Alaska News Notes
Lee and Ereo Johnson, two miners
employed at the Fern mine, at the head
of Archangel creek, in the Willow
Creek district, while eating their rnid
jtigbt lunch in the blacksmith shop at
the mouth of tunnel No. 2, were buFied
by a snowslide recently, which caone
dowE-the mountain, crushing the shop
flat. Lee Johnson was held prone
across the forge, while Ereo was flat
on his back on the floor, with his arui
extended to where it touched the cor
rugated iron roof. When the two men
did not show up in the morning the
men on the dfiy shift went in search of
them, and found Ereo’s hand sticking
out of the snow iuat- beneath the roof,
on which he had been tapping all
.night to attract attention. He wao'
conscious when rescued. Digging a
little further they found Leo Johnson,
unconscious, but he was revived after
about two hours of massaging and first
aid treatment.
A suit has been filed at Juneau to
test the legality of the graduated sal
mon tax law passed by the last legisla -
ture. The law, which provides for a
tax on canned salmon ranging from 2
cents to 2® cents per case, depending
upon the size of the pack, is attacked
on-the ground that the law does not
impose an equal tax on all salmon cau
ners, is therefore class legislation and
Is void. The actioD was started by the
Pacific American Fisheries Company,
but it is understood that all of the big
canning interests are behind it. At
torney General Rustgard has an
nounced that he will immediately
briug suits against all canneries which
have not paid their tax in full under
the graduated tax law.
Writing to a friend regaining the
gold strike on a small tributary of the
Auckland river. Seward Peninsula dis
trict, George Stanley, who recently ar
rived at Kiana from the diggings, says:
«■ “We had practically no water last sea
son, and hence could do little work.
The ground is good. We get from $1
to #3.60 pans. We are groundsluiciDg
off the top dirt, preparatory to mining
this season.”
Leroy Tozier. prominent politician
and attorney of Fairbanks, left recent
ly for the States, in an effort to regain
his health, whieb has been failing rap
idly the past few years. He is hut a
wreck of his once brilliant self, and hi3
friends hope for bis speedy relief.
The steamer Yukon, one of the
largest and best river steamers operat
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PIONEER
SHOP
Machine, Black
smith and
Sheet Metal Work
All Kinds of Repairs
' Stoves Built
and Repaired
Robt. E, Lowrie
Tokotna, Alaska
iDg in the far North, has been leased
by the Alaska railroad from the White
Pas9 & Yukon Company, and will aug
ment the riser transportation system
of the Alaska railroad next summer in
what promises to be a record-breaking
volume of tourist traffic
Dan McGinnis, in charge of the ro
tary snow plow on the Alaska railroad,
workiug between Curry and Anchor
age, was instantly killed a few days ago
when the rotary toppled from the track
into the ditch at Mile 304. Mr. Mc
Ginnis lived at Curry, and leaves a
wife and baby girl. Mrs. McGinnis is
the daughter of Major McFarland, of
the telegraph and teleDhone depart
ment of the railroad.
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C'af Townsend, who was UDder treat
ment at the Fairbanks hospital for sev-1
eral months as the result of an id jury
to one of his feet, and who went Out
side recently to consult a specialist,
found on arrival in the States that an
operation was necessary. The infected j
foot was removed, just above the ankle, j
and the patient is now getting along J
nicelv.
Frank A, Boyle, register of the An
chorage land office, who has filed as
democratic candidate for delegate to
Congress, expects to be relieved from
his duties as register within the next
few weeks. J. Bindley Green, at pres
ent officer for the suppression of liquor
traffic among the Indians, is a candi
date to succeed Mr. Boyle as register
Miss Winifred Johnson, a native
daughter of Skagwa^ who is better
known by her stage name as one of tVie
Shermao Sisters, was recently married
in the Diller Hotel in Seattle to ‘ Cari
bou Bill” Cooper, an oldtirae Alaskan,
and they will leave Seattle shortly on
a honeymoon trip to the North.
Louis Dahl, an oi itimer of the Ruby
district, who has been following the
occupatitu of a woodchopper, was
taken to Nenana recently by Deputy
Marshal Hart wig to be examined as to
his^aoity. He appears to be afflicted
with a religious mania, and is harm
less.
According to reports received at An
chorage recently, Charles E. Herron,
who recently sold out his interest in
the Alaska Weekly to Frank Cotter
and Earle Knieht, will go to Los An
geles. where he is planning to open a
real estate office to deal in city and
suburban property.
J. C. Murray, well known pioneer
Alaskan, wbo has been interested in
Caciie creek for several years, was an
arrival in Fairbanks recently to inves
tigate properties op which he lias op
tions, with a view to installing dredges.
Hereafter no children under 10 years
of age will be permitted in the district
court room during criminal proceed
ings, according to a court order issued
at Fairbanks by Federal Judge Cecil
H. Clegg. The order does not exclude
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
Mitarod, Alaska,
LAWYERS
Practice in all Courts.
For a Nice Lunch
or First-Class Meal
Call At
Durant’s Cafe
Flat City
them from attendance during the hear
ing of civil actions.
Mrs. Jack Sullivan, wife of Uie pro
prietor of the Kighteen-mile roadhouse
on the Valdez-Fairbanks road, died re
cently at Fairbanks from the effects of
a paralytic stroke. She had lived for
many years in the Fairbanks district,
most of the time on the trail conduct
ing roadhouses, and she was widely
known and universally liked.
Chief of Police Keegan, of Juneau, i
who recently secured a leave of ab
sence and went to Seattle for medical
treatment, was reported to be dying in
a telegram received in Juneau recent
ly, his physicians stating that he had
but a few hours to live.
'Fred Liljigren, a well known fox
rancher, arrived in Valdez a few days;
ago, having 75 blue fox skins, the re- j
suit of his spring killing.
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Max Simel
The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
Sold
Miners’, Prospectors’
and Trappers’
Supplies
Steamer Service On the Inoka
River.
Ask the People of Ophir about us.
STATION
Fairview. Innoko River1
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McGrath, Alaska
Provisions Notions Furnishings
Indian Mitts, Moccasins and Snow* ,
Furs Bought and Sold [White Fish and Dog Feed
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Dog Harness Collars Sled Lashings lank Heaters
ALASKA RSVSSi •
Operating Light Draught Stea ers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, Manager.
DIRECT SERVICE ,
Seattle to Kuskokwim River
Via Inside Passage
Personal Attention Given to Freight Ordered
for the Kuskokwim. Send in Your Orders.
For Rates and Accommodations apply to
Kuskokwim Fishing & Transportation Co.
7 Column Dock. Seattle, Wash.
..Hill III11 III
A Dredging or Hydraulicing
Proposition, Yankee Creek
I urn the principal owner of a block of ground
on Yankee creek, about, seven miles long, extend
ing from No. 1 Relow Discovery down to tho mouth
of the creek.
Pay has beeD located all along for a distance of
about three miles from the upper end, and pretty
well prospected and cross-cut.
The average depth of the ground is from seven
to twenty feet. The top is all black muck, that can
be moved freely. 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, (.'rosscuting
work indicates that tho ground will go from 15
ceDts to SI per square foot, of bedrock. My belief
is that the pay will average 50 cents per foot
T have a ditch on the ground, three miles long,
together with water rights. The ground is prettv
well cleared. There is also a draiD, three miles
long, with the water right. I also have a water
right on Ready Bullioq creek, from which water
can be brought to Yankee creek with a ditch less
than a mile long (4,000 feet), which will give four
sluiceheads of water, with a pressure or fall of 120
feet, being 1000 feet to the work from the ditch.
After doing away with the muck, there will be
from four to six feet of dirt to handle. The pay
runs mostly in 'he bedrock of porphyry and slate.
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 linding values that run up to *1 tier
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 Yankee creek. 1
also have a road down the creek that counects with
the Government road.
1 am also the agent for owners of ground other
than that heid bv myself.
The ground can be worked either with dredge,
drag-line scraper, or by hydraulicing.
I will either sell the ground or give a lease on
it. If the prospect is satisfactory to t he buyer, a
cash payment will be expe ■ >d. A good bargain
will be given to the right party.
For further information, terms, etc., call on
ground, or write or telegraph me.
ED NOLLETTE,
Tokotna, Alaska.