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Five carloads of copper ore from the
Copper King at Whitehorse was ship
ped from Skagway to the Lady Smith
smelter recently.
Judge Day reports, among other
things, that ‘jury-fixing’ seems to be
a well established and flourishing
industry at Nome. It is to be hope
that Alaska’s new officials will take
prompt action in fixing the fixers.
Dispatched from Fairbanks dated
November 30 to the Dawson News,
say the Tanana metropolis is short
on nails. There are still some six
and eight-penny nails, but there are
no building nails at all. One saw mill
man who saw that there would be
a shortoge of nails purchased 50 kegs
early in the fall. He will hold these
nails till Spring when he will sell
them to men for the purpose of mak
ing sluiice boxes only.
The best find of all, has been made
on 8 above Fairbanks. This a piece
of ground that has just given pans
running as high as $100. One pan
yielded a little more than an even
one-hundred. A bucket of the pay
rocked out gave the neat little clean
up of $400.
Nearly all the big Dawson concerns
are becoming interested in the Tana
na. According to the Dawson Dis
patch, among those to become inter
ested late this year are the follow
ing:- Detroit-Yukon Mining Company,
The Lewes River Dredging Company,
Henry Bratnober, the Carbonneaus
and Peter Erickson.
A Fairbanks dispatch to the Daw
son News says Gate City is building
up rapidly. Of lape the residents of
i f *
the town have commenced to looking
ahead to a bright’future for the berg
and are preparing for good times
next season. A number of buildings
are in prospect and actual work has
commenced on several large structur
es.
Fairbanks now has an Eagle Club
of about 40 members and a charter
has been applied for. Among the ap
plicants are several of the founders
of the Aerie at Dawrson. The question
is now whether it will be the furth
ermost north Aerie of the order or
whathr Dawson can claim that dis
tinction.
Fred J. Chapman, well known in
Skagway, writes a friend under date
of October 4th, that Fairbanks is the
greatest camp in the North and that
Tanana is the coming country. Chap
man purchased a stock of goods at
Dawson and landed in Fairbanks on
June 1. He sold the goods at a good
price and together with Dan Calla
han opened a saloon in Fairbanks and
from the tone of his letter is making
all kinds of money. He says that he
considers that he has made twenty
thousand dollars since June 1. He
speaks of a number of Skagway peo
ple and says that they are all doing
well. A number of Dawson miners
had arrived and had purchased sev
eral of the best claims on the creek,
paying big round prices for the same.
He advises his friend to come in the
Spring for he can surely get the
money.
While cutitng wood on north Third
avenue between Adams and Jefferson
streets, a few days ago, Harrison
Leonard, who is in the employ of
Deputy Marshal George Sexton felled
a tree which was estimated to be 120
feet in height, and wThich might be
considered in a measure a relic of by
gone days.
In splitting a section of the tree,
ax marks were plainly visible near
the heart. The attention of Messrs.
W. A. Lanfille and J. H. Watson, of
the United States Bureau of Forestry,
who are now; In Seward, was called to
this curiosity and they made a search
ing examination of the specimen sub
mitted.
The tree is) of the Sitka Spruce var
iety, the botanical name being Picea
Sitchenis. At the time the tree was
hacked with a Russian ax, it was five
inches in diameter and 93 years old.
Nine inches of wood has grown out
side the hacks and 94 years have
elapsed since they were made. These
gentlemen base their reasoning on
the, to many accepted fact, that a
ring is formed for each year’s *growth.
Mr. Sexton has carefully preserved j
the section which was examined and ,
will no doubt in time present it to
some museum or the Alaska historical
society.
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succeed another westerner, Justice
Stephen K. Field of California.
While regarded by his friends as
possessing an engaging personality,
and held by them in the highest es
teem, the general demeanor of Jus
tice McKenna was austere, severe and
distant.
On the Supreme Court bench he was
tempermental at times during the ar
gument of counsel, showing what
some lawyers considered impatience
and harshness in propounding in
quiries and in commenting upon cases
under consideration, he at all times
unstintingly devoted himself to the
business before the court, and fre
quently ignored his own personal con
venience to give patient attention to
those who sought him.
When he was named by President
McKinley to a place on the Supreme
Court, numerous protests were filed
with the Senate Judiciary committee;
some charging that while serving as
Attorney General he had excluded
himself even to those having highly
important business with the office,
and others setting forth that he had
not shown sufficient ability while on
the circuit court bench to qualify him
for the higher post. The senate re
jected the protests and he took his
place on the Supreme Court in 1898.
He was frequently selected during
his long service upon the bench to
prepare the opinion of the court in
imprtant cases, among them being the
United Shoe Machinery litigation un
der the Sherman law; various cases
relating to the inheritance tax, and
those designated as “freedom of
speech” controversies rising from
war legislation.
Born in Philadelphia, Aug. 10, 1843,
of Irish parentage, Joseph McKenna
was but 12 years old when his family
crossed the continent and made Beni
cia, California, their home. There he
attended public school and was grad
uated in law from the Benicia Colle
giate Institute. He was elected dis
trict attorney of Solano county in
1866, just one year after his gradua
tion.
After two years in the lower house
of the California legislature, he made
two unsuccessful campaign for elec
tion to Congress. In the third trial
he won, and served in the Forty-ninth
and three succeeding congresses.
Resigning from congress at the re
quest of President Harrison to become
United States Circuit Judge, he had
served five years upon the circuit
which included his home state of Cal
ifornia, when he laid aside the er
mine to re-enter political life when
his close personal friend, President
McKinley invited him into the cab
inet.
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