The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-01

KA. NOV. 1, 1915.
 ALASKA NEWS NOTES
 The actual amount of road bui this year by the Alaskan Ensil eering commission was 29 miles. lea, ing out of Anchorage.
 Owing to the absence of an electri light plant at the new town C Anchorage, a number of bushes houses have installed acetylen plants.
 Itinerant merchants are charge $50 per day for doing business il Cordova, while those doing bushes in Seward are taxed but cent per day.
 Four prisoners were sent to tn penitentiary from the Third div sion during the early part of las month, each one going over for term of one year
 A Juneau man who has kep close tab on the canneries of South eastern Alaska, says that the sal mon pack for the past season vii total 773,500 cans.
 The federal officials at Fort Lis cum stopped all proposed boxin. and wrestling bouts which were tC have come off at a smoker planned hy the boys at the post
 The Ketchikan council has pass ad an ordinance closing all sa- looms. pool rooms and bowling al. eys at midnight. and remain closed until o'clock the following morn. ing.
 Ward H Gartner. bugler on the revenue cutter Manning. was drowr d in the Boring sea last August farther was 17 years old and had been in the service less than two 
 Peter Johnson. who was convicted It Valdez on the charge of selling
 
 md given twenty days in which to "aise the money. He was placed 1nGer nominal bond for that per od
 Two new sidewalks seven dogs md oEc new baby Is the sum total If Valdez bless ngs the past week At the rate the doSs are increasing >ver the babies our population may yet prove d bowling success --Naldea 'ToSpector
 Jack Robarts, formerly of Fair banks, arrived at Anchorage on Q 'ecent boat with a bowling alley equipment and lighting plant sufi- ,ient to Illuminate the building. He las a central location and is put ing up an "amusemeut palace - Seward Post.
 Captain Hunter, of the Northwest ,rn, reports that the Columbia gln fer, cn Glacier Island near Valdeg md opposite Ellamar, has been split Il two and a portion of it thrown nto the sea- apparently by some mighty conyulsion of nature, and hat vessels now have to alter their lsual course to get around it.
 That l,206.O00 acres, at the least. 'f good agricultural land lie adia- 'ent to the route of the government s
 " Al@F'-2 E"ilWay. half of it in he immediate Susitra and Matanus- "a valleys, and 100000 more acres O be found between the Tanara md Yukon, in the region to be 'pened by the upper reaches of the oad, is the judgment of the experts 'f the department of agriculture
 Herb Wilson, one of the most 'rominent of the Oldtime mine ope- ators of the Fairbanks country. ar ived on the Alameda and will remain or some days. He spent part of he year in the Hudson bay coun- ry which, he says, has good gold respects, but no transportation ia ilities. He was the owner of No 0 on Clearv creek and worked it while Jack Roman, now of Seward vas operating No, 11,-Sewarl 2ateWay.
 Private parties at Seward have ormulated a plan whereby they eX- ect to build what they are pleased O call a lunatic asylum for Alas ans, and with that end in view ave taken the matter up with the government. They have been noti- jed that contract with the Morn nsside asylum, near Portland, has till three or four years to run. al hough the contract is of such d lature that it can be terminated at ny time.
 Father Duncan, the aged mis- ionary of Metlakahtla, who led and of Indians across the line into Alaska more than forty years ago, 'ecause he believed the British gov was not treating the na- ives right, is again preparing to move to another place and start fife anew with his followers, some f whom were members of the orig nal party which followed him into he land of the free, as they have lWays in the past regarded Alaska. -Skasway Alaskan.
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