TRICKY OLD TANANA
TAKES A NEW TURN
Practically All the Water
Now Flowing Through
Salclm Slough.
From ill.- Chtna Times, May 9.
The Tanaua river has changed its
course. Mud flats never before
seen by white men aie looming up
where once flowed the Tanaua, and
gravel banks in the slough to Fair
banks are rising like mountains.
The water at the mouth of the
slough is three feet lower than it
was the day it froze up last fall.
For all practical purposes there is
none at all. Poling boats are stuck
in the middle of the channel. Some
of the big steamers in frout of
Cheua are high and dry. A few of
them, like the Monarch, are lying j
in a narrow strip of deep water, j
There is just one channel about 200 !
leet wide, but very deep, in trout ot
town now as far as the Monarch
dock. From there to the mouth of
the slough everything is sand.
Great consternation prevails.
It is evident that the river has
changed its course. Almost all the
Tanana water is i.ow pouring into
the Salclia slough, which passes by
Chena three miles back of the old
B.*lt & Hendricks trading post
across the river, and coming into
what used to !<e the Tatiana, eight
miles below here. Loggers who
have arrived from above Fairbanks
say there is not enough water in
the slough to float a log. One con
solation remains, Chena is still at
the head of navigation. The w aters
following the old channels combine
at the lower end of town and form
a narrow though deep waterway as
far as the Monarch dock.
This is no exaggeration of facts,
and the situation is indeed serious.
During Sunday the water fell five
feet. It is still falling as we go to
press. Salcha reports normal stage
of water, Nenana says river raised
18 inches Sunday. No ice jam at
either place.
EAGLE WOLD
FOR PORTLAND
Godfrey Chealander repoits that
people at i.4|(k were enthusiastic
on (be subject of an exhibit at the
Lrwu and Clark exposition. Placer
({old will form • part of tbe exhibit
in which tbe people will take par
Ucutar pride.
D. McEnglish
Died of Epilepsy
_
D McEnglish, a passenger on
the Monarch, was stricken by epi
lepsy May 19 while the boat was
j waiting at the mouth of the Tanana
| for the ice to clear, and died soon
after in the hospital at Fort Gibbon.
The man regained consciousness
after the first a*tack, and said he
was subject to epilepsy. On a re
currence of the convulsions a boat
was lowered and he was sent to the
hospital. He did not become con
scious again.
McEnglish had intended to take
a down-river boat at Tanana for
the outside. His father lives in
Vancouver, B. C.
Purser E. R. Sondheim, of the
Monarch, when the boat arrived
here Sunday night, turned over to
Commissioner Green $240 in cur
rency and all the other personal
property of the deceased except a
watch, which remains at Fort Gib-1
bon.
An inquest was considered un
necessary, and it is not likely that
an administrator will be appointed.
WORK ON HOOS1ER
and McDonald bar!
: i
A. H. Wood came in from Hoo
I .
sier creek Saturday night. Water
was slow in coming in the creek
this spring, and it was not until
last Friday that a sluicehead could
be had.
A. H. Wood & Son and C. H.
Khrhorn and Joe Kelly were pre
paring to wash up their winter
dumps.
| Hale Williams and partners are
going to giounds’uice Frank &
(iraham’s 22 claim.
Monroe & Lindsey are busy fix
ing their ditch and building new
flume preparatory for the summer’s
work.
On McDonald liar.
Jack Welch, AI Goslaw, Allen
and Cullom are working on Mc
Ikmald bar, a continuation of Idaho
bar, between Hooter and Florida.
Mr. Wood says they had put a hole
down more than 70 feet without
reaching liedrock, and alwndoned it
because it kept slumping in and
made work too dangerous. They
are now sinking in another place
and are down 60 leet or more.
Jim Carpenter "floated down"
from the coal mines Monday. If
they can scare up a horse he ami
Bob An» Ur son will establish a wood
camp near the coal mines
RECEPTION SALOON
S. K. IfttKTKR
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LIQUORS
AND GOOD
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:BEERS
The Highest Priced hut
the Best Quality.
BILLIARD
AND
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ROOMS
12-y ear-old Crow Whiskey—The Only Stock.
Something New - Try Our Apricot Cocktail
Heeter’s PackTrain
Leaves for Glen Every
Five Days.
Freighting and Packing
To and From All
tlie Creeks.
Good Teams. Good Service
THE
HEETER
TANANA, ALASKA
S. E. HEETER, ED FERGUSON,
PROPRIETOR MANAGER
FIRST-CLASS
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
U. S. Commissioner
Appointed for Chena
Oh na Times, April 25.
L. L. James, the newly appointed
commissioner for Chena, took the
oath of office and filed his $1,000
bond last Wednesday. The com
missioner has all the powers of a
justice of the peace, and Mr. James
is now prepared to attend to all
business that may properly be
brought before such a court. Mr.
James is well qualified for the posi
tion, and will undoubtedly dis
charge the duties of his office to the
credit of Chena.
To Have Deputy Marshal.
It has been decided by the proper
authorities to recommend the ap
(K>iutment of another deputy mar
shal for this district, with his
official residence at Chena. As
Mr. Ferry, the United States mar
shal for the Third division, has not
yet arrived, the appointment will
not be made until after the first
boat arrives, 011 which Mr. perry is
expected.
Chena Times, May a: Last Sat
urday witnessed two more impor
tant transfers or. Eater creek. Geo.
Baldry sold 330 feet of al> to Clar
ence Kerry for the consideration of
fj.Hoo. Mr. Berry purchased an
other piece of ab on Hater of Joe
Hgler. The consmeratiou was >i,
mo lor 130 feet.
United States Force
To Wipe Out Nloros
Manila, P. I., April 23.—The
Moros of Luzon have again broken
out in open revolt. A few days
ago they killed several hundred
Americans, who were present at a
ball.
Governor Wood has sent a large
punitive force after them with in
structions to wipe them out.
W. F. Sheard presented the city
ot Tacoma, Wash., with a Kadiak
bear cub, and a bear den and range
has been constructed for it at Point
Defiance Park. The bear was cap
tured by sailors off Kadiak Island.
It was on an ice floe and was appa
rently floating out to deep sea.
The cub makes the tourth of this
kind in captivity in the United
Slates, there being oue in the Zoo
logical Garden at New York, one
at Philadelphia and oue at Sail
Francisco. The Kadiak is a dis
tinct species ol the l»ear family, and
is found only ou Kadiak Island and
the mainland of that immediate re
gion.
Willie—I met our new minister
ou uiy way to Sunday school, mam
nia, and he asked me it I ever
played marbles on Sunday. Mother
- H in ' And what did you say to
that? Willie 1 said, "Get thee
behind me. Satan !*’ and walked
njcht off anti leit him l it Bus