Alaska News Notes
The Green group of mines, near Mc
Carthy, shipped its first car load of ore
last month.
The Presbyterian church at Wran- |
gelt was recently delicated bv Ur. S. j
Hall Young.
Ketchikan has a band of twenty-four j
pieces, with many new members apply
ing for admission.
Anton Politus, a native if' Greece,
died recently in the Fairbanss hospital
from tumor of the brain.
Former District .Judge F. M Brown
is attorney for a large number of mo
tion picture corporations at Hollywood.
Dr. J. II. Bowen, with holdings in
the tlealy Giver Corporation, has dis
posed of his interests to Captain A. F.
Lathrop, of Cordova.
The city council of Fairbanks has
fixed the tax levy at 17 mills. This is
accounted for on account of many im
provements to be made.
Grove.- Cleary, the Petersburg fox
rancher, recently purchased forty pairs1
of blue foxes, wnich will be installed on
bis already Ityrge ranch.
In.his annual report Gov. Scott C.
Bone recommends the allotment of a
fan- percentage of the net revenues
derived from the seal fisheries of the
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Pribilof islands tothe general fund of
the Territory. The seal islands are in
Alaska waters, but ti.e government
takes all revenues-.
Danny, the young son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Stewart of Fab banks, re
cently lost an eye and his left hand,
when his shotgun worst off accidentally.
W. D Goss, proprietor of the Coli
seum theater ai Junedu, announces'
that he will erect a new movie house,
with a sealing capacity of 1,000.
Ketchikan scholars won the prize of
fered by the American Legion for the
best essays on “How Can the American
Legion Best Serve the Nation?”
The tug Monitor recently took a
barge load of marble from the Tokeen
quarries, on the west coast of Prince
of Wales island. The load was valued
at $80,000.
John Russell Walle, for several vears
with the department of accounting, A.
E. C.. at Fairbanks, died in Shanghai.
China, recently. He was a member of |
tiie Fairbanks lodge of Masons.
Charles Miller, who has been prac-i
ticing law in Seattle in recent years, .
has been appointed assistant federal ;
district attorney for Ketchikan, to sue - :
ceed A. Id. Maltby, who died recently. I
The Julian Alaska Mines Company
has let a contract for a 4.000 foot tun-1
nel, necessary to drain the "S.0U0-foo. '
tunnel of the mine. About forty men
will be employed and three shifts
worked.
The fishing boat Mildred II. recently
arrived at Ketchikan with 28,000
pounds of halibut, which was disposed
of at 8? cents The Gladstone took in
21.000 pounds, and the Tordenj.old had
40.000 pounds>
Tony Lithbelakis, who I was sent to
the penitentiary from Cordova for a
term of twenty years for brutally kill
ing his partner, recently attacked his
guard at McNeil’s island and was only
[Overpowered after a severe struggle.
Several school children in Skagway i
have been suffering from an incipient I
eye disease. The Territorial board of
health representative, who visited the
city^found all tlie patients recovering
under the care of the local physician.
Frank Richardson Fierce, of Seat tle, !
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who last year sold 47 short s uries on
Alaska to different mafiazines, has re- '
signed his position with the city public
works department, and will devote all
iiis time to Alaskan stories and a novel
he is writing.
The National Republican League, an
association of representative Arnei
icans, has been organized in the Terri
tory, with Karl 1’heile, a popular Ter
ritorial official, as organizer. He will
visit sevetal parts of the Territory in
the interests of the c'ub.
According to Ike Spink, who recent i
ly arrived in Nenana from iheKoyu !
kuk mining district, three is an abuud |
auce of provisions in the northern
[camp. Flour is $14 a hundred weight;
rolled oats, $1 25 for a 10-pound sack;
| butter, 2 pounds for $1 50; sugar. $17 a j
hundred; rice, $l(i a hundred.
Jim Kel|y, .Jack Dowd and Esting-|
sou, who arrived lately at Wiseman, in
the Koyukuk secton, brought with I
them a poke containing over $800 in
dust. They made their find at i fie
head of the Betties river, and after
laving in a supply of provisions headed
back for the scene of their discovery.
The following officers were install) d
recently by Fairbanks Igloo, No. 4,
Pioneers of Alaska: Alfred M.. Ohlsen,
president; Jesse Hunt, first vice presi
dent; Edbv Daly, second vme president:
G, C. Moody, secretary; G. Hutchinson,
t reasurer; J. H. Groves, historian; Jack
Truant, sergeant at arms; Tony Tate,
doorkeeper. The retiring president,
George Myers, was presented with a
gold watch in appreciation of services
tendered during ihe year he presided
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