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Gathered Fiiom Territorial
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W. A;VKt-udal, cldtimer of the Koy
ul$uk, <udd <at Wiseman recently,, his
i^aUrheThig due to natural causes. He
tjn over. do years of age and had
;fthe. Koyukivk for many years.
J»ie4ct BarcSslex. an oldtimer of the
■o^uitry, was found dead recently in
his ?.ri»i-at. Mil? 3 1-4 on the Alaska
fWlro.id out of Seward. A coroner’s
:urv.returned a verdict of suicide, it
vkvim?. been decided the deceased
had shot himrelf through the head
with a 22-caliber rifle.
William Britt of Juneau is now
Norwegian vice-consul for the entire
Territory of Alaska. For many years
Mr. Britt has been Norwegian vice
consul for the Alaska coast country,
and Carl J. Lomen was vice-consul
for Norway at Nome. Some time
ago Mr. Lomen resigned, and later
the Norwegian government decided
to make .-—ska orfe district, with
headquarters at Juneau, with Britt in
charge.
A 3ft-ounco nugget was part of E.
Turnquist’s cleanup on Ruby creek,in
the Atlin, B. C., district, recently.
This is said to be the seepnd largest
nugget ever found on Ruhy creek, but
many larger ones have been taken
from title creeks in the. Atlfn district;
Thu- largest one.ever, found there was
f UKv von Zesch
Dentist
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WILL iBE IN THE KU8
K(?KWIM VALLEY ALL
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Eliiet Date' of Visits in Ta-<
kotna, McGrath, Ofihir and-/ .
Flat will be announced
later.
picked up several years ago by H. P.
Pearse, who was hydrulicklng on
Birch creek, at the time. The nugget
we’ghed 84 ounces ar.d was solid gold.
“Happy Jack” Felix, one of the!
sourdoughs who laid out the town of!
Circle, and insisted that the streets
be 60 feet wide so four team sof dogs
could pars at the same time, was an
outgoing passenger on a late steamer,
en route to the States for his second
trip outs.t'e in 30 years. Felix is
; still a resident of Circle, engaged in
the mining industry.
For the first seven years of ' tlve"
A.askn -agricultural College and
School of Mines the Territory has ap
propriated a total sum of $495,710...
the federal government has fur-.
nished, under the Morrill and Nelson,
Acts, $50,000 each year, or a ..total-,
sum of $350,000. The physical.plant
of the college today, , including its
grounds, buildings, general equip
ment, library an.d scientific apparatus,
has a valuation of qver $400,000
Charles Ohrem, former assistant
foreman a; .the Seward, dock, died re
cently from injuries received the day
previous when he was penned, down
'Under the two-ton steel magnet which
was being used by the Alaska Rail
road to transfer scrap steel from the
wharf to the. Japanese steamer Tiayu
"Maru. Mr. Ohrem, who was working
in the hold of the vessel, stepped into
the square of the hatch to guide a
siingload cf dunnage that was being
lowered by the magnet nook, unmind
ful, it is said, of the fact that the
magnet was following the dunnage.
Men working in the hold stated that
the magnet .came down on Ohrem as
the cable, was slackened to permit
: them to drag the load under the deck.
|-He was immediately rushed to the
■hospital, where everything possiole
Was;done for the injured man, who
' mained conscious until the end.
Having suffered heavy losses dur-.
■ ing his absence in previous seasons
j as the result of depradations of black
I bears, A. D. Gagnon, well known
! trapper of the upper Yentna country,
i returned to his camp during August,
| determined to drive the bears out of
J the district, and he believes he made
I a good job of it. When he left his
camp recently, after a stay of several
weeks in the district, there was not
a bear in the vicinity. Shortly after
; arriving at his camp Gagnon awoke
I one morning to find a big blcck bear
i peering at him through the window.
i The trapper arose and, wi.h gun in
hand, went to the door. The bear
was there, waiting for him. Gagnon
opened the door just wide enough to
poke the muzzle of the gun througn
ar.d give the bear a broadside, mark
ing the commencement of his war of
‘exterminalio! shot was
fired about 3 o’clock in the morning,'
Succowwrg to Northern Commercial Co. At
and by 9 o’clo'di the trapper hat. nine
bears scattered: abfeut .his dooryard.'
The number J.ad been increaced to.
about twenty before Gagnon left his
camp, an<£. Ji* • feels confident that
when he returns to the Kichatna later
in- the seaswn-h3 will find his camp
undisturb'd.
W. L. Goodwin, formerly an Alas
kan. ciuiil engineer,- died recently in
’Seattle. He wns,locating engineer in
.he construction of the White Pass &
Yukon* railroad, and ater was con
nected .with tthe construction of the
Cppper -River & Northwestern Rail
Following that work Mr. Gocdwin be
,^me connected with the Alaska
Ruad. Commission, then under Colonel
Wild? P. Richardson, and for several
yeai;s served as superintendent on the
Seward Peninsula, with headquarters
at Nome. He returned to the States
just prior to the beginning of the
World War, and after America en
tered the conflict was assigned as
chief engineer of the work of build
ing railroad and storage depots at
Columbus, Ohio. He returned to the
West after the war and had resided
in Seattle for several years prior to
hi? death.
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The. speed boat 222, or “Three1
Deuces,”, formerly owned by Roy
Olmstead, formerly heralded as king
of the bootleggers, has been added to
the prohibition fleet in Southeastern
Alaska. The boat is heavily powered
and is said to have a maximum speed,
of 30 miles an hour.
Ore having a value of $3,000,00©!
has been shipped by the Treadwell.
Yukon Company, at Mayo, Yukon.
Territory, to the Bunker Hill smelter. I
The quantity is about 8,000 tons, as;
compared with 6,000 tons last year.i
Of the 8,000 tons, about 75 per cent
is flotation concentrates containing 55
to GO per cent lead and 500 to 600'
ounces of silver to the ton. The re
mainder is in crude form and con
tains 500 per cent lead and $00
ounces of silver to the ..ton. . The>jniH
has a capacity of 300 tons daily.,
A. L. Reed, indicted for murder in'
ibe first degree for the killing of Ole
Krudeseth at Saginaw,Bay, entered'a
plea of guilty of manslaughter in the
district court at Ktcchikn recently;
and was, sentenced to imprisonment,
for ten years at McNeil. Island peni
tentiary. Brudeseth was a herring'
foreman at Saginaw Bay. He was
jshot by Reed in the latter’s cabin last
July, and was rushed to Petersburg
for medical aid, dying, however, be
fore the boat madeport. Reed, it was
testified at the coroner’s inquest, was
drunk at the time of the shooting.
Five tons of books, musty and
covered with the accumulation of dust
of years, were recently received at
the Alaska Historical Museum at Ju
neau. toiey art the remaining vol
umes of the library left at Sitka when,
the capital was removed from there
to Juneau. For years they weret
stored in the buildfngr at Sitka occu
pied by the U. S: marshal. Later
they were moved to the Pioneer
Home. Demands there for more space
made it necessary to remove them, so
Frank J. Guskey
Notary Public
McGrath. Alaska
Du Rand’s
Gale and
Hotel
Flat City
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they were takes* ?« Juneau. Most of
.the btotes are government reports,
>many of real value, while others have
no particular worth.. It will . take
weeks to sort put the wheat , f cbm sthe
chaff.'
Mrs. George Kh>ndeauj; Who .spent
the summer at Central House, in the
Circ.’e riisiript,; became the premier
r»ear hnuter jof the interior recently
c.vhen she, killed three out af a. band
of five bears that were raiding a
meat cache apd knocke d down a
■fourth with a riflii hullet. When she
s aw the bears attempting to get at
the meat, Mrs. BkmdPau opened fire,
’getting two cubs), *»d a'grown animal
with'the first .satvo. Three of the
bears were hlack-)i*d'two brown.
Pa—How- are. you• getting along
with your Graek?
i Daupghterr^-Now, you leave my
boy friend'otit.of.'tbm:
Professor— What do you hrd the
hardest thing, to deal yrith ?
Studeht—An old pack of cards.
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securities market today, after a brisk
fray, which followed general, declines
A $1(J to $12.a .share, .paid 'tohold, ,
uud prices of many.atocks fell bel6w.>
their .opening quotations.
Nipk Poind, who is substituting for;'
Charlie Koenig on. the; mail run ,be*.
tween Big river and Flat, returned
Ihursday from a trip as far as Ophir,,
from which point the ingoing, ipajl
was taken to Flat by Charlie Q’flal-.
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