The Alaska daily empire., 1913-04-25
GIeamings From Great
 Northern Empire

Mel R. Sabin recently has been road overseer for the Fairbanks sec tion by Judge John F. Dillon, United States commissioner for the Fair' banks district. His bond was fixed at $1O,OOO.
 J. E. Moody was elected to be member of the school board at Fair- banks over Frank Clark early in the present month by vote of 5O6 to 45l' The total vote was 961.
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 The Little Straub mill at the Rain how mine on Twin creek, in the Fair banks district, having made its test runs in good style, is now engaged in pounding rock every day, according to the News.Miner. There is at pres ent, plenty of ore on the dump to keep the mill running for some days although large crew of men will soon be put on, and stoping commence immediately after
 Two different dredging companies will be operating their machines on Gaines and Yankee creeks this sum- mer, in the Innoko country. One isl San Francisco concern, and the other is a company which was organized in St Louis. Representatives of both companies are now at Ophir City, and five miles of ground on Gaines creek and four miles on Yankee are already under option. The ground is from 10 to IA feet deep. which makes it a very acceptable proposition fro dredges.
 
 On Cripple creek, tributary of the Innoko river. coming in about 65 miles below the town of Ophir, considerable work is being performed. Pay has all so been located on Colorado creek in the same vicinity. There are at least five outfits on Cripple creek that are working in good pay.
 
 Mrs. Emma McMullen, pioneer Of the Fairbanks country, died at the Panama metropolis April 1st of tuber- culosis. She was 36 years of age and had lived in the Fairbanks country for the last 10 years. Her relatives reside at Seattle.
 It is reported that the stock of the Gold Bar Lumber Company, that was among the assets of the Washington Alaska bank at Fairbanks. will be sold and that it will more than pay off , the indebtedness of that bank to the Dexter Horton National bank of Seat tie. However, the latter bank has be- gun suit against the bank and is for closing on the stock.
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 A new discovery of pay on a trib' utary of Bottom Dollar creek in the Circle district, is reported by the dis covery made during the winter by Tom Powers, according to report, and the : prospector has demonstrated that val ues are contained in the gravel body he has discovered. Ths British Columbia Fisheries, with headquarters at Prince Rupert, : will install a cold storage plant at Port Edward near that place Judge Frederic E. Fuller, of the United States district court at Fair banks, heard 2S applications for citi- zenship papers at one hearing this month.
 Len De Cou, a mining man of Ruby, while in Fairbanks April 5, estimated the summers output of the Ruby dis trict at $7OO,OOO. He said 200 men are I working on Long creek, which will be the biggest producer in that country this year.
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 The late winter traffic from Ruby to the creeks in that district was very large. The sawmills were kept busy filling orders for lumber with which to build houses and use in mining op' erations All the fre;Shters in the country were busy. *
 Prince Rupert Eagles contributed $26O to the Ohio flood sufferers. The money was the profit of an entertain ment given as a benefit.
 
 Orville Tiff, a well known Prince Rupert fisherman, was drowned last week at that place.
 
 William Larsen, an employee of the Atlin Fisheries Company, of Prince Runert who had been shooting wild