The Nenana news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1916-1918, 1917-04-28
Elsewhere In Alaska

Nome restaurant keepers at a recent |
meeting made an advance Ill the price of !
meals, the new schedule going into effect (,
the first of April.
1t is stated that many of the Alaska /
canneries are bringing sheet tin from the .
Outside and will make their own cans
this season instead OF using the ready /
made cans which have been shipped III !,
i'll other years. The increased cost OF tin !
is given as the reason for this, and the i
saving in freight over the cost of shipping
in the Grated ''empties' will more than
offset this increase in addition to the cost
of making the cans at the factories.
Word received at Ketchikan recently
states that the Grand Trunk steamer,
Prince Rupert, which went ashore on
Gam island is high and dry at low tide,
and that rocks have penetrated her hull
and have broken thru into the engine
room.
Meals at Tolstoi's single restaurant
cost ST. SO each, single apple or small
orange sells for two bits, cigars two bits,
sugar two bits pound, eggs $50 a case,
mountain sheep and moose 60 cents and
beef 50 cents a pound and booze so cents
drink.
Fred Reese of Teikhell, who was rec
emily in Valdez with a fine lot of furs
caught near his home this winter on the
Richardson trail, states tuat the strength
of wolverines is enormous considering the
size of the animal. He states that he has
seen wolverine take quarter of moose
in its forearms and carry it up a rs foot
bank, walking erect like bear. Healso
states that he has had them lift him off
the ground when he has caught them i'll
traps.
At recent meeting of the house COM
mittee ON Mines and Mining at Juneau it
was agreed that no changes would be
made in the Territorial mining laws at
the present session.
Last fall, while burrying acooss a sec
ton of land i'll the Kenai lake district
near his mining property Chas. Hubbard
noticed likely looking ledge projecting
above the surface. Cutting pole and
planting it beside the ledge to mark the
locality Hubbard went on. but this spring
having some spare time he went to the
place and dug down into the ledge suffic-
iently to disclose samples of ore freely
impregnated with gold plainly visible to
the naked eye. He staked the ground
and will prospect it thoroly this summer.
Ralph Anderson has been appointed
United States comm ssioner at Seldovia
to succeed l. D. Nordyke. -:
Two hundred and five gallons OF booze
shipped to Seward to Capt H. B. Peter
son, and which was seized by the officials
on the ground that it had been Stripped
TO false consignee, and for which no
owner appeared, was destroyed short
time ago by the authorities i'll the pres
ence of a large crowd of enyious and
thirsty onlookerS.
Considerable excitement was occasloned
recently in the Tolstoi that one of the
by-products of the placer diggings i'll that
district is platinum, and samples of the
metal have been sent Outside for assay.
If this is correct the supply is sufficiently
large to make material increase i'll the
value of the output of the district.
A report from the Iditarod states that
wolves and lynxes, usually not plentiful
i'll that district, have overrun the country
and have attacked the reindeer and Carl
bou herds. doing great damage. In the
Innoko also lynxes are creating great
havoc among the reindeer herds.
Travellers between Iditarod, Ophir and
Tolstoi are complaining because the herds