Western News Letters. !
Happenings At Kenai, Sunrise and
Hope. Mining Mews.
Kenai, June 18.—At Inst the
much needed ruin arrived and for
two days the showers were plenti
ful, and now the'gardens and the
fields of the exi>erimental farm are
looking as if they were going to
bring something forth.
- Quite a number of prospecting
parties have stopped here on their
way to the Shushitna and also go
ing up the Kenai river, as some
parties who were up last summer
found some ground that paid wages
but no bonanzas., so. four different
parties have decided to have a try
thus far this sumn\er. —
The last trip ddithe Tyonic the
eon of Secretary of Agriculture
WilsoC was on board on his way to
Sunrise, but as it was very early
in the morning wheh the'boat ar
rived he did not make an appear
ance; but wc hope to received a
•hort visit from him on his way
back. He was accompanied
Commissioner Hildreth and Mar
shal Sexton, whom he found at
Seward. The Right Reverend In
nocent Patinsky, bishop for Alaska
of the Greek catholic church, ar
rived on the last steamer, and not
withstanding that it was in the
wee small hours quite a number of
the residents, with the Rev. Bort
novsky, were at the landing to
greet him, and the day of his ar
rival was celebrated as a general
holiday. He is on his tour of in
spection of the churches and mis
sions.
Civil engineer Lacey and his son,
Fred., also arrived. They aie re
presenting the government in sur
veying the lands claimed by the
church and missions in the Inlet j
and Turnagain Arm districts:
L. N. YY ood, general manager of
the Northwestern Dev. & Mining
Co., is here for a few days waiting
for the mail boat. He has quite
a number of men working on Kus
siloff lake and they started the
pipe on the 7th instant, and from
the present outlook ex(>ect to do
quite well this season.
The new store building here is
completed and everything looks in
better condition than before the
fire.
The cannery of the A. P. Ass’n
at Kussiloff, has been canning for
the past two weeks, and although
there are plenty of fish, there does
not seem to be as large a run of
the king salmon as last year.
... i G. S. M.fi
Hope, June 22.—From present
indicationsHope will see the busiest
season in its history.. X^ore mop
are at work than lor a number of
years and new property is being
developed.
J. O. Bustard’s new sawmill is a
little gem. While it is small—cut
ting about 15,000 feet per day—it
is very complete having an edger
and planer. The 300,000 feet of
logs cut during the winter hgf
nearly all disappeared, atybin its
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place are huge piles-of lumber. |
This mill is a great convenience to
this section and fills a long fell!
want. Lumber sells at f‘2n a 1,000'
and Mr. Buzzard will have no
trouble in disposing of all he saws.
The bear creek and I’ulmcr creek
properties of J. O. Buzzard are be
in# worked this year to their full
capacity, and they will yield a
large clean-up this fall. These are
very rich'properties and will prob
ably produce 936^000 over expenses
this year.
The Sleeper property on Bear
creek is tied up this year by litiga
tion. This is one of the best prop
erties in the Inlet but is poorly
managed. Mt. Harry Hoben, the
former superintendent was handi
capped in working the mine, and
before the season closed last year
resigned the position, and has had
to put a lien on the property for a
year’s salary. A large mortgage
pfi the property i s' bein gforeclosed.
The quartz ledge located last
year by J. O. Buzzard and /others
will in all probability prove a rich
property. A wagon road is now
being built to the mine, which is at
the head of Bear creek. As soon
as the road is completed a Burleigh
drill is to be put in operation on
the property. Mr. Buzzard brought
in all the machinery necessary to
do active work on the property,
and it is expected that active work
will commence in about three
weeks. This property will be work
the entire year, and will give em
ployment to a number of men.
Mrs. F. \V. Thomas has been
seriously ill for two weeks. If (he
is not better by the next boat she
will lie taken out for treatment.
Mrs. A. L. Howard is one of our
old settlers, whose husband died
very suddenly of heart disease last
fall, left for her old home in Mich
igan last steamer. Her many
friends wish her a safe journey
and happy future.
Mr. Emelin Petellin, our popular
postmaster, is happy over the ar
rival of his mother and sister from
San Francisco, who arrived on the
last steamer and will make an ex
tended visit.
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Sunrise, June 20.—Most of the
old properties are being worked
here this year. The town itself is
very quiet, most of the men being
out prospecting or working on the
various claims. There have been
a number of strangers here looking
for work, but very few have found
any and some of the old timers are
idle.
• Mr. S. W, Wible is forking a
number of men again this year,
and will have the banner clean-up.
Last year he took out enough gold
to pay for all his investments, it is
said on good authority; this is over
$80,000. Mr. Wible has one of the
best propositions in southern Alas
ka. He has great banks of .gravel
f m;a 50 to 200 feet high, and they
pay-from top to bottom. He owns
over three miles of claims on Six
Mile creek. . \
* ftenner & Laurinson and Bob
Coatliuied uu FlrH I'aRe.
Continued from lax Week.
e sank with all the gracefulness «
a t«ll woman on thb grass anil let ! r
f.'.re wander In/.ily across the gnrder:
!- tiewr was nog m arly so fnr-reai
ii g. The oral of her colofleas fare
with its flaming halo against tie
Ir'.el.grmind of aiitnmn-kissed hares,
was n picture enough for any man.
"You lore the garden." she hazard
ed. bringing her wundering gaze back
to him.
"And everything in it.” was his sup
plemented answer, ns he made a men
tal note that creamy skins blush near
er perfection than any other com
plexion ran.
“I love Its privacy," ehe commented,
pointedly.
■And i its trespassers.
She began to wonder if it were well
to nibble strange fruit, and whether
the domestic variety were not safer for
everyday Consumption.
"The door must soon bo closed upon
them. ” she said.
•They must make the most of their
opportunities while it remains open.
then, hut when will it be shut?
“When the npples ripen.”
“May the harvest be a late one,” was
the hospitable rejoinder.
It amused him to see this interloper
t i entirely at her ease in Ids domain
her quick enr delected n shade of un
< inscious patronage in his tone.
She could not stand that; on her own
rrronnd it was insufferable. llei
thoughts flew to the serpent. Shi
lamed herself for ever having let it
-umber. Hastily she roused it up uiui
t ink her leave with it.
Me eyed her retreat with dismay
’la abrupt liens perplexed him till in
i orngni/ed the trail of the serpent.
“1 hat your pets.” he railed after
I er; “they leave a sting heliind."
Her quick wit marked the play upn:
fie word, and brought to birth a smil
hat bore her company upon her holm
•. ard way.
The fourth day found them unde
the apple tree talking glihlv of tl •
fruit. She knew little more of it tlin'
!• * name began with a "K,” and ende
v. ith an “E.M >
tic might have told her of its origii
) id he felt ao inclined; also something
- T its true translation.
The cimimstances were fnvorni !
to discussion; by the snd of tl e iron
i g Eve was alive to the fact tlmt for
i :dd-n fruit had a taste that was east I
qnired. while Adnm felt it was ti
f r the table of an epicure.
The evening a post brought twin ev
phinationa and apologies from the rive
tireuta.
Fhe fourth day was stormy; pani
f’ II fin both their souls lest they slum’
! their Kden. It had grown so de'
t it neither could enntemnlr.te ex* i:’
*i n with any pretension* toeilmre*
Onee more the garden whs the seer
of meeting; this time (ire*k me* fin ei
.•he retreated, n.M her ‘ en hut fri
1; convinced of the Her? i;f fireworl
a* illuminations for Kden.
He left her. swearing that every reo
h* ired w m«n hr<! a .*pkc of the devi
hot he did n t forget t«» add tj.c r
to hide*" of the fj» “*ati«*n thi.t p
t-h• 1 spire down ns being worth all tl <
pivtfiner* in thr world.
I he next day both learned of 41
lc»-ore of leoentunce. Alone t*
w :ked lvitFin the garden onee so f
—Its charm had vanished. A fra in i
wom a waste around a ruin. Eden :*•
loivjfr. now the other wnr n »' there.
“*TI» your*." he wrote-at close < f
day. “Kdcn without its Kve cotilil |j.
no longer paradise."
"The garden was given first to Ad
.am.” she had penned in her gen
erositjr. “Youra is the prior claim—'
leai-e it to yon. Ouard it well. Fore
well. Farewell."
Mer note came to hand on the even
ing of fh? ri»th day; al! desire to vis:
the garden now that she had gone was
dead.
Its emptinesa mocked him; unlit 1 \
her bright hair. It luy in lonely shad
ow. under a cloak of silence drear as
decih.
I^ut on the morrow a melancholy at
traeli.^i drew him thither, fle-eho*.
high neon, and hastened to the afjph
tree where first they met. |»o*sesae<f o'
a hope that she tnighl con e to him.
Hut disappointment rtil«*d his day
Sarilv he nl’wked t lye perfect fruit that,
alas' had ripened allto late.
1 he fruit of knowledge!** be said,
bitterly surveying the golden ball;
then tossed it from him ■••hh an im
petuous motion; as lie rounded the cor
ner of the south wall, now a niaza of
tendpr preen and l'lood-red fruit.
But lieanty of the picture was lost
upon him; all his crea saw was a slen
der patch of purple. Viewed fron
a distance, it fnipht easily have been
mistaken for a muss of clematis.
The fruit he had fiiinp from him was
.ebeckcil by the folds of herpown. She
stooped to nick it up. and risinp. met
his glance, her own full of inquiry.
“The fruit of the tree of knowledge.”
he said, answering her unspoken
query.
“Is it sweet?” she faltered.
It tasted to me nf the bitterness
of denth a while ago.” he said.
Once more she raised her arm above
his shining head, end plucked a gen
erous brunch of the passion-painted
fruit. Sflentljr she held them out as
an Offering to him. A whisper broke
the sileuce of the garden.
“Apples of love.”
The words floated from her to him;
It broke the spell. A gentle love wind
rose. and. whls|ierlng to the garden
woke the flowers. Apd the lost Kden
was restored to them.—Chicago Trib
une.
I --—.
Wilkin a Hospital.
“There wee a witty fellow out In a
Michigan hospital." said Uepresentn
| tive William Alden Smith yesterday.
1 who had to be fed on a dally diet of egg
and sherry. His physician asked ! in
how he liked it. ‘It wi iihl be all right
| doctor,* he said, ‘if the egg was ns*new
as the sherry, and the si erry as old us
| the egg.”— Washington Post.
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I*. 8. Land Office, Juneau, Alaska Mar. 7,1904
, Notice is hereby given tin t:
1, < arl N." t rary, of Valdez. Alaska,
nasignne of Thompson t.a» enbier, being entl
tied to the benefit)* oi Seetioi 23u»i of the Revised
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[to enter C. 8. Survey Xu. £17, containing lV»
acres and more partieularly d* scribed as fol
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Valdez Recording district, Irince William
Sound. described by motes and bounds, course*
j and distances, as fol.owv:
Beginning at Corn r No. 1, wliieh is 18.49
»diait.s N. || deg. E. fi* m Corner No 1 of Valdez
! townsite. and 15.32 ehains N 11 deg. :io milt E
| from the initial uioiiui- eut «»f I’.S. Survey No.
I 115, thence N. 28 deg. 33 i. in. W. ltl.Jti chains to
Corner No. 2; thence N. id d *g. 27 min. K. 9.K*»
ehains to Corner No. 3; tin nee 8 28 deg. 33 min.
E. H».2i* ebains t«» Corner No. I; thence S. i'd deg.
27 ruin. W. 9X5 chains toCori er No. 1, the place
of beginning. ( ontainiug It* acres. Variation
28 deg. 57 min. E.
As additional to hi* original homestead on
the N. of the NE »See 5 T Hi N R fci W,
whit h lie entered on the 27th day «»f January,
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CARL X. < RARY,
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L J»*hn \V. hudley, Register of the C. S. Laud
Office, at Jnii'-au, Alaska, do hereby order that
a cony of the Notice of Application of Soldier's
Additional Homestead of Carl N. Crary, C. 8.
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