THE KESKO TIMES
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Kusko Times, McGrath, Alaska.
MCGRATH, ALASKA, MAY 18, 1921
News Notes From
Al) Parts of Alaska
Ret'-hihun igloo of ' Picneers“'Tias a
membership of 25Q
A native woman known as Chicka
ioon Mary died at Anchorage recently.
Ketchikan will use the tidelands near
Indiantown for a baseball park this
year.
A class of 28 novitiates was initiated
into the Elks Club at Cordova recently
by .the Anchorage team.
The wreck of the steamer Mariposa
has slipped from the rooks on Strait
Island and disappeared.
'YUAi&tn H. Davis, an early pioneer
af Alaska, died recently at the Pio
aeers Home at Sitka.
Pat Daley is suing H. K. Neill, of
Hyder, for $200,000, -alleging that he is
entitled to an.interest in the* Premier
mine
The Skagway city council has ac
cepted the offer of the Home Power
Company for-street lighting .at* a cost
of $12dCLaanually,
A Jess* iiotigi an old and honored resi
dent of Sitka, dropped dead from heart
failure a few days ago. He had been
in poor health for some time, but the
end came very suddenly.
Forty-nine Alaskan students of the
University of Washington were ten
dered a banquet at the Rainier- Club
recently by the Alaska Bureau of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
A Dawson man recently exhibited.an
egg laid by > a Rhode island hen, <fche
egg weighing three and a half ounces
and measuring * six and . three-eighths
inches round one way and eight inches
the long wayi
The dvPfoot gasboat Harry sank at
her moorings near the Union Machine
Works at Juneau, recently, and sev
eral hundred dollars’ worth of mer
chandise on boatd became a total loss.
Two gasboats manned by Federal and
city officers searchedf%he channel for.
hours unders the impression that the
craft had been stolen. The outgoing
fide filially exposed the mast sticking
out of tha water.
The pulp mill at Speel * river is now
producing an average of five tons of
pulp a day. and the material is being
baled and stored on the company’s
wharf for shipment to Seattle. A crew
of about thirty men is working, and
loggers are getting out logs rapidly.
Mrs. Mary E. Hart, well known in
A.laska, where she lived for a number
of years, comraitied suicide a few weeks
ago in Los Angeles. Mrs. Hart was an
early resident of the Nome district,
and will be- remembered as having
charge of exhibits for Alaska at the
St. Louis world’s fair.
Joe Stevens, a Douglas man, was
swept off his father’s boat by a huge
wave which struck the craft as it lav
at its moorings in the harbor, recently.
He kept bis head.above- the icy waters
for about ten minutes autil rescued,
apparently non£ the worse for his
ducking
A lodge of the Yukon Order of Pio
neers was established at Mayo City re -
recently, with 25 members. The offi
cers are: President, J. E. Farrell; vice
president, Oscar Letourneau; secretary
treasurer, Frank Carscallen: chaplain,
Jack Turney; warden, C. Turgeon;
vuard. Alexander Nienl.
Mike Tonish,. an auto driver, was
found sitting unconscious in bis car at
Dawson, recently. Tho car was at a
standstill, but the driver had no recol
lection of having stopped it* It was
believed that through working about
the machine all day the fumes of gaso
line had stupefied him and finally ren
dered him unconscious.
John F. Coffey, assistant U. S. dis
trict attorney, with headquarters at
Ketohikan, has resigned. Mr. Coffey!
has left for Anchorage, where, he will j
be associated with J. C. Murphy, for
mer attorney general of the Territory j
of Alaska, the Jaw firm to be known as ■
Murphy & .'Coffee. Both, are former
residents of. Anchorage.
Conditions at Ketchikan have become
so bad that bolh the press and clergy
are inaugurating a campaign to clean
up the bootleggers who are operating
there. The Chronicle says that for
almost two years conditions of lawless
ness, .disregard for the law, bootleg
ging, moonshiuing and kindred prac
tices have been going along unhin
dered, unhampered and neglected by
the officers of the law. And the scope
of -operations is steadily increasing. As
a consequence the city has filled up
with undesirables -wbo-follow this ne -
farious-trade,
; The natives at Auk Bay.were greatly
|xercised recently - .over an. alleged
ease of witchcraft. The alleged witch
has been sent south to the Chemawah
pative school in Oregon, Conditions
became so serious in the native village
that the. Federal . authorities were
forced to take a hand to prevent blood
shed. 'Arriving in Indian town, the
officers found a meeting in progress at
which heated arguments over the dis
position of the alleged witch were
being waged. Little nine-vear-old
Frank Peters was the -subject be
witched. It was claimed he stole vari
ous articles while under the power oi
the wielder oi black, art..
Rough and Dressed Lum
ber of All Kinds
INNOKO LUMBER CO.
Flat’s Quality Restaurant
THe^Best the Market Affords
Prompt Service
Henry Durant :: Frank Keenan
Hot Drinks
Coffee
Sandwiches
Doughnuts*
Cake and! Pie
Served'a£ All Hours
McGrath Pool Room & Cigar Store
Mrs. E. P. Werner, Prop.
Who Said Freighting
That’s our business and that’s where we shine;
in other words where satisfactory service is al
ways given. Freighting between all points—
. McGrath, Tacotna, Ophir, Iditarod, Cripple,
eveivas fas.as-Ruby.
: W. H. Jones - Freighter .
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