VOL. III.
HAM PART, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1907
No. Ml
LONE MUSHER
MAY BE LOST
Acted Queer and Nothing
Heard of Him.
On the up trip Sunday before last
Mail Carrier Kd Biederman saw a lone
musher whom lie fears has met with
some accident.
Mr. Yantis was in company with Mr.
Biederman and they spent the night at
the Selieiffelin creek mail ealiin. A
stranger, apparently a Swede, staid all
night there also'and took the trail some
two hours before tin y did next morning.
They did not see him again and nothing
could he heard of him either up or down
the river. The man neither came on to
Kampart nor doubled back to Tatiana.
It was blowing when lie left Selieiffelin
creek and of course his tracks were ob
literated almost at once.
Peculiar actions of the man make
Y Biederman believe he was tu t altogether
capable of taking can of himself, “tit'
Selieiffelin creek he made both supper
and breakfast off of a few crackers and
a little condensed milk w hich he carried,
and declined to eat w ith the mail car
rier. lie was not projierly dressed for
the trail. lie said he had come from
Valdez, where lie had been at work on
the railroad, and was looking for $10
diggings. Mr. Biederman describes him
as a man of powerful physique, but says
he seemed pretty well fagged out
It is Mr. Biederman's intention to
make all investigation possible on tin
down trip on which he started this
morning.
TAKES TRAIL
FOR CHANDLAR
A
Bright and early yesterdav
I)r. (’. I>. Carter Bundled his
morning
dentists’
tools and milling instruments into a dog
sled and Udiind six sliek iiialainiites lie
split the snowdrifts wide oj**n that ob
struct the view from Front street in the
direetion of t'handlar.
lie had no human eom|»anmn in mis
ery, and n»» one kn« wa w hat part of hi
anatomy the hunch took ♦ fleet on that
impelled him forth t * \ ietory or defeat.
It la only certain that he started with a
fair wind.
The program he hurriedly outlined
is to take I tut to Caro and all the
branches of the t'handlar; urnw the
divide to C«4dfo"t and the other gold*
tie Ids of the Royttkuk; and homeward
on the first rake of iee tha* e leafs for
the hi# river in the spniitf
*
,Vlr Krill. «Ih. )t|li.|»'<l hi* Until* .llwl
llr.1. ra|>tur.<l -irt.l j.*»« lit llir Nn
Kntiu iw*' juil.
MINERS OF THE TANANA
DECLARE FOR 8 HOURS
Whole District Organized to Start the New
System at the Cleanup.
Wry quietly, altogether good natur
cdly ami with conservatism that does
them credit, the working miners of the
district have taken the first steps toward
a complete revolution of mining opera
tions in the Xanana, says the Miners’
Record, of Fairbanks, March 11.
At a meeting held on Wednesday night
in A. B. hall in Cleary, they first organ
ized and then went on record for an
eight-hour working day.
It was the unanimous opinion that
the ten hour shift now the custom, made
of work a soul-killing matter, and only
resulted in so unfitting the workman
that he could not long produce his best
possible results in return for his day’s
wage.
The eight-hour day was the one matter
that became of record. Other abuses
which are practiced in many of the
workings were for the time ignored. The
evening was passed in a calm discussion
of tile proposition for shorter hours and
tin* host way to approach the mine own
ers in the effort to attain them.
There w as no tire eating, no demagogic
s]*clU)inding, nor was there made c '
dent any trace of ill feeling against the
mine owners. It was cold-blooded busi
ness, and as such it was discussed and
disposed of, and at the end the I’hioer
Miners' Association was a fai t and L’L’7
working miners had signed the roil and
paid in the on* -dollar initiation fee.
Just as there was an utter absence of
heat, so also was haste absent. The as
sociation will be in no hurry to present
its request for a more rational and hu
mane working day to the employers.
On the contrary it is not likely to he
made until the sluicing season is at
hand, in order that the operators may
have ample time to consider the change
and become adjusted to the new condi
tions before the hurry of the cleanup
is on.
Since the big meeting in Cleary, prac
tically every mine worker on the big
creek has become an active member of
the United Mine workers of the Tatiana,
continues the pa|ier above quoted. The
Cleary meinltership roll now numbers
more than 1500, and the fact that tl e
organization has become a fixture in t. e
economy of the camp is recognized gen
erally by merchants and men in al'
walks.
Dome creek is almost as solidly signed
up also, and word comes from lister that
the hoys over there are busy along the
same line. On Fairbanks creek the work
has been taken up and reports sent to
the officers of the Cleary local state the.
a solid organization can be counted
upon. It is evident from the progress
* t the movement as outlined in the Rec
ord that organization will be thorough
throughout the district. So far the plan
has not included affiliation with any
outside laxly.
HIT FREIGHTERS
GOIN’ AN’ COMIN’
Many liiirnH.* u«*t in y«>tt'rdtty at
n*M»n an.I S. K. M» « t« r ln*t night, after
• U liwriiiv: freight urn*- tin* «1 ivi«U* un
• Ur tin* htinlvttt «»f iirriiii».^t»m,i*i*.
On lli#* trip ovtr the haul* m#*r#* |> »•
«-«•!« .I l»y a snowplow to within a milt*
an*l a hull of tin* xtllninit, wh*rr right
lior^ea w* r» put to a *■!••• I ami the loud*
• Iraggrd ov#T.
I'oiniiue hti. k, Mr Bttrrtn** ilruggrtl a
!>tiMWp|u« alt th»* wav. hut thr high
-*uth win*I till.-t tin- r»'H*l I•#■ hin<I almost
a- fn*t ;»< it wa* r Iran* l
It w.i* a trrmr • Preightrr* ilwUn
there luo h«*rn no wtntrr in the tamp a
history to rompwfr with tin prrarnt one
in the *e*erity ami roiitiituity of thr
•tottth wtn«U. whnh are tlw* one* that
male the ill'll iutov «»ii thr trail*
MINERS REST
CLOSED DOWN
Tl»*' Minors Kent Saloon, .lorry Ford's
• ilil |»laoo, after hovera 1 change* in man*
agement, I tan closed down tor g«**l ami
tlio fixture* aro king prepared for ship
ment to Kuroka, presumably for lino l»y
Mr. For* I at that growing eon ter.
Jim I .arson, the latest man at tin*
helm at th«* Minor* lost, said t<*lay
that it is not conahlered g*'«*l Iiusine**
to go ahead utile** it is intended to re
new the license in >lay, which has not
U* n ♦ lee n led upon tW*td*», ho feels
railed upon to l«M«k for the goldtii pay*
streak His hunch tells him fo try Ik
north side of tli« Yukon.
It is o«tr aim t«» make the Valiev Now*
interesting to friend* to whom Vdi may
•rial it un the oiitsnle.
MAIL CARRIER
HAS TROUBLES
Wide Range of Difficulties
on Tanana Run.
“O, yes,” remarked Ed Biederman
yesterday, “carrying the mail between
here and Tanana has been fine business
this winter—if a fellow don't eare what
he says.
“Why, there has been but one run
since early this winter on which I could
trot the dogs. On many stretches the
trail drifts full as fast as it is broken
and the little siwash trail finder that
is sent ahead gets off and flounders in
snow clear over his back. I have staked
the trail in the worst places with hun
dreds and hundreds of willows, but
mtishers come along and pull them up
for dog pelters. They ought to be ar
rested.
“Under such conditions it takes ten
hours to run between stations that five
would be plenty for with decent going.
Eat? Why I am creating a shortage
that may get ssrious in this section if
we don’t have an early break up.
“I’ve got as good a dog team as ever
was; but last Sunday they couldn’t face
it and I had to go back to the cabin and
wait for it to quiet down a bit. It just
lifted ’em right up in the air. And now
they are getting the distemper and 1 will
have to be doctoring all the time. They
got it from them Tanana dogs.
“Well, I’m keeping you front your
work. But it’s a fright. So long.”
CANADA WANTS
THE NORTH POLE
Ottawa, Kt*1». L*l.—Senator Poirer gave
notice today that he would move in the
senate a resolution deviating that the
time has route when Canada should
make a (urinal declaration of po**e*Hinn
01 all the land?* and inland* situated in
the territory to tin* north a* far at the
north pule.
An had been hv Captain Der
nier and other*, there are illimitable
•tretclie* of land that may Inc ome avail*
able hereafter. Thi* i« today held to lie
unelu in ted, white in reality it in a |«irt
of the domain of Canatla, ami if *ome
action in not taken by tin* gim-rnment
t*> a**ert title to it there may I** trouble
in tin- hereafter arising from eiplorer*
of other nation* claiming portion* of
tin* va*t territory f*»r the e«mntrie* they
represent by virtue »*f »l»* un*ry.
I .i'll r com* * March .11—-not March
at, an the type* had it kat week.