ENCOURAGING MESSAGE ABOUT
Washington, D. C., Dec. 14=17, 1915
Cook Inlet Pioneer, Anchorage:
Have had full talk with Secretary Lane concerning
♦ emergency apropriation. Think certain of passage. Committee just
appointed today. 1 find no objection among members. May go over
until after holidays. Will advise you. WICKERSHAM, Delegate.
NEWS OF THE NORTHLAND
Cordova continues to attract at
tention to Itself in the states because
* of the heavy shipments of rich cop
per ore.
r It took the eccentric Capt. Louts
L. Lane to sell hla power* schooner
Polar Bear to Explorer SteffsAiaon
and then walk a thousand miles to
get back home.
The attempt of the Valdex city
council to fine masters of.steamers
* for not landing their boats at the
city dock, instead of a private dock,
has created a great deal of interest
* in Seattle shipping circles.
Copper ore from the Boh'aaca and
Jumbo mines at Kennecott Is piling
up in Cordova so rapidly that the
care of it is becoming a serious
problem, on account of the lack of
carrying freighters to transport it
to the Tacoma smelter. The Times
says that it amounts to $1,000,000.
The four companies of infantry on
* duty in Alaska are to be brought up
to their full military strength of
about 160 men each, according to an
Ii announcement by the war depart
ment. The posts at Port Seward,
Fort Liscum, Port Gibbon, Port St.
Michael and Fort Davis have at the
present time about half or their war
strength.
There is a report that the rorestry
department is to be Removed from
[ Cordova to the westward, and the
Cordova Times asks why not the
•Chugach forest reserve with the of
fice
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jLrizxra creeK, m tiie I'tuuie uiamu,
•is looking up and now has a sawmill
to supply the new camp with lumber.
A number of claims on the creek
paid handsomely during the past
summer.
Bert Johnson, a Fairbanks
freighter, with a string of six mules,
went through the Ice in the Chena
felough, but all were fished out alive.
One of the mules was so near dead
that It had to be hauled to a stable.
‘ Engineer R. J. Weir, who spent
the summer in Interior Alaska with
the Alaskan Engineering Commis
sion, will have charge of the work
on the 8eward division during the
absence of Chairman Edes in the
states.
Captain Herbert reports that he is
now mining coal from a depth of 400
feet, and that the coal is of a mucn
better grade than near the surface.
^The mine Is located at KachemaK j
bay.
Eugen Meyers, sent to Alaska in
P898 to establish a weather bureau
service, is visiting on the outside for
the first time. He no wholds the
position of United States
sloner at Eagle.
commis
Is it legal to serve papers or enter
lpgal proceedings on Sunday," is the
question recently put up to Judge
Jennings, of the First division. The
ruling will have an Important bear
ing on the case which was tried there
last week.
Accommodations at Seward for
freight are so poor that the steamer
Konsua City had to take 1500 hun
dred tons of freight to Cordova,
which she could not land at Anchor
age, and Seward had no place to
store it
iThe stock of the Alaska Juneau
Gold Mining Company is now listed
on the New York stock exchange.
\Rasmus Clipp, of Ketchikan, who
suffered a crushed skull as a result
of the falling top of a tree striking
him, died without having regained
consciousness.
'Ernest P. Walker, of the United
States bureau of fisheries, who made
the trip to Cbickamin river to iuves
tigate the disappearance of a launch
load of Ketchikan men, has reported
that no delinlte indications had been
found which would tell of the party’s
fate, and the search will be aban
doned.
The Seward Post says that the
cold weather has already killed ths
Jellyfish in Resurrection bay. Sew
ard's winters would kill almost any
thing.
The authorities of Ketchikan are
trying to learn the addres sof the
relatives of John G. Jones, who died
of apoplexy on Pennoct island, re-,
cently.
It is reported from Douglas that a
number of people have expressed tin
intention of investing in automobiles
now that the bridge across the Oas
tineau channel is assured.
A campaign has been stated to
have more cottages built for work
men at Juneau. A scarcity of homes
has existed there ever since the re
vival of that town through ItB min
ing developments.
Mrs. Helen McEvoy, who is a dem
ocrat of the Jefferson type, is now
the news editor and business man
ager of the Juneau Sunday Morning
Post, and has enlarged and improved
the publication.
The Douglas council has re-enact
ed a curfew ordinance wh:ch pro
vides that children under the age of
14 years shall not be allowed on the
streets after 9 o’clock at night unless
accompanied by their parents.
Rakccevich, who was senteucen for
life tor the killing o' Frame Sellers,
over a game of carols, are circulating
a petition to be presented to Pros'
dent Wilson for his pardog.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
calls Sheriff George Brimstone of
Dawson, an Alaskan.
Ktchikan is the latest Alaskan
town to make a demand for a federal
building.
The three new locomotives for
the Copper River road, which re
cently arrived from the East, are the
largest in Alaska.
Irene Rudd, daughter of > Arthur
Rudd, a mining operator of Idftarod,
eloped from her mother in Seattle
and married a young man in Ellens-1
burg. «
A woman named Mattie, usually
appended to a number of aliases and
well known in the lighter resorts in
Nome for a number pf years, was j
ftmnd dead in a cabin recently, j
Death was apparently due to heart;
failure.
McIntosh Brothers are reported to
have struck good pay on the third
tier bench, right limit, of Uvingood
creek, near the town of Brooks, and
are getting pans as high as $ 1 at |
the bottom of their 70-foot shaft j
This is the third shaft that Mclnt v-h j
Brothers have put to bedroc kon !
their lease. Tli.ey bad a little pay j
in the first' two holes, but It was j
nothing compare^ to the find recent
ly made. j
“"Captain Sid Barrington, of the!
Side Streams Navigation Company, j
says that the upper Yukon and other j
rivers had a good season in both |
passengers and freight. Freight |
traffic has been particularly good on '
the upper river this year.
The Ketchikan Commercial CKlb 1
has been reorganized and is planning
to be of service to the town and to
Alaska generally. All the powers of
the club have been centralized in the
executive board in order that they j
may carry on the work of the club
unhampered.
Col. A. W. Swanltz says Valdez
has a good chance to get a railroad
as a part of the government system,
within a short time. Col. Swanltz
recently had a long talk with Secre
tary Lane, in which he pointed out
to the secretary the importance of a
line to develop the country between
the Copper river and the Susltna, a
very wide area with great mineral
possibilities.
It is feared that another tragedy
has occurred and that the treacher
ous Tanana river has claimed two
more victims. William Zacharias
and wife, who formerly lived in
Fairbanks before being attracted to
the Chisana, left the Tanana river
point some time ago, but have failed
to reach their destination. Men
who came from Chisana and wit
nessed the departure of Zacharias
' and his wife have been In Fairbanks
' several days. The Tanana was run
ning slush ice at the time, and it is
feared that he couple were caught
| in the tee and their frail craft
I crushed
Olympus Bar
A. F. Davis, Propr.
Liquors and Cigars
Draught and Bottled Beer
KNIK. - - ALASKA
The Heming Family
Continue to dispense
General Merchandise
At the Old Stand in Knik
Whatever Y031 Want We Have
Whatever We Have You Want
Knik Trading Com’y
0. G. Heroin#, Manager
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PIONEER HOTEL
F. B. Cannon, Propr.
NO BAR
Accommodations for Ninety Guests
Large General Lobby. Pri
vate Lobby for Ladies
Best Rates Best Treatment
Best Accommodations
KN IK’S
Lea d in g
H o t e !
EUROPEAN
PLAN
G. .W PALMER
WellnSan 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. 1 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
Kitik, Alaska
shortage <tf' FOOH
MAY STOI* TIE CUTTERS
Sixteen tie cutters employed by i
Sutherland and Brooks, of Tacoma,
who have a contract to supply ties j
for the Engineering Commission, and
to be deliveretTaf Xncfibrage,~areaT
Point Possession with not enough
provisions to last them through the
winter, and ran be expected to strive
over the trail via Hope some time
before January 1, says the .Seward
Post.
via the
MUSH
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First in Equipment
First in Service
And the only road operating over its own lines
all the way from Seattle to Chicago.
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Two Crack All-Steel Trains Every Day.
For information and literature write or ask
E. J. WARNER, Agent
Chicago, Milwaukee & St.E Paul
Railway
A. E. HARRIS,
Traveling Passenger Agent,
Juneau, Alaska.
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without them because there were none.
Anyone today wrho 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
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