Local and General Notes
J. A. El well lias returned to the other
side after a few days in town.
Mail departed from Tanana April 16
on the last trip of the season for the
Koyukuk.
At Eureka l’ete Johnson has added
a restaurant to his other facilities for
making people glad.
It is probable that F. G. Manley will
not leave Fairbanks for Ilot Springs
until after opening of navigation
The last of the liallou-Mann hydraulic
material was placed on Hunter creek
from Ruby by Mike Engels yesterday.
In a letter dated Caro, March 28,
Louis Sevier said he had acquired a
town lot and proposed to stay with the
Chandlar.
H. F. Thumin is prospecting his prop
erty at the mouth of Skookuin, and is
said to be highly pleased with the show
ing made.
It is stated on good authority that
Ben F. Baker, of Hot Springs, after a
long seige of rheumatic trouble is quite
himself again.
The Manley prospecting drill will be
run continuously after some small
broken parts can be substituted by new
ones from the outside.
The new game measure for Alaska
that was before congress missed becom
ing a law by failure to get registered
in the hilarity of the closing session.
Louis Iverson expects to depart- for
tlie outside on one of the first boats and
spend the summer in the shady groves
of California, tie will be back before
the freezeup.
Mail Carrier Ed Biederman visited
the post hospital at (iibbon last Satur
day and found .1. B. Wingate progress
ing favorably, hut Herman Schweitzer
was unimproved.
W. C. Brace, who has been hunting
on Baker flats the past winter, has the
thanks of the Valley News for a quarter
of moose meat. Mr. Brace was very
successful in killing meat, but it was a
hard proposition to get it out.
It in said Jim* Anicich, proprietor of
the Pioneer at Tanana, in thinking of
cutting out his har trade altogether and
putting in family groceries on one side
of tike house and bottled felicity on the
other. Joe has been led into tikis frame
of mind through the law and the gos|n*l
according to Bonaparte.
Remember, Y. 0.0. P.
The regular monthly huaine** meet
ing take* place at Pioneer Hull, >utnr
ilav, Ai ril 27.
RUHACH
KILLS
MOSQUITOES
FOR S.'LE AT
Miners Store
HOT SPRINCS TRADING POST
—== GENERAL MERCHANDISE ==—
The finest resort north of Seattle. Natural Hot Springs. Renew your youth with
the waters of the local Spa. Superior bathing and hotel accommodations. Our
table supplied with all varieties of the finest vegetables raised in our own gardens.
F. C. MANLEY. PROPRIETOR
RAMPART ROAD WORK
$10,000 Allotted for the Minook Side and
Work to Begin Early.
The allotment of money l>y the Alaska
road eominission for extending the Mi
nook road is $10,000, S. K. lleeter will
have charge of the work, and a com
mencement w ill probably be made be
fore the first of July.
These are facts indicated by messages
received by Mr. lleeter from Captain
Pillsbury.
Mr. lleeter is precinct road commis
sioner, and it is 'juite likely that the
larger part of the labor and money
derived from the poll collections will also
be applied to the Minook road.
It amounts almost to a certainty that
the commission will allot a sum of
money for that portion of the road
extending between Eureka and Hot
Springs,and it is hoped that the amount
will he sufficient to insure that whole
section being put in passable condition.
It is said F. G. Manley has volunteered
to donate two thirds of the money nec
essary to do this if the road commission
will allow the other third.
On the Minook end the worst part
was finished last summer—that between
Rampart and No. 8. It is believed the
stretch to be made this season will he
considerably less costly for a given dis
tance; hut even at that much will be
left undone.
M. S. CILL EXPECTED
BACK WITH A BRIDE
It is around that M. S. (Jill,
tin* well-known <»K*n mining man who
went outside last fall, will return with a
bride. He in said to have married re
cently in Mexico, Mo.
The truth «d the rejmrt can not be
verified, but Mr. f iill's friends <>n this
side of the divide believe it aid hoi a* it
is so; more especially ns some of the
comers in over the ice are said to know
all about it and declare the bride a most
estimable voting woman.
From Across the Divide.
J. \V. Itoothby came in from the other
side ve-terday. He is <|Uoted as saving
that he never saw g< ing on the trail so
iftNwi lefore; that they are out of I hit
and short of lemon* at Hot tyring*;
that Ibd K.trshner could not get any
putty and Jack Frost got in and ni|»|>ed
the early vegetables in the hothouse,
but that Had plugged Up the holes with
sourdough and is trying it again; that
teams on the oilier *idc are all working
overtime and that alt* H>,ink-giving
and Kttreka sahsm* it 1* -m l men line
up*s|gewai* so that e%cryi*dy can get
to the bit
EUREKA ROADHOUSE
IS BEING IMPROVED
Jerry Ford is building extrusive addi
tions to the Kureka Roadhouse. A
Kitchen is being put in in the rear and a
line room is lieing added for the bar and
a billiard and |mhi| table which is soon
to 1 h* put in.
The outlook for Kureka seem* to Ik*
very bright indeed, and Jerry is net
going to leave anything undone that will
make things pleasant lor the boys when
they mine that way.
First of Dry Creek Quartz Find.
The Nome Nugget of Jan. *Jt», which
came in from the direction of faro l»v
last Monday's mail, had an account of
the tpiarti strike at the head of |»ry
creek which scents to have since grow n
into a sensation. Only the outcropping
of the h*dge had ln*t*n uncovered at the
time tin* Nugget was printed The Hint
was made hy l.okke A It* rg, who were
I*--king l*»r placer, and were drifting
from tile lotl«>iu of an eighty -loot shaft
when lltrv struck Its* nut.
Items From Tanana.
Citizen, April 17.
William Bybee in putting a new floor
in tin* Tanana bar.
J. P. Simons, proprietor of the Ex
change, left for Fairbanks on Saturday
last. Mr. Stockman is in charge at the
Exchange, which is doing business in
spite of the absence of its proprietor.
It is an expensive proceeding for an
Alaskan delegate to play cards with a
Tananite on a holiday. It is said that it
cost Delegate Waskey just $300 while in
Seattle to get acquainted with Black
jack Joe.
Jim Dougherty is married and living
in Seattle. He went east to get his wife.
When asked what he was going to do
with that woman, he said, in his inimi
table way, “You wait; I'll bring her to
Gibbon and start a laundry.
Edward O’Lint, former soldier and
cook at the civilian mess, is now staying
at the Exchange. In company with
tieorge Berteaux he came from Seattle.
They mushed without dogs all the way
from Valdez. He says they were in the
worst storm of the winter, but made
good time, at one portion of the journey
covering eighty-two miles in two days.
The cash register lielonging to Joe
Anieieh lias been out of order for some
time. No one in town seemed to be
able to fix it till it was discovered that
there was at tlie post a mechanic of no
mean ability in the person of Lieutenant
Schick. The register now plays the
same old tune. We understand that the
lieutenant is going to make an auto
mobile next winter.
Fairbanks Freighter Kurt.
Daily Times, April 2: Jim Blodgett,
the well-known Fairbanks freighter, is
reported to have broken a leg yesterday
forenoon while driving a freight team,
with which he has lieen moving a load
toward Tenderfoot. According to ac
counts Blodgett fell or stumbled into a
position between one of the runners and
a stump. Before the team could lie
stopped his leg was badly jammed, lie
suffered greatly after being helped out
by other freighters, lie was made as
comfortable as possible on one of the
rigs and hurried toward the next r >ad
house. He was not sure the bones of
the leg were broken, but thought so.
Mike Engels
Sourdough Mike
FREIGHTING
and PACKING
To all the Creeks