News from 25-50-75-100 years ago
December 4, 1925 – “Kinney,” who worked on a pile driver, as a diver and on other other tasks around Petersburg, was given 90 days in jail by the Wrangell Marshal. Kinney left here as a stowaway on the Rogers. He was discovered in the Wrangell Narrows and given a chance to work his passage to Ketchikan. It is said that he had some booze and entered the room of John Iverson, a well known logger of Petersburg, and finally got into a fight with Iverson and beat him up something fierce. He was turned over to the town marshall of Wrangell by the Captain of the Rogers, and it is said that the entire...
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