Alaska NewsNotes
The political put has already com
menced to bubble, and, contrary to the
usuaj custom, candidate4* for Terri
torial offices are,already beginning* to
show up, says the Valdez Miner. A. E.
Rucker, of Seward, has announced that
he will seek a seat in the i, war house
of the Legislature, oa the democratic
ticket, On the republican side will be
found Edmund S. Oldtin, of Anchorage,
and J» H. Murray, of McCarthy. Miss
Selma Scott, of Valdez, is being urged
to run, hut has not as yat made known
her decision. F. H. Foster, of Cordova,
and T. C. Price, of Anchorage, both
members of tbs Legislature, ■ ave an
» nounced that they are not candidates.
A. J. Ditnond, of Valdez, is the hold
over senator for the Third division,
: and friends of E. K. Chamberlin, whose
term as senator lias expired, are urg
ing him to run agaiD ou the republican
'ticket. Arthur Frame, Anchorage at
torney, is a candidate for reoublican
national committeeman, and it is said
he will have the support of Governor
Rone and also of the Cordova Times.
J. C McBride, the present republican
committeeman, is said not to be a ean
, didate.
E. C» Howard, a fur dealer at Ket
. chikan, rejiorts an interesting discov
ery not far trom that place. He de
scribes his discovery as a place formed
like a natural arena, with basaltic col
umns rearing upwards on all sides,
some of which are 100 feet high. In
tb? bottom.of this natural cistern is a
jelly-like suostance, which closely re
sembles dirty lard, and which is said to
be a natural soap or ‘scat” manufac
tured bv nature, and all ready to be
used. It also has been tested, and will,
it is said, clean carpets, or greasy
stoves and iron work, and has been de
clared by mechanics to be “better than
anything they had used.”
Bob Stafford, an oldtimer in the cm
play of the Alaska railroad, burned to
death in his cabin in Nenana a few
mornings ago. The lire was discov
ered about 2 o’clock, and before any
one could reach it the cabin was in a
mass of hatnes. Stafford was seen
lying across the doorway, but the heat
was so.intsnse that no dne could ap
proach to remove him.
A coast exchange says: “A group of
mining men on the Upper Kuskokwim
are considering the advisability of pur
chasing an engine and building a nar
row gauge railroad from the present
. landing oh the river to the settled min
ing centers, a distance of fifty miles.
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The trucks will be 2x4s. with strap
iron od top, or light steel rails will be
purchased. An effort will be made by
the projectors to reach ao agreement
with the Alaska railroad to handle
tonnage.”
Captain John Hughes, a Yukon nav
igator iutheda>sof the gold rush to
Duwson, and an experienced railroad
traffic man, has been appointed traffic
agent of the Alaska railroad. Hughes
operated a lleet of steamboats on the
run between Whitehorse and Dawson
during the Klondike stampede, but of
recent years has followed railroading,
as an official of the operating and
traffic department of the Southern Pa
cific railroad. Until the ice goes out
in the Interior rivers Captain Hughes
will be on duty at the railroad head
quarters in Anchorage, but his sum
mer headquarters will be at Nenana.
Patrick Maloney, early resident of
Fairbanks, came to his death by freez
ing Christmas night or early the fol
lowing morning. The body was dis
covered in the afternoon of the latter
day by Chris Jokola, a woodcutter, in
the flats, about a mile south of the N.
C. wood yards, and directly west of the
Bjerremark ranch. The body, lying
on its tace in the snow and wrapped in
& buttoned-overgoat, but without mit
tens, could not be identified by the dis
coverer, who reported to the marshal’s
office. Deputies immediately investi
gated and proved the identity.
J. II. Heckman, who recently visited
the Saltchuk mine, near Ketchikan,
with the owner, J. E. Chilberg, says
the mine will prove one of the wonders
of the world, lie told the Ketchikan
Chronicle that there was blocked aud
ready for mining and milling i re val
ued at four million dollars. A milling
plant with a daily capacity of 125 to
150 tons a day is oa the ground and is
now being installed under the direc
tion of L. D. Carpenter, formerly with
the Treadwell and the Alaska Juneau
mines. The values are la palladium
and copper. <£
William Lott, who shot and killed
Billy Prentice, known as the “king of
Alaska bootleggers, at Juneau on July
4tb last, and who was recently tried for
the crime, was acquitted by a jury in
the district court. Lott alleged that
the shots which killed Prentice were
fired in self defense. Lott will now
have to stand trial for having intoxi
cating liquor in his possession, a large
quantity having been found in his bar
ber shop following the killing of Pr -
tice.
The HaDk of Alaska at Anchorage
reoently £led sail against C. E. Herron,
president of the Empire Development
Comppny. for non-payment of a prom
issory note for $21,000. and attached
the plant of the Times Printing Com
pany, of which Herron is the owner.
Tnat the publication of the newspaper
mav be continued. Judge llitcbie has
appointed Leopold David receiver of
the company.
The closing of the two dredges oper
ated by the Hammon Consolidated
Cold Fields Company, at Nome, on De
cember 15, ended a record of late
dredging never attempted before the
Hammon people entered the field. New
developments are anticipated uext sea
son, and crews will continue through
out the winter sinking boles to bed
rock oa their ground.
Many vacancies are being made in
the ottiee Ibiff of the Alaska railroad,
General Manager Landis’ axe lopping
off deadwood everywhere and reducing
the force considerably. It is reported
that a general shakeup will occur all
along the road, and many heads that
have been wearing a crown are uneasy
these days.—Seward Gateway.
E. Grant McMicken, passenger traffic
manager of the Hacine Steamship Com
pany. prediet? the present year
will see the largest tout <• traffic to
Alaska in the history of the Territory.
Three large tourist parties from the
Hast are already booked for Alaska
trips on July 1st, numbering 180 per
sons each, and several others which
number over 100.
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M. Li. V. (Sport) Smith, formerly of
Nome, Seward and Auchorage, cabled
Seward friends recently that ' i is on
his lease near Vernon* Texas, where he
is associated with Joseph K. Brady and
others. They have just tested the oil
sands at 1700 feet, and from the show
ing have a producing well Mr. Smith
has been successfully interested in
several properties in Wilbarger county.
A fire a few days ago at Juneau de
stroyed the old Heidelberg saloon
building', occupied by the Palace of
Sweets, the U and [ cafe, and O’Brien’s
barber shop. The loss is estimated at
$12,000. The Heidelberg saloon, situ
ated in the heart of the downtown sec
tion, was one o'? one best furnished sa
loons in Alaska in the old days.
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John Ramon, better known as “Mar
tin River Johnston,■ an old-time resi
dent o? Alaska, died a few days ago at
; Cordova, while being taken from bis
home to the hospital aiter having suf
fered a paralytic stroke.
According to unconfirmed reports,
Karl Theile. surveyor general of
j Alaska, will seek the nomination on
the republican ticket as republican
national committeeman at the April
primary.
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