The Nome nugget., 1902-01-01
The Town Seems to Be Havinq
 Quite a Bocn.
NEW RllNEs WORKED
Circle City Is Still on Earth, and It's Citizens Are Looking for Prosperous Times This Year-The Oil Famine At Rampant and Panama.
tFrom the Rampart Miner.)


 One hundred men are said to Ee wintering in Glen gnlch. with POO more on the several creeks of that vicinity.
 Otto Kroehle is in Rampant from Circle. He has good thing on Eagle , creek, Circle district, where the ground is thawed and 30 cents 10 the bucket is taken out. Horses at Circle were sell ing at S15 for dog meat. Over POO men left that country last summer. There are q great many caribou at Circle. Miners. 50 or 60 in a party, go hunting each September, and those who do not shoot ,pack the meat in on shares. In this way every man has fresh meat all winter
 Marshal'Dribelbus returned recently frem Glen and reports pay found on Discovery claim by Egan, who has just commenced his winters work. Jack Nelson received d note by him from Gill X Roden, stating the refused to sell quarter interest in No. ? below S oh NiSh E uHeh DetauSt ol tue new Huu. The marshal served papers on Loren sen, Bigelow and Nelson in the suit by Gill X Roden for No. above on Glen.
 Beardsley and Belsea, of the Eagle Company, were in town recently and showed the Miner man bunch of mug gets out of No. above on Glen, ranging from g. to S2l. Some con- z tained quartz; others showed that they had travelled far, while others still looked as if they had never moved from their first lodging, which demon strates that there are at least two dis tinct deposits thrown together on Glen, and that coarse gold is there. The total weight of some l5 nuggets shown, picked from the last two cleanups, was S200, but the fine gold looks good to us.
 It is said some of the saloon men were pretty well worked up because some other whisky dispensers sold whisky at $2 bottle and threatened to reduce everything to two-bits a drink. The innovation has been declared off for the present, however.
 Those government fellows Cat Fort Gibbon) are crackerjacks. Command ant Dickmann says he will have the parade grounds cleared of all the nig- .gerheads if the ''hOotch' holds out, as all drunks get from three to thirty days at it. Lieut.. Erickson has jumped into prominence suddenly. and now has full command of Company B, which is right. Gibbs, of the signal corps. is d crackerjack cheechako lieutenant; Stewart. of Company K, is a nice little fellow; but all the boys were out the other night and are said to have bucked up ag'in the tiger few.
 Dawson was connected with the out side world telegraphically Sept. 9.
 The postotfice at Circle is advertising for four round trips into the Koyukuk from Fort Yukon, the first to leave Dec. l, and on the 1st of each three months thereafter.
 Through the combined efforts of the Susie, Sarah and Isom, the latter and her three barges were finally landed in Dawson.
 The Yukon closed about Il a. m. on Nov. : at Rampant and the Indians Crossed On the ice to church the follow ing Sunday.
 For some weeks past rumors have been coming in to the effect that the Baker Hills, between the Baker creek and the Tanana river, were to divulge something good, as several different parties of prOspectors have made for that country lately. Mir. Lingo and party, recently from Dawson, are said to be in that country and are old pros pectors, so when they report gold is there it can be depended upon.
 Some time ago story came up from Panama that a lot of the business houses were short of oil-in fact. they were in the same fix as Rampant. The barracks had only 4000 gallons, which would scarcely do them but Che boys are said to have induced some of the sold iers to pack of quart or gallon at time, until Commandant Dckmann got next and placed double guard all about the government buildings. Every civilian going in or out was searched as we'll as the soldiers, so that stopped the oil business pretty much.
 c. E. Claypool, writing from Circle, says among other things: Circle is still on earth. In August and September there were filed in. this office 25l mining instruments. This district is coming