New .Series
TANANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22. 1910
Vol. I. No. 5
ESTER CREEK
BIC STRIKE
Fairbanks Excited Over Pay $17.50
to Foot.
Special to the News.
Fairbanks, Oct. 19.— The lung-lost
paystreak between 2 and 7 below Ester
lias been found. It is on the right limit
near Cripple creek. Dan Dooling is the
lucky owner who for two years has been
pluckily prospecting the ground, though
drowned out several times. He has
struck pay at 110 feet with a diamond
drill, at a point 1,500 feet from the creek
bed and an elevation of 40 feet. The
gold is coarse and runs $17.50 to the
foot. Ester is excited over the strike,
as it promises to give the entire creek a
new loase of life.
Martin ltodult upon pleading guilty
was sentenced to 18 months by Judge
Overfield as the result of a shooting
match between him and Officers Conway
and Chovin. He was drunk at the
time.
“Not a true bill” was returned by the
grand jury against Si Pepper, formerly
of the postoffice, for alleged embezzle
ment of $1,000 in connection with the
Willis Bridges defalcations.
Vachon & Sterling are suing G. A.
Berglund for $315, alleged to be due for
goods.
Roller skating at Gordon’s rink is the
rage. Some nights over 100 attend.
Judge Sam Wtiss, new commissioner
at Chatanika, soaked Jos. Boothroyd,
aged 55, $250 and costs for vagrancy.
He is now serving time at the rate of $2
a day. Everybody is satisfied, including
Joe, for he now has a comfortable place
for the winter.
Pete Sala was indicted by the grand
jury on the charge of obtaining money
under false pretenses. Kati Pitchetti
claims she gave Pete money and jewelry
to swing an alleged saloon - purchase
deal.
St. Joseph’s hospital fair is in full
swing. Last year the ladies cleared
$1,200 in four days.
TWO DEATHS TAKE
PLAGE AT DAWSON
Dawson, Oct. 19.—Alex. Gillis, old
time miner, was killed recently at the
Yukon Gold Dredging Co., 79 below,
Bonanza. Some frozen muck hit him,
pinning him under the water in the
drift, drowning him.
Sergt. Ed. Smith, lire department
chief, is dead of Bright’s disease.
Albert Forrest, champion skater, all
around Athlete and linotype operator
on the News, was married here to Pa
mela Joyal, who for several years with
her sisters ran a roadhouse at the mouth
of Hunker.
The kindergarten has closed for the
winter on account of the whooping
cough epidemic.
Only bath tubs in town at the Gibbon
Barber Shop. Open day and night.
DROPS DEAD
AT SPRINGS
“Curly” Atkinson, of Fairbanks,
Stricken With Apoplexy.
“Curly” Atkinson, aged 35, cook on
the Martha Clow, dropped dead at Hot
Springs last Saturday. A stroke of apo
plexy was the cause.
Mr. Atkinson, who with his wife and
child was bound for the Iditarod, was
on his way to the Springs from the boat,
having been offered a permanent posi
tion as cook. Without warning he fell
to the ground. Life was extinct when
Dr. Connolly appeared on the scene.
Mr. Atkinson last summer drove a
wagon for Ellis, of the Sourdough ex
press, Fairbanks. For a number of
years he was connected with the old
Cecil cafe, run by Mrs. E. Card.
The passengers on the boat and others
took up a collection of $300 for the
widow and her infant child.
Try a Shark Steak.
New York, Oct. 19.—At the Am. Fish
eries Ass’n meeting Prof. Gill declared
shark’s meat is a dainty dish and of
high quality. He also said he had heard
about the fine jewelry sold by Geo.
Bemis at Tanana, Alaska.
Hubby and Wife Duel.
Lake Charles, La., Oct. 19.—Dr. D. T.
Smith and his wife fought a duel over a
dispute as to who should make the fire.
The wife killed the doctor.
Breaks Trotting Record.
Lexington, Kv., Oct. 19.—Jean, 4
year-old trotting filly, broke the world’s
.record, making a mile in 2:05%.
Spirits Fail Them.
New York.—Fifty spiritualistic medi
ums who contested for the $1,000 prize
for the one who could make known the
contents of a letter written by Prof. Jas.
Worth before his death proved to be
fakirs.
EVERYBODY'S
CREDIT COOD
“Scotty” Brown Tells of the Wonders
of Sullivan.
Your credit is good every day in the
year on Sullivan creek, says “Scotty”
: Brown, of Kelly & Anderson’s, who vis
j ited in Xanana last week.
j There are no bums there, lie says,
and the merchants rarely lose a cent on
trust. The men never have to worry
about their wages, either, as the oper
ators always see to it that the miners
get their pay.
“Scotty” says they have a $7 phono
graph record in which Sembrich, Melba
; “and all them other high floozies” sing.
While in town he entertained his many
i friends by telling in his inimitable style
j of the time he and two others used to
“do the clog” at the Frisco amateur
shows, when the gallery gods would
throw quarters and dollars at them so
they made enough to keep in drinks for
six months at a time.
All the operators on Sullivan are re
opening for the winter’s work, according
to Scotty. _
“Everybody’s” Agin Him.
New York, Oct. 19.—“Everybody’s”
Magazine has come out against Roose
velt, declaring he is not a statesman but
only a politician who is a curse to the
I country. _
Circle Church Patent.
Circle, Oct. 19.—The Episcopal mis
sion here has received the first patent
for church sites along the Yukon and
Tanana. It is dated Aug. 29 and recent
ly came by mail to Fairbanks.
Nome Robber Caught.
Seattle, Oct. 19.— Wm. Urquhart,
wanted at Nome for highway robbery,
was arrested here. He will be held here
until spring._
Airship Flight.
St. Louis, Oct. 19.—Guided by a rail
way train, Archie Hocksey made a suc
cessful aeroplane flight from Springfield,
111., to St. Louis.
MANY READ BULLETINS
As promised the News posted on its bulletin board
day by day the results of the world’s championship
games, sent by our special correspondent. Simultane
ously the News furnished bulletins to the Tanana,
Northern, Yukon, Tower House and the Tanana and
Golden North restaurants, where they were placed in
conspicuous places and eagerly read by the many
patrons.
Future events of interest will be handled by the
News in the same enterprising, up-to-date manner.
Watch the News.
HOT SPRINGS
BANNER YEAR
Sylvester Howell Tells of Bright
Future There.
Special to the Newt.
This has been the banner year of the
Hot Springs district. The output is esti
mated at nearly half a million and the
knockers are beginning to wake up.
j Most of the gold was shipped through
; J. W. McCormick on behalf of the First
, National bank at Fairbanks. The oper
ators are opening up for their winter’s
' work and next year promises to far ex
ceed the 1910 output.
According to Sylvester Howell, the
output of Howell Cleveland’s holdings
are between $80,000 and $90,000. On
the Taft Ass’n, Cache creek, they took
out about 45,000 feet of dirt, averaging
$1.50 to the foot. They employed on the
average 20 men.
’Gene Sullivan,, on a portion of the
Taft Ass’n, cleaned up about $45,000
He took out 15,000 feet of dirt, according
to Mr. Howell, and worked on the aver
age 15 men.
Hick Morrison and partners, on the
second 500 feet of the Cache association,
struck ground running $2 to the foot.
Midgley and Campbell on the upper
end of Cache washed ground running $2
to the foot. They were using a small
rig, but will do extensive work next
summer.
Buck, who ran into $5 pay last July
on the Buck fraction, blocked out this
summer. His discovery was one of the
sensations of the season.
Kobisch & Dietz, on the Eureka Ass’n,
started up in August. They have a lay
on John Itenza & Anton LeClair’s
ground which runs $3 to the foot. Dick
Richards’ ground last year ran $2.75 to
the foot.
Kemper & Mu Vicar also cleaned up a
large sum this season. They are now
outside, but will return in the spring.
Altogether the outlook of the Hot
Sonnes is verv rosv.
LOVING COUPLE
SAT ON SAWHORSE
Fairbanks, Oct. 19.—Fanny Hall, of
the “row,” former Dawson dancehall
girl, was placed on trial last week, ac
cused of pocket picking. The case is
the result of a little farewell party given
last month at Chena by Fanny and her
friends for Chas. Beck and several oth
ers bound for the Iditarod. Beck testi
fied Fanny took $80 out of his pocket
while he and Fanny were sitting arm in
arm on a sawhorse in the rear of a sa
loon. Albert Swanson set the audience
wild with delight by his testimony, so
that the deputy threatened to clear the
courtroom. He told of peaking out of
the saloon window. He illustrated the
relative positions of hands and bodies.
Go to Nussbaum’s Barbershop for first
class work.