Tolovana Camp Promising Prospect Grows in Alaska
Reports in the Pairhanke weekly describe active development at Tolovana camp in Alaska with the Tolovana boat refitted for river work and a crew including Bob Smith Frank Manton and Oscar Haines. James Wickersham tours the area, calling Tolovana a good prospect with pay gravel lines tested near Livengood, and notes strong mining interest and ongoing prospecting work.
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Tolovane
Old Tet
Iditarod
Tolovana
Bob Smith
Frank Manton
Oscar Haines
Tom Patte
E. Sells
Billy Ward
Blner G
Paul Ring
Lake Ci
Don Kennedy
Fairbanks
C. W. Pat
Tineman
Olnes
Col
Gue
Wickersham
James Wickersham
Alaska
Congress
Glestral
News Miner
Livengood
Harry Patterson
Patterson
Tolovan Ground Opens for Substantial Next-Week Developments
A report notes the ground will be opened by men who built success there and expects substantial Tolovan developments in the coming weeks. It adds no heavy machinery is present now and entry requires safe winter road clearance before any significant work can proceed.
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Tolovans
Aly
Cordova
Oliver Baker
Yost
Fone
Chitina-Fairbanks
Baker
Upper Delta
Ship Creek
Cox Field
Former Dawson Boy Killed on Battlefield
Harry McLennan, a former Dawson boy, was killed in action at the front after taking part in the Langemarck charge. He was the son of R P McLennan, long associated with McLennan & McFeely hardware in Dawson, and attended local schools and Sunday school. He is reported as the first Dawson boy killed in the great war.
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Dawson News
Harry McLennin
Dawson
Langemarck
Harry
R. P. McLennan
McLennan & McFeely
Pribywrin
The
Vancouver Sun
Sim
Death of Mrs A X Grant in Territorial Capital
Mrs A X Grant wife of pioneer Ainsks printer died at St Ann's hospital in Juneau after years of invalidism. Funeral held May 10 at Catholic Church with interment in Evergreen Cemetery. Born Detroit Mich 48 years ago she is survived by husband sister Miss Fannie Thelen brother Henry N Thelen and others. Duty reports Montana slowdown but revival in Butte Yeager and Al Walsh commented on recent business. Two stores Flat and Iditarod Boas the Clothier.
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AX. Grant
Iditarod
Juneaw
Juneau Empire
A. X. Grant
St Ann's Hospital
Governor Strong
Ruby Record Citizen
Grant
Juneau
Evergreen Cemetery
Nee Thelen
Detroit
Mich
Fannie Li ‘Thelen
Henry N. Thelen
Noted Greek Priest Dead in Alaska Cathedral Rector Loses Life En Route to Victoria
The Rev. Sergius J. Kostrometinoff, 62, rector of Sitka’s St. Michael’s cathedral and dean of the Greek church of Alaska, died May 1 in Seattle of cancer while traveling to Victoria for treatment. Born at Kodiak, he served as interpreter for the navy, helped rebuild Sitka’s church, and was named dean of the Greek church of Alaska on January 1 of this year. He is survived by a brother, a widow, two children, and a sister in Portland.
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Sergius J. Kestrometinoff
St. Michael’s Cathedral
Sitka
Tee Conty
Wood Island
San Francisco
Kostrometin
Alaska
Russia
United States
King Lear Mercantile Company
Wan
N. A. Fuller
Navy
Arctic
Thetis
Akiska
Sergius
J. M. Shoup
Lyman T. Ku
Chicago
St. Miche
Nicholas II
Knights of
Daniel II
Arwin Platon
Geological Survey dispatches twelve parties to Alaska
The United States Geological Survey will send twelve field parties to Alaska to extend systematic surveys and investigations. Teams will cover the Ruby district, Yukon, Turnagain Arm, Kuskokwim and adjacent regions, with topographic mapping and geologic work. Leaders include C. E. Griffin, G. Stortington, H. R. Sargent, J. Bo Mertie, Eakin, Eliot Bleckwelder, J. W. Bagley, SR. Cano, and Alfred H. Brooks.
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United States Geological Surv
Alaska
Upper
Chitina
Port Ville
Turnggainerm-Koik Regiow
Yukon Tensna
Ruby Kuskokwin
Ruby District
Tanana River
Seattle
Yukon
C. E. Griffin
G. Stortington
RH. Sargent Id
J. Bo Mertie
Takota
Kuskok
Eakin
Lyi
Cusny River
Tansna
Eliot Bleckwelder
White Mountains
Cirele
Knik
Turnsavin Urm
J. W. Bagley
Wilson speech defines ideal of fighting man
Woodrow Wilson extols neutrality and self control over constant combat. He contrasts the irritable fighter with the calm self mastered man who acts only when necessary, urging America to value reserved strength and courage. The remarks were attributed to his Associated Press address on April 20.
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United States
America
Woodrow Wilson
Associated Press
Ruby District News: Arrivals and Local Notes
Ruby District News reports Alvin Bruner arriving in Ruby from Whitehorse by boat en route to Marsh City, with grim views on Alaska coast towns. Deputy Marshall Tom Long escorts William Turner to Tanana for a grand jury hearing as Ruby and Tanana courts share federal jail inmates.
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Alvin Bruner
Territorial
Bruner
Nome
Ruby
Yukon
Whitehorse
Marsh City
Alaska
William
Marshall
Tom Long
Tanna
Thee Washburn
William Turner
Grand Jury
Ruby Tenior Court
Tanana
Ruby Eyed
Whitsin
Tin
Sunday Closing Repeal Veto Upset by Governor
Juneau dispatch reports the governor's veto of the Sunday closing law remains unsettled as legislators may sustain it. Representative Coombs vows to push enforcement, seeking closures of moving picture houses and stores on Sundays to provoke public protest and a push for repeal at the next session. The federal statute imposes fines for openings on Sunday with narrowly defined exceptions for certain trades and necessities.
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Juneau
Hisnute
St Nome
Seward
Coombs
Department of Justice
Washington
Fie
Britain to Launch New Fast Battle Cruisers and Dreadnoughts
London reports England is building battle cruisers at 32 knots with a new 16 inch gun and expects all to be launched within months of laying down. Five new superdreadnoughts similar to the Queen Elizabeth class with 15 inch guns will join twenty five battleships and battle cruisers added since the war began. Fresh Olympia Oysters for cocktails two dollars. Iditarod Meat Co.
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London
England
Mysterious Disappearance Of Well-Known Alaskan Old-Timer
The Fairbanks Times reports the puzzling vanishing of Homer Leonard an elderly Alaskan figure noted in Fairbanks and across Dawson and Ruby. Leonard a steamboat engineer last seen spring 1914 left Tanana for Ruby in a small boat. Despite letters and inquiries from his sister and post office authorities no trace has been found. Leonard’s circle includes Si Atwell Jim Halloran and Willam Casey with ties to Northern Commercial and Rowson Finlayson.
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Fairbanks Times
Homer Leonard
Alaska
Fairbanks
North
Dawson
Fairbones
Ruby
Tswana
Sam Smell
Leonard
Iditarod
Si Atwell
Northern Commercial Company
Hotel Northern
Willam Casey
The
Northern
Swarm
Portland
Jim Halloran
Tanana
Mr. Atwell
Jitney Drivers Back Bond Bill Over Governor Veto
Olympia Washington March 11 The jitney bus bill requiring drivers to post a 2500 bond to operate was approved despite Governor Liters veto. The house vote stood 051 to 31 and the senate tally was 38 to 12, signaling strong legislative support for the measure.
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Olympia Wash
Liters
Senate
Alaska District Court Special Term Advised Schedule
The District Court for Ahoks Fourth Judicial Division announces a special term to be held in Iditarod beginning June 28, 1915. The court will convene at specified precincts with coramentes to hear welfare business and court matters as directed by the presiding officers and sealed with the court seal.
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Iditarod
Coramencus
Mencing
Notice to Creditors of the Joseph Noket estate
Notice to creditors of the estate of Joseph Noket, deceased, to present claims with proof of their interest. Creditors must file by a specified date at the designated address. Published for the estate in the Alaskib-Ite region notices.
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Tory
Alaskib
Joseph Noket
Hest
Mae Bf
Notice of Forfeiture to Richer? HoteMed
Fragmented notice details a forfeiture action concerning expenditures and property rights. Names and places are partially legible but reference a military or territorial context and a purported claimant or steward. The text cites a notice date and a decision related to a property claim.
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Miners & Merchants Bank
Iditarod, Alaska
Scandinavian American Bank
Charles Ross
John Holmes
R. C. Button
Merchants Cafe
Herbert E. Riley
Prop
the Flace
Ww. F. Duty
Montana
Butte
Y Yeager
al Walsh
Flat
Boas
Clothier
Crosby
Caribou St
Bet, Black and Willow Sts
On Waterfront
Metlakuchila
Divide and Port Company
Duncan
Marshall Cit
St. Michael Re
Bert Howen
Copper River
Howen
Ed Lee Thinnus
Sicotte
Cunle
Alex Sicotte
Adolph Escholtz
Alaska Northern Railroad
Matanuska
Land Department
George A. Parks
Land Department of Alaska
Interior
Parks
Idi Trod
Aleutians
Alaska Cruise Club
Mary E. Hart
Raper
Hart
Paville Coast, Women's Press Association
Revenue
F. G. Dodge
Jagpan
Sith
Engleman
Geological Survey
Wilson
N. C. Co
Hunter
Baltimore
Hermitage
Cyrus Noble
Oscar Pepper
Bond
Cedar Brook
W. H. McBrayer
Jesse Moore
House of Commons
Strathmill
Dewar
Scotland
Usher
Dudget
Bunnell
RF. Roth
J. E. Chek
Grace Fisher
E.T. Wolcott
J.C
Sam Govired
Godfrey Baer
Charles Craig
Sutherland
Don Sutherlana
Tolovena
Eshp
Ricby
Delte
Televan
H. Patterson
Livengool
Koyuku
Beumaere
Coldfoot
Axel Linne
Emma Creek
Koyukuk
Axel Feterson
Ophir
Poorman
Ruby Club
Court of Appeals
Olympia
Iditarod Meat Co
Chicago Municipal Court
J. A. Solmes
Grommes & Ullrich
Rober
Latbor
Mask
Pethseth
Tudor
Ft States
Romeset Evans
Uener
Mate
Stanley House
John Bagoy
W. L. Leonard & CO
Fraser Wu
Dis
Otter
Frank McGibney
Drs. Otter
McLean’s Roadhouse
Takotna
Wanusings
Old Land
J. H. McLean
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