RIVER CLOSED
SATURDAY
Ice Stopped About 10 P M. and
Left Over a Mile of Open
Water in Front of Town.
After running iee twenty one days,
tlie Yukon river elo~ed Saturday night,
Nov. 10. At 10: lit) the eliannel in front
of town was seen to he clearing, and
daylight Sunday morning revealed solid
ice across the river from the month of
l!ig Miuook up and from the bend below
town dow n as far as the river is in view,
with a stretch of open water in the
channel extending for more than a mile
in front of town.
The ice ran longer than in ordinary
years and the water is seldom so low at
the close. These facts, coupled with
the light snowfall up to the present,
indicate that the high water of this
year will not be repeated in 11HJ7.
People are generally glad that the
close has come, with a prospect of a
speedy beginning of uninterrupted travel
over the river trail and the consequent
reliability of arrival and departure of
mail.
The average closed season is approxi
mately (i'j months and the average open
season V.. months. Two weeks at the
closing and one week at the opening,
when so much ice is running that for
all practical purposes the river is virtu
ally closed, might justly be added to the
closed season, which leaves an average
season of open and unobstructed water
of about 4 months and 3 weeks.
Four months and 12 days elapsed be
tween the arrival of the first steamboat
and the departure of the last one this
year.
Following are the dates on which the
ice started and stopped each year as far
b ick as the events have been recorded:
Year. Ojxm•
1S0& May 17.
1M» May 22.
1900 May IS.
1901 May 24.
J9o2 MaJ .-1
Clo*e.
Oct 2"
Ni»'. »'»
Nov. A
Nov. 9
Veili. Open.
11**-May 19.
19(4 Mur 11.
19 A May 1*.
I'.Ui May l;l.
Cldbe.
Oat. 24
Nov. II
Oct. 29
Nov. l'l
THANKSGIVING
CELEBRATION
Eat, Dance, Be Merry and
Give Thanks.
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HOT SPRINGS TRADING POST
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
The finest resort north of Seattle. Natural Hot Springs. Renew your youth with
the waters of the local Spa. Superior bathing and hotel accommodations. Our
table supplied with all varieties of the finest vegetables raised in our own gardens.
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THE NOME COUNTRY
(With due acknowledgment to the Nome
Gold Digger.)
After the evidence on both pitied hail
been closed in the ease of the Scandia
Mining Syndicate vs. (ireenberg in the
district court at Nome, Oct. 10, and the
judge had instructed the jury that they
were at liberty to go to the claim and
examine the ground -for themselves,
Johnson, one of the strong witnesses for
the Scandia syndicate, 'walked up the
aisle and asked the court if he would be
at liberty to make a statement in regard
to his testimony. Judge Moore granted
the request. Johnson then took the
witness stand and stated that the testi
mony he had given in regard to the per
formance of the assessment work on the
northeast corner of the claim was false,
and that lie knew it was false when he
made the statement. lie said it was
the first time in his life lie had been on
the witness stand and he had not appre
ciated the gravity of the situation. He
also stated that w hen he made the affi
davit for the injunction proceedings to
the effect that the work had been done
on the northwest corner of the claim he
had informed Mr. Uilmore, the attorney
for the Scandia Mining Syndicate, that
that particular statement was false, and
that Mr. (iilmore had then told him he
had U tter let it go at that and not say
anything about it, but to stick to the
statement made in the affidavit or he
would get into very serious trouble.
The suit involved a strip of land of a
value of The jury was out
but twenty minutes and brought in a
verdict for defendants.
The Marauding Whalers.
Oct. 10 Judge Muon- signed an order
for A. II. Ilndtisli and Captain Newth,
charged with manslaughter and tape
res|#h*lively, to 1«* taken before l nited
Slated Commissioner Culler and lie re
committed, as it win found that these
crime*, having i*een cun in it ted on tin*
high -«•#-. were out of the jurisdiction of
the Ni-iiie court. The) were e.u*h com
mitted to ap|*car Indore the I fitted
Slates district court for the State of
\Vjtshim:toil. Newth was admitted to
hail in the stun of $o,inni and Bodtish in
the utiiful $7 .’**». The I mild* had Hot
Ihh-H tiled.
One Woman in Tin City.
A count of tin* i.os« - in tin Tin City
'Mctfui wade hy Ur. li'yitrgtr shown
that flier* are thirty-one men and only
one woman iti the camp. The woman
is \|r Harvey, who is m a Crgr ittetn*
tiri r» *|*ondhU' »«'*f 11»« la irn r of her
hindOinI ffom an nttiM‘1 «*f typhoid
fever. I Hiring tin* eiu*. i#l tinge of tin*
i|i«t e* \|rs l(arve) call***I up Hr. Vim
turd at Nome every day, anil by giving
him an intelligent description of the
patient’s symptoms he was enabled to
prescribe what treatment should be
given.
The stamp mill of the Bartels tin mine
is steadily pounding away, and unless
something unforeseen happens it will be j
kept in operation all winter. The ten
stamp mill of the I'nited States Alaska
Tin Mining Company has been put up,
but it will not he operated until next
spring, bv which time the management
hopes to have out sufficient ore to keep
the stamps running all summer.
Clary’s Igloo May Be Isolated.
W. (i. Halm, superintendent of con
struction of the Seward Peninsula Rail
road Company, passed through Mary’s
Igloo en route to the Hot Springs Oct.
11. He stated that the construction of I
tin1 road was being pushed, as rapidly as j
possible and that the line would be !
completed to Lane’s Landing in seven j
or eight days. The road passes twelve
miles distant from the Igloo, and there
is little doubt that this place will lie left
altogether out of the line of travel. It
is likely that the office of the recorder
and deputy I'nited States marshal will
be moved t" Acme's Landing next year.
It was judged by the number of people
passing the Igloo that there were very
few left in the Kougarok district, and
everything was insufferably dull.
DISTRUST NOW LURKS WHERE
FRIENDSHIP ERST DID DWELL
Responsibility for this story can not be
placed with certainty, but it is n fact that it
was not lieurd around Rampart until after
the recent visit of Hen linker from Hot
Springs.
Of all the products of the Hot Springs soil
Dad Kurslincr was proudest of his tobacco.
As the early summer days lenghthend the
beautiful green foliage of the precious
plants spread, and soon after continuous
day settled upon the Ian I Dad's i et crop
gladdened his eyes by bursting into Mower.
Nature »t the springs is no laggard. The
delicate little seed pods soon formed, and
then the deepening shinies of midnight gave
warning that the harvest time hid come,
bach spreading leaf was plucked and s] read
to dry in the vet profuse sunshine.
With the tirst light frost of autumn Dad
received u call from the grand sachem of
the tri!»e of Minto l ake. Pluming before
him a number of the crisp, dry leaves, the
proud fanner said:
The o|d chief Mlled and lighted his pi|»r.
took a couple of pull's. nimI gravels knocked
the contents out over the front of the stove.
What's the matter ion no like Vra‘"
ssked 11.nl in deep concern.
"I smoke unit white man's tobacco ' said
the chief, as he haughtily departed
Mutual distrust now lurks In two hearts
a here friendship erst did dwell.
Sn»»ir Hhr left g |stir «d Initt* til lit*'
Yullw NriM nltii‘1*.
BUT FEW PEOPLE
LEAVE FAIRBANKS
A private message has been received
here from Fairbanks stating that but
few people have left that place for the
( handler, and that those going went
by way of Circle.
The truth of the message can be
vouched for. It disposes of the report
circulated here more than a week ago to*
the effect that some hundreds of people
had already left Fairbanks for the new
diggings.
Answer to a Query.—The distance
from Rampart to St. Michael, by open
water, is 1)81 miles; Rampart to Dawson,
1)20; Dawson to Whitehorse, .330.
Attention, Y. 0.0. P.
There will he a regular meeting at Ram
part. Saturday. Nov. 24. at S p. m. A full
attendance is requested.
M. W. SINCLAIR, Secretary.
The
Miners Store
•lust received a full anil complete
line of
Men’s Furnishing
Goods.
SPECIALTIES:
Underwear,
Overshirts,
Socks
AI ho a etmijilete line of
Egys, Potatoes
and Onions
Groceries,