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Services Every Sunday
Sunday School at 11 o’clock j.
Classes for all ages
Preaching at 8 o’clock P. M. j
Rev. F. E.Reddick IJa3tor. i
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NOTICE
Dr. Richard F. Butler
DENTIST
PORTLAND CANAL NEWS BUILDING
STEWART. B. C.
HYDER M. E. CHURCH
Weekly Miner subscribers are
herewith notified that in the
event of our carriers being un
able to make deliveries because
of deep snow or unbroken
trails, their papers will be left
at the Hyder Drug Company
store or mailed.
GAME LAWS
Open season for—
Moose, Caribou, Sheep, Rams
only, limit 2. Aug. 20 to Dec. 31
Deer, males only, horns 3 in
ches or longer, limit 3. Sept. 1
to Nov. 15.
Mountain goat, males only, lim
it 3. Aug. 20 to Oct. 31.
Brown Bear, limit 3. Oct. 1 to
July 1.
Grouse, ptarmigan, limit 25 in
possession in one day. Sept. 1
to March 1.
Duck, goose, brant Wilson
snipe, plover, yellow-legs, coots
or Gallinule, Sept. 1 to Dec. 15.
Limit 25 ducks, or Wilson
snipe, or coots, or Gallinule,
or 8 geese or 8 brant or more
than 25 in all in combined pos
session in one day, 15 plovers
or yellow-legs in one day.
Martin Nov. 16 to March 31;
muskrat, Dec. 16 to April 3U;
land otter, ming, weasel, Dec.
16 to March 31.; fox, except
blue, Lynx, Dec. 1 to Feb. 28.
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Willow Creek Miners
Buried Many Hours
By Snow Avalanche
Lee and Ereo Johnson, miners
employed at the Fern mine, in
the Willow Creek district, were
recently the victims of a ter
rible experience in which they
were caught and buried in a
crushed building under a snow
slide. The men were eating
their midnight lunch in the
mine blacksmith shop at the
mouth of tunnel No. 2, when
the avalanche came down the
mountain, crushing the shop
flat, Lee was held prone across
the forge while Ereo was pin
ned flat on his back on the
floor, with an arm extended to
where it touched the crushed in
roof of corrugated iron. When
they failed to show up the men
on the day shift went in search ,
of them and finally found Er
eo’s hand sticking out of the
snow just beneath the edge
of the crushed roof, on which i
he had tapped all night in an ;
effort to attract attention. Ereo |
was still conscious when res-1
cued after his long imprison
ment. Digging still farther into '
the slide the rescuers found ;
Lee Johnson unconscious, but
he was revived after two hours
of massaging and first aid
treatment.
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Cold Water Thawing Paves
Way For Big Increase In
Placer Gold Production
Dawson, Y. T.— The recent
iiscovery of the fact that or
iinary cold water from streams
>r ponds can be forced into
frozen gold bearing gravels*
ind made to thaw them per
fectly has brought a new era to
he Klondyke and all other
ilacer camps in the far north.
This process, known a “cold
vater thawing,” has been
jrought to its'highest stage of -
jerfection in Klondyke by ex- i
)erts of the Yukon Gold Com
)any and the Gold Fields
American Development Com
pany’s subsidary companies,
known as Burral and Baird,
Limited, and the New North- 1
tVest corporation, Limited.
The new process will mean 1
he working in northern camps '
)i hundreds of miles of gold
scaring ground which other-'
vise could not be touched un-:
ior the old and costly meth
)ds of steam thawing, and will
■esult in adding untold millions
:o the world’s yield.
VEW FUR OBTAINED
FROM CROSSING OF
MARTIN AND HOUSE CAT
An interesting litter of kittens
las been raised by W. Morgan,
nayor and leading business
na'n of Lockenporte, Queen
Charlotte Islands. They were
he result of a cross between a
nale wild marten and a domes
ic cat. They have bushy tails,
long bodies, small heads, ancl
glossy, short fur, and in color
are very dark brown with a 1
touch of grey.
There were five kittens in all
a year ago but two wrere stolen j
by some tourists and only three
remain. They are almost full ■
grown and are generally ad-j
mired by all visitors. Mr. Mor- j
gan values them very highly
and refuses to part with them.
FOR THE
SPORT FANS
Next season McGraw will do
battle with teams managed by
five of his own Giant grad
uates in the National League.
Dave Bancroft will pilot the
Braves, Art. Fletcher the Phil
lies, Wilbert Robinson the Dod
gers, Bill McKechnie the Pir
ates and Pat Moran the Reds.
Four new world’s indoor track
records were broken and two
equalled in a recent spectac
ular track and field carnival
held in New York.
The world’s record for the 8u
yard high hurdles, which had
stood for 37 years, was broken
twice and equalled once. Char
les P. Barkes, a West Point ca-'
det, set the new low mark of
10 3-5 seconds in a preliminary
heat, after Tom Farrel, of
Newark, had topped the tim
bers for a new mark of 10 4-5
in the first heat. The soldier,
lest by a yard in the final to
Carl Christiansen of the New
ark A. C., who equalled his riv
als record time to accomplish
the victory.
.Ivind Nelson, of Revelstoke,
recently carried off the hon
ors at the biggest ski competit
ions ever held in Montreal,
making jumps of 121, 123 and
128 feet. His nearest competit
or was his brother, Nels Nelson,
v. ho jumped 113, 122 and 127
fv et. Among a field of 30 com
petitors all the top notchers
were Scandinavians.
LOST HUNTER ~
HAS CLOSE CALL
Half dead from hunger and
cold, Bert Hedstrom was re
cently found by Indians drift
:rg on an improvised raft in
Grenville Channel, B.C., Hed
strom had become lost while
hunting on Pitt Island, and ’
ivas finally compelled to tear ;
ils overalls to strips, which he
l ed in the making’ of a ralt
to reach the mainland. He!
tired his last two shots in an
endeavor to attract the atten
tion of a passing vessel, but
l e signal was unheeded. He
vas in desperate straits when
two lindfans Anally saw his
•aft and rescued him. He was
taken to Prince Rupert.
THE
ER JOB SHOP
7S PREPARED TO DO JOB PRINTING OF
. . . EVERY KIND . . .
HIEI, Hi:ADS. STATEMENTS’ LE'ITER HEADS, ENVEIXII’ES , CARDS. INVITATIONS.
TAOS.’ ETC . ESTIMATES OilEGR'FULLY GIVEN
Hyder Miner Job Shop
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BRIEF ITEMS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE TERRITORY
Lights from the spouting
flames of Pavlof volcano,, 680
miles distant, were plainly vis
ible in Anchorage and were
seen by a number of residents
of the town one eveping recent
ly.
After hand pumping from
their shaft for practically one
year to free the ground from
water so they could work it,
Rasmus Jensen and son are re
ported by the Nome Nugget to
bo taking out some very good
pay on an ancient beach lint
paystreak near F. Davis this
winter.
Gasoline used in starting a
fire in the furnace caused an
explosion started a fire which
totally destroyed the school
house at Homer recently. Chas.
Milder, President of the School
Board, who used the gasoline,
thinking it was coal oil, was
seriously burned and a school
boy was slightly injured.
It is reported that Carl Whit
ham, well known Chisaria min
ing man, who is developing a
quartz proposition on the Na
besna river, is making excellent
progress and has a fine show
ing.
| The sun shone at Suntrana on
'February 5 for the first time in
-two months. About two feet ot
snow is on the ground in that
locality and the thermometer
ranging around 30 below.
Frank Pierce, for many years
a resident of Juneau and for
a time of Ketchikan, and who
was at one time largely inter
ested in the Perseverance mine,
d’ed recently in Miami, Ariz.,
where he was purchasing ageni
for the Miami Copper Comp
any
A fur farm covering more
than 400 acres, and with a
breeding stock of 500 beaver
and mink, and costing over
$40,000, is to be established
in the Tocashitna country by
the Elinor Richards Fur Farm,
a Denver corporation. F. C.
Webster, an official of the
company, has been in the Ter
ritory since last May prospect
ing for a suitable site, and has
selected a tract of land near
the Home and Bunco lakes.
Charles D. Leckie, former U.
S. Commissioner at Nenana,
was recently arrested in An
chorage on a bench warrant
issued by Judge Cecil H. Clegg,
at Fairbanks. Leckie was held
without bail on orders of the
court until the arrival of one
of his bondsmen to take him
back to Fairbanks. Leckie was
from office.
charged With contempt of
Court, owing, it is said to his
saving failed to make proper
•oport of the affairs of his of
fice, after being succeeded by
Viiss C. Heid, who was recent
y appointed to fill the position.
The home of Fred Kiel,on the
Panana river about 12 miles
ibove Nenana, was completely
lestroyed by fire recently. The
milding was one of the land
marks of that section And was
formerly a roadhouse on the
river trail between Nenana and
Fairbanks before th~ comint?
of the railroad. Kc M vho had
resided there for n. -y years,
saved only a few t.. .aes of ali
his possessions.
W. D. Lane is under arrest at
Fairbanks pending investigat
ion of two robberies. The rob
beries in question were at the
Fairbanks Laundry, where $5
was stolen from a cash draw
er, and McCord’s department
store, from which $40 in cash
and $200 worth of goods were
taken. Some of the stolen goods
are said to have been found in
Lane’s room.
Dan McGinnis, foreman of a
snow plow on the Alaska rail
road, working in the vicinity of
.Curry, near Anchorage, was
instantly killed a few days ago
when the rotary left the track
and toppled into a ditch at
Mile 304. He leaves a widow
and baby daughter.
| George McCluskey, an aged
| negro, was found dead in bis
,c; bin at Nenana recently. He
jcame to the Territory from
(Alabama several years ago.
j -Te was 69 years of age.
Gur Anderson, who conduct
ed a pool hall at McCarthy and
| Cordova, died recently at Van
jccuver, B. C. , following an op
eration for appendicitis.
CANADA TO STOCK l
SOUTHERN YUKON
WITH BUFFALO
The Canadian government
is arranging to ship eighty
head of buffalo from the fam
ous herd at Wainwright, Alber
ta, to Whitehorse, in the lower
Yukon, where a game preserve
will be established and the an
imals left to become the nucle
us of a future meat supply foi
the country, according to Rob
ert Lowe, a prominent citizen
of Whitehorse who recently
passed through Juneau enroute
to the south.
Mr. Lowe said the transfer of
the animals will take place
around May 1. On arriving a.
Whitehorse, the herd will be
driven over the Whitehorse
Dawson road to the Takheni
valley, 22 miles from White
horse and turned loose. Mr.
Lowe was the original promu;
gator of the plan to estacl.oh
buffalo in that section, having
long entertained the view that
they Would do well in the dioi
rict, where there are hundreds
of miles of fine grazing land.
While visiting Ottawa a tew
months ago he suggested the
plan to government oincials
and secured a promise of 80
head of the animals. He was
further assured that if the 80
head do well a second herd of
< 00 will be sent to the district.
iVe pay the HIGHEST PRICE
FOR RAW FURS. Ship to Max
kern, 208 South Broadway,
„o* Angeles, California. Ail
>aymenta guaranteed.