Alaska News Notes
Alaska is to be extensively adver
tised bv the Interior Department, ac
cord iDgsXo recent dispatches from the
.Nation*1 Capital. .The department sent
a photographer into the Territory for
several months last summer and sev
eral, copies of thte.fi lm have been made.
Field representatives will take the
films into Kastern cities and lecture
with the idea of not only promoting
tourist travel to the Northland, but to
familiarise the Kast with its resources.
The usual.dance .hail, dog team, bli/.
zard effects seeo in the average Alaska
movie will be missing and, instead,
there will be an accurate portrayal of
th* scenic beauty and undeveloped re
sources of the Territory.
Fridthjof George Carlson, au Alaska
trapper, died recently in San Fran
cisco, where he went, ou the last trip of
the Buford from Nome. Carlson was
located at a desolase post in the Arctic
circle. He beeame ill and pulled all
his own-teeth in order to save his life.
Later he was forced to amputate one of
his toes which became infected. He
was near death when found by another
trapper and taken to Nome. His furs
brought $11,000,
Tbpmas Burns, of Anchorage, who
was recently badly beaten up \i his
cabin by unknown thugs who attempt
• ed to relieve Burns of his savings, suf
fered a fractured skull, and probably
owes hiadtfe' to Dr. Beeson, who per
formed a delicate treohining operation
Co relieve cranial pressure on the brain.
Bu^ns wiH not be able to work for some
time, but has so far recovered that ho
will be able to leave the hospital within
a few days, _
James Li. Galen, of Cordova, has pur
chased the Japanese freighter Shin
koku Maru, which was wrecked re
cently on Mootague island, from the
underwriters, and will attempt to float
the vessel.' If this is not possible, she
will be [dismembered by a wrecking
crew and' the metal and furnishings
sold. Mr. Galen has already taken out
1400 tons of Chinese coal from the
vessel. __
Dale W. Hunt, former mayor of Ket
chikan, and a prominent business man
of that city, died recently from typhoid
fever. He was the son of Senator For
rest I. Hunt, and was about 40 years of
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At the Metropolitan theater in Se
attle, recently, the police department
. of that city staged a vaudeville show
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PIONEER
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Mkchine,, Black
smith and
Sheet Metal Work
\fl Kinds of Repairs
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Stoves Built
and Repaired
Robt. E. Lowrie
Tokotna, Alaska
the proceeds of which went to Mrs.
Hamburger, whose husband, Isaac
Hamburger, forme” court reporter at
Valdez, was shot and fatally wounded
by Policeman Short,, who was attempt
ing to capture alleged shoplifters.
A brass plate marks the pew in the
church at Sitka wbdre the late Presi
dent Harding sat at the last public re
ligious service he attended. On the
plate is inscribed the words:
“President Harding occupied this
pew on Sunday, July 22, 1023; bis last
attendance at public worship.”
Norman Dawn, motion picture pro
ducer, who recently completed at Fair
banks the filming of a photoplay, “The
Trail of Broken Hearts,” and who,
with h'; company, left for the Outside,
states that he will return iu the spring
and make a trip over the ice to dim the
j Yukon breakup, and later the Valley
! of Ten Thousand Smokes.
j Auto mail stages are being success
fully used on the trail between White
horse and Dawson, aDd their use will
be continued as long as weather condi
tions permit. The auto stages make
the trip in seven days, as comp >ed to
fifteen days by horse drawn stages,
Gus Cellefi, a well known traveling
salesman, has started a campaign for a
tariff on imported coal of at least $4 a
tOD. tie says such a tariff would auto
matically drive British Columbia coal
off the Alaska market and increase the
demand for the Alaska product.
According to reports reaching Fair
banks, “Old Man” Young, postmaster
at Nation City, a point on the trail be
tween Eagle and Circle, recently suf
fered a stroke that completely paralyzed
him aod he died before help could
him.
George Walker, a Latoucbe miner,
who recently went to the States, has
made a complaint to the Seattle police
that he was fleeced lout of 81,400,' his
entire savings, during card games in a
restaurant.
The Anchorage Chamber of Com
merce recently adopted a resolution
condemning the attuck of John E. Bal
laine upon Governor Scott C. Bone and
the management of the Alaska rail
road.
Charles N. Bring, who came to Alaska
in 1897 as a piano tuner, and who is
known all over the Territory, recently
entered the Pioneers’ Home in Sitka.
$10,000 Wager Costs
Life of Globe Trotter
Oliver, Wis.—The terms of a 810,000
wager, under which Prank Fletcher
was walking from San Francisco to
Buenos Aires, Argentina, and back
around the United States, cost the life
of the noted globe trotter.
Tbe body of a man found frozen to
death near here Saturday was identi
fied this afternoon as Fletcher’s.
He was frozen when sleeping in the
opeD, as stipulated in the wager.
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A group of uegro porters in a metro
politan hotel were exceedingly busy on.
the day when this incident occurred.
During tbe ensuing lull, a very power
ful porter stopped a imoment to rent,
Said a fellow toiler:
”Mose, ef 1 could carry five bags as I
done see you done a few minutes ago, 1 ]
wouldn’t hang around here—no, boy!
I sure would take myself off and get me
a match wttb Jack Dempsey. You are
sure wasting your time. You never
ask no help from me. I knows you to
be a miracle isaD.”
To which Mose, after looking him
over a moment, said:
“Laft, how much you weigh, boy?”
“I weighs 135,”
“One hundred and thirty-five? Say,
I don't see no one a-holdtng you off
Benny Leonard”’—Judge
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City of 50,000 May
Kise in Sage Brush
Seattle.—A city of fifty thousand
persons engaged in electro-chemical
industries may rise on 6,000> acres of
sagebrush beside the Columbia river
to exploit water power rivaling that of
Niagara Falls if success follow's plans
referred by the Federal Water Power
Commission in Washington, D. C., to
Col. W. J. Borden, armv engineer for
this district.
Such a city would stand at Priest
Rapids, Wash . 150 miles east of Se
attle. on the other side of the Cascade
mountains.
A subsidiary or the Getv ral Electric
Company has applied to the commission
for a license to construct a dam two
miles long and 90 feet high, a dam de
clared here to be in blueprint half
again as long as the barrier across the
Mississippi rivet-at Keokuk, Iowa, ft
is proposed to develop 750,000 horse
power from the rapids, besides irrigat
ing 100,000 acres of land in Eastern
Washington now devoted to sagebrush
and bunch grass. buf capable of yield
ing unsurpassed fruits and crops under
irrigation. The soil is volcanic ash.
The cost of the power development
is put id the application at $31,000,000,
and the cost of building the city at
$12,000,000.
One business house in London still
retains the same fixtures which were
installed there in 1667.
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