The Alaska prospector., 1906-02-15
Of Local Interest.

expe cted on the next boat
 F. r. Force, sporting editor of the Minneapolis Tribune, will isit Valdez this spring, to gather ma tcrial for series of write-ups'en Alaska.
 Geo. ETkins. who is we'll known here, is now at Goldfields. New, where he has some good quartz property and is doing well.
 IL may interest the citizens of Valdez that Thos. G. Quinn has been promoted to the position of superintendent of the White Pass & Yukon Ky. At least that's the way his mail is addressed now.
 Rev Taylor will be at Seward for few days to attend to the con struction of a church building. He will return on the Oregon. Sun day school will be held as usual at the Church of the Epiphany Sun day at noon.
 The Santa Ana arrived early Tuesday morning afte- a record trip from Seattle of less than seven days hv the inside passage. She had 346 tons of freight and the foh- lowing passengers for here:
 L Larson, J Borud. , Travis, c J MHir, ems, Miss Y Ellis, Mics M >chmitz, E prather, Miller, Mrs Turner, Mrs shaw. Mrs J stocker " J GlGzaer, P GhezEe. Chas Wh5s h1sr ssrner 4eFn Th15n W5i,N Miss hrsgy nf! G McT.ean, C IT waters FJ sla; k, F Slack, T Brakk" and wifi. T McMahon, P Runyon C Neison, Nelson, II Knight, Roy Glaze rock.
 Forty Alaskans in Seattle. head ed by J. l.. Steele, sent a telegram to the president protesting against the bill recently introduced to abolish the federal tax of four cents a case on Alaska canned sal mon Their contention is that this is not an unjust or excessive tax, and to abolish it would deprive the Alaska road fund of $276,OO0 per annum.
 Dan Kain arrived on the Santa Clara, and will leave soon for the scene of the new strike on Valdez creek, where he owns considerable property.
 Charles Sandberg, the Slate creek mine owner, returned from the States on the Santa Ana. MT. Sandberg was married in Chicago during the winter, and his wife accompanied him to Valdez, where she will remain this summer while he is at Slate creek.
 Two of the Elkins Bros, Fred and Will. arrived on the Santa Clara, and are preparing to take in an outfit to do development work on their copper property in the Chittystone country, and to dc some prospecting. Carl Leber and Henry Johnson will accom- pany them.
 Owing to the small crowd which will attend the dance Saturday night. it will be held in Moose Hall. Good music and Lunch.
 Sam Taylor is moving supplies to Slate creek. where he will work this summer on the California claim.
 Dan Grennig has been laid up for some time with a bad knee. A needle was broken off in the knee cap, and several operations were necessary before the needle could be extracted.
 Mrs. J. L. Steele, who went out for medical treatment, had an op- eration successfully performed and is now re"overidg rapidly.
 Charles Crawford and wife re- turned from the States on the Stata Clara.
 Ilt " itidujS DiotiiCiS uiid Charles Range arrived on the on the Santa Clara and will start soon for Dan Creek, where they will work the Kain and Williams placer properties.
 Jim Finch is in town preparing to move a five ton outfit to his cop per property in the Kuskalans country.
 Mir. and Mrs. Amman arrived on the Santa Clara and will leave in. q few days for their copper prop erty in Kolsina.
 Harry Fitch and Clarenfe War ner arrived Saturday after spend ing he winter in the States. They yill pro-pec' this summer in ths Chittyna copper section