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Alaska News Notes
Hai ry G. Sellers, formerly teacher of
the Tyonic uative school, has received
advices from Acting Chief HendersoD
that he has been appointed fur warden
for the Anchorage district.
Town lots are selling rapidly in Kan
atak, the new oil town, at $350 to $500.
There is no question of finding oil; it is
the quantity. The rush next spring, it
is predicted, will be the largest ever
witnessed in the Territory.
Virgil Rich, who is under indictment
'for burglary at Seward, was arrested
recently at Anchorage and was bound
. over to the grand jury on the charge of
. robbery. Robert Tennert and George
Richardson were also held to the grand
jury on the charge of receiving stolen
government property.
Capt. C. G. Jones, who has had
. charge of rgilroad construction work
in the Nenana district during the last
several months, has decided to remain
in Nenana indefinitely. He will have
general supervision over the northern
» end of the railroad from Talkeetna. It
was'irumored that he had been offered
• the position of U. S. deputv marshal at
A Anchorage.
A new cut off trail from the Tanana
terminus to Fort Gibbon has been com
, pleted. This trail leads from Nenana
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to the Johnnie Campbell roadhousp. on
the old Hot Springs trail, and was re
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tion among those interested in the pro
ject. By the construction of the trail
•it is Dot now necessary for travelers to
take passage to Dunbar station, as for
merly, but leave directly 110m JSIeoaDa
for the army post town.
-A draglino scraper is being operated .
at Seward deepening and widening the s
channel of Lowell creek, the stream
flowing through the center of the town (
and which is subject to sudden fresh
ets, which have done a large amount of
damage. It is believed that when the
work is completed the channel will he
able to carrv off any flood waters that
may come down the stream.
The action of U. S. A ttorney A. G,
Shoup, of Juneau, io ordering the re
moval of all structures from the 60 foot
reserve strip od the American side of
the border at Hyder has beeu affirmed
by Attorney General Daugherty. The
reserve io question was created by an
executive order issned by President
Taft. The tract wa» 6et aside for the
purpose of facilitating the enforcement
of customs aud immigration laws.
Jack Brooks, a well-known prospec
tor who has been located in the Forty
mile country for the past twenty years,
left for the Outside recently to spend
the winter in the States. He says that
■ the old prospector who refused to work
j for wages aud have stayed on the
ground since that mining region was
first opened up, are almost all goue or
art old men. New men coming in are
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Indications of a murder having been
committed near the mouth of the Novi
kakit river some lima-ago is contained
in a wite to the>U.S. marshal's office
an ,Fairbanks from 'Deputy John Wood,
ofdtuby. Part of a human skeleton,
with a bullet hole through the back ol
the head, has been found by natives
near the mouth of the river. The ver
diet cf the coroner’s jury was that an
unidentified party was killed by an un
known party. The Novikakit river is
a tributary of the Yukon entering that
i stream about 100 miles below the
mouth of the Tanana.
Jail Prisoners Make
Own Booze, Celebrate
Cassopolis, Mich.—This town prob
ably can boast of having produced the
only moonshine still of its kind in act
ive operation in tlie country.
The discovery came about through a
grand jig in which all the prisoners of
the jail took part last night.
A few weens ago Joe Mendoka, an
Indian, was arrested, with booze on the
hip. An empty apple butter jar gave
aim an idea. The job allotted him of I
peeling potatoes made it possible j
Spuds, prunes, and an ear of corn, the !
hark of a dogwood tree to give it bite. ’
and the earthenware jar filled its !
wicked mission io jail.
They tapped it last night. Elias
Wyman, aged turnkey, thought his
gue°ts had gone cuckoo. But the i
keener olfactory organs of the sheriff
detected the unmistakable odor.
The Near Kast situation never seems
to get so bad that it can’t grow worse. ■
—Weston Leader.
If the nations are too poor to pay
their debts, where do they get the
money to pay ft r cancellation propa
ganda?”— Brockvilie Recorder.
Dr. W. f. Green
McGrath, Alaska
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