SHORT STORIES
ABOUT ALASKA
The Petersburg school has intro
duced a manual training class. Also
the Wrangell school.
William Childs and Paul Black
head are working some good placer
ground at the head of Wyndham bay,
Southeastern Alaska.
A. Bleyker, a stockholder of a pa
per mill near Steilacoom, Wash., has
been in Southeastern Alaska recently
investigating the possibilities of a
mill for pulp.
A large still was found below Court
house hill at Juneau recently, where
judge, jury and officials could look
down on it. Fifty gallons of Juneau s
best distillation were seized by the
officers.
Owing to a scarcity of salmon at
Nenana dog caretakers are charging
$7 per month for taking care of the
animals for the owners. The former
rate was $4 per dog. Nels Stols, who
runs a dog farm near Nenana has
nearly 70 animals under his care, and
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is compelled to buy flour and tallow,
which is a losing proposition. It is
probable that many fine animals will
have to be killed.
The international revenue collec
tions from Alaska in the past fiscal
year were $282,287 from income and
profit tax, and $69,279 of miscella
neous tax in Alaska. In the collection
w'as included $21,167 income tax on
Alaska railroads.
The efforts of Fairbanksans to se
cure reimbursement from the terri
tory for cowra killed by the govern
ment veterinary have been without
success as the legislature which
passed the bill made no provisions
for paying the owners for the di
seased cattle. Charles Hinckley,
owner of tile Fairbanks dairy was the
heaviest of the losers, twenty-five
cows having been infected by tuber
culosis.
No improvement in conditions on
the Yukon above the Carlisle cannery
is noticed by this year’s travelers.
The shortage of fish at all points on
the river while the cannery put up a
large pack indicates that the fish are
kept from ascending the river. A
shortage of fish at all of the villages
is claimed with the prospects of many
natives dying this winter with star
vation. Similar reports come from
nearly every section tributary to the
Yukon above the cannery. There is
not enough fish along the entire Yu
kon to supply one village.
The body of Ed Fournier, employe
of the Arctic pool room at Juneau,
who has been missing since Septem
ber 8, was found last week floating
in the Gastineau channel. The spot
where the body was picked up was
about 200 feet from where Fournier
was last seen on the Pacific coast
dock. There was a large bruise on his
forehead which is supposed to have
been caused by bumping his h^ad on
the piling. A gold watch was found in
his pocket which had stopped at 7
o’clock. Little was known of the
man’s antecedents. He had been in
Jtineau for some time but had re
ceived no nlail there and had but
few acquaintances.
Recent arrivals in Nenana from
the lower Yukon river bring the re
port of a new discovery of placer gold
on Buster creek, a tributary of the
Kako river which empties into the
Yukon on the right limit about eight
miles above Russian Mission. Details
of the strike beyond the fact that gold
has been found on five claims were
not obtainable by the passengers who
brought the report to Nenana, but of
the discovery there appeared to be no
question. Kako creek, as it is shown
on the maps, is a short stream head
ing in the hills at the western end of
Ilivit mountains. Directly across coun
try, to the west^ is the Marshal dis
trict, a comparatively short distance
overland, but a considerable num
ber of miles away by river route,
probably 75 to 100 miles down stream.
Kako creek is said to be navigable to
within a short distance of the creek
where pay is reported to have been
found, offering an easy means of tran
sporting supplies into the district.
Buster creek is a considerable dis
tance up stream from the mouth of
Kako.
Special dinner served from 11:30
o’clock every day at the City Bakery.
Fresh Ever-Ready Flashlight Bat
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An Exceptionally Fine Drama with Several Entirely New Twists in
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Mr. Donald Fairman at the Organ
Selection, “Mile. Modiste” (Victor Herbert!
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Manhattan Hotel
R. W. FERRELL. Prop.
Electric Lighted. Hot Water. Turkish and Tub
Baths.
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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.
Howard Watches, $40 to $ 1 35
Hamilton Watches, $25 to $140
Elgin and Waltham Watches
Good selection in Ladies’ Wrist Watches
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Watch Repairing Phone 223
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