Alaska Shipping and Business News Items

Freight rates between Seattle and Southeastern Alaska were raised 50% on August 1st, but on August 28 the rates were ordered chopped to the former schedule. The Daily Alaska Dispatch, 29 Aug 1912 - submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer

The Alaska Steamship company will build a wharf at Ketchikan. The Daily Alaska Dispatch, 29 Aug 1912 - submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer

J.P. Haller, general manager of the Alaska Packers' Association not long ago visited all the company's plants along the Alaska Peninsula and Bristol Bay The Daily Alaska Dispatch, 29 Aug 1912 - submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer

A farmer from the Copper River valley reports that the grains and vegetables are in fine condition and will produce a big crop this year. [The Daily Alaska Dispatch, 29 Aug 1912 - submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]

The steamer Yukon takes the place of the withdrawn steamer Bertha on the Alaska run, making her first run in November. The Daily Alaska Dispatch, 29 Aug 1912 - submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer

President Dickeson, of the White Pass Road, has recently invested in a large number of Skagway lots. The Daily Alaska Dispatch, 29 Aug 1912 - submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer

Compensation Suit
The case of Mrs. Catherine Crinis who is suing the Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company for the sum of $6000 for the alleged death of her husband in the Ready Bullion Mine, July 13, 1916, was started yesterday and is being continued today. [Daily Alaska Dispatch, 12 June 1918 - submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]

Prof. Herschel Parker and Belmore Brown, his backer, have returned to the states. [The Daily Alaska Dispatch, 29 Aug 1912 - submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]

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