The Nome nugget., 1903-04-11
NEWS OF
 DAWSON Concessions are Being
 Wiped Out. ARTISAN CURRENT Found in the KIondike....AnOtiler Strike on Indian River.
 .-WOOd Famine.
ARTESlAN CURRENTS

'CRW3Up, 5EIr. Lo.-One py one the concessions, so-called hydraulic, are be- isg dealt with by the government and wherever they are failing to carry out the conditions upon which these con- sessions are granted they are being wiped out, or restricted in their opera tjons according to the good faith shown i'd working the good things they were able to obtain in the early history of the camp from the government at Otta- Nx IL is very evident now that the government does not countenance the selding of these placer or hydraulic grounds for the mere purpose of specu- lation in them. This has been shown ia a rumper of recent instances.
 Corporal Piper got in last night from s'trip to Fortymile. On the way up he passed number of Indians from the AtoUEehide reservation who were bring idg down three moose they had killed iu the Thir,ymile district. They said shat the moose wss more plentiful there than over before. When this was re- ported to Chief Isaacs today he hurried so start out smother band of hunters to that district.
 Tue eusher struck on Indian river by s1e diamond drill in charge of Captain Taylor has demonstrated that strong artesiau currents Ghn be obtained in the Xlondike. When the water was reache isy the drill few days ago it shot forth with such force it tore the roof of the house under which the drill vas protected while st work.
 Mir. Sale, the jeweler, shipped by the Ben Downing stage to Eagle this morn Ing fifteen of the ostrial buttons ot the Apctic Brothernood. The camp there was formed about this time last year, xrd is now said to be in a -houlishing shap.. Each button bears number by which the wearer can be immediate ly identified in case of accident.
 DsrlMstheson came in from the Fork $ Rst- night. and said that the gusner on Eldorado had been doing no damage since December 20, when it was sue eesafully capped, As to the slight ssepage he had been waiting for the weather to moderate to investigate it.. and should it continue to moderate dur aag today he would leave tonight and have the men at work tomorrow morn inx.
 Tom McSmart, formerly the bill painter at the Orpheum theatre, was ftuzen to death on the Duncan trail last week, sccording to report which reached the city today. He was going to Duncan in company with Jaer~ Me Kew and "Kid'H O'Grady.
 The wood famine is upon us. The wood dealers laittheir heads together this afte rnoOn with the idea of asking . modest advance of g. per cord. It was difficult to ges man to deliver wood in town, even. and only the most urgent orders were filled. To get . man to take his team out to haul in wood from out of town was out of the question. Old wood men say they do no. remember any time in the KlondiAe when the thermometer ranged SO low aud the wind vas so strong. Generally, when the mercury goes down to the sixties the air is perfectly quiet. For e team to go toI work on the river in the face of such a cold blast would mean the loss of the animals and cndarger tho lives of the men.
 This is the present situation, with not more than ono hundred cords of wood on hand, or just about enough to meet the domestic cohsumptton until this time tomorrow: S6thut if the westh her dsss not change in twenty-four hours the city is up against it, and those who have not been providens. enough to Icy in 2 supply arslikely to be put to great inconvenience.
 Wall Paper. Nome Trading Co.