The Alaska citizen., 1916-05-29

from the Tolovana country Th" ments 'or plant with which to work his ground on Lr.engood. which k stated to contain good pay. Both c. Ihe Tolovana men report that he season in the new
 amp will be a good one,
 Lake Labarge is breaking up. ac, cording to reports received here Sat urday. It Is therefore expected that the first steamer from the head oi ,he lake will get through late this week
 I'd Smith. of Smiths Gun Stora. arrived m town Saturday on the Delta He IS now paving visit to his quartz property on Ready Bullion dome. MT. Smith reports that his family is in Oakland. Cali fornia. now. but that they may come north late this summer.
 The last over the trail nail wa dispatched from the local postof fee yesterday. Hereafter until the close of navigation all nIails will be sent by the all.water route.
 Commissioner William R. Taylor, of the kantishna, is in town to make arrangements for the ship ment of a quantity of antimony ore which has been taken out of his quartz property at the head of the Kantishna during the past winter. Just how much ore he will ship. Judge Taylor does not state, as that depends altogether on how head of navigation on the Kan. tishna
 C. A. AaIons, manager of the Fairbanks Gold Mining company owners of the dredge on Fairbanks creek was an arrival on the Delta He spent the winter in Lon3On amid war scenes, and his stories concern ing conditions is very interesting Among other things he reports tha' prices are f,lly 30 per cent higher than before the war and that wages have been increased spondinglv.
 F. l.. Rose. Guy Turpin and John May are recent arrivals in town from the Goodpaster country, the scene of the new placer atrike on the upper Panama river They re- port that the so-called strike was merely a good prospect but that, as it was made at the extreme head of one of the creeks of that region, It practically proves that gold ill paying quantities exists in the deep CT ground further down the creek. Bedrock was reached at a depth Of twelve feet Tne gold is very coarse.
 Chief Deputy Marshal ]. II. Miller received a wire Saturday from Ches- ter T. Spencer, deputy 9t Circle, stating that man named PainsEi is believed to be lost in the Black river country and asking for in structions. The marshals office has no power ill the matter, according to MT. Miller.
 The regular monthly report of the Circle deputy of the marshals force states that the operators on i Deadwood creek have discovered a 1 l., of .ta n in their tailings. In fact, some Of the ore is sad to go as high as Il per cent pure tungsten. One of the operators has collected approximate fly l,5OO pounds of the metal and will ship it Outside at an early date. 1 F. M Bockfinger, the well known 1 local saloon man, who has recently 1 been at Hot Springs. arrived home cn the Delta Saturday. He reports that he has disposed of his inter ests at Woodchopper to hia partner. He also says that Howell X CleVe, land are now working about l5O men 1 and expect to put 50 more on short l ly. Adolph Rock was reported to have found an extension of the rich 1 Woodchopper pay in dill hole i just before MT. Bockfinger left the 1 lower river camp.
 Postmaster J. o. Wahlgren, Q. l Cleary, was s city visitor last week 1 Word received in Fairbanks is to the effect that KaZis krauczunas has been nominated by the Social ists of the State of Washington for the supreme court bench of thai 1 state He was at ore time the 1 Socialist candidate for delegate to congress from Alaska, and is nov attorney for Edward Krause, the mo- torious southeastern Alaska criminal. Owing to the fact that it has been discovered that such lights as would be an ornament to the new structure i would cost in the neighbOrhood or $500, the city council has decided that the new bridge to be construct. ed next fall by the Alaska Road Commission must remain lightless. ! Jack Leach and Dick Thorscn the Ester operate have purchased the interest of Pete Malone in No. 12 halow Cleary creek IL is under