THE KUSKO TIMES
A. X. Grant, Publisher, Sole
Owner and Editor.
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Xusko Times, McGrath, Alaska.
McGP.ATH, ALASKA, AUG. 10. 1921
News Notes From
AllParts of Alaska
L. ( “Dolly”) Gray is now chief of
the .Juneau fire department.
The Ketchikan Commercial Club re
cently declared in favor of fish traps.
The schooner Bender Brothers re
cently called at Ketchikan en route to
Siberia.
Clarence S. Kahn-has been appointed
agronomist of the Rampart experi
mental station.
Sergeant Sidney L. Heims, a Seattle
Signal Corps man. has-taken charge of
:lle Skagway office.
An oil stampede occurred at Cordova
recently, many claims being located on
Hlnchiribrook island.
John Nelson, aged 35, was instantly
killed at Mile 52, recently, while work
ing on the Government railway.
John La Montague, widely known
merchant of Haycock, died recently in
tHesDime creek- camp, after-a-brief ill
ness.' .
Thieves b Joke the plate glass window
iii the store of Hillman & Hartley at
Anchorage and stole two Colt auto
matic revolvers.
The steamship Alameda made a
rdcord trip on a recent run north, ar
riving in Juneau in 66 hours’ time, in
cluding a stop at Ketchikan.
Thieves have been active in Anchor
age recently. A robbery was reported
at Charles KaiMrstehr’s tamale house,
aficHamother house near the ball park
Max Simel
The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
Sold
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Miners', Prospectors’
i and Trappers’
Supplies
Steamer Service On the Inoka
% River.
Ask the People of Ophir about us.
STATION
fairview, Snnoko River
was broken into. A number of tough
characters have drifted into the town
from the States.
The town of Anchorage will pass or
dinances providing that fines paid for
certain cases will go into the city in
stead of the Federal treasury.
In order to care for.ihis rapidly in
creasing business, C. VV. Bolte, a hard
ware man of Anchorage, is preparing
to begin the erection of a 2oxlu0-foot
warehouse.
About 100,000 acres of agricultural
land are available for homesteads in
the Alatanuska and Tanana valleys. In
the latter valley No. 1 hard wheat is
raised successfully.
Among the many minerals found on
Chicagoff island, Southeastern Alaska,
is .nickel, several properties having
been located on the north end ol the
island near Stag bay.
A number of yaks have been shipped
from Bani, Alberta, to the experi
mental station at Bampart, where they
wiil be crossed with cattle to propa
gate a hardy breed for Alaska.
Uuang Wak, an Eskimo murderer,
who killed two of his tribesmen to se
cure a wife, escaped from the lloyal
Mounted Police at Chesterlield inlet
and is now at large in tire Arctic re
gion, trappers report.
While enjoyiDg an outing with a
Sunday school class at Spenard lake,
Paul Reed, the 13-year old son ot Mr.
and Mrs. Frank I. Reed, of the An
chorage Hotel, fell and broke his right
leg iust below the hip.
While playing with matches a few.
weeks ago, Fred M., the young son of
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brown, of Ta1
keetna, was painfully burned and was
taken to the hospital at Anchorage,
whore his injuries were attended to.
A1 Osgood, a Petersburg man, who
returned to his home from the SLates,
says he has had enough of the Outside
to iast him the rest of his natural life.
•‘The worst place in Alaska is better
than the linest spot I found Outside ”
The Cache Creek Dredging Company
is preparing to install a hydro-electric
plant to furnish power for dredging,
instead of steam, as formerly. More
than 300 tons of equipment for the
dredge were shipped in during last
winter.
Among the next big bridge projects
for the United States Railroad, after
completing the Hurricane gulch bridge
will be a* huge steel viaduct to span
Riley creek, at Mile 374, 233. miles
from Anchorage, and 04 miles from
Neuana. The bridge is to have a total
length of 920 feet, including the north
approach.
Chief of Police McIntosh, of Ketchi
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kan, recently raided the home of Mr.
and Mrs. E. G. Grabbe, with no results,
as a pitcher containing liquor was
dumped into a sink where the water
was running. The couple were arrested
od a charge of having liquor in their
possession and gave bail in the sum of
$1,000 each.
J. H. .Nichols, Alaska representative
for Armour & Co. for the past 10 years,
has been located in an institution for
the insane' at Patton, Cal., after a
search lasting since last October. He
is suffering from paresis. He was taken
into custody at Los Angeles and sent to
the asvium without his identity being
known. Eventually the hospital au
thorities found his name through a
. Dexter Hortou bank book
Rough and Dressed Lum
ber of All Kinds
1NN0M0LUMBERM.
Why Carry Your Outfit a Long Distance?
We Can Supply Everything You Need
Fresh Stock Just Arrived. Prices That Will Satisfy You
GEO. HOFFMAN - NAPAMUTE
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim
PIONEER POOL ROOM
McGrath’s Popular Resort'
Dave E. Clough - - Prop.,
Who Said Freighting
That’s our business and that’s where we shine;
in other words where satisfactory service is al
■ ways given. Freighting between all points—
McGrath, Tacotna, Ophir, Iditarod, Cripple,,
even, as far as Tiuby,.
W. H. Jones - Freighter
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the KuskokwimJ
Capt. Wallace Langley, (Manager.*
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