ALASKA FORUM
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J. U. Wingate Hulitor a.id .
VOU’-vI K 2. No 20
SATURDAY, i'l^HRlAKY 8, 1902.
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KOITORIA I..
West Point has asked tor a
500,000 appropriation.
(ten. Funston is hack in the
States again from the Phillipines.
'l'he breakup in the cabinet has
begun. Postmaster General Smith
has stepped out.
It is reported that the surplus in
tiie treasury will amount to over
$100,000,000 by next June. We
wonder if any of it will be spent in
Alaska.
Mark Hanna declares that he
would give up his seat in the sen
ate it he could find some way to
reeonoile the conflicting interests
ot capital and labor.
Isador Ravner, counsel for Ad
miral Schley in the late investiga
tion, intimates that the matter will
be fought still farther fora vindica
tion of his client.
The Anglo-American telegraph
monopoly has made legal demand
on iarconi, the inventor of wire
le > telegraphy, that he cease from
fu her experiments and that he re
in e his apparatus. |
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Chas. M. Schwab, the posessor
of the sky scraping salary, has
been forced to admit that he cannot
rigi.evith a woman. Mrs. Mary
Rea, a labor leader, recently put
j such pertinent questions to him
i
that he was compelled to take .re
fuge in the lovely woman excuse,
aiul evaded an answer.
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Jim Dodson an ived from id. Yu
kon last Tuesday with outside mail.
C.iut Du Mire is working wii.i
A. W. Williams on 4 a!> G.en.
Mrs. Duller has bought out the
Glen roadhouse.
Jack 11 a 111 i 11 and
arrived from Tanan
Mattie Lave re
a Wednesday.
They were compelled to lay ever .-.t
Schieff.-lin creek on account ot the
hi”li wind.
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The (ilen Kxnre^s rommenccs
its regular Saturday trips from here
today. Mullen is giving a good
service and deserves liberal patron
age.
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E. J. Knapp and Indian Pitka
arrived from Et. Hamlin last Sun
day morning. Mr. Knapp reports
a pleasant trio with the exception
of the last two days spent on the
trail.
Pat Coffey Is doing a good busi
ness at his new laundrvon Glen. \
is reported that Miss Jones made
him an offer for the business, but
Pat would not sell.
The meeting called at the com
missioner’s office last Saturday eve,
t ) take steps to incorporate the
town, decided that the measure be j
i
killed, and then they did it.
Noble the freighter leaves in a |
few days to bring np a load of flour :
from Tanana for the N. A. T. Co. |
Jack Nelson will be a passenger j
down with him 1
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Red Rogers is prospecting Mag
net gulch, a tributaiyot tl.e Hjot
linana. Rogers* declares ti at the
strike made by him on i Oliver is
not a take, but the pay was only
a few inches wide.
Tom Sullivan came in Monday
from Cairo creek for a supply of ^
provisions. He reports that water
is preventing them from getting to
bed-rock on i ab Two holes, one
24 feet, have been sunk, but water
and glacier has tilled them up.
Jack Welsh has just returned to
town a few days ago trom a trip to
Glen where he went to secure a
pump for his Iioosier claim. Jack
says he has a 12 feet paystseak on
13, water is not troubleing him any
this winter.