The Alaska prospector. [volume] (Valdez, Alaska) 1902-1908, 1902-10-02
A Family Affair.

NJ. Dempsey is in from Chisna.
Tom Reynolds and Geo. Goetz
are in from Slate.
Sailed Spanish Peanuts at Val
DEE Candy Kitchen.
Alfred b. lies, the mining ex-
pert, has gone TO the States for
short visit.
Richards buys everything YOU
have to sell, and sells everything
you have to buy.
b. &. Leveroos has sold his inter-
est in the Tocoma claim to VIM.
Finical and q. II. Nj. Greenwald.
Mrs. Fred. NJ. Brown and little
daughter Helen left on the Santa
Ana for few weeks visit to Seattle
and Portland.
W. ID. McGee left on the Santa
Ana for Il visit To his family after
very successful seasons prospect
ing and mining.
Thos. J. Coles who has been
visiting relatives here the past
summer left on the Santa Ana for
his home in New York.
Beds and bed springs of the best
quality, for sale cheap atthe Whal-
ing Companies building on Nc
kinley street. See Jas. Fish, Sr.
Mrs. O. C. Towne, who has been
visiting her nephews. the Crarv
brothers. this summer. left on the
Santa Ana for her home in Illinois.
The telegraph wires are down
beyond Tickhel.station which shuts
off all communication today. The
linemen are out making repairs.
The first snow OF the season fell
on last Saturday evening. The
ground was quite white for time,
but it soon disappeared and the
beautiful rain came in its place.
Arthur Olson is erecting a fine.
substantial residence on the cor
ner OF Broadway and Fourth ST. for
Chas. VESSEL. Olson is also erect
ing large factory building on
Broadway, to be occupied by Yak
shaw, and is putting quite an ex-
tensive addition to Whites estab-
lishment.
At four o'clock this mornin @ a
truck containing about So. 600 in
gold dust left the express office for
the Santa Ana. In addition to
this amount the various merchants
sent out on the same boat So 600
and it is safe to say that the sixty
passengers leaving here carried out
with them an amount not less than
S6O.OOO, so the present shipment on
the Santa Ana will reach the sum
OF 100000. There is large
amount on the trail coming this
way, and large amount is still in
town. The next shipment will
probably be double the present one.
Last Sunday night the Tillicum
Club, with their usual spirit Of
hospitality, rendered banquet to
Capt. Burnell, in recognition of the
valuable services he has rendered
to his country and the people of
this section of Alaska in particu-
lar. Judge Goodcll acted as toast
master for the evening. The invi-
ted guests We're Lieut.. Taylor, Lieut..
Wheeler and DIR. Bartlett from the
Post, and w. c. Mcndenhall and
}. Gerdine of the Geological Sur
vey parry. The club members
present, were A. NJ. Edwards. q. C.
Hazelett, q. +. Baldwin, G.. n.
Crazy, Oscar Fish, W. :. Amy. f.
b. Wheat and F. NJ. Brown. A
number OF appropriate speeches
were made and Il very pleasant
evening was spent.
Durlng the past season Mr..
Bundy, gentleman of color has
been running ferry across Tazlina
and was in charge of it, when
Gakona Charlie and another Indian
Were swept off the boat last summer
and drowned. As ferry master, he
was doing quite a lucrative bust
ness at IL dollar and half a head.
until the advent OF Nicholai
Copper river native, who secured
boat and carried passengers across
at fifty cents a head.
Bundy, feeling that he could not
hold up against such opposition,
sailed forth down stream with his
little Ratchet to the landing point
OF the opposition. Finding the
boat tied up he proceeded to make
kindling wood OF it and was once
more alone in the business. I'm
fortunately for Bundy. Commits
sioner Saunders of the Chisna dis