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VOL. L
CHITINA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1911.
NO. 27
Will Drill For Placer
On Slate Creek
G. A., C. J. and Walter Bigelow
with W. D. Nutley. arrived here last1
I
week en route to Slate creek, where
they will do some extensive prospectj
and development work in placer op
eia:icns this coming season. There
were nine men altogether in the
partj, five of whom were contract
ing to take in the supplies and ma
chinery. They had a 14,000-pound
Keystone drill, together with a boil
er and the necessary machinery for
getting results. Altogether, they
had over thirty tons of supplies and
were kept busy for several days get
ting the stuff on its way over the
trail.
In an interview with G. A. Bige
low, who is in charge of the outfit,
he stated that it was his first season
in the part of the country for where
they are heading, but he has some
splendid showings on Slate creek al
ready located, and from the reports
sent him, believed the ground war
ranted the expense they are now un
dergoing to develop it. The big drill
will readily enable them to reach
bed rock, and as they have it attach
ed to a traction engine, they can
move at will and expect to get a
good season's clean-up if the ground
proves as good as they expect. Slate
creek i9 about 190 miles from here,
and as but little has been heard from
that part of the country we await
the returns from there with interest.
Local News
H. E. Elliott, tne bridge foreman,
who left last week to spend a few
days in Cordova, returned on Fri
day morning’s train and left for work
again at the front.
Clifford Johnston made a round
trip to Cordova this week on busi
ness, returning on Friday morning's
train.
Dr. Whiting left for Cordova on
Friday for a short trip.
Port Capt. Gray, of the Northern
Navigation Co., was an arrival on
Friday morning's train, en route for
the interior.
Bridge Supt. Pat O’Brien is now
hard at work on the Kennicott
bridge at mile 191. There are four
bridges on this mile, which when
completed will soon put the steel to
the Bonanza. The officials still be
lieve they will be finished by the
first week in April.
Charley Ramsted, the well known
laundryman, who has been employ
ed by John Rawson, has rented the
Chitina laundry and will run it for
himself from now on. The many
friends of Charley will wish him suc
cess. He is a good laundryman and
will not only get the work, but has
cut prices to where they should be.
See him if you have anything to be
laundered.
Chitinaites are enjoying the skat
ing the past few’ days on the second
lake below town. The ice is in splen
did shape since the overflow and all
the skaters are taking advantage of
it.
Lee Campbell, the old-time con
ductor, and Carl Dunlap, better
known as Billy Dunlap, the brake
man, are expecting to take the next
steamer for the states.
Fireman Bob Carleton, who was
killed on Thursday at Miles Glacier,
was well known and many of his
friends here mourn his loss Loco
motive Engineer Wm. Hinds and
Conductor John Conelly state that
the accident yas unavoidable, as it
was stormini bad that the engi
neer could tf ossibly see the flag
man. ^
Z. Kimberlin left on Friday's train
for a business trip to Cordova.
The Log Cabin hotel is getting
well under way, the first story being
all ready for the lumber and the log
stringers on the second floor are al
ready in.
JUDGE CUSHMAN MAY
HOLD COURT IN INTERIOR
The district court convenes at Sew
ard on April 10, and after that ses
sion has ended Judge Cushman will
likely go to Fairbanks and relieve
Judge Overfield, who will leave for
the Iditarod to hold court there this
spring. Next July the court will
make another trip to the Aleutian
islands and coast towns, sitting at
various points wherever there are
any cases to be heard.
Capt. Jimmy Daniels, formerly of
the steamer Olympia, will accept a
position as pilot on the Dolphin next
month.
FORTNIGHTLY CARD
CLUB ENTERTAINS
Wednesday evening was the regu
lar semi-monthly meeting of the
Chitina Card Club, and a good at
tendance was present. Five or six
tables were kept busy with the game
of 500 from 9 to 11:30 o’clock, aftei
which the customary luncheon was
served. Mesdames. Bennett, Schaupr
and McCutcheon were the hostesses
Mrs. Morey took high score with Mr
Healey as partner, never having to
leave table number one, their sco^
being 1,210. Mrs. McCutcheon tool
the booby prize for the ladies, re
ceiving 540, while John Hirst, tht
‘ Senator,” showed them all some
thing about a real “cellar champion,”
being 130 in the hole at the end o
the game.
At the business meeting, Messrs
Brown, Weber and Palmer were ap
pointed a committee to investigate
the possibility of building an addi
tion to the Red Dragon club house
The matter was suggested by Bishop
Rowe, and was taken up by some
of the members as the best thing to
do, for in the event of a dance or an
entertainment the benches, organ
stove, etc., could be taken from the
main club room and stored in tht
adjoining one, which would give am
ple room lor dancing. Bishop Rowe
expects to hold an entertainment on
his return, which will be some where
near Easter, and it is hoped an addi
tion will be in readiness by that time.
The committee is to report at the
next meeting.
Deputy Marshal Brown, who was
at first appointed secretary of the
club, now holds a more responsible
position. He wanted a raise, which
is the alleged reason of his resigna
tion from the secretaryship. He got
it. He is now the official dishwash
er of the club.
Four prizes will be played for at
the next meeting, two for the high
est scores, lady and gentleman, and
two booby prizes. The hostess for
the next meeting are Mesdames.
Wallace, Johnston and Tibbs.
NOTICE.
Postmaster Johnston has been
notified by the postmaster at Cor
dova that a number of Chitina resi
dents have second-class matter lying
at the Cordova office, and as this
cannot be forwarded without addi
tional postage, the parties to whom
the mall is sent should either send
postage or notify the publishers of
their change of address.
B. F. Watson, general agent for
the Alaska Coast Company, will
temporarily remove bis headquarters
to Seward, in order to be in close
touch with the steamship business to
the westward.
Placer ground on Chisna river that
runs fifty cents to the yard will be
hydraulicked on an extensive scale
this summer.
Father van der Pol has purchased
a tract of four lots on the Reserva
tion at Valdez for the erection of a
Catholic church.
FREIGHTER IS BADLY
KICKED BY A HORSE
Dave Blakefield, known to most ev
eryone as “Dutch,” had a narrow
escape from death on Thursday by a
kick from a horse. Dutch is in
charge of the horses and freight for
the Schumacher freight outfit, and
has been here for the past month
buying horses and starting freight
over the trail. On Thursday morn
ing. while at work in the stable, a
horse recently purchased from the
front, felt real playful, and let drive
both heels at Dutch's face. The kick
knocked him nearly senseless, badly
cutting hig lips, knocking out sever
al teeth, and bruising him about the
face. Had he been six inches closer
to the animal, the doctor said he
would have been killed instantly.
Dr. Whiting came down from the
front on an early train, put in a
few stitches in the cuts and dressed
the wounds.
Dutch says the kick is the result
of too much oats, as the horse is
not a vicious one, and while he has
the sympathy of everyone, all his
friends say he is pretty lucky he was
not killed.
BOB SLKDS PULL
OUT FROM CHITIXA
It has often been said that the
trail from Chitina as far as Tonsina
was only a double-ender proposition,
and that it was not practicable to
load up a bob sled from here with
any kind of a load and go through to
Faxon’s. Wm. McDonough's outfit
disproved this theory this week, how
ever, by pulling out of here with bob
sleds and over 7.000 pounds of
freight, consisting principally of
eggs. We haven't heard of any
scrambled eggs between here and
Tonsina. and no one has reported any
trouble of the outfit getting through,
so if they can use bobs there is no
reason to doubt that the new cut-off
trail can be used by all who care to
use the big bobs. A few old freight
ers are also speculating as to the
future use of the automobile between
here and Fairbanks next season.
George Voght, the well known old
timer from Cordova, arrived on Fri
day morning's train, en route to the
Dan creek country, where he will
work with the Dan Creek Mining
Co. this season.
Thursday afternoon at 2:30
/clock the first fatal accident oc
•urred on the Copper River & North
western railroad, which resulted in
.he death of Robert C. Carleton, a
irenian on rotary train No. 1, he be
ing crushed between the tank of en
gine No. 20 and the rotary caboose.
A blinding snow storm was raging
and it was necessary for the passen
ger train to closely follow the ro
tary. After leaving Miles Glacier,
and just this side of mile 61, a large
piece of ice had fallen on the track.
This held up the rotary, but the train
following could not see the rotary or
hear the signals, and an unfortunate
rear end collision resulted.
Carleton was evidently going from
the rotary to the caboose at the time
and when the shock came dropped
between the cars. One of his legs
was cut off and he lived but three
or four minutes.
Deceased was one of the popular
employes of the railroad, who had
a host of friends here and along the
line. He was about 40 years of age
and married, his wife residing in
New York. One of the pathetic fea
tures of his death was the fact that
there is a registered letter in the
postoffice to be forwarded to his wife
on tonight's steamer, sending for
her to come to Cordova and join
her husband.
Carleton’s remains were taken to
Cordova on Friday s trair and af
ter being embalmed will be buried
there.
Local News
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Martin, Judge
Ferguson, J. C. Reedman and Bishop
Rowe were the guests of the officials
of the constructing company on Tues
day. They left early in the morning
on a special car for the front, lunch
ing at camp 146, and went as far
as the Kuskulana steel bridge be
fore returning home in the evening.
Paymaster Lester, of the construc
tion company, was down Saturday
night to close a deal for two more
horses, which were purchased by the
Schumacher freighting outfit. This
makes 14 head of horses which were
purchased from the officials at the
front by the Schumacher outfit.
H. S. Dean and L. B. Erickson,
who have been up to their mining
properties in Dean’s basin, back of
Taral, made a couple of trips into
town this week, returning again on
Friday with a dog team. The boys
out there are getting things shaped
up nicely for work as soon as the
snow goes off,
Mrs. E. O. Elliott, who recently
arrived here from Fairbanks, after
visiting a couple of weeks with her
husband, who is employed at 4m
front, left on Tuesday’s train for Cor
dova. She will take the next steam
er for the states and expects to
spend the summer with relatixes in
St. Paul.
L. C. 8tringer and wife left for
Cordova on Tuesday, bidding good
bye to Chitina. Mr. Stringer was
one of the pioneers of Chitina, com
ing here and entering into business
early last summer. He met with a
number of reverses, however, and de
cided to seek pastures new. Louie
says he'll not leave Alaska till he
makes a stake, but expects to send
his wife home this summer on a vis
it to her relatives in Oregon.
John Gage, the enterprising Chit
ina merchant, is now the water man,
having purchased the business, good
will and all from Jack Lawrence.
C. J. Jones is distributing the aqua
pura and attending to the scavengei
work of the city.
There are plenty of solo players
in Chitina who can tell you all about |
the game, but Chris Sundan, better
known as “Singing Chris,-' is the on
ly lad in Chitina who has made an
180 heart solo, and he did it twice
in one day at the Log Cabin saloon.
Chris said it wasn't his day for solo,
either. Ask the boys at the Log
Cabin about it.
G. H. Birch, who left for Cordova
last week, returned on Friday morn
ing’s train en route to the Dan creek
properties, where he will do extensive
work this summer. He is taking in
eight men with him and will imme
diately begin the erection of the
flume after the installing of the saw
mill. Mr. Birch says considerable
w’ork will be done this season, but
most of it will be in preparing the
plant and getting everything in read
iness for placer operations next year.
CAPT. MOORE IN HOSPITAL.
Capt. Franz Moore was compelled
to leave the steamer Admiral Samp
son at Juneau and go to the hospital,
where he underwent a minor opera
tion. His many friends will be glad
to know that he is getting along nice
ly and will return to his ship on its
next trip north.
“Senator” wants to see you at the
Nevada restaurant. It
Bishop Rowe is Guest
Of Chitina This Week
Bishop Rowe paid Chitina a visit
this week, and spent several days
with us, holding services in the Red
Dragon club house on Sunday after
noon. The bishop stated that in the
future he would try and see that
Chitina had more services, and at
tention from the mission, and that
more books and periodicals would
be furnished the Red Dragon club
house from now on.
He left the first of this week for
the Ketchumstock country and ex
pects to be gone about three weeks,
returning here early in April. If
possible he will establish a mission
near Nenana and one at Lake Mans
field, stating that the natives in that
section of the country are badly in
need of help. This year, he says,
he will devote most of his time to
this portion and southern Alaska,
not going so far inland or north as
usual, and if he does go up north
on his annual trip will not leave un
til the ice comes again. On his re
turn to Chitina. he expects to remain
several days here, holding services
and an entertainment at the Red
Dragon club house. Deacon Zeigler
or Rev. Newton may be up and ar
rangements made to keep the Dragon
open and hold services whenever pos
sible.
Judge Ferguson left on Tuesday’s
train for a short business trip to
Cordova.
TRANSIENT GUESTS
AT HOTEL CHITINA.
A number of guests have register
ed at the Hotel Chitina this week,
some of whom are from the inside,
but the majority are from the out
side, en route to the interior for the
season’s work. Their names appear
as follows:
Mrs. Sid Stewart, Mrs. L. G. Eddy,
Mrs. Lawrence, H. H. McDonald and
vife, Pat Meehan. D. W. Wilson,
D. D. Price, G. A. Bigelow, C. W.
Bigelow, W. E. Bigelow, Dan Nutley,
R. H. Mault, G. F. Griffith, J. B.
Richardson, W. F. Raeg, J. Goulette,
T. Seeley, Geo. Schneider, Geo. Heat
ing. J. C. Reedman, Av C. Jones and
wife, M. Williams, Albert Miller,
E. E. McDonald, Mrs. Jos. D. Mc
Cauley, Mrs. W. H. Seidman, J. K.
Willoughby, John Munz, Doc Allen,
L. C. Hess, C. S. Hough, Tom Smith,
M. E. Hunt, J. L. Anders, C. N. Tol
bert, James Hall, John S. McGee,
Harry McGee. B. Schmidt, P. Franks,
Wm. Barrett, E. Lewin, N. W. Jaffee
and Albert Miller.
NEWS FROM THE IDITAROIL
Idltarod is to have a public hall
and will be built under the auspices
of the Arctic Brotherhood Club.
The Iditarod is talking of con
structing a railroad from its town to
Flat City and adjoining creeks. There
was a survey made of it last fall,
maps made and taken outside by in
terested parties.
The Reindeer country continues
to look promising, as the reports
from there indicate that it is a “fa-,
vorable looking country,” as the
prospectors are apt to express it.
Reports from the Kuskokwim are
not particularly bright. The long
looked for pay streak is still undis
covered, although the number of
prospectors in there amount to only
a "pimple on the face of time,” as j
it is an immense region. in the
opinion of some of the most expel -1
ienced miners, the future of the Kus
kokwim will be mainly confined to
gold dredging.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.
Ocilla, Ga., March 25.—The Dixie
flyer of the Atlantic coast line, was
wrecked on the bridge crossing the
Alapaha river. Seven were killed
and many injured.
London, March 25.—The French
steamship Bordeuuville, and the
British steamship Irishbrook, met in
a collision while crossing the Eng
lish channel. Both vessels were sunk
but no lives were lost.
Victoria, March 25.—Thirty-nine;
passengers and crew of the steamer
Schelt, Capt. H. B. James, have in
all probability lost their lives. The
steamer capsized in a heavy storm
at Beachy Head, near Vancouver,
and the first reports indicate that all
were drowned.
Charley Avery, the well known
caterer, is relieving Chef Durgin for
a few days, and made his initial run
It is reported that tne steamer Ad
miral Sampson, which sails from Se
attle on Monday, has been sold out
for several days past.
Local News
Geo. Rex, one of the old-timers
on this railroad, who has been out
on the steel gang at the front since
finishing the station work here, with
Paddy MacCormac, came in on Thurs
day night, and says he'll now take
the big rest. He says he’ll be con
tent to spend a few months outside,
now that the steel is in sight of the
Bonanza mine.
J. C. Reed man, who is now com
missioner at Copper Center, and pro
prietor of the Copper Center road
house, made a business trip to Chit
ina this week, and after spending
several day here, returned to the
well known "all night station" on
Tuesday's stage.
"Buck" Hoyt, the Gulkana road
house man, who made a flying busi
ness trip to CoAlova, last week re
turned on Monday's train, and took
the trail for home the following
morning.
J. L. Anders, a well known old
timer from the inside, who went to
the states last fall with Marshal
Love, in charge of some insane pa
tients, returned on the first of the
week and spent several days In Chit
ina before going on home to Fair
banks.
"Doc” Allen, well known in Cor
dova, arrived from the coast termi
nal the first of the week, and left
with the Bigelow outfit for work
during the coming season at Slate
creek.
Pat Meehan, with whom most all
old-time Alaskans are acquainted,
spent several days in Chitina this
week. Pat left a horse here on his
way out last fall, expecting to re
turn by his own conveyance, but on
his return sold his outfit and went
In by the stage line.
Henry Deyo, the well known engi
neer, iB shaking hands with his many
friends in Chitina this week, after
a return from several months' visit
in the states.
Dr Whiting, who operated upon
the foot of Pete Martin last week,
which was badly frozen, says the
man is getting along nicely and will
be able to get cut in a few weeks.
Chief Timekeeper and Auditor Mc
Cune made a trip to Cordova on
Tuesday’s train to take a steamer
for the outside on a short vacation.
WELL KNOWN BRIDGE MAN
HAS HIS LEG BROKEN
Ben Sundall, one of Supt. Pat
O’Brien’s most efficient bridge men,
met with an unfortunate accident.
While working on the trestle across
the Kennicott river at mile 190 a
heavy piece of timber accidentally
fell on his leg, breaking it. Dr. W’hlt
ing was immediately summoned and
dressed the wound, after which the
injured man was removed to the
hospital at mile 146.
Mr. Sundall had been connected
with Contractor Heney’s force for
the past five years and met with his
first mishap as the construction work
was nearly completed, which he con
siders a double misfortune.
{ Job work at the Leader office.