage for the b% cel
bration.
JSCUM ATHLETES WILL
CELEBRATE AT SEWARD
Arrangements have been made
thereby the Liscum baseball team
nd a team of crack athletes will go
ver to Seward to help that city
roperly celebrate the Fourth. Lieu
enant Duckwall, who is in charge
f the ball team and athletes, has
/ired to Seward that on invitation
rom the management of the cele
ration the boys will be permitted
o go, and as the invitation has been
ent, it is expected that a number of
he boys from the post from will
o over.
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►UTGOING PASSENGERS
ON STEAMER FARRAGUT
The Admiral Farragut sailed for '
he outside and intermediate points 1
esterday at 7 a. m. with the ‘
olio wing first-class passengers (
board: Mrs. M Andrews, Miss E.
lennett, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E. Hal- J
ock, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Dries- {
ach. Judge and Mrs. F. M. Brown, 1
liss Babe White, J. H. Hadfield, S. 1
.. Caldwell, W. F. Rohrback, Thos. '
lavanaugh, Frank Korkeonen, Mrs.
[orkeonen, F. W. Kemp, C. C. Ca- ■
ine, F W. Small, M. B. Bennet, H.
V. Netlleton, J. F. Walder, Ed Cox
i. V. Ray, J J. Finnegan, J. B.
filler, Frank Hartman, Gus Gilles
nd 11 steerage.
IEDICAL BOARD WILD
' HOLD EXAMINATIONS
The territorial medical board,
trough Dr. H. C. DeVighne, has no
[fled Governor J. F. A. Strong that
tie yearly examinations this year
ill: be held in July at Fairbanks,
eward and Juneau. Af" that time
11 applicants for a license to prac
>ce medicine in Alaska may appear
nd be examined. The board report
d that twelve physicians have been
dmitted to practice since the Janu
ry examinations were held. They
ere admitted on the strength of
heir qualifications and certificates
om other states.
A sale of the property of the
laska Oil ft Refining Co., at Ka
ilia, was made by the marshal’s
Bice at Valdes under a decree of
ireclosure of mortgage. The prop
rty was bid in by Falcon Joslin,
■ustee for the bondholders, for the
lm of 916.927.47, this amount cov
ing the liens, labor accounts and
:penses against the property.
I
MINERS EL THE
Lode gold miners of Alaska are
feeling heavily the effect upon that
industry of the constant Increase in
prices, due to the European war, of
the materials used in mining and
treating gold ores. This increase in
the cost of production has not been
accompanied by an increase in the
price received for the gold after it is
taken from the mine, and aB a result
the gold mines of Alaska are operat
ing at present on an exceedingly
small margin of profit.
Concerning the situation confront,
ing lode gold miners of the norfh,
The Alaska Daily Empire, of Juneau,
publishes the following interesting
article:
“All mines other than gold, such
as lead, copper, zinc, silver, anti
mony .tungsten, etc., do not feel the
increasing prices as does the gold
mines operators. All their metals
have increased in value away beyond
their normal figure, while the pur
chasing power of gold has greatly
decreased. As a result, during these
days of war-time prices, the gold
miner is the one who really suffers,
and he has no possible relief.
“The producers of most metals
other than gold are sharing their
prosperity with their employees,
which is only fair and proper, but
the gold miner suffers doubly, be
cause he must pay his laborers as
much as ever and only hag available
those who are left after the better
class have left the gold mines for
the. copper and other camps where
high wages prevail.
"There is a certain delusion, how
ever, in* the belief possessed by a
miner when he goes to these camps
for the sake of the, high wages; he
is attracted, of course, by the fact
that he may earn $3.75 or $4 or
84.50 per day. without appreciating
the fpct that thousands of other
miners are'also going to the same
camp for sinJlIaf f§asons. The re
sult is an over-supply of labor, and
in those camps where labor organ
izations are perfected the men are
permitted to work only a certain
length of time, and then are com
pelled to stand aside and give their
fellow working men an opportunity.
The result is that a man only works
i part of the time, and at the end of
the season he is no beter oft' than he
would be had he remained at a camp
where he was receiving lowej wages
md steady work.
“It is not an easy matter for a
laboring man to save money in those
camps where wages are high for the
reason that everything else is high
In proportion.
“The. following table shows the in
crease in the cost of commodities
used by gold lode miners during the
last two years. The prices are those
cbtaining last month: J
Commodity— Pet. Inc.
Powder, 40 per cent nitro. 84
Powder, 70 per cent nitro .150
Powder, 40 per eejit ammonia. 68
Fuse .
Daps, 6x ..
Daps, 8x .e.
Drill steel, hollow .
Drill steel, cruciform .
Steel cable .
Steel nails .
Dold-rolled shafting .
Battery shoes .
[ron pipe .
Ton fittings .
*4o. 12 R. C. wire .
iVeather-proof wire .
banner belts .
Darbide ..
Manila rope ....
iVhite waste ..
Puel oil .•..
tfercury .
Dyanide .
Sine dust .
Soke .
3ig iron .
3ar iron .-.
Galvanized corrugated iron
Drill repairs and parts .
General machinery .
General hardware ..
. 75
.124
.. 50
. 78
.. 60
. 30
. 50
.150
.122
. 29
. 75
.. 55
.152
. 8
. 12
. 24
. 30
. 11
.224
47*
.301
. 51
. 41
. 64
.129
:n!0
. 30
. 30
ILASKA NATIVE GIRL
TO NURSE HER PEOPLE
“My name? Just Miss Barton. I’m
rom Alaska. Some day I’m going
jack to nurse my people.”
That’s about all a quiet, dark
syed girl of 20 or so has told the
lurses at the Lutheran hospital in
he 14 months she has been with
hem.
Somewhere in Alaska, in a little
ioast village, her people are waiting
or Miss Barton to come back.
Meanwhile the girl, one of the
>est nurses in the Lutheran training
ichool, is preparing herself to re
urn.
“My first name? I haven’t any,
think. I’ve always been just Miss
Jarton,” she s&id.
“Why shall I return.to my own
lountry? She paused for a moment,
hen' raised her dark eyes. “Be
ause I think they need me. ’
Years ago, Miss Barton says, she
ras taken from Alaska by a Mich
gan missionary. Eight years ago
he came to Ohio. Next year she’ll
>e in the senior class of the nurses’
chool.
“And then—Alaska again,” says
ftiss Barton.—Cleveland Plain
Decker.
NEWS HAPPENING!!
ALASKA TOWNS
A report from Brooks spates ttaal
‘ Bub” Baer and Henry Crook have
drifted across their ground fbr a
distance of 120 feet and that pay
averaging $4 to the foot has been
found for the greater part of that
distance.
U. 9. Grant, Jr., son of the fam
ous general who is responsible foi
the inelegant quotation regarding
war and former president of the
United States, with his wife is tour
ing Southeastern Alaska and will go
through to Dawson.
The Grand Theatre at Ketchikan
gave a benefit entertainment for the
relief of Mrs. Alfred Boots and chil
dren. Mr. Boots was a wireless op
erator at Ketchikan and died sud
denly recently from some mysteri
ous ailment.
William Britt, of Juneau, vice con
sul for Norway, is making inquiries
for Hartvig Olsen Kallhus, Lars Val
demar Larsen and Martin Westby,
Information concerning these men
should be sent to Mr. Britt at Ju
neau.
The United States deputy marshal
at Circle reports that tungsten ort
running 71 per cent has been found
in the tailings from the sluice boxes.
One of the operators has collected
1,500 pounds, which he will ship to
the outside.
After serving seven years as cook
in the Fairbanks federal jail Charles
Samson has resigned and will go
into business for himself at Olnes.
Louis Petisch has been appointed his
successor.
Fairbanks ball players recently
gave a benefit game for Leslie Ben
nett, a former player, who is seri
ously ill, for the purpose of raising
a fund to send him to the outside
for treatment.
George Mallott, William C. Leak
nnri Hiirrv Williamo have taken a
crew of men to their mine about 20
miles south of Juneau and will op
erate the mine on an extensive scale.
Reports reaching Fairbanks state
that a rich strike of tungsten has
been made at the head of Dome
creek and that the lead has been
traced for the greater part of the
way over to Cleary creek.
C. Huelsdonk arrived in Seward
recently, bringing several handsome
samples of antimony which he dis
covered in the vicinity of Katmal.
He found a large ledge about fifty
feet from tidewater.
Annett and Walter Keddie are
still looking for the “Lost Cabin
Mine,” back of Kay point. This is
Annett’s seventh year in those hills,
and all the gold he has found would
not make a tie pin.
G. M. Frippe, associated with J.
C. Harper, both of Seattle, is making
arrangements to operate a group of
silver lead claim on Little Windy
Arm, on the east side of the lower
end of Lake Bennett.
Sam Brightwell, of Cordova, has
taken <a bond on the copper property
of Jim Kennedy, a short distance
back of Nelson, at the head of Orca
inlet, and has interested outside
capital in its development
Tom Burns and W. W. Terrill, the
Fairbanks freighter, have taken a
lease with option to buy No. 11 be
low, Dome creek, adjoining the
claim on which Gideon & Quirk re
cently made a rich strike.
Hendreson, Foss and Farvin, op
erating the Homestake quartz mine
at the head of Fairbanks creek, re
port 20 tons of ore from that prop
erty recently milled ran $100 to the
ton. The vein is a narrow one.
H. P Sullivan has left Valdez
with a crew of men to start the work
of developing a group of quartz
claims in which he is interested on
Portage bay.
The Seattle spirit has reached
Alaska at last. Two natives died at
Alitak from drinking Florida water.
Frank Lewis was arrested at
Poorman on a warrant from Hot
Springs, charging him with the lar
ceny of four dogs. Lewis r:§s on his
way to the Tolstoi strike
Fred Barrinsohn, who fell down a
160-foot shaft near Fairbanks re
cently, is sufficiently recovered from
the effects of his fall to be able to
walk out again.
Rev. E. S Bollinger was the re
cent arrival at Douglas to fill the
pulpit of the Congregational church,
made vacant by the resignation ot
Rev.- Ulmstead.
It is rumored in Fairbanks that
the government will purchase the
Tanana valley railroad in connection
with the construction of the govern
ment railroad.
Tom Hogan, Chris Getterman and
F. O. Anderson reached Fairbanks
recently from a prospecting trip
which extended 400 miles up the
Porcupine river.
Lew Harding, a clerk in the
Thane office of the Gastineau Supply
department, is in St. Alin’s hospital
in Juneau, suffering from a nervous
breakdown.. .
ALASKA READY TO ORGANIZE
REGIMENT OF MILITIA
JUNEAU, June 30.—Governor
Strong has telegraphed to Washing
ton to find out the present status of
the Alaska militia, under the new
act. This was done, owing to the
demand of applicants for enlistment
in the federal volunteer service.
BEK cum
SOON BE OPENED
KATALLA, June 17.—With the
arrival here of George W. Nelson,
contractor for the construction of
the Alaska anthracite railroad, the
boards from the windows of the
houses that have been empty for
years are being taken down, roofs
are being repaired, machinery that
has been rusting awa^ through the
storms of a decade is being gathered
up, and the three-foot growth of
alder that has sprung up between
the tracks of the two streaks of rust
that used to be the Katalla Com
pany’s railroad are^ being cut down.
The Alaskan Petroleum & Goal
Company is getting ready to make
its first shipment of coal from one
of the only two coal claims in the
whole district that were allowed to
go to patent.
Nelson has established a camp at
i Goose City, and already has crews
at work cutting ties and removing
the, scrub that has grown over the
‘right-of-way that was cleared ready 1
for the graders ten years ago. The
terminal of the line will be at Goose
City, which, although only a few
weeks old, already has a number or
new buildings. Other camps have
been. established all along the line.
The railroad was rtnanced by Seattle
and Northwest capital.
Two claims in this field will be
opened this year. Besides the an
thracite from the Alaska Petroleum
& Coal Company’s ground, bitumin
ous fuel will be available from the
McDonald claim, which has been
leased by William H. Dugdale, , of
this city. Dugdale has had a small
force of men at work clearing away
| and expects to begin to mine coal
by July 1. The people of Katalia
are anxiously awaiting this event, as
they never have become reconciled
to paying $23 a ton for coal brought
from British Columbia, when the
McDonald mine lies just th.rteen
miles up the valley.
The McDonald mine is the second
of the two coal entries to which a
patent has been granted. In 1907
T. P. McDonald proceeded to develop
the claim, expending $150,000 in
equipping and improving the. prop
erty. Later, with the two other
claimants adjoining him, final proof
was made, the purchase price paid
to the government and the receipt
received therefor.
McDonald sold about 1,500 tons
of coal from the development work
and in 1908 made a contract to sup
ply the Katalia company, then oper
ating in the vicinity, with about
2,000 tons a month. The same year,
at the request of the navy depart
ment, McDonald furnished thirty
tons of coal to the battleship Ne
braska for a test.
The engineer’s report, dated May
3, 1908, shows tnat the coal was
tested in competition with the Poca
hontas coal, two sets of boilers being
used. Within a given length of
time only 15.2 tons of McDonald coal
was used as compared with 18.7 tons
of the Eastern coal.
McDonald was just about to sign
up a contract with the navy lor a
supply of 1,000 tons of his coal at
$6 a ton delivered on the. navy col
liers on Controller Bay when he was
served with orders from the general
land office to ceace mining coal at
once.
He was charged with fraud, but
after a leisurely investigation by the
government field agents this charge
was removed in 1911. Further in
vestigation followed, and it was only
last year that McDonald was granted
a patent for the Seattle coal claim—
the one on which he had done the
work. The two others are still as
they were ten years ago.
During these years of investiga
tion the McDonald plant has been
lying idle and is now practically a
total loss.
MORE RAILS ARE COMING
TO ANCHORAGE IN JULY
A Seattle dispatch says: “The
Engineering Commission announces
that the collier Nanshan and the
transport Crook will carry cargoes
of rails to Anchorage in July. It
is believed out here that they will
be used later, at least the collier, in
carrying Matanuska coal.”
CONTRACT CORDOVA RADIO
PLANT AWARDED SEATTLEITE
The contract for the construction
of three radio buildings at the naval
station, Cordova, Alaska, has been
awarded to Christopher Kuppler, of
Seattle, by the bureau of yards and
docks of the United States depart-*
ment of the navy. Mr. Kuppler ex
pects to start north early in July*
RAILROAD WILL SUSPEND
WORK ON JULY FOURTH
All work on the railroad will be
rstaut down Fourth of July in order
to permit the employes to come to
Anchorage to take in the big cele
bration. A special train will leave
here at midnight the night of the
3rd and run to the end of the line
for the employees, returning at mid
night the night of the Fourth in
order to give the men a full day in
Anchorage.