Yukon Valley News
VOL. III.
KAMPAUT, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1(K)7
No. 25
WASKEY’S
HAND IN
A STRIKE
Washington, .lan. 9.—(Special to the
Nome Gold Digger.)—Delegate Frank
II. Waskev, the representative of the
territory of Alaska, stated in an inter
view here today that the strike of the
miners at Nome is absolutely unwar
ranted, and that he has telegraphed to
the miners' union at Nome, informing
the members that in his opinion the
strike should not he called. In his tele
gram he advises the miners to abandon
the strike for increased pay, as many of
the mine operators are not justified in
paying that -urn, but to insist upon the
recognition of the union and the closed
shop principle. He says that the min
ing conditions at Nome never warranted
a greater wage than $:> per day, but
there are a few claims which could well
afford to pay the miners $10(1 a day and
and still make a very handsome profit.
These mines, he declared, are the ex
ception and not the rule, lie believes
that many of the mines will be com
pelled to close down if the wage scale is
raised, as the paystreaks are low grade
and allow only a small margin of profit
to the operator. He also slated that if
a compromise could be effected it would
be the best thing for the miners, the
operators and the country in general.
[Editor’s Note.—The Gold Digger up
on investigation found that Waskev did
telegraph the miners' union as indicated
in the sjiecial from Washington. The
Digger also stated on good authority
that the delegate sent a telegram to Joe
Crabtree, bis mining partner at Nome,
telling him not to pay the increase in
wages demanded by the miners.)
The Girl on Eighth Street.
Carrollton (Mo.) Democrat.
A message from Walter Williams to a
girl on Kighth street should It* whole*
Home diet for a lot of other girl* on
'Steevith street. Head it and l»e wise
liriorr it in ton late
‘•Some fevers are wor-e than typhoid.
Tehre’n a girl on Kighth street—she's
oh no»»ic street ’most all the day—who
has got the U»v lever. She’* only 15
year* old, |**»r silly creature, and ha*
just let her dr»-n down and }»tit her
hair »•»►. she ran not k happy. she
thinks, * ithout a l*»y hy her side. She
flaunts |»vrsell in the face* < f the l*»y*,
an«l Ik mother— wIn* -h<*ui*l ha\*v more
gumption |ermtt«, if ds- ti e* nut en
courage. her small daiight* r * U*> hunt*
It Ml not m* HHtrli the lash • f fell lie tnenl
nil the part of thr mother that i# to k
COLD ON THE ARCTIC SLOPE
Men Neard From Who Went to Continue a Search Undertaken in 1899.
Pre-Klondike Story of Riches on Firth River.
A letter received liv John W. Duncan
through last week's mail from (iarnct
Brown at Fort Yukon indicates that a
stampede to the Aretic slope before the
snow melts is a possibility.
Indeed, so far as anybody can tell,
even at this very minute the prosjieetors
of the Chandlar m y be mushing toward
the summit of the Kndieott range bent
for the further-off and more uncertain
field.
Garnet. Brown was outfitted by Mr.
Duncan and and Ids associates and sent
into Chandlar. The letter mentioned
contained a hard luck story including
the premature death of a forty-dollar
dog,.a sore hand that had threatened
blood poisoning of the writer, and a
heart-breaking condition on the upper
Chandlar.
However, it paid that Krnest McLeod,
a Itampart buy who went to Chandlur,
had received a letter from Kinney Mc
Leod, hip father, advising him to pro
ceed to Firth river, where the inference
is that the elder McLeod has found
something important. The letter said
that Koh Schulier, a Iiampart C'handlar
man, and others were going to Firth
river.
How did the letter from the Arctic
slope reach young McLeod, w hose father
had no means of knowing his wherea
bouts? Garnet Brown did not say. But
it is possible that some musher reached
Fort Yukon from Kampart House bear
ing a letter to mail to McLeod the
younger at Kampart, and, learning that
Krnest had gone to Chandlar, sent the
letter up by some opjmrtune stain|>eder.
Be that as it may, there is a world of
interest connected with this intangible
rumor from across the northern range.
Away hack in ‘09 Kinney McLeod sought
gold on Firth river. He was a lagging
Klondike!-on the Kdnionton trail, and
when his party reached Kainpart House
they were told the story of a doctor—a
Philadelphia man—who had previously
wandered onto the Firth from the old
Hudson’s Bay post at Rampart House
and staggered back again under a load
of 140,1100 worth of golddust.
Winter was already fallen, but Mc
Leod and several other Klondikers vol
unteered to go onto the Firth and pros
pect w hile the bulk of the party tarried
at Rampart House. Snow was every
where and the prosi>ecting amounted to
nothing.
Filth river has since lingered in Mc
Leod's memory. I.ast summer, in com
pany, with Archie Campbell, he set out
to explore the stream further. They
were to ascend the Porcupine and then
Old Crow river to the head, or as far as
they could go in poling boats. Then a
l>ortage of forty miles would set them on
the boating waters of the Firth.
The Old Crow joins the Porcupine
some forty or fifty miles Canada-ward
from the boundary. Its rise and that of
the Firth are separated by a narrow di
vide on the American side. The Firth
flows northward on the American
side for a hundred miles or more, crosses
the boundary line, and finally enters
the Arctic ocean east of the boundary
line and west of Ilersehell island.
Somewhere on the Firth Kinney Mc
Leod and Archie Campbell are hunting
gold. If they have found it, as the letter
from liarnet lirow n indicates, none will
ever deny that they earned all the good
fortune that may accrue to them.
condemned. Kverybisly larks refine
ment in some degree or another and
with reference to something. But a
mother who |x-rmit* her daughter to
chain.* around town after I my a lacks
common sense. She shouldn't have any
daughter, and she won’t have a daugh
ter long—at least one she will la* proud
of as her own. It is had enough to have
the boys run around town, *|a*nd their
time hmfiiig on the streets and grow up
without parental care. That girls should
tar allowed to «|o so t» worse This may
la* high treason in a community where
we hu\u given over N*a*tety to tin* con
trol of the tledghitg and declared that
patent* have n«* rights that the children
in the high «m b*a*l are l«oind respect.
Speaking of litnnh i|mt ownership, a
•ponging in im* hi lie would la* worth more
to thin towii'ii welfare than a rmiil trailer
nr Mure * lake. Thin I inlith ntreet ^'irl
-houlil In' taken in hainl anil then run
thruuteh the n|ankiiiK inaehine. That
liii|<ht help cure her nf the I mv lever anil
attain it iniitht nut. At any rate it wonlil
lie a lenxmi lor nther Kirin.
WEATHER CONDITIONS
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Kel>. II — M —1»
l*ate Mas Min.
Keli ft —14 —:W»
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Kef.. 7 — :\ —aa
Keb * -31 —IN
Niiinlnr n| tlayn
rlnwljf, t; i lniiily . 3
ttnnvlall. Iran
Kamutaua K. Ktiuta.
Vuliiniary IHunriri.
I'kar, .1 |mrtlv
CALLAHAN
WHIPPED
THE COP
Over at Fairbanks they have a coun
cilman named Dan Callahan—an old
timer in the country and a man who
often gets into the papers. In fact it
has become a set habit with us over
here on the receipt of Fairbanks papers
to look over the headlines the first
thing to see w hat Callahan has done.
Wall, this time he had licked Police
man Hayes. The Times says Callahan
had so great a dislike for Hayes that lie
would not take a drink when the
policeman was present.
The councilman had his glass filled
when the policeman entered a certain
saloon, whereupon the liquor was poured
upon the floor.
The light followed. Callahan took
the policeman’s hilly away from him
and pounded him just like people do in
barrooms on the outside.
The first jury in the resulting trial
hung 6 to <1. The mail is so slow that
we have not yet heard how the next one
stood.
FRENCH LOUIE
HAS A FUNNY PET
Louis Vallier, bettor known as French
Iconic, living on a homestead on Baker
creek not far from Hot Springs, lias an
unusual kind of pet of which he is very
proud.
It is a lynx, one of the largest of its
kind and as full of fun as any kitten.
Around the cabin the pet never tires
of cutting all sorts of amusing capers.
It will not Is- ignored, anil when Louie
or any chance visitor fails to join it in a
romp its sharp clans soon remind him
that a frolic is wanted.
The pet is happiest w hen Louie takes
down his gun to go hunting. On such
occasions the lynx stalks quietly along
!>chind till a rabbit is shot, when it
Isninds out as quick as lightning and
|~>unccs upon the game. It will follow
the hunter thus for hours.
At night the |s't is turned out of the
cabin and hunts on its own account. It
is always on hand in the morning, ready
for breakfast and another romp.
I.ouie is very proud of his |>et, ami
allows it all the liberties common to a
pet d«ig.
The A It 's had an enjoyable dance
Monday night They have decided to
(si's up Si Valentine's day and make
the mask toll on VVashingtoii's birth*
lav l^b SI the twggi st ss s la I event of
the winter.