KUSKO TIMES
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Kusko Times,- McGrath, Alaska.
mcgrath, alaska. aug. 6, 1921.
News Notes From
All Parts of Alaska
George Black has a steamer in oper
ation on the Kantishna-Neoana run.
The bahge Seal, which was frozen
last to the bottom of the river in front
of 'Nenana last fall, has been raised.
Several new boats are planned for
service on-the Stewart river this sea
son, mostly of the light draft variety.
P. A. Thelin, proprietor of the Dun
bat roadhouse, is planning a> tour oft
thi States with a large colleotion of
Alaska piatxre&s -
I'deGovernment railway during the
pait six months has hauled nearly
13,000 revenue passengers and about
13 000 tons-of freight.
The Ketchikan Civic League recent
ly sent a communication to the city
eobncil commending Chief of Police
McIntosh for his stand against law
breakers.
The steamship Admiral Watson, on
a recent sailing* carried -nothing but’
perishables to supply the needs of
Southwestern'^Alaska. Many towns
<rdre entirely out of meat, butter and
eg£fe. *■
Fred McLennan, collector of customs
at-Whitshorse, was stricken by paraly
sis retently. McLennan had a very
seVtefe attack of influenza and was not
able to recover his former strength.
He was an old-timer in the district,
and had three sons in the war,
The White ’Psss-paterpillar, with
Calm Smith at the wheel and D; O’Con
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Max Simel
The Pioneer Trader
f Furs Bought and:
Soldi
Miners’, s Prospectors’
j and Trappers’
Supplies
Steamer Service On. the Inoka
■ River.
.'Ask the People of Ophir about us.
STATION:
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Fairview, Innoko River
Dor and R. H. Fitcn as crew, recently
pulled thirty tons of freight with the
! machine. The trail was in good shape
; and the caterpillar is believed to have
solved transportation problems of the
North.
1 Matt Slujo, a miner at the Ready
1 Bullion mine, died recently from shock
followihg the amputation of one of his
fingers which had been crushed two
hours previously. The man passed
away about ten minutes after coming
out from under the anaesthetic.
When the big square-rigged vessel
St. Paul left the Puget sound - recently
for the Alaska fishiDg waters she car
ried the asaes of her former master,
Captain Herbert B. Williams, an old
sea captairp. who died last fail It was
his last wish that his ashes should be
carried to the sea by the St. Paul and
scattered over the waves.
Three hundred miners employed at
the Premier mine in Hyder went on a
strike recently as a result of their
wages being reduced "accents per day.
They refuse to return to work umil the
former wage scale is restored. The
town .is filled with idle men, and the
authorities have issued warnings ad
vising people not to go to Hyder at
this time. ,
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Colorado brook trout planted in the
Salmon creek dam, and now several
inches loner, are being ground up in
the waterwheel for the compressor
plant which supplies the Alaska-Gas
tineau Company with eleetricitv. The
reservoir is the lowest in its history,
the gauge showing but 30 feet of water.
There is no screen against the pipe and
the fish are carried in by suction.
A vast herd of caribou was seen from
the streets of Dawson recently. The
animals were moving about the Mid
night Dome, and just above the slide
of rock under whricb, as tradition says,
an Indian village lies buried. It was
difficult at first glance to get the true
magnitude of the herd, but looking up
the street near the N. C. corner the
caribou could be seen gathered about
the bare slope in a great body. Here,
caught in the flash o£the sun, the an
imals looked like numberless sheep.
More than 8300,000 worth of new
equipment is now owned by the Alaska
Road Commission and is being put into
service on various roads ^this sum
mer. Much of this material has been
acquired the past year without cost to
the commission, which secured it from
the army. The list of new equipment
includes IT caterpillar tractors, 12
dump trucks, IS light delivery tracks,
T steam shovel, 2 gas-propelled drag
line excavators, -24 -tWo-ton trailers, 7
duinp trailers; aud an enormous quan
tity of picks, shdvels and other pioneer
tools.
A grocery store at Fairbanks, con
ducted by M. MeDermott, was raided
by the authorities one evening recent
ly, with the result that the proprietor,
said to have been under suspicion for a
long time, has been held to answer t©
the charge of haviog liquor in his pos
session, in violation of the bone dry
law. McDermott is under bonds in the
sum of $1,600, pending the disposition
of his ease. The raid was conducted
by Deputies Buckley and Norries and
Chief of Police Sanderlin, and it is
said thdt- it required considerable
searching to locate the booze, of which
there remained seven* bottles when
McDermott was discovered wrecking
.the cache with a hammer.
Rough and Dressed Lum
ber of All Kinds
INN0K& LUMBER CO
Why Carry Your Outfit a Long Distance?
We Can Supply Everything You Need.
Fresh Stock Just Arrived.
Prices That Will Satisfy You
GEO. HOFFMAN - NAPAMUTE
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim
PIONEER POOL ROOM
McGrath's Popular Resort"
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Dave E. Clough
Prop.
Who Said Freighting
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,,
even.as far. as.Ruby>.
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W. H. Jones
Freighter
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim ,|
Capt.' Wallace Langley^ jManager..
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