Despite the inaccessibility of the
place, eggs are selling at 75c per doz.
at Tacotna, on the Kuskokwim. Ar
mour’s Star hams and bacon are sell
ing at 65c per pound, and'butter is two
pounds for $1.50, the prices being very
reasonable considering the distance
from Salt water.
Growing potatoes received a severe
setback in the Kuskokwim district in
June, having been badly'nipped by
frost. Several patches were practically
ruined and the crop will be more or
less short.
A. X. Grant, publisher of the Kusko
Times, has moved his plant from Mc
Grath to Tokotna, where it will be lo
cated in the future. It is reported on
the coast that Mr. Grant may move the
outfit to Nenana to take the place of
the News recently moved to Anchor
age.
Dogs at McGrath are killing a large
number of chickens, and their owners
are swearing a vendetti.
Raymond, the six-year old son of j
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Rothacher of i
Iditarod was nearly torn to pieces re- j
cently, by two wolf dogs belonging to i
Chester Brink, who had taken them to j
the woods and turned them loose for i
exercise. The boy had an ear torn off,
a gash in his temple required IS stich
es, and he was horribly lacerated on
the throat, shoulders and body. The
boy’s manful defense saved his life,
enabling persons nearby to go to his
rescue. He will recover.
A slight earthquake was felt at Ta
cotna recently, the tremor shaking a
number of houses, and at places mov
ing furniture. No real damage has
been reported.
With the arival of several quarters
of reindeer at Tacotna, a meat famine
was relieved.
The initial step in the establishment
of a wireless plant at Tacotna is now
under way, a petition signed by nearly
every resident in the valley having
been sent in the chief of the U. S.
Signal Corps, at Washington.
The Healy river coal mines will be
operating again within a few weeks,
the commission planning to replace
the washed-out section of the bridge
over the Nenana river. The track may
be laid from a different point to elimi
nate danger from washouts.
The first carload of coal to go over
the Broad Pass to the interior, was
received recently at Fairbanks from
the Evans Jones mine.
Charles Fox, a resident of Ruby, re
cently pleaded guilty to violating the
dry law and was sentenced to serve
six months in Jail and pay a fine of
$500.
The two plants operated in south
eastern Alaska by the Pacific Ameri
can Fisheries, have packed a total of
75,000 cases of salmon so far this sea
son. The pack at Excursion Inlet is
larger than that of last year, while
that of the Gambier bay plant is small
er.
Miss Mary Cole, supervising nurse
of the Public Health Service with head
quarters in San Francisco, recently
made a round trip on the steamship
Alaska, coming as far west as Sew
ard.
Count Lazio Sczenclienyi, Hungarian
minister to the United States, sailed
from Seattle August 4, for Cordova,
from which point he will go over the
trail to Fairbanks, thence out by way
of Seward. The countess and daughter
will then return to the states, while
the count takes a big game hunt on
the Kenai peninsula.
Notwithstanding Dr. Hornaday’s as
sertions that they are “harmless,”
brown bears in the vicinity of Kodiak
and Kenai have killed two more vic
tims, both natives.
Sherman Rogers, writer for the Out
look, who has been in the First divi
sion for some days gathering material
for an article on Alaska timber, has
returned to the states. His article will
appear shortly in the above magazine.
R. W. Smith, engineer on the F. T.
Crosby, of the Washington Tug and
Barge Company, Seattle, was drowned
recently while fishing in a lake at
Pavlof harbor, southeastern Alaska.
Smith was drowned when a small punt
in which he was fishing capsized,
throwing him into the water. His body
was found under a log, which had ap
parently caught his clothing causing
his to be held under the water.
According to advices received from
Seattle, H. F. Alexander has been re
elected president of the Pacific Navi
gation Company, R. Stanley Dollar is
first vice-president.
The ci^' of Juneau recently pre
sented Mrs. Harding with the most
valuable trophy of any town when it
presented her with a silver fox skin.
The skin selected came from the
Mackenzie river section, in Yukon
territory, far above the Arctic Circle.
The skin was fine in coloring and was
unmarred by the slightest irregular
ity of shade on the surface.
Knud Rasmussen, Danish explorer,
en route from Canada to Nome, is ex
pected to visit various points in Alas
ka in the near future. All passport
regulations have been waived for Mr.
Rasmussen, by request of the Danish
government.
The Elks of Juneau recently held a
big barbecue at the Salmon creek road
house, which was largely attended.
The discovery of wet gas 1000 feet
dowrn in the Chickaloon coal fields is
reported from Anchorage. The gas
was discovered about three years ago
in this vicinity by diamond drillers,
who gave out the story of their find.
U. S. Attorney, A. G. Shoup, of the
First division announces that crimi
nal proceedings will be instituted
against any cannery company violat
ing the closed season law passed by
the last territorial legislature. The at
torney has been directed by the legis
lature to bring suit to test the consti
utionality of the law. The restrictions
apply to the first division only.
First division advocates of a division
of the territory' are now amending
their plans to take in Cordova and the
Copper River district in order to se
cure more of the taxable wealth of the
Third division. That other parts of
the territory including Cordova will
be against such division goes without
saying, as it would give Cordova no
relief from an already drastic situa
tion but only make it worse.
Strikes on Texas creek in the Hyder
district on the American side of the
international boundary line, have caus
ed a mild stampede from Hyder and
other points in the southern end of
the First division, acocrding to infor
mation received at the Governor’s of
fice. Rock carrying high values is said
to have been uncovered. Seventy five
to ninety dollar rock has been struck
in large quantity, and everybody who
can get away has gone to the scene.
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turn and leave well apart. Put in
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cents a pound less than by the slice. Bake the thick end or
butt, broil the center slices and keep- the smaller end for
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After calling a term of court at Cor
dova, Judge E. E. Ritchie has recon
sidered and announces that the jury
term will be held in Valdez in Septem
ber. Cordova residents accuse the
court of discrimination as they claim
practically the greater part of the cas
es come from Cordova and the Copper
River Valley. Investigation of the
court records show, however, that
about four to six per cent of the cases
come from that district, the remainder
coming from west of Valdez. Anchor
age furnishes the greater number of
cases, with the westward next.
A. F. McLean has been appointed U.
S. Commissioner at Haines to succeed
Col. Sol Ripinsky.
A log jam in the Salmon river in
front of the town of Hyder threatens
serious damage in case of high water,
acording to advices from the mining
camp. Last year the Bureau of Public
Roads constructed a number of jetties
above the town, with a view of divert
ing the waters and straightening the
channel. The town agreed to do part
of the work. The town’s work was not
done, and it is from this fact that the
flood is encroaching.
Ed M. Kane has been named manag
er of the September fair to be held
at Juneau by the directors of the
Southeastern Alaska Fair Association.
A tent 80 by 160 will be used to house
the many exhibits.
Construction of pens and corrals has
been started by the Goldstein Fur
Farms in Mendenhall valley near Ju
neau. Wire and material for the pens
and corral have been ordered, and it
is expected that stock may be placed
in them within the next few weeks.
The engagement of Miss Hazel Jae
ger of Juneau to Ensign McKinnon,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Lockie McKinnon,
has been announced. Both families
are among the pioneers of the city.
Young McKinnon recently graduated
at the head of his class at Annapolis.
A storage tank will be built at the
city of Petersburg in the near future,
the purpose being to improve the wat
er system, in view of a shortage. The
tank will have a capacity of 50,000
gallons.
A Hale-Curtiss portable sawmill has
been installed in the plant of the West
Lumber Company at Petersburg. The
mill has a capacity of 12,000 feet per
j day.
A party of six business men and
professional men from Olympia have
been hunting and fishing in the vicin
ity of Petersburg, coming north on the
Winifred S., a 42 foot motor boat.
President W. G. Harding was made
an honorary member of the Juneau Ig
loo of Pioneers of Alaska, while on his
recent visit to the Territory.
Spontaneous combustion of a tarred
paint brush started a fire on the rool
of the Alaska Auto Supply Company
at Juneau recently.
Wm. Graham and Norman Sjursor
plunged through the rail on Willough
by avenue, Juneau, and their alto fel
25 feet to the beach below\ Both mer
were injured slightly.
THINKS DEMPSEY WILL
IT MEET BIG SMOKE
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—Fight fans
in this city believe that Wills ant
Dempsey will nevt meet, not because
of any action of the chalelnger of the
champion, but because the race feel
ing following a fight of this characte
is too high. Race feeling in New Yorl
where there are hundreds of thou
sands of colored persons, and in Ne\
Jersey, which has a negro populatio]
suggesting Southern states is peace
fully sleeping now and the authoritie;
want it to remain so.
Dempsey could defeat Wills an<
nothing would happen but if Wills de
feated Dempsey scenes like thosi
which ensued when Jack Johnson be
came champion might ensue.
Wills is one man, however, of whon
it is believed, would give Dempsey i
hard struggle to retain his title.
SON OF ATTORNEY GENERAL
FOUND WORKING IN CHICAGt
CHICAGO, Aug. 9.—According t
The Herald Examiner here, Majo
Draper Daugherty, son of Unite
States Attorney General Daughertj
who fled from New York because c
his alleged connection with the star
ling murder case which held New Yor
spellbound for weeks, when the bod
of Dorothy, the pretty model, wa
found, has been iocated as a salesma
for a coal company in Chicago. Tfc
paper quoted him- as saying, “I a:
here to get a fresh start and am s
work as hard as I can.”
STRIKING PARALLEL IN
COLLAPSE OF HARDING
AND WOODROW WILSON
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—There was
a striking parallel between the cir
cumstances which led to President
Harding’s illness and dea'th and those
which preceded the collapse of Presi
dent Wilson during his western trip
in 1919. W’ilson had left Washington
with the avowed purpose of carrying
the gospel of peace to the people. In
this case Harding went westward to
explain to the people the conception
of world peace as hanging upon Amer
ican participation in World Court.
WThen Wilson cancelled the remain
der of his trip at Wichita, Kansas,
he had traveled 8,200 miles in the
heat of late summer, delivering more
than forty speeches. When Harding
surrendered to the order of physi
cians he had traveled 7,500 miles and
made upward of sixty speeches.
DEFINITE ill POLICY
MAPPED FOR AMERICA
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 8.—Speaking for
| the Army and Navy Board now here,
J Admiral Coontz said, “For the first
j time in the history of our country we
; now have a definite naval policy, and
; we have a 25-years program outlined
by a joint army and navy board. We
! are at last getting down to business.”
JAPANESE SUES FOR DIVORCE
SEATTLE, August 9—Teruko Von
Kratzer, Native Japanese 25, sued
Count Egan Von Kratzer for a divorce.
The plaintiff said that he was “by
birth, an extradition, a member of the
Japanese race,” and that “the ideas
and habits of both parties were entire
ly different and incompatible.” She:
was married by the American Consul
| at Tokio, eight years ago when the j
I count was a professor of languages at
| Tokio t'niveisity and she was his
| student.
FOR SALE—One choice lot, Federal
addition; 2 cabins and lot on Wash
ington street; one two-storv, 7-room
residence on Washington street
with furnace, bath, hot and cold wa
ter. Part cash, balance long or
short time. See Mrs. S. Tallason,
Seward. Sat-tf
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 ($200.00) in labor and im
provements on each of the following
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
i 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
1 quired to hold said claims for the year
i 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,
l which amounts to Three-three dollars,
. Thirty-three cents ($33.33) each for
the Summit, Lisbon, Clympia, and
r Hattie Claims; Fifty Dollars ($50) for
i the Meat-in_the-Pot Claim and Twen
- ty-five Dollars ($25) for the Clara
5 claim, then your interest in said
claims will become the property of the
subscriber, one of the co-owmers who
l 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.
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