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Mrs. Solner, widow of N. B. Solner,
former Nome banker, is living in Bre
merton. where she is interested in a
bank.
Bert Skinner and wire, a pioneer of
the Valdez section, are located on a
ranch near Spokane.
Simon Poot, oldtime resident ot
Valdez, and in 1902-3 a member of
the firm of Poot & Debney, is now
night clerk in the Hotel Northern, Se
attle.
Rev. C. H. H. Bloor, rector of the
Episcopal church in the early days of
Nome, is in charge of a parish at
Jacksonville, Fla.
The Standard Oil company is build
ing three storage tanks at Sitka which
will be ready for use in about one
month. A crew of six men are work
ing on construction.
Holly Ashby, who grew to manhood
in Alaska, is now a railway engineer
in San Francisco, and is coming to
the from in his profession.
Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Rhinehart, wrell
known residents of Nome are living in
the New Westminster apartments, Se
attle.
Harry Leland, widely known in Alas
ka, principally at Nome, lives at Alki
Point.
Homer Wisner, former Nomeite, is
living in Seattle.
Robert Speck, well known in Val
dez, later running a transfer at An
cnorage, nas a zu-acre Derry iarm a* :
Cow Lake, near Kent, Wash.
Lars Holland, bridge construction
man for years for the road commis
sion, has a farm on the Pacific high
way near Kent.
Teddy Cowan, former Nomeite, is
living in New York city.
Albert Fink, one of the most bril
liant lawyers in Alaska, for many
years a resident of Nome, now has a
big practice in Chicago.
Miis Lillian Sutherland, formerly
connected with Dr. Caleb Whitehead's
bank at Nome, is buyer for a large
New York concern, and spends most
of her time in Paris.
George Leekey, well known as chief
deputy during Marshal Richard’s ten
ure of office, lives in Seattle.
Frank Austin, former Slate creek
mining man, has a berry farm near
Sumner, Wash.
Frank Lows, former deputy mar
shal at Dillingham, is now a resident
of Seattle.
Logan Archibald, pioneer resident
of Valdez, former mayor of that town
and prominent in business activities
is now living in Seattle, running a
furniture store on Westlake avenue.
Kart Humber, widely known as a
mail carrier, mining man and federal
officer in the department of justice at
Kent. Mr. Humber is a member of
the staff of Sheriff Starwich.
Dr. Von Gunther, oldtime resident
and hotel man of Valdez, is now liv
ing on a farm at Paulsbo.
Sam Jensen, another pioneer of the
Valdez district, is running a hotel ac
Paulsbo, Washington.
J. W. McCord, prominent in oil de
velopment and other Alaska activi_
ties, plans to go into fox farming on
a large scale. He will stock an isl
and with ten pairs of blue foxes, to
be followed later by an order for 20
pairs more.
A group of Los Angeles capitalists
have taken an option on a lode prop
erty located on Baranof island, near
Petersburg, owned by Capt. I. M.
Hofstad and sons. The lode carries a
large mineral content of nickel.
A. W. Henning, former business
manager of the Juneau Empire, in
connection with E. S. Hewit,, former
Juneau stationer, are in the electric
towel business at Seattle.
Furriers claim that rabbit skin,
after being dyed and plucked is be
ing offered on the markets as seal
skin, and is a surprisingly good imita
tion.
George Carrol, a pioneer busi
ness man of Anchorage, is now in the
trunk and valise business at 102 Oc
cidental avenue, Seattle.
Mrs. Peter W. Davison, wife of Gen
eral Peter W. Davison, an army offi_
cer, with extended service in Nome,
Valdez, and other Alaska posts, and
her mother, Mrs. Fleming, are now
living at Adrian Court apartments in
Seattle.
Ei
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Noyes, forme
Nome and Candle Creek residents an
living in the St. Paul apartments ii
Seattle.
R. H. Zehner, rormer wellknowi
jeweler of Nome, and his wife an
running a jewelry store in Los Ange
les, Calif.
George Wilson, a well-known print
er and prospector of Valdez and th(
Third division, is employed in the me
chanical department of the SeattIf
Times.
Hans Samuelson, who is connected
with the Lomen reindeer camp or
Buckland river, arrived in Nome re
cently with two fast sled deer, having
made a trip of 300 miles.
The home of Barney Buck at Golo
vin was destroeyd by fire last month
Mrs. Buck and two children escaped
without injury. A piano and few
pieces of furniture were all that could
be saved.
The Nome Pioneers of Alaska are
holding a series of whist parties with
handsome prizes for the winners of
the seven game series.
Pursuant to a telegram sent out re
cently from Valdez, Mr. Devlet of the
Nome radio station was ordered to
(he city telegraph office and Peter Lee
transferred to the station. Mr. Dev
let had no more than moved until he
received a telegram from Valdez coun
termanding the order, and Devlet was
ordered to remain at the station and
| Lee was relieved by another man.
Marshal Griffith of Nome has been
ill for some time with a severe attack
of rheumatism.
Wm. Anderson, proprietor of the
Elite baths at Nome has purchased a
24 horsepower boiler and will instal
a new oil burning heater in his place
of business.
W. J. Rowe with three men and 20
horses has completed the moving of
the big Peck dredge in the Casade
paga country.
Mrs. Norman Fotchacher, postmis
tress at Iditarod, died at that place re
cently from influenza. The deceased
was formerly Miss Bessie Lyle and
was the daughter of Capt. Thomas
Lyle, a well known old timer of the
Nome district. She leaves a husband
and four children.
The Dawson News states that the
Yukon territory passed into the April
wheat planting column recently with
the sowing of wheat at the Dominion
experimental farm, seven miles out
side the city.
Washington has notified Wrangell
authorities that work will soon be
started on the $50,000 breakwater
peitioned for so long by the inhabi
tants. The breakwater will be about
350 feet in length and will create a
smooth harbor in all winds.
It only required the jury five min_
utes to decide that Ernest Bryson was
not guilty of the murder of Robert H.
Ferry at Haines in November last.
Bryson’s testimony, corroborated by
that of his wife, showed that he found
Ferry at his home trying to persuade
the woman to take a trip to Juneau
with him.
The Juneau city council has decid
ed to follow the custom of more pro
gressive cities and allow city taxes
to be paid in two instalments. Taxes
will be due in December and July, and
parties paying 50 per cent of their
taxes will be given six months to pay
the balance.
Negotiations are under way by lo
cal capitalists at Hyder to finance a
railway proposition from Hyder, the
coast terminus, up the salmon river
valley to the Forty-Nine mine, a dis
tance of 40 miles. The new road will
be called the Portland Canal Railway
& Terminal Company.
Charles Williams has given an op
tion on 69 gold quartz claims located
on the west side of Admiralty Island
to R. K. Neill of Spokane. A dozen
men are employed at the mine.
Gordon Betties and F. G. McGregor
recently left Nenana for Fort Yukon
en route to the headwaters of the
Porcupine river to resume their search
for a lost paystreak. McGregor has
spent three summers in the district
hunting the pay, and Betties has also
spent some time there.
Walt Mason, the famous poet-phil
osopher, may spend the summer in
Alaska. Mrs. Mason recent wrote to
Mrs. James Drake, a cousin at Juneau
stating that she and her husband are
contemplating paying them a visit in
July or August. Walt Mason lives in
LaJolla, California.
i Mrs. P. A. Cook, wife of the popu
lar telegraph operator at Anchorage
was recently given an elaborate recep
tion, the occasion being in honor o
her leaving for the stages on an ex
tended visit. A theatre party waf
given afterward.
Mrs. E. E. Moore, wife of the su
perintendent of the George Inlet can
i nery, has just received a box of fint
apples from the Yakima Commercia
i Company of Yakima, Wash., as a prizf
for being one of the first ten to no
tify them that she had heard a concert
recently broadcasted by them. Mrs
Moore wrote and congratulated the
company on the fine program recently
enjoyed at George Inlet, southeastern
Alaska.
R. C. McDowell, the Artemus Ward
! of the coast guard service at Nome,
I has applied for a discharge, which has
been granted by the department. Mr.
McDowell will follow mining for a
chance. Mr. McDowell was formerly
on the San Francisoc Examiner, and
enlisted and was transferred to the
Nome station.
The Bureau of Education’s new ves
sel, Boxer, which will cruise the Ber
ing strait, attending to needs of the
schools in that section, has a cold
storage space for 100 tons ot meat, or
1200 reindeer carcasses. The boat on
uo iao l uip uuioiuc imo iau mu ioav
out a load of meat for Eskimo herd
ers. The venture is confined entirely
to the natives.
Waachter Bros. Company own a hip
herd of reindeer about 20 miles back
of Kokrines. Headquarters for the na_
tive herders are at Melozi hot springs.
These springs are highly mineralized
and have a constant temperature oi
142 degrees.
The new Diesel electric tanker Stan
dard Service of the Standard Oil Co.,
recently arrived in southeastern Alas
ka with a cargo of gasoline and oils.
The vessel will come to southeastern
Alaska on her next trip, going as far
as Kodiak. The vessel is the first oi
her type ever built, powered with two
six-cylinder 400-horsepower Diesel en
gines which have direct connection
with 230-volt generators. The genera,
tors drive two main propulsion motors
of 300 horsepower each. The vessel
has two 115-volt exciters for the
lighting plant and auxiliary machin
i ery. A feature of the new vessel is
| "disappearing anchors” which are
drawn up in pockets built in the bow.
making it impossible for projecting
anchors to damage piers where the
I tanker berths.
The city officials of Nome have
started a crusade against gambling,
and several citizens have been gath
ered into the net.
One hundred tons of Healy River
coal was recently shipped to Ketchi
kan where it is retailed at $13 per
ton.
A. M. Oswald, formerly station
. agent at Girdwood, on the Alaska
I railroad, has been ordered to Fair
; banks and has removed his wife and
j family to that city.
| The firm of Holm & Sutphen oi
Petersburg, have secured a franchise
; and are busy establishing a telephone
system in Petersburg.
The silver grey fox ^farm at Palmer
, owned by Jones and Campbell have
have eight or ten pairs of foxes which
have commenced to breed. The part
ners last winter sent to the states
two silver grey pelts for which they
refused $750.
Capt. John A. O’Brien, veteran cap
tain in Alaskan waters, was severely
| injured recently in Seattle by an auto
I mobile which ran over him.
Thos. Kohanek, an electrician at
; Nome recently heard Portland and
| Los Angeles very clearly on a two
| stage amplifier with vaacum tube. The
set will be added to and an effort
made to get into communication with
the Spates.
The past month saw sixty lambs
I born to the flock of Joseph Joliceur
on his ranch on the Klondike rive,
near Dawson. This is the first flock
| of sheep ever wintered in the Yukon
! territory.
The new chief of police at Anchor
age has jumped the city into a $10,0o(
damage suit, filed by J. C. Murphy, as
attorney for Frank McGibney and
Mrs. McGibney, plaintiffs in the case.
Kavanaugh raided the McGibney lodg
ing house recently, it is claimed with
out a search warrant, and during the
mele which ensued Mrs. McGibney
and her husband received personal in
juries. The case will be tried at the
] next term of court.
Leo Johnson, a Ketchikan fisher
man, was arrested recently charged
1 with being the owner of several hun
dred bottles of home-brew beer which
was found in his place. Johnson said
he knew nothing of how the beer
came to be in his place.
Three of the members of the Ketch
ikan teaching staff who wrere re-elect
ed for next year have resigned, in
cluding John E. Johnson, superinten
dent.
Walter Frederickson, an old trapper
who resides near Rocky Pass, south
eastern Alaska, recently started out
to run his traps, and became lost,
turning up four days’ later at Camp
bell’s fox ranch on Castle island. He
was taken by gat boat back to his
camp. Frederickson is supposed to
be one of the best trail blazers of the
section, but has hauled in his shingle
since his recent experience.
The Yukon river towns are looking
for a speedy run out of the ice this
spring, the river boats being in readi
ness to follow it down as soon as it
breaks.
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i Wm. Moffat, a prosperous rancher
i of the Knik-Wasilla district, in the
- Cook Inlet section, ended his life with
! a 30-30 rifle April 8. Mr. Moffat had
prepared two acres of land for plant
ing and was known as the “Straw
berry King” of the Matanuska.
Capt. Francis Tuttle, one of the best
known navigators that ever plied the
waters of Alaska for more than 32
years, an officer in the coast guard
cutter service, passed away at Port
Townsend recently. He was born in
1843 at Newfield, Maine, and served in
the Civil War with Admiral Farragut.
Capt. Tuttle was in command of the
Bear which landed the Jarvis relief
expedition at the mouth of the Kusko
kwim in 1897.
L. V. Roach left Seattle May 12 on
the steamship Northwestern to act as
assistant ticket agent for the Alaska
; Steamship company.
The river ice moved :n rront of Ne
| nana at 2 p. m. May 9. The annual
I ice pool of $10,000 was won by seven
| persons, mostly railroad workers. The
| winners were Axel W. Carlson, R. W.
Bigney, Ferrell & Co., Carlo Ziazche
ro and Mrs. McPhail.
A whole battle fleet is making
preparations to escort President Hard
ing on his Alaskan trip. The de
; strover division of thirty-six craft
will probably be selected.
George Wray, Oscar Nord and Chas.
Ohearn were severely burned by a
powder explosion which occurred in
a car in which they were working at
the Anchorage dock recently. The car
had been used to haul black powder
! for railroad work and had not been
i cleaned out. It is presumed that it
was ignited by sparks from the men’s
shoe nails and iron on the floor. Im
mediately following ignition a sheet
of flame burst out of the doors and
rose above the top of the car.
Mr. Stull and Henry Coffin, driving
the latter’s dog team, left Candle
creek March 1 and arrived at Nenana
March 25. At this point Mr. and Mrs.
E. E. Pierce were picked up and the
driver, Mr. Coffin, set out on the re
turn trip to Candle. Mr. Stull left for
| the States.
J. B. Carroll, Cordova agent for the
Admiral Line, has left for Seattle to
take a position with the company’s
! newly appointed Assistant Freight and
I Traffic Manager, C. E. Five. The
Cordova agency will be looked alt^r
by R. T. Frost who arrived from Se
attle.
Miss Rose Semansky, an attractive
! young lady from Seattle, was married
last week to C. T. Moore, a linotype
operator on the Cordova Daily Times,
by Rev. Fr. McMillan at Cordova.
George Shakes, a son of the Wran
gell Indian chieftain, received a cer
tificate of citizenship recently, Judge
Reed issuing the same at Wrangell.
Ptarmigan are reported so plentiful
in Dawson that the Ijirds are all over
the town. Snowrshoe rabbits are also
very plentiful, and many are seen
romping in the streets of the city in
the evening and morning.
A record fall of snow occurred in
; the country north of the Yukon the
past winter, which insures plenty of
water for mining operations.
Joe Baxter, George Saxton and Ed
die Ryan were arrested in Juneau re
j cently for being drunk and disorder
ly. A still and a quantity of mash
was found in the house, as well as a
quantity of moonshine, six glasses and
a sack of empty bottles.
City Electrician Frank O. Robinson
assumed charge of the Nenana power
plant recently in addition to other du
ties following formal action by the
city council.
Scotty Kay, a well known old timer
of Tanana, underwent a major opera
tion recently, but went through the
ordeal satisfactorily.
The coal spur bridge is temporarily
out of business at Nenana, owing to
an upheaval in the ice. Several cars
of coal were derailed recently by
gravel on the track.
The Brooklyn Eagle Tour of Alaska,
70 strong, will reach Seward some
time next month. They will go over
the Alaska railroad and out to Cordova
by way of Chitina and the Copper
river railroad.
Dick Kerwood, a former Cordo
van, who gained fame as an aviator
since leaving Alaska, met with a seri
ous accident at Hollywood, California,
while doubling for Buck Jones. He
fell forty feet from a scaffold and
landed on his feet with suqh force that
he broke two of the vertebrae of his
back. Kerwood has been doubling
for the movie stars in dangerous per
formances and stunts.
Six men were arrested at Anchor
age this week charged with D. and D.
W. T. Crabtree was sentenced to 90
days in the hoosegow for assault.
j Conversion of the subchaser Siagon
which arrived from in Seattle recently
from San Francisco, is under way
with a view to using the craft to com
bat the liquor runners along (the coast
of Alaska. The boat will be over,,
hauled completely before coming to
the Territory.
Sunday morning the Kennecott
Laundry was destroyed by a blaze
started by a cigaret coming in con
tact with gas. The Japanese proprie
tor started to draw some gasoline to
use on a suit he was pressing, and
his lighted cigarette ignited the gas.
The tank blew up totally destroying
the laundry in the fire which followed.
New equipment has been ordered.
The navy department will sell a
number of boats at the Bremerton
yards on May 23. Anyone interested
can get a catalog from the postmas
ter, and bids can be wired in by mak
ing a deposit with the postmaster.
Capt. Gus Nord, who will have com
mand of the new Alaska Steamship
Company’s liner, Alaska, has had
command ot two new steamers during
his connection with the company.
Nineteen years ago in July Capt. Nord
came north in command of the Jeffer
son, a crack boat at that (time.
The Admiral Steamship Company
has lost two of its old-time captains
during the past month, Capt. Max
Gunther dying at Juneau from the ef
fects of ptomaine poisoning, and Cap*.
A. C. Jansen dying at Ketchikan this
week. The former was captain on the
Admiral Watson and the latter on the
Admiral Evans.
In anticipation of an increased tour
ist travel to Alaska this summer re
sulting from the formal dedication of
Mt. McKinley park, an improved ser
vice has been inaugurated over the
Richardson highway from Fairbanks
to Chitina. Parties desiring to make
the circle will receive tickets with a
coupon reading over Richardson high
way, and may take the trip either by
way of Cordova or by way of Seward.
It is planned to run large excursions
in the opposite direction for Alaskans
at reduced rates, thereby utilizing the
extra equipment both ways, the link
connecting the two towns being made
by steamer.
The hauling of the 500 tons of hea
steel parts and other equipment of
the Treadgold excavator from White
Pass wharf to the north end of Daw
son been compleCed. A fence ha*
been built around the material and
a cover placed over it.
The condition of the ice in the vi
cinity of WainwrighC may make it
possible for Raold Amundsen to hop
off on his trans-Polar flight even ear
lier than June 20th, according to ad
vices received from Kotzebue, where
Amundsen left on April 28th for his
headquarters at Wainwright. The re
port stated that Amundsen had been
delayed at Kotzebue for several davg
from snow blindness, and chat he wa«
also delayed at Candle where the soft
snow' prevented sledding and shoeing.
The commencement exercises of the
Senior class of the Cordova High
school were held in the Empress the
atre at Cordova last night. The bacca
laureate sermon win _ . . "
Rev* R- s- Nickerson, Sunday The
class consists of Dorothy Dooley, T.
Eugene Tibbs, Harry O’Neill * and
Barth O’Laughlen.
Hariy Christie, a Cordova trapper is
publishing 4,000 copies of a book de
scribing the best method of trapping
fur bearing animals.
A number of natives in Fairbanks
are reported to be in destitute circum
stances. Several families are down
with influenza and have no means of
support.
Earl Parsons, son of Manager Par
sons of the Nenana store of the N. C.
company, was shot in the nose and
chin recently by stray pellets from
the gun of a companion.
The Fairbanks Alaskan, the new
weekly paper published a* Fairbanks
by James Feaster, was unable to is
sue last week owing to the failure of
the News-Miner office to set the type.
The ice wen* out of the river in
the' Yukon river in frotn of Dawson
at 9:20 May 11, and steamers left on
last Monday for Hootalinqua and low
er lake Leberge.
E. C. Carson, who has been ranch
ing at the head of Engineer creek
near Fairbanks, died this week as the
result of an attack of heart disease.
He was born in Washington and went
to Fairbanks from the Nome district.
The jurisdiction of the Seward cus
toms office has been extended to cov
er the Yukon and Tanana rivers, all
vessels plying those streams being
registered in the Seward office.
Roy Jones, southeastern Alaska avi
ator recently took two commercial
men from Juneau to Skagway in a lit
tle over one hour, in his seaplane, the
Northbird.