The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-04-29

Gidlund & vik. on Spruce. are put ting in wood for the summer.
 Dennis Coyle, on Spruce, is mak- ing arrangements preparatory for work next summer.
 Ed Larsen will ground sluice and shovel in on Short creek during the coming season.
 Vance Mcdonald and Drew French are prospecting on the right limit of Long.
 On March 28 Julius Walthouse met with peculiar accident on Flint creek. Drew French had left Long for Flint, taking with him a sled to fetch from Flint his belong ings. as we'll as those of Walthouse. Both men had been prospecting to- gether and had decided to abandon operations there.
 They were packing their belong ings, which they intended to re- move to Long. Walthouse was ar ranging things in his war bag and French, his back toward his com. panion, was disposing of his belong ings. Suddenly French heard a .pis- tol shot and, turning quickly toward Walthouse. came to his aid. Walt. house afterward explained that he had dropped his A Colt into the warbag and, in dragging it off the bed. the hammer struck against some obstruction and the gun went off.
 The bullet entered the thigh a lit tie above and back of the knee and came out a little higher. boring a hole through the tobacco box in his hip pocket. The wound, though bloody, proved only a flesh wound, and he is recovering rapidly.
 Near McGrath a man known as Dutch Paul, proprietor of a road house, was arrested for expressing strong pro-German sentiments and was taken to Iditarod to await trial Complaint was made against the ac. cused man by two travelling men who had stopped with him.
 James Weir and John Edwards. of Ophir. returned lately from Rampant, where they had gone last January in order to stake.
 Alec Larsen returned to Long April 3. after spending the winter Out side. He came over the Seward trail. Arrived at Poorman. he de- cided to abandon his dog team and mush. From the Salatna road house to the Greensboro road house. a dis tance of only seven miles. the time it took him to travel was seven hours. Larsen said that never in his life had he been over a worse stretch of road than that. He is now operat- ing on Long.
 John Gidlund, of Gidlund & Walk. CT, Long creek, met with an acci. dent recently. While working un- derground, huge slab fell down on him. burying him under Its weight. When he finally extricated himself. he found he was so badly bruised that he took to bed, where he stayed for several days.
 Nels Rem, on Tamarack, was badly burnt about the face, hands and head when escaping gas in the drift was exploded by a miners candle he was carrying. All the hair on his head and face was burnt oil.
 Sam Abelson, the Ruby clothier, returned from the Outside over the Seward trail. He had much to say regarding food conditions Outside. but the most cheering information he had to impart was the fact that the nation is entirely united in its loyalty and faith in the administra- tion. Regarding the sugar shortage in New York particularly. he affirmed that so many dealers were short of that commodity that R. H. Macy & Co. were swamped with buyers when they advertised a sale of one pound of sugar per customer. At the cafes, he was served with a fixed amount of sugar for sweeten. ing coffee or tea.
 AS to the Interior. Abelson stated that he Is proving his faith in Al. aska by bringing in full stock of goods.
 Chas. Drew, we'll known through. out Interior Alaska as an expert