Alaska News Notes
Charles H. LaBayseau, better known
as “A labam,” owner of the -Tolovana
Crossiog roadhouse, who recent.lv visit
ed Fairbanks, reported that five outfits
are prospecting the benches of the Tof
ovana river above Willow creek, wheie
encouraging prospects have been louud
lately. Tom Yerdie has done a lot ojf
open-cutting and digging diiches on
Willow creek, and has about 90,000
feet uncovered for an early start next
seasoD. Floyd Brown aod George Pel
fer have 100 cords of wood ou band for
winter work ou Wilbun No: 2 above,
aod will take out a big dump. Herman
Magnusson, Carl Orlander and Nick
Jansen are among those prospecting
the Tolovana benches, aod they believe
they will Sud the pay before spring.
The Yukon Gold Company’s power
plant at Twelvemil* shut clown recent
ly after a successful season of almost
six months’ steady operation, says the
Dawson News. This is the third sea
son that the unit now in use theie.
known as “Unit C,**' has operated
throughout the working season witi>
out having missed a single revolution
or a stroke. The feat is coo.->idt?red re
markable. It is a 6I& kilowatt gener
ator. and generates OOC^horsepower at
1,200 volts, which is stepped up to 33,
volts. shot across the hills to Gold Bun.
BOnansiand Guggieville. stepped down
to 4.400'for secondary transmission, and
to 440 for service.
The Norman Dawn Alaska Produc
tion is the name of a new movie con
cern recently organized, with NorniuD
Dawn, the well known-producer, at its
head. TheaHottwent of stock in the
new corporation for Fairbanks has
been oversubscribed, and the head
quarters of the corporat ion will be jd
that city. Eva Novak, who will be
Starred by the company, was a recent
orrival in Fairbanks, -and a number of
prominent movie actors will follow.
According to James 3.- Daly, Nome
agent for the Alaska Steamihip Com
pany. who arrived in Seattle on one of
the last boats from that place, Nome is
on the threshold of its mining develop
tneot, aod oext year will see the ex
penditure of $4,000,000 for installation
of dredges and equipment. Mr. Daly
predicted that the gold production of
Nome this year would be a million dol
lars, the same as Isst rear.
Skm Horton, who was brought back
to Fairbanks recently Trcim the coast to
answer to a charge of violating the dry
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RoBt; E. Lowrie
Tototna, Alaska
law, was found guilty a lew days aye,
at the conclusion of a two-days’ trial,
and sentenced by District Judge Clegg
to a term of two years in the federal
penitentiary, in audition to which he
must pay a tine of $100. Application
for a new trial was denied by tile court.
Mrs. Charles L) Garfield, wife of the
manager of the Alaska division of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce, died at
Portland, Ore., Nov. 24. of pneumonia.
Mr. and Mrs. Gat hem bad uuioed from
Seattle to Portland to attend the for
eign trade Convent.'on, and she coo
; traded a severe cold during the trip
that terminated in pneumonia. Mr.
and Mrs. Garfield formerly resided at
Nome and later moved to Juneau, at
both of which places be, acted as dep
uty collector of customs
Peter McGrath, one of the early pio
neers of the Northland, is now located
, in Portland, Ore. In 1809 McGrath
and Simeon Pont were in the mercau
| tile business at Circle City, under the
name of the Alaska Supply Company.
In 1900. at Nome, be was a member . f
the firm of Crane. McGrath & Millet.
' A-few years later Saw him in the Ku»
, kokwirn couotsty. He is the man afu r
w hom the Lown of McGrath was named.
Chester W. Purrington, mining en
gineer. formerly connected with the
United States Geological Survey, who
made ati intensive study of placer gold
, niiDing in Alaska, was one of the vie
tims of the earthqnake district in To
kio. Mr. Purrington wrote a report on
gravel mining, based largely on his ob
servations in the Fairbanks region,
that is an authority for placer miuers.
The shortest biographical sketch of
»Dy member of Congress as listed in
the li>2.1 Congressional directory is that
of Dan A. Sutherland. D legate from
Alaska. Mxcept for bis Dame. Mr.
Sutherland used justr three words, and
j t.b’e entire sketch takes just half a line
jin the volume, as follows: “Dan A.
Sutherland, republican, second term,”
The first divurce ever granted in
Dawson was given Margaret Erskiie
Thornback a short time ago by Jot n
Black, acting judge iD the absence of
Ju-tice Macauley. Captain Charles
Rodney Thornback was the defendant.
It was not only the first divorce to l»
granted, but the case was the first ac
tion for diiorce ever tiled in the court..
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According to Anchorage residents,
the recent big storm and high tide
washed the beach clean at Anchor
Point, on Cook Inlet, and left good pay
In various places along the beach.
Several men left Anchorage to wink
the beaches with sm-li outfits.
The time has not vet come for a divi- !
sion of the Territory of Alaska, was the
majority opinion expressed at a recent
meeting of the Anchorage Chamber of
Commerce called to discuss the ques
tion now being agitated in Southeast
ern Alaska.
Karl Armstrong, former deputy U.
S. marshal at. Kodiak, now interested
in the fox raising business and in Cold
Bay oil lands, recently returned from!
Cherikof island, bringing with him one !
hundred pairs of blue foxes fur breed-]
ing purposes.
Harry Leland, old time mining man ]
of Nome. Iditarod aDd Ruby, whose
fine singing voice made him a popular
favorite in all social functions, now
lives at Beach Drive, West Seattle. He
is with the Lamping & Co, insurance
office.
J. Junte. Nome pioneer, and who
was in the barber business the e for
many years, and who later resided in
Seward, and Mrs. Junte. are now locat
ed in Oakland; Cttl , where Mr. Junte
has a barber shop.
David Choa*e. old timer of’the To
terior, was summwmd .by.deaih u few
( days a*;o at the Fairbanks hospital,
i The deceased was a member of ihe Pi
i oncers, and his funeral was held under
the auspices of the local i**loo.
The Bank of Alaska will open a bank
tit Ketchikan, it was recently an- j
n.iuiiced. The opening will make the
liftti bank owned by the company, ttie
others beiUfcT located ai tjkatjway, Cor
dova, Wran1.| ll and Anchorage.
A new radio or couimunication sta
tion will be erected at Marshall and he
in operation iu the sprint’, according to
Captain C alvin ilutkhead, of (tie 0. b,.
Siacai Corps.
The He»l> River uoal miiie is now
producing 1,000 tons of coal pep day,
and could orodui'e lip to 1,000 ton* a
day if tliere was a market for that
amount.
hdilor W. F. Thompson, of the Fair
banks News-Miner, is a patient at the
Fairbanks hospital, where in; is under
treatment for Kidney trouble.
The grand jury at Ketchikan, which
recently handed in its report, quoted
toe special report oft be Valdez grand
jury and emphasized upon it.
Ike P. Taylor, of Fairbanks, has been
appointed assistant engineer of the
Alaska Road <J< in mission, with head
quavers at J uneau
A woman’s auxiliary to the John '.V.
.Ini es Post of i In American Legion has
been formed at Cordova.
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