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Alaska News Notes
The coastwise power schooner Olga
went ashore at Port Safety during a
heavy storm, a few weeks ago, and is a
total wreck.
Frank Peterson, a resident of Nome
since 1900, and for many years mining
operator on Peluk creek, died there
last month, at the age of 64.
Former Deputy U. S. Marshal Harry
Kavanaugh, of McCarthy and Anchor
age, has been appointed prohibition
enforcement officer at Cordova.
Work was started early in October
on the construction of a winter sled
road from Cantwell station, on the line
of the Alaska railroad, to the placer
mining district along Valdez creek, a
distance of about sixty miles.
Grouse are so thick along Broad Pass
that they have delayed railroad traffic,
according to Special Deputy Collector
of Customs M. S. Whittier, who re
turned to Juneau recently fron a trip
into the Interior. He says that the
engineer stopped the train on which he
was traveling several times to chase
the grouse off the track rather than
run over the birds and kill them.
Despite the heavy frost which oc
curred fifteen dayain advance of those
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of the past three years, the crops of
the farmers of Wasiiia and vicinity
came through in line shape, aod all ol
those who put in grain and potatoes
were successful. The yield for the
most part was good, and there will be
plenty of feed for livestock and good
potatoes for the market. The addition
of poultry to the homesteads has
proved' a success, and many tine fowls,
including turkeys, are fattening for
the table.
Robert Wiley, who has beeD operat
ating copper, silver and gold mining
properties in the Rainy Hollow region,
has brought suit against Richard Ken
nedy, of Haines, Marlin CoDway, of
Skagway, J. W. Burnham, of Glaston
bury, Conn . and J. A. Fraser, of Atlin,
to compel them to deliver to him title
to properties in the Cassiar district or
to accept return of his option and’re
imburse him for the expenditure of
$140,000. The death of Patrick Ken
nedy, one of the original owners, is
said to have caused the difficulty re
garding the title to the property.
Mrs. Azalia Wicksell, who was taken
to Fairbanks during the early summer
to stand trial for the killing of Private
Parker, at Richardson, was liberated
by District Judge Clegg, recently, upon
motion of the district attorney, who
pointed out that there was no chance
to obtain a conviction, as the opinion
of Alaskans is that Parker did not "die
in the line of duty.” Young Parker
was killed in October, 1921, following
! which his slayer was exonerated by a
coroner’s jury, but was later indicted
by the grand jury and ordered re
turned to Fairbanks for trial.
Word ciikss from Hyder that the
Premier Gold Mining Company, whose
mine, the Premier, 14 miles up the
Salmon river valley from Hyder, has
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up and take notice, has distributed an
other dividend of $750,000, makiog a
total to date of $2,400.000. The divi
dend in question is the fourth declared
by the company, the first having been
declared by the company on December
30, 1921, and the total amount to date
is within $100,000 af being half of the
total capitalization, the $750,000 being
15 per cent, or on a ratio of (id per cent
annually. Commenting on the latest
dividend, the Hyder Miner says: ‘‘In
view of the fact that the mine also has
: paid for more than a million dollars’
worth of equipment, including a tram
way eleven miles long, concentrating
. mill, ore bunkers, etc., as well as the
development work necessary to an un
dertaking of such magnitude, a prece
dent is believed to have been estab
lished in the mining world.”
Two Billion Dollars
Sunk in German Marks
New York.—B. M. Anderson, econo
mist for the Chace National Bank of
this city, in a statement made today,
declared that no less than two billion
good American dollars had beec ex
pended in the United States in the
purchase of German marks, which
were quoted at 3.054 for a dollar in
London this morning. Mr. Anderson
asserts that there is not the remotest
obance of speculators realizing even a
fraction of the amount paid for the
currency.
An Englishman walked into a Berlin
bank, laid down a sovereign and said,
“How many marks can I get for this?”
“Hi, there!” cried the manager, ad
dressing his staff, “clear out, the lot of
you! This gentleman’s bought the
bank.’’—Ex
“From whaL laud do ye coorn?” asked
the Scot,
“The greatest in the world,” replied
the Yankee.
• Fuir bairn, ye,,Te lost your accent,”
said the canny one.—Ex.
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