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Fairbanks Daily Times from Fairbanks, Alaska • Page 3

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FAIRBANKS DAILY TIKES. TUESDAY. AUGUST 28. 1906. TOM LARSEN A BENEDICT WELL KNOWN FAIRBANKS CREEKS MINING MAN MAR- RIED LAST EVENING.

IRS. RICHARDSON HIS BRIDE Was One of First Men to Settle on Present Site of Fairbanks--Will Travel Extensively Daring Coming Winter. Tom Larson, of the mining firm of Meehan Larsen, was married last evening. The marrlags has been suspected for some time, but Mr. Larsen denied it in a most strenuous manner, which only proves that love Is blind.

Last evening at the residence of Judge Wickereham Mrs. Richardson and Tom trsen were married. Mrs. E. Morse was bridesmaid while big Al Murphy, of ditch fame, was best man.

Judge Wlckersham performed ceremony and wore his most sanctimonious look for the occasion. Mr. Larsen is one of the pioneers of the country, having built the Isabelle for Captain Barnette when the latter figured on having a trad- station only of where now stands the city of Fairbanks. He a firm believer In the future ot this country. He has built himself a splendid fortune as a result of that faith and now that he is GOES TO DAWSON TO GET LATE ARRIVALS i May Sails 1'or Canadian Port to Make Connections With People Who Have Waited Until Close of Season to Come in.

The Ida May flying the X. C. red flag sailed last evening for Dawson direct. She carried several well known Tanana people away. The Ida May is expecting to connect at Dawson with the steamers that will arrive in that port with late comers from the outside.

Following were the passengers: For Seattle--Matt Meehan, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Larson, J. W. and Mrs.

Brown, Miss I. Glldden, G. H. Heine. For Dawson--A.

A. Burglin, H. O. Tledman, Howard Turner Eagle--Mrs. R.

E. Maddocks. Circle--Casper Elllgen. For St. Michael--Wm.

J. Cava-1 naugh. Earl Hyde, J. L. Galen.

For Hot Springs--Si Marks. J. Murray, G. T. Edgar, George Williams, John Endland.

COLD STORAGE FOR SHIPMENTS BUTTER INSPECTOB SAYS QUAL- ITY WOULD BE MUCH IMPROV- ED WITH CARE. MAY RETURN HERE IN SPRING Age Is What Hurts Butter in This Country--Quality Is Good When It Is First Shipped in Here--No Care in Shipment. SEVERE TEST FOR THE DRAW BRIDGE "I am quite satisfied with the butter I hate examined here," said E. A. McDonald, tne dairy inspector yesterday afternoon.

"I do wont to give the dealers a pointer, however. There should be some way of shipping butter in lie re in cold storage. Butter is far more delicate than most people think and changes of Seven Loaded Freight Teams on the ure wl BerloU8ly affect lts Structure at One Time Yesterday All Doubt as to Strength of Bridge. Unintentionally the ity. "Suppose It Is shipped In In bricks in an open case and placed near onions.

Why, in 24 hours the onion smell will be found In the middle of a brick of butter. Too much care bridge be taken with it. the river was put to a severe test CBterday by several teamsters. At "Now, I say this because more care must be taken with butter here than one time there were seven wagons anywhere else in the country for in on the bridge, at one time three of here butter must be kept In stock them being on the draw. Two set era 1 months.

Suppose there was the wagons were being hauled a stampede from this camp to some four hors.es, the rest by teams. which I learn Is a common CAFT. ANDERSON BUYS INTERESTS Buys Claypool and Helium's Interests in the Famous Discovery Bench Claim on Dome Creek for Twenty Thousand Dollars. Capt. L.

D. Anderson, of Discovery bench, Dome creek, -as purchased" a one-sixth Interest in the claim from Claypool and Kellum. for $20.000. This gives Capt. Anderson control of a big part of the what IB termed by many to be the rlcliesst claim In the Tanana district.

Discovery bench on Dome creek has been producing at a wonderful rate this summer and some nhenom- inal cleanups have been recorded. Curing the winter It Is planned to get out dumps which will etceed In size any In the country 60 that when the water runs nett dprlng there will be the biggest output from that claim of any In the entire district. BIG ELDORADO SHOWS GOOD PAY Judge Miller Returns From Creek and Confirms Report That Good Pay Has Been Struck on 4 Above-Miners Are Hopeful. married, will enjoy life by traveling teamstors wcre a a tllat 'the people here have of chang- durlng the next winter. tlro proccsB i on of wagQna and horses ing residence, the butter which was He goes to Valdes from here.

In were on the Bt one tlllic ncre to largc popula that place he has a number ot val- wagon was heavily loaded with tlon would have to be transhipped uable Interests which need his per- tftken from the ra road wafe foUow IM crowU That sonal attention. From there he will go to Seattle and then make a tour; of America and Europe. Mrs. Richardson conducted a small jj OUSes 1' deteriorates." i When the bridge was built there i having a package of "ole" was a clause which provided that it can it to Mr. McDonald, who stand a certain strain.

It was i be pleased to get It. Doi-'t Holt adles' furnishing establishment here far 8nw er a what Jt l(J isout th a last year. She is a sourdough In the country, having been in Dawson In the early days. The happy couple were passengers oh the Ida" May. day.

Since It was our to him now. Dur built herds of cattle, and numbers leg the winter the Internal revenue of teams have been on the bridge a a customs officers will keep an WILL MAKE TRIP ROUND THE WORLD Matt Meehan Will Spend the Winter in Circling Around the Globe-" Companion Will Be E. H. Webster of This City. Judge Miller returned yesterday from a (lying trip to Big Eldorado, where Is Interested in 4 above, the claim on which the big strike was reported a few days ago.

He confirms the report -In so far as to say that excellent pay has been found. Big Eldorado, he says, will with proper prospecting, be found to be as rich as the other creeks which head In the divide from which Cleary. Dome and other streams originate. He savs the men" working on the creek feel confident that they will develop a big paystreak before the season ends. Washington Alaska Bank Fairbanks, Alaska.

JOHN 8CHHAM. President. FALCON JOSLIN. Vlc'a WM. H.

PARSONS, Manager. FRANK C. BARSOUR. ACCOUNTS OP BANKS. CORPORATIONS.

FIRMS AND INDIVIDUALS 8OUCITKD. THI.KGKAI'HIC KXCIIANCE. LETTERS OP CREDIT. DRAFTS ON AU. THK PRINCIPAL CITIES OF THE WORLD.

FINANCIAL AORNT8 Knickerbocker True! Company, New Central Trust Company of Illinois, York Chicago Knauth. Nachod Kuhn. New York Washington True! Company, Seattle Wella-Fargo, Nevada National, San Canadian Bank of Commerces Dawson Francisco SAVINGS DEPARTMENT INTEREST WILL BE PAID ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS AT THE RATE OF 6 PER CENT. PER ANNUM. Tanana Sheet Metal Works Full line of Roofing Material and Sheet Metal- of all kinds just received W.

H. GILCHER The White Pass Yukon Route 11 Operate first-class trains between Skagwaj and Whilehorse, connecting daily with our fleet often river steamers to Dawson Thru tickets issued at Fairbanks and Chena by the N. C. and N. A.

T. T. Companies. Thro Bills of Lading from all Puget Sound (Ai Uppfr KiiMr If you uant (a (Acre ROGERS, Traffic Manager SKA6WAY and VANCOUVER WILLIAM TAYLOR, 6ei, Ageit DAWSON, Y. T.

-S. ASHEIM- THREE SPECIALS FOR TODAY Waste Paper Baskets $1.50 Wire Letter Trays LOO Copp's Mining Laws--Latest IMPERIAL CIGAR STORE. the same time. From what it has open for the bad butter proposl- already undergone the bridge will tlon. (stand most a i except jab Mr.

McDonald may return here In the ice. spring, when there is a left-over 'stock, to make his next examination, officials telegraphed to but he does not want a i said about It. Russians Flan Eailroad. Peking letter dated 30th ult. says that It was reported that the Russian army at Manchuria Is concentrating a large a i of railway materials and Is planning to construct a railway between Klrin and HellungMang, and secretly engaging Chinese coolies, and also Intends to make the Chinese Eastern railway double line.

The the natives by the expressive name of "the devil's noose." Dunstan, the naturalist, discovered It not long ago while wandering on the shores of the lake. Attracted.by cries of pain and terror from his dog, he found the animal held by black, sticky bands, which had chafed the skin to bleed- Ing point. These bands were branches ot a newly discovered carnivorous plant, which has been aptly named the "land octupus." The branches are flexible, black, polished, without leaves, and secrete a viscid lluld. If Novelties In neckwear, fur jackets, muffs, etc. Fur robes, coats and capes of all descriptions.

WINTER, THE FUEEIEB. SCCOSU AV. NEAR LACY. HORSESHOE SALOON HEADQUARTERS FOR Olympia Beer. Frey, Griffith Marks On August 15 a large part of the Shoshone.

or river, reservation. In Central Wvomlng, was opened for settlement. ONLY TWENTY MEN IN THE KANTISHNA the Tartar generals of the said provinces to ascertain the facts. DR. Dentist Has returned to his former offices over the First National Bank.

PIONEER RESTAURANT HERMAN hAEHTER. Prop. Everything Flrstclass Boxes for Ladies We Serve Nothing bat the Beit the Market Matt Meehan, of the firm of Mee- ban Larsen big operators on creek, left last evening on the Ida May for the outside. During the winter he will make a tour around the world with E. H.

Webster of the New York Life Insurance Corn- John F. Stevens, chief engineer of tac Panama canal, commenced active life In uls eighteenth year by teach- Commissioner Van Slyke Comes Back i sc hool In a little Maine village. From District With Hopes for Its I Future Only Twenty Men Left' In the District. An Uncanny Plant. Ou the shores of Lake Nicaragua is to be found an uncanny product of the vegetable kingdom known among Fairbanks Daily Times DtKvtred at your home ttutn in the week at $2.00 per Month Have furs repaired and made over by the SAN FRANCISCO TAILOR AND FURRIER.

Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing. Flm-Class work guaranteed. Prices are reasonable. Second avenue, opp. Cold Storage Company, Fairbanks.

pany. The trip originated in a rather pe- "culiar way. During the summer Mr. Webster had occasion to visit Fairbanks creek and while there spoke in a foreign tongue to one of the residents. Matt heard it and inqulr- about Mr.

Webster. He was told "the latter could speak fourteen different languages. Then Ma't thought he would like to make the trip around the sphere. He called on Mr. Webster and said he had been look- Ing for him for a long time.

"I'd be all right in Ireland, but I man with me wno can talk German ahd French and Italian and talk all tne other countries," said Matt. Mr. Webster Inquired about Matt's request, and when told about the joke, went back to Mutt and said It a go. The result that what started in a joke has ended by a comet to, make the tour of the world, r. Webster will Join Mr.

Meehnn In SeaUle. Lee Van Slyke, commissioner of the Kantlshna district is In the city. 'comes out because there Is neither the duties of his office or his i i Interests require his constant a tlon. Like all other men who to that district and stayed with It there Is a hope within his breast a resting In a hlddon place, as yet untouched, are riches which will again bring that district to the front. the search for It is too strenuous for him to stay with it.

i He sas there are not over men left in the district and these of course are the men who own good claims that have been struck and 1 which have turned out far in excess of what is considered ordinary placer ground. He has not as yet decided to re- 1 turn. The Newspaper of A laska BEFORE LEAVING FOR THE OUTSIDE Drop Into The Times Office and Subscribe for the for 1,200 Eggs in a Man. German scientists announce that the material for a man weighing ISO can be found in the whites and yokes of 1,200 hens' eggs. Re- dtufd to a fluid, the average man yield ninety-eight cubic me- tres ot illuminating gas and hydrogen enough to fill a balloon capable of lifting 155 pounds.

The normal human body has in it the Iron needed to make seven large nails, the fat for fourteen pounds of candles, the carbon for sixty-four gross of crayons, and phosphorous enough for 820,000 matches. Out of it can be obtained twenty coffee spoo'ns of iialt, fifty lumps of sugar and forty-two litres of water. i CLOCK WHICH WITHSTANDS VIBRATIONS AND SHOCKS A Chelsey marine clock, acknowledged to be the finest ot time keepers and made for use in power houses, engine rooms and other like places requiring delicate but unerring adjustments to keep accurate time, has been Installed in the power plant of the N. C. Company.

While constructed on lines best tended to give accuracy, the clocks have the peculiar quality of withstanding vibrations and shocks which makes them indispensable for sucu places aa mentioned. The clock was furnished by Sale Company. Totatlaniki Unanimous. The result of the election in the Totatlaniki district resulted In a landslide for Cale and There were but 18 votes cast and they went for the two miners' candidates. Ah, how good it feels, the hand of an old FAIRBANKS WEEKLY TIMES And Keep Posted on the Doings of the Camp During the Winter The WEEKLY TIMES is the Largest and Best Newspaper Published in Alaska.

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