I Alaska Notes ;
Gathered From Territorial
Exchanges.
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Neil MacGregor was recently ro
•'appointed deputy marshal at Peters
burg by Marshal Albert White.
The Fish ('reek Roadhouse, a land
’mark on the Circle-Chatanika trail.
’ was recently destroyed by fire. Jack
Bolton, who was in charge of the
place for the Fairbanks Exploration
•Company, had gone to Chatanika for
’supplies, and the tire occurred during
Ihis absence. The Faith Creek Road
house, located at the junction of Mc
Manus and Faith creeks, was built in
i the early days of the camp. It was
(the only stopping point between
' Twelve mile and Cassiar. For years
'■the roadhouse was owned by Robert
• Simpson, who is now proprietor of
• the Twelvemile roadhouse, and it was
recently acquired by the Fairbanks
Erploration Company. The .building
i -ind contents were-a complete loss.
Shipments of motor vehicles over
1 the Alaska Railroad during the spring
i months included 47 automobiles, f>
* trucks and 15 truck chassis. During
; a single week eight cars of automo
t biles arri\ ,1 by steamship at Seward
;and were shipped over the.railroad to
a various points in the interior of
. Alaska.
The population of the Koyukuk dis
t'lict has nearly doubled during the
ipast year. About a month ago there
were 106 people at Wiseman and Bet
i ties.
Mrs. William D. Hatch, resident of
IFairbanks for 17 years, died suddenly
:at Hawaii, Kansas, a few weeks ago.
The cause of death was not stated in
• the wire received by her daughter,
Mrs. Charles Mitchell, of Fairbanks,
(but it is thought to have been due to
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Anyone desiring Meats can
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is brought up by small boat as
soon as possible.
organic troubles, at least partially in
itialed by an attack of influenze win
ter before last.
The Detroit Gold Mining Company,
which will operate on an extensive
scale in the Koyukuk, had landed two
loads of machinery and supplies at
Hammond river with their new boat,
the Emma It., and another boat, just
below Wiseman, about a month ago.
L. S. Robe, one of the company’s en
gineers, has charge of a party that is
surveying a ditch that will bring
water to Nolan creek and the Ham
mond river branches. The company
has a crew of men erecting buildings
and installing machinery, and will be
ready to start sinking on their hold
ings on lower Hammond shortly after
the free/.out).
Aii ini 'riant silver-lead discovery ,
was ma le a few weeks ago about 2.'! j
miles fr-'t.i Keno, on a tributary of1
north fork of the .McQuesten river.
The lead i- three .feet wide, and has
been lrut -. ! for considerable distances
on the -in face, giving assay values 60
ounces in silver anti 80 per cent lead
to the ton.
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N ick Grnndsma, an employe of the j
Mendenhall dairy, near Juneau, was I
seriously injured by one of the
dair;. . btii! . Grandsma had tied the
bull to a .round stake where it could
forage, .v.d was walking away when
the bull bunted .him in the back,
knowing him down. The bull tramped
on Grandsma and continued bunting
him a- l ug as he was within reach.
The office of the deputy clerk at
Flat eras abolished recently. All mat
ters pending there are transferred to
the Fair! • nks office. Fid Stier will
remain ns commissioner.
E. H. Humber, deputy United
States marshal at Ketchikan for
three j. ars. has been elected chief of
police at that place by the city coun
cil. Repo from Ketchikan are that
the choice is a popular cmt.
The unusual was discovered on a
recent westward hunt of Andy
Simons, .ilex Bolson an ’ T>?d Re
velle, of Seward, when aw a
brown bear sow with f js. Or
dinarily one or two cubs ' < common I
Plat, Alaska
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sight; »i boar with three cubs is a
rarity, but a sow with four cubs is
something which none of the old-,
timers in the Seward or the westward
regions had ever seen or heard of be
fore until the guides brought in their
report. They had a perfect view of
the mother bruin and her little ones,1
which she was teaching to cross a
river in the Pavlof volcano region.
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Death claimed another oldtimer of
the Territory a few days ago when '
Pat Moynahan, aged 65, was found'
dead, sitting in an armchair in the
lobby of the Belmont Hotel at Sew
ard. For many years he had worked
for the Alaska Bail road and Copper
River A Northwestern Railroad, at
( urdova, and among the railroad men
of the Territory was very well known
He had been in ill health for a con-!
siderabie period, and oidy recently had
h ei: discharged from the Governme.pt
Hospital at Anchorage.
When any ordinary person -sits
down and plays a piece of music on
the piano, says the Seward Gateway,
one does not think of much else but
of the enjoyment they get out of the
number rendered; but when an un
fortunate blind person sits down .and
plays :i- well as did Miss Melba Call,
m the steamship Victoria, it sets one j
in thinking of the. tremendous.amount
of patience it must, require, not only
m the part of the student, but Also
on the teacher’s part, before the stu
dent I . urns as accomplished as has
Miss Call.
Melba Call is to start a school at
Nome just as soon as she finishes her
next two-year taerm at the Vancou
ver. Wash., home for the blind.
Charles Sampson, veteran member
of the Fairbanks fire department, has
aeon op pointed ehief of the organiza
tion. • .receding Fred Allison. When
the eh.nge was made, the three other
members of the department handed
in their resignations, and they are to
>e succeeded by new men to be select
'd by the fire committee and the new
thief. The reorganization is said to
lave resulted from the manner in
.vhich a recent fire was handled.
R. M. Odell, a veteran of the Civil j
War, and a pioneer of Alaska, aged j
14, died a few days ago at his home !
n Ilaines, after a long illness. He 1
:ame to Alaska from Missouri ‘during i
he gold rush days of M8, and was a |
nerchant at Dyea for a short time j
until that town was discontinued, and ,
hen went to Haines, where he had
>een actively engaged in the mercan
ile business until his death.
The Bering Sea patrol, comprised 1
if many coast guard cutters of the .
Aleutian and Pribilof islands, no |
onger spend their time running down !
:eal poachers and sea otter hunters, |
mt passes the summer playing the ■
•ole of caretaker for the scattered
copulation, giving medical aid, inquir
ng into labor conditions, making sure
ill are amply prepared for the com
ng winter, carrying on marine strr
•eying and charting, delivering Gov
rnment school teachers and their sup
dies, and bringing out Federal pris
>ners and destitute persons. Una
aska is the summer headquarters for
he patrol, but Seward is the natural
coint of contact.
Dr. W. J. Mayo, executive head and |
'amous surgeon of the Mayo Brothers ,
Flospital at Rochester, Minn., aecom- '
canied by Mrs. Mayo and a party of j
ddtime friends, was an honored vis
tor in Seward recently, while the
steamer Yukon was in port. Dr. Mayo
expressed himself as being astounded
“y the wonderful Alaska scenery and
riospitality of its citizens.
When asked about the internation
ally known Rochester hospital it was
learned that a cyclone was instru
mental in its conception. In 1883 a
terrific cylone swept over Minnesota,
lestroying many lives and crippling
untold numbers. The father of the
present Mayo brothers, W. J. and
Charles, who was also a physician and
surgeon, was called to assume charge
jf the situation. He established a
makeshift hospital in a large but old
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Front Street, Tokotna $
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building-. A sisters’ institution was
appealed to for nursing: assistance in
helping to care for the injured, .which
required a period of several months, j
It was then decided not to abandon
the temporary hospital but to make
it a permanent institution. Its mar
velous growth .from that period is
known to almost every man. woman
and child
The old military post, at ’Tanana,
known as Fort Gibbon,; which was
abandoned b ythe. LL S. Army a num
ber of years ago, is to be- converted
into an educational center by the Bu
reau of Education for the benefit of
the native, children af Cenral Alaska.
The buildings, of which there are
many, were transferred from-the War
Department to the Department of the
Interior- some time. ago,, and. all that
remains td. be done now is the formal
assignment of'the property torthe Bu
reau of Education
In the meantime., the Bureau iis
going ahead with its ninns to estab
lish -an industrial school.', at Tanana
similar to the ones* already.'in opera
tion, at Eklutna, near Anchorage, and
at White Mountain, near. Nome. The
Tanana school-will be the mast com
plete establishment, - .'with -...buildings
enough to meet all requirements jjf
the school. foe.-many-years''to come.
There is a hospital, building -several
barrack-, large com misar>-> building,
warehouses, shops iof -various., kinds,
ice house, bath - house, water, tower,
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mess house, stables, cottages and a s
sawmill. The values of the buildings
range from ?f>,000 to $19,000.
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