Mat Hyland, conductor and F. Glass
brakeman, met with a painiul accident
a few weeks ago, while at work in the
terminal yards at Fairbanks. One of
the trap doors of a gravel car closed
suddenly in such a manner as to catch
one thumb of Hyland’s hand and three
lingers ol Glass’ and held them there
until help arrived. Hyland’s thumb
was broken, and Glass’ three lingers
were badly smashed, but no amputa
tions were ecessaiy.
Barney Coggings paid Nome a visit
recently from his claims on the Second
Beach line, about seven miles from
town, where himself and Tom Jessen
are working partnership claims. Bar
ney reports very good pay so far.
F. F. Welch, pioneer merchant and
postma^er at Chatanika, is reported
to have sold out his business to Rob
ert Casey, also a noldtimer of that dis
trict. Casey also will take over the
Chatanika postoffice.
A renprt from Livengood last week
stated that the instruments were be
ing removed from the radio station
on account of threatened fire. The Tol
ovana district therefore will be out of
telegraphic communication until the
situation is relieved.
; Edward Darling, 52, a merchant in
Alaska towns for 17 years and hus
band of Esther Birdsall Darling, au
thor of “Baldy of Nome,” died recent
ly at Carmel, California. He was pro
prietor of an iron works at Oakland.
The r^nual party given to the tots '
of Anchorage each year by J. Casey
McDannel, was held last week, at ,
which there were three hundred boys
and girls.
H. H. Malcolm, superintendent of
the Alaska Year Round cannery at
Seldovia. states that the company had
a good pack of salmon this year. The j
packing of crabs by the cannery will
begin soon. While in Anchorage re
cently a deal was initiated whereby
his company contemplates taking over
another plant in this vicinity next sea
son.
Wrangell had a better season this
summer than for several years. There !
was a good run of fish. The saw mill
is running full capacity and has made
shipments outside of more than a half
million feet during the past thirty
days.
Work on the construction of the
Petersburg school house will start
within the next two weeks. The War
rack Construction Company, of Seat
tle is doing the work on the building.
Wrangell is experiencing one ot its
busiest and most prosperous seasons,
acocrding to J. W. Pritchett, editor
and publisher of the Wrangell Senti
nel and one of the most prominent cit
izens in the town, who with Mrs. Prit
chett, are makeing a business trip to
Seattle.
A tragedy was narrowly averted the
latter part of July, when two members
of the crew of the halibut boat Polaris
—who were at work 'a a dory—were
plunged into the icy waters twenty
miles off Trinity Island, south of Ko
diak, by a huge whale, who knocked
two holes, fore and aft, in the bottom
of the dory, which swamped, washing
the men overboard, acording to Cap
tain Ness, who has been skipper of
the Polaris for the past fouar years.
The Alaskan Engineering Commis
sion through General Purchasing Agt.
Dole, is this week asking for bids on a
quantity of food supplies, for use by
the Alaska Railroad.
The new Presbyterian mission boat
Lois arrived in Juneau recently, on its
way to Hoonah, where headquarters of
the mission are located.
Dan W. Walker, well-known oldtim
er of southeastern Alaska, was placed
under observation last week, and lat
er adjudged insane in the U. S. Com
missioner’s court. Walker has been a
esident cf Southeastern Alaska for 27
years and recently has immagined he i
was Caruso.
Picking up nuggets on the streets
of Juneau is an old time joke and an
especially good one an the chechacoes
of early days, but the practical joker
of the old times has a good one on
him, and C. Bender, City Street Com- j
missioner, can prove it. Bender is in
charge of the laying of the new sewer
pipe on Main Street and the construc
tion of the new street. For the past
week he has had a crew of men sluic- j
ing down the dirt and refuse into the
Channel. Picking up a shovel of dirt
Bender in a careless glance, saw a
color of gold. Closer inspection show-1
ed several colors. In practically every
shovel colors can be seen. Now they
are talking of putting in riffles and
catching some of the gold.
Last week a very sad death occurred
in Cordova, when Tommy, the lour
year-old son of George Tanaka and
wife fell from Water Street to the
gully below, a distance of about forty
feet. He landed in a small pool of wa
ter, and was badly cut about the fore
head. The unfortunate boy was rush
ed to the hospital, but died a few min
utes after arriving there.
An important deal was closed in
Wrangell last week when W. D. Gross,
well known picture show man of Ju
neau, purchased from J. R. Heckman
and H. C. Strong of Wrangell next to
the Red Men’s hall, and -will put up a
$5,000 up-to-date theatre on the site.
An oldtimer by the name of Kron
jager, residing at the Circle Hot
Springs, is reported to be in a rather
serious condition as the result of hav
ing frozen his feet last winter. He is
said to possess considerable money
but is unwilling to hire anyone to at
tend to him. Under the circumstances
the government is unable to come to
his aid, and he is proving a burden on
the residents of the springs who must
constantly care for him during a busy
season.
On a tour of the north, making the
trip on the steamer Princess Louise,
Countess H. de la Cisterna, and her
son, Lieut. A. de la Cisterna, of Naples
accompanied by a retineau of servants
visited in Juneau on a sightseeing trip
while the steamer was in port. They
have spent some time in the United
States having visited New York and
Chicago.
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Services in memory of Mrs. Mary
Theile, wife of the Surveyor General,
and Secretary of Alaska, who died re
cently at Juneau, following the birth
of a baby son, were held in the Gover
nor’s house. Dr. S. Hall Young gave
the services, paying beautiful tribute
to the memory of Mrs. Theile, whose
deeds while she lived, merited honor
for the highest type of womanhood.
The music of the services were given
by W. E. Nowell, with violin solo. At
the request of her husband in the mam
ory of the wonderful work of her life,'
Mrs. Thiele was dressed in her nurses’'
uniform of the American Red Cross, of
which she was a member, actively con
tinuing her work in Juneau as Chair
man of the Public Health Service, Ju
neau Chapter, American Red Cross.
the national breakfast
Ham and eggs—that’s the national breakfast.... And when
you broil or fry a slice of tender, juicy.. FRYE’S... DELI
CIOUS HAM, and fry a couple of eggs in the drippings,
you have a breakfast that the people of any nation would
be proud to have served to them. Only choice young pork,
cured and smoked by the special FRYE process can taste
so good. Slice after slice, ham after ham, will prove to be
equally dee-licious.
And when you have tried FRYE’E DELICIOUS HAM
and found what we have said about it is true order from
your dealer a piece of FRYE’S DELICIOUS BACON.
We exercise the same care in the selection of the pork and
in the curing of DELICIOUS BACON that we do in pro
ducing DELICIOUS HAM.
Your dealer carries FRYE’S QUALITY PRODUCTS or
he can get them for you.
Older WILD ROSE LARD from him. It contains the rich
leaf and back fats which make it so much better than or
dinary lard.
FILIET OF SALMON BROILED
WITH BACON
Ingredients—I pound fresh saimon
(in chunk from middle of fish), eight
slices FRYE’S DELICIOUS BACON,
1-2 teaspoon salt, 1-4 teaspoon pap
rika, juice of one lemon, 1 teaspoon
minced parsley, 1 clove garlic, 1 table
spoon WILD ROSE LARD.
Method—Cut salmon in four strips,
lengthwise of fish, not crosswise as In
slicing. This preserves the flakes. Re
move bone but leave on skin. Heat
shallow baking dish and rub with
clove of garlic, then rub on lard. Lay
fish on dish and spread bacon over,
broil or bake until bacon is browm,
then remove to hot dish and keep
warm. Broil fish ten minutes longer,
turning to brown on both sides. Add
salt, parsley, paprika and lemon to
drippings in pan and pour over fish
arranged on hot platter with bacon.
Garnish with sliced onion or pickle.
Hams and Bacon
EVERYTHING THE NAME IMPLIES
SEATTLE
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SSBES.
-Herman Meyers, a former Slate
creek mining man, and who was one
of the first to go to that ^placer camp,
is now located in Seattle.
W. H. Parsons, the well-known
banker formerly of Fairbanks, is now
with the Dexter Horton bank in Seat
tle.
Tom Dwyer, a former well-known
Nome mining man, is now located in
Los Angeles.
Bringing furs worth $150,000, gold
bullion valued at $105,000, a shipment
of mild cured salmon and several pas
sengers, the steamship Santa Ana ar
rived in Seattle from Bethel, on the
Kuskokwim river, via Akutan, La
touche, and Ketchikan. The furs in
cluded beaver, marten, mink, muskrat
and otter, and is one of the most val
uable consignments from the north
this year. While the Santa Ana was
in Bethel, Captain Langley took his
crew and made a trip up the Kusko
kwim in the river steamboat Tana as
far as the mining town McGrath.
Two blue fox pups from the Alaskan
fox farms of Grover Cleary, are on ex
hibition in the window of the Dan
ziger Fur Company, 307, Pine Street,
Seattle. The pups are as healthy look
ing as can be, and they excite a great
deal of comment from passersby. In
dicative as they are of a thriving in
dustry, they are indeed something of
which all Alaskans may be proud.
After spending the greater part of
the season in Southeastern Alaska,
takiny motion pictures of the country,
the people and industrial plants, and
activities, Earle W. Rossman, cinemo
tographer of New York City, accom
panied by Miss Edna Wallace, a maga
zine writer, arrived in Seattle recent
ly, and will take passage on the Boxer
when that vessel said for Point Bar
row. It is Mr. Rossman’s plan to re
main in the Point Barrow section un
til the early winter, taking motion pic
tures of film material to be found in
that remote part of the world. During
the winter he will make the overland
trip by dog team to Nenana, where he
will take passage on the government
railroad to this city.
Earle C. Jamison, the well known
Alaska newspaper man, for many
years connected with Juneau news
papers, arrived in Seattle recently,
completing an auto trip from his for
mer home in West Virginia to Seattle.
B. B. Smith, pioneer mining man or
Alaska, now operating in the Innoko
district, who passed the winter on the
Outside, arrived in Seattle this week
from Los Angeles, on his return to his
diggings. For several years Mr. Smith
was United States Commissioner foi
the Innoko recording district, carry
ing on mining the while.
Oliver P. Hubbard, sourdough Alas
kan, former resident of Nome and Val
dez, is now holding down a respon
sible position in the low department
of the government in Washington, D
C. In resuming official life in Wash
ington, Mr. Hubbard is traveling ovei
familiar ground for when a young mar
he went to the national capital as pri
vate secretary to Attorney General W
H. H. Miller, who was in the cabinei
under President Harrison. The young
attorney got a promotion and was sen
West to various states taking testi
mony in Indian massacre cases, not
ably the Walla Walla episode and th<
Rouge River trouble. When the Klon
dike strike was made, Mr. Hubbarc
started from Chicago in 1898, on ai
expedition to locate a railroad lin<
from Unalaklik to Kaltag, on the Yu
kon. The. plan was to build 75 miles
of road and save the 700 mile watei
trip from Unalaklik to Kaltag. At th<
present time the old trail cut by Hub
bard’s men is used by the governmen
as a telegraph line and mail route
From 1899 to 1901, Judge Hubban
practiced law in Nome. A new railroai
plan to build a road from Valdez t<
Eagle City, on the Yukon, a distanci
of 475 miles, brought Hubbard to tha
point where he resided for many year
until he went to Washington. While h
Valdez, Judge Hubbard was electei
as senator to the Second session o
the Alaska legislature. When forme
President Roosevelt was nominated o;
the Bull Moose ticket former Delegat
Wickersham, Judge Hubbard and Jaei
Dalton were the delegates from Alas
ka to the nominating convention.
The Nome Nugget is in receipt o
the following dispatch from the Assc
ciated Press: “Opposition carried
story saying: “Snow going fast, a flee
of Automobiles is expected to be i
Wainwright to witness the hop-off c
Amundsen in his Polar flight, news c
his hop off will be sent to Nome b
Automobile.” The Associated Pres
continued with “This does not seei
reasonable, but we are leaving it u
to the Nome Nugget to advise us coi
cerning conditions. So far your r<
ports have been the only reliabl
ones concerning the expedition. Than
you for the keen interest shown i
this matter.”
J. G. Kelly, publisher of the Walla
Walla Bulletin, Mrs. Kelly and family
have just returned to Seattle from a
trip into the interior of Alaska and Yu
kon territory. They reported a most
delightful vacation.
A band of carribou, numbering ap
proximately five hundred, is reported
to be roaming the hills and flats of
the Chatanika valley, near the town
of Chatanika. It is not believed these
animals are the forerunners of the gen
eral fall run, but that they are an
isolated herd, probably driven from
their former haunts by forest fires.
The closing down of the Associated
Oil Company’s drilling operations in
the Kanatak field is due solely to the
circumstance that over production of
oil in California and elsewhere has ,
made it so that there is no immediate j
anxiety to bring in a new field and the
company has compiled with the re
quirements of the government and its
contracts with those who hold leases
from the government, according to J.
J. Finnegan, who was in Juneau re
cently on his way south. It means
nothing else to the oil country, ex- -
cept a slight reduction in the payroll, ■
said Captain Finnegan, for the Stan
dard oil company is continuing devel
opment work.
The biggest six month’s business
ever experienced by the U. S. Forest
Service in Alaska were in the period
from January 1 to June 30, this year
according to the financial statement
of the District Forester, which has
just been issued. Receipts for that per
iod were $41,000, almost $20,000 in ex
cess of the same period in 1922, said
District Forester C. H. Flory.
An increase of $15 for the round trip
of $10 for a one way trip is favored
as the wharfage charge of Juneau, to
the Alaska Steamship Company,. It is |
maintained by the city that increase
in the wharfage charge is necessary j
for the upkeep of the dock.
After three weeks hunting, fishing,
and sight seeing in Alaska, 34 Detroit!
boys, sponsored by George Buchanan,
have returned enroute home. They are
all enthusiastic over Alaska.
T. J. Petrich, who has Tielil the posi
; tion of stenographer and typist in the
Juneau U. S. Customs office for the
past year, was recently promoted to
Deputy Collector, ana Inspector, ac
cording to an announcement made by
Collector J. C. McBride.
\\. L. L nderwood, field engineer for
j the California Press Manufacturing
Company, of San Francisco, left Ju
neau recently for Hood Bay to inspect!
the company’s by-products plant at
that place. He expects to return to
Juneau, which city will be his head
quarters while he inspects several
plants operated in that district by his
. firm. The company operated fifteen
plants in Alaska, in the Southeastern
and at the Westward, putting out fer
tilizer.
An accident which might have easily i
proved fatal, resulted only in slight in
juries to the occupants, when a Ford
automobile, driven by young Kenneth
Kimbrough ran off the bank and
struck on its side in the ditch on the
Lemon Creek flats recently near Ket
chikan. Five adults and one baby
were in the car. All occupants suffer
. ed slightly from bruises and a gener
. al shakeup, and Mrs. Mary Stephen
, son suffering with two broken ribs.
The seventeen ton barge that was
hauled over from Whitehorse recently
‘ to Carcross and considered a transpor
tation feat on the White Pass, meas
ured 61 feet five inches by 21 feet 8
’ inches, and approximately 8 feet deep.
Picture this going over the rails on a
33-ft, steel car and landed safely after
doing the snake dance for about fifty
miles.
I Frank Dufresne, Federal Fur and
1 Game W arden, of the Second division
) has announced that he will carry out
j an intensive policy of killing loose
t dogs. Many dogs about Nome are per
3 mitted to run loose on the tundra and
i in the hills, where they destroy nests
1 and kill young ptarmigan in great
L numbers.
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