Nothern News and Notes
C. A. Mclnroy, the Fort Yukon tra
iler, in Dawson rerently, gave his esti
mate of the Chandlar output to the
Dawson News as $75,000.
Redmond creek, in the Tenderfoot
country, is said by the Fairbanks Times
to be showing up well. Gold is being
found in the benches, is coarse and of
high grade.
A good many men continue to come
out of tiie Chandlar. The latest reports
are that more are leaving the country
than are going in. I'pper Dig creek is
still named as the principal producer.
Men arriving on the Herman from St.
Michael yesterday reported a new and
sensational strike on Dry creek, on the
outskirts of the Nome townsite. It was
classed witli the richest finds ever made
in that country.
Government experts report that there
is 12,(144 square miles of Alaska under
laid with coal. Tiie "reports say that
samples show much of this coal to be of
excellent grade, and the supply is great
enough to provide the world for years
to come.
Dawson News: Mr. Hunter, of the
Gold Scoojiers dredge on Walkei’s Fork,
Fortymile, is in the city and reports the
big dredge working nicely. The ma
chine is working day and night. Some
frost has been encountered, and thaw
ing lias lioen necessary for a portion of
the ground, but much of it is thawed
ground. It may lie that after the ground
sluicing is perfected the thawing by
steam will not be necessary.
Dawson, June 25.—Special to the
Fairbanks Times.—The most stupendous
placer mine merger the world has ever
known has just been consummated
whereby the Guggenheim interests take
over all properties formerly controlled
and operated by the Treadgold North
west Hydraulic Company, the Yukon
Consolidated Goldfields Companies, and
many smaller concerns. Through this
deal the Guggenheims have absorbed
virtually all of the plaser properties of
the Klondike watershed which up to
this time had l>een worked by the old
methods. Hundreds of claims on Kl
dorado, Bonanza, Hunker, Bear and
their rich hillsides and tributaries are
included in the deal. It is estimated
that these concessions have cost the
company no less than $10,000,000. More
than $5,000,000 lias already 1 -ceil s|>ent
for eipiipment. The company have just
started three of tin- largest dredgers in
the world at the mouth of Hunker
creek; it is planning to start three oth
ers on lower Hunker, one on the An
derson concession, one at the Arlington
roadhouse at the junction of Hunker
and tin- Klondike, and one at to twlow
on Hunker. Another dredge or two will
U- put to work this season on lower Ho
nansa creek. Several giant electric
conveyors will Is* used for hoisting the
gray el and sweeping out the creek ls»t*
toius.
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Revenue officers in a raid in North
Carolina June 25 captured 35 moon
shiners and 1.3 stills.
The pope has offered special honors to
J. P. Morgan if he will renounce the!
Kpiscopal church and become Catholic.
The United States Ruhher Company
has swallowed the Canadian Consoli
dated Rubber Company and now has a
monopoly in each country.
June 25 a strike accompanied bv riot
and incendiarism was in progress in the
great Robinson mines at Pretoria, South
Africa. Military was being hurried to
the scene.
An auto plunged into a ravine from a
high mountain road near Naples, June
25, and Prince Ferrara and Duke de la
Regina, of the Italian nobility, and
three others were killed.
John Temple Craves, at Atlanta, Ga.,
asserted that Roosevelt told him he
would run for president again if he were
assured of one southern delegation. Mr.
Graves said the president was net
joking.
At Seattle the police in enforcing the
Sunday closing law arrested several club
women, the proprietors of several gro
eery stores, and broke in upon a Jewish
wedding and beat the bride and groom
with clubs.
The backwardness of the season and
other weather phenomena are attribu
ted by scientists to suns]>ots. All that
is known in connection with the sjsits
is that when they are very pronounced,
as they have lieen this year, there is
I sure to lie unusual weather.
The new French-Spanish understand
ing declares that each government is
firmly resolved to maintain intact its
insular and maritime possessions in the
Mediterranean and Atlantic, and it hinds
each country in any circumstances aris
ing which may threaten to modify the
status ijuo, the one to consult with the
other with a view to “common action.”
The threatened trouble between the
operators and the Western Union Tele
graph Company culminated June 25and
it appeared that a general strike was
unavoidable. At San Francisco the op
erators sent out a recommendation for
government ownership of all telegraph
lines, on the ground that the Postal
Western Union combination is a clear
ing house for i>ool rooms and bucket
shops, which are being run in many
pla.'ts in the United Stases contrary to
law.
The naval board of which Admiral
Dewey is chairman has transmitted to
S.c ret ary Metcalf to forward to Prt si
dent Roosevelt a recommendation that
the entire battleship sqipidron of the
United States navy l>e concentrated on
the Pacific coast, and that prompt action
be taken to place at the highest possible
point of efficiency all the shipbuilding
plants and dry docks on the Pacific
coast. The board even goes so far as to
recommend that the federal government
take over several of the Pacific coast
shipbuilding plants. Army officers at
Honolulu and Manila have been in
structed to rush to completion the forti
fications at those places.
The Best Spring Alterative
SASSAFRAS TEA
Pleasant for Breakfast
Ready for Use
BED NETS
To Keep Mosquitoes Out
BUHACH Mosquitoes
FOR SALE AT
Miners Store
Local and General Notes
Lost—Ladies’ nugget pin. Leave at
this office.
The summer so far is unusually dry
on this side of the divide.
Frank Stevens and George Shirley,
laymen on No. 1, Glen, are shoveling in
some good dirt. It is said to be real
rich.
After a year outside, C. II. Khrhorn, a
well-known old-timer, returned on the
Cudahy early Thursday morning, ac
companied by a bride.
F. M. Smith received a message from
Mrs. Smith saying that the passengers
who left here on the Sarah June 24 did
not make steamer connection at St.
Michael until July 3.
Mike Laboski, who came in from
Thanksgiving this morning, said that
his brother Wally is progressing favora
bly, though slowly. If he continues to
improve lie will not be sent to Gibbon
for treatment.
William Mann, of Hunter creek, won
the furnished cabin raffled by J. 15.
Wingate the evening of July 4. It is a
nice residence—and should suggest a
try for another prize while luck is com
ing Mr. Mann’s way.
Charley Cavanaugh, formerly line
man of the Rampart signal corps, is
hobnobbing with the boys again, after a
twelvemonth in the States, lie is to be
stationed at Glen. Everybody knows
and likes Cavvy, and his welcome is
cordial.
Harry Miller, who was at work in a
Tatiana hotel last winter when he was
accused of stealing money from an In
dian lodger named Big Charley, pleaded
guilty at Fairbanks to petty larceny and
was sentenced bv Judge Gunnison to
ten days in jail. He had already been
in jail seven months.
G. A. Ketterer, a former citizen who
is spending several days with Rampart
friends before taking his final leave for
his old home in Iowa, has the joke on
him. He tried to convince Road Over
seer fleeter that he was merely sojourn
ing in Alaska instead of residing here,
but the distinction was so fine that the
overseer couldn't see it.
GALLED AWAY
BY FATHER S DEATH
II. Simmon, who arrival in Kain|>art
July exporting to remain in charge of
tin* business of Kaffeuhurgh & Itro., has
Iteen tailed Iwck to Itoaton l>y the ilimtli
of his lather. Ilf will ilrpirt on the
lirst l»»t.
I’. kuffenhurgh left July 4 and ex*
l>fftfd to remain in the east all this
year.
It. \V. Stick nev wilt have charge of
the Uam|<art house, at least temporarily.
IVw’t la* afraid of failures. Tliey are
often prom lam of future succeaa.— it