Local and General Notes
Joe Anicich came up from Tana nil on
the Cudahy and will be here a day or
two.
A. II. Wood came over from Thanks
giving Monday and will remain on this
side.
C. P. Kalning has gone to Hot Springs
from Thanksgiving to recuperate after a
spell of lagrippe.
The rains for a week have been daily,
but spotted. Big Minook overflowed its
banks Monday.
Mrs. M. P. Fleischman arrived on the
Lavelle Young yesterday morning after
a winter spent in California.
The X. C. store is expecting a delivery
cart down on the Sarah. It will be the
first vehicle of the kind to appear here.
Hunter creek people have found their
freight bills cut in half since it is possi
ble to have their freight carried out on
wheels.
Ci. A. Ketterer, formerly a well-known
citizen of Rampart, came up on the
Cudaliy today and said he will remain
here a few days.
The moose calf recently brought down
from Mike lless river and secured by
Sam Ileeter is intended to he euhibited
at Seattle in 190th
Superintended! fleeter commenced
work on the Minook load Monday. The
crew numbers about twenty men. Mrs.
Wood conducts the mess.
11. C. Ludvigsen, a well-known miner
who left here last summer for Fairbanks,
was on the Cduahy going to take a
chance on Woodchopja-r creek.
Mrs. Al. Dalton was aboard the La
ve! le Young yesterday morning. She
expected to get off at Baker Creek and
join her husband on the outside.
Charles Fehring and Fred Raining
started back across the divide last night,
after attending to certain business con
nected with the estate of the late George
K rusting.
The furnished residence of J. B. Win
gat ■ will be raffled July 4. It is a nice
place and the kitchen furniture and all
Household accessories go with it. One
hundred tickets, $5 each.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Boucher expect
to start for the outside in a few days.
They will visit Mr. Boucher's relatives
and friends in Ontario, and will return
t > the north at the close of summer.
Ed McCormick came up from bis fish
camp Monday with the first king salmon
of the season, lie had caught four tine
ones. One of them weighed 40 i>ounds.
The run of whitefish lately has h-on so
light that it was mces-arv to u-e two of
the salmon for dag feed.
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F. C. MANLEY, PROPRIETOR
Harry Rurruss arrivcil last night from
Thanksgiving. It is his first appearance
on this side since the mosquitoes got
bad. Jack Spencer was left in charge of
the Thanksgiving sunshine factory. Mr.
Rurruss jays that plenty of water on
Thanksgiving has enabled Jerome Chute
to accomplish a great deal in the way of
groundsluicing.
Herman Heine, of Heine, Kilias &.
Dietrich, laymen on Little Minook last
winter, will go outside soon and will
make his home in San Francisco. He
says he has been north a long time and
has worked hard without laying up any
money. We will all wish him prosper
ity in the sunny south. Louis Kilias,
another of the laymen, will summer
W' rk 5 Slate.
The Vnited States transport Jeff Davis
passed up at midnight Sunday night <m
the way to Eagle to meet Colonel Cham
berlain, who is on a tour of inspection
of Alaskan military posts. It had been
thought here that perhaps (iovernor
Hoggatt and other notables who are in
tending to tour Alaska might be at
Eagle in time to board the Davis, but
there has been no information received
t > that effect.
Whisky George, a native who came
down from Beaver river more than a
week ago, said he saw two men working
on a high-up Beavtr tributary, across
the divide not far from Quail creek.
He saiil the men had found gold, but he
didn’t know how much. From the de
s iription it is pretty certain the men are
Fred Cassidy and Shorty Olson, who
were intending to work tins summer at
the mouth of Quail. George fully be
lieves paying diggings will yet be found
in the Heaver country.
1 >r. Hu lgin, accompanied by O. P.
Goss, left in a poling beat last Friday
for bis ranch at Kay liiver Hot Springs
The ibvt cr projii.-cs to put a motor boat
on Kay riv< r. The stream is easily
navigable t * the lower end of the can
yon, which is only three miles by land
from the springs. The canyon itfelf can
In' made navigable for small (mats by
blasting out two or three recks. At
present the springs are considered out
of the way, but with the development
that i« «ure to take place in this valley
they will undoubtedly become noted
for their pleasant and fertile surround
ings. _
Jas. T. t lallugher, of It.wine Wis., has
written to tlm jsc*tmaster seeking in
formation of his brother. C. I*, tialla
ifio-r. who n-aallv writes bis name IVter
t’. tiaUagher. His hight IS als'Ot A feet
'* inches, weight from |Hi in iso poo role,
bn m l shoulder*<1. rather light com
plosion, hght moustache iih linesI t<> lv
a trilb' •tnbbv. of .pie t dt-|*s|li"ii ||(.
has been at Isiason, b>rtvnnlr, Vane
and r I liana -lime |mi, tail bus not tes|,
beard from in two sears.
Nothern News and Notes
In one day 1,750 persons sailed for
Nome. The earlier steamers could not
carry the crowds.
The Consolidated company is plan
ning to dig and fully prepare this season
four new dredge pits in the vicinity of
Dawson.
The new and rigid Sunday observance
law which caused such a stir in eastern
Canada is to be strictly enforced in Yu
kon territory.
In an election at Skagway a proposi
tion for the city to lease the Northwest
Light and Power Company's plant was
defeated by a vote of nearly il to 1.
The two first steamers to get through
from Whitehorse to Dawson brought Li
tons of mail each. Some of it was pretty
old and a large part of it was deotined
for Alaska points.
The steamer Bonanza King, recently
wrecked at Kink Rapids on the upper
Yukon, was raised and taken to Dawson
under her own steam. She was sup
ported by two barget on the trip down.
ham Harvey, a 1 ukon river sour
dough, left Skagway June S for Wood
chopper creek, after visiting relatives
and friends in Indiana and Pennsylva
nia during the winter and seeing the
Jamestown exposition. It was his first
trip to the world in ten years.
Seattle, June (>.—Laura Kngland has
brought suit against Attorney .1. ('.
I'row n for $:>un.00!», claiming that he has
sold the Railroad mine at Nome for
$1,000,000 and failed to give her her half
of the proceeds. She alleges that she
had a half interest in the projx-'tv.
Jim McHugh, for a long time a
freighter at Rampart, but lately man
ager of the Murphy ditch jieople’s pack
train in the Tanana district, stampeded
to the Innoko a couple of weeks ago A
friend down the river sent him a tele
gram that caused him to leave in a
hurry.
Skagway Alaskan, June 7.—The Right
Rev. I*. T. Rowe, bishop of Alaska, ac
companied by the Rev. Thomas Jenkins,
of Ketchikan, arrived on the Humboldt
yesterday and is a visitor in this city.
Il<- will remain here fora week or longer
liefore leaving for KairUmk* and other
p>ints in the great Alaskan interior.
Skagway Alaskan Word has come
from Juneau to the effect that Judge
Wickershnin will hold court at Skagwav
next month instead of Judge tiumnison.
The latter will remain at I'airUink* un
til Vugutt, where be will !»■ engaged in
trying .vises thal lia\e teen « l for trial
be fere the return of Judge WkirtsUlH
to Hie northern camp.
Arrivals from the Chandlar on the
Lavelle Young Monday morning said
men were at Fort Yukon waiting for the
arrival of freight for 8. .1. Marsh, the
commissioner at Caro. Mr. Marsh ex
pects twenty tons of machinery and
supplies, which will he moved up to
Caro immediately after its arrival at
Fott Yukon.
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
is looking for au official design, simple
and effective, that will express in a
glance the broad idea for which the ex
position will stand. The emblem will
have to typify the exploitation of the
resources and potentialities of Alaska
and the Yukon territories and the mak
ing known and fostering of the vast im
portance of the trade of the Pacific
Ocean and the countries bordering upon
it. In addition the exposition will dem
onstrate the marvelous progress, of west
ern America. Five hundred dollars will
he paid for the design accepted. The
prize is not offered for a suggestion, but
a complete drawing or painting. De
signs should be sent to Henry K. Iteed,
director of exploitation, marked on. the
cover official Emblem Design.”
Lay Let on Hunter.
O. 0. Clemens has let a lay to Taylor
<!fc Campbell on No. 2 Hunter creek,
where they will do summer and winter
drift mining.
The laymen have secured the boiler
used by Crockett on Little Minook last
winter. One of the signs of the change
that is taking place in tins district was
the moving of the boiler by wagon last
week, freighting on wheels being an
innovation.
Seattle June 10.—Emma Goldman,
the noted anarchist of Paterson, X. .! ,
will debate with Mills, the eminent so
cialist orator, for one week from Sun
day, on "Anarchism vs. Socialism.”
Send your friends the Valley News.
(Sourdough Mlket