Alaska News Notes
Work is to commence early in the
spring on a new court house building
at Hyder.
James O’Brien, one of the old-timers
of the Yukon, and for several years
past a resident of Anchorage, was ad
mitted to the Pioneers’ Home at Sitka
recently.
R. V. Watkins, of Kennecott, has
been appointed traveling auditor for
the Alaska Steamship Company and
the Kennecott Copper Corporation,
with headquarters in Seattle.
The Hillery Scott salmon cannery at
Cordova was sold a few days ago by
the United States marshal to .satisfy
the claims of creditors. The property
was bid in by the First Bank of Cor
dova.
Bartley Howard, a well known lor
mer resident of Cordova, who about a
year ago moved to Anchorage, where
. he constructed the Elks building and
later received several contracts from
the Alaskan .Engineering Commission,
has been appointed bv the Commission
to the .office of superintendent of
bridges and buildings on the Alaska
railroad.; w-itja jurisdiction over the ec
i . tire lice.
Matt Frank and Jalmr.Rinke, miners
at the Chicago® mine, were seriously
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injured about the face aod hands by an ;
explosion when they drilled into an u» !
exploded hole. The injured men were '
taken to the Pioneer hospital at Sitka !
for treatii)v.ut. It is feared that Frank j
will lose his eyesight, while Rinke's;
iujuries are considered less sefuous.
It is predicted that the time is close
when the Juneau Empire will be taken
over by the Herron svndfcate. John
W. Troy, owner of the Empire, was in
Seattle two weeks, recently, dickering
with a representative of Herron for
the sale of the Empire’ It is under-j
stood tbat Troy has au offer as pub-;
licitv director for the mining syndi
cate organized by ex Governor Thomas ;
Higgs and is very anxious to take the
offer.
Tests of coal from the Bering River
and Matanuska fields of Alaska, made i
by vessels of the Pacific fleet, have
been completed and the report sent to
the Navy department at Washington,
through which it will be made public.
The coal was tested by three ships, the
battleships New York and Texas and
Texas and the collier Jason, against
Pocahontas coal, from the East. The
Bering river coal was found uniform in
size, with a few lumps, and exception
ally free from foreign matter. The
Matanuska coal was marked by an ab j
sence of foreign matter, had practically
no lumps, and was dull and lusterless.
L B. McCoy, who has a fox farm on
an island about fifteen miles out from
Sitka, was arrested recently and taken
to Sitka to face the charge of fox
poaching. Charles E. Zimmerman,
who has a large stock of foxes on j
Brothers Island, found five fox traps on j
his island that had been set there by i
poachers for the purpose of trapping I
foxes, two of the traps having animals
in them when discovered. He notified
the authorities at Juneau, and District
Attorney Shoup lately made Zimmer
man a visit, where, it is presumed, he
secured information that led to an in- i
vestigation, and the latter resulted in I
■the arrest of McCoy.
Dr. L. S. Keller, owner of Alaska’s 1
oldest daily newspaper, the Skagway
Daily Alaskan, and prominent in Alas
kan affaips for more than 20 years,
died in Seattle on Thanksgiving day,
from cancer. Dr. Keller was born in
St. Paul, Minn., 52 years ago, being a
sun of a pioneer of that city. Joining
the Klondike rush, he located in Skag
way, where his natural icadeeship soon
placed him at the head of municipal
affairs. He was also active in the or
ganization of the Masonic, Elks, Eagles
and Arctic Brotherhood lodges.
The mystery surrounding the death
of Patrick Barry, who was found dead
recently near Kake, tied to the mast of
hissuuken gasboat. with what was at
llrst believed to he two bullet wounds
through his head, has been solved by a
coroner’s inquest at Ketchikan. The
supposed bullet wounds were found to
be bruises. Gestitnony at the inquest
revealed that Barry, with others, had
been caught in a heavy storm while at
anchor, where the accident occurred,
and it is believed that Barry, finding
his boat being driven ashore, tied him
self to the mast in order that his bdft.y
might not be washed overboard. It is
alleged that Barry, from the point
where his boat sunk, could have waded j
ashore at almost any stage of the tide. !
Barry was a resident of Ketchikan,
about 30 years of age, and was a gradu
ate of the University of Dublin, Ire
land, in which city his father is a rep
utable physician at present.
Dr. W. F. Green
McGrath, Alaska
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