Petersburg Eyes Municipal Hydro Power Plan The City Weighs 40000 Bonding Scheme
Petersburg officials propose forming a town power company to build a hydro electric plant on a local creek. The plan envisions a 40 000 mortgage backed by the plant, ownership transitioning to the town once Congress grants bonding. Council seeks public opinion on bond viability and ownership transfer, with projected annual income from 135 horsepower output.
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Conn
Petersburg
Congress of the
United States
Congress
Said Power Company
Power Company
Sawyer in Bad and Other Wrangell News
Sawyer in bad a labor union secretary held on sedition and slacker charges. Bonds set at 5000, bound over to Grand Jury. Union pledges support if he is convicted. Aliens fined for illegal fishing. Petersburg birth records show multiple newborns in May. Standard Oil agent George Barres welcomes a Wrangell born son.
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Wrangell
B. R. Sawyer
Labor Union
Weber
Sawyers
Wrangell Sentinel
Sawyer
E. P. Walker
Bureau of Fisheries
Ensign Hughes
Jacob Hollingstad
Petersburg
John Saarikoski
Kust Joki
U. S
Conrad A. D. Hagen
Hagen
George Elton Barres
Standard Oil Company
Mr. Barnes
Winnipeg Vets and Unionists Pledge to Guard City
Four thousand war veterans and hundreds of union men in Winnipeg pledged themselves to maintain law and order and stamp out anarchy and Bolshevism. They sang God Save the King after the oath, and resolutions called for immediate arrests of those responsible for the strike and anti government actions. Mayor Gray urged 2,000 special policemen to protect honest labor and safeguard civil life.
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Winnipeg
I. W. Wism
Gray
Marblehead ordered to Alaska relief mission and supplies
The Marblehead cruiser is ordered to proceed to Unalaska and Bristol Bay to aid in combating influenza among natives. It will stop at Port Townsend and Bremerton to pick up doctors nurses and supplies while the Unalga is already on scene and the Vicksburg has left Juneau to assist. Elmer Iverson and Chester Johnson Petersburg natives who served in France have returned home with injuries and experiences from the war. C A Cudihéee former King County sheriff arrived aboard the Admiral Evans related to the Mar Kim murder case.
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San Francisco
Marblehead
Unalaska
Bristol Bay
Port Townsend
Bremerton
Unalga
Vicksburg
Juneau
Elmer Iverson
Chester Johnson
Petersburg
France
Iverson
Johnson
Jacob Johnson
C. A. Cudihéee
King County
Admiral Evans
Mar Kim
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S. L. Hogue
Chris Tveten
Sec
Treas
the Citizens’ Wharf
Standard Oil Station
Humboldt Steamship Company
Citizens’ Co-Operative Wharf CO
Sam Allen, Wharfinger
AT Wharf
Ripley Fish Co
Pier 1
Seattle
Edwin Ripley
the Fish Clearing House, Inc
Scotch & Norway
Theo. F- Eggers
Pres
H. S. Finch
Sec-Treas
Ferry Dock
Seattle, Wash
Glacier Fish Coo
Tacoma
J. Maddock
Mgr
Alaska
N. Nelson
Customs House
K. L. Steberg
Sunde Bldg
Dlo
Money
A.lincoln
Brosight
New Power Company
Five Mile
Ghselk
H. P. Crowther
Éiguidéy
Wrangell Narrows
H. P
K. W
H. P. Small Motors
Louis John Israelson
Israelson
Joseph W. Hall
Baby
Jkodak
ALE Vork
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