The Cordova city council has
elected O. E. Lambert city asesssor.
Mrs. Jeffrey, wife of Judge S. T.
Jeffrey, who formerly resided at
, Nome, died recently at her home in
Oregon.
Three million sock-eye salmon
, eggs were recently shipped from
Yes Bay hatchery to the Oregon
state hatchery on the Columbia
river.
F. W. Small, of Seward, claims the
honor of being the first man to raise
turkeys in Alaska. He has one hen
turkey which has established a rec
• ord by laying sixty-one eggs this sea
son.
Angus Sutherland, of Ruby, while
. working for the Yukon Gold Com
pany on Greenstone creek, suiter d a
badly fractured leg as the result of a
cave-ln from a bank of muck which
w'as only three feet high.
The Tolovana Prospector is the
name of a new paper which is being'
printed at Fairbanks for the pur
pose of setting forth the advantages
of the Tolovana mining camp and
' to let the world know what is doing
in the way of development.
W. R. Faddis, who has been en
• gaged in the general merchandise!
business at McCarthy, has been ap
pointed United States commissioner
there, as most of the business done
at the Chitina precinct came from i
McCarthy.
In the original delta of the bolo
mon river, about 35 miles from
the famous Nome beach, another
‘third bench is reported to have been)
discovered. The gold deposit is
nearly 275 feet wide, carrying pay
•five feet deep.
A number of the property owners
in the Juneau suburb which it is pro
posed to annex to the city are op
posed to annexation, believing that
t they can do better than become a
part of the city. Parents are paying
( $7 per month for each pupil living
outside the city attending the Ju
neau school.
. The Ruby Record reports that be- j
tween 25 and 30 miiners stampeded
J from that place to Crow creek, a
J ^liort distance up -the Yukon river.
1 on the opi'osite bank. The ground is
X . reported “wet,” cTd the character of
f the find which started the stampede
remains a mystery, as it is beliveed
no one has yet reached bedrock.
On her last trip to Nome the
steamer Senator carried ninety-five
*, js hundred pounds of mail, a largo por
I tion of which was second and thud
*• slass matter. The first class mail,
| including the registered‘letters and
: packages, consisted of ten pouches,
| and the remainder was mostly parcel
i post packages from outside mail
, order houses, newspapers and maga
B zincs. •
♦ Judge Bunnell, of Fairbanks, lias
Up! appointed E. E. James to succeed
A. J. Griffin as U. S. commissioner
at Richardson.
. During the past season the Fair
, haven Mining Company, on Inma
l|chuk river, inade two shipments of
■'$<>0,000 each to Nome.
While he was conducting services
• one Sunday evening at Metlakahtla,
recently, Father Duncan’s office was
I entered and $200 taken from the
same.
Denting Wheeler, now known iln
Alaska aa the banker-musher, re
cently passed to the westward to
take another long winter trip with
his dog teams.
' Judge G. L. Taylor, for the past
fifteen years police magistrate at
Whitehorse, died suddenly last week I
of heart disease. He was one of the
most respected public officials In |
Yukon.
A big dike of ore has been dis
covered near Craig, which averagees
about $9 per ton, and the locators
have sent lumber and supplies to
the ground and will soon begin the
development of the mine.
Reports of the rich find on Norton
Sound, below Golovin bay, continue!
to come from Nome. A arge body
of rich pay dirt is reported to have
been struck on Dime creek, and the ,
miners are taking out good money.
Miss Ruth Spence, of Valdez, who
went to Unga to teach the govern
tment school at that place, has writ
back that everything is going
nicely there and that school opened
thirty-two scholars at the '
ginning of the term.
Miners are reported to be prosper
| flo.’ on Squirrel creek, in the Kobuk
district, and in the Port Clarence
ountry they have been more or less
jbccessful during the past summer,
they have had plenty of water all
lason.
; Tom McGowan, the Fairbanks at
rney, and who is Known, in every
|rt of Alaska, is reported as seri- j
ously ill in a Dawson hospital. From
last accounts it was feared that lie
wag too sick to be taken to the out
side before the close of navigation.
Hunters are reported to be kill
ing more deer in Southeastern Alas
ka than is allowed by law. The
heavy snowfall Is driving the deer
down to the beach, where they fall
easy victims to the professional
hunters.
J. R. McDonald has purchased the
holdings of Joseph Wilson on Can
con creek, and will develop the prop
erty. It is reported to be splendidly
located for hydraulic methods, and
prospecting has shown that the
grounu contains good pay. In one
instance three pans yielded $9 worth
of gold.
The timber of Southeastern Alas
ka is commanding more attention
now than ever before in the history
of the territory. During the past
summer many men have been mak
ing investigations of the water and
timber resources of that district
with a view of establishing sawmills
and wood pulp factories.
The managers of a number of
Alaskan canneries where the Fil
ipinos were employed during the
past summer declare tnat they are
superior in every way to the Chinese
or Japanese usually brought north.
An association to be known as the
Filipino-Alaska Association has been
organeizd in Seattle, which will se
cure contracts for its members in
the north.
It is estimated that it will cost
Fairbanks *2U,5uo to maintain her;
schools (or the ensuing year.
Nome republicans have organized
a cluo and are already preparing for
next year’s campaign.
Albert A. Lacy, of Juneau, was
appointed U. S. deputy marshal at
Yakutat. There were several appli
cants (or the position.
H. P. Riley, of St. James Bay.
in Southeastern Alaska, recently
shipped ten tons of home-grown ru
tabagas to a Seattle commission
house.
Fire recently destroyed the home
of Mrs. Peterson, of Craig, South
eastern Alaska. This was the first
tire in the history of the town.
The government teachers have re
moved from the mission building at
Metlakahtla into their new' quarters,
recently completed by the govern
ment.
From present indications there
will be no shortage of candidates in
the territorial elections next year,
and there never has been a shortage
of applicants for the offices.
John Spoadernick, a rancher of
Fairbanks, was recently adjudged in
sane, and will be taken to the Morn
ingside sanitarium, near Portland.
Physicians believe that with proper
treatment he may Recover his men
tal balance.
Hugh G. Weir, agent of the l’a
cific Coast Steamship Company at
Skagway, had the misfortune to ac
cidentally shoot himself through the
foot while huning. It is expected
that no permanent injury will result
from the accident.
Preparations have Laen made lor
a twice-a-week stage service between
Tolovana and Olnes, the creek ter
minal of the Tanana Valley railroad.
A four-horse team will be used, and
the stages will leave the Fairbanks
end every Monday and Thursday.
After wandering over the hilts for
five days between Fairbanks and
Tolovana, Joe Kimota, a Japanese,
was found by a party of searchers
on the Wickersham dome, and
showed little signs of his trying ex- j
periences of having to "siwash it !
! without having anything to eat.
i The Fairbanks News-Miiner states
that the miners in the Circle country
report that the caribou run last
month was the largest ever recorded
in that district. The animals cov
I ered the divide from Twelvemile to |
Faith creeks and the surrounding
bills and valleys.
Miss Florence Culberson and a
Mr. Sheridan, who were passengers'
on the Mariposa when the steamer j
l was wrecked near Bella Balia, were
| married in Ketchikan, and now the j
other passengers are wondering if
Ban Cupid caused the wreck in order
to bring about the romance.
Minin ginterests in the new Tolo
vana district of Central Alaska are
; summoning J. W. McCord, engineer
and miner, back to the north. Mc
Cord went outside in July^ his first
visit in ten years in order to see the
fair at San Francisco and spend a
few' weeks in his boyhood haunts in
Iowa. He was one of the first men ;
: to make a stake in the Tolovana
i diggings. “Alaska is a different
1 ' I
country from what it was five years'
Juki ton.vagk showing
IN MONTH OK OCTOBER
As proving the importance of An
chorage as a commercial center, the
following correct amount of the ton
nage and lumber shipments received
by the Alaskan Engineering Com
mission and by private business con
cerns and individuals during the
month of October is given:
Commission . 3,520 tons
Commercial . 3,478 tons
Total . 6,998 tons
Number feet, board meas
ure, for the Commission
and otherwise . 1,911,430
Estimated tonnage on way. 8,000
ago,” said Mr. McCord. “It is rap
idly assuming a more permanent
state. The day of bonanza gold
strikes is past and the day of real
i development has only started. When
the railroad is finished the country
will be flooded with settlers, and it.
won’t be many years before Alaska
i becomes a state.”
SEATTLE, Nov. 10.—The steamer
Northwestern sailed for Anchorage j
I and wav ports Saturday evening.
1 Passengers for Anchorage are: Roy
■ Williams, Mrs. F. Young and baby,
j Mrs. Vivian Ford, Mrs. H. Liebscher,
I Mrs. Robert Foster, A. Hosnier. For i
■ Kodiak: Mrs. Appel and child.
j TKl'TH STUANUER THAN FIC
TION.
t In Jules Verne's "Twenty Thou
sand Leagues Under the Sea" the
hero is depicted as going about at
j wi'l in the depth of the ocean in his!
! submarine vessel. As a writer of
fiction, Verne enjoyed the privilege;
I of letting his imagination run riot,
j and tell of things, in his vivid,
realistic style, that the science of the,
day could neither comprehend nor j
contemplate.
But since Verne’s halcyon days, :
in which his imaginative heroes
plied the heavens above the earth j
and the waters beneath the earth, in1
their machines, adapted to the pur
pose, the inventive genius of the
world has made possible and real
some of the important things that
the great French novelist suggested.
The submariine vessel and the aerial
machine are demonstrated factors in
the life of the people. Like Verne's
hero, man now navigates at will be
neath the waters and flies through
! the air with the freedom and aban
don of the bird.
And just4jto think that in' the
brief span of time since Jules Verne
held sway in the realm of tiction, the
submariine and the flying machine
i have evolved into such gigantic In
struments of destruction in the
hands of man. In the great world
war now prevailing, the submariine
is regarded as perhaps the most im
portant factor of the sea, while the
aerial machine is used with great
advantage for scouting and messen
: ger service. ,
Verne’s aerial and submarine
heroes were occupied in harmless
avocations—explorers, and delvers
into the unknown. The novelist,
even in Iiis wildest flights of im
agination, never dreamed of the pos
sibilities of his half-mature images;
the creatures of his wonderful
brain. His novels, in his day, were
considered as allogether transcend
; ing the limits of the legitimate in
literature.
Verily, the world moves forward!
.10X1.IN AVT> WOOII
BOOST FOR ANCHOKAOK|
Falcon Josliu and R. C. Wood,
leading business men of Fairbanks,
i who recently visited Anchorage,
gave this town a big boost, accord
ing to a Valdez l’rospector of recent
date:
"Falcon Joslin, president of the:
j Tanana Valley railroad, and R. C. j
Wood, president of the First Na
| tional Bank of Fairbanks, were pas.
! sengers on the Alameda last night
j enroute to the outside from Anchor
age. The Fairbanks men made the
round trip to the new railroad city
to see the kind of city the govern
ment was building, and both express
the belief that Anchorage is bound
to become one of the greatest ports
on the Alaskan coast. Mr. Joslin
stated that he had not,fully deter
' mined to establish a wireless sta
! tion in Koyukuk, as reported, but j
stated that his statio in Tolovana
was giving splendid service and was
being appreciated by the miners and |
business men of the new camp.
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SAX FRANCISCO, Nov. 9. j
—Tlie oM auditorium building!
i was eonsumod by fire last |
night. One fireman was killed, j
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For information and literature write or ask
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A. E. HARRIS,
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Anyone today who thinks h .in get along with
out the typewriter because h can do his writing
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