BIG GOLD STRIKE REPORTED
IN THE WRANGELL DISTRICT
(Seattle Times.)
Stories of arich placer strike on
tthe banks of the south fork of the
Uskutt, “the River of Death,” known
tthyoughout the gold fields nf Alaska
••and the di ukon as the “Hoodoo” or
Ghost ’ river because of the great
toll of life it has exacted from I11
*dians, gold -seekers and- trappers,
1 reached Seattle today from Wrangell,
•Alaska.
The Indians who made the strike
lhave sought to keep the discovery se
cret, Walter’Juian, one of the old
itime trapper sand prospectors, report
ed at Wrangell today upon his arrival
ithere from the new district, but a
:stampede has started from Telegraph
tcreek to the new diggings.
The Indians were traveling down
tthe south fork, according to Julian,
•\when they came to a new slide on the
'Ibanks. Investigation showed heavily
• loaded gravel, coarse gold being
-found. The Indians panned out two
<ounces, and at Telegraph creek told
itheir friends. More than two score
jlndians silently stampeded to the new
fields and filed locations. Then the
-vword leaked out and the whites start
led on the trail, carrying several score
iinto the new fields.
The Iskut, where the new strike
Jlies, is notorious in the annals of the
• gold rushes to the North. In 1898
: stampeders to the Klondike, using
Ithe .Atlin trail, panned the banks of
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the stream. One party whose grub
had run short spent the summer
there and took out many ounces. In
coming "ill on the ‘‘Ghost” river all
but one were lost.
Then started a ne wlegend of a lost
field. The lone survivor went back,
but never could find the old workings.
He had i ighty ounces of coarse gold.
Year after year prospectors hunted
for the lost fields. Five years ago a
party of live went into the district,
but could not locate the diggings.
It is believed the Telegraph creek
Indians have stumbled upon it.
'1 he grounds are 45 miles in a
southerly direction from Telegraph
.Creek.
Another placer strike at Glacier
Lake, about 25 miles from Stikine
nver, is reported from Wrangell and
a group of Seattle miners aren won
on their way into that region.
Alex Campbell, another former
Klondiker, and now a resident of Se
attle, left last evening with a/party
to strike into the n<*w region from the
old Edmonton trail. He is taking in
a pack tram and expects to spend the
summer prospecting in the new dis
trict.
The reports have started the for
mer Alaskans and Klondikers into
overhauling their old gear and pre
paring to art nortlvonce more, and
several part es arc already being
formed in Seattle for a trek into the
Iskut rcgims to prospect tfie “Ghost”
river and attempt t-> break the super
stition among the Indians and old
timers that the gold is guarded there
by the spn:ts of the dead.
Hilary K. Adair, the noted detec
tive, said to a San Francisco reporter:
“Some people claim that criminals
aren’t clever. Well, what do you think
o! this for a clever dodge?
“A chap who was doing ten years
for arson escaped one afternoon, but
still had his convict clothes on, and
he couldn't wait around and loaf for
night because they’d surely catch him
if ho did.
“ic.:, it wa necessary foor this ar
son chap to make tracks through the
busy prison town, and how do you
think he managed it? Well, sir, he
took off his striped convict suit in an
alley, tin a he rolled his under-draw
ers up above the knee and his under
shirt sleeves! up to the schoulder, and
then he tore hekety-split through the
crowded Main street of that little
town and out into the safe country
where his friends were waiting.
"Nobody paid any attention to him,
of course. They thought he was one
of these runners training for a mara
thon or sC®h thing.”
Henry Martella and Halfdan Wiig
left a few days ago for the Flume
Dredge headquarters, Little creek.
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Irving Bush, of the famous Bush!
Terminal, was talking about, the
League of Nations.
“The League quibbles,” he said.
“Quibbling, it gets nowhere. . It re
minds me of the Texas father.
“A Tevas father was dining with
his son in a Texas hotel and in the
course of dinner he got into an argu
rnent w ill a cowboy. The cowboy
called him an offensive name, and his
son grabbed a kn:fj in his fist and
started around the table to take ven
geance.
“But i:is father seized_him by the
coat tail.
“‘Ain't ye got no table manners?'
the old man hissed.
“ ‘But, pop, ye heard what he called
ye, didn’t yc?’
“‘Yes, 1 heard all right, but that
a’.n’t rc excuse "or yer forgettin' of
yer table manners. Put down that
there kn:te, son, and go at him until
yer fork.”’
John Krieger left a few days ago
for the Hans Erickson camp, Ganes
creek. *
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In the Probate Court for Mount Mc
Kinley Precinct, Fourth Division.
Territory of Alaska, before Hon
orable W. T. Vanderpool, Com-,
missio ner and ex-officio Probate;
J udge.
In the matter of the Estate of Rob-!
ert R. Jones, deceased.
Notice of Final Hearing.
Notice is hereby given that the j
hearing of objections .to he final re-,
port and account of Clint M. Winan,1
as administrator of the estate of
Robert R. Jones, deceased, will oe
he.d in the Probate Court room at!
McGrath, Alaska, at 10 a. m. on Mon- i
day, June 10, 1929.
W. T. VANDERPOOL, j
Dated, McGrath, Alaska, April JR),'
1929.
Commissioner and ex-officio
Probate Judge.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Peter Davey, his heirs and .as-!
and assigns:
You, and each of you, are hereby
notified that I, the undersigned, your
co-owner, have expended in labor and
improvements the sum of not less
than one hundred dollars for the
years 11)21, 11)22, 11)23, 1924, 1925,
1926, 1927, 11)28 and 1929 upon .placer
mining claim 3 Above Discovery
on Esperanto creek, a tributary of
Madison creek, in the Innoko Mining
and Recording Precinct, Fourth divi
sion, Territory of Alaska, in order to!
hold said claim under the provisions
of Section 2324 of the Revised Stat
utes of the United Staes and the
amendments thereto concerning an-1
nual labor upon mining claims, being
the amount required to hold said min
ing claim for the period June 30,'
1930.
And if, within ninety days after the
publication of this notice, you fail or
refuse to contribute your proportion
of said expenditure, as well as the
cost of recording the same, and the
costs of this advertisement, your in- ■
terest in said ciaim will become the
property of the undersigned, your co
owner, who has made the required j
expenditures under the terms of said
Section 2324 of the Revised Statutes
of the United States.
JOHN KRIEGER,
Co-Owner, i
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