Show no Chicken chic ken feed teed in alaska a even bartenders scorn any coin of less value than twenty five cint cent piece baltimore md ald no ino pennies nickels or dimes go in alaska said john hoover of fairbanks who was in tho the city the other day when I 1 first went to that country I 1 saw bartenders took look curiously at a dime that some tenderfoot had tossed on the bar and then it off on the floor with their fiands I 1 wondered at this contempt tor for real money and asked some question about it discovering that no one ever took nickels or dimes and that coching could be bought in we the klondike for less than 25 cents take the ordinary sack of tobacco continued mr air hoover which we get here for a nickel there they cannot sell it for or a quarter hardly so they make it two for or a quarter but will not sell one tor for 15 16 cents it to is common cause among those people up there they do not want nickels or dimes introduced for introduction tro ot of small change chance would mean lower wages anti and lower prices i orelua ordinary ry sho velera get bet four or flee five dollars a day now and other labor la Is paid in proportion they do dd not want to receive lower wages of course it Is trued true they mako make money on the side almost every worker does there Is a tendency in mining to follow the rule that nuggets belong to the iho man who uncovers them eean if they are found on tho the claim of the employer 1 I have seen wen nl n pick pich up nuggets worth there are mighty few robbers in alaska added mr air hoover it does not tako take more than four years to try a criminal and give him proper pun ashment up there and besides ha be can be caught gold dust la Is as earil easily y identified as different kinds of cloth or cattle there la Is sometimes ten per cent difference in the value of the tha gold from streams running parallel on different sides of the same mountain A holdup hold coif up ul man who acquires gold dust would have to account for it when he went out au 1 he be could be traced ensley eil |