1, Alaska Notes
Gathered From Territorial
Exchanges.
Berkeley, -Calif.—After facing
death countless timps during the gold
rush to the Yukon in 18!)6. George
Diamond, famous sourdough miner, is
- -dead—a suicide.
His hodv was found on the floor of
his home , at 2946 Harper street yes
terday by his . w-ife.- Mrs. Clymens
... Diamond,. when, she returned from a
.. shopping jtrin
A rifle and a hastily scrawled note
„ lay beside, the U*ody. , Cancer was
giveh in- the.-note as the cause of the
u-.-aet.
In lu- the. note he asked that his body
i_he cremated and the ashes scattered
< over San Francisco bay, on the shores
.. of which he has lived since his return
. from Alaska, many years ago.
. John-Mattson, aged 73, who was re
-v cently picked up . by the halibut
_. schooner Defense, in Lisanski Strait,
. . after, he had drifted alone at sea for
seven days without- food, died at
.Soapstone. Point as the result of ex
posure. Mattson was in a badly ex
. . hausted condition when picked up by
.the Defense, which landed him at the
Soapstone Point radio station. Med
- ical aid was sent, for, .but arrived too
. late to save his life.
With a thousand yelping dogs tug
ging at the traces, with mukluks and
with snowshoes, 260 men and women
participated in a modern Alaskan
stampede on May .day. They headed
for Iliamna, on Cook Inlet, and for
Lake -Clark to trap for beaver. All
sections, of Alaska were represented
. in the stampede.
A letter received by. the First Na
. ■ tionai Bank, of Anchorage recently
.. from Los Angeles.-.announced the
passing of B. C. Nichols, pioneer jew
-cler of Anchorage, -who left-for the
. States several years, ago. The de
. ceased was unmarried, and is believed
, to-have.left Alaska in very comfort
. able circumstances. - He is survived
t by a. (brother, a banker, residing in
Wisconsin.
In. -tabulating the guesses on the
Nenana ice pool the committee found
it necessary to- reject a number of
guesses for various reasons. Ninety
eight tickets bore no signatures, and
41 guessers failed to indicate whether
..the ice was going out before or after
. . noon. On 17 tickets the hour was not
.marked, and 20 were guiltless of
.dates. .Fjf tv-two guessers had the
breakup occurring before the pool
closed at midnight . April 14, and
-their-tickets were rejected. One opti
mist, marked his ticket March 3.
Eightyreight tickets were illegible,
. . and eight persons would have found,
— had they consulted a calendar, that
April 3.1 just doesn’t exist. Another
eight, tickets were totally blank.
A report from Nome says that Sam!
- Niupok, a native hunter who lives on
the saqdspit there, killed a large gray
timber wolf on the Sinrock river re
i^eeptly.- He took the animal to town,
where it created quite a little excite
ment., ..Sam said that this particular
t wolf* had killed eight or. ten reindeer
w the day he killed it. The wolf would
kill one deer and then, without eating
.. a bit of it, would go and kill another,
* apparently for the pure fun of kill
ing. The wolf measured six. feet
three inches from tip to tip before he
\ was skinned. This is. the . first wolf
v .to be killed in that section for a long
. time. It is feaCed they will come
■; . into the district, in . bands, as they
i r have done in other sections of Alaska,
.- and if they do they, are likely to. play
. havoc with the. reindeer herds.
With his left leg cut entirely uff
Just below the knee, as the result, of
isn accident,' John Otjtoi aged" 28*. a ;
native of Germany, .was rlished.jpto
Juneau recently: otf.the.canneryvten
_^der Com,et, from. Xaku: Harbor, and ■
taken to St. Ann’s Hospital by Cap
tain C. E. Ahues, superintendent of
the Taku cannery of the Libby, Mc
Neil & Libby Company. The accident
occurred when a scow was being
launched off the ways at the cannery,
and instead of jumping free, Otto,
one of the beach men at the cannery,
got caught in a bight of rope when
the scow was cut loose. Owing to the
jaggedness of the cut it was found
necessary at the hospital to amputate
the leg just above the knee.
The organization of a $2,000,000
corporation to develop a vast area of
low-grade placer ground in the Forty
mile district, adjacent to Eagle on
the upper Yukon river, was revealed
with the filing recently with the Sec
retary of Alaska of articles of incor
poration of the Alaska Consolidated
Gold Corporation, incorporated under
the laws of the State of Washington.
It lists as assets cash in the amount
of $75,000 and 15,000 acres of placer
ground in the Fortymile area, as well
as buildings and mining equipment.
Lee W. Steel, an oldtime mining man
of the upper Yukon, and C. A. Riddle
are the incorporators. Directors of
the company are C. D. Lewis, presi
dent, and R. Mines, secretary-treas
urer. Mr. Steel is Alaska representa
tive. In its statement of lnancial con
dition, the company said tests had
been made of the ground on Chicken
creek, Ingle creek, Atwater and Dome
creek basins, which showed excellent
results.
Livingstone Wernecke, general su
perintendent of the Yukon Treadwell
Mining Company, operating at Kent,;
in the Mayo district, went south re-|
cently on his annual trip to the head-;
quarters of the company in San Fran- i
cisco. He traveled by air from Mayoi
to Whitehorse, making the trip in a
little more than two hours, a trip
which has always required a week to
make with either horses or dogs.
While a reduction plant has been op
erated by the company at Keno for
the last two years, 6,000 tons of ore
was freighted from there the past
winter to Mayo, where it will be load
ed on barges 'and shipped to a smelter
in Idaho, going to Nenana by boat
and thence to the coast by the Alaska
Railroad. Owing to the expense of
the long haul it is not possible for
the company to ship out ore that goes
less than $100 per ton. Ore treated
at the mill at Keno,' where it is re
duced to concentrates, is shipped to
the Outside in sacks and brought up
the Yukon river to Whitehorse by
White Pass steamers.
A resident of Dawson recently
bought a house in that city for $100
and had his investment paid within
$1.90 a few hours after moving in,
when he found $9§.10 underneath the
old carpets. In relaying a strip of
linoleum he found that he could not
make it lie flat. Reaching under the
linoleum to remove the obstacle, he
pulled forth four $20 bills, one $10
bill and a 10-cent coin, all wrapped
together. Further inspection of other
corners of the building resulted in
the diclosure of a $5 bill and three
$1 bills.
Discovered in a dying condition at
his camp on the Little Susitna river,
about four miles from Houston, Al
bert Major, trapper, was hauled to
Houston by two natives, Harry Chil
ligan and his brother, and later the
sick man was taken to Anchorage by
A. F. Hoffman, deputy United States
marshal at Matanuska, who was sum
moned by the section foreman at
Houston to take charge of the case.
Major is under treatment at the gov
ernment hospital at Anchorage, with
a vghting chance for recovery. His
condition is very serious, because of
the advanced .stage- of his illness, but
he is a comparatively young man,
being but 38, which is a point in his
favor. Major was-living in a tent,
and became ill about April 4. He ar
ranged his things.'.»<iij.tlyy plaited a
five-gallon- wnt'cti Uvater at' his bed
side and wfeitb do? htd.~” His condition
grew stedjlilv worse. untiLhe .became
helpless, being scarcely able to talk
when the natives found him. He
made them understand that he want
ed to be taken to the railroad, but.
1 they hesitated to undertake that re
sponsibility at lrst, fearing that he.
would die on the way to the station,
j They finally loaded him on a sled and
i hauled him the four miles to the rail
road, where they informed the rail
road foreman of the circumstances.
Major is quite well known along the
railroad, having worked .at, ^various
points along the line. He is a veteran
of the World War, having servpd with
the Canadian forces.
The most westerly herd of reindee ’
on the North American continent,'be
longing to the Cape Reindeer Com
pany, of Wales, Seward Peninsula,
has just been rounded up, marked and
counted. Over 15,000 deer were han
dled in eight days. The best day’?
run was 2,287 deer in 7 hours, which
was putting them through the corral
at the rate of 5.04 per minute. The
herd was established by the Bureau
of Education in 1804 with 100 deer.
It was from this herd that the rein
deer meat was shipped out recently
on the Boxer for use at the Bremer
ton Navy Yard.
Under the provisions of a measure
that passed the Senate recently the
Alaska Road Commission is given
power to regulate traffic over roads
and trails constructed or maintained
out of moneys obtained in whole or
in part out of the Federal treasury.
The intent of the bill is to provide
protection against speeding, oversife
vehicles or overweight loads on roads
and bridges in the Territory.
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FLYING COURSE ADDED
TO “HIGHER EDUCATION”
WICHITA, Kas.—The term “higher
education” will have a more literal
meaning at the University of Wichita,
next fall.
The school will inaugurate a four
year course in aeronautics, in charge
of a professor of aviation, who will
be assisted by six instructors. The
course will be open to .both girls and
boys.
Airplanes will be provided by local
| manufacturers for the use of students
' who prove themselves capable, of re
t ceiving flight instructions.
He had just been appointed judge,
and it was his first day on the bench.
His first case was a bootlegger. A
| little uncertain as to what penalty to
■ inflict, he excused himself a minute,
j went outside, and called an old judge
I aside.
i “Oh, judge,” he said, “I’ve got a
bootlegger out there and I don’t
know what to give him.’*
! The old man replied, “DDon’t give
him over $4; I never do.”—Alaska.
Legionaire.
McGrath
Pool Hall
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Candies; {
Tobaccos j
Pipes ;
Cigarettes
Soft Drinks i
Cigarette Holders
George Walters
Proprietor
Babeesch Moosehide Mitt* and Boots
Furs Bought and Sold Clothing
All Kinds of Nice Fresh Groceries and Fruits
Canned Goods of All Kinds Beds and Bedding
A R. Eldridge
McGrath
TAKOTNA ROADHOUSE
^ Best of Meals and Rooms
>Wlieix> *Jiiverything Is Homelike and
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