Alaska News Notes
Joe Mahoney and Dick .Nuckols killed
a huge gray wolf at Smugglers Cove
recently just as the animal was about
to attack Mahoney. They bad oeen at
. the Helm Day Mining Company’s prop
erty and while on their way to town
were forced to stop at Smugglers Core
on account of a storm. While out on
the beach after a mess of clams Nuckols
saw a huge gray wolf sneaking up back
of Mahoney with murder in his eye.
Haviog his guB bv his side. Nuckols
immediately grabbed it and fired, hil
tiog the wolf in the foie leg. This at
tracted the attention of Mahoney, who
seised his gun and brought the wolf to
the ground. The animai was a very
large one, and evidently at the point of
, starvation. _
Trainmen on the Alaska railroad
passenger trains this summer will be
all “dolled up” in new uniforms. The
management has approved of the pat
tern for unifoims of conductors and
brakemen, which will be identical with
those worn by passeuger trainmen on
the New York Central, Saota Fe,
Union Pauificand Denver & UioGrande
Western railroads. Passenger con
ductors will wear gold buttons and have
gold blocked lettering on their caps,
' while brakemen will wear the same
uniforms, except that the buttons and
lettering will be of silver.
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Canada will be represented by two
ateamship companies- in *be> Alaska
tourist tradeduring the coming season,
instead of one, as formerly. The Cana
dian National Railway plana to operate
two Teasels to Southeastern Alaska as
far north as Skagway, and the Grand
Truak line will place the Prince Ruoect,
and the Prince George on the run.
Prior to 1918 the Grand Trunk operat
ed steamers to the North, but withdrew
them in that year on account of slack
tousiuoss. _
.Eighteen tons of concentrates were
recently shipped bv the Saltcbuk mine,
near Ketchikan, to a smelter in New
Jersey. The concentrates have an av
erage value of $500 per ton in platinum
and irridtutn. Within the past couple
of weeks the miners have uncovered
another vein of ore which shows won
derful promise, and it is now planned
to ship iwerny tons of concentrates per
week. _
A few days ago the Alaska Juneau
Mining Company began work to open
for development the Ebner mine, which
it recently secured from the United
States Smelting & Refining Company.
The work will be extended far enough
into the mine to permit the opening up
of slopes for mining, and it ia expected
that before fall ore will becoming out
of the Ebner mine.
The Tatiana Valley Farmers’ Asso
ciation held a largely attended meeting
recently aud discussed plans for a fair
to be held next fall. The farmers pres
ent subscribed and it ia expected
that $o00 more can be raised among the
merchant^ of the town, after which it
will be possible to obtain $1,000 from
She Territory, making a total of 92.000.
Several Japanese coins, hundreds of
years old, and one Russian coin, 5 ko
pecks, of the year 1331, were found by
Nickey Dixon when he waacleaoiog up
the bouse of the late Peter Romanoff
»t Sitka, recently.
Nancy Marquette Shoup, infant
daughter of United States Attorney
| «tnd Mrs. A. G. Shoup, of Juneau, has
upset ail theories of the medics! pro
fession and set at naught the predic
tions of tboae members of the same
fraternity who attended her birth, ac
cording to a recent issue of tbe San
Francisco Bulletin, which carried a
front page story on little Nancy Mar
quette, as follows:
‘•Fed with an eye-dropper, cuddled
I itj, ao electric warmer and i watched
hourly by? nurses, Nancy Marquette
£>houp. a pound and a half baby, has ut
last clamped firm flatter* od the lim of
life at Wakefield Sanatorium aud
chinned herself Into health.
“Doctor* looked at the little, prema
turely bora suite and-shook their beads.
Today the rest pocket mite defies them
all aud coos and croon* in dimpled con -
tent, a husky little specimen of hu
manity.
“The baby is the daughter of Mrs.
Arthur G. Shoup, wife of the United
States district attorney at Juneau,.
Alaska. Prior to the baby’a birtb Mrs.
Shoup developed scarlet fever and wae
rushed to San Francisco from the far
North to save her life.,
“Almost immediately after her ar
rival here the baby was bo-n, jweeks
before she was due.
“Medical science declare* babies of
three pounds or less cannot live. But
the tiny midget did not run true to
form. Despite a total absence of life
when she appeared on earth, she still
breathed.
“Milk wae fed to the baby with an
eye-dropper. It was warmed artifi
cially and guarded. Finally the baby
began to get fat, to kick about and
take meals like a regular baby. Then
everyone knew tbe crisis was past.
Doctor say the baby will attain nun
tnai weight within a short time now.”
C. M. Browning, formerly a student
of a South Carolina agricultural col
lege, who became a partner of the late
Order and Notice of Pri
mary Election
To Be Held On April 29, 1924
In the Office of the United State* Com
missioner, at McOrath. Aiaeka,
Fourth Judicial Division.
No«, on tbia day, pursuant to Chap
ter 39, Session Laws of Alaska, * ap
proved May 3, 1919. entitled "An act to
provide for the holding of primary
elections in the Territory of Alaska, to
fix the manner and time of holding toe
same, to prescribe the qualifications of
candidates to be nominated at suob
elections, end to designate the meaner
of filing and authenticating their can
didacy, and for other purposes-” and-in
conformity there* tthf >> •
It is hereby ordered that for the pur
pose of the primary election to be held
on April 29, 1924, all of the territory in
the recording district known as Mount
McKinley Recording District, outside
of incorporated towns, is hereby divid
ed into voting precincts, in each of
which a polling plaee is hereby speci
fied. Said votiDg precincts are de
scribed and bounded a» follows:
Polling places at—
Pioneer Ball at McGrath, Alaska;
Pioneer Bald at Tokotna,.Alaska.
Notice is hereby given that,a general
election will be held on Tuesday, April
29, 19241 for the purpose of nominating
candidates to the various political par
ties for the following offices, to-wit: ;
A Governor ion the; Territory of
Alaska; SJV
A Delegate to the House of Repre
sentatives from the Territory of Alaska;
An Attorney General for the Terri
tory of Alaska;
One somber of the Senate of the
Territory of Alaska:
Fonr members of the House of Rep
resentatives of the Territory of Alaska;
Two Road Commissioners for .Road
District Number Four;
And for the purpose of electing Ithe
following officers, to-wit;
A National Comroitteemani for "the
Democratic Party of., the Territory of
Alaska;
A National Committeeman for the
Republican Party of the Territory of
Alaska;
Six Delegatee and Alternates to the
Democratic National Convention;
Six Delegates and Alternates to the
Republican National Convention.
The Mid election will be held in the
voting precincts above named end at
the polling pieces therein specified.
The Mid polling places will be opea
between the hours of eight-o’clock a. m.
and 1 o'clock p. m. of said day.
Dated as MoGrath, Alaska;, March IS,
1924. W. T. VAIWBBFOO&,'
U. 8. Commissioner for the Mt.
McKinley Recording District,
Fourth Division • Territory of
Alaska |
Harry E St. George in tbe ownership
of tbe old Frank Mania/ Hot Springs
ranch, will attempt during tbe coming
summer to raise cantaloupes and water*
melons in .addition to tbe other crops
raised there.
Mrs. Charles Sumner Johnson, widow
of Judge Johnson, who in the last /ear
of tbe Ustceotnrv was federal judge in
Alaskf., before the Territory was di
vided into four judicial districts, is now
living in Paris, France. Her son, Cap
tain Francia Johnson, who served in
the overseas forces, met death the day
before the armistice was signed.
Angns McBride, former deputy dark
of tbe federal court at Nome, and later
clerk of the court at Fairbanks, is now
located at Buckiey, Wash.
John Beaton, well known Idiu^od
mining man, and Mrs. Gi ant, formerly
of Grant’s Cafe of Seattle, were mar
ried in Seattle recently.
Max Simel
Hie Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
Sold
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Miners^ Prospectors9
and Trappers9
Supplies
Steaaaer Service On the Inoka
Hirer.
Ask she People of Ophir about us.
STATION
Patrview. Innoko River
BLACKBURN & ELDRIDGt
McGrath, Alaaka
Provisions Notions Furnishings
Indian Mitts. Moccasins and Snowshoes
Furs Bought and Sold [White Fish and Dog Feed
Dog Harness Collars Sled Lashings Tank Heaters
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt Wallace Langley, Manager.
DIRECT SERVICE
Seattle to Kuskokwim River
Via Inaid* Paata**
Personal Attention Given to Freight Ordered
for the Kuskokwim. Send in Your Orders.
For Rat*s and Accommodation* apply t-o
; Kuskokwim Fishing & Transportation Co.
7 Colman Dock. Seattle, Wash.
A Dredging or Hydraulicing
Proposition, Yankee Creek
I itn the principal owner of a block of ’ground
on Yankee creak, about aeren mne» long. (extend
ing from No. 1 Below Discovery down to the mouth
> of the creek.
Fay has been located all aloog for"a diataoce'of
about three miles from the upper end,, aad pretty
f\ well prospected and cros»-cutl
! The average depth of the ground is from seven
to twenty feet. The top is ail black muck, that can
be moved freely. No rock bigger than one’s fist.
The width of the pay. fori a distance of about
three miles, (is from 100 to 200 feet. Crosacuting
work indicates that the ground will go from' 15
;f cents to 91 per square foot of bedrock. My belief
is that the'pay will average 50 cents per foot.
r I have « ditch on the ground, three miles long,
together with water rights. The ground is pretty
>, well cleared. There is also a drain, three miles
I long, with the water right. I also have a water
right on Ready Bullion creek, from which water
can be brought to Yankee creek with a ditch leas
than a mils leeg (4.900 feet), which will give four
; sluieeheads of water.lwitb a pressure or fail of 1?0
feet, being 1600 feet to the work from the ditcb.
After doing away with the muck, there will be
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from four to six feet of dirt t® handle. The fay
run* moatlj ia the bedrock of porphyry and flat®.
Tha ground ia virgin, only about *11,000 having
beau taken out by windlass in prospecting::.
Prospecting work during the present wintar has
resulted in finding values that run up to $1 par
square foot of bedrock.
Tha Flume Dradga Company has a dredge above
this ground, which has been in operation for the
last three seasons.
The Government road crosses Yaukee sreek. I
also have a road down the creek that connects with
the Government road.
I am also the agent for owners of gronnd other
then tbmt held bv myself.
The ground can be worked either with dredge,
drag-line ecraper, or by hydrauliciue.
I will either sell the ground or give a lease ot
it. If the prospect is satisfactory to the buyer, a
cash payment will be expected. A good bargain
will be given to the right party.
For further information, terms, etc., call a*
ground, or write or telegraph me.
ED NOLLETTE
Toketna, Alaska.