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HOT SPRINGS, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1909.
Two Bits a Throw
Blowback is
Questionable
The stampede which resulted from
the reported find of two nuggets on
Blowback creek has run its course and
many claims were staked and recorded.
Despite the fact that the public gen
erally are very skeptical of the genu
ineness of the discovery, there are sev
eral parties who have faith in the dis
covery and havo placed boilers on th«
creek.
The big majority of the stakers are
again in the city and can be found at
most any timo at their old familiar
haunts where they are nightly sur
rounding the stoves busily engaged in
.sinking holes and telling whore one is
sure co find the paystreak if a hole
were sunk, but all are too tired to sink
a real shaft merely to find a paystreak.
Thomas Ellingson, the finder of the
4 wo famous nuggets, says lie doesn’t
care a rap whether his story is cred
jted or not, but that he found the gold
there and is satisfied in his own mind
as to the future of the creek, which
he says, will surprise some of the rea
“wise” ones.
Hellenthal’s
Misfortune
—
A late number of the Jeneaw Tran
script tells of “Jack” Heilenthal, the
well-known attorney of that city, com
pletely losing his eyesight while in
Seattle en route to Juneau. Last sum
mer Mr. Heilenthal had serious t rouble
with his eyes, and was for several weeks
in a hospital at Skagway, and then
went to the States for further treat
ment, amd it was believed that he was
well on the road to recovery when he
was entirely stricken blind.
Mr. Heilenthal is one Alaska’s most
popular attorneys, and is also among
the ablest. He made many friends iu
the Tanana country while “stumping”
the district in the first delegate cara
jiaign for the Democratic nominee.
Koyukuk is
Looking Good
Monty Grummere, formerly proprie
tor of the Ester Siding roadhouse, ar
rived from the Koyukuk l’ecently and
will remain in Fairbanks until March
when he will return to the Northern
camp with which ho seems much im
pressed.
Grummere reports that there are
about 300 men and 16 women wintering
an the Koyukuk this season. On
Thanksgiving they gave a dance at
Wright City which was attended by 70
. men and 10 women, and the dancing
was continued until 6 a. m. The trip
to Fairbanks required 20 days of which
36 were spent in actual travel.—Tanana
“Tribune.
Eastern Money
Looks This Way
Easterners consider Alaska as a pro
fitable field for investment according
to Col. 13. F. Millard of Valdez, who is
now in Seattle on his way north after
a trip .east in the interest of the Ga
lema Bay Mining company of which
he is the head. Col. Millard says that
a number of Wisconsin capitalists
have recently invested heavily in'
Alaska mines, and that there are fine
prospects for great mining activity
during the coming year.
Col. Millard is waiting outside for
machinery he purchased in the East
and as soon as it arrives he wili ac
company it North and superintend its
installation in his mine.
A Juneau exchange tells of a fellow
who had bought some currant buns at
-a bakery, and when he attempted to eat
one he found it was a fly. Returning
to the bakery he demanded another
bun for the one that contained the fly,
hut the wise saleslady told him: “I’m
sorry, sir, but I can’t give you another
bun, but if you return the fiy, I’ll give
you a currant for it.”
A. V. Thorns and Gill Edgar re
turned this week from their trip to the
Yukon where they were looking over
«ome quartz properties in which they
are interested.
Go to Stanley’s for Turkey dinner
.Sunday.
Servia is getting.on a war foot
ing, having ordered 400 military
automobiles, apparently one for
every general and. the two pri
vates. __
Geo.Gibson, formerly of Hot Springs,
plead guilty of embezzlement at the
court in Fairbanks and will be sen
-uraeed today.
Caught “Hubby”
After Long Search
Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 7.—After a hunt of two years
Mrs. Randa Johnson of Chicago, had the satisfaction of
seeing her husband, Henry T. Johnson, and Blanche Bobka,
his “affinity,” in cells in the county jail here. Mrs. John
son viewed the imprisoned girl through the bars and jeered
at h*»r in reply to pleas for mercy declared she had spent tod
much money to give up punishing the offenders now. The
wife was cashier in a Chicago restaurant and her husband
was chef when the man two years ago- fled with his “affin
ity.” Since then Mrs. Johnson has followed the pair to
Omaha, Detroit, Buffalo and other places, several times
having to- return to work in Chicago to replenish her
finances before resuming the search. Finally the pair was
located here and the arrest followed.
Is is your name written there? gr Our subscription book.
Pickaninny's
Color Faded
Pittsburg, Dec. 20.—“I jus’ couldn’t bear to see uia
HI’ boy goin’ roun’ with a black face, boss, when all de
other lit’ ckillen had white faces an’ so I put de paint no to
mak it white.”
That’s what Martha Phillips, a typical “mammy,” with
a gingham apron and a sunbonnet, told Judge Schaffer in
the Juvenile court. Between many tears and much use of
the apron, the old negress sobbed out her story.
William McKinley George Washington Phillips, aged
| 5, was with her, and so was a Juvenile court officer. His
face looked like the sacred white elephant that “Tody”
| Hamilton brought across and palmed off on the public as
! the real thing. The mammy admitted that she had ap
plied the white paint to the face of William McKinley
George Washington, but it was only to make the picka
ninny look like the w’hite “chillun.”
WAD A STILL “MUSHING ON”
Wad a the Jap, probably the raosl
famous musher in Alaska passec
through Hot Springs Tuesday frorr
Nome, -where rhe left on December 18
on his way to Fairbanks, where he wil
stay on a visit for about ten days aftei
which he intends to leave for the Por
cupine region.
Wada will be remembered as tin
first man to reach Dawson in 1903 witl
the news of the Fairbanks strike. I
was due to his interviews printed ii
the Dawson papers, that the big stam
pede occurred from that city to the
Tanana. Late that year, upon Wada’s
return to Fairbanks there were threat:
of hanging the Jap because it was sup
I posed by some that he had purposely
• exaggerated the richness of the strike
• in order to precipitate a stampede foi
the benefit of E. T. Barnette.
5 This is Wada’s first visit to Fair
1 banks since 1903 and he says he is go
t ing there now merely to see the citi
i and meet many of his old time friend;
- who are there. He says he is ven
i glad the camp turned out as well as it
i did as it has vindicated his judgmenl of
i the district. He has with him the in
terview which he gave the Yukon Sun
in 1903, which caused the stampede,
i and in this interview his predictions
■ fall far short of the actual richness of
the camp.
Wada takes great pride in the fact
• that he laid the first sidewalk in Fatr
■ banks, which was in front of his lot.
i the present site of the Red Cross drug
' Store.
The small Jap is a noted- long dis
tance runner, having won all the races
of that class which he entered at Nome
and says that if he has time he will
probably enter some of the races now
being gotten up at Fairbanks.
He is very reticent about his trip to
the Porcgpine as he says he will not
again tell anyone what he has in sight,
preferring to let people lind out for
themselves so that they cannot again
accuse him of creating false stampede?.
All kinds of Job Printing at this shop.
Judge Ca 11aher Inaugurated
Taaana, Jan. 8.—On Friday, January 1, Judge Phil
Gallaher was inaugurated as commissioner of the Tanauev
precinct, succeeding John Bathurst, the retiring commis
sioner. The occasion was seized upon by the populace as a
time of general rejoicing, and many wishes for a long and
prosperous term were offered the new judge.
On the night of December 31, the last, day of Mr.
Bathurst's term, the post trumpeter, escorted by a large
number of soldiers and citizens, marched to the home of
that official, where “taps” were sounded, to the immense
enjoyment of the assemblage who showed their appreciation
by long and vociferous applause.
LOOKS VER Y
ENCOURAGING
Tanana, Jan. 8.'—Recent reports from the Gold moun
tain district tell of very good prospects being found in the
latest holes that have‘been sunk to bedrock, and a stampede
to those diggings is anticipated if the stories of the good
finds continue to come in.
Larry Lillico, who is enroute to Fairbanks from the In
noko district, arrived here on Monday and spent the day re
newing acquaintances with old friends.
Hl-YU TIME ON
NEW YEAR EVE
Tanana, Jan. 8.—The coming of the New Year was
celebrated in this city by the entire population. Large
bands of soldiers, civilians and natives paraded the streets
from early evening until late the next morning, and with
;the aid of much hootch and many tin cans succeeded in
welcoming the New Year with proper ceremony.
Start the new year right by subscribing for The Post.
Got Mange by
Kissing His Dogs
Chicago, Dec. 20.—If Mrs. Harley C. Sharp, of G13
West Fifty-sixth street, Chicago, could lead a dog’s life she
would be happy, she says. She qualifies this by saying she
means the life of ease that the one dozen dogs which belong!
to her husband lead. She says he loves them better than |
he does her and treats them with far more consideration |
than he has her since they were married three years ngo.
The result of Mr. Sharp’s attention to his dogs was the til- j
ing of a divorce suit. It was heard in Judge Brentano’s
court. Mrs. Sharp-told how she had been driven from her!
once happy home when the canines invaded the place, j
‘ ‘My husband thinks about his dogs almost every hour i
of the day,” she said. “He was never about the house but
what he was kissing and fondling them. I couldn’t get his j
mind on any other subject. Once his dogs got mange. He
washed them in a bathtub, and cooked their food in my
kitchen utensils. He kissed the dogs and got mange in his!
beard. Before he would apply mange cure to his dogs he j
would try it on himself. He petted his dogs passionately j
and kissed me mechanically. He would spend $1.75 on his I
dogs to every 25 cents on me.” Judge Brentano dismissed!
the bill for lack of evidence. j
Advertise the district by sending The Post outside.
Mother Makes
Fatal Mistake
Jackson, Miss., Jan. 7.— Mrs. Horace Butterwortk un
intentionally gave her 3-months-old boy twins morphine,
and they died within a few minutes. A negro servant
while doing up Mrs. Butterworth’s bedchamber found a
morphine tablet on the floor, and thinking it was a calomel
tablet, a bottle of which was beside the twins’ cradle,
dropped it into the bottle. Soon afterward Mrs. Butter
worth took one of the tablets out and divided it between
the twins, giving half a grain to each. It proved to be the
morphine tablet.
During different periods of the past century the autograph
habit progressed to the epidemic stage. Two or three decades
back it became so virulent that prominent people looked on it as
the bane of existence. Huxley denounced the collectors as “the
progeny of Cain.” O’Connell, the eloquent Irishman, in answer to
a request for his autograph wrote, “Sir, I’ll be damned if send you
my autograph. Yours, Daniel O’Connell.” A striking letter of
Mark Twain, in reply to a like application, would have been very
marketable had he not typewritten it. He gave a reasoned refusal.
“Writing is my trade, and I exercise it only when I am obliged to.
You might make your request of a doctor, or a builder or a sculp
tor and there would be no impropriety in it. But if you asked for
a specimen of his trade, his handiwork, he would be justified in
rising to a point of order. It would not be fair to ask a doctor for
one of his corpses.” r
Finds Gold on
Snow Creek
Fritz Hoffman was in the city from
the Troublesome country where he has
been prospecting for the past foul'
months and reports that district as
looking- rery good to him.
Fritz has made a discovery on a new
stream which he has named Snpw
creek and which he expects will turn
out some very good pay. Ho has sunk
one hole to the gravel and got four*
cents in one pan, but the water drove
him out. He is now sinking four other
holes near the first one and thinks he
will have no difficulty in reaching bed
rock. The valley is only about 100 feet
wide and less than two miles long and
Fritz intends to prospect it thoroughly
before leaving it.
Snow creek is just across a low di
vide from Little Bear, which creek car
ries gold but not in paying quantities,
and Fritz is sure the pay is all in Snow.
He expects to return shortly and re
sume his work which he will continue
until spring if the results justify.
The Major
The annual report of the war depart
ment presented to congress recently
makes requisition for $600,000 for roads
j and trails in Alaska, te be placed to
I the use-of Major Richardson.
Each year the major wins a little
more money from the government for
roads in Alaska, and each year sees
Alaska with better roads. The major’s
pet scheme (and it’s a good one), is art
al 1-the-year-round wagon road between
Valdez and Fairbanks, and each year
more work is done thereon. When
once completed to Fairbanks it will
probably be continued to Hot Springs
and Gibbon.—Tanana Miner.
Wickersham’s
The Post is informed by a recent ar'
rival ‘from Fairbanks that Delegate
elect James Wickersham had appointed
Bernard Goss, one of the ablest news
paper men in the United States, as his
private secretary. iThe selection is a
good one.
Judge Wickersham’s term begins on
March 4, and he expects to be in Wash
ington at that time.
J. A. Cameron
in Fairbanks
J. A. Cameron, tlie internal revenue
inspector who was reported to have
been lost, arrived in Fairbanks last
week via Circle City, well and hearty.
The trip into the Koyukuk occupied
somewhat more time than he had ex
pected; __
Go to Stanley's for Turkey dinner
Sunday. __
COMING AND GOING
Jim Larsen from Sullivan creek was.
registered at the Stanley House on
Monday.
A: Runkle was a visitor in the city
on Tuesday.
Deputy Marshal J. F. Drake re
turned Wednesday evening from Fair
banks where he had been attending
court. Mr. Drake reports Fairbanks
as being rather dull at present owing
to the lull which always succeeds the
busy holiday season. He was accom
panied by his wife and daughter.
Mrs. M. J. McKenzie returned to her
work on Sullivan last Monday after
having spent a week in Hot Springs
enjoying a well earned vacation. Mrs.
McKenzie was very glad to get back to
her work after the seven days of in
inactivity.
Win. Zander, the right hand man of
F. B. Stanley at the Stanley House,
resigned his position the fore part of
the week and will hereafter turn his
energies to prospecting.
Jack Prifie returned Monday from
his trip to Fairbanks where he went
prior to the holidays.
John H. Bullock, manager of tho
Sesnon Lighterage Co., and.C. H. Kel
logg, both of Nome, arrived hero
Thursday enroute to Seattle. The two
gentlemen are traveling by dog team
in charge of Peter Bernard.
Otto F. Kroehle and Jerry Ford ar
rived in the city Thursday evening
after a quick trip from Fairbanks.
They left that city Tuesday noon, which
makes the time consumed on the trip
only two and.a half days.
Go to Stanley’s for Turkey dinner
Sunday.
Job Printing at the Post officet