Alaska News Notes
The Standard Oil Company is build
inti three storage tanks at Sitka.
One hundred tons of Hoalv river coal
was recently shipped to Ketchikan,
where it is retailed at $13 per ton.
Mining activities at Hope this year
are quite pronounced, many claims,
both placer and quartz, being worked.
The city officials of Nome have start
ed a crusade against gambling, and
several citizens have been gathered
into the net.
Three of the numbers of the Ketchi
kan teaching staff who were re-elected
for next year have resigned, including
John E. Johnson, superintendent.
Harry I. Staser has been officially
named deputy marshal for Anchorage,
to succeed Clarence Mossman, who lias
been deputy at Anchorage since that
town started.
The month of April saw sixty lambs
born to the Hock of Joseph Joliceux on
his ranch on the Klondike river, near
Dawson. This is the first flock of sheep
ever wintered in the Yukon Territory.
A group of Los Amgeles capitalists
have taken an option on a lode prop
erty located on Haranof island, near
Petersburg, owned by Captain I. M.
Hofstad and sons. The lode carries a
large mineral content of nickel.
Tallack Tallason, a resident of Sew
ard for the past ten years, died in that
city a few days ago from injuries re
ceived while at work in the engine
room of the San Juan Fishing & Pack
ing Company’s cold storage plant.
J. W. McCord, prominent in oil de
velopment and other Alaska activities,
plans to go into fox farming on a large
scale. He will stock an island with teo
pairs of blue foxes, to be followed later
with-an order for twenty pairs more.
The river ice moved in front of Ne
nana at 2 p. in. May 9. The annual
ice pool of $10,000 was won by seven
persons, mostlv railroad workers, i he
winners were Axel W. Carlson, R. VV.
Bigney, Ferrell & Co., Mrs. McPhail,
Carlo Ziachero.
After lingering several days at the
Nenana hospital. Scotty McKay, a pio
neer of Tunana, died a few days ago.
He had been operated on for kidney
trouble, and three stones, one the size
of a doorknob, were removed, as well
as all but the shell of the kidney.
Dr. C. C. Georgeson, head of the gov
ernment. experimental farms in Alaska,
haS telegraphed to Washington, D. G.,
Tokotna
First Class in Every
Respect
Private rooms, with spring beds.
Good Meals Served
for $1.00
Bath room, with sanitary toilet.
Pure well water.
Good, elean dog house.
to be allowed to shoot toe deer which
almost nightly invade the strawberry
patches on the experimental farm on
the outskirts of Sitka, lie applied
once before for permission to shoot the
deer, but it was refused. The presence
of a dog fails to keep the d : from the
pdants.
Elmer E. Heed has been appointed
chief deputy marshal by U. S. Marshal
George I). Beaumont, of the Third ju
dicial division.
Col. Joseph W. Boyle, early dav
Klondiker, world adventurer, aviator
and mining engineer, died suddenly of
heart failure in London on April IT.
The Dawson News states that the
Yukon Territory passed into the April
wheat planting column with the sow
ing of wheat at the Dominion experi
mental farm, seven miles outside the
city.
The silver grey fox farm at Palmer
owned by Jones and Campbell has eight
or ten pairs of foxes which have com
menced to breed. The partners last
winter sent to the States two silver
grev pelts for which they refused ST.'O.
The Juneau city council has decided
to follow the custom of more progres
sive cities anti allow taxes to be paid in
two installments. Taxes will be due '
in December and July, and parties pry
ing 50 per cent of their taxes will be j
given'six months to pay the balance. j
Delegate Dan Sutherland left Seward ’
recently on the steamship Starr, bound |
for Nushagak. The Delegate will, ]
while on his trip, secure data concern
ing the opei ations of the fishing plants
with which to substantiate his asset'-1
tions regarding the conducting of those
concerns.
M. D. Snodgrass, of the Fourth divi
sion. has been appointed assistant io
charge of co-operative work among the
farmers of Alaska, testing different va
rieties of grains and other crops under !
conditions found on the Ian u ’•
seeds grown and proven at the Fair
banks station.
It requind the jury only five minutes
to decide that Ernest Bryson was not
guilty of the murder of Robert H. j
Ferry at Haines in November last. t
Bryson’s testimony, corroborated by
that of his wife, showed that he found \
Ferry at his home trying to persuade i
the woman to take a trip to Juneau
with him.
Walter Fredericksnn, an old trapper
who resides near Rocky Pass, South
eastern Alaska, recently started out to
run his traps, and became lost, turning
up four days later at Campbell’s fox
ranch on Castle island. He was take
by Igasboat back ^to bis can p. Fred
erickson is supposed to be one of the
best trail blazers of the section, but
lias hauled in his shingle since his re
cent experience.
The now chief of police at Anchor
age has jumped the city into a $10,000
damage suit, filed by J. C. Murphy, as
attorney for Frank McGibney and Mrs.
McGibney, plaintiffs in the case. Kav
anaugh raided the McGibney lodging
house recently, it is claimed, without a
search warrant, and during the melee
which ensued Mrs. McGibney and her
husband received personal injuries.
The case will be tried at the next term
of court,
United States Deputy Marshal War
ren Taylor, of Cordova, was removed
from office a few days ago by Marshal
H. P. Sullivan, and Deputy Marshal A.
C. Dowling took over tne office until
Marshal Sullivan could select a person
suitable for the job. Taylor was ar
rested, together with Harry Nettleton
and George Stewart, former lederal
; and city officials, and taken before U.
j S. Commissioner Adams on a charge of
[conspiracy and accepting bribes. After
j hearing the evidence the commissioner
bound the three defendant- over to.
await the action of the gra ri : /, h M
being fixed at $1,000 each ; " Try ■
and Stewart, and $ 1,50b for ' " o.
The Bureau of Ed-.icatior’s new ve—
sel. the Boxer, now malting a •
Bering waters, attend in ., f of
schools in that section, ha . a e ■ v -
age space for 100 ton-; o'.
reindeer carcasses. The boat on i. .
last trip Outside this ic.:
a load of meat for Ms1--into herders.
The venture is com ued . , , > ; c
natives.
Chief Titus and his thr ’ children
were burned to death a* ■- * Tnd an
village recently, whhe they <v
ing in their cabin. The wife of the
chief was at work ir> a nearbv cabii.
and attempted to n , ; u
n\‘»s. but owing to the headway of the
,1 was unable to do anything. As a
dire:' , ! of the fire three white
men, Fred Clinton, John Plaudit and
.!oh , were arrested, it heing
alleged that the ch of had been acting
ir o on? and had overindulged in
imulants. which prevented him from
at the t me of the fire. An
■h '.Vj gall ,,.s of mash and 15
; , ’ • was discovered in the
men’s possession.
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£ undi ■ id ilidays—9:45 a. m. and
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