General News
of Nortlilan
Delegate Wickersham, now in
California, will spend the season at
Fairbanks.
Father Van der Pol, a beloved
Catholic prelate of Alaska, is very
ill in Oregon.
The Glazier house, on the Val
dez-Fairbanks trail, was recently
destroyed by fire.
The physicians of the Third di
vision will hold a convention at
Cordova April 16.
It is reported that Sam Sander
son has made a rich placer strike in
the Nizina district.
Dave Cascadden, an operator in
the Tolavana district, says' he be
lieves the camp is a winner.
R. il. Kemp, founder of the
Seward Gateway and a metal
lurgist of repute, died recently.
Superintendent Shoup of the
Alaska Pioneers’ Home at Sitka,
reports that there are 42 inmates.
Detective McGuire detailed to
solve the Willow creek murder mys
tery, has arrested a suspect at Den
ver, Colorado.
S. W. 1 Cedes, president of the
Coppei River and Northwestern
Railway Company, is dead. Kccles
was Mormon and represented the
Mormon, money largely employed in
the project.
prospectors on Tamarac creek,
Ruby district, are able to keep
themselves in supplies from rich
pockets which they find while
drifting on their paystreak. Three
men, in one day, rocked out $72.
Pay has been located for three
miles on Tamarac.
Captain Donovan, special officer
detailed to investigate the murder
of three persons in the KoyuKuk
three years ago, reports that he has
found an old camp fire near the
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Bunco Game to
oe Miners
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The following is a sample of the
bunco games being employed to
fleece the miners. The article ap- j
pears in a late issue of a Los An
geles paper:
“Wanted — 500 men to go to
Alaska to work in mines; 50c. per
hour to start; steady work, fare and
board from here. Steamer sails
April 1. See C. B. Brown, 112
South Los Angeles street.
“Detectives Burgess and Hilf to
day saved W. H. McGee from
rough treatment at the hands of an
angry mob. Afterwards the offi
cers booked McGee at central sta
tion on suspicion of being impli
mtod in n hnnrn primp
“McGee declares he is innocent
of any wrongdoing. He said lie
answered an advertisement and was
hired by C. B. Brown to recruit
500 miners for Valdez, Alaska. He
said he had been promised £4 a day
to sit in the improvised office nearj
Second and Los Angeles streets'
and take the names and deposits of
the applicants.
“McGee said he was instructed
to obtain $5 from each man. This
money was to be placed in escrow
and would be returned to the de
positors when they boarded the,
ship at San Francisco.
“A number of the miners asked'
to see Brown and when he could
not be found, they began a demon
stration, directing their attack on
McGee, whom they held responsi
ble for the advertisement.”
spot where he found the launch in
which the supposed murderer left
Betties. By panning the ashes, he
found fragments of charred bones,
several buttons and a bullet. The
“Blueberry Kid” is the suspect
and a woman of ill repute his ac
complice.
Fresh Ranch. Eggs. Brown &
Hawkins. “Quality first.”
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