SIX KEEPERS, 11 PLAYERS
DRAGNETTED AT DAWSON
Dawson has gone back to its old El
dorado days and real frontier gambling
has been carried on in the once famous
Yukon town of late.
An item under Dawson date line,
printed in the Skagway Alaskan, says:
“Six men charged with keeping com
mon gaming houses and eleven charg
ed with playing or looking on at gam
bling games in the houses run by the
first six were before Judge McCauley
this morning. Some of the proprietois
were up several days ago. The entire
number of proprietors and onlookers
pleaded guilty, some at the hearing last
week and some today.
“Judge McCauley fined the proprie
tors each $100 and costs and also sen
tenced each to three months imprison
ment at hard labor. However, the
sentence of imprisonment was suspend
ed during good behavior.
“Of the eleven spectators, four wrere
fined $20 and costs, and the others $100
and costs, or given the option of two
months in jail. They are paying the
fines.
The judge made it plain that here
after no fines will be extended any of
the offenders. He declared that gamb
ling must stop in Dawson for all
time, and that he would do all in his
power to see that those who attempt ,
it are punished.
DR. SIMPSON LEAVES
FOR BRITISH COLUMBIA
Dr. J. K. Simpson left on the Prin
cess May this morning for Prince Ru
pert, B. C., to settle up his business af
fairs and to pack the remainder of his
surgical instruments and office furni
ture, in advance of his permanent re
moval to Juneau, where he will be lo
cated, in January, in the old office on
Second street. Considerable repairs
have been made on the building in pre
paration for its occupancy.
Dr. Simpson intends to visit Van
couver and Victoria, and possibly Se
attle and Tacoma, before returning.
NEVADA CREEK MINE
CLOSED OVER CHRISTMAS
Superintendent T. A. Harper of the
Alaska Treasure Mines at Nevada
creek last Saturday ordered temporary
shut-down of the development work
until the first week in January, when
the mine will re-open and active work
in tunneling continue.
The rumor that the Nevada creek
nest-egg was to be abandoned was
given wide circulation this morning,
but the story is merely a repetition of
previous yarns breezed about for no
apparent cause whatever.
The Alaska Treasure Mining Co., in
its possesion of the Nevada creek pro
perty, owns one of the best propositions
in the north in a mining way, and to
quote the words of an official, is “here
to stay.”
Howard Ainsworth, an employee of
the company, is to leave soon to spend
the holidays visiting in Seattle.
CHICKENS PAY IN RUBY CITY
The best paying chicken ranch pro
bably on the American continent, is sit
uated at Ruby. This ranch stands with
in four board walls on the cross street
near the former commissioner's office
and occupies a space of 16 to 20 feet
skuare. Inside are 21 chickens, which
lay an average of 16 eggs a day, and
have been so doing for several months.
During that time the owner of the
chickens, Alex Smith, has received $4
per dozen for the eggs, and so clears
more than $5 per day out of this in
vestment alone, feed for the chickens
costing daily about 15 cents.
Mr. Smith, who is one of Ruby's
I
most prominent business men, and
property holders, purchased the birds
eraly i nthe summer, and has been re
teurned by them their price several
time over. In addition to the eggs the
chickens wil be useful for the'tables of
Mr. Smith’s restaurant when they quit
laying, aud so wil ladd to the profit, but
the yare still laboring hard to avert
their doom. They are literally laying
for dear life.
Without butting iuto the classic
“hen and a half that lay an egg and a
half in a day and a half,” one may
state that each of Alex Smith’s hens
lays about four-fifths of an egg a day,
and if a dozen eggs are worth $4, what
is four-fifths of an egg equal to?
Give it up?
The answer is that each hen makes
$2 a week for its owner if it works just
half a day overtime.
In other words, the.21 chickens make
for their onwen more than $37 a week.
—Ruby Record.
CLARK HOPEFUL OF
ALASKA BUREAU’S AID
Seattle, Dec. 23.—In a letter to the
Alaska Bureau of the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce, Governor Walter E.
Clark of Alaska extends his felicita
tions to the commercial body and makes
the wish that the bureau will be
thoroughly helpful to the territory.
Physicians in Seattle lately re-broke
Ira Cohen's disabled ankle in order to
properly set the bone. Cohen fell and
broke his ankle early this year at Se
attle, and owing to the nature of the
break the bones refused to knit. Ira
was forced to wear a strong ankle
brace all year and decided to have an
other operation performed to relieve
him.
Mr. Cohen is purser of the Humboldt.
Dr. Martin Daraourette returned
from the south by steamer Curacao last
evening. Dr. Damourette is authority
for the statement that a large dredge
is soon to be brought north and used
in experimental work on the reported
gold deposits at the Bar. As the loca
tor of the deposits, Dr. Damourette
till has unbounded faith in the Bar
as a future camp.
Mrs. Damourette remained in Seat
tle, where the Damourettes have pur
chased a new home, located in the
choice Madrona Park section.
Douglas. Dec. 18.—M. G. Rogers, the
progressive merchant, has set a good
example for other men to follow by put
ting four large street lamps in front of
his place of business. Each light is
mounted on a fancy column and pre
sents a most attractive appearance at
night.
The soldiers played at Treadwell Sat
urday night before a packed house.
They will be there again tomorrow
night.
The Order of the Eastern Star will
meet tomorrow night at Odd Fellows’
hall. All members are earnestly re
quested to be present on account of
election of officers.
The tickets for the big boxing carni
val to be held on next Saturday night
have all been turned over to Dave Hous
el of the Treadwkell cigar stand. You
should see him now and geet your res
ervations. The doors will open at
about nine that evening and there will
be two good preliminaries before the
main event, which will go for twelve
rounds.
Where did you get those
nobby shoes?
At McDonald's, of course!
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