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GOES WRONG—
Miss Anr.e Scifridgt, a graduate
of the Ketchikan high schoo., has ac
t .p d a position as r.-pon. r with
The Alaska Fishing News. She is
the daughter of Mr. and
ham Se-fridge. She took a course
in journalism at the Whitman Col
lege. in Washington. Miss Sc-’fridge
v. _s born in Alaska.
D. E. STUBBS VERY ILL—
WASHINGTON—Duke E. Stubbs,
long-time re. ident of Interior Alas
ka and more recently of McKinley
Park, who has been residing in
Washington for several years while
< aged in the prosecution of a
claim against the Government, is
m . . -iv ill with an un iagnosed
c rupiaint. The condition bvvame so
aggravated this week that i was be
lieved advisable for Mr. Stubbs to
elite, a hospital for treatment. Mrs.
Stui os is also staying at the hospi
tal in order to assist her husband.
MAKES TRIP TO ALASKA—
A fish story and an air story—
those are the two main interests in
life for W. B. Courtney, associate
ed.tor of Collier’s Weekly, who ar
rived in Juneau recently. Courtney
has traveled all over the world gath
ering “cc lor" for feature articles
about current events which he chron
icles in h ational weekly j nblica
;i. terviewed scores of
- pi. viudirg Benito Mus
. i. . : talin and Ad if Hitler.
A w months ago he was in Spam
,ng” the civil war. and then he
fit across Europe to take 'he Graf
Hindenburg for America. That trip
O urtney made was the last trip be
fore the Hindenburg exploded, and
the editor of Collier's had decided to
wrhhold publication of the article he
wr te about the use of hydrogen gas
and helium gas in aircraft. The day
that the Hindenburg exploded due to
the use of hydrogen, it so happened
Courtney’s article appeared on the
new-lands in the magazine. That is
what C -urtney calls ‘ a real news
story!”
Pend in your Subscription to The
KUSKO TIMES today
MINING CASE SETTLED—
A court rder in the District at
Nome under Presiding Judge Mor
- n. was rect t y issued enabling a
settlement out of court of the Rob
ins $48,000 n.ortgag a, ainst the
Inmaehuk claims group owned by1
the C rdovado G id Dredging Co.
Final setlement of Percy Robbins’
first mortgage opened the way for
John Devine's second mortgage to
become a first mortgage. Devine
has for the past two years been op
erating the p: receiver,I
wiD continue to act in this ca-|
’ acity pending further court in
structions, under whose jurisdiction I
the properties were placed when
thrown into receivership several
years ago.
WISNER KILLS SELF—
Homer Wisner, for years in the
sheriff's office of King County as a
deputy and until his death un
•ji-r Sheriff William Severyns in a
jike capacity, shot and killed himself
r. Seattle. The unfortunate
r . ad been suffering from a goi
ter aiiment for some time and had
at times told his wife he would com
mit suicide. The deed was commit
ted at the home of the deceased just
after dinner . While Mrs. Wisner
was attending to household duties
Wisner walked into a bedroom pen
ned a short note merely stating
"this is self destruction, cremation.”
and signing it, placed the muzzle of
a -hotgun to his temple and pressed
the t; gger. Wisner will be remem
bered by Nome pionee-rs as having
teen in' the pest office there. He
loaves besides a wife, one brother
and a sister.
The rhetorician who laid down the
rule, “Never use a preposition to
end a sentence with,” has been out
done by the child who asked, “What
did you bring that book to me to;
read out of for”’’
Wherever you may be located.
en_ in whatever news you may
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newsy newspaper. Send some today.
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YIEDS MUCH WEALTH—
WASHINGTON — The value of
minerals produced in Alaska since
1880 has reached $722,222,000—100
times the price paid Russia for the
country in 1867—the Geological Sur
vey reported. Mines produced $23,
504000 worth of minerals in 1936 as
against $18,312,000 in 1935, the sur
vey showed. The value of the out
put by minerals in 1936: gold, $18,
433,000; silver, $369,000; copper, $3,
72J.OOO; lead $99,500; coal $573,700,
and miscellaneous, including platin
um and tin, $398,800. The gold out
put in 1935 was valued at, $15,940,
000.
WOMAN LOCATED—
The mystery of Mrs. Albert Nor
man, wife of an Alaska-Juneau mine
contractor, who disappeared recently
was cleared when she was located
with her ex-husband Roy Wright
and Everett Schue in Ketchikan.
Deputy Marshal N. O. Hardy wired
Juneau authorities that the trio had
been found after Gus Swanson, hal
ibut fisherman, had informed the
Marshal’s office in Juneau that he
had seen W'right on the dock at Ket
chikan. Hardy wired that W’right
was attempting to sell his gear and
Mrs. Norman was trying to locate
work. She told the deputv that she
last saw her husband drunk and he
tried to throw her overboard. This
was strongly denied by Norman in
Juneau. He declared he was not at
the lower ciy float when she is said
to have fallen in the water, just be
fore her disappearance aboard
Wright's gasboat, 31-D-12. Accord
ing to Hardy, Mrs. Norman said she
left a letter with a trap watchman
saying she was not returning to her
husband. Authorities have found no
trace of such a letter, and believe
Wright and Sirs. Norman were plan
ning to leave the country while a
search was being made for them.
•WRECK OF *97’ NOW
SHUNTING LOCALS AROUND
RALEIGH, N. C.—Like a gallant
but worn out rare horse, the engine
that pulled “Old *97” to its famed
wreck near Danville, Ya., in 1903, is
now a “local” of the Southern Rail
way, officials disclosed here.
The engine which retains the num
ber of its palmy days, 1106, hauls
the passenger train on the Marion to
Rocky Hill branch of the railroad.
“No, she doesn’t round the curves
any more at 90 miles an hour/’Jack
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Groceries - Clothing
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MR* and MRS. M. MYNTTL Props.
Crow, engineer, said. “But you still
have to hold her back when she gets
going good. Yep, she’s a great en
gine/’
Old “1106” used to haul crack
train No. 97, the pride of the South,
from Washington, to’ Atlanta, to
Birmingham, though it was a solid
mail train, it attained a reputation
and glamour unsurpassed in rail
road annals.
The ballad of Stephen Brady and
the wreck of “Old Ninety-seven,”
epitomizing the Danville wreck has
become an American epic.
Today “1106,” as it makes its lack
adaisical run through North Caro
lina is decidedly un-;treamlined and
unusually massive. The engine
stands 14 feet from tracks to smoke
stack. Its six wheels have a diam
eter of 72 inches.
The old-fashioned cowcatcher, oil
headlight and wooden pilot on the
iO-year-old engine have been replac
ed by more modern equipment.
The famous disaster occurred in
1903 as 1106 headed for the huge
five-deck trestle across the Dan riv
■r Failing to make the curve at the
trestle, the mail train jumped the
tracks anc hurtled into the river.
The fireman, engineer and 12 mail
tlerks -were killed as the engine pul
!ed all its coaches into the abyss be
low.
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These machines are built es
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and have many special fea
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Write for particulars.
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