SHORT STORIES
ABOUT ALASKA
J. A. Webb, a former well-known
resident of Fairbanks, has purchased
a tract of land on the Interurban rail
road. between Seattle and Tacoma. He
paid $1,000 an acre for the place.
It is reported that E. R. Lovejoy,
formerly manager of the grocery de
partment of the E. R. Peoples store
at Fairbanks, .who is now residing in
Seattle, will establish a stcre at Hyder.
Mrs. Grace McDermott, wife of
George McDermott of the United
States signal corps at Fort Gibbon,
I Alaska, passed away in Seattle on the
atternoon of January 10. Many
friends attended the obsequies.
E. P. Clark, general freight and pas
senger agent of the Alaska Steamships
Company, has departed for New York.
f where he will direct the loading of
the steamships Henry T. Scott and
Juneau, soon to sail from that port
for Seattle.
John Ronan, territorial senator from
the Third division of Alaska, who
during the past year has been pros
pecting mining claims in the Portland
canal district, has been appointed
deputy United States marshal for the
Hy<Jer recording district.
A sub-committee representing the
bureau of fisheries, the territorial fish
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eries board and the big salmon pack
ers, which is engaged in drafting a
fisheries bill adapted to the needs of
Alaska, reports progress. The bill
may be ready for publication in the
near future.
E. Banks Ansley, well known in An
chorage, Alaska, as a former manager
of the branch of the Bank of Alaska,
is now assistant cashier of, the Union
National Bank of Seattlee. He is in
charge of the business service depart
ment of the big fiduciary institution,
one of the most prosperous and sound
est in that city.
Barney Watson, claim agent for the
Pacific Steamship Company, expects
to leave immediately on a mission of
great importance in behalf of the big
transportation line with which he is
connected. He will make a tour of
Mexican, Central American and South
American ports for the purpose of in
vestigating the trade possibilities in
these foreign countries.
After eighteen years’ service as
Alaska representative of Schwabacher
Bros. & Co., with headquarters at Ju
neau, Oak Olson, one of the best
known and most popular commercial
travelers of the Northland, has ten
dered his resignation. He plans to
enter the brokerage business at Ju
neau, representing various wholesale
concerns. Joe Maherin will be asso
ciated with him.
The Cook inlet firm of McNally &
Maitland, who have been mining coal
under a permit for the past two years
at Bluff Point, on the eastern shore of
Cook inlet, has been advised that the
request for a lease on one thousand
acres of coal-bearing land at this point
has been favorably considered by the
land department of the government,
and in due course the lease will be
granted. The coal is lignite, but is
adapted to local needs, including the
canneries operating in the Cook inlet
country and points to the westward.
John T. Reid, deputy United States
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district clerk in the first judicial divi
sion of Alaska, has been appointed
United States commissioner for the
newly created recording district on
Portland canal, with the town of Hy
der as headquarters. The appoint
ment was made by Judge Jennings
some time ago, but was not made pub
lic until now. Judge Reid was in
hopes that it would not be necessary
to assume his new duties until spring,
but the department of justice has re
quested that he go to Hyder without
delay, due to complaints of bootleg
ging, gambling and like offenses.
Fresh French puffs daily at the 'Jty
Bakery. 1-3-tf
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The Kodak Season is]
now on and we are start
ing it off with a large and complete stock of
Eastman Kodaks and Photo Supplies
Kodak Finishing
The work of this department is in charge of our
Photographer, Mr. Scarborough, who was
with us last season. This insures the quality
of the work we turn out
MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED
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Clothes That Fit
Come in and let me make your next suit. I will make it for you right
here in town, in my own shop. I will give you two real fitting?, and
you will get a suit of colthes that fits you. Over one hundred suits
I patterns of best quality arrived. Please call and inspect while stock
is complete.
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Hotel Atwood
Corner First Avenue and Pine Street
Seattle, Wash.
J. A. FARNHAM and E. TAYLOR, Proprietors.
Headquarters for Alaskans
Ted Taylor, formerly chief steward S. S. Alaska.
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Selfish Yates is a dive-keeper and saloonist in 1
Thirsty Center, Arizona, and prides himself on
being selfish UNTIL—? Well, that would be
telling. Come and see. It is a real old-fash
ioned thriller that 11 make your blood run a
little faster and spied you home treading on air ,
COMEDY~“HIS BUSY DAY”
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Manhattan Hotel
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OPPOSITE CORDOVA GRILL, CORDOVA, ALASKA.
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EXTRACT FROM CHAPTER 53, SESSION LAWS OF *?
ALASKA, 1919
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“Any person who shall in any manner willfully and
maliciously interfere with or alter any meter or other
device for the measuring of such current or power, or $
shall, without the authority of the owner of any such $:
jji; telegraph, telephone, electric light system or system for %
the transmission of light or power by the use of elec
tricity, divert, use or appropriate any message or cur- :•£
rent or any portion of such current, or shall tap any i;.*: \
wire or line used for the transmission of such message, $•
current or power, or shall procure or advise the same :•£ *
to be done; the person so offending shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall he punished by a fine not to exceed five hundred :£
j*»: do'lars ($50000), or imprisonment not to exceed six
months, cr by both such fine and imprisonment in the
$: discretion of the court, and shall be liable to the com
pany or the persons whose property is Injured, or line ;ju.
obstructed, or current diverted, in a sum equal to three
:£ (3) times the amount of the actual damage sustained * $:
thereby, and three (3) times the price of the current, j:|i
:$ light or power diverted or used.” $;
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NOTICE. We are now located in our new building at the Ocean Dock. . 1
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