INNOKO COUNTRY
REPORTS STILL GOOD
The busy little steamer Martha Ciow passed up from the Idit-!
arod for Fairbanks last Monday morning with about a dozen pas- j
sengers, most of whom are going to the Tanana metropolis for:
boilers and mining machinery which they will take into the new
camp on the last trip of the Clow.
Billy Barrett, the pioneer trader of Innoko, was a passenger,
lie has closed his trading post for the winter, and will spend the
next seven or eight months on the Outside. Mr. Barrett reports
the diggings on Opliir creek as being much richer -at present than ;
ever before; especially is this true of the claims near the town of!
Ophir. The miners on those claims, he says, are in the money for ;
fair. He carries with him several of the largest nuggets ever j
found in the camp—one of which is worth about $235. Yankee;
creek, the new producer, is showing up good; he has a couple of;
gold slugs from his own ground on that stream which weigh about!
Ij4 ounces each.
Lew Edwards, an Ophir creek miner, was also a passenger
and will return to the diggings on the Clow with an outfit of ma
chinery.
The Clow ascended the Iditarod river about 175 miles—15
miles further than on the previous trip. Many miners are poling
their boats to the new- strike on that river, and many went over
land from Ophir creek.
“SKAGWAY JIIVT5
GETS SIX MONTHS
i
James Curfman, alias “Skag- j
way Jim,” who mixed with De- ;
puty Marshal H. C. Quiner on
Ester one day last week, pleaded
guilty to a charge of simple as
sault, and was sentenced by Com-'
missioner Frame of Fairbanks to
six months’ imprisonment.
Curfman had been toting
around a 30-80 rifle, and had dis-'
charged about a dozen shots, |
some of which went through cer
tain buildings in Ester city, dis
turbing the peace of the residents
thereof to a slight extent. Mr.
Quiner appeared on the scene in j
response to appeals of the popu
lace and demanded the surrender ■
of James. However, Jimmy was
of the elusive character—that is,
he brandished his gun in a threat
ening manner, and about eveiy
i)0 feet would stop and halt the
officer in the most approved j
Diamond Dick manner, telling!
him that he did not intend to be
“made the fail guy” or words to!
that effect. Eventually, the ofti-'
cer thinking that he was bluffing, j
got a bit closer, whereupon Ourf- j
man cocked the gun and acted asi
as he really intended to do busi- j
ness, but changed his mind at the]
last moment after declaring that]
he was the real Harry Tracy, and j
was locked up.
LAUNCH “CARRIER”
AS GOOD AS NEW
The Carrier, the gasoline
launch of the N. G. Co. to carry
the last mails after the big boats
•are unable to navigate, arrived
in Tanana on Monday evening
last from the company’s ship
yard at Fairbanks, having been
thoroughly overhauled, a new
set of engines installed, her bow !
sheathed with metal, and a coat,
of paint in bright colors to top :
off the job.
If all the yarns current about
this little craft, and others of her1
type were placed in one book,
they would make quite a collec
tion, says the Fairbanks News.
For present purposes two of
them will be enough.
“Some two years ago,” said a
man last night, “something had
gone wrong with the internal ma
chinery of the boat while she was
down the Yukon, so the engineer
left her in charge of a watchman
near Ivaltag, and came up here
to get the needed parts for re
pair. On his return down the
river, he took a small boat from
a point on the Yukon to where
he had beached the craft, but
just before arriving at the place,
met the Hannah en route up the
river. Being in a skiff at the
time, he steered clear of the big
steamer so as not to get too close
to the big rollers which her wheel
was sending forth, and naturally
could only see one side of the
steamer. It transpired after
wards that the watchman, get
ting a chance to ship the Carrier
on the Hannah, had availed him
self of the opportunity, and the
little vessel was then bejng towed
alongside the Hannah, but on the
side opposite ''rom the engineer,
who knew’ nothing of the ar
rangement. Consequently, there
was a very much disgusted engi
neer on the lower river when he
arrived at the place where his
‘ship’ ought to have been, and
neither the boat nor watchman
was in evidence.”
The same man related an oc
currence connected with a similar
vessel to the Carrier, then oper
ated between Eagle and Gibbon, j
“On one of his trips down the
river,” said the narrator,“the en
gineer, who was alone in the
craft, had placed his coffee on a
little.gasoline stove to heat for
his lunch, while meantime he re
sumed his place at the wheel, so
as not to lose any time. Sud
denly glancing back, he was hor
rified to observe that the gaso
line had taken fire, and knowing
that at almost any moment the
flames were liable to be commu
nicated to the main tanks, he
headed for the shore, and not a j
minute too soon, either, forj
hardly had he run the vessel’s!
nose aground and leaped for terra!
firma before she blew up with aj
roar which made him thank his
stars that he had not delayed
operations.”
WANTSH
WIFE BACK
Nome, Aug. 24.—Eugene T.
Graham, a mining man of this i
city, is in the Seattle courts ask- j
ing for another adjustment of his
household affairs. Last Septem- j
ber Graham secured a divorce j
from his wife. He had no per
ceptible grounds therefor, so j
went to his wife and told her that
if she contested the suit he would
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ONE TOWN BOOMER’S
TYLE OF PITCHING
A widely-known pioneer of this city has for years posed in
season and out, at home and abroad, as a self-constituted commit
tee of one to boom the town. He is always making extravagant
offers of assistance for persons to come to this place and locate; he
eloquently tells his listeners his confidence in the town’s great fu
ture; he is ever ready to furnish houses or ground space to pros
pective settlers free of charge as an inducement for new people to
reside,here. Many persons who hear this loud-mouthed “town
boomer” believe him to be the “pure quill,” and a community pos
sessing a freak of this nature will surely make rapid advancement
commercially and gain in population wonderfully. This fellow is
ever ready to “explanation” the town’s advantageous position for
economical purchasing; and does so love to tersely tell why it’s the
only place to outfit for mining camps, be they located in any part
of Alaska.
One would infer from his “gab” that he would be the last, per
son in the community to go outside the town’s limits to make his
purchases. Such, however, is not the case. Instead of patroniz
ing local business houses, Mond Wartgomery & Co., (a Chicago
mail-order house which has done SO MUCH for this town), gets
the first crack at “town boomer’s” money, or, should he visit Fair
banks, he will load himself with merchandise and pay the freight
thereon to Tanana rather than give the merchants of his home
town an opportunity to quote him prices; he entirely ignores the
enterprises of the community that SUPPORTS HIM AND HIS
BUSINESS. Such a policy is detrimental to the town, and dis
couraging to all local interests.
Faaucis G. Bailey, the man who loaded the steamer Goldsboro with
goods to the value of $100,000 obtained from New York dealers under
false pretenses and sailed with the vessel to Honduras in 1908, and who
later escaped at night from a vessel in which a New York detective was
about to bring him back, has now been landed in jail at New York to
await trial. He was located by the detectives on a lonely ranch in the
woods ol British Columbia, which he had bought under an assumed
name.
The Youngstown (O.) Sheet and Tube Company has
adopted a profit-sharing plan by means of which it is hoped
that the 5000 unorganized employes may receive a small
share in the profits of the business. All except one depart
ment, the jjuddlers, is now on the open-shop plan.
commit suicide. She was fond of
him, and let the decree be ob
tained by default. After he had
the decree Eugene confessed
that he wanted it so that he could
marry another woman. He failed
to land the other woman, and
after being for a year short of a
wife of his own, he began suit to
have the decree of divorce va
cated, and the right returned to
him to put his shoes under the
bed of wife No. 1—the only wife
he ever had.
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Seattle, An". 24.—The worst
automobile disaster in Seattle’s
history occurred at midnight of
the 19th, when the auto of Ira
Perry, proprietor of the Royal
cafe of this city, and containing
himself and four lady friends
from Vancouver, B. C., plunged
over the embankment into the
bay, all of the members of the
party being drowned. The ladies
with Mr. Perry were all from
Vancouver, and wereMrs.Grethe,
wife of a prominent employe of
the Canadian Pacific Railway
Company; Mrs. Calvin, wife of
the senior member of the Calvin
Harris Company of Vancouver,
Agnes Cameron, sister of Mrs,
Calvin, and Maggie Paulson, a
teacher in the Seymour school.
The bodies of Mr. Perry, Mrs.
Gretlie and Miss Cameron were
recovered shortly after the acci
dent, and the bodies of Mrs. Cal
vin and Miss Paulson were recov
ered the next morning.
The Hamilton Watches have arrived
at outside prices and if you are nearly
biind 1 have the goods. Examination
free. Pick out a nugget and send home.
Lynn Smith, Jeweler.
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