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In The News
Fairbanks Daily Times
Fairbanks, Alaska
Friday, July 20, 1906
Volume 1, Number 59
MAIL SERVICE TO BE MORE REGULAR
Stage Line From Here to Valdez Will Be Running Just as Soon as Snow Flies.
When the great mantle of snow that covers mother Earth's false this year there
will be one outfit in this country ready to use it to advantage. Just as soon as
the snow flies big Ed Orr will begin winter traffic to Valdez.
In a few weeks more the Orr & Tukey Company will be a thing of the past in
Dawson. The big stage outfit, in charge of Oscar Tackstrom will be piled on one
of the N. C. Steamers and brought to this city.
During the next few months Mr. Orr will see to it that the road houses and barns
are arranged for along the road. All this will be done before the winter sets in
so that when the rivers freeze, through stages will begin to run between here
and the coast.
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MAKES PLANS FOR REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN
Judge C. D. Murane, recently nominated as the Seward Peninsula Republican
candidate for delegate to Congress, will leave on the Orizaba to attend the
Juneau convention, July 14. In case of his receiving the Republican nomination
there he will return to Nome by way of Skagway, visiting Fairbanks and
waypoints.
Mr. Murane was born on a farm in Minnesota and attended the public school of
Austin, Minnesota. Sense he went to studying at the northern Indiana normal
College, and was graduated from the law department of that institution. He
practiced his profession in Minnesota and Washington, and came to Nome in 1900.
Previous to his arrival in Nome he had been mining in Dawson. Since his
residence in Nome Judge Murane has acted as municipal judge, and has filled the
office with acceptance.
He has the interest of Nome and the Seward Peninsula at heart, and is well
acquainted with the needs of the mining population. He has spent large sums
yearly in working claims, and he has employed a great deal of labor during that
time. Mr. Murane is making a strong campaign for the delegateship, and his
winning friends every day.--Nome News.
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TO SAIL FOR KUSKOKWIM.
Capt. W. E. Geiger, who was to head a trading expedition into the Kuskokwim
country, has almost completed the refitting of the steamer Quickstep, at the
expense of $8000. He expects to sale June 25. The quickstep will carry 100 tons
of freight and 40 passengers.
It is intended to establish a trading station on the river. A number of traders
who are in town have placed their orders for goods here, and are taking
advantage of the Quickstep to send them by that boat, while they themselves will
go outside and return by way of Valdez and the Tanana.
According to reports, a big stampede is on in on the Kuskokwim. Numbers are
going over from Kantishna. The steamer Nunivak left Seattle a few days ago with
a big party for the Kuskokwim.--Nome News.
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PAY LOCATED ON CRIPPLE
HOLE ON HORSESHOE GROUP OPPOSITE 7 BELOW SHOWS GOOD RESULTS
ON LEFT LIMIT OF CREEK
Same Shaft in Which Charley Swanson Was Asphyxiated -- Adjoins Bar Ton Group --
Webber and Bernard Are Now Working the Prospect.
A little stampede is on to Cripple Creek. The report that the pay streak has
been located had men chasing out hot foot this morning and many claims were
re-staked, which have been staked many a time before.
The whole in which the pay body is reported to have been located is the same in
which Charles Swanson was asphyxiated early this month. It is on the left limit
of Cripple, opposite seven below and is 70 feet deep. The property is owned by
the horseshoe Association and was originally located by John Zarnowiski.
G. H. Webber and O. H. Bernard have been working the prospect for some time and
drifting 10 or 15 feet towards the bar-ton group which they own.
McQueen owns the claim adjoining the Horseshoe on the Creekside and the Midway
owned by McNear, Clough, Charles and Suter adjoins the bar-ton towards the
Creek.
While there is nothing on the Creek to justify a stampede, the owners are into
20 feet of gravel and have found prospects of a workable quality all through it.
Webber and Bernard have thoroughly panned the dump from time to time and feel
amply justified in going ahead with the work. They think they have the best
prospects discovered on the Creek, so far.
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KNOX AND HAMILTON IN NEW PAY STREAK
Get Good Returns From Wet Ground at 8 Below on Cleary -- Have Blocked Out Large
Body of Ground for Work This Season.
While the drought of the past months has had a generally bad effect on the
mining interests of the district, it is also enabled owners of some claims which
it was impossible to work on account of water to more thoroughly examine their
ground.
Knox & Hamilton have located new pay at eight below on Cleary and are keeping a
large force of men at work while the opportunity lasts and the dry season
continues.
They are pumping the water out of the drifts and enabling the men to continue
getting out the pay, which they report to be there in satisfactory quantities.
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WHITE SEAL WILL HAVE BUSY SEASON
Has Just Returned From Trip to McCarty Where She Carried Soldiers Who Will Cut
Telegraph Line.
The White Seal reached board last evening after taking a number of soldiers to
McCarty, where they will start on the cut off on the new telegraph line, whereby
it will be shortened some 200 miles.
She will sale today at 1 o'clock with live stack and supplies for soldiers.
After that she will return and pick up 16 tons of wire for use on the line.
From now on till the end of the navigable season the White Seal will be busy
carrying supplies to Richardson and other camps on the upper Tanana. Following
were the passengers on the White Seal reaching the city last evening:
From Richardson--G. Matthews,H. O. Crouse, M. S. Kinto, John McCormick, Jsoeph
Solva, J. F. Folger, H. J. Johnson, F. A. Lawson.
From Delta--S. C. Ensor, J. Monroe, John Boyle.
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JOHN BOYLE SUFFERS BROKEN SHOULDER BLADE
John Boyle, an employee of Dunbar, Rice & Whittee, on tenderfoot, suffered a
broken shoulder blade a few days ago by a chunk of muck falling from the roof of
the drift. He was brought down on the White Seal and taken to St. Matthews
hospital. Dr. Carpenter is in attendance.
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WOMAN OF NOTE VISITS FAIRBANKS
Miss Mary Elizabeth Urch of Idaho State Normal College Here for Few Days --
Studies Educational Conditions in Alaska.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Urch, prominent in pedagogic circles on the outside, is in
Fairbanks, and will be a guest of friends in the city for the next few days.
Miss Urch is Dean of the women's department at the State normal College of
Idaho, situated at Lewiston, and is making the trip through Alaska to study
educational affairs in the territory and to absorb local color for literary work
in which she will engage during the coming winter.
While here she will visit the creeks and see actual mining operations being
carried on and believes that in that way more knowledge can be gleaned than in a
lifetime of reading.
The facts obtained firsthand in this way will be used as the basis of a lecture
to be given at the Idaho college on her return.
"I regret," said Miss Urch to a Times representative last night, "that I have so
little time in which to study so largest subject. My observations must be
largely superficial for that read very reason, but, even so, I believe that I
can learn much more in this way that I could through any amount of study of the
books published on the country."
Miss Urch is pleased with the educational outlook in the north, both in the work
already done and in the plans for its future improvement. She has paid
particular attention to local conditions and in speaking of the same said:
"The personnel of the local teachers could not be improved upon. The ladies
engaged in educational work here seem to have a thorough grasp of the conditions
and the best way of meeting them, and the spirit in which they have entered into
their work in this far northern camp is worthy of the utmost commendation."
Miss Urch is making the circle of the Yukon, having already visited Dawson on
the way in from Skagway, and will leave for Saint Michael in a few days on her
way to Nome, from which place she will sale for the outside.
She is impressed with the great northern country through which she has passed
and had a very complementary reference for Fairbanks and the people met while
here.
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NOME DITCH TO BE 38 MILES LONG
Fairhaven Water Company Has 150 Horses, 100,000 Feet of Lumber and Five
Hydraulic Elevators on the Way.
E. M. Walters, of the Fairhaven water company, left or Deering today. Before
leaving he gave the following particulars concerning the progress of the work of
the big ditch company, in addition to those already published by the daily
nugget:
The ditch, which will extend from Lake Imaruk to Innachuk River, will be 38
miles in length. The first 13 miles of the survey will be completed by the time
the contractor, C. L. Morris, arrives with his party. George K. McLeod is
treasurer and secretary of the company, and C. J. Gadd general manager.
One hundred and fifty horses, 100,000 feet of lumber, five Campbell hydraulic
elevators, 18,000 feet of pipe and various other supplies will be brought direct
to Deering on the Tampico. The Indiana will bring 350 men to work on the ditch.
The company owns 1500 acres of placer ground. The ditch will be 11 feet broad at
the bottom, 19 feet at the top, and will carry 7000 miners inches of
water.--Nome News.
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