LOCAL JOTTINGS
(Prom Monday’s Daily.)
Tex Jones announces the sale of
the Pan Handle Cigar store today
and will leave tomorrow for a trip
over the line to look for a new bus
iness location.
The friends of A. Takoff request
that anybody who found any money,
which the latter lost the night he
was killed bring it to this office in
order that it may be sent to his old
mother.
O. A. Kenyon, secretary of the
railroad Y. M. C. A., returned Satur
day from a trip over the line, where
he has been for several days, in the
interest of this worthy* organization,
and found the sad news announcing
the death of his mother at Denver
awaiting him
Judge- Conway is erecting an at
tractive cottage on Fifth avenue, be
tween D and E streets.
Mr. and Mrs. Ike Bayless and chil
dren have moved into their attract
ive new dwelling recently completed
an 7th avenue and P street.
E. O. Tweet, a mining man from
Dawson, is stopping af the Crescent
for a few days and will leave for Tal
ked na and the mineral zone in the
Broad Pass country next week on
the Hazel B. No. 2.
Secretary Koch wants to call the
attention of every member of the
Anchorage Chamber of Commerce to
the important meeting of this body
to the regular meeting next Tuesday
night at S o’clock and earnestly re
quest a good attendance, as several
important matters are waiting action
and should be brought before the
body.
1 he brokerage hrm of btrathcona
& Co., with temporary offices in the
Robarts building, are an aggressive
bunch and will undertake to sell
anything in the market from phono
graph records to a saw mill, but are
making a specialty of Anchorage real
estate, and their efforts are meeting
with marked success.
IT 1). Hall, of Hope, is making his
first visit to Anchorage and is stop
ping at the White Hous. Mr. Hall is
s2 years of age and has spent the
past 20 years of his life in mining
and prospecting around Hope and
vicinity. He says he is thoroughly
enjoying his visit to Anchorage and
expects to remain several days tak
ing in the moving picture shows,
looking over the city in general and
watching the activity at the govern
ment docks and railroad yards.
Mr. Hall had the delightful expe
riences of riding in the first auto
mobile he has ever seen this morn
ing and thoroughly enjoyed the sen
sation. and while he is astonished at
the growth and development of An
chorage he says he has lived too long
in the hills to change his habits and
adopt the customs of city life and
conventionality.
The Carstens Packing company
has moved into its new Sanitary
Market just completed on the south
side of 4tli avenue between C and L)
street. This market has been fitted
and furnished in a strictly up-to
date manner and opened ths morn
ing with a full supply of fresh meat,
home-grown vegetables and every
thing carried in a modern meat mar
ket.
I he members of the Anchorage
school board held their first regular
meeting Friday night at the resi
dence of Mrs. E. S. Reedy. The
board accepted the resignation of
Miss Clark as principal, Mrs. McCul
lagh. primary teacher and Miss Mur.
!>hy, grade teacher of the Anchorage
schools. In addition to Mrs. Reedy,
I 'r. McBride and A. J. Wendler were
in attendance and the board meets
again tonight to take up important
matters connected with the pablic
schools.
The Sunday excursion of the great
Alaska Railroad yesterday was a suc
cess} about 175 Anchorage citizens
and visitors took advantage of the
opportunity to see the work that
has been done by the Alaska Engi
neering commission and enjoy a
day’s outing at a nominal expense.
The excursion party was well con
ducted; trains running on schedule
and 360 people were fed by the
commissary at the Junction
The day was perfect and everyone
spoke enthusiastically of the trip
and this no doubt will be a Sunday
feature the balance of the season.
Mrs. O. G. Periling and son Stan
ley came over from Knik yesterday
and remained i:f the city until this
evening as guests of the White
House.
(From Tuesday’s Daily.)
Miss R. Nessett left on the Hazel
B. No. 2 last night for Talkeetna
where she will open a laundry.
Joe Reno, a merchant from Gla
cier creek, accompanied by his
daughter, arrived in Anchorage on
the launch Pioneer yesterday and
will spend several days in the city
visiting his friends and transacting
business.
Mrs. Grace E. Berten, a tourist
from San Francisco, who has been in
Anchorage for several days, took
advantage of the splendid accommo
dations on the Hazel B. No. 2 and
left last night on a pleasure trip to
Talkeetna and vicinity, to be gone
for a week or ten days.
The regulations governing street
numbering of Anchorage under date
of July 8th will fill a long-felt want
and the city administration is to be
congratulated for the concise and
buslne8like system they have inaug
urated.
(Prom Wednesday’s Daily.)
F. Broadwell, who has been in An
chorage for several days, stopping at
the Crescent, left for Talkeetna on
the Hazel B No, 2 Monday night on a
tour of inspection of thiB new Coun
try and will later probably go into
the Broad Pass country on a pros
pecting trip.
L. P. Bryne and John Enlund re
turned from Portage bay Tuesday,
where they have been for several
days on business connected with the
Enlund sawmill at that place.
Lieut. P. Mears, Dr. E. S. Keedy
and T. B. Watson were elected to
membership of the Anchorage Cham
ber of Commerce at the regular
meeting held last night.
The members of the Elks club are
hereby notified of the regular week
ly meeting to be held tomorrow
night at the club rooms.
The Edison dance last night was
well attended and enjoyed by a
large number of dancers. The rival
ry in the contest was keen and the
voting close, Mrs. Maud D. Cattle
receiving the highest number ot
j votes was awarded the Edison pho
! nograph and N. Brown received a
! box of cigars for accompanying the
most popular lady to the dance.
Tom De Camp arrived in Anchor
age yesterday on the launch Pioneer
from Turnagin Arm points.
Wm. Martin, the Willow creek
operator, came in from the mine yes
terday to attend the directors’ meet
ing of the Mable Mine and Milling
company, who have valuable quartz
property in the Willow creek dis
trict.
Axel Lindblat, an operator on
Winner creek in the Turnagin Arm
district, came in on the launch Pio
neer and is stopping at the White
H mico
The many friends of Felix Brown
will be glad to learn that he is get
ting along as nicely as could be ex
pected and will soon be able to be
out and attend to business
The New Method Cleaners have
moved from 5th Avenue near G street
to a new location on 4th avenue near
Bolte’s Hardware store. They an
nounce that they expect some new
and modern machinery on an early
steamer, also a motorcycle, which
will be used for delivering clothes
to their many customers.
Tht steamer Mariposa is reported
due in Seward at midnight tomorrow
night. .
Brown and Hawkins are making
additional improvements in their
display windows.
The Crescent is displaying an at
tractive new sign calling attention to
this popular hotel.
Wm. Johnson came over from
Knik yesterday to spend a few days
in the city on business.
The grocery store of A. A. Schon
beck has been treated to a new coat
of yellow and black paint.
The city administration is putting
down a new sidewalk in front of
the public schools on F street.
J. R. Krunim, the real estate man,
reports the sale of two lots from H.
.1. Wermes to Esas Wilkholm. They
are lots 1 and 12 in block 58.
Little Bett e Mears, the six-year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F.
Mears, is convalescing after a long
siege of measles and infantile trou
ble.
Jack Robarts has introduced a
new game caled baseball pocket bil
liads that is attracting a good deal
of attention among the baseball
! fans.
The work on the telephone build
ing on 4th avenue has been stopped
temporarily awaiting the arrival of
lumber and material that is expected
in the near future.
The launch Chase reached Anchor,
age this morning from Point Pos
session, having 135 piling from the
Herron mill for the Alaskan Engi
neering commission.
The freight steamer Wellesley
reached Anchorage yesterday at
noon with 458 tons of commission
freight, consisting chiefly of dump
and flat cars, pipe and steel rails.
.. A detailed account of the pro
gram to be rendered at the com
mencement exercise of the Anchor
age public schools will be published
in tomorrow’s issue of The Daily
Times.
The Admiral Evans is due in An
chorage tomorrow at 1 o’clock in
the afternoon carrying a large list
of passengers and 164 tons of freight
for the city merchants, 364 tons of
freight and 200 tons of coal for the
commission.
L. P. Shaw gave a very interest
ing and instructive talk before the
Nada club in the high school room
Monday evening on his personal ex
periences on the Siberian coast
where he has spent considerable
time mining and gathering curios.
Skookum Johnson left this after
noon on the launch Otter for Seldo
via and Ketchamak bay and from
there he intends going to Glacier
creek to establish a road nouse and
will return to Anchorage in about
ten days.
Mrs. F B. Standiford and daught
er Christine have moved from their
home on government hill to the
camp at Mile 112 where they will
spend the balance of the summer
with H. B. Standardiford who is lo
cated at that place as resident engi
neer of the Turnagain Arm district.
Read The Daily Times and be an
Anchorage booster.
MAMMA PUTS
About 175 fans and excursionists
accompanied the City team to Mat
anuska Junction yesterday and
were repaid by witnessing a fast
snappy game of baseball in which
the Junction won 4 to 3.
Manager Tracy says the Junction
people were courtesy personified and
he was exceptionally well pleased
with the treatment the City team re
ceived both from the players and the
people in general.
The Junction diamond was fast
and in splendid condition and -while
the game was not featured by any
one brilliont play, the entire game
was close and interesting and wit
sessed by 500 people.
The City team led up to the 8th 3
to 2, when the Junction bunched
three hits off Linn and scored two
runs which, with a bad decision aft
er two were down gave them the
game. ' '
The Junction rooters sustained
their reputation and were enthusias
tic, nor did the City team lack in
supporters. Linn and Sheets both
pitched good ball and received big
league support, Linn allowing seven
hits to Sheets* five; Linn struck out
4 to Sheets’ 5. City played an er
rorless game while the Junction
made four errors behind Sheets.
Cunningham, Henry and Mclver
played star ball for the Junction and
Austin and Mclver got two hifs
apiece off of Linn.
Powery, Nourse and Tiffany play
ed great ball for the City and Hunt,
the new man in left was the only
City player to get two hits.
The Junction will play at Kecrea
be a big drawing card.
The Junction players wore the
suits of the Anchorage Daily Times,
which partially accounts for their
victory; and with due thanks to the.
Junction players the percentage of
The Daily Times suits now stands
50-50.
The teams lined-up as follows:
Junction AB R H A BO E
Cunningham, If ..4 0 0 0
Sullivan, lb . 3 1 1 0 14
Hill, cf . 2 0 0 0 2
Henry, ss . 4 1 15 2
Jeffries, 2b .... 4 0 0 2 1
Wible, rf . 3 2 10 0
Ervine, 3b . 2 0 0 0 1
Melver, 3 b . 2 0 2 2 1
Austin, c . 4 0 2 1 5
Sheets, p . 2 0 0 4 0
30, 4 7 14 27 4
AB R HA BO E
Totals ...
City
Powery, lb .’. 5 10 2 9 0
Noffsker, cf . 4 0 u 0 2 0
Nourse, 3b . 3 1 0 3 2 0
Nicholls, 2b . 3 10 0 10
Tiffany, ss . 4 0 1-4 3 0
Henning, c . 4 0 0 0 5 0
Bush, rf . 3 0 10 10
Hunt, If . 4 0 2 0 1 0
Linn, p . 4 0 1 3 3 0
Totals .34 3 5 1227 0
Attendance 500. Time of game 1
hr. 40 min. Umpires Means and
Lankin. Official Scorer Cunningham.
WATER FRONT BALL TEAM
ASPIRING FOR HONORS
Since the baseball game Saturday
evening between the Lumbermen
and The Daily Times teams several
aspirants have sprung up for honors,
among them being the Water Front
team, under the captaincy of F. M.
O’Neill, who has isued a challenge
to the Lumbermen for a game some
evening this week.
Captain O’Neill says he has some
all-star material in his team and
mentioned one player who p.tched
Spokane to victory several years ago.
The dock men and the clerks in the
big government warehouse are be
hind this team to a man and Temple
Murphy, the capable receiving and
forwarding agent for the commis
sion is sponsor for the team and an
ardent supporter; Ed. Culbertson,
the genial assistant, has made the
statement that the Dock team can
beat the City and he and several oth
ers are willing to bet their poke on
the result against th'e Lumbermen.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BE
DEDICATED NEXT SUNDAY
Dr. McBride announces Sunday,
July 16th, as the date for the dedi
cation of the Presbyterian church and
arrangements are being made to
make this an auspicious ocasion.
Communion services will be held in
the morning at 11 o’clock and the
dedication services at 8 o’clock in the
evening; a choir of 16 voices are
rehearsing appropriate thusic and
a fitting program is being prepared,
a detailed account of which will be
published later in the week.
NORTHWESTERN IS NOT
COMING TO ANCHORAGE
General Agent Tracy reports that
the steamer Northwestern will come
no further than Seward on this trip
and that all Anchorage freight and
passengers will be transferred to
the steamer Mariposa at Seward.
The Northwestern will return via the
outside passage from Cordova, and
the Mariposa ia due in Anchorage
Thursday.
COAL VEINS ARE
BEING PROSPECTED
Jack Sutherland, organisser of the
Alaska Labor union and Captain
Wm. Johnson returned to town last
night on the Matanuska Limited aft
er spending a week in the vicinity of
the Chicaloon coal fields and are very
enthusiastic in regard to the possi
bilities in that section.
Mr. Sutherland said that they saw
16 prospectors sizing up the coal sit
uation and that four outfits are run
ning tunnels and making a thorough
prospecting test on the south side of
the Matanuska river just above
Kings river.
Jack also volunteered the follow
ing items of news relative to that
section that will be of interest to
the readers of The Daily Times:
Perry Sutton and Wm. Sherman
came to Anchorage on the train
from their camp on Eska creek, hav
ing finished their piling contract
with the Alaskan Engineering com
mission.
Wm. A. Clark returned to town
last night from a prospecting trip on
the upper Matanuska and has com
pleted the assessment work on his
copper claims on Granite creek.
Sam Overhand has sold his cigar
store at Moose creek and was an
Anchorage passenger on yesterday’s
train.
Nick Davis and partners have fin
ished their rock contract on the
Matanuska branch above Camp 10
and are in Anchorage for settlement
with the commission.
Tom Patterson, who is employed
at the Martin mine in the Willow
creek district, came to Anchorage
on last night’s traia to have some
dental work done and will be in the
city several days. Mr. Patterson
brought down some excellent sam
ples of quartz from the recent Reed
creek strike
CRUSHING FORTY
Superintendent J. L. McAllen, of
the Willow Creek Mining company,
who have a lease on the Gold Bul
lion quartz property in the Willow
creek district, arrived in Anchorage
yesterday with the bullion from the
last clean-up.
Mr. McAllen reports everything '
progressing favorably at the mine
and mill and from present conditions
expects a very successful season.
The mills are crushing 40 tons of
quartz a day and they have plenty
of ore in sight and blocked out for
the season’s run of about 150 days.
He says they have been very fortun
ate in getting hold of extra good
miners this season and that the boys
are well satisfied with the grub and
accommodations and so far have on
ly lost three men from dissatisfac
tion of existing conditions and this
was on account of the doctor’s fee,
which is customary in this country.
Dr. E M. Spaulding, who has the
men from the Bullion, Independence
and Alaska and Free Gold mine un
der his medical supervision, has
moved to Mile 32 and established
headquarters, with his wife in
charge of the hospital. This move is
of great advantage to the miners in
the Willow creek district and will
no doubt do away with any existing
dissatisfaction.
The roads to the mines this spring
were in very bad condition and the
operators had considerable trouble
in geft;ng in provisions but Mr. Mc
Alljaij says that they now have a
seasl^’s supply on hand with plen
ty pfcbeef and that he has arranged
for, ^esh vegetables from the ranch
era in the vicinity of Knik.
He says that they are working 75
men at the Bullion at the present
and that he is after ten additional
miners on this trip and that before
the season is over they will have 100
men in their employ, with comfort
able accommodations for the entire
force.
Mr. McAllen is stopping at the
Hotel Parsons and will leave this
evening on the launch Swan for
Knik and the Willow creek district.
FAIRBANKS, July 12.—George
H Gailland, a timber cruiser of the'
land office and well known along
the Alaskan coast, is believed to
have been drowned in the Tanana
river. He left here last Saturday in
a row boat for Nenana. On Sunday
the boat was found drifting in the
river, containing his personal effects,
bedding and mosquito net, but Gail
land wa8 missing. The original
searching party has returned, bring
ing the boat back. Two more par
ties started out and others are go
ing in search of the missing man.
Thus far no trace has been found of
Gilliand and there is.no doubt that
he was drowned.
RULES REGULATING
USEJF TIMBER
Manager Christensen, under date
of July 7th, 1916, has issued in- i
structions governing the free use and i
sale of timber upon lands within the ;
Anchorage townsite including the
east and south additions and appear
for the first time in today’s Ibsub of {
The Daily Times and is as follows:
1. Any person desiring to cut ,
wood for his own use and not for ,
sale must first apply to the townsite (
manager in person or by letter, stat- (
ing the number of lotg or blocks
from which he desires to cut the .
wood. Upon receipt of such applica
tion the townsite manager will con- {
sider the same, and if there is no {
objection to allowing the cutting,
he will issue a written permit to that
effect. * ‘
That person applying to cut wood
must agree to pile and burn the ,
brush in accordance with instruct (
tions from the townsite manager and
the latter, or his representative, will
supervise the cutting and require ,
that all brush affected by such cut- .
ting must be piled and burned before ,
the timber or wood is removed.
2. Any person desiring to cut
wood within said area for sale must
first apply to the townsite manager
for permit, and if there is no objec- (
tion, the latter will write a letter
to the register and receiver of the ,
United States land offipe at Juneau,
Alaska, stating that there is no ob- ,
jection to the cutting of timber
within the lots or blocks applied for, ,
which letter must be delivered or
mailed to the applicant The appli
cant will then prepare and submit -
his application for permit to cut un
der Circular 85 of the regulations
governing the use and disposition of
timber upon public lands in Alaska. ,
Blank application can be secured ,
irom tne oince oi townsite manager; ,
the application must be accompanied j
by the funds required under the reg- ,
illations.
Hereafter no cutting, either for <
free use or sale, within the lots and
blocks embraced in the Anchorage
townsite and east and south addi
tions, will he permitted without first
securing a written permit from the ,
townsite manager in accordance
herewith.
IK I RAILS ARE
TO BE REPAIRED
Ross Kenny who has recently
completed surveying a large tract of
mining property for Arthur Jett on
the East Fork near Sunrise, arrived
in Anchorage on the launch Pioneer
yesterday afternoon and left for Knik
last night.
Mr. Kenny has been connected
with the Araska Road commission
for a number of years and is a man
who does things much to the satis
faction of the farmer and miner of
this country. He will spend the bal
ance of the season on the roads in
the vicinity of Knik, more particu- 1
larly the much-traveled road lead
ing from Knik to the Willow creek
mining district and will have a
force of 15 men under his supervi
sion.
Mr. Kenny said that the first work
would be done where actually need
ed and on the ordinary maintenance
of this much-traveled road.
Later he said that he might take
up the proposition of building the
road from mile 28 to a point on the
railroad for the benefit of the mine
operators in this district but would
say nothing definite in regard to this
matter.
Mr Kenny expects to visit the dif
ferent mine operators in the Willow 1
creek district in the very near future '
in reference to their needs and in '
this shows the spirit of fairness and 1
that he desires to co-operate with the ;
mine operator as well as with the
farmer and ranchman of this section.
I
SUMMER RESORT
ON JETER HE i
i
■ ,
Joe Spenard has entered into the
country club business and is spend- 1
ing his time and money to make 1
Jeter lake a place of beauty and one 1
that will attract the week-ender and
the Sunday excursionist. (
Mr. Spenard has recently taken up
a homestead of 160 acres which in
cludes Jeter lake and hks a force gf
men putting the road in shape for 1
travel. Jeter lake is five miles from
Anchorage and Mr. Spenard is plan- 1
ning to make a summer resort of
the place and make a specialty of {
bathing and boating. The beach of i
the lake is sandy and he has wired 1
out for bathing suits and is erecting <
a bath house for the convenience of
the bathers. He is also clearing the 1
grounds in the immediate vicinity of i
the lake and says he will have, the t
place ready for picnic parties by next 1
Sunday. i
The regulations under signature
>f J. O. Watts, townsite manager,
ire effective from July 8 th and ap
pear in today’s issue of The Daily
rimes for the first time:
All streets running east and west
will be numbered beginning at A
itreet. Streets west of A street will
le known by the usual street name,
;hus; First street, Second street,
rhircf street, Fourth street, B street,
3 street, D street, etc. Streets east
>f A street will be known by the us
lal street name, with the prefix
‘East,” thus: “East First street,
Bast Second street, East Third
itreet, East Fourth street, East B
itreet, East C street, etc.
One hundred numbers will be al
ower to each block. Thus, A street
;o B street will be the 100 block,
3 street to C street, 200 block, C
itreet to D street, 300 block, and so
>n.
Streetes running north and south
will be numbered from First street,
rhus: First street to Second street
will be the 100 block, Second to
rhrid street, 200 block, Third to
F’r’urth street, 300 bloc!', and so on.
Odd numbers, one, three, five, etc.
will be on the north or east side of
be streets, as the case may be, and
he even numbers on the south or
vest side, as the case may be. One
lumber will be allowed for each
feet of frontage on the street,
naking four numbers to each lot.
A chart illustrating the above sys
;em of numbering is on file in tte
)ffice of the Townsite Manager.
if ANY PASSENGERS LEAVE
FOR TALKEETXA
The Hazel B. No. 2, voyage 5,
lailed last night at 11 o’clock from
he government dock direct for Su
iitna and Talkeetna carrying the
allowing passengers all for Talkeet
la: Ed Legrin, S. Overland, C. F.
rohnson, P. St. Peters, Ed. Michel
lon, E. O. Tweits, F. Broadwell,
Etobt. Agnew, S. Jennings, Will H.
Pearsons, Horace Mohrig, R. C. Bet
ancourt, Frank Harding, Miss K.
^essett, Mrs. G. E. Mertens, E. Spen.
ler, O Fowler, W. B. Mason, and
Sidney Williams.
In addition to this list of 19 pas
sengers the Hazel B. carried 12
;ons of general merchandise and will
lick up 15,000 feet of lumber and
;en tons of merchandise at Susitna
"or Talkeetna.
The next sailing date of the Hazel
B. for Susitna Station and Talkeetna
s set for July 15, and arrangements
’or tickets and freight can be made
it the ticket ofce on C street, just
lorth of 4th avenue.
DELEGATES ARE ELECTED
TO VALDEZ CONVENTION
The republican primaries held Sat
urday to elect eight delegates from
:he Anchorage voting precinct? to the
republican territorial divisional con
tention to be held at Valdez on the
17th inst resulted in the election of
:he following-named delegates: J.
McLaughlin, A. M. Barnes, Wm.
k. Maitland, A. S. Koch. M. L. V.
Smith, E J, Warner, Ray C. Larson
ind Jack Sutherland.
The election was held at the cham
ber of commerce and about 100 votes
;ast with John Nuru, Tom Parker
md Carl Almy acting as judges of
;he election.
ENGINEER KUNEY UNDERGOES
OPERATION AT MAYO HOSPITAL
Superintendent Jas. O'Reilly is in
■eceipt of a letter from Mrs. K. K.
Kuney saying that her husba'd K.
K. Kuney had recently undergone a
rery successful operation at the’
Vlayo hospital at Rochester, Minn.
Mr. Kuney is district engineer of
:he Matanuska district and was sent
;o this famous hospital by Drs. Ree
ly and Beeson and his many friends
:onnected with the Alaskan Engi
leering commission and in Anchor*
ige will he glad to learn that he is
getting along so nicely.
3UILDING TELEPHONE LINE
TO THE END OP ROAD
A construction crew, under Fore
nan E. C. Conners, of the telegraph
md telephone department, is being
prganizea to cross-arm and install
additional wires on the line along
he railroad to Matanuska Junction.
This work will be pushed and Su
perintendent E. R. McFarland says
;he permanent line will be completed
o the end of the steel this season.
CHAMBER TO REGISTER
HARD ROCK MINERS
Superintendent J. L. McAllen, ot
he Gold Bullion quartz mine in the
iYillow creek district, has made- ar
•angements with Secretary A. S.
Koch of the Anchorage Chamber of
Commerce to register all hard rock
niners seeking employment, with the
ihamber, taking their names and ad
Iresses.
By this Method the operators of
he Willow creek district will be
ible to notify Secretary Koch at any
Ime they need hard rock men and
hey can be supplied from tnose who
agister and leave their address.
ANCHORAGE IN
MOVIE PICTURES
Mr. and Mrs. Al. Smith, the inov»
ing picture operators, left for Polly
creek ar.d Snug harbor Saturday
whore they will spend sevoial days
taking pictures of the bears catching
salmon; from there they go to the
Kenai fisheries for complete views of
this industry and later are going to
the famous Tustumena lake to pic
ture the moose and other wild ani
mals in their native state. They ex
pect to spend several weeks in this
vicinity getting many pictures that
will be of vast interest to the outside
world and from there will go to Sew
ard, Cordova and the Copper river
country before returning to Seattle.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith carry their
own outfit, which is complete in ev
ery detail for camping out and
roughing it as the work requires;
they are keen observers and especial
ly well qualified for this line of work
they are devoting so much time to
and of which they have made a life
study.
Mr. Smith is connected with the
Filmmakers’ Manufacturing company
of New York and said just before
leaving Anchorage that in all they
had taken 1242 feet of film of An
chorage views including the leading
business houses, residences, yards,
gardens and different places of inter
est in addition to the splendid pic
tures that they procured of the rail
road work from Anchorage to the
end of the line.
These pictures and views will be
rpnrnrinpoH nn
screen throughout the United States
and will be a source of great interest
as well as educational to the people
ami without a doubt will be the
means of attracting a large number
of people to this section of Alaska.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith were loud in
their praise of the extreme courtesy
of the Alaskan Engineering commis
sion and said they were never better
treated by any one even from the
laborer to the men in charge of this
great work and desired especially to
express their gratitude and extend
their hearty thanks to Commissioner
Mears, Superintendents O’Reilly and
Jones and the balance of the gentle
men who so kindly assisted them in
their efforts to get appropriate pic
tures of this section of Alaska and
the work that is being done by the
Alaskan Engineering commission in
this vicinity.
They said they were under obliga
tions to Secretary A. S. Koch and
the Anchorage Chamber of Com
merce for their kindness and that it
would be a pleasure to make this
city another visit next summer if on
ly to meet the courteous and enter
prising people who constitute the cit
izenship of the rapidly developing
city of Anchorage.
IS BOUND OVER
TO BRAND JURY
Afi Kasloof, the murderer, who
was bound over to wait action of the
grand jury made the statement in
yesterday’s preliminary hearing that
Takoff had grievously wronged him.
He could not be made to talk much
further on the subject and insisted
on a relative being the interpreter
but the law is clear in this regard
and states that no relative can act
as interprefer in a case of this na
ture. He has not retained counsel
and seems apparently indifferent to
the outcome.
However, he has asked for several
of his countrymen who have refused
to visit him, as it seems that in a
meeting of his countrymen in the
last day or two, that they decided
that he committed murder without
provocation and was not entitled to
their sympathy or support.
New developments in the case
are looked for and at the time of
the trial some of this evidence will
probably be introduced, throwing ad
ditional light on the cause of the
murder.
MABLE MIXING COMPANY
HAS ELECTION OF OFFICERS
At a meeting of the stockholders
of the Mable Mine Milling and Pow'
er company held in Anchorage yes
terday morning W. E. Bartholf was
elected president, Fred Laubner vice
president and Thos. Cavny secretary
and treasurer. These gentlemen with
Wm. Martin and Harvey Bartholf also
constitute the board of directors.
Mr. Bartholf gave out the report
that the hew Denver mill is now run.
ning and that they have plenty of
good ore to run the balance of the
season and are very much encour
aged over the prospects.
BIG APPROPRIATION
FOR GOOD ROADS
WASHINGTON, July 12.—Presi
dent Wilson has signed the good
roads bill, authorizing the expendi
ture of $85,000,000 in 5ve years by
the federal government, if the states
will expend a similar amount.