For Six Days
ACROSS THE DIVIDE
Some three weeks ago Par Ma
loney got lost oil Fish creek, a trib
utary of the Tanana, and wandere 1
for six days without food. He
final y came oat at Krashner’s
ranch at Baker creek hot springs.
Mr. Maloney and Henry Miller
were prospecting together, and had
packed over a part of their outfit to
Wolverine creek. Beyuud their
camp on Wolverine was a tent, and
beyond this tent is Mike Sullivan's
cabin on Fish creek. A day’s
journey up the creek from Mike’s
place, which is vacant, is a cabin
built by Miller and Maloney earlier
in the season. To this latter cabin
the prospectors intended to move
their winter’s outfit. When they
had conveyed their belongings as
far as the tent, Miller proposed to
go to Thanksgiving and get a stove
and other things, while Maloney
moved some of the stuff from the
tent to the Sullivan cabin; but
Maloney told Miller that the stove
and other things at Thanksgiving
were too heavv for one man, and
proposed after taking a load t<> the
Sullivan cabin to follow Miller and
help him back with the load from
Thanksgiving. Miller said, “All
right—just as you like; but I can
make it alone,” and they separated.
Miller got his load from Thanks
giving, and as Maloney did no; ap
pear he concluded the latter had
changed his mind and would be
found at the ten'.
When Miller arrived b.,ck at the
tent, however, he was surprised
and not a little alarmed to find
everything just as he had left it.
with no s igns of Maloney. Think
ing possibly the missing man might
be at the upper cabin on Fish creek,
Miller set out for that place, but
got lost himself, and after traveling
all day returned to the tent. When
he reached the tent this time all
apprehensions regarding Maloney's
satety were removed, for he found
unmistakable evidence of his pres
ence there alter Miller's latest de
parture. Miller then went to the
Sullivan cabin, but saw nothing of
Maloney; and at the upper cabin he
was likewise conspicuously absent.
As he busied himself with putting
the place tu order for the winter,
the convictkni gradually forced it
self on Henry that Fat had given
hun "the dirty shake." but after a
week more he thought he would
come tu and investigate.
When Miller again got hack to
Thanksgiving he learned that M i
k>n«y bid readied l>i t kuihMi'i.
after living oft snow bail's tor six
days, and had afam set out lor
the delusive wilds of Fish creek.
The two men had missed each
other once more, and if Maloney
reached his destination safely- he
was doubtless much perplexed as
to Miller's fate.
Miller came on to Rampart and
attended to a little urgent business,
and departed for Fish creek last
Sunday. One thing lie is anxious
to find out is how Maloney hap
pened to pay that last visit to the
tent: he must have been lost twice,
Miller thinks.
If they finally succeed in finding
each other, Henry and Pat can
devote a good many winter even
ings to explaining how it all hap
pened.
Pioneer Creek Benches
Known as
What Cheer, Doric, Boothby,
Seattle Jr., and Joe Bush.
After a three-weeks stay on the
creeks, in which my time was oc
cupied in the construction of a
cabin, I was informed on my arri
val in town of my having located a
rich pay streak on Skookum gulch.
In regard to this matter I have this
to say: I personally did not find
pay on Skookum, and if the find
made there by Hebb, Gaetz and
their partner should piove extensive
enough to justify me in taking out
a dump the credit of the discovery
remains with them alone.
But, as all people ill a mining
camp are more or less interested in
the development of their particular
district, it might he well to say a
few words concerning this section,
namely: the different bars along
the line of the What Cheer Rar
ditch, known as WhalCheer, Doric,
Boothby, Seattle Jr., and Joe Bush;
but which in reality, it classified
under one head, are the benches of
Pioneer creek. The activity shown
by the miners and their persistent
efforts to locate pay on tile benches
in this locality is a step in the right
direction and is liouud to meet with
success, and evidence of this is not
wanting, for within the past four
months no less than five new cab
ins have gone up along the line of
the What Cheer Bar ditch (this
ditch, by the way, is an achieve
ment ot no mean consideration)
ami at least three different and dis
tinct pa> streaks have been located
in the same length of time.
These new finds, taken in con
junction with the large operation*
that wilt be earned on hy the What
Cheer liar company next summer,
wilt make Katnpaft largely a sum
met carnp, which heretofore has
Ixren a winter proposition, and one
oi ti m>t the largest paying camps
between Nome and Dawson This
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Prior to the discovery of What
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AN ARRIVAL TALKS
ABOUT FAIRBANKS
Shortage in Ham and Bacon,
Kerosene and Candles.
Jobn F. Stevenson arrived in
Rampart from Fairbanks last Sat
urday and will make his home here.
A good many broke men are in
Fairbanks, Mr. Stevenson says, and
a considerable amount of pilfering
is going on. He thinks there will
be no difficulty for those who have
the money to get supplies, except
in a few litres which are short.
Ham and bacon at 52 cents a pound,
sugar at 25 cents a pound, candles
at $'5-5° it box, and kerosene at
$12 a case, are all scarae. Kero
sene had been as high as $24.50
earlier in the reason, but a slight
increase in the stock caused a slump
in prices. Flour, at $9 atrd $12 per
100 pounds for soft and hard wheat
respectively, is plentiful.
Mr. Stevenson says currency is
the principal ci.dilating medium,
goldilust b;ing rarely offered in
settlement of an account. Games
are running in the principal houses,
but are not very flush. .
The little steamer Independence
w is on her way to Fort Giblton
aud met the Monarch on the wrong
sate of a bad bar thirty-fixe mites
below Chens. The Mouarch pan!
the Independence $40 a ton to take
her freight the balance of the way,
and the latter boat cleared $3,000
in short order The Tyrrell was
seen taking wood sixty miles be
low Cb"*n« on i*ct 19.