Alaska News Notes
Casey Moran, one of the early-day
newspapermen of the North, is now
publishing a newspaper at Monterey,
Mfcxico.
The McCarthy Mercantile Company
has been taken over by J. B. O'Neill,
who recently purchased the holdings of
the other stockholders.
It is reported that the new well being
drilled by tbe Chilcat Oil Company at
Katalla has reached a depth of 800 feet
and that a good flow of oil has been en
countered.
W. Lubbe, of McCarthy, was recent
ly fined $50 and costs by Commissioner
Co ppernoll for driving stock off the
public range. The complaint was filed
by G. C. G w in.
The Hyder district, according to re
ports, is looking better all the time.
Properties on the American side are
showing much promise aBd optimism
prevails everywhere.
John N. Carleton, temporarily em
ployed w»th the lighthouse service at
Ketchikan, was sailing master of the
Casco when Robert Louis Stevenson
cruised the South sea islands, in 188.1
and 1889
Through their attorneys, Murphy &
Coffey, of Anchorage, the directors of
the Mabel Mining Company, operating
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fairview, Innoko River
in llie VViliow Creek diS.iic , i. VC
given an option on their property to
W. S. Horning ami Charles Barilmlf. j
The option calls for a substantial cash
payment.
Miss G. Oswald, who has been one of
the nurses in the Cordova general hos
pital, has acoepted a position woh the
Bureau of Education as nurse and will
be statioued at Norvick.
At Stewart, recently, the Bear river
broke loose and s-weptaway the bridge.
It also, for a time, threateneil a part of
the town, hut finally subsided without
doing any material damage except to
the bridge.
It is reported that Clark Davis has a
crew of 250 men employed on the build
ing of the Alas! a Anthracite railroad,
wharf and in his coal mine near Con
troller Bay. Alexander Park, with a
crew of sixteen men, recently arrived
at Katalla to construct the bridges
along the line of the railroad.
The cannery tender Empress, owned
by the Annette Island Packing Com
pany, carrying a load of 7,000 salmon,
was recently rammed and sunk by the
gas boat Vega, the Empress going
down in forty fathoms cf water within
| two minutes after being struck. The
j masters of both vessels place the blame
! for the accident upon the other.
Mike Sullivan returned to Cordova
recently from his oil property at Yuka
taga beach, and reports that while
there are no new developments in the
oil situation at that point, the harbor
\ at Icy bay is being surveyed by the
government, boat Wildcat, under com
mand'o? Captain Campbell. Work has
been progressing along this line for the
past two months, and it will be two
months more before the work will he
Marshal’s Sale.
Under and by virtue of an execution
issued out of the District Court for the
Fou-th division, Territory of Alaska,
in an action wherein Robert Lockwood
was plaintiff and Tuiuksak Gold Min
!ing Company, a corporation, was de
fendant, upon a judgment rendered on
j the 3rd day of July, 1922, in favor of
I said plaintiff and against said defend
ant, for the sum of two thousand' one
hundred eighty-five dollars (£2.185.00),
current lawful money of the United
States of America, with interest at the
rate of 8 per cent per anuum, costs, anti
increased costs. I did, on the 2nd day
of September. 1922. levy upon all the
right, title, claim, and interest of said
defendant in and to the following de
scribed real property, to-wit: That
certain placer mining claim known anil
described as “Spruce Creek Associa
tion”, and also that certain placer miu
ing claim known and described as tbe
“MinnieClaim”, both said claims being
situate on Spruce creek, a tributary ot
Bear creek. Bethel recording precinct.
Fourth judicial division. Alaska; and
also that certain ditch and water right
known and described as the Spruce
Creek Ditch and Water Right, said
ditch extending from the head of Little
Bonanza creek, a tributary of Beat
creek, to a point on Spruce creek, as
aforesaid, near the lower end of said
Spruce Creek Association Placer Min
ing Claim, together with all vested
rights to divert the waters of said Lit
tle Bonanza creek into said ditch.
And I did, tin the 3rd day of Septem
ber, 1922. levy upon all the right, title,
claim, and interest of the said defend
ant in anti to the following described
real property, to-wit: That certain
placer mining claim known and de
scribed as the ‘•‘Little Bonanza Associa
tion”, situate on Little Bonanza creek,
a tributary of Bear creek aforesaid.
Notice is hereby given that I will, on
the 15th day of Decern Iter, 1922, at 10
o’clock a. its. of said day. at the office of
the United States Marshal, in the town
of Flat, Alaska, sell at public auction,
for current lawful money of the United
States of America, all the right,, title,
claim, and interest of said defendant in
and to the above described property, or
so much thereof as may be necessary
to satisfy said judgment, with interest
and costs, and increased costs, to the
highest bidder.
Dated this 27th dav of September,
A. D. 1922. at, Flat. Alaska.
Gilbert b. Stevens,
United States Marshal,
By James A. Davidson,
{Special Deputy Marshal.
Go npieted. It has bet-ii reported that
t >■ name will be char.yed to St Elias
Ba> It is situated about lifty miles
north of Yakutat, and about thirty
miles south of Yakataea Beach, and
will undoubtedly be the outlet for the
Yukataga oil held.
Lieut. G. T. Kmnsons, U S. N., re
tired, and Mrs. Emmons arrived at Ju
ikuu recently from the States, en route
t) Sitka, after an absence of many
years. Lieut. Emmons was stationed
at Sitka forty years ago, when the
United States naval forces were in
charge of Alaska, and remained there
23 years. He was also connected with
the party making the survev of the in
ternational bouudary line.
Information was received at Ketchi
kan recentlv that the bureau of immi
gration was considering the matter of
consolidating the Alaska district with
that of Seattle. The Commercial Club
of that city immediately telegraphed
Delegate Sutherland, informing him of
the proposed change and requesting
him for use nis influence in preventing
6U;h a move.
Corporal W. G. Anderson, who shot
and killed Jud Matthews at Fort Sew
ard some weeks ago, will be tried by a
court martial on the charge of murder,
j Matthews had been suspected of boot
legging, and had been refused admis
sion to the reservation. Anderson,
who was corporal of the fguard,
! found Matthews on the reservation and
I placed him under arrest in accordance
j witli orders. While taking him to the
i guard house Matthews made a break
| to escape, and was three times ordered
to halt, but kept on running, when An*
I derson tired, the bullet striking Mat
thews in the back and inflicting a
| wound from which he died about V>
| minutes later.
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