Newsy Items of Interest from Various Sources
The N. C. steamer Leah, lost on the
Yukon below Kaltag a month ago, was
worth $(>0,000.
Immense petroleum fields are said to
exist along the Athabasca river in Al
berta province, Canada,
Scarcity of labor lias somewhat de
layed work on the eastern portion of the
Grand Trunk Pacific railway.
The White Pass steamer Columbian,
from Whitehorse for Dawson, lost Sept.
26, had but one sack of mail, it being
local.
A newspaper report is current that
both the Canadian Pacific and the new
Grand Trunk Pacific railroads will estab
lish rail connection with Seattle.
The Yukon territorial court has de
cided that the site of Klondike City, a
Dawson suburb, is a genuine townsite
and locations made there for mining
purposes are void.
Two men arrived in Fairbanks Oct. 1
' over the winter trail, only sixtten days
from Valdez. They sav conditions of
.travel over the trail this winter will be
a great improvement over last.
According to the Whitehorse Star the
progress in mining in southern Yukon
territory will be phenomenal next year.
That paper says the Conrad Consolidated
mines will employ 600 men this winter.
The News says some of the Circle
miners have found it to their advantage
to outfit in Dawson this fall. About 600
men w ill be in the Circle district for the
winter, most of whom will work with
wood fires.
Good pay has lieen struck on the left
limit of Cleary creek at 14 below. If a
paystreak can be located on that limit
the output for the famous creek next
season will show a handsome increase
over the present year.
Near Cle Klum, Wash., last month
the Northern Pacific crews who were
drilling for coal heard a strange noise
while at supper, and when they went
out they found that their drill boiler
and boiler house had dropped out of
sight into the earth.
“Dutch Lena,” afterward Mrs. Hilty,
one of the pioneer hotel operators of
Skagway and later operator of the Trav
elers Home roadhouse near the mouth
of Hear creek, on the Hunker road,«ight
miles above lHlwson, dmp]>ed dead fiom
heart disease at Skagway recently.
As a result of experiments being car
r.ed on at the old Lewis and Clark fair
grounds at Poitland, Ore., lasseiner
s eel has lieen produced from ordinary
black sand found at the mouth of the
Columbia river. Whether this reduc
tion can la- carried on on a profitable
basis has not Isen determined.
J. S. Harding has lieen ap|s>iuted
deputy marshal at hairlwnks to succeed
Joe Dillow, who has stepped into the
position formerly occupied by Chief
Deputy Hey Hold son. Mr. Harding has
lieen a pioneer in railroading, having
lieen with the White Pass and later
with the Tatiana Mines railway.
Paul St-naland, defaulting president
of the Milwaukee Avenue State Hank of
t'hleago, immediately on Is'ing brought
buck from M>iCis'eo, pleaded guilty to
charges of ends jMleincnt and was sen
tenced to tbe penitentiary under the
indeterminate sentence law lie stay*
there until the proper (slkullim think
he has l>ea*tt punished sufficiently.
The physicians who declared Esther
Mitchell and Maud Crellield insane and
thereby prevented their trial for the
murder of George Mitchell at Seattle,
have been unable to collect the fees for
their services, it Wing held that their
action was illegal. Prosecuting Attor
ney Mackintosh advises against the pay
ment of the charge.
Eight years ago Adolph Pittman, one
of the owners of the California Brewery
in San Francisco, became enraged at his
wife and told her that never again would
he speak to her. lie kept his word all
these years, and driven to distraction at
living in the same house with a man
who maintained self-imposed silence,
she at last told the story to Judge Gra
ham and was granted a divorce on the
ground of cruelty.
Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, has
stated that the American occupation of
Cuba will be permanent. He declared,
during the course of a sj>eech at Minne
apolis, that the United States would be
foolish to again permit the island to be
come a source of danger, and that, if let
alone, it would go along with its blood
shedding indefinitely. He said that the
government had, in the tirst place, been
induced to give the island up through
the machinations of scheming capitalists
and weakminded theorists.
General E. M. Carr has sent in his !
resignation as United States commis
sioner at Fairbanks, but lias been pre
sided upon to stay with the office a
little while longer. His law practice
demands his whole attention. People;
of Fairbanks are guessing who his suc
cessor will bo. Abe Spring and Ed!
Stier (former commissioner, present dis- j
trict court clerk,) are spoken of, but it
is thought by some that no lawyer will
be appointed. Central Carr is a pioneer
in interior Alaska, having spent the
winter of 1882 at Fort Reliance with
Jack McQuesten and Joe Ladner. He
had con e out from Arizona and over
the Chilkoot pass. One of the Seheittlin
brothers, also from Arizona, had that,
same year come in with the steamer:
New Racket and si>ont the winter of
1882 at the mouth of the Tatiana. Gen
eral Carr went out the next year and
did not return to Alaska again until
1897, when he became interested in
Rampart district. He e)ient the winters
of 1897-1*8-99 here, and hud interests on
Little Mit.ook creek till the summer
just past, when he sold out to John IV.
Duncan.
Walter Wellman is back in Paris per
sonally superintending the reconstruc
tion of his airship, which will contain
some ini|M>rtant new features which he
believes will increase his chances of
success 100 jier cent, and decrease the
uncertainties of aerial navigation the
world over in an equal ratio. At the
time he was to start for the pole last
summer hi* machine was not as |>erfcct
even as some in use in various jsirts of
the world. One of his party asserts that
it required much |ierauanion on the |sirt
of the rest of the expedition to prevent
Wellman essaying the journey, even
though the machine proved faulty in its
experimental Mights at the station, lie
was much mortilied when assured that
if he started it would he against the
judgment of all, would invite disaster,
and |a'rhapM uselessly delay the discov
ery of the |mli' for half a century. The
work *o far performed is not 1st, hut
the knowledge thus gamed will assure a
more |s-rfect |>re|«iratiun next year.
The rejx>rt on the plague in India in
1905, lately issued at Calcutta, shows
that entire districts were swept. Over
300,000 persons died from its effects.
The Muttra district, which was the
worst hit, had 05,(544 deaths, against
4,185 in 1904. It is believed that the
rat flea is chiefly responsible for the
spread of the plague, and war is being
waged against the rat. Here is the rat
death record: Barilly, 215,100 killed;
Allahabad, 77,345; Bedan, 00,241; Agra,
57,711. .Most municipalities gave away
rat traps to the inhabitants.
The legislative assembly of West Aus
tralia has passed a resolution declaring
that “the union of this state with the
rest of the Commonwealth of Australia
is detrimental to the interests of West
ern Australia, and the time has now
arrived for submitting to the people by
vote the question of withdrawing.” The
premier said this vote was due to the
rejection by the commonwealth of the
projsjsed survey for a transcontinental
railroad. The articles of union provide
for a severance from such union by a
vote taken in the same manner, and
after due notice for discussion. The
representatives of the state apprised the
island parliament that this would be
the outcome of its neglect to carry out
its promised program, and the legisla
ture, which instructed the delegates,
proposes to back up their words.
Two prospectors mimed Jack Donahue
and Frank Henry had an exciting tight
with an American eagle not long ago on
the Intnachuk river about seven miles
from Peering. The eagle was perched
on a high bluff. Henry took a shot
wnii a snotgun ami tile Diru came tum
bling down. They went to pick up the
feathered -monster, hut found that he
had been only stunned, and a terrific
battle between the bird on one side and
the prospectors on the other took place.
The eagle flopped its immense wings
and nearly blinded its two opponents.
It followed this by taking a grip on one
of them with its lieak and on the other
with its claws. It bit out a small piece
from Henry’s breast and severely lacer
ated him in other places. More than
half of Donahue’s clothes were torn off,
and his face and laxly were quite se
verely lacerated. Henry used the shot
gun with good effect and Donahue got
busy with a club. Between them they
managed to subdue their adversary, a
well-directed blow at its head from the
shotgun breaking its neck. Stretched
out, the bird’s wings measured t’> feet !*,
inches from tip to tip.
A bulletin issued by the department
of commerce and lalxir at Washington
Sept. tiS shows that the trade of the
t'nited States with its noncontiguous
territory amounted in the fiscal year
just ended to 91!W,.K)4,511. The value of
gold of domestic production ahip|»ed
from Alaska to the t'nited States in
11106 was 912,500,000, against 9b,000,»**l
the preceding year, ami of foreign gold
97,500,000, against 910,750,000, this for
eign gold Wing the prialuct of miges in
the adjacent British territory *hip|»-d to
the t'nited States through Alaska. The
figures show an increase in shipments to
all of the noncontiguous territories n
cept tin- Philippine islands. The ship
ments to Alaska for the fiscal year are
9l.\tNNt,INN), againsl III,500,001) in PNKV;
to Porto Itieo, 9P».tNN).l»»t against 9ld,
tNNl.uOO; to Hawaii, 91-.•'*»>.'mu, against
9ll.75U.tNlt, and to the Philippines f-'v
s«M*»> against 9* JftO.tNNt Proto Alaska
The
Miners Store
Just received a full and complete
line of
Men’s Furnishing
Goods.
SPECIALTIES:
Underwear,
Overshirts,
Socks
Also a complete line of
Eggs, Potatoes
Groceries
and Onions
Mike Engels
(Sourdough Mike)
FREIGHTING
and PACKING
To all the Creeks
(1 nr yni I one or those people whov
AllL I UU seldom write home? \
They will know you are all right if you I
send them the YUKON VALLEY NEWS. I
Mail yours or let us send one weekly, f
the shipments to the United States show
a slight redaction, due to a decrease in
canned salmon shipped to the United
States from ‘.*2,500,000 pounds in 1905 to
36,500,000 in 1906, the value being about
pR,000,000 less. From Porto Rico the
shipments to the United States were
over 119,000,000, against $15,500,000 in
1905. The increase occurs chiefly in
sugar and cigars, the value of the sugar
sent to the United States being $14,500,
IKK), against little over $12,000,000 in 1905,
and of eigais $11,000,000 against a little
over $2,000,000 in 1905.
Assessment work on mining claims is
now in order and the wise man will not
delay this highly important requirement
of the mining laws. The Mining Journal
will at this time venture a little advice
to the claim holder. In doing your work
this season see to it that it is done in a
manner which will add to the general
development of the property. Do not
confine yourself to a hundred dollars'
worth of work to a claim, but do five
times that amount if it lie jiossible for
you to do s<>. Ojien up your property so
as to make every dollar’s worth of work
tell toward making it a shipping mine.
If it is your plan to sell your loadings it
is important to do enough work to prove
that you have something valuable to
sell. Mining is a legitimate business,
ami when you uncover a valuable ore
Issly you have something to sell which
is us staple as the farmer's wheat in the
bin or his cattle in his stalls. Mining
men do not buy holes in the ground;
they want values and they must lie in
sight: so il you have a mine to sell un
cover your ore tssly. Show its length
and its breadth, ami if possible go down
and show its depth. When all this tuts
Iwen done you will not only he able to
find a buyer, lull you can get your price.
— Ketchikan Mining Journal.