Social Matters
COMING EVENTS.
April 1—Ball by the Yukon order of
Pioneers.
April 12—Public installation of A. B.
officers, followed by grand dance and
banquet.
Mary Caroline Drake entertained her
parents (Mr. and Mrs. John F. Drake)
and nearly fifty friends on the first an
niversary of her birth last Wednesday
evening.
One of the notable guests was Dave
Clinton, 18 months old. Jim Smith, 8
months, sent his regrets, having an ail
ing father to look after.
The large party was royally enter
tained. Carrls and other games fur
nished agreeable pastime.
Miss Peek won first ladies’ prize at
whist, and Mrs. Carter the booby prize,
the latter being a doll dressed in over
all and jumper and being a fair counter
part of the young hostess, who is a great
favorite of Mrs. Carter’s.
Louis Iverson won the gentleman’s
first prize and Billy Mann the boobv.
After supper Mrs. Smith and Mrs.
Mustin charmed the party with songs,
and Miss Peck excelled in recitations.
Messrs. Sinclair and Burns being ab
sent, the Pioneers will select other com
mitteemen in their places and get
everything in readiness for the April
fool ball.
Bad trails is the good excuse offered
for not attending tiie St. Patrick’s cele
bration at Hot Springs. At the sugges
tion of the ladies a dance was gotten up
at the last moment for Monday night at
A. B. hall, but the storm was so severe
that the attendance was light.
Twenty new dredges are to be in
stalled in the Klondike this year if the
manufacturers can furnish that many.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To W. H. Porter and J. W. Younjr their
heirs. executors, administrators and as
sijrns ai.d to all persons u hom it may eon
Yon and each of you are her* hy notified
that I have e\n- uiled during inch of tin*
years 1905 and 11MJ one hundred dollar- n
1 lu*r ind improvementa ii on | l.-rr r milling
r'aim No. 7. Rhode Island ereeh. I*ump.<ri
Recordimr Precinct, AImshu, in order to hold
the sa d claim under the provision* <»f the
Revised Statutes of the United States
You and r ch « f you are further eot'tled
that if w ithin ninety days after i»uh-i at ion
of this hotice yon. as co-ou tiers, fail to con
tribute yoiir unpaid proportion <»f the c.r t
of the labor aforesaid ti imcly.
The unpaid proportion of the aid W.ll.
Porter for both said years of I*.*•'* and li
and the unpaid proportion of said J. \V.
Youttfr for the year 19"*,.
'I hen your interests «s co-ov\ n**r ♦ in -aid
claim w ill fteconw* the property of the under
signed eo-cmner. under section Reviued
Statutes of th* Unit* <1 State*.
JOK KAMINSKI.
Pate of flr-t publication. March J'\ p*
Pate i f last pnhlieatlon. June 111. I1*U7.
Mike Engels
(Sourdough Mike
FREIGHTING
and PACKING
To all the Creeks
i
HOT SPRINGS TRADINC POST
HOT SPRINGS, ALASKA.
Full line of General Merchandise. Our stock is fresh and of the very best
quality. We carry no inferior goods in any line. Prices right. We are
after your business. LET US FIGURE WITH YOU.
F. G. MANLEY, PROPRIETOR
Local and General Notes
Spring poets will be in season after
tomorrow.
March came in like a lamb and has
been pretty frisky ever since.
.1. It. Wingate, recently seriously ill at
his claim on Little Minook, is reported
to be nearly well.
Dr. Carter will positively remain and
practice dentistry at Itampart at least
until after opening of navigation.
W. W. Crockett and Dave Lushing
have switched down onto No. ft Little
Minook and are taking out a dump
there.
lneurann ihhim is reel i\ mg an in
crease of business which warrants the
employ merit of two bartenders, says the
Tan ana Citizen.
Tanana Citizen. March Rb. Mr. Clarke
being away with bis family for a few
days left bis three tame foxes in charge
of a neighbor and they were allowed to
escape. It is very unlikely that they
will be recaptured.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Boucher and
Walter Snndborg, outfitted for camp
life, left last Thursday for Hay ltiver
Hot Springs. They propose to be out
several weeks, and hope to kill a moose
before they return.
Hev. M. K. Kounce will return to
Rampart from Sharpsville, Pa., after
opening of navigation. Mrs. \oonre is
expected to accompany him at least as
far as the const, where she may remain
through the summer.
Cnless the Chandlar tizzies out en
tirely and the prospecting on the Ho
sicna comes t<» naught, the trail from
Sixmile up the Pitka fork • f the Hosiana
and across to Caro will hi* extensive!)
used for winter travel in future.
A party of twenty men are to put tin
telegraph line in good repair between
Kmvka and Toulavaiui. The line will
be straightened, a wide wav cleared of
trees, and a sled road brushed out along
the line. New poles will be erected and
new wire stretched over much of the
distance.
John Bernard, the engineer in charge
of the Big Minook nnuft work last sum
mer, has lately been engaged on the
Valdez-l-’airbanks trail. It i- * \|»ected
be will be *»n some of the work in this
vicinity the coming summer, it having
been talked that he will he sent out by
the Tanana Valley Railroad people.
An a»it‘*p>\ held on the Is sly of Alltert
Train.Id, tlie mining man who died sud
denly in the Birch creek district not
long ago. Mm-Wed the cail-e of death to
be the rupture of the -mall intestines,
which had ImoBie tlis'iiwil and mu* h
liberated. Mr. Tralsiltl had planned
large operation* in the Birch creek dis
trict.
Chti J* rg« nsoti wrote to his friend
ti > \\ Mattson, at l.sirb’iik- to be
ware of the t hundiir. “R.g Sp» w
creek should Is* e.«llt*d Rig iff creek
and the psl»'tllr»’ ehangeil to Hotair,'*
lie -aid. '*5 have -«* u a g«**l m *nv bum
districts since I have Ison tramping
uVer the north. I*nt, Mattson, this one
makt « the other* i««k like the gold
streets of paradise.'*
John Clinton made a second and nice
successful start for the Tenderfoot re
gion last Thursday. This time he got
over Ruby hill all right and if the storm
has not demolished the trails entirely
he will travel pretty fast with his fine
dog team, lie may move to the Ten
derfoot if he likes the looks of the
country.
The Fairbanks Times lambasts Chief
Mail Clerk Phillips at Magic for reply
ing to an inquiry by Major Clum that
the state of affairs did not warrant the
establishment of a mail service to Caro.
It seems that Major Clum snapped Mr.
Phillips up pretty short over the mat
ter. The question is, if Major Cium
wanted Mr. Phillips to say yes why the
dickens did n't lie say so?
Men fully posted as to conditions on
both routes declare it will he much
easier to establish and maintain a tele
graph line from Rampart to Circle than
it will from Fairbanks. From the Ram
part line it would he perfectly feasible
j to connect Fort Hamlin, Fort Yukon
I and other places along the river, so that
! steamboats, mail carriers and summer
and winter travelers may be in commu
nication with various places every few
miles.
Iii Answer to an Inquiry.—TheGraml
Trunk Pacific road is to enter British
Coltinihia by the Yellnwheatl pass, run j
along the south branch of the Fraser;
river to the Nechaco river, north along !
the Nechaco to the headwaters, cross'
into Bulkier valley and continue along!
north hank of Bulkier river.
The Happy Hooligan, the launch in
w hich the Blake it Simons vaudi . die
people chased their destiny down the
Yukon am.liner Indore last, is reported
to l>e in Seattle in a battered and sor
rowful rendition. That about de
scribes the state of her human freight
alien she tied up at Kampart nearly
two years ago.
Some of the papers say Rockefeller
gave the New York educational board
.I'k.MXKI.OOO and others print it f::2,00h.
It must be millions, for 132,000 would
make no difference to Rockefeller a
hundred years hence.
At Scranton, Pa., Thomas Itoiighcrty
embaaeed his sweetheart, Katie Burke,
and fell back and expired. It was dis
covered that a long nets lie in the girl's
dress had pierced his heart.
Arrangements have tiewn made for
Gordon's slag** to carry tin* lhiws.*n
I'.agle mail on tin- I htw son-Forty mile
stretch. George Briuiston, the con
tra) tor, will cover the Stretch from F.agtv
!)■ Fortymdc.
Press dispatches say Well mail will
taum-h hiss airship for it* trial trip in
the spring. I « s | idea. The <langer
is nioetiy in the fall
Big Pump for Coal Creek.
Dawson News: A }>ixmj> that will
handle 8o0 gallons of water a minute
was shipped tlii^- week from Dawson to
the Sourdough coal mine, to be used in
pumping the water in operation of the
property Two smaller pumps have
been in use in the mine, and this large
one will assist in the more rapid devel
opment. The mines are being operated
this winter, and will have quantities of
coal ready for shipment as soon as nav
igation opens. The pump was from the
Klondike Thawing Machine Company.
The extraordinary high prices for tin
have initiated energetic prospecting for
new deposits in North America, says
the Mining World. It is not an easy
matter to identify tin ore, especially in
localities where other minerals are plen
tiful and closely resemble tin.
The Yukon consolidated Company
lias oOO men at work on Twclvemile anil
will increase the number to 1,000 next
summer. Laborers receive $4 a day and
board and carpenters $7 a day and
board.
Wizard Edison lias declared that he
will never carry on any more work for
the money that is in it. Neither will
Rockefeller: lie’s after the money that
is out of it.
A scientist declares that in a few more
centuries the red-headed girl will dis
appear. It she does it is a safe bet that
the bald-headed congressman will not
answer at roll call.
An effort is said to be under way to
divide the State of Washington.
Easter Sunday, March SI.