ALEX. JAMIESON
FROSTBITTEN
Brought In Last Night From 106
Roadhouse and Will Lose
Two Toes.
Alex. Jamieson was brought in from
lOti roadhouse last night suffering from
a severe ease of frostbite. He Will lose
at least two toes.
Tuesday of last week Jamieson started
for Fairbanks. Nine miles from town
the trail follows the creek for a!>out half
a mile, and the ice was all covered with
water. Jamieson got his feet wet, but
reached 72 Roadhouse without freezing.
There he stopped and built a lire in the
cache—the roadhouse being unoccupied
at present—and undertook to dry bis
footwear. The temperature was 40 be
low, and he pushed on before he was
thoroughly dry. When he got to 100
Roadhouse, a distance of four miles,
l«)th feet were badly frozen.
He remained at the roadhouse a week,
thinking his feet would get better; but
they kept getting worse, and yesterday
he was brought in by one of the freight
ers and placed under the care of Dr. J.
H. Hudgiu, who says he will probably
lose the great and small toes of his right
foot. _
PAPIN IN MICHIGAN
Wants to Come Home, and Will
Make the Trip Over the
Valdez Trail.
Henry Papin, writing from tirnm!
Kapids, Mich., under date of Dee. 12,
ways he is getting tired of the outside ;
and will soon start hack to Ham part.
He ex\>eets to come in over the Valdez ;
trail. |
“I have t>een in Grand Kapids two!
weeks and expect to stay a week longer,”
he writes. “I am in the place where I
was brought up, visiting my brother and
old friends. Time has made a wonder
ful change in the place since I left it in
187ti. I think I am far enough east now .
I will begin to face to the.northwest and
travel until I reach home—Alaska, the
piai e that I love I test. Every Is slv wants
t > knew alsuit Alaska. They all want
to get rich as soon as they can. I tell
them to come to Alaska and see for
themselves. They have got an idea that
us miners in Alaska eat hay. I tell
them to come—we will introduce them
ti our trails. They want to know how
cold it gets. I tell them it gets so cold
sometimes that when |sople meet on
the trail their conversation freeze- right
up, and they have to take it into a cabin
to thaw it out; ami that one of my
neighlstrs put a bucket of hot water out
side and it froze so fast that when lit*
took it in the lumse the ice writs still
warm.
"I have not seen or heard from any
one from Kaiii|*art since I left Swttlr.
So snow in Grand Kapids yet, and not
colt). I -end everylsslv my l»«t wishes;
may thev all get rich."
Silirr ami t'amplsll, burned in the
tire at Mouse Point, are recovering
From Across the Divide
By Cosmos.
Clias. I. .Iordan and Herman Rosburg
are liedrocking three shafts on No. 1
fthove, Dead wood; also one shaft on
Mosquito gulch, entering Dead wood,
opposite discovery, right limit.
C. K. Still has three shafts to bedrock
on Gold gulch, and thinks it a wildcat
that will never lx* domesticated.
Diver, Lone it Nellany are still on
good pay and are bed rocking their third
shaft. Billy Graham is doing the circu
lar work for them. George Woods is
still working in the drift, having so far
failed to get mixed with the other wood
used for drift tires.
Ah Cluey Anderson has struck good
pay in his shaft below Diver, Lane &
Nellany’s workings.
(iaetzA Kaulhaeh liave added to their
force of men, and it is said pans contain
ing $100 are not infrequent. It would
do your readers good to sue the smile on
Mr. Kaulhach’s countenance these days:
it would make the lady blush who made
“them goo-goo eyes,” especially when
he says: “I think I will have to hire an
A. 1*. A. to carry my golden corn next
summer.”
J. W. and Hen Boothby are taking out
good metal on Boothby creek.
The tenqierature has stood in the 50's
for the past two weeks, and several faces
show their newly made acquaintance
with Jack Frost.
Have 1'ancher anil partner have moved |
to upper discovery on the Hootlinana
and will sink a few shafts there.
Overflow from the North Kork is in-;
conveniencing Diver, Lane & Nellany.
If something unusual does not hap]ien
this side will eclipse all previous winter
outputs of the camp.
John Smith, who has la-en working a
lay on tilen, was drowned out and has
moved to upja-r discovery on the Moot,
to prosjaa-t.
According to outside papers Thanks
giving was celebrated on the fourth
Thursday in November, and not on the
fifth, as in Kampart. Our citizens may
tie a week la-himl time this year, but
have only SO weeks la-fore their next
Thanksgiving, while the citizens of the
outside world will have 51 weeks to wait i
for their next. [The corresjaindent is
evidently in error. The fifth Thursday
in last November was Thanksgiving day
throughout the 1’nited States; hut in
Canada the fourth Thursday may have
la-ell observed. And just 52 weeks will
have elapsed between the last Thursday
in Novemlier, 11105, and the last Thurs
day in Novemla-r, list*}.]
.1. It. McDonald is still workiug on
SkiMiknm. lie is greatly luindicup|aa|
bv water.
YOU MAY PAY
"*■ a higher price, but don’t flatter yourself that you can
buy better tea than
Try the red label.
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL COMPANY, Agents
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE.
OUTFITTING _
MINERS STORE
(In the Postofflce Building:)
Cigars by the Box a Specialty
Joe Hush, Olsen and Nelson are drift
ing and piling up a dump.
Chisholm & Klwell have commenced a
new shaft on Doric and contemplate
putting on a large boiler ami drifting
all summer. Their pay is axcellent.
Telegraph Supplies
Arrive at Glen
Seven horses loaded with supplies for
the new telegraph station at Glen ar
rived at that place Monday night. The
supplies were forwarded from Fort Gib
bon up the Tanana river and across from
Baker Creek.
Station Burned
at The Birches
The telegraph station at The Birches
was recently destroyed by fire. It is
supposed that the office was moved into
another building, for The Birches is
again in evidence in the telegraph sys
tem. _ I
The Fox Islands.
The aet of congress of May 14, 1H98,
extending the homestead and certain
other land laws to Alaska, in express
terms excludes from the operation of
this provision “the islands leased or
occupied for the propagation of foxes.”
Subsequent to the [wssageof this act the
secretary of the treasury and the secre
tary of the interiar considered the ques
tion of snjKTvisory authority over these
islands, and the conclusion was reached
that neither department had jurisdiction
over the leasing of said islands. Thirty
three of these islands in Alaska are now
occupied for fox-breeding purposes by
|iersons who have made considerable
investments in the business. It is stated
that these |s-rsons claim that the action
of the government in leusing the islands
induced them to embark in the busi
ness and make their investments, and
they are dis|«>s»sl to retain possession of
the islands us against other persona.—
Kej»«rt of the Secretary of the Interior, i
The C'hctia Time* is reported to have |
again .lop'iidol publication.
CHAS. A. TRAEGER,
HATS, CLOTHINC AHD FURNISHINGS
ADC vnil O'ttf those people who
MnL IUU seldom write home?
They will know yon are all right if yoa
send them the YUKON VALLEY NEWS.
Mail yours or let ns send one weekly.
MEN FROM NOVITNO
BRING NO GOOD NEWS
Rudolph Kartluke, On the Way Out,
Frostbitten This Side of
• Tanana.
Kd Larson and Rudolph Kartluke ar
rived at Tanana from the Novitno a few
days before the departure of John Palm
with the last mail from Tanana to Ram
part. They brought out no encouraging
news from the Novitno.
Nothing of value had been uncovered
there. Mike Laboski, of Rampart, had
joined issues with Me fans 1 and sons and
moved on up the Novitno to continue
prospecting. Wally Laboski was stick
ing to the vicinity of the original stam
pede. J. B. Strode, also of Rampart,
had ijuit trapping and turned his atten
tion to trapping.
Mr. Kartluke started out after the
mail team to come from Tanana to
Rampart. His feet became frostbitten
and he had to lie over at The Rapids.
He will come on in with the next trip of
the mail. Mr. Larson is also expected
to come up at that time.
KANTISHNA
LIKE KOYUKUK
Points of Similarity Noted by One
Who Has Had Experience In
Both Places.
Charley Johnaon, <>( Hunter creek, re
ceived l»y the laat mail a letter from a
friend who haa lately arrived in Kair*
lainka from Kantiahna.
The letter likena kantiahna to the
Koyukuk digginga, inaamtieh aa the
ground in l»>th plueea ia ahallow and
exeeedingly apotted.
The letter aaya the Kantiahna l>en< hen
have not yet l«een teated, and their
worth ia wholly prohlematiral.
The writer of the letter will return to
kantiahna in tlie apring if no lietter
proportion ia in eight.