HOT SPRINGS POST
One Dollar Per Month.
HOT SPRINGS, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1909.
Two Bits a Throw
CAN’T GUESS ON OPENING
Time-Honored Pastime of Pool Making on the Spring Moving of the Ice Placed
Under Ban, Is Classed as a Lottery, and Is Banished
Fairbanks, April 30.—The News-Miner on
Monday last started one of those popular dollar
guessing contests on the opening-time of the river
—a little innocent amusement wherein one may
guess as often as he desires, provided he has the
dollar to back his guess. The contest was becom
ing quite interesting, and guesses and dollars
came rolling in regardless; it looked like a record
breaking “pool”; it became the talk of the town;
it reminded many of. the good old days in Daw
son when such things amounted to hundreds of
dollars to the lucky guesser; the enterprising
News-Miner manager at a moment when all looked
rosiest “went over” his entire mailing list and
marked up every “exchange” a year in advance.
But all for naught. On Friday the News-Miner
people received word from the district attorney’s
office that they were conducting a lottery, and
cautioned the newspaper against any further
proceedings in that line. The guessers are now
“taking down” their money.
Meanwhile the News-Miner manager is ex
pecting a “hint” from the same source advising
him to revise his mailing list as he “took a
chance” on some of his exchanges lasting the year
out. It is estimated that the pool would have
contained at least $2000.
MORE TROUBLE ON DOME CREEK
Fairbanks, April 30.—On Friday last, April
23, United States Marshal Love, accompanied by
twelve well-armed deputy marshals, went to No.
3 below, Dome creek, to protect life and property,
and deputies are still on the ground doing patrol
duty. The trouble is the outgrowth of the fam
ous case of Rooney and associates who are litigat
ing for the ground against the “group” crowd.
The working crew of Gus Pederson, who is work
ing the claim on a lay for Messrs. Barnette, Mc
Ginn, Cook <fefCo., were threatened with violence
by the Rooney faction if sluicing was undertaken.
The cold weather of the past week has, of course,
made sluicing an impossibility, and consequently
the partisans have had time to cool off a little.
The Rooney people some time ago filed a pe
tition with Judge Reid praying for an injunction
prohibiting the working of the ground by the
“group” people. On Monday last Judge Reid
wired a decision to tlie clerk of the court at Fair
banks denying the petitioners’ request, which
aroused them to desperation. The situation is
still threatening, and when Pederson begins
sluicing, as he is determined to do just as soon as
weather conditions permit, a fresh outbreak of
hostilities may be looked for, and much uneasi
ness is felt along the creek.
HAMSHAW WILL BE IN CHARGE
Fairbanks, April 30.—Clarence H. Hainshaw,
the mining engineer, who has been spending the
winter in the East, reached Fairbanks early this
week and will shortly leave for the Hot Springs
district, where he will superintend the workings
of the Manley interests on Thanksgiving and
other streams. The impression about Fairbanks j
is that Manley’s ground will be worked this sea-1
son on a very conservative and limited scale.
Mr. Hamshaw was in the Springs country
during the past two seasons, and during that pe
riod did some engineering work for Manley, but
this will be his first season as superintend of the
works.
He has had plenty of experience in Northern
mining camps, and, with his brother, was some
years ago heavily interested in hydraulic opera
tions in the Atlin country.
MAIL CARRIER HAD HIS TROUBLES
Fairbanks, April 30.—Mail Carrier Riley,
•who left Hot Springs on the night of April 23
with the Fairbanks mail, arrived here late Tues
day night, and tells of a very rough experience
on the trip. Himself and dogs were two days
without grub, and were dragging the sled over
bare ground all the while. When he finally
reached the Goldstream roadhouse, 36 miles from
Fairbanks, where he felt sure of gettingfood and
rest, he found to his surprise that the place was
closed, thus forcing him to wearily trudge about
eight miles further on. Mr. Riley is an old-timer
in the North, is considered a good handler of
dogs, and when he is delayed there’s something
in bad shape along the trail.
FIRST ORE TO BE
MILLED FOR PROFIT
Fairbanks, April 30.—Lucien Rhoads, the
well-known Cleary creek miner and ex-councilman
of Fairbanks, this week delivered to the istamp
mill in this city ten tons of rock from his quartz
property to be treated as a profit-getting proposi
tion. The stamp mill up to this time has been
used exclusively as a testing convenience for the
ores from the many quartz properties in this lo
cality, and the treatment of the ore delivered by
Mr. Rhoads is the first commercial milling in the
Tanana valley* and the result of the consignment
is anxiously awaited by the quartz enthusiasts.
SUING FOR RECOVERY OF ENGINEER CREEK GROUND
Fairbanks, April 30.—Lamontaigne and his
associates started suit in the district court yester
day against Charles Stewart and Sam Hagen for
possession of the valuable Twin fraction on En
gineer creek, and also sue for $50,000 damages
from the defendants for jumping the property.
CHARLEY MORIARTY
DIES IN SEATTLE
News reached this city early this week of the death of Charles
Moriarty in Seattle, probably the most widely-known and popular
railroad man in the North. The sad news caused many expres
sions of sorrow to be uttered—as Moriarty was one of God’s own
gentleman, and God knows how to make a gentleman, too, when He
wants to. His death resulted from an operation for stomach
trouble, and, although ususally a very strong and lobust man, was
unable to recuperate from the effects of the surgeon’s knife.
Mr. Moriarty had the g»eat misfortune to lose his wife in St.
Joseph’s hospital at Fairbanks on February 4th, last year. He,
in company with three of his children, took the good woman’s re
mains out over the ice via, Valdez to Roseburg, Ore.—their out
side home. Shortly after their arrival in Oregon, the youngest,
Eileen, aged 7 years, never a strong child, followed its mother to
great beyond. It was rumored that a few months ago the older
daughter, Maureen, had also died, but the report is unconfirmed.
Mr. Moriarty was for several
years superintendent of theWhite
Pass railway, where he was nick
named the “Snow King,” and in
the early spring-of 1905, he jour
neyed over the ice from White
horse to Chena with Falcon Jos
lin, and was superintendent of
the Tanana Valley railway from
the time the first tie was placed
in position until he resigned last
spring. _
Percy Palmer, of Fairbanks, who is
interested with Major A. B. Ferguson
on the Hootlinana, where they are
prospecting with a Keystone drill, ar
rived in town last Saturday, and on
Monday morning, with a pack on his
good broad shoulders, started for the
scene of action. ^
Dr. Conley went to Sullivan last Sat
urday, and spent most of the week
on that creek with the indisposed.
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