The Alaska citizen., 1910-08-06
ITEMS OF ALASKA

Captain Baughman. of the steamer Humboldt, has held that position for If years.
 Bishop Rowe says that 1 200 peo- pie are on their way from New York to the Iditarod
 Albert Joy has been appointed as sistant inspector of immigration al Skagway
 A slight earthquake shock was felt in Skagway recently. says the Daily Record.
 Charles Nichols. the well-known pitcher for the Juneau baseball team has returned from the Iditarod He says that he is now content to make Juneau his permanent home.
 ogden Mills, son of the late D. o. Mills. is visiting Southeastern Alas ka The Treadwell company have recently installed two more car loads of machinery.
 Tom Ducret of Juneau, is in the hospital with a broken leg.
 A lodge of Pocahontas has been organized at Juneau.
 The largest pair of shoes ever seen in Alaska have just arrived for a young Slovenian giant, who works in the Treadwell mines. The size of the shoes is A. The youth is only IS years of age.
 The Arctic Brotherhood of Douglas has organized an excursion to Sitka to take place on August II.
 A laborer was picked up on the streets of Cordova recently by the police He had a roll of notes val. ued at sS0l upon him at the time, which he would have certainly lost had it not been for his arrest. He was given two days rest in the lookup.
 A quartz strike has been reported from Rainey Creek, in the Kusko- kwim
 A son of Judge Goodell of Cordova, has discovered ledge of galena ore near Knik.
 Quartz prospectors are meeting with great success near Valdez
 Dr. Simpson, of Douglas Island, is making a tour of the world. His letters to the Douglas Island News. relating his experiences form most entertaining reading, punctured as they are with much quiet humor
 A roller skating rink at Ketchikan is great success and besides at tracing the white population has many vOtaries among the natives.
 A Ketchikan native received $1,- 600 for three months fishing from the Weisse Fish company.
 Amos Bridges, miner working in an open cut near Dawson. was caught by gravel slide which covered him from the waist down. He chatted free ly with the men who dug him out. Al ter rescue he was seized with convul- sions and died in great agony.
 Two hundred volumes were recent ly added to the public library al Dawson.
 Galloway cattle are said to be thriving wonderfully in the Kodiak country.
 The Howitzer" the official year book of the West Point Military academy shows that Dan Pullen of Skagway was big favorite while there.
 All places along the Yukon from Panama to Kaltag are reported prac tically deserted on account of the Iditarod stampede.
 Tuck" Flaherty is now sole pro prietor of the famous old Skagway resort, the Board of Trade.
 C. D. Murane, recently appointed United States district judge for the Nome district is something of a lodge man. He is a member of the Masons, Odd Fellows, Woodmen of the World and was president of the Eagles and Knights of Robert Elm met, of Nome.
 Orders have been received by J. A. Magill, labor agent of Contractor M. J Heney, to send up 300 white laborers to the Copper River X railroad as soon as possible Already 3,700 Scandinav- ian, Irish and Anglo Saxon labOrers are at work on the new Alaskan railroad. The order means that Mr. Heney intends to have 5000 men at work as soon as they can be en- gagged, says the Seattle P.I.
 The Copper River railroad is now as far as mile 102. On July l Contractor Heney handed over the line so far completed to the | company, who are now running trains | daily.
 Mrs. Cornelia Templeton Jewett, | the w. c. T. U., is ad- | dressing gatherings in Southeastern Alaska on temperance questions. MT. Jewett Is editor of the Union Sig | nal, the organ of the society.
 The Treadwell mine has placed an order for central hoisting plant to