( .Alaska Notes !
Gathered From lerri'jrml
The -seven members of the crew of
- the seme boat HiHllside II who were
providentially - rescued by the halibut
schooner had a desperate 12-hour
battle against death before they were
■ .saved. -The-Hillside sank two hours
. -after the men were rescued. It
sprang a leak while in a furious gale
■ and was blown about 40 miles from
Jcy Bay. In the storm the rudder
broke. For.12 hours the men, tossed
about by heavy and crashing seas,
woked the pumps, but they gradually
. lost,igsound, the water creeping in
faster than it could be pumped out.
They knew if they put to sea in the
dory the tiny craft would be smashed
to bita.by the heavy seas. The sail
ors had about given up when they no
ticed a schoooner some distance away.
. A flare.“was sent up and soon they ,
were aboard the Middlton. The men
rescued, were Captain Eagner Jensen,
Arthur. Teien, Casper Lind, Arel
• Johnson,'Edwin Johnson, Emil Gran
strom. and Andrew Nelson.
The Warrick Construction - 'Com
pany, has completed the building of
> the Sage memorial building at Sitka,
at a cost- of $55,000. The new struct
. are- is—an industrial school building
for the. Sheldon-Jackson School.-. Jt
is .approximately 50x100 feet, two)
stories high and a basement, and is
- built-of-reinforced concrete Situated
on -the shore line, in front of the
main, buildings of the Sheldon Jaek
so»..School, it presents a very impos
ing .appearance and is. one of the
. finest buildings of its type in Alaska.
It is -finished in cream-colored cement
stucco-and- the architecture follows
. modified Gothic lines. The building
houses the manual training depart
meitj- vWuch consists of a carpenter
shop, machine shop, print shop, boot
making shop, drafting room and two
t class-rooms. The hydro-electric plant,
which supplies light and power for
the-entire institution, is located in
one wing of the building.
.MSde-lands in Alaska, even though
occupied, remain the property of the
v United States and are subject to fed
eral authority, according to a decision
. handed down by Judge E. Coke Hill
. in the case of the United States vs.
, .Jennie .Lynch, Ketchikan Indian. The
case was brought by the govern
. m*nt to enjoin the erection of per
manent structures that would affect
navigation. Judge Hill said he was
.. of the opinion that the “permanent
s structures which defendants admit
. they plan to place on the tide lands
of Tongass Narrows and which they
~ admit are not affirmatively authorised
i .by Congress, will be unlawful and
< .that-the defendants s hould be en
. joined ■ from erecting them.” This
v case is said to be the first of its kind
- affecting the use' of tide lands by
4 persons where suchuse or {occupa
tion was opposed by the govern
v Jnent.
.-Henry. Riley, who made a fortune
i mining on Cleary creek in the-'early
. days of the Fairbanks camp, died in
. Los Angeles on November 12. He
\ was buried in San Francisco, four
• days later.
Mr. Riley was a resident of the
I Fairbanks district for many years,
1 leaving there to make his-home in
t California about 1914. After- going
Outside he became prominent in the
• ol biusiness, being associated with,
i among others, John L. McGinn and
Frank Manley.
One well placed shot saved Ed
Hibler of Juneau from being at
tacked and possiby killed by a big
brown bear while he was hunting
' deer in the Oliver Inlet country. He
had just sounded a deer call when the
1 brownie stepped out from the under
, growth and headed for the place
vethere the call had originated. Hiblei
tied to scare it away, but the bear
wouldn’t scare, and as it was making
ready to charge while .only. a short
distance away he let loose with a
! shot and then started around a big
| tree with the bear in hot pursuit, . It
j had been mortally wounded, however,
and dropped dead befoe catching up
with Hibler. The skin measured .nine
feet in length.
Ernest E. Berggren, a resident of
the North for upwards of 30' years,
having stampeded to Dawson in the
gold rush days, was adjudged of un
sound mind recently at Anchorage.
S^me time ago Berggren was taken
to Anchorage from the Six-mile road
house in an almost blind condition.
He was held at the Anchorage jail
for ten days under observation, and
at the end of that time was sentenced
to a term of three montths on a
iiquqr charge in the hope that con
finement for that period would bring
about his complete recovery. He did
recover his sight, but his mental con
dition was such that it was deemed
j necessary to commit him to the asy
lum.
The steamer Victoria, .on her ar
rival in SSeattle from her last voy
age of the season to Nome, had as-a
part of her c argo $50,000 worth of
gold, 351 drums of whale oil from
Akutan, herring from Golovin and
: Dutch Harbor, and reindeerr car
casses from Nome and Golovin. In
cluding this gold shipment, the pro
duction. of gold in the Nome district
| was well over $1,600,000 this season.
Most of the gold came from the oper
ations of the Hammon Consolidated
Gold Fields, which works three
dredges in the Nome district.
Word reccnttly received -at Fair
banks by mail tells of the death in
San Francisco of Mrs. Leander
! James, widow of the former Gold
stream mining man. Mrs. James
lived in Fairbanks many years. Since
her husband’s death she had made
her home with her tvrosons. Burial
took place in San Francisco on No
vember 18. The Jamas family still
owns No. 17 Goldstream.
After having been unconscious for
nearly 48 hours after he suffered a
paralytic stroke, Leslie Faulk, 75
year-old Alaska pioneer, passed away
in the St Joseph’s hospital, Fair
banks, a few days ago. He was
found on the -floor of his cabin a
couple of evenings previous and im
mediately rushed to the hospital, but
never regained consciousness.
Faulk had been a resident of Alas
ka since about 1900. He settled -first
in St. Michael, where for several
yeas he was a blacksmith for a rivei
navigation companf. Upon coming
to Fairbanks he served the Xanana
Valley Railroad in a similar capacity
He was a member of Igloo No. 4, Pi
oneers of Alaska.
To relieve T. L. Chidester, federal
prohibition agent who was trans
ferred to Ketchikan when Fred E
Handy went to Fairbanks, E. H. Myet
has been assigned to duty at Juneau
He came to the Capital City frorr
Portland, Ore., where he had beet
stationed for some time. M. S. An
drews h as also been transferret
from Portland to Alaska, and he if
on duty at Ketchikan with Mr. Chi
dester.
The long-continued efforts of Alas
kans to secure closer government su
pevision of insane persons from th<
Territory who are being treated ir
Morningside Sanitarium has culmi
nated in the appointment of a resi
[ dent government agent. Dr. L. C
Weldon -will have complete eupeyvis
ory charge of all Alaskan pptienti
I confined in that institution. Dr. Wei
- don is a commissioned officer of thi
; United States public health service
; and will have a wide range of powei
i over the institution’s care and main
i tenance of Alaska’s insane patient!
■ The assignment of Dr. Weldon t(
> Morningside caries out a recoin
p mendation made.by Governor -Park;
to the Department of the Inter i»r*in>
several'of his annual repots.
Operations of the Alaska Juneau
mine last month grossed $337,0900,
with an operating profit of $173,000
and a net profit of $132,000. In Sep
tember the operating profit was
§137,500 and the net profit $118,000.
The amount of -ore mined and j
trammed to the mill totaled 328,900 f
tons in Oitober. Gold was recovered
to the-value-of $327,500T at the rate,
of 99.67. ients per ton, and lead and |
silver to the value of $9,500, or 2.89 i
rents per ton. (
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Charles . F. Sandford,, proprietor
and editor .of the Hyder Herald,- has
been appointed United States com- 1
missioner at-Hyder, succeeding A. W.
Fox, who resigned to become commis
sioner at Juneau. .Mr. .Sanford will
also act as deputy, clek -of the dis
trict court. Me served previously as
commissioner at Hyder from October^
1923, until April, 1927. I
Hunters in the Atlin Lake country*
are reported having great sport hunt
ing coyotes in automobiles. Twenty
five of the animals were killed in that
manner in onne day on - Lake Atlin
last winter. .The ar^nals will not
turn sidewise -when running and are
easily overtaken by a car, the speed 1
of the animal mot .exceeding 25 miles
an hour.
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Word was recently - brought to*
Dawson from the Bonanza district o^
a tragedy in which an oldtimer, Jod
Oberfelt, met death. -Neighbors--re
ported they found his cabin burned .to
the ground, amid the ashes of-whieh
| bones were discovered which, are sup-1
; ppsed to be the remains of the old
prospector.
The Jumbo -copper mine, on the
west coast of Prince of Wales Island,
formerly operated by Charles A.-Sul
zer, is to be reopened. A 15-year
lease on the property has been taken
from former Governor William Sul
' zer of New York by D. N. Campbell,
and operations are expected to com
j mence at an early date.
DO YOU KNOW THESE?
An inquiry has been received -at
the Governor’s Office concerning one'
Charles Cullen. He is about fifty
yeas old; is about 6 feet tall, rather
slender, of a very sandy complexions
and wore a red mustache. A pos
peetor.
Information is also desired of one
George Frederick SSeymour, a min
ing engineer, who came to Alaska in
the late ’90s. About 60 years olod
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now.
Send any information concerning
the above parties to the Governor’s
Office, Juneau, Alaska.
I Explorer—Just to show you the
: advance of civilization—in the past:
the Eskimos used to eat candles for
dessert.
Old Lady—And now I suppose they
eat electric light bulbs?
TABLB OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN N BN ANA AND FLAT
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Miles
Nenana .-.00
Tavern Roadhouse . 1714
Knight’s Roadhouse . 8814
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse.58 _
Diamond Roadhouse.76
Roosevelt . 89
Lake Minchumina.115
Trappers’ Cabin . 182
Lone Star Roadhouse . 150
Telida Roadhouse.-. 16914
Slow Fork Roadhouse.187
East Fork Roadhouse .) 806
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse — 28714
Big River Roadhouse.841
McGrath . 868
Takotna . 280
Bill Goss' Roadhouse .— 801
Ophir. 800
McCafferty .806
Brown Creek shelter cabin-818
Fritz shelter cabin . 886
First Chanca shelter cabia — 846 *
Scharmeyar R. R.— •§• -i
Idltspad.— 876
Flat __-.. *84
Reaaaaca shelar cabin, 12
Cracked Greek shelter cabin, . It
mReh from Bonanza.
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Babe each Moosehida Mitt* and Boots
Furs Bought and Sold Clothing
All Kinds of Nice Fresh Groceries and Fruits j
v Canned Goods of All Kinds Beds and Bedding
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! JBefittirf Meals and Rooms
VhiNt'SferythiiHl Is Homelike end
Where* You Are Cordially Welcomed
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