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SHORT STORIES
ABOUTALASKA
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The citizens of Ketchikan recently
turned out en masse to improve the
city park.
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Ketchikan was buried under 18
inches of snow last week, an unpre
cedented occurrence for this time of
the year.
T. S. Elsnore, cashier of the Bank
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of Petersburg, was unanimously cho
sen mayor by the city council of that
place recently.
J. B. Gilfallan, from Minneapolis,
and George Me M. Godley of New
York City are Jiunting big game on
Hinchinbrook island.
N. P. Hansen, first trick man of
the T. and T. department- of the en
gineering commission recently left
Anchorage for the States.
Plans and specifications for the
apartment house to be erected near
the Juneau radio station have been
received from the government.
William A. Wakefield, 72 years of
age, an Alaska canneryman and Zora
Currell, a 26-year-old nurse, were
married at a Long Beach resort.
Charles Howard, a former Seward
man, chief steward on the steam
ship Circinus, one of the large pas
senger and freight boats operated on
the Pacific and Atlantic.
A stranger approaching through
Sukwan would think he was approach
ing the emerald isle instead of Hyda
burg, as everything In town is painted
- a vivid green by the natives.
L. P. Barton, care of Tobin & To
bin, lawyers of San Francisco, are
making inquiries in the various cit
ies of Alaska of the whereabouts of
Jacob Shindler, an old time Alaskan.
Aldrew Wells, James Cook, Jack
Peratovich, Benjamin Peratovich and
Fred Williams, all natives, pleaded
guilty at Ketchikan last week to ille
gal fishing and were fined $50 and
costs.
Applications to the number of 33
have been received by Frank Boyle,
registrar and receiver for the United
States land office at Juneau for oil
claims under the new law taking ef
fect April 1.
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All through passenger business be
tween Seward and Anchorage was
stopped until the slides along Turn
again Arm were cleared out. Trains
began running again the first of the
week.
Capt. Thos. Johnson of the steam
ship Spokane is taking a six week va
cation and his place is being filled
by Capt. Harry J. Allen. Capt. Allen
was formerly master of the City of
Seattle.
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H. P. Hood, foreman at the Perser
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verance .mine accompanied by Mrs.
Hood have gone to Scotland on a
visit. John Nyholm, an old timer, who
has been at Preserverance since 1913
in various capacities has been appoint
ed foreman.
Mrs. E. S. Stroud, mother of Rob
ert Stroud, an Alaskan, sentenced to
be hanged in the Federal penitentiary
at Leavenworth, through interces
sions with President Wilson has suc
ceeded in having her son’s seftte^ice
commuted to life imprisonment.
The Yukon territorial legislature
recently passed bills prohibiting the
sale of alcoholic liquor for commer
cial purposes; requires licenses from
non-residents who come to the terri
tory to hunt big game; to license fur
traders and to forbid the export of
moose or caribou hides from the ter
ritory.
Hiablar Espanol is again heard on
the streets of Wrangell, a number of
men from Guam, Mexico and Central
and South America having come up
to work in the canneries.
The boys at Kennecptt and the
many mines near McCarthy recently
raised a subscription <# a thousand
dollars for Dan Campbell, who had
hi£ feet frozen on the glacier, Camp
bell and Jimmy Brown are on crutches
afj^r part of their feet were ampu
tated.
^Instructions have been issued by
Registrar Frank A. Boyle of the land
office at Juneau that all persons fil
ing on oil claims should have their
filings accompanied by a map or pen
cil sketch- showing natural monu
ments and landmarks adjoining the
claims, so as to make it easier to
identify locations and prevent con
fusion staking.
Charles A. Fox, formerly postmas
ter at Craig was arrested last week
following the return of a secret in
dictment by a Juneau grand jury. The
indidtment charges Fox with the em
bezzlement of $1,167.77. It is report
ed that Fox made good the short
age but the postal department insist
ed upon prosecution. Fox was ar
raigned and pleaded not guilty. His
bail was reduced from $3,000 to $500.
Ed. McNally of the firm of McNally
1 & Maitland, coal operators at Bluff
Point, returned recently to Anchor
age from the mine and states that he
has a crew of eight men getting out
coal to supply the canneries and in
let points this summer. Among the
canneries , contracting for coal with
eht firm are McNeill & Libby, the
Northwestern Fisheries, Alaska^Pack
ers and others.
The case of the U. S. vs. Perry and
Joe Jenkins charged with illegal fish,
ing resulted in the jury bringing in a
verdict of acquittal. The men were
arrested for driving a trap in a certain
location and starting to hang the web
when Cap & Steers towed in a float
ing trap and started fishing within
the 600 yard area prohibited by law
and when Jenkins started fishing a
complaint was lodged against them
for fishing illegally.
GREAT BRITAIN PLANS
TO CORNER OIL SUPPLY
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WASHINGTON, May 18 (by Associ
ated Press).—Great Britain’s policy
with reference to the world’s petro
leum supplies is reported to be to ex
clude aliens from control of supplies
within the empire and to endeavor to
gain control over properties in foreign
countries, the senate was informed yes
terday in a report signed by Assistant
Secretary of State Polk, and addressed
to the. President.
LARGE GOLD NUGGET
FROM AFRICAN CONGO
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LONDON, May 18 (by Associated
Press).—A lump of pure gold weigh
ing just over 12 pounds, one of the
largest nuggets ever found, has been
discovered in the Kilo State Mines in
the northeastern district of the Bel
gian Congo, according to the African
World. It is now in the possession of
the Londop branch of the Banque du
Congo Beige and will be sold on be
half of the Belgian government.
They are going to call Jack Coombs,
Pitcher Instructor Coombs of Detroit,
this year. Maybe Nick Altrock will
call himself chief of the Washington
pitching bureau.
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The owners of league ball teams are
looking the whole country over for
good players, and doubtless thousands
of the youth of pie land, wonder why
they aren’t being recognized.
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RIDDLE GAWNE
There was hell on earth when ‘Riddle’ faced
the man he had sought for twenty years—the
man who had murdered his brother—the man
who had sought to defame the only woman he
had ever loved.
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