Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-07-20
Some Interesting Seattle Gossip, ii
Which Bismarck People Are
Interested.
Senator Sails for Cape Nome, Mrs
Perkins Accompanying Her
Husband.
Suit Brought by a Judge Against
Tom Church on an Old
Note.

Bringhurst-with the passenger list of
the Senator-which sailed recently for
Nome. The list includes the names
of Alexander Mckenzie, R. N. Stevens
and Mr.. and Mrs. W. T. Perkins. Of
the two ships sailing the P.-I. says:
Both the Robert Dollar and the
Senator have large crowds and all the
freight they cal carry. The Senator
has about $50 passengers and the DOL
lar over 200. Hon. A. H. Noyes, the
newly appointed United States judge
for the Nome district, was a passenger
on the Senator, as also Alex Mckenzie,
a rich capitalist who is extensively
interested in Nome mining ventures.
Capt. G. o. Johnson headed a large
Pittsburg, Pa, expedition on the DOL
lar. There + seventeen in the party,
Their outfit consists of forty tons of
mining machinery, sixty tons of sup
plies and 10000 feet of lumber. The
company is styled the Alaska Gold
Dredging Mining company. They
have a number of mines situated in
Nome river.
l.. H. Gray, of the Seattle-Yukon
transportation company, and Ray
Guerin, a Seattle lawyer, are Robert
Dollar passengers. They took 300
tons of coal, which they will place on
the Nome market.
Charles Watson took a 1OO-ton ma
chinery and supply outfit for the Ber-
ing Sea Mining company. A. M. Crabb
ships sixty tons of fruit on the Dollar.
accompanying it himself. Samuel
kean and Joseph c. Ross has twenty
five tons Of mining machinery, and B.
T. Bicknell ships forty or fifty tons of
stoves and general hardware. M. S.
Colson is a Robert Dollar passenger.
He is going to Nome to establish a res
taurant."
One of the returning passengers on
the Nelson says:
Il consider Nome a splendid camp
for the poor man. Any one who wishes
work can find it there. The district
is undoubtedly rich in gold. | took
a walk up Penny river, where l found
many men digging gold. They had
only the crudest appliances, but with
these they were washing out from 81
to 500 a day to the man. The aver
age, l should say, was not under $50.
And such old rickety rockers as MANY
of them were using!
81 heard good reports as to mining
everywhere. OF course there are go
ing to be many failures in Nome, but
1t will not be the fault of the camp.
Whisky and innumerable other temp
tations will be the undoing of many
a man. l saw hundreds loafng around
saloons and gambling houses, men
who in this state would not think of
going to such places. They go up there
and get discouraged, won't work, and
drift into the grog shops and gambling
hells. There is but one story to tell
of their fate.
"On the peach l offered men SD an
hour to handle freight, and many of
them laughed at me. They were not
apparently working on their own ac-
count and did not seem to want to
labor for any one else.
1T is a great sight to see Nome in
its. present state. For five miles up
and down the water front, where last
year there was so much mining, the
ground is strewn with outfits and gen
eral merchandise. Beach mining in
that locality was out Of the question
when we left. The goods are piled
down to the waters edge. One would
not get standing room, much less
enough room to dig for gold. In time,
however, these wares will be removed,
and l presume that their places will
De Dy men and Ike
There is no question about there
being gold in the Nome district. It
has many creeks that are fabulously
rich, though but very little work had
been done on these up to the time of
u departure. AS yet the people have
shown no disposition to come out, but
late in the summer and fall I.presume
the rush back will set in, for not all of
them are going to be successful, by
any means"
Another item in the PILOT inter
est to old time Bismarckers, is of a
suit brought by Judge Moore of the
supreme court against Tom Church
son Of the late L. K. Church-for $125,
on a note to a third person indorsed
by Moore and signed by Church. The
suit involves some politics, and the P.
I. says:
I'm 1896 Judge Moore was a candi-
date before the democratic county con-
vention for the Office which he now
Occunies. He x01icifod Tho e,ocovt -