The daily Alaskan., 1914-07-18
SOME INTERESTING NEWS
 FROM ACROSS THE LINE

From the Whitehorse star, July 17tb:
 Caesari and Ganley, charged with murderiDg Dominica Melis, were again up for remand yesterday morning when they were re-cOmmtt- ted for another eight days. Attorn- cy ". l.. Phelps who, in behalf of the crown, requested further re- maud yesterday, stated that no further remands will likely be ask ed which indicates that the trial of the two men may be brought on next week.
 William II. swiuehart dropped dead from heart disease at his home near selkirk last Friday 5uIy 10. He had been a resident of the SelEirk neigbborhOOd for six teen years and was the pioneer farmer of Yukon. PeyiOus to com ing to Yukon he was located at Ju- ucau where he was associated with ais brother, Geo. B. Swinehart, in tho newspaper business. He leaves four grown children.
 solmor's orchestra will play at the daucc in the A. B. hall tonight.
 While there is apparently a Hull in mining circles at present, there will be something doing in the Wheaton district some of these times. Assays of rock recently brought from there and put through by Government Assayer stmo or this place show values in the hundreds and, in one instance, of upward Of seven hundred dollars ,pcr ton. The vein from which the latter sample was taken is between l five and six feet wide and of un- l known depth. All the quartz in i the Wheaton is gold-bearing and there is no questioning the rich ! ness of much of it. Some day the ] Wheaton will be great mining |uald.
 Jim Crow is only an Indian but meath bis DrOuzed skin beats heart that is as full of parental i love as is usually given a heart to ] he. Early this spring Jim's six 1 |year-oIl boy developed some sort
 of ailmcnt and an effort was made l to have Jim place the child in the 1 hospital The father, however, de- Gmed tc be separated from his child | land for several months previous to ] Hast Sunday, when the child died. he ] held it in his arms practically all l the time, day and night, at the same time doing everything that ! tribal lore could suggest for the little ones recovery. Such devo- lion in father is seldom seen. In the case of Jim Crow and his little son it was true, pure and l admirable.
 Don't forget the social dance in ! A. B. hall tonight. @
 Chls. Baxter who left a month 1 ago on a hurried visit to his home at Fresno, California, returned ! Monday evening for the purpose of
 completing preparations for taking 1 care of state Senator Leroy Percy
 of Mississippi, who will head a party arriving here about the mid de of August for the purpose of penetrating the country contiguous
 to Lake Kluane in quest of ,-big game and with whom Baxter will
 go in the capacity of guide, he hay . ing had several years of very sue
 cessruI experience in that line.
 The JacQuot brothers, Louis and | Eugene. will be associated with BaX- ter in taking care of the party of
 hunters, and will be here, with a humber of saddle and pack horses, also a wagon, when the party ar .riyes the present program being to .Icave here for the hunting ground
 on August IS in order to be ready l for actual hunting by the opening l of the season. September 1.
 Senator Percy is coming to hunt lin the EIuaue country on the re commendation of General Chas.
 Scott. also of Mississippi, who was here a number of years ago and
 when Baxter and Morley Bones
 were in charge of his itinerary after reaching this place, They guided
 him to where game was abundant and gave him a splendid outing.