LOCAL NEWS NOTES
Frank Bohert, an old-time Treadwell
employee, died at Colainga, Calif. His
brother James is in the 14th Inf. at Camp
Dodge, Iowa.
Married, at Douglas, John H. Guerin
and Mrs. Beatrice Nevil, of Treadwell.
Mr. Guerin was formerly with the elec
trical department; now with the Juneau
Light & Power Co.
Supt. L. H. Metzgar and family, who
have been living in the “Crows’ Nest,”
have movod down into the Wayland house.
Mrs. Wayland, accompanied by her chil
dren and her mother, left for Chehalie,
Wash.
Merl F. Thomas, who left here a couple
of years ago to go into business with his
father at Kansas City, Mo.. i3 back ir
Alaska again and is located at Ketchikan,
working for the J. It. Heckman Mercantile
Company.
Jack Wilson will break into the theat
rical game here and will take charge of
the Lyric theatre when it reopens after
the quarantine. He wll keep the contract
to furnish amusement for the Treadwell
employees that hes heretofore been held
by the Lyric.
Mies Kthei Heacock has been promoted
to be head clerk in the dry goods depar >
ment of the Treadwell store, taking the
place of A. Sutherland, who is now man
ager of the tsore. Miss Virginia Laughlin
has taken the position made vacant by the
promotion of Miss Heacock.
Miss Nora A. Museth, for the past four
and a half years assistant in the Douglas
postoffice, left on the steamer Jefferson
to take a position as assistant postmaster
in the Ketchikan office. While in Ketchi
kan. Mi3s Museth will make her home with
her sister, Mrs. Jack Davies.
Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Veasie left on the
Jefferson. They are going to Alger, Wash.,
where they will make their future home.
Mr. ai d Mrs. Veasie have been residents
of Treadwell for about twenty years. Mr.
Veasie has been in charge of the machine
shop stock rooms ever since his arrival
here.
The Aleska-Juneau will issue $3,600,
000 bonds for mill reconstruction, for
payment of debts and for working capital.
This is a statement made to the Examiner
by Mr. F. W. Bradley, president of the
company, on his return to San Francisco
from Alaska, where he has been supervis
ing affairs at the mine and mill in person
for nearly three months. The bonds will
be a straight first-mortgage issue and will
be offered to the stockholders. They will
contain no convertible features, as Mr.
Bradley is strongly opposed to diluting
the stock in any form. Interest rate will
be sufficiently attractive to cause a full
subscription to the new bonds. About
half a million dollars will be spent on
mill reconstruction, to reduce milling cost.
The Alaska-Juncau would even now be
on a paying basis if milling costs were on
a par with those which obtain at the
Alaska-Gastineau mill and at Treadwell.
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Died
Charles Preston, electrical superintend
ent for Alaska-Juneau and Treadwell
Companies, was practically electrocuted on
Thanksgiving Day, while inspecting some
new connections on the high-power line
(23,000 volts). Although a helper was
nearby, no one witnessed the accident as
it occurred. It is surmised that Preston,
in passing under the lines near the switch
board, must have raised himself too soon,
coming in contact with the wires, receiv
ing burns on his neck; also left leg above
the ankle, which was so badly burned
that, had he lived, an amputation would
have been necessary. No hopes were held
out for him from the first, and he died
38 hours later at the St. Ann hospital in
Juneau.
About two and a half years ago Mr.
Preston was married to Miss Carrie An
derson, who, with a young son, survives
him.
Forty miners are reported to have struck
at the Victor mine, near Tonopah, until
three of their fellow workers, who had
refused to buy Liberty bonds, saw the
error of their ways. We never heard of
a strike being used to better purpose nor
do we recall a better proof of the solid
arity of Labor in support of the National
purpose.
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San Francisco lost more lives in the
epidemic of influenza than in the earth
quake and fire of 1906. The death list
is given as 1,606; the total loss due to
earthquake and fire in San Francisco and
the neighboring communities was about
one thousand.
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Not Scotch
“1 think It decidedly unfair.”
“What?”
“My boy writes that the cooties give
him no rest at all. It seems to me those
Scotch bagpipers ought to be made to
stop playing when the boys want to sleep."