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The Nome nugget., 1904-03-05
Report of Exploration Work in the Extreme
Northern Part of Alaska in 1901, 1902 and
1903, the Author Being S. }. Marsh
Well Known Assayer and
Mining Engineer.

up, laid over for three weeks. helping
cabin and doing some prospecting.
Then | started out again alone, pack
ing my supplies and tools as in the
previous summer. Working to the
westward, reached mineral belt of
promise and prospected, with some re-
suits.
On July my supplies were practi-
cally exhausted. The section | was
then in was devoid of game, and was
therefore, forced to turn back toward
civilization. Travelling over the easiest
route south westward, finally came to
large river. built raft, on which
l had hoated down the river but a
short distance when | encountered
some very bad rapids and came very
near losing my life. Forced to abandon
ing, but soon became exhausted, hav-
ing been practically on flour straight
and very short rations at that-for
some time. | constructed another raft.
on which flOated down the river for
three days, when came to an Indian
village and learned that ! was on the
Chandelier river. Here | obtained
some dried moose meat. A short time
after Jack Carr, a mail carrier, came
along, bound for Fort Yukon. | ac-
companied him, and we arrived at that
place on July 90.
| desire to acknowledge the hospi-
tally of MIR. and Mrs. Carr at Fort
Yukon, who showed me every kind
ness, and also wish to express my
thanks to General Funston, who fur
nshed me with transportation to St.
Michael. S. J. MARSH.
ITO be Continued.)
If you want to hire horse and cutie
see G.. L. Morris. 4l9 Front street.
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-05
Notice of Forfeiture,

To Claud Mcbride and Thomas Donnelly
You and each of you are hereby notified that
have expended the sum of at least one hun
dred dollars in labor and improvements during
the year 1903 upon the placer mining claim
known and recorded as the Hub Placer Mining
claim, a l60-acre tract, situated on Mucklock
creek, in Good Hope recording district. now
in Port Clarence district, in the Second
division of the District of Alaska, in order
to hold said claim under the provisions of
the laws of the United States, concerning annu-
al labor upon mining claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim for the period end
ing on the 3lst day of December, 1903: and If,
within ninety days after the last publication of
this notice. you fail refuse to contribute your
in said claim will become the property of the
undersigned. your co-owner who has made the
expenditure required by the terms of said laws.
First publication Jan. 30 1904.
Last publication April 30 1904.
FRANK NJ. LANG.
s Co Owner in said claim.
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-05
Notice of Forfeiture.

To - Gaylord:
You are hereby notified that l. the under
signed, have caused to be performed work, ser.
vices and labor of the value OF one hundred
dollars for each of the years ending December
81 1902 and 1903, upon the following placer min
ing claim to-wit: No. bench claim, known as
the Dolly bench" situated on Swedish gulch,
district of Alaska.
And you are further notified that II you do
not within ninety 900 days from the date of
final publication hereof. cause to be paid to the
undersigned. or his agent. William Cartier, at
Nome Alaska. your proportionate share OF said
expenditures as co-owner. your interest in said
signed under section 1924 Revised Statutes OF
the United States.
Date of first publication Jan. ?, 1904.
Date of final publication April 2, 1904.
& SAM PETERSON.
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-05
Notice of Forfeiture.

To Sam c. Durham. James Morton ana Charles
Thorn:
You and each of you are hereby notified that
we. the undcrSgncd have caused to be per
formed work. services and labor of the value of
one hundred dollars for each of the years end
ing December 81 1902 and 1903, upon the follow
Ing placer mining claim, to-wt The Baldwin
Mining Company bench claim. situated on the
right limit of Anvil creek, about one and II
quarter miles below Discovery claim ON said
creek, certificate of location being filed August
-, 1901, and recorded in volume %, page VS, Of
the mining records of Cap" Nome recording
district. District of Alaska.
And you are hereby further notified that If
you do not, within ninety 800 days from the
date OF final publication hereof, cause to be paid
to the undersigned your propOrtiOnate share OF
such expenditures as 60 owners your interest in
said claim will become the property OF the un'
dcrsiEned under Section 1924 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
Date of first publication, January 9, 1901
Date of final publication, April 9, 1904.
JOSEPH HALL,
X. l.. II. MARSHALL,
A. h. WATSON.
j. ID. COPPERSMITH,
: G.. b. BALDWIN.
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-05
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

To John Morris, j. p Brooks and II. G..
Sandbourn:
You and each of you are hereby notified that
have expended the sum of two hundred dol
lars in labor and Improvements upon the "a.
r." placer mining claim situate on Nome
river in the Cape Nome mining and recording
district, district of Alaska, during the years
1902 and 1903 in order to hold said claim under
the provisions of section 1924, revised statutes
OF the United States, that being the amount re-
quired to hold the same during said years. And
if within ninety days after the service OF this
notice upon you by publication you fail or re-
fuse to contribute your proportion Of such ex-
penditure as co-owner, your interest in said
claim will become the property of the subscriber
under said section 1894.
Date of first publication Jan. 2, 1904.
Date OF final publication April q 1904.
8 JOHN PETERSON
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-05
Notice of Forfeiture.

To NJ. Ru>cncrantZ and +. j. Gotta:
You are hereby notified that /. The under
signed. have caused to be performed work, ser
vices and labor of the value of one hundred dol
lars upon the following named placer mining
claim for the year ending December 81, 1903, to-
wit: That certain mining claim known as the
Poor Mans bench adjacent to the "Maudeene
aud Dexter creeks. situate in Cape Nome min
ing and recording district. District OF Alaska.
And You are hereby further notified that if
you do not, within ninety 600 days from the
date of final publication hereof, cause to he paid
to the Undersigned your prOportionate share OF
such expenditure as co-owner. your interest in
said claim will become the property Of the un-
derSigncd under Section 232i Revised Statutes
of the United States.
Date of first publication, January 9, 1904
Date Of final publication April 9. 1904.
: b. Moses.
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-05
Introduction.

Mr.. S. J. Marsh, we'll known to many
mining engineer of more than ordinary
merit. OF absolute integrity, he is
right through of that makeup which
constitutes the true explorer. The re-
port Of his exploration trip through
what may we'll be termed Darkest
Alaska adds materially to our geo.
graphical and geological knowledge of
the section of Alaska lying between
the COlville river and the Canadian
boundary. Up to the present time
these parts have been for all practical
purposes terra incognita.
CONRAD STEM.
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-05

Ques.-In the Nugget of Feb. L.. is
a record of the output of gold and silver
for the year 1902. The state of Cali
forna is given as producing close to
$1,000 600. Now | wish you wonld
settle the following dispute. claim
that California in the early daysof gold
discovery produced three or four times
that amount each year and my partner
says am way off Please let me know
if am right. n. o., Dry Creek.
Ans.-California for several years
produced in the neighborhood of $780,
100000 per annum, so you must be
right.
j. POTTER WHITTREN.
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-05
THE NOME SEr1I-WEEKLY NUGGET, MARCH s, 1904

this country in great respect. for hay
ing awakened it from its torpid con
ditiOn.
CUES Will you kindly tell me who
Queen Esther was, and in what years
did she reign? i. NJ.
Ans. Esther, meaning star was
born in Persia 500 years before Christ.
Being an orphan from infancy she was
adopted by her uncle, Mordecai, who.
recognizing her great natural beauty,
trained her in the accomplishments of
highest womanhood. Esther was of
Jewish extraction, and her foster father
was an officer in the Persian army, at
That time ruled by king Ahasuerus.
The king selected Esther as his wife
instead of Nashti, who had refused to
present herself to the king and his
courtiers upon a state occasion. The
king prime-miniSter, Hannah, out of
jealousy towards Mordecai, had per-
suaded the king to issue decree for
the destruction of the Jews. Queen
Esther did not disclose her nationality,
but influenced the king, acting under
Mordecai's direction, to have Haman
hanged and Mordecai made chief in
his place. The king had another de-
cree issued permitting the Jews to de-
stroy their enemies, and after Hannah
was hanged from the gallows he had
prepared for Mordecai, the people re-
joced. This story is found in the book
of Esther, and ''Esther.' the beautiful
queen, a sacred cantata, is founded up
on this story.
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-05
1nquiries...
and AnsWers

In this column questions OF general interest
will be answered. Address all communications
to j. Potter Whittren care Of THE NUGGET)
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-05

If you want to hire horse and cutie
see G.. l.. Morris. 4l9 Front street.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-07
YOUTH is RESTORED
TO ANXIOUS PARENTS
Police Locate Father of Ray Page and
Boy Is Sent Home.

The parents of Ray Page, the Shak-
opee youth who was arrested in COM
pany of couple of tramps, were yes
terday located by Probation Officer
Graves, and the lad returned to his
anxious mother.
The father of the boy a few weeks
ago secured work in a Minneapolis
factory, and it was with some difficulty
that he was found. When the son
walked in the elder Page was over
come with emotion and embraced the
lad in an affectionate manner
While the father and son were en-
gagged in conversation the father was
called to the telephone and heard Mrs.
Page talking from Shakopee. She had
heard by telephone from a st. Paul
friend that her son was under arrest
in St Paul, and she was overjoyed
when told the boy was then with the
father and free
Young Page says that he ran away
from home because he was aware of
the identity of some young men guilty
of an offense, leaving rather than tes-
tify against his friends. He has wan
dered about the country to quite an
extent, but gladly left last evening for
his home in Shakopee.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-07
SEED POTATOES HIGH
Minnesota Farmers Unable to
Obtain All They Need.

Minnesota farmers who were not
proYident in securing seed potatoes last
fall find themselves unable now to OBJ
tain the necessary quantity of seed po-
tatoes to put in the ground to insure a
crop in the fall
Q. H. RineS, of Princeton, who is one
of the heaviest dealers in potatoes in
the Northwest, was in st. Paul yester-
day and said that the problem con-
fronting those farmers who had not
looked to seed potatoes was a serious
one for a good many men throughout
the famous Minnesota potato belt, ex-
tending from st. Cloud east to the Wis
cOnsin line. n.
There is always a reSiduum of farm
ers who are careless and who made no
provision last fall to obtain the neces-
sary quantity of potatoes to plant for
seed this spring said Rines, land
there is not only a scarcity but the
prices asked are almost prohibitive.
Good seed potatoes are extremely hard
to get, for the crop last season was
not only small but of an inferior grade,
and potatoes fit for seed are COM
handing a price Of $1.25 per bushel.
Some farmers are of course short of
funds and dealers who have paid $500
for carload of potatoes are not anx-
fous to let them go unless they see
the money The area planted to pota-
toes this year will probably be smaller
than usual owing to the abnormal con-
ditions prevailing as regards the seed
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-07
BOARD OF CONTROL
FAYORS STATE FIRMS
Only Four Foreign Concerns
Awarded Contracts for Fur
nishing Supplies.

Action by the state board of con-
troll IN awarding contracts for supplies
Tor state institutions for the quarter
ending July 81 confirms the strength
of popular opinion which had until re-
Gently criticised the board in awarding
so many contracts to jobbers outside of
the state for. supplying state needs.
OF fifty firms receiving contracts for
supplies, all but four are located in
the state. The classes represent beef
and pork products, coffee, miscella-
neous groceries, hardware, dried and
eVaporated fruits, mems clothing, pa
per, stationery. tea, sugar, flour, feed,
findings and dry goods. Reid, MUIR
doch & Co, Chicago will provide a
portion Of the miscellaneous groceries,
Chicago firm will share in the hard
ware supplies, New York firm in
mems suits, and a Chicago house in
the dry goods TO be used in state in
stitutions. The prices at which the
quarterly contracts were made were
not given out by the board of control,
which yesterday made known the sue
cessful bidders in the various classes.
The list follows
Beef Products-Swift & Co., St. Paul
Pork Ptoducts-Swfft & Co, ST. Paul.
j. T. Mcmillan & Co., St. Paul.
Cotfee7-,Foley Bros. & Kelly, st. Paul
Miscellaneous GFoceries-FOley Bros. &
Kelly, St. Paul: Griggs, Cooper & Co, ST.
Paul; Reid, Murdoch & Co., Chicago, H.;
Minnesota Mercantile Co., Saltwater,
MINI.
Hardware Marshall Wells Hardware
Co, DuIuth3 HBbard, Spencer, Bartlett &
Co, Chicago, he; Gardner Hardware Co,
M M4ln 1ie HEackett., WaltheTr Gates
Kirk q Co,,ZSt Paul, Mimi.
Dried and -Eyaporated Fruits-Seabury
& Co., st; Paul; Minnesota Mercantile
Mems SuIts-Palace Clothing House.
Minneapolis; Schleestein, Cohn & Co..
New York, N. Y; Kolliner Bros & New
man, StillWater; Boston Clothing COM
Paper-Wright, Barrett & stilwen Co,
ST Paul; Zenith Paper Co., Duluth; John
Leslie Paper Co., Minneapolis
Stationery-Edwin R. Williams, Mime
apolis; Zenith Paper Co., Duluth.
Minnesota Mercantile Co., Stillwa-
sugar-Griggs. Cooper & Co. St. Paul;
Minnesota Mercantile Co., Saltwater.
Flour-.Pillsbury-W ashburn Flour Mill
Co. minneapolis, PiIlsbury- Washburn
Co, Fergus Fails; John A. Cole, Roches-
ter, Mimi; Sackett & Fay, St. Peter,
Mimi; Washburn- Crosby Co, Minneapo-
lis; H. G. Erwin St Cloud; Minnesota
Flour Mill CO. Mime poiis. =
Feed-Pillsbury-W ashburn Flour Mill
Co, Anoka; Minnesota Flour Mill Co.,
minneapolis; Red River Milling Co., Fer
gus Falls; Sackett & Fay, st. Peter; Fari-
baqlt Roller Mills Co., Faribault; John A
Cole, Rochester.
Findings-Finch. Young & McConviIle
st. Paul; Wyman, Partridge & Co., Min
neapolis; f. A. Patrick & Co., Duluth;
John V, Farwell Co, Chicago.
Dry Goods-Lindeke, Warner & Sons
st. Paul; Field, Schlick & Co, St. Paul;
Wyman. Partridge & Co, Minneapolis;
Tibbs,. Hutchings & Co., st. Paul; F. A.
Patrick & Co., Duluth.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-07
WILL SCORE CHEESE
First Contest for Prizes Begins
Next Month.

Activity in cheese production in Min
nesota, it is believed, will be stimu-
lated by a cheese scoring educational
contest to be instituted in June and
to continue for a period of three
months. The scoring will be made at
st. Paul under direction of the Min
nesota state dairy and food commits
sion, and it is expected that nearly
all of the ninety cheese factories in
the state will participate in the con-
test
w. w. P. Mcconnell, state dairy and
food commissioner. is preparing a cir
cular to be sent to the cheeSemakers,
covering the plan proposed. He recites
the good work done by the butter scor-
ing contests and says that the benefits
should be extended to the cheese men.
The educational value of the contest
will be supplemented by trophies and
cash prizes to be distributed among
the successful contestants. The first
contest will be held early in June and
cheese to be entered must be sent to
st. Paul prior to June 6.
For the cheese scoring highest, IS
will be given, with SO and 81 to go
respectively to the second and third
cheeses in point of merit. Judges will
be named by the dairy and food COM
mission and the contest will be under
the direction of the commission.
A $25 silver cup will be given to the
exhibitor scoring highest in the six
contests and cups valued at SIS and
SO will go to the next two highest
in the general average, while diplomas
will be presented to exhibitors making
high score each month and at the end
of the contests diplomas will be pre-
scented to the exhibitors having a gen.
eral average of 9 points,
CheeseS to be entered in the national
contest at st. Louis, the commissioner
SAYS, must have been made prior to
the beginning of the present year.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-07
NATIONS TO MEET
Grand Chapter of Eastern Star
COnVenes Next Week.

More than 500 members of the grand
chapter of Minnesota Of the Order Of
the Eastern Star are expected to gath
er IN st. Paul next week to be in at
tendance at the twenty-sixth annual
meeting Of the chapter, which will be
held at Masonic Temple Wednesday
and Thursday. There are ITS chapters
III the state, and each one will be rep
resented by its matrOn, its patron and
its associate matron.
Preceding the business sessions, q
reception will be held at the temple
tuesday evening" at which the grand
othcers and visiting delegates will be
guests. The reception Will be rendered
by the members of the five local chap
ters. A musical and literary programme
under the direction of H. w. Mackie
viii be given, and the officers of Con-
stellatiOn chapter, st. Paul, will exem-
plify the degrees.
The business session will begin at
10 o'clock Wednesday morning, ana
the address Of welcome will be made
by Mrs. Mary r. Earhuff, worthy ma
iron OF MlstletOe chapter, st. Paul
While the response will be made by
Mrs. Ezra C. Valentine, of Jacoby
chapter. Gov. Van SAINT will make an
address, and the appointment of COM
mlttees will be followed by the adj
dress of the grand matron. Mrs. Car
RE McCauley, of McCauleyville who
Will preside during the session. During
the afternoon reports will be heard,
and in the evening the members Of
WinnebagO chapter, of Winnebago
City, will present an original drill, with
floral tableaux and the presentation Of
the Guiding Star"
The election Of officers will be held
Thursday morning and the session viii
conclude with the installation of the
newly chosen officers.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-07
INVENTOR is FINED
A. I. LOnegrOf Makes Alcohol
Government Asks for 5000.

Justice, argus-eyed dropping in one
day not long ago on lonesome A. T.
LonegrOf in the wildS of ROseau coun-
W snuHed the candle of his ambition
TO become a great inventor, and a fine
or $500 heavy hangs over his head.
LonegrOf Is an old man, but with
a mind still active and resourcefuI.
He liked alcohol and his remoteness
from the haunts of civilization made
1t an extremely rare commodity. So
he set about with inventive genius to
manufacture the volatile fluid Con-
structing a rudely fashioned still, he set
1t up in the granary Of his honest ead
and began experiments. He used for
the basis of his tests pumpkins and
watermelon rinds. A mOdicum of sue
cess crowned his efforts, and he began
to see visions of untold wealth in store
for him with a trip to his native land
in the far-aWay Scandinavian PENN
Sula.
Pumpkins are a success in Roseau
county; failure in the crop has new
er been known, and it is no uncommon
thing to see thousands of bushels of
pumpkins to the acre. With one home
made still turning out alcohol, he saw
no reason for not increasing the num-
Der of stills, planting more pumpkins
and sufficient %atermelOns to give tone
to the pumpkin product and eventually
rlVaIlng the leading citizens of Peoria,
III.
But in the calculations of Lonegrof
there had been one element forgotten.
1t had wholly escaped him that the
government of the United States de-
mands a contribution from the owners
of stills and a prerequisite is that all
stills shall be registered with the COL
lectOr of internal revenue.
He learned all these things one day
when a special agent of the revenue
service called at-his humble home
stead, seized the unlettered and unnum-
bered still and placed the amateur dis
tiller under arrest.
In the federal court at Fergus Falls
yesterday the practical judge, unmind-
full Of what LOnegrof had attempted to
do to Tighten the burden of the human
race by making pumpkin alcohol aC-
cessible to the poorest of the people,
soaked" him for 5000.
LOnegrofs scheme had not, thanks
to the intrusion of the revenue col
lectOr developed to the point where he
had the required amount, but the case
will be held in allegiance pending pay
ment of the fine and costs incurred.
But pumpkins will be a drug in
ROseau county and it will not be lar
ceny hereafter to steal watermelons.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-07
WHEELER FAILS TO
EXTEND CAR LINE
Aldermen Send "SeIby Short" ResoIu-
ton to Committee on Streets.

Assemblyman Howard Wheeler's eff
fort to have a resolution passed re-
quiring the street railway company to
operate the "Selby Short" cars to
Griggs street, four blocks beyond
Chatsworth, the present terminus. met
with defeat at the meeting of the
board of aldermen last evening and
was productive of a lively scene.
Having pushed the resolution to a
vote, and not being able to do better
than secure a reference to the commit
tee on streets, Mr.. Wheeler arose and
in an angry tone, said:
With the consent of the president
would like to have the privilege of
withdrawing the resolution. 1t is we'll
known that this reference kills it, as
street railway legislation that goes to
the committee on streets is never again
heard from"
4 think we have the ability to take
care of our business. Mr.. Wheeler is
rather hasty in making such a charge,
and as for myself I will vote for the
resolution if it is recommended by the
alderman of the Seventh ward" was
the answer of Aid. BantZ in an ag-
grieved tone.
But insist on withdrawing it," con-
tinued Wheeler.
Don't you give it to him." said
Bantz to President Huber, with the
result that the resolution went to the
committee.
Wheeler came to the meeting backed
by about a dozen citizens who favored
the extension, and who talked at some
length in it's favor They contended
that the territory that would be served
by the extension of the Selby line is
rapidly building UP, and that the Mer-
riam Park cars, which run every fif-
teen minutes, cannot accommodate the
travel.
Aid. Corning took stand against the
measure to the extent that, notwith-
standing the fact that he was begged
to let the resolution go through, he in
sisted that it should go to the commit
tee. Mr.. Corning said that as he was
not familiar with the subject, and fur
Their that the street railway company
was opposed to the passage of the res
olution, he would insist that a public
hearing should be given.
Manager Burdick, for the street rail-
way company, verified the statements
of the alderman and said that he did
not believe that the extra expense
would be justified. In connection with
the same line Aid. Elder introduced a
resolution requiring ten minute serv-
ice to Merriam Park. This was also
sent to the committee on streets.