The Chitina leader., 1911-11-25
NEWS OF WORLD

weeks ago much excitement was
 caused by the discovery of rich pay
 on the right limit bench Of Flat creek. Subsequent work has given
 the owners much encouragement as
 the pay appears to occur in q large body. The discovery has caused prospecting stampede on the other
 claims along the right limit and
 miners agree that the chances for
 hitting the pay all along to the
 head of the creek are gcod. The strike is of the greatest importance to the camp because it is the first bench pay to be discovered on the 1 creek. The new channel was first located by Jonas Bruce, Harry John- son and Al Burke, in partnership known as the Little Guggs.' They are laymen on the Wildcat associa- tion below Dec Mading.
 Seattle Nov. 22.-First Lieut.. J. I. Bryant, chief engineer of the revenue cutter Tahoma, and Second Lieut.. J. F. Carr, have gone east. Both of these officers won fame while the Tahoma conducted Secre- tary Fishers party to Cordoya and other parts of Alaska. Lieut. Bryan has been assigned to the United Stat | es revenue cutter Tuscarora at Mill waukee and Lieutenant Carr has been transferred to the revenue cut ter Mohawk at Thompsonviile, N. Y. Both were entertained by officers of the revenue cutter fleet in the harbor before leaving.
 The revenue cutter Thetis is now at Bremerton, where a survey pre- liminary to repairs is being made. Though it has not been decided what shall be spent for repairs on the Thetis it is practically certain that the work will be done in Seattle. The repairs and overhauling will occupy several weeks. after which the vessel will proceed to her home station at Honolulu.
 0 The United States revenue cutter Rush will also undergo repairs in Seattle. Included in the work will be the installation of a new donkey engine and hoisting mayhinery and manhinarv-s- -------t.,--.--s ->-ll,r,,.,-..- while the main boilers Are o1t out for cleaning. While oh the dry dock the Rush will be gem ally over hauled and painted.
 Boston, Nov. 22.-This morning it was discovered that Durland Kel logg, social worker and writer, had committed suicide. He was only 30 years of age, and when he was 20 he began to study mining conditions In 1902 he made a special investi- gation into child labor abuses in the Pennsylvania coal mines. He travel ed in Russia during the revolution of 1906 as contributor to several periodicals, and was arrested and im- prisoned. The only cause for his suicide is Encouragement over the slow progress of the cause in which he was so interested.
 Richmond, Nov. 22.-The Ameri- can Association for Highway Im- provement is having very success full session here. An important ad- dress was delivered today by Gen. Coleman Dupont, who has always been a consistent advocate of good roads. He won fame in his own state of New Jersey by presenting that commonwealth with a $2,00O,- 900 boulevard, extending across the state.
 Savannah, Nov. 20.-John Me Kay, one of the automobile drivers who were contesting for theVander- bilt cup got into a collision with an- other machine and he was killed.
 Nome, Nov. 22.-Renewed inter- est in prospecting has resulted in the discovery of a second beach line Bluff City, sixty miles to the east ward of this town. Fabulously rich pay was found at depth of eighteen feet below the surface, and at an elevation of twenty-two feet above the present sea level. There is no doubt, from the nature of the gray el, that it is a marine deposit, and it is believed continuation of the second beach line found at Nome, which added many millions of dol lars to the output of that district. Hundreds of miners and prOspec- tors have started for the scene of the strike and vigorous prospecting | will be done this winter.
 Seattle, Nov 22.-The city has been practically without water since the break in the pipes on Sunday. Some districts were partially sup piled from water in the reservoirs, but that has given out. Tonight, however, with the use of auxiliary pumps eighteen million gallons will be supplied from the lake, which will give relief to all districts. The steam heating plants will also be able to start up and also relieve that situa