Cook and Sullivan From innoko and
Kuskokwim Tell of Winter Con
ditions in the Skeeter Belt
Jay M. Cook and S. O. Sullivan arrived from the lower river
Monday night-, Mr. Cook coming from the Innoko and Mr. Sullivan
from the Kuskokwim. They were traveling with a tine dogteam
consisting of seven malamutes, and which was one of the best i
strings of dogs which has passed through the city this winter.
Mr. Sullivan denies the truth of a story recently printed in a 1
Fairbanks paper in which a certain McDonald tells of an uncora
inoply rich strike at the head of the Kuskokwim. He says that
^frvhile there are some very good prospects, nothing of the kind de
scribed has as yet been found. Provisions in that country are
very scarce and high prices are the rule, and only Hour and beans
can be purchased at the different stations. All the supplies of the
traders in that sectiou were late arriving and as they had an un
usually early freezeup the boats carrying the grub were caught in
the ice and are now miles away from the place where they are
wanted. As there are no horses in the country the freighting of
these supnlies is almost an impossibility.
Mr. Sullivan is an ardent advocate of the Kuskokwim route as
a means of reaching the Innoko country, and says goods can be
landed within 20 miles of Gaines creek with only a low divide in
tervening. He says he is confident that if ever the Innoko proves
to be a producing camp, the Kuskokwim will be the favorite route
for transportation.
Mr. Cook, who has been in the Inhoko for the past two years,
speaks very favorably of that district. He say that Gaines is
looking very good as far as it has been prospected, but that the
miners are meeting with unusually bad luck as they are driven out
of one hole after another by the water which they have no way of
handling. lie is fully convinced that the creek will eyentually
prove a wonderful producer as the pay which they have in places
is very rich, and if it were not for the water the miners would
have uncovered a large paystreak this wihter. Ophir and Little
creeks are showing up better than was expected, and especially
the latter, which is coming to the front rapidly. Little is not so
spotted as Ophir and when pay is found the miner is usually pretty
sure that he has some body of it, which is not the case with the
latter.
Grub is ais > very scarce in this district and many people are
leaving the country and going to Nome on account of this scarcity.
All the stable; are s >11 out, and only a few canned goods are stil
to be had. On account of the bad summer there was not much
money in the country, and those who had any are now leaving fo
other place* where they can get provisions at cheaper rates.
Mr. Coos: is a firm believer in the future of that country as s
quartz camp, no says that the energies of most of the prospectors
are now turned in that direction. S6me remarkably rich rock has
been found, and the owners claim that the ledge can be traced fo
miles. He has some samples which he obtained in that district
that show immense values, and says there are tons of the sam<
rock to be found in many parts of the district.
. When these gentlemen arrive in Fairbanks Mr. Sullivan vvll
have finished a long journey, as he left the Kuskokwim and went
iirst Nome and then came this way, meeting Mr. Cook at Nulaio
from which point they came on together. They stopped at tin
Stanley house during their stay-in this city, leaving Tuesday
morning for the upper city.
Eleven American soldiers are reported to have died at Manila
as the result of poison administered to them in drink, partaken of
in a private place. The belief exists that the dead men were the
victims of a deliberate plot to murder a much larger number, and
a searching investigation is being made into the case by the mili
tary authorities.
In a special report recently made public in Washington and
submitted to the President and congress by General Allen, head of
the Signal corps of the army, especial attention is paid to the wo» k
of the corps in Alaska, with particular stress laid on the cable sys
tem, and the work of the men engaged in its operation and main
tenance.
E. H. Harriman has announced that tie is prepairing for the in
stallation of wireless apparatus on all the passenger trains of the
Southern Pacific railway and other lines in which he is interested,
. and that the system will latdr be extended to the freight trains, if
the experiment now being entered into is proven a success.
A melo dramatic holdup was pulled off in fhe town of Gibbons,
Neb., this week, when the citizens who appeared on the street were
lined up and held at bay by a gang of bandits, whose partners
looted the First Rxchange bank of a sum of $2,400, all the money
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in sight at the time. The robbers afterward made their escape,
and covered their tracks so well that there is no clue upon which
to vtork to establish their identity.
The coroner’s jury empaneled to inquire into the death of the
late Chief of Police Biggy of San Francisco, found that he came to
his death by accidental drowning, and returned such a verdict.
Election returns from every part of the United States have
been compiled by a New York newspaper, and the following inter
est-ing figures are the result of its labors: President-elect Taft re
ceived 7,637,67(3 votes; William J. Bryan received 6,393,182: Eu
gene V. Debs, the Socialist candidate, was third with 448,471, while
Chafin, Hisgen and Watson’‘ also ran,” receiving, respectively, 214,
253, 82,166 and 83,871.
The belief is gaining ground in Berlin, and the original rumors
come from an authoritative source, that President Castro will never
return to his home in Venezuela. Some of the more radical news
papers charge that he has already secured a fortune through his
administration of the presidential office, and that he never had any
intention of returning to Venezuela when he set sail for France,
the story that he was suffering from a disease which could only be
overcome by operation by specialists in Europe, being merely an
excuse for his departure from the shores of the republic of which
Lie was the head.
Former Governor Fleming, of Florida, died at Jacksonville on
Decembor 21. The death of the popular politician is deeply re
greted by the people, and his funeral was the largest ever held in
Florida.
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