Alaska News Notes
Harry Taggert, a resident of Juneau,
was found on the outskirts of that city
recently, sitting in an* automobile, des
perately wounded. A 22-caliber rifle,
with which the wounds had been in
flicted, was found in tiie car. Taggert
had been shot through tiie head and
breast. The bullet inflicting the for
mer wound cut the optic nerve, and he
will be permanently and completely
blind. The bullet in Lhe breast passed
through the left lung and lodged in bis
back. Taggart maintains that he was
accidentally stmt by a man whom tie
knew by the name of i ete Nelson, but
no such person is known in .Juneau.
Frank Rohi ... . k, pioneer of DawsoD,
and bu^and ol one of theseveu Suth
erland sisters, whose hair was the mar
vel of the world, died at Dawson re
cently. Rohrback was one of the lead
i iug barbers of Dawson, operating the
Coast Shop, on Front street. His wife
and son left for the Outside a few years
ago, and survive him. For the last
several years Rohrback had operated a'
roadhouse on Sulphur creek, in the
Klondike district. He was a native of
Wisconsin, und was a resident of Chi
t cago, when. he married, and left with
his wife for the Klondike, locating in
Dawson.
Mrs. Alfred Olson, formerly Miss
Audrey Ross, graduate of the Fair
banks high school, died recently at Ab
i srdeen, Wash., as the result of a cae
sarian operation. Mrs. Olson grew
from early childhood to womanhood at
i Fa1: ‘ anks. She was married about
• one year ago at Seattle to Alfred Olson,
a former resident of Fugle, Alaska, and
they moved to Montesano, Wash. She
was 25 years of age, and is survived by
her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Dud Ross,
of Fairbanks, and her husband and
child. _
Charles H Hill, game warden for
the Cordova and Copper river district,
reports that game birds in his district
are increasing rapidly, and that goats
are more plentiful than ever known in
the history of the white man’s occu
, pancy of the country. Deer, which
were transplanted on Hawkins and
Hinchinbrook islands, are doing splen
didly,- and some of the an'tnals have
been seen on the adjoining mainland.
A fur sale recently held by the Se
attle Fur Exchange was largely attend
ed, and good prices were generally ob
tained, considering the general dec I i t e
throughout the world fur markets.
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' All Kinds of Repairs
f Stoves Built
and Repaired
Robt. E. Lowrie
Tokotna, Alaska
Beaver, marten, mink and lynx showed
a decline of about 10 per cent; red fo>~
showed a decline of about 20 percent,
and there was absolutely no demand
for muskrat. Blue foxes were in go< d
demand, with spirited bidding, the
prices ranging from $75 to $100, ac
cording to quality.
J. W. Lena ban, who has been court
stenographer at Valdez for the past
two years, has resigned, and Mrs. Delia
B. Chase has arrived there to take his
place. Mrs. Chase lived at Nome for
munv years, then went to Juneau as
secretary to George B. Grigsby. She
I remained with J. C. Murphy until she
became court stenographer at Nome
with Judge Holzheimer. She was as
sistant secretary of the senate in the
| legislatures of 1921 and 19211.
The open season on the Yukon ended
November 24, which is eight days later
than ever before in the history of the
Yukon. Navigation on the river
opened on May 10 and lasted until No
vember 23, which is two weeks longer
than any season ever lasted. The pre
vious record for a late closing of the
river was November 16, whiah hap
pened in 1922 and five years earlier.
I The Wraopslt Commercial Club has
received word that the contract For the
const,ruction of the Wrangell break
water has been let to the Sims & Carl
son Company, of Spokane and Seattle.
The.firm has until March 1 to begin
work, but it is probable they will be
gin work as soon as their bond is ap
proved.
The town of IlaiDes recently experi
enced one of the worst storms in many
years. Considerable damage was done
to property ov wind and high tides. On
Front street several houses had the
piling taken out from underneath
them, and the MasoDic Club building
suffered material damage from the
storm.
L. B. McCoy, who operates a blue
fox ranch in the vicinity of Sitka, was
i recently found guilty bv a jury at Ju •
1 neau of poaching. It was found that
1 McCoy had set several fox traps on the
| island of C E. Zimmerman aod that
two of the traps centaiued foxes when
| found by Zimmerman.
Operations will be resumed on the
Juahn mine in the spring, according to
Jean Vaonphem, managing director.
| The big tunnel, which is within 800
feet of the rich ore zone, Mill be com
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pleted. It. will serve both as a work
ing and a drainage t unnel.
Crawling into a den where a black
bear was hibernating, George Grown,
a trapper on the Matanuska river,
killed the animal, which measured 7
feet 84 inches in length. The trapper
secured eight gallons of oil from the
carcass.
The Fairbanks Land Office has issued
a coal prospecting permit to Loa Sneep
of Fort Yukon. The permit embraces
a tract of 2560 acres on the left limit of
the Yukon between Circle and Fort
Yukon. _
Juneau has been selected as the place
for holding tiie next convention of the
Southeastern Alaska blue Fox Farm
ers’ Association, and as the headquar
ters of the association during the coin
ing year. _
Mrc. John W. Troy, wife of the ed
' itor and publisher of the Juneau Em
pire, who for toe past two months has
been laid up with a badly fractured
lower limb, is still on crutches in San
Francisco: ____
William Maloney, pioneer mining
man of Nome, and who was Territorial
mine inspector under Gov.; .strong, is
now engaged in mining in .Northern
California.
Rev. Fr. Jette, Df Fairbanks, left'for
the Outside afewdajB ago to undergo
a major operation. B.e has been sick
for some time, but is now greatly im
proved, and it is expected that lie will
soon be able to return to the Territory.
Last season was the busiest one in
the history of the Juneau Lumber Com
pany. During the .season the mill cut
approximately 8,000.000 feet of Jogs,
loading two big carp.>es of lumber for
Australia, besides shipping 500,090 feet
of spruce to the United Kingdom.
Paul Hopkins, of the Bureau o'
Mines, with headquarters at Fair
banks, is authority for the statement
that the estimated f old output of the
Fairbanks district for the last season
was $900,000.
Kenneth Marr, Nome pioneer, who
| accompanied Scot tv Allen to Frau'-e
whh his Alaskan does, and who later
became an ace, is now in San Francisco,
at the Hotel Manx.
Benjamin Spinney, formerly a res- 1
1 idem of Sitka, died on November S at
the Morningside Sanitarium, to which
he had been admit ted <>n September 2c.
A wolf dog in a team belonging- to
the N D. Corn pup v at Cantwell at*
tacked its driver and bit him through
the foot,- a few days ago.
Allison Banner, a former well known
attorney at Nome, is now practicing
law at San Leaedro, Cal,
Lvnn C. Denny, who used to be in the
newspaper business in Nome, is now
living in Los Angele::.
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Flat City
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