The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-09
NEWS FROM ALASKA.
Wealth of Cooks Inlet Largely
Fabulous.
FLAW IN THE LIQUOR LAW.
Commissioners Jurisdiction Not Good
-Unsa Miners Return Hungry
News From the Mines.

Tha Alaska News. the latest copy OF
which arrived on the steamship Queen
xes..rdav. contains some interesting news
ars a communication from Mark A. Cur
ran a miner who has lately gone TO Cook
snla- in which he speaks in a very depre-
eating manner Of the prospects in that
section. He says that the Bear creek gold
miners ind but an average OF $50 per
say and that the working season viii not
exceed three and one-half months. de
concludes:
..The atmosphere is made UP OF three
COMPONENT parts. namely. mosquitoes
svoafs and deyiI-fiies. All wear masks OF
wire netting, principally as a protection
fro,,, the atmosphere. We have four DIFF
ferent kinds OF timber, water birch. small
cottonwood. alder and devil-club, the lat
ter greatly predominating. The trip has
cost up 10 date, about s3a: this includes
the summers supplies. bought from the
Alaska Commercial Company. at Kodiak.
the only supply depot for this part or the
coast. The company has branch at IT,
onlc. 20 miles from Kodiak and about
forty miles from Bear creek. The Tionic
branch furnishes most OF the unfortunate
miners here with supplies at the follow
ing prices: Salt horse, 20 cents per pound,
sugar pounds for 81: coffee, 30 cents per
pound; baking powder. s. cents per pound;
apples, poor quality. 25 cents per pound;
rice. s pounds for 81; smoking tobacco. 81
per pound: everything else in proportion;
these are cash prices
Last month the government officials at
Juneau arrested number OF saloon keep
ers under the prohibitory clause OF the or
ganic act by which the territory was
formed. Some of the cases were continued
TO allow the counsel for defense TO obtain
from the district court at Sitka writ of
review to test the power of United States
commissioner 10 try the cases. The cases
of others went To trial before Commission
err Mellef, who decided that as the organic
act evidently deprived the prisoners OF their
right to an indictment by grand jury.
and as il is constitutional question. so
far as his court was concerned the case
was ended. and this rendered the writ OF
review unnecessary.
The westward steamer Dora passed Ju-
neau from Sitka June D. with r. Gibson.
Frank Drew, w. r. Reid and Percy Hope,
and stopped at Treadweirs to take on
eighty dies and shoes and suppaes for the
Apollo mill at Unga- Fifteen miners
came down TO Sitka. having quit their
Job at the Unga mine on account of poor
food E. Gibson has been commissioned
10 send ten miners by the Topeka to con-
meet with the Dora at Sitka- They will
take back about fifteen men, having Sc
cured several on the island. Bullion TO
the amount of $1,000 was brought down.
Mr.. Gibson may return in August Purser
Gould raised on checks 800 from the
merchants last night. At Odiaks Prince
William sound. on June 20, about $500
salmon were caught with one haul. max
ing 2309 cases, the largest on record. The
cruisers Perry, Corwin. Grant, Bear and
Rush are patro.ling Boring sea
John T. White. who has run a black
smith shop and hardware store at Forty
Mile, and mined for the past FIVE years.
has returned there. He was among the
first miners 10 open up Cariboo. Williams
creek and Cassiar districts, and went TO
Alaska in 1870 When he left on the
Bertha from ST. Michaels. last Septem-
Der. the reports from Circle City were
golden and fully 400 people wintered there
The tramway for the Gould & Curry
mine. OF which r. G. Hammond is lessee,
was expected to be in operation in the
course of a week or ten days. The ore,
which runs rich in free gold, also carries
some fine sulphurets. which viii be shipped
for treatment. Before long a boom IN
Sheen creek property Is expected. Jack
Reagan has a fine showing of silver ore
in his shaft. and the Glacier mine. under
the siiperyision OF the Noyes brothers, IL
shipping some very fine ore. Several new
locations have lately been made I'M this
district. all on free milling rock, botn
gold and silver.
A schooner asirift was picked UP by In
dams at Freshwater bay recently and
taken 10 Hoonah mission. The craft had
a comnlefe miners outfit, but the guns
and blankets were gone. 1t Is supposed
4ha owners were ashore prospecting IN the
hills when the boat slipped her anchor
and was carried away by the tide ana
winds 90
The Rustler returned from Seward CITY
and Dyea, with fourteen miners from inc
former place. and has departed for Chii-
cat. Dyea and Seward City, loaded down
with merchandise. john l. Nhlte anu
party of six were aboard, headed LOT for-
Nv Mile. and two miners for Seward City.
The trim little sloop Naiiant arrived IN
r.ort from Seattle last week, with Skipper
Nelson aboard. She was bound Tor cooh
inIe, the smallest craft that has slipped
hor r,oorinr,s for the westward from Ju-
neau.
rrhs Polar Fish and Trading Company,
u vyhitnsv resident manager. has men
n. Tal<u river catching and sailing salmon
FOR the Eastern market. The enterprise
ss hacked by New York parties.
Franl. Roberts arrived in his sloop from
ralru river Fast Thursday, bringing IN loV
Taku salmon ranging from hfteen 20
hstv hounds in weight.
The Alaska Mining Record states that
hut few thefts on the Yukon trail have
occurred this year. Last year some NM
aru returned because they had all their
,,o,ev ana effects stolen. One man LETT
~ country because he was ordered out,
ta,.;,s, Noon found 70 possess stolen prop