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Woodchopper creek in ttie Hot
Springs district, is a busy place this
summer. It is said that fully 500
men are employed on the various min
ing claims there.
Business at the Fairbanks poslof
tlce for the first three months of 191(1
showed an increase of J5 per cent,
over the business for the first three
months of 1915.
Charles Covey, who was recently
taken to Fairbanks by Deputy Mar
shal Mossntan, was sent from that
place to Tanana for trial in charge
of Deputy Marshal Long.
Judge Jennings, of the First divis
ion, has appointed John Henson as
United States marshal at Douglas,
and E. A. Hassmusen to a similar po
sition at Skagway.
E. A. Dixon, one of the pioneer
inarchants of Whitehorse, and Con
servative member of the Yukon coun
cil, will leave shortly to point the Ca
nadian troops at the front.
Word has been received In Fair
banks (hat a strike of good placer
dirt has been made on Squaw creek,
in the Chandlar country. The rich
ness of the dirt was not stated.
Sam C. Smith, formerly foreman
por the Rhoads-Hall quartz mines :
near Fairbanks, states that the mines j
will not he reopened until cheaper fuel
is obtained in that country.
The Graham-dark Company, op
• crating a cannery at Katnlla, have
filed articles of incorporation with the
secretary of (he territory. The com
pany is capitalized for $(>0,000.
The launch Alice, running between
Cordova and the Mummy island clam
beds for the Lighthouse Hacking Co.,
was thrown on the rocks at the latter
place and her hull was badly dam
aged.
Mrs. Kate Burk, who has been trav- j
cling about Alaska for the past month j
under various names, was arrested in ;
Juneau, charged with forging a check ^
of $xoo drawn on tlu- First National
bank of Juneau.
Fred Zelmer and Mangas Meising
seth, who have been operating on the
Nigger bay fraction on Cleary creek,
have been driven out by water. They
bad a shaft down 96 feet, and were
in the pay when the water broke in.
A report conies from Anchorage
that on old couple named McManus,
who departed in a rowboat from East
Forelands for Point Possession in
January, have not been heard from
since and are believed to have been
lost.
The Americnn-Yukon Navigation
Company lias announced a reduction
of local freight rates for the coming
summer. The now rates are designat
ed "Local development rate” and cov
er home brewed beer and local pota
toes and vegetables.
Lieutenant Dohr and a crew of
seven men have commenced the sea
son’s work on the lighthouse and fog
signal at Cape St. Elias. Thirty-five
thousand dollars of the $125,000 ap
propriation for the work has been ex
pended, and the light is expected to lie
in working order this fall.
Judge Charles E. Bunnell has re
ceived a letter from Eagle containing
the dying statement of the Indian
who was shot during February in
(hat vicinity. The statement com
pletely exonerates the Indian who un
intentionally did the shooting, the
man who was shot having been mis
taken for a moose.
The management of the White Pass
A- Yukon route, which operates the
American-Yukon Navigation Co. fleet
of steamers on the Yukon, has an
nounced that it will increase the fleet
to sixty-five vessels when the Alaska
engineering commission commences
construction work on the Fairbanks
end of the line this summer.
Si Bannister, an old time Klondikcr
was killed recently at the Galeno
mine at Mayo, Y. T„ by Ihe bursting
of :i wood saw. One of the pieces
struck Ids jugular vein while another
disemboweled the unfortunate man.
Death was instantaneous. Bannister
spent Iasi winter working near Daw
son.
John Lasko, a well known Interior
Alaska miner, says that Innoka will
be a busy camp this summer and
will substantially aid in bringing up
the placer gold yield of Alaska for the
year. Two large scrapers will be op
erated. one by the Kuskokwim Com
mercial Company and the other by
Al Poormeister. The ground has
been thoroughly prospected and there
Is but little doubt but that they will
make a good showing with the out
fits.
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