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McGRATH, ALASKA. JULY 22, 1922
Alaska NewsNotes
Mrs. J. K. White and Theodore Ket
tlesou, superintendent of the Pioneers
Home at Sitka, were married recently
at that place.
The city of Nenana has a doer tax or
dinance which compels the owners of
doers to contribute $5 per annum to the
city treasury.
A. R. Heilig and Reed Heilig, his
son. former residents of Fairbanks,
have located in Portland, Ore., where
they have opened up law offices.
John Failey. a well known old-timer
of Alaska, recently arrived from the
Outside with a hydraulic plant, which
he will operate on his ground on the
Totlanika
Dr. F. L. Goddard has been appoint
ed a member of the Territorial Med
ical Examining Board by Karl Tbeile,
acting governor, to succeed Dr. L. O.
Sloane, whose term had expired.
George Waldheim and Victor An
derson, lessees, are reported to have
found exceptionally good pay in their
workings on the Moonlight claim, near
Nome, owmed by the Pioneer Mining
Company.
The city police aud deputy marshal
at Ketchikan recently seized the gas
boat Progress at that city recently, as
well as 20 cases of whisky and 800 bot
tles of Canadian beer which was found
on board.
Harry Close, an old-timer from the
Interior, arrived at McCarthy recently
on his wav to Dan creek, where he will
be associated with Martin Harrais and
Charles McDermott in opening up some
mining property in that district.
It is authentically stated that a New
York syndicate has taken over the
Drumheiler placer properties, on the
Kahlitna river, in the Cache creek
district, and that a dredge will be in
stalled on the property this summer.
Mok Moon, a Ketchikan Chinaman,
in the presence of a crowd of fully one
hundred persons, drew his gun and
shot Louie Gong, one of the most
prominent Chinamen of that section. A
dispute over money mrtters is said to
have been the cause of the shooting.
Dave McKay, mining on Tar Flats,
in the Atlin district, was severely
b urned recently when he opened a tin
of carbide, into which in some way
water had leaked. The gas from the
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carbide was ignited from the mine
lamp attached to his hat, causing an
explosion which burned him severely
about the face and hands.
The Center creek dredge, operated
by Andy Anderson on Snake river, at
Nome, sank recently in the pit in
which it had been placed for the win
ter.
Henry Wander, a pioneer of Alaska,
died recently at the St. Ann hospital,
Juneau. He was on his way from Ko
diak to enter the Pioneers’ Home atj
Sitka.
The commanding officer at Fort'Gib
bon has been officially notified of the
abandonment of that jiost and has been
ordered to prepare to move his detach
ment to Anchorage.
A new silver strike is reported
which, it is claimed, exceeds in rich
ness that of the Keno Hill district at
Mayo. The reported strike is said to
be located on the headwators of the
Peel river, about. 150 miles across the
divide from Mayo.
J. L. Galen, of Cordova, has perfect
ed a tourist travel scheme fromChitina
to Fairbanks via Cordova and the Cop
per lliver railroad, and predicts that
he will take a large number of tourists
to Fairbanks this summer over that
route.
Former U. S. Marshal L. T. ErwiD,
of the E'ourth division, who is at the
Mayo Brothers hospital at Rochester,
Minn., is reported to be getting along'
well, thoughjit will be sometime be-,
fore he will be able to leave the insti
tution.
Owing to a reduction in tbe price of
coal at Nanaimo, the city council of
Juneau recently authorized a reduction
of the price of coal at the city dock of
$1.50 per ton. Screened coal is now
selling at *13.50 per ton, and mine run
at $12.
It is reported that Pete Monahan,
well known Valdez creek operator, has
refused $15,000 for a half interest in
the property owned by himself and J.
F. M. Nelson on Valdez creek. Later
reports are to the effect that he has
sold out to New York capital.
A yearling deer walked into the
yard of J. A. Talbot at Ketchikan re
cently and made himself thoroughly ot
home, showing no fear of Mrs. Talbot
and children, who were on the porch,
A short time after Ernest Ends, of the
Ketchikan Dairy, came along and cap
tured the animal without trouble and
will keep it as a pet.
Because Rose McB’arland would not
listen to his proposal of marriage,
William P. Murphy, Of Anchorage, be
came vexed and beat her up. She
promptly had hifti arrested, and in the
commissioner’s court a jury found him
guilty as charged, but recommended
the utmost clemency. ‘Commissioner
Rager exercised clemency to the ex
tent of imposing a fine of $50 and costs,
aggregating $140. ;
Henry Ryde, about 30 years of age,
foreman of the Libby, McNeill & Libby
eannery at Yakutat, died recently at
the hospital in Juneau from burns re
ceived in an explosion of gasoline at
the cannery. Ryde was attempting to
start a gasoline engine at the cannery,
and had a can of gasoline which he was
using to prime the engine. This be
came ignited when the engine back
fired and set fire to some cans of gaso
line near by. Ryde was instantly sur
rounded by a mass of flames, and was
terribly burned before he was rescued.
The cannery building also caught" fire,
and suffered some damage before the
flames were extinguished by the can
nery crew.
The first drilling contract for Alaska
undeveloped oil fields has been let to
Orr, Miracle & Co., of Los Angeles,
drilling contractors operating in sev
eral of the largest oil fields in'She
States. The operations will be-carried
on at Cbitina bay, in the Iniskio bay
section, and the enterprise is financed
by Eastern capitalists, whose identity
the contractors refuse to reveal.
Seventy tons of coal unloaded from
the freighter Juneau onto the McCor
mack wharf at Wrangell recently went
through the wharf into the bay, tear
ing a hole into the structure about 20
feet square.
j A report received from Coal creek,
near Woodehopper, in the Circle dis
trict, tells of the finding of promising
prospects on Dome ereek, a tributary
of Woodehopper. The find was made
by T. O. Lee and George McGregor,
and all the ground in the vicinity is re^
ported staked
Harry tlunecke, a well known min
ing man of Gilmore. in the'Fairbanks
district, was found dead In his -cabin
recently. He was known to have been
| ill for some time, and when be was not
I seen by bis friends they went to his
cabin and, forcing fcho door, found him
dead within. He had resided on Gil
more for several years, and was the
owner of considerable mining ground.
One of the largest fox farming com
panies ever organized in Southeastern
Alaska was incorporated recently by
W. H. Roessel. Arthur Propp, Dr. J.
ff.' Mustard, M J. ElenephaD and C. J.
Collins, with a capital of ■'875,000. The
company will take over rfotspur island
now held by Roessel and Propp, and
will stock it with Bft.y pairs of foxes.
Hotspar island is located between An
nette and Duke islands, about do miles
south of Ketchikan, and contains about
1800 acres. !t is well timbered, and
has two lakes and two pood harbors.
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McGrath, Alaska
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Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valh*'
Napamute, Alaska
New Goods Have Arrived
One of the best stocks ever brought into th e
Kuskokwim Valley. Yes, the prices are righ t
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, Manager.
John E. Baker
Independent Candidate
for
Territorial Representative
—Paid Advt.