Mining Notes
Much mining activity is reported
this winter on Lower Cleary creek
and the Chatanika fiats, in the Fair
banks district.
A recent arrival in Nome from
Candle reports there is not an idle
man in camp and that all the Candle
creek miners are taking out good pay. |
Spruce creek in the Atlin district,
is again showing some very large
nuggets. Harry Moore was the last
lucky man. While he was packing
some large rocks out of a sluice he
found a nugget weighing 53 ounces.
Advices from Dime creek state that
pay has- been found on that creek be
low Goose creek, where it had never
been located before. The new pay is
not rich, but is very wide, and gives
the camp an indefinite lease of life.
Kosskopf Bros, and associates who
are working on the divide between
Glacier and Rock creeks in the Nome
district, are reported to have struck!
an old channel in which they get pans
as high as thirty cents.
B. C. Wilts*. the well known Wells
bay mining man, has interested him
self in the Dalev-Bennett gold quartz j
property, at Betties bay, and is now
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, engaged
in financing the proposition.
W. S. Horning and C. A. Bartholl
and Byron Bartholf of Knik have or-1
ganized a company known as the Gold I
Coast Mining. Milling and Power j
company to operate a gold quartz!
property consisting of nine claims in
the Willow creek district, and adjoin
ing the Independence mine on the■
north.
A new strike of considerable mag
nitude is reported to have been made
on Jump creek in the Candle district
by Ed Hanson, Bill Evans and An
drew Olson. The pay is said to meas- •
ure more than 100 teet in width.
Jump creek is live or six miles long |
and enters Candle at Discovery.
All-Alaska News
Frank and Walter Fisher of Fair
banks will construct a light draught
high-powered steamer and operate it
on the upper waters of the Tanana.
Louis Dahl, a pioneer of the Koy-1
ukuk country, was adjudged insane by
a jury in the commissioner's court at
Kuby recently.
Dr. J. L. Buckley, formerly physi
cian at the Sulzer mine at Sulzer, has
taken up his residence at Petersburg,
and will practice his profession there.
Dr. William P. Baker arrived at
Sulzer recently from the states to
take a position as mine physician
BITTER.
Headline—Britieh Eat Their First War Bread.
—Weed in Philadelphia Public Ledger.
made vacant by the resignation of
Dr. Buckley.
The city council at Cordova has in
structed the city attorney to prepare
an ordinance prohibiting dogs on the
streets of the town except on a leash.
Arrangements ha\e been made by
Governor Strong for the housing of
the territorial legislature at the com
ing session. He has secured the third
floor of the Goldstein building jn Ju
neau, practically the same quarters as
occupied by the legislature in 1915.
l)r. Kystrom of Landlock bay met
with a severe injury to his hand a
few days ago,. While walking on the
beach he fell, splitting the little
finger of his right hand to the bone on
a sharp stone.
Cheer Up Folks
THERE*? MORE LN THE KITCHEN
Dilatory
She—Here’s a woman who got mar
ried, deserted her husband and
eloped, all in one day. He—What de
layed her?—-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Hood Talker
“You talk well on the subject in
which your are most interested,” said
the impertinent girl.
“And what is that?” asked the
Courtesey Food Ser>ice
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
THE ADMIRAL LINE
SAILINGS FROM SEATTLE:
Admiral Watson, Feb. 25th.
Admiral Evans, March 2nd.
Admiral Farragut, March 9th.
SAILINGS FROM SEWARD:
Admiral Watson, March 5th.
Admiral Evans, March 9th.
Admiral Farra^ut, March 16th.
• • \ A *ft All
First Sailing for Anchorage: Admiral n arson, April ?ui.
Admiral Watson, sailing from Seattle Feb. 25th goes to Kodiak.
Through Tickets to Eastern Points at Reduced Rates.
Vor full information on sailings from Seattle to San Francisco, ad
dress Wayne Blue, Agent, Seward, Alaska.
AUGUSTINE & KYER CANDIES
A fresh supply arrived on last boat, also a big shipment of
EL FIRMA CIGARS
Clear Havana. Special attention given mail and phone orders.
SEWARD DRUG COMPANY
The Seward General
Hospital
desires to acquaint the general hospital inter
ests of this country with the facilities of this
institution for giving the latest devised methods
of nursing care to persons requiring medical or
surgical treatment Special attention given to
patients requiring gynecological treatments.
Hydrotherapeutic treatments carefully follow
ed. This building, just complete, electric light
ed, steam heated, hot and cold water. Physi
cians placing patients in our care will receive
every ethical attention. Prompt readiness for
accidents, obstretrics and emergencies, day or
night. For further particulars address,
SISTER SUPERIOR.
man, scenting a compliment.
“Yourself!” said the impertinent
girl demurely.—London Answers.
.
Lots of Tunis
Johnnie—) ain’t goin’ to school any
more. Just because I snickered a lit
tle the teacher turned me over to the
principal, and the principal turned me
over to pa.
Mother—Was that all ?
Johnnie — Xo; pa just turned me
! over his knee.—American Hoy.
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The Eternal Feminine
“Here I have to go and be bored to
death at the horrid Mrs. Jiggers’ just
on account of my husband’s perver
sity.”
“Did he tell vou you should go?”
“No; he told me I shouldn’t.”—
' Baltimore American.
PIONEER APPLE
GROWER DIES
NORTH YAKIMA, Saturday, Mar.
—A. F. Splawn, pioneer, and one of
the heaviest operators in the Yakima
valley, died here yesterday.
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Grocery
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SPECIALS THIS
WEEK
Hominy_20c can
Mustard Sardines 15c
Smoked Herring
2 for 25c
Herring in tomato
sauce, 25c
Libby’s Milk $4.75
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AND keep them in
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** A hammer — a
saw—a brace and bit—
a screw driver —are
handy tools—when of a
reliable make.
We carry that kind of
every tool made for the
carpenter.
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we manufacture the
best camp stoves,
chairs and mat
tresses
Every boat brings
new goods to our
mens’ department. If
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