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1 BRIEF NEWS OF THE NORTHLAND.
Thieves entered the office of the
Empress theatre at Juneau by prying
open the front door, and rifled tne
safe, getting away with $131.15. The
combination was not thrown on the
safe and the inner door was unlock
ed with a key taken from the cash
drawer, showing that the party who
committed the robbery was familiar
with the surroundings.
With the selection of W. H. Waugh
and John Zug as members of the
Alaska Road commission to succeed
Colonel Davison and Captain Mehaf
fsy, it is probable that Colonel W. P.
Richardson will shoitly retire, leaving
the commission practically in the
hands of civilian road builders. The
retirement of Colonel Richardson to
a more active line of duty has been
daily expected. It is probable that
he will have charge of one of the
larger training camps in the states.
Sixteen location notices have been
filed with United States Commission
er Rasmussen at Juneau, by H. C. j
Barkdull, of Petersburg, representing
himself and four other Petersburg
citizens. The claims are in the vi
cinity of Port Wells, on the govern
ment road back of Haines, and are
said to yield high iron values.. Owing
to the great demand by the govern
ment for iron to be used for war pur
poses, it is now profitable to mine
certain deposits heretofore impossi
ble. The location of these claims,1
taken in connection with the recent
mining developments in the Rainy
Hollow country and the Porcupine
country show an era of prosperity
back of the Haines section.
W. H. Spaulding has been appoint
ed by Governor J. F. A. Strong to
succeed W. W. Casey as a member
of tbe Alaska Hatchery Commission.
Mr. Casey resigned several weeks
ago on account of being disqualified
from serving on the board. The board
will now comprise B. M. Behrends,
chairman; J. R. Beegle, of Ketchikan,
and W. H. Spaulding, of Hawk Inlet, i
Richard Barthel, the prominent
young Toiovana mining operator, and
Miss Alvina Lundstrum were married
recently at Brooks.
Aerie No. 1037, Fraternal Order of
Eagles at Fairbanks, has invested
§4,000 in the second Liberty loan.
With nobody present but the neces
sary witnesses, the contracting par
ties and the celebrant of the cere
mony, Lawrence Mills and Miss Mur
iel Tamblyn were united in the bonds
of matrimony the other evening at
Fairbanks. Rev. H. H. Lumpkin, rec
tor of the Episcopal church officiated.
Miss Tamblyn came to Fairbanks to
wed the man of her choice, who is an
engineer at the radio station there.
The students of the Fairbanks
schools are now doing their bit to
ward winning the war by preparing
knitted articles of all kinds for the
use of the soldiers. The articles con
sist chiefly of scarfs, helmets, wrist
lets, socks and hospital stockings.
The work is being done by the do
mestic Science classes of the school
under the direction of Miss Margaret
Keenan, the superintendent. The girls
of the school are doing the knitting,
while the boys Tarnish the yarn out
of which the articles are to be made.
In case the navy department car
ries through its plans to commandeer
all vessels of 2,500 tons or over on
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the
ruling will affect but three Alaska
steaers, the Northwestern, 3406 tons;
the Alaska, 3676 tons; the Victoria,
3502 tons, all vessels of the Alaska
Steamship company’s fleet.
Writing to a friend in Nome, Elmer
Adams, formerly billiard expert of
that camp, says he is now an artil
leryman in battalion F, seventeenth
field artillery, and is stationed at
Camp Robinson, Wisconsin. He says
that the battalion expects to leave
for Long Island, New York, soon, and
after that “somewhere in France.”
Elmer says that his company is using
4.7 inch guns and asserts that that
class of weapon is expected to fur
nish the “curtain of fire” for the ad
vancing American infantry and
opines that, as they are told that
their guns are the main factor in
making advances, he Will probably
write again from Berlin. The com
pany is out every morning at 5
o’clock and then: “It is one steady
grind until 4 in the afternoon,” and
“nothing to drink but water.”
Walking about forty miles with an
unset broken arm could not be con
sidered exactly a pleasurable expe
rience, but that is what happened to
Wallaoce Cathcart, the well known
young business man, who, in com
pany with John E. Pegues, operator!
in charge of the local signal corps ;
stations, arrived in Fairbanks the j
olher day from a hunting trip out!
.he Circle trail. He suffered the frac- J
fure when he was thrown from a
mule.
JOHN LAITALA AND TOM WIITA
LA BELIEVED WRECKED
IN TAKU INLET.
ONE LEAVES WIFE AND CHILD
Raging Storm Overtakes Small Craft
and it May Have Been Driven
Against Icebergs, Many of Which
Are Reported at Present.
Disaster and death are believed to
have overtaken John Laitala and Tom
Wiitala, both of Douglas, in Taku in
lea, says the Douglas Island News.
The two men, Wiitala as captain
and Laitala as deckhand, left Douglas
in the launch Hunter, under charter to
the National Fisheries company of Ju- •
neau, for the station which the com
pany maintains on Taku for the pur
pose of bringing a load of fish to Ju
neau. They arrived at their destina
tion, loaded upward of 1500 salmon
on the boat and started on the return
trip, since which time nothing has
been seen of the Hunter or her crew.
Terrific Storm Raged.
A terrific storm raged soon after
they left the fishery station and it is
generally believed that the launch and
the men were wrecked and that every
thing went to the bottom. Also, Taku
inlet has been full of icebergs for*
some time past and a launch striking
a berg would be liable to turn turtle
without a moment’s warning. As is
the custom with the majority of fisher
men, the life boat of the Hunter was
lashed to the deck, and in the event
of contact with an iceberg, there
would be no time for launching the
boat.
Resident of Twenty Years.
John Laitala has been a resident of
Douglas Island for the past twenty
years, during which he has been em
ployed much of the time by the Tread
well people. He has also engaged in
fishing and was an experienced man
on the water. His wife has for a long
time conducted a boarding house in
Douglas on Second street. They have
one boy, Enoid, 13 years of age.
Tom Wiitala is well known in Doug
las and has devoted much of his time
to operating small boats. He was the
first man to go in search of Edward
Krause when the latter escaped from
the federal jail at Juneau last spring.
He was an experienced man on the
! water.
MEXICO
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| LEADER OF LIBERAL CONST1
TUTIONAL PARTY WANTS TO
FIGHT AGAINST TEUTONS.
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 20.—M. Gar
cia, leader of the liberal constitutional
party, told the Mexican chamber of
deputies that it was Mexico’s duty to
takes sides against Germany in the
present world war.
URGED TO
ON GERMANY
FROM EUROPE
WARREN TAYLOR DECLARES
AMERICANS DO NOT KNOW
WHAT FOOD ECONOMY IS.
Warren Taylor, who with James
Bennett were the first Cordovans to
go to France with the new American
army, has written a letter to a friend
in Cordova, according to the Cordova
Times, telling of his safe arrival
“somewhere in Europe.” Both being
former railroad men, are members of
the engineering branch, Taylor be
longing to Company E of the l.Sth
regiment of engineers.
Taylor writes interestingly of h’s
impressions of England and London,
he declares that Americans have not
learned the first lesson on food econ
omy.
Food Is Big Factor.
“Over here the idea is that it is
not men so much as grub ~;hat will
win the war,” he writes. “You
wouldn’t believe it if I told you how
they economize in this country. Not
a bread crumb is thrown away or
an ounce of meat wasted. The crumbs
are swept up and every little piece
of fat meat or small piece of potato
that is not eaten is saved. I guess
they must feed this to the stock. I
heard a commissary sergeant called
down because the inspector found a
piece of bread the size of a thumb
in the swill barrel.”
Censor Was Vigilant.
One of the two letters written by
Taylor shows that the keen-eyed cen
sor was veryr much on the job. Cer
tain parts of the letter were cut out
with a pair of shears so that the let
ter does not give any clew as to
where it was written. Some of the
information deleted was the name of
the ship on wTiieh Taylor traveled
and the destination of the vessel.
INVESTIGATION WILL BE MADE j
INTO LOSS OF BIG PLANT AT
EXCURSION INLET.
An immediate investigation of the
burning of the Astoria & Puget
Sound company cannery located in
Excursion Inlet, involving a loss es
timated at $250,000 will be conducted
by federal officials on the theory that
Industrial Workei-s of the World influ
ence is responsible, according to the
Juneau Dispatch.
Sufficient evidence to warrant the
accusation is now in the hands of the
United Staaes marshal’s office, in Ju
neau, and the next few days may bring
forth sensational disclosures indicat
ing that a well laid plot to burn Alas
ka canneries and packs had been form
ed by pro-German influence.
Burned in Morning.
The Excursion Inlet cannery burn
ed the other morning. The fire started
in the boiler room of the cannery
shortly after the 7 o’clock whistle
blew, and before the crew could be
properly recruited for resistance the
flames almost completely surrounded
the plant. One after the other the
buildings were gutted by flames. In
cluded in the loss was 40,000 cases of
canned, boxed and labeled salmon,
which represented close to one-half of
the 19i7 pack.
Expect Orders to Rebuild.
J. C. Edwards, superintendent of the
cannery, has advised the owners of the
loss by wire. It is expected orders
will come by wire to start rebuilding
the cannery for next season.
The burning of the Excursion In
let cannery is the second in South
eastern Alaska recently. The Sunny
Point cannery burned a few weeks ago
with almost the entire pack. Several
suspicious fires in other canneries, as
well as threats indicates the fires may
have been the result of a plot.
ESKIMOS PRETEND TO BE HUN
GRY AND GET PROVISIONS
FROM EDUCATORS.
J. Eide, who has been visiting in
Nome will soon return to the Dio
medes islands near there to spend
his third year in that desolate region,
says the Nome Industrial Worker.
He has an interesting collection oi
photos taken there and if the cam
era does not belie nature, it would
be hard to discover the islands’ equal
for desolation. There is only one
point where boats can land and the
native villages are close by there.
There also are the native school
houses and the bureau of education’s
establishments.
Mr. Eide does not find it all rose
water in teaching the aboriginal
minds and he is far from observing
that they are the unsophisticated
creatures they are usually supposed.
Very Agreeable First Year.
The first year a teacher is there
they are very nice, because the teach
er does not know them and they trick
him into the belief that they are
starving and poverty-stricken. The
teacher usually opens up to their sto
ries and gives plentifully from his
store. He ^ater discovers that he was
imposed upon and the natives seeing
that he is wise to their moves the
second year show no interest in their
friend and mentor. Then they try
to rid themselves of the teacher so
that another man may come to min
ister to their needs and incidentally
to fall for their hard luck stories.
Mr. Eide crossed from the Dio
medes to Wales in a 20-foot skin boat
fitted with an Evinrude engine and
propeller.
-Liicric 10 a luncut aveiugiug ut;
tween three and eight knots running
in the straits with usually a heavy
wash and sea.
Was Almost Wrecked.
He was almost wrecked because
right at the critical moment the en
gine bucked and he was only able to
reach shore some five miles north of
Wales where he was carried by the
current and the wind. He bucked it
for several hours when the engine
broke down and he thought it was
all over. He is no‘t sorry to return
again to the Diomedes with his wife
and family. This makes some compan
ionship and the life is not under such
conditions as intolerable as it might
be for a single man. The Diomedes
natives, mostly former whalers and
their descendants, from their inter
course with whites, are far from the
fine people that are encountered in
other sections, at least that is their
reputation among those who are ac
quainted with the charges which fall
to Mr. Eide’s lot.
WAGON HIGHWAY TO WILLOW
CREEK MINES HAS BEEN
WIDENED AND GRAVELED.
WASILLA — (Special Correspond
ence)—Anton Eide, division superin
tendent of the third division of the
Alaska road commission, passed
through Wasilla last Thursday to in
spect the work being done on the Wil
low creek wagon road. The two crews
working from both ends of the road
have met, and the entire length of the
road from Wasilla to the mines has
been widened out. All timber and
stumps have been removed and the
road is now being leveled and graveled
and bids fair to be a very fine road
in the near future. The force of men
on this road did excellent work.
Word has been received by the
school trustees of the new Wasilla
school district to proceed with the er
ection of the new school house. Bids
At
Bank 2f Alaska
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ALASKA’S BRANCH BANKING SYSTEM
An Institution of Strength and Character
Capital $85,000 Surplus $20,500
FOUR BANKS:
SKAGWAY, ANCHORAGE, CORDOVA, WRANGELL
President—Andrew Stevenson.
Vice-President in Charge, Anchor
age—E. B. Ansley.
Assistant to President and Audi
tor—B. A. Ross.
Assistant Cashier, Anchorge—M.
McVean.
Vice-President, New York—A. A.
Benton.
Vice-President, in Training, Pres- lj|jj
idio, Cal.—J. T. Westermann. I?
Vice-President in Charge, Cordova
—W. R. Hillery.
Assistant Cashier, Cordova—B. R.
Colkett.
Vice-President, in Charge Wran
gell—W. H. Warren.
Cashier in Charge, Skagway—W.
L. Landsborough.
Although an integral part of the one system, each branch has
had assigned to it the full amount of Capital required by the
Territorial Banking Board for the establishment of a Bank in such
a location. Each branch is therefore equipped to serve its cus
tomers as fully as any independent bank, but with the added
strength and resources of the entire institution to draw upon.
Furthermore each is responsible to the Territorial Banking Board,
is examined and supervised independently and renders its state
ment direct to the Board. The Bank of Alaska is therefore, be
cause of its double supervision and safeguards, peculiarly “An
Institution of Strength and Character.”
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Fresh from the Ranch Three
Times a Week
were submitted and the contract
awarded to Peter Herbert to clear the
schol reserve, 190 by 200 feet, prepar
atory to the erection of the new school
building, as soon as possible.
Doctor Spalding, of the Willow
Creek mines hospital, at Mile Thii'ty
two, is having his lot on Main street,
Wasila, cleared prepaartory to the er
ection of a dwelling house. The doctor
and his family are expected to winter
at Wasilla.
P. Mehan has purchased the Kidd
lot on Main street, Wasila, and is er
ecting a dwelling house. He and his
family will winter at Wasilla.
The Wilmoth company has complet
ed moving its stock of merchandise to
its new store at Wasilla, and has a
very nicely appointed store.
The Knik Trading company’s new
store building at Wasilla is nearing
completion ,and Orville G. Heming,
its owner states that it will be open
for business in the near future.
Don S. Rea, of the Willow Creek j
mines is having his lot on Knik street
cleared and will build a dwelling!
house. He expects to winter at
Wasilla.
Wasilla had its first snow last Wed
nesday night. Thursday morning a
thin coat of snow covered the ground
but disappeared by noon. Three feet
of new snow is reported at the Willow
Creek mines.
The new railroad station at Wsilla
is fast nearing completion and the
painters are at work putting on the
finishing touches. It is said to be the
neatest and handsomest station on the
entire line of railroad.
Beautiful fall weather has prevail
ed at Wasilla and vicinity, much to
the delight of the farmers, who have
taken advantage of it. All have har
vested their crops. They report sat
isfactory results.
It is reported that the Willow Creek
mines are preparing for a shut-down
very soon. Freezing weather and short
water supply will prevent them from
operating their mills. Quite a force
of miners will be employed at the prin
cipal mines all winter in development
work. There will be a large supply of
ore ready for milling in the early
spring.
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