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TERRITORIAL TATTLE The molybdenite mine at Shakan has Joe Laubner, who spent tl closed down for the winter. looking after his mining in the Willow creek quartz dist .Major has been appointed deputy es that the Mable, Talke recorder of the Talkeetna recording Baby and Gold Bullion mill V precinct. until the freeze-up and the ( M. A. Ellis, mining man of Cache erally 18 showing signs of g creek, accompanied by Mrs. Ellis and perity. sons, has gone out to the States. John Grant, hotel man at John Gaslow, convicted of having reports that a man named A murdered "Dutch Marie," was sentening on the Pike placer minin ced to life imprisonment. in the Cassiar, made a good Another mining deal of int Joe Morris has finished the season's the purchase of the Mitchell work on his quartz claims located on in tne same district by Sid E Iron creek in the Broad Pass district. Robert J. Sommers, form Sam. D. Shkutof of Anchorage bas torial mine inspector. is no gone outsiee in the interests of mining general and ex-officio secreta property located in the Hope district territory. Benjamin D. S The only passenger vessel of the Alminit engineer and former Juneau is the new mine inspe aska Steamship company calling into Skagway this winter will be the JeffWord has beeh seceived 1 erson. Quitsch, manager of the It is said that considerable mining Mining Company's propert Wells stati that he now activity is on at present in the vicinity bunkers fuse of ore and will s of the Fortymile. At least two hundred people are there engaged in mining. ing in the near future. Mr.Q the ore shows better values a The Farmers' Bank at Fairbanks is ing is carried up. winding up its affairs and retiring from business. The bank is not in financial Confident that mining acti difficulties but is paying all accounts. in progress and contemplat Kantishna country soon will The first sonw of the season fell at considerable number of peopl Ketchikan October 24 beating Hyder district, the oldtimers there by a week. It stayed on at neither out a townsite on Moose cre place. mouth of Eureka. The proper C.A. Clark has been overhauling the ed by the Quigleys, but is be machinery at the Jumbo mine at Sulzer led by Commissioner C. He some of which has not been run for son as agent. several years. Hundreds of thousands of c George Mitchell of Washington says appearing this year in the ca the three-day flight to Alaska across at Dawson. Everyone able Canada would be attempted this winter i rifle is out hunting, getting If cold w~ather flying proves successful part of the winter's supply a regular air route to Alaske will be All kinds of big game, moose established. bear and mountain sheep, 1 Bob Hatcher, Willow creek operator, more plentiful this fall than years. is going to the States on mining business. Mr. Hatcher is one of the origIndictments have been re inal locators in the quartz district and the United States district cou at present developing promising propGeorge E. Snider of the Tjos erty located on the east side of the neycutt Copper Company, W Little Susitna. at McCarthy, and five Seattle