WIND BLOWS
Pioneer Miner.Relates the
Troubles of a Poor Dog.
Mining Notes.
PtON'KKR CltKKK, ALASKA,
iW. 7, 1!KH>.
Editor Yukon Valley News:
l wish to say just a few words in re
gard to tlie doings in Pioneer district at
this time.
We have hud some very had weather
now for some time. The wind lias heen
blowing very hard. Thirty-two degrees
below zero is the lowest that 1 know of.
Everybody is vety busy with the win
ter work at the present time. They
don’t even have time to look erosswise.
Messrs. 0. A. Diver and Cap Williams
are doing some heavy prospecting on
the North Fork.
Messrs. A. 11. bane and Cap Hoag
laml are representing ground on Doric
creek with Cap's new boiler.
Messrs. Joe Hush. Charley Nelson and
Walter Snudborg are working hard and
taking out good pay on Joe Bush creek.
They have got hold of the paystreak and
are not going to let it go until they have
got it in their poke.
II. F. Tluinim with his force is doing
some very good prospecting between Joe
Hush and Skookum creeks. Mr.Thitinm
knows where to look for the paystreak.
lie is getting good prospects nearly
every hole that he sinks down.
Messrs. Hebb and Kaulback are let
ting no grass grow under their feet on
Skookum creek. They are taking out
good pay dirt. They have got a fine
phonograph with lots of records. We
all gather in there in the evenings and
they give us lots of music. It brings to
our recollections times that have passed
away.
J. F. Nellany is doing some deep pros
pecting below Seifttle Jr. creek on Pio
neer creek.
Messrs. Parsons and Swan arc taking
out good pay on Doric creek. The pay
streak is in the creek and they are going
to have some of it.
J. W. Booth by is the only one that is
taking things easy this winter. Well,
he lias been a successful miner in the
district.
ti. W. Spicer, on F.urvka, is always on
hand and ready to give us onr mail as it
comes.
For myself, 1 have g J all I can do to
keep myself from blowing away and
charming the paystreak. It blows so
The
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Men’s Furnishing
Goods.
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Underwear,
Overshirts,
Socks
A lint* •»!
Ek«s. Potato**
and Onions
Groceries,
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HOT SPRINGS, ALASKA.
Full line of General Merchandise. Our stock is fresh and of the very best
quality. We carry no inferior goods in any line. Prices right. We are
after your business. LET US FIGURE WITH YOU.
F. G. MANLEY, PROPRIETOR
Inin) around my house that it takes me
all day to ]>iek up the things that have
been blown away during the night. One
day there was a dog came along, and
when lie got opposite my house the
breeze struck him, and eveiy jump he
would take the wind would blow him
back his own length. The wind carried
him back S' far that it took him all the
next day to catch up. The poor dog
could not run his tongue out; the wind
would blow it back again. His master
came along and had to throw a line to
him to pull him in.
Henry Pacin'.
Tom Keans, on 2a, has it soil" dumper
tlint works first rate. l>onalil McLean
is said to liave fashioned it.
Messrs. Wingate A: McLean, on da,
are driving a tunnel wliieh will cut the
pity near where Jack Miles and Bob
Andrews left off work last summer.
They have been delayed somewhat on
account of Mr. McLean being laid up
with a lame hack: hut it is said that
when their plans are completed they
will be enabled to work at great advan
tage. Mr. Wingate has built a hand
some cabin, which will lie ready for Mrs.
Wingate and the baby on their return
from the outside next summer. James
B., junior, will remain at school
t>11 4a, Lewis Shequin and Shorty
Blovd have just bedrocked two shafts
with pry in each.
Anderson brothers, on b, were not to
bedr ick at last accounts.
lslev and Skinner were said some time
ago to have a tine outlook for the winter
on 7, but we have not heard from them
lately. After taking out a good-sized
dump on the upper end of 7, Heine,
Kiiin-’ and I'cirrich have been sinking
two shafts m ar the middle of the claim.
They expected to get Udr.s k last night.
C. 1!. IVek and John Wield have Uen
getting wood while waiting for the
ground to freeze thoroughly.
S. -vler and Crockett are reported to !*•
doing line n In. It i« said they will do
..me work on t> later.
Woman to Seek the Pole.
Mr-*. Ktb •Milkman w)i«» a f* w wan*
titt**d *»nl an «liti«>tt on Udialf • >f
On* >n»iflii'iittiti'»n at \\ ,»»h
i"*' tin* «• • »t .’•tidvinjf the
* I tli«» AMk’ and *a tin* Tin#
• r da tii, and v* ho % i*»t«*d all fh«- tnl*-*
<»i tli* Yukon, b.M itrat'Hi’n, ! I.«*r U*t**r
uiinutifti t«> «tart an %|*diliott to fir d
tlw* n*»rth |» k, J*he » U to 4fart
Ir an \«*w A rk tli»* jir*t of January ai.d
in N**wt**, \l.«ki, vt iir* hnwr
Wireless Telegraph
Stations of the World
All wireless telegraph stations in the
worlil have been located and eat a loom'd
by the bureau of equipment for the
navy department and will be published
in a small book in a few weeks. The
systems of wireless are also given. The
number of stations in eaeh country are:
Belgium, 1; Denmark, 4; Germany,
13; France, t>; Great Britain and Ire
land, 43; Holland, 8; Spain, 4; Portu
gal, 1; Gibraltar, 2; Italy, 18; Malta, 1 ;
Montenegro, 1 ; Norway, 1 : Austria
Hungary, 3; Koumania, 3; Russia in
Europe, 8; Sweden, 8; Turkey, 6; Ar
gentina, 5; Brazil, ft; Canada, (?) ;
Chile, 1; Costa Kira, 1; Mexico, 2;
Panama, 3; I'ruguav, 1; l'nited States,
88, of which 10 are in possession of the
l’nited States, 33 being directly under
control of the navy; Trinidad, 1; To
bagon, 1: Andaman islands, 3: Burma,
1; Hongkong, 1; China, ft; Hawaii, 5;
Japan, 2; Dutch East Indies, ft; Russia
in Asia, 1 ; Egypt, 2; Morocco, 2; Mo
zambique, 2; Tripoli, 1.— N. V. Herald.
Firs Discovery of Gold
in Alaska in 1832
Alaska is tlx* new land of gold, and
yet it was discovered here sixteen years
Indore it was in California. The actual
date of the first discovery of the yellow
metal in what is now Alaska was in
IS;!;.’. While the headquarters of the
Kussian-Anicrionn Fur Company was at
Sitka, they sent supplies from there to
l.ukeen’s fort liy way of Nnshagak river,
Tie-ehie liver and lake down the Anauk
to the Kuskokwim, and thence hv steam
twenty-five miles to the fort. It was
while on one of these trips in Is;’.!’ that
tin- Kussians discovered gold on the
Anauk. and it is known today as the
yellow river of the Kussians. It is not
known whether they ever attempted
mining on a large scale, or whether they
(•und gold in paying quantities, hut it
is the first time on record of gold living
found in Alaska.— Ketchikan Mining
Journal. _
Death of Dick Lowe.
IHvk Is• we. who owned tie fraction
hctween A and 4 als*ve on KeiMIMI, ill
the Klondike, said to lie the richest
piece of placer ground ever known, died
of piicuttionhi in San I rjimso, u t. (.
The fraction that nia>le l.owe rich and
fnniswis wts s7 fe*t I incites long amt
vieltUsI *s;.-t.«»l. l ike meat men wtio
get rn It quiekly a- he ,|nl. I. »• died
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MAIL MISSING
Two Lots Lost Above For
tymile—Outside Mail
Uncertain.
The carrier who arrived with mail
from Fagle last Monday had no matter
from any way point. The reason is not
known; hut it is not likely that there
was nothing mailed along the entire
route. Mail came through from Daw
son, hut not from hevond that point.
From the best information obtainable
it looks like Jan. 12 is about the earliest
date that outside mail may he looked
for. The telegram printed below says
the Canadian n.ail failed to connect
with that leaving Eagle Dee. 14. The
next mail to leave Eagle will be Dee. 21,
and with good luck it will come down
in twenty-one days. There is a hare
chance, however, that outside mail left
Eagle Dee. 7.
The extent of the loss spoken of below
is problematical. It undoubtedly con
sisted at least in part of first-class
matter.
The following telegram was received
by Postmaster Eleisehman in reply to
imjuiry made of Chief Clerk Phillips:
Eagle, Dec. 17.—Canadian service
Daw son-Eagle has been very irregular.
Pouches leaving Skagwav Oct. do and
Nov. missing—lost between Forty mile
and Dawson. Mails arriving more reg
ular now. Canadian carrier failed to
connect down-liver mail leaving 14th.
Mike Engels
Sourdough Miko>
FREIGHTING
PACKING
To all the Creeks