NORTHLAND NOTES
Jack Warren has taken over the
marshal’s office at St. Michael re
cently vacated by Richard Depue.
In a letter received by a friend
in Nome from former Governor J. F.
A. Strong, he expresses a strong wish
to be remembered to his many
friends in Nome and the Seward
Peninsula. Mr. Strong is a pioneer
journalist of Alaska, and was the
founder of the Nome Nugget and
editor of the Skagway Daily Alas
kan when “Soapy” Smith and his
gang of desperadoes were having a
grand time tiaking the pokes away
from the miners as they came from
Dam-son. The Governor’s trenchant
and verile pen never failed to reg
ister the mark and in one instance
his house was guarded day and night
while he was protesting a wrong and
trying to defend the righteous cause.
When the letter was written, Mr.
Strong was in Seattle, but stated he
w^s on his way to Los Angeles.
Interior residents of Yukon ter
ritory are fortifying themselves
against the possibility of a long
“dry spell” during the period of
closed navigation on its waterways
if the freight lists of the Canadian
steamers mean anything. Recently
several of the ships have carried
large consignments of liquor to the
port of Skagway, destined to the In
terior.
The Department of Alaska has
just received a membership Honor
Plate presented to it by National
Headquarters, The American Legion,
for having gone “over the top” in
the number of members enrolled
this year compared with 1924. The
plate is of silver and has inscribed
upon it “Membership Hono rPlate,
Department of Alaska, 1925, 101.69
per cent.”
An Alaskan story contest was an
nounced by the Pathfinder of the
other day, a $250 Grebe radio receiv
ing set complete, being designated
as first prize, with other prizes to
be announced later. Judges have not
been selected.
B. B. Mozee, in charge of the Bu
reau of Education’s activities in
this district, received word this week
of the death of Ethel Luke, eleven
year-old native girl, who has been
attending the native industrial school
at Eklutna.
Mrs. Leota B. Coats, who has been
employed as clerk in the office of
Prohibition Director A. G. Means for
the past two years, left Juneau re
cently for Seattle to join her hus
band, J. M. Coates, who left for the
states several weeks ago. No suc
cessor will be appointed to take Mrs.
Coates’ position until after E. O.
Birgfeld, who succeeds Mr. Means
has taken over his office.
The soldier aggregation walked
away, by a large margin, with the
second game of the Anchorage bas
ketball season, which was played at
the school gymnasium last Saturday.
The score was 25 to 14.
Harry J. Raymond, pioneer Juneau
ite and for many years engaged in
business in that city, has purchased
the Warm Springs Bay ((Baranoff
postoffice) property fom Doty and
Linton, and will conduct the same as
a health and pleasue resort.
Although the recent cold weather
has caused the dredgess on the sur
rounding creeks to Fairbanks to shut
down for the winter and the Fair
banks Exploration company has fin
ished most of its outdoor worrk for
this season, mining operations are
by no means at a standstill. James
'Stewart is preparing to move a quan
tity of heavy machinery from Cleary
to Chatanika to the lower end of
Fairbanks creek wTiere it will be
used by “Wise Mike” Stepovich for
both winter and summer work. The
machinery will be moved by means
of Mr. Stewart’s caterpillar tractor.
The U. S. Bureau of Education
school of Teller, began Thursday, Oc
tober 1st writh an enrollment of 24 pu
pils. By the end ef the month they
expect to have an attendance of more
than 30. All the native families wit
then have returned to their winter
homes.
The natives of the Teller commu
nity report that the Summer has
been an unusually poor fishing sea
son. But berries have been in abun
dance. This Fall a number of seals
have been caught. One native was
fortunate enough to get a white
whale. It was caught in a seal net
in the channel between Grantley
harbor and Port Clarence ,bay.
U. S. Government school at St.
Michael was opened on Sept. 12 and
14 children making up the attend
ance. The attendance for the first
month was perfect. Three more chil
dren came back from their summer
camp, so now there are 17 in school.
The Territorial school at St. Mi
chael was opened on September 8,
Marion Olsen is the teacher again
this year. Supt. Henderson visited
both schools at St. Michael w'hen
on his tip north recently and was
much pleased with the work being
done.
Billy Wilson, one of the early day
residents of Cordova and Valdez, who
some years ago went to Oregon and
invested in land and sheep, is get
ting his picture in the papers fre
quently. A late issue of the Bend,
(Oregon) Bulletin shows his smiling
countenance among the directors of
the Des Chutes County Fair Associa
tion.
It is reported that John Sweeney,
guard at the State penitentiary at
Salem, Oregon, who was killed in
rhe jail break at that place several
weeks ago, was a former resident
of Valdez.
All of the officers of the Healy
River Coal Corporation were re
elected at the annual meeting of the
stockholders of the corporation,
which was held at Fairbanks last
week.
Inquiries have come to the gov
ernor’s office for information in re
gard to the supposed downing in
1915 of Melvin Dempsey, in the Gul
kana River. Any information in re
gard to him should be sent to the
Governor’s office, Juneau, Alaska.
Privates James P. Rutherford and
S. Rout together with R. Brown,
who is not a soldier, hut holds a
position as tailor for the army post,
! plead guilty to, a charge of assault
on A1 Parmenter, before U. S. Com
missioner W. H. Rager, Tuesday.
They -were each sentenced to four
months in jail.
Community building bonds of the
American Legion, of Ketchikan, is
sued a year ago will be called in and
paid in full with interest at six per
cent on Jan. 1, 1926. This was de
cided at the regular meeting of the
Ketchikan post recently says the
Chronicle.
Ole A. Orvik, engineer of the hali
but schooler Kodiak, died of an un
known cause while sleeping In his
'bunk aboard the Kodiak. He is not
survived by any relatives in this
country, but has a family in Norway.
F. E. Butler, born at Spiceland,
Indiana, June 25, 1853, died at the
Sitka Home Oct. 25. When a young
man he settled in Colorado where
he was admitted to the bur and prac
ticed law for several years. He
came to Alaska in 1903 and made
his home at Ketchikan until admit
ted to the Home 18 months ago. A
brother resides at Kingston, Wn.
Edward W. Gideon, for the past
15 years proprietor of the Caribou
Hotel at Garcross, Yukon, died on
the 28th of October. He had been in
poor health for some time, the re
sult of a partial stroke of paralysis
several years ago.
To endeavor to collect $1,900 in
tax alleged to be due the City of Ju
neau by the independent steamship
Oregon is the problem which is still
facing the city council.
The coast guard cutter Unalga
left Juneau for Seattle last -week
where she will undergo annual re
pairs, returning to Juneau in Jan
uary.
The Green Butte Mine will close its
operations for the winter about Wed
nesday of next week, or a -week ear
lier than had been expected. The
Gaskill Bros, wil leave for outside
immediately after closing down.
After three years on station at
Ketchikan, the Coast Guard ship
'Smith has been transferred to Cali
fornia waters and left Ketchikan last
week for San Francisco to take up
its new assignment. This leaves the
Unalga as the only coast Guard
cutter assigned to permanent duty
in Alaskan waters, and she left for
the south recently for general over
hauling.
Preliminary reports from packers
in the First division indicate a total
pack for Southeastern Alaska of 2,
676,693 cases of salmon packed dur
ing the season of 1925 according to
Dennis Wrinn, Alaska agent for the
Bureau of Fisheries. This total is
111,096 cases less than the 1924
pack.
Tomcod fish are being caught by
the thousands at^-Nome. Nets are
hauling them out on the Snake
river by the tons, this being a rec
ord year for them.
SAGHALIEN ISLAND SOURCE
ALL JAPANESE COAL NEEDS
TOKIO, Nov. 20. (£>)—'The north
ern part of the Island Saghalien
could supply all the coal needed by
the factories of Japan if mining was
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"The coal deposits are great and
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Coal Sampler of Railroad
Business Visitor Seward
Bert Wennerstrom, former head of
<the employment department of The
Alaska Railroad, but who was re
cently promoted to the position of
coal sampler, arrived in town last
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•Mrs. Jessie Murphy, following a
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