LITTLE SO FAR
FROM INNOKO
Few Coming Out, Which is Taken
as a Good Indication by
Some.
Arrivals on tlie Seattle Xo. 3 lust
Sunday lmd nothing that could he clas
sified as news from the Innoko. There
was no disposition hv any to give the
country a black eve—and about the only
thing reported that could be construed
in a favorable light is the fact, pretty
well substantiated, that nobody is com
ing out. Where so many have gone and
none have returned with hard-luck sto
ries, reason the sanguine ones, there
must be something to hold them.
In an interview in the Fairbanks
Times of June 38, Max Simel, a loner
river trader, said the only gold taken
out of the Innoko thus far was the $o(H)
taken out by two Finlanders last year,
and that he had purchased $300 of this
sum. He said the Finlanders kept two
nuggets which were afterward exhib
ited in Nome and were the cause of the
stampede. “To those who have the time
and money,” said Mr. Simel, “it is mv
advice to take a look at the country. It
might be the makings of a good camp,
lint I do not want to see poor men go in
' there and face a long, hard winter, for
it is certain most of them could not get
any gold this summer, and they would i
be ‘up against it’ hard and plenty.” lie
had not heard of any rich quartz strikes,
unauthenticated rumors of which are
abroad.
It is interesting to note here that the
occurrence of placer gold in the Innoko
gravel is mentioned in a paper by I.. M.
Prindle in the 1’nited States (ioologieal
Survey’s “ Report on Progress of Inves-1
ligations of Mineral Resources of Alaska
in l'JOo.” In the same work, in treating
of the Fairbanks district, Alfred 11.
Brooks says: “Of s|>ecial inti rest is the
development of some placers on Said a
river, indicating a wider distribution of
the working placers than previously
known. Of still greater interest is the
reported strike of very rich gravels
southwest of the Tanana in the Kan
tishna valley. This would seem to in
dicate that the gold belt turns to the
southwest, and at least suggests that
the gold rejmrtcd in the Innoko River
basin may lie derived front a continua
tion of tin* same belt of rocks.”
Billy Midgley Is in It.
S. K. Ileeter has reccixcd a letter from
William Midgley, dated June 13, which
Mkie Engels
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and PACKING
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Guaranteed
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A. B. C. *1
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Agents.
TWO SUICIDES IN ONE DAY
Men With Similar Hallucinations Destroy
Themselves the Same Hour.
1’ietro Avignone, Italian, 24 years old,
committed suicide lit Noble’s roadhouse,
mouth of Kureka creek, last Wednesday
morning at 2 o’chx’k, by shooting him
self in the neck.
He had been at the roadhouse two or
three days and his actions denoted that
he was mentally unbalanced. He was
apparently possessed by a hallucination
that he was being searched for by the
police.
Tuesday he left' the roadhouse, lmt
returned in the evening. He refused to
go inside at bedtime, but remained near
and was in the yard when he killed
hi mself.
Commissioner Ballou and Deputy
Marshal Drake went over in response to
a telegram and held an inquest Thurs
day, June 27. The body vat afterward
buried.
The man bad on Ids person $327 in
money, a gold watch with nugget chain
and a handsome nugget fob, and bank
book of the Canadian Bank of Com
merce at Dawson, showing a withdrawal
of $;’,0 April it and a balance of $l7fi.
There was also in his pocket a letter,
in Italian, addressed to I,urcnzu Avig
none, 10,tV4<) Curti p rimps Curtis’ wve.,
Chicago. III. The Utter has been trans
lated as follow -:
To Cordogio ae 1'rani icho la Caterina:
Dear Brother: 1 will send my gold
watch and chain. 1 believe I am going
to die, because I have no money. I’oor
father and mother, when you receive
this bad new — but I am ‘tire that the
pdice lire after me anti will kill me.
tnssll.ye, dear brother, father and mo
ther. We will all meet in heaven. Voiir
brother, Pietro.
I have got fltl'l in the Bank of Com
tnerce in Dawson. If von will send to
Dawson they will send it to you right
away. And everything I have got in
my pocket 1 will send home to my fam
ily for souvenirs to my memory. < tool
live. 1’lease all the family be happy
and take advice from me and do not do
as I have done. Yours forever,
Pietro.
I have $600 in my pocket and after
my funeral expenses are paid send the
rest, to my family please. 1 hope some
one will do this for me. Goodbye.
At the same hour that Avignone shot
himself, Isak I.inhinen, Finn, suicided
by jumping into the Tanana river from
the deck of the steamer Tanana at a
a point two miles below Baker Creek.
I.inhinen hoarded the boat at Tanana
town and on the wav up the river looked
wild eyed and his actions were so un
usual that Captain Gray instructed two
men to keep a watch on him without
letting him suspect that they were do
ing so.
A lirte had been sent ashore in order
to make a landing, w hen the man. w ith
a wild yell, rushed to the side of the
boat. The mate caught him. but he
w renched himself loose and jumped into
the water. He started to swim down
stream. Men shouted to him to pull
for the shore, hut he did not heed them.
A boat was at once lowered and he was
pursued; hut he had got so much the
start and was such a strong swimmer
that lie had gone a mile Indore he was
overtaken. Ju-t as the l«>at'* crew
were ready to reach for him, he threw
up his hands and sank.
Nothing could Is* seen of the ImhIv. It
may come to the surface and is* found
later.
*«>•*, iii |Mtrt: "I am in tin1 •*tniii|>iiti*
tolmim** i r«'k, Hi*' ln>tttlwat<r* of tin*
innoku rivrt. I tr»vi*li*il JW inili* with
Uut in t*n iluvi. Will if*» tliri'v tiny*
m**r** l*y Imut ami tlnn |*mk »i*ty milt *
acr•**'•< iimntrv. By tin* viinter ir.l it
i*i tlirii* ilny*' mii**h from In if. It t
*l*-i*|i wail r iiji l*i In r* ant atviiiittiniMii
will lint* ii«' In m bln u|i t« il>« iiuHttli iif
tin: UMilwv Tin* rivi-t rm .» thmnyh a
l< «tT (umirt ami i» vary rnmM. II
there ever wax a voiintry where |vii k
xtn-k ix nmlril it will lie here. I un
ilerxtanil there ix I'leiity nl timber. I
w ill try awl tfel there uverlaml. Tn Ini*
lnw the river nrntiml Imtn here it ix n*>t
lex* tluin nitr* nrntr. AImHI xeven
|xilinii Ix .lt. .»\. ra«iin! In melt eaeli,
j«**x here every iUj."
Mr. Miilah v h it It »t«|x*rt laxt winter
to jfii In the Mekwi, awl thix ix I lie lirt
that wax hranl Imbi him
From the Records
LOCATIONS.
June 14. F. William Warner, 3a Omega.
June 10.--Louis Kilias, 6a Slate.
June 19.—Joe Anicich, lot at Tuuaua.
June 19.—F. G. Manley, water right on Boston
creek.
June 19. - Association claims as follows:
F. G. Manley et al., Madison claim, Hoot
lanunu.
Otto Kroehle et al., Waldorf cluim, Hoot
lanana.
G. T. Edgar et al,, Renton claim, Hootla
F. G. Manley et al., Bamboo claim, Hoot
lanana.
Otto Kroehle et al., Roller claim, Hootla*
F. G. Manley et al., Gem cluim, Hootlanana.
Otto Kroehle et al., Rose claim, Hootla
G. T. Edgar et al., Gibson claim, Hootla
Otto Kroehle et al.. Queen claim, Denver.
G. T. Edgar et al., Wrangle claim, Ele
phant gulch.
F. G. Manley et al.. Wonder claim, Tontine.
G. T. Edgar et al., Jolly claim, Bull Run.
G. T. Edgar et al.. Oxford claim, Ohio crk.
Otto Kroehle et al., Kent claim, Ohio.
F. G. Manley et al., Paris claim, bench be
tween Ohio and Denver.
F. G. Manley et al., Dixie claim, henoh be
tween Denver and Deep.
Otto Kroehle et al.. Birch claim, bench be
tween Deep and Blue Canyon creeks.
F. G. Manley et al., National claim, Mon
tana creek.
G. T. Edgar et al., Palace claim. Montana.
F. G. Manley et al., Terry claim, Gibson
(r. T. Edgar et al., Sound claim. Gibson crk.
Otto Kroehle et al.. Leschi claim, Montana.
F. G. Manley et al., Madrona claim. Mon*
G. T. Edgar et al., Grand claim, North Fork
of Montana.
Otto Kroehle et al., Spungle claim, l>ench
between Elephant and Tontine.
F. G. Manley et al., Boston claim, Eureka
und Glen.
Otto Kroehle et al.. Hiawatha claim, bench
between Doric and Booth by.
F. G. Manley et al., Doris claim, bench be
tween Skookum and Joe Bush.
G. T. Edgar et al.. Iris claim, bench be
tween Seattle and Skookum.
F. G. Manley et al.. Harvard claim, bench
between Booth by and Seattle.
G. T. Edgar et al.. Fortuna claim. Pioneer
F. G. Manley et al,, El Monte claim. Pioneer
bench between Eureka and Doric.
Otto Kroehle et al.. Melrose claim, bench
between Booth by and Skookum.
June 24. -R. A. Conley et al., association
claim, Big Boulder creek
TRANSFERS.
June 1- Charles Nelson to James Climie, one
thin! interest in No. 1 Joe Hush: one ninth
interest in No. 2 Joe Rush; one fourth in
terest in bench claim paralleling No. 2. nml
one third interest in lay on No. 2. Joe Rush.
Also one third interest in water right from
North Fork and one third interest in w ater
right from Joe Rush creek.
June 1.—John K. Hoglund t * * James Climie,
half interest in pup claim. Pioneer, be
tween Joe Rush and North Fork.
June'i. From John Karer to M. E. Cooper,
town lot in Tununa.
June 5. Pete Peterson to M. E. Cooper, lot
at Tunana.
June 1.1. J. R. Frank and Robert (iraham to
H. Cliadw ick. No. t» Little Mi nook.
June 14. Rensely Collinette to Charles R.
Alien. No. 9 Hunter.
June 20.—T. O. Isley to George F. Parsons,
Swan I.arson. Charles Nelson and J. W.
Duncan. No. 7a Little Minook.
LEASES.
June 2o. John W. Duncan to George F. Par
sons. Swan Lar-on and Charles Nelson, No.
Ha Little Minook. for five years.
June 20. Rampart Gold Mining Company to
George F. Parsons. Swan Larson and Cnaa.
Nelson. 9a Little Minook, for five years.
The Best Spring Alterative
SASSAFRAS TEA
Pleasant for Breakfast
Ready for Use
BED NETS
To Keep Mosquitoes Out
BUHACH SliSito
FOR SALE AT
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