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LOCAL NEWSE1TES OF THE WEEK
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T H U R S D A Y
\Y. A. Ford, a guest of the White
house, returned to his home at lvnik
yesterday.
H. Olafson is a guest of the White
house, arriving there several days ago
from Juneau,
John Hirshey came over from Hope
yesterday and is registered at the
Crescent hotel.
Joseph Novak is a recent arrival
from the states and is registered at
the W hite house.
T. l\ Weathered came down yester
day from his home at Talkeetna and
is a guest of the Hotel I'aisons.
R. X. Johnson, whose home is in
Wasilla arrived in Anchorage yester
day and is registered at the Hotel
Raisons.
W. II. Smith, a guest of the White
house, checked out this morning, and
will be employed by the govt rument
on the main line of the railroad.
Carl Soderberg, a tie contractor,
who has been at work on the main
line of the railroad above Talkeetna
arrived in Anchorage 'yesterday and is
a guest of the Crist house.
Dick Smith, a foreman in the bridge
department of the Alaskan engineer
ing commission, left this monring for
Montana creek where he will spend
several weeks on work in connection
with tiie railroad bridge.
W. X. Reed, who during the past
winter has been located at Kern creek,
on Turnagain Arm, arrived in An
chorage yesterday and will leave to
moi row morning on the power boat
J. J. for the Kichatna river where he
will spend the summer engaged in
mining.
Henry Heldahl and S. Lintlgren are
guests of the Crescent hotel, arriving
there yesterday from Kenai on the
power boat Brighton, under command
of Captain Nate White.
J. R. Farrell, a former resident of
Knik, who has been spending the past
winter in Seattle, returned to Anchor
age on the steamer Alaska and while
in town is making his home at the
White house.
J. H. Lander, formeny freight
superintendent for the Gold Bullion
mine in the Willow creek district, who
has been making his home at the Cres
cent hotel since resigning his position
with the mine, left yesterday for a
brief visit with friends in Kaik.
Joe Reno and two children who have
be en at the Cerscent hotel for several
days left yesterday for their home on
Turnagain Arm where Mr. Reno con
ducts a road house and general store.
K. Spatafore checked out from the
Crescent hotel yesterday morning and
returned to his work at Eska creek
where he is employed by the govern
ment.
Earl Faulkner left this morning foi
Montana creek on the main line of the
government railroad where he will be
empolyed during the summber by the
government in the bridge department,
L. I>. Henderson, commissioner of
education for the territory of Alaska,
arrived in Anchorage by small boat
last night from down the Inlet and
is registered at the Hotel Anchorage.
Mr. Henderson’s headquarters are at
Juneau.
R. R. Hunter, general manager for
the R. R. Hunter Saltery company,
who has been in Anchorage for
several days on business in connection
with the company’s fishing business,
returned yesterday to Moose Point,
where one of the traps is located. The
company’s other trap is at French
man’s creek.
Mrs. Nellie Neal, the o wner of a
roadhouse at Mile Forty-five, on the
Seward division of the government
railroad, who recently bought the road
house at Kern creek, formerly oper
ated by Joseph Northway, arrived ir
Anchorage yesterday and is a guest
of the Hotel Anchorage.
R. D. Chase, paymaster for the
Alaskan Engineering commission
with headquarters at Anchorage re
turned yesterday from a brief official
trip to the various camps along Turn
again Arm. Mr. Chase reports the
construction work on the Arm pro
gressingly rapidly and the snow all
gone save where the big snow slide
occurred last winter near Mile 77 on
the Seward division.
j J. H. Nichoalds, the traveling man
from Juneau, left this morniing on a
brief business trip to Wasilla. Mr.
1 Nichoalds is making his Anchorage
headquarters at the Hotel Crescent.
John Lochart, one of the pioneer i
prospectors in Alaska, who for the i
past two years has ben making his j
home in Anchorage, returned yester- j
'day from a three weeks’ prospecting |
trip in the country around Snug har-j
bor down the Inlet and reports noth-'
li.g gained save experience.
John Cotfey, a partner with the
Wells brothers in valuable holdings in
the Broad Pass country, arrived in j
j Anchorage yesterday and left this
morning for Talkeetna and the Broad
Pass distirct where he will spend the
summer as a member of a survey
party. Mr. Coffey was a guest of the
Hotel Morrison while in town.
F R I 1) A Y
Septimus Irvine is a guest at the (
White house, arriving there from his j
1 headquarters at Wasilla on Tuesday’s
train.
Jack I’ainner, who for the past year
has been located at Seldovia, arrived
i in Anchorage on the power boat
Brighton and is a guest of the White
: house.
Arthur Lee, in charge of the com
missary department for the Chicka
loon Coal company, at its mine at
, Chickaloon, arrived on yesterday’s
train and is registered at the Crescent j
hotel.
Charles A. Fowlkes, an emplove of
i
. the government at Eska creek came
down on yesterday’s train and is reg
istered at the Hotel Anchorage.
K. H. Attridge arrived in town yes
terday and is registered at the Hotel
Anchorage. Mr. Attridge is an em
ploye of the Alaskan Engineering
i commission in the timekeeping de-;
nartment with headnuarters at Eska
creek.
F. T. Hope, a guest of the Crescent
hotel, left this morning for a brief,
visit to Turnagain Arm. He expects
to return on Monday’s train and will
sail on the steamer Northwestern for
his home in Seattle.
John Hirschey, who arrived in An
chorage Wednesday from his mine
near Hope and who has been a guest
of the Crescent hotel, returned this
morning.
Sumner S. Smith, superintendent of
the government coal mines at Eska
creek and at Chickaloon, came down !
Jon yesterday’s train from the mines
and returned this morning to Chick
aloon.
Hubert Ashland, of Seattle, is visit
ing Chauncey Peterson and will re
main in Anchorage until the return
trip of the steamer Northwestern. Mr.
Ashland is extensively interested in'
Cordova real estate and also has hold
ings in Seward and Anchorage.
Clyde C. Coleman, manager of the
Kachemak Canning company, with
headquarters at Swanson creek, (.own I
the inlet, arrived in Anchorage yes
terday aboard the company’s tender
Grizzly, and is a guest of the Hotel
Anchorage.
Henry Heldahl, who recently arriv
ed in Anchorage from Kenai and who
has been a guest of the Crescent ho
tel, entered the government hospital
as a patient this morning.
Charlie Bush reports that interest j
in the Home Guards is increasing and |
several new members have signed the i
honor roll within the past week.
Thirty members took part in Wedncs
j day evening’s drill at Athletic park.
S. F. Hunt, known throughout the
: Matanuska valley as Dad Hunt, ar
j rived in Anchorage yesterday and an
: nounces that he will give absolutely
j free of charge a quantity of ruta
j bagas to as many persons as want
them. Dad Hunt has nearly a ton of
them at his farm near the Eklutna
river and says that if the people of
Anchorage will furnish the sacks and
pay the freight from his ranch to An
chorage they may have all the ruta
bagas they can eat.
Arthur H. Miller, superintendent of
native schools for the southwestern
district of Alaska, with headquarters
here at Anchorage, will sail on the
steamer Admiral Farragut for Alitak,
located on the southern end of Kodiak
island, where he will pay an official
visit to the school there. He will
catch the Farragut south and stop for
a brief visit at Tatitleka, near El la
mar. He expects to return to An
chorage in about two weeks. Mrs.
Miller will be an outoing passenger
on the Admiral Farragut for Seattle,
where she will spend the summer vis
iting relatives and friends.
Fred Schodde was taken into custo
dy yesterday afternoon by the offi
cers of the local marshal's office and
is charged with being a deserter from
the United States army. Schodde was
a former resident of Juneau and was
subject to the draft recently called |
for that place. He is registered in
the marshal’s office as a German sub
ject and claims that the questionnaire
mailed to him by the Juneau exemp
tion board never reached him. He
will be held here pending the receipt
of instructions from Juneau. While
in Anchorage he has been employed
as a baker.
S A T U It D A Y
It. F. Henley left this morning for
Hope, where he will remain for the
summer engaged in mining.
A. F. Itanson arrived in Anchorage
yesterday from Turnagain Arm and
is staying at the Hotel Morrison.
J. H. Nichoalds, the Alaska repre
sentative of Armour & Co., of Chi
cago, returned yesterday from a brief
business trip to Wasilla and will leave
tonight on the steamer Admiral Far
ragut for his headquarters in Juneau.
John A. Solnes arrived in Anchor
age Thursday afternoon aboard the
Kachemay Canning company’s tender
Grizzly and'is registered at the An
chorage hotel. Mr. Solmes is inter
ested in the fishing game and has es
tablished headquarters near Seldovia.
Clyde C. Coleman, general manager
of the Ivaehemak Canning company,
who has been a guest of the Hotel
Anchorage for several days, returned
saltery at Swanson creek.
T.ieut. H. J. Carlson, of the dental
corps, who has been in Anchorae for
the past two weeks engaged in car
ing for the dental troubles of the
members of the local detachment of
the 14th United States infantry, will
leave on the Admiral Farragut to
night for Juneau, where he will await
a boat for Skagway, later going to
Fort Kgberg at Eagle, on the Yukon.
Private P. (». Anderson will accompa
ny Lieut. Carlton as dental assistant.
Theda Bara is recognized as an act
ress of unusual merit and is a prime
favorite of the moving picture fans.
Manager Glaze says Theda is a
“Bear” in Cleopatra in which part she
will appear at the Empress in the very
near future.
Perry Bartley, a well known old
timer of the Valdez, Nelchina and
Cook Inlet sections, has become r
benedict, bought an acre tract on Mer
cor island, near Seattle, and is em
ployed in one of the shipbuilding
yards on Elliott bay.
Mrs. Nellie Neal, the proprietress
of two road houses on the Anchorage
Seward trail, who has been visiting in
Anchorage, returned to her headquar
ters at Kern creek on yesterday’s
train. The road house at Kern creek
was recently purchased by Mrs. Neal
from John Northway, who with Mrs.
Northway, sailed on the steamer Alas
ka for Seattle.
\Y. W. Woodard, secretary-treas
urer and general manager of the Na
kochna Dredging company; Charles
N. Hudson, manufacturer of the pat
ented Hudson double-dip dredge, and
W. N. Reed, formerly of Girdwood,
on Turnagain Arm, left yesterday on
the Power boat J J for the mouth of
the Kiehatna river. The dredge will
be assembled under the personal di
rection of Mr. Hudson and is expected
to be ready for operation about Aug
ust 1. Eight employees of the dredg
ing company accompanied Mr. Wood
ard on the J. J. While in Anchorage
Mr. Woodard, Mr. Hudson and Mr.
Reed were guests of the Hotel An
chorage.
Elmer McNamee, an employe of the
government on the Turnagain Arm di
vision of the government railroad, ar
rived in Anchorage on yesterday’s
train and is registered at the White
house.
Lars Anderson, the proprietor of
a road house on the Seward-Iditarod
trail at Rainy Pass, is a recent arriv
al in Anchorage and will remain here
until the next trip of the power boat
J. J., under command or Captain
Johnson, who is expected back from
McDugal Monday.
SUNDAY
Word has been received by Anchor
age friends from George Ament to the
effect that George is now located at
San Francisco as sergeant in the gov
ernment signal corps.
J. J. Chisholm, Alaska representa
tive for the West Coast Grocery com
pany, is a pasesnger on the Alameda
for Anchorage, where he has his Alas-;
ka headquarters.
B. A. Turner arrived on the steam- j
er Admiral Farragut last night from
Seattle and is registered at the Hotel
Anchorage.
L. D. Henderson, commissioner of i
schools for Alaska, who has been of
ficially visiting the schools at Wasilla
and Matanuska, returned to Anchor
age yesterday and is registered at the
Hotel Anchorage.
J. P. Dixon arrived in Anchorage i
yesterday and is a guest of the Hotel
Anchorage.
J. E. Manning, in charge of the
depot on the government railroad at
Chickaloon, arrived yesterday from
his headquarters and while in An
chorage is a guest of the Crescent
hotel.
William Newell and Mrs. Newell
were outgoing passengers on the
steamer Admiral Farragut last night
bound for Seattle. After a brief visit
there they will visit friends and rela
tives in Washington and Idaho.
Assitsant District Attorney J. C.
Murphy, who for the past month has
been attending in an official capacity
the term of the district court for the'
Third Division at Valdez, returned to
Anchorage on the steamer Farragut
and is at his home on F street.
M 0 N D A Y
No word was received from Port
Graham today in regard to the rumor
ed trouble at the cannery.
G. James Truitt, son of Attorney J.
S. Truitt, has successfully arrived in
France as a member of an engineering
regiment, according to a card received
today from the United States govern
ment by Attorney Truitt. G. James
Truitt was employed by the Alaskan
Engineering commission two years
ago in the engineering department.
Robert Ashland now gracefully
wears the title of captain. He pur
chased Saturday the power boat
Northern Light and will leave tonight
for Sunrise, later going to Cordova.
Captain C. N. Pring is now the
o\\ ner of the power boat Sea Lion and
with Oak Olson will take a fling at
the fishing game in the waters of
lower Cook inlet. Since the purchase I
of the Sea Lion, Captain Pring has j
been assiduodusly absorbing the tide
tables and the laws of the red and 1
green lights and says that he is now
qualified to pass judgment on whether
a boat is going to the starboard or the
port.
Arthur Long was an incoming pas
senger aboard the steamer Admiral
Farragut Saturday evening and is
registered from Gratton, Va., at the
Hotel Parsons.
Charles Taylor, an employe of the
Gold Bullion mine in the Willow creek
district came down late Saturday from
the mines and is registered at the j
Morrison hotel.
L. D. Henderson, commissioner of
schools for the territory of Alaska,
with headquarters at Juneau, will
leave this afternoon for Sunrise, on
an official trip to the school there
which is still in session. He expects
to return to Anchorage on Wednes
day and will visit the schools at Wa
silla and at Finger Lake, both of
which are still in session. A peti
tion has been circulated in Matanuska
for the establishment of another
school and as there are eleven chil
dren to be served it is thought likely
that a school will be had there next
year. Mr. Henderson will return to
Juneau on the steamer Alameda.
Walter A. Gompertz( general man
ager of the Chickaloon Coal company,
with headquarters at the mine at
Chickaloon, who has been in Anchor
ae for several days as a guest
of the Crescent hotel, returned on the
morning train to the mine.
J. E. Manning, an employe of the
government at Chickaloon, where he
is in charge of the depot, returned on
the morning train. WTiile in Anchor
rge Mr. Manning has been a guest ot
;he Crescent hotel.
Arthur Lee, in charge of the com
missary department of the Chickaloon
Coal company, checked out from the
Hotel Crescent and returned to his
icadquarters at the mine.
TUESDAY
P. Danas arrived in Anchorage
yesterday and is registered at the
Hotel Anchorage.
There are several low places in C
street, north of Fourth avenue, that
need filling in. The north approach
to the wagon bridge across Ship creek
is especially low and in need of re
pair.
The Anchorage exemption board is
working on the questionnaires that
tiave been filed and are selecting the
young men who represent Anchor
age's quota. The boys will be asked
to report June 24.
J. II. Dodson, who for several days
has been a guest of the Hotel An
chorage, checked out yesterday and
left on the regular train for Tum
again Arm where he will be employed
by the government during the sum
mer.
F. T. Hope, the well known mining
man from Seattle who has been look
ing at some mining ground in the
Turnagain Arm district, returned yes
terday and is staying at the Hotel
Crescent. Mr. Hope will leave for
Seattle on the steamer Northwestern
which is due in Anchorage Thursday.
Cooks are in great demand at the
present time according to Fred Lilly
man, head of the employment bureau
of the Alaskan Engineering commis
sion, who spends most of his time
these days on the streets in search of
the boys who can flop a cake and stew
a brew of vegetables.
The power boat Clymax owned by
Captain Max Nelson and Clyde C.
Coleman, manager for the Kachemak
Cannning company, which has been
on the ways at the mouth of Chestej
creek during the past winter was nos
ed into the water Sunday and will be
ready to make her first trip up the
Susitna river this week. Captain Nel
son reports a shortage in the labor
market and says that if. is next to im
possible to secure engineers and me
chanics.
Robert Speck and Mrs. Speck are
guests of the Hotel Crescent and will
make their home their awaiting the
arrival of the steamer Alameda or
which they will sail for Seattle. Mr,
Speck is one of the pioneer draymen
of Anchorage. He plans on taking his
horses with him and will work them
in Seattle. When asked whether he
would return to Anchorage, Bob just
smiled and said, “Well you don’t see
me selling any of my property here
do you.”
Professor H. C. Parker, John r
Holman and Major Norman H. Read
of the American and British aviatior
corps, now on leave, returned yester
day from a three weeks’ trip to the
Upper Kahlitna river country and are
guests of the Crescent hotel. The
party visited the Upper Kahlitna dis
trict in order to secure samples of the
ground there. Samples were obtained
and will be taken by Professor Tan
ker and Mr. Holman to New York
later. They report having a very dif
ficult trip going in owing to the con
dition of the weather but a delightful
one coming out.
WEDNESDAY
Mr. and Mrs. H. Teckenpaugh are
registered at the Hotel Anchorage
from Matanuska.
The steamer Alaska will leave
Seattle at 5 p. m. June 18 instead of
June 16 as reported.
Chief HafFner has sowed a part of
municipal block to oats and the crop
is showing up in fine shape.
The board repoi*ts that they have
selected over 100 names of the 184
Anchorage boys who are included in
the latest draft.
Dr. H. 0. Schaleben, government
physician at Tumagain Arm, is ir
town for a few days, on business con
nected with his duties.
John F. Coffey, late of the reportial
staff of the Anchorage Daily Times,
has accepted a position with the Alas
kan Engineering Commission.
The Belgian Relief workers will
meet tomorrow at the usual place next
to Tony’s Cafe and attend to the
work at hand. All interested in this
worthy movement are requested to be
present.
H. R. Miller, agent at Birchwood, is
stopping at the Crescent hotel until
the arrival of the steamer Northwest
ern, when he will leave ir Valdez to|^
attend the marriage ceremony of his
daughter. ‘
Ray Larsen, of Larsen & Wendler,
received a telegram from A. J. Wend
ler yesterday, announcing that he
1 would depart for Anchorage on the
! next sailing of the steamer Admiral
i Farragut. Mr. Wendler is on a busi
ness trip to Seattle.
The Anchorage Chamber of Com
merce transacted much important bus- .
iness at the noon luncheon today. '
Among other reports was the report
of Ray C. Larson, chairman of the
Fourth of July committee, to the ef
1 feet that arrangements for the pro
j gram were practically completed for
, the event, which would be strictly on
! the patriotic order. The Anchorage
| city band has been retained and will
! lead the parade and play during the
! short program which will be held at
some central place.
George Anderson returned yester
day from the Willow creek district,
where he has been for the past week
on business connected with the Little
Gem mine. He reports the snow is
rapidly melting and predicts consider
: able activity in the district this sea
| son.
SEES SALVATION '
IN A MONARCHY
I
STOCKHOLM, June 12.—A consti
tutional monarchy is the only form of
government for Finland, in the opin
ion of Judge Svinhufvud, who has jusflf
been declared temporary dictator by
the Finnish diet. He says he is con
vinced that the only way for Finland
to secure independence and freedom
and a government above party pas
sions is to choose a constitutional
monarch.
J
Judge Svinhufvid said he would re
| fuse categorically to become a candi
j date for the presidency if asked to do
I so. He believed that most of the
members of the Landtag would resign
if a republic were declared.
He added that 16,000,000 marks
| were subscribed during the first week
I to the Finnish Liberty loan.
ALLEGED MEMBER OF
SPY BAND ARRESTED"
ATLANTIC CITY BARTENDER AC$
Cl'SEI) OF SIGNALLING THE
GERMAN SUBMARINES.
ATLANTIC CITY June 12.—The
authorities yesterday caused the ar
rest of a bartender employed in a sa
loon in Atlantic City, on the charge
that he was observed sending signals
to German submarines infesting Am
erican waters. It is alleged that this
bartender was detected swinging a
curtain back and forth in front of
lighted gas jets, in a window of the
saloon where he is employed. The
window overlooks Brigantine shoals,
on the Atlantic ocean.
It is believed that the suspect
a member of a band of German spies
that are engaged in signalling the
raiding submarines.
GIDDAP!
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 12.—
J. C. Gray, of Albany, N. Y,, came to
town, hired a hoi'se and galloped half
way up the steps of the Capitol before
the police stopped him.
Gray explained to his captors that
the country needed confidence and
horse sense. He had the confidence,
Gray explained, and added that the
horse had the sense.
Police agred with Gray, but sent
him to a detention ward for mental ob
servation.
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H. W. NAGLEY
General Merchandise
* Susitna
Branch Stores at
McDougall - - - Talkeetna
Dealer in Raw Furs, Snowshoes,
Camp Outfits. Selling Agent
—FOR—
Hipress Boots and Pacs.