The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-10-12
Town Gossip and Stories
b. The IattIer.


made a trip into the Matanuska coal
fields this week. Nothing official has
been given out but it is rumored here
that coal will be mined this winter
by the government. Official returns
on the coal mined last winter showed
but 612 tons delivered TO the Brem
erton navy yard This came as
surprise here as it was estimated
that close to 5000 tons We're mined
Worms What is probably the
Lives Ages most interesting scien-
In Log tific discovery ever
! made in Alaska, has just
! come to light. though ii was made
more than a year ago Captain Cum
ningham. who is well known about
ago.
1t was when Louis Sager was
prospecting on the Dan McCarty
property on O'Connor creek, that
! he and his workmen discovered
! log in a good state of preservation
at depth of about so feet
The log was frozen. but the men
took it out by the side of fire
and split it. Inside were some
worms, borers, and these when warm
ed came to life. much to the surprise
of the miners
| That these worms had been frozen
| into the log for many ages is evil
dent. and the miners could hardly
believe their eyes to see the worms
show signs of life. 1t is asserted
worms was never published before
today
Adventure In a recent issue of the
With Seattle Post-Intellieencer
| Wolves there appeared an inter
esting article about an
! AldShd "OlIdH VIII dCCIueHtdily ld!l
on to a pack of gray wolves, She
spread the alarm. and the wolves
were forced to give up the deer
| they had just killed. The article
! is as follows:
Mrs. lola Wyman, who operates
large quartz mine on Prince of
Wales Island in Southeastern Alas
ka, who is making stay at the
Frye tells an interesting story of
an experience she had on the first
on June. She went out one morning.
when the sky had cleared after
a long period of rainy weather, TAX
ing with her her small black and
tan dog Walking along the beach,
| looking for indications of quartz, she
came upon a promising ledge.
Il climbed up the slippery rock
| and suddenly came on a crevasse,
where l saw scarcely 25 feet away,
the scarcely dead body of a deer.
surrounded by a pack Of gray wolves.
picked up the dog and started back
to camp, calling at the top Of my
lungs My calls were without result,
as was so far from camp. The
wolves followed for a short distance,
and then went back to their kill,
without offering to modest us.
Il told some of the men at camp
what I had seen- and they set off
up the beach in a boat The wolves
took fright and ran before they could
take shot at them, but we had
the satisfaction of finding the deer
scarcely touched. So we had some
fine deer steaks which we couldn't
otherwise have obtained, as it was
out of season for shooting deer"
Will Deputy District Attorney
Recover Bion Dodge, who arrived
Body from the lower river
on the steamer Reliance
early in the week, says that the body
supposed to be that of Marie Schmidt
the supposed victim of Burberry
Tom Johnson, will be recovered in
time and will be examined as plan
ned.
Mr. Dodge went to Mountain Viii
lage, on the lower Yukon, with two
doctors to dig up the body and hold
an autopsy over it. 1t was reported
here that the river had washed the
body away, but Mr. Dodge, since his
return explains that the grave is
still in existence. but is covered
over with water.
Accompanying Mr.. Dodge back to
Fairbanks was G. Ellis Gardner, al
so deputy district attorney, who has
been busy on the lower river since
court ended there The two deputies,
it is understood, were recalled to
Fairbanks to assist the district at
torney in prosecuting residents of
the restricted district. who were
reported to be preparing to start a
legal fight However, it seems that
they will not be needed for that
work