SHORT STORIES
ABOUT ALASKA
James Brockman, a young man
from Sitka, was recently declared in
sane and taken to Morningside.
Oscar Norberg of Juneau was re
cently pronounced hopelessly insane
and has been taken to Morningside
asylum.
Residents of Cache creek are en
r^eavoring to persuade Postmaster Gen
eral Burleson to establish an office
at that place.
Mining men from the Willow Creek
camp, some fifty miles from Anchor
age, report that there is more snow in
the hills this winter than in any pre
vious year.
An agreement for the sale of the
Alice Arm hotel, now owned by Ole
Evindsen, has been reached, the pur
chaser being Charles F. Walmsley, a
former business man of Seward, who
took possession April 1.
The killing of sea otter has been
prohibited for another five-year period,
ending November, 1925. Practically
no sea otter are found in Alaska
waters outside of the Aleutians, and
$hey are scarce there.
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A record shipment of paladium con
centrates, valued at $30,000, was
shipped from the Saltchuck mine, near
Ketchikan, recently. The shipment is
expected to produce about 180 ounces
of paladium. The concentrates will be
treated in New Jersey.
J. B. Curfman, known by old-timers
las “Skagway Jim,” who has been lo
cated at Manley Hot Springs for sev
eral years, recently arrived in Fair
banks from Fort Gibbon. Curfman
was located at Ester creek during the
best years of that creek.
Jack Hayes was arrested at Juneau
recently as he was trying to make a
get-away with a gallon demijohn of
whisky. He ran upstairs at the Alas
kan hotel to escape arrest and broke
the jug over a radiator. Hayes is a
stranger in Juneau.
Elmer E. Smith, mayor of Douglas,
and the proprietor of the Front Street
♦drug store, and owner of the Juneau
music house of Juneau, through the
advice of his physicians will retire
from business and leave for the States
in the hope of regaining his health.
A clean-up is being made of the
city of Ketchikan by the federal of
ficials. More than a dozen idlers aud
hangers-on of immoral houses have
been ordered to move. The officers
assert that they intend to rid the city
of all idlers, gamblers and macques
who have been flocking to the town on
account of its numerous resorts.
D. H. Williams, a business man of
Anchorage, has returned from the
States to his home. He gave a num
ber of lectures on Alaska while in
the East, and says that the people be
fore whom he spoke evinced a great
interest in the Northland. Mr. Will
iams took pains to show nothing but
summer views instead of the usual
winter scenes.
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C. A. (“Chick”) Patterson and G.
H. Sammis are defendants in an ac
tion which has been started by Mrs.
Amelia Hamilton to recover posses
sion of a lot in Indian Town, Ketchi
kan. The plaintiff claims that the two
men last summer erected a two-story
building on her property and refuse
to move off. The defendants are al
leged to have removed a platform and
erected the building without permis
sion.
The gasboat Frances R. was wrecked
Hadley, Southeastern Alaska, last
oa the rocks about two miles from
week. The boat left Ketchikan bounc
for Canoe Pass, and developed engine
trouble off Hadley. After drifting
about for two hours she struck the
rocks and the crew made shore with
an ax and blankets, but without food.
The boat is believed to be a total
loss. The crew were taken to Ketchi
kan by the Acushla.
The Fairbanks News-Miner editor
should be in the seventh heaven of
newspaper bliss. He has had to turn
down subscribers desiring to take his
paper and refuse their money. How
it came about was thus: The Fair
banks Citizen was put out of busi
ness by fire recently, and its subscrip
tions went to the News-Miner. That
paper had its stock of paper for the
winter and could not enlarge much, as
the supply must last it until the open
ing of navigation.
Masters, mates and pilots pf the
Southeastern Alaska coast are pre
paring a petition to be sent to the
Washington bureau of the lighthouse
service asking that more adequate
aids to navigation be placed in Sum
ner and Chatham straits. The peti
tion cites a long list of marine acci
dents which have occurred there, in
cluding that of the steamship Mari
posa. The principal changes desired
are that unwatched lights on several
reefs be replaced by light buoys with
whistle or bell fog signals.
Scarborough pictures that please at
prices that art right. Over Cordova
drug store. Phone 140—3 rings.
Fresh French puffs daily at the City
Bakery. 13-tf
Best coffee in town served at the
City Bakery. 13-tf
Don’t argue. The Club billiard hall
carries fresh tobacco. 27-tf
Fresh Ever-Ready Flashlight Bat-!
teries, all sizes. Blum-O’Neill Co. 3-tf j
TACOMA WANTS TO RAISE
TWO MILLION DOLLARS
FOR GREATER COLLEGE
TACOMA, April 15 (by Associated
Press).—Two officers of the Rockefel
ler Foundation are coming to Tacoma
soon to inspect the College of Puget
Sound, Dr. E. H. Todd, president of
the college, has announced. A favor
able report will mean that the school
Vvill receive foundation endowments,
he said.
The institution at present is plan
ning a campaign to raise $2,000,000
for a “greater college” program. Ta
coma has been asked to subscribe the
first $50,000.
J A. KRISTOFERSON
(Incorporated) Seattle
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