SHORT STORIES
ABOUTALASKA
OCCURRENCES
A coroner’s inquest was held at
Nome over the remains of a native
woman named Doris who committed
suicide by shooting herself through
the head with a rifle. She came from
Prince of Wales. While stopping with
a woman named Richard she became
despondent and procuring a rifle put
a bullet through her head.
Eighteen members of the military
forces at Fort Davis have received
their discharge, having sufficient
means to support themselves for the
immediate future. The following men
were discharged: Sergeant Harry
Gabrielson, Sergeant J. G. McDougall,
Privates Frank Bayle, John Pohlner,
Lorenz Waldheim, Boinich, Camp
bell, Ataeff, Lescher, Sullivan, Oka
soff, Thorson, Vail, Mathteson, Dzibi
lolf, Johnson, Dahl and Peterson.
A shooting affray ending in the
death of Martin Johnson, a prospector
in the Casadepaga has been reported
at Nome. Johnson arrived from the
Yukon last summer and has been
prospecting in the Casa. He appar
ently became deranged and attacked a
neighbor with a,n axe. He acted crazy
all winter and investigation by the
officials showed that Johnson had
been killed by A1 Kohler, a pros
pector, who with his wife and child
had been spending the winter in that
section. Kohler said that Johnson
came to his cabin and after smashing
the windows and door entered the
cabin and chased Kohler and family
out. Kohler was finally forced to shoot
Johnson to save his family.
“The Gleam” is the name of a
bright, newsy little paper that has
been started in Juneau under the ca
pable direction of Mrs. H. H. Me
Evoy, formerly of Cordova.
The Diamond Fish Company, which
operated last year at Warm Springs
Bay, packing about 7,000 barrels of
Scotch-cured herring, will not operate
this plant this season.
The Chatham Straits Fish Company,
headed by Olaf Aune of Seattle, is pre
paring to put in a new herring salt
ery in a place called New Port Walter
in the vicinity of the plants of the
Alaska Herring and Sardine Company
and the Alaska-Pacific Herring Co.
The Marani Products Company of
Anacortes, Wash., has been figuring
for some time on extending its field
of operations in fish by-products to
Alaska owing to a shortage of raw
material available for its Puget sound
plant.
Joseph Dieu, an employe of the
stores department of the Alaskan
Engineering Commission, left recently
on the steamer Alaska for his home
In Bellingham after working at An
chorage for the past year. He has
had many relatives killed in the war.
A baby daughter born to Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Stevens of Kasaan is equip
ped with more than the usual number
of digits, having five fingers and a
thumb on her right hand, all perfectly
shaped. The baby is normal in every
other respect.
The Alaska Fish Company is having
a cannery tender built by the West
ern Board Building Company of Ta
coma foi^use at its plant at Water
fall, Alaska. The boat is 75 feet long,
17 feet beam, and has a draft of 8
feet. It will be powered with a 100
horsepower motor.
The gaaboat Expansion recently ar
rived in Seward en route from Seat
tle to Bristol Bay. The boat is 175
tons burden and carried a crew of
217 men. The boat left Seattle on
April 2 going as far as Taku harbor
to await orders. Captain Larsen re
ports a smooth sea all the way.
A guard in the federal jail at Fair
banks choked on a piece of meat he
was eating, and but for the assist
ance of fellow guards would have,
choked to death.
A crew of carpenters and caulkers
have already commenced work at
Fairbanks on the Tanana river boats
getting them ready for the summer
season.
Hydaburg is to have an electrjc
light plant. This town is owned and
managed by natives. A sawmill out
fit was also recently shipped there
and is: being assembled.
Sam Carruthers, who arrived in
Fairbanks recently from the Salcha
country, where he has been prospect
ing, says he has great faith in the
future of the camp and thinks that
tho drill which is working there will
disclose the paystreak in the near
future.
All the work at the Chickaloon coal
mine operated by the railroad com
mission continues to be in the nature
of prospecting. Forty-four men are on
the pay rolls at the mine.
Lieutenant L. F. Gibson, of Juneau,
formerly connected with the C. W.
Young Company, has received his dis
charge and expects, to return soon to
the United States, thence to Juneau.
Angelona Bertalini, who was taken
into custody at Fairbanks on an in
sanity charge, was released from cus
tody. The examining physician cer
tified that the man was of sound mind
but slightly nutty.
One of the railway commission's
teams ran away across the frozen
river at Nenana last week but were
caught after a several mile chase by
the driver who had been spilled out.
The business men of Nenana are
talking of establishing a ferry service
for the convenience of the A. E. C.
employes who will be established in
camps across the river during the
coming season.
Dr. Ernest De K. Leffingwell has
recently returned from the Arctic re
gions after spending six winters and
nine summers there. He was explor
ing and did the work entirely at his
own expense.
clerk who has been in the photograph
business at Seward the past year, has
located at Ketchikan. Mr. Thwaite
left Seward to locate in Skagway but
the influenza epidemic scared him
out.
Karl Meier, interned alien enemy,
from Douglas, has been paroled from
the government interment camp at
Fort Douglas, Utah. He was sent
from Douglas during the war days,
having been arrested on a presiden
tial warrant.
The forestry service is organizing
a crew and expect to start work on
the new road from Kasaan to the It
mine in a few days. The sum alloted
for the work is $6,000. Last year a
road was built from Hadley to Ka
saan, and the new road which will be
five miles long will be an extension
to that one. Next year it is hoped
the road which leads through a virgin
mining country will be extended to
the Salt Chuch mine.
When Seward saw that she was not
going to be able to reach her quota
in the recent Victory loan, Gus Bor
gen, one of the live wires of the city,
sent letters to certain business houses
in the States asking that they assist
the city in reaching the quota. Mr.
Borgen received two answers to his
letters increasing the subscriptions
eredited to Seward by over $3,000.
A recent attempt was made in the
Washington legislature to limit fish
ing more closely to American citizens.
General A. L. Thompson has given
an opinion that aliens who obtained
Aching licenses under a declaration of
intention to become citizens and later
refused military service have for
feited the right to fish, with other
citizenship rights. Fish Commissioner
Darwin is taking action against a
number of fishermen and clam dig
gers under this decision.
A rock weighing several hundred
pounds rolled down a mountain side
and entered the front door of a cabin
in Skagway. It enlarged that opening
very much and was finally ejected
from tjje house by the combined ef
forts of the men, aided by jacks, bars,
blocks, much coaxing and hard work.
Outside of knocking the fence over,
twisting the cabin onto its haunches,
splintering the door, and wrecking the
sidewalk, no damage was done to
speak of.
Marion Engelich, an employe of the
Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company,
was recently found insane and sent
to Morningside.
Nome oversubscribed her quota of
the Victory loan first of any Alaskan
town in the district. Three hundred
and eighty-six persons bought $114,
550 worth of bonds.
The Seward Auto Association is be
ing formed. The dues in the organ
ization will go towards making re
pairs on the boulevard to Mile 7,
which are needed from time to time.
A rod and gun club has been formed
at Nenana and great Interest is being
manifested in the movement
Major \V. H. Waugh, head of the
Alaska road commlssloh, left recently
for Portland to consult with the en
gineer in charge of the federal office
of good roads, and has also gone to
Washington, D. C., on business con
nected with his office.
Captain Tom Banbury of Juneau is
with General W. P. Richardson in
Russia. He was one of those who
volunteered when General Richardson
asked for men to accompany him, and
t'r c two men are well acquainted, hav
ing known each other in Juneau.
At a meeting of the stockholders of
the Gateway Publishing Company
Elmer A. Friend was again named as
editor and general manger of the
Daily Gateway and Weekly Post until
September first.
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