The Alaska prospector., 1903-09-03

results have been found and much stalking has been done. l.. A. Deck CT and Willard G. Wright arrived here Aug. Is, they report a pleas ant trip. Decker brought in train load of tobacco, spuds,- oranges. onions. beer and whiskey. Every thing brought dollar a pound ex- cept the beer and whiskey, which sold for $3 per quart. The tobacco brought 8 per pound. He was about 1 minutes and 10 seconds disposing of his stuff. There was "One grand-a-dam-a-good-a-time among the boys until the bottles were emptied. And one of the boys, nice boy, has such lovely eyes, and such pretty teeth, and is such good dancer-in fact he is SO good and innocent he even bushes when he is spoken to, and with his pretty blush, downcast eyes and coquet- tish nod of the head, will answer your questions in low, sweet tones. That kind of fellow he is. He, The Innocent. was passing by a crowd of those awful men from Miller gulch. They stopped him; some held him while others made actually forced-the poor fellow to swallow-in fact they drenched him, and drenches at & per drench at that-some of that awful fluid. think it is shame, that in a civ ilized community such things should be allowed to occur. When he took his clothing out of pawn next morning he was not dressed in barrel as previously reported. Some of the men were mean enough to refer to him as the bearded lady rom Bridgeport.
 Chas. McLane, Angus Gillis and Jack Sargent are here bound for the Panama They will pack their outfit down to boating water on Delta, send the horses back, build boat and go on to Fairbanks. MT. Wright seems very much pleased with the country. He has been doing quite bit of assaying since his arrival. The samples of rock from Tanana found by Field x Paulson he says are very good. He has stirred up quite a platinum excitement here. He says that all the black sand the miners are throw ing away contains a large per cent. of platinum, especially is this true of the Miller gulch claims and the Date and Rosenthal property on Slate creek. He is taking out a number of samples -from the Ta- coma and Humdinger claims. The Tacoma and Humdinger claims seem to be the richest in platinum. The other claims show up we'll. He says that this is very rich district. He will go from here to Fairbanks with McLane x Gillis; from there will go to Seattle via St. Michaels returning here in February via Valdez.
 Mrs. StrOuse and Mrs. Austin will leave in a short time. Mrs. StrOuse will be accompanied by her son Will.
 Eli Larson, Andrew Nelson and Grogg and Johnson are working on discovery on Chisna with hattering results.
 Horses are getting very cheap in camp, some sold yesterday as low as $50. Decker had an auction to-day and will leave for Valdez. "Crit" Stevens and Fagenberg have sold all their meat. Ben Cockrill has seven and Con Begg has two steers left. Cockrell will stay here and sell meat until the close of the season, and drive back to Valdez what steers he does not kill. It is needless to add that he is not likely to drive any back. Con Beggs will drive his steers back to Fisher road house at Gokona. There would have been grand old famine and lots of people would have had to go out if the cattle had not come in. | A1readv 15 hand of co if Ia bava hoa,,