Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-01-14

IVA ms Niiilil oii tiiC hiOuulhc. MS
Is, however, one Of the capital prizes,
about as likely to be drawn as the
winning ticket in the Louisiana lot
terry.
Hugh Wallace indicates, a. was cx-
pected, that he has a "pull' with the
President. He has control OF some
sort of an aerial tramway at Chilcoot
which aids transportation and wants a
.o;s for relief Of the destitute miners"
He ignores Secretary Alger and tele-
graphs directly to the President Hugh
always did aim high.
A party of an even dozen-ten men
and two women, of Bay City, Mich,
have contracted with A. q. Sandstrom,
a shipbuilder at Port Townsend, for
the construction of fifty-ton steam
schooner, in which they will embark
about the middle of March for a two
years cruise of the coast OF Alaska, on
a pr ospecting expedition.
A boy named VIM. +. Byrnc, while
going in to Dawson with his uncle,
James +. Mcclure, had both legs
amputated at the knee, from having
his feet frozen on the route. They
had been in that condition five days,
and the toes OF one foot had been worn
to bare stumps by stubbing against
rocks and ice. The operation was per.
formed at Five Fingers, a station on
the route.
The War Department is anxious
about Capt Ray, who was sent to
Alaska to make an investigation as to
necessity for military protection, dis
position of the people regarding sup.
port of law, food supply, etc. He left
Aug. 4th, arrived at st. Michaels on
the 18th, submitted two reports, dated
Aug. 25th and 9th, since which time
nothing has been heard from him,
except brief dispatches dated Circle
City, Sept. 9th, and from Fort Yukon
on the 18th and 10th of that month.
They have a summary way OF dis
pensing law at Skagway. A man
jumped woman's lot, and built a
house upon it, after she had given him
temporary possession in kindness.
She told her mining friends and one
night about fifty men with ropes and
axes proceeded to demolish the house.
1t did not take many minutes to clear
the lot of all Instructions, and the
next day the jumper removed the
lumber from the street to point
where he could establish better title.
The P.-L., ever faithful to Seattle,
relates that in a conference between
some other gentlemen and Assistant
Secretary Melplcjohn, lately, the
Secretary with ram's-horn name
said: "The name of no other city
falls so frequently in connection with
Klondike as Seattle. Klondike with
out Seattle is the play of Hamlet with.
out the melancholy Dane" In this,
our usually well-informed neighbor is
wofully mistaken. The actual words
used were, Klondike without Seattle,
is the play of Hamlet without the
ghost"
7. j. McGrade, a representative OF
Unalaska capitalists is making an in
vestigation of Alaskan rivers to ascer-
tain the practicability of dredging the
river bottoms for the precious metal.
A dredge at Bannock, Mont, is clear.
ing 5000 a month while working
very poor gravel. A steel dredge 20
by 30 feet is proposed for the Yukon,
to cost about $4,000 delivered at st.
st. Michael. The bars that have al
ready been staked will be worked on
shares by the dredge company. The
machine is to be built in sections at
Milwaukee and put together at
Michel's. 1t will be OF the elevator
chain bucket type, which does not dis
turb the gravel in the process of dig
ging.