News Notes From
All Parts of Alaska
Dtmcan Michie, the indomitable
placer prospector, returned to Dawson
'recently from his extensive holdings on
Allgold, where he has been working
•most of the winter. During the winter,
alone, he put twelve holes down to bed
rock, each averaging 25 feet, in frozen
gravel, hoisting all the dirt as well as
• sin king the shafts.
Prices of Northern mink rose 22 per
•cent and Southwestern skins 30 per
cent vn the spring fur auctions.
George Winterinantle. former Nome
business man, died at Saietn, Oregon,
freeently, after a year of insanity.
Marie Mejia, colored, was convicted
first hefore the commissioner and later
in the District Court by a jury, at Ju
neau, on the charge of having intoxi
eating liquor in her possession and was
fined $')00. Upon motion for a new
trial made by John H. Cobb, her attor
ney, District Attorney Smiser asked
that the entire proceedings against the
woman be dismissed,-and Judge Fred
M. Brown granted the request. ‘'The
.'•Government has no evidence to con
vict and therefore moves for a dis
missal,'’ said the district attorney.
Marie Mejia secured prominence by
resisting Chief of Police iLeegan and
•bv bringlng-.suit against him for dam
ages on “the grounds that he had
'broken into her place of business with
out-autihority of law. She conducts a
soft drink place on Front street, Ju
f neau.
A cable received by Deputy Marshal
? 3 Inter,Reed. of Nome, from George R.
Goshaw, - recently, reported that the
well* known fur man was a victim of the
Spanish inriuen/.a and had also under
- gone an operation, though the char
. acter was not stated.
Ed Ryan, who abdicates as potato
king of the Matanuska valley, plans to
. leave soon for Hinchinbrook island,
where he will embark in the hog busi
ness, having arranged to lease the
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island, containing 15,000 acres, where
hj will,.place a number of porkei s this
.summep&nd try to capture the Alaska
■market. ^Sd cays the island is covered
with wild peas and strawberries and
these should produce a hog only re
quiring a diet of milkweed to furnish a
meal of pork chops and strawberries
and cream. He has been employed by
the A. E. C. since the Government
railroad building started, save in 1917,
when he put in seventeen acres of pota
toes in the Matanuska valley.
Captain Fred A. Lapp, widely known
old-timer of the Nome section and for
mer navigator, died recently at Nome,
after nearly two years of illness, .death
being due to dropsy, aged 59. He is
survived by a widow.
Dr. William Ramsey, of Council
City, who was brought to Nome some
time ago suffering with blood poi
soning, is now reported, on the road
to recovery.
Stephen Albasini, advertised for in
the “port of missing men” lately, has
been located. He is a resident of Pedrc
creek, and registered in Fairbanks as
soon as he read the notice. The in -
quiry was.made through the General
Land Office, and came from a niece of
Mr. Albisini residing in Colorado.
Sam Sanderson, former Fairbanksan
and mining operator of that district,
arrived at Healy recently, bringing
three head of pack stock with him over
the trail, intending to start50*0r the
Kantishna, where he will spend a year
in prospecting.
A. E. Nicholas, of Seattle, arrived in
Skagwav on a recent boat and left for
Whitehorse. Mr. Nicholas is at the
head of a party which is .going to tour
the Northland in search of material for
use in a book that they will publish lo
be sold at the Portland Fair. Tbo
partv will secure photographs and data
concerning the Klondike rush, as well
as facts and figures of the later day de
velopments.
Anyone who runs away with the be
lief that the Chinese are cheap should
pause and investigate. From Shang
hai, China, Dick Thorne sends Sofus
Knudson a copy of the Daily Morning
Shanghai Times, and it shows prices
charged there for this, that ’nevery
Notice of Forfeiture.
l'o George Twerme (George Moe),
Andy Schwarsdale, and Ralph Zaber:
You, and each of you. your heirs and
assigns are hereby notified that during
the years of 191G. *1917, 1918, 1919. 1920,
I expended the sum of one hundred
dollars [$100.00] annually upon each of
the following named placer mining
claims: Discovery and Number One
Below Discovery on JT'ox gulch, a tribu
tary of Oripple creek, ic theflcncko
recording precinct, Territory of.Alaska,
in order tO'hold said claims under the
provisions of Section 2324 of the re
vised statutes of the United States aod
the amendments thereto concerning
annual labor upon mining claims, for
the period ending January 1, 1921, and
if within ninety days after the publica
tion of this notice you fail or refuse to
contribute your proportion of said ex
penditures, as co-owners, your interests
in said claims will become the property
of the undersigned, your co-owner, who
has made the necessary expenditures
uuder the terms of said section of the
revised statutes of the United States.
James White.
Date of first publication, April 13, 1921.
Date pf last publication. July 13, 1921.
I thins. The subscription price of the
| Shanghai Times delivered to subscrib
ers is the same as that of the Fair
banks News-Miner, $2 per month, and
it sells on the street for ten cents a
copy. There are nntnerers movie
houses advertising, and the prices of
admission are fl-.oO and f i. which at
tiie present rat^ of exchange means -75
cents and oO cerits. Fnirbanks, accord
ing to that, is just as cheap a camp as
Shanghai,China, says the News-Miner.
Andy Sequin died at the Government
hospital in Anchorage, recently, fol
lowing ae attack of pneumonia. He is
well known among the pioneers of that
region, having been a member of the
Pioneer Lodge. For the past several
years he had lived -on- bis. ranch near
Palmer.
Sam Godfrey, Tolovana mining oper
ator. arrived home recently, after hav
iog spent the winter on the Outside.
-Accompanying Mr. Godfrey were Tom
Graves and Chub Douglas. Mr. Doug
las is an old-timer ini Fairbanks, hav
ing mined in the Tolovana district for
several vears prior to-his departure for
the Outsi le in the summer of 1918.
Joe Burns, manager of the Coliseum
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Theatre at Nenana, is preparing^ to
establish a movie theater at Hurricane
Gulch, which will bo one of the active
construction camps during the summer.
He is establishing a chain of motion
picture houses, as the opening of one
at Hurricane Gulch will make the
third-under, his-tr.anagaoexit.
Eill'Butler was recently (appointed a
deputy marshal, with headquarters at
end of steel.
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