The Alaska citizen., 1915-10-04
'0F INTEREST
 TO ALASKANS
MINING DOPE.

pectors are leaving here for Dime creek in the Koyuk country. wher. it is claimed. excellent prospects have been found.
 Halla X Harvey. operating with drill in the Solomon country, have struck pay on the beach line near Shovel creek and Solomon river. A stampede is on and there Is much stalking being done.
 The weather has been cold here for the past two days. and it is b.- ginning to look like the freezeup. RUSSIANS TAKE SAILOR.
 NOME, Sept. 27-The whaler Bel vdere. which arrived from Siberia 1n Saturday, brought word of the arrest of Max Gottschalk by Rus. sian officers on a charge of shooting a Cossack two years ago. Gotts- chalk is said to have been on board the Sea Wolf. in June, 1913 when a Russian officer searched the vessel and claimed that cask on board contained whskey. The official wa shot and for the past two years the Russian police have been lying in wait to arrest all of the crew. Gottschalk this year was on board the Diamond L., a power schooner
 
 coast of Siberia He was trapped by natives at a whaling port and placed on Russian patrol boat and taken to Vladivostok.
 FRIENDS HELPED HIM.
 DAWSON. Sept. 27.-Jimmy King ston. well known Klondiker. has been acquitted by the grand jury al Valdez from the charge of murder n I SC INa son pioneer. at Chisana, last Christ. mas. The Dawson lodges of which Kingston was member assisted materially by supplying funds to gather evidence to enable him to put up a defense
 ALAskANs ENTERTAINED SEATTLE, Sept. 27-Editors Stone. of Seward. and Troy oi Juneau. were today guests at lunch con of the Alaska bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. Both of them claimed that Alaskans have the most friendly feeling for Seattle. LATE FALL THERE. DAWSON. Sept. 27.-Mild weather still continues here and the hydraul- l ics are all still in full blast. The first hoar frost of the season oc- cured this morning.
 CLUB ORGANIZED. NOME, Sept. 27-The district committee is organizing RepubL- can club and already has secured membership of 83.
 GOLD ENROUTE DAWSON, Sept 27.-A shipment of $400,000 in gold dust from Fair banks, Circle, Hot Springs. Ruby ana other districts arrived yesterday and | was forwarded to the coast KILLS BROTHER. DAWSON, Sept. 39.-Sheridan the l 15-year-old son of c. F. Johnson. the superintendent of the Carcross Indian school, was today accidentally shot and killed by his little brother while the two were out hunting ptarmigan. The wound was inflicted by a twenty-two rifle. the bullet | penetrating the brain and causing instant death.
 RUSSIAN RUNS AMUck. DAWSON, Sept. 30-Alex Geogaff, a Russian laborer employed on the White Pass railroad as section | hand. ran amuck today three miles south of Whitehorse and killed four men before he was subdued. Ills victims were Pat Winslow, the sec tion foreman; George Lane, Tom Bokonich and Henry Cook all rail- road employees. After he had killed his fellow workmen. all of whom he caught unaware. Geogaf took a handcar and went to Whitehorse. where he asked for Fighting Mike" Sinnet, saying: 'I have killed four and now I want to kill Sinnet" Before he could do any more harm he was placed under restraint.
 Geogaff has always evidenced a suspicious nature, and often refused to eat with the others of the sec tion gang. He could not understand their language and thought they were making fun of him. It was thought | last spring that he was mentally deranged. but not to the extent | where his incarceration was con sidered necessary
 SCHOONER BURNED. JUNEAU. Sept 30-The power schooner E. J. Abler, one of the most famous boats on the northern run, which Monday limped into the port of Juneau after springing leak and being buffeted about in one of the worst storms of the year off Cape Decision, was today burned to the waters edge mile from Juneau, near the Douglas Island shore.
 Captain E. E. Drummond, the skip per of the boat, places the loss of the schooner and cargo at $3O.- 900. Nine thousand gallons of fuel oil, which was aboard the schooner at the time it was destroyed made the blaze a most spectacular one. The lighthouse tender Kukui went to the assistance of the schooner but was unable to extinguish the flames.
 The E. J, Abler left Seattle on September 18th for Bethel. on the Kuskokwim.
 SHAKING BEACH, NOME. Sept. 30.-The widest kind of stalking is now going on in the Solomon district. where the third beach line is supposed to have been located by Otto Halla with his drill near Shovel creek. The stalking is guesswork pure and simple.
 DOGS FOR FRANCE. NOME. Sept. 30.-When the Sena' tor sailed for Seattle yesterday she had on board Lieutenant Rene Haas, of the French army who has been here on furlough. with lOx dogs that he Is taking with him for service in Alsace and in the Vosges mountains The dogs were