FAIRBANKS CREEKS
LIVELIER THAN CITY
Cleanup Will Run Into the
Millions — Ramparters
Doing Well.
Fairbanks, March 5, 1905.
To the Yukon Valley News.
Everything is booming here and
ihere is going to be a big cleanup
in the spring. The town is very
dead—no money moving—but the
creeks are booming. Cleary, espe
cially, is a scene of great activity.
Around noon the whistles almost
deafen one. You can stand at
Oates City (No. 1 below) and count
twenty three self dumpers, to say
nothing of numberless windlasses.
The cleanup will doubtless run into
millions.
Charley Lind, Gus Christianson
and Otto Kraling are doing finely
on No. 2 below. They are aver
ng 400 buckets a day with their
■!f dumper. Pay 200 feet wide—
id, uniform dirt. Jack McKen
zie, another old Ramparter, on 12
below. Fairbanks, is prospecting
li claim. Jones, formerly with the
eagle Mining Company, has good
pay on Esther creek. House is
"respecting on Esther. W. H.
Watson, former chef at the Recep
ti n Restaurant, is cooking on No.
•3 below, Cleary. .
Fairbanks News Items.
Condensed from Fairbanks News.
A stampede has followed the dis
covery of gold-bearing quartz near
1’edro dome. The whole country
in that vicinity is already staked.
The ledge, it is said, can be traced
a considerable distance.
The city council turned down two
applications for peddlers’ license,
and wiil prottet business men by
similar action on future applica
tions.
An unknown man caused much
indignation by leaving a dog tied
to i telegraph pole two days with
out t ire. Chief of Police Wicker
sham cut the dog b ose.
A. !!. C: • has started ul
over luc iiiiuu trail with liie re
main i.t hi- or itlier, who died Jan.
.•7 it St. Matthew’s hospital. At
Valdez the tiody will lie transferred
to a boat tor Seattle.
The comptroller of the currency
has approved the application to or
ganize a national Istnk at Fair
thanks, with John BonnilieU! as its
head uthcer, with $y>.noo capital
John Schfam, Falcon Jotdtn, J. W
CUse of Seattle, and W II Parsons
of Ibtwsoii have organized to start
a batik at Fairtsink* to he known
as the Washington-Alaska bank, to
have a capital of $50,000 and to be
managed by Mr. Josliu. Exten
sive improvements are to be made
by the Fairbanks Banking Com
pany. It will tear out the partition
between its present quarters and
the postoffice as soou as a new lo
cation can be secured for the post
office.
GRIEF OF ONE
JOY OF MANY
In the vicinity of Spicer s road
house, discovery, Eureka, is a large
glacier, extending a long distance
up a sharp incline. The glacier is
formed in terrace-like steppes,
caused by water from a subterra
nean spring forcing itself to the
surface and freezing into a level
barrier of ice sufficiently strong to
resist the pressure from beneath,
when the water again breaks out
higher up the hill and commences
another step in the slippery stair
way. The process has continued
all winter.
At the upper edge of the glacier \
a few light taps with an ax is suffi- j
cient to open a water hole, and j
the roadhouse and others secure
their water supply by this means, j
The nearest way to the “spring" is
directly over the ice, but prudence j
generally dictates a safer and more ;
roundalnjut course.
On Tuesday of last week Dick
Brennan went to the upper margin
of the glacier to fill his water pail.
He found the hole too small to ad
mit the pail; so he returned to his
cabin for a cup. With the cup in
his hind pocket he concluded to
go straight up to where he had left
the pail.
Rubber-neckers at the roadhouse
watched him pick his way gingerly
up the glassy steps until he had
almost leached the top. A twig
tuck out of the_upper rim of the
ice. Brennan hesitated, and slowly
bent forward and reached for the
twig.
In an instant the rublier-neckers
at the roadhouse received their re
ward. Brennan was on his hands
and knees when he started to shoot
the shoots He managed in throw
himself on his hack, and thereby
made matters worse, for the cup in
his pocket accentuated every jolt
till he reached the bottom.
The man who thus contributed
so lavishly to the entertainment of
Mrs Spker and her guests did not
do so ot his own volition In fact,
he believed the incident was unob
served, and prolonged the fun by
bis sober investigation of the dam
age to bis clotbiug ami anatomy,
ami only realised the truth when
in passing he found every body in
| a state of mirthful exhaustion half
•u hour later
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T! TWO SPRITES.
Twi! . sprites, on mischief bent,
Kxpl< ’. la ska 'round;
The * Knvy- with keen scent,
Craw . -ing on the ground.
The t i Malice w ith a tongue
To vii, his fellow*'s spleen;
Th« i - hanging out, too long
To ki lips between.
N"- . 1 •• not bear to smell
finds one, he will swell
At v in bitter mood.
, t »o, will scream and storm
Ami it; shake in vain
The iuii n people form
< *1 n.cn f heart and brain.
Tin two it 1.11 'round Judge Wicker sham
An ! m< u that all his acts
Ar mid and just .«t.d never miss
Conform .ng to the facts.
And then at Rampart in Judge Green
They nose an honest man
And pour tluir vtinnu and their spleen
17pou him when they can.
J note that when they sne* red their last
At least th* y had some shame.
For when tluir Mit.< rs l'totcst passed
They did m»t sign their name.
II A YOt’NC.
Hotullmtisc I’cople
Cmiulit in o Storm
Swanson. .!r-. I’,u ! Sweetie,
the well ki. ... u it. .i. people
of 104, It-u vlrs bwaii'itn to run
the rnadh-u. .ihilc tin) paid a
short visit t> Baker Creek Hot
Spruits 1 ,ii thr ir return they were
caught in , :. e w loiNtorm on the
summit, T .. -dly ol last week. The
torce ui the ga'.e almost carried the
sledaaa). An ax got loose from
the -.led a.td was hurled -Mime dis
tance into the -.now. Sweetie got
over uiMH-.i-.ted, hut Mrs. Burns
had to lie ilown to keep from being
swept away, and Swanson It natty
snaked her over Iwhsm
Nome Drunken Man
Has Warrant Issued
From the Gold Digger, Feb. 15.
Andrew McWilliams, who oper
j ated the Miners Inn saloon at Coun
cil last summer, arrived in the city
last week, and immediately pro
ceeded to purchase the latest im
proved hack-action Hurrah-block
ja«
When he came to in a few days
he sadly realized the fact that it
costs money to buy whisky, and
not wishing to stand for his little
fun he immediately swore out war
rants against the proprietors of the
Office saloon, charging them with
selling intoxicating liquors to an
intoxicated person. The case will
be heard during the March term of
the United States district court.
The Chena Times enumerates the
| following as some of the honored
j possessions of that camp: A city
council, a postoffice, a school with
I a highly qualified teacher and
'brig!' pupils, a chamber ol com
merce. .. lodge of the Arctic Bioth
crtiood. two churches holding reg
ular services with a third one ener
getically entering the field, a de
buting society, two sawmills in
operation, a free public library, a
second telephone corn pan v applying
for a trancbise, a substantial wharf,
a line uf railroad brushed out and
distributing ties for ten miles and
surveyed lor many mote, a survey
party >n the field picking the route
for a line of tramway, a city jail,
ami brat, nut m.iv he least, a news
paper.