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ON THE CREEKS
A. H. Monroe paid the camp a
visit from Hoosier creek yesterday.
Mr. Monroe reports the hydraulic
lift in position, on bedrock on the
lower line of 13a, the feed boxes
all in line and ail that is now nec
essary is the running of water in
the creek to start the giants to work.
Alex Jamieson and brother Bob
have driven their shaft on Hunter
creek to 220 feet. Jamieson be
lieves he is near bedrock, as a pe
culiar deposit called “pudding
stones’' is beginning to show in
bottom of shaft. This is the deep
est shaft ever sunk in the Yukon
valley.
Hill, Climie & Calham, on dis
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ceverv claim Hoosier, have com
pleted the building of their big
dam. They alto have the logs for
a new cabin ready for erection. A
piece of frozen muck picked up on
their prospecting dump washed up
15c. Their chances for a good
summer’s workiug are bright. The
creek will.be flumed on the bench
and the creek bed, which is in some
places barely two feet to bedrock,
will be shoveled in.
J. Farrell returned from a two
months trapping and hunting irip
yesterday. Farrell brought in a
good assortment of ftirs and three
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live marten. Dr. Hudgin had Far
rell procure the marten with the
intention of beginning a marten
farm. The experiment has been
successfully tried in the upper
country.
The clerk’s office at Valdez has
/ for sale copies of Volume I, Wick
ij ersham’s Alaska Reports, 1867
/ 1902, lecently published. It is a
fi volume of 838 pages, fully indexed,
in law library bindings. The price
is $10 per volume. It is,a book
that should be in every law library
in Alaska. Remit to E. A. Hen
derson, deputy clerk of the court,
Valdez.
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WAGON ROAD BILL
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Special to the Forum.
• Washington, April ii.—The sen
ate refuses to agree to an appropri
atiow for the Valdez-Eagle road.
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Spokane, Wash., April 13 —
Charley Gregg, a prominent resi
dent of Pullan, rejected in marri
age, suicided today,
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j Washington, April 11.—Presi
dent Roosevelt has announced that
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I his choice for ihe presidency in
! 1908 will be ex-Secretary of War
: Root.
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| Seattle, April u.—It is reported
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here on excellent authority that
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I the Klondike Mines railway will
! be built this summer. The pro
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| moters have enough backing to at
least build from Dawson to Grand
i Forks at once.
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j Nome, April i.—A suit for $i,
i 580,000 was brought in San Fran
cisco against the Pioneer Mining
Co. of Seattle -and Lindeberg and
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' Bryntesen of Nome. The plaintiff
Claims this is ihe amount taken from
his claim, No. 1 below discovery,
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i on Anvil creek.
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L San Francisco, April ir.—Tlios.
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J. Batten, a young Englishman,
, has confessed to have been engaged
j to marry thirty different young
j ladies of Los Angeles. He is now
! under arrest for bigamy, having
: two wives living. It is very likely
; that he would have married others
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had not the officers interrupted
| him. In a signed interview he
says the best way to win a girl’s
affections is by talking about her
i self.
Ft Gibbon, April 15.—Contract
for 2,400 cords of wood let out to
numerous bidders in various lots.
Contract price was $11 per cord
[ Manager Duncan returned from
his trip to Tanana yesterday.
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PACK TRAIN
The Pioneer Packer and
Freighter of the Ca«i>.
Dry or Green Wood delivered
; Personal Supervision thus
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Insuring Care & Despatch.
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