Alaska News Notes
A new .train schedule ia now in effect
on the Alaska railroad, says the Sew
ard Gateway. The sshedule provides
for trains from Seward on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays, trains going
straight through to Fairbanks, arriv
ing at 1J:15 the following morning
after leaving Seward, Regular trains
will leave Fairbanks Mondays, Wed
nesdays apd Fridays at 6 p. m., going
straight through to Seward. A dining
car service will be operated between
Seward and Curry. From Curry on
passengers will eat breakfast at Ne
nana, a stop of one,hour being made.
Sleepers will.also be a part of the train
equipment.
P. Rutherford, .whet was brought to
St. Joseph’s hospital at Fairbanks re
cently from the Chena Hot Springs,
where he lay for several days with
frozen feet sustained during the cold
spell of early, April,, idied on May 24
of lockjaw, a complication arising from
a gangrenuus. condition of the frosted
members, says the Fairbanks News
Miner. He had been without medical
attention for..almost a fortnight when
he reached Fairbanks, and his condi
tion then was such as to offer little
hope for recovery.
At a recent meeting of the Ketchi"
kan school board it was voted to retain
W. A. Holzheimer as their counsel in
the case brought against the board by
D. Cantil. It appears that a child was
denied attendance at the school on ac
„ count of part native blood, and Cantil,
through his attorney, W. L. Paul, is
attempting to force the school board to
allow the child to enter the school.
The case is in the nature of a test one
to determine whether natives are to be
admitted to the public schools of that
. eity. _
A strike on Money gulch, tributary
, ' of Nugget, about forty miles northwest
. of Brooks, is said to be showing up
walk Pans taken from the rim yielded
t. as high as 55 cents, and several old
,, dumps are reported to have shown
good . prospects. About one hundred
Tolovana people are on the ground and
i have staked claims.
A contract for 50,000 tons of coal to
* be delivered to the Alaska railroad
was recently entered into between the
, railroad and the Evan Jones Coal Com
pany. This meaDs that the coal com
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puny, the largest producers in the Mat
anuska field, will immediately increase
the number of men employed at the
mine. The company expects to be able
to deliver about 5,(XX) tons of coal a
month to the railroad.
George Ampusait, one of the early
pioneers of the Interior of Alaska, died
at the Faith creek roadhouse on May
23, according to a report received at
the U. S. Marshal’s office, Fairbanks.
Mr. Ampusait began mining on Mas
todon creek in 1893, and owned prop
erty there until about two years ago,
since which time he had been operat
ing his holdings on Independence
creek.
Great activity in the matter of im
provements is reported at ail the road
houses along the line of the Richard
son highway, according to R. E. Shel
don, who recently returned to Fair
banks from a trip over the road. He
declaies everyone is preparing for the
forthcoming tourist season and pre
dicts the busiest year in the history of
the eoast-to-Fairbanks road.
Victor JacobsoDi better known to old
timers as the Scurvy Kid, after an ex
tended trip U> the Outside, including a
visit to his old home in Denmark, ar
rived in Fairbanks a few weeks ago,
headed for the lower Yukon and Ber
ing Sea on his annual trading trip.
Earle C. Jameson, associate editor of
the Anchorage Times, *eft recently for
the Mayo Brothers’ clinic at Roches
ter, Mian., wheie he will undergo
treatment for disability sustained dur
ing the late war.
Mrs. Katherine McGinnis, wife of
Donald L McGinnis, well known An
chorage merchant, died recently at the
government hospital in that city, fol
lowing a serious operation.
Fred Truebes, pioneer resident of
Fairbanks and a veteran of the Civil
War, died at the Fairbanks hospital on
May 28, of heart failure. He had been
ill for several months.
M. S. Ferkins, formerly ediior and
owner of the Petersburg Report, will
enter into the fox farming business
near Petersburg,
Frank Belford, 63. an oldtjmer of the
Livengood district, died recently at
the government hospital in Anohorage
from dropsy.
Charles EL Kelly, who for many
years operated a leading drug store at
Nome, died at Los Angeles a few days
ago. j_
Rastus—What’s your brother doing
DOW?
Rufus—He’s in jail.
Rastus—How come?
Rufus—For opening a grocery store.
Rastus—Since when i3 it a crime to
opeD a grocery store?
Rufus—Well, you see it was this
way: My brother opened the store
about 3o’clock in the morning with a
chisel.—Progressive Grocer.
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Chicago.—Several days ago a man
who had hunted in vain for a Hat where
children are admitted turned on the
gas and took his two-year old boy with
him to a land where children al
ways are welcome. Had be waited a
few days he would nave found such a
place in Chicago.
Today there was swung out over a
42-apartment building in Oak park
this sign: (
“Children welcome—$25 and a cradle
to 8ach baby.born in this building.”
Prospective families alsoare informed
that the building is equipped with a
“kiddies’playground to keep them b'T
the street.”
Invites Gallows So He
Can Join Wife He Slew
Chicago. -Sam Rosen, a tailor, who
slew his wife, March 27, because she
refused to live with him, said today
that he hoped the state would hang
him, as life was nothing without her
and he hoped to join her after death.
Rosen says he has an ulcerated
stomach which physicians have pro
nounced incurable. He also is alllicted
with, tuberculosis. “ have nothing to
live for,” he moaned, when arraigned
in criminal eou: t,u>da-y. loved my
wife, but if she would not return to me
in life I want to join her in death.”
After Mrs. Rosen had left him, Rosen
waylaid her on a corner as she stepped
from a street car on her way to work.
He shot her down in the presence of a
score of people.
Comedian—Look ’ere! 1 objects to
goin* on just after the.monkey act.
Manager—Wei), perhaps you’re right.
They might think you were an encore.
—London Telegraph.
“Hetty Howies is going abroad to
study singiDg.”
“Goodness! Where did she get the
necessary funds?”
“Oh, the neighbors subscribed.”— 1
Boston Transcript.
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1 am the principal owner of a block [of ‘ground
on Yankee creek, about seven nines long,'extend
ing from No. 1 Below;Discovery down'to the mouth
of the creek.
Pay has heen located all along for a [distanee'of
about three miles from the upper end, and pretty
well prospected and cross-cut.
The average depth of the ground lis from seven
to twentyjfeet. The top is all black muck, that can
be movedffreelv. No rock bigger than one’s fist.
The width of the pay. for a distance of about
three miles, is from 100 to 200 feet. Orosscuting
work indicates that the ground will go from; 15
cents to SI per square foot ofj bedrock. My belief
is that the pay will average 50 cents per foot.
I have a ditch onlthe ground, three miles long,
together with water rights. The ground is pretty
well cleared. There is also a drain, three miles
long, with the water right. I also have a water
right on Ready Bullion creek, from which water
can be brought to Yankee creek with a rliteh less
than a mile long (4,000 feet), which will give four
sluiceheads of water,|with a,'pressure or fall of 120
feet, beiDg 1000 feet to the work from the ditch.)
After doing away with the muck, there will be
from four to six feat of dirt to ftaiMU®. The pay
runs mostly in the bedrock of porphyry at»v$ «!*!&.
The ground is virgin, only about $11,000 having
been taken out by windlass in prospecting.'
Prospecting work during the present winter has
resulted in 5nding values that run np to $1 per
square foot of bedrock.
The Flume Dredge Company has a dredge above
this ground, which has been in operation for the
last three seasons.
The Government road crosses Yanisee creek. [
al?o have a road down the creek that.connects with
the Government road
- am also the agent for owners oi ground other
than that held by myself.
The ground can be worked either with dredge,
drag-line scraper, or by hydraulicing.
T will either sell the ground or give a lease 02'
it, "r" the prospect is satisfactory to the buyer, a
cash payment will be expected. A good bargain
will bo given to the right party.
For further information, terms, etc , sell on.
ground, cr write or telegraph me.
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Tofeotna, Alaska, i
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