GRANDMOTHER
MINOOK DEAD
Perhaps She Was the Oldest Person
the Whole Length of
the Yukon.
Last Friday morning, Jim. 11, Mnssa,
the mother of John Minook’s wife, died
from stomach trouble, superinduced by
old age.
Her exact age was not known, but she
was probably the oldest person in the
entire country drained by the Yukon.
She was a grandmother thirty-six years
ago, and it is pretty certain she was
over seventy-five at the time of her
death. John Minook thinks she was
about seventy-six.
Her brother Nicolai, well known along
this part of the Yukon, at present resi
lient in Tanana, is about two years the
younger. The dead woman was the
mother of Mrs. John Minook and of
Lige, of Rampart; of Annie Glass, of
Tanana, and of Sadie l’edersen, of Fair
banks. Three of her children are dead.
She left numerous grandchildren and
great-grandchildren.
Massa was skilled in all the arts of
native handicraft, and was very indus
trious, keeping busy at making mittens,
moccasins, snowshoes, etc., almost up
to the day of her death. Age did not
affect the color of her hair, which was
as black as a raven’s wing.
SOME GHANGES
IN SALOON BUSINESS
Bob Roberts has pure ha sod the build
ing occupied by tlie Miners Best Saloon
on Front street and the Miss I’arke
cabin, until recently occupied by the
Misses Healey's restaurant, the first
door below. The Miners Rest will la
under the management of Mr. Roberts
and Tom Scully will tend bar. ticorge
Cowan, former manager of the place,
has retired.
M. R. Downing is now manager at the
Florence bar. .lack Radigan having re
tire-1. A Cbandlar tier lias got to buz
zing in Mr. Radigan's 1-onnet; but he
will await further news from the new
eiimp la-fore finally deciding what to do.
Mike Engels
Sourdough Mike*
FREIGHTING
and PACKING
To all the Creeks
HOT SPRINCS TRADING POST
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are right. Low as the lowest. Take advantage of the short trail. New hotel open.
We supply all vour needs, from hotel accommodations and natural hot baths to
provisions for the winter. Come and see us.
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Miscellaneous Items.
It cost twenty million dollars to keep
the ships of the United States navy in
commission (hiring the fiscal year just
passed.
Frank Slavin, former Klondike miner
and ex-prize fighter, is now foreman
for the Marine Railway Company at
Esquimault, 15. C.
The first mail over the ice from Ram
part reached Dawson Dec. 7, according
to the Dawson News. In it were Ram
part papers of Oct. 24.
JJX-raysare now utilized hv pearl fish
ers in locating gems in unopened oysters,
thus allowing the non-productive oysters
to he returned to the sea.
Newspapers of Japan are urging that
country to send an expedition into the
north polar regions. The talk is that
such an expedition may pass in through
Rering strait the present year.
Terry Medovern, former lightweight
champion of the world, after years of
the pace that kills, has collapsed men
tally and physically and is in a Connec
ticut sanitarium.
There has been a rumor that the White
I’ass railway and steamboat line would
hurn oil in future instead of coal. Su
perintendent Hahn recently said that
the oil men*were invited to make a
showing that would prove a change hv
the White Pass worth while, hut that
they have not so far done so.
A remarkable circumstance attended
the boring of an oil well in Indiana re
centlv. At a depth of JoO feet the drill
penetrated a tree, through branches,
trunk and roots, in the order named.
Some of the fragments brought to the
surface were found to contain lively
black ants, the presence of which at
such a depth no one is able satisfactorily
to explain.—Mining World.
A chimney connected with a gold
smelting furnace in Vallejo Junction,
Cal., hud been tilling up for the past
vear, and finally became so troublesome
that the managers of the plant ordered
it cleaned. The refuse was afterward
trented in the gold room, and was found
to contain gold dust worth ♦T.lrno, The
directors immediately ordered appliances
attached to the chimneys to prevent re
fuse from pits-ing out into the air.
The smokeless powder which tias sn
|»-r«cded the old-style black powder,
and which is used not only in the field
of *|*>rt but exclusively for the shoulder
arms of the army and navy as well as
for the machine guns, the rapid-tire
guns ami the huge rifles on the decks of
Vmencan battleships and within the
works of fortifications, practically is
nothing but a mixture of guncotton anil
alcohol anil ether, or acetone, or else
acetone with guncotton anil nitroglycer
ine. It explodes without giving off
smoke, anil, once finished, loses the
dangerous characteristics of its dreaded
ingredients. This powder is concussion
proof and lire proof, and can only he
exploded by using a fulminate of mer
cury detonator. The color of the powder
is a dark amber, and it is of a wax-like
eumposition.
At the Canadian Club in Toronto re
cently Dillon Wallace, a celebrated ex
plorer, related an interesting experience
among the wilds of Labrador. ‘'The
time may come,” he said, “when the
barren and lonely land w ill lie to Can
ada what Alaska is to the Cnited States.”
He believes it to be a land rich in min
erals of many kinds, and just as Alaska
was believed to be a barren and entirely
unproductive country, yet in a few years
had proved its great mineral worth, so
would it be with Labrador as soon as
exploration and development really
set in.
Gold Statistics
for the Year 1905
The United States bureau of mines
annotinees that in 1H05 4,2ti.‘>,742 ounces
of gold was produced in the United
States.
The value of the world’s production
was $d7ti,4KP,200.
The important gains in the world’s
gold production were $7,71t>,000 by the
United Statesr $27,4111,200 hv Africa;
$2,<i.Vi,!«Mt by Mexico.
Tne losses in gold production were
$1,Old,000 by Canada; $1,840,SOW by
Australasia ; $2,2."*1.000 by Kns-ia.
All the principal silver - producing
countries showed a sharp falling off in
output.
The re|sirt credits much of the world’s
great prosjieritv at this moment to the
increasing supplies of gold, and finds
strong encouragement in the prepara
tions everyw here for preventing decrease
and creating new supplies.
11 vdratdicking and dredging iti Can
ada. es|*-< ially in the Yukon, will pres
ently enormously increase Canada’s
contribution to the world's supply,
while Alaska is steadily advancing as an
important source of the yellow metal.—
Washington \<*s,<eiatis| Press di-patch.
It is stated that the Colorado river
has broken over and is again |satring a
tl 'id of water into I la s.ilton sink l lie
extent of tlie break and the chance for
stopping it are not given.
ALASKA’S RED-HEADED
SON OF DESTINY
The New York Evening World of Nov.
4, referring to the foot 1 Kill game between
West Point and Yale, has the following
to say of Dan Pullen, of Skagwav, Alas
ka’s representative at the military acad
emy :
“Knox, Morse, Mountford and Pullen,
not forgetting Bigelow, were the heroes
of the game. The great red-headed
Alaskan, Pullen, was here, there, and
everywhere, tossing the heavy Yale
giants about as if they were babes.
Pullen hurled himself through the line
with sttich tremendous force that fre
quently he would run ten feet or more
before recovering, and once he plunged
through, only to sprawl helplessly on
the ground far beyond the Yale line.
“ ‘This Pullen is a wonder,’ said a
West Point trainer. ‘There is no hold
ing him. Some time ago when a Jap
anese was tutoring the boys on the jin
jitsu he started to wrestle with Pullen.
During the scrimmage he got hold of
Pullen’s leg and started to torture the
Alaskan. Pullen took his medicine
gracefully, but when he got free he got
up with a roar of rage, and snatching up
the Jap, tried to hurl him through a
window. It took six men to subdue
him.' ”
The tierman f o doty for the advance
ment of wireless telegraphy has carried
on a conversation over a wireless tele
phone apparatus between Berlin and
Nauen, a distance of 24 miles. The test
was as satisfactory as i, the most ap
proved telephone had lieen used. A
company has lieen organized to put the
new apparatus on the market.
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