News Notes of the Northland
Culled from the Columns of Territorial Exchanges
The first launch from Nenana is re
ported to have reached Dawson or
Monday, June 4.
Work has been started at Juneau
removing the Alaska museum to its
new home in the Garside building, re'
cently purchased by the Territory.
One of the high peaks of the coast
range in Southeastern Alaska has
been officially named alter Eugene
Owens, known as "Mayor of Sum
dum.” A recent issue of the Chicago
Tribune carried a photograph of Mr.
Owens and a cut of the peak named
for him.
The training ship Boxer, of the
Federal Bureau of Education will
make its headquarters in Juneau. The
vessel carries a crew of 14 men. It
will be used to carry supplies and
teachers to government schools for
the Indians.
Wire drag work for pinnacle rocks
in the inside passage has been com
pleted by the Geological survey ves
sel explorer.
The annual run of king salmon has
started in southeastern Alaska and it
is expected the run will be at its
height at the time of the visit of the
presidential party. The fishing indus
try employs 15,000 men and operates
130 canneries in Alaska.
The Juneau City Council recently
put up a prize of 510 for the Boy
Scout making the best showing in the
paint-up clean-up campaign.
The Juneau city council recently
passed an ordinance making city
taxes payable in two payments. This
provides for assessment by the last
week in June, payments of 50 per
cent of the taxes assessed to be paid
by August 1 and 50 per cent to be
paid on or before the January 1 fol
lowing.
M. L. Stepp has been transferred
from the Bureau of Public Roads to
the Customs Service, and will be sta
tioned at Prince Rupert. Mr. Stepp
has been a resident of Juneau since
September. 1921.
Deputy Marshal H. G. Cloes of Cor
dova recently picked up twenty quarts
of Mumrns’ extra dry and a case of
good Scotch on the beach at the Cop
per city last week. The liquor was
destroyed later in front of the Fed
eral jail. Cordovan bootlegging pal
ates are somewhat discriminating, as
the marshals of other towns do not
appear to have such good luck.
Dr. W. W. Council accompanied by
Mrs. Council and J. W. Gucker, re
cently returned to Cordova from Ya
kataga beach with the pelts of nine
black bears, one of which was killed
with a bow and arrow. The Doctor,
who is an ardent sportsman, recently j
claimed he could kill a bear with an
arrow and was laughed at by Cordova
hunters. He took his bow and arrow
along to prove it, and when he saw a
black bear across a creek from him
he brought it down with his first ar
row, which severed the spinal cord
and the bear dropped as if shot with
a bullet. One arrow went clear thru
the body of the bear, the second be
ing so deeply embedded that it could
not be pulled out. Clearings are ne-!
cessary, says the doctor, in hunting
with a bow and arrow. He claims the
high power has nothing on a bow and
arrow as a means of killing game.
Victor Nyland and Axel Hogburg
were seriously hurt at Mile 122 on
the Copper River railroad when a
derrick boom shieve broke, part of
which struck the men. Mr. Nyland
sustained a broken thigh and Mr.
Hogburg had an arm broken.
Jafet Lindeberg, a former Alaskan
and discoverer of the gold deposits
at Nome, has transferred all his prop
erty to the receiver for the Scandina
vian American bank of Tacoma, to
cover notes totalling $355,000. Linde
berg has been left practically penni
less by the transfer.
The two mammoth gold dredges,
which have been constructed at Nome
during the past winter wrere launched
June 1, at Little Creek, the entire
town declaring a half holiday and
turning out to witness the ceremony.
The dredges were built for the Ham
mon Consolidated Gold Company.
The Ketchikan Daily News, which
resumed publication a few months
ago, is reported to have again sus
pended.
A divorce was granted Nora Warren
from E. J. Warren at Cordova re
cently by Judge Ritchie.
Emily^ a young daughter of the
late Charles Games of Cordova, died
at Kodiak May 19, from spinal menin
gitis.
Caribou are ranging the hills in the
vicinity of Dawson in enormous bands
says an article in the News. The an
imals are plentiful near Moosehide.
Hart Humber has been appointed
deputy United States marshal for the
first division. Mr. Humber is from
the Nome district, where for a time
he was mail carrier on the winter run
between Unalakleet and Nome, a po
sition that could only be filled by the
hardier northmen. On this run at
various times were such men as Paul
Denhart, Alex Smith and Sport Smith,
all crack mushers.
A total lack of response greeted a
call for bids by Governor Bone for
the Territorial subsidy offered to ves
sels between Nome and Kotzebue and
Nome and St. Michael. Calls for bids
have been published for several weeks
in Seattle and Nome papers, announc
inig conditions, and only one bid was
received and this was later with
drawn. Other efforts will be made to
secure bids for the two runs.
Charging J. W. Robinson, a Seattle
attorney with practicing fraud upon
the superior court of King county and
upon the Mother Lode Copper Com
pany, an Alaska corporation^ a suit
was filed in Seattle recently. Robin
son recently asked for a receiver for
the company.
Fred Bowers, 40, one of the best
known athletes in the Interior, died in‘
Dawson recently under peculiar cir
cumstances. He was found uncon
scious in his bachelor cabin and was
evidently suffering from internal
troubles. He passed away at the hos
pital without regaining consciousness.
The success of co-operative adver
tising by Seattle steamship companies
and the Canadian Pacific lines was in
dicated yesterday when 24 round trip
passengers left for southeastern Alas
ka on the steamer Queen.
Capt. J. B. Coyle, division engineer i
of the U. S. Coast Guard service, re
cently visited Ketchikan, where he
called 35 years ago. Ketchikan then
consisted of a row of Indian cabins
and a few totem poles.
Marshal Beaumont of the First di
vision was recently called to Akron,
O., by the serious illness of his aged
mother.
George Moran of Petersburg re
cently received orders to transfer to
Ketchikan.
The dredge for Ganes creek in the
Kuskokwim district, recently arrived
on one of the steamers. It is of the
flume dredge type, operating 2%
foot buckets. G. W. C. Glass of San
Francisco will be in charge of the
machine.
An Alaska Road commission crew
recently left Fairbanks for the Kan
tishna district. A crew of ten men
ire also working in the Birch Lake
iistrict.
Juneau people are greatly pleased
with the Healy River coal and have
irdered a second shipment, according
to R. R. Young, agent for the Juneau
company.
Frank H. Foster was elected city
ittorney of Cordova while absent as
•epresentative from the Third divi
sion. It was an honor unsought by
;he popular attorney. Senator A. J.
Dimond was elected mayor of Valdez
mder the same circumstances, and
Representative Staser was named
Deputy U. S. marshal for Anchorage.
Wm. Reid of McCarthy was injured
last week when a Ford car he was
iriving took a notion to climb the
Dopper River railway roundhouse. He
suffered a fracture of the hip. Wm.
Hair, who was with him. saved him
self by jumping. The car was badly
smashed.
Residents of Garden Island expect
to be ordered to move their buildings
from ground desired as a site by the
railway for a new depot.
The bridge at Deadman Slough at
Fairbanks has been completed.
Carl Lomen, a pioneer in the rein
leer industry, has arranged to ship
3500 reindeer carcasses to New York
:his season. The sales agency for the
3ompany is being removed from Min
aeapolis to Seattle.
Fresh lettuce is on the market at
Dawson.
Joe Coyner, pioneer resident of the
Interior, was found dead in his cabin
on Ester creek. Death was due to
natural causes.
Ed Schwartz, White Pass wharf
inger, had a narrow escape from be
ing drowned recently, when he went
through the ice, just before the big
breakup at Dawson.
Great flocks of wild geese wet*e
seen flying over Dawson recently.
At Grand Forks near Dawson the
other day a bull moose tramped into
the center of the camp and gave it
the once over. It is said the animal
walked into the school house, and
later made for the woods amid a fu
sillade of bullets.
Price Powell was fined $250 by a
Cordova magistrate for dabbling in
physics. Mr. Powell at the time he
was apprehended had an array of bot
tles^ corks, hydrometer and other
paraphernalia, including hootch.
Betty Stewrart and two men visit
ing her were arrested in Cordova re
cently and fined for looking upon the
wine when it was red.
A house occupied by Thelma Baker
a lady of lax morals, was closed re
cently under abatement proceedings.
A number of other cases of a similar
nature were tried and the places of
business ordered closed. Ketchikan
is making a vigorous effort to clean
up the city.
Manager W. F. Thompson of the
Fairbanks airplane enterprise has re
ceived word that the much-delayed
plane has been loaded on the train in
California and will be rushed through
to Seattle by train without delay. It
is stated that the machine will reach
Nenana in time for a Fourth of July
exhibition flight after which it will be
flown to Fairbanks to entertain the
Presidential and Brooklyn Eagle par
ties.
A 720 pound brown bear was killed
last week by the purser on the steam
er Queen, when that vessel landed at
Funter Bay for a time. The purser
took a .22-calibre rifle and went out
in the woods a short way. He heard
a noise and saw a brown bear looking
over a log at him. Instinctively he
threw the rifle to his shoulder and
fired, the bullet penetrating the eye,
killing the animal instantly. The bear
was feeding on the carcass of a deer
which was partly eaten.
Half the winter’s output of silver
ore from the Mayo district has tra
versed the Stewart river, in which the
water continues high. Nearly 5000
tons await steamers which are to
convey the ore to Nenana and outside
by way of Seward.
A nation wide search is being made
by Canadian police for E. J. Donohoe,
former manager of the Britannia
Mines Company. He is charged with
making false entries, obtaining money
under false pretenses, and fifteen sep
arate indictments for theft.
Hyder has been changed from a
customs station to a port of entry, E.
R. Stivers, who has been in charge of
the station being retained at deputy
collector of customs.
F. R. Havens, for several years U.
S. customs officer at Prince Rupert,
has been transferred to Ketchikan<
where he succeeds J. L. Abrams, who
was transferred to Seward.
One brown bear killed, two brown
bear badly wounded, and two fright
ened men is the score for a hunting
party of two Petersburg men and
their wives, who went to Gambier
Bay. The men killed nothing; the
women while out goose hunting saw
three brown bear in a bunch, and kill
ed one and badly wounded the two
others.
John Package, sourdough resident
of the Yukon and Alaska, who has
been Outside for a few years, is get
ting an outfit together for a trip to
Kodiak where he plans to go into the
fox raising business.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Van Raes, who
left Alaska recently for Oregon City,
Ore., have wired friends that an 8
pound boy has been born to them.
Mr. Van Raes is working at the print
ing business in Oregon.
The halibut catch during May in
the Prince Rupert district totaled
2,541,700 pounds. The highest price
quoted during the month was 17c.
Thirty-five men are engaged in the
construction of the Eyak lake high
way near Cordova. The road w'ill be
completed this summer.
Distemper this spring took a heavy
toll of the dogs on the upper Kusko
kwim district. J. E. Beattie, mail car
rier, lost nine dogs recently. The
epidemic was harder on the younger
animals.
After completing a trip from Flat
to Kobei a distance of 400 miles in 11
days with two scrub dog teams, load
ed with six robust children, David
fitrandberg, mine operator from Flat
Creek, arrived in Anchorage recently.
The first dredge of the season
to start operations in the Yukon val
ley got under way May 18. It was
No. 4 dredge of the Burrell & Baird
fleet.
Shoal water is hindering navigation
at points along the Yukon, particu
larly along the upper portion.
Dr. L. S. Sugden, a noted lecturer
and pioneer of the Dawson, district,
was drowned last week at Stewart
Falls. He fell off a barge that was
being towed to Dawson and his body
was washed away and not recovered.
Dr. Sugden’s family reside at Los An
geles. He had come north to take
pictures of the Yukon district with a
view to incorporating it in his lec
tures.
The second annual Alaska Teach
ers’ Institute will be held at Ketchi
kan during the week beginning Aug
ust 27. The program has not yet
been announced.
Charles Brown, Sr., who has been
special officer for prevention of sale of
liquor to natives has resigned and
Robert James, an old timer and for
mer president of Nome Igloo, has
been appoitned to the position.
John Ford Starr, son-in-law of Gov.
Scott C. Bone, received word last
week of the death of his father^ Hen
ry T. Starr, at Richmond, Ind. Mr.
Starr was a prominent attorney of the
State.
A sailor on the Admiral Rogers,
who dallied too long up town, at
tempted to jump to his ship as it was
leaving the dock at Juneau, and miss
ing his hold plunged into the icy wa
ters of the bay. He was hauled out
with a rope and continued his journey
amid the jeers of his shipmates.
An unloaded gun was responsible
for the death of Charles Beasley, a
Yakutat Indian, who was killed at
\ akutat on June 4th, by his sister-in
law, who playfully pointed a 32-cali
bre rille at the youth and discharged
it from her hip, the bullet entering
Beasley’s forehead.
The Galena Bay Mining Company j
has offered the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce a copper nugget weighing
three tons to be placed in Pioneer
Square if the transportation compa
nies will take it to Seattle free. The
company offers to move the nugget 16
miles from Strelna to the coast next
winter. The Seattle chamber has wir
ed acceptance of the offer.
Little . Mary Jane Harrington of
Seldovia, who has been receiving
medical attention at the Anchorage
hospital for the past few months, fol
lowing the amputation of a leg, has
returned to her home. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Har
rington.
E. D. Ralston, a sourdough, is mak
ing a trip from Seattle to the lower
Yukon on his yacht Greyling, powered
with a 200-horsepower motor. He will
ship the Greyling to Carcross on the
W hite Pass Railway and spend some
days cruising in the lakes near there.
From there the boat will be shipped
to Whitehorse and the party will then
sail for Fairbanks hunting and fish
ing in a leisurely manner. They will
return from Fairbanks to Lake Teslin
and from there head south
A number of fine dogs died at Daw
son recently in a peculiar manner. A
few believe poison did the work, and
others say the animals were poisoned
by eating from old cans lying about
the city.
Ice was thrown up on the Dawson
water front to a height of thirty feet
following the recent breakup. The
ferry boat and scows were jammed in
tight and left fifty feet or more be
hind the wall of ice.
Robert McConnell, an old time trap
per and hunter of the Dawson dis
trict who recently returned to that
city from the upper Klondike valley
brought in a freak fur of some animal
which has not yet been classified by
the trappers of Dawson. Some think
the animal from which it was taken
was an offshoot of the tiger family as
the markings were exactly like those
of the royal outlaw of India. The
pelt measured 38 inches long and had
an average width of eight inches. It
was a tan color and had markings on
the breast similar to those of a house
cat. The animal weighed about fifty
pounds.
Dave P. Doran, formerly purser on
the Kennecott, is now purser on the
Northwestern, Mr. Morgan, the North
western purser, being the new purser
on the steamship Alaska.
In response to Senate Joint Memo
rial No. 1 of the last Territorial leg
islature, the Post Office department
will make a study of conditions in
Alaska with a view of establishing a
parcel post zone system.
George L. Love of Valdez, received
a telegram last wreek announcing the
death at Washington, D. C., of Mrs.
Henry K. Love, wife of the former U.
S. marshal of this division and at one
time a resident of Valdez.
A costly accident occurred at a
Wrangell sawmill recently when an
1800-pound flywheel on a new resaw
flew to pieces, wrecking the machine
beyond repair. No one was hurt by
the flying scraps of iron, which was
considered a miracle.
The Teeter Trap Setter has been
placed on the market by a Ketchikan
firm, which recently manufactured
3500 traps. Orders are being receiv
ed from all parts of the United States.
The Forestry boat Weepoose was
seriously damaged at Skagway recent
ly when it settled on a nest of sub
merged piling.
Dean Pitzenberger of the Nicholi
tox farms and Mliss Edith Johnson
were married at Petersburg recently.
Judge W. G. Thomas, U. S. com
missioner for Wrangell, has resided in
Alaska for 46 years, most of the time
in the vicinity of his present home.
He passed four years at Kodiak, and
two years in Sand Point, in western
Alaska. He was engaged in freighting
to mining camps along the Stikine
river when he first w’ent north.
The reported gold placer strike in
the Dalbykaket basin, in the interior
country from Ruby is not proving up.
Of the thirty stampeders who depart
ed from Ruby all but three have re
turned.
After 43 years separation Rev. A. P.
Kashavaroff and his brother, Rev. Pe
ter Kashavaroff, are reunited. The
brothers have followed the same ca
reers, but when young men started out
ini different fields, Rev. Peter Kasha
varoff going north and Rev. Andrew P.
Kashavaroff coming w Southeastern
Alaska, both are priests of the Run .
sian church.
Frank H. Foster, member of the
late Legislature and associates have
contracted to have ihe Yakataga oil
fields drilled in two places by two dif
ferent outfiis. The rigs will be on the
ground by August 1.
Rain fell on :S days ii Juneau on
the month of May; a total of 3.24
Inches of rain lulling. There were no
high winds during the mont-L the
maximum being 31 miles an hour.
The Princess Louise called at Ju
neau recently on her first trip of the
season.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Wallacker have
disposed of the Anchorage interests
and left for the states, where they
will purchase an auto and make a
tour of the country.
Two members of the clerical force
of the Alaska Road Commission^ Miss
Olive Dille and J. B. Borges, were
transferred from Juneau last week to
Anchorage, where heauquarters of the
Road Commission has been trahs
ferred.
FORFEITURE NOTICE.
Seward, Alaska, March 23, 1923.
To A. F. SPRAGUE, his heirs, execu
tors, and assigns:—
You are hereby notified that I have
expended during the year 1920 and
during the period January 1, 1921, to
July 1, 1922, the sum of two hundred
dollars (1200.00) in labor and im
provements on each of the tallowing
lode mining claims, situate on Gilpat
rick Mountain in the Kenai Recording
Precinct, Third Division, Territory of
Alaska, to-wit: Summit, Lisbon, Olym
pia, Hattie, Meat-in-the Pot and Clara,
recorded respectively at Page 132,
Book 4, Page 133, Book 4, Page 132,
Book 4, Page 46, Book 5, Page 84,
Book 5, and Page 46, Book 5. Said
books mentioned being records of min
ing locations of the Kenai Recording
Precinct aforesaid.
All of the said expenditures were
made to hold said claims under Sec
tion 2324, Revised Statutes of the
United States, and all amendments
thereto, concerning annual labor on
mining claims, being the amount re
quired to hold said claims for the year
1920, and the period ending July 1,
1922. And if within ninety days after
the publication of this notice you fail
or refuse to contribute your propor
tionate share of such expenditure,
which amounts to Three-three dollars,
Thirty-three cents ($33.33) each for
the Summit, Lisbon, Olympia, and
Hattie Claims; Fifty Dollars ($50) for
the Meat-in_the-Pot Claim and Twen
ty-five Dollars ($25) for the Clara
claim, then your interest in said
claims will become the property of the
subscriber, one of the co-owners who
has made the required expenditure as
herein stated, by the terms of said
section and laws.
GUS BROWN.
Date first publication May 12, 1923.
Date Last publication Aug. 11, 1923.
Run fourteen weeks in Sat, continu.
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