•SHORT STORIES
' ABOUT ALASKA
OCCURRENCES
The owners of the Juneau Style
shop have decided to close their busi
ness and leave the field, on account
of business interests in Seattle.
The Chalkat Packing Company, a
tannery financed by the people of
Haines, is ready to start work. The
» company will can vegetables as well
as fish.
Even Eelnes and Ban Jacobson
were recently fined $250 each and
given 30 days in jail for having liquor
in their possession and attempting to
sell same.
Ketchikan won the first game in
the contest with Prince Rupert while
the second was a tie, the score stand
ing 8—8. The Ketchikan nine played
the Prince Rupert grounds.
W. L. Keyser, who recently return
ed to Juneau from the Cold Bay dis
trict says that oil seepages are abun
dant. He states that bottles for col
lecting seepages are the hardest thing
to obtain in the district.
B. L. Thane, managing director of
the Alaska Gastineau Mining Co. ac
companied by his wife and daughter
arrived in Juneau recently to look
over the proposed establishment of a
pulp mill on Gastineau channel.
Mrs. Beckwick, one of the midnight
sun tourists died last Saturday on
board the steamer Tutshi returning
from a side trip to Atlin. The re
-% mains were embalmed at Skagway,
and will be shipped to Rochester, N.
Y., her former home.
The Forty Mile Power and Dredg
ing Company have 125 miles of dredg
ing and hydraulic ground along the
Forty mile river on which they have
been doing some development work.
Active mining will be pushed this sea
son and a rich cleanup is expected by
fall.
Repair work is being done at
Nome to the trading schooner Polar
Jtear, the vessel being fitted up nr
Siberian trade. The stranded schoon
er Arctic is also being fitted up for
the summer. She will be puiied up on
the shore ice and repaired in time to
launch when the ice goes out.
Juneau fans were presented with
"a snappy program at the American
Legion smoker last week wheh the
ten men who made up the card of the
boxing events drew three knockouts.
John P. Walker, commander of the
American Legion in Alaska made an
opening address explaining the ob
jects of the Legion.
Ed Tomlinson, a sourdough of ’97,
was a recent passenger on the Alaska
from the states to Kodiak where he
will construct a boat for Dr. Andrew
C. Smith, the mail contractor. The
boat will be used to carry mails
from Kodiak to Seward points. Mr.
Tomlin^n was in Skagway in 1897
and packed his outfit over the trail
to Bennett.
The Alaskan Road Commision crews
in the Interior are busily engaged in
their summer’s work. John Joslin is
foreman of a gang on the Ruby-Long
Creek road and will later do some
Avork on the Koyukuk-Yukon river
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route. Abe McKinnin, another oldtime
Alaska Doad Commission foreman, has
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been sent to the Kuskokwim to take
charge of construction there.
Julius Linstead, a pioneer Klondik
er passed away at Dawson last month.
He came to the Klondike in the early
days of the camp and by preserver
ance and energy acquired considerable
money. If late years he had charge
of the Jack Day hydralic properties.
He was unmarried and a member of
the Oddfellows.
Under charter to J. H. Ladew, a
New York sportsman, Robert Moran’s
palatial yacht, the Sanwan, of Seattle
arrived in Juneau last week. The ves
sel is an auxiliary yacht powered with
two 65 horsepower Corliss engines
which gives her a speed of about nine
miles an hour. She is 136 feet long,
draws 15 feet of water, has 20 state
rooms for guests, and carries a crew
of seven men.
Father E. P. Cashavaroff of Jun
eau has been appointed curator of the
Alaska Museum and Historical Libra
ry now being opened in the Arctic
Brotherhood Building, and is busily
engaged cataloging the exhibits. Mr.
Kashevaroff is one of the most highly
educated and best posted of the Rus
sian priests of the territory and has a
vast fund of historical data which he
I has compiled for the records of the
; church. He will be an invaluable man
for the ilace.
A new tariff on telegraph messages
has gone into effect in Yukon terri
tory, which amounts to an increase of
from 12 to 25 per cent. The new tariff
i does not apply to business confined
to the Dawson-Ashcroft line, but is
directed against messages to and from
the United States. Under the new tar
iff day messages from Dawson to
Montreal is $3.75, with 23 cents extra
for every additional word. The rat be
tween Dawson and Vancouver is $2.80
with 17 cents for each additional word
over ten words.
EXTENDING RELIEF
WORK TO ALL NATIONS
LONDON, July 17 (by Associated
Press).—Since the inauguration on
June 1 of the pound for pound scheme,
by which the British treasury allows
£1 for every £1 raised and spent for
relief of the famine stricken areas of
Europe, nearly £500,000 has been con
tributed by the government.
The relief work for which these
sums have been granted by the treas
ury is carried on by about 15 societies
depending on voluntary contributions
and to a great extent on unpaid work
ers. The area in which relief is car
i ried on covers Poland. Czecho-Slov
akia, Vienna, Budapest, Serbia, Mon
tenegro, Asia Minor, Caucasus and
Syria. Applications for grants are
also expected from organizations
which have recently started operations
in Russia.
Professional kodak finishing. Scar
borough. Agency at Cordova drug
store.
Graham Bread fresh every day at
the City Bakery.
New line of imported laces at the
O.-T.-O. Shop. Windsor hotel. 8-tf
O.-T.-O. (out of the ordinary) ladies
toggery shop. Mrs. Grant Reed,
Windsor Hotel. 16-tf
Kodak finishing. Scarborough.
Just Arrived—A shipment of the
250-3000 Savage Bolt-Action Model
1920 sporting rifle. Come in and give
it the once over. Blum-O’Neill Co. 3-tf
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AMERICAN RED CROSS
SUPPLIES ARE TO BE
DISTRIBUTED IN CHINA
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SHANGHAI, July 17 (by Associated
Press).—More than a thousand tons of
American Red Cross medical supplies,
said to be worth over $500,000, that
were sent originally to Siberia and
recently were transshipped to Shang
hai, are to be distributed to mission
hospitals of all denominations through
out China. The work of distribution
is being supervised at Shanghai by
Major E. H. Charette of the American
Red Cross, who accompanied one of
the shipments from Vladivostok.
A large quantity of other supplies
used by the American Red Cross or
ganization in its work in Siberia will
be disposed of in Shanghai by sale.
Major Charette said a considerable
quantity of equipment and supplies of
the Red Cross had been sold in Siberia
soon after the withdrawal of American
forces from the country, including all
of the automobiles and automobile
trucks.
Hose and gloves for sale at the O
T-0 Shop, Windsor hotel. 17-tf
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Bedford-McNeill Code
Cordova, Alaska
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U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
Juneau, Alaska
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