The Alaska citizen., 1911-12-25
PERSONAL MENTION.
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J. W. Barker, special agent q
the land office. is due in the nea
future. he having left Seattle OF
December 5.
With his bride of a few months
Dan Hartwig returned to the cit,
Monday over the trail. having com.
in with Captain Northway. Mr.. Hart
wig went to the Iditarod last sum-
mel, and then on to the OutSiG,
on one of the last boats
NJ. +. Hofseth. who came up from
the lditarod last summer. has jus
received a wire from his brother
! Ole Hofseth. in which the story O
pay in the Kuskokwim is confirmed
The Holokuk river. he says look
| promising
John Mihalcik. now at the Ri.
| Cinema hot springs. writes that he il
improving in health daily
Tom Watson. the former cour
crier, and DR.. Myers, the dentist
both OF whom left Fairbanks thi:
last summer. were recently operated
on successfully by the Mayo broth
! ers.
The miners on the Newsboy shaft
are sinking at the rate OF two anC
one-half feet per day, a set of tim
! bers being put in every other day
| Captain Northway arrived from
| Chitina Monday after a 14-day til
with load of meats and perisha
| bles
| The Craig Crook Estby drill work
ing on the Alabama association a
the mouth of Vault. has encounie red
more water, and all hope of hand
| ling The ground although it is wortl
from 1925 to $3.50 per square FOOT
of bedrock, has been abandoned fol
| the present The drill has beer
moved to the Arrowhead fraction
| where it will sink half a dozel
holes for Peterson and Sandstron.
Ed Owens and Nels Rasmussen
left Tuesday for Circle. Rasmussen
/ to continue with the work of NOV
| ing the Elmer dredge to Mastodgr
| creek, while Owens will return &c
the Sucker river. tributary Ct
the Porcupine, where his pattne,
now is located
Captain Griffith. of the Miller
| house. and Jack Clayworth, who
came in from the Circle district las;
week, left for home again Wednes
| day morning.
Application for his final paper.
! has been made by Sigurd John Ed
ward Wallstedt with the clerk Oi
the district court. The applicant was
born on the high seas He came tC
| America in 1899. when he landed al
| Honolulu
J. c. Kinney, the Ester merchant
was in the city during the week
Stanley Hess is a recent arrival
from GCldstream.
H. Confer, the little EldorauC
merchant, was in town upon bust
ness trip during the week
Carl Douglas. the Fairbanks creek
freighter, was in early in the week
for load of supplies.
Mrs. NJ d. Thomas. who broke
her left wrist last week, is GONZALES
cling at the Shaw house. and expects
that the break will have healed
completely within three weeks.
Thomas l.. Young was in from
Fairbanks creek during the week.
Charles Freeman, of Freeman 4
Larson, Fairbanks creek operators.
came into town on Mondays train.
Mrs. Sam Lind was a visitor from
Chatanika early in the week
Mrs. Sam Hagen, Of Goldstream
was in town Tuesday.
Mrs. William Powers, of Dimes
was at the Nordale hotel on Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hansen, CT Fox were
in the city Thursday on a shopping
visit
Danny Leach, of Jones & Goodfel-
lows camp, is in the city for the
holidays.
Gus Peterson was visitor from
Engineer creek Thursday.
Miss Foller's dancing class met
Wednesday night at Harmonic hall.
Captain Cunningham is in Fair
banks from Vault.
Jerry Moore is recent arrival
from Fish creek.
Tom Aitken, who recently return
ed from the Iditarod, went on Out
side on Thursdays stage.
Fred Dunbar is leaving for the
Koyukuk river on business He will
return Immediately.
e. c. Willis has disposed of one
twelfth interest in the Bill Taft,
North Star, Grimsmore and Union
quartz claims on Chatham, also a
one-siXth interest in ReXall, ReXall
No. /, Rexall No. 2, Rexall No. 3.
Welcome and Welcome No. 2. of
Wolf creek, to A. +. Ruth.
Ed Erickson is freighting out the
saloon outfit for William Voss, who
recently was granted license for
Dimes.
Gus Conradt, working On 4 below
Ester, recently encountered reef
of rock in his placer operations
that necessitates resorting gto quartz
mining methods in the driving of
tunnels,
Mrs. Harry Atwood of Pedro creek
was in town Thursday.
Sergeant N. p Raleigh, in charge
of the telegraph station at Cinema,
was In the city yesterday on bust
ness.
Roy Lund. the long distance run
ner, is in town from Little Eldora-