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VER
Ice Moves Two Days Earlier Than on Any
Previous Year.
At 7 o’clock Thursday evening, May
11, the ice in the river started and moved
slowly down between 400 and "’00 feet.
There it remained stationary for some
time, hnt during the night the pressure
from above forced it a little further and
a little further; hut at S o’clock Friday
morning the flags which had been set
in front of Knapp's place were still visi
ble in the big bend below Clinton’s.
The water continued to rise and the
ice moved and remained stationary at
intervals. At noon Friday a wire said
the ice was still intact at The Uapids,
thirty-two miles below. Later it was
reported a tremendous jam had formed
there, and that ice had been piled eighty
feet high. It was said that immense
sheets would drift down and lie stood on
edge by the force of the under current,
and would sometimes be thrust to an
incredible bight into the air la-fore the
crushing from beneath caused them to
collapse. At 5 in the evening it was re
|iorted the jam had broken; but it
turned out later that the break w i only
partial and that the main part of the
jam held firm till after 10 o'clock.
At liampart the water had become so
high that a ridge of ice ten feet high
was crowded onto the natural walk
along the water front, known a& the
Boulevard. and was left there when the
breaking of the jam at The Kaputs per
mitted the water to recede. The ice re
mains there still and forms a jumbled-up
harrier on either side of the river; and
the frosty weather gives no promise of a
speedy rise of water floating it away.
The record was broken for an early
breakup, notwithstanding it had been
predicted it would come later than the
average. Following are the dates of
opening and closing
been kept:
Year. <)peii. C’n-c.
ISHS May IT. Oct. 27
1*944 M i.v 22. No\. •»
190) May 15. \i»v. 3
1901 May 24. Nnv.
19MSS- May 21. Nov. 9
since a record has
Year. Opeii. Close,
titIt! May 19. Oct. -I
1901 May 11. Not.it
IMS May IS. Oct. 29
ll«*i May la. Nov. 1*1
1907- May 9.
.lames I.angford is authority that at a
distance Isdow Tanana in IS!it the ice
did not move until May :I7. As the
Tanana. river always forces the break
several days earlier below its mouth
than above it. at llampart that year the
ice must have held until about June 1.
Mr. I.angford says the ice moved at
Kampart in lstlo Mat 24; in istst. Mat
2">, and in ls*>7. May 2o. Me has hist
the closing record for these tears.
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HOW EDDIE LEWIN
PASSED UP RICHES
Failed to Catch On When a Good
Thing Came His Way.
The Dawson News of April 12 con
tained some interesting gossip in which
Eddie Letvin, a widely known Yukon
river pioneer, is the central figure.
“Lewin arrived here a few days ago
from Seattle and is en route to Circle,”
said the News. “He has an interesting
tale to relate, llis Nevada chance was
in the famona Mohawk mine, now the
richest property in tlie Tonopah or Gold
fields licit. Three years ago Eddie was
offered a controlling interest in the
property for $1,1)00, or only three cents
a share. Now the property, he says, is
worth $*>0,000,000, and his statement is
corroborated by F. Leavitt, a Gold
field and California hard-rock expert
who is here with Mr. Lewin. It was hut
a short time after Mr. Lewin was offered
the controlling interest in the claim for
$l,n00 that the men then in control,
pushed by dire straits, got some one else
in by giving up a big share on a close
dicker. Then they went to work, and
after sinking but a short time ran : ito
the richest of rock. The Mohawk Cock
began to clime ami went up a few cents
at a tilin'. As the prospects showed the
property not to be a one-day affair, the
valuations routilined to soar.
“Recently two carloads of ore shipped
from the property went a million ami a
half dollars. This may have liven picked,
but it hail the values. One sack of • I list
swept from the dump went a thousand
dollars, and many other similar sacks
were being gathered.
"Lewin got a share of the Sullivan
elate in Scuttle by having befriended
Snlb'an in early days. When Mr. Sul
livan was starting in business Mr. Lewin
was a youth, that was hi Stilh
van l'nijmnllv got Li>win smut*
writing fm him, Mint in this way ma*lv
it .ill right so that I 'Mir, although lit*
calm* north l«» the forty milt* anti t irflt*
diggings, starting tiflft n yearn ago, never
was forgotten by tin* grateful .Sutllt*
pioneer. When ^1 r Sullivan died, a
vt*ar «»r two ago, lu* Wit no will, hut ha«l
it *«* arranged U*l"rt* that Mr. I.« win
was n«'t overl*«*ked. It was neve^surv
to have a ilim*! relative in of»k*r to pre
wnt I In* I'rttMti* *‘«H*h»,;iliiijj t«» tin* state.
Tin? Rrrvxwiry Wir was fmind in Iht*
)nr«»» *4 a «hl«*r «*f .'sti lit van’s in Ire*
fond. TK* *e interested in tin* finding * I
tit* lieir got Ism , an*I it was not long
until they lmd traced the case to the
green sod, where Sullivan was known to
have administered the estate of a rela
tive who had dieil some time before his
own demise. United States Senator
Piles, of Seattle, settled the Sullivan
estate and got a vast share of the prop
erty for his work. Piles is said to have
property from the estate worth half a
million.
“All the Sullivans in creation turned
np to claim a slice of the Sullivan estate.
Even Black Sullivan, of Dawson fame,
says Mr. Lewin, was among the rela
tives. It was surprising how many rel
atives the dear old fellow had.”*
Alaska-Siberian Project Stalled.
The Russian eabinot has rejected the
proposal, according to press dispatches,
made on behalf of an American syndi
cate for the construction of a railroad
tunnel under Bering straits, by which it
was hoped ultimately to connect the
Trans-Siberian railway with the Cana
dian Pacific road.
The cabinet decided that there is no
commercial demand for the enterprise
on the part of Russia, while it would, if
carried out, lead to the extension of
American interests in Siberia, in turn
requiring the establishment and main
tenance of an elaborate branch of the
Russian government at that distant
point.
1 ho project is not discountenanced
forever, but the cabinet advises the
promoters that for the present it is en
tirely impossible, and useless to be
called up.
The project requires the construction
of a branch line from the Trans-Siberian
road to Bering sea. which Russia does
not wish to see built for the present.
Promising Gardens.
The garden of Mrs. George \Y Woods,
at her residence on Front street, and
that of Sergeant and Mrs. Mustin, at
their residence on Second avenue, give
promise of being among the best in
town.
Mrs. Woods has her place beautifully
prepared for the advent of “growing”
weather. Sergeant and Mrs. Mustin's
ground was successfully cultivated two
seasons bv.Imlge and Mrs. Green, and
there will scarcely be any one connected
with the Alaskan signal corps who will
he better supplied with vegetables this
year than themselves.
The frosty weather of the past week
has somewhat cooled the ardor of the
gardeners; but there is plenty of time.
The best results from open-air garden
ing are obtained by planting after the
leaves Itegili to show oil the trees.
t>r. Sutbt timid, returning from New
York to I hi w.-on, said: “hiving in New
York. I found, was ju-t as ■ \peiisive ns
in Ikiwson or Fairbank-. in fuel it is
likely to prove a little more in the
long run."
Mike Engels
(Sourdough Mike*
FREIGHTING
ami PACKING
To all the Ireeks