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BRIEF NEWS OF THE NORTHLAND.
The Moose lodge at Seward recent
ly elected the following officers: Dic
tator, Dr. J. M. Sloan; Vice-Dictator
Rudolph Peterson; Prelate, J. Mee
han; treasurer, Otto Boehm; secre
tary, F. R. Bigford; trustee, M. A
Horner. Mr. Horner also becomes
past dictator.
Sam Feldon, proprietor of the Cap
ital Coffee house at Juneau recently
made a valuable find in the First Na
tional Bank of Juneau, when he pick
ed up a leather pouch containing sev
eral valuable rings. So far no one
has appeared to claim the property
and Sam is wondering what to dc
with the jewelry. Among the rings
was one with large settings of rubies
which alone undoubtedly cost the own
er tidy sum. The cost of the entire
collection of rings would amount tc
several hundred dollars, as there are
also diamonds in the assortment. It
is possible that the owner was one of
the shipwrecked passengers from the
ill-fated Evans and may have left Ju
neau before discovering the loss.
The Pacific and Arctic Railway and
Navigation company has asked the
interstate commerce commission at
Washington city permission to make
an increase ranging from 50 cents to
$2.85 a ton in class rates on mining
machinery, fuel oil and ore, and an
increase ranging from $1 to $4.MO per
thousand on lumber between Seattle,
Tacoma, Prince Rupert, Vancouver,
Victoria, San Francisco and Alaska
and Yukon and British Columbia
points. The company making the re
quest is subsidiary of the White Pass
A- V L-.-wn rmito
because he made a false manifest
am! bragged about it, declaring that
he had put it over the Canadian offi
c'ais at Kerschel island. Captain Wit
tenburg, master of the schooner Chal
lenger, has been sentenced to eighteen
norths in jail at Dawson. The ship
has been seized. He became embroil
ed with the members of the crew who
gave information against him.
."’an Kohn, a pioneer of Alaska
since '84, died the other day at St.
Ann’s hospital in Juneau. He had
lived in Alaska for the past thirty
three years and in Juneau off and on
for the past twenty years. He had
prospected in Cassiar and about
Wrangell, Juneau and other Alaskan
towns. He represented the old school
of prospectors and pioneers whose
latchstring was always on the outside
and leaves a host of warm personal
friends, who will mourn his loss. A
sister. Mrs. Alice Foster, survives iri
Cody, Wyoming.
Telegraphic report sent out from
Juneau to the effect that the Alaska
Labor union of Juneau had passed
resolutions indorsing Governor J. F.
A. Strong and protesting against the
confirmation of Thomas Riggs, jr., as
his successor are absolutely false, ac
cord.ng to a statement issued recent
ly by officers of the Juneau union.
Secretary Walter Johnson has
issued an ofiicial statement to the
eff< ct that the union had neither in
dorsed strong nor protested against
the1 appointment of anyone, and that
the union was not in politics.
After a frantic search for severa
hours, Lillian Peterson, three year.c
old, was found unconscious on the
beach at Juneau under a grocery store
in a pile of snow, slowly freezing tc
death. The little one had fallen froir
a platform. Tears which had fuller
down the tot’s cheeks were frozer
on the little face. The next day Li!
lian appeared little the worse for hei
experience.
Dinty Moore died at Tacoma front
scarlet fever. Last summer he was ;
player on the Tolovana ball team
This winter he responded to the coun
tr y’s call and mushed out by the wa;
of Broad pass to enlist. He was ;
member of the coast artillery at th<
time of his death and was stationer
at Camp Lewis.
The lumber business will be activ
at Petersburg, Alaska, for the nex
three years, according to S. F. Hogue
tya merchant of Petersburg, in Se
attle, says the Times.
“I understand that contracts have
been made for the delivery of 100,
1000,000 feet of spruce from Peters
burg and vicinity within the next
three years,” said Hogue. “A consid
! erable portion of this will be cut into
lumber at the Petersburg mills. The
remainder will be taken south in
rafts.”
Mr. Hogue said the outlook for a
big salmon run is excellent.
The Dawson News tells of recent
deaths in that city as follows:
Frank Hales, a member of the Pio
neers.
Joseph Lalancette, a native of Chi
coutimi, Quebec, aged 55 years.
John Nichols, known as “Nick the
Barber.”
B. B. Pinkerton, the pioneer trans
portation man of Dawson.
John Laumeister, one of the most
widely known and popular old-timers
of the north, died of pneumonia. He
came to Alaska in 181)5.
Mrs. Dan Coates was buried on Jan
uary 7.
• Robert Stuart, a pioneer of Peters
burg. who has been seriously ill for
..evera! days at the hospital in Ju
neau, died recently. He was 7” years
>f age and had been a resident of
Alaska for a long time.
It is understood that the Admiral
Evans will be easily salvaged and a
.alvage steamer is on the way north
a.nil perhaps has already reached the
scene of where the Evans is aground.
Arrangements have been made by
the Petersburg Packing company with
the Independent Fisheries company
for the establishment of a buying
agency at Petersburg, Alaska. The
companx \ i l operate three halibut
schooners.
\Y. r. Mills, of Sitka, has purchased
the clam cannery belonging to J. H.
Long and H. T. Tripp. The cannery
will be enlarged and operations will
start as soon as possible.
The Sunny Point Packing company
will reconstruct its cannery at Sunny
point, and expects to be in operation
soon. Two whole lines will be oper
ated this year.
The Northern Fisheries company
has opened a cod fishing station at
Kodiak.
The Pyramid Packing company ex
acts to have its new cannery at Sitka
n operation this month.
F. S. Grinstein and H. Greenstone
are now at the scene of the wrecked
steamer Al-Ki and will attempt to
-alvage that craft.
The entire medical fraternity of
Wrangell is now enrolled in the medi
cal corps of the United States army.
Men have been sent from Seattle to
take care of the sick until the resi
dent doctors return from the war.
Emil E. Hurja, who resigned as
private secretary to Delegate in Con
gress Charles A. Sulzer, to enter an
officers' training camp, has been com
missioned a second lieutenant in the
aviation corps.
: z All school girls of Fairbanks are
i in a company taking regular drill se
curing knowledge for a soldier.
i Ted Thisted, Ed. Chapman and
Thomas Strimple, Cordova young
• men, have gone south to enlist. A
| public dance was given in their honor
j upon the eve of their departure.
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i Wiliam M. Urguhart and Miss
. [ Catherine S. Keith were married last
- week at Cordova. Their future home
r | will be in that city.
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; At the annual election of the Ju
1 neau Moose, Shelley Graves was re
elected dictator; Vice-Dictator Stokes
was re-elected, as was Treasurer Ar
; neson. Prelate Walsted succeeds Prel
t ate Kennedy, and Inner Guard Oburg
i, replaces Peter Sandstrom at the same
post. Chris Madsen, outer guard last
. year, is succeeded by Outer Guard
Davis. Ed. C. Russel was re-elected
: trustee. H. S. Graves and Dr. Ma
hone were chosen representatives to
the supreme lodge. R. H. Stevens
holds over as secretary of the order.
Arthur Steel, for years employed
on the Copper River & Northwestern,
died recently in Seattle. Steel was on
ly 30 years of age and was on his
honeymoon trip with his bride when
called by death.
Miss Hannah Breese, teacher of the
Douglas native school, fell in front
of the school building the other night,
breaking both bones in the right ankle
anil severely wrenching the ligaments
of the leg.
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W. H. Rogers, mediator and concil
j 'utor of the department of labor, and
| J. Grant, of the Locomotive Brother
hood in Seattle, who will represent
he Cordova train and engine men in
he arbitration of their dispute with
lie Copper river railroad have arriv
ed at Cordova. The trainmen of the
Copper river railway have asked for
more wages, and the matter has been
>ut up to the board of arbitration.
Eighty-six degrees below zero is
the coldest weather recorded by the
interior this winter. At many points
his temperature prevailed for nearly
week.
James L. Galen, proprietor of the
Alaska Transfer company at Cordova,
who recently had his big auto truck
smashed by a switch engine has been
forced to go to Chitina to buy horses
to do the work done by the truck.
The Pinnacle Rock Canning com
pany at Cordova has started its new
clam cannerv nlant. All machinery
has been installed and comfortable
quarters fitted up for the crew.
The city of Cordova has followed
the example of Valdez and appropri
ated $600 to build a float for small
boats. Cordova is working hard for
the Ellamar and upper-sound trade.
The Lighthouse Canning company
of Cordova has begun the erection of
a two-story warehouse 40 by 70 feet,
near the city dock. Sixty-five men
and women will be employed in the
cannery, all of whom will be Cor
dovans.
The officers of the Juneau land of
fice have anounced their decision in
the case of Jimmie Clark against Cy
rus Sheldon and held for the latter.
Sheldon is the owner of a homestead
adjoining the northern limits of Ju
neau and has been in constant posses
sion since its first location. Clark, a
native, claimed adverse possession of
one acre of ground by virtue of his
j having located the ground long before
Juneau was located, but since the evi
! dence showed that he had abandoned
| his ground at one time and only re
! turned to it within the last few years,
j the officers held that he had forfeit
ed his rights. This case was tried in
the district court and a decision for
Sheldon was rendered at that time,
but as it was not binding on the de
partment of the interior, a further
hearing in the Juneau land office was
ordered.
The Enterprise Foundry company,
cf Juneau, announces that they have
installed a new furnace with a capaci
ty of ten tons per hour. This will
enable them to handle any job up to
fifteen tons.
Steps are being taken for the stock
ing of the Copper river valley with
reindeer, which will be taken from
the vicinity of Nome. The animals
will be taken overland by herders to
the place to be stocked some time this
spring.
Andrew Simon pleaded guilty to
Larceny at Fairbanks and was sen
tenced to ten weeks in jail by United
States District Judge C. E. Bunnell.
Daniel Morency pleaded guilty to
two charges of burglary. Twice he
brook into and took articles from
Hall’s bath house at Fairbanks. He
will be sentenced later.
John Gray, accused of murder,
pleaded not guilty when arraigned be
fore Judge Bunnell.
The grand jury at Fairbanks has
returned indictments against S. H.
Mill wee, for larceny by bailee; Thom
as McDonald for robbery and Law
rence Cole for forgery and assault
with intent to kill.
An effort is to be made or organ
ize a camp of the Arctic Brotherhood
in Nenana. More than a score of
present and former members of the
Alaskan order have interested them
selves in the movement and a call has
been issued for a meeting to be held
at Union hall at Nenana.
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The United States bureau of mines
i at Fairbanks is ready to operate its
ore-crushing mill.
i One of the Juneau laundries recent
ly suffered a heatless strike, as the
l laundry was cold when the girls went
i to work and they all went home. Af
ter a good deal of rustling a full crew
was recovered and work was resumed.
The heating system will be supple- j
t mented by electric stoves in the fu
! lure, to prevent cold feet and strikes.
In response to a telegram from Del
egate in Congress Charles A. Sulzer j
requesting information concerning,
the proposed removal of the Tolovana
log jam, the Nenana Commercial club
club replied that the removal of the
jam would result in a probable saving
in freightage charges of $30,000 an
nually.
Within the next few weeks active
construction work will start on the
new dredge that is to be erected by
the Fairbanks Cold Mining Co., Ltd.,
on Fairbanks creek. The Union Con
struction Co., of San Francisco, which
has the contract for erecting the
dredge, expects to start work about
tire first of May. During the last sum
taken to the scene of the mining com
pany’s operations and placed on the
ground to be available when needed.
The machinery will be on some of the
first boats to arrive after the break
up. The mining company’s property
takes iti the entire creek from 0 below
discovery up. The dredge will be con
structed on 1 below and is one of the
most modern make and of large ca
pacity. About twelve men will be
employed in the construction of the
dredge.
The sawmill, planing mill and box
factory of the Willson & Sylvester
Mill company, of Wrangell, which has
been working on a large order of air
plane spruce for the United States
government, was totally destroyed by
tire recently. Three million feet of
lumber on hand was saved. The plant
which was built thirty years ago, was
partially insured in the sum of $20,
000. A hot box caused the fire. Prior
to the war the concern specialized in
cannery supplies, and had a capacity
of 30,000 feet daily.
The following candidacies have been
announced for the city election at
Seward, April 2: Mayor, Harry V.
Hoben; counoilmen, Erich Lucas, S.
M. Graff, E. L. Whittemore and J. L.
Graef; city attorney", L. L. James, jr.
A deal has been consummated
whereby William E. Terrill, the well
known Fairbanks freighter, purchased
a half interest in the Alaskan hotel
j at Cordova, and hereafter the hostelry
1 will hp rnmlnrtpfl nnrlpv Hip firm namp
i of Gottschalk & Terrill. The new
owner is an old hotel man, having
had considerable experience in that
line of business in the states. For
several years past he has been in the
freighting business in the interior,
with a number of teams operating
during the winter season between
; Chitina and Fairbanks.
j
Terry Gilligan, who left Seward
several weeks ago for Seattle, hiving
been employed on the government
railroad, claims he was robbed in Se
atle recently. He boarded a nickel -
fare automobile and after it had pro
ceeded a few blocks, the machine came
to a stop and the driver and a com
panion in the seat with him turned
about suddenly and thrusting a re
volver in Gilligan’s face, commanded
him to put his hands up. Gilligan obey
ed and stepped from the car as ord
ered, and then submitted to a search
of his pockets. The two robbers ob
tained $140 in currency and somi
small change, and then drove off, leav
ing Gilligan standing in the stree
with his hands up in obedience to «
command of the gunman not to sti
until the car had passed out of gun
shot distance.
Citizens of Seward are debating
whether the phenomena that rocker
the buildings of the town the othe:
night was a wind, a little strongei
than usual, or an earthquake. Georgr
Sexton claims that the earth mover
and that here were a series of shocks
He declares that the first shock wa:
felt at 2 o’clock in the morning an;
that subsequent shocks occurred unti
five o’clock when a decided one lasting
for perhaps twenty second, accurred.
For the city election at Cordova
April 2 A. J. Adams, Malcolm Black
Will Clayson, W. R. Hillery, A. J. Me
Connell, C. M. Rosswog, J. B. Sapiro
E. L. Harwood and Dr. W. H. Chas;
have filed for councilmen. There an
seven to be elected. For clerk of th<
Cordova school board Calvin C. Haze
lett and H. Phillips have announcer
their candidacies.
Nominally to guard governmenl
property in Seward, but incidental!j
to put a stop to mank acts of seditior
reported to the city and federal offi
cials at Seward, a detachment of thr
Fourtenth infantry, has arrived then
from Fort Liscum. The detachmeni
is in charge of Lieut. Long and then
are twenty-two men in the command
Permanent quarters for the detach
ment of soldiers will be in the gov
ment cottages on Third avenue nortl
of Lowell creek.
A fine mineral spring it is said ex
ists near Tonsina roadhouse along th<
government trail, about forty mile:
northeast of Valdez. The waters art
strongly impregnated with sulphui
and other minerals and are said to bt
highly medicnal. It is stated that ar
effort will be made to attract atten
tion to the spring’s splendid therapeu
tic properties and that a resort will
be built for tourists who desire tc
use its healing waters. At manj
points in Alaska medicinal spring:
have been discovered, many of their
of great healing powers for eertair
diseases, and it is believed that th(
spring at Tonsina will be found to b(
of this class when its waters hav<
been analyzed. A sample will be sen'
to government chemists by partie;
intersted in the near future.
Considerable anxiety is felt for th<
safety of Capt. Everson and a fisher
man known as Ratsy, who left Cor
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i flats to look after fish locations for
- the Orca cannery. They started from
t ^ Whitshed for Dahl’s slough where
i they ran into an ice jam and nothing
; has been since heard of them. Capt.
| Frank Cole started out the other day
: from Cordova with the North Star to
I search for the missing men but has
;■! returned there with no trace of them.
The First Bank of Cordova has de
cided to increase its capital stock from
$25,000 to $50,000.
OUR JOE MILLER CONTEST.
j Lloyd Winter claims that the oldest
joke is the one about the German who
met an Irish friend on the street.
“How are you, Mike?” said Fritz. “I
feel out of sight,” replied Mike. A lit
tle later Fritz met Heinv, another
German. “How are you, Fritz?” said
Heiney. “I feel like you can’t see me
at all,” replied Fritz.
With a view to making Japan self
supporting in wool production the
government is planning to raise 1,
000,000 head of sheep within the next
i 20 years.
OUR DAILY SPECIAL.
Putting On Style Often Means Put
ting Off Creditors.
Ihi Sitka Hoi Springs
These springs are five in
number and one of the old land
marks of Alaska. The Russians
had a hospital there in 1841,
where they sent patients with
liseases of the skin and consti
tutional blood disorders.
The temperature averages
145 degrees Fahrenheit at the
Spring. The baths are effica
cious for rheumatism, stomach
and liver troubles, kidney and
bladder diseases, and for consti
tutional disorders.
These springs are in charge
of Dr. F. L. Goddard. The
terms for room, board, and
baths, $2 a day and up. Cabins,
$7.50 per month and up, includ
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