TWO RETURN FROM THE SUSHANNA
Looking brown as berries
and hard as uaiis as the result
pf their trip. Tom Noyes and
•Biddy" Malone returned on
thte Alameda this morning
from the Sushanna. They re
port having been into the gold
country but had found every
thing staked and no chance at
this time for either to do any
thing especially as they neither
had grub enough to stay the
winter. The former says he
will return to the diggings in
the spring, the latter says he
may.
They bring out news of
the balance of Ketchikan's
contingent McBain. Parker
and Kittles they say are safely
there and were building a cab
in and have plenty of grub
left The same is true of
George Irving and Phil McCal
lion. The two latter have se
cured a lay on some ground,
have a cabin built and plenty of
grub for the winter. They
will prospect the ground
thoroughly on which they have
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their lay and will he able to tell ,
whether they have anything j
or not before spring. The five
mentioned are all in the best
W health, George Irving es
pecially showing marked im- '
Iprovement as the result of the
outdoor life of the past several
weeks*
Biddy Malone says that he
took the wrong trail in going
into the country, having put iu
29 days on the trail from Chit
ina via Gulkana, and only three
'days coming out. The Cordova
people have improved the
trail from McCarthy by build
ing one along Scolai creek
which cuts out the dangerous
part of the pass. Big game
is plentiful he says, consisting
of caribou and mountain sheep
everywhere. In spite of this
however grub continues high,
‘siaples bringing better than a
dollar a pound. He plans to
spend the winter in Ketchikan
which he says is the best town
by long odds in all Alaska.
ON PROSPECTING TRIP
Mickey Doyle is a passenger
to Seward on the Mariposa.
He is off on a prospecting trip
and thinks he knows where
he can find what he is looking
for. • ■ r T,;
BURNED UP
Harry Mark'Jsen an old time
resident of the west, cremated
at Unga on the night of Sep
tember 6ib following a drunk
en debauch indulged in by him
<eif and one Juliu* Ipson.an
other sourdough. The two
were in Ipson's cabin, next
door to A. Komedal's store and
hotel. having what they
bought a high old time. Mr.
Kcmedai had retired for the
night, but the noise in the
cabin prevented his sleep. He
finally got up. initnt on putting
a quietus on the disturbance.
Upon emerging from his home
he found the cabin in flame-.
Hr asked Ipson. who was stand
iug by, if any one was in t’«J
ra. in. but he could get no co
berenf reply due to the man"?
cr nken condition. Komedal
cau-ed the village to be srou
ei. and got his own fire ex
t nguisher and played on the
flames. Others, with extin
guishers, joined him. When
the Hames were quelled, the
body of Markusen, burned so
that the flesh fell from the
bone*, was found on the cabin
floor. —Exchange.
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PLANING SOME
FALL ROAD WORK
Superintendent J. C. Have
and foreman William Penda
gre't of (he Alaska road com
mission will leave Juneau for
the west coast of Prince of
Wales island the last of the
pr-- -ent w eek. Here it is in
tended to do some work on (he
road leading" from Sulzer
across the portage, a di-tance
of five or six miles, which
will material}- shorten the mail
route to Ket hikan.
From the west coast they
w ill proceed to Wrangel and
survey a trail from that point
to the Stikine river. This
work was in a memorial in
troduced in the Alaska Legs
laiure by Representative X. J.
Svind seth and addressed to
Col. Richardson, president of
the Alaska road commission.
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■*U yrrzr new maHI coasp^eaf ?"
“Very Fbe r+w erm f»S
:*&6.rra into bri>ring that *i>e* o»
rre*» of tb* hnn— ~—lMtn4t C>m
Pros
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The Daily Miner, $1. per. mo
WORKING IN JUNEAU
Word comes from Juneau
that our own "Billy" Short is
working as clerk at the Occi
dental Hotel in that city. Billy
is there when it comes to hotel
work and knows most every
body in Aaska.
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Dawson. Oct. 1—At the point j
iOf revolvers two masked men
held up Milford Holiday and
Fred Bowers, the night watch- !
men on the Yukon Gold com
pany's property on Lovett hill i
at midnight Monday. The two
watchmen were then gagged !
and bound and then thrown in
to a ditch where they were !
found yesterday morning al
most dead as the result of the
exposure as the night was a
very cold one. In the mean
time the robbers had cleaned
out the hydraulic boxes and it
is estimated. secured about
twenty thousand dollars in gold
dust. Owing to the fact that
it was dark at the time of the
holdup the two watchmen can
not give a very good descrip
tion of the robbers. The
various mounted police sta
tions have beep notified of the
robbery and are on the lookout
for the robbers who will be un
able to get their booty out of
the country without detection.
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BEWARE OF COUNTERFEIT
_
A report was sent out from
Washington a few days ago of
the discovery of three counter
feit national bank notes, one of
them i- regarded as an danger
ous deception says \v. H.
Moran, acting chief of the
Lnited States secret service.
The cleverest counterfeit is
an imitation of the $20. issue
of the second national bank of
Baltimore. The other two
counterfeits are a $5.note on
the American national bank j1
Nashville. Tenn.. and a $20.
note on the Wisconsin national
bank of Milwaukee.
About the same time the s
bove report was sent out.
counterfeit silver dollars wa« j
discovered in circulation in ;
Seattle by the police and secret
serve e men. and two well dre« ’
sod strangers were appirehen- <
ded and are being held pending
further investigation.
The police department Ire- 1
Sieves that the coins were pot 1
in circulation by counterfeiters 1
from Canada, as the coins *
were dirovered after the ar- 1
nval of the Canadian steamer. '
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Franz Snndiel, a yonng jewel ’
er of Douglas, recently com- 1
mited suicide after accidently 1
killing a woman of the under ‘
world. i
4 NORTHERN HAPPENINGS 4
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Dredges are soon to to
placed on Yankee and Gains
creeks in the Inooka district.
444
Hr. Knickerbocker, formerly
» practicing dentist in Nome,
has taken up his residence in
Ruby City.
The fight for supremacy
between the Northern Naviga
tion company and the White
Pa&s has resulted in frieght
rates being cut to $30 per ton
flat rate.
4 4 4
The dredge belonging to the
t'aThanks Gold Mining com
pany and which is operating on
No. 8 above Fairbanks creek,
expects to be able to work up
to the first of November.
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Harry Owen, who was tried
before Commissioner Howard
at Wiseman, in the Koyukuk
precinct for blackmailing Jos
eph Hally, was dismissed on
motion of the complaining
wiiuess.
4 4 *
Judge Fuller, of (he Fair
banks federal court has ruled
that applicants for the rights
of citizenship must publish a
notice of the fact for three
months.
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The school board of Juneau
has an overdraft of $11,000 a!
the bank and the city council
has been asked by the bank's
cashier to take care of the ac
count and to take it from the
red.
4 4 4
Henery Haldane, an. officer
in the Salvation Army al
Wrangell, has been arested
for selling booze to Indians.
He was .bound over to the
grand jury.
4 4 4
C. Knudson. a Nome miner,
lost his life through the roof of
the drift eaving on him. The
accident happened on the Pay-•
streak claim on the sub-ma
rine beach line.
4 4 4
Tommy Hayok. a Nome na
tive. will ship the carcasses of
sixty reindeer to the state; to
give epicures an opportunity of
indulging their appetites in
Alaska's nativa game.
4 4 4
Attorney Foster, of Chitna,
jumped one of Billy James’
claims on Little Eldorado be
cause t he power of attorney
was not recorded. The miners
sre indignant about it.
4 4 4
The boiler on the Seward
dredge on Solomon river blew
up and put the dredge out of
commission. No injury was
inflicted to anyone and the
dredge wa* not damaged ex
cept for ihe loss of power to
aperaie it.
A small room ha- been 'et
i'ide as a reading room in the
Juneau public school. The
•chool has an excellent library
ind it has now been placed at
Ihe dj-posal of the reading
sublie.
4 4 4
The. Juneau Ferry and Nav
igation company will shortly
jut a 200 passenger boat on
Ihe Juneaitf-Sheep Creek-Dong
as run. They are hunting the
sorts along th# coast of Cal
fornia and if they do not fin'd
vhat they want they will build
>ne to suit the trade.
Dog- will he in demand next
Vinter if the travel k*eps up to .
he Chisaoa camp. Good dog*
ire now selling for *10. to (
MOO. Several dogs are re- ,
sorted to have been stolen and
he police on the trail tn the
lew camp are keeping a close
vatch for them. Dog stealing ’
n the Yukon is punished by a t
rood sentence in jail with no ,
hance of getting off with a ,
me. \
An official of (he W. P. & Y.
railroad who has visited the
new camp has returned (o
Skagway reports that beans are
selling fo!^$l. per pound. He
saw a miner pay $5. for five j
cups of the Alaska strawberries !
and the fellow had to carry j
i
them home in a sock as paper (
bags are unknown there.
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The Ames-Cromwall expedi
tion from Edmonton arrived
safely in Dawson after a thous
and mile journey down the
Mackenzie river, across the
portage to the Yukon, making
moving pictures all the way.
Emehson Hough, a Chicago
novelist, was among the party.
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♦ ♦ ♦
Donald was leaving his native
village for parts unknown.
Sandy, his friend, invited all |
the friends and neighbors to j
his home to give Donald a!
royal send-off. As is custom
ary at these gatherings, liquid
refreshments were served with
out stint. i
About nine o'clock Sandy
noticed Donald going round
bidding the gue«ts good-by. 1
“Your no goin" yet. Donald
he said in surprise.
“Na, I’m no goin' yet,'' an
swered Donald, “but I thoct
I d bid ,em all good-by while
I knew ’em. I
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E. Knox, a Dawson stam- '
peder to the Sushanna country
got his outfit ready to leave
and then went on a drunk in
celebrating the event. He
came to his senses in the hos
pital after having tried to com
mit suicide by cutting his
throat.
♦ ♦ ♦
Frank Manley, the well known .
operator in nearly every camp *
in Alaska, reached Fairbanks
intending to go to the Sushan- »
na but turned back to Ruby
on account of the discourag- (
ing reports from the upper
Tanana.
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Dr. Joseph A. Holmes, chief
of the bureau of mines of the
Lnited States, has returned
from a trip to interior Alaska
and gives out the statement
that he believes the quartz
mines in the Seward peninsula
and Fairbanks districts have
promising futures. With cheap |
er transportation quartz will
be developed on a consider
able scale.
♦ ♦ ♦
In discussing the question
of a tax for the town of Cor
dova. the Alaska Times -ays
that it would be well that a lib
eral valuation be placed on
town property. If this is done
a levy of one per cent will take
care of the obligations of the
town for a year. This would
be a better advertisement for
the town than a smaller valu
ation with a larger per cent of
taxes.
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A letter to a Juneau citizen
from Commissioner D’Heirty,
of Chitina, asks as to the dis
position of personal effects
found on the body of Dan
Crowley, who was drowned in
the Nizina river; $308.05 in
cash, a jack knife and five nug
gets were found on the body.
The commissioner writes that
$ i0. 40 of the cash, the five
nuggets and the jack knife are
‘‘.ill left. It is apperanhy as 1
expensive to die up in that i
part of the country as it is to ’
ive.
♦ ♦ ♦
At a mar*ha!’s sale in Nome. '
lohn Dutschinger bought an
itere-t in the Golden Cow
laim for $5. The claim has 1
1
unce turned out to he rich and
svery bucket hoisted is worth :
he amount he paid for his in- j
erest. Daymen, have drifted |
icross the payslreak for a d i - - I
a nee of 140 feel and are still i
i pay. It averages better than <
en cents per pan. <
Valdes now has a full-fledged
suffragette club.
♦ ♦ ♦
The Alaska Citizen, Fair- ^
banks, stales that Assistant
D'slrict Attorney Cecil H. Clegg
h.i> tendered bis resignation to
Mr. Crossley to become effect
ive when the latter returns
from the Iditraod.
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L. A. Decker arrived in Cor
dova en route to the states
from the Upper Bremner dis
trict where he had spent sev
eral months prospecting. He
had 10 ounces of gold dust
and believes that district will
turn out good when extensiv
ely prospected.
♦ ♦ ♦
Theodore Chapin, of the Ceo
logical Survey, visited the Fair
banks district recently in .order
that his department might be
enabled to make a more com
prehensive report on the quartz
of that district.
♦ ♦♦
A handcar was knocked
from the track by accident
on the Alaska Northern rail
road by the small auto car. The
hand car was very badly de
molised and the auto car was
temporarily put out of com
mission.
♦ ♦ ♦
Jack Cain, an electrician in
the employ of the Dawson j
Power company was* badly 1
burned by coming in contact j
with high voltage wires. Both
of his arms were amputated in
an effort to save his life, but
he suceomed to the shock,
which was too severe for his
nervous system.
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Ed. Hearn, operating on Ten
rierfoot creek, on the Tanana, j
was badly bruised by failing i
down a forty f* ot shaft. He 1
suffered no broken bones but
paralysis set in a few days after !
the accident and his entire
right side has been affected.
♦ ♦ ♦
While in Fairbanks recently
Col. W. P. Richardson, of the
Alaska road commission se
cured some excellent photo
graphs of a group of autos
which will be used to convince
re the outsiders that the people
af Alaska appreciate the auto j
Js a means of locomotion.
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Sam Agee, a colored youth of
Dawson, has gone outside to
take a three years’ course in
Broker T. Washington’s col- '
ege at Tuskegee, Alabama. lie
teas one of Dawson's crack
tiocky players.
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Seattle, Sept. 30—Weary of
filing petitions to Congress to
svhich no heed is paid by the
national lawmakers, Tom Da
vies. general manager of the
\la^ka Central railroad has de- j
ided to quit trying to do any
thing and will leave this city
m any early boat to house the
rolling stock of the company
md stop trying at least until
:he government shows some in
ention of giving his road a
fair opportunity to do business.
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DON'T WANT TAXES
rhe members o the Farbianks
•ouncil are trying to work up
i sentiment to have Garden
sland annexed to the town*
proper. They claim that the!
own needs the money which3
roes to the federal authorities!
vhile the residents have all 1
he advantages of the town !
>e <p!e. A canvass of the resj- j
lent- of Garden Island made
*y Die Citizen, a weekly paper,
du ws that the plan will he de
eated if it is submitted to a
ole of the people there. The
>eople of Garden Island claim
heir taxes are not as high as i
n Fairbanks and will enter ay
Protest if thp annexation i- at- |
ernpled to he carried through ,
without first submitting the
fuestion to a vote by the resi
Icnts of Garden Island.
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA S
LEADING FISH PORT
The growth of the city o'
Ketchikan in Southeastern
Alaska during the past five or
six years has been remark
able. Its development from a
small town to a large and pros
perous community has been
chiefly due to its favorable lo
cation in the famous salmon
and halibut fisheries district
of the southeastern section of
the territory.
Millions of pounds of halibut
are caught annually in the ter
ritory around Ketchikan. This
makes Ketchikan the hoadquar
tors for a large fishing fleet
which requires bait and ice
for its operations.
The central location of the
city, permitting short hauls
from the banks was Ihe reason
why the large fish freezing
plant of the New England Fish
Co., having a capacity of 5,000,
000 pounds, was erected there.
Another refrigeration lpant,
that of the Ketchikan Cold
Storage Co., is under course
of construction and will have
a capacity of 1,000,000 pounds
of fish. This will still further
increase the number of boats
running into the city with
their fares and add to the pros
perity of the city.
The protected position of the
city, insuring perfect safty for
fishing vessels along the en
tire Tongass Narrows also
makes the Ketchikan district
the favorite grounds for a num
ereous fleet of vessels both
small and large.
Another factor which will
greatly appeal to the fishermen
is the erection of tankage fa
cilities by the Standard Oil Co.,
which has bought several acres
of land adjoining the city. This
station now under construc
tion,will be one of the most
complete oil stations on the
Pacific coast and will be sup
plied directly from California
with all grades of fuel and re- j
fined oil by tank vessels. The j
plant wiil have a capacity of j
70,000 barrels and will be a :
great convenience to the fish
eries fleet.
A large portion of the South
eastern Alaska salmon can
neries is situated within n rad
ius of a hundred miles of Ket
chikan and are reached by
frequent boat service from the ,
city. |
There is still another respect
in which Ketchikan stands pre
eminent as the greatest fishing
center of the north. It boasts |
of having the best shipping i
facilities in the territory, and
Its location at the extreme
southern end of Alaska makes
it the la^t port of call of steam
ers coming south.
This latter fact is one of,
great advantage in the fresh
fish industry. Oftentimes
fresh fish put aboard steamers
before they reach Ketchikan
are delayed two or three days |
by the fact that the vessels j
rail at cannery stations to lord
freight. At Ketchikan, on the j
other hand, the vessels clear
through to Seattle without
stop.--Pecific Fisherman.
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HOLDUP REPORTED
A persistent rumor is in cir- |
dilation in the lower end of
town that a holdup was at- j
tempted last night. One man
suspected of knowing more of
the occurrence than he is wili
ng to tell is held as a suspect
•rid another associated with |
fiim on the job is being looked ;
lor.
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Twelve men working* 40 days
ri the Kougarok one time took :
>ut $80,000. If they ever took
>ut that amount in some new '
strike that was a decent dis- |
ance away what a stampede (
vould take place. —Exchange. ,
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fhe Daily Miner, $1. per. mo. 1
ALASKA i1:,U :^AC3
It is evidently the intention
of congress to give early con- *
sideration, at the regular ses
sion, lo bills providing for tho .
construction of government
trunk line railroads in Alaska.
The senate already has voted .
to make the Chamberlain
Alaska railroad hill the on- •
finished business of that, body
Dee. S, one week after the ses
sion opens, that bill having*
been favorably reported to the
senate several weeks ago, and
the house committee on ter
ritories has appointed a sub
committee which is now at
work taking testmony prelim
inary to reporting a similar bill
to the house, in time to have it
[considered early in December. .
The fact, that President Wil
son lias heartily endorsed the
scheme of government trunk •
lines railroads in Alaska, Sec
retary of the Interior Lane
heartily concurring,will have a
tendency to make the Alaska
railroad bill privileged matters.
The currency hill is now the
highest privileged hill before „
congress, and not even the
President will consent to have
it sidetracked for tho Alaska*
railroad bill. Once the Ala
ska railroad bill is reported to
the house, and hears the stamp
of the President’s approva, it
will be assured of passage.
There is prospect of consid
erable talk on (lie Chamberlain
hill in the senate, however, and
there the measure providing
for government construction of
trunk line railroads will meet
with determined opposition
from a few senators who heart
ily oppose government build
ing and operating of railways.
Some of the most determined
opposition will come from dem
ocratic senators, but it is be- *
lieved the bill will pass. It is
in no sense a party measure.
Senator Chamberlain gained'
a decided advantage when he
had the hill made the unfinish
ed business, for that gives the
bill right-of-way over all other
legislation except the currency
biil-if that goes over to the
next session.
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A NEW DEPARTURE
V hat the country around .
Ilaines is capable of producing
was demonstrated recently
when Tim Vogel shipped one
hundred -sacks of rutabagas to
a firm in Seattle on the steam
ship Humbold. +
There are thousands of acres
of land in the Chilcat and Chil
koot valley that has rich fertile *
soil, and only need be brought
into cultivation, to bring the
producer large profits for his '
1 arbor, and make this part of
Southeastern Alaska noted for
its exports of farm products
as well as mineral exports.
It is believed here that this
was the first shipment of ag
ricultural products that was
ever exported from Alaska in
a purely commercial transac
tion with all the elements of
experiment eliminated.
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WILL BE DEPORTED
Tom Rogers taken in charge
by the local police force will
probably be deported on the
return trip of the Princess So
phia. According to the old fel
low’s story he had been on a
spree in Prince Rupert .Jnd
iwoke lo find himself without
i cent in his pocket on board
he Sophia, northbound. Not
snowing what to do when he
irrived here, he was afraid lo
p;t ashore down the gangplank
o jumped overboard and
•warn ashore, thus being an
ilierr- a Canadian—illegally in
he country.
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*■ C. 8. 8. CO. HAS NEW 8IGN
The local Pacific Coast S. S.
■ompany’s office is sporting a
iew sign these days. It is the
vork of Jim Newman and was
»ndly needed.