The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 4, 1930, Page 8

4 gt A 8 R F AR AR Y THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1930, = PRICE OF SILVER DOES NOT STOP MINE AT MAYO Treadwell Yukon Continues Production and Pros- pecting Work i | { e low price of record, mining e t anding e lowe ns will he 1d cease | h Living- | necke, general superin- tendent of the mine, flew here Saturday from Mayo in a company airplane The d Mr. Bradley has discou aged many prospectors in Yukor T ory from prose ; their h for silver, and some of the small, independent producers in the Mayo district are not going the ore they now have on The Treadwell Yukon company is contwnuing its prospect- ver ing activities. It has in the field a number of prospectors, whom it| services with airplanes, and thus| it is able to cover a wide range of ritory. The company will keep on operating its mine.” Yesterday the Treadwell-Yukon company’s plane, with E. Wasson, pilot, Mr. Bradley and Mr. Wer- necke flew from Juneau to the Taku district. Mr. Wernecke re- mained there. He will probably stay in the Taku area several days | or a week. Then he will return in | the company’s plane to Wernecke,| the post office name of the Tread- well Yukon mining camp in the Mayo district. Mr. Bradley expects to be in this city a week on business in connec- tion with the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, of which he is consulting engineer. At the conclu- sion of his stay here, he will leave for San Francisco, his headquarters. e | RESERVE THE DATE Moose Cafeteria Dance — August 16th. —adv. i LTI L We Suggest— DILLARDS —the New CHOCOLATE CREATION Phone 25 OO T T E UL 118 Seward St. MAX FACTOR’S TOILETRIES You'll Like Them Juneau Drug Company Free Delivery Phone 33 Post Office Substation No. 1 Stetson Hats of STYLE and QUALITY at SABIN’S Dauntless Band to Give Public Concert Tuesday - IS COMRLETED Satisfactory Progress Being Made on Four Jobs, Williams Says After two weeks of general road inspection in the southern end of the district, accompanied by J. 8. Bright, Asst. Regional Engineer, and R. J. Sommers, Highway Engineer of Alaska, M. D. Williams, District Engineer, of the United States Bu- reau of Public Roads, returned here Sunday morning. Conditions wer tirely satisfactory projects under progressing in found to be en- and work on construction fine shape, Mr. Williams said. ‘The party visited Petersburg, Wrangell, Ketchikan, and Hyder. Mr. Bright returned to the States from Ketchikan. Work is progressing on four pro- jects, one at Wrangell, one at Ket- chikan and two in the Hyder dis- trict. At Wrangell, the Seims-Spo- kane Company has 20 men on the Shoemaker Bay extension to Wran- gell Highway. A steam donkey Is being used in the clearing work. Clearing and grading is about 60| per cent completed on the project. The Wright Construction pany is employing 52 men in widen- ing the Ward Cove section of Ton- gass Highway. It has two gas shovels, three compressors, two trac- tors, five dump trucks and a com- plete rock crusher plant on the job.. A new 60-foot steel span bridge is about 60 per cent com- plete. Grading and surfacing on the project are more than 50 per cent done. At Hyder, Seims-Spokane Com- pany has 31 men in a crew surfac- ing a section of Salmon River Highway 4.4 miles long that was constructed last year. It has a large crusher plant turning out 100 cubic yards of surfacing daily, and is using six trucks in the work. It is employing 30 men on the Tex- as Creek extension of the same highway. It is using a 1'% yard ca- pacity gas shovel in grading, work- ing double shifts. Both of these projects will undoubtedly be com- pleted this season. SQUAW CREEK PROSPECTING CONTINUING Splendid Repofrls Received from District—One Claim Is Sold Mining on Squaw Creek has con- |tinued during the summer months |and splendid reports hae been re- |ceived from there in letters. Mrs. Moncaster, with one man, is said to be shoveling out about $30 a |day on No. 7 Above. On No. 5 |Below she has one man open cut- | ting. | Paddy Duncan and Big Jim on| Discovery are out to the pay but |trying to get back. Johnson and | {cthers on No. 2 Above are shovel- ing in good dirt but the amount lis not stated. Jim Roberts and |Anderson on No. 1 Above are in| the pay. John Fraser and one| man are in good pay on No. 4| |Above. Little Frank and two men | jare in good pay on No. 1 Below. Bob Voss and McCauley on No. 12 Above with a crew are reported in good pay. Ed. Gedney has sold {No. 2 Below to Alex Davis. Davis |with two men continues in the pa/.j | {U. S. S. S. STEAMBOAT INSPECTORS LEAVING | WEST FOR THIS PORT| | | | United States Steamboat In- Com“mg. Timmons, I heard some time| ago, had died in the States.” | | spectors Capt. George Morgan and John Newmarker, leave Seward to- | {night on the Admiral Watson for their Juneau headquarters. This is |according to cable advices received this afternoon at the U. 8. Customs Office here. ————————— LODE CLAIM NOTICES American or Canadian at The o The band of the British e ® Cruiser Dauntless, which ap- e ® concert at the opening game o e of the Little World's Series, ® 1 ERT e will stage a down-town con- e . | ® cert Tuesday evening, it was ® Demise of Frank E. HOW‘\' e made known today. It will e ard Recalls Wound- | © appear between the hours of ® ? ¢ 7 and 9 pm . ing by J. Timmons . Its concert Sunday was @ | e enthusiastically receive.. by e| Frank E. Howard, early resident ® the big crowd of baseball e |0f Juneau, who founded and con- e fans who turned out for the e (ducted the town’s first newspaper, . t championship game. e |died last Friday at Tanana, ac- . on v roundly e [cording to an Associated Press dis- e applaud The band played e |patch received here today. M LR n each half e |Howard came from Telluride, Colo., . e |to Juneau in 1887. After leaving ® 60 e 0000 0 0 0 o o here, he was United States Com- twelve years and United States years. News of his demise recalled to ROADPROJECTS - was | |returned {also left here soon after the shoot-| played continuously to and from the re- ligious edifice. splendant | in gold braid; men attractive in natty, spotlessly clean uniforms. the customary Episcopal character. They were conducted by the Rev. Charles E. Rice, Dean. mon, naval members of his cogregation In recognition of their presence, Lowever, Capt. H. R. Moore, D. S C., commander of the cruiser, had| been asked and he consented read the lessons. Another inciden*, ance of the sea fighters, was the selection of the hymn of martial strain, “Onward Christian Soldiers” VICTIM OF EARLY missioner in the Koyukuk district oldtimers a stirring incident in the early days of the community. How- ard was shot by John Timmons, & saloonkeeper. Boy Hurries to Scene “I remember the occurrence well,” said W. John Harris, “It took place | in the early 80's. I was a boy, play- ing that day in front of the build- ing, now occupied by my paint shop on Second Street. The build- ing then housed Doran's Drug Store. Howard's print shop was a block farther east in the building now used by A. Zlenko's Upholstery 8hop. T heard the shooting, and| hastened to the scene. SHOOTING HERE Daily Cross-word Puzzle ACROSS Solition of Vesterday's Puzzle 4 Look after 1. Loention 6. Venders 6. Sta tor 6. Minister roasting meat 7. Lifeless 9. Fusten 8. Numeral 12. Variety of eab- 9. Belonging to age the first ages 18, Sea’ ongie 10. Island near Fish eggs 1. loss ] 5. Metal 19, Idlers llfl‘ 5-"‘“1' Icllllm 20. Above 8 emin name 2 18 One wito ‘sells H o from house to house . Persian poet . Greek letter Uneusy Gulded Worthless leaving At no time Immense bodies of water Grate harshly g1, over . Conelse getable Youug boy Huge mythic bira 45. Thin end of 86. Has recourse b to an aking ehnm 38. Pronoun ter 30, Lamb's sobrle 4%, Wrlthng tnio guet 49, Speed . Word tor word 50. Measu “Howard had printed in his week- ly newspaper something distasteful | to Timmons, and the latter had| called at the print shop to demand | that a retraction be published.| Howard was sitting upon a stool! at his case, setting type, when approached. He either refused the demand or hesitated about promis- ing to comply with it. Timmons quickly drew a revolver and shot Howard before the latter could get off the stool. Never Returned Here “Timmons, according to my recol- lection, was tried for the act and| sentenced to prison. He served his term, I think, in San Quentin, which was the penitentiary to which convicted offenders in Alas-| ka were then committed. He never | to Juneau. His family - NAVAL SUNDAY OBSERVANGE IS COLORFUL EVENT Dauntless Contingent Par-| ades to Church—Cap- tain Reads Lessons | { | | Led by the band of the Britisa cruiser Dauntless, a contingent of 150, comprised ‘of officers, sailors and marines off the war vesse, paraded yesterday forenoon from their ship to Trinity Cathedral, and, after having attended divine services, marched back to the King's craft again. The musicians, direct- ed by Able Seaman J. Cartland, bandmaster, and headed by Stoker E. Blake, a drum major of impos- ing proportions and of more than usual capability in his avocation, stirring selections Officers were re- Captains Reads Lessons Services at the church were of In his ser- he made no allusion to the *o probably inspired by the attend- for choral and congregational sing- ing. The full choir was augmented for the occasion by Mrs. Sherman P. Saunders of Denver, Colo, who with Mr. Saunders is a house guest of Gov. George A. Parks. Mrs. C E. Kitste rendered effectively o hymnal solo during the taking of the collection kS EEEE NN s | erelgn 87 Clty In New used In phys- York state o . fes: ahbr, 39. Scandinavian 52, Units navigator 5%, Formei 1 51, System of units 40. Lengthy 42. CBT ital of Italy 43, Assert 45, Tn favor of OW 1. Snow runner 2. Medleinal plant N <N ok BRING CARGOES ; PLENTY OF FIS SALMON BOATS 'ALASKA GOODS REACH SEATTLE i H Four Craft, Including Nan- SALMON DELAYS ARRIVAL IN PORT OF ADMIRAL SHP Dorothy Alexander Stops, at Funter to Load Canned Fish et thousand cases were loaded she was 13 hours behind schedule. borhood of 15,000 cases of salmon at Excursion Inlet. | The Dorothy Alexander had 143 between Seattle and skagway.j !Among them of prominence are Frank R. Plerce, of Seattle, well- | known fiction writer, who has! visited Southeast Alaska every sum- mer for the last three years; W.‘ J. Lewis of San Francisco, asso- | ciated with the Dollar Steamship ;Lines. and Walter T. Herman of | San Francisco, connected with the | Panama Pacific Mall Steamship | Company. The vessel departed for Seattle at 11 o'clock last night. Passengers that boarded the Dor- othy Alexander here for ports to the South were: P. White for Wrangell; J. M. Reader for Ketchikan; Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Faulkner and two chil- dren, Gunnar Blomgren, V. J. Le- vine ‘and J. Powers ‘for Seattle. | e e,—— | Kentucky Counting i Primary Ballots LOUISVILLE, Ky., August 4.—-A‘ crop of Congressional candidates ' that ran in Saturday's primary, which included three women, 1s awaiting the result. The country election boards in six of the eleven -— . 1 16th. Congressional districts where the! primaries were conducted beganl tabulating the returns this morning in accordance with the State’s new relection law. Congresswoman Katherine Langley i_of the Tenth District was opposed :m the Republican primary by D. H. Baker and Hector Johnson. TODAY’S STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK CITY, N .Y., Aug. 4. . i . Salmon delayed the arrival of the — 11eré Was no sale of Alaska Ju- steamship Dorothy Alexander h_om!neau mine stock today. Closing quo- Sitka and Skagway, at Juneau'2tons on other stocks follow: Al- vesterday. Canned salmon, fifteen 'e8hany Corporation 21%, Anacon- at €& Corporation 51, Bethlehem Steel Funter Bay. This amount was con- °% General Motors 46, Montgom- siderably more than Capt. A. w. €TV-Ward 35%, Granby 24%, In- Nickerson, her master, amlclpated.‘tem“'o"-m Harvester 84%, Kenne- and when she moored to the whart ‘cott Corporation 40, National Acme of the Pacific Steamship Com- DO sale, Packard Motors 15, Sim- peny Bave. sk, K opldic st mght.f;‘,‘f‘s Beds 25, Standard Brands %, The vessel also lifted in the neigh-|93%, Standard Oil of New Jersey :g%, United Aircraft 61%, U. S. Standard Oil of California eel 169%, American Can 132%, Fox Films 46%, Hupp Motors 14%, passengers making the round trip |Stewart-Warner 26%. ————— RESERVE THE DATE Moose Cafeteria Dance — August —adv. YUKON BRINGS § FROM WEST Judge E. C(E Hill Among | Passengers Booked for States = Nine passengers from the Weste ward disembarked here this after- noon from the steamship Yukon, which stayed at Juneau about an hour on her way to Seattle. They were Margaret Richardson, Anna E. Heller, Clara L. Morse, Lena Lar- son, W. A. Kemper, C. F. Lane, Jake Angel, John Parsons Charles P. Kofson. m Among passengers on the vessel booked for the States was E. Coke Hill, of Valdez, United States Dis~ trict Judge of the Third Division. The Yukon took on 2,500 cases of canned salmon and 35 boxes of frozen salmon at Cordova. ——————— i« MISS CARNAHAN HERE > Miss Mary Carnahan, teacher in the Juneau Public Schools seven years ago, has returned here for part of her summer vacation and is the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. Pullen. - POLO SHIRTS BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ ... _ $1.25 LADIES POLO SHIRTS, $1.25, U367 0n L e R $1.65 LADIES’ SILK POLO SHIRTS ... $2.75 Int\ Latest Shades | | uk, Take Valuable MOOSE MEETING Shipments Are Made to Seattle — Prices Continue Weak Salmon constituted the only' fish receipts today in Juneau. Arriving boats report large quantities of sal- mon going into traps and being taken by trollers. The Ace, Capt. Al Weathers, brought 5,000 pounds for the New England Fish Company; the T3333, Capt. R. T. Harris, 2,000 pounds, also for the New England; the Sed Otter, Capt. B. Melvin, 2,000 pounds for the New England; Elfin, Capt. Ernest Swanson, 8,000 pounds for the Marlyn Fish Company. The Attu, Capt. Peter Peterson, which has been undergoing repairs, warped to the pier of the Juneau Cold Storage Company this morn- ing to take aboard bait before leav- ing for the fishing grounds. frozen salmon and four tierces of. salmon have been shipped to Se- attle. Fifty boxes on the Alaska and 27 boxes on the Northland were sent by the Juneau Cold Storage Company, and two tierces on the: almost |Northland were sent by Melchoir, ' Armstrong, Dessau and Company, and two tierces on the Dorothy enllsbed{mexander by the Atlantic and Pa-| cific Packing Company. Pish prices continued weak to- day, of strengthening. ——et———— RED PLANE I3 FORCED DOWN NEW YORK, Aug. 4—The Red endurance plane, piloted by Bob Slack and Lou Reichers, was forced down at 6:05 o'clock last Saturday afternoon, Eastern Standard Time. The pilots said the motor went dead. The two fliers had been aloft 311% hours. They landed near a golf course half a mile from the airport and an axle was bent. Neither pilot wasg hurt, however. | | | | Cargoes South SEATTLE, Aug. 4.—Millions of dollars worth of 'Alaska and Si- berian products and more than 1,400 passengers arrived from the North last Saturday on four ships. The most interesting of the ships base of the Eielson-Borland search. The Nanuk brought a million dol- lars worth of furs. -~ Nearly all of the passengers brought south on the four ships were cannery workers, The ships brought 100,000 cases of salmon and gold bullion from Seward Peninsula, also whale oil and herring. - e In the last few days 77 boxes Mi LODE CLATIv NOTICES American or Canadian at The Empire. . TOPKIS | was the Nanuk, renowned as the| TONIGHT [ 8:30 | Initiation and Lunch i SEE BIG VAN The Gun Man | You will be surprised at what you save on Guns and Ammunition Always Open 208 Front St. Leader Dep’t. Store PHONE 454 GEORGE BROS. “The Style Center of Juneau” Always Something NEW Watch for Announcement JUNEAU MELODY HQUSE 1 CARROTS--- 4 bunches 25¢ GREEN PEAS.-- 2pountds ;. ».t .., LN 25¢ HOT HOUSE TOMA- with no immediate prospml * Athletic UNION SUITS $1.00 Regular and Two- Button Styles i H. S, GRAVES The Clotling Man Weather Favored Observance Weather favored the naval ob- servance of the Sabbath. During the parade to the cathedral, the sk was overcast with clouds. On the return march to the ship, the sun shone brilliantly. Its rays mad= the whirling banton of the drum major glisten; the medals on men and officers, and gold braid and side-arms of the latter glitter and glisten in its effulgent rays. The colorful spectacle of th2 parade was viewed and the spirited music of the band enjoyed by per- sons on sidewalks and in windows of buildings along the line of march. On the wharf and near the church, large groups wera gathered. § ————— Ola papers rov sale at The Em- Empire. 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