(Alaska Notes
(fathered From Territorial
Exchanges.
A dividend, of, 121-2 per cent was
recently paid to the creditors of the
defunct.Bank of Hyder, This is the
thi rddividend to be declared—the
first for 50 per cent, the second for
15 per cent, niakin gthe total to date
77 1-2 per cent. Thereceiver is hope
ful of paying up the entire list of
debts in the near future.
A movement has been started at
Anchorage for recognition nationally
an<l also some suitable reward for lit
tle Norah McKinley, 12-year-old Cop
per river girl, who mushed alone 22
miles on snowshoes, traveling all
night, to Copper Center to get an air
piane to rescue Amos Fleury, trapper,
whose feet were badly frozen. Pilot
Harold Gillam took the man to the
Cordova hospital, where it is said
Fleury’s*life will be saved, but it is
a question as to whether his feet can
be saved.
John B. Powers, veteran Alaska
Democrat and resident of Eagle, is
a candidate for United States mar
shal for the Fourth judicial division.
Powers, who has attended the last
three national conventions of his
party, was a recent visitor in Fair
banks. “I've got the habit,” he said,
“and I’m going to continue to go as
long as I live and have the price to
get there. It’s a wonderful vacation
for a fellow after being up here in
the wilds.”
Rev. Fr. A. J. Markham, formerly
pastor of thq Holy Family Church at
Anchorage, passed away recenttly at
Portland, Oregon, where he was chap
lain of Maryhurst College at Oswego,
a suburb. Father Markham entered
religious life as a Brother, and served
in that capacity at Holy Cross Mis
sion, on the Yukon. After further
studies he was ordained a priest, and
for some time was pastor in Anchor
age. He was deeply attached to Alas
ka,, but his delicate health called for
a milder climate and he reluctantly
went to th estates.
W. W. Butts, well known oldtimer
of Alaska and one of the pioneer busi
ness men of Seward, (bed recently of
heart failure at his place of business
ia the Broadway Public Market in
Si aii.He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Ora P. "Butts, and by a brother
living ,n the East. He was 65 years
of age, and was a member of the An
chorage Order of Elks.
I he third time in about a de
cat.e, C. tv. Fulton, man ci nnny
a r. es, was recently sentenced at
KeiHiikan by District Judge Harding
io imprisonment for 14 years in the
, Federal penitentiary at McNeil's
Island. Fulton was arrested several
month sago at Ketchikan after he
had cashed some checks on a Seattle
bank which proved to be forgeries.
The sum was not large, but the Court
took into consideration the previous
. crinuni. record in imposing the stiff
sentence. As Robert Cullen John
stone, a cultured Englishman, ma.de
h.. first bow to. Alaska some years
a ro, taking the spotlight, in Juneau.
He had stolen Masonic emblems from
the real Johnstone before coming
North. Passing as a Mason, he was
cordially received by Juneau Masons,
: one of whom was J. P. Walker, head
of the United -States Bureau of Public
Surveys in.Alaska at that time. From
Walker’s office tbs bogus Johnstone
absttraeted three warrant checks.
Leaving Juneau, be went to Cordova,
where an Introduction from the reas
ter of the Masonic Lodge gave him
sufikiens entree- to cash one of the
stoicn chec.ts for. - 3,(J00. The fraud
'hiis short.y discovered, and after a
trial and conviction at- Valdez, Fulton
was sentenced to serve a s,even-year
term at McNeill Island. He served it,
minus the allowance for good be
havior, and then headed for Alaska a
second time. He adopted the name
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of. ii physjeuinLhe. had mot in prison
and went tv Kodiak, where he posed
as a physiei^p,. It was not many
months before. was again in cus
tody. He was convicted of violation
of the Harrison anti-narcotic act and
made his second , trip to McNeill Isl
and for three years. Appearing to be
fi nd of the roie of doctor. Fusion
mad., his third appearance in A'aska
last year, traveled to the westward
cud ii hack to Ketchikan. In *l.a+
: icy he cashed one -heck Loo many*
and wh n h • was arrested by W. H.
Caswtil, former res.dent of Valdes.,
ht was at once recognized as John
s'. > i ai., and now finds himself,
back i i the penitentiary for the third
Captain Edward J. Josie, veteran
skipper of Yukon waters, died at the
Ballard general hospital reiently from
njhr.es reieived when he was strhrk
by an automobile aboht a week before
near his home at Echo Lake, out of
Seattle. Captain Josie was 73 years
of age. He was one of the first mas
ter mariners to take up river work
on the Yukon, and arrived at St. Mi
rhael in the fall of 1897, where he op
eiated boats for the N. A. T.&T.Co
Later he was associated with the
Alaska Commersial Co. and the White
Pass & Yukon Route in command of
various river steamers.
Robert A. Cego, former postmaster
at Hfdaberg, pleaded guilty before
Judge Harding in the District Court
at Ketchikan of robhery of the post
j office of which he was in charge and
to a second count of embezzlement.
He was sentenced to serve two years
■ and four months in the Federal peni
: tentiary at McNeil Island.
Eva Lawrence, 54 years old, whose
death at Juneau recently was first at
tributed to alcoholic poisoning, was
violently kiled, it was later deter
i mined by a coroner’s jury.
The verdict named Paul Johnson or
Albert Matthews, or both, as respon
sible for her death. The men are un
der arrest.
- Mrs. Lawrence arrived from Tena
] kee en route to Talkeetna, where her
husband is reported to be trapping.
Fingeprints on her throat indicated,
' the verdict said, that she had been
! choked todeath.
MILLIONS FOR AID OF
MICHIGAN BANKS
DETROIT.—On the second day of
Michigan’s bank holiday the State’s
900,000 depositors were encouraged
today by promises that part of their
balances will become available to
| morrow,
1 The Detroit Clearing House Asso
j ciation arranged to make $25,000,000
j available.
The Federal Reserve Bank here is
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’oceiving millions of dollars which is
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he fund remains .open.
Forty millions are on hand, and the
clearing house will permit customers
to withdraw m-t in <s*eesg of 5 per .
cent of their balances for, emergency,
purposes before tne i n^ if ttheifeoliej
day.
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Pendleton Goats now selling at $12.50
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