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1 BRIEF NEWS W THE NORTHLAND. | >
The L. P. Davis Motor Co. was re
cently organized at Juneau and has
taken over the automobile branch oi
the Union Iron Works. The new firm
will handle two distinct lines of busi
ness, that of selling and repairing au
tomobiles and atending to the needs oi
Juneau’s mosquito fishing fleet.
Negotiations for the purchase oi
Graff's Bakery, Juneau, are undei
way, Mr. Graff retiring from business.
The Juneau Cold Storage Co. is ar
ranging to install an electric ice crush
er and elevator.
It is reported that on August 25
John Penglaze marketed his first shii
ment of brook trout from Oliver Inlet,
selling his catch of 150 pounds at 15
cents a pound, to the Glacier Fish
company, for shipment to the states.
The Merchants' Protective associa
tion of Juneau is arranging for steam
er service from Juneau to Port Alex
ander at the south end of Baranof Isl
and, calling at Tvee, Washington bay.
Pillar bay, Port Conclusion, Port Arm
strong, Little Port Walter, Big Port
Walter, Red Bluff bay, Warm Spring
bay, and other points. Mail service
for these points has been recommend
ed by the superintendent of the mail
service, and it is expected that it will
shortly be installed.
RAILROAD WORK ON HAPPY
CREEK NEAR FAIRBANKS IS
PROGRESSING RAPIDLY.
That the railroad work now being
done by the Alaskan Engineering
commision on Happy creek is going
forward rapidly is the report publish
ed in Fairbanks papers. Chiefly grad
ing work is now being done, about for
ty men being employed by the con
tractors. Ed Bartlett is one of those
who are working big crews of men.
It is the intention of the engineer
ing commission to complete five miles
of narrow guage railroad by fall to
connect up with the Tanana Valley
railroad, and it now seems that the
objective is to be accomplished. The
rails that will be laid are not on the
ground yet, but it is now expected that
sufficient grading work will have been
done to enable a steel gang to go to
work as soon as they arrive.
A call for 5.000 standard railroad
ties lor railroad work at Happy has
l»een issued from the Fairbanks office
of the engineering commission. The
ties must be delivered within forty
five days at any point on the Tanana
Valley railroad.
According to Juneau papers, B. L.
Thane, in an address to the Merchants’
Protective association at Juneau on
August 27 stated that the Gastineau
Company can use 400 men and the
Treadwell and Alaska Juneau also
want men.
It is stated that the war depart
ment has authorized the dredging of
Canoe Pass, which is on a direct line
west of and parallel with the Gastin
eau channel. This would permit fish
ing boats to enter Juneau from Cape
Spencer via Chatam Strait withoul
having to go around the south end of
Douglas island, also shortening the
route to Eagle River and other mining
and agricultural districts by about 3C
miles.
William Kinney and Frank Barton
two soldiers at Fort Gibbon, were re
cently convicted of robbery at the
Buby term of court. Several months
ago these men offered to sell a shirt
to a native and when he pulled out a
poke with which to pay them they
knocked him down and took all his
cash. The commanding officer at the
post lined up all the men and the
native identified the two and after
sufficient investigation they were
proved guilty.
Figures of Alaska-Seattle commerce
are no longer available, due to inabil
ity to get figures from the Seattle
collector of customs, because of war
conditions.
Tungsten has been discoverd in
a number of places in the interior
while prospectors were working in
gold bearing quartz. For several years
little attention has been paid to it be
cause of its small value in mining
However since sevral large prospects
have been organized and the work is
gradually progressing especially sinct
the war has caused such a demand foi
the metal. One of the biggest deals
taking place in this line was tha1
which recently transpired at Fair
banks. Option was taken on certair
large ledges by Jacob Meyers and out
side prospectors who will work tin
prospects immediately.
The bodies of two natives were re
cently brought to Nenana for burial
However since several large prospects
the victims being a girl and a man
A double funeral was held at th<
mission cemetery, followed by nativ<
ceremonials which lasted well int<
the night.
W. P. Studdera made this interest
ing report on the fish at Seldovia re
cently while stopping at the Hote
Sexton, Seward. He says that fish art
slightly discolored due to redfed, i
minute crustaceon upon which the?
feed and which are very plentiful ii
the waters around Seldovia at present, t
While the fish eat this food they are g
impossible to cure. This trouble also s
occurs in curing herring in Europe but c
has been surmounted by impounding c
the fish from five to seven days. Then r
they are searching so vigorously for a v
means of escape that they have no
time to partake of food and the redfeed fc
gradually passes off. Packing will be- r
gin about the middle of October in Sel
i dovia when their redfeed has disap- c
peared. „
AUSTIN HAINES, RECENTLY OFL
SEWARD, GOES TO BOLIVIA TO ,
TAKE CHARGE OF MINE. !
Mrs. Austin Haines has sailed from | v
Seward for the states and in the near! i
future will leave New York for Lepaz j
Bolivia, to join her husband, who left j.
Seward some time ago on advices, re-! ;
ceived from his brother “Chaffey” to |
assume the management of extensive e
mining operations in South America. \ h
The mining property of which Mr. t
Haines will have charge, is situated j;
IS,000 feet up in the Andes mountains p
and the only method of getting out the t
ore to boats and railroads is by na- f
; fives who use llamas and burros as e
! means of transportation. j
| Mr. Haines is well known in Alaska 0
having spent over twenty years in the e
Territory. j j
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Bob Sheldon, propertor of the r
Sheldon stage line from Valdez and j
Chitna to Fairbanks, recently purchas- 0
ed another Ford, making the number s
used on the trail eight. Mr. Sheldon ^
■states that he has done one of the best c
businesses in his career as a stage .
driver this year. t
John A. Davis, superintendent of ,
j the bureau of mines experimenting ,
j station to be established at Fairbanks r
arrived there recently. His wife and
! one assistant, Mr. Purdy accompanied
1 him. He stated that he will be ready
j in about a month. A quantity of sup
plies have also arrived.
H. E. St. George and B. W. Crane
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hey grew up together until they were
twelve years old. For over fifty years
they had been drfting around, but
never saw each other until a short
time ago when they met in Fairbanks.
Mr. Crane is a retired business man .
and has been enjoying a well earned
rest touring the country.
“Gambler Bay Jim” who was re
•ontly arested at Juneau on a num
■.■m- oomnlaints. now faces a charge
of wilful destruction of property, it
being claimed that he destroyed 20,
JOvj ash which Capt. Barlow, a Juneau
isherman had caught. He was also
'ound over for threatening to kill cer
ain other fishermen who had incurred
s displeasure. His partner, Pat
Brady, was also bound over to await
the action of the grand jury.
It was recently reported that A.
Jemisehe had lost his life while going
down the Yukon as he disappeared
from the steamer. He was accompan
ied by a valuable dog at the time and
the dog was on the boat but minus a
naster. A wire was sent back to the
agent at Holy Cross who stated that
1 he man was not there. No more was \
heard of the man until he appeared in
Nenana several days later to claim his j
log. He stated that he had gone to
sleep at Holy Cross and missed the \
boat.
Buster Barron, only son of J. T. I
’.anon, Funter Bay cannervman, met 1
1 heroic death while trying to save I ^
he lives of two fellow aviators who. j
vhile making a flight over a river. j
uddenly lost control of the machine y
.nd were plunged into the water, is
Barron and several others immedi- 1
tely swam to the rescue but the for 11
:ier sank just before reaching the ma- j
hine. The others were rescued. Mrs. v
'arron was in Essington at the time j e
>f the boy’s death, having been there C
<ut a short time visiting him. His t
ather was also on the way. He had 11
sen attending the Essington school of j i
viation.
The body of Bert McKenzie, fore- *
nan on Engine 68, recently wreck- 1
1, was found the next morning by 1
a crew of White Pass employes. It *
vas brought to Skagway and placed '
>eside that of his father. The train
v’as hit by a slide, and only the break- ;
ing of the couplings saved the coaches s
; I'he accident occurred in a small ra- c
ine along the White Pass railway, i
1 )ne of the falling rocks was as large 1
is a box car. >
Robert Logan, of Fairbanks, recent- 1
y found a peculiar specimen of a ’
nouse which had all the character- !
'sties of a kangaroo. It was about the 1
size of an ordinary mouse but its hind 1
legs were more than three times the 1
length of the fore feet which were i
small like those of a kangaroo. It had
* a long and muscular tail more than
wice as long as the body. The animal 1
■ vas later identified as belonging to '
he kangaroo species, very common in ;
1 ome parts of the world.
* Captain A. E. Wadhams, who for
i lany years was general manager of
he Kasaan cannery of the Gorman
i iterests, has completed arrangements
or the construction of a cannery for
lie Linderberger interests in Tenakee
diet, where the Robertson cannery is
ow located. Captain Wadhams has
een scouting for nearly a month in
he Juneau section locating fish trap
ites, contracting for piling and con
traction lumber, and has already
losed contracts so that work can be
arried on for the erection of the can
ery wharf and buildings during the
/inter months.
Commissioner Riggs has caused to
e announced from Alaskan Engi
eering headquarters at Nenana the
tatenren: that the July pay toll of the
ommission was the largest of any
ronth since work or the interior end
f the raih'u&d was commenced. The
gures issued show that the general
ayroll ralod for the expenditure
uring lu1 v of $69,268.80 and that the
um of £1 *..851.10 was expended on
ork on the Tanana valley railroad
nd to government railroad contract -
rs. This makes rn aggregate pay
all expenditure of $81,119.90 for the
ionth of citly.
M. A. Pinska, it developed in the
rmmissioner’s court in Fairbanks,
as so many homes that he cannot es
iblish a legal residence. Mr. Pinska
> one of the heaviest indmiuat tax
ayers of Fairbanks and he lives
rere about four months in the year,
or about an equal length of time
ach year he lives in Dawson, attend
rg to business there. For one month
f the year he resides with his moth
r, brothers and sisters in St. Paul,
Tinnesota, during which time he is
uying for his northern estabiish
tents. The remainder of the year he
5 in New York, San Francisco and
ther places. He keeps on the move
o much that he does not know where
is legal residence is. He has prop
rty in several places; has homes es
iblished in all of them ar>.d he asked
re court to solve the question oi
•here he r oes live. He has nevei
een in any ci the places long enough
r vote so that his residence could
ot be established in that way. ihc
rurt held that he was not such an
lhabite.nt of Fairbanks as to per
sit him to serve on a jury.
ERRITORIAL ROAD COMMISSION
WILL DREDGE THROUGH GAS
TINEAU CHANNEL BAR.
Permission has oeen received in a
degram from the war depart mem
) the territorial road commission foi
le First division to dredge the pro
osed channel through the bar in the
orth end of Gastineau channel to al
>\v small boats of the fishing fleet
> make Juneau from the Chatham
nd Icy straits section without the
>ng detour around the south end of
•ouglas island.
The act authorizing the road com
nissioners to use the road funds foi
his purpose was introduced in tlu
ouse of the last legislature by W.
V. Casey, representative from Ju
eau, and was passed. As soon as the
oard had been organized, Road Com
lissioner Ed. L. Hurlbut put men te
rork and a full survey of the pro
ect was made.
It was found that the dredging of
he old channel across the bar was im
mactical on account of a ledge o
ock which extends across the chan
tel. A passage was found that couh
<e dredged through Canoe pass, at :
ost of about $20,000 and it is under
tood that work will start as soon a.
lossible.
The work will be done with drag
ine scrapers, as the ground is ah
;lacier silt and easily removed.
Lipman Simscn, of Simson’s store
t Fairbanks, purchased the tent and
wnirg manufacturing interests ol
'om Keel. Mr. Keel will leave foi
he outside in the near future.
Under the direction of A. J. Sprag
s, who has been in charge of the
xperimental hatchery at Thane, 60,
00 young mountain trout which have
een hatched out at Thane, havt
een deposited in the upper dam ai
Salmon creek, near Juneau. Recent
y 40,000 were placed in the lower
tnnex creek lake and 60,000 in the
pper lake. The 60,000 fry remain
ng at the hatchery will probably go
o lakes Dewey and Black, near Skag
?ay.
The steamer Northland, which was
unk about a year ago at Kake, in
outheastern Alaska, has been suc
essfully raised and is now on hei
ray south for repairs. The North
and was raised and nearly free from
rater when one of the wrecking crew
mssing through one of the room;
rith a lighted lantern caused an ex
ilosion and fire due to the crude oi
vhich had accumulated, throughout
he interior of the hull, necessitating
he flooding of the steamer again t<.
extinguish the blaze.
Captain Dan Pullen, Alaska’s firs
West Pointer, has been notified tt
>e prepared to depart for Franc:
vith the engineer corps of the U. S
irmy, according to a letter receive;
>y his mother, Mrs. H. S. Pullen, o
ikagway. He will be promoted fi
he rank of major before leavinr
\merica. He was appointed to Wes
’oint by President Roosevelt in 19CK
md graduated at the head of his
dass.
The body of William Harrington
was found by the miners at the Mt.
Andrew Mine, strung up by the neck
to one of the trestles near the mine.
Harrington, it appears, was a new
comer at the mine, having been work
ing only four days. He had been
around Ketchikan for some time, and
had been known to act rather strange
at times.
Mr. and Mrs. Cordall, who had just
moved into a cabin at Mile 3, two or
three days before the recent floor at
Seward, where Mr. Cordall was work
ing for Mr. Stewart on the road, were
forced to leave their cabin at 11
o’clock the night of the flood, the wat
er having reached the windows. Mr.
Cordall had to carry his wife to a
tree about twenty-five feet from the
cabin, where he built a seat for them
both. They were compelled to stay
in the tree until 6 o’clock in the morn
ing, with trees falling around them
all night long, their tree starting to
lean over. They were rescued about
; one o’clock the next day. Mrs. Cordall
| was attired in a pair of overalls, heavy
I shoes, etc., all belonging to her hus
band, her own clothing and that of her
husband, along with the furniture in
; the cabin, being completely ruined.
Heavy shipments of fresh and fro
zen fish left Juneau for the states
last week. The Juneau Cold Storage
sent 100 cases to the Glacier Fish Co.,
of Seattle. Each box contains about
400 pounds of frozen fish. Forty
boxes of fresh fish accompanied the
order.
Two longshoremen, while engaged
in unloading a barge loaded with hay
at the A. Y. N. dock at Fairbanks,
narrowly escaped death when sever
al tons of hay fell from the top of
the pile, burying them. One of them
suffered a broken nose and arm and
was otherwise badly bruised.
Calcium Carbide lights are being
employed on the central division of
the government railroad for lighting
f the work at night at the gravel pit
1 near Mile five, and during the re
mainder of the season the steam shov
1 el will be worked during the entire
| 24 hours, in three 8-hour shifts. This
I shovel is supplying the gravel for
ballasting purposes.
W. Wetzler, chief mail clerk for
southeastern Alaska for the past six
years, has been transferred to the Yu
kon river, and his territory will ex
end from Eagle to St. Michael.
That the work of transplanting
goats, wild, elusive and wary, from
one section of Alaska to another, is
fraught with considerable difficulty, is
now realized by three venturesome
Alaskans, Ray C. Gossett, “Babe”
Samples and L. T. Mclnnes, who ar
rived in Douglas the other day after
spending some time at Brady glacier,
near Cape Spencer, in their efforts to
capture wild goats which they intend
ed taking to Admiralty island with
the view of populating the latter
with goat family, according to the Ju
neau Empire.
Theoretically, the matter of trans
planting goats is all right, but prac
tically it is something else entirely.
As goats have no particular yearning
to be transplanted, they decline to be
captured alive and the result is that
some ways and means not yet devised
must be incubated before Admiralty
island becomes the home of these
freedom-loving mountain climbers.
At various times the Grosset party
thought they as good as had thei.
hands on a number of goats in that
they had them cornered on points
from which they had no opportunity
for escaping. But the would-be cap
tors had not reckoned on the despera
tion of goat disposition. Rather than
be captured they deliberately and
determinedly committed suicide b}
leaping off precipices hundreds of feet
high and converting themselves from
shapely quadrupeds into mince meat
smeai'ed over the rocks below. Noi
was the suicidal practice confined
alone to goats, as the party found tha,
the kids only a few weeks old pre
ferred death by leaping into space
from high precipices to being touched
by the hands of men.
Another thing was discovered, ac
cording to Mr. Gossett, and that is
that the mountain goats are al infest
ed with hoof rot which is due presum
ably, from the practically continuous
wet weather. All the goats found after
committing suicide were noticed to
have the disease.
Mr. Gossett, who is well posted on
the game of the country, lately visit
ed the Taku country, where moose
abound and where he says, one In
dian in a few days killed fourteen
moose which he shot down for the
mere pleasure of salughter—a veri
table game hog—leaving the carcas
ses where they fell.
There is a small appropriation,
$1,500 of public money for the pur
pose of goat cultivation on Admir
alty island and it was the hope of se
curing a portion of that money that
Gossett, Samples and Mclnnes were j
seeking to capture goats near Cape
Spencer, but now they are convinced
that it is a perfectly safe offer.
Governor J. F. A. Strong has ap~ *
pointed John F. McDonald to succeed ,
Joseph Snow as special agent for the
suppresion of the liquor traffic among
the Indians.
The mess house at Thane recently
contributed $60 to the Juneau tobac
co fund. The money raised in this
campaigh goes to buy tobacco and the *
makings for the boys in France.
William Nicholvich a Serbian min
er was instantly killed by falling rock
in one of the Perserverance mine
stopes. His interment was made in
the Evergreen cemetery.
Five hundred and nine men had reg
istered at Juneau by nine o'clock Sep
tember 1.
GOVERNMENT WILL
BOY POTATOES NOW '
STOREKEEPER FOR ENGINEER.
ING COMMISSION WILL PLACE
ORDER FOR 100 TONS.
Through Walter De Long, general
storekeeper for the Alaskan Engi
neering commission, announcement is
made that bids will be sent out at
once for the immediate purchase by
the commission of at least 100 tons
of potatoes from the Matanuska
farmers.
This action is taken by the commis
ision in order to give some immediate
and substantial assistance to the
farmers who at this time are in urg
ent need of funds with which to har
vest their fall crops.
“It is up to merchants to place im
mediate orders for potatoes, turnips
and such other vegetables as are
available,” said Mr. DeLong. “Bv
so doing they will show to the farm
ers that the spirit exhibited at the
recent meeting between business men
and farmers is real and sincere.
“If there was ever a time when the
tillers of the soil needed financial as
sistance now is that time. Unless an
immediate market is afforded to the
farmers, a goodly portion of the la
bor required in the planting and th/t <
cultivation of their crops will go for
naught.”
Ed. Baggen of Petersburg unfortun
ately lost the greater part of this left
hand recently through disease of the
bone caused by fish poisoning.
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MEN AND WOMEN
I TREAT and cure acute and
chronic Contracted Dis
eases, Blood Poison and
Skin Diseases. Kidney, Blad
der and Prostatic Disorders,
Nerve Ailments, including
LOST VITAL POWER.
There is no more ideal con
dition than perfect manhood
or womanhood. Without these
you cannot experience the full
enjoyment of Hie.Perfect health
and vigor are necessary to
make life happy and complete.
Men who have been indiscreet in their younger days should not overlook the
fact that sooner or later such excesses are going to tell on you. You know perfectly
well what your trouble is and how it was brought on, and I say to you today: BE
WARE! If you are single you are not tit to enter married life, and if married you
ar° in no condition to contribute towards a happy home. What you need is care and
treatment. The best there is, the best obtainable. Improper or indifferent treat
ment won't do; it's a strong guiding arm and mind you want to help you through
this. This is not a condition which time will remedy. The longer it runs the worse it
bt comes.
The treatment of this particular ailment is a scientific study. There is noth
ing else amongst all diseases which requires such delicate and yet firm handling as
the treatment of Lost Vital Power. Almost every organ in the body enters into this
treatment. Your stomach must digest well, your liver must be active, the kidneys do
their work.
The blood must be pure and perfect and your Nervous System well balanced.
One organ is in sympathy with another, that’s the reason why people are rarely suf
fering from one thing alone. That is the specialist’s work to find out what the trou
ble is, and remedy it.
I use the very purest medicines, drugs which will do the work. I do not ex
periment and “try” one thing or another. There is always a reason for everything 1
do or prescribe for you. If you have felt badly for some time, don’t put it off any
longer, come and have a talk with me about your condition and if you can be helped
you had better begin.
You Will Find Me in My Office Every Day (Including Sundays) From 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
DR. A. W. LUEDERS
626 Fourth Ave.
Opp. Telephone Office
ANCHORAGE ALASKA