TO HUNT GOLD
ON ANADIR RIVER
Story of a Big Find in Siberian
Wilds in 1887.
The schooner X. L., Captain Alliert
Soto, cleared front Nome today for
Anadir bay, Siberia, said the Nome Gold
ltigger of June 28.
Ilesiiles the captain and a crew of
three gallant spirits, the X. I,. will carry
J. T. Lindseth, who owns a half interest
in the vessel. The ostensible purpose
of the voyage is trade with the Indians,
hut behind this there is another motive.
The schooner will ascend the Anadir
river a distance of tSOO miles in search of
gold.
The story which led to the trip reads
like a romance. According to this story
gold was found in large quantities on
the Anadir river by a band of Russian
Cossacks in 1H87. With well-tilled [Mikes
—or whatever is the Russian equivalent
for gold sacks—they were returning to
the coast when they were set uisin by a
party of savages, and all but one were
killed. This man, after enduring the
greatest hardship and privation, reached
Anadir with some of the yellow metal in
his possession and related to the gover
nor of the province of Anadir the details
of the journey, lint withheld any infor
mation as to the locality in which the
gold was found. Some years later the
man died, but before [Hissing away re
vealed to the governor his secret in
regard to the wherealiouts of the new
Eldorado.
Mr. Lindseth, who knew the story of
the discovery, but nothing of its location,
last winter received a letter from the
governor via St. Petersburg. The schooner
was purchased and outfitted immediate
ly. On Isiard the vessel is a large min
ing and prospecting outfit. This will lie
landed at Anadir bay, and a cargo of
furs, ivory and other products loaded on
Isiard, when the vessel w ill return to
Nome. She will leave again alHiut a
month hence with an addition to the
mining outfit and six practical miners
and prosjiectors for her long journey tip
the unknown and unprosiiected Anidir
river. The party will remain on the
ground all summer and next winter.
All effort* t<> miw the ateamer Rock
(aland, lyitijj anhmerired aloniwidtfof the
dock* at Chena, have failed, and work
thereon will eeatte until low water in the
fall. For a long time the rai*iii|r of the
Umt wu* eonaWertal a comparatively
cu*y tank, hut the careful in*|icetion of
diver* diacloeed the fact that the ateauier
had auataincd greater injurie* at the
time >>f the breakup than wa* Kenerally
lielieved. The taak ia (riven u|> aa liope
leaa after three month*’ work.—Tanana
Teller.
It haa now lag'll a*certained that the
atrike made by the Wild llnar company
on >li«o.very, l>ry creek, ia even more
ini|a>rtant than at tirat re|*irted. The
lwdr*«'k ahowa |«\ in aome a|a>t*of
to the |*in.— Nome Niiimrl
Henry Miller, better known aa "iHitrh
Miller,” wa* arreatevl at t leary City for
atteni|>liii|| to jack a drunken loan *
I** krta in a aaloon July IV lie
committed in <lefanlt of II .1**1 twill
TANANA EDITOR
WAS PUHHELED
Deputy Marshal Answered Questions
With His Fists.
<>. H. Henry’s name lias lately ap
peared as editor of the Yukon Press, a
little paper at Tanana which originally
Ixire the name of John Bathurst at its
masthead.
In the Press of July 21 the following
appeared:
“We have for some time refused to
allow our columns to lie used for the
purpose of attacking constituted author
ity and as long as we remain in charge
of this pajier we shall take the same
o< inrse.
“But there are times when a jwijier
cannot altogether ignore certain mi nests
made by the public.
“Some few issues back, there appeared
in tlie Alaska Forum some uncompli
mentary language aliout tlie ‘Tanana
limb of the law’ meaning as we should
judge the Deputy U. S. Marshall at this
point. Among other things the accusa
tion ‘he has even levied tribute on pros
titution’. Now we have waited patiently
for the accused to apply to us for the
use of our columns or take some other
means of refuting such a serious charge.
"In view of this attitude of an accused
official we think it only just to the ac
cused official, and also to the law
abiding citizens of Tanana that, this
paper should take up that and other ;
matters pertaining to an office as im- ■
porta nt as that of a deputy T, (■>. Mar
shall.
“We think the most satisfactory
method would lie for The Deputy Mar
shall to answer the following questions
over his signature, which we will publish
with the greatest of pleasure.
“Is there any truth in thealsive men
tioned assertion of the Alaska Forum
that you have levied tribute on prostitu
tion, not necessarily in money.
“Is it true that you compelled the
loyal comrades of the Third U.S. Infan
try who were in your charge, to feed
them not on delicacies, for those no
prisoner in any country must exjiect,
but actually to provide them with the
sulticient food to which any prisoner is
entitled, to enable him to keep in good
health.
“In it true that you have at any time
(luring the pant few wcekn taken drinkn
with nporting women, at any hur or
ham in town.
“In it a fact that in n|>ite of tlie fact
that you receive $.'!.tlO a day for the
keep of priaonem you |>erinit tliem to he
fe<l in great part on dog linh, which in
handed into the jail hy tinhernien who
have no une for them, living interested
only in whitetinh and other kindn that
are gmai fur human final; and on what,
out of great giaalnenn of heart in given
hy •ne of the rentaurantn in town.
"We nincerely hope the Marnhull will
nee Ida way clear to annwer them- i|Uen
tionn aatinfactorily."
The Editor Pummolod.
I‘art lea arriving from Tanana nay that
after the 1‘renn came out with tile fore
going •|iienti..na iKputv Marshal Vautier
gave Mr. Henry a pounding
\t lanl account* Mr. Ilenry wan
threatening to prefer charge* agamat
Mr Vautier lor an*au)t. ami Mr Vautier
8. K. HEETER.
HARRY BURRUSS.
HEETER & BURRUSS,
FREIGHTERS and PACKERS
Freighting and Packing to and from all ('reeks.
Good Equipments and Service Unexcelled
contemplated an action against Mr.
Henry for libel.
Kev. .1. L. Prevost owns or controls
the printing material, and it is said he
will probably take personal possession
of it.
Mr. Henry wintered in ltampart the
winter of 1!*04-’05.
CHATANIKA DITCH
NOW UNDER WAY
To Be 80 Miles Long and Cost One
and a Half or Two Million.
The Tanana Teller of July 11 .-aid that
A1 Murphy is making good and that
work is under way on the Cliatanika
ditch.
There were many who doubted when
the first rejsirts spread about the coun
try that work on the big Chatanika
ditch would commence this summer.
The undertaking seemed too stupendous
for any single individual to undertake,
and many obstacles were enumerated to
l>ack the assertion. Truth is ttranger
than fiction and A1 Murphy is building
the ditch.
Twenty-five men are busily engaged
running the final survey lines from Mc
Manus river, the head of the ditch, to
1‘edro dome.
A few days ago some of the surveyors
were on Fairbanks creek and reported
that work was progressing satisfactorily.
As originally planned, the ditch was
to Ik* sixty miles long and was estimated
to cost $750,000. According to the new
survey it will la- eighty miles in length,
and the cost is approximately estimated
to lie from »1,500,000 to »L’,000,000. The
nurvey in now located an far an Canniar
liar. Flat creek in the greatent depres
nion encountered on the entire line, ami
will la* bridged by a nyphon,one mile in
length. The cutting of a wagon roa<),
twelve milen in length, in necennary to
allow the hauling of the heavy hyilruulic
piping for the conntruction of the ny
phon. The huililing of thin wagon road
will commence at once.
Three tunneln w ill la* Decennary Iadore
the different mctionn of the ditch can In*
connected. The tmring thereof will In*
commence*I in the fall ami completed
■ luring the winter. The longent of them
will pierce the l‘e«lro dome, allowing
the nupplying of water to Twin, Pedro,
till more, toiMntream and all itn many
trthutarien.
"The work Iran commence*I," nay thone
in charge, “and will not cvarc until Me
Mamin in made to run around the head
of Cleary,"
Construction on another big wharf at
Chena will commence immediately. The
heavy tonnage now arriving puts a pre
niiiiin on storing naan ami tlie freight
charges that are saved hy ilireetly ship
ping from Chena to the creeks makes
tlie latter place the logical |mint for
wholesale merchants. Tlie N. C. Co. has'
acquired a big strip of grotimi on tlie
lower eml of town including the Kirk
(•utrick Sharp trailing |swt. The com
pany will at once commence the con
struction of a mammoth warehouse on
the newly acquired site ami ship ilireet
from Chena to the creeks.—Tatiana
Teller. .Inly IH.
The Northern Commercial Company
has (ain basts I the steamer Klla, for
merly ojs-ruU*I hy the Tanana Trailing
Company, la-sales that concern’s half
interest in the J I*. Light.
The t hatanika, below the mouth of
Shovel creek, is taring pr-sqaeled hy
men from Cleary City