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Influenza has claimed many victims
in the native village at the mouth of
the Tolovana.
It is reported that all farmers on
the Chena river were driven from
their homes by high water.
Lumber mills in southeastern Alaska
are shipping to Australia, China and
Europe.
Mike Ercig, a pioneer drill man of
Ester, recently disposed of his inter
est in a quartz lease in that district
to his partners.
Healy river coal is being supplied
to Alaska <o\vns as far south as Ketch
ikan and is finding a ready market
wherever introduced.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover will
leave Washington June 15 for a trip
to Alaska where he will investigate
several matters of importance to the
Territory.
Carl Lomen, who has been in New
York for over a year in the interests
of the reindeer industry will arrive
in Seattle in time to catch the first
sailing for Nome early in June.
The first sailing for Roosevelt by
the Kantishna Transportation Com
pany occurred May 22. the Mutt leav
ing with passengers and freight. The
boat is light draft and very powerful.
There was a drop of 14 inches in
the water level in the Chena slough
this week, and inhabitants of the in
undated sections at Fairbanks will be
able to return to their homes soon.
Jimmy Cane of Fairbanks lost 27
chickens in the recent high water.
They were removed to a place of safe
ty but persisted in going home to
roost, and were drowned.
Mrs. Corson, widow of John W.!
Corson, at one time a candidate on
the Republican ticket for delegate to
congress from Alaska is living in Chi
cago.
Ernest Schoenwald, president and i
manager of the Petersburg Packing
company is being sued for divorce by
his wife, who alleges he knocked her
down and kicked her. He is being
sought on a warrant for arrest.
Nineteen hundred and itwenty-three
promises to be the biggest tourist
year in the history of the territory.
More bookings for transportation have
been made than ever before and lists
are being added to.
According to president Burch of the
Kennecott Company should acquire
control of Utah Copper as it is pro-:
posed that it shall, the Kenneeott
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copper a year and it will produce it at
lower cost than ever known.
Reports received by the Road com
mission headquarters at Anchorage in
dicate that considerable damage re
suited from high water in Chatanika
and Circle districts. The Richardson
highway is reported to have escaped
serious damage.
Mrs. Dorothy Pierce of the Tyonik
Indian school recently made a trip to
Fairbands to took charge of a number
-of Indian children who were destitute
and under care of the authorities. The
children were taken to the Tyonik
school.
Work toward the establishment of
an All-Alaska chamber of commerce
is advancing, much interest being tak
en by local bodies in the several cit
ies and there is every reason to be
lieve that a central body will be or
ganized before winter.
A historic relic was brought to
light at Sitka this week, near Watson
Point, when the children of Mr. and
Mrs. Bahrt found the handle of a
sword sticking out of the ground. They
dug the weapon out and found it to be
a fine, steel blade with a slight curve,
similar to those used by pirates and
others hundreds of years ago.
The U. S. Radio tender Gold Star
has been loading supplies for stations
of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries on
St. Paul and St. George islands in
Bering sea. The vessel will carry re
lief for the personnel at St. Paul, Ko
diak, Unalaska, Seward, Cordova, Cape
Hinchinbrook, Soapstone Point, Sitka,
Juneau and Ketchikan.
With the commissioning of the new
passenger liner Alaska, now nearing
completion, the Alaska Steamship
Company’s fleet will be composed of
twelve steamships and a motorship.
The company recently sold the freight
ers Santa Ana, Juneau and Valdez and
replaced them with the fine new
modern carriers, Delrosa, Oduna, and
Lake Filbert, purchased from the
Shipping Board.
T. A. Hawland, Nome pioneer and a
resident of Cook Inlet, is now running
a rabbit ranch in Seattle.
Coal from the Healy river field is
being sold at Cordova at $4 per ton
below prices for British Columbia
products.
New York bankers have placed a
bond issue of $200,000 for Lomen &
Co., of Nome, who control 30,000 rein
deer in Alaska.
Much fur has been caught this sea
son by the Indians at Tyonic. The
Indians will work in the canneries the
coming summer.
William Maloney, territorial inspec
tor of mines under Governor Strong,
is now in the employ of the Union
Construction Co., of San Francisco.
:viore than 1,500,000 humpback and
cohoe fry were shipped from the ter
ritorial fish hatchery in one week to
be planted in streams and lakes of
the territory. Last season approxi
mately 16,000,000 fry were planted.
After spending 17 days hunting at
Snug harbor, Dr. Dwight was forced to
abandon the trip due to the heavy
snow on the ground. It is said that |
worn seven to eight feet of snow are j
on the ground in this district.
Jack Dalton, one of the best known
Alaskans, builder of the Dalton trail
and identified with commercial inter
ests of the north, has a big fruit farm j
in the Yakima valley. He is at pres- ;
en* on a mining trip to South Ameri- j
ca.
Foreman McClellan of the mechan
ical department of the Seattle Star j
is a Nome sourdough of the vintage of!
1900. After his arrival in Nome he j
served as foreman of the Nome Gold
Digger, but quit the game to chase the ;
hills in search of gold.
S. H. Stevens, former editor and;
publisher of the Nome Gold Digger,I
a member of the first city council oi j
Nome and identified with the great |
Northern camp for many years, is now
publishing The Produce News in Se
attle.
Robert McChesnev, one of the best
known newspaper men of the north,
who was engaged in newspaper work
in Dawson, Valdez, Cordova, and Ju
neau, and Mrs. McChesnev are now
living in Seattle. Mr. McChesnev is
foreman of the mechanical department
of the Alaska Dispatch.
Reports from Cold Bay indicate the
Standard and Associated Oil compa
nies have broken through rock forma
tions and are now in sand. It is re
wiai caui '-'Uiiipd,ii\ win nave
spent more than a million dollars be
fore they will have determined wheth
er or not there is commercial oil in
paying quantities.
F. C. Doherty, holder of a permit to
develop the Cascade creek water pow
er says the plans include the construc
tion and operation of a 250 ton mill.
He expects to start work on the pulp
plant this season and several hundred
men will be at work this summer on
the plant at Thomas Bay if present
plan sgo through.
George Clyde, trapper and mining
man, who was in Anchorage recently
trom the Little Susitna river, stated
that a family of Indians, composed of
father, mother and three children,
followed down the ice on the Susitna
arriving in his camp in a very weak
condition due to lack of food. They
had wintered up the Susitna and were
on their way home to Knik when he
found them. After providing for them
he took the whole family to Knik.
Imports from Alaska to Seattle for
the year 1922 amounted to 122,213
tons an analysis of the years shipping
made by the Foreign Trade Depart
ment shows. In 1921 they totaled 69
654. An average of 10,000 tons per
month in comparison with the average
per month of 5800 the previous year.
Exports from Seattle to Alaska in
creased from 95,225 in 1921 to 170,273
in 1922. Lumber was the principal
item shipped. There were 13,965 out
bound passengers to Alaska and 15,
677 inbound.
The golden spike to be driven by
President Harding in commemoration
of the completion of the Alaska rail
road will be of 14 karat gold, it is
five and one-half inches long, weighs
15 y2 ounces, and is an exact duplica
tion of an ordinary railroad spike.
It was delivered to Col. Frederick
Mears, former head of the Alaska En
gineering commission. According to
plans of the Interior Department the
president will drive the golden spike
at the great Tanana river bridge near
Nenana.
The Kennecott Copper Company
will soon begin extensive construction
work, includng 65 miles of railwaq. A
shortage of labor in the Territory is
reported.
The citizens of Anchorage recently
assembled with tractors, teams and
implements and cleared the stumps
and moss off a tract of ground to be
used as an aviation field.
A herd of caribou were recently
sighted a t Munson’s on the Richard
son highway, where they were trying
to cross the river.
W. J. Rowe, who is moving the big
Peck dredge at Casadepaga lost two
fine horses recently when the driver
was caught in a storm, losing his way
and the horses perishing.
Chas. Jewptt, former chief of police
at Nome, was killed in Seattle last
month when a scaffold on which he
was working was blown down.
The seventh game, ending the ser
ies for the Pioneer Whist Trophy, was
played at Nome recently, winners be
ing Mrs. Gust Alexson and Paul Niel
sen.
J. R. Heckman, vice chairman of
the Alaska Fish commission, has an
nounced that when new hatchery
buildings are to be erected the job
will be done by contract.
The town of Anchorage has taken
the cover pages, past of the inside
pages and 2,200 copies of the News
Miner annual wrhich will be printed at
Fairbanks next month.
Walter Riney, a young man em
ployed by the Alaska Juneau mine,
was electrocuted last week wrhen he
slipped and fell onto trolley wires
carrying 500 volts of electricity. He
leaves a mother in Seattle.
After being out less than 20 min
utes the jury in the case of Ernest
Bryson, charged with killing Robert
H. Ferry, at Haines, November 14,
returned a verdict of ‘‘not guilty.”
Bryson killed Ferry, who was trying
to persuade Bryson’s wife to take a
trip to Juneau with him.
A measure introduced in the House
during the recent session of the Ter
ritorial legislature is reported to have
been lost and a thorough search fail
ed to reveal its whereabouts. The
bill carried an appropriation of $1200
for the construction of a school at
Bethel, but was later cut to $500. The
bill then went to the engrossing and
enrolling committee where it was lost.
Frank Martin, agent for the Hud
son’s Bay Fur company left Nome re
cently on a fur buying trip. With his
team of 13 dogs Martin carried about
400 pounds of wolf and wolverine
skins for the natives in the north dis
trict to use in trimming their cloth
ing and parkas. A drop of about 20
per cent in fur prices was reported
by Mr. Martin.
The 1923 Borden Marathon Dog
Race was run at Nome Tuesday, April
10. There were five entrants, each
team leaving ten minutes apart, the
winner being Leonard Seppala. Wil
liam Cameron finished second and
George Waldheim third.
Charles McGrath, 14-year old son of
James McGrath, a Birch hill rancher,
living near Fairbanks, was painfully
injured by the accidental discharge of
a 16-gauge shotgun he was carrying
while hunting in the marshes near his
town. The shot went thru his right
hand between the thumb and first
linger.
The launch Sea Nat, recently com
pleted in Seattle and brought to the
Territory for use by commercial men,
left Nenana last week with Black
Bear Gil Rich, Remington Reed and
Hardware Madland. They will make
the trip to the lower Yukon and re
turn.
E. M. Polley, representative to the
Territorial legislature, from the First
division, has been appointed Territo
rial tax collector by Territorial Treas
urer W. G. Smith, and will leave early
in June for Bristol Bay points. E. E.
Epperson and H. D. Campbell have
been appointed temporary tax collec
tors at Ketchikan and Wrangell.
The Nome high school which is
conducting a radio department, has
turned out some good operators, one
lad, Emerson Stromm, developing a
speed of 20 words a minute in send
ing and receiving, in less than two
months. It is predicted he will reach
30 -words at the end of the third
month.
The Nome Igloo Pioneers of Alaska
conferred an honorary membership
upon Capt. Raold Amundsen, the ex
plorer, while that worthy was a visi
tor in the city. Judge Lomen made a
speech of presentation for the Pio
neers and Mrs. Thomas Lyle for the
auxiliary. Mr. Amundsen left later
for Wainwright to make his flight to
the Pole.
The shortage in seal oil was relieved
at Nome recently when a native took
a trip out on the ice hunting for kow
kow. After traveling about three
miles he encountered a crack in the
ice and discovered three large seals.
Being an expert he fired "two shots
and bagged two seals which he drag
ged home to replenish his depleted
larger.
When Policeman LeRoy Moyer re
cently attempted to arrest an unruly
man at Ketchikan, he deputized Olus
Hagbert and Muns Alfheim to help
him. They refused and gave him the
laugh. Moyer got his man to jail and
went back and gathered in Hagbert
and Alfheim who were assessed $50
each by the commissioner. They both
agreed that the next time they would
help a policeman, no matter when or
where called upon.
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Walls that make you
"sing at your workl
IsN’T it wonderful what a little paint will do?
How it seems to flood the room with sunlight,
sweep it with breezes, and leave you singing over
the dreariest, “drudgiest” task a kitchen can know!
For finishing every part of the kitchen there is a
Fuller product just suited to its needs. Fuller’s
Washable Wall Finish can be kept clean by oc
casionally wiping with a damp cloth. For wood
work, there is Silkenwhite Enamel or Decoret,
and for floors, Fuller’s Rubber Cement Floor Paint.
And the nicest part is that you can easily do the
work yourself and enjoy it thoroughly.
For 74 years W. P. Fuller & Co. has been pro
ducing paints, varnishes, enamels, wall finishes and
stains. A local dealer has them. Our Service De
partment will gladly give you advice and mail a
little “Home Service” booklet without charge.
Whatever your painting need, W. P. Fuller & Co.
makes a paint for the purpose.
W * P • FULLER & CO.
301 Mission Street, San Francisco
21 Branches in Pacific Coast Cities
Factories: San Francisco and Los Angeles
THE FOLLOWING FIRMS CARRY FULLER PAINTS AND VARNISHES:
Brown & Hawkins Corporation, Seward, Alaska
Fred Fischer, one of the owners of
the Shovel creek dredge at Solomon
is spending the winter in New Zea
land, but will return to Nome this
month.
A. E. Johnson, who arrived from
Portland, Ore., on the old wooden
steamer Eureka, went to Fortymile,
iast week saw the capital for tne
first time, after being in the Territory
forty years. When Mr. Johnson went
to the interior Sitka was the capital.
In an effort to relieve the shortage
of butter existing in Nome, the Crow
ley Grocery Co. telegraphed to St.
Michael and had 500 pounds sent out
by dog team. Including freighting
the butter cost the company ninety
nine cents a pound, at which price it
was sold by the consignee.
At the Seward, Anchorage and Cor
dova offices tickets are being sold
over the government railway and the
Richardson road, good for the thru
trip from Seward to Cordova via Chit
ina or the reverse to suit the needs of
the traveler. J. L. Galen and Bob
Sheldon recently made a contract with
the government railway ^o deliver
passengers by this route, in order to
interest tourist travel.
The Seattle Fur Exchange recently
held a fur sale and cleaned up every
thing on hand up to the date fo
the sale. There was a good attend
ance of fur buyers and good prices re
alized. The Exchange will hold a spe
i cial sale about the middle of June and
another sale thereafter monthly.
The establishment of a Territorial
school at Hoonah was announced re
cently by Commissioner of Education
L. D. Henderson, to be opened next
fall.
Marion Goldstein of Goldstein’s
Emporium left Juneau recently en
route to Skagway from whence he will
go north way wray of the Yukon being
absent two months.
The whirr of the automobile will be
heard this summer on Kodiak Island,
two machines being aboard a recent
steamer; one, a truck, was for Otto
Kraft & Son, and the remaining auto
was for A. Hemrich of the Kukuk bay
cannery. They are the first to be im
ported on (the island.
Mrs. Emil Hurja, a former Fair-1
banks girl, who was reported to have
been killed in an au<o accident, has
written to friends stating that reports
of her death were much exaggerated. |
Mrs. Hurja is wife of the well known
Alaska newspaper man, now located in
Texas.
The years roll by fast. Once again
Henry Wagner, a pioneer miner from
the interior has landed at Seward with
his season’s outfit, which includes two
scrapers, headed for his placer ground
on Gold creek. Wagner returns to the
Territory each year as regular as
clockwork, cleans up a nice stake ant
returns to his palatial home in Los
' Angeles.
THE NEW MOTORBOAT
ORMA
FOR SALE OR CHARTER
Hunting and pleasure trips will
be made Sundays and evenings.
LICENSED FOR PASSENGERS
Howard Long
SEWARD, ALASKA
ARON ERICSON
PAINTER AND DECORATOR
MADISON 130
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Andy's Express
Meets all Boats and
Trains
Prompt and Reliable Service
Phone Madison 143
O. K. Barber Shop
RAY LEWIS, PROPR.
BATHS IN CONNECTION
Seward, Alaska
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Pool Soft Drinks Cigars
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BARBER SHOP
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8EW/ARD, ALASKA
Sale
ARMY SHOES
Sale
WE HAVE just bought a tremend
ous stock of ARMY MUNSON LAST
I shoes to be sold to the public direct.
Price $2.75. These shoes are 100 per
I cent solid leather with heavy double
soles sewed and nailed. The uppers
are of heavy tan chrome leather with
bellows tongue, thereby making them
waterproof. These shoes are selling
very fast and we advise you to order
at once to insure your order being fill
ed.
| The sizes are 6 to 11 all widths;
Pay Postman on receipt of goods or
j send money order. Money refunded if
| shoes are not satisfactory.
THE U. S. STORES CO.,
1441 Broadway, New York City
FHihlic sales
WE HAVE PURCHASED 122,000 pair
U. S. ARMY MUNSON last shoes, siz
es 5 1-2 to 12, which was the entire
j surplus stock of one of the largest
U. S. Government shoe contractors.
THIS SHOE is guaranteed one hun
dred per cent solid leather, color, dark
tan, bellows tongue, dirt and water
proof. The actual value of this shoe is
$6.00. Owing to this tremenduous buy
we can offer same to the public for
$2.95.
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SEND CORRECT SIZE. Pay post
man on delivery or send money order.
If shoes are not as represented we will
cheerfully refund your money prompt
ly upon request.
NATIONAL BAY STATE SHOE CO.
296 Broadway, New York, N. Y.
Saturday Gateway, $3 per year.