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The city of Fairbanks will hold a
spet.al election to decide whether it
will adopt the style of municipal
government authorized by the terri
torial legislature.
J. S. Rosburg, Tolovana express
man, is making two trips each week
between Olnes, the terminal of the
Tanana Valley railroad, and Brooks,
the metropolis of Tolovana camp.
Captain Louis Lane is reported to t
have stated that ho had nearly one
million dollars' worth of furs in the
Arctic and will bring them out when
he goes north with his new boat next
year.
Reverend Mother Monaldi, sister
-‘Viperior of St. Joseph’s hospital, at
^/alrbanks, died November 12. De
ceased was well known throughout
Alaska, having lived for five years in
Nome before going to Fairbanks.
Governor George Black, of Yukon,
has undertaken to raise another com
pany of 250 men in Dawson for ser
vice in Europe, and has asked per
mission from the Dominion govern
ment to volunteer as captain of the
company.
Ed. Bartlett, one of the Bartlett
Brothers, pioneer freighters of Klon. i
dike days, and who have been in!
business in nearly every camp in the i
north, is freighting between Olnes
and Tolovana. The price being
charged by the freighters is 10 centBi
per pound.
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Major H. S. Tobin, a veteran ot)
the Boer war, and who practiced law
in Dawson for several years before
settling in Vancouver, is reported to
have been severely wounded in
France, where he was in command of
a company known as the ‘Tobin Ti
gers.’”
R. E. Nixon, the Seattle hotel man
who died recently following an op
eration for appendicitis, came to
Alaska in 1894, and was engaged in
mining in the Circle City district
when the Klondike was struck. He
was a partner of .George Butler, and
worked a lay on 41 above on Bo
nanza.
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It is a far cry from Europe to in
terior Alaska, and a Fairbanks busi
ness man can be pardoned for being
surprised when a German woman re- j
jntly refused to accept British !
•money in change. She evidently be- \
lieves British money will be worth-1
less after the war.
Owing to the fact that there are j
at least twelve other postoffices in j
the United States called Brooks, the
postofflce department has designated
the postofflce in the Tolovana camp
as Uivingood. The name will cause
confusion, as the town was known as
Brooks on official maps.
Richard Mandley, of Iditarod. has
Hied suit in the district court to re
cover damages to the amount of
$20,000 from the Yukon Gold Syn
dicate for injuries received in 1913.
The owners of the fox ranch on
Green island, Prince William sound,
have sold one hundred pairs of blue
foxes to eastern breeders.
The fact that the merchants of
Brooks have subscribed $750 for the
removal of the log jam in the Tolo
vana river indicates that times are
not very hard in the new camp. Dur
ing the first year in Fairbanks one
would have required a gas pipe to
raise $7.50.
John Solen and Mrs. Martha Nel
son, of Fairbanks, have been granted
pensions of $12.50 per month under
the law passed by the last legisla
ture. Mrs. Nelson recently received
a check for $37.50 as her first quar-j
terly allowance. The check came
from the secretary of the Pioneers’,
Home at Sitka.
While O. W. Robertscn, of Ruby,
was operating a drill on upper Bea-1
* -»r creek, the bit got stuck »in the|
^ ittom of the 165-foot hole. Rob-j
ertson devised a novel scheme for re- j
covering the steel. He got it by,
splitting a piece of wrought iron pipe I
tor about tvto-thirds of its length,
and then made two jaws of spring
steel which were so riveted that
when the Jaws were forced down
over the drill bit they clamped it
and brought it to tho surface.
The owners of the VaMc; Creek
Place Mines announce the engage
ment, for the period of five years, of
M. Pierre Bouery as manager of their
mining ground on Valdez creek, a
tributary of the headwaters of Su
Bitna river. For the past fifteen
years Mr. Bouery has been the man
ager of the Legrange placer mine at
VVeaversville, Cal. He is regarded as
among the foremost of the hydraulic
mining engineers of the country. The
Valdez creek placers form a very im
portant mining district that will be
tributary to the government railway
groject and supply an important ton
nage to this project, when it reaches
the headwaters of the Susitna river.
It is reported from Nome that the
police overlooked a good bet when
they failed to raid a resort in the
city the night before the big crowd
of passengers got away for the south
on the Victoria. According to the
story, there were more than one hun
dred men who had spent the sum
mer working for the dredge com
panies in the far north and who
were simply "lousy" with lucre, be
cause they had no opportunity of
Bpending It while working. The lid
was taken off for the night, and
games of all kinds practically wide
open. As the men all had th'eir
tickets for the states in their pock
ets, it 1* dollars to doughnuts that
any reasonable find assessed by the
judge would have been paid. Nome
overlooked the chance of getting a
new city hall.
I lie r avim. miiuouic vwui^ruj, v/».
Petersburg, has shipped 5,18 0 bar
rels of herring and 318 barrels of
salmon during the past season. The
company gives employment to about
thirty-five men during the fishing
season.
Juneau is becoming some city. It
has sixty automobiles, a bank with a
deposit of over one million dollars,
and the telephone company is pre
paring to put in a new switenboard,
capable of serving seventeen hun
dred men.
Gus Peterson, one of the biggest
property owners in the new Tolovana
camp, recently brought north with
him eighteen head of horses and a
big shipment of supplies which he
will freight from Chitina to the new
camp. He has a lease on three
claims on Livingood creek, and be
lieves the camp will develop into a
big producer.
Superintendent W. G. Beattie, of
the native schools, states that native
girls will be put in training to be
come nurses at the Sitka hospital.
The new hospital at Juneau will soon
be ready for service, and will be used
for the relief of natives of ail South
eastern Alaska, and will be chiefly
concerned with operating cases, es
pecially the eye, ear, nose and
throat.
While Whitehorse and Southern
Yukon have been contributing in
ones and twos to the defense of the
country ever since the war started,
it was not until recently that any
considerable number left at the
same time. The steamer Sophia on
her last trip southward carried ten
men to Victoria, where they will go
into training, and twelve more will
leave Whitehorse this week.
Jack Curry, who is running tun
nels on his claim at the extreme
head of Livingood creek, is reported
to have ground which will yield $3
per foot. Two-Step Louis Schmidt is
reported to have located pay at the
bottom of a Bhaft on Duncan creek,
which yielded 60 cents to the pan.
McIntosh brothers, operating claims
opposite discovery claim, Livingood
creek, are reported to have a pay
streak which goes from 10 cents to
II per pan.
Information About Anchorage
Anchorage, the first tidewater
terminal of the government railway
line to the interior of Alaska and,
incidentally, the vast coal deposits
of the upper Matanuska valley, is
favorably situated on the headwaters
of Cook inlet, on a high plateau to
the right of Ship creek, and over
i looks the extensive terminal grounds!
of the first government-owned rail
road in Alaska, which is to develop!
tho agricultural possibilities of the
Matanuska valley and surrounding
country with its thousands of square
miles of fertile land, which has
demonstrated, the first short season
of activity in this section, that all
that is needed is the plow and the
seed, to show wonderful results.
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eminent road to the interior, the
Matanuska valley will be dotted
with improved farms and stock
ranches, which will have a steady
market for their produce, and a pro
duct that will be second to none.
Climatic conditions, new ground
»nd sixteen hours of sunshine as
sures speedy and healthy growth oi
ill root crops, and hay of a superior
auality, grows in abundance, insur
ing plenty of feed for stock the yeai
round, and in places where pack
trains have been fed in years past
considerable areas of ^timothy ol
luxuriant growth will be found,
which demonstrates its adaptability
to this climate.
Hundreds of homesteads have
been taken up this year and many
tons of produce raised and sold at
a profitable figure, notwithstanding
the fact that some considerable part
had to be transported by launch and
barge to Its first market, Anchorage.
With the completion of the road,
which will tap the entire length of
the Matanuska valley, a new market
will be created, which will not only
stimulate the industry, but will as
sure a sure and ready transportation
to all points of the interior.
This season has demonstrated the
feasibility of stock raising as well
as farming. Climatic conditions in
certain sections will allow of gracing
all winter, with conditions much less
severe than many parts of the stares
and Alaska, or the Interior, being a
fold country, or about the same as
ike northern s ates, i aturally 1.1 n
heavy meat tv sureer. which is i.u
jther advantage to the farmer who
has plenty of hay or grazing ground
for cattle, and another big advan
tage would be that fresh meat is
much more desirable than the cold
storage product.
A very familiar sight in Anchor
age, this first season, was th^farmer
driving into town with his wife and
family, and a wagon load of vege
tables of a superior quality, consist
ing of turnips, rutabagas, radishes,
lettuce, immense cabbage and pota
toes, which he would have no trou
ble disposing of, considering that
the quality was much better than
those shipped in from the states,
being larger and solider. and holding
a distinct advantage over the south
ern vegetables.
Being his first season, likely all
he had vyas a single team of horses
and a plow, but he had reared his
house, brought his wife and family
Into their new home, and raised
enough of a crop to convince him
self that it was a real agricultural
country; and many who have been
self-convinced have gone outside
during the winter to make arrange
ments for more stock and farming
implements to be shipped in for next
season, which will make this the
first distinct stock-raising and farm
ing district in Alaska, notwithstand
ing the fact that there are numerous
gold mines, both placer and quartz,
as wpll as coal and other mines,
being operated in the Immediate vi
cinity of or tributary to Anchorage,
which should show that this thriving
liftle metropolis will be a beehive of
activity as development goes on, and
cheaper transportation comes with
the completion of the road to the
interior.
Anchorage today "has a population
of about three thousand or more
people, and a more contented and
prosperous community could not be
found on the coast of Alaska, not
only that present conditions are
much better than most coast towns
| at this time of the year but the pros.
| peels for the future are of the best,
i when 4t is realized that Alaska, with
! the completion of the road, with
shorter and cheaper transportation
! facilities assured, will not only
allow many mines to be developed
and worked, which hitherto have
been unable to operate at a profit,
1 but all business has taken a new
lease of life, which betokens, as we
1 might say, the second awakening of
! Alaska, which has bben caused by
the creation of the Alaska Railroad
i Commission and its active and act
; ua' construction, which will have a
: tendency to relieve all classes of
trade from the strangling trans
! portation rates, which have been
brought in many cases to the
i strangling point; consequently, ail
j business is looking to the near fn
• ture for development and expansion.
Part of the program of the Com
i mission for the following summer is"
: the dredging of the harbor at An
chorage, at a coat of approximately
two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars, the construction of dockage
and coal-handling facilities, the
building of terminal tracks, depot,
machine shops and other structures
' necessary for the completion and
operation of the road while building,
as well as for maintenance after the
I coal fields and the interior are
i reached.
Construction work has been going
on regardless of climatic conditions,
which, with the exception of a few
days during the first blast of w‘n
| ter, has been very moderate and dry,
averaging about 18 to 22 above.
Track has been laid for thirteen
i and one-half miles to Indian river
bridge, which w‘11 be completed in
a few days, when track laying will
again commence, as the grade is
' complete as far as Matanuska Cross
ing, some 4 5 miles, with consider
able preliminary work done beyond.
Anchorage now' stands where, five
months before, virgin timber stood
unmolested. A more picturesque
sight could not be Imagined, situat
I ed as It is on a level tableland some
! one hundred feet above tidewater,
! overlooking the waters of Cook
Olympus Bar
A. F. Davis, Propr.
Liquors and Cigars
Draught and Bottled Beer
RNIK, - - ALASKA
PIONEER HOTEL
F. B. Cannon, Propr.
NO BAR
Accommodations for Ninety Guests
Large General Loltby. Pri
vate Lobby for Ladies
Best Rates Best Treatment
Best Accommodations
KN IK’S
Lead in g
Hotel
EUROPEAN
PLAN
G. .W PALMER
Wellman Goods
800 Tons
No better can be bought
at any price.
Sperry’s Drifted Flour and Sper
ry’s Kansas Flour. Once used, you
will use no other. Try them.
Hill’s Bros.’ Coffee and Tea. Use
the red can. I handle only California
Butter and Petaluma Eggs, the best
procurable.
Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, Rubber Goods.
Hardware, Tents, Tarpaulins, Oils
Gasoline, Certainteed Roofing and Lumber
I inlet, with Fire island in the dis
I tance, and giving an occasional
! gl;mpse of snowcapped Mount Mc
i Kinley, wliich gives one the impres
• slon of the sudden appearance of a
new continent, vast Is its area,
when bathed in the brightest of sun
shine, which at a glance looks more
like a huge mountain afire.
Heing a sourdough, having resid
ed for eighteen years in Aaska and
following the boom towns as they
sprang into existence, I can truth
fully say 1 have never lived where
climatic conditions were ag nearly
uniform in their respective seasons
as they are here, the summers being
warm, with not too much rain, ami;
the winters with absolutely no wind
and a steady barometer, being very I
much warmer than many sections of
the states, and in the summer—well,
It's plenty hot.
Owing to the short season of this
city, the ground not being cleared
until the latter part of .Tuly, build-,
ing did not commence until about,
the first of August: consequently!
some of our city improvements have
been a little late, but not neglected |
by the Commission, as wp have two
streets, some twelve blocks long,
where sidewalks have been put
down, including parts where there
nre twelve-foot cement w'alks facing
the full side of the block. Also
water mains have been la'd to serve
the same streets, and a steel water
tank of 130 feet under construction
and neatly finished, which will not
only give the city an adequate water
sur-piy for domestic ti3e, but a hr<
protection as well.
L. C. WILKES
SAN FRANC'SCO, Lee. 31.—A
slight mantle ot snow covers Mount
Tamalpais. The temperature here
is at freezing point.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
United States of America, Territory
of Alaska, Knik Precinct, In probate
before the Honorable Leopold David,
Probate Judge.
In the matter of the estate ofA'lee
Mansfield, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the ;t>.
dersigned, Wav IJowVer, has been
duly appointed administrator of the
estate of Alice Mansfield, deceased.
All persons having claims against
said estate are hereby required to
present the same with proper vouch
ers to the said administrator, at An
chorage, Alaska within six months
of the date of this notice.
WAY BOWKER,
Administrator of the Estate of
Alice Mansfield, Deceased
JOHN M. REID,
Attorney for the Adminis
trator in said matter.
Two
ways
of
getting
along
Which wins f
Now and then, we hear people say that
they can get along without a typewriter.
Yes, we believe that. Only forty years
ago everybody got along without one.
So they did, a little further hack, without the steam
engine and the railroad train. They got along
without them because there were none.
Anyone today who thinks he can get along with
out the typewriter because he can do his writing
with the pen, is like the man who thinks he doesn’t
need the railroad because he can walk. In your
method of writing you may be “walking” today. \
If so, then remember that the railroad is built and —
Here is your chance, absolutely your first chance, to buy
an absolutely first-grade typewriter at a medium price.
For $55.00, we will sell you a Remington Junior on terms
of $5.00down and $5.00 a month. Cut out the attached
coupon and send it to us with $5.00 in cash, check
or money order, and we will send the machine.
Remington
Typewriter Co.
I caelum herewith
Ifi.OO. on receipt of
which pie»ee eead me a
Remington Junior Type
writer. It fe understood
that I met return themachi ne
if I choose, within ten <t»ye <
ita receipt end that you will
fund to me the W OO, leee trans
portation charges.
If I retain the machine, I agree to
pay for it an additional turn of WO 00,
in monthly payneateof W 00 each.
Remington Typewriter Co.
[Incorporated]
C. B. WARK
Local Agent
Anchorage
Your Train has arrived
It is the New
Remington T UN I OR
Typewriter
Wc have built the Remington Junior on purpose
for those who have writing to do and need
a typewriter but who haven’t bought one—yet.
We have built it for
the traveler and for
the home; for the
doctor, the clergy
man, the farmer, the
retail storekeeper—
for everyone who
needs a typewriter for
the simpler uses, like manuscript and letter writing.
The price of the Remington Junior is fifty dollars,
cash with order. It is just what its name implies,
a “boiled down” Remington; smaller, lighter,
simpler and more portable, but a true Remington
in the work it does and the way it does it, and
sold under the iron-clad Remington guarantee.
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