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In The News
Nome Gold Digger
Nome, Alaska
Vol. 1, No. 37
Wednesday, July 4, 1900.
Page 1.
SEIZED THE GARONNE.
Lieut. Jarvis Takes Her to St. Michael for
Having $18,000 In Contraband Liquors.
Goods Not On the Manifest - Were Taken Off Here
and Confiscated - Treasury Agent Noyes' Discovery.
The erstwhile British ship Garonne was seized
yesterday by Lieut. Jarvis, chief U.S. treasury agent at this port, and
taken to St. Michael, for having about $18,000 worth of foreign liquors
aboard her not on the manifest.
The liquors were traced down by Special Treasury
Agent Noyes, and were all taken off the ship before she left and were
confiscated. The offense of bringing dutiable goods without a record of
them and without paying the duty, is a very serious one. It is not known
who owned the liquors, but they were all of the finest French, British
and German importations.
The Garonne was a British ship, but through
representation at Washington she was allowed to register and clear from
Seattle, and on this, her first trip in this spring, has got into this
difficulty. The ship should have paid duty at Seattle, so it is
represented, and entered the goods on the manifest.
Lieut. Jarvis took the ship himself to St.
Michael. Aboard her were the several hundred passengers who were
anticipating a quick trip to Seattle. They were by no means pleased by
the switch to the Yukon and alleged that she would be put to great
inconvenience. The vessel was seized in the stream just before she was
to start on her course. The treasury officials seized the goods at noon
and spent several hours in carrying them ashore and storing them. There
is far too much whiskey in camp, as many shippers have found out, and
several trans-shipments have been made in consequence. The fact that the
liquors were not on the manifest gives a very bad look to things.
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RAVES LIKE ONE MADE.
The Bullet In the Brain of Mike Smith Causes Him
to Have Many Convulsions.
Mike Smith, who was mysteriously shot in the
head a week ago at a tent in Dry creek at the same time that a man since
found to be John Nolan was killed, is in a precarious condition at the
city hospital. The bullet entered the brain, and Smith is flighty and
delirious and at times has convulsions, one rapidly succeeding the
other. W. Breining and George Payne, who were arrested on suspicion of
being the men who killed Nolan, were, at the preliminary trial held
before Commissioner Swinehart, held to answer. Smith cannot at the
present time give any version of the grim tragedy. Dr. Gregg, who is
attending Smith, thinks his would will be fatal.
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PERSONAL.
Sam W. Horton, long sporting editor of the San
Francisco Post and one of the most capable men in his specialty on the
coast, is among the arrivals in Nome. Mr. Horton will probably remain
here for some time.
B. S. Woods is one of the gladdest men in town
and is buying liquid refreshments on the slightest provocation. The
reason is that a son and heir, a bouncer in his way, arrived at his home
in the gold camp, on Monday morning. Mrs. Woods, as well as the child,
is getting along well.
R. G. Steele, manager of the Dawson News, is one
of the recent down-river arrivals from the Klondike camp. Though a
strong believer in Dawson, he is also impressed with the life and energy
of Nome, and believes it cannot fail to be a great and permanent gold
camp.
Little Anna Logan, who was such a popular
news-girl on the Gold Digger during the winter and spring, was a
passenger on the out-going Garonne. She goes to Stockton, Cal., where
she will reside with relatives until the return there of her parents.
John J. Healy, for several years past manager of
the N.A.T.&T. Co. on the Yukon, is in camp, accompanied by Mrs. Healy.
He has a very high opinion of the mines here.
Captain Hanson, of the A. C. Co., who is here
looking after the interests of the company, is one of the busiest men in
town.
General Randall has gone on a trip to St.
Michael.
The revenue cutter Bear returned yesterday from
Port Clarence and Cape York.
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FIRED GUNS AND BLEW WHISTLES.
At midnight last night cannons were discharged
at the military station and whistles in camp in harbor blew in honor of
Independence Day. Flags and banners were also displayed all over the
city in honor of America's natal day. It was the forerunner Morely, if
it may be called so, of the patriotic observance of the Fourth by the
people here, who are gathered from all quarters of the globe.
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SAYS DAWSON IS DEAD.
Steamer Utopia, from St. Michael, arrived
yesterday with 160 passengers who left Dawson June 25th. Isaac Olson,
one of the passengers, said:
"Dawson is dead. The mines are a good deal
worked out, though some of them are good. The town, however, is dead.
Everybody is leaving. About 3000 lost this spring. Up to the time we
felt we had heard absolutely nothing from Nome as to the arrival of any
ships. Some said this town was good and others that it was no account.
Now that I have seen it I am well pleased with it. It is just such a
camp as I wanted to see."
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NOME HAS TELEPHONE SERVICE.
The Nome Telephone Co. succeeded in getting a
portion of its line strung this morning and connections were made with
quite a number of establishments. By this time next week complete
connections will be made throughout the city.
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MADE A COPPER STRIKE.
Edward H. Holland, formerly one of the
supervisors at San Francisco, and who is interested with Bob English in
several mining enterprises, has returned from Port Clarence. He says the
prospector well known here as "Red-Eyed Dick," has, according to the
news at Port Clarence, made an important discovery of native copper on
the Kougvook. He is on his way here with specimens of it.
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FINDS ON HASTINGS CREEK
Ten and Fifteen Cents to the Pan in Wide Pay
Streaks Reported On It and Tributaries.
John Taylor, who is here from Hastings creek,
reports that new discoveries have been made on Grass creek, a tributary
of Saunders creek, putting into Hastings. They had, he says, as high as
15 cents to the pan.
"On NO. 3 below on Hastings they have also
struck it good, getting 10 cents to the pan. On 8 below pay has also
been found. Near the mouth of Snow gulch, a tributary of Hastings, J.
Segar has also found pay. He is now putting in a hydraulic pump, and
machinery of other kinds.
"Hastings, all things considered, is turning out
as we anticipated; not that we have much high-grade dirt, but lots of it
in wide pay streaks. There is plenty of water in Saunders, Hastings and
the other streams for sluicing."
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FOR SIBERIA'S SHORES.
Geo. D. Robert and French and English
Capitalists Enroute - Will Mine With Cossacks.
George D. Roberts, the great mining operator of
New York, and a party of French and English capitalists who have formed
the East Siberia Co., limited, are enroute the Nome in the ship Samoa,
on their way to Siberia.
Through the Russian government a few months ago
they obtained a concession for over 1,500 miles of territory for mining
purposes, and extending from Bering sea across the country to the Arctic
ocean. Mr. Roberts believes the shores of Siberia are as rich in gold as
the beaches of Nome and Topkok have ever been, and is going to prospect
and work them thoroughly. A large amount of machinery is being taken
along, and supplies to last for nearly two years. A Russian War vessel
is to convey the party from Nome, where they will leave the Samoa, to
Siberia. Arriving there they will, as has been previously arranged by
the Russian government, employ a large force of Cossack miners. Roberts
is a very wealthy mining engineer and operator, who years ago made a
reputation and acquired fortune in California and Colorado. The
distinguished party is expected here any day.
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ST. MICHAEL QUARANTINED AGAINST NOME.
Information is received here that St. Michael
has been quarantined against Nome, that is tht people from here cannot,
until the embargo is finally raised, go to St. Michael in the usual
manner aboard ships, or otherwise if it is known.
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IN SMALLPOX HOSPITAL.
Dr. Call, the Quarantine Officer, Says There Are
But 13 Cases - W. Wormsley Dead.
Dr. S. J. Call, the quarantine officer appointed
by the Chamber of Commerce and recognized as such by General Randall and
special Treasury Agent Jarvis, has been working very hard for several
days trying to get all the smallpox patients together. A pest house has
been established on the tundra over a mile east of the N.A.T.&T. Co.,
and over it floats the yellow flag.
In the house Sunday were eleven patients, a
twelfth having died a day or two previously. There were then five other
cases in different parts of the camp, and Dr. Call was exerting himself
to get them all in the establishment. He said he was satisfied misguided
people had been trying to secrete some of the cases, and keep the fact
that their friends had smallpox from the knowledge of the officials.
Dr. Call said last night that notwithstanding
all reports there were but thirteen actual cases now in the smallpox
hospital. "This is exact," he said: "seventeen were reported, but not
verified. The one man who died was W. Wormsley, of Texas."
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DEFEND YOURSELF AGAINST FIRES.
The Gold Digger calls the attention of the
people to the great danger of fire at the present time and in the
future. Nome is a wooden town entirely, and a mining camp, where people
retire at all hours. Kerosene lamps are used by everybody, in the entire
absence of the means of using other lights. These and other things tend
to add to the probability of fires, sooner or later.
At the same time the apparatus for fighting fire
is very limited. Because of these things everybody should use extra
precaution. There never was such fortune to any mining camp, probably,
as happened this town during the long months of its isolation, in
escaping everything but a few incipient fires, as happened us last
winter. The direct cause of this, beyond doubt, was the extreme care
exercised by Fire Warden Allen, in taking every means to prevent fires.
And the Chamber of Commerce never did anything of greater benefit to the
camp, except possibly its aid in a sanitary way, than recently, when it
resolved to retain and pay the fire chief to remain at the head of the
volunteer fire department. The Chamber is now out of funds, but some way
ought to be contrived to still retain his services.
R. B. Dawson has also done a magnificent work in
being the means of advancing a large sum, as told elsewhere, for a fire
engine, to arrive in a few weeks. All these things should not be
forgotten. But immediately arrangements should be made by the citizens
to retain Mr. Allen. Their property and goods are at stake. It will not
pay to take risks.
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NEWS NUGGETS.
Lou Salisbury, the famous western stage man, has
a large pumping plant and engines three and a half miles up the beach,
where he is getting in shape to work the sands.
W. A. Sanders, who put the first 112 stamps in
the Douglas island mines, has a plant on the beach for saving gold.
Don't forget that C. J. Campbell the real estate
agent, mining broker and auctioneer is a hustler from the word go.
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ALONG THE GOLD BEACH.
Miners Elect a Town Recorder and Activity
Continues on Daniels Creek Near By.
A meeting of the miners was held at the Northern
club here on the 24th to elect a recorder for the new town of Bluff
City. Frank Halpin and Charles Hermanson were nominated. The result of
the vote was Halpin 79, Hermanson 69.
There are about 200 men working on the beach,
all doing well. Daniels creek is being opened up and is very rich.
Thomas Coniff has commenced work on No. 5, and has good prospects from
the grass-roots.
Hugh O'Donnell and Martin Crane are taking out
good pay on No. 3, the property in which George Murphy, of Nome, is
interested.
Louis Bone is here with a pumping outfit with
sufficient power to throw two sluice-heads of water.
Jim Warner has opened a general store on the
water front.
This is a good point to pack to from Council
City, and A. J. Beecher is going to start a pack train on the route.
Bluff City, July 1.
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PERSONAL.
Ex-Congressman Doolittle, of Tacoma, Wash., has
arrived here.
Captain A. N. Hibbard, general agent of the A.
E. Co., paid a business visit to St. Michael last week.
James Young, charged by A. M. Pope with the
larceny of a $7 pair of shoes from the A. C. Co., is incarcerated in the
city prison.
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INDICTED NATIVE VERY SICK.
Charlie Kougruske, the Eskimo seal hunter,
charged with the murder of a native at Port Clarence some months ago,
and since in the city prison, is very ill with a throat and lung
disease.
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TOOK MURIATIC ACID.
John Ocreta, a French Canadian living in a cabin
back of the city hall on the tundra, had a close call for his life a day
or two ago. he had been drinking. His partner had been using muriatic
acid for cleansing plates and had the acid in a beer bottle. The
trusting Ocreta mistook it for good old juice of hops. He was landed at
the hospital in the Ryan building, and Dr. Gregg had all he could do to
pull him through.
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PERSONAL.
H. M. Haines, a hustling and popular business
man of Seattle, is one of the latest substantial acquisitions to Nome's
commercial circles. As on the outside, he will engage in the shipping
business.
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Page 5.
NATIVES DIE WITH GRIP.
The Bone Racking Disease Affecting to Continents
Attacks the Local Eskimos.
The numerous Eskimos hereabout are effecting
with a curious disease, much like the influenza or grip, which has
already caused several deaths and threatens to be fatal with many
others. It is the same disease, apparently, that attacked the natives at
Port Barrow and across from the Diomedes on the Siberian shore a few
months ago.
It is a frightfully painful disease, racking the
bones like the ague and rendering the victims sore, tired and utterly
unable to do anything but lie around in a half stupor. A thick mucous
forms in the throat and nostrils and is very irritating and bothersome
all the time. At the village of Pamochuck, at Cape Nome, two have died,
both women, and the whole of the population is sick. Several are also
sick on the west side of the cape and toward the Hastings river. At
Setok, near Port Safety, four are sick, and at Opatulik, the other side
of the Solomon river, all the natives are afflicted.
It is said that up the coast from here the
disease is prevalent. None of the natives are receiving any medical
treatment.
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NEWS NUGGETS.
Zue G. Peck, a well known attorney formerly of
Los Angeles, has established offices in room 6 Temple Court, Steadman
avenue, where he will be pleased to meet his old friends and the public.
Mr. Peck comes to Nome with highest recommendations from his former
home.
W. S. Beebe, a former well known attorney of
Portland, Oregon, is one of the late arrivals in Nome. He brings a large
amount of mining machinery with which to develop and operate claims on
Shovel, Adams, Irene and other creeks, which he and his associates
acquired through location last year.
Arrangements are being made toward working the
Bowhead placer property, consisting of 160 acres on the Bowhead, a
tributary of the Cripple river. It is owned by T. J. Nestor, A. R.
Allardyce, Dr. J. G. Humphrey, Walter Church, Major Lippincott, A. D.
Simpson and others. It has been prospected and good colors have been
found, and the owners now desire to put on some good hydraulic
machinery. The property is in a rich section.
A. Allardyce reports the receipt of $500 in good
clean gold from claims on Boulder and Ruby creeks, in the Big Four
district.
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PUBLIC WARNING.
All persons are warned against buying the lot
situate on the north side of Second street immediately north of the
northwest corner of the U.S. barracks building, as half of said lot
belongs to the undersigned, who will maintain her rights to the same
through the regularly constituted courts of the district.
Florence Damerque.
Nome, June 29th, 1900
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PERSONAL.
John M. Haley, a mining engineer, metallurgist
and analytical chemist, of Rossland, B. C., is in camp and will engage
extensively in mining. In the capacity of analytical chemist he had
charge of the laboratory at the Trail smelter, the largest copper
smelter in British Columbia. Mr. Haley has held important positions in
the mining and smelting industries in several other large camps of the
west, and has had much experience with the copper industry.
Miners are warned not to negotiate or accept
lays on any claims located and staked by the undersigned, except through
Mr. Chas. E. Hoxsie, who is, and has been, empowered to let lays. Don't
be deceived into losing time and money, but speak to Hoxsie or myself.
Edwin Engelstad.
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Page 6.
Among the recent arrivals here is Denver Ed.
Smith, known in the fistic arena and over the world as a promoter of
athletic sports.
James F. Wardner, of Wardner, Idaho, and pretty
much every camp of prominence on the globe, has recently returned here.
He was here last summer, when the beach was producing such enormous
quantities of gold. Mr. Wardner is a leading stockholder in two big New
York companies, and has brought a lot of mining machinery here, which he
will have working on different properties.
H. O. Matthies, of Petaluma, Cal., is one of the
recent arrivals here. He has come up to take a look at the most
interesting of all gold camps and thinks of remaining here permanently
and engaging in mining and other projects.
H. O. Nordwig has returned from Top-kok, where
he and some associates have some machinery at work on the beach. He says
nine different machines are at work there and none of them have over ten
feet of ground. He thinks the ground will not last over two weeks. Mr.
Nordwig says a quartz property near Bluff City has recently been sold
for $12,000.
Horace Wilkins, of Minnesota, and Captain
William Whiteside, of New Bedford, Mass., died in camp at East Nome on
the 25th inst. both of pneumonia and very suddenly, having only been
sick a day or two. Both were Masons, the latter being one of the 32d
degree. The body of Captain Whiteside was taken by his wife on the
Garonne to the east for burial, and the remains of Mr. Wilkins were
interred on the Spit, Masons performing the last rite.
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ADVERTISEMENTS THROUGHOUT THIS ISSUE.
See Miller & Wilkerson for real estate, City
Recorder's office.
See J. W. Schaeffer of Seattle and W. F. Howe of
Dawson, about stoves, tin and zinc work.
Messrs. Raymond & Morency have bought the Anvil
saloon, and are doing a thriving business. Mr. Morency was one of the
pioneers of Circle City, going their in '88.
Nestor Brother's horse team does freighting and
wood hauling, $10 an hour.
T. J. Nestor, real estate for sale and house for
rent.
Robert J. English, proprietor, The Pioneer -
cigars and liquor
Frank Johnson, manager, The New Eldorado Club
Rooms
Mulford & Hulsenhouser, proprietors, Portland
Home Bakery and Coffee Saloon.
John Kill, Cuts and Steaks
Woods & Armstrong Freighters - fines dog team in
Nome.
W. C. Beall, proprietor, The Alabama - rooms and
bunks.
Lackie & Woods, proprietors, The Chief - wines,
liquors and cigars
Charles Cobb, manager, The Bon Ton Resort of
Nome.
Miner Bruce, proprietor, Hotel Casco - a few
rooms to rent to gentlemen, on European plan.
Ed. A. Dexheimer, proprietor, Pioneer Barber
Shop.
T. J. Nestor, owner and operator, The Steamboat
Hotel.
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