. Alaska NewsNotes
Dan Williams, well known Alaska
and British Columbia mining engineer,
left Ketchikan a few days ago for the
Ryder district to look over and report
on the Texas creek properties, on
which Pat Dalv, Dr. C. D. Carter and
associates have an option. The owners
believe it is one of t.be most promising
properties in the Hyder district, and
hope to interest capital sufficiently to
make it possible to open up the ground
on a sound operating basis. The ground
was discovered last July by Charles
• Carlson, better known as “Long
Shorty.” Pay ore is said to have been
found at the grass Ftms and in suffi
cient quantities to lead to the hope
that it wi’l be a big producer. It is
said that sample assays, taken at ran
* dom, show values of $140 per ton.
The Dawson News tells of a well
known Klondike character, Hugh
Hamilton, who has decided to leavu
there for thg purpose i • starting life
anew on the Outside. Mr. Hamilton
was born in Glasgow, Scotl and, in ]8'52.
and was in the Turco-Russian war of
1854-5, and fought in the battle of
Balaklava, immortalized by Tennyson’s
‘‘Charge of the Light Brigade.” For
several years Hamilton has cultivated
a little garden and raised ducks, geese
and ohickens near Dawson. He first
went to Dawson in 1898, but went Out
side and took a hand in the L er war.
One of the regrets of his life is that he
could not participate in the late war.
Word was recently received at, An
chorage of the death of Max Altman,
at Okhotsk, Siberia, on May 14. The
advice was sent to Jimmie Delaney
from M. R. Hussey. Altman formerly
worked as a stationary en. aeer at
Chickaloon, and prior to going to An
chorage prospec' ed and mined in the
Ruby and Tolovana districts. Altman
left i<he States .-foe with Dick
Hussey, Robert Jones and Fued Mee
han. The remainder of the party is
still in Siberia. Hussey did not give
any [of the particulars of Altman’s
death, nor did he mention details re
garding ihe Siberian trip.
• Cash Cole, of Juneau, speaker of the
lower house of the last legislature,
who has been in Seattle for several
months undergoing the Abrams treat
mem for cancer of the stomach, is now:
practically cured, and expects to re
turn to Juneau within a short time.
T. H. Burman, one of the best known
Yti'aon Ttver traders, has sold his in
terests to the Northern Commercial
Company, and expects to retire. It, is '
said that he has made $300,000 in furs
in tile last few years. Butman started
out trapping ou the Porcupine many
years ago.
Albert Pearson, who was known to
many as “Overalls Pete, died recent
lv while en route from Dime to \ one.
Pearson had been sick for some time,
and John Nass started with him for
Golovin, where they were to take the
Victoria and Pearson to continue to
the Outside. When they arrived with- 1
in about 300 yards of the Victoria in a
ski IT Pearson passed away.
The transportation department of
the Alaska Railroad reports that the
large power boatZibella and the barge
Paddy were lost in a heavy sea oil
RomanofT Point on Sept. 25. The 7a- j
hclia belonged to the Northern Com
mercial Company, and iterated be
tween Holy Cross, on'the Vulion, and
St. Michael.
Lew Ostrow, general manager for!
the Metro laboratories at Hollywood,
Cal , is personally superintending the'
cutting of the first ... iskoo feature
film, “The Cheebaeos,” produced by
the Alaska .Moving Pictures Corpora- j
tion. Ostiow, w oo is recognized as an
expert in that line, is “-mapping” -lie
picture down from 60,001) feet of film to
y,0u0 feet.
Hunk Frost, who recently returnee :
to Seward after a four-weeks’ trip
through the big game district back nf
Skilak lake, reported that he saw st v
etal hundred moose on the trip, and in
many places they we ■ like herds of;
cattle.
Peter Cordes. about 70 years of age,
formerly of Nome and Cordova, and ; n
old-time resident of Alaska and Juneau,
died in the St. Ann hospital in the lat
ter city, recently, from the effects of a
stroke of paralysis.
Edward N. VVeutler, for 23 years a
resident of Alaska, aDd a pioneer of
Livengood creek, died recently at Fair,
banks and was buried under the aus
pices of the Fairbanks Pioneers.
P. C. Sullivan, a pioneer of Nome,
and one of the prominent attorneys
there in the early days, died recently
at Tacoma, Wash., from the effects of
a second stroke of paralysis.
Hans Thorsen, of Teller, has report
ed the discovery of a deposit of pitch
blende, which contains radium. The
find was made near Gold Bun Thorsea
said.
i, Duke E. Stubbs, well known old
timer of the Interior, has at last se
cured what he believes will be tin ideal
location for a fox farm, near Wasilla.
The Seward Gateway says that a
number of eagles were recently seen
after ptarmigan on the side of Mara
thon mountain, near that town.
Nellie Neal, proprietrr s of the road
house at lloosevelt, has purchrsed a 00
foot speedboat, for use of tourists on
Kenai lake.
Paul Meyers, of Gkiiuna, wo ere he
has a farm, is proudly exhibiting a 10
pound rutabaga, as proof of His stall as
a fat mer.
Mel H. Horner, well known Seward
All Kinds of
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old-timer, bus assumed the mauage
ineut of the Hotel Overland at that
{dace.
The Ketchikan public school now
has an enrollment of 341 pupils.
American Divorces in Paris.
For au Americ a to obtain a divorce
in i’aris is comparatively simple, if t.:e j
other party to the proceedings is will-!
ing. Briefly stated, husband and wife |
take up quarters at separate holds. !
The wife calls a lawyer, who will take |
the case for a stipulated fee that place-, j
the suit btf’vond the reach of the aver :
age person. Hpplication is made for a. j
ditot'ce. and the same day a conr :
bailiff calls upon the husband, with the I
demand that he return to his wife. Of
course he refuses, and the consequent
‘•insult’’ is held by the courts to be s i
licient ground lor divorce. Three weeks
later husband and wife appear before a
magistrate* who is expected to attempt
a reconciliation. According to the pre
arranged plan, the husband refuses
point blank to have anything more to
no with tire woman. Whereupon a writ
o' mm-conciliaii.iu is made out, alimony j
fixed, and after another t.luvt-wt d;
period a civil tribute grants ihe decree
if no objectors appear. Two months j
later the decree is entered upon the j
records, and the parlies are free to re
marry.—Ex.
A man in a hospital' ward, still nau
seated from the ether administered to
him during a petty minor iperation, j
was making r,:e night ..iserabl lor
iiis fellow padrnts with his incessant
groaning Finally one of them veiled
impatiently: "Aw, shut, upi You’re j
not half as bad t-ff as the rest i f us!”—
and the otheis nuickly joined in the
chorus of reel hi ,nation.
Biit, the aggrieved voice only an- I
swered:
■I tell you, Allows, there’s been ■
many a mao d.< d feeling better than 1
do!”— Kansas Cit\ Star.
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