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Harry 'Watson, private secretary to
GrfVenor GsOrge A. Parks for the
past four years, has resigned. He has
a contract :to excavate for the new
Capitol ■< building and to furnish
gravel for the concrete construction.
HU successor as secretary to the gov
ernor has not been named.
Charles E. Grown, Alaska pioneer
and founder of the firm of Brown &
Hawkins of Seward! passed away in
New York a few days, death being
due to a heart attack.
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A. E. Carr, widely known mail ear-;
rier in the early days of the Yukon,
parsed, away ,at Kodiak a few days
ago. He was the first carrier to take
mail, out of Dawson by dog team.
T .G.i Wilson, one of Alaska’s pic
turesque saloon keepers and gam
blers in the gold rush dayi, has re
formed and decided to hit the tem
perance- trail, according to, advices
from Seattle, in which city he was
■ecentiy scheduled to p ieach x tem
perance sermon at the Bethel Meth
odist-Episcopal Church. For thirty
years->b«fore'pr,hibition hit the Ter
ritory Wilson joined every stampede.
H« was one of the first to open a bar
and gambling house at Nome. Since
eaving> Alaska several years ago he
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has been operating a soft drink and
dinner place near Snoqualmie Falls.
He quit drinking with the advent of
prohibition.
Seattle.—Discovery of a quartz
reef vein,'believed to be the “mother
lode” of the Klondike,, from which
came millions of dollars in gold dust
and nuggets during the height of the
god rush, was reported by O. J.
Brown, comptroller of the White Pass
and Yukon Route, who arrived here
from Whitehorse and Dawson. ,
The reef runs across the upper
reaches of Bonanza and Eldorado
i creeks, and the Dawson Mining Com
pany has uncovered promising ore.
He said the silve camp at Mayo, on
the Stewart river, had shipped 8,000
tons of silver ore concentrates, val
j ued at more than $3,000,000, during
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Constantine Beaver, convicted of;
the murder of Egnatty Necketta, also1
a native, in the, Holitna. country, last
| December, was hanged at Fairbanks
a few weeks ago.
Hopeful throughout the greater
part of the night preceding the hang- j
ing that a stay of execution would I
arrive, Beaver bore himself v ith for- f
titude when informed that he must
die. His only wish was that, the in
tervening time might speed by so
that his mental agony might be end
ed, His composure was regarded as
litte less than remarkable when the
last minutes came. Although officers
walked beside him and held him by
the arms, it was said he would have
been able to walk unaided. When he,
reached the death chamber he broke
into a tribal chant, which continued
until the floor opened beneath him, I
That Klutuk, notorious Indian mur
derer who virtually ruled the Nusha
gak river country for several years,
is dead is the opinion of the few resi
' dents of the. big district, back of Bris
tol Bay. Such is the word brought to
Anchorage by Dr. L. J. Seeyey, who
spent most of the summer in. the
Bristol Bay district.
No killings have been reported for
the last year, and the belief is gen
eral that Klutak has-met the fate;, he
meted out to so many others. . Dr.. ■
Seeley heard many oldtimers discuss
the matter, and one of them, who
spent last winter trappipg some dis>
tance back of Dillingham, reported he
had covered a big country without en-!
countering, the outlaw or.finding any,
signs of him. He even stopped in al:
cabin belonging to Klutok and saw
nothing to indicate the owner had oc-;
cupied the place in recent months.
. Just how many men the Indian,
killed will probably never be known,
but some place the figure at a score
;lor more- His career of outlawry ]
started when he kiled two members1
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of bis own tribe. He then escaped
and for a number of years, q^rdiered
everyone who venitured into his her-1
ritory. A number of white men were
among the victims.
Pilot Prank Porba-ndt, in a Stimson
plane of the Alaska Airways, left
Nome a few days ago fbr Kotzebiie
with 26 live silver; and blue foxes pur
chased in Wisconsin and valued ' at
$10,000, to start a fur .farm on the
Kobuk river; It is one of the first
time live fobcea have been moved by
'plane.
The Premier Gold Mining Company
has announced a dividend of 6 per
cent for the third quarter of 1929.
The dividend is the third of the
same size paid this year and brings
the total stock earnings of the com
pany from nine years' operation of
the famous Premier mine at' Hyder to
islightly more than $14,050,000.
A* the company is capitalized for
$5,000,000, the amount so far retturn
ed to the stockholders represents
neaTly three times the total capital
ization.
DO YOU KNOW THESE?
An inquiry has been received for •
information concerning one John Mc
Govern. He’ is about 30 years old,.
and came'to Alaska in the summer
of 1927. |
Information is also desired of 'John
C. Campbell. About 30 years ago he
was located at what is known as
Union City, Aaska. He would now
be about 76 years old.
Any information regardirg the
above should be sent to the Gov
ernor’s Olfice, Juneau, Alaska.
HOW PHILADELPHIA .ATH
LETICS WON WORLLF SERIES
FROM THE CHICAGO CUBS
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and for Chicago Root, Nehf, Blake,
Malone, Carlson and Taylor.
Fifth Game—Athletics 3, Cubs 2.
Philadelphia.—The Athletics, with
a dramatic ninth inning rally, won
the world’s baseball championship by
beating the Chicago (Xibs 3 to 1 "in
the fifth.and deciding game. Ptesi
dent and .Mrs. Hoover ware specta
tors.
Rube Walberg, Athletics’ southpaw,
making.his second appearance in the (
series, checked the National League i
champions after they had driven
Howard* Ehmke, erstwhile hero; from ,
:.the box in the fourth by scoring two
runs, after -two were out, on hitk by
Cuyler, Grimm and Taylor' arrdra.pass
to Stephenson.
Walberg retired the first .ten- men
to face h&n.. The Athletics’ great
rally was started by Bishops’ single
and folowed by Haas’ homer.- Sim
mons’ doube caused Malone to walk
Foxx, but Miller came up and knock
ed in the winning -run t by • another
double into center,
Philadelphia made 3 runs, 6 hits
and no errors, and Chicago 2 runs, 8
hits and 1 error. The battery for the
Cubs was Malone and 'Taylor, and
for the AthleticsE hmke, Walberg
and Cochrane.
Frank J. Guskey |
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SPECIAL ACT IS REQUIRED
FOR AIR MAIL IN.ALASKA
It Twll nat be possible to award any
contracts for carrying air mail be-?
tween dbattle and Alaska until Con*
gress can be prevailed upon to enact.
special legislation, according to W. C.
Vandevoort, superintendent. of the
United States railway mai service.
While visiting in Juneau recently he
informed the chamber of commerce
that his department had hoped to ar
range for a special service between
Seattle and Juneau, supplementary to
the steamer service, but it was found
that mail carried by plane on a reg
ular schedule cannot be handled at
other than,regular, airmail rates.
The plan ol the department was to
dispatch mail by airplane from Se
atte each Monday morning, 48 hours
after the departure of, the steamers
of the Alaska StSeamship Company
on Saturday. This would include all
accumulated first class mails for,
Southeastern Alaska towns, for those
westerly, and for the Irfterior. Mail
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Where All May.Dance to Their
Delight, bjr Radio Music.
A ■ Short Drive Through De
lightful Forest Scenery.
Mr.,and Mrs. Geo.
Mutchler
Proprietors
destined for' points west ofi Juneau -
would catch the boat afc Juneau and
bts aaded aboard it;
It will be necessary to ask’ Con
gress to amend the present law, and
that will be done probably during -the -
coming session; If favorable,action,
is obtained, there is a possibility that
the supplementary air service will be
inaugurated next spring.
The California state industrial ac
cident commission has awarded Mrs.
Elizabeth W. Crosson of San Diego
$5,000 for the death of Miss Marvel'
Crosson, former Alaska girl, who was
kiled in the.woman’s aerial derby be
tween Santa Monica., and Cleveland on
August 19. The commission ruled
that Miss Crosson was backed, by vand *
was acting for the Union Oil: Com
pany when hfe plane crashed..
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