OF fiFMFOIL
Court officials at Fairbanks are
getting ready to leave in a few
days for the lower river, to hold
court sessions at Ruby and Iditarod.
After court convenes at Ruby early
ne,xt month, juries will be drawn
and then an adjournment will be
taken until the party gets back from
Iditarod. Judge Bunnell said that
there was considerable business on
the Ruby calendar, including the
Old Tobie case., which would con
sume considerable time. The party
will consist of Judge Bunnell, Ed
Wolcott, the court reporter, J. E.
Clark, clerk of court, and one1
stenographer. District Attorney
Roth, and his secretary and one
asssitant will also make the trip.
Everywhere throughout Alaska
where copper is to be found there
is talk of trying to operate mines
and get them to the shipping point.
While it is realized at Cordova that
a smelter on the shores of Orca bay
cannot much longer be delayed, and
particularly as soon as the Bering
River coal fields are open, other
localities are evidently also figur
ing on a smelter. This fact is
brought to mind by an article in the
Fairbanks Times, expressing the
views of a former resident of this
division. It says:
“Judge Bunnell, in speaking of
copper, said he expected to see
Prince William Sound country and
the other copper centers booming
for the next few' years, owing to the
European conflict. The demand for
copper is greater now than it has
been at any time since war w'as de
clared last summer, and it seems to
be increasing daily.
“Judge Bunnell thinks that the
demand for smelters on Prince Wil
liam Sound will be so great in the
next few years, that it w'ill be abso
lutely necessary to extend the gov
ernment railroad, or some railroad,
from the coal field to Valdez or
some nearby point, in order that
coal may be had at a reasonable
figure for the smelters, which must
inevitably be built.
“At many places on Prince William
Sound, there are copper properties
that can be worked at a good profit
while the prices are soaring, and
Judge Bunnell thinks that they will
be worked.
“Even if the war should end now,
the demand for coper for the nex:
few years, will be so great that the
industry in Alaska will be a winner.
“Immediately after the. war broke
out, the bottom fell out of the
copper market and those interested
in copper property were much dis
couraged, but conditions have
altered to such an extent now that
those who held on are seeing the
Prince William Sound country
jubilant over the outlook for
profits.’’
Oiticials and employes ot tne
Alaska Engineering Commission are
beginning to arrive at Seward, to
lend encouragement to the belief
that active construction work from
that town is to commence in the near
future. Thomas M. Ward, assistant
engineer, accompanied by his wife
and mother-in-law, were arrivals
last week. It is believed that he is
* to have charge of the work of re
building from Seward to Mile 45
this season. He is said to be an
engineer of considerable prominence
and was w’ith Chairman Edes on
the Southern Pacific, and was con
struction engineer of one of the divi
sions on the Virginian railroad.
Another member of the government
force who has just arrived is Oliver
G. Tubby, chief draughtsman, who
has come with his bride from the
Panama Canal where he was one of
the construction engineers.
Arrivals on the Northwestern
were Leslie Cramer, paymaster for
the government, and B. Barndollar,
auditor of all disbursements in the
work of construction. Both men will
make their headquarters in Seward
t We have received from Delegate
Wickersham a type printed list giv
ing the history of 134 newspapers
that have been in existence in Alaska
at various times since the Alaska
Bulletin was established at Sitka in
1875. In an accompanying letter
the Delegate sets forth his object as
follows:
‘ For some years I have been
engaged in gathering a list of all
books, newspapers and periodicals
either published in or about Alaska.
As a part of the general scheme of
Afaskan bibliography a preliminary
check list of newspapers and period
icals has been prepared, a copy of
which is sent to you. I know of
your interest in such publications
and this copy is sent to you in the
hope that you will aid me In mak
ing it more complete and entirely
accurate. Please look it over care
fully and make notations of all
facts and data you have that will
enable me to make the final copy to
include a full history of all such
publications in or about Alaska.
"It is my purpose to secure the
titles of all books about Alaska and
of all newspapers and peridlcals
and to prepare a full bibliography of
Alaskan literature for publication,
and also to purchase the books and
to obtain at least samples of every
newspaper and magazine, and finally
to deposit this completed special
Alaskan library in a> public library
in Alaska. Will you not kindly as
sist me in thus laying the foundation
of a great library in Alaska?”
According to a report recently
received in Seattle, Orin Ranke, well
know in Nome and an old resident
of Seattle, together with a band of
Eskimos, lost their lives in the
Arctic Ocean early last winter in the
wreck of the gasoline schooner New
Jersey. Among those lost were
four Eskimos who we.re with the
Stefansson expenditicn, and who
were largely responsible for keeping
alive the eleven survivors who were
found on Wrangell Island. They
were on their way back to Point
Hope on the wrecked vessel.
Claude Kittuktivik, another native
who led Capt. Robert Bartlett, com
mander of the wrecked Karluk, in
his perilous drive across the Arctic
waters to the shores of Siberia,
found part of the wreckage of the
New Jersey at Cape. Thompson, near
Point Hope.
The New Jersey was built at Bal
lard for the Methodist Mission at.
Sinuk. about 30 miles west of Nome.
Tt was manned by an Eskimo crew,
it left Sinuk last fall for Point Hope
and was not afterwards reported.
Ranke was a passenger.
The news of the disaster was re
ported to W. T. Lopp, superintend
ent of the Bureau of Education in
Alaska, in a letter in which Lopp is
asked to take, up with the state de
partment the matter of payment of
money due the natives by tlie
Stefansson expedition, which, it is
said, has not been paid by the
Canadian government.
President H. F. Alexander of the.
Pacific Alaska Steamship Company,
has decided that one of the best
methods of advertising is to instil,
the idea of "courtesy” into the
minds of all his employees. To that
end he has had large and attractive
cards printed and posted in all the
offices of the company and on all the
steamers. Red ink is used to add to
the placard's attractiveness. The
salient points are set forth in seven
short paragraphs. Reading down
the first letters in each paragraph
spell “courtesy.” These letters are
in red. The placard sets forth that
the Admiral Line believes in cour
tesy and the golden rule. The, offi
cers and employes are reminded
that a steamship company is a semi
public institution and that courtesy
is catching. The placard closes with
Emerson’s statement that “Life is
not so short, but there is always
time for courtesy.”
As a means of fostering the
Oriental trade the piers at Seattle
only exacted a wharfage rate of 25
cents per ton, while the Alaskan
rate has always bean 50 cents. This
discrepancy has been much discussed
and the other day the Orient was
graduated into the 50 cent class and
shippers are now required to pay
hat sum for wharfage.
Mrs. Thora Munson has sold the
Munson roadhouse on the Fair
banks-Chitina trail to Charles Ber
trand and George Hillar, two old
timers of the North, who took pos
session on Mar 15. It is announced
that the price paid is $7,500. The
old Munson roadhouse was ruined
by the flood of last year, but was
rebuilt along more modern lines
Since the death of her husband in
1913, Mrs. Munson has managed the
establishment with the aid of hired
help.
Delegate Wickersham is reported
to have purchased the pair of
locked moose horns that were
turned over to the Red Cross fund
at Fairbanks. The horns are a
novelty inasmuch as it is evident
that the two moose to whom they
belonged died while fighting, as
their horns are locked in such a
manner that It is impossible to get
them apart wtihout breaking them.
Two first-class hunting dogs. In
quire Daily Alaskan office.
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KETCHIKAN, May 29.—Soon the
lighthouse tender Kukui, which re.
cently came here from Hawaiian
waters, will start on the annua; pil
grimage to the westward. She will
take the place of the columbine,
which has been sent to Hkwail. The
Kukui will make Ketchikan her
headquarters. She is a compara
tively new vessel, having been built
and launched in 1908. She is of
steel construction, 177 feet long,
with commodious living quarters
for her officers and crew. Capt.
William E. Gregory, who has com
manded the Columbine for years in
the north, transferred to the Kukui
■vlth all his officers and men in San
Francisco harbor April 21. They
will continue in the northern ser
vice. The former officers and crew
of the Kukui transferred at the
same time to the Columbine.
Captain Gregory is one of the
->st known veterans in the light
house service. No navigator has a
more intimate and thorough knowl
edge of the entire Alaska coast. He
was the first master of the light
house tender Heather, now stationed
on Puget Sound, which was built at
the old Moran plant many years ago.
With Captain Gregory on the Kukui
are W. H. Stanford as first officer,
'. H. Barton as second officers,
Harry Thomas as chief engineer, L.
’’rite-hard as first assistant engineer
and Robe.rt Maguire as second assist
ant engineer. All are well known in
the north.
uu-will have a vessel to
assist her this season. The light
house tender Fern, new unde.r con
-truetj-n in the Fa'l yards in Eagle
Harbor, on Puget Sound, has beer,
assigned to the Northern district to
help out the larger tender. The.
Fern wtn attend to the smaller lights
along the Alaska coast.
SEATTLE, May 27.—All tho
steamship companies operating to
Alaska from this port anticipate a
much larger tourist business this
season than ever before. This is
attributed to the unusual number
that will come to the coast instead
of going to Europe, as heretofore.
Then the expositions in California
will attract many thousands of sight
seers and attendants at conventions
Manager Ringwood of the Pacific
Alaska Navigation Company recently
returned from a trip south and is
quoted as saying: '
“The big tourist movement from
the East and Middle West states to
the exposition in San Francisco will
begin the middle of June. The
tourist traffic so far has been light,
bearing out the well established fact
liat the great bulk of residents of
che. East and Middle West cannot bo
prevailed on to begin their summer
pleasure trips earlier than June.
The East is a month behind the
Pacific Coast in the return of sum
mer and they naturally wait until
they know from their own experi
ence that the warm weather is at
hand. The railroads in San Fran
cisco estimate that fully half of tho
tourist movement to the Panama
Pacific Exposition will return home
by way of Seattle, which means
that this port is going to reap its
share of the benefits from the traffic.
By far the larger number of the
tourists>will stop off here to take in
the Sound, and inquiries show that
great numbers will go to Alaska.”
Nine hundred and sixty-two con
ventions of national and sectional
character will be held in the leading i
Pacific Coast cities during this sum
mer. The national conventions
alone will bring l,25O,O0J delegates
and their families to the Pacific I
Coast and the travel these big gath-!
erings will induce will attract an
even larger number of additional
tourists. Figures compiled show
the number of conventions in the
leading coast cities to be: San Fran
cisco, 822; Los Angeles, 56; San
Diego, 25; Portland, 19; Seattle, 40.
These figures include state and sec
tion conventions, as well as national
gatherings. However, 80 per cent
of the San Francisco conventions
will be meetings, held by national
organizpffi ns. Eighteen of the forty
Seattle meetings are. of the same
character.
DBS MOINES, la., May 27.—A. L.
Urick, state labor commissioner, an
nounces that he will co-operate with
seven other states in supplying har
vest hands to farmers, as soon as the.
free employment bureau is in opera
tion July 4. It was authorized by
the 36th general assembly which re
cently adjourned. A plan has been
adopted by which the harvest hands
will commence work in the fields of
Oklahoma in the middle of June,
then proceed to Kansas and
Nebraska, then Iowa and the
Dakotas and Minnesota and finish
the season in Canada. It is pro
posed to have the employment
bureaus of eight midwestem states
take'charge of these men and pass
them on from state to state.
BERKELEY, Cal.—Betterment ofi
cereal foods was sought after today1
by the interstate. Conference on In- j
vestigations of Cereals, in session at
the University of California. Experts
from all over the country gave their
opinions.
CINCINNATI, O.—The Interna
tional Association of Chiefs of,
Police which closed a four day con- j
ventlon here watched Cincinnati's |
best parade in an inspection drill. !
DENVER, Colo—Two prizes, each j
a round trip ticket to the Panama!
Pacific Exposition at San Francisco, j
were the drawing cards that brought
out a big field at the annual Moun
tain Marathon, held under the aus
pices of a local newspaper. The dis-1
tance was ten miles shorter than the j
regulation marathon on account of!
the high altitude.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP COMPANY
Past and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez, Seward,
and SHIP CREEK, via IHSIEE PASSAGE.
Sails from Seattlo— Sails from Cordova—
May 24. .MARIPOSA.June 4
May 30.ALAMEDA.June 10
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadtvell, Douglnz, Cordova. Eliamar, Valdez and Eatouche. Explosives,
S. S. Soward. S. S. reward, 5th; S. S. Eatouchs, 15th; S. S. Cordova,
25tn of each month.
This company reserves the right to change sohed .la of etoamers *
without notice.
Tickets on sale at up-town office Alaska Steamship ridg. Baggage
or freight will not he received at dock later than one hour before
sailing time.
F. B. TRACY, T. J. TALLENT,
General Agent._ Ticket Agent.
Your Groceries are the most important part of your
monthly household expenses.
It is to your interest to buy only the best.
r
A visit to our store will convince you that you are getting
the best in the market when buying from us.
OUR PRICES ARE ALWAYS RIGHT
A complete assortment of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
on every boat.
Meadow Brook Eutter has no equal. Petaluma and White Rock Eggs
Cordova Co-Operative Trading £o.
Phone 21
^ C. P. Mickelson, President.
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^ E. E. Ray, Vice President.
^ V/. J. McDonald, Secretary.
<(> John Strigsvie, Treasurer.
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V. G. Vance, £
Edward Walsh, ^
J. E. Currier, ^
Joseph Rowan /y
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