Alaska News Notes
T* Burns, dishwasher at the Boodle
Deg restaurant in Anchorage, went
home one night recently to find two
. nnknown visitors in his hotpe awaiting
his arrival. Bonds to the amount of
♦3,200 and $240 in cash were what the
visitors were after, but Burns was loth
to part with his life savings and put up
a Stiff fight. During the melee Burns
v was-badly beaten up, sustaining a frac
tured skull. The visitors succeeded in
'• tearing1 off Burns’--vest, in the inside
pocket of which was the treasure, but
•thearrival of a neighbor to investigate
the noise put the bandits to flight, and
they dropped their booty. Burns was
taken to the government hospital,
■ where he remained unconscious for two
days, o!«, in oov; on the road to recov
ery. _
The Daly-Alaska Mines Company is
arranging to .begin work on a 500-foot
■ tuooel on its property at Eleven Mile,
in the Hyder district. The agreement
with the original owners by the Kahn
people, of Victoria, calls for this work
by a stated time. The suit brought by
' Charles Caldwell, under his original
option to purchase this property, will
* come up for hearing at the January
" terni of court at Ketchikan. James M.
Shoup is attorney for Caldwell, James
Wickersbam for the original owners,
and Knipple, McGrew Sc- Davis, and
Maurice D. Leehey, of Seattle, for the
c Pady-Aiaska Mines Company.
v AJiiindberg, who has been operating
1 • t»ne-of the caterpillars at -Kanatak for
the Standard Oil iCorapany, and who
recently left for the States, says that
the'company-is now down 900 feet and
n in very hard formation. The company
js now using lofinch casing, which
will be reduced to 12 inches within a
•hork'-time. Mr. Lindberg stated that
' there were forty-one persons in Kana
tak when he left and that.they were
marking time until a resumption of
work next spring. While times are
dull.- the residents are not discouraged
•fto&are looking for a big camp when
f Sh« fields come in.
Layton E..Schell, an amateur wire
less operator at Anchorage, has suc
> seeded in picking up wireless mes
sages from ■ the Donald MacMillan ex
pedition. which is aboard the schooner
Bowdoin, 100 miles from the North
* Pole. _
t Elizabeth Grant, ,niece of Kobert
« Henderson, discoverer of gold in the
•Klondike, won the beauty contest at
Dawson iu a whirl wind finish. She re
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ceived a necklace and was crowned
Queen of the Yukon ab the aonual ball
of the Pioneers, on Dec 7. All of the
contestants were born in Yukon, and
the Dawson News says the Klondike
will back them against the world.
Jerry Callaghan, actor and tonsoria!
artist, pioneer of Dawson, Nome and
Anchorage, at which latter place he
has been running a barber shop for
several years past, left for the States
recently, en rouie to Hollywood. Cal.
He will lay aside the razor and will re
sume a position on the speaking stage,
taking a part especially written for
him by hia daughter, Mrs. Carter De
Haven, a well known actress, now re
tired and living in Hollywood- A,son,
Carter DeHavon, and his wife are
promioent in the Glm world
Hound on a reconnaissance trip for
the Alaska Road Commission, which
will take him over to the. Arctic slope,
Joseph Ulmer left Fairbanks a few
days ago with a dog team tyy way of
Alatna. He will travel up that stream
thirty miles and then cross over to the
Kobuk and follow it down to its moutb.
The trip is being made with a view to
determining conditions in that resrioh
with the object of future road building,
W aide mar • Kngbergt *»old-titner in
Alaska, and well known in Juneau,
Valdez, Seward and Anchorage, who
went Hast recently, has disposed of bis
patent, which he calls a “kliuch
klutch, * to the Bude Company, of> Chi
cago, the largest manufacturers of rail
road equipment in the country. The
instrument is used in heavy construc
tion work.
Permits to drill for oil on 2660 acres
of land, each near the Willovr 'Creek
district on the Alaska, railroad, have
been received at the Anchorage land
office for Robert C. Hurley and Weldon
L. Durham, of Anchorage. A permit
to drill for oil on 2560 acres of land in
the Cold Bay district was also received
for Charles Dickinson, of Kelso, Wash,
The trial of William Lott, a negro
barber of Juneau, on the charge of first
degree murder for the shooting of
William F. -Prentice, former reputed
“king of Alaska bootleggers.” was
recently placed on the calendar by
Judge Reed. Self-defense is expected
to be ad vanced by the attorney for the
accused as the cause of the shooting.
SI. C. Uoan, Ketchikan manager of
the New England Fish Company, and
Engineer Davis, of the same company,
were recent arrivals in Seward, and
had a conference with the officials oi
the Chamber of Commerce and prop
erty owners looking toward the estab
lishmentof a large haliout cold storage
and packing plant at that place.
Deputy Marshal Harry Gtaser, of An
chorage. who recently offered a reward
of $5 to any child of school age in that
city who reported the existence of a
moonshine still, has withdrawn his
offer, at the instance of the ‘Women’s
Auxiliary of the American Legion.
Aochorage has a curfew erdinanhe
which prohibits children under 16
years of age from being on the streets
after V o’clock at sight unless accorn
panied by their parents. The ordi- ]
nance is being rigidly enforced.
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Barry Johnson, of Juoeam whe re
cently pleaded guilty to second degree
murder for the killing of Hilda We^ss
and Luella Broadway at Juneau, was
sentenced to imprisonment for life by
Judfie Reed.
I* B. McCoy, who was recently con
victed at Juneau of grand larceny for
attempting to trap fexe's off the Broth
ers Islands ranch of <C.>E. Zimmermao,
was sentenced to-imprisonment for 18
months at McNeill island penitentiary.
Postmaster <D: W. Goddard, of An
ohorage, recently purchased the Rich
mond icocaeum parlor, in that city and.
banded in bis resignation a* postmas
ter. He has,been succeeded bv Henry
Sogu, presideot of Anchorage igloo,
Pioneers of Alaska.
Charles G. Bacon, an old-timer of the
Anchorage section and owner of the
Metropolitan garage in that city, com
mitted suicide recently by hanging
himself with a piece of .gauze from a
wall paper rack and falling.forward on
his face His action is. attributed to
too much white mule and. .financial
worries.
W. II. Parsons, who was ha the
banking business in Fairbanks for ten
years, and for thirteen years vice pres
ident of the Dealer-Horton Hank, Se
attle, has been elected president of
that institution, succeeding the late
President Latimer.
Oscar Anderson, of tbo Ship Creek
Market, Anchorage, recently had on
display a 50&-pound- porker, Alaska
grown. The animal was raised i&t
Jonesville and shipped to AnCnorfega
for sale.
Fifty-three informations were filed
recently in the district court at Juneau
by District Attorney A. G. Sboup,
charging various ash trap operators
With violation ©* tbs Territorial close
salmon season fishing lawa.
A. E. liucker, Seward attorney, will
be a candidate on the democratic ticket
for the Territorial legislature, says the
Seward Gateway.
Citizenship night schools have been
established at L&toucbe and Kennecott.
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