Alaska News Notes
The first printing press ever used in
Alaska is one of the valued possessions
of James Wickersham, of Juneau. It.
is an old-fashioned hand press, and was
' first used for the publication of a paper
by the St. James Mission, at Fort
Adams, eight miles below what is now
called Tanana, This \tfas the first
Yukon paper ever published. Gordon
Betties was editor UDd printer, and the
first issue came out on New Year’s day,
1894. It did not suspend publication
until several years later. The press
* will be presented to the Alaska Agri
cultural College and School of Mines
at Fairbanks.'
The Anchorage AlaskaD will he the
name of a morning newspaper to be is
sued in Anchorage in the near future
by Hoy G. South worth, formerly editor
and- proprietor of the NenaDU News.
The plant of-the News was recently
sold to a company organized at An
chorage and the plant shipped there.
However, the company failed to make
the final payment on the1 plant,, where
upon Mr. South worth took it back and
will establish a daily paper himself.
W. H. James, Imanager of the An
• chorage Packing Company, canuers of
salmon, is in the States promoting a
fruit and vegetable cannery to be run
in connection with the salmon plant.
It is proposed to make a specialty of
st raw berries, red raspberries, wild cur
rants, cranberries and blueberries. In
the line of vegetables; spiBach, green
peas, cauliflower, mushrooms, carrots
and string beans wilf bead the list,
while cabbage will be krauted,
Charles Bfearn, one of ’ the pioneer
residents-of Fairbanks, accompanied
by Mik. Beam, left recently for the
States;- where they will make their
home. MrV Beam hah been a resident
of the Territory for 26-4oar&).and fov a>
number of years operated the Pioneer
Hotel in Fairbanks, which he recently
disposed oL.
J. C. Et>aw*n> owner df the telephone
and Wghi systems at Nome, has ac
quired mining property in the Nome
section and will again engage in min
ing there next summer, tie accumu
lated a large fortune at Nome in the
early history of that camp as owner of
the Portland bench and other prop
erty.
John Lindstrom, of Anchorage,
known as “The Cast Iron Kid,'” who
itas been at Hurricane for the past two
months with a crew bf tie cutlers, re
wt
PIONEER
SHOP
Machine, Black
smith and
Sheet Metal Work
All Kinds of Repairs
Stoves Built
and Repaired
Robt. E. Lovvrie
Tokotna, Alaska
! ports that he was chased by a bear as
he was returning to camp one evening
on a railroad speeder. Rounding a
curve he coltidea with bruin, Mho ap
parently had be. sleeping on the
right of way. Lindstrom says the bear
howled with rage and took after him.
Co!. James G. Steese, who has been
succeeded as head of the Alaska Rail
road by Col. Lee iJ. Laudis, of San
Francisco, will continue as head of the
Alaska Road Commission, directing
the construction of wagOD roads and
trails, and also will continue as con
sulting engineer in the lighthouse ser
vice and engineer in charge of river
and harbor improvements in Alaska,
according to a telegram recently re
ceived at Anchorage from Deiegate
Dan Sutherland,
William Gerig, formerly assistant
chief engineer on the Alaska Railroad,
( has been appointed consulting engineer
in the office of chief of engineers, War
Department, according to letters re-1
ceived at Anchorage. His specialty
will be reporting on dredging, etc.,
along the Atlantic seaboard from Bos
ton to Galveston. Mrs. Gerig remains
at Arkadelphia: Ark., their former
home.
E. J. Crouse, 59, who was injured in
an accident at the Atwood mine, on
Goldstream, near Fairbanks, recently,
died as a result of his injuries and was
buried in the cemetery at Fairbanks.
Crouse had his leg nearly severed by a
ragged cable in which he be'-ame en
tangled, and lost so much blood that he
could not survive the shock of opera
tion. Deceased had resided in the In
terior for a number of years.
Jr B. Kinnley is it> the government
hospital at Anchorage, suffering from
a gunshot wound in the leg, as the re
sult of a hunting accident at Lake Spe
nard. He was accidentally shot by J.
B. Hill, his companion on a rabbit
hunt. Hill tired at a rabbit, and the
gun was discharged a seconu time just
as Kinnley appeared, according to the
account. The wound is not serious.
Mike Marovitz, an AluskaQ citizen
of thirty years, and familiarly known
as ''Big Mike,” the discoverer of gold
on Yakataga beach, was a receot ar-j
rival at Anchorage, which town he
will make his headquarters in the fu
ture. Since 1912 Marovitz has spent
his entire time in prospecting in the
Bristol Bay and Kuskekwim districts.
The'big addition to the Alaska Agri
cultural College and School of Mines at
Fairbanks has been completed by the
Anchorage contracting firm of Lewis
& Bliss. The new wing on the college
is 52x58 feet, is three stones high, and
has a half-size concrete basement.
An all-copj>er moonshine still, with a
capacity of GOO gallons of mash at one
run, was found not long ago on Shelter
island, Southeastern Alaska, by dry
officers. The owners had decamoed
The final batch of concrete in the
new Odd Fellows’ building at Anchor
age was poured recently, and the con
tractors expect to complete the struc
ture within a month.
Frank G. Kod< nkircb. an inmate of
the Pioneers’ Home at Sitka, died
AH Kinds of
RougSi Lumber
Tokotna [Delivery
S80 PER M
John Heino
there oo Oct. 11. IJe was admitted to
the home on August IS-' from Douglas,
where he had lived for a Dumber of
years, having gone to that place from
Nome.
About 150 tourists visited Mount Mc
Kinley Park during the past season,
according to Dan Kennedy, owner of
the McKinley Packing and Transporta
tion Company, and preparations will be
made this winter to handle four times
that number Dext season..
The Sitka Tribune says that L. L.
Simpson will build a sawmill there
with a capacity of 100,000 feet of lum -
her and 10/100 boxes per dav. Stimson
estimates that between Deep bay and
Fish creek 500,000,000 feet of timber
are available.
It. is reported at Juneau that the
Salmon treek power house is to he re
built as a part of the program for the
rehabilitation of Thane as an ind ustr'al
center. The power house was de
stroyed by fire something over a year
ago.
Major J. F. A. Strong, former gov
ernor af Alaska, and Mrs. Strong are
at present in Kgvpt, to view the Pyra
mids and the temb of King Tutankh
amen, according to advices lately re
ceived at Anchorage.
it is rumored that W. II. Coppernoli,
until recently U. S. commissioner at
MeCar’hy, will be a candidate for the
office of Territorial attorney general
on the republican ticket at the next
primary election.
Harry Staser, deputy U. S. marshal
at Anchorage, has announced that he
will give $5 to each child of school age
who reports the existence of any moon
shine still in Anchorage.
The old army post at Fort Gibbon
has been dismantled and the entire
equipment moved to Anchorage.
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or First-Class Meal
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Durant’s Cafe
Flat City
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