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The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-02-12

Go to VIM. Cameron & Co. for
your lumber, nails and barb
wire, they carry a complete
stock, and can make it to your
interest to buy of them. 4tf
Phone up no 244 and give them
a trial order for job work. They
are new managers but not new
printers-in the Press office.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-02-12

Sheriff Goodfellow, at his own
expense, has had a small marble
slab placed over the grave Of
John Pearl who was recently
executed on charge of murder.
Coleman Voice.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-02-12
We have never seen a newspa.

We have never seen a newspa.
per come out of the kinks" as
much as the, San Angelo Press
has under its new management.
-Comanche Exponent
The San Angelo Press shows
decided improvement under the
direction Of Truly & Sledge.-
Coleman Democrat.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-02-12
A WARM ROAST FROM TEX

Under the above mead appear!
a letter in The American Post
master, a magazine published a
bingham III. 1t gives the reader
an idea of some of the Difficult
problems Uncle Sam men have
to solve as best they can in their
daily routine of duty
San Angelo, Tex, Jan. II, 1902
Editor American Postmaster:
Dear Sir:-In the nature oil
things, having received a dun in
duo form, it would be wrong tc
put you to any greater expense
informing me that / had better
ANTE up" or quit reading the A,
?. M, So here goes one dollar 10
put me up a notch.
have never written you since
reading your interesting maya.
zine from its very first appear.
ance TO the last issue, therefore,
you don't know my opinion of it,
and what's probably certain,
dant care a rap about it. But
then, I've got my pen in hand
and will go on through with my
opinion, just like our native horse
tanners do when they go to bust
a bronco" they stay with him"
till the end unless sooner thrown
and busted theyselves," and
so | promise to stick to il" and
give you my opinion of the Am.
erican Postmaster
Most of the reading is agree
able, and comments from the
facile pen of its editor are espec.
tally pleasing. But there is one
feature, if you will pardon the Ii,
cense thus taken, which APP.
pears to me would bet.
ter serve the purpose
Ct your paper, were it left out
and its space filled with interest.
ing items relating TO post Offices
Or the postal service, gathered
here and there throughout the
whole country, which you know
so well how to do when the spir.
It appears to move you. | refer
10 detail reports OF, postmaster's
conventions in those states which
boast of associations. Now I as.
sure you that | read with pleas
ire the reports of the convention
IF Texas postmasters, but don't
enjoy one bit those of the Illinois
crowd. Similarly, l fancy that
he Suckers" care not a fig for
what we Long Horn devils" dis.
,uss at our yearly roundup"
All associations publish their re.
oorts in pamphlet form and sup.
,ly one or more copies to each of
heir members. 1t seems TO me
his is all the publicity required.
Collectively, the experiences
If the postmasters at Elk Horn
Draw and Black Water Hole
IRE practically the same as those
If the fellows who spoil
stamps at Prairie Lane,
Ind Lake View. But singly, that's
For instance, l had a
title GGman woman call for
nail daily for week who insist.
I'd that she was her husband S
wife, but positively refused to
ell his name on the plea that she
lid not care to know other PEG.
ole's names and could not un.
lerstand what interest my hand
some general delivery clerk
would have in knowing hers. |
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-02-12

Now is the proper time to at.
tend to your plum bing and
Findlater is the man to do it.
No shoddy work done. 4 If
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-02-12

Now is the proper time to at.
tend to your plum bling and Find.
later is thd man TO do it. No
shoddy work done. Itf
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-02-12

Say! have you beard about
A. j. Morgan's automobile line
for San Angelo?
"Yes, I've heard about it. l
have also heard about Darius
Green and his flying machine.
I'm from Missouri, anyway"
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-02-12
Another Wedding.

Mr.. Will Farquhar, the hand.
some and popular book keeper
at Msbson's, left Saturday after.
noon for Paducah, KY, where,
on Feb. 18th, he will wed Miss
Mayne Brown, IA lovely blue
grass belle. Charles example
just had TO be followed, and,
while Will is not taking any
Chances, he has some Of the
other boys in a Brown study.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-02-12

When you want good whis>
key, call en- Chas. w. Zenker
he always keeps the best
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-02-12

Our incognito customer discon
tinued her visits as suddenly as
she bad begun them, but there S
no telling how many tears might
have dim med her soft brown eyes
or smiles been brought to the
motherIy face, had we held the
open sesame which hid
the treasured secret.
am inclined to think this is
experience not commonly met
with by postmasters, but if you
know of any who have had a sim,
liar one and successfully COPIED
with it, I'd like to know how they
did it, and this Iassure, you my
dear Brother Postmaster, would
interest me far more than the
reports of your annual conven.
ton.
+. BLANCHARD.
We have never heard of case
similar to the Texas woman who
refused to tell her name, but we
once had a patron who refused a
letter for a mem Der of his family
because he did not know any DO
dy by that name, but was back
in town early the next morning,
with the information that it was
for his wife, saying I've been
calm her Mother for more
than forty years, and darn my
socks if | hadn't forgotten her
given name. Ed.
The Nome nugget., 1902-08-30
.)ljE.(;.l.
AyeI Johnson Receives a Wound in His Threat. The Thriving Town Now Has an Opera TrCupe...in
 tnc Streets,

Council. Aug. 27.-Attorncy C. J. Lomcn, after having spent week on Ophir creek, returns 10 Nome by to- daA's stage
 John Dexter of Chinik, i, in Council for few days.
 C. T. Moore arrived today from Nome.
 Arthur D. IliscOck, of Dawson, i, now in town, having left the Yukon metropolis on August l0 Mr His cock spent the summer of 1900 in thi, section. After look ing over his inter- oSts here he will proceed 10 Victoria.
 The theatrical troupe for the Totem house reached town and are now giving nightly performances.
 AXcl Johnson and T. 0. smith. while while under the influence of liquor, en- gagged in quarrel which resulted in the former receiving e knife wound in the throat that required considerable silken thread and surgeons time to close.
 Thomas Dwyer, the Council merchant, is in Nome purchasing his winter stock of goods.
 E. C. Roberts, of No. ', Crooked creek, is in town today. Mr. Roberts spent last winter and the early part of the summer in developing ground on Boulder creek, Kougarok district.
 X few evenings since the staid resi- dents of Council, who happened to take their daily stroll along First street, were surprised to see group of men engaged in digging up stumps and re- moving them from the street. Such an innovation a. street Improvement has apparently not even been the subject of the old-timer's dreams. A little effort and money will make good thor0ughfarcs.
The Nome nugget., 1902-08-30
NORTHERN NOTES.'

Seattle, Aug. l2.-Three volcanoes near Cook inlet, Alaska, are still smok- ing.
 Skagway, Aug. l1.-A severe earth quake shock was felt here yesterday morning. It rattled things up gen orally. At , o'clock last evening am other quake was felt, but it was slight.
 Skagway, Aug. 1.-The chambers ot commerce of Alaska are united in q most determined effort to get direct Legislation. A monster petition will be sent to Hearst's papers asking then to bring the wrongs of the Alaskan people before the people of the United States.
 Dawson. Y. T., Aug. l5.-J. U. Tar kelson, from San Francisco, Cal, was instantly killed in drift on No. II above, upper Dominion, Aug. IA, by a piece of earth falling and knocking him against some machinery.
 A strike running as high as Sl to the pan has been made on a branch of the Sixtymile river, which flows into the Yukon above Dawson.
 Juneau, Aug. 4.-Purser Lockwood, of the steamer Newport, reports that a big quartz strike has been made neal Dutch Harbor. The A. C. Co.,, which | is an extensive operator in the Dutch Harbor district, has for several seasons been running drift on a quartz lead on Wood island, and it reports that its Icrosscut has demonstrated that its property has great value. The A. C. Co. will continue the work, and expects to develop very rich mine.
 Juneau, Aug. 9.--The Daily Dispatch Isays the wreck of the ill-fated steamer IIslander. sunk off Douglas island las August, carrying 10 persons with her has been located by M. Hawks, of Ta coma. Captain Finch, the celebrated lGreat Lakes diver of the steame lFinch, says the wrecl: lies in ?
The Nome nugget., 1902-08-30
ANCIE:U '
 RO4 [ [ Found in the K0ugarOk
 interior. WAS BUILT sN iT83 According 10 Marks Upon it... Mining Operations ca
 Windy Greek.
WAS BUILT ta iT93

Ben G. Goodman, with. to Th NUGGET, from No. lj Windy c'.-f Kougarok district under date o N"- | l3, say,: "On 4u'ch @Aput ecN,. o, eight mile, from hc.c toward ijt creek man by the name of niu-H found the remains C. a ceder ' which from mark upcu it, see"- {" have been hult in l763. i- was put t.- Gcthcr with wooDcn pegs.
 "Nc arrived here on July 3l ard lgo cceJed to get to work. We set up DI ,luicc boXt- in a place vh,re the i"l- nings showed good prospects,. We ~. a- much a, @0 r"uta to the ra. ia. after twoday, ,luicmE when we c4cuI. q up we only 4oj :j. Nolhol began f, Go more pro-per.ina. ant when one u' tLc boys 70, d 5o cent nugget, ~, n.. up our ~iai,c boA.> aad ~et ;hcm up &. the other end ol Jhr ciam After t.. days mote ,iu.cip2 or ciean-ul' v.- l the samc a- ;bc ur-t.
 "Niur, ,lcu Wc have cro~-cut i'.' creek in several p.ocr. an hercuo. tack. a- ... crcce i~ GIH let wido i,n rim to tin. wi'h watcr.batAering u, . llr time. Finally Ne eo back to ta. orieiiai place, Vhcu v, ran int" 'D- pal-tr,a'.. Fans plytI.u two cen. e tea cents. We stripped ground yeatc'- day and set up ou h'Nc- today an. -.uiccd abou' 'up hous. When "s stopped fer the day, in o<lminu. th ,micc boXt-. picked up tNo nu4se ,. - cents and lo cents respectively i .wu let yo1 know wAa: the clean r amount, to.
 We are having fine weather a' present. and we ~c; p'cn', vs &ane.
 "On Anderson auich ,he Andcr-oa boy. are getting good pay with tmo. men shovclu. in and on" on the tall 1 ings. In ! five hoar run ore ctean-up amounted to &Go. They have ho,u working all spring and were ,l,., e, water, but they have p.D,E now.
 "On Nc. l9 Windy. there ,~au andel- ground chauucl which 'r tr,cd to gct into, but failed, aittoe-h ~rcouIt hr.H the water roaring h. placing our ear to the cracks in the rock.
 "'rhc right fork or Windy, conf. into 1t. at No. l9 i, called Nellie creek. i IL i, q, wide d., Windy creek proper. The upper part of Nellie creek k GOV cred by glacier, the ice being ut this time two and a half feet thick. From d cur7ory examination of the valley, l should judge, the coarse gold we arc getting was ground out of thi, creek hl the glacier which i, now almost melt ed. The country k full of quartz and mica schist, and on No. r. t indy, q. quartz is idcntiral to that found on N". 3 Daniel creek, Topkok district
The Nome nugget., 1902-08-30
George MatioCk'S Smudge Pot.

Most old-time Gukoners know George Matlock and Jim Bender. Matlock went into the Yukon country in 1881, but had lived for var, previously in Juneau. On returning to Dawson in 1898, after q visit to the States, which he had left 32 years before, one day he met Jim Bender in the Northern saloon, then owned by Billy Emerson, J. D. Thaggard, Billy Ash and Pat Moran.
 Billy Thomas, now of Nome, was bookkeepcr at the Northern, and as the two old timers met he heard MatlOcll relate some of hi, experiences in civil ization to his friend Bender. Thomas tells the story in an inimtable manner, that loses considerable plquancy in cold type. but it is as follows:
 "In an earnest way Matlock began by telling Bender that it was on q Suu- day monin': he saw the biggest push he ever seed in his life going up the street, and they went into a big joint with sign in front that uarly reach the clouds. It was the biggest sign he ever seed: he followed the crowd. There were seats for them all, and away down in front was little bar. A guy wath a long parka came out and muttercd something in Chinook language and they all got down on their knees look
 n for s0methin'. When they got up they made signs which meant to Mat lock that the other fellow had found it. Then he took drink of hootch and nivor asked anybody else if they wanted any. Then four little guys came out: they had on white parka- and carrying and dipping stick and throwing it at the big guy. But to cap all them, two little guys came out, and they wore parkas, too, and swingin' smudge pots: and there was not a mosquito within 10 miles of the house. 7
The Nome nugget., 1902-08-30
Will Be Thoroughly
 Opened Up
DURlNG TaE WINTER
A New Company Organized tC Supply Northwestern Alaska
 Win Cheap Coal.

Al last the Cape Lisburnc coal mines are to be developed in a thorough manner and coal is to he laid down in Nome al a low price.
 Numerou, attempts have been made in the past two year, to mine Cape Lis buruc Coal, but each attempt failed, principally through the lack of the necessary capital. In 1900 a qGantity of coal was brought to Nome and placed on the market. A small amount was also mined last year, just enough to demonstrate the fact that cua! mine. exist in the Arctic. But the company formed to operate the mines got into breakers Financially and was dashed to pieces.
 Now new company has been incor- poratcd in south Dakota to work those mines. IL is backed by ample Chicago capital, according to the statement of Virgil Moore. who arrived on the ot. Paul from san Francisco. Mir. Moore k we'll known in Some. and it was through his instlumcutaity that th, Alaska Company has been organized. This is the nam" of the company. Mir. Moore brought with him on the St. Paul mining supplies of all kind, to last year.
 The wor. of opening up the mines will be begun at once. Ten men will be employed anl work will bc prose cuted all through the winter, G4y anG night.
 Next summer, he says Nome and this entire section will be supplied with coal from Cape Lisburnc at q price that will exclude all outside coal, and it will be furnished in any quantity, winter or summer. at q uniform price.
 The Lisburnc-Alaska Company, say, Mr. Moore, was incorporated and money paid into the treasury fund for development work, solely on the report of F. (. Schradcr, of the United States geological survey, made last year. Professor Schrader states, as the result of observation and assays. that at Cape Lisburne there are millions of tons of bituminous coal, which compares favor ably with any Western bitumiuous coal.
 The Liaburne-A Alaska Company has 2.660 acres of coal lands. A survey has been made and the plat approved by the surveyor general and filed in Wash ington.
 The mines can be easily opened up. Two veins will be developed this fall and winter: these are the 1I-foOt and l1-foot veins There is another, lG feet wide but the two former carry the better quality of coal.
 Improved drills and machinery were brought up on the St. Paul to work the mines. During this fall and winter $3O,O0 will be spent in development work. A cable will also hc put in for the purpose of delivering coal to vessels. This, it is alleged, can be done speedily and chcaply.
 Accompanying Mr, Moore is MT. Keeler, mining engineer ot Chicago, and J. r. Lackic. q coal mine manager of many years experience.
The Nome nugget., 1902-08-30
fa'homs of water on good, sandy

fathom5 Of water, on good, sandy 1 bottom.
 Dawson, Y. T., Aug. lL-Chare,
 Uphon has bought the mining interests of Thomas Davidson on Gold Run for $5,45O. Included in the property is a rich bench which was struck last fall. The purchaser iS but k year, old, and is to Er credited with being one of the most, if not the most, youthful operator in the camp. He has been in the Yukon four years.
 Juneau. Aug. I. The past reports of the new discoveries in the Nazina river district give but d faint idea of the true value of that rich section of the coun- try, only small portion of which has yet been trayersed by white man. It k estimated now that this gold belt is abou. l50 miles wide and 200 long.
The Nome nugget., 1902-08-30
Held for pOStare.

Letters addressed To the following per,or- aIo held at the po,toiiicc im postage; tlco Lambert. Stockton. Cal: Mrs. e. r. Fritz 5l6 Tag,aa street, san Francisco: Mrs. Charlotte Bishop. Sidney, Wash.: has. and N'm E. King, I2S seventh street Washington, D. C.: Annie Markham. Wallu Waila. Wash.: II. F Olsen, Seattle, Wa7h.: Mrs. \. E. Lee. WAannock. H. C.; Wm Ee}nold,, -43 W IwcnF-lirot street, New York, Mr.. N,a. AIciicc, sidney, lll:L W. Mci-ocklon Detroit. Mich.; Mrs. Geo. smith, Victoria, AGsual.a: Mrs. Ella G!ulicr. Seattle. Na~h.: cue stamped envelope with uo address.
The Nome nugget., 1902-08-30
iiNdraniiCinG 2I Dawson.

paw-on, Aug. S.-Fom hydraulic plant, are being operated on yariou, creek, in the Big salmon district in the ,ou'hcrn portion of Yukon territory near Whitchorac. News of the camp and condition, there i, brought by C. W. McPherson, government engineer, who returned today from the camp, where he la, boen working with corps Of men several weeks. lie says:
 The four hydraulic plants are work ing steadily. and are rayine proposi- tion,. Exactly what they are making I cannot say."
The Nome nugget., 1902-08-30
pIesant Dinner Party.

Mr. and Mrs. l. C. Allen gave dinner Wednesday evening at their home on Third avenue in honor of Mir. w. J. Erskinc, the well-known cashier of the x. C. Company. Covers were laid for eight and very pleasant evening was spent by the jolly party. The guests were Miss Cox, Miss Mciggs, Messrs. Erskine, Chapman, Jones and Bartlett. Shortly before the festivities were over a provost guard from the N. (. mess house stormed the house and carried the guest of honor away, why, how or whither is not known.
The Nome nugget., 1902-08-30
.OU ! VI I I ! ] ]: }
A Jaiil1reak at CoIdf00t
 Was Frustrated.
A Dawson Man Charged With Stealing Money Tries 10 Put
 Up a Job on tlie Jailer.

Dawson, Y. T.. Aug. 15.-A private Koyuku< tells of r. x. GoWans, form
 erly stenogra pher in the gold commis- sioner's office in Dawson and later d
 well-known man about town, attempt ing to break jail at Coldfoot, where he
 was confined awaiting trial on the charge of stealing between S15 and 800 and using the same in playing poker. According to the letter, GOwans and anothep prisoner named Duke, who had been in for some time, talked over the scheme several times and thought the iailer always absent. The jailer, how ever, was simply in the next room,
 where he could hear. He let the fel-
 lows. according to the story, go on
 with their work. They dug beneath
 the walls of the old jail after several days of toilsome effort. When the tun- | mel was finished Duke asked the jailer l to take him out for exercise. Then, according the report, GOwans attempted
 his escape.
 All was well until the fellow thrust
 his head through the outer opening.
 He was startled to find himself face to face with two huge guns. The jailer
 or marshal had outwitted him. While
 the regular jailcr had taken the other
 prisoner out to exercise two special
 men stood guard at the hole outside the ail, and thus thwarted the carefully
 laid scheme. Gowans' shirt front was filled with sandwithcs, which he had
 saved from his luncheons in jail. The disappointed fellow was led back and
 reincarcerated in the same jail.
The Nome nugget., 1902-08-30
LACK or
 WATER ErOubleS Miners in the
 Koyukuk. AVERY DRY sE:AS0k Prices of All Kinds of Goods Are High...Free Milling Quartz
 Ledge.
VERY DRY SEASON

Lawson, I. l., Aug. 10.-f rank '. Whalley, writing from Hammond river July ,, to his brother in this city say;
 "Lopened up on Swift creek and built cabin there. The water pinched out before could doanything. The ground should pay from one to two ounces, but l cannot get anything unlcsa rain falls. It is very dry season.
 1.-The boys on No. 6 Hammond, struck it rich, and it looks all right for big stake. Rich pay is located within 50 feet of our upper line, but bedrock dips sO we cannot get down yet. We went in with them and put in 400foot wing dam to turn the river on the middle of saven into a slough. The river raised and the dam broke, and we arc digging the slough out to make it bigger, and are pitching the dam. The cost of the jpb is 5000, but we no not have to pay for it until we get it opened.
 ''I do not think we can get anything out of Hammond this year because of expenses for the pump and other equip ment. It looks as though No. [ should be all right. No. is the best yet found on the river.
 "Prices are very high here. l have much work to do in getting ready to prospect the property this winter. My partner on Swift and Hammond is be- ing knocked out by scurvy, but | am feeling fine.
 "Moccasins are $7 to $s pair; mitts, &, and all other clothing equally as high.
 'This country is showing up very we'll this year, but it will be hard summer because of all the small creeks being short of water. The creeks other wise would have turned out much bet ter this summer. l think the present prices will continue here
 J. R. Gandolfo, of Dominion, who bought an interest in the CuldfOot town site and recently returned from that town, reports that the day he left there Major Sobey, formerly of Dawson, came into Coldfoot and reported having struck free milling quartz ledge on the middle fork of the koyukuk. He would not make public the exact loca- tion of the ledge, but considerable in- terest was taken in his story. Mir. Gan d0lfo left Coldtoot July 20.
 Retail prices of goods at Coldfoot at Al. lnr, ho reports, as follows: Eagle milk, 75 cents & can; flour, $l5 q sack; dried fruit, go cents pound, bacon, 62. cents a pOund beans, 8 cents: sugar, 40 cents: all kinds canned fruit, Sl a can: two- pound can butter, $3.50; tobacco, $2 a pound; nails, 40 cents Il pound: whisky, 50 cents a drink; cigars, 50 cents each fer. any old kind.
 pr. w. F. Howe, of Dawson, has re- ceived letter from Koyukuk from J. c. Short in which the writer states as high as $l,000 to the box length was shoveled in from gravel on Gold creek.
 Davidson, Smith & Clark put in a dam on the upper end of No. Ham, mond, and were just ready to work when it was carried out by water. It would take. ten days to repair the dam. On claim No. 1 q crevasse was found from which were taken nuggets ranging in value from Sj to $l and even as high as SIS each.
 On Gold and other smaller streams work had been suspended because of want of water.
The Nome nugget., 1902-08-30
Bridge Wrist Party.

Col. Melville Grig~by gave a most enjoyable bridge whist party at his at the court house on Sat- urday evening. Those present .wcso. AIr. and Mrs. Gore, ol Vancouver, Mr. and Ml,. Lgclllcy, Mr. and Mrs. ,ch- ran. Mir. and Mrs. Strong. Ms, Tod man, Miss lIdythe Wilkinson and Mr. CommCrford.
The Nome nugget., 1902-08-30
TranSyaal Gold Reef.

Johannesburg, Transvaal, Aug. H. Considerable excitement has been cre- ated by the discovery of new gold reef which is said to traverse a large extent of the territory. Local geolo- gists think the strike is continuation of the Witwatersrand main series. The discoverers declare they have found new gelds equal in size to the Wit watersrand
The Nome nugget., 1902-08-30
Wire Down at Dawson.

Dawson, Aug. S.-For days the wire has been down, and few men are avail able to repair it. The government, after. having the advantages of the labor of a number of men for over d year without paying cent in wages, sends response in the form of notif- cation that wages are cut one-third, in- stead of instructions to pay up the back wages earned.