NEWS OF THE NORTHLAND.
Earl Orr has been bound over b;
the judge of the commissioner’s cour
at Nenana, to the grand jury unde
$3,000 bail. Orr was arrested in Fair
banks several days ago, charged wit
obtaining money under false preten
ses, on a complaint sworn out by A
Ghezzi, of Nenana. He was taken t
Nenana and released on bail, only t
be arrested a short time later on tw
charges of embezzlement, the sum
said to have been embezzled being $1
and $25.
W. H. Smith has been held in $1,
500 bail by the commissioner at Ne
nana to await the action of the gram
jury on the charge of having embez
zled several hundred dollars from th
Nenana lodge of the Loyal order o
Moose.
R. V. Anderson has been appoints
agent for the Pacific Steamship com
pany at Seldavia. F. J. O’Connor
agent at Nome, has been transferret
to Vancouver, B. C.
Two hotels at Chitna have change*
hands. Fred Handy has leased th<
Overland, which, he has renovated am
will conduct. Charles Spangler pur
chased the Commercial, and wil
shortly open a restaurant and bakery
Tin cans have been released fo
Alaska cannery operations. This in
formation will cause a great big sigl
of relief to go up from all persons en
gaged in the fishing business of Alas
ka. The telegram on the subject says
“The canned food division of tin
food administration has secured tin
release from the tin plate conserva
tion committee and permits have beei
mailed to all canneries, allowing then
to can an additional 25 per cent o
their pack, per applications to be file*
with the food administrator.”
Judge C. E. Bunnell, of Fairbanks
has announced that Commissionei
Robert E. Burns, of Nenana, hat
handed in his resignation and that R
S. McDonald has been appointed tc
fill the vacancy. Mr. McDonald, whc
for the past years has been game war
den has handed in his resignation a;
game warden and expects to resume
his commissionership duties at once
In his letter of resignation, Mr
Burns says that his personal business
is requiring practically all his time
and for that reason he finds it im
possible to continue in office.
Lee H. Wakefield, head of an Alas
ka fishing corporation, and Wilson <£
Co., a wealthy firm in Chicago, have
merged into what will be known a;
the “Wilson Fisheries company” wit!
a capital of $2,000,000. The com pane
proposes to operate extensively this
season in Alaska.
Bob Craven accidentally droppec
a bottle of liquor from his pocket
while leaving the Empress theatre the
other night at Cordova and he was
immediately arrested by Deputy Mar
shal Fursman for violating the bone
dry law. Craven demanded a jure
trial before the United States com
missioner, was convicted and sen
tenced to three months in jail.
Thomas Rockwell huo sent word tc
Fairbanks from Gulkana that on No
vember 26 he passed at Gulkana Fin
an Delaney, who was going to the
states. Delaney, who is 22 years old
disappeared from the home of his
parent in Fairbanks November 16 anc
numerous searching parties failed tc
get any trace of him. The word fron
Rockwell is the first news of the
young man, who is now believed te
have gone to the states to join the
army.
Commissioner Reed Heilig at Fair
banks recently sentenced A. W. Blan
chard, convicted of having liquor ii
his possession, and a native woman o:
this city, convicted of drunkenness
to terms in the federal jail. Blanch
ard was sentenced to three months
In his statement before being sen
fenced, Mr. Blanchard said he had th<
liquor for the purpose of taking i
with him on a prospecting trip in th<
spring, as he was in the habit of tak
ing some kind of a stimulant alonj
for medicinal purposes. In pronounc
t ing sentence the court said he was
r taking into consideration Mr. Blan:
- chard’s age, he being a very old man,
i and the fact that he had been in this
- country thirty years. A younger
. man would have drawn the limit, the
) commissioner said. The native wom
> an had already pleaded guilty, and
3 was sentenced to serve seventy-five
s days in jail.
The present remarkable scarcity of
game, says the Nome Nugget, was
- never better illustrated than by the
■ statement of Alfred J. Loman, that
1 during the 800 miles traveled during
- a recent trip across the Seward pen
3 insula an dreturn he did not see
f enough game to make one good
square meal for a pair of hungry
mushers. Foxes were plentiful and
* traces of lynx were seen, but the
- I usually plentiful ptarmigan and rab
> > bit were hardly sighted.
The building on lot 11, block 13, in
Fairbanks, was recently sold at auc
tion by order of the court under a
I judgment secured in mortgage fore
^ I .’Insure proceedings in the case of the
First National bank of Fairbanks vs.
! '
' ! S. It. Bredlie, Anna Bredlie, A. Brcd
■ lie and Mary E. Bredlie. The prop
erty was bought by the bank for the
-uni of 82,362. The property is oc
cupied by the concern known as the
1 Independent Cigar store.
The remains of former territorial
1 senator Conrad Freeding were buried
he other day at Nome. They had
■e 1 n brought just previous to the
V.neral from their temporary resting
place in the frozen shaft near the
point wher the body was found last
■ pring, a short distance from Hot
Springs, in the Kougarok district,
i'he deceased lost his life in a fierce
blizzard a little over a year ago while
making his way back to Taylor creek
from the Serpentine Hot Springs,
vhither he had gone with Mrs. Freed
ing, who was in ill health. On the re
turn journey Freeding who was alone
i and traveling on skis was overtaken
by a blizzard and evidently wandered
(amid the blinding snows for some
time before being overwhelmed by the
cold. In addition to serving as the
senatorial representative from the
second division to the first territorial
legislature, Freeding was at one time
mayor of Nome. His widow and young
daughter are residents of Nome.
Word has been brought to Fair
banks by recent arivals from Brooks
that there was a wholesale arrest at
that place lately for breaking the
dry law. A party of Brooks resi
dents got together in a restaurant
and started in to have one of those
ante-bellum, pre-January first cele
brations that used to help the saloon
men pay their bills. The revelrs were
relagated to the city hostile by the
vigilant Brooks deputy marshal.
When the restaurant was raided one
keg (slightly diminished by the even
ing’s entertainment) and a number
i of bottles of an ancient and formerly
! popular vintage known as champagne
were discovered bodly and unblush
ir.gly prominent in the foreground.
Those said to have been arrested were
D. H. Casaden, George Kennedy, Bill
Kelly, Miss Elliott and one other.
One of those who has signed the
rolls to go outside to enlist with the
Fairbanks contingent is Fargo F
Rose, who pleaded guilty to not reg
istering under the selective draft law,
and was sentenced to serve twenty
. days in the federal jail there. Rose
: is volunteering of his own free will,
and is in no way being forced to join
the service, and his action is regarded
■ as proving that he is sorry for his
• former unpatriotic act and wishes to
i do all he can to show that he is a
: real American. Ever since giving
, himself up voluntarily as a slacker,
■ Rose has demonstrated that he was
. truly repentant, and that he wishes
■ to make atonement for his failure to
; register.
; Sam Sullivan, the Russian who was
- arrested and found guilty of petty
; larceny at Iditarod, a few days ago,
ts some bad actor, according to re
ports. Sullivan, in addition to having
been found guilty of petty larceny, is
a self-confessed slacker, and has yet
to come up for trial and sentence. The
Iditarod officials are now in a quan
dary whether he should be held at
Iditarod to await trial for being a
slacker, or whether he should be taken
lO Tanana to serve out his time on the
petty larceny sentence.
Walter Shields, superintendent of
the bureau of education, is at present
in the Golovin section east of Nome,
inspecting the reindeer herds and
schools. Alfred J. Lomen, who re
cently returned to Nome from Dime
creek, reports meeting him in the
Golovin country and says Mr. Shields
and his traveling companion had a
rather trying experience during the
big blow recently, through being
caught on the ice. The wind was so
strong that they were unable to keep
their footing and were forced to cross
Golovin bay by crawling on hands and
knees. Mr. Shields is expected back
in Nome soon but will leave again
shortly for the northern stations of
the bureau of education.
Luther C .Hess, Fairbanks food
administrator, has received permis
sion from the territorial food admin
istrator, Royal A. Gunnison, of Ju
neau, to allow the using- of ham and
bacon on all days in the Fairbanks
district, and no special conservation
will be made on these products. Mr.
Hess wired Gunnison that there was a
large supply of ham and bacon on
| hand in Fairbanks, and that if con
servation of those meats was enfore
I ed, it would mean that much of the
meat would spoil, there not being
sufficient cold.. storage facilities to
take care of the entire supply. There
will be no relaxation, however, of the
other rules for conservation in Fair
banks, and tin* beefless, fresh-porkless
land wheatless days will be observed
as before.
Mrs. Harriet Pullen recently re
ceived word -it Skagway, from her
two sons. Royal and Dan, who are
1 serving in the United States army.
Royal is at Camp Lewis with the
lfifith Depot Brigade, and Major Dan
Pullen, when last heard from, was in
the east, expecting to go to France at
any time. Mrs. Pullen has just com
pleted a mattress which she made for
her son Dan. It is for a single cot,
and is stuffed with light wool which
Mrs. Pullen obtained from sheep
which she herself raised on her farm
at Dyea. A pillow accompanies the
mattress and is inserted under a slit
in the covering and placed at the
head.
Residents of Fairbanks have just
formed a home guard organization.
The members so far are Robert Lav
ery, R. W. Taylor, John A. Clark, Pe
ter McMullen, John H. Kelly, J. H.
Miller, M. O. Carlson, G. A. Coleman,
J. A. Fairborn, James McCracken, F.
P. Graham, Edgar Clausen, Craig
Redman, Ren Thompson, J. G. Court
ney, W. N. Rolston, Frank B. Hall,
, Frank R. Clark, R. L. Bernard, Frank
| P. Young, L. T. Erwin, W. W. Mc
i Kinnon, S. L. Magnussen, J. P. Mc
Donald, G. B. Erwin, R. S. Steele,
John Dunn, T. T. Swan, J. R. Junkin,
P. S. Peterson, P. Grandison and R.
! Bloom.
Thomas Isaacson, an Alaska
pioneer, died recently at Nenana.
Robert E. Willis, formerly in Fair
banks, who was a sergeant in the
Fifth Training battalion, 18th infan
try, has been assigned to the officers’
training camp at Camp Sherman,
Chillicothe, Ohio, where he will take
the course required for the infantry
branch.
By a judgment handed down by
Judge C. E. Bunnell in the district
court at Fairbanks the other day in
the case of O’Connor vs. Cascaden,
O’Connor is given a deed to an un
divided half interst in the Gold Dol
lar association claim at Brooks, be
sides being entitled to an accounting
from Cascaden for all gold and gold
dust extracted from that claim. This is
what O’Connor was seeking in the
suit, and there is absolutely no con
cession made to Cascaden. This case
is the second big suit to go against
Cascaden within a few weeks. By n
previous decision in the case of Bell
vs. Cascaden, Bell was given a large
part of a sum of money he was seek
ing to recover from Cascaden. There
is still another decision yet to be
handed down in a case in which Cas
•caden is defendant, and Bell is plain
tiff.
Joe Dalton, discoverer of the Kar.
tishna district, arrived in Fairbanks
the other day to purchase supplies for
his operations. Mr. Dalton, with his
brother, Jim, was the discoverer of the
Kantishna district in 1905 and has
spent much of his time since then in
that camp. The first gold in the Kan
j tishna was discovered when the Dal
ton brothers found some fairly good
sized nuggets on Eureka creek. This
started a stampede in which hundreds
of men joined.
Special Officer Jack McDonald and
! Game Warden Frank A. Aldrich, of
| Juneau, searched a barn in the south
! ern end of the city and found eight
j quarts of whisky buried under the oat
j and feed box. The whisky was seized
! but no prosecution will follow as the
i officers can’t prove the ownership of
the whisky.
The beautiful body of water on the
southern part of Baranoff island,
Alaska, has been named Lawe Parry,
in honor of the late Will H. Parry, of
Seattle, a member of the federal trade
commission, according to a letter from
E. Lester Jones, of the federal coast
and goedetic survey.
(midstream creek in Fairbanks, is
at present preparing for the usual
summer open cut work. Henry Wag
ner, Atwood and Collins and Bleeker
will work on as large a scale as last
season. Leo Rogge, on No. !), will also
take out as much dirt as in 1917.
Peodro creek, report says, will also be
the scene of much activity the com
ing season. Down on 23, Coldstream,
Yal Dicbold has already a large dump
out, and is adding to it every day. One
thousand cords of wood will be put
on Henry Wagner’s ground before the
snow leaves. Wagner uses about 1500
cords every short season, six large
boilers being used in his scraper oper
ations.
Roy -McQueen is in Fairbanks from
his antimony property on the top of
Ready Bullion Dome. He is sacking
ore for shipment to the states on one
of the first boats of the year. Last
I summer he shipped thirty tons from
his place, but expects to send out a
considerably larger quantity this sum
mer.
_
Ed Owens and Charles Brandstetter
arrived in Fairbanks recently, bring
inf Erick Johnson, who was suffering
from a severe attack of paralysis. The
! men have been prospecting in the Sal
chaket country, but when Johnson was
discovered in a dangerous condition
they started at once for town with
him. Johnson was sixteen days alone
in his cabin before he was discovered
by his friends. Johnson is now in the
Fairbanks hospital.
E. W. Herschberger, pioneer quartz
man of Fairbanks, is a recent arrival
there from Rampart, coming by way
of Brooks. Mr. Hershberger located
some of the most prominent mines
around Fairbanks, among them being
the old Newsboy and the Rainbow.
The latter is reported by quartz men
to be one of the best propositions in
the Fairbanks district. For the past
year Mr. Hershberger has been work
ing on a hydraulic proposition on Can
yon creek, which flows into the Yukon
on the right limit, about 30 miles be
low Rampart, heading up against the
Tozikaket.
Tony Lunivich recently died at
Brooks near Fairbanks. He was prom
inent in mining in the Brooks district,
and is said to have had some very
good ground. He had been in Alaska
for many years, having come north in
the early days. Much of his time in
Alaska was spent in the southeastern
part. He was a native of Dalmatia,
Austria, and was 50 years of age.
Judge C. E. Bunnell sentenced Al
| bert Larson to four months in the
j federal jail. Larson pleaded guilty to
l being a slacker, having failed to reg
ister under the selective draft law last
fall. He was arrested at Hot Springs
near Fairbanks and has been confined
in the federal jail in Fairbanks since
last September.
Reports from Goldstream creek in
the Fairbanks district are to the effect
that John Michely and partners, who
are running a tunnel near the mouth
| of Sheep creek, to tap their wet
ground, are in about 200 feet and are
sinking to bedrock at the end of the
tunnel. As they have been in wash
j gravel with their tunnel from the
! start they have no idea how far they
will have to go to reach bedrock. They
are using a car in the tunnel, and, re
j gardless of what hey find wheerthey
j are sinking now, they intend to con
s tinue the tunnel another 350 feet
farther to carry out their oginal plans.
They figure that the end of their tun
nel, where they are sinking, is about
; 800 feet below the surface.
DENIES REPORT
0FHIS DEATH
DAWSON AM) ALASKA PIONEER
APPRECIATES OBITUARIES
IN NEWSPAPERS.
HAS TO PAY BOARD AND ROOM, j
Well-Known Northerner Sends Me--:
sage from Washington, D. C., Say- j
ing He Has Been Helping to Build ;
Cantonment at Camp, Dix, N. J.
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Bernard (Casey) Moran, the well
known Dawson and Alaska pioneer,
whose death recently was reported in
all northern newspapers, is alive and
j well. He takes occasion to deny that
he is dead and to state briefly his
present whereabouts and occupation in i
the following message from Washing
ton, D. C.:
“Am greatly interested and highly
; appreciative of my obituaries. It al
most makes me wish it were all true, \
but unfortunately I am still alive and j
have to pay rent and board. Have beer, j
helping build armycantonment at j
Camp Dix, New Jersey. Called on j
Delegate Sulzer yesterday.”
FOR THE SIMPLE LIFE.
As a race, we are constantly dying
before our time, and very often lead
ing forlorn lives, making those around
us miserable, simply because we are
; disobeying the simple laws of life, and
among other things poisoning our
! selves with bacterial infections, thus
causing this very condition of auto
intoxication, writes Dr. W. H. Vail, in
Christian Herald.
Our plea, first, last and all the time,
is for the simple life, which is not
necessarily a vegetarian diet, only it
so happens that the vegetable kingdom
supplies the best articles of diet, in
our estimation. As we have said, add
milk and eggs to the vegetables and
3’ou have the perfect diet. Eliminate
the food stimulants, for they create an
artificial appetite, thus leading people
to eat more than the system can ap
propriate, and causing auto-intoxica
tion, with its deadly results.
BUTCHER CITES BIG PROFITS.
“Talk about food profiteers!” growl
ed the butcher as he charged up a
two-pound rump steak at 60 cents a
pound. “Why I know people whose
profit has been from time immemor
ial 6,000 per cent and more. Yet you
don’t jump on them. Why, then,
jump on me?
“Take Junck’s liver pill, for in
stance. I know Otto Junck’s book
keeper, and the man tells me that this
Junck pill sells wholesale at exactly
6.000 per cent profit.
“Take mineral water—plain soda.
You can make and sell plain soda at
a profit of 40,000 per cent. And, mind,
you, no kicks.
“Take false teeth. They used to
make faise teeth out of ivory, and in
those days it was right to charge
$100 a set for them. But now false
teeth are made of porcelain. They
cost 10 cents apiece. Dentist’s profit,
76.000 per cent.
“So I could go on. And you ask me
if my conscience isn’t sore about this
| 60-cent rump steak. Oh!”
WRITES FRO!
MR. AND MRS. RICE RECEIVE
INTERESTING LETTER FROM
THOMAS O. RICE.
AMERICANS DON’T MIND SNOW.
Homesteaders on Property One Mile
from City Have Two Sons Now in
Military Service and Third Will En
list in Spring.
Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Rice, of An
chorage, parents of Thomas, Shirl and
Lee Rice, are in receipt of an inter
esting letter from their son Thomas O.
Rice, who is now with the Sixteenth
infantry, American Expeditionary
Forces in France. Shirl Rice, another
son, enlisted in the army from An
chorage last summer. He is a mem
ber of the Loyal Order of Moose and
is well known here. The third son,
Lee Rice, is in Anchorage now await
ing the opening of navigation to go
to Seattle where he will enlist.
Mr. and Mrs. Rice live on their
homestead about a mile south of An
chorage. The letter from Thomas
Rice follows:
“Your letter of November 4 was
received this morning along with a
Christmas box and it certainly does
my heart good to hear from you and
to know that you are all well and
happy. I am in fact really enjoying
life.
Good Food and Clothes.
“As far as comforts are concerned
we have the best obtainable. We eat
good and wholesome food, and we
sleep warm. I can’t remember of wak
ing up once since I have been here
from the cold. I guess it is because
I eat hearty meals. I am sure if all the
boys were here and ate as much as I
the good old U. S. A. would need more
ships to carry foodstuffs. We have
the very best of clothing, all woolen,
including socks that come to our
knees. We also have caps that cover
our ears that are almost too warm,
especially when the large collar of
the overcoat is turned up. We have
had four inches of snow for the past
six weeks, but it doesn’t affect us. I
am surely proud of my little mother
for wanting to give her assistance to
the great task we are undertaking,
but there is only one place for dear
mothers at the age of sixty and that
is to watch and pray. The God above
us will give credit to all those who are
doing that which is right.
Does Not Think of War.
“War is my least thought and what
ever happens to me I promise never to
kick or complain. It is true that I
have never seen Shirl here but ex
pect to within a week or two. We
are corresponding regularly.
“It may interest you to know that
at this writing I am sitting at an old
fashioned table and in an old-fashion
ed chair in a house of the same char
acter. The pen I am using looks to
me to be the one used in 1812 by Na
poleon.
“I hope you enjoyed your Christmas
as we did. Every one here donated a
franc to buy presents for the chil
dren who lost their homes at Verdun.
The meeting took place in the Sal
vation Army barracks and was quite
a success, every child receiving a
present. I have some pictures that I
shall try to send to you soon.”
CONVICTS BUILD ROAD.
EUREKA, Cal., Feb. 23.—The sec
tion of state highway in Humboldt
county through what is known as Rat
tlesnake Canyon in the southern part
of the county, has been completed by
convict labor. Word has been received
that the state convict camps will move
to points farther south for a continua
tion of the work.
The road through Rattlesnake can
yon is a rocky, snaky road, cut from
solid rock and 32 miles long. It will
eliminate a high grade over Bell
Springs mountain and make the auto
mobile trip to the north through the
famous Humboldt redwoods much less
difficult for the tourist.