FORT GIBBON BILLS
NOW BEFORE SENATE
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The following hills requesting appropriations for Fort Gibbon
Post have passed the House and have been favorably reported on by the
/ Senate committee. They are now before the Senate for linal action:
^ Hill for Heating and Electrically Lighting Post - $80,000
> For New Barracks for “A” Company - - - $20,000
S For New Quarters for Officers .... $10,000
) The request for $2,000, for a new hath house has passed both
l Houses; the money is here and the work of construction is about
S to begin.
) Final action has not yet been taken by the Senate on the bill re
< questing an appropriation of $00,000, for the construction of new quarters
S for two additional companies to be stationed here; hut it is said that
( indications for immediate action are favorable.
.]. T. Kelly, and Lief Holt, two very
successful northern mining men, ar
rived in Tanana last week, en route to
the Ketl Mountain country, where tliev
are going, principally in quest of dredg
ing ground. It was the intention of
the two gentlemen to make the trip to
the lower Koyukuk camp over the ice,
in company with .1.0. Felix, who left
for Hughes this week, hut both of the
visitors later decided to look over the
mining situation around American
and ^ullivan creeks and very likely the
creeks of the Gold Mountain district,
before making the trip into the interior.
Mr. Kelly lately sold bis extensive
holdings on Dominion creek, in the
Dawson district to A. N. C. Treadgold,
and his present investigations in this
vicinity are in the interests of the
noted English pro motor, who, Mr.
Kelly says, is the Napoleon of the
North.
The Treadgold interests, Mr. Kelly
states, have bought up practically the
entire Indian river district. Dominion,
Sulphur and (Told Run creeks are now
owned almost entirely by Treadgold
companies. On Dominion creek, the
Granville Power Company, representing
English and American investors, has
been formed, with a capital of $(>,000,000.
A 15,000 horsepower electric plant has
been installed on the North Fork of the
Koyukuk by the Treagold company.
A privately constructed telephone and
lighting system, extending over the en
tire district, will be operated by this
company.
“The district certainly has a very
bright future,” said Mr. Kelly, “and it
is due to the tireless energy of Mr.
Treadgold. Twenty-one dredges will be
operating on the creeks in the Tread
gold holding's and hundreds of skilled
workmen and an army of miners will be
given employment.
“Electricity will be employed in
thawing the frozen ground,” continued
! Mr. Kelly. “The upper burden will be
! removed by hydraulic methods and the
gravel will then be thawed by an elec
trically equipped thawing device which
is more effective and much more eco
nomical than the old steam thawing
methods.—Have a drink!”
\t the Catholic church on Sunday
morning there will be special Easter
services. High mass and sermon on the
Resurrection of Our Lord will be held
at 10:30 a. m. The choir will be com
posed as follows: Mrs. Riley, organist,
Mrs. Tiffany, Mrs. Swartz, Mrs. Lang
ford and Messrs. Rice and Fran/.el. At
the offertory, a duette by Mrs. Tiffany
and Mrs. Swartz. At 7:.'!() p. m.,
Rosary and Benediction of the Bles
! sed Sacrament.
I -
CAME ill THE
OLD MAN COUNTRY
Some of the returning prospectors
j from the Old Man country report that
| that is the greatest region they ever saw
'for fish and game. When they arrived
! there the boys put in two fish traps,
! one on the North Fork and one on the
| Eolith Fork. In a few davs they had
| out about GOO pounds of grayling and
white fish and a few pike. They had
i plenty of fish for themselves and plenty
i for the dogs.
Pintail grouse and ptarmigan were to
found all along Trinity creek in great
1 numbers. Sam McDill, they say would
catch from four to eight ptarmigan everv
j day in a figure 4 trap that he would set
I down on a gravel bar ■ over a little fresh
I gravel he would carry down from the
j shaft where he was working.
j Mr. J. Russell Walle, who has been
I on the sick list for the past two weeks
is once more able to be around.
AN ALASKAN’S
ADVENTURE
IN MEXICO
I
Edward McClure a well known Alas- [
kan who arrived in Tanana from Ruby j
a few days ago and who stopped at :
the Dreamland hotel, relates an
unpleasant adventure which befell him
upon his first and only visit to Mexico
a few years ago. Mr. McClure left <told
Stream in the Fairbanks district in 11)07 :
and journeyed by easy stages down to 1
Bisby, Arizona ; here he remained for
sometime until at last he decided to
cross over the border into Mexico and
visit a friend who was one of the
overseers of the Elisa mine, which is one
the Colonel (»reen copper properties and
is not far from El Canenea.
Upon his arrival at the mine, Mc
Clure’s friend pursuaded him to take
| off his coat and go work down in the
mine, lie was to receive $4 a day (gold)
! out of which amount he would be re
quired to pay $27 a month for board.
The first day’s work with the pick wsa
rather hard on him and remained in
bed rather late the next morning easing
his stiffened back and shoulders.
lie was a roused by a loud knock at
the door and at his invitation two
rnrales entered. The foremost was a
j sergeant and the other a private; both
| carried guns.
The sergents drew out a long dec u
ment and lead it in .Spanish, and al
though McClure did not understand, the
| reading of the document it was made
plain to him that he was under arrest.
lie dressed and was escorted out the
back way of the house and out of the
camp without being allowed to commu
nicate witii any one.
At the outskirts of the camp the
two rurales mounted hoises and with
McClure between them on foot, set out
on the road over the mountain.
The steeper the road grew the faster
grew the pace of the horses and McClure
found it difficult; to keep up. If he tried
to slow up. one of the soldier-policemen
would kick him in the small of the
back and start him going again.
In desperation McClure suddenly
stooped and picked up a large rock,
intending to hurl it at one of his per
a
secutors hut lit* was covered with
gun so quickly and in a way that
leit no doubt in his mind that his cap
tors ment business. He dropped the
rock and lost no time in striking his
best gait again. After a couple of hours
the trio arrived at the town of El
Caneane. The prisoner was marched to
the corral which was the hedquarters of
the rurales. They stopped before the
largest house in the enclosure and in
response to the sergeants knock came
the command of “Kntray.”
The door was opened. The prisoner
! was shoved forward and a very laige,
military looking gentleman arose and
after sizing McClure up for an instant,
exclaimed in English: “Hello, Lindsey!
When did you leave Cripple Creek?”
McClure, replied, “Hello captain?”
The Military gentleman said that
“Colonel” was his title.
McClure corrected his mistake and
then said: “Let’s see! What did you
call me? My name is McClure and I
never was in Cripple Creek in my life.”
“Oh, well; you will have a chance to
prove that later on. Any way make
yourself comfortable,” was the reply.
That day they bought a new bed and
set it up in the large room. The col
oners bed was in one corner of the room
and McClure’s bed was set up in an
other.
McClure, who had followed the sea
for 20 years and who had made many
trips to Russian ports, spoke the lan
guage of that country very well; he also
speaks French and Italian.
The Colonel was a polyglot and a
Russian by birth who had served in,
and deserted from the United States
army. The two were soon on very good
terms although the prisoner was not al
lowed to know upon what charge he
was held. The only information given
him was that he was held at the request
of the United States government.
The Colonels name was Kotolitsky,
and he figured prominently in the late
Mexican trouble.
McClure, was given the newspapers
after certain articles had been clipped
out of them and his meals were sent in
to him from the best restaurant, lie
said he didn't have much of an appetite,
but nothing he left from his meals
ever went to waste, for as soon as
he would hand the tray out the
crowd of soldiers would dive into it
and clean everything up in short order.
After he had been confined in the
corral two weeks the first American he
had been permitted to see was ushered
in. lie proved to be a Pinkerton man,
and he evidently thought the Mexicans
were holding the right individual. A
day or two after his departure a tele
gram was received to hold the prisoner.
Another week went by and then one
morning McClure was told that he was
to be liberated. He was sent on his way
to the American line under escort of two
of the soldieis. At Naco, on the border,
his belongings were turned over to him
and , he was given $84, gold. He then
learned that he had been susbected of
killing (iovernor Stunenburg of Idaho.
McClure says lie never stopped going
until he hit New York.
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