Yukon Valley News
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No.
Vol. 2.
TANANA, ALASKA SATURDAY, DEC. 16. 1911
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NEWS BY
TELEGRAPH
San Quentin, Dec. 10.—The McNa
maras were imprisoned here today.
Briceville, Tenn., Dec. 15.—An ex
plosion occurred in the Cross Mountain
mine here on Saturday. One hundred |
and seventy bodies have so far been re- !
covered.
Kansas City, Dec. 15.—Because of the
escape of Harry Waldron, one of the
Hyde jurors, from a hotel here where
the jurors were confined, the judge dis
missed the entire body. Waldron was
insane.
Phoenix, Ariz , Dec. 15.—Democrats
elected entire ticket. Geo. W. • P.
Hunt, governor, naming Marcus A.
Smith and Henry F. Ashurst, senators.
Washington, Dec. 15.—The National
Republican committee has selected
Chicago for the convention. The dele
gates will meet on June 18. Former
Governor John F. Hill, of Maine, has 1
been selected as chairman of the com- ;
mittee.
Delhi, Dec. 15.—The King and Queen
of England arrived in this city Tuesday
and were proclaimed Emperor and
Empress.
Gibralter, Dec. 15.—The British
steamship Delhi, bearing Princess
Louise Victoria, sister of the King
and many passengers was wrecked off
the African coast. Fearing the found
eringof steamer the Princess was thrown
into the sea and rescued by sailors. The
French warship Briant arrived and
rescued all.
President Taft’s special message to
congress deals exclusively with the cost
of living. The messags conveys his
opinion as to the causes of the present
high prices and the remedies which sug
gest themselves to him as the best ones.
He will recomend the adoption of cer
tain measures which he believes will
relieve the situation once and for all.
Washington, Dec. 5.—Morse the bank
er, serving a term in prison for em
bezzlement, will be set at liberty in a j
few days by the President.
A sensation was caused in Seattle
when the grand jury in its final report
warmly praised ex-Mayor Hi Gill for
the manner in which he has conducted
the city’s affairs during his mayoralty.
Everyone willing to help decorate the
A. B, hall for the Xmas entertainment,
will kindly meet at the hall on Friday
afternoon, Dec. 22.
In giving parties and danc
es, call on Woods for a fancy
punch,
GIBBON POST TO
BE ENLARGED
It is the intention of the War Department to increase the size of the l’ost at
this place by adding to it two more companies and a band: which will then make
this a four company post.
At the last session of Congress, very little business of any kind peitaining to
Alaska was transacted and the appropriation asked for, for the construction of
additional barracks, band quarters and officers’ quarters for this post was not
passed.
The appropriation necessary for this work will be about $(50,000, and just how
soon Congress may see fit to pass it, is of course, unknown. It may be passed
at once or it may lay over for a year.
It is the intention of the War Department to reduce the number of posts all
over the country and to enlarge the remaining ones. In increasing the number
of companies at this post the posts at St. Michaels and Nome will either he cut
down or abandoned.
TO ABROGATE TREATY WITH RUSSIA
Washington, Dec. 15.—The House today, with one dissenting vote, passed the
Sulzer resolution abrogating the treaty with Russia because of discrimination
against the Jews.
Arctic Brotherhood Notes
The A. B.’s held a special meeting
last night at which some of the promi
nent townspeople joined the order.
The ladies wishing to help fill the
candy hags for the A. K. Christinas tree
will kindly meet at Mrs. Stoddard’s on
Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
The A. B. Christmas tree entertain
ment will be held Sunday, Dec. 24th, at
7 o’clock. Everybody welcome. A pres
ent for all.
The State Secretary at Albany, X. Y.,
has refused to incorporate a company in
Xew York city, which proposed to con
duct a restaurant and cafe under the
name of “Hell”. The aid of the courts
will be invoked.
CHRISTMAS EDITION OF THE NEWS
The Christmas number of the Yukon
Valley News will have eight or more
pages. Celebrated writers will con
tribute special articles for this number.
Mr. and Mrs. Jules Marion returned
from Fairbanks on Thursday’s stage.
J. Russell Walle has been appointed
administrator for estate Charles Smith.
Oscar Lundin having resigned.
The Republican territorial convention
will be held at Cordova, on March 30th.
LOCAL HAPPENINCS
Ed Williams, an arrival from Grant
creek is in town.
Frank Lundin will leave for American
gulch in a few days where he will, in
| company with his partner, Arthur
j Fredrickson, proceed to develop their
: mining ground.
S. E. Heeter, received a letter by the
| last mail from his daughter, who is vis
iting in Brock way ville, Pa. Miss Fleeter
| writes that she does not think she will
I return to Tanana in the spring.
Peter Dahl, Billie McDaniels and .Tim
i Sillih, who left the Red Mountain dis
trict during the fall to prospect on the
[ Malozi, arrived in Tanana this week.
! They will outfit here and return to the
| Malozi to continue their prospecting.
Albert G. Stamm, formerly proprietor
of the Yukon Valley News is now man
[ aging editor of the Valdez Miner, which
| was lately changed from a daily to a
weekly newspaper. Mr. Stamm writes
: that the quartz boom in Valdez is off
and that the town is very quiet.
. All kinds of cocktails made
I to order at the Tanana Bar.
The Fairbanks Times says a rumor is
1 current to the effect that the White
! Pass railroad will control all Yukon
; traffic between Skagway and St. Mich
I ael the coining season.
THOMAS HOWELL
FROM WISEMAN
Deputy Marshal Thomas Howell who
has been stationed at Wiseman for the
past 18 months, arrived in Xanana on
Monday evening along with Mailcarier
Allard. Mr. Howell is en route to Flat
city, in the Iditarod at which point he
will henceforth have his headquarters.
About conditions on the upper Kovu
kuk, Mr. Howell says that at no time
since his arrival there has the outlook
for a good gold output been more favor
able than it is this winter. Hammond
river is the scene of the greatest activity.
The following outfits are now located
on Hammond, some of whom own their
own ground and the others are nearly
all working on 7o per cent lays: Good
win it Burke; Bowker Bros, it Gib
son; Oleson it Smith; Peterson Bros.;
Hastings it Watts; Sibley, Brown it
Nelson; Howard it Owens; Scofield,
Brown, llolzer it Smith; Crawford it
McKinzie, Havs it Woods; Johnson it
Dahl: Matson it Stromdahl, O'Connor.
Larson & Blankenship; and Foley &
Bohman. Mr. Howellstates that so far
as he is aware of, the only pay on this
stream, in the deep channel, so far un
covered, is on the Hastings ik Watts
property, where they have drifted 7f>
feet during the latter part of last season
and cleaned up $ti,100.
On the other creeks in the district,there
is very little show of activity. There
is only one man working on Sheep creek
this winter; and on Mold creek, Nolan
and Vermont creeks the number of out
fits is much smaller than last winter.
Underwear, all kinds of footwear and
many articles in the grocery line are
very scarce in the upper Koyukuk this
winter. Coldfoot is now deserted by all
but one white man and a few Indians;
B. K. Plummer having closed his store
there and Commissioner Howard and
Mrs. Howard having moved up to
Wiseman.
PETER VACHON
TO COME HERE
Peter Yachon will arrive in Tanana
in January from Fairbanks and will re
main here until May. Mr. Yachon is
a member of the Tanana Commercial
company and will assist in the manage
ment of the affairs of the company dur
ing his stay here. Andrew Yachon, like
wise a member of the company, will
very liaely improve the opportunity
afforded, upon the arrival of his brother,
to make a trip to the States. Mrs.
Andrew Yachon is now in Newton Cen
tre, Mass., and will there await the
arrival of her husband.
“Do you know the lady in the hous
next to yours well enough to speak to.”
Well enough? I know her too well to
speak to!”—London Opinion.