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In The News
Nome Pioneer Press
Nome, Alaska
Thursday Morning, November 14, 1907
Vol. 1, No. 10
Page 1.
MINING NOTES
Franzen and Carlson are prospecting on the sub-marine beach two miles west of
town. They have found some pay about seventy feet down, and are at present
drifting south.
About 600 feet south of them Berg and partners sunk a hole to a depth of 73
feet. They encountered heavy boulders and almost impenetrable ground and
abandoned the shaft. At present they are engaged in sinking a new shaft some of
300 feet south of the present, and are down about 40 feet.
One mile further west Berndtsen and Johnson have sunk a shaft to bedrock, 60
feet, where they found two feet of ground carrying small values. The are now
working on another shaft, further towards the sea, but intend to go back to the
shaft later on and do some drifting.
A large outfit has been taken out to the ground adjoining the former to the
north, an some thorough prospecting is evidently going to be done there during
the winter.
Still further west two drills are hard at work investigating the submarine
beach. It seems to be generally believed that the submarine streak runs
underneath the second beach line.
About one mile from the city Sutton is sinking a shaft about 50 feet from the
edge of the tundra, with the intention to drift under the present beach.
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PHYSICIANS AFTER RIVAL
The physicians of Nome have begun an open fight against Dr. Weyerhorst, a doctor
who came to this city early last spring.
In the municipal court yesterday Dr. Weyerhorst was charged with practicing
medicine without a license. The charge was brought by the medical board of Nome,
all members of which testified that the defendant was practicing here without
the proper license. Other evidence was introduced by the prosecution thru O. D.
Cochran, their attorney, and in spite of objections of the opposing counsel
Judge Lucas imposed a fine of fifty dollars.
Before any evidence was submitted, J. J. Reagan, who represented Dr. Weyerhorst,
moved that the case be dismissed, on the grounds that it was not within the
jurisdiction of the municipal court and that the complaint did not state the
cause of action. The motion was overruled.
Dr. Weyerhorst applied for a write of habeas corpus to the district court. The
case was set for yesterday afternoon, but was continued till this morning at 10
o'clock.
Since he first arrived in Nome the local physicians have threatened to prosecute
Dr. Weyerhorst, tho this is the first time any action has been taken. The doctor
states that he has applied to the medical board numberless times for a license,
but each time has been refused the desired permit.
The board alleges that his qualifications were not sufficient tho he presented a
certificate from the state of Montana and a diploma from one of the best known
medical colleges of Belgium. Dr. Weyerhorst intends fighting his case to the
end.
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GETS FOUR MONTHS
Frank Hudson was yesterday sentenced to four months imprisonment in the federal
jail for giving liquor to an Eskimo girl.
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HOSPITAL NOTES
William Anderson was taken to the hospital yesterday, suffering from a severe
attack of pneumonia. He is being attended to by Dr. Weyerhorst, who now has
seven cases of pneumonia in the hospital at the present time. All are doing
nicely and improving as rapidly as could be expected.
W. L. Thorp, who has been confined in the hospital for some time with pneumonia,
is much improved.
James Frawley was hit on the head by a large iron pin this morning while
drilling. The pin was two inches in thickness and eight inches long, and was so
heavy that it cut a deep gash. It required the taking of eight stitches to close
the wound. Frawley went to work again, as soon as the doctor attended him.
Peter Carlson had his foot operated upon yesterday. The operation was
successful.
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GOES TO INNOKO
A. Bahlke, one of the original discoveries of Gan_ creek, left for the Innoko
yesterday, acompanied by James Wilson. A large amount of freight is being taken
along, including two prospecting boilers. They will spend the winter in the new
district.
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REPORTED DEAD
Late last night the report reached Nome that Mike Walshe, the Kougarok mail
carrier, had died. He has been very sick for ssome time.
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Page 3.
TWO NEW STRIKES
Country on Mason and Illinois Creek Looks Good
Fairbanks, Sept. 30.--George Cary, who has been in the Melozi region for the
past two years, has just returned from the scene of the two new strikes on the
Yukon, which were reported some time ago. Mr. Cary is an old timer in the
district, having rocked on a bar in the Melozi twenty years ago.
Last April he returned to Fairbanks and in company with Ed Lindig returned to
the scene of the bar to begin sluicing operations. They built their boxes and
dug their ditches, but were unsuccessful, as there was too much black sand in
the gravel and the gold was too light and flakey to be successfully saved by
ordinary sluice boxes. While there is a large amount of gold in the bar, Mr.
Cary and partner gave it up and began prospecting on some of the other creeks.
The bar, he says, will be worked some day, but only by some improved method.
There are at the present time about thirty men engaged in prospecting on the
head of the Melozi, and the whole region is one where prospects can be found.
Crossing over the divide from the Melozi toward the Yukon, a distance of about
25 miles one comes to the creeks on which the recent strike was made. These are
Gold Mountain creek, Kellum creek, or, as it appears on the records, Illinois
creek and Mason creek. All of these streams empty into the Yukon, about five
miles apart. Illinois (Kellum) is about 35 miles below Fort Gibbon, and at its
mouth a neat little town has already been started. When Mr. Cary left, ten days
ago, there were already twelve cabins in course of construction. These streams
all carry good prospects of coarse gold, sufficient to induce all those who have
been there and acquired ground to go back at once. The region, however, has all
been staked and mostly in association claims.
The region of the other strike reported a month ago was visited by Mr. Cary
early in September. This strike is on a little stream called Ruby creek, which
comes into the Yukon two and one half miles below the mouth of the Melozi, on
the opposite side. The stream enters the river just above the first
perpendicular bluff below the mouth of the Melozi, so thee is no danger of
mistaking it. Mr. Cary says that he camped on the spot where the strike was made
twenty years ago. The stream at the mouth where the first discovery was made
widens out into a little basin. At the time he left no one had been to bedrock,
but a shaft had been sunk to a depth of 12 feet and coarse gold found up to
10-cent nuggets. The creek has also been the scene of some quartz prospecting, a
Minnesota firm having been engaged in driving a tunnel about two miles up from
the mouth. A town of five cabins has already sprung up on the scene.
Mr. Cary staked on some claims in the vicinity which also show prospects,
although their value is not known. Ruby creek itself, he says, is very sure to
be a producer. It also lies in a region of great erosion like that a hundred
miles or more above at the scene of the other strike on Illinois creek.
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BIG STRIKE AT FAIRBANKS
Fairbanks, Oct. 5.--Reportss came to town yesterday of another big strike on 8
below, Ester, on Berry and Hamil's ground. A few weeks ago a shaft was sunk on
this ground further over to the left limit than the ground that was being
working and splendid pay was struck, the gold being much coarser than the
ordinary run of Ester gold and than that previously found on No. 8.
Yesterday a shaft still further over towards the left limit was put down and a
run of pay enormously rich was tapped. It has now been demonstrated that the
paystreak on 8 is nearly 600 feet wide. The gold found yesterday is much coarser
and heavier than any before found on the claim ad appears entirely dissimilar to
that found on the right limit. The shaft just sunk is right below the Berrys'
stable.
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PROSPECTING
Charley Brown and James Kennedy have moved a prospecting outfit up the beach.
They are searching for the third beach beyond Penny river.
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Page 4.
T. J. Nestor Co., wholesale wines, liquors, beers and cigars. 219 Front Street.
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THE SOCIAL WORLD
The second meeting of the Cosmopolitan Whist Club was held yesterday afternoon
at the home of Mrs. M. Gordon of First avenue. A very pleasant time was spent,
light refreshments being served before the guests departed, while punch was
served continuously. Those present were Mesdames E. Wallace Smith, M. Gordon,
(winner of booby prize) A. C. Ross, (winner of head prize) George Modini, D. E.
Campbell, J. W. Wright, R. Wirth, A. CC. Wirth, M. R. Kennedy, Cora R. Wheeler,
J. M. Williams, Joseph White. The club will meet weekly, the next gathering
being at Mrs. Modini's.
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Miss Genevieve Kennedy gave a very pretty birthday party Tuesday night at her
home on First avenue. Those present were Misses Edith Modini, Florence Deyette,
Mamie Wheeler, Emily Craig, Elsie Rowel, Bertha White and Thomas Simpson, Crit
Tolman, Robert Tolman, Chester Modini, Claude Shea, Jess White, Branson Tully.
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SPORTS OF THE DAY
The outlook for Nome's winter athletic season is very bright this year. If the
plans of the various clubs are carried out there will be more sports tha ever
before, while the material on hand would cause one to believe that the quality
of all teams will be unsurpassed by aggregations of former years. Basketball and
baseball will again have the preference, tho after the winter is thoroughly
started the big races and indoor tournaments are bound to gain the patronage of
the whole town.
The organizing of the inter-club athletic association will mean much to local
sport, and will be directly responsible for all contests pulled off this winter,
except the regular series of baseball and basketball games.
Baseball.
The prospects for good baseball this winter are excellent. Many of last year's
star players went outside on the last boats, but, in spite of that fact,
first-class material remains, while there will be a number of players who were
not in her last winter.
The Eagles and A. B's are the only clubs which have made much pretence at
baseball in the past. The former will have practically the same team as last
year, as but one player, McGuire, is gone. Browne and Atkinson will again be the
battery, while Barnholdt will be out for first base, Rawlins for second, Hagen
for third, Van Sickle and Lehfeldt for the short fields and Hall, Kelly and a
number of others for the outfield. Beside those there are many other members of
the order who intend trying for positions and who are expected to give the old
timers a hard run for their positions.
The A. B's have lost nearly all of their last year's players. Kruse, Barlow,
McIntyre, Sankey and Schneider went outside while Watt will be in Candle all
winter. That leaves but Kirk, Goshaw, Lawton and Lomen.
Basketball.
In past years basketball has been the greatest attraction for the public, with
the possible exception of the big fifty-mile races of last winter. It bids fair
to be even more popular this year than previously. The trip of the Arctic
Brotherhood team to the States deprived the town of may of its best players, but
there are two good men to fill the place of every one who has gone.
Of the A. B's Gaffney, Cowan, Keown, Barlow and Schneider went outside, leaving
only Lawton, who will naturally be the captain of this year's team. A number of
star players who were on the A. B. team in former years are back this year,
among them Roy Wallingford, Frank Thatcher and Dr. Fromm. Practice will begin
tonight.
The Y.M.C.A. lost Alford, McGuire, Ralph and Alfred Lomen and Burley, but they
have left at least six men who have played on former Association teams, they
being Donnelley (captain), Crowley, Hays, Jensen, Kell and Boardman. In addition
to those there are a number of new men and those who played on the second team
last year. Their practice begins tomorrow night, anyone who wishes being allowed
to join them.
The High School are going in strong for basketball this winter. Reed, Thornquist
and Boardman, of last year's team, will not be with them, but Morris and Andrews
are back, while there are a number of promising candidates, amongst them being
the two Tolman boys.
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