Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-07-13

Suit Brought by 4 judge Against
Tom Church on an Old 81
Note. Sd
Some interesting Seattle news comes
in the Post-I elligencer, from Harry
Bringhurs tith the passenger list OF.
the Senat tor 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:
}S Both the Robert Dollar and the
Senator have large crowds and all the
freight they can carry. The Senator
has about go 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. c. o. Johnson headed a large
Pittsburg, Pa, expedition on the Dol
lar. There. are seventeen in the party. 7.
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 81 SIS :=.s
! l.. H. Gray OF the Seattle Yukon
Transp portation 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. 51', - -.
Charles Watson took a 1OO-ton ma
chinery and supply outfit for the Ber-
ing Sea Mining company. AN 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 Robert Dollar passenger.
He is going to Nome to establish a res
taurant.'' '''5s +, st.S,h
One of the returning, passengers on
the Nelson says: .,trYs f3s.,i ls'5 ..s !
sttss..I 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 / found
many men digging gold z They had
only the crudest appliances, but with
these they were washing out from 81
to $50 a day. to the man. The aver
age, Ishould say, was not under $12.
And such old rickety rockers, as many
of them We're using! &;sgf5 rt<.s% &s.s5 ].
PR II heard good reports as to mining
everywhere. OF course there are go
ing to be many failures in Nome, but
it will not be the fault of, the camp.
Whisky and innumerable other temp
tations will be the undoing of many
a man. 4 saw hundreds loafing 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, wont work, and
drift drift into the grog shops and gambling
hells. a There is but one story to tell
of their fate.
On the oeach I offered men So an
hour to handle freight, and many OF
them laughed at tine. They were not
apparently working on their own ac-
count and did not seem to want to
labor for any one else
1T is q great sight to see Nome in
its present state. For five miles up
and down the water front, where lasi
year there was SO much mining, the
ground is strewn with outfits and gen
eral merchandise. Beach mining il
that locality was out Of the question
when we left. The goods are piled
down 70 the waters edge. One would
not get standing room, much less
enough room to dig for gold. Id time
however, these wares will be removed
and 7 presume that their places vii
be taken BY men and rockers
There is no question about ther,
being gold In the Nome district. 1
has many creeks that are fabnlousl,
rich, though but very little work has
been done on these up to the time q
our departure AS vet the people hay.
shown no position 10 come out, ii,
late ia the summer and fall presum
the rush back VIII set il, for not ali .