Alaska News Notes
CAn addition of, $450,000 to the sum
alread y authorized for the construction
of a Territorial capitol building is pro
posed in a bill recently introduced in
the Senate by Senator Wesley L. Jones,
of Washington..-, A similar measure
had been introduced earlier in the
House. The-Joaes bill provides:
“That the limit of cost for construc
tion of a public building at Juneau,
Alaska, authorized by Section 4 of the
y public buildings act, approved June 25,
. 1910. and the same .is hereby increased
' by the sum of $450,000 to meet the cost
of additional space, needed for the Ter
ritorial legislature and the Territorial
* museum and' library to be located
j therein, <and the Secretary of the
Treasury-is hereby authorized to enter
into .a contract for the completion jut
said building within the limit of co9t
as. provided in the act of 1910 and the
additional sum herein authorized.’’
A second bill introduced at the same
time by the Washington senator au
thorized the Secretary of the Navy to
acquire, by purchase or otherwise, and
to prepare a suitable site, purchase and
erect towers and buildings, and pur
chase and install machinery and ap
paratus for a radie station to be located
at Unga island, Alaska. The bill car
ries an appropriation clauee for $45,000.
, A dozen men are living within the
. Arctic Circle on the Koyukuk river,
with-fortunes ranging item $25,000 to
t.50,000 in gold, according to Captaio
Webb, an old time prospector, who,
after striking pay, went Outside a few
weeks ago. Webb said these men hud
married native women, and settled
, down to enjoy their modest fortunes iar
from the vanities of civilization. Tbev
use the parcel post to secvre what lux
uries their tastes ..demand, but they
■eem to have po desire to leave their
Arctic wilderness. Only when some
, prospector makes a dual cleanup and
turns his dust in at some bank can an
estimate be made of the amount of gold
being taken from the Arctic creeks.
Webb is reported to have been accom
panied by a man who carried four suit
cases, each containing a portion of his
cleanup, estimated to total 840,000.
The Independent Steamship Com
t pauy is the name of a new corporation
organized uuder.ths. laws of Alaska,
with O. A. Burkhardtas, president, G.
: D. W7akeman vice president, J. C. Al
lison treasurer,, and W. B. McCord sec
retary. The com pauy has purchased
. the Diesel powered wooden ship Ore
gon, 234 feet long, 43 feet beam, and 23
feet deep. She will have a freight ca
pacity of 2,500 to 3,000 ions, and a
speed of 11 kuots. The headquarters
of the company will be in Juneau, and
operation of the vessel will be under
the management of W. F. Swan, who
for many vears was the Juneau agent
, of the Pacific Steamship Company.
; Frank Miller, an oldtimer of Juneau,
was found dead in his cabin recently,
presumably from drinking denatured
alcohol, which he was known to buy by
tbe' quart and to buy it frequently.
Miller was a stationary engineer, and
had been around Juneau for more thifu
twenty years. Fred Wylie, a logger,
who had been making bis home with
Miller and evidently assisting him in
depleting his stock of alcohol, was
taken to the hospital in a partially par
alyzed ci ndiiion. and is reported to be
in a bad way. _
' Bob Hunter (Gravy Bot), Nome pio
neer, and for tome years a resident of
Anchorage and the Cook Inlet country,
is now employed in the towing business
i . on a big tug plying between Seattle
and Tenino. ______
Sam McKinuey, known to bis inti
mates as “Fogarty,” left Anchorage
|fi> recently for South America. He had
t Tyeeu studying Spanish for several
I, months in anticipation of his trip. Me
.
R i
Kinney worked at the Evan Jones coal
mine for several months in connection
with the Installation of the power
plant, prior to which time he was for
several vears employed in the mechan
ical division of the Copper River &
Northwestern railway at Cordova.
Dan Terzig, who was arrested some
weeks ago at Boise, Idaho, charged
with violation of the white slave act,
for runniog away with the wife of* a
trader at Uyak, Kodiak island, has
been sentenced to six months in jail.
He is said to have picked up the
woman, Mary I’aakineo at Anchorage,
and to have induced her to abandon
her husband and several children and
accompany him to the States. He was
indicted bv a federal grand jury, and
pleaded guilty the following day.
Two old timers of the Fortyraile
country had the misfortune to lose
their homes by Sre recently, a Mr.
Springbetl and George Mock. The
former was at Chicken Creek after his
mail at the time, and did cot learn of
his loss until hie return. He estimates
his loss at about §500. Mr. Mock is a
man well over 80 years of age. and has
been in the Fortymile coudtry for over
thirtv years. He is still bale and
hearty.
Ringwald Blix, formerly U. S. com
missioner at Copper Center, and who
established the first roadhouse and
trading post in the Copper river valley
in 1898. has taken a live year lease oq
Order and Notice of Pri
mary Election
To Be Held On April 29, 1924
In the Office of the United States Com
missioner, at McGrath. Alaska,
Fourth Judicial Division.
Now, on this day, pursuant to Chap
ter 39, Session Laws of Alaska, ap
proved May 3, 1919, emitied “An act to
provide for the boldine of primary
elections in the Territory of Alaska, to
Gx the manner and time of holding the
same, to prescribe the qua!itinations of
candidates to be nominated at such
elections, and to designate the manner
of Gliug and authenticating their can
didacy, and for other .purposes,” and in
conformity therewith^
tt is hereby orderen that for the pur
pose of the primary election to be held
on April 29, 1924, all of the territory in
the recording district known as Mount
McKinley Recording District, outside
of incorporated towns, is hereby divid
ed into voting precincts, iD eaca 'of
which a polling place is hereby speci
lied. Said voting precincts are de
scribed and bounded as follows:
Polling places at—
Pioneer Hall at McGrath, Alaska:
Pioneer Hall at Tokotna, Alaska,J
C! Notice is hereby giveD that a general
election will be held on Tuesday, April
29, 1924, for the purpose of nominating
candidates to the various political par
ties for the followirg.offices. to-wit:
A Governor for the. Territory of
Alaska;
A Delegate to the House of Repre
sentatives from the Territory or Alaska;
An Attorney General for the Terri
tory of Alaska;
One member of the Senate of the
Territory of Alaska:
Font- members of the House of Rep
resentatives of the Territory of Alaska;
Two Road Commissioners for ,Road
District Number Four;
And for the purpose of electing the
following officers, to-wit:
A National Committeeman1 for Tthe
Democratic Party of the Territory of
Alaska;
A National Committeeman for the
Republican Party of the Territory of
Alaska;
Six Delegates and Alternates to the
Democratic National Convention;
Six Delegates and Alternates to the
Republican National Convention.
The said election will be held in the
voting precincts 'above named and at
the poliiog places therein specified.
The said polling placets will be open
beiweeo the hours of eight o’clock a. m.
and 7 o’clock p. tn. of said da;.
Dated at McGrath, Alaska. March 15,
1924. W. T. Vandespoou
U. S. Commissioner for the Mt.
McKinley Recording District,
Fourth Division, Territory of
Alasktt.
the Hotel Roslvn, Seattle. The hotel
has 125 rooms, abont one-half of which
are thr*-e and Gve-room apartments,
the remainder being single rooms.
Jack McCord, who was recently in
Kanatak, is reported to h^ve. made a
deal to take over the oil claims near
that place owned by Sidney Anderson
and John F. Coffey, and be is now on
his way East to make the deal arrsnge
j ments to take over the gronnd.
Cordova is soon to ha/e a commodi
ous and up-to-date hotel. The Wind
sor Hotel is to have an uddition built
to it at a cost of about $50,000, with a
frontage of fifty feet and three stories
in height.
I. A. LeBeau, a former Juneau bust
ness man, and for the last two years a
resident of Hoonab, was found deud in
his home there recently. Death is re
ported to have resulted from heart
trouble.
Max Simel
The Pioneer Trader
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A Dredging or Hydraulidng
Proposition. Yankee Creek
I am the principal owner of a block of ground
on Yankee creek, about seven miles long, extend
ing from No. 1 Below Discovery down to the^mouth
of the creek,
' Pay has been located all along for a distanc<£of
about three miles from the upper end, aud^oretty
well prospected ar,d cross-cut.
The average depth of the ground !is from seven
to twenty Jfeet. The top Is all black muck, that can
be moved freely. No rock bigger than one’s fist.
The width of the pay. for'a distance of about
three miles, is from 100 to 200 feet. Crosscuting
work indicates that the ground will go from 15
cents to SI per square foot of bedrock. My bal'ef
is that_the pay will average 50 cents per foot.
I have a ditch on'the ground, three miles long,
together with water rights. The ground is pretty
well cleared. There is also a drain, three miles
long, with the water right. I also have a water
right on Ready Bullion creek, from which water
can be brought to Yraokee creek with a ditch less
than a-mile long (4.000 feet), which will give four
sluiceheads of water, with a pressure or fall of 120
feat, being 1800 feet to the work from tbe ditch.
After doing away with the muck, there will be
from fom to sit ieet of dirt, to hannlc. The pay
runs mostly in the bedrock of porphyry ami slate.
The ground is virgin, only about 911,00b haviag
been taken out by windlass in prospecting;.
Prospecting work during the present winter has
resulted in finding values that, run up to $1 per
square foot of bedrock.
The Flume Dredge Company has a dredge above
this ground, which has been in operation for the
last three seasons.
The Government road crosses Yankee creek. I
also haTe a road down the i reek that connect* with
the Government roaa.
; ant also the agent for owner*- of ground other
than that held by mysel.'.
The ground can he worked either with dredge,
drag-line scraper, or by hydraulieing.
I will either sell the ground or giTe a leas* on
it. If the prospect is satisfactory to the buyer, &
cash payment will be expected. A good bargain
will be given to the right party.
For further information, terms, etc , call or.
ground, or write or telegraph me.
ED NOLLETTK,
Tokctna, Alaska.