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Fairbanks North Star News Items
Fire Threatens Alaska Town
Fairbanks, Alaska, May 23-Fire is threatening the destruction of this city. The Washington Alaska bank is burned
and the flames have swept across the First and Second avenues and are rushing up -u-hman street with alarming speed.
The National bank is doomed and it seems that nothing will escape the flames. [Altoona
Mirror, Altoona Pennsylvania, May 23, 1906 Sub. by Shauna Williams]
Business District Burned
Fairbanks, Alaska, November 17-The business district of Cleary City was destroyed by fire Friday night. The only
buildings remaining are the Grand hotel, the Arctic Brotherhood Hall, E.R. Miller & Co and Skookum Johnsons.
The heaviest losers are the Parsons Mercantile Company and Wills & Welch. Total loss $250,000. [Daily Gazette and Bulletin, Williamsport Pennsylvania November 18, 1907 Submitted
by S. Williams]
Trouble In Alaska
Washington DC, Feb. 13-President Roosevelt has decided to send federal troops to Fairbanks, Alaska, on account
of disorders growing out of a miners strike there. The reports here are of such a disquieting nature that the attorney
general hurried to the White House to confer with the President. Then he hurried to confer with Aliver A. Cling,
assistant secretary of war. [Evening Times, Cumberland Maryland February
13, 1908 Sub. Shauna Williams]
In Alaska -- Friends in this city (Daytona, FL)
of Geo. R. Popple will be interested to learn that he is now in Alaska. Mr. Popple, among others, left Daytona
a few years ago for the Pacific Coast, going first to Aberdeen, Wash. A letter received last Sunday, Aug 8th by
H.W. McClellan was posted at Fairbanks, Alaska, June 29th by Mr. Popple making forty days in transit between these
extreme points in Uncle Sam's territory. Mr. Popple, who is prospecting, is 360 miles in the interior of Alaska
and seems to like the country very well. He says common labor commands $5.00 per day and board, the latter being
figured at from $2.00 to $2.50 per day but of course living expenses must be correspondingly high. [The Daytona gazette-news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, August 14, 1909]
Entombed Miners Rescued
Fairbanks, Alaska, Oct. 7-Fourteen miners buried in the Shakespeare mine for 84 hours were finally pulled up through
a drill hole from the floor of the mine, 1,274 feet beneath the earth's surface. [Coshocton
Morning Tribune, Coshocton Ohio October 8, 1911]
The best in the world, from a medical standpoint, is what experts say of the Big Chena Hot Springs [The Daily Alaska Dispatch, 29 Aug 1912 - submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]
Herb Conway, who formerly played ball
in Douglas and Juneau, is playing first base for the Eagles, a crack Fairbanks nine. [The
Daily Alaska Dispatch, 29 Aug 1912 - submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]
Alaska Shaken By Quake
Earth In Vicinity of Fairbanks Sways Continuously for 44 Seconds-One Man Killed
San Francisco, July 8-A dispatch from Fairbanks, Alaska, reports that that region experienced a violent earthquake
shock Saturday night. There were several shocks, the earth swaying almost continuously for 44 seconds. There were
perceptible tremors for several hours afterwards. The dispatch made no mention of loss of life beyond the death
of a mine foreman, who suffocated beneath a slide of earth. [Daily Commonwealth,
Fond Du Lac Wisconsin July 8, 1912 Sub. by Shauna Williams]
STARTED OUT TO BRING OLD TIMER TO HOSPITAL
The Fairbanks Igloo of Pioneers held a special meeting Tuesday night for the purpose of deciding whether or not
the order should do anything for the relief of Andrew J. Maiden, who is located about 150 miles up the Big Chena, suffering from paralysis, from which there
is but small chance of recovery. The Igloo decided that help should be sent at once, and a committee was then appointed
to look after the matter.
The following day B. T. Clark was commissioned
to go up and bring the old prospector down, and started immediately upon the mission of mercy. The news of Maiden's
sad plight was brought to town the previous week by H. L. Miller, who was informed by people living in the vicinity of Maiden's illness. As soon as the afflicted
man is brought to Fairbanks he will be placed in one of the hospitals and given the attention which he has needed
for so long, but which he has been unable to get. [The Alaska Citizen,
(Fairbanks, Alaska), July 7, 1913 - transcribed by Amanda Jowers]
UNFORTUNATE OCCURANCE
When our great and glorious celebration was almost at an end an occurrence took place at the Exposition grounds
that will tend greatly to injure the whole city and sour the creek people more than ever against the treatment
accorded them when they come to town.
A creek visitor was painfully if not seriously injured by a blow on the head administered by the chief of police
of the city of Fairbanks. That there was fault on both sides will hardly be denied by anyone.
The promoters of the aviation enterprise certainly had the right to charge admission to all those wishing to witness
the flight from the interior of the park, and all persons within its confines should have paid for the privilege,
but there is a vast difference of opinion as to whether the injured man was within or without the sacred lines.
The chief of police was there to look after the interests of the public and to protect the rights of the promoters
of the flights. Whether he overstepped himself in his zeal to maintain order and protect public property is the
question.
It is customary in most communities for a police officer to carry a "club" as well as a gun, and we presume
that Chief Wiseman was so armed. If he
was it seems, in the face of the fact that there was no assault made upon him, that he could have protected himself
and the interests of all concerned with his club, and that it would have been absolutely unnecessary to use his
gun as he did.
The council, as well as the district attorney, are to make an investigation of the matter, so it is said, and they
certainly should, for Mr. Wiseman should be either vindicated entirely or else punished according to his deserts.
For many years the creek people have felt that they always get the worst of it when they come to town to spend
their money, and it is certain that they would not have swarmed in as they did this year if it had not been for
the aviation show. And now when the whole thing was about at an end and all old differences forgotten, this unpleasant
occurrence had to come up in order to send our visitors home with a sourer taste than ever in their mouths.
Our readers know our opinion of Chief Wiseman, for we have said before that we thought he was the best officer
that ever patrolled the streets of Fairbanks, yet this is a mining town and not a Sunday school, and the officials
should bear this in mind, especially on such an occasion as the Fourth of July.
[The Alaska Citizen, (Fairbanks, Alaska), July 7, 1913 - transcribed by Amanda Jowers]
Ball Game At Midnight
Fairbanks, Alaska, June 24-More than a thousand persons attended a midnight baseball game played here last night
between two local teams. The game was the opening event of the festival of the midnight sun, features of which
will be a carnival parade and general merrymaking. [Chillicothe Morning
Constitution, Chillicothe Missouri June 24, 1914 Sub. by Shauna Williams]
Rich Gold Strike in Alaska is Reported
Fairbanks, Alaska
Reports here last night describe the richest gold strike since Cleary Creek days along Wilbur Creek, north of here.
A stampede of miners and prospectors was under way immediately.
Advices reaching the Fairbanks News by telegraph, mail and in person, indicated sensational discoveries. Experts
left to investigate. The purported bonanza was a few miles from Brooks. Details are meager.
[Source: The Lima News and Times Democrat (Lina, OH), Sep 8, 1921 --
Submitted by Linda Dietz]
Report of gold strike near Bluff, Alaska, causes stampede.
[Daily Messenger, Canandaigua New York March 22, 1926 Sub. by S. Williams]
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