NORTHLAND NOTES
The steamer Jefferson arrived it
Seattle the other day on her las
trip of the season prior to overhaul
ing. The old ship concluded hei
425th trip to Southeastern Alaske
port, Jock Livingston mastering hei
most of the time. The Jef enterec
Alaska service in 1904.
The Board of Equalization finish
ed her regular session in Fairbanks
recently. The tax rate for the cur
rent year has been fixed at one anc
three-quarters per cent.
If the Model cafe in Fairbanks
■will have its picture took it will heai
of something to its advantage in the
Christmas number, says the News
Miner. Photograph Cann is campec
nearby and if he can’t nobody car
make the picture.
Another oldtimer in the person oj
Ole Johnson Wolden, a member oi
the Fairbanks Masonic lodge, the
Moose and the Elks was buried the
other day under the auspices of the
Masons. \
Father L. H. Rivet fell recently
while carrying a large article of fur
niture up a stairs and suffered in
jury to his side. The Father lives
in Dawson and was signed up at the
Dawson hospital immediately aftei
the accident but it is expected he
will be about soon.
A Mrs. W. W. Clark, who has
been residing in the Fairbanks coun
try during the past few years, visit
ed Dawson for a few days prior tc
her departure for the outside. She
is the owner of Robert W. Service’s
cabin in the Klondike metropolis.
The Alaska Telephone and Tele
graph office in Nome was burglar
ized recently and a small amount o
chicken feed taken. In their hast*
the would-be yeggs left ten bucks ii
the drawer and dropped a dollar oi
their way out. Officials in Norn*
have their ever-watchful eye on cer
tain characters and arrests are sooi
to be made.
Tom Baxter, an old-time sourdougl
of the Nome section died August 30t
at the Maynard-Columbus hospital at
ter a short illness. Mr. Baxter wa:
taken sick while working on Os
borne creek for Swanson and Lee
and was removed to the hospital an<
given the best of medical attentioi
and care possible. Mr. Baxter wa:
born in New York and was 51 year:
old at the time of death.
Last week the Department of In
terior representatives were in Fair
banks looking into the title question
on Garden Island. When the Islan
ders moved off the Main Highway
and back from it to enable Fair
banksans to get a sight of the Rail
road station, they were guaranteed
title to the ground they w'ere moved
onto. Now' title will have to be giv
en them, and they wrill probably get
it this year.
The sad news of the death of Mrs.
O. S. Laning, who recently passed
away from a prolonged illness in her
home in Auburn, Wn., comes to the
North as a shock. Mrs. Laning ar
rived in Dawson in the early days
when her husband, O. S. Laning was
connected with the Alaska Commer
cial Co.
The Nome Nugget, a live weekly
medium increased its news gathering
scope recently when it put on cor
respondents from all over the Sew
ard Peninsula. The Nugget expects
news from 15 different sections of
the Far Second Division.
According to a story given out to
the Dawson News recently by Leon
Sloss, jr„ who was on a tour of the
North with his bride, a domestic
cow which was allowed to ramble
around the green pastures of the
Atlin district suddenly became in
fatuated with a handsome bull moose
and an elopement was promptly ef
fected. The cow apparently is en
joying her new home in the wilds,
for as yet the animal has not return
ed, while the last traces of the in
fatuated couple were seen as they
were crashing thru the tall timber.
The incident caused no small amount
of wonder and amusement around At
lin (B. C.) so consequently the unique
little tourist resort on beautiful Lake
Atlin has been called by some imag
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1 inative person the “Hollywood of the
I North.”
With a life of colorful adventure
behind him, Capt. George Ash, sol
; dier, cowboy and bandit capturer,
arrived in Juneau and opened an en
gagement at the Palace theateb of
that town in an original act—and they
say his dexterity with rifle, revolver
and lariat well proved him of being
once connected with the ranges with
in the scope of the Royal N. W. M.
Police. He was born in Calgary and
' later did his stuff on the Texas rang
1 es, which rangers rank second only
■ to the Mount Police of Canada.
Mail destined for Yukon Territory
points and Upper Yukon River re
1 gions in Alaska that was aboard the
last Admiral Watson for the last boat
down river from Skagway and White
horse was held aboard and brought
to Seward. Canadian point mail was
delivered to Skagway, but Alaska Yu
kon river mail was brought here for
distribution from Nenana. The mail
being late arriving in Skagway could
not make connection with the last
down-river boat of the White Pass, so
therefore the re-routing.
It’s only an incident of Life in
the Far Places, but it is worth tell
ing. Henry Pringle lives at Wise
man, in the Interior Koyukuk dis
trict. He has to eat, like all of us.
At Wenatchee, Wash., they raise or
grow Jonathan apples of class, and
while they probably have to sell them
1 there at $1.50 a box, N. P. Mead of
Wenatchee, apple grower, shipped
Lavery & Bailey of Fairbanks a box
of apples from whom Pringle bought
them for $6. The box contained 125
apples. Landed at Wiseman by air
plane they will have cost the ap
ple eater $31. However, the apple
habit cost Adam more than that—
n a n
It VWO L 111.
Believing the Chickaloon oil field
’ holds as much promise as any of the
several districts in Alaska, C. J. Lin
' eke, newspaper man of Anchorage,
1 recently located a tract adjoining the
1 lease where the Peterson outfit is
preparing to start drilling oper&tions,
and since arriving back in Anchorage
1 Mr. Lincke has disposed of an undi
vided one-half interest in his hold
t ings to a group of well known Anch
t orage men, including M. J. Conroy,
former mayor, F. L. Knight, vice
. president of the First National bank
and Charles Matheson. Lincke re
ported that drilling operations will
I not start on the Peterson claims un
[ til spring.
; En route to Washington for con
5 sultation with War department offi
cials and to appear before the Bu
reau of Budget in defense of the Al
aska Road Commission estimates to
i taling $1,700,000 for next year, Col.
James G. Steese, president of the
Commission, will leave for Seattle.
After his work before the Director
of the Budget is completed, he will
j take a 60-day leave for a trip to Eu
j rope and Africa.
Fifty-eight years ago come the
t 18th, Sunday, Uncle Sam went out
in the face of great opposition and
bought something. After hefting it
^ they called it “Great Land,” and the
Cheechacos call it Alaska. What
1 some Alaskans call it we do not care
to state.
3 Within one mile of the White Pass
s & Yukon railroad and twenty miles
■- from this town, Skagway), near the
summit of the White Pass, a large
body of high-grade silver and lead
Y ore has been discovered by Chas.
* M. LaRue, who in addition to being
a mining man of many yeirs* expe
rience, is inspector in charge of the
s United States immigration office in
f the Lynn Canal town. Altho there
has been little -work done on the re
0 cently discovered mineral deposit,
LaRue is confident that the ‘stuff”
e is there and in “large quantities.”
c Winter activities of the Cordova
e Athletic club commenced and the hall
e acquired by the boys of the Copper
1‘ City will be open all the time for
e basketball and handball, volleyball
and indoor baseball. It is all in read
l* iness. It is anticipated to organize
>> six basketball teams, including the
l" high school, railroad shops, Knights
*' of Pythias and possibly the Elks; also
y two women’s teams. Use of the hall
by the school boys is welcomed. They
1 are issuing membership cards as in
*•* Seward in order to be benefited by
e the equipment installed,
e
“What are you going to give your
husband for a birthday present?”
“I’m going to fill this jar with ci
gars for him.”
“Can you buy them that way?”
“Oh, I'm not buying them; I’ve
just been taking one or two from
his box every day and he’s never
missed them.”
“Hank” Stoy, formerly of the New
Method Tailors, Cleaners, of Anchor
age, who now has a similar establish
ment in Spokane, and Wm. Depper
man, former Anchorage and Fair
banks printer, were present at Hois
ington field, Spokane, on Sept. 20,
when Lieut. Priestly, of Portland,
and Private John H. Avery of Spo
kane, crashed to their death when
their merchant wTent into a tall spin
and hurtled to tHe ground from an
altitude of 500 feet. Depperman was
one of the 10,000 spectators at the
big aerial circus while Stoy was on
duty as a National guardsman and
was one of the first to arrive at the
spot where the plane crashed and as
sisted in pulling the unfortunate fly
ers from the mangled remains of
their plane. Readers of the Gateway
will remember that mention of the
disaster was contained in an Asso
ciated Press dispatch the day it
happened.
Everett Tillman, who was brought
to Cordova from Seward over a week
ago to answer to a charge of pos
session of liquor, was sentenced by
the U. S. Commisisoner of Cordova
to pay a fine of $250. He was also
given a year’s suspended sentence.
Tillman was arrested last April in
Cordova and fled from custody while
on the wTay to jail. He disappeared
and was not heard of again until
just before th^ last trip of the Yu
kon leaving Sewmrd. He pleaded
guilty and said he would leave the
country on the next southbound ship.
DAN SUTHERLAND
LIKELY RETURN
TO WASHINGTON
NATIONALLY-KNOWN EDITOR BE
LIEVES ALASKA WILL SEND
DELEGATE BACK
John M. Geissner, editor of the
Washington Daily News, published at
Washington, D. C., one of the fore
most newspapermen in the United
States, makes the following comment
in a recent issue of his paper, regard
ing Dan Sutherland, Alaska’s Delegate
to Congress:
Alaska will send Dan Sutherland
back to Washington as its representa
tive next year in spite of recent at
tacks by Rep. Free of California, if
editorial comments in the territory’s
publications are any index of public
feeling.
Free, who is a member of the House
Comittee on Fisheries, toured Alaska
this summer on a vessel of one of the
large packing companies and gave out
numerous interviews. He advocat
ed taking the vote from the illiterate
natives, selling the Government rail
road, opening the forests to the paper
mills, opening mines to the big opera
tors, and giving the Bureau of Fisher
ies complete control of Alaskan pack
Views on Sutherland
And in regard to Sutherland he is
quoted as saying: “As it is now the
intelligent people of the territory have
no voice in Washington. Only the
natives have a voice speaking for
them. Cheap Indian lawyers are ex
pressing the will of Alaska today, and
the very intelligent and delightful peo
ple are having no voice as far as the
policies of Alaska are concerned.”
“What about political ethics?” says
one editorial comment. “We don’t wel
come your meddling in local Alaskan
politics. True, we are not ‘intelli
gent’ and we cannot appreciate your
slurs, insults and untruths against
Dan Sutherland and those of us who
were ignorant enough to elect him last
November by a majority of almost two
votes to one.
Fishery Rights
“In our ignorant, illiterate way we
understand that Delegate Sutherland
put that provision in the White Law
which says that ‘no exclusive right
of fishery shall be granted therein, nor
shall any citizen of the United States
be denied the right to take, cure or
preserve fish, etc.’
“That provision means that any of
us can fish with the best of you ‘in
telligent and delightful people.' We
Alaskans who are not the intelligent
zia like that provision.
“We like Sutherland’s voice, and
while it may not be the voice of Ja
cob, neither is his hand the hand of
Esau.”
The Alaska primaries at which the
packing interests will make an effort
to defeat Sutherland, takes place ne*ct
April.
All the latest sheet music, at The
Alaska Shop. tf.
Mrs. H. E. McDaniels, who with her
husband formerly ran a roadhouse on
the Richardson highway in the early
days, is a Seward visitor as a juror.
She will return home this evening.
Mrs. McDaniels is an old ’98er and is
well-known in the territory.
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Two large bull moose were seen at
the road camp of the Bureau of Public
Roads at Mile 29.
A number of Anchorage jurors re
turned home on Thursday’s train.
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MINUTES ORDERS
ISSUED DISMISS
3 CIVIL CASES
On Thursday, in the local court, a
divorce was granted Roberta Watson,
plaintiff, from Eugene C. Watson, de
fendant. Both were former residents
of Anchorage.
Minute orders were issued Thursday
for the dismissal of the three follow
ing civil cases:
M. Imhoff, plaintiff, vs. O. A. Weid
lech, defendant.
D. C. Brownell, plaintiff, vs. Charles
A. and May Tecklenberg.
U. S. vs. Joe Concel.
Little business has occupied the at
tention of the court since the out-of
town jurors were dismissed, last Wed
nesday. Monday the jury trial of the
Bank of Alaska, vs. Mat Raich, will be
heard.
Sheaffer’s Lifetime Pens, $8.75, at
Schallerer’s Alaska Shop. tf.
Cal M. Brosius
Nails, fifty varieties, Automobile Glass,
Glass, Locks, Hinges,
Stockholm Tar,
Hyd. Lime,
Plate Glass,
Colors,
Chimney Brick,
Varnish,
Corner Bead,
Mirrors,
Medusa,
White Atlas,
Keens,
Metal Lath,
Cedar, Oak, Maple,
Arch Brick,
Fire Clay,
Plaster Paris,
Hickory, Iron Bark
Beaver Board,
Gal. Cor. Iron,
Pulleys,
Flooring,
Fir, Spruce, Maple,
Ceiling,
Rustic,
Roof Pitch,
BB1. Lime, Paints.
Glass Cutting,
Terps, Oils,
Fibered Plaster,
Stains, Putty,
Corner Lath,
Belting, Cement
Doors,
Windows,
Lumber,
Fir Lath,
Fire Brick,
Spruce Finish,
Mouldings,
Z-Lath,
Plaster Board,
Mahogany,
Roof Paper,
Building Paper,
Asbestos Paper,
Shingles,
Sash Rail,
Fir Finish,
LIBBY-0 WENS WINDOW GLASS, Single and Double Strength,
Standard Oil Products, Rubber Matting, White Sand,
ASBESTOS STRIP SHINGLES, HYDRAULIC ELEVATORS,
METAL BASEMENT SASH AND FRAMES,
Sidewalk Coal Hole Covers Sidewalk Walk Lights, Etc.
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When things Look
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Seward Steam Laundry
Telephone Main 148
HOTEL ANCHORAGE
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Rooms with Bath. Sample Rooms in Connection
Strictly Modem Prices Reasonable
Steam Heat Good Service
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
Bus meets all trains and boats
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