HOT SPRINGS POST
Vol 2
Published Every Saturday at Hot Springs, Alaska,
BY BXO. M. ARBUCKLE
Mo. 14
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Gov. George Curry of New Mexico ‘‘got sore” and
threatened to resign his position unless he was granted per
mission to visit Washington; he is to visit. OurGoverner,
fearing that he might be asked to resign if he didn’t chop
off on his annual meddling visits at Washington, ducked
for home.
Delegate Wickersham and Gov. Hoggatt drank to each
other’s health in Washington recently with great unction,
but The Post believes that they had their fingers crossed
at the time.
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger will surely become
a popular official with Alaskans. The Fairbanks News
Miner already calls him “Dick.”
RAMPART NEWS NOTES
Rampart, Mareh 29.—Our citi
zens who attended the hard times
dance at Hot Springs on the 17th
express themselves as well
pleased with the treatment and
welcome received from the citi
zens of the Springs. It is now
up to the people of Hot Springs
to return the visit of the Ram
parters. They will be welcome,
and a good time is assured them.
The writer overheard a con
versation between a citizen of
Rampart and one of Hot Springs
as to the merits of the two
camps. The Springs man con
tended that his camp had the
greater population and that they
also had more prospecting going
on over there than was being
done on this side of the divide,
but ho was soon convinced that
he was entirely mistaken on both
counts when it wTas figured out to
him that Rampart has at this
time a population of 250 exclusive
of natives, and that actual pros
pecting was going on in the Ram
part district in no less than 20
different creeks, and that there
were from 3 to 18 miners work
ing on each of these creeks. Any
who think that Rampart is dead
are mistaken, and they have a
few thinks coming. Pay has
been taken from this side of the
divide since 1896, and our camp
is a long way from being worked
out. We do not say this to de
tract from the Springs in any
way, but merely in defense of
our own camp.
Recent reports from Chapman
creek state that five holes have
been put to bedrock this winter,
and that prospects have been
found in each hole as good as
three cents. As an indication
that the parties who have been
working there all winter regard
their find as good, they have an
| nonneed their intention to put in
| an automatic dam and spend the
! summer ground sluicing.
King & Wiel, who have been
prospecting on Lynx creek, a
tributary of Mike Hess creek,
after getting two holes down in
the creek channel and getting
fair prospects, tried to get down
a hole on the bench. They suc
ceeded in sinking about 40 feet
and got no bedrock, and were
forced to giv^s up as they ran out;
of provisions, and, it being too
late to come to town and freight
supplies to the creek before the
thaw begins, had to abandon
further prospecting at this time.
Both declare they will return to
the creek and finish that hole on
the ben_-h.
Iverson, Cool, Bowen & Chase,
who were prospecting on the
| benches of Big Minook, after get
ting one hole down 55 feet,
i reached bedrock and found fair
; prospects. They got another
hole down 67 feet, but no bed
rock; had to quit as the gas in
j the latter "hole would not permit
1 of their sinking it further during
the mild weather.
All mining on the various
creeks in this precinct is pro
gressing nicely. Some very good
dumps will be taken out, consid
ering that only a few claims have
used machinery, and that- w7e
have but two small self dumpers
l on this side of the divide, and
our largest engine is good for
only eight points.
The dance at the courthouse
on the night of the 24th was very
well attended, and all present
had a good time. The music, as
usual, w7as all that could be de
sired. _
G. W. Pask left last Saturday for
Gibbon.
Discovery Roadhouse
JIM DRUMMOND, PROP.
Good, Clean, Comfortable Beds.
Warm Horse and Dog Stables
NO BAR SULLIVAN CITY
JACK O’HARA JACK HUNNEWELL
The Northern
SULLIVAN CITY
Again at the Old Stand in Our Brand-New Building.
We Garry Only the Best Wines, Liqnors and Cigars
NEWS OFJHE WEEK
A handsome blonde woman, shabbily dressed, and a male com
panion, both of them very much intoxicated, were arrested in
Cleveland, O., on March 24, on the charge of having kidnaped lit*
tie Willie Whitla, of Sharon, Pa., who was returned to his father
the day before on the payment of the $10,000 ransom demanded.
When the man was approached he made a break to escape, but a
couple of bullets started in his direction made him change his mind.
The woman had in her possession $9,989 of the money paid as the
ransom. She denies knowing her companion, and be is equally
emphatic in stating that he had just met her for the first time. The
money has been identified as that paid for the ransom by Whitla.
The woman has confessed that she planned to abduction of the
boy. When she was arrested she remarked, “I guess there’s
trouble in store for me here.” The police, as soon as they had
secured their prisoners searched the room that they occupied and
found a quantity of candy that had been soaked in chloroform, and
also a quantity of greased paint that the woman had used for pur
poses of disguise, she having made her face appear as if she had
been afflicted with smallpox. Willie Whitla positively identified
the men and woman as the persons who kidnaped him, and they,
seeing that the game was up, confessed that they were J. H. Boyle
and wife of Sharon. The woman at first had given her name as
Helen Faulkner, and asserted that she had spent 15 years in a con
vent in Cleveland. The prisoners have been taken Pennsylvania.
A tornado of terrific force swept over Laredo, Tex., on the
night of March 25th and an immense amount of damage was occa
sioned. In that city seven were killed, and many injured, some of
them so seriously that it is feared the fatality list will be increased.
By a cavern in the Gypsum mine at Carson City, Nev.,on
March 24, William Lindsay was killed and 3even miners entombed.
United States Senator Wesley L. Jones, of Washington, has
taken up the case of Bruce Kenwright, the Nome man who is serv
ing a term of imprisonment for deadly assault, with the hope of
getting the sentence commuted. Kenwright was indicted for mur
der in Nome in 1900. The judge in charging the jury instructed
that verdict of manslaughter must be returned. The jury was
unable to agree on a verdict, and the case resulted in a mistrial.
On the advice of his attorney, at a subsequent hearing, Kenwright
pleaded guilty, the understanding being that he would receive a
sentence of but five years. Instead, one of 15 years was imposed
upon him.
The entire Pemberton block, in the heart of the business dis
trict of Victoria, B. C., was laid in ruins by a disastrous fire last
week. A lot of adjoining property on Broad street was destroyed,
the total loss aggregating approximately $100,000.
Dr. Leary, a noted pathologist of Boston, has proved to the
satisfaction of a congress of physicians from all parts of the coun
try the efficacy of a new vaccine to check the germs of ty phoid
fever. Every experiment of many wTas a success. The new anti
toxin is soon to be supplied physicians everywhere.
Mrs. Thomas Grayder, formerly Miss Beryl Whitney, of San
Francisco, has commenced suit for divorce in that city. The mil
lionaire relatives of the woman opposed the marriage six years ago
when she sought their consent. She was attending the Misses Eli
school for girls in New York, and Grayder was a famous football
player in Harvard’s team. Mrs. Grayder complains that her mar
ried life has been made most unhappy by neglect and disgraceful
conduct by her husband, and alleges that he has completely trans
ferred his affection to another woman.
Late last week in Seattle Mrs. J. H. Causten secured a divorce
on the grounds that the former collector of customs of Porto Rico
had been unduly intimate with a Spanish girl. Caustens is now at
Port Townsend. He is known in the North because of his grub
stake litigation against Captain Barnett^.
News comes from Copenhagen, Denmark, announces that
Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen, the famous Danish explorer, will leave
for the Arctic ocean again in June to make further geographical
and scientific research in the North, and to recover the bodies of
Lieutenant Hagen and Ericksen, the two explorers who lost their
lives in the Arctic.
Packy McFarland easily defeated Leach Cross in ten rounds
in New York on the 23rd, and there was never any doubt as to
what the referee would have to say at the end of the bout. Mc
Farland entered the ring a 10 to 7 favorite.
Abe Aarons, the noted prizefight manager, is now the man
ager of Jack Johnson, and is now in New York with Johnson ar
ranging for the big fight with Jeffries.
Good Gray Poet
-on the “Mush”
John Kehoe, the good gray
poet of the Nerthland, passed
through the city last Monday,
enroute to the regions of the
eternal snows amidst the coast
range of mountains.
Mr. Kehoe is one of the most
prolific wooers of the unmetered
muse in the country, and his
verse has adorned the columns
of many publications. He has
been located at Gibbon for the
past three years, where he has
been conducting a lodging house.
The Post during the whole of
last winter expected that Mr.
Kehoe would twang his tuneful
lyre for oui readers, but was
sadly disappointed; that harp
that once thro’ the Exchange’s
hall no soul of music shed lately.
Eagle Saloon
Improvements
Messrs. Moseley & Rockwell
of the Eagle saloon, have work,
men engaged in building an ad
dition in the rear of their place
of business, and will install a new*
pool table therein when com
pleted. They wTill also make sev
eral other improvements before
the open season arrives.
Mr. and Mrs. Gil Edgar came to
town from Sullivan creek Iasi Sunday
and remained a few days,
Captain Donovan
Now a Marshal
Captain John J. Donovan has
been appointed as a deputy
United States marshal by Mar
shal Love. He has been as
signed to duty on Dome creek.
Captain Donovan is widely
known in this district, having
spent the past winter prospect
ing on Quail creek, fie was in
terested on that stream with the
gallant Major Democrat Fergus
son. _
The Trouble With It
Into a general store of a town in Ar
kansas there recently came a darky
complaining that a ham which he had
purchased there was not good.
“The ham is all right, Zeph,” in
sisted the storekeeper.
. “No, it ain’t, boss,” insisted the
negro. “Dat ham’s shore bad!”
“How can that be,” continued the
storekeeper, “when it was cured only
last week?”
The darky scratched his head re
flectively, and finally suggested:
“Den maobeit’s had a relapse.”—Ex.
ORDER NOW!
Wfl have just
received samples
for made-to-order
Suits
Ranging In price
from
$25
YO
$45
FIT AND
QUALITY
GUAR’NTEED
Order now and
gat your Silts In
en the first boat
C: A. TRAEGER
HOT SPRINGS
Stanley House
HOT SPRINGS’ NEWEST HOTEL
F.’rst-Class Restaurant Frank B. Stanley, Prop.
DR. C. D. CARTER,
Dentist
Crown, Bridge and Plate Work. Painless Extraction
8ULLIVAN CITY
Office at Carter’s Drug Store
CHA8. B. ALLEN,
Attorney at Law
Rampart, Aka.
Legal Papers Carefully Drawn.
ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD — Camp
Hot Springs No. 24 meets every Mon
day evening at 8 o’clock in hall over
Traeger’s store. Visiting brother*
always welcome.
B. A. Meyers, C. A. Davidson,
Recorder. Arctic Chief,
MAIL SCHEDULE
Arrives from Fairbanks Saturday p. m.
Arrives from Rampart, Sunday p. m.
Arrives from Tanana Sunday p* 81*
Departs for Fairbanks Monday p. m.
Departs for Rampart, Monday a. m.
Departs for Tanana Monday a, m.
ST
Sign
That gladdens
the eye of the
trail-weary pil
grim on his ar
rival in Fair
banks is that of
the
FRACTION
Sideboard—where only the best an
most recuperative Liquors are dii
spensed by skilled nu-toiogists.
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