The Ketchikan miner., 1915-03-18
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The w. F. Whitely Co.,. in the last
 mail received an interesting letter
 q om one of the fire insurance com
 pa nies for which it is the local rep 1 pesentative. 1t is interesting because
 of the statement made in it that the
 A aska territory has shown 25 per
 cent less losses in proportion to the
 amount written than any other section
 of the United States. Consequently
 the big companies like Alaska pretty
 well.--Fairbanks NewsMiner
 q The cable repair ship Burnside
 new spends it's time sailing between Southeastern Alaska and Seattle. So
 soon as an interruption" is repair
 ed the ship will sail for Seattle. Then
 after few days ill that port there
 will be another break in the cable
 and away goes the Burnside. Maybe
 some day there will be a government
 repair ship stationed in Alaska. It
 certainly would save a lot of delay and expense.-Chitina Leader l + !
 Reports received from Kotzebue
 state that the deepest snow now GOV
 CTS that country which has been ex- perienced for very many years. The
 natives have lost nearly all their l kr, Inv,
 snow. Mr. Tom Barryman, of the
 Kotzebue Fur & Trading company | states that this in conjunction with
 the low price of furs will work a
 great hardship on the natives through
 out the North, many of whom are l sl ort of food and will be threatened
 with starvation before spring. Stephen Mass, an old-timer in the Nome district, was killed by falling 1 down shaft at Center creek last
 month. The hoist had become tangled I at the surface an despite warnings
 of other miners, Mass started to climo l out of the shaft by the ladder without stopping to warn the engineer. The engineer, after fixing the hoist, low cred the bucket which knocked Mass 1 from the ladder to the bottom of the | shaft Deceased was a native of | Nova Scotia and has relatives living l in Maine.
 J. l.. Reed, the Valdez attorney, who is spending the winter in the 1 states, is of the opinion that the 1 interests of the citizens of flask would be best served if a suprem' I court for the Territory of flask. were created. He believes that the cost to Alaska litigants of carryin, 1 their cases to the United States Cir cult Court of Appeals in San Fran cisco is heavy burden that shoulo be lifted
 [ Bob Sheldon has again established his automobile stage line over the big 1 trail from Fairbanks to Chitina in l the dead of winter and in the face 1 of almost unanimous belief that il l would be failure He cut down the axles of his Ford machines, narrowing | them to a 44-inch tread. This enables 1 the driver to stay on the packed sled trail giving his a few inches On each l side of the track for swerving. | Less than three years ago Eranl | Ahlberg was in business in Fairbanks Alaska, doing a little mining on the
 side and making fair living. Today he is marketing an invention of his own and fortune stares him in the I face. MT. Ahlberg's invention is l novel. He has evolved process of printing lettering and designs on apples and oranges without injurins the furit. The printing is done witt the aid of simple chemicals and cleo tricity, and the machine turns out the labelled fruit at the ratae o' forty minute
 Guy II. Madern has been appointed postmaster at Cinema, Alaska, in place of W. J. Fitzpatrick, resigned. Job printing at the Miner. . Sc-- -------@--- l AIHAR ELY TIE