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McGRATH, ALASKA. AUG. 31,1921
News Notes From
All Parts of Alaska
Anchorage will celebrate three days
this year. ft
Two girls constituted the graduating
class at Skagway this year.
Edward Olson, 32, died of ptomaine
poisoning at Juneau a few: days ago.
Deputy U. S. marshals are stationed
at nearly all the railway camps this,
summer*
A boom of cedar logs containing
150,000 feet was taken into Wrangell
sawmill.recently.
Einger prints are.being .taken of sus
picious characters. who are banging
arounth Anchorage.
All unlicensed, dogs of Petersburg
wil\ need the services of a coroner, if
an official pronouncement is enforced.
The Alpine Glub at Skagway has
started work on the Smugglers Cove
road, getting it in readiness for tour
ists,
Mrs. Charles E. SugdeD, formerly
Miss Gertrude Heid, a well known Ju
neau girl, died recently in San Fran
ciatjo.
The Junoau city council recently de
clared a number, of shacks to be a nuis
ance and ordered them torn down* by
the police department.
After following t,he winter trail to
the Fort Norman oil, fields ^and back
agai n to civilization, and , incidentally
sno wshoeing 2,114 miles, A. S. F. Pan
kin, of Calgary, a Yukon pioneer of
Max Simel
Hie Pioneer Trader
1 Furs Bought and
j Sold
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Miners’, prospectors’
and Trappers’
Supplies
Steamer Service On the Inoka
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!98, has reached Ottawa with glowing
accounts of*? he richness and practica
bility of the Northern oil areas.
Henry Gohres, former chief of the
Fairbanks fire department, was recent
ly united: in marriage to Aliss Phylis
Fay at La Crpsse, W is.
The &ncl*oi;age Auto Club has voted
to assess each car in the association $10
for „he furthering of the good roads
movement of that pity
Barring unfoBeseen. circumstances of
an unusual nature, the construction of
a jetty and breakwater for Nome har
bor will be completed this season.
The employes of the Government
coal mine at E-ska have raised funds
among.themselves for the erection of a
new social hall and community center.
Heni’y Dubois, proprietor of the Oc
cidental Hotel of Dawson and a well
.known old-timer, was married in Eagle
a few weeks ago. They will reside in
Dawson.
Captain A. E, Lathrop, manager of
the Empress Theater at Anchorage, is
offering $1Q0 to anvone who finds.oil
seepages within ten miles of the city of
Anchorage.
The unemployed at Juneau will be
registered for the purpose of providing
jobs for them. The closing of the big
mine at that city has thrown a number
of men out 6t employment.
Kirkman creek, tributary of the
Yukon, coming into the main river
south of the Stewart, is proving one of
the steadiest old -time gold producing
creeks in Yukon Territory.
James Neill, an Alaska pioneer, for
the past four years employed at the
Perseverance mine- near Juneau, will
leave soon for his old home in Aus
tralia. Mr. Neill .was at Circle City
when the Klondike was in full blast,
and previous to that had mined in the
Cassiar district.
Tom Baati caught a mountain goat
kid near Hyder a few days ago and
started to camp with it. The kid,
which was about two days ol<jl. was
perfectly contented in his arms, but
when he placed it on the ground to
shift his rifle it hopped away with a
race horse speed.
One hundred and twenty-nine fur
seals was the total of the catch of the
natives of Sitka this- year. Alaskan
natives are allowed to kill fur seals, but
must capture them with spear and
open boat. After being killed the skins
must be tagged by a representative of
the Bureau of Fisheries to show that
tbev were caught in a legal manner by
a native.
Joseph Kielwasser, aged 41 years,
was drowned a few days ago at Juneau,
while landing from a skiff on a plank
walk alongside the road commission
barn. A board broke, throwing him
into the bav, his head striking as . he
fell, rendering him unconscious. His
body was recovered at low tide. De
ceased was a native of Germany, com
ing to Alaska eight years ago from
Prince Rupert.
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Gold From the Novi.
George Jesse, on Spruce creek, in
the Ruby section, has about $900 worth
of gold taken by Heqry Heilman and
Joe St. Germain from their ground on
the Novi, about 70 miles from Poor
man. The gold is coarse, of the flax
seed order, according to A1 Thorns,,
who saw the gold on his recent trip to
Ruby. Messrs.'Hellman and Germain,
who have been in the Novi section for
somo time, do not consider that they
have pay as yet: and declare there, is
not the slightest excuse for a stam
pede. .
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In
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McGrath’s Popular Resort
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Prop.
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