From Across the Divide
Somewhat of a stampede has been on
to Hootlanana for some time.
O. A. Diver and son (Frank) are still
prospecting on the North Fork.
Manley’s Keystone drill is running
satisfactorily on the Hat below Glen.
Jimmy Lawrence is one of the crew.
Frank Stevens is working a lay on
lower Glen. He gets water from Man
ley's flume and is said to be doing well.
Joe ltush, Charley Nelson and Walter
Sundborg have finished washing up on
Joe Bush creek. They are said to be
satisfied with the result.
llebb & Kaulbaeh have sluiced their
winter dump on Skookum and are now
dumping into the boxes. Otto Kreohle
has been prospecting on their ground.
Manley’s men have been doing very
effective groundsluicing on Boothbv
creek. They are not (prite ready tc
shovel in. The creek will probably be
worked out this summer.
Henry Papin is building himself a
nice new cabin on Pioneer. He sluiced
ten days with two heljrers and it is be
lieved his dirt yielded even better re
sults than heretofore.
On the lower end of Skookum, II. F.
Thumni, Henry Young, Joe Bush and
Jimmy Climie have been dumping into
the boxes for a couple of weeks. The
ground is frozen and they have run a
crosscut 80 feet.
La grippe has been very prevalent;
in fact nobody escaped. Jim Frazer was
very sick, but has improved. Billy
Graham, Roy McLeod, A. V. Thoren
and Wally Laboski are others who were
hit pretty hard.
Manley and an expert were lately
looking over the ground where it is pro
posed to construct the big ditch from
Hootlanana. So far as learned nothing
has been made public regarding the
plans for the work.
It is generally believed that when Je
rome Chute gets water onto Thanksgiv
ing through the New York ditch, about
the middle of this month, he will make
a record in gold production far ahead of
anything heretofore 9een in Rampart
district. There is ground enough in
sight for several years’ run.
The supreme court of the Vnited
States has ruled adversely to Senator
Thomas M. Patterson in the case where
in he was lined $5 IKK) for contempt by
the supreme court of Colorado. The
Colorado court fined .Senator Patterson
for criticism printed in his newspaper.
The United States court decides that
the state court acted within its rights.
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Local and General Notes
Langford in to prospect in the Trou
blesome.
Walter Sundborg is with the N. C. Co.
for the summer.
Steamer Hamilton left Eagle yester-[
day morning dotvnbound.
George W. Wood will be with the;
Ballou-Mann hydraulic force on Hunter.
•T. L. Fisher and Charles Kelly have
gone to Boulder creek, in the Fish creek
country of the Tatiana, to prospect.
Mail launch brought down first-class
mail Monday afternoon. Returning, it
brought the first open-water mail from
Nome this evening.
W. C. Nichols, .Tames Clirnie, Charley
Nelson, George W. Wood and Walter
Sundborg are among those coming from
across the divide within tip' past few
days. They all brought over very hand
some specimens of la grippe.
On returning across the divide A. II.
Wood slipped from a frosty pole into
Granite creek. The water was deep and
icy and swift, and Mr. Wood was com
pletely immersed. He clung to the pole
till his traveling companions rescued
him.
Heeter’s little gasolene launch, which i
did it.- initial stunt Saturday afternoon,
is the swiftest thing on the river. It
has gone far toward reconciling its
proud owner to the loss of his celebrated '
“boss steamboat"’ which was wrecked
by the ice a year ago.
Fred Bevier lias sold his Hunter creek
claims to O. C. Clemens and will goto
Washington state this summer to make
his home. He is just one more of a
number of estimable young men who
have concluded that there are better
opportunities outside. It is conceded
that Mr. Clemens made a good buy.
One of Mike Engels’s mules died
Sunday. It was fat and apparently in
the best of spirits only a few minutes
before its demise and the horse men
belli a post-mortem examination into
the mysteries of the case. After due
delilieration it was concluded that the
mule “just died unanimously,” as a
colored man once said his ucighlsir had
done down in Tennessee.
The big mosipiitocx have been more
numerous and more hhsslthirsty this
spring than ever Indore. It is an omi
nous fact that in each succtssling spring
since they have been worse than in
any of the previous years; and yet there
is breathing -;«ce (or a few more. The
Indians all predict that I'.tM will lie a
had year for them—in faet they mt if
the mom|uitoes are bad one year they
are sure to I* worse the next.
Nothern News and Notes
Tl>e Nome output is estimated at seven
million.
J. K. Wood, prominent lawyer, died
at Nome May 11.
Innoko gold tested at Nome went
$111.01 an ounce.
Headquarters of the Alaska road com
mission is now at Seattle.
District Attorney Hoyt of the Second
(Nome) district lias resigned.
Thirty-two men are employed at the
Sourdough coal mine, near the Yukon
below Sortymile.
II. R. Shepard, for some time on the
United States customs staff at Juneau,
has been transferred to Kagle.
A report that the Guggenheims have I
acquired the Treadwell mines has not
been confirmed, but it sounds like the j
truth.
Dredge No. 2 of the Consolidated com
pany started oj>erations May 9 two and
a half miles up from the mouth of
Fortymile river.
C. L. Andrews, collector of customs
at Kagle, says no port of entry will be
created by the United States on the
lower Yukon this year.
Dawson News, May 17: The pump
for the Gold Scoopers dredge, on Walk
er’s Fork, Fortymile, arrived today on
Henderson’s scow, and will be hauled
over the Glacier road.
One of the biggest potlaehes eve held
on the Yukon watershed terminated at
Selkirk two weeks ago. Nearly 300 na
tives attended the feast and they came
for hundreds of miles in every direction.
A. Balilke returned from the Innoko
to Nome and said two men took out
foot) on Gaines creek, where the strike
was made. They had to leave for grub.
The river is navigable to within sixty
miles of the strike. Bahlke hail two
Innoko nuggets worth |.V> and ftifl.
Perovich, convicted of murder at
Fairbanks, his ease having been ri -
viewed by the supreme court and the
verdict of the district court having been
affirmed, has been sentenced to hang
Aug. 14. lie protests his innocence,
and some seem to think there is doubt
of his guilt. The evidence against him
was circumstancial, but, lairring i*r
jury, it seemed conclusive.
At a millionaires Isimpict in Chicago
ten of the guests brought prise pigs with
them to table. The animals wore rib
lions in order to avoid any confusion
with other guests.
A dotikev. 10 years old, once ow ned
by .lamest., Blaine, is a notability at
itar llartsir. Me.
Brief Outside Mention
The Rio Grande has been on one of
its periodical tears.
Wheat is above the dollar mark and
looks like it is up to stay.
It is said the big railroads continue to
give rebates despite the law.
Mrs. McKinley died May 25 and was
buried beside the late president.
Judge Dunne announced May 2!> that
he would sentence Reuf in two weeks.
Manufacturers all over the States have
raised the price of whisky 20 per cent.
It looks like the recount will show
Heafst to have been elected mayor of
New York.
The Empress of Japan thinks she has
an idea which will benefit all mankind.
She will make it known later and apply
for the Noble prize.
There is a big uprising in China. An
army of 30,000 descended upon Hong
Wong and looted the town. It is claimed
the whole of the northwestern part of
the empire is in revolt, or on the verge
of it.
San Francisco is in a state of panic.
Business having been conducted on a
credit system, is ready to go to pieces,
and business men arc quitting in de
spair. A committee of 75 has been
appointed to try to restore confidence.
From the Records
LOCATION.
May 27. Association claim. Muck lurk creek,
tributary Hontlununu, George Krusting,
Max Neville and Nick Snyder.
TRANSFERS.
May 27. G. F. Hedrick to E. T. Hall. bench
claim No. 0 Omega creek.
May 30. P. J. Folboeuf to Fred Bevier. No. 2a
Hunter.
May 81. Fred Bevier to O. C. Clemens, Nos.
2a and 2a Hunter.
Bend your friends the Valiev New s.
Mike Engels
(Sourdough Mike)
FREIGHTING
and PACKING
To all the Creeks