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Hot Springs post., 1908-12-05
BIG SEEDS
 NOV USED

The big stages were put on the run between here and Fairbanks Monday. There is now considerable snow on the upper end of the run, and it is consid- cred feasible to put on the larger sleds.
 On the next trip of the stage the limit of the mail will be increased to l200 pounds per week instead of 800 pounds as heretofore. This increase in weight comes none too soon as there is already quite an accumulation of sec ond-calss matter in the Fairbanks post office which it has been impossible to move on account of the small-weight limit. On the stage last Saturday there was no outside mail at all, as the Fair banks. Valdez stage evidently failed to make connections with the steamers at the seaport town.
 Since the big sleds have been placed on the run there will probably be a considerable increase in the travel to this city from Fairbanks, as it will now be possible to handle passengers where the double-enders were not at all satis- factory
Hot Springs post., 1908-12-05
Good Prospects
 on North Fork

Otto Keoehle was in the city Monday from the North Fork of Pioneer creek where he has been representing some ground during the past few weeks. He is very much pleased with the outlook of their ground as far as he has gone, having struck some very coarse colors at the bottom of the shaft. Heretofore all the prospecting on this creek has been done on the left limit, which has a well-defined bench and should appar- ently have paystreak, as all the other creeks running parallel to the North Fork carry pay. The left limit has, however, in the neighborhood of fifty holes to bedrock, and none of them produced pay. For this reason MT. Keoehle and partner went to the ex- treme right limit and sunk where they thought they ought to find the rim. h. stead of striking the rim, however, they sank 45 feet before striking bed rock, and then it was pitching toward the hill. From these indications of the channel being under the hill and the fact that coarse gold was found, they are very much encouraged, and will push the work as rapidly as possible.
Hot Springs post., 1908-12-05

Alaska and is probably later copied in outside papers thus creating interest in the camp otherwise unatainabe.
 We consider The Post live paper, that will work for the good of the camp do all in it's to further the interests of all and is deserving of the earnest support of every citizen in the community People who have the late Fairbanks papers that The Post has been clipped from very freely and in nearly every credit has been given The result is that since The Post started Hot Springs has been given advertising than be- fore and all of if has been of reliable nature.
 It will be the aim of The Post to give the people of this district and Alaska all the reliable possible especially regarding the mining developments of the camp but in will resort to effort to induce stampede by the publication of reports which know false exaggerated.
Hot Springs post., 1908-12-05
HOW THEY SALT A CLAIM

wish would explain to all about this saltng of claims that hear much about said meeeyed tenderfoo to grizzly old miner who banning about six of pull verzed quartz T don't what they want to salt claim for, and don't understand how they do it."
 Well, you see hot like this they have the claim lots of time keep it. fresh claim good enough for tenderfoot the old timers look at anything but pi;kled claim.
 You know what quartz is, probably"
 "No."
 "Wel, every claim has quartz Some and less You find out how many there and then put many pounds salt to the quart Wildcat claims require sat because the wildcat spells quicker than anything else
 Sometimes you catch sucker too and you have to put him in brine you lose him. That's why they salt a claim.
 Then again. you often grubsake man"
 But what is 8 grubstake?"
 Well grubstake a stake that the boys hang their on they carry it. Lots of mining have been knocked cold by blow from grubstake.
 What wanted to though, this: you wil prob ably rs strike free milling poverty with indications of something Then you wi doubt sink till you strike bedrock Assure gopher hole, with traces of dsap pointment.
 That's the time put your salt You shoot itino the shaft with double barreed shotgun wet and apply whtewash brush If people up their at your claim then and snide and that they think there is something in Denmark you tell them that they clear off, that have saed caim and that know it is all right"
 The the tenderfoot he buying double barreed shotgun and ten pounds of rock salt
 There's doubt but mining is the place to send young man who acquire knowledge and fill his system full of information that will be useful him as long he lives Bill Nye.
Hot Springs post., 1908-12-05
THOROUGH PROSPECTING

Never before in the history of Hot Springs has this district received anything like the thorough prospecting which it is being subjected to this winter Not only there in the country but the the right kind and better equipped than before for good thorough work.
 Two years ago prospecting boiler rarity on the creeks where pay not known to exist The who discovered the pay and opened up the creeks did by doing all their thawng with wood fires which necessated
 good deal of time and labor The prospectors who are looking for the gold in three out of five equipped with small boilers and able to do three times
 With this army of busy working on the surround ing creeks it than natural to expect reports of strikes and rich dggngs before the winter is It safe to that at least three paying creeks will be discovered before spring. From all directions reports of good prospects coming n and while in very few cases pay claimed the fact that gold being found creeks hitherto considered barren enough to stimulate the pectors to further effort.
 Eldorado, Cooney, Killarney, Boulder, Woodchopper, Rock and Blowback creeks all have working them and the prospectors without
 While it is not to be expected that pay will be found all these creeks there is at present from the indications and the prospects that being found why they should not all be producers With one or two more producing creeks where get grubsake in the summertime this district will forge to the front and will be long until boast of city second to none in Alaska
Hot Springs post., 1908-12-05
NEW FIRE:
 PROTECT

The committee in charge of the fire protection for the city were busy this week, and the pipe is now laid from the pump in the sawmill to point oppo- site Stanley's hotel, where hydrant has been erected.
 For the present the pipe is laid on top of the ground, with the exception of a few places where it was necessary to cut away small raises in the ground in order to insure drainage, and where it crossed the wagon roads. The pipe is connected to the pump, and when the hose has been secured all will be in readiness for instant operation. The pipe is only two inches in diameter, but this will be plenty large for present use, and will suffice to extinguish blaze of good proportions.
 Hose to fit this pipe can no doubt be obtained in Fairbanks, as there is much of it used on private reels in business houses of that city.
 The overflow of warm water from the springs that comes from the boiler room Of the powerhouse has been turned into the suction pipe on the pump, which has been raised out of the water, and this constant supply of run- hing warm water insures the ice iw the slough where the water is taken always being open and prevents the pipe from becoming clogged
Hot Springs post., 1908-12-05
Chute Sells ~
 an Interest

Another large transfer of mining property in this district was made in Fairbanks lately whereby Edward J.. Stier obtains a one-quarter interest in the properties of Jerome A. Chute on Eureka creek.
 MT. Chute is expected on tonight's stage and will immediately go to his ground, where he will start prepara- tions for big summers work.
 Mr.. Stier, the purchaser, is well known to all the people who have ever been in Fairbanks as he was clerk of the district court there from the time of it's institution until Judge Reid was appointed.
Hot Springs post., 1908-12-05
GOOD ADVERTISING.

The benefits to be derived by camp like Hot Springs from good live local newspaper much greater proportion for the money expended than can be ob taned from any other institution In other way can reliable news concerning the camp be sent to the outside world and so thoroughly disseminated through the col pmns of the local paper Not only the circulation of the paper itself be depended upon, but from camp such this is always welcomed by the other papers of Alaska and the outside with the result that good item of in The Post is eventually read by everybody in
Hot Springs post., 1908-12-05
M ore Snow
 Badly Needed

It begins to look as if this district were to suffer from the want of snow this winter much as it did from the lack of rain last summer.
 The roads in all directions are prac- tically bare and the trails to the creeks in some places have absolutely no trace of snow. Freighters are havinga a very hard time as result, and cannot haul over half ahe' loads they could under or dinary circumstances.
 Although enough snow has fallen to make fair sleighing if it had remained, it seems that immediately after every snowstorm the wind arises and blows the roads and trails absolutely bare again.
 i: Job Printing at the Post office.
Hot Springs post., 1908-12-05

Fred Howard, proprietor of the now famous Howard house at Kemperville, was in the city Monday seeing old friends and transacting some business.
Hot Springs post., 1908-12-05
SULLIVAN CREEK

visitor to Sullivan creek is nearly always struck by the variety of opinions that expressed by the miners of that stream how the gold arrived there and to the extent of the pay There three different theories each of which has it's adherens who convinced that they alone are right and all others wrong
 The theory first advanced, and which is held by most of the old timers in this district is that the pay that is known Sullivan from the creek having cut quartz srngers and deposng the pay for short
 distance below the original ven others adhere to the the ory that there glacial the country while the remainder claim that Sullivan is different from creeks in the Fairbanks country, and has weldefned paystreak which will be found the creek thor oughly prospected.
 The latter theory daily gaining champions who point out that other theory is entirely wrong They point the fact that pay found Quartz creek at the head of Sullivan the Midnight and Dakota associations farther down. and still further down Discovery and at the mouth of Tofty In way other than by of paysreak could the pay be found in these different parts is the claim of the paysreakers and their contentious to be bourne out by the existing facts.
 It is very likely that when this creek is thor oughly prospected it will be found to contain long wide paystreak which will all Alaska for it's richness and extent.
Hot Springs post., 1908-12-05

commenced his campaign for reelection to the Ohio There will be much
 on anticipated in view of the unpleasant against Foraker during the recent deserted by political friends and de- Roosevelt Foraker however, that he has lost the actions of the Republican anything he stronger today than he unusy accused and that the Repub party dropped him merely grandstand play to the public because they believed him guilty
Hot Springs post., 1908-12-05

Several times during the past week The Posts atten- on has called to the fact that there number of persons in the habit of committing nuisances the streets and other exposed places ill this city, There too many and children in the city to allow such practices to continue and the guilty persons entirely lacking in serespect decency refrain from further oense
 example should be made of of the offenders which would further this matter
Hot Springs post., 1908-12-05

Fix Queen I" of Hawaii is present in Washington where endeavorng indemnity for land confscaed by prior the annexation of her island lin gdom by the Untee States.
Hot Springs post., 1908-12-05

Job Printing at the Post office.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-05-25
HERE, TOO

Speaking of spring clesn-ups the Dawson News has this: "Aere Is chance to emulate the energetic aud public spirited people of Red Wing, Minnesota. Every good citizen, of course icOm his sense of duty and cleanliness, cleans up his own place. The bad citizen is forced to do so by the sanitary authorities. But the vacant lots of absentee lot owners are still oye-sores. Now, here is a proposition: Let every citizen clean up the vacant lots in bis locality, irrespective of owershIp, and after he has cleaned up and packed In cases, say by the 10th of May, he may expect the city authorities to do their share, and cart the rubbish away to the river"
The daily Alaskan., 1908-05-25
HEATS LOTS TO YOU

Do you come nearer. day by day, To the port where your dreams all anchored lie? Or do you sail further and further away In SD angry sea with G Sulleu sky? Do you come nearer the ought-tO-be In the wagon you hitchSd to a distant star?
 Or do you drift on hopelSSIly, Content to bide with the things that are?
 Are you Yes, or s May-be-so? Are you Will or a Guess-yOu'll-bO? A Coms-On-lads, or Let'I-pOt-gO? A Yes-I-wiIl, or sn Oh-Ill-see? I. isn't the lsASt concern of mine, know that well; but as time ondursS, When they thresh tue whast and store the wine,
 You'll find it's big concert of yours.
 Youths Companion.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-05-25

For a good smoke, call for the Bull Dog cigar at Tony Dotero's. I'm
The daily Alaskan., 1908-05-25

At the meeting of the city council last Monday night Clerk DOherty submitted statement Of the receipts and expspdl- lures of the city for the years 1907 and 'Os, prepared at the instance of the chairman of the ways and means com mlttse. The several committees Oi the council will use the information con- tained as basl, for preparing their
 budgets for the ensuing year and the ways and means committee will fix the tax levy according to these. These budgets will probably be submitted at the meeting tonight. The statement for the last year therefore becomes eS- poeially interesting for comparison and
The daily Alaskan., 1908-05-25

After smashing cars, committing crimes agains, society, doing outrage
 that might have caused the sacrifice of innocent lives, the street car men have agreed to the original proposition made before auy Of these things were placed to their discredit, and have gone back to work iu Cleveland. What a price might be justly paid for good eadership.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-05-25

The weather was not just as pleasing as might have been-nor was it too bad either-but with this exception, the day iu Whitehorse, Saturday, was thoroughly enjoyable. WhitshOrso was all that host should be and visitors cane away with the satisfied conscious ness of having had real holiday.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-05-25
A Wonderful InutrumOnt

You should drop into the Mascot and hear the music. The electric piano has Q Mandolin attachment equal to g whole octette of Mandolin attachments with string of new airs,
The daily Alaskan., 1908-05-25

Mae Woods says she will rot In jail before couiessing 10 perjury, If lying iu jail will cause Mae to rot she will probably do something in that line anyhow; so there would be nO sense ID coniessing.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-05-25
THE TOWNS FINANCIAL STATEMENT

is given herewith. The receipts for the year 1907 totaIlsd s22,44O.9s and the total cash available for that year was s2S, ,66l 28. The running expenses for the year was sls,Ol1.t5, The reyonueO for 1908, as will be seen, tOlalled a22,- 895.5S and the cash available was S24,- l7s.5s. The expenses tosallsd S22, ,SOLO2, just s25 80 more than the year before, Mir. Shaw at the meeting last week called attention to the reduction In rev. enus from dog licenses and poll tax, tho former of which last year yIOlded S252 and tho latter S2sS--rovonuet that should have increased rather than decreased. Following is the statement:
The daily Alaskan., 1908-05-25
''P8fHIUH" BRAND BUTTER

By far the best butter we have ever had and 1t iR gaining favor with our patrons every day. Try pound brick.
 Frye & Bruhn Co.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-05-25

Best meals in WhltehOrse at Royal Cafe. If
The daily Alaskan., 1908-05-25

All the delIcacies of the season at the Pack Train restaurant.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-05-25
QUICK DELIVERY, PHONE 30

Baggage, coal and wood delivered up. on shortest notice day or night,
 F. Freldenthal, General Expressing Bonded Carrier.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-06-05
ADRIFT ON A RAFT.

J. w. Appleton, of Missouri Point,
Mo-, Is floating down the Mississippi
river with his family, IL pigs, 8 cows,
2 horses and come poultry on large
raft, which be launched just before the
river broke over its bank and covered
his farm with several feet Of water. He
started Tuesday afternoon, intending II
steer his raf: for high ground, but thus
far has not been able to effect landing.
The raft, which is an enormous affair,
wss built by Appl6t1p two weeks ego in
preparation for the food. 1t is sur
rounded by 8 railing 10 keep the cattle
from falling into the river. Food .or
man, bssst and fowl to last several days
was taken along.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-06-05

Is mats very ins old JAVA COFFEE. jus,
rsesiTsd by J. q. AILBURN.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-06-05
MINISTER SENT TO JAIL.

Rev. James T. Hsrgraye, the un-
ftoked clergyman of the Episcopal
Church, yesterday morning PLEADED
guilty to four Indictments in the UnitsC
States District Court in Richmond, anC
was sentsnced by Judge Edmund Wad'
dill, IT,, t. eight months in the HauOvei
county jsil and t, pay fine Of 800
The indictments, each OF which containe
three counts, cbsIges Hargrave with
having devised a scheme and with
practicing tae same with intent to de-
fraud by uss of the United States mails.
Merchants in many parts of the country
were his victims. Harerave wss SEN
fenced on one indictment, the olhers
being nolle prosecuted.
Bishop Obaupcey Brewster, of Hart.
ford, Conn.,, whose name Hsrgrave had
used in ttion with the operation of
bis fraudulent schemes, was presen!
ss a witness In the c1se. They met
in the court room, and the bishop,
rr1enting Hargrsve's Aippant advance,
ssid
"You are a Disgrace to your church ;
YOU have been disgrsoed By your
church; you hsve | n indicted By 2
grand jury and sentenced by an honor
able Judge l can pray for you, but |
fear can not much help you"
Har.rave WIS first ordained clergy
man in 1881 by Bishop Horatio Potter
of New York, sn uncle Of the pr3aeLt
Bishop Pottsr. He wr7 oriained Sec
ond time in Springfield, ILL.,, by Bishor
George F. S4ymonr. AS clsrgmen be
held chsrgss 10 many 't't's, from New
York . Mislissippi. He moved 10 Vr-
ginia in 1895, s3ltling in Fairfax eoun-
ty Six yaaIa ego 40 purchased plan
tation 10 Hanover county, on which he
has lived ever sinos.
Hargrave's alleged crimes cover many
yeats. 1t is ssid that there is scarcely a
city in ne country in which he hs1 not
or ra,ed. Claims amounting ~ thnns-
snds of dolf-S are now in the hands OF
an attorney In Richmond, resulting from
credit extsnds1 to him 81 minister oi
the gosgsl. esveral tim bis home,
"C.darhulst L ige," in Hanover COUP
ty, + ban sold for debt. He is now
under irdicimei of the Hanover grand
jury ard is awsiling irisl ON a charge oi
selling liquor without license. He has
served several terms in Jail.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-06-05
A SAD CASE.

There was q pathetic scene yesterday
In the boardroom of the Washington
navy yard. where Assistant Surgeon
David A. Spear, of the navy, Is being
tried on the charge of forging the names
of br ther officers to treasury checks, and
cashing them for his own use. Spears
father, white-hsired gentleman from
Columbus, O., and Judge OF the State
courts, testified how the disease Of drink
had fastened itself upon his boy, and
how his love for liquor had wrecked his
life. His son, he said, joined battery
of artillery that was organized during
the Spanish wsr in Columbus, but the
battery got no farther than Chicks
maugs. There his boy lesrGed to drink.
He returned home, but his hsbits made
it impossible for him to T main there,
and wherever he went his love of liquor
proved his undoiug. TIE old mans
voice broke, and tears steamed from
his ewes as be testified to the power
which rum held over bis son. His wife
had come from Columbus With Judge
Spesr, but st the last moment she found
herself unable to attend the trial and
hear the testimony against her boy. Sur
eeon Spear admits that it was liquor that
Induced him to commit the forgeries.
His att-rney, Mr.. Henry II. Classic,
admitted the forgery, but declares that
the crime was the act of man whose
mind is disordered, and bis mentality
irresponsible because of drink. The Psr-
ticulsr blame Mr.. Classic lays to Sur
geon Spears founduess for Msrtini cock
tails, a beverage which he said contains,
among other things, vfrmouth and ab'
siu the, the toxic effect of which will, in
the opinion Of medical men, drive its
victims to crimes and other excesses.
Surgeon Spears trial will continue for
several days.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-06-05
PROPOSALS.

Ofhce Of Constructing Quartz rmaster, U. ).
Army, Fort Washington, Nd. May IA, 1903
Sealed proposals in triplicste will be received
at this Office until p. m. une 10. 1905, TO-
construction of building for bowling alley,
billiard and reading room et Fort Hunt. Va.
plans and specifications furnished upon de-
posit of $40. which amount viii be refunded
upon return Of plsns, etc, Proposals must be
endorsed Proposals for Construction OF
Building for Bowling Alley, etc, at Fort
Hunt, Va. and addressed TO the Constructing
Qusrtermaster, u. S. Army, Fort Washing
ton, Nd. mayl6, IS 19. .20junl2.1S
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-06-05
Linen and Crash Knickerbockers; sizes .
to 10.
t5c per. Value, 81 %.

Third Hooy-llth st.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-06-05
DRY GOODS.
Woodward ( L0IlPOD.
10th, l1th, F.& .Sts., NV.
Washington, D. c.
Boys Wash Suits
About Half Price.

We have secured, direct from the makers,
large lot f Regatta" Wash Suits ard TroUs-
ers, which we Oh 81 about one. half the usual
prices They eie lew, fresh goods, 8 IL Of this
seasons production.
Russian and Sailor Suits. Of plain white
English gslstsas and fancy chambrays; sizes
up to IL years.
$245. Value. "a 90 aud $3.50.
Russian and Sailor Suits, of plain while
and fancy chambrays aud English Ralateas;
sizes up TO 10 years.
$l.t5. Values, $3.50 to 1915.
Fancy Russian snd Sailor Suits, of English
galateas and ducks; handsomely braided or
plain; sizes upto 10.
Sl.15. Values, $500 TO $275.
Norfolk Jacket Snits, with knickerbocker
trousers, of fine plain white duck; sizes s
to II.
$3.50 each. Value, 1896,
Linen and Crash Knickerbockers; sizes ,
to 10.
e5c a psir. Value, 81 %.
Chambrey and English Galatea BlOomers;
sizes to 10
45c pair. Vale, Zoe.
Third aooy--l1th st.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-06-05

DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills are
prompt marlborough and W Ill in very sho-t
time strengthen the weakened kid neys. Sold
by w. +. Creighton d Co.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-06-05

Get yourself a box Of Quybon quick snd
give that old enemy, La Grippe, Knockout
blow. l0c aud 25o boxes at oo,,e
E.S LEADB EATER& SONS
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-06-05

Girls Percsle Dresses, made Russian
style; sone are made tn low neck and
sho rt sleeves; some with high neck and
loug sleeves, aud others are ia the popu'
lar jumper t lie; s'z.s 6 t. II years.
speCisl price, $l.50 each.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-06-05

Girls Guimpes, of fine Persian and
French lawn, neatly trimmed with
French aud German vsleEciennes lsce;
slso with fine embr ,idery; sizss 6 tj Ii.
75c I, 1876 each.