'HIE KUSKO TIMES
A. X. Chant, Publisher, Sole
Owner and Editor.
Twice a Week:
Wednesday and Saturday
Two Dollars Per Month.
Address alljCommunications:
Kusko Times, McGrath, Alaska.
McGUATH, ALASKA, AUG. 13, 1921
News Notes From
A ll Parts of Alaska
Harry Gainer recently left Dawson
on a trip around the world.
The new Heckman concrete building
at Ketchikan is nearly ready for occu
pancy.
Lodge No. 4 of the Yukon Order of
Pioneers was instituted at Vancouver,
recently.
Mrs. John McIntosh, formerly of
Fairbanks, lias opened a woman’s sup
ply store at Anchorage.
Louis Babcock, formerly manager of
the Kassan Bay Mining Company, died
recently at Waterbury, Vt.
The Skagway Elks are making a
drive for members and have been suc
cessful in securing applications.
The Douglas school board has adopt
ed the policy of employing none but
residents of Alaska as teachers.
The Indians of Moosehide, Y. T., re
cently elected a council and mayor and
the tribe will be governed by new
methods.
Churns, Humpies, Sockeves and Co
hoes are the names of the four differ
ent teams of the Ketchikan Baseball
League.
Harvey M. Stackpole, chief of the
Ketchikan (ire department, was recent
ly called to a lire on the roof of his
own home.
f. Radmilovich, living on the Thane
road near Juneau, found a keg of lieuor
onhte front porch recently and imme
diately turned it over to the police. lie
ax
The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
Sold .
Miners’, Prospectors’
and Trappers’
/Supplies
Steamer Service On the Inoka
River.
Ask the People of Ophir about us.
STATION
Fairview, Innoko! River
-claimed that he knew nothing about
how it came to be left on his porch.
The members of the Petersburg: fire
and constructed a slab road from :iie,
city to the park.
Sealed bids were asked for by the
Petersburg city council to fill the p s>
tions of city clerk, municipal magis
trate. marshal, treasurer, electrician i
and assessor.
Joe P. Herron has taken over the A. j
E. C. mess at Anchorage under con-1
tract, and will feed railroaders for I
$1.50 per day for cash. The tampon ;
system has been discontinued.
To help out citizens of Kake who are
in need on account of the poor fishing1
season of last year, the town council of
that camp has decided to 1 an the j
town’s money to the needy at 3,0 per
cent interest.
The city council at Ketchikan re
cently adopted a tax ordinance whereby
taxes will be payable in two in- tall
ments, July 1 and December ’. The
council believes that this '.'-ill make j
the tax burden easier for the property
holders.
Under-a new ordinance fixing the
pay of city officers at Cordova, the tire !
chief gets *200 a month, while the city
magistrate gets $10. The city clerk j
receives $65, the treasurer $30, city at-f
torney $50. health officer $25, and pa
ttolmun $175.
Al Larson is in custody and warrants
have been issued for Rav Hightower |
and Harry Butler on charges of rifling i
the safety deposit boxes at the Ken-1
tucky pool room in -Juneau. Out of a
nest of 80 boxes in the safe, 72 of them .
had been broken 'open and ibafrr con— ’
tents taken out. The first box opened
was drilfed and several pried from
their hinges.
Entering the Charles Finzel cigar
store at Juneau recently, Timothy ].
Sully removed his overcoat,, collar and j
tie and, seating himself in a chair, ex
pired almost immediately. Although
without funds, he had refused several
oilers of work because the pay was not
what he wanted. A search made of
his belongings failed to reveal any let -
ters or papers throwing any light on
his past, other than that he had been
employed at La touche by the Pioneer >
Packing Company of Cordova.
Word comes from Prince Rupert
that Jack Miller, a resident of that
place, charges that the captain and
crew of the American gasboat Valor
ous, which was recently seized at!
Prince Rupert for sailing from that
port without filing manifests of her
cargo, had kidnapped him and refused ;
to pay him for forty cases of whiskey.
I Miller charges that he delivered the
liquor and was invited aboard the ves
sel and the crew detained him and j
took him to Port Simpson, where they :
kicked him off the boat.
The Yukon Territorial Legislature!
passed bills providing for a $5 tax on
all single persons, male and female, in )
addition to a $5 poll tax. It also passed
a bill authorizing tlje mounted police j
to issue strychnine to reliable hunters •
to poison wolves infesting the terri
tory, killing thousands of moose and!
caribou; providing for the removal of
the government assay office from
Whitehorse to Min to Bridge, and ask-I
ing permission to export silver and
lead ores to coast smelters in the
Stites when Canadian smelters are not
equipped to handle the same.
lough and Dressed Lum
ber of All Kinds
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