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HOT SPRINGS POST
One Dollak Per Month.
HOT SPRINGS, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1909.
Two Bits a Throw
Nothing to “Swell Up” Over
‘Baker, Winde & Co., laymen on the Dakota
association claim, Sullivan creek, commenced
sluicing their winter dump last Saturday, and
continued for 18 hours, when the cold snap of
weather tightened the flow of water to such an
extent that further sluicing was impossible until
Wednesday noon. On Wednesday evening the
first cleanup was made, which amounted to 154i
ounces of gold for 24 hours’ actual sluicing.
The result of their first cleanup is, to say the
least, very disappointing to many people of this
vicinity, who confidently expected at least twice
that amount of gold would be taken from this
dump, which was extracted from ground gener-!
ally recognized as the “best pay dirt” yet uncov
ered on Sullivan creek.
In conversation with Mr. Baker over the tele-!
phone Thursday evening The Post learned that;
they had again resumed sluicing at 2:30 that
afternoon, and the miners anticipated no further
delay from cold weather, and would put their
dumps through the boxes with the least loss of
time, possible.
Frank Farnham and “Deep Hole” Pete Sau
ski, on the Midnight Sun association, cleaned up
a 24-hour run of sluicing from their winter dump
on Wednesday night which amounted to 142 ozs.
COLLIER’S WANT $50,000 DAMAGES
Seattle, May 7.--Collier’s Weekly lias sued
A. E. Fowler, secretary of the Asiatic Exclusion
League in Seattle for $50,000 for malicious libel.
Fowler issued a circular warning the people not
to read Collier’s Weekly as it was “the most no
torious and leading scab-glorifying sheet in the
United States, and that, further, it was subsidized
by the Japanese government.” Fbwler has been
in Seattle for a considerable time, having first
come here some years ago as organizer for the
American Federation of Labor. He has not been
connected with the labor movement directly of
late, but established the Asiatic Exclusion League
in the various Sound cities. At one time he was
arrested in Bellingham and narrowly escaped
being committed to Steilacoom on a charge of
insanity. Considerable sympathy has been
aroused for him in the present case, as it is recog
nized that Collier’s Weekly has never been dis
tinguished for its friendship for the labor organ
izations.
ARE ENJOYING PERIODICAL SCRAP
Billings, Mont., May 7.—News has reached
here of a tremendous range war now in progress
on the Big Horn between the cattle and sheep
men. Fighting has been open and active, and
one pitched battle has been fought between the
employes of these interests.
A band of cattle men attacked a sheep
herder and his band of sheep; as the herder re
sisted, he was killed and the flock destroyed.
Numbers of sheep herders who heard of the das
tardly outrage banded themselves together and
attacked the marauding cattle men with the re
sult that the sheep men were again worsted, three
being killed and many wounded. Sheriffs are
rushing with posses of deputies to the scene of
the conflict, and every effort will be made to cap
ture some of the guilty ones. It is openly ac
knowledge that the cattle interests are in the
ascendency in Wyoming and Montana, and much
difficulty will be experienced in convicting the
cattle men implicated.
NATE CON FIR
LYONS
Washington, May 7.—Attorney General
Wickersham, after investigating the second batch
of charges against Thomas Lyons, of Juneau,
who was appointed to the bench of the First Alas
kan division, pronounced them trivial and based
entirely on personalities, and reported the result
of his findings to the senate judiciary committee
early this week. On Tuesday last the senate con
firmed Judge Lyons’ appointment. As was pre
viously arranged by the Department of Justice,
Judge Lyons will hold his first term of court in
July next in the ne>v Fourth division, trading
benches with the judge of last-mentioned division
pending the adjudication of cases in the First di
vision in which he was interested as an attorney.
Savannah, Ga., May 7.—As a result of the
recent state investigation which revealed a most
revolting condition of things, the state legisla
ture has passed a law which abolishes the lease
convict system in this state. The law goes into
immediate effect and fifteen hundred prisoners
have been returned to the counties wherein their
crimes were committed. This brings to a close
one of the fiercest political fights ever known in
the South. Large interests fought against the
proposition of the abolition of the lease system,
as they were profiting largely by it.
FOUR SISTERS TRIED
R INSANITY
Davenport, la., May 7.—The Slater sisters,
Emma, Martha, Lizzie and Mary, all unmarried,
and ranging in age from 35 to 50 years, were
brought before the county commission and
charged with being insane. The sisters Imve
complained that the community was conspiring
against them; that by ventriloquial methods,
spirit voices and graphophones the neighbors
were accusing them of being negroes, and other
wise humiliating them. The commission found
the sisters insane, and they took an appeal to the
district court.
GOES TO THANKSGIVING
M. J. McNeil and wife arrived
from Sullivan last evening. Mr.
McNeil was on his way to
Thanksgiving creek where he
will be employed by' Curry &
Aitken. Mrs. -McNeil will re
main in Hot Springs for a short
time and then join her husband
on the creek. They closed up
their lodging house on Sullivan.
MICHAEL J. IN TOWN
Michael J. Sullivan, of Sullivan
creek, was a visitor in the Springs
early this week on legal business. This
was Mr. Sullivan’s first trip to town in
about and nine months, and the cordial
reception extended him showed plainly
that he was “first ip the hearts of his
countrymen.”
The Tanana river at Kemper
ville at 11 o’clock this morning
was still stationary, ice seemed
quite solid, and it was not
thought it would move before to
morrow afternoon at the earliest.
The ice in the slough in front
of Fairbanks moved at 2:10 p.m.
on Thursday last and flowed
bank full for about an hour and
a half, and then jammed. This
morning the ice jammed at Ne
nana. At Min to ice is flowing
bank full, as it is also at Tolo
vana.
NEEDS MORE HORSES
Jim Blodgett, of the freighting
firm of Blodgett & Davis, is anx
iously awaiting an up-river boat
for Fairbanks, where he goes to
purchase four or. six more horses
for his outfit. This outfit will
have its headquarters in Hot
Springs this summer instead of
on Sullivan as was contemplated
a few weeks ago. I
COMING AND GOING
The Hot Springs laundry affords the
only ornamented shce-scrapo in town.
It has two cute little curlv-cues, and
adorns the front door stoop.
* Billy Ford is making improvements
on his residence property on the lower
end of North Front street.
R. C. Conklin, of Gibbon, arrived in
the city last Monday.
F. S. Fulthorp, formerly in the em
ploy of the, J*. C. Co. at St. Michael,
who has been spending the winter on
the outside, visited in the Springs for
several days while enroute to Gibbon,
where he will again enter the employ
of that company.
Traeger has just opened a big stock
■of shoes for men, women and children.
Ben Smith visited the Springs during
the early part of this week for the first
time in five months. He is located on
the upper part of Sullivan creek.
All kinds rubber shoes at Traeger’s.
Miners’ shoes of many kinds,Treager
GILL EDGAR ILL
Gill Edgar, of Sullivan creek,
was taken quite sick on his re
turn home from Hot Springs last
Wednesday evening, and has
been confined to his bed since.
The attack was of a rheumatic
nature. He is now slowly im
proving.
Eiery Day Is “Mating Bay” With Us
Blodgett & Davis
FREIGHTERS
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