THE KUSKO TIMES
A. X. Grant, Publisher, Sole
Owner and Editor.
Twice a Week:
Wednesday and Saturday
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Address alllCommunications:
Kusko Times, McGrath, Alaska.
MCGRATH, ALASKA. AUG. 3. 11421.
News Notes From
All Parts of Alaska
Mild cases of influenza have visited
the western part of Alaska.
Robert Guest has been renamed
chief of the Seward fire department.
Fuel oil at Ketchikan has been re
duced from $2.80 to $2.60 a barrel.
The pupils of the Petersburg public
•school gave their annual play recently.
Japanese are replacing Chinese as
the crew of the Petersburg Packing
Company.
Edwin L. Morley. former Klondiker,
K59 years of age. died a short time ago
■at Portland, Ore.
Many reservations have been re
ceived by Dawson hotel men from
tourists during tne summer.
Taylor, Drury & Pedlar Company,
the big Whitehorse traders, are to
start a branch store at Mayo.
Big game hunters' fees in the Yukon
were recently increased by order of
Council from $100 to $200 a year.
Ex -Congressman Henry T. Bannon,
of Ohio, recently arrived at Wrangell
en route to the Stickine river country.
Work is going ahead at Ketchikan
on the plan of raising money for an
American Legion headquarters build
ing.
Gasoline is'selling for 28i cents in
Ketchikan and fuel oil is selling for 35
cents, a barrel. Further reductions
are expected,
Frank Toda, a Japanese resident of
Max Simel
The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
Sold
Miners’, Prospectors’
and Trappers’i
Supplies
Steamer Service On the Inoka
River.
Ask the People of Ophir about us.
STATION
Fairview, Innoko River
Wrangei., was found with two whiskey
stills in his possession and was fined
$250 and costs.
The Haines Masonic Club has pur
chased a building at the old Chinook
cannery site and will move it to Haines
for a club room.
Admission prices at the Liberty show
house at Ketchikan have been cut from i
40 to 25 cents for adults, and from-25 to !
10 cents for children.
In a recent raid on the St. Francis
hotel at Ketchikan a trunk load of
booze was seized and the proprietor of
the place'was arrested.
Coffee and cheese straws served by a
hostess at Ketchikan recently was
served to the guests; something new in
the eats line for a sourdough.
Miss Olive Reed, daughter of Elmer
Reed, of Nome, is under contract -with
a large Eastern manufacturing concern
to produce records of her violin .. play
ing.
Quite a stampede was on recently at
Dawson to secure permits for the im
portation of liquor. It was reported j
that the fee of $2 a gallon was to be j
raised.
B. M. Grant, a private banker of j
New York, accompanied by his son and :
a party of friends, with a guide, left'
Whitehorse recently for the Kluane to
hunt bears.
Postmaster E. S. McDonald, of Ne
nana, who tendered his resignation
several months ago, has been notified
of the temporary appointment of Mrs.
E. A. Williams.
People of Wrangell have taken steps
to secure headstones from the Govern- '
ment to mark the resting place of sev- !
eral veterans of the Civil War that are
buried there.
The Yukon Council -recently passed
a law providing that all miners work
ing in the Territory, with the excep
tion of a few cases, shall be paid their
wages monthly.
The Ketchikan sawmill has landed a
big order for box shooks for Prince
flupert fish houses that will keep the
mill running at least a month longer
than was anticipated.
Another floating cannery has arrived
at Wrangell, making three in all that
are there now. The latest arrival be j
longs to the Cape Flattery Fisheries;
Company, and will can and mild cure ;
fish.
Fred Joyce and Jerry Kincaid, 611
Hyder, who joined the Fort Norman
I oil stampede, have wired from Edmon- {
; ton to their friends to remain home, as
! things would be no good there until
September.
Arthur G. Bell, formerly a well
known printer and newspaper man of
Fairbanks and Nenana, died recently
at Tacoma from diabetes, from which
he had been suffering for years past.
He first came North in 1S06.
New city employes elected at a late
meeting of the Petersburg city council
are as follows: Frederick Nelson, city
clerk and magistrate; W. P. Moyer,
city electrician; Hans Wick, city mar
shal, and C. Clausen, city treasurer.
A native arrived in Hyder recently
with four tons of oohchans, which he
was forced to dump overboard, as there
were not enough hard-boiled residents
there to use them. Since his departure
the smell has caused manv old squaw
men to sing the old Alaskan hymn,
“The klootch I left behind”
Rough and Dressed Lum
ber of All Kinds
INKOKO LUMBER CO.
Why Carry Your Outfit a Long Distance?
We Can Supply Everything You Need. *
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Fresh Stock Just Arrived. Prices That Will Satisfy You
GEO. HOFFMAN - NAPAMUTE:
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim
PIONEER POOL ROOM
"M^GrritH’s Popular Resort f
Dave E. Clough - - J>rop.
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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,
• gyen as far as Ruby.
Freighter
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W. H. Jones
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.|
Capt Wallace Langley* (Manager.
The Kusko Times $2 Per Month