Keystone Drills
For Prospecting
James McNamee, the well-known
Klondike operator, lias purchased
No. 6 below on Fairbanks creek,
and has made arrangement for get
ting equipment which will revolu
tionize prospecting in the Tatiana,
says the Fairbanks News. Mr.
McNamee is interested with Mr.
McGovern in securing prospecting
apparatus which will make deep
prospecting an easy task. Mr. Mc
Govern is now in San Francisco
and has ordered a Keystone drill
with a six-inch core which will sink
at the rate of 35 to 40 feet per day.
It will drill through rock as w'ell as
dirt. Mr. McNamee says the plan
was never tried in the Klondike,
but Keystone drills have been used
successfully in the Nome district.
“We shall operate under condi
tions which will be of use to the
poorest prospectors,” said the op
erator when seen at the Riverside
hotel, “and you can imagine how
such a method will help in develop
ing the camp. It now costs from
51,500 to52,000 to sink to bedrock,
and if the poor man fails to strike
anything he becomes discouraged.
He cannot afford to sink many deep
holes.
“And the diggings in this coun
try are mostly of a deep nature.
The paystreak seems universal,
however, and will stand extensive
prospecting. We can sink fifty
holes while one is being got to bed
rock under the old plan. This
means that we can find the pay in
short order, in case there is any,
once we begin on a claim.”
The apparatus is expected the
first of September. It is somewhat
heavy and will not be transported
to the creeks till after the ground
freezes.
Cliiltl Found Cioltl
Iu tire Wuter’s Eil«e
One day last week, while little
Miss Alaska Wright and Alfred
Wood were sauntering along the
water front and amusiug themselves
by tossing pebbles into the river,
the little lady cried out “Oh, that's
gold!” and thrusting her hand into
the water she brought torth a rock
streaked with the precious metal
sure enough The intrinsic value
of the specimen is insignificant, but
it will doubtless »>e treasured as
a memento of the days just pre
ceding the child's departure on her
first trip to the great outside world.
Alaska is quite keen sighted in
looking lor gold, and often picked
bit* of it front by father * dump on
Thanksgiving.
AROUND FAIRBANKS
AND CHENA
A jury acquitted George Nichols, I
charged with selling brass filings j
for golddust.
The district attorney’s office has1
given warning that saloon men
selling liquor to intoxicated persons
or habitual drunkards are liable to
prosecution.
Fairbanks city hall is lopsided.
Wags declare the side of the build- i
ing usually occupied by the council- j
men has settled under the weight of!
their deliberations.
It is unlawful for women to be
drunk on Fairbanks streets afier 6
o’clock in the morning. The fact
that one was trying to find her hus
band did not excuse her.
Prot. Georgeson and F'red K.
Rader located an agricultural expe
rimental reserve midway between
Chena and Fairbanks on the Tatiana
Mines railroad. The tract contains
about 1,250 acres and includes two
lakes.
K. J. Plutmacher has superseded
Henry Roden in the publication of!
the Chena Times. The paper has
been improved in appearance, and
its advertising patronage indicates
that the paper may achieve a fair
measure of success.
Chena citizens recently met to
discuss the subject of fire protection.
Two schemes were broached, one of
which would cost $13,000 and the
other $11,400 a year. “After much
figuring and debating, and after a!
vote was taken,” says the Times.;
“ever/member expressed his opin
ion that the funds could be raised J
by taxation. As there is now sup
posed to be between $400,000 and
$500,000 worth of taxable property ,
in Chena, this at 2 per cent, would ;
net in the neighborhood of $8,000 j
to $10,000, and it was therefore de-j
cided to appoint a committee who
should wait on the council and ask J
them to tax the property of the
town for fire protection.” I.ater
an assessment was ordered.
ALASKA NATIVES
AT McNElL'S ISLAND
Twelve of the fifteen Alaska na
tives confined in the penitentiary
at McNeil's Island are inmates of
the hospital and arc dying of con
sumption. The other three, newly
arrived, are already showing ineip
ient signs ol the disease. It is pre
dicted that not one ot the whole
number will live to serve out his
sentence
Medical men assert that, even if
hereditary consumption is prevalent
among the Indians, it w >uld do no
mote than to shorten their lives a
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The Highest Priced but
the Best Quality.
BILLIARD
AND*
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ROOMS
OLD VALLEY WHISKEY — The Only Stock
SOMETHING NEW — Try our PEACH ANI) HONEY BRANDY
Heeler’s PackTrain
Leaves for Glen Every
Five Days.
Freighting and Packing
To anti From All
the Creelcw.
Good Teams. Good Service
trifle in Alaska if it made itself
manifest here at all. Taken to a
warm, moist climate, however, in
addition to being kept behind bars,
the dise ise makes itself manifest
almost immediately. Nine out of
every ten Indians and Eskimos sent
to McNeil’s Island begin to pine
away within two or three months
after arriving there, develop quick
consumption within less than a
year, and die before three years.
Eight out of ten die before their
terms expire.
The conditions have Ireen made
known to the United States officials
and a movement has been started
which may lead to the establish
ment of a penitentiary in Alaska.
New Precinct Created
By Order of Courl
Judge Wickershatn lias entered
an order creating a new mining
precinct to l>e known as Xabesna
precinct, with 1>. S Sargent as re
cooler ami commissioner with the
powers of justice of the peace, says
the Fairbanks News.
Mr. Sargent is the man left iti
charge of Sargent post by H. Brat
nober on the Nal>esna river, a righi
fork of the Tanana, 500 miles abovr
Fairbanks. There are some thirl)
miners near there, ami it is mbit
tarv to the White river section am
takes in some of that country a'
wetl as the head streams of tin
Tatiana ami Nabesna rivers.
THE
| HEETER
TANANA, ALASKA
• S. E. HEETER, ED FERGUSON,
! PROPRIETOR MANAGER
FIRST-CLASS
i Wines, Liquors and Cigars
I_
of Alaska, Third Division.
; K. W. Griffin, 1
Plaintiff,
vs. |
Karl K. Tschki-kn, L, II. Titus, '<■ SUMMONS.
G w. Pennington, C. J. '
IIknkman and Wm. M. Davis, '
Defendants. J
The President of the United States to Karl K.
Tschepen and I.. H. Titus, defendants.
You and each of you are hereby required to
be and appear in the District Court for the
Territory of Alaska. Third Division. in an action
brought against you by the plaintiff herein, to
answer the complaint on hie within thirty days
after the publication of this summons.
Said action is brought to obtain a decree of the
, court foi the foreclosure of a certain mortgage
described in the complaint, and executed by
Karl K. Tschepen and G. \V. Pennington,on the
yist day of December, 1902, to secure the pay
ment of a certain account for goods, wares ami
merchandise sold and delivered by plaintiff'to
, defendants, and that the premises conveyed by
i said mortgage may be sold, and the proceeds be
applied to the payment of said indebtedness;
and in case such proceeds are no*, sufficient to
pay the same, that a deficiency judgment may
issue for the same, ami also that said defend
ants, and all persons claiming by, through or
under them, or either of them, maybe .aired
and foreclosed of all right, title, claim or lien or
equity of redemption and interest in and to said
mortgaged premises, and for other and further
relief^ as will more lolly appear from the com
plaint on file herein.
And you are hereby notified that if you fail to
1 appear and answer said complaint, as above re
quired. said plaintiff will apply to the court tor
the relief detm*tided in said complaint.
Wn ni s«». the Hon. James Wiekeraham. judge
of said court, this 12th dny of July, in the year
of our I.otd one thousand nine hundred and
five, and of our independence the one bundled
• and twenty-ninth. KDWAK1) J. STIP.K.
Clerk Court.
j Date of fir<d publication of this Sumnious,
| this iyth day of July. 1905.
In Hit* Commissioner'* t ourt, Korly-.Milc
I’m inrl, Third Division Territory of
p, fore I* K Hrady, Commissioner aiul ex officio
justice of the I'sncr.
Charles n o!-* ti Administrator J
of the kstate of Janies Carr,
deceased. Plaintiff. /SUMMONS.
S M Graff Defendant. j
The President of the United States, to S M.
or.iff. Defendant, link* r»M..
You are hereby required to be and appear in
the Commissioner sConti. I-«*tt> Mile Precinct,
Third Do ision of the Territory of Alaska to
answer the complaint of plaintiff within twenty
da % s after the publication of this summons
>tid action is brought to obtain a judgment
in favor o| the plaintiff and against the •frfend
ant foi the cum m two hundred and fitly ifrso **»>
dollar* »noti« v had and received from said
plaintiff »s administrator ot said estate, and tor
the routs of said action and such other and
it: t h« 1 t«la t as wilt none lulty apt war from the
complaint on HU
\Viim -*a m> hand ami the serai of aawl court
this first ,|av of August in the year of out Lord
one thousand Mine nnmftred and five
K. H Hit Al»V
lar u) t'uMatwKaar and ea-offieni
1 usIH'e «ftf the f«M«
|»ute of md pwhlNratmn wt Him nawnu ihi*
m«I day of August, ip}