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• The tramway has been com
pleted for the Mother Lode
Copper Mines Go., and work is
now being directed toward im
proving the road from the tram
to McCarthy Creek, thereby
< ompleting the easy transpor
tation of ore to the railroad
It is expected to ship out 500
tons of high grade copper ore
this winter.
High water in the Big Chena
has resulted in damages to the
Van Curler workings to the ex
tent of at least $10,000. Tlu
dam has entirley washed away
resulting in the flooding of the
mine.
Warehouses are being erect
ed at the mouth of the White
river and the movement for the
concentration of supplies al
that point is well under way.
The request that a food in
pc lor be appointed at Fair
■a iks has been refused by the
department of agriculture.
The Dawson Electric -comp
any is planning bringing powei
into Fairbanks. The line will
be over 400 miles long wher
ompleled.
i he Cordova Good Road,
o-operated with the Fair
Ts commercial club for thi
io>e of boosting good
ads.
Win. E. Wood, deputy U. $
• "hal for the Chitina prr
i succeeds Joe Brown,
c Thirtieth Infantry bam
e turned to Fort Seward
cs. after being stationed
•o months at Fort Liscun
ez.
"ment of tin ore valuer
"40 was shipped fron
; the steamer Navajo
I)."iry has assumed th
ii hip of the New
e at Fairbanks.
• "ms to be conside
• understanding am
-safaction with tl
• mining laws a
Juneau and writ I
• fleet on August l
csenf year. The law
lo placer mining is
on of the old anr
■ I codes, togethei
w territorial laws
into effect the fir
noth. The chic
- Mite ace those ii
he power of attornc
•on of assessniei
dec the new law
-ilde for a locate
igriized power o
'■is possession tc
iaims for eacl
i torney which i
g limited to tw:
ers of attorney. II
is possible under the
ro>' one person to lo
iaims of 20 acre:
Yr month. It il
•ider the preseid
• • e the end o
which the claim1
e 1, the locator d«
worth of assessment
on each individual clair.
has located. The
uvidos, ■ 1.11 no plat
can he patented
• iitains a 'larger ares
hal fixed by law noi
"as a length that is
''an three times its
vidth. This clause
-";ble (he “choe
lions of forme
tries, from Juneau
Hagler, special gov
gent in this reigon
me, for the suppres
e liquor traffic, is a
for the office of
of customs for Alas
- said to have a
pull with the southern
n.oeracy.
i‘ ;s reported from the West*
t a rich strike has
made on the Primrose
near Kenai lake the
i" seven feet thick and
li e ore runs from $160.
to $754. the ton.
The explanation given for
the government’s determina
tion to hold the annual sales of
sealskins from the Pribilov
islands at St. Louis instead of
London is that “the govern
ment is unable to figure out
why American skins should be
tigged over there for a market
when most of them are final
y worn by American women.”
Perhaps the fast that the Lon
Con methods of dressing and
lying sealskins ' are trade se
■rels not sucessfully copied in
his country as yet, and that
he destination of the skins,
o matter where sold, is to
.ondon for these treatments,
.iay have something to do with
it.
The Sea Wolf has just re
timed to Nome from Siberia,
vhere she was storm bound
t St. Lawrence bay during the
low and had a narrow escape,
eked up part of a log of an
nknown vessel. The copy in
yp. writing tells of a bad leak
vith the water rising in the
old at the rateof four and one
alf inches per hour in spite of
umps. The log also made
Terence to Cape Wainwright
■ 1 other points northerly of
tine. The vessel’s log was
nnd in St. Lawrence bay, and
is the opinion it might be
:e cf Stefansson’s fleet, they
ng (he only vessels known
■ be equipped with typewrit
es.
’rank Hoffman, of Valdez
is been appointed for the
hisana district by Marshal
ennerman of the Third Div
on. Hoffman and Commis
■>ner A. J. Diamond, recently
^pointed by Judge Brown, are
eparing to leave for Chisana.
3ANE INDIAN
WOMAN DIES
The Governors office has
en notified that Sopha, an
ane Indian woman, eonfin
at the Morningside Sanitar
m. Portland died at that in
ilution on October 10th. She
as committed from Nulato.
■uster, Mrs. Petree, lives at
airbanks.
W. C. Beyer, known as (he
Big Chief” among the Indians
nd who has delt with them
>r years and has practical
towledgc of their affairs and
odes of living, believes that
e best way to stop the liquor
affic among the Indians is to■
low them all the rights of1
her American citizens, says
e Valdez Miner. “For in
ance,”he said, “the present
stem places a premium up
t whiskey peddling and the
anufacture of “rotgut” in
(licit stills. If placed on
ntrol duty all the government
ficials in Alaska could not
iver the wide isolated sec
ons wherein the Indians
well. This idea of coddling
nd mothering the Indians is a
nistake. Let the Indians walk
openly into saloons and gel
heir liquor the same, as white
ieople and punish them just
he same when they, get noisy
>r drunk and there will be a
ess percentage of drunkerf
>e«s among them. The pres
nt system practically forces
hem to become the prey of
he lowest type of oriental and
bite whiskey peddlers. Thel
ndians of Alaska, as a whole,!
re of a high type, and will bet
hie to hold their own in the!
truggle for existence if given
mlf a chance.
The last boat to leave Fair
>anks for the Upper Yukon
•ot away Oct. 4th, when the
\laska of the White Pass line
ailed. The last Northern
Commercial Co., craft left
■’airbanks September 20th.
The local A. B. Camp elected
■ fficers last night as follows:
vV. G. Weigle, A. C.; W. K.
Cpaulding, V. A. C.; Harry
trice, Chap.; D. Smith Harris,
\. Rec.; Harry Rice, Keeper
of Nuggets.
The sixteenth annual report
of the Pacific Coast company
and its subsidiary corporations
contains the statement that
for the year ended June 30lh,
the net earinngs of the Pacific
Gcast Steamship company in
creased $41,145,09 over the
year previous, in spite of the
fact that the cost of repairs
and operating expenses for the
same period increased $351,
147.73 to $428,830.00.
E. W. Griffin, for many
years the largest competitor of
the Northern Commercial Co.
I
.n the Tanana valley, has sold
.i is Chena business to the
Northern Commercial Co. It
is said that the purchase was
made largely because Griffin
was the heaviest shipper over
the White Pass line of steam
ers, and the Northern Com
mercial Co., desired to divert
'he freight to their own line.
Juneau and Douglas both
have strong foot-ball aggrega
tions and a match is being ar
ranged between the Alaska
Gastineau and the Treadwell
Douglas teams.
The Fairbanks camp, Arctic
Brotherhood, ecently elected
lelegates to attend to the
jransl encampment in Vancou
ver. The delegates were
aledged to warn outsiders that
lever again would there be a
Trand encampment held ou tj
dde of Alaska.
.1. G. Houlihan, formerly of
’’ox Creek, in the Fairbanks
listrict, where he conducted a
tot el, has leased the Simpson
•lock in Juneau and will con
tact a family hotel.
Two Dawson stampeders to
he Chisana camp, one of
.vhom was named Kline, lost
heir way and nearly starved to
leath before being picked up
and taken to Fairbanks.
The Fairbanks Times states
hat the price of mink and
martin skins are dropping
bringing only $7 to $0 for Ihe
former and the latter $3 to $4
for good skins.
There were 1 19 pupils alien
ling the Nome school in the
middle of September. It is
expected that Ihe number will
keep up to that mark during
'he winter, as many of the
children will go outside with
‘heir parents this fall.
The Skagway Alaskan lakes
exception to Ihe statement in
the Juneau Empire that the
'ecent shippment of vege
‘ables from Haines lo Seattle
vas the first to be made from
\laska. It says that a ship
ment of seed potatoes was
made to California last year
from Skagway.
A soldier named Newman
was arrested at Fort Davis for
'lealing $300 worth of jewelry
from Capt. Reed. He confes
sed and the jcwlery was re
covered.
Senator Henry Roden ex
pects to make a trip to Switz
erland next winter to wind up
Ihe estate of his father, who
recently died there.
The Johnson dredge, which
was shipped to the Kotzbue
Sound district, has been sent
up the Yukon river and will be
in stalled in the Iditrod. The
Kotzbue proposition did not
materialize after the big
dredge had arrived.
The Ruby Record-Citizen
states that Emil Johnson, work
ing on Poorman creek, is work
ing ground that goes $1.75 lo
the foot. Long and Bear pup
creeks appear to be treating
the miners kindly, as several
good cleanups have been made
during the summer.
The Dominion postoffice de
partment call attention to the
fact that in the future all class
of mail matter will be trans
ported to the Yukon as freely
in winter as in summer. Here
tofore Whitehorse was the
winter limit.
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The team attached to the
Cleary Creek stage ran away re
cently and tipped the rig over.
There were several passengers
in the vehicle and all escaped
serious injury except Miss
Emma Sullivan, who suffered
an injury to her hack, which
has resulted in both limbs be
ing paralyzed.
Dr. Carmichel, formerly of
Fairbanks, is now practicing in
Ruby, where his services were
recently required to fix up the
face of .1. M. Clark, whose
beauty was marred by a stove
pipe which fell from the roof
of his cabin and split his nose
open, necessitating several
sliches being taken.
Five hundred thousand dol
lars! That amount represents
the output of the Ruby mining
district for this season. This
amount is not mere guess
work. The figures are tak
en from statements made by
officials in charge of Wells
Fargo, Northern Commercial
Company, and Ruby Commer
cial Company, respectively.
At Fairbanks the Arctic
Brotherhood has been giving
a series of three hour dances
that are proving very popular.
A Portland paper tells of a
fisherman trolling for halibut
out near Unalaska, who caught
a wolf fish, which, when pul
led into the boat, bit the fish
erman on the leg, and thats
going some.
Claim No. 17, on Coldstream
Fairbanks, has yielded more
that $1,500,000 and is not
worked out. A crew of eighty
five men were employed on
the ground during the past
summer and the output was in
the. neighborhood of $130,000.
The 10 stamp mill that was
established at Chena three
years ago largely as a public
enterprise is in the hands of
E. R. Jenson foreclosed a mort
gage on the property, and it
will be sold at forced sale.
The most, important case to
come before the district court
is soon to sit at Fairbanks will
be. I be case of Receiver Noyes
against the directors, stock
holders and officers of the de
funct Washington-Alaska bank
better known as the Barnett
bank. This is a civil action to
recover something like $400,
000. One special action will
be against the stockholders for
the recovery of $80,000 as a
blow back.
The richest quartz discovery
ever made in the Tanana val
ley is said to have been made
on the Spaulding mine. The
discovery was made at I he
100-loot level and 300 feet
the shaft. It is said that the
ore runs about $10,000 to the
ton, but the extent of the ore
is not known.
Governor Strong has named
the following delegates from
Alaska to the sixth annual
convention of the American
be held in Philadelphia Oct. 20
24: B. L. Thane, Juneau; Chas.
A. Sulzer, Sulzer; B. F. Mil
lard, Yaidez; R. S. Ryan, Nat
alia; John Ronaii, Fairbanks;
William Malony, Nome; Milo
Kelly, Knik.
Neal Baker, of Chatinika,
and Peter Hughes, or Fairban
ks, are two aged pioeers
who have come to live in the
Pioneers’ Home at Sitka. Belli
are 58 years of age and have
been doing work of men in the
Northland for years. Neal
Barker came to Alaska in 1888
and has been in the country
practically ever since. Peter
I Hughes came to Sitka in 1805
jand has been in the north ever
since. Both went to the Fair
banks country in its earliest
days. Both are now broken
in heallli. Mr. Hughes is lielp
i lessly paralyzed and is tender
ly waited upon by his compan
ion. .,&• +>
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The Daily Miner, $1. per. mo.
TO MANY WRECKS
ON PACIFIC COAST
Ships cost money; and very
often they carry precious car
goes. Navigation should be
as safe in the waters of the
North Pacific as they are in
the Atlantic. To be sure, ac
cidents at sea, as accidents on
land are bound to happen. But
we have had too many wrecks
on nthis coast, and it is largely
due to the failure of the fed
eral government to do for this
coast in the way of providing
aids to navigation what it is its
manifest duty to do. The fed
eral government should do for
the Pacific Coast what it has
done for the Atlantic and Gulf
Coasts. It is criminal to neg
lect this coast for precisely
the reason that it is criminal at
any time to expose either life
or property to wholly unneces
sary dangers. —Exchange.
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OLDEST PIONEER
GOES TO SITKA
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The man who hoisted the
stars and stripes over the Ter
ritory of Alaska for the fist
lime, in the capital at that time
Sitka, on October 18, 1807,
left Wrangell for Sitka last
week. Ed. Ledecke, the man
who has the this distinguished
honor, is an old pioneer on the
Territory, both in point of res
idence in the Territoy and in
years. He is now 70 years of
age, and apparently hale and
hearty, but has a longing for
the old town and will therefore
live in the Pioneers’ Home
hereafter. He was accomp
anied on his journey by John
Beardsell, another well known
old pioneer of Wrangell who
came to the Territory in 1874.
John Beardsell is an old Cas
siar miner and has made Wran
gell his headquarters for
years. He is 70 years of age.
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ALASKA BORN WOMAN
IN FINNISH PARLIMENT
Peculiar interest attaches to
the recent election as a mem
ber of the Finnish parliament
of Miss Anna Furujeim be
cause she was born in Alaska,
a country which now has equal
suffrage, but which was un
der Russian rule at the time of
her birth. She is the daughter
of a Russian admiral who died
a few years ago. Her father
was next to the last governor
of Alaska before it was acquir
ed by the United States. He
belonged to the Swedish no
bility in Finland, where his
talented daughter is now a
power in politics.
Miss Furuhjelm is second
vice-president of the Internat
ional Woman Suffrage aliance
and attended the recent met
ting of that body at Budapest,
but she left the congress be
fore it had adjourned to re
turn to Finland and look after
her candidacy for the parlia
ment. She was one of 21 wo
men elected to that body last
month.-Exchange
Dr. D. If. Sleem, for many
years a practicing physician al
Seward and later at Valdez,
died at the latter place October
11th. The funeral services at
Valdez October 14 were gen
erally attended. The schools
were closed and the principal
business houses locked their
doors. Judge Fred M. Brown,
of the United States district
court, delivered an eulogy.
The body was shipped outside
for burial. Dr. Sleem was a
member of the board of med
ical exeminers. lie was a
native of Syria Turkey, but
came to the United States as
a young man and practiced
medicine in Naw York city un
til he came to Alaska a dozen
years ago. lie was 49 years
of age.
A LETTER FROM
PHIL McCALLIOr
Shushanna, Alaska.
Oct. 8, 1913
Mr. J. R. Heckman
Dear Sir:
I did not write you be for
this for the reason that T wan'
ed to know more about 11
camp and about what I coul
do. 1 have built a cabin am
have been on several creeks
wherever bedrock has beei
reached pay has been found
There are about five hundred
people in camp for the white
and active prospecting ha
now commenced and some
thing will turn up.
I have located two claim
and I am leaving camp toda;
to sink a hole, as my pan pros
pest showed up very wel
about 8 cents to the pan.
The country looks good b
me and the balance in cam
have no kick. The fellow
who had the most to say neve
got on any of the creeks am
know nothing about tin
country at all. The wort
this winter will prove tin
worth of the camp. Grub b
from 75c. to $1.50 per pound
With best wishes for every
body in Ketchikan 1 remaii
Yours Tridy,
PHILIP McCALLION
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SEND MORE HAINES
VEQTABLES SOUTI
The shipment of farm veg
etables from Haines to thr
South has proved profitable i
one is to judge by the circum
stances that the first shipmen
is being followed by more
The Humbildt on her last trip
look a shipment of 40 sacks o'
turnips to the Seattle markets
The Seattle Post-Intelligen
cer, commenting upon the ar
rival of the shipment says:
“The vessel also discharge
!0 sacks of turnips and ruta
bagas, raised in fertile gard
-ns near Haines. The Alask.
vegetables, which are said to
be fine stock, are consigned tr
Western avenue commission
merchants. According to new
brought by the Humboldt thr
lotato yield in the vicinity of
Haines has been unusually
large and the little city of thr
\orth may have ‘spuds’ to sell
in the Seattle market. There
was also a fine strawberry
crop near Haines the past sum
mer, and if it is as great nexl
year Seattle residents will be
eating Alaska strawberries.
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TWO WRECKS AT KASAAIV
The big wind Saturday night
drove the launch Spirit up
igainst the piling at the Kas
lan cannery and came ven
close to sinking her. As il
is her masts were bolh broken
off short, her house smashed
in and her hull strained. An
other launch, a small one.
moored nearto the Spirit sank
at the wharf.
WILL WINTER SOUTH
DOUGLAS-JUNEAU BRIDGF
At the request of the depart
ment of commerce and labor,
Ihe war department has in
structed Lieut. Glen Edgerlon,
engineer of the Alaska road
commission, to immediately
take steps to make the neces
sary soundings to ascertain the
practicability of constructing
a government bridge from the
shore line, above the Juneau
townsite, to the east shore of
Douglas island, connecting the
Juneau and Douglas island
government wagon roads, and
opening for road traffic com
munication both sides of Gas
tineau channel.
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Ghas II. Cosgrove and family
expect to leave on an early
hoai for California, where they
will spend the winter, prob
ably in San Francisco.
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1EW REGULATIONS OF
GAME KILLING ISSUED
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Circular No. 3, of the Alaska
■ame Laws, just issued by
lovernor Strong, is just from
he publisher’s press in pam
'hlet form and will be ready
or distribution by next week.
The regulations are identical
vith those which have been
mblished before with the ex
•eption of the new regulations
ssued by the secretary of eg
■iculture on June 23rd, 1913.
These new regulations were
elective August 1st, 1913.
They are appended herewith:
Regulation 1.
Sale of Deer—The sale of
'eer carcasses in Southeast
■rn Alaska shall be suspended
intil August 15, 1914.
Regulations 2.
Open season for -Mountain
3oats The season for killing
mountain goats in Southeast
rn Alaska shall be limited to
he period from August 1 to
ebruary 1, both inclusive.
The Game Wardens.
A list of the game wa. icns
>f Alaska is also contained in
he circular:
\ame Residence,
ulam Schneider Juneau
L. Larson Chicken
°nt S. McDonald Fairbanks
h A.Baughman Seward
Vron Erieson Roosevelt
'ames Allen- (1) Petersburg
Jeo. II . Peterson Sitka
n. M. Hunt (1) Cordova
V. G. Wei fie (1) Ketchikan
\. G. Cooper (2) Forrester Is.
(1) Officer of Forrest Ser
ice acting as game warden
nder appointment by gover
or’s office.
; 2) Bird warden, Forrester
'land bird reservation.
MORE MISSING MEN
The Marshal’s office is in re
eipt of inquiries regarding'
he whereabouts of John '
’omeroy and Charlie M. Stovi
James Schofield, former'
ifJefferson, Ohio. Last hen '
if five or six years ago wbr
•round Peavey and Fairbard
fie has also spent some tin
it Nome, Tanana and Gircfc
lily. Described as being si?
eet four inches tall, rathe
lender, smooofh face nr '•
lark brown hair. Relative-;
ire anxious to hear from him
Notify Governor’s office, Ju
neau.
Byard Taylor, who fo
ved at Winters, Califc
lyslcrious’y dis • upended
i, 1913. lie was last -
t Ferry Building. Descrip''
s ns follows: Age, 25 year
might six feet, two inchc
veight 2 10 pounds; blue cvr
ight brown hair. Wr1’
•ee swing: ha« mob
mil a stiff litlb- r
'ieved to have cm. ,
dnlhcr a'- :
him.
AND T:!F r
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Looking as lean and hungr*
as a timber wolf after a bard
winter, Angus McKenzie n"
rived down from the >-o- '
l he Seattle t.hic ■
lias since bee
“Hello!” to his moi >
“Mac” has spent the sun
at Whitehorse where he '
to work, so is a-'a'' 1
to the res!r
Clarence
i leg in tb
S. & S., which recently Iook •
sawmill outfit from Fairbanks
up the Tanana river as near
ly as it could be taken to the
Ghisana, died a! ’
September
The administrai • u
Europe to understand that we
wish io have a free hand in
Mexico and all the cards ex
posed. If Great Brilian wants
to set into the gam*’ "
must be a new deal.
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The Dally Miner, $1 por mo.
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