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. Alaska News Notes
George Donley, a well known resi
dent of Cordova, left recently for San
Francisco for medical treatment.
By au executive order, President
Harding has created a customs port of
entry in the thirty-first customs dis
trict, with headquarters at Juneau.
A number of claims in the vicinity of
Heaiy have been recorded in Nenaua
recently as the result of a report of the
findiug of gold in a prospect hole in
that vicinity.
A disastrous fire visited Dawson re
<• ceutly, damaging property to the ex
tent of 8150,000. The fire started at
Second and King streets, aud destroyed
i the hook si ore, shoe store aud bakery.
The whalers Kodiak, Unimak and
Patterson arrived at Seward recently-,
< eu route to the States. They reported
a very successful season, the Kodiak
, having taken 105 whales, the Unimak
t 110, aud the-Patterson 140.
The output of the Cache creek dis
trict last year is approximately 1225,
w 900. aud it is predicted that this will he
. doubled tbe coming season, as many
u new companies are plauuiug activities.
About 125 men were employed in ti.e
• district uuring the season.
While traveling on the trail at ti e
r head of Kenai lake, Mrs. Jackson, wiie
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Fairvicw, Innoko River
of J. M. Jackson, of the Premier mine,
slipped and fell, breaking her left leg
between the knee and the ankle. She
had to be carried 40 miles by stretcher
to the railroad at Roosevelt, where a
special train met the party and took
the injured woman to the government
hospital at Anchorage.
Nels Nelson, who came to his death
recently in a lonely spot on Rainy
creek, was possessed of nuggets, checks
and cash aggregating $1,000. He also
had several bundles of furs, the value
of whicn has nut been determined, and
an account of $6,000 in an outside hank.
He leaves two brothers in Morau,
Wash., and other Jelatives in that
state.
Robert Johnson, foreman of the Dao
Creek Mining Company, was turned
over to the grand jury at McCarthy
recently on the charge of wilful as
sault. Johnson alleges that he shot at
a squirrel and missed it, the bullets
going into a cut where three men were
working. On tiring again the bullet
took the same course, aud the men left
work and entered a complaint against
Johnson.
Contracts for approximately 60.000
tons of coal were recently awarded b>
the Alaskan Engineering Commission,
to be delivered the first of next July.
The Evan Jones mine will supply 30,000
tons, Baxter & Bedell 15,000 tons,
Healy River Corporation 10,000 tons,
and Bruno Augustino 5,000 tons- It is
possible that one or more other con
cerns will be given contracts.
Captain Peter Wold, of the steam
ship Atlas, reports the town of i£aoa~
tak is practically out of oual and that!
the fuel question there will be a seri
ous one before t he winter is over. The!
big oil companies are employing a
large number of men, and the work of
constructing the company bunk houses
and buildings is progressing rapidly.
•Captain Wold is of the opinion that the
new oil town will experience * .great
boom next spring.
The body of John Miller, a brother
of Mrs. Charles Tecklenberg, of Sew
ard, was brought to thnt place recent
ly. The circumstances attending tne
death of Miller are uncertain, but it is
supposed that he died during an attack
of some kind, the interior of tbe cabin,
occupied by himself and his partner,
John Smith, being in order. As near
as can be ascertained, Mr. Smith left
the cabin near the middle of October
for another locality to secure some fish
with which to feed tbe foxes both were
engaged in raising near Afogoak. He
was absent nearly a week, and on his
return found Miller dead, evidently so
for a number of days, as the body was
cold and stiff.
After deliberating about four hours
the jury in tbe case of the U. S. vs. J.
W. Kirkland, la the Dietrict court at
Juneau, returned a verdict of not
guilty. Kirkland was on trial for per
jury, it being alleged that following
the seizure of a stUl near Juneau by j
himself and W. C. McMayburn, white;
acting as probioiiion enforcement offi 1
cers, he committed perjury in tbe com j
missioner’s court when be testified that j
no arrest was made in connection with ]*'
the seizure. It was alleged that he
and NcMayburn did arrest two men
and that they were released by the offi
cers upon the promise of a payment to |
be made to them of $500. McMayburn ,
turned state’s evidence and testified to
the facts alleged, but the jury failed to
find the evidence convincing.
Dr. W. F. Green
McGrath, Alaska
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