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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 36.
SEWARD, ALASKA, _ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1930.
PRICK TEN CENTS
FAIRBANKS PAPER
DESCRIBES DETAILS
OF OSLO STRIKE
t
SIX DOLLAR GROUND, WOLFE
CREEK BELOW THE OLD
WORKINGS
(Fairbanks News Miner)
A rich placer strike in the Ruby
district, news of which has al
ready started a stampede from
other Interior points and which is
exepected to revive the old min
ing camp, is reported in letters
received at Fairbanks.
Six dollars a foot ground and
pans going $1.20 to the pan, are
some of the discoveries already
made, with prospecting just gett
ing a good start. Although the
ground adjacent to the claims
ca which the discoveries were
made is staked the extent of the
paystreaks is as yet unknown and
m hoDes that more extensive finds
vill be made stampeders are con
verging on Ruby frm all direct
ions.
k The only previous report re
ceived here was that good pay
had been found on lower Poormari
creek in a limited area but latest
advices are that hte strike is a bis
;>ne such as was known in the early
days.
News of the strike was received
here in letters sent to TJ. S. Marsh
al Thomas Long at Rubv and to
George Wesch of the First National
Bmk by Thomas J. DeVane, Ruby
merchant.
L-ong says that about a month
ago a miner named Wolfd, who
has been prospecting for the last
few years on a creek about four
miles long and about 11 miles be
low the old workings on Poorman
creek made a strike. He gave lays
to Billy Gragen and Shropsplre.
The ground on which Shropshire
has a lay will .it is said, average $6
to the foot of bedrock. It is four
feet in depth and about 2D feet
wide. Gragen’s lay is about a mile
further up hte creek and averages
about $3 to the fot. This makes it
I appear that pay streak is continu
' * ous for at least that di tance and
of course furthe rprospecting may
show that it extends up and down
th? creek a much greater distance.
BEAVER CREEK
These finds encouraged prospect
ors to go out into the hills and
along in the last of December Tom
Gallagher started prospecting on
Beaver Creek. The first hole did
I not yield any prospects and a move
was then made 60 feet nearer the
creek. Here the second hole was
put down and at its bottom six or
eight inches of wash was found
that went 75 cents to the pan. Over
$3 was panned out from the bot
tom of the hole.
■TUa navf hnlo Cimlf St.ill an
other 60 feet closeer to the creek.
On February 4 Gallagher and his
partner were down into the gravel
1H inches and were obtaining pans
averaging $1.20 each. They have
not yet got to the bottom of the
hole, but it is surmised they will
have three or four feet of wash if
values continue down to bedrock it
* “will constitute the greatest strike
ever made in this camp.”
It is practically certain that the
pay streak will be 6U feet wide, the
distance between the last two holes
and how much wider it is remains
to be determined. Those who have
Seen the gold believe the paystreak
will be continuous, similar to that
on Wolfe creek. Beaver creek is
near the Twin Buttes.
Stampedeis are flecking to the
scene of the strike fiom up and
down the Yukon from Hot Springs
and Nulato and from Ophir and
ofhei ramps.
All the mojt favorable locations
around Gallagher’s striks and on
the creek's adjacent to Beaver and
, Wolfe have been staked but other
portions may contain as good
ground, in the belief of those who
SCH30L CHILDREN
| INJURED EXPLOSION
Hi 3131
NEW YORK, Feb., 13, (£>}—'Ten
school children were rushed to hos
pitals suffering from cuts and
bruises and some 45 others suffered
from slight injuries as the result
of an explosion which wrecked a
nearby one-story brick building
and shattered the windows of the
public school.
There were 83 children in the
school. Two of the children are in
a critical condition. The blast was
heard over a wide area and caused
a rumor that a bomb had exploded.
A crowd of 5,000 including many
parents swarmed to the building.
JAPAN IS READY
TO ACCEPT HOLIDAY
CONSTRUCTION SHIPS
LONDON, Feb., 14, (/P)—1The
Japanese delegation declared that
Japan was ready to accept the
holiday battleship program until
1936 and will reduce the tonnage
of battleships to 25,000 tons and
reduce the maximum calibre of
guns to 14 inches.
They also agree to the pro
longation of life of battleships
from 20 to 26 years and the age
• limit of cruisers to 20 years and
destroyers, 16 years.
are watchi’lf developments closely.
The dkcoverers succeeded in
staking 10 40-acre claims on Beaver
before the report of the strike leak
ed out.
Beaver creek is about eight miles
long and empties into Diamond
creek, which is much longer. Dia
mond flows into Poorman creek
about eight miles below the town of
Poorman and about four miles
above the mouth of Wolfe, where
the first strike was made.
“SOME CAME”
“There will not be much chance
to stake from now on in the vicini
ty of the strike”, writes Mr. Long,
“but late comers may secure valua
ble lays. Of course this strike is
in its first stage. If the crerks do
not show up it will be well for a few
in the immediate vicinity only. But
if the pay should prove to be a con
tinuous pay streak and other creeks
prove half so good, why then this is
some camp”.
The first authentic news of the
strike came to Ruby on the morning
of February 4. The depth of bed
rock on Wolfe creek is about 35
feet and on Beaver about 60 feet.
In his letter to tr. Wesch, Thos.
DeVane says Gallic ler and the two
prospectors who are with him got
$150 from the small amount of
thawed gravel they took out of
their third hole.
Denny Coyle did the panning for
them. He panned out $50 that av
eraged $112 to the pan and another
time 17 pans averaged $1.20 to the
pan.
“I have heard the ground esti
mated at $50 per foot on down,” he
says. “Oldtimers here are more
excited than at any time since I
came to Fairbanks. Iditarod, Ruby
or any other of the strikes I have
seen didn’t put that ‘mean glint’
in their eyes like this strike has.
No wheels have turned since the
strike, every working man in the
camp has quit his job, and staking
and stampeding area profession
here now.”
Associated with Gallagher on
Beaver creek are Jimmy Agusta and
Mike Kovas.
OPERATOR AT STRIKE
The reason that no telegraphic
reports concerning the strike have
been received is that the Ruby wire
less operator wras given leave so
that he might go to the scene of
the strike and stake some ground.
FATHERS OF LOST FLIERS MEET
Sorrowing relatives of Carl Ben Eielson and Earl
! Borland, lost Alaskan fliers, met in Seattle when W. E.
| Borland, father of Earl, consoled Ole Eielson, and Miss
I Adeline Eielson, father and sister of Carl, as they
j stepped from the Great Northern’s Canadian.
In the picture, left to right, are A. J. Arrivee, G.
N. traveling passenger agent; Ole Eielson, Miss Eielson
and Mr. Borland. Mr. Eielson, a banker of Hatton, N.
iD., arrived in Seward yesterday enroute to Fairbanks.
GLASS 10 NYE
SEC'S HTTP
I!
SELECTION OF HUGHES IS UN
! FORTUNATE, DECLARES
SENATOR NYE
WASHINGTON, Feb-, 14, (/P)—
: The fight against the confirma
; tion of Charles Hughes as Chief
Justice of the United States, *en
i tered its fourth day with Sen
! ator Glass and Senator Nye be
| ginning the attack upon Hughes
shortly after the Senate met.
Glass said; "The Supreme Court
in recent years has gone far afield
from its original functions and
has constitute itself as a court
on econmic and social questions
rather than court interpretations
of legal disputes.”
Nye declared: "The selection of
Hughes is unfortunate.”
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HUGHES CONFIRMED
! WASHINGTON, Feb:, 14, (A5)—
Charles Hughes was confirmed as
|chief justice of the U. S. Supreme
Court by the senate by the vote of
52 to 26.
THE LINEUP
Among the members of the An
; chorage city women’s team winch
arrives here Monday to play the j
local women will be Mrs. Lach- j
shas, Helen Welch, Dorothy Dav
is, Mrs. Simms and Mrs. Lawson, j
There are others, of course, but!
who they are is not known at this j
time. Girls rules will be followed.
!
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1 IR NEW STRIKE AREA,
H101 REPORTS
Alex “Shorty” Gragen, who trav
eled down to Poorman when the
first news of the 'trike on Wolfe
creek was received at Fairbanks,
is reported to have offered $2,500
in cash to Tom Gallagher, Jimmy
Agusta a-nd Mike Kovas for an op
tion on Beaver creek property only
to be turned down, reports the
News Miner.
The three men who made the
strkie have gone to Poorman to get
some rest, as their cabin on Beaver
is being constantly invaded by
stampeders and they were unable
to get any rest.
When they go back to the creek
they want to finish sinking the
third hole, do some driftig and per
haps sink another hole.
“Wolfe crek is assuredly a pay
creek but a small one,” say advices
from Ruby.“ The Beaver strike and
other prospects in that country
now and in the early days make it
appears a cinch that we will have
a stampede here from now to
spring, altho I don't see that it will
do anybody any good to come un
less they want to prospect and not
on a paystreak at that. Everything
is staked and more claims are being
staked every day for miles around
those two pay streaks.”
BUYS NINE PLANES
WASHINGTON, Feb., 14, (/Pi
Nine fighting planes, costing $117,
000 and for use* of the Marine;
Corps, have been purchased by;
the Navy department from the j
Curtis Company.
BAKE SALE TOMORROW
A bake sale, sponsored by the hi
school basketball girls team, will
be held tomorrow from 10 a. m.
to 2 p. m. in the Alaska Rose
Shoppe. All sorts of delicious
home-made things will be found
for lunch and dinner.
ill GDEN KILL
HOSTESS UNO ESC03L
SHOT MAI AS RAH
NEW YORK, Feb., 13, (/P)—A wo
jman, identified as a dance hall
hostess, and escort, were killed
by four gunmen who alighted from
an automobile, chased them when
they fled in the opposite direction
and shot them down. The killers
escaped in their automobile.
Several hours after the shooting
the woman was identified as May
Smith, 24, and her escort as Car
mine Barelli, 32, who police said is
known as a gambler and has a
criminal record dating back to
1919.
FOSHSY MI
con SSSETS ARE
LESS THAN LIABILITIES
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb., 14, (JF)—
Public Utilities Consolidated corp.,
| of the Foshay holdings company,
■ has assets for $29,604,000, of which
$7,645,000 are “of very doubtful
value”, according to a report filed
in the Federal District Court by
Chapman, reciver.
Liabilities total to about $29,815,
000, leaving a deficit of $211,000.
The doubtful assets listed are due
from the affiliated companies.
“BEWARE FISH!"
LONG KEY, Fla., Feb., 14, (/Pi
President Hoover invaded the
Gulf Stream for the express pur
pose of depleting the ranks of
the finny inhabitants. But he
was the victn t of fisherman’s
i luck, yesterday, returning with an
| empty basket.
The S. S. Starr, Capt. C. A. An
1 derson, master, left for the West
ward last night instead of to
I night as previously was an
nounced. A large cargo of general
freight, as well as mail, and a
fair list of reservations went out
on her.
ill LIST18S OF
RESERVATIONS OUT OH
THE NORTHWESTERN
One of the smallest listings in
months boarded the S. S. North
western, last night, for the south.
These were:
SEATTLE—G. R. Jackson, Jack
Callin, P. A. Welden, Mrs. A. C.
Goss, Mr. and Mrs. John Ander
son, T. A. Hamilton, John Hirsch
felder, F. F. Boyle, C. T. K. Mears,
Mrs. G. R. Jackson, Joseph Shaw,
Capt. H. Larson, W. O. Walters,
O. D. Cochran, J. H. Johnson,
Pietro Franchi, John Wik, Wil
helm Northdurft, Chas. Clinton,
George Anderson.
JUNEAU—Frank Pericich, G. P.
Wolf, W. D. Wandling, W. W. Bat
chelor, B. D. Stewart, Margaret
Lindsey, George A. Nelson.
CORDOVA—L. H. Vogl, George
Davis, Mike Tomlinovich.
VALDEZ—Mrs. K. L. Galen.
LATOUCHE—Mrs. Robert Light.
ROUNDING OUT CENTURY
ANN ARBOR, Mich. Feb., 13, (JP)
—Michigan will start participation
in its second hunaied dual track
and field meets against Chicago
here February 22. In the first 100,
Michigan won 00 and lest 20.
EARS RECORD WIVES
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb., 13, (/P)
Husbands in the Solomon Islands
group wear quills in their ears to
mark the number of wives they
possess.
I
ElELSdS HELMET
FOB: DIGGERS
H1JG BODIES
REID AND HUGHES LEFT NOME
FOR CAPE SERGE WITH SUP
PLIES FOR RUSSIANS
NOME. Feb., *4, (A )-—Loman re
ceived a message from Crosson at
Nanuk sayin “Made trip to wreck
today with Russia-.?. Working hard
and expect to find the bodies soon.
7/ill hove all the wre vi'.e dog cut
within three days. Believe we will
find the boutes near the <d>ip where
jit first hit whicn must be several
| hundred feet from the cabin. Have
i cleared ail the snow from the cabin
iand engine.
I “We are going in the direction of
where the plane fir A struck and
are now out about 300 feet. Found
Eielson’s helmet and part of the
cockpit. We are doing everything
to recover the bodies soon ns
possible.”
Pilot Reid, in a Fairchild and
Mechanic Hughes took-off from
Nome for Cape Serge this mon ing
with 16 18-gallon cases of gasoline;
for the Russians. The other planes
will fly from Cape Serge to Nanuk.
They are attempting to make the
trip to Cape Serge and back to Tel
led today, weather permitting.
S. E. JLISIlll VESSEL
SHEWED ID ICE
I COLDEST 1ST TEMI5
JUNEAU, Feb U (7,~Tb
cold wave in the vicinity of Ju
neau during which the thermom
eter sregistered three degrees
above zero yesterday, the coldest
in five years, was broken today
; when temperatures moderated and
snow began to fall.
The steamer Princess Mary re
I turned from Skagway sheathed in
ice on account of bucking severe
gales in Lynn Canal.
Heavy timbers, for ‘ steamer
construction at White Horse,
j on the forward deck of the shjp,
' remain on board covered with
| ice it being too hard a task to
chop them out so they must re
main aboard until the next trip
north.
It was five below zero at Skag
way.
ALASKA PELTS
TACOMA, Feb., 14, (/P)—Fur
buyers from many points in the
United States and foreign coun
tries paid $100,000 for pelts from
Alaska and the Northwestern
states at the monthly fur auc
tion held by the West Coast Fur
Sales, Inc.
The sale showed that furs were
in strong demand. It was the first
good showing of Alaska goods to
reach Tacoma from this season’s
catch.
A general rise has taken place
in the last two wreeks in long
haired furs.
THE PRELIMINARIES
On Monday night the prelimin
ary game to the Anchorage-City
women’s game, will be between
those deadly rivals, the Firemen
versus the High School. And how!
On Tuesday night the famed Mid
gets will again face each other
on the firing line. “May the best
men win,” say the skippers.