Alaska News Notes
T« commenting od the condition of
the Alaska railroad, Governor Fooe
Said recently:
‘‘Both the passenger and freight
business of the road are showing a
, steady growth, and it is estimated that
the gross revenues will bo increased
Over $200,000 the coining year [1024-1'
Industrial and colonization pl^DS are
under way which will augment these
revenues and speed development. The
wisdom of the. government’s invest
ment in this..great project has been
demonstrated'most conclusively in the
first few months of its operation. Its
growing business is proof of the falsity
of the aftafge that it is being strangled.
It was honestly built aDd efficiently
managed by a capable and experienced
railroad man. Attacks emanating out
side of Alaska are prompted by vieiov.a
animus and have been in evidence at
every stage of the project.”
After mushing on a 17-day trip from
Koyukuk to Neuana. Miss Nellie Cash
aiaD, pioneer woman of Alaska, and
Bine operator, arrived recently in An
chorage. She is en route to New York
City, where she wili make arrange
* ments foropeuating her mine the com
ing season-. «Miss Casbman was one of
the first white women in Alaska, com
" ing to Wrangell, in the southeastern
district, before the North had been ex
tensively explored. She went into the
Cassiar country, and. has- pioneered in
many other gold rushes, including
~2{W3on- and Nome. Like her fellow
men who'were her companions in the
early days hi search - of gold, she has
followed the mining game until the
present time, and operates a paying
property..,
Madam lieoic, formerly Mrs. Cora
Meyers, well known Alaskan and for
the past year a resident of Kaoaiak,
was recently married in the Oil City to
Helbert Anderson, a former Cache
Creek miner. As there was no com
missioner -or minister to perform the
ceremony, Derick Lane, at one time
manager of the Alaska Central railroad
at Seward-,• who is now a resident of
Kaoatak, and the official notary public
of that town, was called upon to per
form the ceremony. Before a large
numbef'of witnesses-the couple signed
a marriage contract and Mr. Lane pro
claimed them man and wife.
The New Nordale Hotel, which was
, opened at Fairbanks last July,, was
threatened with destruction by Gre re
cently when the basemeuo, extending
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beneath the entire building, was dis
covered in a mass-of ffaraes. Although
not placed under control for more than
two hours, the fire was confined, to the
basement and doors of the ground
rooms, which are of semi-fireproof con
struction. All the rooms were occu
pied, but the guests were aroused and
out before the smoke had hardly pene
trated the building. It required sev
eral days to make repairs, before re
opening.
A vein of copper ore, with traces of
gold, and measuring from 125 t.o 200
feet in width, has been struck on the
Mother Lode property at Mile 44$ on
the Alaska railroad, near Grandview,
according to George Howe, jr., who ar
rived in Anchorage recently with sam
ples oi the ore taken for assay pur
poses. The vein has been uncovered
for a distance of two miles, Howe
stated.
Peter Coulter, a resident of Seward,
was held up on the northern limits of
that town recently, his assailant wound
ing him slightly with a knife. Coulter
struck the man, knocking him down,
and then ran into town. Two mem
bers of the crew of the steamer Starr
were also held up in a dark alley by an
unknown assailant, who also used a
knif®- to- terrorise his- victims.
Miss O. C. Heid has taken the oath
of office as U. S. commissioner at Ne
Dana, succeeding Charles D Leckie.
She has k>Dg resided in Fairbanks,
where she was in the office of tbe clerk
of the district eourt during several ad
ministrations. Miss Heid is a sister of
the late John Heid, of Juneau, promi
nent lawyer, mining man and legis
lator.
Buchan & Heinen, who have been
operating a herring plant in the old
wdaling station at Port Armstrong,
when they closed down, some weeks
ago, bad an output of about 460 tons of
herring meal, 130,000 gallons of herring
oil, and 800half barrels of Scotch-cured
herring. The season, which was the
first for this concern, was considered
fairly successful.
George Bulb who for the past ten
years has been engaged in the raising
of black foxes at his raoch near Chit
ina. and who recently sold his stock
for a good price to Prince Edward
Island fox raisers, is engaged in put
ting his ranch in shape to commence
tbe business anew on a larger scale.
Martin Harrais, who has been en
gaged in tracing an old channel which
runs across the coumry from the head
oi Young creek, reports haviQg struck
gold in a hole whioh-he had..sunk near
tbe banks of tbe Nizfoa river. Owing
to the inflow of water, however, he was
unable to reach bedrock.
The Anchorage Times says that Miss
Selma N. Scott, deputy clerk of the
distriot court at Valdez, who was re
cently admitted to the practice of law
in Alaska, is being urged'by her friends
to file her candidacy for the lower
house of the next legislature. She
served in the last legislature as chief
clerk of the senate.
J. K. Cbilberg, for many years maa -
ager of the Scandmavian-Ameriean
Bank of Seattle, has announced that
hereafter he will make his permanent
home in Ketchikan. He is heavily in
terested in the Saltchnk mice and will
give it his personal attention in the
future.
Joseph Sterling, formerly engaged in
the mercantile business at Fairbanks
and Iluby, is now the manager of three
fox farms iD the Adirondacks, accord
ing to Frank S. Gordon; Aockorage
merchant, who recently visited the for
mer at his home at Lake Placid,- N. Y,
Mrs. Nancy Berg, proprietress - of
Nancy’s Kilehen -at- Anchorage, was
sentenced to (Hbdays> rn jail by Commis
sioner Rag or on hoiviplpa of guilty to
the possession of. intoxicating liquor..
The court, however, suspended sen
tence on the promise of the desendant
that she would keop no more intoxi
cants on her premises.
E. Van Gundy, of the operating de
partment of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad, will succeed Charles L. Mason
as chief clerk of, the Alaska railroad.
Mr. Mason recently tendered his-resig
nation, and will embark in the invest
ment business in California.
Shorty Wehnke, of Anchorage, re
cently purchased a live marten from a
trapper in the tnteriftr and has the an
imal confined in aspeciaiiv constructed
pdn. lie is conducting an extraordi
nary experiment, endeavoring to cross
the marten with cats.
J't is reported that the Alaska rail
road will add another large steamboat
to its river fleet next summer, provided
the development program is approved
at Washington and the necessary ap
propriation obtained.
Charles Beam, former pioprietor of
the Pioneer Hotel at Fairbanks, who
left for the Outside some weeks ago, is
said-to have completed a deal for a
hotel at Port Angeles. Wash.
A deal wa3 consummated recently at
Anchorage whereby E. It. Jesson and
Bartley Howard acquired control of
the W- T. Leroy coal claims,- located in
the Matanuska coal (ields.
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Ct A.’ShoDaeker, well known travel
ing man, has lately acquired an inter
est in an island fox farm near Ket
chikan.
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