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Burned about the face and neck
'when gasoline from the lamp into
which she was pumping air exploded,
.Miss L. K. Lambert, nurse at the
Episcpal Hospital of “St. Johns in
ithe Wilderness,” at Allakalet, was
♦taken to Fairbanks a rew days ago
ifor medical attention.
Adopting the name of Northern
ILight,, a number of former Alaskans
mow living at Seattle have arranged
♦ to apply for a charter for a new lodge
•of Free Masons, with a membership
•consisting of frmer Alaskans.
The officers named are Rorcoe R.
'Young, formerly of Juneau, as wor
shipful master; Cecil 0. Goss, of Sew
■ ard, senior warden; D. O. J. Keating,
♦ of Seward, junior warden; Stephen
•Casler, of Valdez, secretary, and
Henry A. Slater, of Cordova, treas
urer.
Young, Casler and Slater are all
inast masters of Alaskan lodges.
Rudolph Hector, of Unalaska, who
'.was in Seward recently on his way to
tthe States, says ravens have killed off
;a number of sheep »n the westward
♦ islands.
As related by the Gateway, a
♦ swarm of ravens will alight on the
Iback of a sheep and begin picking at
the animal. Those resting on the
ineck stretch down and peer into the
‘eyes of the animal and quite frequent
ly pick out the eyes. Finally, when
♦ the sheep has become so weakened
.from trying to rid himself of the
•birds, he falls to the ground and this
♦ marks the end for him, for the ravens
tthen begin to tear him to pieces.
Charles Magaha, pioneeT mining
iman of the interior and more recently
(connected with the roadbuilding
forces of the -Alaska Road Commis
sion in the Wasilla district, died at
tthe Anchorage hospital a few days
;ago, a victim of a stroke. After
lbeing under treatment at the hospital
■ a couple of days he showed consider -
.-able improvement. Later, however,
this condition grew worse and he con
tinued to decline until the end. He
'was 72 yetars of age.
The oldtimer mined on Cleary creek
:in the Fairbanks district in the early
(days of that camp and had a wide"
(acquaintance among oldtinaers of all
(sections-of Alaska.
The fleeet of three gold dredges
which the Fairbanks Exploration rom
;pany started working on its extensive
(holdings in the Fairbanks district last
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F. C. H. SPENCER
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Successors to Northern Commercial <Co. At
Takotna, Alaska
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summer, wili be augmented by twof
additional boats during the coming
season, according to word brought to
Anchorage recently by Captain A. E.
Lathrop. The dredges have been or
dered and are to be crated in the
States as soon as completed and then
knocked down for shipment to interior
Alaska. They will be delivered at
Fairbanks some time during the sum
mer, and it is expected that they will
be set up and ready for operation in
time for a thorough tryout before the
season closes.
Recent happenings at Fort Yukon
are told in a letter received by United
States Marshal Lynn Smith at Fair
banks, recently. The letter told of
the death on January 12 after an ill
ness of several months of Dennis
O’Brien, pioneer resident, of Yukon
Territory and Alaska. He was born
in Maine in 1862 and came to Dawson
in 1898. He had lived in FFort Yukon
for the last sc on years.
Lynn Short, .cho operates a fur
'far ma short d. taiice from Fort Yu
kon, has recovered his health now, af
ter being injured when he fell on the
ice in October.
Carney & Irving have dissolved
partnership, Mr. Carney taking over
the moving picture show, and his for
mer partner the roadhouse.
Mrs. Rodermat, the Fort Yukon
school teacher, has been ill for several
weeks.
Fur is very scarce throughout the
district, and the catch is estimated .at
only 50 per cent of last year’s.
The letter told of the sale of Harry
Anthony’s trading post at Old ■ Crow
to the N. C. Co., and said Scotty
Allen had been appointed agent by
the company.
Realizing that tourist travel over
the Alaska Railroad cannot J>e in
creased beyond its present summer
maximum without additional hotel
accommodations at Seward and Fair
banks, General Manager O. F. Ohlson,
of the Alaska Railroad, has .been in
strumental in setting in motion two
projects which will provide the need
ed housing relief, and the Alaska
Railroad will co-operate in every way
possible to insure tth completion of
the new hostelries in time to take
care of the rush of visitors expected
during the coming season.
A new hotel, a modern structure of
three stories, will be erected at Fair
banks. The necessary financial ar
rangements have been made, plans
prepared, and the contrart for erec
tion will be awarded in the very near
future, it being understood that the
Warrack Construction Company of
Seattle will do the constructing.
The Seward improvement will con
sist of a large addition to one of the
hotels already established there .and
that work also will be started at an
early date.
The hotels at Seward and Fa'r
banks have not been anle to handle
ihe crowds of the last several season^,
the situation having .assumed suc.i
distres jig proportions la st summe*
that, it was apparent t* Mr. Ohlson
1 !:at something would have to be done
promptly to prevent discouragement
of travel to interior Alaska.
CARNES, EMBEZZLER, DRAWS
FROM FIVE TO SEVEN YEARS
ATLANTA, Ga.—Clinton Carnes,
frmer treasurer of the Southern Bap
tist Home Mission Board, whose dis
appearance last summer led to the
discovery of an alleged shortage of
nearly $1,000,000 in his accounts and
his subsequent arrest in Canada,
pleaded guilty if* the.'Superior Court
to embezzlement, and was sentenced
to a term of from five to seven years.
The plea was on ore indictment
charging embezzlement of $80,000.
Carnes, agreed to plead guilty -on the
condition that the J‘j other indict-,
ments be attached in the former mem
oranda.
If he attempts to- seek pardon be
fore the minimum sentence is served,
prosecution will be started oh the
other bills, but if. he dops nt they will
be dropped.
Henry Ervasti, lately ‘t located at
Healy, was a Wednesday atrrival, and
left Thursday for Ophir.
Henry Martella, after a couple of
days in town, left for Ganes,creek on
Wednesday.
Eric Hard, after several days oyer
at Candle, was.a Wednesday arrival,
headed for Ophir.
Complicated Business.
Ergelhardt Norton, the wholesale
furrier, said at a furriers’ banquet in
^ Milwaukee:
“The fur business gets more and
more complicated every year. In the
past we so’d real sealskins, real otter,
real sable arid ermine,'and the work
Tti the Probate Court for the Terri
tory of A’aska, Fourth Division,
Nu'ato Precinct, at Ruby, before
William N. Growdcn, United States
Commissioner and ex-officio Pro
bate Judge.
In the matter of the Estate of
Thomas Bvme, deceased.
Notice of Settlement of F:na! Account.
Notice is hereby given that James
Byrne, administrator of the estate of
Thomas Byrne, deceased, has rendered
and presented for settlement and filed
in. this court the final account of his
administration of said estate, and that
Wednesday, the 26th day of June,
1929, at 2 o’clock p. m., in-the Court
Room of the United States Commis
sioner’s Office, in the town of-Ruby,
Nulato Precinct, Fourth Division, Ter
ritory of Alaska, has been duly ap
pointed by said court, as the time and
place, for the hearing of said final
account, at which time and place any
person interested in said estate may
appear and file exceptions in writing
to said account and contest the same.
JAMES BYRNE,
Administrator.
JOHN W. DUNN,
Attorney for Estate.
Date of first publication Feb. 9, 1929.
Date of last publication Mar. 9,1929
Frank J. Guskey
Notary Public
McGrath, Alaska
DuJtand’s
Cafe and
flat City
was simple; but nowadays, witfa all
these queer synthetic furs, it’s—well,
it’s like the story:
“ ‘A lady came into my shop this
morning,’ a furrier said at lunch, ‘and
she told me she wanted to buy a near
sable scarf.
“ ‘There, madam,’ I says to her, ‘is
a bargain. It cost me a hundred dol
lars; it’s:worth two hundred; take it
for ten.’. I made eight dollars.” ’”
Diamond
Dick
jRoadhouse
Takotna, Alaska
‘ ‘Dick Rhodes (Dramohd’Dick)
may now be found in his new
quarters
Former McLean" Roddhouse,
where hewlll be* pleased to
meet all old friends - and to
(fet acquainted with new-ones
-Good rlioi,' Kennels
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: and Staple Groceries.
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