INQUEST HELD
ON LAINHINEN
Jumped Overboard and Drowned
in the Tanana.
Commissioner W. B. Bnllou returned
lust Friday from the Tanana, where he
had held an inquest concerning the
death of Isaak Lainhinen.
The inquest was held July 17. At
Tanana town the c< mmissioner was
joined by Deputy Maishal Vautier and
they proceeded up the Tanana river in
the government launch Heine a. The
body had been found in a slough about
forty miles from the mouth of the river
by a woodchopper named Tilly. On
the remains was found a purser’s slip
and there is no doubt that the deceased
was the man who jumped overboard
from the steamer Tanana near Baker
Creek, June 20, and was drowned.
Depositions regarding the suicide will
be secured from the officers of the
steamer by the officials at Tanana later.
In a Satchel that Lainhinen had on
the boat was an old policy card in the
American Health and Accident Insur
ance Company of Detroit, Mich., issued
by an agent at Conreuut, Ohio; mem
bership cards in Long>horemen’s Cnion
Nos. 220 (dated 100(1) and HO (dated
1890) ; a membership card in the United
Mine Workers of the Tanana, and vari
ous letters, mostly written in Scandina
vian.
A little over $.10 dollars was found on
the laxly. _
Green Corn Raised
in a Dawson Garden
Dawson News. July -V. Gus Johnson,
proprietor ef the Cascade Laundry, is to
the front with the first full grown and
matured roasting ears ever report! d in
Dawson. Johnson had a n eal of the
roasting ears today from corn grown in
liis own gardens in the heart of Dawson,
more precisely, at Sixth and Queen
streets. The cm rn was started in the
hothouse in March, and was trans
planted somewhat later. It is full,
sound and sweet, and of large size. It
is the early dwarf, from Burpee’s, l’hil
adelphia.
In the University of Chicago, recently,
Prof. Hoxsie told his class, during the
hour which is regularly devoted to so
cialism and labor organization, that in
the next industrial crisis socialism will
Is1 the great issue, and in the near
future the two pirties will Is- the sorin'*
ist and the anti-socialist.
Mike Engels
(Sourdough Mike*
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To all the Creeks
Guaranteed
Under th<r
FOOD AND
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Serial No.
6768.
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Brief Outside Mention
Harry Orchard says his grandfather
was insane.
It is expected that all the Central
American countries will soon he at war.
Thomas Gore, democrat, totally blind,
will go to the United States senate from
Oklahoma.
Secretary Straus of the Department of,
Commerce and Labor is in Seattle stud-;
ying labor conditions.
Nicholas Kent, assistant postmaster
at Butte, is gone with $10,000 and is be
lieved to he mentally unbalanced.
Officials at Washington are trying to !
create the impression that there is no
foundation for the war talk, but the de
fenses are being actively looked after.
Congressman Jones has announced
his candidacy to succed Ankeny as sen
ator from Washington. Congressman
Cushman will support him.
The courts have held that the recount
law.passed by the New York legislature
is inojierative, and this puts an end to
Hearst’s contest for the mayoralty.
At Seattle W. W. McArthur, real es-1
tate man, went to take a shower bath
at the Seattle Athletic Club, and by
mistake turned on the hot water and
i was scalded to death.
A charge in one of the forward turrets
of the battleship Georgia ignited from a
spark and in the explosion that fol
lowed six officers and men were killed
and several fatally injured.
Fred Magill, a millionaire banker of
Clinton III., who married his stenog
rapher, was arrested, together with his
bride, charged with murdering his for
mer wife. The woman had been sup
posed to have committed suicide.
Vice-President Fairlwnks met a very
cold reception on his visit y Portland,
l>re., recently. The vice-president likes
Senator Fulton of Oregon, the senator
dislikes President Konsevelt, and that
is the mixttp that accounts f.,r the |>np
ular chill.
A telegraph operator, Ailam*. who te«
titie.1 in 1Iit* Haywmxl trial that on »ev
pnil neeae on* la- li.ol well Hn-hanl in
eonver-nthm with with ifc-lortirw in the
employ ol tin- mine owners’ a**wi«tton
ami on one -.-ea.ion «a\\ him leaving
the u-Kiiation puma in lw-nv*r. wai
arrvatdl Julj ID rhargnl with |wrjnrjr.
Twenty other warrant* were k .own to
lr in the haieta ol the sheriff (or the
arrest of »ilne«e« h.r tlie -lelense mi
otoilar charge*. Te.tmemy in tlw lla>*
■na.l trial wa. complete,! July K It
wa* thought the MN »"«M go to the
jury il.iiit July
Nothem News and Notes
Crooked players have about killed
baseball at Fairbanks.
The machinery for the Fairbanks
wireless station has arrived at St. Mi
chael.
William Hell, whose tongue was
blown out by an accidental discharge of
dynamite at Dawson, is dead from his
injuries.
At Seattle a furore was caused by the
discovery of gold in sand used as ballast
by the steamship Ohio on her voyage
from Nome.
It is reported that the Guggenheims
are behind a syndicate to work a great
laxly of low-grade quartz in the interior
of British Columbia.
John ltice, a miner committed suicide
by taking carbolic acid at Fairbanks
last Friday. It is believed that his true
name was John Klinkenhamer.
The Japanese laborers recently im
ported into Atlin, 11. C., did not like
the conditions under which they were
expected to work, and deported them
selves.
The quartz found on Chicago!' island
near Sitka hy natives something more
than a year ago attracts more and more
attention It appears that a really great
mine may l)e opened there.
The Fairbanks Times says 4,000 acres
of placer ground has been staked within
the past month on the upjier Chena
river on creeks called Middle Fork,
Salmon Foot, drizzly, and Sardine.
Claims amounting to $107,000 have
been allowed by the referee appointed
to hear claimants for losses through
the operations of Adams at the assay
office in Seattle. The Adams estate is
amply able to pay anil a settlement of
the claims w ill soon la* made.
Mrs. Nicolai, of Sunnyside, Wash.,
wife of the president of the Anti-Saloon
l.iague in that place who mysteriously
disappeared and was lielicved to have
lieen murdered, has received an un
signed message from Skagway telling
her not to worry. She I’olioves the
letter was in her husband's handwriting,
lie formerly lived in Skugway.
Captain M*gg, who areutn piinied
Amundsen on his trip from llerschel
Maud to Kagle after navigating tin*
Nolthwest |«>s«age, is heading an ex|M -
dilioa to hunt gold on the A retie. Tin*
story is that Captain M* gg as a whaler
often received gol*l ill |*a>nient f**r sup
plies which be ***1*1 to Kskimo*. Fi
nally he got the coitlidvnce of one at the
women, who t**id him where the gold
was obtaineal. Tlo* la the place he will
•tptoit.
Local and General Notes
Tlie berry season is here anil the la
dies are busy with their jellies and jams.
Tlie run of king salmon is ove. Silver
salmon and dogfish are said to be less
plentiful than last year.
Jim Dyer has retired from the Pioneer
Restaurant and the business is being
continued by Max Reinhold, the former
cook.
John Palm, formerly of Rampart, who
carried the Fairbanks-Circle mail last
winter, is interested with Swan Swan
son and Jim O’Leary on a lay on la,
Cleary creek, Fairbanks.
The late rains have mostly missed the
watershed of Little Minook Jr., and that
creek is still pretty dry. The weather
remains showery, with indications of
plenty of water pretty soon.
Last Wednesday the X. A. T. & T.
steamer, bound up the Tanana, sank in
t> or 7 feet of water a mile above Tolo
vana. The particulars of the accident
and the extent of the damage to the
boat and cargo are not known.
Postmaster Fliisehman complains
that too many people leave their busi
ness at the postoffice—procuring money
orders, registering letters, etc.—until
after the arrival of steamers. It often
happens just at the busiest time a single
individual takes up several minutes with
matters that might better have been at
tended to before the rush. The post
master’s complaint is well founded,
lie says so far as he is concerned it is
bis business to wait on the people who
leave so much to the last, the same as
others, but everybody could be better
served if they were more considerate.
Incidentally the Valley News acknowl
edges that it has sinned in this respect
to some extent itself.
“How did you get up here?” asked St.
Peter. “I didn’t send for you.”
The much battered man rubbed the
dust from his eyes.
“I stepped in front of a racing auto
mobile and it sent me sky high,” lie
said simply.
“Admitted,” said St. Peter, sympa
thetically, as he turned the key.
“And now,” said the dear girl, you
had better go up and speak to papa.”
“Are you—er—sure he’s at home?”
stammered Mr. Slomun.
“O, yes! unless lie’s got tired waiting
and gone to bed you’ll find him in the
sitting room.”—Philadelphia Press.
The )».y who |>lavn truant from school
never hax ax much fun ax lie antici
pated.
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