Resurrection Bay News.
Shortage of Provisions. Forty Ken
in the Camp. First White
CUM.
Seward. Resurrection Bay, 4-28-3.
Seward is fas', going ahead: Dick
inson avenue is nearly cleared and ,
grubbed; will have Govern men. [
way and Caine avenue under way j
shortly, and surfacing Dickinson
avenue will lie done in the near
future. Men are cutting piling for
the dock. The railway engineer,
corps and otlw men will he here
shortly »r.«i then Steward will he a |
lively camp. At, the present time
we number about forty and in
creasing right along, men coming
in from the interior. (There will
not be any more help needed until
we get more supplies as we are al
most out and not enough to run
us.)
The first white child born in this.
section was on Feb. 8th to Mr. and
Mrs. Kimball. Has not yet been
named. A girl.
The weather has been rather nice
for the past few duys. Yesterday
and to-day it has been raining and
snow is melting very fast.
Ducks and other wild birds arc
Very plentiful around here.
Recent arrivals from Sunrise
City report grub there could not be
bought for love or money. Every
one awaiting opening of navigation
on Cook’s Inlet with impatience. I
Fred Lauhner left Seward, Re
surrection Bay, on April 13th and
arrived at Sunrisethe 141h, making
the trip in 19$ hours, the quickest
trip ever made from Seward, a dis
tance of HO miles, with a dog team, j
On a lake he met four large black
and one grey wolves. The black
wolves are worth #20, but he con
sidered his life worth a fraction
more and arrived at James Hatchie
camp, told them the distance he
had come and they would not be
lieve him. Next stop was made at j
Roliert Michaelson’s at Pulley Min- '
ing company, and he made Sunrise
in four hours from there. Grub at
Sunrise was scarce and no one
would dispose of it. Everybody
Was getting ready for this season, i
and expected to prospect as soon
ns the weather permitted.
Roltert Lounsdale anticipates si
phoning out a boil hole in Gulch
creek and taking out #35,000. Ken
nedy di Cook expect a big clean up
this season. When navigation
opens up a large number of people
are looked for at Sunrise city.
On Lynx creek there was a strike
of about #2.50 to the pan. Assess
ment work on Oliver property net
ted 12 cents to thy pan for 50 feet
of gravel.
Mr. A. M. McElhaney left Sew
ard the 17th, making the trip in
four days to Sunrise. Left 22d
arriving the 2t>th. Reports the
trail in pretty poor condition, and
a few strikes on Crow creek and Re
surrection creek.
Jim Wallace, of Seattle, and P.
M. Ogle, formerly of Seattle, are
putting in a hydraulic plant on
Bertha creek. Have a sawmill in
operation.
roiiey mining company have a
hydraulic plant established on
Mills creek.
Turnagain gold mining company
(Minneapolis people—R. E. Louns
dale, manager,) are going ahead
with their hydraulic work.
8. W. Wible has done consider
able work on Canyon creek.
Big Horn mining company, (Se
attle people) have got their entire!
hydraulic plant on the ground this
year.
Saw Mill creek company are go
ing ahead with their quartz mining
and have made several strikes.
Some of the companies are short
of men. The wages paid are 93
per day and board. One mine
could use 50 men.
Ai.. G. Holman.
Coal Harbor.
Coal Harbor, April 25,1903.
After a somewhat checkered, but
withal prosperous experience of
over twenty years, the old pioneer
cod fishing and trading company
of Lynde «fc Hough has withdrawn
from its field of operations in Alas
ka, and disposed of its Sand Point
station and other interests to Mess.
tirosvelt A Scoit. local capitalist*.
That the new concern lias the l«est i
wislies of its friends goes without
saving. The passing of this well
known firm of I.vnde A Hough r« -
moves one of the earliest of Alas
ka’s landmarks ami revives the,
memories of times long since gone
by. How in ’80 Thos. H. Devine
built the first warehouse and store
at Sind Point, and agent for Jas.1
L. O’Brien following, added hotel,!
wharf, residences and other im
provements. Mr. Wilson, the pro
ve,! g**n«.ral agent of the Alaska,
Commercial Co. a! *~»w*on. and R.
T. Lyng at St. Michael, both gr-d- [
uated as storekeepers from this
place. It was early in the {Hi’s
that the American and British fur
seal fleets’ rendezvous was there,
and dozens of trim little vessels
rode at anchor refitting for a north
ern cruise, while hundreds of their
ships’company, discounting their,
season’s pay day, were enjoying
themselves ashore in wavs most
questionahle. Then money imuri-d
in on the right side of the ledger
account year after year, unto sud
denly, the popular agent O'Brien,
with all of his companions, met a
most tragic fate at the hands of
murderous Indians. From that
blow Sand Point has never recov
ered. Perhaps with the infusion
of new life and energy the prosper
ity of the trading station’s former
days, may soon return.
The steamer Santa Ana arrived
at Coal Harlior on the 19th inst.
with a large load of equipment for
the Tidewater Consolidated Coal
Co. The construction of a 500-ton
hunker, around the outer hay ter
minal of their tramway, will liegin
immediately. This company is
working industriously to put their
coal properties in shni>e to supply
the ever increasing demand for fuel
at reasonable prices, and are spend
ing n good deal of money to bring
this about.
H. T. T.
In dismissing the l nited States
jury at Slngwnv aliout two weeks
ago, Judge Melville O. Brown said:
"Congress is a wise body, but it
has not shown particular wisdom
in giving us laws to 1k> governed
by. Situated thousands of miles
fiom the people for whom
they make laws, it is no wonder
that our statutes are so invalid.
They are taken from the statutes
which governed Oregon territory
and are very insufficient. It is to
be ho|»ed that congress will some
day give the statutes some con
sideration.”
Warren Hauser, who left for Or
ca, near the mouth of the Copper
river, to take up oil lands for a Se
attle and Tacoma syndicate sends
home a most encouraging account
of the country. He says: "TheOr
ca oil district is the richest in Alas
ka. The oil is simply oozing out
of the ground, and we are often
literally wading in it. I believe
that flowing wells will result from
boring to a depth of 100 to 200 feet.
The oil is of a similar character to
that on the Alaska Development
Co.’s properties.”
The receivers for the P. P. & X.
Co. have raised $1,250,000 in New
York, and the company will do
business this year on a larger scale
than ever. All the canneries will
be in full blast and some seventv
tive vessels—steam and sail—will
be employed for the fisheries and
general transportation business in
Southern Alaska.
R. Blix, Copjier Center guaran
tees what? That his stock of
miners’ ami prospectors’ tools and
machinery will hold out another
season.
Money advanced on goods stored
with Richards & Co.
Wellington coal for sale at office
of the P. P. & X. Co.
Market Price Liat.
Flonr. $2.80 per I0U
Corn Meet. 18.25 " 1U0
Muller. 25c " lk
.. 20r •• do*
Sugur . *7.00 •• 100
Rice.W OO to 17 10 “ loo
Potatoe* .2',c •• lb
Baeou and Ham .$154)0 to $17.00 “ 100
Coffee . 20 to .ate “ lb
Milk 12>, to 20 •• ean
Oranulated Potatoe*.20 to 25c “ lb
Dried Fruit. 8 to 15c " lb
Strop. 41 to $1.50 •• gat
Mean*, email white.$(.00 “ loo
Rea it*. Lima.$12.50 •• 100
Rolled Oats .5c “ lb
Tea .50 to 75 “ lb
Tobacco, amoklng.Go to 70c “ lb
Tobacco, chewing .5o to 75c lb
K. IVwh double cund. timothy hay .$42.50 ton
Be*t Whitman Oat*.. . $42.50 ton
.$15.00 ton
Wood.«M* cord
A Native Female Fuaetal.
In tin* early days of Cngn. many 1
years before the advent of the!
miners or the fishernan. a voting'
native woman, victim of a pro-1
traded debauch, was one morning!
found dead in Iasi, with a young j
infant still clinging to her now
cold and unrcs|>onsivc. breast. In j
the absence of other aid, for the'
men were al»sent on a sea-otter
hunt, the women of the village;
hastened to preform the last sad j
ofti< •es within the |mwer of the
living f..r the dead.
Women’s hands neatly fashioned
the coffin and tne shroud and dug |
the gr.v*. The darkened windows
betrayed the presence of the ortho-[
dox Greek candles—duly blessed
bv priestly hands, for a consider
ation—brightly burning, in a circle
around the bier. Cooked food was
provided for *hc- watchers, and
dt'TVug the night, the low and
mournful chant for the dead, could
lie heard at intervals, in rhythmic
measures not unmusical, but dis
tinctly sad. The vigils ended on
the following morning, when female
relatives and friends from near
and far. gathered at the house of
mourning, to extend the last fare
wells to their weak and erring
sister, just entering upon her long,
long journey, whither no one
knows. Broad bands of strong
white muslin were passed under
tlie coffin and on eithci side of it, i
und around the shoulders of the
Iiulf dozen burden bearers. Soon
the funeral procession, consisting
solely of women and children, some
two or three score of |H*ople, issued i
forth and passed slowly through
the village street and climla-d the!
hillside path leading to the thickly
peopled native grave yard. The
writer, like I’eter, a mute observer
followed aiar off, and yet near
enough to observe the closing cere-.
moniaIs around the open grave. ;
Stout ropes, in wonienly hands,
lowered the remains to their Iasi \
resting place, where that hollow
sepultnral sound, well known to all:
of us. was heard, that told how the I
first shovelful of earth to earth and i
ashes to ashes, had fallen upon the j
cofiin lid: this at the hands of thei
nearest relative to the deceased,
who then passed the shovel to the
next of kin and she to the next in
turn and so on. until these ended,
the friends, in turn, each dropping a
single shovelful filled and mounded
up the narrow tomb. An open,
neatly embroidered, napkin was
then produced and filled with earth
from off the mound, to lx* carefully
guarded against the return of the
men people from the hunt, when,
if not present, a priest would Ik*
sent for and religious services for
for the dead sister would be
held in the village church, the
napkined earth synii>olizing the
remains. Singularlv impressive
was the female portion of these
proceedings, conducted as it was,
from Wginning to end, in strict
silence, with the utmost solemnity
and decorum.
H. T. T.
Alaska’s Official Directory.
Governor John G. Brady.
Surveyor General and Ex-Officio Secretary—
Wm. L. Distin.
Chief Clerk—Geo, Stowell.
C. S, Judges—Melville C. Brown, Dirt. No. 1,
seat at Juneau: Judge M«Mire, Dirt. No. J. feat at
Nitme; James Wickersham. Dist. No. 3. seat at
Eagle.
V. S. Attorneys—R. A. Friedrich. Dist. No. 1;
F. Griggtfby, Dist No. 2; S. V. Harlan. Dist. :t
Clerk—District No. 1. W. J. Hills, Dist. No. 2,
Geo. Borscheniuf, Dirt. No.3, A. R. Ileiiig.
V. 8. Marshals—Janies M. Hhoup, Dist. No. 1;
Frank L. Richards, Dist. No. 2; G. C. Perry,
Dist. No. 3.
Commissioners— Ed ward de Groff. Sitka; H.
H. Folsom, Juueau: F. P. Turtiu. Ft. Wrangell;
L. R. Woodward, Vnalaska; P. Gallagher, Ko
diak; JJ Rogers, Skagw ay; C E Clay pool. Circle
City; L. B. Shepard. St. Michael; Sol Ripiusky.
Haines Mission: E. Stack pole. Ketchikan; G. M.
Irwin, Douglas; J. H. Rrowulow,Suurise; John
Lyons, Valdez, Carl M. Johannon, Eagle; S. M.
Graff, Forty Mile.J Lindlcy Greeu, Rampart;
D. A. McKenzie, Coldfoot; C. H. Klfgg, Kush
agak; James R. Saunders, Chisna.
V. 8. Und Officers—Register, John W.
Dudley.
Receiver—P. Mulleu.
Deputy l\8. Marshals—Dist. No. 1. special.
W ii McNair, J. W. Suook, Skagway; J. p.
Campbell, SiMta: E. F. Kelly, Juueau; Wm. D.
Grant, Wrangcl; W. Hill, Douglas island;
Chas. Dreibilbis, Valdez; Lewis L. Rowers,
Kodiak; Peter Nisson, Porcupine; A. Sboup.
Ketchikan; J. P. Kcyuoldson, Eagle. J
Zuboff, KillisU«M», John R Richards. Ciialaska
Leave your proj.erty for rent or
Hale with Mikenell.
RTP A N 8 Tabulea
Doctors find
A good prescription
For mankind
The S*eent paekagr t- enough for u*ua! oo*,
»fon. The family bottle (til) rent,) •-utitain. ■
•upply for » year. All <lruggi*t, m il them.
CHURCHES SOCIETIES BTC.
Endeavor Cono. Chciuti—Cor.
Ulncier Avenue and Holmrt
Street. Rev. I). W. Cram, Pastor.
Services every Sunday at 10:30 a.
m. and H p. ni. Prayer meeting
Wednesday night. Christian En
deavor Society meets Sunday even
ing at 7 o’clock. Melvin Itcmpscy,
President.
Chcrch nr the Epiphany—(V.r.
C5 lacier Avenue and Holmrt
Street. Services on Sunday at 11
a. m. and S p. m. Rev. F. S. Tay
lor, Rector.
Ordeiior Ai.aska Moose, Pioneer
Tent No. 1. Meet in their own
Hull on Keser
Viition Avenue. !
every Thursday i
cveninjr at X •
o’eloek. A. J.
Adams, Ruling I
Spirit; Oha*.H. I
'Vo Iff. Keejier
•« Ml. »*r. I
»•* • # «t It it.
Knights ok Pythias Ci.ru—W.
A. Rystrom. Pres.. \V. K. Bousehor.
See. Meets 1st and :hl Monday i*f
each month in elnh rooms over
Shaw «V Williams.
V AI.IHCZ MahONIi' Cl.l’B
^ Meets every Wednesday ev
ening at moms over Shaw
iV \\ llltlllll's, at S o'clock. J. \\ . j
I.*fe<ly pres. John Lyons, see.
B1<0THF1<11<N1110K Alaska Pionkkrs
Arthur Kohpnl. Chief, \V. J.
McDonnell. Secretary.
Hea<l<|imrt«rs. Af<»i;nak, Alaska.
Vai.hez Onn KkijawV
('mb—M«*t» evm
Kriiluv fViMiinir in Hnl>
rooms. A. K. Heilig. Pres.; P. S.
Hunt, See’y.
ORLAN CLYDE CULLEN.
Counsellor-at-Law
r. S. Supreme Court. Ri*i*teiv«l Attorney I
H.Patent office, I’nitcii Slat •» Mini Ford ini Pat- j
cut*. Caveat* Trait** Mark* ami copyright*.
No. 700 7th St. N. W.,
<»pp. T . f*. Patent < »ITi v .
WASHINGTON. T). C.
VALDEZ A85TMCT iTITLE (0.
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Complete abstracts of title ;
to all mineral ami other •
claims in the Valdez Min
ing district, including the
Prince William Sound,
Copjter River. Chistuchi
na and the Chisna dis
tricts.
Mads finiiskd to Valta
Ton lots
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Valdez, Alaska
WHERE
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STOP
Everyone From Valdez.
AT THE
FRANKLIN
OF COURSE.
Onlv First Class European Hotel in j
JUNEAU.
John T. Spickett Proprietor
BO YEARS*
EXPERIENCE
Pi
TRADC MARKS
Designs
r"f" Copyrights Ac.
Aiitom a«ndlaf »Mek and daacrtntlon may
an Irk It aacartnln oar opinion frwa whether an
Inrentlnn la probably patantabla. Communlca
t Iona etrlotly naMMbl Handbook on Patent*
■ant fraa. IHdaat ataaty for aecunn* patent*.
Patent* takan tbroaab Mann kxSTncdn
cyerloi ancle*, wltbotM aliaraa. In tb.
Sckatific flnerkaa.
A bandaooiely IlluatraCad weakly. Uiwwt elr
calatlou of any RMUIte foornaL Taraia. ft a
«■ i<S* by all nawadaalara.
SBiSKvrsflgJg* j
Denver Ed. Smith, the noted
pugilist will give lessons in the
manly art at reasonable rates. For
particulars see Denver Ed., or call
at this office.
Guy F. Cameron, teacher of banjo,
mandolin and guitar. Music fur
nished for all occasions. For les
sons, etc., inquire at Broadway
Pharmacy.
Vocal and piano instruction.
French or German language classes.
Schneider Sisters. Broadway.
I
Valdez House
Nrwlv and Klegantly Furnished. First-Class
in Kvery Particular. Best Heated House in
Alaska. Office. Reading Room ami Parlor in Con
nection. P. P.itr X. Co. Office in Buildinir. IT. jt.
Telegraph Office next door. Half Block from
Post-office.
J. «. Fielding, Prop.
The Wayside Inn :
At Knot of Summit on Route to Interior. Bent Ae
conmdutions for Man anil Beant. Freighting to all
Pointn Contracted for. A.idi^n Valdez,
*21 Mile** From Valilez.
WILSON, DAVISON A LITTLE. Propriktor**.
Notice
To Miners and Prospectors.
On Muv 1st The NIZINA TRADING COMPANY
will erect a large handsome store in the rich Nizina
Mining Camp, containing a ft.0.000 stock of General
Merchandise. Hardware, etc., which they will dis
pose of at the lowest possible figure, as their
freighting train, consisting of 100 horses and sleds,
will enable them to take their goods into the
interior at a very small cost.
For further particulars see M. Hass, at the
Valdez House.
Nazina Trading Co.
Herman Meyer,
General Manager
Seattle's Great j
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at the head of \\ ood 8 Canyon, near the mouth of the Chittvna, and on
the new short cut summer trail known as the “Huff” trail to the Nirina
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