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Mi GliATH, ALASKA. JULY G, 1922
Preparing to Open
Up New Properties
Nenana News.
O. M. Grant, one of the original dis
;-ovJerers of the rich quartz veins in the
iviuldrow Mountain region, who was in
town hist week for a load of supplies,
reiH>rts that Billy Grant, foreman for
Tom Aitken. is now on his way to the
M uldrow district with a ten-ton outfit
and about a dozen men, for the purpose
of Commencing development work on
the property recently acquired from O.
M. Grant and his partner, Frauk B.
3iifef*
The outfit will pick up all of the
rails and cars which were stored at
Eureka at the conclusion of the Aitken
v ork on the Quigley mine last year,
and these will be installed at the Mul
rlrew Mountain property. Another
.argc shipment of supplies will be sent
in, after the breakup, to the hekd o'
navigation on the Bearpaw river, from
which point it will be freighted across
country.
An option with right to purchase has
been granted to Aitken by Grant and
his partner on twenty-three quartz
claims in the Muldrow region, better
known as Copper Mountain. The lo
cated ledges there occur in the main
range of mountains, and are said to be
practically unlimited in extent. Great
things are expected, in a mining way,
to follow the development work to be
lone on the Grant & Giles properties
during the coming summer and follow
ing seasons.
Drunk, Jurors Excuse
Him Slaying Woman
Chicago.—Intoxication as an excuse
for murder and one sufficient to justify
granting the killer freedom, was given
legal recognition by a coroner’s jury
here today.
Fritz Meinhausen, who April 4 shot
and killed Mrs. Anna Peters, and also
shot his wife, was held not criminally
responsible by the jury because, quot
ing a portion of the verdict;
“We find from the evidence that the
said Frits Meinhausen held no premed
itated or malicious intent before or at
the time of the fatal shooting, which
we find was the direct result of said
Fritz Meinhausen’s intoxicated condi
tion. We, therefore, do not hold him
criminally responsible for the death of
the deceased and recommend his dis
charge from police custody.”
Police authorities expressed amaze
ment at the verdict.
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Ch,'S. E. Tayt,ou, Seattle, Wash.
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Judge Says Immorality
! Due to Fuss, Feathers
New York. — Modern jazz and youth
ful desire for ‘fuss and 'eathers” have
combined to produce a new sort of im
moral woman, youthful, sophisticated
and self-assured, as contrasted with the
old-fashioned type of professional im
moral women, according to tho oh
serrations of Judge Jean 11. Norris,
famous woman jurist of the New York
women's day court.
“The pity of it is that it is increasing
among our girls and boys,” explained
the judge.
> “The love of fine clothes and the de
sire for a ‘good time’ seem to be the
chief factors in the causing of so much
immorality, judging by the cases I try
eacn day.
“With the old type of immoral
women there was little hope of doing
much in the wav of reclamation, hut
this is net so now.
“The social workers and probation
officers of this court now find cases each
day where girls can be reclaimed
through co operation of parents, social
workers and judges.”
Alaska News Notes
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James Cody, formerly in charge of |
the Ruby and Neuamt stores of the
Northern Company, is en route to the ;
Mayo district, where lie will open a |
new store for the company.
W. EL' MePhee, well known old-;
timer, who went Outside from Fair-;
banks recently to consult with an eve;
specialist, has had a cataract removed,
and is hopeful of recovering his sight
as the result of further treatment. He
is in San Francisco.
Mrs. Josephine G. Cook Valentine, ;
wife of the former mayor of Juneau of
that name, was granted a divorce re
cently. together with alimony in the
sum of $7,f>00, to be paid in monthly in
stallments of $125. She also was award
ed title to certaiu mining claims and
real estate.
• Members of the party taken Outside
?rom Fairbanks recently by Marshal
Stevens included Henrv Butke, Bozo
Vucetich and George Kordicb, insane
prisoners, and I. J. Stere. Hell known
old-timer who suffered a stroke of par
alysis recently at Healy and who is
being taken Outside by the Federal
government
Sam Barnes, a well known old-timer,
was drowned iD the Yukon river at
Tanana a few days ago as the result of
being capsized from the small boat in
which he and Wallie Laboski, another
well known old timer, were en route
down river. Laboski also was throw ,1
into the river’s icy waters, but man
aged to escape with his life.
William Gerig, assistant chief en
gineer of the Alaska railroad, has as
sumed direct charge of all work in the
maintenance and construction depart -
ment in the territory between Seward
and CanyoD. including the Matanuska
line. F. A. Hansen, engineer main
tenance and construction, has charge
of the work north of Canyon, including
the Chatanika branch line and. the con
struction of the Tanana river bridge.
vVilliam O’Connoi, v/ell known old
timer of Alaska, died at the Kennecott
hospital at Cordova recently, of cancer
of the stomach. He came to Alaska in
1905, and resided at Fairbanks several
years. He was Labor candidate for
delegate to Congress in 1910, and after
wards was appointed U. S. commis
sioner at Chitina, where he officiated
until the first of the present year. He
was a native of Kansas, and was 71
years old at the time of his death.
The White Pass has built a dock and
warehouse at Mayo to accommodate
the traffic at that place. A total of
more than 3,000 tons of ore was at the
landing on March 15, ready for ship
ment to the Tacoma smelter by way o?
St. Michael, and hauling from the'
mines continued until the trail went to
pieces shortly before the breakup. I
Four outfits, the Yukon Gold, the
Bradley Company, the Silver King and
the Hollenback, were shipping.
J. J. Kennedy, one of the owners of
copper properties in the Rainy Hollow'
district,, and a pioneer resident of
Skagway and Haines, states that there
is $2,000,000 worth of copper ore now
reach’ for shipment in that district, but
lacs of proper transportation facilities
prevents it from being moved at this
time. He also states that he staked i
last year a number of promising gold
and silver properties in the interior
beyond the Rainy Hollow country, and
55 miles from if, and will prospect a
considerable part of that country dur
ing the coming summer.
Owing to the lack of currency aud
silver in the Mayo district, checks
written on Dawson banks serve as
m ney. according to the Dawson News.
Manv checks, months old, com© to the
Dawson banks that are so worn as to
b* almost unintelligible. Endorsements
cover them from top to bottom on the
backs, and sometimes there are en
dorsements written on the margins of
the face. It is said that what currency
they have in thru district is practically
worn out. The News tells of one $100 *
bill that had become so worn that it
was passer’ from hand to hand as a $1
bill. When it came to Dawson, the
last holder was greatly elated to dis
cover that he was $99 ahead. Many
checks are written in small denomina
tions and even sikds by the large com
panies which carry balances in Daw
son. so that t,h6 people may have a cir
culating medium.
For a Nice Lunch
or First-Class Meal
Call At
Durant’s Cafe
Flat City
W. F. Green
Notary Public
McGrath, Alaska
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Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the
Kuskokwim Valley
Napamute - Alaska
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