. Alaska News Notes
Under the new management of the
Alaska railroad there have been a
< .number of changes in the personnel of
the operating force. Under a recent
order of Manager Laudis the position
of storekeeper has been abolished, and
A. Haag, for t;v past year in charge of
that office, tendered bis resignation.
The order provides for itie creation of
» new administrative post, thut of su
perintendent of commissary and stores,
a<ud Captain John H. Hughes has been
•elec ed for the place. Simultaneously
« the office of Traffic Agent, to whicti [
Captain Hughes was recently appoint
ed. was abandoned, the duties of this'
* . office devolving upon the operating de
pertinent. F. A. Hansen, engineer of
> maintenance and construction, will
•ever his connection with the railroad
at the termination of a 60-dav leave of
absence. D. D Rose, assistant super
jtilendent of transportation, will also
terminate his service with the railroad,
mod the position held by him will be :
abolished. R. R. Cole, assistant train
master, will return to his old position
as chief train despatches The services 1
of J. B. Larson, former storekeeper,
have been dispensed with.
Announcement from the office of the
Territorial treasurer is that the Terri
tory has paid the bounty on 4.500 eagles j
killed withiu the last year, and that)
since the last legislature increased the
bounty to $1 there is a noted increase |
in the number of eagle claws being
presented for'jayment of bounty. One
» xesident of the di'locky Hass neighbor
hood, about 100 miles to the south of
wuoeau, is the banner eagle exter
minator, he having collected bounty on
400 pairs of claws during the year.
George B. Grigsby, formerly of
Nome, and later attorney general of
Alaska, and then Delegate to CoDgress
from Alaska, will locate in Ketchikan
within a short time and enter upon the
practice of law, according to recent ad
vices. Since the expiration of hia term
of office as Delegate to Congress he has
made his headquarters in San Fran
cisco and New York, most of the lime
in the latter city, devoting consider
able time to various promotions. He
t has. however, decided to come back to
Alaska and resume the practice of law.
A bill to amend the merchant marine
act of 1920 bv removing the discritna
tory clause against Alaska; one to pro
vide for the election of a governor by
• She people of the Territory, and resolu
tions introduced for an investigation by
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Congress of the Alaska fisheries situa
tion, are among the most interesting
matters to the people of Alaska to come
up before the present Congress, in the
opinion of Attorney General Rustgard,
who recently returned from a two
months’ trip to Washington.
A coroner’s jury impaneled at Fair
banks recently to investigate the death
of Eliza Harry, a native woman, who
was found dead on the trail nearChena,
on the Tatiana river, returned a ver
dict that Norman Hadley, an oldlimer,
contributed to tbe death of the woman,
presumably by allowing her to become
intoxicated in his cabin. The jury al
the woman and theD drove her out on
the trail in freezing weather.
George M. Taggart, 19, formerly oi
Nome, arrived in Seattle on Christmas !
day and ate Christmas dinner wuh his1,
father, after a separation of over ten
years, during which time the boy com
pleted nearly 75,000 miles of travel,
principally by water. Starting at the
age of 9, when be stole a ride from
Nome to Fairbanks, the youth, who is
well known to olJ-time residents of
Nome, has worked as oiler oo tramp
fjeigbters ever since.
Delegate Dan Sutherland nas intro
duced a bill in tbe House of Repre
sentatives which would appropriate a
sum not to exceed $250,000 for tbe con
struction of a new federal building at
Fairbanks. The site is already pro
vided for with the purchase by the
government a few years ago of the
Washington Alaska Rank property, ad
joining the present federal build,ng
and jail.
P. It. Strong, old-time prospector and
miner, was seriously injured by tha
premature explosion of a shot on his
claim at Crow creek, near Girdwood
station, on the government railroad,
and he was takeu to the Anchorage
hospital. H« is about GO years of age,
and has been in the North since the
early days, following the mining game.
Fire, caused by the explosion of a
tank of gasoline, ignited by a lighted
lantern which had been placed uear it,
destroyed the 20-stamp mill building
and ruined a part of the mill machin
ery of the Lucky Shot mine of the Wil
low Creek Mines Company, in the Wil
low Creek district, a few weeks ago.
The loss is estimated at 840.000.
Word was recently received at Sew
ard that Frank h. iialUine has com
pleted the financing of the proposed
pulp and paper mill to be erected at
that place. The project contemplates
the erection of a big daca ami hydro
electric plant on the KeDai river, and
a transmission line to the pulp plant at
Seward.
About 75 live rabbits were recently
shipped from the vicinity of Anchorage
to Southeastern Alaska, where they
will le used for experimental purposes
in connection with fox feed. Fox farm
ers in Soutneasteru Alaska are already
experimenting with rabbits from the
States.
Delegate Sutherland has introduced
a resolution in the House of Ilepre
sentatives authorizing the Secretary of
War to expend not to exceed $100,000
for the protection of government prop
erty adjacent to Lowell creek, at Sew
ard. Alaska.
Pete Milano and Frank Missano,
two well known miners of the Fair
banks seciitm, left a few days ago 0 r
British Guiana, where s. new gold dis
covery is reported.
Trappers in the Cbilina district are
said to be hoarding their pelts until
fur prices advance. They claim buyers
are paying too little for furs at present.
The haiibut boat Majestic arrived at
Ketchikan recently after a two-weeks’
fishing trip which netted the fishermen
£885 each. During the past four months
the men on the Majestic have averaged
£1,000 per month.
P J. Rickert, former member of the
Territorial legislature and one of the
most extensive of the Fairbanks farm
ers, says last year was one of the best
from an agricultural standpoint in the
history of the country. Mr. Rickert
sold 150 Iods of foodstuffs himself, and
says there is local market for all that
five hundred farmers can raise.
Capt. J. J. Finn< gan. Cold Bay oil
promoter, recently stated that he in
tended to enter the race against Ar
thur Frame, of Anchorage, for repub
lican national committeeman.
It is reported that the Premier mine,
near Hyder, is about to pay another
dividend of 3 per cent, which will make
the amount paid in dividends within
two years over $5,000,000.
W. F. Thompson, editor and pub
lisher of rho Fairlianks News-Miner,
will leave shortly for Rochester, Minn.,
where he will undergo an operation
for renai trouble*.
“Beyond the Skyline,’ a 30 page
foool* of short nosms on Alaska from
the pen of C. Edward Cone, the “bard
of the Kuskokwim,” has recently been
placed on sale.
Alfred Jackson, an old time mining
man of the Copper river district, died
recently while hewing a piece of tim
ber at the Green Butte mine, near Mc
Carthy.
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