The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1915-01-12

StfeetS. II was puiil III Inc carry
eighties.
The dead man entered the Sitka
Pioneers home less than a year
ago.-Skagway Alaskan.
Thos. knight. F. w. Guest and
George Redmond, who boarded the
steamer Alameda at Juneau and
came to Cordova as stowaways, have
had an experience that is not in
tended to encourage emigration of
"broke" men to Alaska. When
their presence on board the steamer
without money to pay fares, was
discovered Captain Warner ordered
them fastened to stanchions on the
upper hurricane deck, where they
were kept for several hours exposed
to wind and rain.
Upon arrival of the steamer here
they were turned over to the mar
shall and afterwards arraigned be-
fore Commissioner A. j. Adams on
the charge of vagrancy. Guest and
Redmond, who did not have any
money, entered pleas of guilty and
were fined $50 each; knight, pos
SCISSOR of $3.50 in real money.
entered a plea of not guilty and
was assessed SIS. The men were
remanded to Jail to serve out the
amounts.
A Seattle paper states that the
United States assay Office received
for the past year the value of 49,
700,700 in gold bullion. From
Alaska the amount of S6,271, 900
was received.
Nome produced s2,712,0O0; the
Tditarod s1,361, 900, and the Tanana
$9f9,0O0, according to the figures
for the amount of bullion received
at the assay Office.
Hughey Day, who is known all
over Alaska as one of the first mail
carriers in this district and one of
the founders of Douglas, died at a
hospital in Douglas on December 3 1
of commissions.
Mr.. Day was the first mailcarrier
in Alaska, and for years carried
mail from Juneau up the Taku and
over to Forty Mile. He was an ex-
tensive property owner in Douglas,
and had been sojourning at Tenakee
Hot Springs for some time, endeav-
oring to rid himself of chronic
rheumatism. He was seized with
commissions at Tenakee and was
rushed to the hospital. He had been
a resident .of Juneau and Douglas
for thirty years and had travelled
nearly all over Alaska. He was a
member of the order of Pioneers
Juneau Dispatch.
Letters from Wiseman bring the
information that the old creeks in
the Koyukuk district and several
new ones are showing up good this
winter.
Postponement of the annual auc-
ton in London of sealskins from the
Pribilof Islands has been authorized
by the Senate. Secretary Redfield
reported that no foreign buyers
would compete this year. Sales of
about 1000 skins will be deferred
until the situation caused by the war
has passed.
Some of the miners who. have
their coal supply near the edge OF
town on many occasions have. lost
coal from their coal pile and it is
stated that to check this constant
filching they have charged some of
their coal with nitroglycerine. An
explosion cen be expected in the near
future.-Nome Nugget.
The new silver discovery in the
upper Stewart river basin, known as
the Mayo district, may prove another
Cobalt. Mushers who recently ar
rived at Dawson over the winter
trail from Mayo and who have been
on the properties of late say that a
rich ledge five feet thick is located
ON the discovery claim, and much
other rich loose material is found on
the same Claims They also report
the silver found in shafts several
miles in either direction from the
discovery claim. One thousand
tons of the silver ore are being
hauled to Mayo Landing this winter
for shipment to the smelter by
steamer as soon as the river opens.
Cordova, January s
The cable repair ship Burnside
arrived this afternoon from Seattle
and immediatel ycommenced TESTING
the cable to locate the break between
Cordova and Valdez that has existed
since December 18th. The tests
showed that the break is about II
knots out from Cordova. The yes
sci will leave early in the. morning