Alaska Notes
(fathered From Territorial
Exchanges.
Fire originating from an overheated j
: stack at 4:40 -a. m., July It), totally
' destroyed the Alaska Railroad round
house and power plant at Curry. Kn
< gine No. 208, which w as in the build
ing at the time, was badly damaged.
Another engine was run out of the
'roundhouse before flames. reached it.
and a rotary snow plow, which could
: not he removed, although considerably
* damaged, is not. beyond, repair.
The power plant, which was in the i
roundhouse building, furnished light
: and water to the furry Hotel. A gas
* car was run out from Anchorage, and j
. at that. evening an emergency
i lighl and water service was available..
No estimate has been .made by the
i railroad officials as to the monetary
i loss occasioned by the fire.
These were formerly with the Alas
I ean Engineering Commission:
Frank Doner, former chief disburs
ing clerk of the Alaskan Engineering
* Commission at Anchorage, is now ac
> fountain for the Morke Hotel, in Ab
i “rdten, Wash.
E. : Verist, locating engineer- in- the ,
1 Pass district for the A. E. C., is now]
- locating logging roads for the Green- j
\ wood Lumber Company, of Aberdeen.;
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William Gerig, former chief engi
J -Her of the A. E. C., now engineer
' with the Rivers and Harbors Service,
is in charge of the dredging of Wran
2 gell Narrows.
James Truitt, also formerly -with
i tlje Commission, is Mr. Gerig’s assist
rant at the Narrows.
Experience with breeding mink in
1 pens on his fox farm at Sheep Bay
island are being made by Thomas
' Vevig. He declares that wild .mink
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Anyone desiring1 Meats can
place their order with Jack
Mutchler,'who will see that it
is brought up by small boat as
soon; as. possible.
are becoming a thing of the past in |
.he fur trade, and that quantities of
the animals can be run in a small en
closure. lie says that the animals are
very little trouble to handle and some
times become like pets. They give
their quarters a daily housecleaning,
quite unlike most animals.
Bartholomew Marehesi, of Holy
Cross, for many years a member of I
the faculty of Holy Cross Mission
school, died at St. Joseph's hospital.
Fairbanks, after a prolonged illness,
a few days ago.
Brother Mark, -as he was affection
ately called by his mission children,
was born in Italy 61 years ago. He
came t<> Alaska in lKShl, allying him-I
self with such well known men as
Fathers Judge, Barnum, Crimont am)
.lette in Catholic missionary tndeav
ors. Of the uninterrupted 33 years
Northern Alaska, Brother Mark spent
2K at Holy Cross -and. five at Nulato.
Captain Charles F. Griffith, a resi
dent of Alaska for 33 years, and
known in almost every section of the
Territory, died a few days ago at the
Government hospital in Anchorage.
Death followed an illness of several
weeks, attributed to general disa
bility.
For a number of years Captain
Griffith had i>een located in the Fair
view district, and came in from there
to receive hospital treatment, believ- ■
ing that lie would soon be aide to re
tur: to thi hills to resume his pros
pecting.
Newspaper clippings received from
the Outside, says the Dawson News,
may mean the making of a millionaire
of one of Dawson’s citizens, namely,
George K. Simmons. A rich relation,
who ha recently died, has left un es
tate of some 300,000 pounds to -one
George K. Simmons, who left home
many years ago, and whose travels
led him -to British Columbia and the
Yukon. (!forge E. Simmons, of Daw
son, who has been here for a number
of years, tits into the description per
fectly-ami, as he states that he had:
such a relation, it is thought he is the ,
lucky hoii. At any rate, all Simmons
has to do now is to confirm his rela
tionship and th.-n sign -an the dotted
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Involved in the will of his late rela
tive.
A. D. Thompson, a Nenana drug
gist, and Leo Blistine, trapper, were
recently arrested at Nenana by Game
Warden Frank Dufresne on charges of
unlawfully selling and using strych
nine. Both pleaded guilty before the
commissioner at Nenana, and fines
were imposed. The poison sold by
Thompson was contained in a bottle
bearing ordinary inscriptions, but in
side the wrapper were contained in
structions to trappers telling them
how to use the drug for poisoning for
bearing animals. Information leading
to t.h errcsts was obtained by .Du
fresne from trappers in the Kan
tishna, who said that Blistine had
bought strychnine from Thompson
and made use of it in that district.
Mr. Dufresne stated that the Kan
tishna, which was once thickly popu
lated by fur-bearing animals, is now
almost deserted, due largely to the
use of poison.
Questioned regarding the statement
of Ben Eielson, in which he is quoted
in press dispatches as saying in Se
attle that Wilkins and Lar.phier -al
most carat to blows, Captain George
II. Wilkins told a Fairbanks reporter
“Lanphier and I have not quarreled,
and I don’t believe we ever will.” He
admitted that differences came up oc
casionally as to policy. He expressed
the belief that Major I-anphier prob
ably would not participate in further
exploration because of his -army du
ties. He declared he did not care who
was in commandas long as the work
was accomplished. Supplies for the
next attempt to invade the Arctic re
gions are now en route to Point Bar
row, the Captain said, and the flight,
will be made next spring.at about the
time it was made this year. Two
Wright whirling motors have been
taken from the Detroiter and sold to
a Fairbanks aviation .company, in. ac
cordance with a plan-to remodel the
big plane, it being the intention to use
one engine on the .next Arctic flight.
That arrangement is said to be more
reliable than three motors.
While delving for precious metal on
their claim, fi below Hunker, John
Bremner and George Kerr recently
had the good fortune to find a little
treasure package of nature, in the
form of a mammoth tusk, .which net
ted the gold-seekers more in one
lump sum Hjan would a bevy of their
choicest nuggets. The miners were
at about the 50-foot level, one morn
ing, when they chanced to notice a
sharp, bony projection jutting
through the roof of their drift. Both
fortune hunters at once concentrated
upon the new discovery, with the re
sult that after a few hours’ work h
line, large mammoth tusk, weighing
some 250 pounds, was picked from the
top of the drift. The trophy is a per
fect crescent shape, and measures
about nine feet from tip to tip.
T. W. McDonald, deputy U..S. mar
shal at Hydcr, has sold .his half in-*
terest in the: Cantu group of claims to
the Premier Mining Company for
$80,0(10, retaining a 20 per cent in
terest in the output of the claims. It
is a silver-lead proposition, and he
has only held his interest in the prop
erty for about a year.
Harvey Thompson, who was a
Klondike stampeder in 1897, died at
the Pioneer Home at Sitka on June
12 at the age of 83 years, lie was
born in Ogdensburg, N. Y., and noth
mg is known of his relatives or of.his
life before he came North.
Walter M. Cooley, another inmate
of the Sitka Home, died June 14, at
the age of 66 years. He also was
born in New York State. He came
North in 1893 and located at (Circle,
on the lower Yukon, going later to
Tanana. He entered the Sitka Home
jn January of this year. Mr. Cooley
was among the first white men to
enter the Interior over the Chilkoot
Pass.
Emil Ness has been reported by'his
brother, Gus Ness, as probably hav
ing met death by drowning near Kje
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Front Street, Tokotna
j Mrs. Fred Dubois-- Prop, j
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nai while engaged in an endeavor to
. recover his boat, the Sea.. Otter, which
Kad started to drift down the river.
The missing man embarked in a!
dinkey on June 26, and has not been
seen since, and fears are felt that he
has been drowned.
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Seattle —Ed. S. Orr, former AJas-y
kan, died at his . home in Chehalis,
Wash., last Tuesday, at the age of -22. i
Ed S. Orr went to Alaska in 1898. J
and ran. a tramway.with T- B.-and
Hugh O. Wallace aver the. Chilkoot
Pass, ile opened -the first mail trail'
between Valdez., and. Fairbanks, and
left the North in 1810, on account of.
ill-health. He was.a member, .of. the j.
Masonic Lodge in Dawson.. He at one
time was. a candidate for Delegate-to
Oongress from Alaska.
Satarda yarrivalsrfrom t.heA.. R.. C.
camp included Einar Carlson, Matt
Kivie.-Tetu. Kara and-Jana s : t
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day morning and again left for Mc
Grath that noon, scheduled a return
trip here this forenoon.
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