LAST LOG RAFT
FOR FT. GIBBON
Stoci & McQuesten’s last raft for
Fort Gibbon j assed Rampart last
Saturday morning.
This completes the Sioel & Mc
Queslen contract. Of all the con
tracts let this is ihe only one that
has been completed.
Above Fort Hamlin die steamer
Susie came sweej ing arou .id a bend
and made a sea that raised cain
with the raft.
Deputy’s Office Abolished.
The office of deputy district clerk
at Rampa t has been abolished.
This action was recommended by
Examiner Mountjoy, who was re
cently here, on the ground that the
small amount of business transacted
at the office did not wai rant the
expense of its maintenance. The
books and papets of the office were
sent to Eagle on the Sarah.
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J. AJ. Vh **'/■>“ -— - *J
clerk here for about three years,
and as official, editor ot the Forum
and man of affairs is probably the
best known man in the district.
No. ID, Hunter.
Ott & Swanson, io Hunter, have
discontinued their night shift. They
are working six men, and will con
tinue operations till stopped by the
frost. They have enough ground
stripped for another year’s run.
WHAT CHEER BAR
CLAIM VERY RICH
What Cheer bar is without doubt
the richest claim in the whole dis
trict. There me five in the What
Cheer company—James Dalton,
David W. Scott, James Greene, A.
H. Lane, and lid Hopkins all
good fellows. Mr. Scott is now on
his way to his former home in Wis
consin for the winter; the others
will remain in.
They built 4'j miles of ditch to
get water to the bar. They alse
had to build four sections of flume
to cross the small creeks, making
abw»tit too t i it Ktrl to
be tresseled a* high as :o feet.
They commenced work on the
ditch June J3, 1903. and completed
it July 15, 1904. five men working
all the time white frost was out
Shoveling in w is rcmmrncvt on
Aug. 17. Commencing it the lower
side of the claim, the ground went
|j5 per day to the min As they
worked up the p«v seemed to get
much better, and went fvo 30 to
the man And as they still kept
going up four men slnveled in
three days amt they eteeaed up
Iti.hwr making an average a( fir$
e day to the man
LIQUOR LICENSES
GRANTED TANANA
Three new liquor licenses have
been granted for Tatiana—Charles
Myers, C.eorge A. Carl, and S. E.
Heeter— making five saloons there
in all.
The three new places opened up
on Sept. i. Joe Anicich moved his
business out of the McDonald build
ing into a small cabin, pending the
completion of his fine two-story
structure. "The Heeter” now oc
cupies the place vacated by Mr.
Anicich.
Yukon Bar Association.
Fairbanks News: The Yukon Bar
Association met last Saturday eve
ning at the courthouse for the pur
pose of electing a representative of
the association to the annual meet
ing of the National Bar Association
to be held in St. Louis during Sep
tember. The meeting resulted in
the election of Clias. E. Clavpoole
as delegate and N. V. Harlan as
alternate. A meeting of the Fair
banks Bar Association was held im
mediately after for the purpose of
fixing a minimum rate of fees for
petty services. Committee consist
ing of Messrs. Miller, Dillon and
Stevens was appointed by the chair
to draft a rate of minimum tees and
present the same at the next regu
lar session.
SEATTLE BAR IS
GOOD PRODUCER
The new find made by Chas. I.
Jordan on Seattle bar, between
Seattle and Skookum, this summer,
is all right. Pete Johnson, Jordan’s
partner, says they have taken ,y< o
out of the claim since about the
middle of July. Johnson is on his
way outside to seek relief from a.i
attack of rheumatism. He came in
just in time to see the Sarah under
full headway on her up river run
last Friday.
Jordan ha' four men at work and
will contim e operations till the
freezeup lie will clean up con
siderable money yet this season.
The pav ^s on top of and ex
4 loo* ■»** I a half into the
bcdtock The bedrock being prettv
well sluiced off, they shovelle 1 in
in one day
Johnson amt Jordan will run a
railroad fn m I k t eer to their claim
on the bar a distance of about Jan
teet. The dirt will be taken down
in cars the loaded car going down
bringing the enpty owe up This
will save tour or i«t mile* ai ditch
and there wiM be m* ih rtag* <d
water
Thar la believed to he uwe the
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
John O’Conr.or is tax^d $50 by
| tbe city for the privilege of selling
j water from bis well in Chena, ac
! cording to the Herald.
Portland, Ore., Aug. 24.—The
1 International Mining Congress, iu
session here, will strongly urge the
governments of the United States
and Canada to create mining de
partments.
W. L. Powell, a pioneer in the
live slock business in the north, is
! driving a flock of sheep across
country from Eagle to Fairbanks.
Mr. Powell was in the meat busi
ness in Rampart two years ago.
The sluiceboxes on the upper
half of fractional claim between No.
1 below discovery aud No. 1 bench,
Cleary creek, owned and o(>erated
by Al Hilly and Sam Wi>e, were
robbed Saturday night. Aug. 20, or
Sunday morning, says the Fair
hauks News The boxes contained
a little over $500. No clue.
Have Rushing has 15 or 20 tons
of hay, saved in good toitu uuu,
twelve miles atiove Fort Hamlin.
|{e S~< U'?'! *%*«.**! Vcl
ten's horses and will load the hay
on a big ralt *>l house logs for
transportation down the river. The
raft will reach its destination at
Kaaj art about Sept, i v
Chena Herald Tbe owners of
the Florence !4 were 'impelled to
change the borler* and secured t»v
putt base the Tan ana Chtel and
alter dismantling her placed bet
betters m the Florence 4.. and made
• trip to Fairbanks Vl*utda\ even
>ng. m4 now report that thev van
tmeh” au* water u> this eternity
The News reports Capt. Jack W.
Cassidy seriously ill with spinal
meningitis at Fairbatiks. Capt.
Cassidy is an o'.d Mississippi river
man and has been in the t orth since
the early Klondike rush.
Chena Herald: Mike Petroski
has secured several loads of fertilizer
and is preparing the soil on VVm.
Farrel’s ranch for next spring. Mr.
Petroski has had several year’s ex
perience in Alaska gardening and
expects good crops next summer.
In company with G. C. Betties,
the pioneer trading man of the
Koyukuk, Frank J. Cleary has pur
chased the N. C. Co. business at
Fort Hamlin. Messrs. Cleary and
Betties are bringing a shipment of
210 tons of supplies from St. Mi
chael. Fairbanks News.
Frtd Edwards, a Dawson gar
dener. has gone to Fort Gibbon to
break ground for a garden which is
intended to supply the soldiers of
that station with produce. Ed
» 1 ■ -sesa* l«‘
men i\ho is forever moving around
the workl. mined the Second Oregon
regiment at the outbreak of the
Spanish American war, and served
in the I hillippiues, making quite a
record t r housed One of the men
he served with is now quarter***
ter at fort Gibbon, ami a* congress
recently appropriated §,!«*>,«;**> tor
rebuilding the tort and !a>tni( the
grounds out >n an eatenMve plan,
the sergeant sent tor hi* »hl subtler
cho.u l» be ehief gardener M
wattle is a rustler ami hue matte •
success of gardening iu treason
Ihtwsnu New*