Alaska NewsNotes
Joseph Conway, of Anchorage, has
beeu made a citizen of the United
Stales.
Figures made public last month by
the Seattle port warden show heavy
gains in domestic trade for Alaska.
McCarthy is boasting that there are
no idle men In town, owing to opening
of the Erie mine, near that place.
A home for aged natives ijs proposed
bi Sitka residents. It is proposed that
pare of the money obtained for leasing
fox islands be used for this purpose.
The U. S. Bureau of Miues at E’air
. banks wants samples of rock for an
alyzing. if ihe samples have a com
mercial value the owners are charged.
Con Sullivan, a well known Thud
division old-timer, was married in Los
. Angeles recently to .Miss I^ouise Mur
ray, a sister of W. T, Murray, of An
chorage.
The funeral of John I). O’Hearn, one
i of the earliest pioneers of Alaska, was
held in Beattie recently. Deceased
went to the Klondike long before the
rush of 1897.
A.jury in,the federal court at Seattle
, orcceoiiy a warded William Sullivan, c,
N Nome-longshoreman, $110,000 damages,
from the Alaska Steamship Company,
for injuries received while in its em
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ploy. Sullivan testified that a steel oil .
drum rolled ou him while working oo
tbe Ketchikan at Nome last September. |
Pat DevJin was recently given five
months in the federal jail at Valdez for |
violation of the national prohibition
act, and getting caught at it. He hails
from McCarthy.
Anchorage Chapter No. 15, Royal
Arch Masons, recently elected office*s
for the ensuing year. J. J. Longacre
was named high priest, and Iiay O. ;
Scott secretary.
John Ford Starr, son-in law of Gov. (
Scott C. Bone, and an employe of the ’
Territorial secretary, whose first child .
was oorn in Juneau, has been elected
commander of tLe American Legit n
post. j;
Many ranchers in the Mataouska
district are becoming interested in
sheep raising. Some have already pur
chased animals from the experimental
station aud will try raising these pav
ing animals.
A1 Shyinao, formerly connected with
Carl Bolte in the hardware business at j
Anchorage, has been appointed pur
chasing agem of the Blum O'Neill In
terests, who operate stores at Cordova
and Valdez.
T. M. Hunt has purchased 34 pure
bred Angora goats and placed them on
his ranch, near Palmer. He plans to
feed them on uative hay grown on the
ranch. Mr. White, of Palmer, also has
a flock of 15 goats.
Ole Sandon was found dead -in bis
cabin at Anchorage recently by Iris
partner,©le Jensen. Death had been
caused by a gunshot wound through
the bean. A verdict of suicide was
dered bv the coroners jury.
Jacob Talkeetna, a native, aged 103
years, died recently at Chicagof. He
was possessor of a grant issued by Gov..
Brady. He was an ivory carver of the
old school, and his desigDe were gen
erally copied throughout the Territory.
Representatives of the department of
justice wer«- called to the Fairbanks
depot recently to arrest a mysterious
parcel of freight which loosed like a
still. Investigation showed the con
traption to be a new-fangled washiug
machine.
On stipulation of U. S. District At
torney Duggan and Attorney L. V.
Ray, representing the defendant, the
case of U. s. vs. Chauneey Peterson,
charged with violation of the liquor
law, was transferred to the Valdez
term of court.
Half of the bonds for the new power
plant to be erected at Eklutna bv F. I.
Reed and associates have been sold in
Seattle and Outside cities. Dams to
hold large quantities of water are in
cluded in the enterprise, as well as
generators and a 55 mile transmission
line.
Ruling out the evidence presented
by the government in the form of beer
alleged to have been seised on the
premises of Chris and George Pappa
dementro. on the ground that, the seiz
ure was illegally executed. Judge
Ritchie ordered the jury to acquit toe
defendants.
Racine and Alaskan officials have
joined efforts to solve the mystery sur
rounding the death of Matt Jaanum,
of EVirbacks, who was fouod with his
throat cut, ou a train between Milwau
kee and Corliss. Jaanum had a large
sum of money on him when he left,
Fairbanks for Finland, and when found
the body had but a small bill and a few
trinkets.
Dr. W. F. Green
McGrath, Alaska
J. H. McLEAN
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