Tanana leader., 1910-06-02
Northern News Notes

The Corwin is again the first boat from Seattle to land at Nome She got in May 31.
 The mail service between Hot Springs and Rampant has been discontinued for the summer.
 All places along the Yukon from Tan ana to Kaltag are reported practically deserted on account of the 1ditarod stampede.
 Carl White was prevented from sail ing from Fairbanks for the Iditarod on the Evelyn by arrest charged with cut ting and removing mining timbers from public land. The timbers were valued at $9l.5O.
 Sam Bonnifeld, the former Fairbanks banker, was recently found wandering about the streets of Seattle, again in a demented condition. He was formerly in sanitarium, but had been dis charged as cured and was living with his brother in Seattle.
 Marshal Love has appointed Corne- lius w. Vawter to succeed Charles E. Hanover, who resigned short time ago, as deputy marshal in the Iditarod. Deputy Vawter will be the head of the force i'll the Iditarod district. He was marshal at Nome in the boom days and later a deputy at Valdez. He was at Seattle when .hosen for the Iditarod and will come in on an early boat.
 The forest fires in the gegion of Fair banks last week destroyed about 5000 cords of wood for Sutter & Go. near the head of Isabelle creek; F. Heilscher lost his farmhouse, barn and cabin and 100 cords of wood; some Russians who had pooled their wood interests lost be- tween l 1,5OO and 1000 cords, besides their shacks and belongings; L. T. IT, win lost about 25O cords, and the scat tering losses amount to about 500 cords. The destruction may cause a rise in the price of next winters tuel supply at Fairbanks. ....
 People who arrived on the steamer St. Michael last Thursday said when they were in Whitehorse that town was full of material for the big electric plant to be installed at Coal Creek, Yukon terri tory, and more was arriving by the train load. There are many very heavy pieces among the machinery. The plant will be erected at the coal mines few miles below Fortymile and is intended to sup. ply light and power for Fortymile, Klon- dike, and other places in that quarter oi Yukon territory.
 The first law suit from the new Idita- rod camp has been filed in the district court at Fairbanks, the case being the Ora Mining Company vs. A. V. Thorns, Fred w. Carter and A. B. Ferguson. The suit is for half interest in the op- tion on the Bonanza association of Flat creek, which the plaintiffs claim under a grub-stake agreement with Thorns. The Ora Mining Company, consisting of Charles Carroll, Fred Parker, A. Lkievicz, A. V. Thorns and Roy V. Nye, claim that they grub-staked Thorns for the Iditarod and on the return of the latter the Ora company was formed and the interests acquired by Thorns were turned over to the company except the option on the half interest of the Bo- nanza which A. V. Thorns has agreed to sell to Carter and Ferguson. The plaint- ifs allege that as a consideration for this agreement the defendant had agreed with Carter and Ferguson that he was to have lay on the lower 784 feet of the ground. The plaintiff company asks that Carter and Ferguson be declared trustees for the company to hold the op. tion. Title to the ground and an ac- counting is asked.
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