NORTHLAND
Totaling $6,453,6S7, Alaskan prod
ucts exclusive of gold and silver ex
ported to the States last month ex
ceeded those of August last year by
$2,192,074, and was the fourth largest
August export total in the history of
Alaska. Gold and silver exports to
taled $734,328, surpassing those of
the same month last year by $244,365,
and the largest for any August since
1919, except August, 1921.
C. J. Keenan, of San Francisco,
secretary tor the Alaska Pulp and Pa
per Company, and G. H. Kirsch, engi
neer, are making arrangements for j
the extension oi the mill to make pa
per and paper products. A building !
40 feet wide by 200 feet long will be !
required to house the paper machine, j
at one end of which will be a finish- j
ing room containing the customary |
machinery consisting oi winders, slit
ters and cutters for producing the
various finished paper products that
the company proposes to manufacture |
it is said.
The Alaska products from the date
of the purchase of the Territory by J
the United States until January 1, |
1923, according to figures recently
compiled, aggregated $1,113,355,S13.
Products of the fisheries and other in
dustries exceeded those of the mines
by about $20,000,000.
One hundred million dollars in furs
have been shipped out of Alaska in
the past fifty years.
for 1922 is given as $58,531,025. Fish- :
for 1922 is given as 058,531,025. Fish
eries and allied products for that year i
were almost twice as great as for the
entire period since the purchase.
The heaviest run of salmon in the j
history of the packing industry pre- j
vailed in southeastern Alaska this
season.
Seven vessels of the Pacific Steam
ship Company arrived in Seattle last
week with 225,000 cases of canned
salmon, and 500 barrels of herring.
The engineering firm of Hubbell &
Waller have been awarded the con
tract for the construction of a hydro
electric plant for the town of Peters
burg, the cost to be $100,000. The
towns recently bonded itself for this
amount.
N. J. Maphaler, formerly stationed
at Anchorage, is now station supervi
sor in Seattle for the Standard Oil
Company.
Wm. Cleary, original discoverer of
the placer gold deposits in the Fair
banks district, is on a prospecting
trip to Chili, South America. He took
out a barrel of gold from Cleary creek
and spent it.
George Nordgren of Moose creek
recently defeated the Fairbanks ex
pert, in a rubber of 50 games, five of
■which were played each evening.
In Alaska there are only 2005 gain
fully employed women.
The body of Frank Dumontier has
recently been found in the ^ ukon. He
was drowned two years ago, with Joe
Wilson.
Attorney E. F. Medley recently re
signed as secretary of the Cordova
Chamber of Commerce and John Mul
ler was elected as his successor.
James Cody, manager at Mayo for
the N. C. Co., the last year, has moved
with his family to Dawson, where he
will be manager for the same com
pany.
A car driven by J. Norman ran off
the road at Dawson recently and was
smashed against the old railroad tres
tle.
Flat buoy No. 2 was established
August IS, in ten fathoms of water on
the edge of the shoals at the north
end of the bay.
KENAI LAKE SERVICE
THE GAS LAUNCH
K EH A i
Making regular trips twice a
week from Roosevelt to Coop
er's Landing, lower Kenai, with
passengers and freight. The
habitat of the moose, sheep,
and bear. Guides furnished for
hunting parties, and cafiThs for
tourists. Special trips made on
request. Write to
LOUIS BELL, Master
Roosevelt, Alaska
A tragedy was averted at Ketchi
kan recently when workmen happen
ed to go into the fire hall and l'ound
the body of 3-year-old Donald Man
ning lying under the fire truck un
conscious from the gas he had inhal
ed, and which in a few more minutes
would have resulted in the death of
the little boy.
Two members of the Cuyama’s
crek were injured at Ketchikan, when
Fred H. Hass, chief yoeman broke an
ankle at the baseball game and an
other member fell while climbing a
mountain and was unconscious for
two hours.
Any real “he-man” between the
ages of 22 and 30. who would enjoy
corresponding with a real American
girl,” will find a welcome with Orta
Moore, 20, general delivery, Pitts
burg, Kansas. The young lady prom
ises value received. She has blue eyes,
good complexion and weight 123 lbs.
The Northbird Aviation Company of
Ketchikan has purchased the Boeing
pontoon seaplane from Dr. H. C. De
Vighne and will have the plane in
commission in about 10 days.
The Cordova Daily Times issued an
extra last week giving the result of
the Firpo-Dempsey bout.
Geo. C. Hazelet and James L. Ga
len left Cordova recently to witness
the fall run of carbiou on the summit
about ISO miles from Valdez on the
Richardson road.
Ike Hamburger, formerly court re
corder at Valdez, who resigned and
left for California, has left the old
farm and taken a position with Judge
Cushman at Tacoma. Mrs. Hamburg
er is still on the farm near Chico.
Attorney Russell Mott and son Cut
ler of Chicago, have returned from a
hunting trip to the Interior with J.
H. Hubrick, the well known guide.
Mr. Mott is one of the shrewdest se
cret service men in the country, hav
ing served during the war with the
Intelligence bureau.
Dr. G. W. Trubev, U. S. veterinar
ian, has just completed an annual
trip of inspection in Alaska, going as
far west as Kodiak and visiting the
railroad district, Copper river valley
and Prince William Sound.
Mrs. Warren G. Harding personally
wrote letters to all the owners of
roadhouses on the Richardson high
way, expressing her regret at not be
ing able to make the trip. Many of
these epistles have been framed and
occupy an honored place in the road
houses.
The boiler house and blacksmith
shop of James McPike, Goldstream
mining operator, was completely de
stroyed by fire recently. The damage
to the machinery of the plant with
j the exception of a dynamo, was but
: slight and the plant was shut down
only for a few hours. The fire is said
I to have originated in the blacksmith
shop.
!
A trio of Anchorage business men,
all pioneers and all in comfortable
| circumstances are making an auto
I trip from Seattle through Washing
ton, Oregon and California. Peter
Olson, one of the proprietors of the
D. D. restaurant; Camille McGowan,
businessman, and John Carmody, ol
the Panhandle, will make the journey.
Chas. Sellom, a fisherman, has filed
suit in the federal court at San Fran
cisco, for damages in the sum ol
$30,500 against the Alaskh Codfish Co.
and the Union Fish Co. Sellow al
leges that he belonged to the crew ol
the fishing vessel Morena and was
sent ashore in a rotten dory in Lost
Harbor. The dory foundered and Sel
low recovered consciousness on an
island, with a shaggy wolf standing
over him ready to eat him. He fright
ened the animal away by his screams
and lived on the island for three
months on roots and berries, ruining
| his health.
Capt. Frank Kleinschmidt, pioneex
of Nome, is at the Hotel Astor in
New York. He is organizing big
game hunts and motion picture par
ties. His room wTas burglarized re
| cently and a $1000 Liberty Bond, £
; $500 diamond pin and $150 in bilk
stolen.
I
John J. Hill, who went to Alaska n
| 1899 and remained until 1909, engagec
j in mining near Nome, is now in th<
building cotnract business in Seattle
Harry Benson, former deputy col
lector of customs at Juneau, is nov
a court stenographer in Montana.
;
Dr. Wm. T. H. Pallister, a forme
practitioner of Juneau, is now locate*
in San Paulo, Brazil, where he ha
; established a hospital for the eye, ear
| nose and throat.
j Jos. H. Y’oung, at one time with tin
Copper River and Northwestern Rail
way, of which he was vice-presiden
and general manager, is receiver fo
the Denver & Rio Grande road.
Jack McDougall, an old timer of the
Valdez district, is located in Belling
ham, Wash. He is assistant superin
tendent of a big coal mine there.
H. E. Revelle, pioneer of the Cook
Inlet country, and who formerly had
the mail contract from Seward to the
Iditarod is living in Tacoma.
John M. French, for many years
connected with the editorial staff of
the New York Journal of Commerce,
author and magazine writer, is in
Alaska to secure data for an Alaskan
novel. Mr. French recently wrote a
novel with the Hudson’s Bay Company
as a back ground and desires to add
to his works a good Alaska novel.
The Petersburg Packing Company
lias sold most of its business prop
erty in the town. Four lots were sold
for $8000, and five lots to Oscar
Grandquist for $7000. Some of the
property sold Is improved.
Howard Hewitt, a young man at
Juneau was nearly drowned last week
when he rode out on the dock on his
bicycle, and running close to the edge,
caught his pedal against the timber
along the margin of the dock. He
was precipitated into the bay and
tried hard to keep afloat, but went
down twice, swallowing much wTater.
He was rescued by a man in a boat
just as he was going down the third
time.
J. M. Mayhall and A. E. Larson of
Seattle, members of the Washington
game service, are in Alaska for the
purpose of making arrangements to
secure cut-throat trout eggs for the
purpose of stocking lakes and streams
of Washington. They are trying to
make arrangements to have the eggs
gathered and shipped to them. In
gathering the eggs it is not necessary
to kill trout. They may be caugth in
nets, the eggs stripped and the fish
returned to the water immediately.
The first gun of the Legion’s Amer
icanization program for Seward was
fired today noon at a luncheon of the
Chamber of Commerce. It was the
largest gathering in the history of the
organization, the acocmmodations be
ing taxed to capacity. Chairman W.
H. Whittlesey presided and amongst
the visitors from out of town w’ere B.
H. Barndollar, acocuntant for the gov
ernment railroad at Anchorage, and
M. O. Snodgrass, head of the agricul
tural station at Fairbanks.
Mr. A. E. Rucker, adjutant of the
Seward Post of the American Legion,
introduced the speaker, Captain S. N.
Dancey, Americanization officer of the
Legion. Capt. Dancey prefaced his re
marks with a tribute to the magnifi
cent spirit he found in Anchorage, and
the splendid response of the people of
the northern town to the Americaniza
tion program.
The speaker characterized the
American Legion as the greatest or
ganization in the United States, an or
ganization, as he put it, “Whose mem
bers saved America in days of war;
an organization whose members are
destined to save America in days of
peace; an organization that, if it
means nothing else to you people of
Seward, must symbolize the sacrifice
that made possible the liberty and
freedom you enjoy in this community,
today.”
Americanization was heralded as
the greatest problem before the peo
pie of America today. There were
some who regarded it as a problem
confined, exclusively, to those of for
eign birth, but Captain Dancey made
it unmistakably plain that American!
zation involved every man, woman
and child living on American soil, be
he native born or foreign born. “We
who are engaged in Americanizatior
work, are convinced that, it is firsi
necessary to Americanize our owi
Americans before we reach out to the
so-called foreigners.”
“There are some who say, ‘The wai
, is over; let us forget the war.’ Le
me tell you that it is our very per
sistent effort to forget the war ant
i the sacrifice associated'with that war
l that is causing most of the troubh
: that we have in this world today
. : Rather than endeavor to forget tin
| war, should we concentrate in a stud;
' of the magnificent object lessons tin
war taught, lessons in whose heed
ing is wrapped up the peace of tin
, I world.”
, : Here, Captain Dancey launched inti
j the story of the building of the Alliei
j war machine; a story, as he contend
’ ! ed, holding a world of inspiration fo
every American citizen. Emphasizini
; the great value of esprit de corps, 01
- as the world knows it, pride in youi
t self. That, with morale, made th
r force of human endeavor. The matte
of having a three-fold confidence, ii
one’s self, in your cause, and in your
leaders, was stressed in a manner to
make its local application most effec
tive. The need of discipline, in the
home, the church, the school, every
department of life, was pointed out ir.
a manner that brought it home.
“There are some men,” he declared,
“who blush with shame when they are
asked to show a spirit of discipline.
Never blush with shame; step out ii.
a spirit of pride. Every time you
show your discipline, you are proving
your Americanism. Incidents were
portrayed in an effort to show the dis
aster that follows lack of discipline.
Efficiency is another great need of
the da$\ The story of Petain, at Ver
dun, in 1916, gave this argument a ro
mantic touch. Loyalty was regarded
as the foundation of all things. Capt.
Dancey told the story of Clemenceau,
the “Tiger of France,” the man who
placed his country first. “If America
is to succeed, as a nation: if you peo
ple of Seward are going to be of any
service to America or the cause of hu
manity or civilization, you are going
to stand on one rock foundation,
where you realize that your Flag and
your Country come first. It matters
not how big we may be, or any move
ment we may represent, remember
that our Flag and our Country are
bigger than both.” he declared.
Captain Dancey closed with a stir
ring tribute to those principles and
ideals in which is wrapped up real
Americanism, service above self; hu
manity above nationalism, and God
above all. The American that rises
above the Dollar standard, rises above
the age of materialism.
“See to it that in every movement
that means for a better spirit of Amer
icanism in Seward; in every move
ment that means for a higher order of
citizenship in this 1 community,—see
to it, that across the face of every ac
complishment of a worth-while order,
is written the name of the Seward
Chamber of Commerce. That is your
duty as an American organization.”
There was a splendid representa
tion of the fraternal organizations of
Seward at Odd Fellows’ Hall last eve
ning to meet Capt. Dancey, American
ization Officer of the American Le
gion. It was an eleventh hour call,
and the Legion Committee was more
than gratified with the response.
Cal. M. Brosius presided and called
on A. E. Rucker, adjutant of the Sew
ard Post, to introduce the speaker.
The plans for an Americanization pro
gram were fully explained and the co
operation of the various fraternal or
ders was asked in making the differ
ent numbers ci the program a success,
with special emphasis on the presen
tation of “The Man Without a Coun
try” at the Liberty Theatre this even
ing, and the public mass meeting of
Sunday afternoon.
Captain Dancey spoke for forty min
utes, carrying his audience through
varying stages of the wond war and
its aftermath and, out of his expert
ences overseas, as well in world trav
el, drawing object lessons than should
be helpful to every American.
There were many lessons taught b\
the war, he asserted. One thought im
pressed upon the world was that there
is no one nation that can conquei
civilization. “Never before in historj
has a nation been better equipped
or better prepared, than was the Ger
man nation, when it hurled upon ar
unsuspecting world, the greatest dis
aster in the history of the ages. Ye!
they could not succeed and, nevei
once, from the fourth day of August
1914, up to the eleventh day of Nov
ember, 1918, did the Germans succeec
in reaching one of their objectives.”
Another great lesson taught was
the need of organization, “I go int<
town after town. I find a Rotarj
Club, a Kiwanis Club, a Commercia
Club, several church and school clubs
. fraternal organizations, and women’:
clubs, with a host of others, and yet
. when it comes to the matter of find
i ing an organization that is ready an<
willing, without quibbling or passim
. the buck, to undertake something of ;
community or patriotic order it a!
> most is impossible to find such an 01
- ganization. Some say that we are 01
; ganized to death. Perhaps we are.
. believe that there is great need, ii
? every community, of an organizatioi
that is ready and willing to undertak
j these things of a worth while order.
1 Captain Dancey spoke of the invis:
. ble frontier between Canada and th
,■ United States, and charactei’ized it a
r the greatest object lesson the wort
had yet seen. It was in direct cor
trast to other frontiers, where five
5 bayonets and guns were the line o
v demarcation.
i Interest in the Sunday afternoo:
Rally is growing rapidly and it begins
to look that Seward will do, what ev
ery town and city is doing today,
pack to auditorium in the interests of
the greatest of problems before the
people today, the problems of Ameri
canization. It will be an old fashion
ed community get together and thru
the question period the audience will
be able to discuss, with the speaker,
things of a national and international
order. The presentation of “The Man
Without a Country,” at The Liberty
this evening will serve as a fitting
prelude to the public rally.
OF TUSB
!1,480 SKINS TAKEN ON LOWER
YUKON FOR VIOLATION LI
CENSE LAW HELD BY SMITH
Confiscated furs numbering 1,480
skins have been received in Juneau
by Walstein G. Smith, Territorial
Treasurer, from Pilot Station, on the
lower Yukon River, for disposition by
legal procedure. The skins were seiz
ed from Chow Kee, a Chinaman, on
July 14 last, who was charged with
buying fur without a license in vio
lation of “Alaska Fur License and
Tax laws.” Chow Kee pleaded guilty
to the charge before Judge George F.
Marsh, U. S. Commissioner at Mar
shall, according to advice received
from Judge Marsh by Mr. Smith.
The skins include two beaver, two
otter, one wolverine, 195 mink and
1,280 muskrats.
E. Coke Hill, attorney, has advised
Mr. Smith that he is representing Mr.
Chow Kee, and requests the return of
the furs. He states that the certified
copies of the records plainly show the
attempted confiscation illegal and
void.
Mr. Smith has wired the Commis
sioner at Marshall for full details of
the case and information concerning
Chow Kee, before taking legal action
in disposing of the furs. The law re
quires that confiscated furs be sold
at public auction. This is the first
case of its kind to come before the
treasurer.—Juneau Empire.
Scott Crouch of Anacortes, Wash,
an employe of the gasboat Tumtum
of Juneau, fell overboard while the
| vessel was at Tonka recently, and was
caught in the boat’s propellor and kill
ed. The body was later released frorr
j the wheel and sunk.
Victor Leake, son of Mrs. Thomas
McCaul of Juneau, was seriously in
jured when a boiler aboard the S. S
Harvard exploded while he and anoth
er member of the crew were working
on it, scalding both men, last month
The ship was off the coast of South
ern California at the tinu> of the ac
cident. Mrs. McCaul left Juneau re
cently to be with her son.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Commissioner’s Court for th<
Territory of Alaska, Third Division
Kenai Precinct.
In Probate
In the Matter of the Estate of Edwari
Tuerck, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the ur
dersigued, Josephine Tuerck, has beei
appointed executrix of the estat
of Edward Tuerck, deceased, and t
the creditors of, and to all person
having claims against the said deceas
ed, to exhibit them, with the neces
sary vouchers, within six months afte
the publication of this notice to th
said executrix at the office of P
L. Smith, in the Town of Sewarc
Kenai Precinct, Territory of Alaska
the same being the place for the trar
. saction of the business or said Estatt
JOSEPHINE TUERCK,
Executrix of the Estate of Edwar
Tuerck, Deceased.
, Date of first publication Sept. 7, 1921
. Date of last publication Sept. 28, 192
Publish Thursday each week. 4t.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
' Department of the Interior
U. S. Land Office at Anchorage, A
[ i aska, August 24, 1923.
Notice is hereby given that Andre-'
’ Sholin, of Homer, Alaska, -who on Not
5 ember 10, 1919, made Nomestead En
try, No. 04052, for E 1-2 NE1-4 Sec. 2
’ and Sl-2 SE1-4, Section 17, Townshi
OS, Range 13W, Seward Meridian, ha
1 filed notice of intention to make fina
? three year Proof, to establish claim t
t the land above described, before Ma
Harrington, at Homer, Alaska, on th
6th day of October, 1923.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Joseph Lee, of Homer, Alaska.
I Henry Ohlson, of Homer, Alaska.
Stanton Shafer, of Homer, Alaska
Mrs. D. M. Woodard, of Momer Ala
1 ka.
3 FRANK A. BOYLE,
’ Register.
First publication Aug. 27, 1923.
5 Last publication Oct. 2, 1923. 30t
1
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior
■* U. S. Land Ofice at Anchorage, A
f aska, August 24, 1923.
Notice is hereby given that Stantc
Shafer, of Homer, Alaska, who, c
1 February 26, 1923, made Homeslea
r
Entry, No. 05523, for SW1-4 SW1-4,
Sec. 13, SE1-4 SE1-4 Sec. 14, NE1-4
NE1-4 Sec. 23, NW1-4 NW1-4, Section
24, Township 6S, Range 14W, Seward
Meridian, has filed notice of intention
to make final three year Proof, to es
tablish claim to the land above de
scribed, before Mae Harrington, at
Homer, Alaska, on the 6th day of Oct
over, 1923.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Henry Ohlson, of Homer, Alaska.
Mrs. D. W. Woodard, of Homer, Al
aska.
Edward Sholin. of Homer, Alaska.
J. R. Crittenden, of Homer, Alaska.
FRANK A. BOYLE,
Register.
First publication Aug. 27, 1923.
Last publication Oct. 2, 1923. 30t d
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS TO PRE
SENT CLAIMS TO RECEIVER
; In the District Court of the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division.
A. B. Chappell, Plaintiff, vs Alaska
Sulphur Company, a Corporation,
Defendant,
Under and by virtue of an order
made and entered by the above named
Court, in the above entitled cause, no
tice is hereby given by the undersign
ed, Receiver appointed in the above
entitled cause, that a'i ere litors, se
cured and unsecured, of the above
named Defendant, are required to file
with the undersigned Receiver, their
verified claims of indebtedness
against said Defendant corporation,
on or before the 1st day of November,
1 1923, at Seward, Alaska.
WM. H. WHITTLESEY, *
Receiver Alaska Sulphur Company.
First publication Sept. 19.
' Last publication Nov. 1. 1923.
o* a e
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior
U. S. Land Office at Ancnorage, Al
aska, August 24, 1923.
Notice is hereby given that John R.
Crittenden, of Homer, Alaska, who on
Feb. 2, 1923, made Homestead Entrv,,
No. 04136, for Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Sec.
’ 35; Lot 1, Section 26, Township 6S,
Range 13W, Seward Meridian, has fil
. ed notice of intention to make Final
Three Year Proof, to establish claim
to the land above described, before
Mae Harrington, Homer. Alaska, at
* Homer, Alaska, on the 6th day of
3 October, 1923.
I Claimant names as witnesses:
? Stanton Shafer, of Homer, Alaska.
Henry Ohlsen, of Homer, Alaska.
Edward Sholin, of Homer, Alaska.
r C. W. Harrington, of Homer, Alaska.
s FRANK A. BOYLE,
Register.
First publication Aug. 27, 1923.
’ Last publication Oct. 2, 1923. 30t d
3 NOTICE SPECIAL ELECTION
Be It Resolved by the Mayor and
Common Council of the Town of Sew- ^
3 ard, Alaska, that a special election be r
held in the said Town of Seward, on
the second day of October, 1923, be
tween the hours of nine o’clock in the
forenoon and seven o’clock in the aft
ernoon of said day, for the purpose of
_ submitting to the qualified voters of
said Town of Seward, the following:
v “Shall the Town of Seward, Alas
ka, purchase, acquire, construct or
establish and maintain public serv
0 ice plants for the distribution and
p use in the Town of Seward, of light,
s heat and power and telephone and
.1 water service, for the purpose of
o serving the said Town of Seward
e and the public, and bond the said v
e Town of Seward for such purposes.”
Dated Seward, Alaska, September
5th, 1923.
Notice is Hereby Given, That a
special election will be held in the
Town of Seward, Alaska, on the sec
s' ond day of October, 1923, between the
hours of nine o’clock in the forenoon
and seven o’clock in the afternoon of
said day, for the purpose of submit
ting the above resolution to the qual
d ified voters of said Town of Seward,
Alaska, and that the polls? for holding
said election shall be open for the
purpose of voting on said resolution,
between said named hours, on above
, named date, at the Town Hall of said
Town of Seward.
WM. H. WHITTLESEY, k
Town Clerk.
Publish Sept. 8, 15, 22, 29, 1923. 4t
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