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Cordova, September 10
Miss Ruth Vance will perform the
duties of telephone operator during
the absence of Mrs. Lucy Smith, who
will enjoy a vacation and accompany
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Byers on a trip
to the states, leaving on the Alameda.
The Rev. W. H. Ziegler, of Valdez,
arrived on this morning’s boat. He
will be the guest of Rev. and Mrs.
E. P. Ziegler for about ten days.
C. E. Ellsworth, U. S. geological
survey, was an arrival on the Ala
meda from the westward. He is a
guest at the Windsor.
George and Charles Osborne will
make a trip to Juneau to look over
the business situation.
Handsome new bar fixtures are
being installed today at the Horse
shoe. They are of the Brunswick
Balke make and are very complete
and elegant in design. The old fix
tures have been sold to Fred
Schrenger, who will install them in
his restaurant.
Dr. J. A. Holmes, of Washington,
director of the Bureau of Mines, ac
companied by his son, arrived on the
afternoon train and are at theWind
sor hotel. They have been to the
Fairbanks country and came out
over the trail as far as Chitina. They
will go over to Seward and likely
make a trip into the Matanuska coal
fields, where government employees
are securing a quantity of coal for
steam testing purposes.
Mrs. H. S. Coleman who has been
on a visit to her parents outside, re
turned on the Mariposa and will go
to her home at Flag Point on the
morning train.
O. B. Young, of Seattle, is a re
cent arrival from the Chisana. He
and his companions made a number
of locations below lower discovery
on Johnson creek. These they have
bonded to Funston and Coles, two
old-timers of the Fairbanks country
who are now in the new diggings.
The claims included are numbers 1,
2, 4, 5, 6, and 7. They will be
worked this winter, as thawing ma
chines and drills have been sent for
and will be taken in over the ice.
The intention is to sink several holes
to bedrock on each claim. This
property is just below the Little
Caribou claim located by Jack
Hosfeld. ♦
Dr. C .F. Montgomery has received
a letter from his friend Michael
McGovern, at Ruby, dated August
18. He states that he intends leav
ing in a day or two for the Chisana
gold diggings. He evidently has
faith in the future of the new camp,
as he already has property that
would seem well worth working in
the Ruby district. He says: “Our
ground on Greenstone looks pretty
good. Drake, Coffey and Bowers,
above us on the creek have been
doing open cutting and their ground
is going $40 to the shovel. I have
the assessment work done on all our
ground.”
When U. S. Marshal Brenneman
was in Cordova yesterday he stated
that he had offered the position of
chief deputy to his friend Jim War
dell, of Katalla, but that he pre
ferred to remain where he has per
sonal interests to look after. As a
consequence he will be named as the
deputy at Katalla. The marshal an
nounced that he would now appoint
John Bouse as his chief deputy, a
position that he has acceptably filled
during the incumbency of Marshal
Sullivan. Mr. Brenneman told the
Cordova applicants for place that he
would decide on no appointments
until after he had taken office, which
will likely be late this afternoon,
after the arrival of Judge Brown on
the steamer Mariposa.
The wireless station at Kodiak,
located on W/oody island, will be re
stored at once. It was destroyed a
month or more ago by the exhaust
from a gasoline engine. In the
meantime a small receiving instru
ment has been able to pick up near
messages but the station has not
been able to send out anything. Lieut.
McConnell, accompanied by his wife
and 14 men went through yesterday
on the steamer Sampson and will do
the necessary work to put the Kodiak
station in good order.
Rev. W. H. Ziegler, of Valdez will
be a passenger to Kennecott on to
morrow morning’s train. He will
hold services at Chitina and other
points.
Send the Daily Alaskan to your
friends in the states.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 13.—
Aviators Avinaus and Lorenz were
killed this morning. They were up
in one machine when it turned turtle
and dashed them to earth, causing
instant death. The government is
becoming concerned over the reck
less acts of some of the aviators in
the service of the Czar. Lieut.
Kesteroff, of the army, recently
risked his life while trying to loop
the loop with a machine. He was
courtmartialed and this morning
ordered imprisoned.
SEATTLE, Sept. 13. — Former
Governor Eben S. Draper, of Massa
chusetts, is in the city making
anxious inquiries about the chances
for the safety of his son and name
sake. The son is a passenger on the
small boat Polar Bear which has
been cruising in the Arctic north of
Nome. A report has come out that
the vessel has been caught in the
early ice and is likely to be im
prisoned throughout the winter.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—Yesterday
afternoon the men who have been
close to the machine of the now de
ceased mayor, William J. Gaynor,
met to select a successor to their
chief. After going over the list of
available candidates they finally
agreed upon George McAneny, the
present president of the borough of
Manhattan, and the fusion candidate
for president of the board of aider
men.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—This
morning Mr. McAneny declined to
accept the selection of the Gaynor
managers. He stated that he an
nounced several months ago that he
would not ba a candidate for mayor,
and that he knew of no good reason
! to change his decision.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—It was an
nounced this morning that the
funeral of the late Mayor GaynoT
would be held from the old Trinity
Church on Monday, September 22.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 13.—Through
out the night the body of the late
W.lliam J. Gaynor, mayor of New
York city lay in-state in the grand
stairway of the town hall, prepara
tory to its shipment to New York.
This was an unprecedented honor.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—The well
known Timothy D. Sullivan is now
no more. For days past his where
abouts have been a mystery, but it is
now known that a few hours after
he eladed his nurses he was struck
and killed by a passing train at Pel
ham Parkway. When his body was
picked up and taken to the morgue
it was not known to be that of Sulli
van. He lay in the morgue for 11
days, when he was identified by his
brother-in-law, Larry Mulligan. Since
his mind was affected his estate has
been looked after by a committee
and their attorney this morning
stated that Sullivan was on the verge
of bankruptcy.
LANSING, Mich., Sept. 13.—The
strike at the Calumet copper mines
continues, notwithstanding repeated
efforts to effect a settlement. Last
evening Governor Ferris held a
lengthy conference with Attorney
Clarence Darrow-, after which he an
nounced that another attempt would
be made to settle the labor trouble.
SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 13.—A fight
occurred this afternoon between
American soldiers and Mexican
smugglers. As a result one Mexican
was killed and six were wounded.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—The
J transactions of W’illiam Sulzer on
Wall Street have been carefully in
vestigated and it is claimed that
exact figures and dates have been
secured. Melville D. Fuller, one of
the impeachment managers, states
that from June 1910 until last July
the transactions of Mr. Sulzer on
Wall Street totaled $50,000.
EL PASO, Sept. 13.—Capt. Santa
Ana Caravo, a Mexican federal, was
arrested at Juarez, at the request of
the state department at Washington.
The captain is charged with the kill
ing of Edward Hayes, an American,
at Madero Chihuahua.
SEATTLE, Sept. 13.—The steamer
Northwestern sailed last night for
Southwestern Alaska. She carries
considerable freight and one horse
for Cordova. The passengers for that
port are as follows:
Mrs. E. Pratt, Mrs. E. Prescott
Fred Roger, Miss B. M. Hegner, John
Connolly, Mrs. L. Carleton, Mrs.
Magna Kippe, Mrs. S. Hastie, Mrs.
Thomas Burchette and four second
class.
E. S. Bunch, of Seattle, writes j
Interestingly of how Carmack struck
gold in the now famous Klondike, as |
follows:
How the richest gold strike of
American history was made because
a prejudiced prospector had ob
jected to the presence of two red
skin companions of George Car
mack was the wonder-story—one
that never grows old even to those
who know its drift—with which the
discoverer of the Klondike at a ban
quet in his honor held spellbound
a group of his Northland associates
of two decades past.
The occasion was an observance
of Discovery Day, the anniversary
of the first gold strike in the Klon
dike, made by Carmack, August 17,
1896, participated in by members of
Seattle Lodge of the Yukon Order
of Pioneers. Carmack, who now
lives in Seattle, was guest of honor.
The gathering, which was held
at The Rathskeller, was one unique
in many respects. Not only were
present more than a score of the
best-known personages of the most
spectacular gold rush of the century,
but, as well, in the center of the
group sat the most important figure
of all the stampede’s history—the
man who started it.
Carmack, who like most men of
the great open places and frontier,
is reserved and yields us treasures
of personal reminiscence reluctantly,
unexpectedly yielded to a request
made that he devote his part of the
speechmaking to a detailed first
hand story of the great strike. Old
timer-like, once he had agreed to the
proposition he undertook to make
the narrative a complete work, be
ginning with his boyhood days.
The veteran prospector went into
the North in youth’s search of ad
venture more than with any purpose
or mining and fortune hunting, when
he first sailed up the southeastern
coast a quarter of a century ago. In
1889 he became established in hunt
ing, fishing, trapping and prospect
ing about the Southwest. In the
several years following his migra
tions led him towards the interior
but seldom more than a week’s
journey. He had heard vague re
ports of mining activities 600 or 800
miles back from the coast, of the
diggings at Circle and Forty-mile
and had been lured through his love
of wanderlust by the tempting sweep
of the mighty Yukon when he had
happened upon its headwaters.
He knew he could launch a canoe
upon the swift current and keep
going for hundreds of miles always
penetrating new and little explored
,regions. Forty Mile was on the
way. Finally with friends he had
made among the natives, he pulled
up stakes and became a voyageur.
He landed in Fortymile and joined
the little handful of white people
settled there. Gold was the talk
everywhere and the fever soon had
him as a new victim.
One of his earliest big "hikes”
out of Fortymile took Carmack up
to the mouth of a river the Indians
pronounced Throndak—the Klon
dike, for there it had been planned
to make a big catch of fish with
which, in Fortymile, a grubstake
could be obtained. Fishing proved
to be poor, however, and Carmack
gave it up. With "Dawson Charlie”
and “Skookum Jim,” his two Indian
companions, he went back inland a
j icw nines ana mere, on vvnat now
is known as Gold Run Creek, found
a veteran prospector, Bob Hender
son. The latter had been finding
encouraging “dirt.” Carmack pro
posed that he remain and do a little
prospecting. Henderson, a gruff
Scotchman, assented but told Car
mack “them damn Siwashes will
have to get out; they can’t stake in
these diggings.”
Carmack’s loyalty to his copper
hued friends caused him to make a
stand in their behalf. There was a
row, and Carmack, with the Indians
left the creek. On their return they
came upon the promising-looking
valley of Bonanza Creek, a few miles
above the mouth of the Klondike.
Carmack decided to prospect and
told the Indians to keep a lookout
for bedrock exposures.
“Down along the 60’s (designa
tions of claims later staked on the
creek) we picked up a few colors,”
Carmack told his hearers, “but
they didn’t run very high. We didn’t
find enough to get excited about and
as we were pretty shy of grub we
decided to go on up to the “moose
pasture” (a district finally to be
come known as the golden heart of
the Klondike) and kill some meat.
We got a bear and were coming back
down Bonanza when we again began
watching out for prospects.
“Charlie took a pan at one point
and found a little gold. I went over
to look at it and began examining
the ground thereabouts. I picked
up a pretty good-sized flake of gold
on a slab of bedrock. It was stained
and of such unexpectedly large size
that I doubted it was gold. I bit
it and saw then that it was the real
thing. Then I turned the rock over
and what I saw knocked the breath
out of me. The ground under it was
speckled with gold—looked like it
was shot full.
“That was my find, the first Klon
dike discovery, and I squared off
some corner posts and staked it as
Discovery claim.”
Carmack then told of his rush
back to Fortymile for provisions. He
and the Indians had stopped only
long enough to pan about a quarter
of an ounce of dust. They were
without food enough to last a week
and had no money whatever. Forty
milers were dubious of the story
Carmack told and gave little heed
to his extravagant offers for a stove
and supplies. Finally, however, he
convinced a few. They outfitted him
and accompanied him back to the
scene of his strike, and thus began
the great stampede, the event that
suddenly made the inconspicuous
little seaport of Seattle blossom into
a great city and electrified the whole
world.
Many other of the old-timers pres
ent told personal experiences almost
as interesting as Carmack’s, making
the gathering one of the most inter
esting ever held in the Northwest.
Those present were: George W. Car
mack, George Butler, George P.
Snow, J. C. Nelson, R. H. Mason,
Peter Bauman, B. Klepser, B. R.
Campbell, A. H. Winter, John P.
nassett, unarms uooaenougn, h.
Armour, Dr. F. B. Whiting, B. O’Sul
livan, A1 Christopher, Harry King,
Charles Frey, James O’Neal, John
G. Johnson, Ben Waddell and James
W. Morrison.
On Tuesday last there was quite
a demonstration in Douglas over the
opening of the First Territorial Bank
of Alaska. Harold Post, who was
one of the M, J. Heney representa
tives at Cordova during the building
of the C. R. & N. W. Railway, is soon
to be the cashier of the new institu
tion. The Juneau Empire says of
him:
“Mr. Harold Post has accepted the
position of cashier for the First Na
tional bank of Juneau and of the
First Territorial Bank of Alaska,
made vacant through the resignation
of A. A. Gabbs who is entering busi
ness on his own account. Mr. Post
will assume his new duties in the
Juneau banking house October 1. Mr.
Post, son of J. J. Post, pioneer of
Seattle and founder of the Stetson &
Post Company, is a pioneer of Alaska
coming to the country in 1898. He
was identified with the Nome coun
try for a number of years, being with
the Miocene Ditch & Mining Com
pany for a long time. Later he was
in Cordova and points to the west
ward. He has a very large acquaint
ance throughout the territory.”
F. D. Kelley and Chic Harris re
turned yesterday from a short trip
to Juneau. They will return to Chi
sana on the morning train, having
arranged for supplies to last them
through the winter. They have a
couple of claims on Johnson creek.
0.
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
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