YOUTH KILLED
BY EXPLOSION
OF DYNAMITE
Ike explosion of a charge of more
than 10 tons of T. N. T. in connect
ion with the grading operations which
are in progress in Nenana canyon
caused the death of Dick Healey.
t; youthful timekeeper in fhe employ of
the Alaska road commission, with
headquarters at Camp Healey, at the
end of steel, south of Nenana. The
young man, eager to obtain a picture
of the “shot” approached too close to
the mined mountainside and was lit
terally mowed down by the avalanche
of rock which was hurled across the
Nenana river by the force of the ex
plosion. His skull was fractured, his
hip broken, his legs shattered, and
his body otherwise mutilated by the
shower of rocks from the blast. He
lived only a short time after receiv
ing the injuries.
The accident occurred on the Kest
ley residency, about two miles beyond
the end of steel, and within a very
short time afterward, Chief Surgeon
T. O. Lake, of the government hos
pital, was speeding out the line to at
tend to the injured man. A speeder
was used for the trip to the crossing
and another speeder on the south
side of the river took the surgeon to
the end of steel, whence a saddle
horse took him quickly to the scene
of the accident. There was little, if
anything that could be done to save
* the young man’s life and within
fifteen minutes after Dr. Lake arrived
he was dead.
While preparations were being
made to set the blast off, Healey
was seen approaching the danger
zone with his camera and he was
warned three times to retire to a safe
place, the shot being held up until
it was thought that no one remained
sufficiently close enough to be in
jured. Healey, in the meantime had
stepped behind a clump of bushes
and it is believed that he did not
heeded the warning to retire from the
spot.
After the blast, the young man’s
body was found partially buried by
the fragments of rock blown from
the mountain side. The trees all
about were cut off close to the
ground, the area immediately in front
of the blast having been swept clean
as a battlefield.
The deceased young man was a re
cent arrival in Alaska, and entered in
the employ of the Alaskan engineer
ing commission only about a month
ago. He was signed on as a time
keeper and sent to Camp Healey
where he soon become a favorite
with the railroad workers there. He
was less than 20 years of age.
Very little is known about him,
beyond the fact that he is an ex
service man and has a monther re
siding at Plainsville, Connecticut, to
whom the distressing news of the
accident has been wired.
CHICAGO LANDLORDS
MAY PAY EXCESS TAX
CHICAGO, Aug. 25.—Landlords will
pay an excess profits tax in the form
of graduated license fees to the city
if a plan formulated by Alderman A.
J. Cermak is given legislative in
dorsement.
Another proposed solution to the
high cost of renting is being at
tempted by members of the Olivet
Baptist church here. A charter was
granted at Springfield for a corpora
tion to be known as the South Park
Baptist community flat owning cor
poration, Olivet Baptist church.
“We have already bought two six
| fiat buildings and our stockholders
will occupy them,” said Rev. L. K.
Williams, one of the incorporators.
A New York man claims his wife
cost him a hundred thousand dollars.
That was only to get her. Just think
of what the “keep” will be for that
kind of a wife—but, then, they don’t
keep them in New York.
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! SCHOONER BLAATIND
SOLD BY COURT ORDER
SEATTLE, Aug. 25.—Final decree
ordering that the wooden schooner
Blaatind, which is lying idle in the
harbor of Seattle, be sold and claims
aggregating $173,419.52, was entered
in the federal court in libel proceed
ings against the ship which were
filed in April of this year. There
12 claims.
The Blaatind was built by the
American Motor Schooner Company
of New York for Norwegian interests.
The hull was launched October 3,
1919, and was completed within 60
days thereafter and a bill of sale was
issued to the Amerikanake Motor
skonnert Aktier of Norway. The ship
was then chartered by F. Griffin to
carry lumber from British Columbia
to Africa. Difficulties arose and Cap
tain Nicholas Gram, representing the
owners, engaged counsel to assist him
in getting the Blaatind to her berth
in British Columbia before the char
ter could be cancelled. Then the
trouble causing the claims arose and,
as a result, the Blaatind never left
Elliott bay.
LATE ALASKA NEWS
After spending eleven months in
France fighting the Huns and spend
ing a few months in Tacoma with re
latives Frank Bartholomew has re
turned to his home in Anchorage, i
I Frank was a member of the Fourth
regiment air service mechanics and
left Anchorage three years ago to
join the army.
The Valdez Miner says a man there
recently gathered fifteen pounds of
rhubarb from one hill in his garden
and left enough for restocking. This
is pretty good but a Seward Avoman
tbe other day took one stock of rhu
barb from one hill and made three
i large two-inch deep pies. Next! —
, SeAvard Gateway.
The four eastern hunters, W. D.
Burden, C. V. Whitney, Lawrence
| Foster and Arthur Nichol left Seward
for Mile 23, accompanied by Guides
William Kaiser and Henry Lucas.
The party will spend thirty days in
the interior of Kenai peninsula. Dr.
Rabell, wife and son of New York
City, also left Seward on a hunting
trip. They Avill go to the Talkeetna
district for caribou. Guides A1 Rob
erts and Bill DeWitt will accompany
the trio.
The first speciments of Yak ever
in Yukon arrived in Dawson recently
on the steamer Casca, and left there
on the Yukon shortly after. They
belong to the American government
and are being shipped to the gov
ernmental station at Fairbanks. They
are shipped in large crates. The
animals are .about the size of a cow,
but are black and stocky with long
dark hair. The Yak is a native of
the cold regions in the high altitudes
of Tibet, where altitude has enured
them to the cold as the northern
latitudes do the musk oxen of the
Arctic.
Recent arrivals from the Glacier
and Miller mining districts, sixty
miles west from Dawson, bring news
of a vast herd of caribou on the range
of high hills in that region. The car
ibou are right along the summer road
and are understood to be as close to
Dawson as the Forty-one mile house,
forty-one miles out from Dawson, and >
conducted by Joe Roshon. The cari
bou are said 4o be there by tens of
thousands and like sheep in all dir
ections. It is understood practically
none were killed excepting a few
which are being taken by the Indians
for their own use.
The forest fire which was sweep
ing the country in the vicinity of Lit
tle Salmon last week has subsided
to a large extent, especially near the
telegraph line and the wires in that
area have been interrupted but little
However, the area burned over was
large and the wire -was on the hot
ground with no poles or insulators
at hand. A new supply of insulators
left Whitehorse on the Steamer
Whitehorse for use in the little Sal
mon locality, and will be utilized
at once. The fire at latest report 1
was running along the hills and flats
near the Little Salmon but did not
often reach the wire.
A large barn erected at Mile 429
sometime ago by the Alaska engineer
ing commission and sold very recent
ly to Mail Carrier Allard, was com
pletely destroyed fey fire, together
with a bunkcar belonging to the gov
ernment, which stood close by. The
origin of the fire is shrouded in mys
tery, but the fact that the barn was
unoccupied at the time and was at a
distance from the track, encourages
the belief that the case is one de
manding investigation. Allard closed
the deal for the barn several days
ago, paying a deposit to the commis
sion to bind the bargain. It was his
intention to take possession immed
iately.
BIG BARN ERECTED AT
EXPERIMENT FARM
Among the improvements at the
Matanuska experimental farm that
are rapidly progressing is a new
modern barn, L-shape, with one wing
36x90 feet and another 34x72
feet. The former will be used for
horses, harness room, grain bins and
hay mow and the latter for housing
the cattle, including calf pens, milk
ing room and feed stalls. The entire
cattle section will be floored with
concrete, with drains leading to a
concrete basin south of the building
which will also serve as a storage
reservoir for manure. There will be .
an overhead carrier from the silo and
feed bins to the cattle section. One
side of the ya/rd will be inclosed
with sheds for implements and shel
ter for outdoor cattle. Frederick
Raer,superintendent of the farm, is
chief carpenter on the job and is
making an excellent showing. The
barn will be ready for the winter.
LIVESTOCiTEXHiBlfTO
ECLIPSE PREVIOUS YEARS
CHEHALIS, Wash., Aug. 25.—Ac
cording to Secretary Walker of the
Southwest Washington Fair Associa
tion, the display of local livestock 1
this year will eclipse all past shows, j
Organization of the local Holstein
breeders into a strong group and the
fact that the Jersey breeds also
have a live club have had the effect
of impressing the necessity of mah
ing good exhibits.
Tssurances received by Mr. Walker
indicate that there is to be a fine
display of outside cattle. *
MINING NEWS NOTES
OF THE TERRITORY
A shortage of water is reported on
Eureka creek and many of the miners
have left on that account. A. J. Wik
strom is working in an open cut. Jos.
McLaggan is sluicing. Steve Bede is
hoisting and sluicing. M. Velge is
at work on an open cut on No. 3. Tom
Warner is shoveling in his winter
dump. Hill Stephens have finished
their winter dump, and intend to sink
another shaft.
Ore is now being brought from
the Maid of Erin group of claims in
the Rainy Hollowr copper district to 1
a place on the main road where it
is piled awaiting transfer to Haines,
a distance of something over fifty
miles. The long haul will be made
by a one hundred and twenty horse
power Holt Caterpiller, hauling trail
ers, capable of making a speed of 3
1-2 miles an hour and taking 75 tons
a trip.
Bringing the first shipment of gold
pre from the Alaska Treadwell Gold
Mining Company’s new properties
near Nixon, 60 miles from McGrath,
n the Kuskokwim river district of
Alaska, a shivment of furs valued at
five thousand dollars and 110 tons
pf mild-cure salmon the motor ship
Dzmo, Capt. H. C. Anderson, of the
Morthern Coflimercial Company ar
'ived in Seattle late last month
Tom Bethel, via Unalaska.
Michael Gregorie Geruzaroff and
drs. Dada Clement were recently
married at Juneau by Rev. Father
\ashevaroff of the Russian church,
rhe groom, whose American name is
Vlike Berkoff, was formerly a resi
lent of Fairbanks and was also em
ployed in the Dome creek mines. He
was one of 14 men who were im
prisoned in a cavein of a 170-foot
;haft. The rescue of the imprisoned
men is still an epic in the mining
listory of the interior. The accident
;ook place in September 1911. By
means of a diamond drill, which was
lurried to the scene across nigger
leads and wet grounds despite seem
ingly unsurmountable obstacles, the
men were given air, the hole en
large wts transformed into a dumb
waiter through which food and blank
5ts were lowered to succor the vic
tims and through which eventually,
after four or five days imprison
ment, they were rescued.
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