FAIRBANKS CITY COUNCIL
EMMIES POLICE NMD
Appearing recently in Fairbanks
before the city council, Harry
Jones. Fairbanks painter, asked
that action be taken against Chief
of Police Fred E. Handy, because
the latter had told him he was
convinced he had stolen $101 from
Wallace Burnett in a theft com
mitted a short time ago, says the
News-Miner
After hearing Jones’ complaint
and Chief Handy’s answer, the
council informed Jones that it
was not sitting as a court of law.
Jon°s said Handy told him on
the street one day that he was
firmly convinced that Jones had
taken the money and because of
that statement Jones asked dici
plinary action by the council.
The Chief told the council he
still holds to his opinion that
Jones is guilty but there is not
sufficient evidence upon which to
base an arrest. Wallace Burnett,
who was present, declared that
after the robbery Jones had offer
ed to give him a sum to be about
half the amount stolen.
The council voted to take no|
action on the charges preferred j
by Jones.
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MAYO DISTRICT COES TO
'GOLD STANDARD' MILE
The lull in the silver market has
caused many of the owners of sil
ver-lead claims in the Mayo district
and others of the region to go on
the “gold standard” temporarily,
pending the return in price of the
white metal. In other words, pros
pecting for gold is greatly stimu
lated in this region, but at the same
time holders of silver-lead proper- i
ties are holding their ground con
fident of the rise in the value of
those properties with return of bet
ter conditions in the world at large.
Many of the creeks in the Mayo
district were steady contributors
to the Yukon’s gold yield for years,
but received scant attention when
silver and lead came into the hor
izon within the area Now many
have returned to work in the old
gold diggings, including Highet and
Duncan creeks and several creeks
tributary to Mayo lake, and along
the bars on the Stewart rivers and
on creeks flowing into the same
stream
The first extensive gold mining
in the Yukon was done on the
Stewart in the ’80’s by the, earliest
argonauts of the North, and it was
from that district that they spread j
out to the Fortymile and Circle dig
gings, leading eventually to the
great gold strike in the Klondike
watershed in 1896—Dawson News.
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