Letters arriving in Fairbanks from
Mrs. Bob Patterson, whose husband
accidentally killed himself recently
in the Chandalar, show that she is
now established at Miami, Fla., and
is doing well.
Harry Capp, who recently had the
misfortune to break his leg in Fair
banks, underwent an operation at
the Interior hospital and a piece of
broken bone was removed and a sil
ver plate substituted by Dr. Romig.
Former United States Commission
er Bonham, of Bethel, passed away
at his home at that place on Sunday
of last week, according to advices
received by the Kusko Times of To
cotna, Alaska.
Enormous chunks of ice coming
from the pot hole at the Kennecott
glacier, a short distance this side
of McCarthy, interrupted thru ser
vice to Kennecott while repairs were
being made to bridges there. Ser
vice was resumed after the bridges
were fixed says the Cordova Times.
The annual gross cut of lum
ber by mills in Southeastern Alaska
this year is expected to exceed that
of last year bv at least 2,000,000, ac
cording to present indications. The
reports were taken from B. F. Heint
zleman of the forest service in Ket
chikan.
Approximately 12,000 fry of cut
throat and rainbow trout were plant
ed recently in Auk Lake by members
of the Juneau Fish and Game Club
with the cooperation of the U. S.
Forest Service and the bureau of
Public Road says the Juneau Em
pire.
The Petersburg public Schools
show a large increase in the enroll
ment this year over that of last
year. On the opening of school 145
pupils were entered on the rolls of
the elementary school. This figure is
27 per cent above that of last year.
Twenty-four are in the High School.
Miss Isabelle E. Burns, nurse at
the hospital at Kennecott and Ar
nold H. Akert, assayer at the mine,
were married in Cordova Sept. 14
by the Rev. L. F. Kent. The bride
left early the next morning on the
steamer Alaska for a visit to New
York. Mr. Akert is returning to
Kennecott. The young couple ar
rived in Cordova a short time ago.
In order to clean up the large ac
cumulation of copper ore before win
ter weather sets in, says the Cor
dova Times, two Alaska Steamship
company freighters left Nanaimo on
Sept. 8 for Cordova and the Oduna
left Seattle bound for the same place.
Because of the large fish cargoes
which have gone south lately, little
ore has been taken on and between
3,000 and 4,000 tons have been re
moved from the cars and stacked on
the ground.
It is reported that Ed Banzer, one
of the pioneer prosepotors of this
section, recently made a rich strike
of gold quartz in the Jiggot Bay dis
trict. While details are meager, it
is said that the new find carries some
tellurium, and runs high in value.
J. A. McGilvray of Valdez receiv
ed a letter on one of the last boats
from Fred Butterworth, of Califor
nia, to the effect that Charles G.
Wolff, former editor of the Valdez
Miner, also living in California, had
recently been seriously ill, and that
for a time his lfe "was despared of,
but that he is now improving.
Chris Peterson and George H. 1
Powell left Valdez with an outfit for
the Ramsay-Rutherford mine, near '
the glacier. 1
]
John Stanley, first graduate of the ]
Alaska Agricultural College and ,
School of Mines, ait Fairbanks, and
well known in Seward, is now prin- <
cipal of the Truckee, Calif., High \
School.
Corporal Ralph Mitchell, mayor of ^
Wortman, returned to Valdez on the t
last Alaska after spending a furlough £
of several months in the States. c
The plant of the Emel Packing
Company, Valdez, closed down the
other day at/ter a successful season,
approximately 60,000 cases of salmon
having been packed.
Charges made to Gov. George A.
Parks recently that enormous quan
tities of herring were being wasted
through wanton destruction by fish
ermen and packers engaged in the
industry in Southeastern Alaska were
entirely lacking in substantiation in
a detailed investigation made by Fed
eral agences in the past two weeks.
This was made knowm by E. L. flut
ter, assistant agent for the U. S.
Bureau of Fisheries in Southeast
ern Alaska.
The Lemons-Whitworth dredger
wras successfully launched in Fish
Creek, Fairbanks district, Aug. 26.
The work of installing the heavy
machinery began at once and by Oc
tober 1 it is expected that the dredg
er will be in operation.
To relieve the situation at Sitka,
occasioned by the illness of Dr. L.
F. Goddard, the services of Dr. E. C.
Fading, physician attached to the
Cutter Unalga, w7ere tendered to the
Territory. The offer was accepted
by H. G. Watson, secretary to Gov.
Parks.
In accord with the policy recom
mended by the Community Chest
Fund Committee last spring, the Ju
neau chamber of commerce adopted
a resolution calling for a drive for
next year’s finances to be started
early next month. Definite plans for
the drive will be worked out and
presented to the chamber at an early
meeting.
Two terms of the Federal District
court were called in orders signed
in Juneau by District Judge T. M.
Reed. One, the regular November
term, convenes on November 18 and
the other was for Ketchikan to con
vene October 15.
John J. Dwyer, a lawyer of 40
Wall Street, New York, is seeking
information as to the fate of Maur
ice Foley, who left Cincinnati, Ohio,
for the Klondike in 1899 and has
not since been heard from. Mr.
Foley left an estate in the East that
Mr. Dwyer says now amounts to
about 510,000, and it is desired to
get the estate settled.
S. B. Van Zandt, Ketchikan police
man, following a hearing before U.
S. Commissioner, J. W. Kehoe, has
been bound over to the Federal
grand jury on a charge of man
slaughter for the killing of Romie
Atkinson, Indian, according to of
ficial advices received by U. S. At
torney A. G. Shoup of the First Div
ision. Bond was fixed in the sum
of 53,000.
Three members of the crew of the
gas boat “Mackerel” have been ar
rested at Craig charged with robbing
a fish trap, according to official ad
vices received by U. S. Attorney A.
G. Shoup. Those arrested were Au
gust Starkloff, Oscar Berg and Willie
Joshia. The men are charged with
having robbed a trap in Rose Inlet
belonging to Sea Coast Packing Co.,
the robbery occurring on August 20,
two days before the end of the sal
mon fishing season on the west coast.
Another advance in the road to
Ophir was marked during the pres
ent w’eek when on Wednesday, of
last wreek, the Alaska Road Commis
sion camp wTas moved from Califor
nia to Gaines creek.
The radio station at Tocotna, for
a number of days past, has been
much disturbed by atmospherical con
litions and intensive electrical dis- <
:urbances in the ether. This will
no doubt last until the present dry ,
spell is over. j
A piece of road work, says the 5
Kusko Times of Tocotna, of con
siderable importance is that recent- !
y completed by the Alaska Road *
Commission, extending from the !
?*lume dredge, Yankee creek to No. ■
> Gaines creek. The new stretch
)f road is about six miles long and 1
eads directly to the Frank Joaquin ^
)roperties, upon which dredging op
erations will commence next year. *
Automobiles are making the trip to £
Janes, and the road is declared to be 2
n excellent condition. *
Plenty of blueberries this year, for t
phich everyone seems thankful, says 1
he Kusko Times. Raspberries not v
o plentiful, due to the exceeding t
Ty spell. Potatoes everywhere look- t
i
Miss Edyithe Davison of Nome is
the first Alaskan girl to graduate
from the Mooseheart school, the en
terprise maintained by the Moose
lodge for orphaned children.
ing fine, and there’ll be a bumper
crop of the tubers if Mr. Frost will
delay his operations for a couple of
more weeks.
Manager Kimball, of the Flume
Dredge Company, Kuskokwim region,
nwo has telephone connections be
tween the company’s dredge work
ings. The new line, which extends
from Little Creek to No. 8, Yankee
creek, was completed early last week
by George Clark, the company’s elec
trician, aided by G. W. C. Glass, and
is working perfectly.
A very pretty wedding was cele
bated Saturday at Anchorage at the
Presbyterian manse, when Charlotte
E. Baunton and Joseph D. DeMars
wore united in the holy bonds of mat
rimony, Rev. R. R. Marquis perform
ing the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. D.
K. Martin acted as witnesses.
Where is Charles Mathson? In
quiry has been made of the Pioneers
regarding this oldtimer by Nancy
Mathson, Oakridge, Oregon, w^ho
writes that Mathson has been work
ing as a cook, is between 50 and
60 years of age and has been in Al
aska “all his life.” Was last heard
of around Anchorage or Ketchikan.
Hoy E. Maddocks and son David
returned to Fairbanks recently with
Frank Manley, from the Iditarod dis
trict, where considerable work was
done during the summer on Willow
creek. Manley will leave for San
Francisco shortly and will return to
Alaska next spring writh additional
machinery for the large-scale opera
tions contemplated in the Iditarod.
The present season w-as confined
largely to preparatory work.
Catherine Metroken and Harry H.
Porter of Anchorage were joined in
the holy bonds of matrimony Saturday
evening of last week, U. S. Commis
sioner Wm. Rager performing the
wedding ceremony. Witnesses at
the wedding ceremony were Miss
Margaret Porter and O. D. Waxon.
Steps to keep the Town of Peters
burg from being shut off from deep
water over land claimed by the Pe
tersburg Packing Co. was taken re
cently at the City Council meeting.
The City clerk was instructed to wire
Henry Roden at Juneau to begin ac
tion to restrain the company from
driving piles for a building for For
est Fryer in front of “D” street.
NO CHANCE
“John,” said his wife severely, “do
you ever flirt with that pretty stenog
rapher in your office?”
“No,” growed her husband, “she
doesn’t think any more of me than
you do.”
Mother’s Aid Starts Son
On Way to Golf Crown
OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 18. (#)—
The companionship of a boy and his
mother opened the way to the win
ning of the 1925 Western amateur
golf championship.
When Keefe Carter, 19 year old
bolder ol this yea-’s title, was 12
rears old, his mother, Mis. Dorset
darter, was ordered by her physician
:o seek outdoor exercise. She took
ip golf :\nd Keefe went with her as
she played around the courses here.
Soon Mrs. Carter ck\tJcped a fond
less for the game and her enthusi
asm moved the boy to take a try at
t. They played daily and within a
short time young Carter was dis
maying something more ihan ordi
lary form for a boy of h‘s age and
itrength.
3ut Keefe was not in roDdst health,
ind his piysician orde.vd him to
dop golf, emit school and rest. F; r
wu years the boy did not touch a
mlf club, bul when he was permitted
return to the links, the in ,thc*v
vas awaiting him with a lot of new
.in* ideas.
1 •'e boy soon showed that his long
lieu ess had not spoiled his form
!a idv Bayter, a local profsnhvaal,
woke to young Carter’s ablYuv and «
ock nun in charge.
Carter got his first toura *. r.ect ex
erience in state titular coatecis ii
922 lie qualified in C'ass D, and
ren to»u to the finals A fLo^t
hce after he reached fa* finals in
dt state junior champio *\V:). I te .
s n^xt year he made the lowest QU*i
e it'vln^ store in the state toureamerl
t. tut in iiie second round of mrdi
P1*’- tci v»ent down be ‘ ■ «, 11:11 NP
e c^eis of Muskogee.
last year, Carter won the state '.?■
r tl e. iu the semi-finals he defea e!
1 Nichols, who avenged t.io de:e.i>
f t’»..« year, taking Carter’s mer-.sur-* ;n
the flu a is. It went to 37 holes
Carter's success in the Western
~ tournament came on his second cn
» tr» Last year at Chicago hi, quab'
fied, but was eliminated in the first
- lound.
The final test of willpower and
moral courage is refusal to sign a
petition.
A pacifist is a man who knows
. what he’ll speculate in the next
i time there is a war.
A man doesn’t long for the good
old ability to enjoy them.
Join the Chamber ox Commerce.
About the only way ito get smiles
from everybody is to be Santa Claus
or a paying teller.
The queerest thing about wrecks
is that both cars invariably got run
into.
FOR SALE—Fruit Jars. J. L. Graef.
Brunswick Pflonograpns and Re
cords. The Alaska Shop. tf
Legal Blanks at the Gateway.
Gas Launch
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Steam Heat Good Service
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