It is reported that a crowd of laps
have gathered at one end of Ham
island, preparing for a deer drive
' and no game warden in sight.
Charles Fornander. a pioneer of
ftuby district, and well known to
< Fairbanks and lditarod, writes that
he is interned in Stockholm, Sweden,
Indefinitely.
The body of John Dool, who was:
swept from a wood raft last spring
and drowned in the Yukon river,
was recovered last week, and, after
identification, was buried near
* it was found.
Gold Mines Company has heeu in
bankruptcy for two years, and its
r holdings were recently sold to P. C.
Kllsworth, of Seattle, and the latter
has now disposed 61 ft to the Tal
keetna company.
Thieves who robbed the slulce
boxes of A. 1). Thompson & Co. on
the Chatauika fiats, secured $1,580
for their trouble. The robbery oc
curred on September 12, but the otti
, cers have been unable to gain the
identity of the thieves.
The Standard Oil Company has sn
. Alaska papers have been requn'ed
to help locate Nicholas Johnson, for
merly a resident of Center township, j
O'Brien county, Iowa, who is be
lieved to be in Alaska A large es
tate awaits Johnson in the states,
and unless be is heard from some
small children will suffer, as the es
tate cannot be divided until se is
reard fron
uounced that tank stations are soon 1
to be established at Wrangell and.
. Petersburg. The Petersburg tanks •
will have a capacity of 100,000 gal
lons. The big oil company recog
nizes the growing business offered by
the fishing fleets of Southeastern
Alaska and has determined to secure
the trade.
August Tobin, a miner who has
spent eighteen year sin the Koytikuk
< district without ever having made
4 the trip to the outside, recently j
viewed the great Yukon for the first
time, lie went into the Koytikuk by
way of Kotzebue sound, and later
* crossed over the divide into the
watershed of the Koyukuk. It was
s
only on very rare occasions mar
Tobin journeyed down the river tar
enough to see a steamer.
Henry Rodea, former senator
from the Fourth division, reports
In Ruby that a stampede took place
last week to Lynx creek, a tributary
nf Grant creek in the Nuhkallany
dr Gold Mountain district. The
stampede was started by a miner dis
playing a $120 nugget which he said
lie Jhad picked up on Lynx creek.
Quite a few miners trout the Tanana
and Vukon rivers joined in the stain,
pede ’and are reported prospecting
their ground with goo dchances of
finding paystreak.
The work of installing the elec
tric motors at the "2Jd ‘ mill is near-;
ly completed. At present all the
vunners are being run cn 'juice.
as well as 00 of the stamps, and it!
is thought that the other 180
stamps will be turning over by elec
tric power by the 15tlit of this
month. The work of irstallatiau
lias been going on for the past three
months, and a great deal of concrete
foundation and other construction
work has been done. Juneau Em
pire.
Securing the Hrst government pat
ent for gypslim claims in Alaska, the;
Pacific Coast Gypsum company, re-!
reived from the Juneau land office,
letters patent to their locatious on,
Chicagof mountain. The patent'
covers six claims designated as gyp
sum placer claims and Is issued in i
the name of the Pacific Coast Gypsum
Co., with YV. rt. Nichols as president.
This company is a Taconta corpo
ration and has for several years been
operating In tthe Chicagof mountain 1
district.
The steamer Delhi, which lias re
ceived much attention since she was
wrecked in the Wrangell Narrows
last year, has been sold for junk for
$2.Odd. The steamer was beached at
Ketchikan and patcned up to make
the trip to Prince Rupert where she
was to have been drydocked but when
she was flumped out her euginees
were found to be useless and the hull
a mere shell. There was great dis
appointment to the owners of the
wreck when the condition was re i
vealed.
Katcliemak Bay is reported to
have become a prosperous little
place as a result of the government s
railroad activities in Alaska. A
number of homesteaders have filed
on claims on the shore line and are
preparing to raise vegetables for the
railroad tangs. Many others have
entered the fur farming business,
raising foxes being the chief line.
Katcliemak bay always enjoys one of
the best runs of herring along the
Alaskan coast, and the fishermen are
reported as preparing to put up a big
catch.
Work of establishing winter quar
ters by the Konan-.lames company,
on the Skeen-Stevenson property,
has commenced. Timber sure being!
taken up the mountain at present,
and a lower level is being run for
blocking out the ground, preparatory I
to taking out ore. A stamp mill will
be put in in the spring. In a recent
mill test four and one-half tons of
ore yielded $1,280.
Mangus Lindquist, a miner, who
was crushed in a cave-tn while work,
ing on his claims on Mayo creek,
near the head of Stewart river, lias
Neu sent to the states for expert
surgical attention. He was helpless
and partially paralyzed for thirty
days, without medical attention, be
fore reaching Dawson. He has
been in Yukon for fifteen years, and i
in the Mayo district for eight years
George A. Shea, formerly of Fair
banks, and well known in the const •
towns of Alaska, in reported to have
struck it rich in his quartz mine
near Kingman, Arizona. The Tein
is reported to be composed of
stringers of a highly oxidized quartz
which give values of from $170 to
$181 per tou. Several former Alas-.
Vans now resiidlng In Seattle are til-1
terested with Shea in the property.
Ben Boose, one of the early pio
neers of Fairbanks, is being sued by ;
Mrs. Abbie Bishop, of Portland, for
$3000 damages because be lured
her daughter, Mrs. l.ota Ruble, to
leave her husband ou promise of
marriage. Ben is now a Ford sales
man ill Seattle, and married another
woman after Lola secured a divorce,
expecting to marry him. He cleaned
up a big fortune on Cleary creeks,
Fairbanks.
According to the Juneau Dispatch,
the uatives predict a long, cold win
ter in Alaska. The winters are al
ways long and cold to the natives, I
and we never heard of them making
any other prediction. Notwithstand
ing the predictions, we may call at
tention to the fact that no fresh'
snow appears on the tops of tie;
high mountains, and the gardens as
yet show no signs of frost.-—Douglas
Owing to t lie bottom having j
dropped out of the fur market, it is'
reported that the Indians of tile
I'pper Tanaua valley will enjoy but
little “white man's muck-a-muck” |
the coming winter. Flips at Tatiana
crossing are reported to be very
cheap, and the natives cr nnot af
ford to take them down the river to1
Fairbanks, and grub is abaut the j
highest of any place in Alaska south I
of the Yukon river.
a nugget oi pure gold, weiguiug ‘
more than live pounds, was brought
to Seattle from the Koyukuk by H.
K. Brown, who it, the agent for thoj
Nortliern Commercial Company at
Betties and Wiseman. It is the
largest nugget ever taken out of the
Koyukuk district. Mr. Brown is con-:
vinced the lump of gold "111 assay:
$2fi to the ounce. It was found on
No. 4 Hammond river, near the Arc
tic circle, by Frank Smith.
The Ruby Record-Citizen repons'
that pay equaling anything ever on-1
covered in Alaska is worked on 3
above on Long creek. Pans ha"e
been taken from bedrock which have:
yielded as high as $102. 1’he claim
was reported by Frank Johnson, tlie
owe*’”, to be fielding an average of,
tM.dDo per day. Johnson bought the
claim last year for $10,000 from j
Goo. Shepard but the latter hopes
-l-.ct its owner will make a million |
from the ground.
Tt is reported from Washington
that Secretary Redtield has ordered
the Alaska survey ships Gedney and
McArthur condemned and sold as
being unfit for government service.
The government fisheries boat Os
prey, which was recently inspected
at Ketchikan by Inspectors Whiir.ev
l’eltret. was found to be in a very
unseawortliy condition, and it is un
derstood that the Inspectors have
recommended to Secretary Redtield
that the Osprey l>e condemned.
It Is reported by miners tha: ill v
S>•wiird-lditarod mail trail will be
■onsidwablv shortened this tensor,
by the adoption of a new route ft >m
Takotna to Iditurod. The old r iff
from Takotna by way of Moore. Bo
nanza and Otter creeks is t.o be
abandoned, and the new trad will be
hv wav of Oph'r and across country
to a point r short distance aJtr.ve
Dtkeman. on the Iditarod. it is said
that the new route will lessen c n
siderabl.v the distance between Ta
kotna and Iditarod.
Two brothers. Oie and Swan John
son, who have been working for the
Alaskan Engineering Commission :■
Mile 54. are in the hospital at Sew
ard, receiving treatment for injuries '
received while at their work. Swan
Johnson was hurt on Thursday by
having the hall of his right thumb
cut out. and Ole suffered an accident
the same day which might have
proved fatal. He was carrying an
angle bar across a slippery trestle
when he fell backward on the bridge
with the iron on to|) of him, break- '
mg several ribs.
Whitehorse stores now close at 5 *
o’clock in the evening, except on Sat
urdays.
Duncan ’Shaw, ror six years man
ager of a wholesale store in Skag- j
way. recently died in Seattle from
pneumonia.
The latest thing in the line of
fakes is the discovery of a lot of cod !
Isb, doctored and sold as Alaska red '
salmon.
Petersburg hunters report a sharp
encounter with a baud of wolves,
which were not scared away by the
crack of their rides.
Itinerant peddlers are fined $.">» a
day In Cordova and seven cents a day
in Seward. There is a chance yet
that our copper output will heat that
burg. Seward Gateway.
The United States government wtll
open a sawmill at Metlakahtla. H. G.
Heattie. superintendent of tlie* na
tive schools for the First division,
has been ordered there for that pur
pose.
A three-months course for the
study of mining will be opened in
the University «*f Washington on
January 3. Subjects which will be
taught include quartz and placer
mining, tire assaying, geology, min
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For information an t literature write or ask
E. J. WARNER, Agent
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railway
A. E. HARRIS,
Traveling Passenger Agent,
Juneau, Alaska.
The Heming Family
Continue to dispense
General Merchandise
At the Old Stand in Knik
Whatever You Want We Have
Whatever We Have You Want
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Wellman Goods
800 Tons
No better can be bought
at any price,
Sperry’s Drifted Flour and Sper
ry’s Kansas Flour. Once used, you
will use no other. Try them.
Hill’s Bros.’ Coffee and Tea. Use
the red can. I handle only California
Butter and Petaluma Eggs, the best
procurable.
Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, Rubber Goods,
Hardware, Tents, Tarpaulins, Oils
Gasoline, Certaintoed Roofing and Lumber
Knik, Alaska
_
..is.’. ■ .ii» .-'ll . mg, i lining la...
ohe m if try, forging tools, nm» tim
bering and mine rescue work.
Alfred, the. I 1-year-old and only
son of I Jr. Alfred Thompson, mem
ber of parliament for the Yukon,
Mir electrocuted near his home at
Rocl.clirie rc-ently. A group of men
v : r< cutting down a tree, and it
Struck a lice wire, knocking it onto
the sidewalk. .The boy was passing
with his mother at the time and
grabbed hold of the "ire before he
could be prevented.
Fairbanks papers state that, there
is a steady movement toward Toio
vana and that many mining men and
prospectors are leaving Fairbanks
for the in" camp. Freighters are
divided in their opinion as to the
better trail to the camp, some pre
ferring the Olnes road, while others
□ re preparing to use the Happy creek
trail.
The Chapman Smelter company of
San Francisco is out to get all the
antimony ores from the Fairbanks
district. The antimony ores shipped
last summer from the Ridgetop and
agle mines ran, respectively, 55 to '
61 per cent antimony. The total
gross of tlie 7k tons shipped after
delivery at (he smelter was $10,-'
*70.SI.
The steamer Otter, which left Vic-;
toria with salvage gear for the Mari.
, hvUlUl WclUl> .11, Ol. /AUim
island a if u hours run north of Vic
toria. and has boon abandoned as a
teal loss. She was Vjr:H about
$30,000, but was very old. She had
been trailing on the west coast oi
Vancouver island hpfore -h" was fit
led out lor the sal rage bus:, c-s.
George Van Tassel, a well-known
resident of Cordova, died suddenly
last Saturday night. Deceased was
apparently in good health when ho
retired, hut apoplexy claimed him as
a victim during the night. He had
been working for the Copper River
railroad an a boilermaker.
■Judge Jennings recently issued an
order permitting Otto N iftke to
change his name (o George Mason.
The petition asking the change of
name stated that the name Noffke
has a significance which subjected
him to ridicule by hit countrymen.
Olympus Bar
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Draught and Bottled Beer
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ago everybody got along without one.
So they did, a little further hack, without the steam
engine and the railroad train. They got along
without them because there were none.
Anyone today who thinks he can get along with
out the typewriter because he can do his writing
with the pen, is like the man who thinks he doesn’t
need the railroad because he can walk. In your
method of writing you may be “walking” today.
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