► NORTHERN PERSONALS f
D. D. Muir, mining expert for the United States Smelting and
Refining Company, is making an investigation of a number of in
terior properties.
A. H. Brooks, the geologist iia charge of the Alaska surveys
aud investigations, sailed from Seattle for Prince William Sound
last month. He will visit the lower Copper River region and the
Valdez Inlet Mining district and will spend some time on the
Kenai peninsula.
John Sutherland of Nome has been selected as the proper
miner and expert to examine the discoveries of gold in the Olym
pic range of mountains on what is known as tee National Monu
ment reserve.
Axel Lindblad, former proprietor of the Eagle river road
house, near Knick, recently injured an arm so seriously that am
putation was necessary.
The Juneau Dispatch states that Marshal Faulkner has been
discharged from St. Ann’s Hospital, fully recovered from an
operation.
Joe Lamb, old-timer, prospector, hunter and trapper, lost his
life late last July by drowning in the icy waters of Lake Kluane.
Capt. G. T. Emmons, a retired army officer, is now engaged
in collecting Indian curios in Southeastern Alaska.
Started for her home in Fairbanks by the teachers in the
Annie Wright seminary, Miss Bessie Eckert, a 17-year old girl of
twTo-years’ standing in the school, got as far as Vancouver, B.C.
There she married a man five years her senior, whom she had
known only a week.
Guy B. Erwin has been appointed in the two cases of the
United States vs. the N. N. Co. to take testimony as to the tonnage
carried by the company since 1905 and also to estimate the amount
for which the company is liable for under the wharfage tax of 10
cents per ton.
Mrs. Charles Gadt has left Fairbanks for the Outside. She
goes to Detroit, Michigan.
“Monty” Gummere has gone to Ruby.
Mrs. M. J. Hillary, of Fairbanks, will winter in California.
W. F. Copeland has gone to Dawson.
Charles Bower will probably winter in the Koyukuk,
Mrs. Jack Healey has gone Outside.
Inquiries are being made for Noel Freeman, who left Dawson
in a small boat in June and has not since been heard from.
John G. Brady, former governor of Alaska, has again blos
somed forth as a promoter, being now engaged in a circular letter
campaign for the sale of stock in the Tanana associates, a com
pany organized in New York for the purpose of developing quartz
properties in the Tanana section
Earl E. Durgin, who in ’98 was known in Skagway as “the
Irish Corporal” Durgin, will goto the Chandlar with Commissioner
Marsh. Mr. Durgin was connected with the Skagway Budget in
’98 and his aoility as an actor kept him in the limelight. Lately]
ha has been working on the Cordova papers.
Rich Placer Struck
In Yukon Territory
Skagway, August 31.—Colonel Conrad of Carcross, who has
arived from Caribou Crossing, reports a great placer gold strike
on McClintock creek, which enters Marsh lake about ten miles
from Tagish post, Yukon territory.
A stampede has started for the new goldfield and the town of
Carcross is deserted by every one who has the right to file on a
mining claim.
Great excitement prevails in the surrounding towns and all
the boats are crowded- Many who are unable to get aboard the
steamers are mushing overland.
Shorty Austin and Reid Good were on the creek and found a
lone prospector, Ben Stevens, at work. He had a hole 15 feet deep
and, although he had not reached bedrock, he had found good pay.
The ground is not frozen and the gold, which is coarse, appears to
be plentiful.
Austin and Good staked their claims and then hurried to Car
cross with news of the strike. Skagw'ay caught the excitement,
and the first trains over the White Pass were crowded with gold
seekers.
McClintock creek is 20 miles long and has a good country back
of it. In the early eighties “Chilcoot” Jack Benson took some
prospectors to this creek and told them there was gold there, but
the prospectors would not heed him and passed on to Hootalinqua,
where bar diggings were easy.
Hetty Green's Son on
Astor-Force Marriage
New York, September 1.—Colonel i
Edward W. Howland Robinson Green, j
son of Hetty Green and millionaire in
his own right, who today entered his
forty-fourth year still a bachelor, but
with the announced intention of taking
unto himself a wife, just as soon as the
right woman is found, says that he
will have no mail order bride in his’n.
The colonel declares that the thou
sands of young women all over the
country who have been proposing to
him by letter and telegram might just
as well save their itostage and tolls.
“I’m going to meet the woman I
marry in the regular and time-hon
ored way, or else we won’t meet,”
asserted the colonel.
Col. Green has some decided views
on the Astor-Force wedding. *
“It is Col. Astor’s business, not
mine,” he said. “This is a free coun
try and the young woman Col. Astor is
to marry seems pleased and happy.
“The Bible says, ‘Judge not’ and I
think that a demagogic clergyman like
Richmond, setting out to spoil a young
girl’s romance, is guilty of a far
greater sin than Astor ever dreamed
of. It his her life and she has a right
to order it as she pleases.”
COMING AND GOINlT
After a month spent in the Iditarod,
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Peoples left for
Fairbanks last Sunday. Mr. Peoples
will probably be called Outside by
business early in the winter, in which
event Mrs. Peoples will accompany
him over the trail.
Joe Twan, sourdough shoemaker, who
has been located at Flat the past year,
started to Ruby last Sunday. Joe is
one of Alaska’s oldest residents. He
was one of a party of Juneau men who
formed a pool and outfitted the expe
dition that found the first gold on the
Y ukon.
Old Lacey, Tyler, Monogram, Ather
ton and Cedarbrook, also fine old Port
Sherry and Clarets at Empire Com
mercial Co._
Save the pieces! broken lenses re
placed at Simpson’s.
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Northern Thespians
and Their Doings
An interesting sketch of old-time
Northern thespians was given in
Dawson by A. C. Fox, manager of
the May Roberts comganv.
Bill Bittner, former proprietor of the
Bittner stock company oi Dawson, has
a stock company in San Antonio, Texas,
a live town, where he is coining the |
money.
Frank Montgomery, formerly with :
Bittner, is in moving picture drama.
Rex Beach is writing moving picture
dramas as well as novels.
Wilson Mizner, former Dawson man,
famed for marrying the widow Mrs.
Yerkes, is running a hotel in New
York, and has made connection with
the theatrical world by being one of
the two writers of the successful new
drama, “The Deep Purple.”
H. Gettes Lonsdale, who was in Daw
son witli T. Daniel Frawley two years
ago, is leading man for Mrs. Leslie
Carter.
Virginia Thornton, leading woman,
and Evelyn Selby, who played Cherry
Maiotte in Frawley’s company on the
tour North, are in stock in Bellingham.
Lee Morris, elongated comedian, is
one of the strong men with the Del
Lawrence company. Morris and his
wife, better known as Corinne Walton,
is on the Orpheum vaudeville circuit.
Marjorie Rambeau is making a great
success in stock in Los Angeles.
Frank Fanning, of the old Bittner
crew, is in Gotham.
Ralph Cummings, a great favorite in
Dawson’s earliest days, when he played
leads for Lucy Lovell, is on the Keith
& Proctor circuit,
Charles Taylor, who brought the
Taylor stock company North, going
out piecemeal from Fairbanks, two
years ago, is writing drama in New
York and playing in melodrama. His
“lawfully wedded wife,” as Taylor al
ways called her, Loretta Taylor, is a
star for the Schuberts. Miss Helen
Barham, who starred in the Dawson
Fairbanks tour for Taylor, is married
to Ernest Shipman, theatrical man,
and last season starred in a popular
drama with much success. The Ship
mans will put out the Florence Roberts
company this season. Another member
of the Charley Taylor company is now
in Dawson with the Roberts company
as Miss St. John. With the Taylor
company she was one of the team of
Mulally sisters, and she was introduced
by Mr. Taylor as the baby of the com
pany. She has grown so and made
such notable strides in her profession
as to have been recognized here by
bat few, and is full of promise, her
management says, for a successful fu
ture.
The last ever heard of Chris Moran,
Dawson’s former sourdough comedian,
was when he went insane in Denver.
Mike Hoolev is still going the rounds
as a comedian.
EASY STREET
I leased a house in Rasy Street,
where nabobs rule and reign, and
pretty soon I beat retreat way back
to Poor Man’s Lane. With rich
men always jostling near, fat old
bond-holding lads, I couldn’t stand
the atmosphere—it reeked of greasy
scads. I longed to talk of Sappho’s
pomes, of sinners loved and lost;
they showed me through then
stately homes and told how much
they cost. “This painting cost
10,000 bones, that statue cost a pile;
my butler there, whose name's De
Jones, I brought from Britain’s
isle. The desk you look at is no
fluke—inlaid it is with pearl; this
pimpled person is a duke, who's
come to wed my girl.” And so
they talked, these wealthy guys, of
money and of marts; and they had
greenbacks in their eyes, and bul
lion in their hearts. And so I said:
“This sort of talk has given me a
pain; I’ll don my overalls and walk
clear back to Poor Man’s Lane.
There men discuss the baseball
game, the latest yellow crime, a
chromo in a rustic frame, a book of
Oppenheim. There men are hu
man, and the boys can talk of sane
affairs; they are not dancing to the
noise of bughouse bulls and bears.”
—Walt Mason.
Basket Ball Bad for
Women and Girls
Mrs. Paul Pattison, wife of the Whit
man county (Washington) prosecuting
attorney, is recovering from the second
operation she has undergone in a Spo
kane hospital within six months, says
a Colfax press dispatch. Mr. Pattison
declares his wife’s condition is due to
playing basket ball, and he is corrob
orated by Dr. A. E. Stuht, of Colfax.
Mr. Pattison said: “Every one of the
girls on the Colfax team of which I was
manager, with but one exception, has
had to be operated upon, and every
member of the Cheney normal school
girls’ basket ball team which played at
the same time this Colfax team did has
been in Spokane hospitals for opera
tions. A large per cent of the girls
who play basket ball have to have op
erations later.”
Dr. Stuht, who attended Mrs. Patti
LATE NEWS FROM NOME
Squirrel River Proves Frost
Nome, September 18.—Miners and others returning from the
Squirrel River diggings bring very discouraging reports regarding
the present condition and future prospects of that camp.
It is said that Greenberg, the largest operator in the district,
has fallen behind to the extent of $15,000 as a result of the past
season’s work. The bench pay reported turned out to be merely a
spot, from which $700 was obtained.
Big Mining Merger Possible
Nome, September 18.—It is rumored here that a big mining
deal is now under way, having for its object the consolidation of
the Wild Goose Mining Co. and the Pioneer Mining Co. with the
Consolidated Dredging Co. The rumor seems to have a good
foundation in fact and an official announcement may be expected
any time. While a merger will enable the properties to be worked
at less cost, the reduced payroll is sure to have a prejudicial effect
upon the general prosperity of this district.
Many Persons Deserting Nome
Nome, September 18.—The exodus from Nome this year is
larger than at any previous period of its history. Many persons
who have been residents of Nome for years are quitting the camp
for good, and the population this winter promises to be the smal
lest on record.
Quartz Test Mill Arrives
Nome, September 18.—The quartz test mill purchased by pub
lic subscription has arrived, and will be erected and put into
operation without delay.
son, said: “I regard basket ball as
injurious for girls. It is the wrong
kind of exercise and frequently results
in injuries. The nature of women
should keep them from this sport. I
have seen injuries resulting to women
and girls from basket ball claying to
convince me that it is dangerous, and I
assure you that my daughter shall
never piav basket ball.”
Mrs. Pattison was formerly Miss
Maud Smith, one of the champion bas
ket ball players of the Inland Empire
and regarded as almost perfect physi
cally. Other girls who played with
Mrs. Pattison during two or three
seasons have been similarly afflicted
and all but one has been in the hospital
for an operation, and that one, now
married, suffers much from pains at
tributed to the violent exercise of the
ball games.
Seattle to Fairbanks in
Three Days, Says Rosene
Dawson, Aug. 18.—John Rosene of
Seattle, who has started preliminary
work at Haines with the aim of build
ing a railway to the interior of Alaska
and Yukon, arrived at Dawson yester
day after a trip of 500 miles with pack
animals from Haines to the head of
White river and 200 more in a canoe
down the White to Dawson.
En route he unexpectedly encount
ered treacherous deep, swift, water,
and in fording the Donjack river was
swept down a considerable distance on
his horse, narrowly escaping death.
Others of the party, including Engi
neers Robbins and Birenmine and
Guide Benson, barely escaped.
Mr. Rosene leaves for Haines today.
He is well-pleased with the route,
sheltered as it is by the Coast Alps,
having less than a foot of snow all
winter, with copper, gold and other
minerals every few miles to the head
of the White, and an easy grade into
the Tanana valley; so his projected
line to Fairbanks will be easy of con
struction.
Mr. Rosene has the exclusive fran
chise for Brennan's monorail, which,
he says will take the steeper grades
and the sharper curves.
Mr. Rosene says Shakwaka and other
valleys are better fitted than parts of
Northern Russia, Finland and Scandi
navia to sustain a large population,
and have an advantage of these old
countries of having mineral. He pre
dicts heavy immigration after the
Panama canal opens.
Mr. Rosene declares he will make
the Seattle Fairbanks trip a matter of
only three days, with a twenty-knot
steamer on the coast and fast trains to
the mterior. Eventually the plan is
for branches to Dawson and other
camps.
Sixty men are doing the preliminary
work at Haines.
Serious Fire at the Cliff Mine
On Saturday, August 12, a disastrous
fire occurred at the famous Cliff mine,
near Valdez. The origin of the fire is
not known, but is thought to have
commenced in the drying room, where
the miners change their clothes after
coming off shift. Although the men
worked arduously to prevent the spread
of the flames, nothing could be done te
save the mill house. The total loss,
including damage to machinery, was
$12,000, of which sum $8,000 is covered
by insurance. The fire also means the
extinction of a month’s dividends.
If you want your clothing cleaned or prested
ring up Wile the Tailor—Phone 68
A letter received by Major Al
brecht in last mail contained the
information that Capt. Allan P.
Gilmour had been appointed secre
tary-treasurer to one of the largest
automobile firms in Detroit, Mich.
Joseph H. Bullock, the Kentucky
lawyer who spent a year or so at
Fairbanks, has also accepted a po
sition iu the firm.
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NOTICE OF MARSHAL'S SALE
United States of America, Fourth Divi
sion. District of Alaska, ss:
Public notice is hereby given, that by
virtue of a writ of fieri facias (or execu
tion), dated Augusts, 1911, A.D., issued
out of the District Court, of the United
States for the Fourth Division, District
ol Alaska, on a judgment rendered in
said Court, on the 31st day of July,
A.D., 1911, in favor of Henry Schneider,
and against Abe Wallace, I have, on
this 9th day- of August, 1911, A.D.,levied
upon the following described real estate,
situated in the city of Iditarod, Alaska,
to wit:
The northerly twenty-five feet of lots
numbered eleven (11) and twelve (12) of
block one (1) east of the Town of Idita
rod, in Otter precinct, Territory of
Alaska, Fourth division, the said lots
fronting on Willow street, iu said town
of Iditarod, and extending back there
from one hundred (100) feet toward
Black street lti said town, and that I
will, accordingly, offer said real astate
for sale, at public vendue to the highest
and best bidder, for cash, on the 2nd ,
day of October, A.D., 1911, at 10:00
o’clock A. M., at the front door of the
Marshal’s office in the Town of Iditarod,
Territory of Alaska.
Dated this 9th day of September,
A.D., 1911.
H. K. LOVE,
U. S. Marshal Fourth Division of Alaska.
Fy H. P Sheppard. Deputy.
Chas. E. Taylor, Plaintiff's Attorney.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To SAM RISTILUOMA and ALKX JOHNSON.
YOU and each of you, your heirs and assigns,
are hereby notified that the undersigned lias
expended in labor and improvements the sum
of one hundred dollars—$100—for each of the
years of 1909. 1910 and 1911 upon placer mining
claims known as and called Violet Bench. Ida
Bench and Number One Finn (iulch, situated
on Finn (iulch, a tributary of Gane creek, and
on Gane creek, a tributary of Innoko river, in
the Innoko mining and recording district, dis
trict of Alaska.
Notices of location therefor being of record in
Vol. 2 at page 41, Vol. 7 at page 2, Vol 2 at page
36 of the records of Innoko minir district, dis
trict of Alaska.
You are further notified that if at the ex
piratiou of ninety—90—days after the last pub
lication of this notice, you fail or refuse to con
tribute your proportion of such expenditure
jour interest in said claims will become the
property of the undersigned, your co-owner,
under section 2324 of the revised statutes of the
United States.
OLIVER LaDUKK, Co-Owner.
First publication Sept 2, 1911.
Last publication Dec. 2, 1911.
FORFEITURE NOTICE.
To FRANK KITZMAN—
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that you or
any to whom any interest has been transferred
are herebj- notified thct I, \V A Dikeuian,
have expended in labor and improvements
the sum of $100.00 onthe K. P M. asso
ciation placer claim, in the Otter Recording
and Mining Precinct, Territory of Alaska
Fourth Division. Said work was performed
in !0O9 and 1910 to hold said claim
under the provisions of section 2324 of the
Revised Statutes of the United states and the
amendments thereto approved January '2nd,
1880 concerning annual labor upon mining
claims, being amouut required to hold said
claims for the period ending December 31st,
1910 as named above, and within ninety days
from the personal service of this notice or
within ninety days after the publication ther<o£
j-ou fail to contribute your proportion of suen
expenditure as co-owner, which amojnt is
$25.00, of the labor expended on claims, your
interest in the claim will become the property
of the subscriber, your co-owner, who has made
all the required expenditures by the terms of
said section.
Dated at Iditarod this 24th daj' of June. A.D,
1911.
WM. A. DIKEMAN,
Bj-J. D. SCHWARTZ, Attornej-in-FacL
First publication July », 191:.
Last publication Sept. 30 ,1911.