AGNEWDEFEATS
FRED HENNING
IN SEMI-FINAL
Wins Place in Final Where
Meets Barragar — Mrs.
Faulkner Beats Mrs. Pullen.
After eliminating John McLaugh
lin in two straight sets Tuesday
evening, Capt. P. A, Agnew defeated
Kred Henning yesterday afternoon
in the last semi-final event, winning
three hard fought sets, the first of
which was an extended affair going
to 14 games. This brings Agnew
and J. E. Barragar, Sr., together in
(he final mutch of the men’s singlet
division in tlie Juneau Tennis Club's
tournament.
Tills morning, Mrs. H. L. Faulk
ner won the women’s semi-tinal in
straight sets from Mrs. W. S. Pul
len, 6-2, 6-0 and 6-0, and will meet
Miss Harrett Barragar in the final
event, probably before tlie end of
this week.
Agnew’s victory over McLaughlin
had been forecasi. The younger
player put up u very pretty game
and carried the score to deuce In
several games but Agnew s play was
too strong and the latter won 6-0
and 6-3.
The Agnew-Henning match was
the fastest and prettiest of th<
tournament. In 'the opening set tilt
play of both men at times borderec
on the brilliant and rounds of ap
plause greeted several rallies. Hen
ning'a service at tlie outset was hart
and fast and many went for uces
He had a three-game lead early in
the set and for a time looked to be
a sure winner of it. Agnew pullet
up by taking three straight game:
und was never headed.
In tlie last two sets Henning hat
trouble with his service. Agnew
played consistently, plating his shots
well. Agnew took the match it
straight sets, 8-6, 6-4 and 6-1.
While the finals have not beer
definitely set, it was said today tlia
both events would be played off Sat
urday afternoon iif possible.
The play iu the mixed double,
tournament opened last night, dm
match was played, going the lul
throe sets. H. G. Noidilug and Mis
Marian Summers defeating Fret
Henning and Mrs. K E. Robertson
6-4, 2-6 and 6-4. Two other matchei
in tlie doubles to be played in tin
near fuutre are: John McLauglilii
and Miss M. B. Cook vs. W. S
Pullen and Mrs. J E. Barragar, ant
H. J Fisher and Mrs. VV. S. Pullei
■ys. Mr. and Mrs. John F. Starr.
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" WHO’S HERE !
j_ AND WHERE •
Myles F. McDonnell, representative
for the American Paper Company
and Swift Company In Alaska, for the
past several years, accompanied by
Mrs. McDonnell and two daughters
left on the Alasku for the States
enroute to New York, where Mr
McDonnell has accepted a position
with a large manufacturing firm.
H. F. Preston, representative fot
the National Grocery Company, lefi
on the Alaska for a business trip ti
Ketchikan.
E. J. MeClanahan, assistant dis
trlct Bales manager of the Standarc
OH Company, at Seattle, Is now a
the Westward, enroute to Nome or
a business trip. He will go dowi
the river to St. Michael, thence tt
Nome, returning south he will go tt
Dutch Harbor, from there to Seward
thence South. Mr. MeClanahan ex
pects to return to Seattle about Sep
tetuber 1.
Judge James Wlckershum, local at
torney, left on the Alaska for Ket
chlkau enroute to Hyder on lmsi
ness
James T. Barron, president of tht
Thllnget Packing Company and Mi
ami Mrs. T. M. Fiupatrick, his son
in-law and daughter, are Juneau vis
Hors. They expect to leave this even
lug on the Estebeth for the cannery
at Funter Bay.
I Mrs. Van Presley, wife of the su
perintendent of the Latouche mine
and her little daughter, are passen
gers on the Alaska for the States
They expect to be absent from Alas
ka until December and will be joiner
In the South later by Mrs. Presley
KEELER AND YOUNG GO TO
HOONAH ON CHURCH BUSINESS
Dr. A. B. Keeler, Church Field Ex
tension Secretary of the Presbyter
Ian Church for the United States
Including Alaska for the Board o
Church Erection, and Dr. 8. Hal
Young. General Missionary for Alas
ka left Juneau yesterday on thi
George Jr for Hoonah, on churcl
business They will return tonigh
on the boat and plan to leave on thi
Estebeth for Sitka.
Emil Krause also left on thi
George Jr. for Hoonah, with a i-rev
of men to start the construction o
the Presbyterian manse at that place
He will return tonight.
•ODY OF SMITH SHIPPED SOUTH
The body of R. W. Smith, englnee:
on the boat F. T. Crosby, of thi
Washington Tug & Barge Company
of Seattle, who was drowned Satur
gay last in the lake at Pavlot Harbor
was shipped south from Juneau toda;
on tha steamer Admiral Rogers. Ttr
funeral servjcea ylll ha held at Se
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July Weather Not Abnormal
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ReportShovvsExcessW armth
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| With an overage dally ext eg* in
| temperature of 2.1 degrees, and with
i nine wholly <dear days and 46 per
'cent, of the possible amount of suu
| shine, the month of .Inly was de
lightfully pleasant, according to the
: Weather Bureau's meteorological
: summary.
| The month stood in marked con
trast to the July of the past two
years, both of which had average
daily deficiencies of over three de
grees in temperature, with only one
clear day, and 7 per cent, of sun
shine in 1921. The records show that
July of 1920 and also of 191S, had
more sunshine than the past month,
j the percentage being 66 and 57.
i respectively, and the number of
! (dear days. 15 anil 12, respectively.
In 1915 the month had 25 clear
days, hut as it had only a quarter
of an inch of rain it was too warm
and dry for comfort.
In the month Just closed the high
est temperature was S2 degrees, on
the 7th, the record of all past years
“Jekyll and Hvde”
Student Held.
Harry H. Pine, 17. recent
j graduate of the Camdem (N. J.)
:l County High School is held in
ij Camdem on the charge of having
been Implicated In a number of
i| during house robberies. The boy,
■j preparing for the ministry, comes
ii from a wealthy family and was
, I almost always well supplied with
ij spending money. Only two weeks
i; before his arrest he filled the pul
! pit of the Union Methodist Epis
copal Church, in Camden, in the
ubsence of the regular pastor.
EAGLE DISTRICT
SWEPT BY FLOOD
EARLY IN IULY
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j Miners on Many Creks Lose
Equipment and Dumps
During High Water.
High water early last month ser
iously affected mining operations in
the Eugle district on the upper Yu
kon River, according to David A.
Bryant, who has Bpent the past two
years mining in that region and
! who, with his wife and son, are
' passengers on the steamer Alaska
j enroute to Yakima, Wash., where
j they will locate.
j The water on American Creek,
directly tributary to Eagle, accord
ing to Mr. Bryant, was the highest
* on record. The workings of all the
i miners on that stream were swept
1 away, sluice boxes being curried
j out and dumps taken out during the
i spring and early summer month*
1 swept away. The American Creek
. I miners, he said, lost everything.
! On the Seventy Mile River, Bryani
iand Carlson, who have been in tht
I district for many years, lost al
_ j their sluice boxes and both thi
washing and dredge dams were takei
out.
The bridge built by the Alaskt
Road Commission over Nugget Creel
last year, built over 15 feet abovi
the normal water stage, was swep
away so great was the raise in thi
i stream.
Axel Johnson, another oldtlmer o
the district, lost all of his cleanup
The gravel was in the sluice boxei
,[ready for cleaning when the flood
backing up Into his cut, struck hii
1. line and turned over the boxes
] sweeping away their contents.
i ! The flood waters swept the dia
i trlct with terrific force. Many o
1 i the creeks bear evidence to this
(j their channels being cut two t<
i three feet deeper and widened frou
■ j six to eight feet, said Mr. Bryant
The extreme crest of the flood wa
ters is marked by lines of drift
wood which now hangs in trees higt
above the creek levels
E. J. Costello, mining engineer foi
the Marcus Daly estate of New
York, left on the Alaska for Ketchl
kan enroute to Hyder where he will
look over mining properties.
NOTICE.
' There will be a sewing meetlnf
! of the Ladies of the Mooaehear
- l.egiun tonight at 8 o’clock fo
i tha coming Bazaar
adv. MRS. A. F. M'KINNON.
being 89. The lowest temperature
was 47 degrees on the 15th, as
against the previous record * of 88
degrees. There were 11 days on
j which the temperature rose to 70
degrees or above, the normal num
ber of days in July being eight,
i In 1018 there were 14 stu b days,
in 1920, 18. in 1915, 13, and in 1921
only 1.
i The precipitation of 4.10 inches
lac ked 1.08 inches of the normal for
j.luly. and occurred in measurable
quantity on 13 days of the month,
1 the normal number being 15. One
and thirty-hundredths inches on (he
j 24th 25th was the greatest 24-hour
t amount, while the 10th, the day of
the President's visit, was a close
I second with 1.29 inches. July of
1917 was the wettest on record,
with a total of 10.50 inches and 23
days with a measurable quantity.
The maximum wind velocity was
29 miles an hour from the north
west on the 15th, and the average
hourly velocity, 5.9 miles.
DEMOCRATS ARE
TO TALK PLANS
Meeting Called for Saturday
Evening—Discuss Many
Important Matters.
j The beginning of a rejuvenation
of the Democratic party organiza
tion in this community and district
is seen in the call issued today by
\V. W. Casey, Chairman of the Demo
cratic Divisional Committees for a
meeting next Saturday evening of
local party men. Several important
matters relating to the inerty s ac
tivities In the near future are sched
uled fur discussion, said Mr. Carey.
leading Democrats here and in
filter Alaskun communities believe
the time is ripe for concentration
of their forces and strengthening
the organization which will enter
the primaries and general election
next year, lie said. It is to clirciias
plans for this and other activities
Meat the meeting is called.
The meeting will be held in the
offices or Hellcnthal & Uellinthal at
8 p. in. Saturday.
JOHN NOON, PIONEER
OF ALASKA, IS DEAD
Nt*ww conies from the South of
the death at Portland. Oregon, July
26 or John Noon, pioneer of the
North, influential citizen of Seward
for many years and twice a member
Of the Territorial Legislature.
Air. Noon was born In California
about 70 years ago. He lived in
that State and throughout the plains
region during his young manhood
days, miner, cowboy, trader, cattle
raiser, merchant and hotel man by
j t urns.
He came to Juneau in the early
I days, and spent sometime about this
section of the country, but returned
to California, returning again with
the Klondike stampede of 1897. He
worked on Bonanza Creek for a time
in the Klondike, and then went to
Nome. He returned to Dawson and
joined a stampede to the Koyukuk
and wont from there back to Nome.
An old partner, Cal Brostus, and
he built the wharf and did other
'construction work for J. D. Meenach
'at El Umar, and from there they
| went to Seward, which was begln
Jning Us career. Except for a time
spent in Fairbanks, an incursion
'into Nevada during the excitement
j following the discovery of Tonapah
land Goldfields, and two years as
downer of a roadhouse at Thompson's
Pass on the Valdez-Falrbunks road,
jthe later years of his eventful career
'were spent at Seward In business
I with Cal Brosius.
! lie was chosen to be Represents
I five in the Territorial Legislature
jin 1914 and again in 1918. He
. | was the Democratic nominee foi
, Territorial Senator in 1920, hut
j was defeated by Senator E. E. Cham
burlin. During the c-ampaign that
year he went East for the Sewarc
i Chamber of Commerce, and, ahortlj
after returning, illness took him t<
, Portland, where he spent his closing
days in a hospital In a losing battle
against disease.
Mr. Noon is survived by a widow
, and son, and thousands of friends ir
Alaska and elsewhere on the Pacifli
i Coast.
WATSONVILLE, Cal., Aug. 2—Ac
rcuge for growing lettuce for th<
market is iu demand In the vlcinitj
j of Watsonville since It was reporter
’ that the lettuce crop from twelvt
acres near here had been sold tc
' Los Angeles distributors for $9,000
A MODERN STORE
Now Handling a Larger Variety of
FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
We are prepared to give yon even
better service than before.
CALIFORNIA GROCERY
“THE BEST IN EVERYTHING”
Phone 478.
Three-Year-Old Boy
Is Bandmaster.
[t^eg-Ler Sduictiier
Muster Lester Malcolm Schnit- j
zer, just past his third year, a
Brooklyn (N. ’ Y.) child, amazed :
spectators at Manhattan Beach, |
Long Island, by tlie masterly way :
he conducted a seashore resort '
band.
PET RICH IS PROMOTED
IN CUSTOMS SERVICE
T. J. Petrich, who has held the
position of stenographer and typist
in the local U. S. Customs office
for the past year, was yesterday,
promoted to Deputy Collector and'
[inspector, acordlng to an announce-,
i inent made by Collector J. C. Mc-j
i Bride.
i The promotion leaves a vacancy j
!in the stenographic position. This, j
: it was stated, is being tilled at pres-;
|ent by Earl Naud.
ENGINEER INSPECTING
BY-PRODUCTS PLANTS
W. L. Unaerwoon, field engineer
|for tlie California Press Manufactur
ing Company of San Francisco, who
| has been in Juneau a short time
I, will leave today for Hood Bay to in
spect tlie company’s by-product plant
; at that place. He expects to re
[turn here in about two weeks and
'is making Juneau his headquarters
while he Inspects several plants op
erated in this district by his firm.
The company operates 16 plants
in Alaska, in tho Southeastern and
at the Westward, putting out by
products utilized as fertilizer. Mr.
Underwood does not expect to go to
the Westward. This is the fli'Bt trip
he has made to tho North.
LARSON GOES SOUTH.
j Thomas Larson, prominent in Yu
j ken navigation circles during the
| early days of the Fairbanks stam
pede, afterward a successful Fair
banks Creek operator, and now en
gaged in fruit farming in the Yak
ima country, Is a southbound pas
senger on the Alaska. Mr. Larson
has been developing a copper pros
pect in the Copper River country.
Furniture moveo and stored
Heavy hauling done. Phone 48. Ju
nM.u Tranefer. —ndv
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IF YOU WANT
HIGH CLASS
FICTION
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visit our book department, we
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! have just received a shipment of
the very latest novels containing; 1
some very interesting and delight- |
Fully entertaining stories.
BUTLER-MAURO
DRUG CO.
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j FOR QUALITY I
i i
Fancy and Staple
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I GROCERIES
| GIOVANETTI'S STORE
“The Store That 8tvet
You Money.”
VHONR 385.
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OFFICIALS MAKE
TRIP TO HYDER
Theile and Cheatham to In
vestigate Reported Danger
ous River Condition.
To look over the Salmon River ob
structions near the town of Hyder,
Secretary Karl Theile and C\ W.
Cheatham. Asst. District Engineer
of the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads,
left for that place this morning by
the way of Ketchikan on the. steam
er Alaska. They expect to be ab
sent about one week.
Appeals for Territorial and Fed
eral aid In removing the log jams
and constructing protective works J
were recently made by thit people of:
Hyder to Bov. Scott C. Bone and]
M. Cheatham. The obstructions arej
so serious that any abnormally high I
water stage will result in flooding!
the business and loWlylng seeions
of Hyder. according to the residents
there, and cause thousands of dol
lars in property loss.
A recent communication received J
by Gov. Bone said the work, if it
is done to permanently protect the!
town, will cost several thousand do]
la is and that the necessary expendi
tures are beyond the financial ability
of the town to undertake. To pro
vide partial assistance in coping with
the situation and give temporary re
lief the Territorial Road Commis
sion made an emergency allotment
of $1,000 for work to he done by the
Bureau of Public Roads.
Mr. Theile and Mr. Cheatham will
make a (lose survey of the river
near the town and estimate the cost
or removing the obstruction and for
installing protective jetties and in
straightening out the channel where
necessary.
SHULMAN ON WAY SOUTH
AFTER FUR BUYING TRIP
Louis Shulman, fur buyer for the
Kitlngen Schird Co., Inc., of Now
York City, returned to Juneau this
morning on the .Alaska enroute to
the East, after spending the past
eight months in tlie Westward and
Interior country on a fur buying
'rip. He expects to be in Juneau
about a week before leaving for the
Stater. Mr. Shulman said he ex-!
pects to return in three or four
months and will establish a head
quarters at Anchorage for, buying
furs for his firm.
The fur catcli Is normal this year
and the skins good Mr. Shulman
said. There are more buyers in
the country this season than at any
previous time. The summer has been
good, with much sunshine, through
out the Territory Mr. Shulman said.
He is a guest at the Gastineau
Hotel during this stay in Juneau.
E. R. Jaeger left on the Alaska
on a business trip to the States.
Headquarters tor Ladysmith ceal
Juneau Transfer Co. Phone 48. ad?
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Polish Nobleman Is Here
on Diplomatic Mission.
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Prince fctiRC ne i.ubromlrski, Po
lish nobleman, has reached Wash
ington on an official diplomatic
mission for his country.
DINNER
PARTY
FOLtOWS -
ANNOUNCEMENT ENGAGEMENT
In honor of Hie engagement of
their daughter, Mias Hazel Jaeger to
Ensign J. Simpson MacKinnon,
which was recently announced, Mr.
and Mrs. E. it. Jaeger entertained
with a dinner party last night at
their home on Fourth and Gold
Streets. Covers were laid tor 28.
Sweet peas in varied hues of their
pastel shades, %ere used on the
tables. After the dinner party the
guests were taken on an automobile
trip to Auk I-ake.
Besides Mr. and Mrs. Jaeger, the
honor guests, and Mr. and Mra.
l/oekie MacKinnon, parents of En
sign MacKinnon other guests were;
Gov. und Mrs. Scott C. Bone, Judge
and Mrs. J Wlckcrshaiu, Judge a lit)
Mrs. V. A. Paine, Mr. and Mrs. W»
G. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Pos|',
Mr. and Mrs. E. Gastonguay, Me.
and Mrs R. G. Stevens, Mr. and Mrd.
J. A. Hellenthal, Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer A. Friend and Mr. and Mrs.
J. I,. Gray.
Old bundles or uewepgpera at the
dimulre. 2k cent4
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A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
“Betty Wales” Dresses
IN POIRET-TWILL, CANTON CREPE
AND CHINCHILLA SATIN.
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