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«J¥DJSfl( 4l»ka, June 19C2
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FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR
STAMPEDE JOHN
BATTLES BIG BEAR
ON CHASM BRINK
With ane side of his face resem
bling a hamberger steak and, his
nose looking like anything except a
nose, but still undaunted In bis de
termination te eontlnue pursuing
the elusive grass-root prospect, J.
0. Stenbraten, .known in every
mining camp on the North Ameri
can continent as “Stampede John,"
teturned Saturday morning from a
prospecting trip to the headwaters
of Georgia river.
Which is a preliminary to the
statement that John has emerged
victorious from his first and only
battle with a bear, winning from
Madam Bruin by .deft strokes of
his prospecting axe and out-feint
ing the lightning swipes of her for
midable front feet.
John was working around the
brim of a deep box canyon, with a
60-pound pash on his back and an
axe in his hand. As he clambered
out of a small gully, an immense
black bear struck down at him
from her ambush behind a clump
of brush. The blow glanced down
the right side of his face, closing
the eye, tearing his nose open and
lacerating his face from eyebrow to
Chin. Simultaneously with her
attack John struck blindly with his
axe and cut a deep gash in the
upper part of her neck, severing
some tendons. When he was cap
able of concious thought, John was
aU riled up. So he waded into that
bear with his axe, and ruined a per
fectly prime hide.
ALASKA PREMIER PRES.
VISITIN6 THE CAMP
- W. G. Tatirief, president of the
Alaska Premier Mining Company
tmd heavily interested in the Fish
Creek Mining Company, arrived
Sunday from Seattle and will spend
considerable time in the camp. Mr.
tanner recently returned from a
trip to New York and mas success*
ful in interesting large capital in
the district. The companp'e af
fairs, he says, are in good condition
and the development program calls
tor continuous work on the prop
erty throughout the summer at
least. Mr. Tanner is pleased with
the urogress made this spring, and
found that the crew are working
-on ore that is very satisfactory,
bjtu in quantity and quality.
, For rent, small four roomed hoSse in
Forest Reserve. Apply to E. R. Stivers.
Shoe shine stand, Alaskan’Ifotel, Rube
fcliller. Professional bath rubber.
(>ne-half interest in a lot on Premier
avenve, Lindeborg addition, for sale for
^ne-half the original cost Ask Joe Green
Lawrence. Watchmaker.
.Don't go home hungry. Get a lunch at
Ocean View.
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT
If it isn't to be
Found elsewhere try i
The Midget Emporium
Meet me at the North Star.
Send this paper to your (Hand
Ketchikan Chronicle at the North Star
The Hyder school ended its first year
last Friday. ,
A baseball team from Ketchikan will
be here Sunday.
Jack Peters returned Sunday from an
extended visit outside.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hudson left on the
Carmen for Ketchikan.
W. R. Reid returned Sunday from a
business trip to Rupert.
Jim Bovard and Jimmy Morris left
yesterday for the interior.
Rev. T. J. McQueen held services Sun
day night in Pioneer ball.
Jack McDonald, an oldtimer of Stewart
and Alice Atiri. is fl recent arrival..:
Jock Scott has left the Lyon Market
and gone to work for the Premier.
Lee Batch is building a snug bungalow
at the wireless station for E.VL. Dale.
Reggie Macfarlane returned on the
Prince Rupert from a trip to Vancouver.
Charlie Duke returned Sunday from
Rupert and is taking a shift in the Silver
Grill.
Harry Anderson has returned from
Greenwood, B. C., where he spent the
winter.
C. W. Hatch, of the Internal Revenue
department, is in town checking up in
come tax returns
The Carmen arrived at .1 a. m. yester
day from Ketchikan and left on the re
turn trip at 4 p m.
Jack Lambert was up during the week
from his ranch on Sitlin island, near the
mouth of the canal.
M r. and Mrs. E. H. Bartholf .returned
on the Prince Rupert from Seattle, where
they spent the winter.
Charlie Jackson, an oldtimer of the
camp, returned Sunday from an extended
visit Outside and in Interior Alaska.
Gus Johnson, the original chimney buil
der of the camp, has returned from Prince
George alter an absenee of two years.
Miss Esther Olson, teacher in the Hy
der school, left on the Prince Rupert for
Seattle, where she will spend her vaca
tion.
Magnus Meisingseth has l«en author
ized by the Territorial school officials ■ to
collect school tax throughout the entire
recording district.
Professor Bancroft, geologist for the
Granby company, returned to Anyox Sun
day after examining a number of proper
ties in this district.
Good progress is being made in the con
struction of the wing dam at the rock cut
Pitcher Sl Co. have their locally built
piledriver on the job.
M. It. Jamieson has moved the build
ing formerly occupied by Attorney Sund
macher from the reserved strip to the
rear of the Hotel ilyder.
Eddie Hambleton, Eddie O'Neill and
Charlie Knipple, the foreman, came down
from the Daly Alaska Saturday and
stayed over the week end.
Grant Mahood returned on the Prince
Rupert from Vancouver, where he has
been for several months on business con
nected with his mining interests.
R. T. Brown, who left the Premier a
month ago, returned Sunday from an in
spection of the Cedar creek placer camp
which experienced a chechaco stampede
during the winter. He says he saw no
thing there that has net been -knlwn fbr
years.
M. AUlaon returned Sunday from hit
ranch at Vender hoof, where he spent the
winter absorbing moose steaks, and will
put In the summer working on his mining
claims naar Bear lake.
Piledriver machinery to be used in con*
strutting the Hyder dock arrived this
week from Ketchikan, and the framework
for the driver Is now being cut by the
Hyder Lumber Company.
R. L. Cline, who came here to staff
the district trail building ft*' the Forest
Service, left yesterday for Ketchikan. He
will go from there to Portland, having
been transferred from this district.
The Forest Service will do considerable
trail work here this summer. The Texas
creek tmjl will be put through to the gla
cier, Fish creek. trail extended, .and a
good trail built to the Daly Alaska.
The hospital danc^ Friday night in tbs
Ocean View Hotel was well patronized
by residents of both towns. Three cakes
were raffled and won by Ernie Armstrong
George Mehlfeld and Mrs. L. S. Bigham.
The Sherrahs, colored entertainers,
brought back memories of the Sonny
South in their entertainment last. Thurs
day night in Pioneer halt. Those who
did n^t attend missed a musical and
comedy treat.
J. J. Coughlan, president of the Silver
ado Mining Company and interested in
other mining properties of the district,
arrived on the Priiyce Rupert from Van
couver, accompanied by W. H. McDon
ald, mining engineer.
George Mehifeld's little girls now have
a pet goat to play with. George caught
the kid on the Idaho property on the
north fork of the Marmot and packed it
home. It takes most of its nourishment
from a nursing bottle and spends Its time
climbing out of every enclosure it is put
Into.
The Anyox cleared Saturday night .for
Tacoma with 1000 tons of Premier high
grade ore. Thursday a scow took away
S00 tons of second-grade for the Grknby
smelter. Sunday nine large bricks of
bullion and several hundred pounds of
precipitates were shipped by express on
the Prince Rupert.
Nichol Thompson, for many years a
leading spirit in all affairs connected with
mining oh the Pacific slope, arrived pp
the Prince. Rupert from Vancouver , and
is spending the week in cirap, visiting
the Premier and other properties. Mr.
Thompson was for a number of years
president of the Vancouver Chamber of
Mines and is now a member of the exec
utive and also of the Board of Trade. He
represents Cammell-Laird Co., of Shef
field, England, manufacturers of drill
steel.
GREEN THEATRE PROGRAM
“Law’s Outlaw.” a thrilling west
ern drama, will be shown at the
Green Theatre next Saturday night
: with Roy Stewart in the leading
role, and in addition, a snappy
comedy, “Should Waiters llarryt’’
featuring George Ovey. An Inter
national News reel will open the
show.
Pure, clear, spring-water ICE!!
Order from Potts or Traversy.
Russian steam baths $i. 11. J. Scott.
Roadhouse for sale at a bargain. Ask
Joe Green.
Rainier draft on icei Hotel Hydsn
The Incurable Optimist
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A t a meeting of the Canadian Mining Institute held in Vancouver
. ^ Nichol Thompson, chairman of the Vancouver branch of the
Institute and for a number of years president of the Vancouver Cham
ber of Mines, told the story of the old prospector who stampeded all the
angel propectors out of Heayen in order to make room for himself, and
then caiight the fever and joined the rush for Hell. The story inspired
the muse of H, Beeman, secretary of the Mining Bureau, of the Van
couver Board of Trade, and the following poetical gem is the result:
The Traveler knocked at the gates that blocked
The way to his heavenly home.
And St. Peter cameqnd asked his name
And whither he'd lately come; ,
He didn't expect that he’d be checked—
He’d been ever a ready host,
And he.d dropped his pack, at any man’s shack,
From the Rockies to the coast.
If 'twas Peter's whim ‘twas alright with him,
He'd put up with the slight delay.
And he felt no shame to give his name
And whence, he had made his way;
Now down below it was just plain Joe,
The label they'd tagged him with,
And it did him proud to be one of the crowd
Who had borne the name of Smith.
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And as to the place, he'dsay to his faoe
St. Peter haa nothing to show
Like the mirrored sight of the peaks snow-white
in the ealm of the lakes below;
Or the daylight's shrink from red to pink.
To yellow, to inky pall,
From rocky ledge to the water’s edge
As the evening shadows fall.
St, Peter, though mild, got Joe quite riled,.
When he asked where such sights might be,
Sure everyone knew—just as I or you—
Where else but in old B. C.t
And then he told how he'd searched for gold
Death had dashed from his lips the cup—
But St. Peter said, as he shook his head,
That that section was quite full up.
Spid the Saint; "It's clear they would make for here,
When they hit the last, long trail,
For they’ve aii been told that the streets are gold,
But the sight of it soon gets stale;
' There’s no "might-be-found,"—it’s proven ground—
And they find it a trifle slot*
The moss-backs ache for a good grub-stake
When the spring is melting the snow.”
Though tne gates clanged to, Joe wasn’t through—
He was bound to get inside.
So he sat to thing* on the Great Void’s bring
How to make them open wide;
H£ thought for awile and then a smile—
Like sunshine after rain—
Spread ovef his face, and he took his place
At the gates, and knocked again,
The Saint appeared and, nothing afeared,
Joe said that he'd like to send
To Jake McAdoo, of Cariboo,
A message straight from a friend.
"Make no mistake, it’s ’Jitney Jake;'
He's the only one you’ll tell;”
And, drawing near, hissed in his ear:
“There’s a plaeer strike in Hell!"
With a glow of content, then back he went
To his seat on the Outer Rim.
They were all alike, and he knew he’d hike.
If such message had come to him.
And soon they aped, with a stealthy tread,
He thought they’d never be done.
Of every date, from fifty-eight
To nineteen-twenty-one,
At last to the door same' Peter once more
And said there was room to spare.
But naught heeded Joe, as he muttered low-:
“Gosh! Maybe there's something there!"
So with eyes ablaze in an eager gaze,
And the look of a man possesed,
He hoisted his pack to his old, bent back,
And hurried off after the reati
PROSECM
OR PERRIPS
PERSECUTION
L. R. Doggett, manager of the In
ternational roadhouse at Thirteen*
mile, was down early this week on
business and reports that he has
made an encouraging discovery of
ore on the Border claim, on which
the roadhouse is built, and intends
to do considerable development
work. The lead is strong and the
values, while small at present, oc*
cur in an ore such as has develop
ed into pay ore on other properties
in the vicinity. It resembles the sur
face ore of the Premier.
Proceedings have been started
in the District Court for closing thg
roadhouse, and oldtimers of thii
section as well as new operators
are expressing considerable sur
prise and indignation. Statements
are freely made that this is on«
more move on the part of the Pre
mier to block development of the
country oiltside of properties thai
they themselves control, and they
are wondering whether a company
operating in Canada ean dictate to
the Alaskan government as to how
its affairs must be conducted.
A petition has been prepared
protesting against the proposed ac
tion and is being signed by practir
cally all the independent operators
of the district, as well a6 miners,
prospectors and business men Of
the camp. They hold that a road*
house at this point is an absolute
necessity for the comfort and con
venience of everyone interested in
mining in the Salmon basin, with
the excepti ju of the Premier, who
have their own accommodations
HYDER WINS ONCE MORE
Lack of space precludes the pub
lication of more than a summary
of last Sunday's ball game,
teams Hned up as follows
Hyder
Graham s s
Carroll 2 b
Yohner 3 b
Raines o
McDonald p
McDougall 1 b
Tyler r f
Haddon c f
E. O'Neill 1 f
Score
The
Stewart
McDonald l b
Arsneau a s
L. Benson 3 b
Gray 2 b
Crawford c
P. Benson r t
Lawrence c f
LeClair 1 f
Wilson p
By Innings
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Stewart 0 0 2 0 0 0 0** 2
Hyder 2 1 0 5 0 3 x—11
Summary
Hits, Hyder 7; Stewart 5.
Errors, Hyder 2; Stewart 4.
Two base hits, Graham, Arsneau.
Stolen bases - for Hyder, Graham 4
Carrol 4, McDougall 3, Yohner 2,
Tyler 4, total 17. For Stewart *
Wilson 3.
Passed balls, Hyder 3, Stewart 4,
Sacrifice hit, O'Neill.
Hit with ball, Yohner.
Struck out - by McDonald 7 - by
Wilson 8.
Bases on balls • off McDonald 3 /
off Wilson 2. /
Double play, Yohner to Carrol td
Graham.
Umpire. Charlie O’Neill.