The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-08-30
ALASKA NEWS ITEMS
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The new motor vessel, The Kusko-
 kwim, arrived at Bethel July 18th, with her cargo badly damaged by
 water. Capt. Cottle as agent for tho insurance Go. sold off all the damaged goods and the miners will have to wait till the next trip for their supplies.
 | The season in the Kuskokwim re- zion has been very late on account of very late spring.
 The first dredge for this vicinity arrived this season and will be located on Candle creek. Candle creek is about 500 miles up the Kuskokwim river from it's mouth, close to Gaines creek but on the Kuskokwim water shed. It is re- ported that two other dredges win be placed on Marvel creek next season. This is ill the vicinity of the Candle creek. Good pay has been found on Spruce creek which is tributary of the Tulasak creek
 One claim is known to have a con tinuous pay streak. Taking it on a whole the prospects were never bet | ter and it will only be a matter of few years until this district will be good producer.
 Famous Marie DOrO tonight in a amusing parts comedy at the Dream is treat. Adm. 25c.
 Dick Fenlon well known old | timer in these parts, died yesterday afternoon in the Holy Cross Hospi- tai as the result of fearful acci- dent when being transferred from the scow at the ships side to the steamer Northwestern for passage outside.
 The means utilized is a gang plank which open at either end, is roped on the sides. Fenlon, who is said to have been slightly intoX- icated, when the plank was being hoisted swerved to the unroped end of the improvised sling, and falling caught another man named Zell who in turn tried to hold on by grabbing another passenger named Wise. Wise grasped the rope before he left the plank, swinging about twelve feet, and this straight ened his fall landing on his feet, but Fenlon and Zell fell face down and sustained fearful injuries. Both men were unconscious when taken ashore and the doctors after making an examination pronounced both cases as likely to prove fatal. The company lost no time taking Zell and Fenlon ashore and they were met by Dr. Neuman and Dr. Mustard. Wise who was merely shaken with his fall proceeded to Seattle on the Northwestern. It is likely that the U. s. Commissioner and ex-officio Coroner of the district, James Frawley, will at the instance of numerous friends of the deceased call an inquest in order that all the facts concerning the unfortunate ac- cident can be ascertained. Richard Fenlon was born in the city of Wex- ford, Ireland, and was sailor most
 To hoc o. sition on board a ship from seaman to master, and what he didn't know about sailing ship was not to be learned. He abandoned the sea like many another rover to try his for tunes at mining and in the course of time drifted to Butte, Montana where he was employed as ropeman for the Washoe Go. He then just as naturally drifted to the coast, trying sailoring and stevedoring as the turn of fortunes wheel offered op- portunity. He filled variety of po- sitions, master, mate and man on board lumber schooners and other craft until he finally came Wltn tne big rush to Nome. He mined here considerably and staked quantity of ground and still has number or association claims in which he is in- terested at the head of Snake river and upon which MT. F. Halphin did some drilling this summer. He only arrived on the last trip of the Uma- tilla and had in his two years ab- sence from Nome made trips to Asia, Australia and Honolulu. He had resided latterly in California and had high hopes that his ground would prove remunerative dredg- ing proposition and to attend to the title was the reason of his recent and unfortunately his final trip to