The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-14
DROWNEDN THEDYEA
Young Canadian Tourist Meets
. Tragic Death.
SANK m The RAGING WATERS.
Large Amount Of Work at the juneau
Mincs-MiIi TO Be Erected at Sew
ard-Fight at q Potlatch.
SANK IN THE RAGING WATERS.

The July 4 issue OF the Alaska News,
which has arrived on the steamer Chilkac,
states that J. +. Talbot, from Montreal.
Canada, on the way to the Yukon coun-
try. was drowned In Dyea river while
crossing on horseback opposite Healy's
post. When last seen he was swimming
against the current, and. suddenly tossing
Up his hands, sank beneath the seeming
waters. Talbot was about Is years old.
and anxious TO see the Yukon river and
the mining camps more from sight-see-
ing standpoint than for the love Of gain.
His brother accompanied him as far a.
Juneau, and returned on the same boat,
while W. II. Morris and Eugene Beniat
continued on in his party. Up 10 the time
the Rustler departed from Dyea the body
had not been recovered. The young man
was a jolly fellow. made friends while IN
Juneau. and started on his journey light
hearted and enthusiastic for adventure
The juneau Mining Company has its
mill building completed at Silver Bow ba-
sin. and the battery. water wheel and Ia
bles Will be IN position to let the stamps
drop by the middle of july. The battery
IS a model for strength and completeness,
and the Union Iron Works coneentrators
are regarded an improvement on the Frue
tables for close working and convenience
The rock breaker Is located above the mill
IN 2 DulAsaIS on a lever Will A1Sc biAis
capable OF holding 800 tons OF ore. The
men on the Burleigh drill have driven the
tunnel into the hill 2s5 fet, and they are
now making a 130-foot upraise from near
the face of the tunnel to the surface. An
ore chute Will be constructed connecting
the surface with the tunnel, through
which the ore from the lodges will be
handled from the surface clrs.
At the Bennett mine. under lease TO
Messrs. Runkle, Bonnifeld and Lutes, ore
is being taken out by q force OF fifty men
from the upper. middle and lower tunnels.
The lower tunnel Ii in 50 feet, and the ore
Is handled by means of an ore chute which
connects this level and the two upper
levels. The ore is taken down by overland
stopping, and the main ledge is we'll min
eralized and grows in width as depth is
attained.
The Novel; Cold Mining Company has
fun force on the hydraulic diggings and
made a satisfactory cleanup during The
middle OF the month. The course OF the
pipe has been changed to give the mont
tors greater force. The company in
tends starting men at work on the Ground
Hog mine IN short time and send ore
down 70 the mill via the tramways.
William Webster, Ed Rose and John Arl-
ford have driven a tunnel ninety feet into
the hill to cut the lodges in depth, which
were worked from the surface last year.
William Elmer has the men at the Taku
mine busx keeping the ten-stamp mill run
ming night and day.
The steamer Rustler has returned from
Seward City with superintendent Willis
Novel;. II. o. Bishop. Dan Mciennon.
Alex Cameron and James Dempsey and
about twenty others. Dan McLennon with
his force OF men has been busy erecting
at the mill a warehouse 6ox70. and office
s0x5o. which have the framework UP.
Later on he will build an electric power
house at the beach io0x1oo and a coal
bunker capable of carrying $500 tons.
Two Indians while manufacturing hoo
chinoo on kiou island lately. took aboard
too much OF the fire water and before they
could be separated by the medicine man,
the son-in-7aw had lost a piece OF his ear
and the father-ln-Iaw was minus the end
OF his thumb and n lobe OF his ear. This
fracas has complicated matters among
the relatives and n VIII cost a potlateh
and pie Of blankets TO square up a.
counts between the injured parties. The
hoocFrnoo was upset in the scufiie.
Louis Levy has added Co his collection
Of Indian eurios the Indian medicine mans
lotus OF twelve pieces. which are ancient
and unique for their carving and gro
tesGre makeup. He got them from
Sum Dunn Indian. who wanted 70 ublid
house. and TO raise tho money Reluctantly
parted with the articles which were used
by family OF doctors for many years
the last member OF which died several
years ago. They are valuable relics.
Joseph Ia Rouns5e and wife, OF Canada
East. have arrived in Juneau on the To-
peka. They spent several weeks there
last fall, selling Alaskan curios OF Tacoma
manufacture.
The News says editorially:
Indian Taku Johnson went 20 Portland,
Or. and was successful in getting the sub
mail contract from juneau to Chiskat from
Smith, 10 whom II was let. Here Is an in
stance where the postal authorities =,
Washington City allow a star route bidder
80 secure the contract. who IN turn sub
lets 81 70 an irresponsible Indian. The
steamers plying between here and Chilkat
fled bids. but because the steamboat men
could not figure ~ close as an ignorant
outsider II goes begging IN Indian hands
and the mail IS henceforth 70 be conveyed
in an old schooner about ready for the
boueyard. Johnson started on his first
trip last Monday.