No. 21fi SEVENTEENTH YEAR
PRICE 10 CENTS
London. Oct. 13—WUh the fall of
Antwerp the censorship of war
Mws is again drawn tighter, but
from what can be «letuied from un
official sources it Is understood that
the Germans are now enrout® to
<)st«*d.
A war indemnity of $100,000,000
>ux< been demanded by the (iarnuuis
from the city of Antwerp.
It Is reported that famine now
prevails in tho«ua parts of Belgium
that are occupied by the (<wmans.
It is also reported that Crown
lTince Ferdinand Has been pri*.
claimed King of Rumania.
It is oficially announced that the
Austrian advance lias released
Praemsyl from the Russian invest
ment.
Late advices are to the effect that
the retreating Belgians and British
reached Ostend today.
It is said on good authority that |
the Germans lost 43,000 tnen in
their attack upon Antwerp b«foK5
that city was forced to surrender. |
BELGRAD STILL RESISTS
AFTER WEEK'S BOMBARDMENT
Home, Oct. 1-—After seven day*'
steady bombardment, Belgrad still
resists the combined German W"'
Austrian attack.
Ql"EKX OF BELGII M
IS NOW IN ENGLAND j
London, Oct. 13—The queen of
Belgium arrived in this city yesto
day, having fled from .Antwerp l>e
fore its fall.
Before Antwerp surrendered to
the Germans, King Albert o Bel
gium led his soldiers out of the city |
and escaped, but the present
. whereabouts of Uie main Belgian
I army is unknown here, although ifc
' Is reported that many of the trooi*
that were with the King in
beleaguered forts ltave succecd
■ ed in leaching Holland.
INVENTION PRECLUDES
POSSIBHilTY OF PANIC
Cleveland, Oct 12—Repetition of
panic horrors of the past will be
averted f err ever, according to Fire
Chief Wallace of Cleveland today,
if the owners of public building's
and theatere will adopt a safety
lock device patented by George H.
Stanbrldge, a Cleveland carpenter.
Stanbridges invention can l>e
Placed on either double or single
doors with surety of keeping them J
locked from the outside. The slig'it I
est pressure from the inside, how
ever, allows the doors to immed-1
iately swing wide open.
TO OPEN BIDS BOON
FOB NEW WARSHIPS
Washington, Oct. 12—Bids are be
ing received and will be opened at
the Navy Department and contracts
awarded for construction of th»
three new battleships authorized by
congress this year, to be named the
Idaho, Mississippi and California.
Each will cost $7,800,00 exclusive of |
armor and armament The new j
superdreadnaughts will be "triplets," |
each 624 feet long, of 97-foot bean, j
30 foot draft and with 21 kucts j
speed, larger aud faster than a»iy I
now in the navy. Their batteries I
will include twel&ve 14-inch guns,
four submerged torpedo tubes'" and
twenty-two 5-inch rapid fire guns.
BOSTON BRAVES WIN THIRD
WIN TIP GAME OF SERIES;
Boston. Oct. 12—Betting was two
to one here this morning that the
Braves would win the world's cham
pionship series of baseball, tbe
third game of which took place
here this afternoon, the Braves win
ning it by a score of 5 to 4 in the
J 2th innings.
The batteries were: Braves, Ty
ler and Gowdy; James replaced
Tyler ia the 11th; nine hits, one er
ror; made one score in 2d, one in
4th', two In 10^; Gowdy, first man
up, making home run in the 12th.
Athletics, Bush and ScUau?;
eight hits, two errors; made one
score in the 1st, one in 4th and two
| in 10th.
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a PHONE 41 SKaGWAY
STEWART RIVER COUNTRY
IS COMING TO FRONT
From Captain Sid Barrington, whc
has been operating his steamer, the
Videtto of the Side-Streams Naviga
tion company, on the Stewart river
during the season just closing, aayS
the Whitehorse Star, jit is learned
that the Stewart district now looics
more prosperous than ever before
in its history.
In addition to better placer show
ings than have ever formerly been
made in the Stewart country, there
are more prospectors out for the
winter and new discoveries may be
looked for before spring. During
the season just closed a large
amount of pla«er gold has bean
taken out from that country and
mor« will be mined next year.
Besides its placer industries,
Stewart is developing one of the
biggest and richest gold quartz Pro
positions in the north, the Mac
Whorter property. Several tons o
quartz from this mine shipped out
side during the summer yielded
$269 per ton, and the vein, which
is five feet in width, is growing
richer as depth is attained. One
thousand tons of ore will be min
ed during the winter and freighted
to the steamer landing on the
Stewart and brought down to the
Yukon by the Vidette nest season
for shipment to the outside. The
ore which will be taken out this
winter will, it is said, average $400
per ton.
In view of the promising out
look, Captain Barrington says there
is more display of confidence in the
future than he has observed at any
time during his ten years experience
on the Stewart river.
TWO MONTANA GIRLS WITH
RED CROSS IN FRANCE
Two nieces of General Manager
Gree:iouuh of the Atlas Mining Co.
of wUitehorse are now serving with
the Red Cross as nurses in the
zone of fighting in Franoe. Their
home is in Missoula, Montana, l>Ht
they -were at school in prance when
hostilities broke out. Unable to
get away on account of their pa
per money being worthless, they
joined with many other Americans
who Avere there, and enlisted for
the relief of the wounded and
suffering.
WHITE PASS HOWLERS ARE
UEATEX BY MERCHANTS
Yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock
the first three games of a nine
game contest of bowling was played
at the Elks' club alleys between
the W. P. & Y. R„ and the Mer
chants teams, the latter winning by
a score of 2294 to 2128 pins.
The line-Up of the teams was as
follows:
W. P. & Y. R. MERCHANTS
A. c. Blanehard Jas. Kennedy
Eddy Barry W. Batson
N. E. Black V. I. Peterson
John Greshul Tuck Flaherty
W. C. Blanehard O. selmer
The next three games will take
place either Tuesday or Friday of
this week and the final three games
on Oct. 18th.
The losers will have to put up
J an oyster supper, etc., etc., to the
| winning team.
CHA8. E. BUNNELL WILL
SPEAK TOMORROW NIGHT
Owing to "there being no train to
day from Whitehoreo, Chas. E.
Bunnell, democratic nominee for
delegate to congress, who haa bee a
making a campaigning tour of ths
interior aa far down the river as
Fairbanks, and who reached Whlte
horse too late to catch yesterday's
special train to Skagway, will not be
in until tomorrow night. in con
sequence the meeting that waa an
nounced by the local democratic
cl»b to take place tonight at Elks'
hall has been postponed until that
time.
A -reception will be held and a
free dance take place after the
meeting adjourns tomorrow night.
three are killed and
many injured in wreck
Grand junction, Colo, Oct. 12—
Three people were killed this morn
ing and fourteen injured, including
Falcon Jocelyn of Fairbanks, wh?n
a twenty ton boulder fell from the
mountain side onto a passing train
near here.
(While the above report is
probably true In other respects, an
error was made in Baying that Fal
con Jocelyn, the Fairbankii railroad
man, was am<Atg the injured. Not
more than an h.our before the dis
patch waa received at this office,
Mr. Jocelyn and his little son, Fal
con, Jr., left Skagway on board the
Mariposa for Seattle.)
STKAMER8 WILL DISCONTINUE
CALLS FOR THE WINTER
Seattle, Oct. Is—According to
an announcement made here to
day by the management of the Al
aska S. S. Co. the Alameda an,l
Mariposa will discontinue calling at
the ports of Wrangell and Skagway
for this season from and after No
vember 1st. The Jeferson and
Dolphin will, however, probably re
main on the route all winter.
ORDER. OF YUKON PIONEERS
INSTITUTED AT WHITKHORSE
On October 2d, a, lodge of the.
Yukon Order of Pioneers was in
stituted at Whitehors© with about
a dozen members, but this small be
ginning promises to expand in a
short time so as to include every
man in Whitehorse, who is elig
ible to membership.
The oficers of the lodge are: \V.
Av Puckett, president; e, J. White,
vice-president; w. W. Dickenson,
secretary; W. C. Sime, treasurer,"
C. H. Johnston, warden; Isaac Tay
lor, chaplain; CaPt. P. Martin,
guard.
All persons who wore in the
watershed of the Yukon (at the
summit of White Pass or elsewhere
within the Yukon watershed) on
or before the first of July, 1399,
i are eligible to membership, being
J pioneers.
ARCTIC CLUB AT SEATTLE IS
PLANNING a BIG TIME
Seattle ,Oct. 12—The Arctic club
of this city is planning to have a
great time on November 7th, in
which will be included a reception
that will be tendered to returning
Alaskans, the greater part of whon
are expected to reach here before
that date.
Sweet
Cider
Our First Barrel of the Season is now
on tap. Qualiiy Unusually Good.
PRICE 50c per Gal.
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TELLS OF MINING IN ALASKA
| D. M. Ruggles representing the
I Alaska and Northwest Mining Jour
I nal arrived in Skagway on the Mari
posa this morning. Mr. Ruggles
hag been making a tour of Alaska
for his publication which will devote
aa usual one issue to eacb of the
different districts in Alaska giving
detailed accounts of the mining and
other operations. In speaking of
the different districts that he had
visited this year he stated as fol
lows;
The Fairbanks district in spite
adverse conditions has enjoyed a
prosperous season.^ Pedro and
Goldstream creeks had more out
fits working than at any previous
time in the history of the camp.
Most of th§ outfits .working on Pe
dro are open cut men while those
on Goldstream are hoisting. Cleary
was also one of the busy creeks
this season having about twenty
outfits working, some of whom were
in exceptionally good pay. Very
few outfits are working on the
deep creeks as the cost of operat
ic is too high to allow working
very deep or cheap ground. While
supplies and labor are! expensive
the worst problem that confronts the
Fairbanks operator is the cost of
power. Wood, the only available
fuel, averages around $11.50 per
cord and is in ir.ost cases very poor
quality. What Fairbanks needs and
must have if the operators are to
continue working is a railroad into
the Nenana coal fields or a gov
ernment power plant. There is
over one hundred million feet of
ground in the Fairbanks district tha
could be worked at a profit with
$5.00 coal as fuel, that will not
pay expenses at present.
A new district that is opening up
in the Fairbanks country is on
the Healy river, a short distance
above McCarty station. A man nam
ed Hammer made the first strike
here early in July, and from all in
formation that I have been able to
get, 1 believe that it is au
thentic. There has been three
shafts sunk up to date and ail of
them have pay. About ifty claims
have been staked and recorded and
there, are six boilers now in the
camp. .
It is rumored that a stampede
will take place early in the spring
to the headwaters of the Shushit
na but those who are informed will
say nothing at present. Some one
has 30 tons of grub ready to be
taken in over the snow.
Of the three coast towns to the
westward, Valdez is the livliest. A
number of good strikes have been
made in that district this paat year,
und five properties operated, one
: of which, the Midaa, owned fry the
j Granby Co. has been closed on ac
i count of the European war. Tie
Granite at Port Wella is developing
into the best high grade quartz mine
on the coast. While only In the pro
cess of development this summer,
it has yielded over *60,000 and is
getting better with depth. The
Ramsay-Ruthford on the valdez
glacier started their mill August 1st.
and took out $10,000 thq first
month. Tho Cameron-Johnson on
Gold King also operated their
mills but on account of mechanical
troubles did not make any cleanups.
All of these properties will be
operated continuously next season,
and some new ones ae well. Col.
Millard head of the Granite property
has bonded the Hamilton-Piggott
property, at Port Wella for |100.
000 and the Elklns property on the
Tezuna for $25,000. Development
work on both will be commenced
this winter. The Elkln. property
is considered one of thg fcgst low
grade properties in the district. The
ore body averages 20 feet la width
and has an average value of $16.
The Tiekell district la showing up
some interesting prospects, particu
larly the Portland group and the
Ross & Garwood group, Both of
these are high grade properties ad"
vantageously situated and should
make paying mines. Practically the
whole country from Valdez to Pax
sons is alive with prospectors,
and it would not be surprising to
hear of some good strikes especial
1 • in the Tiekell district and around
Paxsons, where good copper indica
tions have already been found.
Since early in the season the Un
ited States Smelting, Mining & Re
fining Co. have had a corps of en
gineers examining properties at Ko
diak, Seward, Valdez and In the
Fairbanks country. They are at
present in the Kantishina and will
probably be in the territory till De
cember 1st. Capital is looking tbl«
way and it behooves the peoplq of
Alaska to make the road as BmoQth
as possible.
I expect to be In Skagway for sev
eral days to gather data for a spec
ial Skagway Edition, and would lUce
to meet all those interested in min
ing and in the futuTe development
of the "Gateway *.o the Interior."
The Alaska and Northwest Mining
Journal was established for the pur
pose of assisting in the development
of Alaska by keeping the people on
the outside informed of the op
portunities that await them in "Our
Frontier Wonderland."
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