. Alaska News Notes
Twenty men are at work in the Sixty
miie district, near Dawson, mining,
trapping, prospecting, hunting and
woodcutting.
Dr. J. Langdon Hawes, aged 47, f<>r
many years a resident of Petersburg,
died in Seattle a lew days ugo, after a
proloutied illness.
The Bartlett stage line is plying
from Circle to Chatanika, which is a
great accommodation to mineis and
citizens ol the camps.
A latge meteor fell in the vicinity of
Fairbanks a few days ago, but a wibo
aud close search for it ha? failed to
disclose its whereabouts.
Fire Chief Greene of Anchorage es
timates the losses by lire in that city
for the years 11)21 22 at $12.7,1-01) for
1921, and $50,155 in 1922
Harry Nayor. a resident of Peters
burg, died recently from tetanus, or
lockjaw, as a result of a tiunshot wound
received while hunting Dec. 20. •
Andrew Silme, who two months ago
broke his right leg while at work in
the Lucky Shot rniue, was released
. from, the Anchorage hospital a few
. days. ago.
5 Some large bands of caribou are
crossing to the westward of Sixtymile,
according to prospectors returning to
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Dawson. Coyotes are also appearing
in tie district in large numbers.
Selma Jacobson, arrested at Juneau1
recently with intoxicating liquor in his
possession, was lined #o(M) and costs by
Judge Paine. Jacobson paid his line,
and was released.
In the commissioner’s court at Mc
Carthy, a few days ago, Joe Hutchins'
was fitted MO and costs foi violation of
the dry law, and Richard Welch was
fined $10 for iho same offense.
Charles Dustin, for many years mas
ter mechanic of he ''’upper River rail
way at Cordova, has been promoted to
the position of port engineer for the |
Alaska Steamship C ;mpany at Seattle.
More than one sixth of the entire
amount of gold production cridited to
the Territory of Alaska for 192- by ihe
annual report of the Geological Survey .
came from the Alaska Juneau proper- ,
ties.
The Treadwell emergency hospital at
Treadwell was closed recently by the |
company and will not be reopened. A >
\ physician has been hired by the com
pany to care fur the men and their
lamilies.
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The Alaska Road Commission is mak
j ing preparations for the construction
I of a new bridge across the Chat.anika
i river at Chatanika. the materia! for
! whjch is expected to arrive from the
coast shortly.
1 W. T. 'lolch, formerly business man-i
nger of the Alaska Gastineau Company i
at Juneau, has gone to the States to]
make his Home, and will go in business
! with R. H. Thompson, a prominent en
: ginetv at Seattle.
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Alt Ellefson. the tractor kiog of
1 Mayo, met with an accident a few days
! ago. wh-ich resulted in a broken bone
in bis arm. He was the man who
brought the tractor into the Mavo dis
trict down the Yukon.
Percy Charles, former chief deputy
under Marshal Love, and H. B. Joseph,
former chief accountant of the Alaskan
Engineering Company at Neoana, ate
partners in ao auditing and accounting
business at Ketchikan.
Mrs. Mary A. Barnard, a pioneer if
Skagway, died recently at an advanced
age. She was one of the oldest resi
dents tif that camp, and lived in.a cot
tage near the railway track on a .pen
sion received from the Territory.
£ Major R. A. Tucker, of the R. C. M,
P. for Yukon, recently fell and broke
several ribs at Lis home in s\ iCt-nri1'*
and a short litre later fell iotoLhis
basement, sustaining a severe concus
sion of the braiD. Major Tucker was
at one time stationed in Dawson.i A’r.lt'
q At a meeting held by the Indians’ of
Ketchikan recently, presided over’ by
L. P. Paul, it was decided to organize
a Ketehikuu camp of the Native Brett
echoed, an organization of Indians who
hawe progressed beyond the tribal law
stage. 'Ibis is the thirtieth camp io!
be organized in the Territory.
Jack Dalton, discoverer of the famous
trail to the Yukon bearing his nan> ,
has obtained passports {to British Gui-:
ana to bunt gold, according to a di -
putch received in Alaska recently by
his friends. Dalton is 67 years of ag»a
but is in robust health. He left his
ranch in Yakima valley to go to the
southern gold fields.
Shaking with fear and jumping to
his feet at the slightest sound, Hugh
Brady, a pioneer of the Dawson dis
trict, is confined at Ketchikan, on a
charge of insanity. Brady, who is
about 00 years of age. arrived in Ket
chikan on one of the last boats, and
shortly after taking quarters at the
Pioneer called for Fatbei4 Van der Pol
for protection against his enemies. He
tells a rambling story of 18 years spent
in Dawson, where he lost his right leg
above the knee. He savs he is relent
lessly pursued by a woman whose afTec
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