Yukon Valiev News
VOL. III.
RAMPART, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1907
No. 35
60-DAY OPTION
ON SKOOKUM
Krochle, the Prospective Purchaser,
Expected to Make Good.
Otto Kroehle a week ago secured a
sixty-dav option on the Skookum prop
erty belonging to Ilebb & Kaulbaek and
to A. H. Lane.
The amount of money paid down,
the sum necessary to complete the deal,
or other particulars of the transaction
could not be learned; but men from
across the divide believe the option is
equivalent to a transfer of the property.
Mr. Kroehle was reported to have at
once set out for Fairbanks, and it is be
lieved he intended making proposals to
Frank G. Manley. However, according
to the prevailing gossip, if the deal fails
to strike Mr. Manley favorably Mr.
Kroehle will still be amply able to make
good and the property w ill bv no means
be allowed to revert to the former
owners.
Skookum is a “wet” ereek. It lias
been worked by means of a tunnel—
every inch of which has bad to lie tim
bered—and a bedrock drain has had to
be kept constantly open winter or sum
mer. It seems that the way the work
was laid out did not admit of the lower
part of the ground being drained, and
that as high as IlU to the pan has been
raised in ground formerly gone over.
The winter just past prospeet work to
determine the extent of the pay and the
acquirements for getting to the bottom
of it was extensive.
In the winter of 100o-'0tt Skookum,
worked under many disadvantages, was
probably the biggest producer in the
district and paid handsomely under a
heavy expense. It was said that at al
most any time during the winter a hun
dred dollars coilld lie picked out of the
tunnel in the course of an hour.
If the live water can la- effectually
overcome the creek will yield substan
tial profits._
From the Hosiana.
Charley Kreft, who came in with the
mail carrier from up river Morulay
night, brought news from the party of
prosjs-vtors on Trout creek, llosiana.
lie was at Trout creek the first of the
month, ami at that time the pros|«clors
were down more than a humireil feet,
with no he»lr>a'k in sight.
Ktl lairson, who left here last summer
with Mr. Kreft, is over on tluinmom!
river. _________
Notables May Come.
Washington. April 5—The Long
worth* are planning a trip to Vtaska
this summer. They will |« rhaps Is
wviiiiipiiiinl by sw-vrelarv Taft It may
tie posathle that W trip will Is- imole
U- an lla- Yukon river.
TROUBLES OF AN EDITOR
Tanana Citizen Man Tangled in the Drag
Net and to Answer Today.
Editor G. II. Henry of the Tatiana
I Citizen has been arrested, charged with
malicious slander or something of that
sort. George A. Salisbury was expected
to arrive at Tanana yesterday to defend
Mr. Henry, and it was said that Mr.
Salisbury would he assisted by James
Ii. Wingate. The trial was set for to
day
These are facts pumped out of Ed
Biederman on his arrival with the mail
Monday.
The case seems to have grown out of
some thing or things printed in the Cit
izen April 17, supposed to reflect on
Rev. Mr. Hoare, missionary.
It is very difficult to arrive at an un
derstanding of the trouble from the
Citizen’s report of it. However, the
drunkenness of a native, the collection
of money by Mr. Hoare to pay a fine
imposed on the said native, and the ac
ceptance of a contribution from a native
girl by Mr. Hoare are parts of the affair
that may reasonably be inferred from a
microscopic examination of the Tanana
paper. There seem to have been other
disturbing incidents, including the ar
rest of two white men accused of va
grancy; hut about the only thing that
is made plain by the Citizen is that a
very demoralizing state of affairs exists
m its town.
MURDERED IN THE KOYUKUK
Partners Quarrel, One Is Killed and the Other May Be
Dead in the Storm.
News comes from the Koyukuk of a
quarrel lietween two partners, the mur
der of one and the probable death of
the other, said the Tanana Citizen of
April 17.
Some miners visiting the cabin casu
alty during the last cold snap found
Flapjack Louis in a dying condition, lie
never recovered consciousness. From
the appearance of the cabin the mur
dered man had been making up the list
of his summer’s outfit, when he and his
partner Sylvester Iturckhardt quarreled
and Iturckhardt struck him three or
four times on the head with a hammer,
mashing in his skull. After realizing
what he hail done he dragged his victim
behind the door, and placing something
beneath his head he left without blan
kets or grub to carry him through the
cold snap. Flapjack Louis lived for four
days and died without recovering con
sciousness. 1'p to the time the mail
carrier left the men deputised by the
marshal had found no trace of lSurck
liardt, and he has probably perished.
It is stated that there has been in
Fairbanks this winter a Sylvester ilurck
hardt, but we have been unable to find
out for certain whether before or after
the crime was committed.
Want Eight Hours After April 26
April till has lieen art an the day when
tin* t'nited Mim* Worker* of tin* Tanuna
uill make their demand on the operatorr
for $•'« a day wage* and an right-hour
day.
Oflleera of the inirn* worker* tele
|>honed tin* 1 mi I*.ink- Time- a* early a*
April A that they wante<l to give puh
lieity to the fiu*t that on or about the
■ late mentioned they w>>nld meet the
o|»*ralor» a ad prevent the demand* lor
the men. They wished to give them
plenty of time to prepare fur a meeting!
ami hail no intention of keeping wee ret
any of the niovea of the organization.
They alim announce*! that a mmila-r of
• >|ieralore have alremly aignifleil their
intention of voluntarily giving the new
wale.
With the encouragement given the
men ••• far they feel juatilieil, they waul,
in making the announcement that on or
alaait April J»l they will a»k that the
new wale go into effect
BAD TROUBLE
AT TREADWELL
United States Troops Called For to
Quell Miners’ Riots.
Treadwell, March 13.—L. S. Ferris,
steward at the Mexican, is at the hos
pital with a bullet wound in his shoul
der and another in his cheek, and a Jap
is dead as a result of a row at the noon
hour today. The fight started between
the Jap and a Slavonian, and the latter
pulled a gun and shot the Jap in the
head, killing him instantly. Ferris
rushed in in the interest of peace, and
the Slavonian turned the gun on him.
Ferris’s wounds are not dangerous.—
Douglas Island News.
Juneau, April 1.—In answer to an
appeal from General Pistin, the war de
partment is hurrying troops from Fort
Seward to the Treadwell mine, where a
strike has been inaugurated and rioting
is in progress.
The employes met and agreed to strike
yesterday unless their demand that the
discharged steward of their boarding
house be reinstated was conceded. Upon
the refusal of the company 800 men
threw down their tools and left the
mines.
New Experiment Station.
The new agricultural experiment sta
tion, the reservation for which was
located midway between Chena and
Fairbanks last summer, will be im
proved and some land cleared and
planted this season.
Fred K. Kader, of the Ham part sta
tion will go over to engage in the work
as soon as he has finished seeding the
ground here. Some one will be left to
care for the Kampart station in Mr.
Rader's absence
The extent of the planting at the new
station this year w ill tie confined to the
sow ing of some w inter grain.
Prof. (\ Georgeson, director of
experiments in Alaska, will meet Mr.
Kadcr in Fairbanks errly in July, and it
will then be made know n to what extent
the new station will be improved next
fall.
The professor w rote from Washington
that lie will purchase and bring in with
him some -more Galway cattle this
spring. The cattle will all la- concen
trated at one station.
Sickness Abating.
Tanana river natives who have been
in town for a few ilays say the worst of
the epidemic of sickness that has pre
vailed among their |*e**p|e seems to l»>
past.
The disease caused a swelling of the
stricken one's head and face and some
times was tpneklv fatal.
V go*si many died along the Tanana.