.. Alaska News Nates
Attacked by a bald eagle was the ex
perience of Tom Beverst'of'the An
chorale tire department, recently. Ac
companying a party of duck hunters-to
the Susitna flats, he wandered away
some distance from his companions, and
noticed an eagle flying around at the
same time he got ready for an ap
proaching flock of duck9. Bevers shot
both barrels of his gun at the ducks,
and a moment later the eagle, with a
harsh cry, wheeled about in the air
and made a lunge at him. Gripping
his gun with both haod3.> Bevers swung
at the bird, hittioe one-of its wing# a
glancing blow. He succeeded in load
ing his gun before the second attack
came. With a lightning swoop the
eagle flew directly toward the hunter.
When about twenty feet away Bevers
i pulled the trigger, but the gun
jammed, and the eagle as it passed tore
a long rrp in blshunting coat with its
taloDS. The bird !feH to the ground
and‘Bevers hit upon it like a flash and
ihit the eagle with the butt of his gun,
•stamping it, after'which he beat it to
- death.
A dirigible transportation service
from Pacific coast'citsies to all pointsin
Alaska, with headquarters at Juneau,
may be put io operation next spring,
according to present plans erf O. A.
Campbell, capitalise of-Seattle, and as
sociates, who have-filed' articles of in
’• corporation-of the Alaska & Northwest
Dirieible Company in the office of the
Territorial secretary. The company is
capitalized at *1 .'000,000. The main ob
jects of the company are to handle pas
sengers, mail and freight- from tbe
States to Alaska. The incorporators
arfe O. A. Campbell, of Seattle, and
Henry Roden-and’ H. L. Faulkner, of
Juneau. The directors are tbe three
named and Hacrj> F. Fooes and L. F.
j - Hha-w, Of Seattle. ?
John P. Dixon, a pioneer resident of
Alaska, died at tWe Pioneers’ Home at
Sitka recently. Mr. Dixon had been a
residont of Alaska-since 1897, and went
to the Home last April from Anchor
age, where - he had resided for some
years, harinter been engaged in freight
ing in the Willow Creek district, and
later worked for the Alaska Railroad.
Dr. S. Hall Young, general ^mission
ary for the Presbyterian missions in
Alaska, recently celebrated his 76th
birthday. "When he came to Alaska.
4a 1878, he was pnuy and sickly, and
bis -physicians ,&nd’ friends predicted
that he would not survive the hard
Machine; Black
smith and
Sheet Metal Work
AH Kinds of Repairs
Stoves Built ;
and Repaired
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Rbbt. E. Lowrie ;
> Tokotna, Alaska
ships he must endure for more than a i
vearor two. However, now, forty-five
years later, Dr. Young is soon to start
on a trip to all the Presbyterian mis
sions to the westward and as far in the
Interior as Fairbanks, and next year
he will make a trip to Point Harrow,
the most oortherly jK>im in the Terri
tory, to establish a number of new mis
sions. ,
Captain L. L. Dane, commander of
the steamship Buford, operated by the
Alaska-Siberia Navigation Compauy,
teoiered his resignation recently, leav
ing the boat on its arrival at San Fran
cisco. Captain Lane is a son of Charles
D. Lane, organizer of the Wild Goose
Mining Company, at Nome, in the
earlv days of the camp.
About twenty men wifi spend the
wimer in the Chanular, it is reported.
| The mining there is practically ail
winter work, taking out dumps for the
spring cleanup. Fred Smith, the big
gest operator in the district, looks for
a good season, and this is also the ex
pectation of the Newton and Nicholson
properties. _
Tbe ileld administrative offices of the
Alaska Koivd Commission vnh be moved
back 10 Juneau, according 10 announce
ment by officials connected with that
department. Tbe offices were removed
to Aucborage to June when Col. Steese
was appointed manager of the Alaska
railroad. _
“W hen 50,000 tons of freight pass
over the system each year, then will
tbe Alaska Railroad operate without a
deficit,” said Major John C.. Gotwals,
vice chairman of the Alaska Railroad,
at a recent dinner of the Anchorage
Chamber of Commerce.
Petersburg is progressing. A state*
ment of Cashier T. S. Elsemore. of the
Petersburg bank, shows an increase iuj
bank deposits of 990,000. -auring the
past twelve months, and an increase of
9113,000 in savings deposits in thesamy
period. _ . ic
Gene Allen, at one time owner of the
Dawson Nugget, and who later estab
lished a newspaper at Teller, is now
living at Wallace, Idaho. It is report
ed that be has a lease on the old Mam
moth mine, in that vicinity.
Bill Anstett, ol Dawson, has raised
twenty-live turkeys this year, all of
them very large birds. Be also has
five exceptionally large turkeys, tnak- j
ing thirty in all, and will keep all the
hens to raise a larger dock next year,
Governor Bone ha* let a •contract to
-William Hanlon, of Hit tut, lor the
stocking of .Montague and Kayak
islands with twenty head of deer, in
compliance with the request of the
Cordova Game Association.
J. W. Hartney, a toruier Alaskan, re
cently met a horrible death in Breck
euridge,tfTexas. His body was blown
to pieces by the explosion of a charge
of dynamite, probably blown off by
himself _____ .
About 30.000 cases of raxorbacte
clams, or almost twice the quantity
packed in the enure Cook luletdia
trict last year, were packed by the Pi '
ooeer clam cannery at Snug Haiboi
this season. _
: Frank Slavin, writiog tbe Dawson
News from Coal Creek, near Circle
City, saya there were never so many
caribou and moose in that section of
Alaska as at pres* nt.
i '
! Don S. itae, well aoown mining man,
writes to Jriends in A nu hoi ape from
Great trails, N%ut-, that he k> failiug in
health rapidly. He is suffering iruui
(tuberculosis. _
1 Juneau boasts ot having the second
largest payroll in the Territory lu tbe
Alaska Juneau mine, which employs
four hundred men.
Beer Trade Still
Booms.in .Chicago
Chicago.—Despite the efforts of fed
eral prohibition forces and the Chicago
police fare®, ike supply of booze, chiefly
beer, has not been shutoff, or even di
minished. The^beer ioaustry. alone in
Chicago has been developed xo-sales Of
al most *30,000,000 a year.
At the time .Mayor Dever attempted
to clamp down the lid, Chioago brew
eries were puttiug out 18.000 barrels of
real beer every weoir. At *30 a barrel,
which was the lowest figure, thjtt.
meant a business ,of.$540.000 a month,
or sales at the rate of 828.000,000 a.
year.
On every barrel put out there wrs
$10 graft—this sum being collected
regularly at the source. This slush
fuod of $180*000 a week, or *10,000,000
a vear, was big enough to briog in
powerful politicians, police officials, all
the crooked attorneys needed, and
gangs of sluegers to “grease” the way.
Although policemen are stationed at
every brewery, Obey are constantly
tricked. ' They are psrinitted to seize
truck loads of what appears to be beer,
and while they are conducting their
"catch” to. the nearest station, other
trucks, carrying ihe real stuff, slip out
and distribute. Analysis of she seised
beer invariably shows it is of legal
content and that it was made up to be
seised.
For a Nice Lunch
or First-Class Meal
Cali At
! Durant’s Cafe
Flat City
All Kinds of
Rough Lumber
, Xokotna ^Delivery
$80 PER M
Max Simel
£The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
SoW
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Miners"; Prospectors’
• and Trappers’
Supplies
Steamer Service On the Inoka
. River
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Aak Peopla of Oyihir about u».
‘ STATION
Fairview. innoko River
Sough and Dressed Lum
ber of All Kinds
BLACKBURN & ELDRIDGE
McGrath, Alaska
Provisions Notions Furnishings
' Indian Mitts, Moccasins and Snow shoes
•Furs -Bought and Sold lWhite Fish and^Dog Feed
Dog Harness Collars Sled Lashings Tank Heaters
DIRECT SERVICE
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Seattle to Kuskokwim River
Via Inside Passage
Persoh&F Attention Given to Freight Ordered
for the Kuskokwim. Send in Your Orders.
! For Rates and Accommodations apply to
Kuskokwim Pishing & Transportation Co.
7 Colman Dock Seattle, Wash.
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The Kusko
Times