SHORTSTORIES
ABOUT ALASKA
OCCURRENCES
Dr. and Mrs. M. F. Hall of Fair
banks are hunting sheep in the vicin
ity of Donnelly.
Charles and Eva. Anderson, natives,
were fined at JJuneau recently for
being intoxicated.
Ruby creek had a fairly good sea
son this year. The Dalton company
worked fifteen men.
The railway commission at Nenana
has purchased 100 tons of vegetables
from local farmers.
Many hunters are bringing in big
bags of game along the Valdez trail,
says the Fairbanks Citizen.
Eriberto L. Hipos is being tried at
Juneau for the murder of George Ad
lam, a Bellingham canneryman.
The Nenana bridge, which was
taken out by high water last spring,
has been rebuilt.* It was necessary to
replace about thirty bents of the struc
ture.
The Seldovia Packing Company has
been incorporated by Charles E. Her
ron, E. Li. Bedell and t>. B. Patterson
of Anchorage, with a capitalization of
$100,000,
Brooks has had a fine potato crop,
two marriages have taken place, and
a trained nurse arrived this season,
which is all the news the camp can
boast of.
The Cordova Fish and Cold Storage
Company, incorporated at Cordova by
Charles Aues, Leonie, von M. Zesch
and T. J. Donohoe, has a capitaliza
tion of $25,000.
Nenana citizens claims to have the
meanest man in Alaska in that town.
The culprit stole a barrel of rain
water from a citizen who was saving
it to bathe in.
An enterprising native of Metla
kalitla has bone into the hog-raising
business. He purchased two hogs
last spring for $18 and sold seven last
week for $100.
The Juneau chief of police has is
sued orders against speeding with au
tomobiles. Several persons have been
picked up and ordered to report to the
city magistrate.
The Seattle Merchants’ Association
has been incorporated in Washington
with its Alaska office at Anchorage.
L. H. MeComber is president and J.
E. Baldwin secretary.
J. H. Howland, a pioneer of Ketchi
kan, died recently at his home near
Charcoal Point. The funeral services
were heid under the auspices of the
Ketchikan Igloo of Pioneers.
H. J. Murchison of Metlakahtla
claims that the Metlakahtla Commer
cial Company put up double the pack
it expected, all of which has been
taken over by the J. M. Smiley Com
pany.
The Alaska Ocean Food Company
is the name of a new incorporation
which has its Alaska place of busi
ness at Port Chatham. Christ Olson
is president and R. S. Towne secre
tary.
The Alaska Union Fisheries Com
pany of Ketchikan has, been incorpor
ated at Juneau, with a capitalization
of $500,000. The incorporators are J.
L. Jones, H. V. Henrickson and Eu
gene Walker.
W. G. Mahan bought the stock of
Gustafson & Co. at Brooks, which
placed him practically in control of
the grocery business. Coslett &
Lanky purchased the restaurant run
by Lance Crane.
A correspondent of the Nenana
News complains of having to suffer
the indignity of having a United
States soldier confront him with a
loaded rifle whenever he wishes to go
on the city wharves at that place.
Captain F. Kelly, for several years
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master of the Alaska Steamship Com
pany’s freighter eKtchikan, has been
appointed a member of the board of
inspectors of hulls and boilers at Se
attle, and will quit the Alaska run.
An Alaskan who went to Wichita
Falls writes back to his home town
that when he left he cursed Alaska,
but now he realizes that Alaska is the
best place to stay in, as they charge
him Outside for everything but the air
he breathes.
John Henson, United States com
missioner, has received notification
from the postoffice department at
Washington that he has been appoint
ed to the position of postmaster at
Douglas, to succeed his son, John F.
Henson, who has resigned.
Ben Hoerler of Fairbanks has dis
posed of his water wagon and gone
to Nenana to live. Ben has been sell
ing water for many years in the In
terior metropolis, using a tank on
wheels,' with a stove in each end for
cold weather.
Captain W. C. Dibrell, superinten
dent of lighthouses, with headquar
ters at Ketchikan, has issued a no
tice to mariners stating that the gas,
whistling and bell buoy at Cape St.
Elias, which was reported as not burn
ing on September 17, was relighted
October 1; and the Boat Rock light at
Naket bay, which was reported extin
guished August 4, was relighted
September 10;.
NO PEACE EVEN IN
DEATH FOR REMAINS
OF “SOAPY” SMITH
The Whitehorse Star has the fol
lowing to say about “Soapy” Smith,
the famous and notoridus “bad man”
of Skagway in the early days:
“In addition to the immense amount
of damage it did to the railway track
and bridges in the Skagway Valley,
the recent flood there washed away a
time-honored attraction that has prob
ably caused more fits of shivering fear
from timid female tourists who viewed
it' than any other object in Alaska,
viz., the grave of the famous ‘Soapy’
Smith, whose remains were laid to
rest in the old cemetery, just below
Reid’s falls, not far from the river
bank.
“Most of the nerve-racking tales of
the late lamented ‘Soapy’s’ ferocious
ness and diablerie that are now in cir
culation are mere fiction. The writer
of this article knew him well, and ex
cept when under the influence of
liquor he was as mild-mannered a
man as ever ‘scuttled a ship’ or ‘fleeced
a sucker.’ To the gang of sure-thing
men, grafters and thugs over which
he ruled with an iron hand he was
known as a man of reckless courage,
j quick on the draw, and one whom it
was not well for a male denizen of the
underworld to cross, but to the law
abiding and peacefully-inclined citi
zens with whom he came in contact he
was affable, courteous and deferen
tial, and his hand and purse were al
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“In Canada and the United States
there are today men respected and
accredited with an honesty they do
| not possess, who are robbing the
widow, the orphan and the disabled
soldier by the manipulation of the
prices of all the necessities of life,
as a means of acquiring the earnings
of others, from whom that outlaw
known in life as ‘Soapy’ Smith would
have turned in abhorrence and dis
gust.
“So wags the world. The wolf can
assume the garb of the lamb and no
one be the wiser, but for the black
sheep to change the color of its fleece
is among the impossibilities.”
Electric irons, 3 pounds to 6%
pounds. Prices $3.50 to $6.50 at the
Northwestern Hardware Company.
It’s the flavor and the grain which
make the bread at the City Bakery
famous.
If you do not receive your copy of
the Times regularly, please notify the
circulation manager.
Harmony Club masquerade, Hal
loween, Eagle hall.
Special dinner served Trom 11:30
o’clock every day at the City Bakery.
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“Bevo” Is Here
It’s a drink that surely fills the bill.
Delivered to the trade or families in
large or small quantities
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FRED HAEF, Distributor
“Send it
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Jones”
A Net
for washing your filmy things
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The cleansing of the filmy, cob
webby things that come to our
laundry in your family bundle—
the silken underwear, dainty
| shirtwaists and gossamer Geor
I, gettes and laces—has become a
fine art with us.
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I These articles of apparel, to
which a scrubboard would be
l ruination, are never touched by
awkward hands when we wash
them.
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In lieu of the . none-too-gentle
practices of the laundress, we
employ a much safer method.
We place these finer articles in
special nets — each according to
its kind —for washing by gentle
sousing and rinsing.
These nets are purse-like in
shape — in fact they closely re
semble the common mesh purse.
They are somewhat larger, how
ever, and made of cloth instead
of metal.
Secure in these nets, the sheerest
articles are cleansed without
coming into contact with wash
boards or the hands of workers.
Pure soft water and suds of a
mild white soap, weaving in and
out through the meshes, give
your things a freshness and
beauty that make them as new.
The care we use on garments
and apparel of this kind is typi
cal of that which we exercise in
the washing of everything. No
where is there any friction and
rubbing, to wear out fabrics.
Your clothes and the clothes of
your family, will last longer if
you will send them to us to be
washed.
If Monday is an ordeal, we have
a simple relief. Just let us know
and we will have our driver call
for your family bundle.
Modern | aundry
(Jones’ Laundry)
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