News Items From All Parts of Alaska
Barney J. McfJee aged 73 yearn, a
well-known Alaska sourdough, died in
Seattle recently of heart disease. He
was on his way to White Horse front
Mr McC.ee took the first train over
the White Pass and Yukon route as
conductor. He was one of the first'
men to go to Dawson during the gold,
rush, and had a hotel there, and also
at Whitehorse.
A Ketchikan man was recently ap
prehended with 40 quarts <»f booze in
a trunk. When asked by the official*
what the trunk contained he replied
carpenter's tools. When it was open
ed the whiskey was found.
Captain Bell of the Royal North
west Mounted Police, who recently re
turned from an inspection trip to th»
country back of Haines, reports that
Blue Crouse by the thousands swarm
up anil down tlie Chilkat valley.
An Alaska fisherman named l*ar
s.m visited Seattle a short time ago
while on his way to San Francisco,
and took a joy ride w
woman companion. He lost a bank
roll containing $800. The man and
woman are being held.
"The End of a Perfect Dpy" was
sung at a Cordova wedding recently.
Anchorage has organised ,Ai first
class band.
The Bon Marche of Anchorage is
advertising that it Intends shipping
its stock of goods outside.
According to word received at Fair
banks the Ko.vukuk strike has proved
Jack Adkins, one of the pioneers
of Anchorage, has sold out his busi
ness and left for the States.
George Osborn, an Anchorage. Jew
eler is moving his stock and* fixtures
to Cordova, where he will open up a
Miss Edna Hart, a popular telephone
girl at Ketchikan, and Poul Smith of
that place were recently married there.
RICK STRIKE! REPORTED
FROM KUSKOKWIM
SECTION
Recent Sun Francisco news reports
relative to an alleged gold quarts
strike of great richness in the Kusko
kw'im section are confirmed by the
following detailed statement regarding
the new discovery printed in the Val
dez Miner* of December 20th. The
Miner says
Telegrams received by Governor
Thomas Riggs Jr., bring from Mc
Grath on the upper Kuskokwim river
the story of .great discoveries of very
rich gold quartz on Nixon Fork. The
quartz runs as high as $2,000 a ton.
and big tonnage is said to be in sight
for a distance of more than a mile
and a quarter. It is said that millions
of dollars worth of this ore will be
shipped outside with the opening .of
navigation next June. Work will pro
gress all winter Among those in on
tin* Kuskokwim quarty discoveries
are leading men of the Alaskan in
terior. including Aitken, Walsh. Wha
len. Pearson. Mespalt. Kirkpatrick.
and others.
The telegr**m« from McGrath, also1
convey the news that the Aitken dredge
on Candle Creek, also a tributary of,
the Kuskokwim produced over $300,000 1
in placer gold last season, working at
only half capacity. It is expected that
it will take out a half million next i
year. The dredge worked until late
in the season.
Governor Riggs received the follow-j
ing telegram from Wr W F Green.
United States Commissioner at Me
"The Candle creek dredge produc
ed $300,000, working at half capacity.
"Aitken on Nixon Fork is down B0
feet with a crosscut 25 feet. The gold
is increasing with depth. It is now
running $2,000 to the ton. They will
ship 1,000 tons of high grade ore next
June. Steam hoists and compressors
will be working December 15.
"Whalen, one mile southwest from
Aitken. will ship 200 tons of the .same
“Pearson, between the two, has the
same ore for the length of a full claim
and a half.
"Mespelt, located northeast of Ait
ken. Is down 45 feet.
"Big tonnage is in sight now for a
distance of a mile and a quarter.”
The journal adds;
The men who are developing the
Kusifokwim placer and quartz field}
are not "boomers." They are oldtinu
miners who have been successful Ir
the Iditarod, Fairbanks and othei
northern fields, and they are operating
with their own money They hav»
bee* quietly but persistently develop
inn the region, which is just acres
the divide from the Iditarod and t<
the Northeast of that district, for seve
ral years spending many thousand
during mines in the Iditarod in tli
work. Aitken and Wal.-h are ainonc
the richest nv i. made by the Idltaroi
goldfields. AI Walsh has been F
leading individual operator on Fla
crci-k for many years where he .
cor property. Tom Aitken with whoir
he is associated in the Knskokwin
country, made a fortune on fie
creek, Fairbanks district, in associa
tion with Frank Manley, Henry Itile*
and others before he went to Idita
rod. where he secured very rich pro
perties and sold them to the Yukon
Hold corporation usually referred tc
ns the "Guggenheims.”
Those who have been following th*
operations of these practical men be
lieve. in the light of the world re
ceived from McGrath by Gov, Kiggs,
that one of the richest of Alaska'}
gold districts will be develo|>ed in the
region about McGrath on teh Kusko
Tom Aitken. Tom Ktrkpatrik and
others who are interested In the Kus
kokwim country, have also made very
promising quart* discoveries near th«
headwaters of the Kantishna. which is
across the divide from the Kuskokwim
developments. They took a largs
quantity of supplies into the Kantish
na district from Fairbanks late in the
season, carrying them as near their
properties as river steamers could haul
them. They will be hauled from the
terminus to their properties during the
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Itesult* obtained from a mill run of
100 tons of ore from the Smith-Mc
Ulone mine on Eva creek, near Valdez,
showed an average of $28,40 to the ton.
A record year was made by the
canneries at Pott Essington, B. C., the
•ockeye run being greater than ever
before known. The canneries have all
made big money.
The Basin road at Juneau was
blocked recently by a slide.
One. of the largest hardware corn
pan.es on the Pacific const will estab<
Hsh an agency at Ketchikan if quar
ters can be arranged for.
Improvements will soon be made
on the Stikine river by the Canadian
government. The Olenora riffles will
be deepened also and snags removed
.\«-ls Nelson, manager of the Alaska
Kish and fold Storage Company at
Seow Bay, was married to Mrs Knut
son of Seattle recently. They will
aide at Scow Bay.
I *«»n Carroll, former wireless oper
ator on the lighthouse tender Fern,
has gone to the east-coast, where he
has been assigned to a shipping hoard
K. Hign, owner of a fox ranch near
1-atouche. recontly completed shipping
two hundred skins to the T,ondon mar
kets, where the sales averaged $250
per skin.
The Alaska Ocean Fowls Company,
located at Port Chatham, shipped out
815 boxes of wilt codfish. A large
dock has been built by the company,
with a depth of 32 feet of water at
the head.
The Deep Sea Salvage Company will
raise the ship A. .1. Fuller, which sank
in MM8 with a cargo of salt and canned
salmon. The cargo and vessel are es
timated t.. be worth $700,000. The
divers report that the salmon is in
good condition.
The four-year-old baby girl of James
A. James and wife, Juneau natives,
wa-< drowned in the channej recently,
follifwing a drunken row among the
natives. In the ineiee the child was'
knocked from its mother’s arms into1
the water, and despite the fact that I
sh. Jumped in after it. the child was i
drowned. The natives made such a'
din that the marshal's office was
forced to gather them in. The father
111,1 mother of the dead child were |
fined $50 each for being intoxicated. I
"When a medicine puts a man on
his feet in such a short while, like
this Tunlac has done me, there must
be something back of it,” said L. J.
Watson when seen in Liggett and
Findley's drug store in Calgary, Al
berta the other day. Mr Watson is a
widely-known and prosperous farmer
living near Midnapore, Alberta, about
twenty miles south of Calgary.
'Yes sir, Tanlae beats anything I’ve
ever seen, and I know it's a fine med
icine for it’s remarkable how it has
helped me," continued Mr Watson, "It
has done me good where everything
else failed, and I can certainly O. K.
"For three years I was bothered
with liver trouble and with rheuma
tism across the small of my back.
There was a pain, and a catch in my
back that f couldn't get away from,
and nl times I would have to stop
iwoik. I suffered a great deal with
biliousness, and nearly all the time
my tongue would be coated. It was a
treiit to get a good night’s rest for
sleep was out of the question with me.
As far as appetite was concerned I
had none, and there was no need of a
cook around my house, for I had to
force m.vselt to eat every bite I took,
and then it would nearly always up
set my stomach. I tried every kind
of medicine I knew of hut- it did no
good and all the time my condition was
getting worse and I was losing my
”1 saw In the paper how Tanlae was
helping other people who had troubles
like mine • • • • • so I decided to give
it a trial. Well sir. it did the work
for me and I got rid of my troubles
in a remarkably short time. My appe
tite came right back, and I'm almost
ashamed of myself the way I eat, and
I’ve gained ten pounds in weight. My
llvey trouble and rheumatism have all
gone and I feel as husky as I ever did,
and I used to do some heavy work. too.
The biliousness has left me, and my
tongue is never coated now’. I can
sleep like a boy, and get up In the
mining feeling just tfine. There's
nothing in the world like Tanlae, and
I Just can’t say enough for it,"
Tanlae Is sold in Nome by Lornen
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