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1 BRIEF NEWS OF THE NORTHLAND.
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Neil MeKechnie, of McCarthy, was
fined $250 and sentenced to serve
eight months in jail for selling liquor
in violation of the prohibition law.
Nenana was recently visited by a
severe earthquake which caused con
siderable jolting to the residents.
Huch Cutting, of Dawson, was se
riously injured recently when a steam
gauge near which he was working
burst and pieces of the flying glass
cut him in the eye.
The Nenana Lodge of the Loyal Or
der of Moose have completed all ar
rangements for establishing their
lodge in a new home and will move
their effects at once.
The stovepipe in W. G. Fitzgerald’s
cabin at Cordova recently set fire to
the roof of the building but the flames
were extinguished before any damage
was done.
In an investigation conducted by the
American-Canadian Fisheries mission
it developed that Canadians are com
pelled to call in at Ketchikan and aft
er paying a fee take out clearance pa
pers.
* Jack Smeaton, an old-timer of the
interior, recently left Seattle on his
way to Seward and the Iditarod. He
has operated on Donlin creek for sev
eral years and had not been outside
for eighteen years until has present
visit.
Food savers have been asked to
enumerate every adult and child over
12 years of age on Douglas island.
Ninety-five per cent of the Douglas
islanders have entered the campaign
and the rest are expected to enter
soon.
Amaury Auzias de Turenne, former
Dawson boy, was seriously injured at
the front. His father was French con
sul at Dawson several years ago. The
son is now in the base hospital at Eta
ple suffering from shell shock. His
older brother was invalided home aft
er losing his eyesight through being
struck by a piece of shrapnel.
A jury of twelve good men and
true recently found Julio Avarica
guilty of stealing money from a na
tive at Juneau.
The heavy fall of snow at Juneau
recently caused the brick chimney on
the south side of the natatorium to
break down.
M. Mally was brought into Dawson
on the stage suffering from a frozen
foot. He probably will lose several
toes.
Jerry Doody and Jimmy Clarke
were recently badly frozen on the
trail between Coal creek and Forty
mile and had to bo carried in. This
is in the Whitehorse section.
The Alaska Commandery, Knights
Templar, have started training at the
Masonic hall at Fairbanks and in or
der to give every one a chance have
opened the training to any Fairbanks
man who desires to take advantage.
Competent instructors have been pro
vided.
A large number of new recruits are
expected to arrive at Fort Seward in
a few weeks where they will be put
through intensive training. There
are now only about 100 men left at
the fort, many of them having de
parted for parts unstated.
Residents of Port Rupert are re
ported to have taken a great fancy
to porpoise meat since it was intro
duced there. The meat is dark and
odorless with the flavor of beef and
no suggestion of a fishy taste. It is
also said to be tender and juicy and
much better than whale meat.
Carl Douglas, a well known resi
dent of Fairbanks, recently made g
trip to Seattle after nineteen years
in Alaska. In an interview given tc
a Seattle paper he made the follow
ing statement: “Seattle isn’t th<
camp she was during the days of the
Klondike rush. You have more sky
scrapers, more autos and more noise
than in the old days, but the frontier
joys appear to have moved on from
these diggings. No more do the re
turned Alaskan miners lose their mon
ey within a day after reaching here.”
Federal Food Administrator of Al
aska, Royal Gunnison recently left
Juneau for Portland where he will at
tend a convention of all the food ad
ministrators of the western states.
The meeting will discuss the general
food situation of the Pacific coast and
the northwestern states and will also
be addressed by National Food Ad
ministrator Hoover.
Mrs. Mike Meloich, a resident of
the F>asin road in the Juneau section,
recently killed a large owl with her
kitchen broom. The big bird insisted
upon making a meal of her little pup
py which was running around the
! yard and as it refused to be shooed
away she was forced 41 kill it.
Among recent army promotions is
the advancement of Major George B.
Pillsbury, who was engineer officer of
the Alaska Road commission in 1907
8-9, to the rank of Lieut. Col. and also
the promotion of Major Francis A.
Pope, engineer of the Alaska road
commission in 1909-10 to the rank of
• Lieut.-Colonel.
, William Stanley, one of the first
; men from Seattle to reach the Klon
dike in the great rush and also one of
the first to return to Seattle with hun
dreds of thousands of dollars worth of
gold dust, died in Seattle the other
day of pneumonia. Mr. Stanley wrote
a book entitled ‘‘One Mile of Gold.’
Deputy Marshal Fursman, of Cor
dova, has 418 gallons of booze on
hand, which has been confiscated since
the “dry” law went into effect. This
will be shipped to the United States
Industrial Alcohol company, at Bal
timore, Md., where the alcohol will
be extracted f#r use of the govern
ment.
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Road Commissioner James E. Wil
son has decided to commence work on
the new Nizina bridge, an appropria
tion of $25,000 for which was made
by the last legislature. This sum
was found insufficient to complete the
work, but the commissioner has let a
contract for 3,200 feet of the bridge
at $7.50 per foot, to Carl Carlson and
John Erickson, employes of the Cop
per river railroad. This will leave
3,225 feet of the structure to be add
ed when the funds are available.
According to Capt. Cann, a former
I Juneau resident and heavily interested
in the fishing business in that district
newcomers into the fishing business
are going to find the lines hard to
break this year as the government is
not very willing to take chances and
wants the fish. Also the supply of tin
is short and only the firms who can
guarantee to deliver the goods will
find it fairly easy to get cans.
One of the inhabitants of Douglas
who is rather interested in the sub
ject, recently remarked that every
year deer skins valued at thousands
| of dollars are thrown away in South
eastern Alaska. No less than eighty
skins were counted on the beach in
the vicinity of Auk cove one day last
spring. At the present time when
there is such a pressing demand for
leather the w7aste is a shame. He al
; so suggested however that to market
the skins would probably implicate
those so doing in killing the game out
of season.
Dr. Harrison J. Hunt, at a dinner
| given in his honor at Bangor, Maine,
| stated that he believed that an undis
] covered land lay to the north of Can
ada. He had accompanied the Mac
| Millan expedition as surgeon. He gave
| as the reasons for his belief that
| eounless flocks of ducks fly north ev
| ery year returning southward regu
1 larly. The birds have evidentlv found
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land that man has not. Whalers also
! report having seen land.
The jury in the commissioner’s
court at Juneau recently returned a
verciict of $300 and 8 per cent inter
est in favor of Dr. Mahone, of Juneau,
who sued the E. H. Harris Packing
company of that city for money due
for professional services rendered
nearly two years ago. George Ben
net, an employe of the cannery had
the skin badly torn from his arm and
was forcd to have some grafted in or
der to save it. He was a member of
the Masons and several Juneau Ma- j
sons volunteered, five of whom were [
chosen. Bennett received $2,000 dam- |
ages, which the company claimed in
cluded doctors’ bills and hospital
charges. The company intends to file
an appeal.
The use of wood for fuel, says the j
Valdez Miner, is being emphasized
throughout Alaska, and the favorable
results received in other states quot
ed. While there is much good timber
for fuel throughout the territory it
is rather a difficult propositon in a
! number of places to cut it owing to
government reservations. If these
were removed the suggestion would
| be heartily carried out by a majority
of Alaskans as coal is raising in price
all the time.
To co-operate with the Alaska del
egation of Alaska citizens at Wash
ington city in securing legislation,
and departmental attention, on issues
vitally necessary to northern devel
opment, Manager J. L. McPherson, of
the Alaska Bureau of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce, will soon leave
for Washington. Manager McPher
son will render all aid possible in put
ting through required laws to permit
of utilizing the natural resources of
Alaska. The plan was endorsed by
the board of trustees of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce at the request
of the executive committee of the
Alaska bureau.
Facts have been compiled by the
Alaska Bureau of the Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce emphasizing the out
standing needs of the north in the
way of new legislation to permit prop
er development of Alaska’s coal and
oil deposits. Help will be furnished
in putting through Delegate Sulzer’s
measure providing a full territorial
form of government for the north.
The improvement of Dry Strait,
and appropriations for government
work in the north, continuing railroad
construction, road building, coast sur
veys, harbor improvements and other
necessary developments will be look
ed after.
Attention will be called to needed
improvements to the mail service on
a number of Alaska routes, regula
tions permitting the development of
the paper pulp industry, and the set
tlement of agricultural lands in the
forest reserves.
Manager McPherson is armed with
the latest facts showing the outstand
ing needs of the northern districts,
and will work with the Alaska dele
gation to secure necessary legislative
ation, and co-operation from the in
terested departments.
GOVERNMENT MAY
TAKE OVER LUMBER
j TIMBER IS BADLY NEEDED FOR
GOVERNMENT SHIPS AND
FOR ARMY AIRPLANES.
WASHINGTON, D. C. March 2.—
To empower the president to com
mandeer all timber needed by the navy
and the army is the purpose of a bill
that was favorably reported to the
senate late yesterday by the senate
committee on military affairs.
Senator George E. Chamberlain,
democrat, of Oregon, chairman of the
committee, explained that difficulties
are encountered by the federal ship
| ping board in obtaining lumber for
the building of new ships and by the
army aviation service in getting
spruce lumber for the making of air- j
planes.
PROFITS IN TOBACCO.
LONDON, March 2.—Huge profits
have been made out of tobacco during
the year. One large company shows a
net profit for the year of over three
million pounds sterling. They paid a
dividend of 30 per cent and carried
forward two and a half millions
sterling.
J. TOOLE PERFECTS DEVICE
THAT OPERATES ON SAME
PLAN AS BAGLEY MACHINE.
SAVES WORK OF TWENTY MEN.
Invention Is Said by Mining Experts
to be Real Solution to Hitherto Un
bearable Expense of Developing
Low Grade Placer Ground.
An underground scraper has been
perfected by James Toole, of Fair
banks creek, after many experiments
and failures, and those who have seen
it work declare that it is the greatest
thing yet in the underground mining
game declares the Fairbanks citizen.
The scraper is being used on 17 below
Fairbanks creek, where Mr. Toole and
J. C. Stewart are working.
The scraper is an underground
Bagley, and works much the same as
the regular Bagleys used in open-cut
work. The dirt is washed from the
face of the drift, and the scraper then
scrapes it into cars, which take it to
the main shaft. The scraper is worked
by an underground hoist which is
fixed so that it can be moved from one
face to another without delaying the
work.
The drift is divided into four faces,
and there are 80,000 square feet of
bedrock blocked out now in the work
ings. The scraper can work more than
500 square feet of dirt in eight hours,
and only takes a crew of seven men
to work it. Taken all together, it
should revolutionize underground min
ing in the interior.
Mr. Toole had a hard time perfect
ing this scraper. At first he exper
imented with an underground steam
shovel, but never could get it to work.
Then he started working on his pres
ent shovel, and finally made it a suc
cess. The scraper saves the work of
twenty men, according to mining ex
perts, and has really solved the prob
lem of working low grade placer
ground.
BREAKS WITH U. S. MARSHAL.
Violator of Prohibition Law Is Said
to Bo Old Resident of District, But
His Name Is Not Yet Made Public
by Authorities.
A somewhat mystifying contre
temps has occurred at Candle which
has resulted there in the resignation
of United States Commissioner
George I). Campbell, says the Nome
Nugget.
According to the story, Deputy
Marshal Hart Humber at Candle late
ly did some sleuthing with the object
of catching someone who was engaged
in the pleasant diversion of peddling
hootch. After some little labor he fin
ally located the offender, who is said
to be an old-time resident of the Can
dle district, and applied to Commis
sioner Campbell for a warrant.
For some reason Campbell refused
the application.
Deputy Humber is then said to have
communicated the matter to the mar
shal’s office at Nome, with the result
that it was laid before the district
attorney at Nome. The district at
torney thereupon gave instructions to
Commissioner Campbell to issue the
warrant demanded. On receiving the
orders of the district attorney, Judge
Campbell is said to have resigned
forthwith, rather than obey the order.
SMOKELESS DAY IS URGED.
HELENA, Mont., March 2.—Gover
nor S. V. Stewart has endorsed the
idea of a “smokeless day”, the money
Saved to be used for the purchase of
thrift stamps, and has volunteered to
be one of the first to observe it.
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RESIDENTS OF NATIVE VILLAGE
AT JUNEAU SEETHE WITH
ANGER AT ATTORNEY.
STATEMENT IN PUBLIC SPEECH.
Leader of Red Men Declares That
They Live on Same Food As Whites
and That Seaweed Is Only Sort of
Fertilizer They Will Use.
An indignation meeting was held in
the Indian village at Juneau the other
j night when the report got around that
| it had been stated by Attorney R. E.
Robertson, in the course of a public
address that the Indians use as a sta
ple article of food a fish meal put up
by the Alaska Fish Salting & By
Products company at Killisnoo.
A committee of Indians was formed
to demand of Mr. Robertson that he
retract his statements or make other
amends for what was declared “a deep
insult to the Alaska natives,” says
the Juneau Dispatch.
Jack Williams, a leader in the In
dian village, persuaded the committee
that they should keep cool and simply
explain through the press that the
statement of the attorney is not true.
“The product of the company men
tioned is guano, a fertilizer which is
not and never has been used as a food
by the natives,” said Mr. Williams. !
“In fact, this guano smell so rank that j
the Indians will not even use it as '
fertilizer, preferring to use seaweed
for their gardens.”
The Indians assert that very little
herring oil is used as food, either.
“The company uses mud shark and j
other fish in its manufacture that the i
natives do not use for oil,” said Mr. ;
Williams, “and for that reason they ;
prefer to make for themselves what j
herring oil they use.
“The natives live on almost the j
Same food as the white man, and buy |
the best in the market,” stated Mr.
Williams. “They use far more seal
oil than herring oil, anyway, as it is
better for general use and keeps bet
ter.”
LLOYD STICKLER WILL ALSO
CONDUCT JOB PRINTING BUS
INESS IN COPPER TOWN.
MAY PUBLISH DAILY LATER.
Obtion Has Been Obtained on Plant
That Has Been in Storage for Some
Time But That Is Said to Be in
Good Condition.
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Lloyd Stickler, printer of Valdez,
was a passenger on the Victoria on
her recent trip to Cordova, where he
stated he would start a weekly paper
and job office, later developing it into
a daily newspaper if the patronage
warranted it.
Mr. Stickler has secured an option
on Will Steele’s outfit, which has been
stored in Cordova for some time, but
it is said to be in first class condition.
As Mr. Stickler is a young man of
ability and a hustler he will undoubt
edly give the citizens of Cordova a
good paper, says the Valdez Pros
I pector.
VOLCANO GROWLS
NEAR HONOLULU
MOVEMENT OF LAVA IN CRATER
OF MOUNT KILEAEAU
PORTENDS ERUPTION.
HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 1.—
The lava in the crater of Mount
Ivileaeau is moving in a way that por
tends an eruption. The present dan
ger, however, is considered slight.
W. F. GREEN WRITES OF ACTIVI
TIES IN DISTRICT TO FRIEND
IN IDITAROD.
SUMMER AND WINTER CAMP.
Country Can be Made to Yield All
Sorts of Vegetables and Besides
There Is Said to Be Plenty of Moose
and Mountain Sheep.
“You better move over to the land
of spuds, cabbage, cauliflower, beets,
carrots, celery, cucumbers, tomatoes,
home-grown pork, chickens and eggs,
with moose and sheep on the side, for
the Nixon strike is bona fide,” writes
W. F. Green, from Takotna to a friend
at Iditarod, according to the Iditarod
Pioneer.
“Mespelt and Rhude, on a pup on
the right limit, near the head of Hid
den creek, are twenty-seven feet to
bedrock and have twelve feet of grav
el running from lc top to 3c at bed
rock, which is granite. This pup
stands on end.
“Then, above them, on the next pup,
Ansio can not get down, as it is thaw
ed. He panned out a twenty-cent nug
get and several pieces going one to ^
three grains. He will have to run
up a drain.
“Then, between these two, H. E.
Carter has pay on a one-claim pup.
“Then below Mesfelt and Rhude is
Ed Whelan, Jones and Griffin with
pay.
“I am offered $2,000 cash for a half
interest in 6-b on Hidden, at the *
mouth of this pup.
Large Bodv of Gravel.
“Just over a low saddle from the
head of this pup on Ruby, Charles
Pearson has a large body of gravel
carrying values as high as thirty
cents in shotty gold. His last shaft
runs from two cents on top to ten
cents on bedrock, which is hard gran
ite that is not broken up.
“Dan Aston has taken a lay on No.
3-b on Ruby and is now taking in his
‘'George Walters and Jake Estel
man started for there the other morn
ing, as they own 1 and 2-b. Yankirk
and George accompanied them.
“There is still plenty of ground to
be staked, with plenty of wood, water,
meat and vegetables right in the coun
try to live on—not like it is at Good
News bay, where C. A. Fowler writes
his partner, Frank Joaquin, that
there are only 3Ys claims with pay
and no prospects on adjoining creeks.
There is no wood nor game there, and
it blows hurricanes with rain, fog or
snow all the time. Not for me! I’ll
stay with the wood and moose and
spuds, you bet.
All Year Camp.
“The Nixon will make a summer
and winter camp, as it is frozen, and
three or four times deeper than any
one thought. There i= enough now in
sight to make a small camp, but be
lieve me it will grow when they get
some prospecting boilers in there.
“Tom Aitken is busy getting his 470 ^
tons of dredge materials cut to Can
dle. He let the contract to haul 100
tons to Dave Edwards, it is reported,
as one of his horses had been laid up
with a lame knee.
“The boys on Karl creek will have
their ground ready to hydraulic in
the coming season. The small cut
they ran last fall averaged 54 cents ▼
to the square foot, and because their
drain was not deep enough they had
to leave two feet of pay under them
until they deepen the drain next
spring. Say, come over and get a
square meal and then take a look
around and see for yourself.”
PREMIER OF BRITISH ,
COLUMBIA IS ILL
CALGARY, March 1.—Premier
Brewster, of British Columbia, is crit
ically ill here with pneumonia. He was
taken from the train here while on his
way to Ottawa from Victoria, B. C.