PAY STRUCK ON
LITTLEMINOOK
Bob Meston Runs Onto Money in
Rampart District.
Special to the Newt.
Rampart, Dec. 1.—Bob Meston has
struck pay on 3 above, Little Minook.
He will use a self-dumper and work
above.
News comes from Seattle of the mar
riage of Angus Hebb to Mrs. Elliot
Gaetz. Angus Hebb and Mr. Gaetz
came to Rampart in 1898 and up to about
three years ago were partners. Mr.
Gaetz went outside for his health. He
was then married, and died about two
years ago. Hebb and Gaetz both made
a homestake here.
Three Indians arrived here from Ste
vens village with moose meat. They re
port Little Adam and Little Dick have
gone to the Hosiana, taking the cutoff
from Stevens village. The natives say
all the Hosiana stampeders got their
outfits to within eight miles of Pitka
Fork and were waiting for snow to move
further. Morris Farrel got two moose,
and the stampeders told the Indians
they wanted more. Tom Antonson ex
pects to return to Rampart around the
holidays.
Clement Anderson and Julia Ander
son were married here recently. They
have moved to Little Minook Jr., where
McLean & Anderson are taking out a pay
dump.
Fthe Northland!
Valdez will have a Y. M. C. A.
It costs $1,500 a month to run Cor
dova.
Whitehorse on bids receives wood for
$6.25 a cord.
Treadwell mill adds 200 stamps, mak
ing it largest mill in the world. Now
has 1,100 stamps. Homestake mine, S.
D., is next largest with 1,000 stamps.
C. E. Edgar, ex-soldier in jail at Ju
neau, accused of highway robbery at
Skagway.
Juneau Dispatch says Shackleford will
leave Alaska and practice law at Tacoma.
Pay found on benches of Livingstone
creek, Whitehorse district. Five men
take out $780 in one week.
Work of cleaning out Yukon channel
at Hellgate and Kirkman completed this
fall.
Highwayman at Skagway holds up
two men and secures 13 cents. He will
be prosecuted.
Latouche, Valdez country, which for
years was on the bum, is on the boom.
Over 20 blocks of sidewalks were built
in Whitehorse last summer, but so far
as known there is only one “stroller”
there.
Attorney Black of Dawson leaves for
British Columbia to practice law.
Railway may be built into Rainy Hol
low district back of Haines on Lynn
canal.
Dr. Zera Strong of Dawson locates in
Victoria. “Doc” is a Dawson ex-barber
who recently sold out his Last Chance
property to Treadgold for $23,000.
Get your orders for Christmas pres
ents in early. Geo. Bemis will be very
busy from now on. * I
Anton Zema has quit his job as
clothes stretcher and wash wringer at
Lee’s laundry. He wanted to compete
with Washerman Beach, but couldn’t.
Tony made $15 a month, and claims he
earned it. His energy won the admira
tion of all. With plenty of sprinting
room he would take a running jump at
a pile of shirts and sox, and grapple
with them. Torrents of water could be
seen spouting in all directions, including
the Zebra’s face, One day he nearly
drowned out the whole family, and so
was asked to resign. That’s how he
quit.
Sergt. Barksdale is rapidly recovering
at the hospital where he was operated
on for appendicitis.
A member of the wireless corps met
the greatest disappointment of his life
last week, when someone sent him a
fake invitation to the “squaw dance”
which didn’t take place. The man,
whose name has a misty air about it,
peeped into every door on Second ave.
to discover where the dance was going
to be pulled off.
Sergt. Cox is still gloating over that
story about his army. He sent 40 copies
of the paper to his numerous girls out
side. The army has disbanded. All the
handouts along the trail disappeared
with the onward march of the men.
Birch-bark postal cards, with Alaskan
designs burnt on them, gold-dust gar
nishments. Leave orders at the News
office.
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back. Remember this when buying a
present of Geo. Bemis.
Location notices for sale at the News.
“GET THE HABIT!”
PETALUMA Eggs are the Best— TRY THEM !
JUST RECEIVED!
A Full Line of Children’s FELT SHOES.
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NORTHERN COMMERCIAL CO.
Highest Prices Paid for Raw Fur.
Killed His Steno.
Alva, Okla., Dec. 1.—T. L. Miller, a
wealthy merchant, is in jail here charg
ed with murdering his stenographer,
Mabel Gates, aged 19. The girl’s body
was found in Miller’s office. Investiga
tion showed she was pregnant.
FAIRBANKS HAS
A MURDER CASE.
Fairbanks, Dec. 1.— Conrad Olsen, a
teamster, is in jail charged with mur
dering i»ave Nagel, aged 48, who died at
St. Joseph’s hospital last week. In a
dispute over a gambling debt in Jim
Morgan’s pool room at Olnes, Sept. 17.
Olsen hit Nagel with a heavy snuff box.
Olsen was arrested and fined by the
commissioner at Chatanika for assault
and battery. This conviction does not
prevent prosecution on the murder
charge.
LAWN TENNIS
AT THE POST
Officers Defying Nature With Their
Arctic Antics.
With the temperature at times 30 be
low zero, the officers at Fort Gibbon
play lawn tennis on the parade ground
displaying the hardihood of real sour
doughs.
In the face of an Arctic blast, they are
showing the officers in the states a trick
or two and scouting the predictions that
they would freeze to death in the cold,
cold north.
Generally they are muffled to the ears
when they start playing, but, ere long,
fur caps, fur mitts and heavy overcoats
are cast to the wind as they warm up to
the game.
Capt. Knowles, fat and chubby, leads
the bunch, bringing down balls 10 and
12 feet in the air with the ease of a real
tennis fiend. .
Lieut. Fooks can be heard shouting
“love one, love two, love three, love four,
love five,” and so on, until the others
stop him in disgust at these expressions
of inconstancy.
Lieut. West manages to get a whack
at the rubber once in a while, when
Lieut. Kingman is compelled to wallow
in the snow to find the ball. Kingman
has suggested that they muster in a bat
talion of dog robbers to act as caddies.
Lieut. Nulsen makes a pretence at
playing, while the little one in Quarters
No. 5, w'hose name we’ve forgotten, goes
after the low balls.
Taken, all in all, the officers’ game is
a sharp though not a crooked one.
A FIXED HABIT.
He always makes a hit
With all the lovely misses.
The reason? This is it:
He stutters when he kisses.
—By Hedrick the Blacksmith.
This is an ad. “Slim” didn’t pay
i cash but hacked a chunk out of our head
“Yukon Valley News,” so we could in
| sert the words “Farthest North of the
t»0,000 Papers in the World.”
“Slim” once had a first name but lie
accidentally smashed it on his anvil.
The bellows bellowed it away—so there
you are. He does horseshoeing, repair
ing and other light-hearted work, for
“cash only,”—sometimes on tick.
____
HOT MESSAGE IS
WIRED TO PINGHOT.
Seattle, Dee. 1.—Sec. Chesurn, Katal
la Board of Trade, has wired Pinchot,
“the Great Conserver of Alaska Resour
ces,” to secure of the government per
mission for the marooned passengers of
the str. Portland to cut timber enough
to keep from freezing to death, and to
be allowed to kill enough porcupines to
keep from starving. It seems the Port
land sank but the passengers \vere got
ten ashore.
Watterson Insane.
Kingston, N. Y., Dec. 1.—Ewing Wat
terson, son of the editor of the Louis
ville Courier-Journal, who last summer
assaulted a saloonkeeper, now pleads in
sanity.
Though enlarged, the News can still
be mailed first class for 2c.
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