NORTHLAND NOTES
Gowev Shepard, of whose marriage
at Butte, Montana, mention was
made in last week’s paper, arrived
in Juneau with his bride, formerly
Miss Janet Bowlsby.
The Yukon Gold Company, Lim
ited, one of the most reliable min
ing companies in the North, coming
to Dawson eighteen yea-s ago, is
winding up its activities in this camp
for good.
One of the largest lumber car
goes 10 be shipped out of Ketchikan
during the summer was recsntl/ sent
oU' by the Ketchikan Spruce Mills.
The Alaska Steamship Company’s
freighter Cordova arrived in port
loaded and lefit with 250,000 feel of
lumber from the Ketchikan Spruce
Mills, consisting principally of spruce
clears.
Knowledge of the who v.ibou 3 .f
Kenneth Mclnnis is being • tv
the Ketchikan Police in response to
a request received from his mother,
Mrs. C. F. Mclnnis of Mount Vernon.
Washington.
Applications for oil permits in the
Yagataga fields were filed at the
United States land office in Anch
orage by the following: Andrew J.
Millison. Juneau; J. B. Robertson,
Seattle; Ever J. Olseu, Juneau; G.
W. Branch, Seattle; Frank A. Aid
rich, Juneau; Harold E. Smith, Ju
neau: P. K. Clausen, Juneau, H. F.
Preston, Juneau. An application for
a permit in the Kamashak fields was
filed by Miss Margaret Curtin, Cas
per, Wyo.
The Dawson Daily News which
has not taken sides in Yukon politics
for a dozen years or more, is ably
supporting Robert Lowe of White
horse, Liberal candidate for the
house of commons.
U. S. Commissioner W. H. Rager
of Anchorage, recently fined Ed 01- i
son $500 and 50 days in jail each 1
on two counts for violating the li
quor law.
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Miss Alice Wood, formerly of New I
York, and Howard McMillan, tele- :
li
graph operator at Carmacks on the
latter place recently, Bishop I. O.
Yukon river, were married at the
Stringer, officiating as knot tyer.
Dr. Dan E. Stannard, recently of
Hyder, has been appointed physician
and surgeon for the Pioneers’ Home
at Sitka.
Summer coal prices at Nome, as
announced by the Nome Lighterage
and Comeroial Company were: Lady
sith $31, King Utah, $33. in the
yard.
The Alaska road commission in the
Fairbanks region is hauling lumber
to Twentyithree Mile creek for the
construction of a new bridge there
during the winter.
“Chief” and Mrs. John Newmarker
of Juneau are receiving congratula
tions- on the birth of a ten-pound
boy which arrived to gladden their
home.
Mrs. N. O. Dennis, proprietor of
the Electric Bath House at Anchor
age, was arrested and fined $100 as
the result of a raid on her place of
business where a line of moonshine
was discovered. She entered a plea
of guilty.
Some uneasiness is felt for the
safety of Louis Johnson, brother of
Blanche Cascaden. He left the Tolo
vana district for Dunbar a couple of
weeks ago and nothing has been
heard from him since and his sister
wired to Commissioner Boyd, in Fair
banks to be on the lookout for him.
In a telegram to Alfred Lomen
from Gunnar Kasson, the hero of
the Nome antioxin race last win
ter, he says that he and his dogs
are enjoying the best of health and
that they went to Virginia recently
with Billy Aucklin and friends, after
which he planned to go to Atlanta
Georgia.
Alaska reindeer meat will vie
with middle west beef as a popu
ar form of diet if plans nowr be
ng formulated by the Seattle Cham
>er of Commerce prove successful. ;
Mayor J. O. Kirkman, of Doug
as has received a telegram from ■
he Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn.,
ifating that Tom Tracy of Douglas
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is there and out of funds.
Patrick McAndrews, an oldtimer
of the Yukon died at Seattle re
cently, aged 67 years.
Mrs. J. A. McGilvray of Valdez re
ceived on the last boat a clipping
from an Oak Ridge, Wash., newspaper
telling of the sudden death of Mrs.
C. F. Ernst, a former resident of
Valdez.
William Whalen of Valdez, suffer
ed a fracture of his right wrist last
week while cranking a Ford truck,
at the wharf. The engine back-fired,
and fractured the wrist so badly that
the bones protruded from the flesh.
Eh’. Council, who was on the North
western, then in port, reduced the
fracture.
The Twelvemile ditch in the Fair
banks district is completed, and the
workmen laid off. All hydraulicking
on Cleary and Goldstream is finished,
which means more idle men.
Convinced that Alaska offers
greater opportunities than the states
for those who are willing to take a
chance and work, Gerrit Snider, for
the last several years section fore
man in the employ of the Alaska
Railroad in the Matanuska district,
has purchased the Carlson farm on
Lake Lucille, near Wasilla, and wh!
engage in fur-farming on an exten
sive scale.
John and Leo Rankin, of Valdez,
who are developing the Apollo group
of gold quartz claims on Mineral
Creek, received a few days ago as
say returns from concentrates, sent
to the Agricultural College and School
of Mines at Fairbanks. They had
been running an arastra and took
out better than $90 per ton. The
concentrates, however, yielded far
better returns than anticipated, the
assay showing them to run 165.7
ounces in gold and 92.50 ounces of
silver to the ton.
Complaint has reached the First
Jity News office that contrary to
aw searchlights are being used
dong the beaches by hunters to kill
leer. One party claims he saw half
i dozen lights in one short trip near
ietchika-n.
Commencing November 1 the Alas
ka Steamship Company will sell
round-trip ticket to Seattle, good to
reiturn up to February 28, for $1.25,
a saving of $25 over the regular
rates.
Of considerable importance and
great interest was an announcement
made in Juneau recently of the merg
er of the two big hardware stores
the Juneau Hardware Co., and C. W.
Young Co.
Miss Elsie Clark, until recently em
ployed in, the Cordova telephone ex
change, and Charles Shields, former
ly in the employ of the Alaska rail
road and a member of the Railroad
baseball team during the early sea
son, were married in Cordova last
week.
J. H. Dodson, former well known
resident of Anchorage, succumbed re
| cently at Aberdeen to an accident
and the shock of losing both his
| legs by amputation, made necessary
by the serious nature of the injury,
which was sustained while working
in a sawmill in that vioinity.
Callers at Gunvold Torgusen’s ca
bin on Pennock island discovered
the owner dead of apoplexy and the
body was brought to Ketchikan for
burial.
The Anchorage Chamber of Com
merce held the annual election of
officers last week. The following
were elected: William T. Marry, as
president; Robert S. Bragaw, jr., as
vice president and Lyle W. Larsen
as secretary-treasurer, their names
being the only ones placed in nom
ination.
A. F. Stowe, familiarly known as
“Judge,” after serving over ten years
in federal employment and seventeen
years chasing the elusive paystreak
of gold in Alaska, having failed in
his search for fortune will, by rea
son of the loss in one eye, attempt
to win a measure of fame as a writer
of fun, fiction and fact.
Mike Beegler, sourdough operator
of the Tolovana district, is a re
cent arrival in Fairbanks having
made the trip over by airplane at
the conclusion of his summer’s op
erations. He reports .a very suc
cessful season.
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To be published December 5,1925