The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-12-31
HAPPENINGS IN
NE|GHb0RHOOD

| The tug Goliah recently called at
Ketchikan and took in tow the cold
storage ship Kate Davenport.
| Fairbanks students debate on who
was the greater man. Thomas JEFF
ferson or Alexander Hamilton. The
Jeffersonians won out.
The Alaska Whaling Co., backed by
Norwegian and Danish capital, had a
successful season in Alaska, captur-
ing 800 whales, the net value of
which is said to have been nearly a
million dollars.
| Juneau will have a new GA foot
ferryboat plying between Juneau.
Douglas, Treadwell and Sheep Creek.
Frank Manley is doing considerable
prospecting work this winter on Will
low ceekr, Iditarod district, and he
PLANS to operate in that region extern
sively during the coming season.
George Holmes of Fairbanks suf-
fered painful gunshot wound re-
Gently in a peculiar manner. Holmes
was on his sled with the gun in front
of him. The dogs were racing. The
rig ran into stump. and the con-
tact exploded the cartridge. Passing
friends hurried Holmes to a hospital.
| George Wilkes of Ketchikan found
a purse. He inserted want ad in
the local paper and said he had rs
answers. So he took the spoils and
treated the rs.
Chas. N. Crary, who has been en-
ployed by the Great Northern Devel-
pment Company at Copper Mountain
will leave on the Mariposa to enjoy a
vacation of few weeks in California.
Among the recent arrivals on the
steamed Mariposa are a party of
officials going through to Fairbanks,
and at present quartered at the
Rainier-Grand. They include S. B.
Waite, chief deputy Marshal for the
| fourth division, and his son S. B.
Waite. Another deputy is E. C.
Heacock, while c. L. Vawter will go
through to Fort Gibbon to assume
the duties of a deputy Marshal.
Another member of the party is G. J.
Ellis, brother of the well known
owner of the Sourdough express.
Will A. Steel, of the Dali Alaskan,
will sail on the Mariposa for Seattle,
on a business mission.
C. L. Vawter was one of the ar
rivals last night, and he will go to
| the interior so soon as the trains will
permit. He will perform the duties
of deputy United States Marshal at
Fort Gibbon. He performed similar
duty for time in the Iditaf I'd. 60
| ing outside on the last steamer on
official business. Mr.. Vawts" is one
of the best known figures in Alaska.
| lie came from Montana in 1897, going
to Nome in 1900 as Marshal, but
after year or two there he rendered
his resignation, preferring so to do
rather than bow to the will of the
MacKenzie-Noyes dictators. He was
recently connected for two years with
the Marshal's office at Valdez.
| The steamer Yukon. which sailed
was at Juneau yesterday and sailed
westward from there at two o'clock
in the afternoon. She will stop at
Katalla to load freight, passengers
and mail, and if not detained there
will reach Cordova tomorrow even
ing. Before departing from here she
will take on considerable oil fuel, as
she has long journey ahead. She
will go as far west as Unalaska and
take the schedule of the steamer
Dora, which has been on the beach at
Seward for two or three weeks past.
If kind providence will temper
the winds and permit the engines,
that are aiding the big snow rotaries,
to receive the necessary oil fuel,
trains may again be running in a few
days on the Copper River g. North
western railway. For twenty-four
hours the conditions were more fav-
orable but again this afternoon a
high wind is prevailing and it is
difficult to accomplish anything.
The two big rotaries have been in
the same position for three days
past, about at Mile 81 and Mile 80,
with considerable snow between. The