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Items Around Town.
Judge B lliet returned fiora u
short trip to Tanan t is week.
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J. Morgan has completed bis im
provements on ti e building form
erlj' occupied by Dr Hudgin and
is now ready for business.
Chris Hook and D. M. Downing,
two prospectors who have put in
the summer in the Circle district,
are now’in Rampart and will win
ter here.
The Tanana Chief left Tanana
for the Cheeua river last Monday.
She carried 70 tons of freight in I u 1
and barge and will winter on the
Cheena.
The Rebecca, that has been leak
ing badly ever since her squeezing
by the Leon last summer, filled and
sank at her moorings last Tuesday.
She was hauled out on the beach
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and pumped out.
B. Vogt and A1 Lester had a diff- j
iculty over an account of $6, which |
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Vogt claims Les'er owes him, Ls'
^Vedqesday. Vogt had Lester ar
rested for battery, but the evidence
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tfid not warrant finding Lester guil
ty, so the case wras dismissed.
Narrow Escape From Drowning.
That Louie Meyers was return
ing from the coal mine last Mon
day, was a fortunate thing for Bob
Purvis. His canoe capsized in a
wind squall, and after considerable
buffeting by wind and water, Pur
vis was nearly spent. Meyers just
reached him in the nick of time.
After a rub-down and a nights rest
Purvis vvaS completely restored.
A DANDY IN THE WAR.
An Rfiffllih Bnilgvfe, Who Had HU
Own PlRte, Linen and Wines
with Him.
Hon. W. Dawson was surrounded by
muleteers, with whom he was bar
gaining to provide carriage for in
numerable hampers of wine, liquors, *
hams, potted meat and other good
things which he had brought from
England, says “The Reminiscences and
Recollections of Capt. hronow.” He
wras a particularly gentlemanly a %
amiable man, much beloved bv the
regiment; no one was so hospitable
or lived so magnificently. His cooks
were the best in the army and he, be
sides, had a host of servants of all na
tions—Spaniards, French, Portuguese,
Italians—who were employed in scout
ing the country for provisions.
Lord Wellington once honored him
with his eompanj’; and, on entering
the ensign’s tent, found him alone at
table, with a dinner fit for a king, his
plate and linen in good keeping and
his wines perfect. Lord Wellington
w’as accompanied on this occasion by
Sir Edward Pakenham and Col. du
Burgh, afterward Lord Downes. It
fell to my lot to partake of his prince
ly hospitality and dine with him at
his quarters, a farmhouse in *a village
on the Bidassoa, and I never sawT a
better dinner put upon the table.
South African Diamond*.
In an article entitled “The Original
Hock of the South African Diamond” in
National Science, Prof. Bonney says the
first diamond was found in some gravel
from the Orange river. Three years
later it was obtained from a peculiar
yellowish deposit near the present site
of Kimberley. This diamantiferous
“yellow ground,” as the miners called
it* was found, as it was worked down
wards, to change gradually into a more
coherent rock of a dark green-blue
color termed “blue ground.” The dia*
monds are often found, by their anom
alous optical character, to be in condi
tion of strain, and they are sometimes
only fragments of crystals. The rock
in which they are found has been con
siderably affected by secondary min
eral changes, brought abcut, probably,
by the action of heatec! water.
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Defies the Government,
An ice cream merchant.of Honolulu,
finding business dull, wandered out
one day and seized an unoccupied is
land in the Pacific ocean. He claims
ownership of the same under the squat
ter sovereignty act, and the govern
. ment cannot dislodge him. — Cleveland
Leader.
$4,400 IS MISSING!
postmaster a d*fauIier-Hel<l lo
appear before Dishlet
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I x- ’ostmaster Wrigl t. is ! eld io
• answer before the District Court.
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for the shortage of $4400 discovert d
by Postal Inspector Clum in his
funds. The decision was given by
Judge Wheeler who ) a taken ' i e
case under advisment. The bonds
were iixed at $5000, the amount he
had to put up to obtain his liberty
when arrested a day or two ago.
The defaulting postmaster may
have to stand trial late this fall ’or
next spring. J. P. Clum will be
principal witness and an effort will
i be made, on his account, to have '
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■ the trial take place during the open
I season.
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Mines and Miners.
Bigelow and Nelson have finish
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ed a cabin on 20 be. N t w York .
Biliy Walsh lias taken a lay on *
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the upper end of 9 1. m.
i Alex. Jamieson and his brother 1
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will commence work on 5 1. m. as.
soon as the season pei mits. f
Olsen and Andersf n are erecting
a cabin and are getting ready for
winter work, on 5 ab. Omega.
C. Patterson has left Omega and
has gone to Baker to build some
cabins for Belt and Hendricks. He
will return to Omega when the work
is completed.
D. F. O’Brien will build a cabin
on 4 ab. Seattle, and will prospect
the claim throughly. He has sun$
6 holes < n 9 ab. Omega and foun,d
good prospects. The deepest one
was 36 feet.