I’ifty-six men .tie working this winter on Henderson cteek, in the
Klondike district, while the numerous tributaries ol Henderson account
for as many more.
\Y. O. Smith, the well known Dawson miner, is engaged in liti
gation with the Canadian Klondike Mining Co. Smith claims owner
ship in a tract of ground which falls within the boundaries ol the Boyle
concession, claiming prior location. In the first lound the decision was
given to Smith, but the company has taken an appeal.
The Canadian government has commenced work on the Peace
River railroad. This line will run Irom Edmonton north throught Fort
Vermillion and will eventually tap the Klondike region.
Dawson is suffering from a mild epidemic of diphtheria. A pros
pector named Fraser was the first victim He came from the north
fork of the Klondike. The next to succumb v Bruce Houghton, who
came from the same district
Joseph Andrew Clarke, formerly the stormy petrel of Yukon poli
tics, held the centre of the stage in a case recently tried at Edmonton,
Alberta. He was engaged to defend a bunch of laborers, accused of
breaking their contracts to go to work. What looked at first like a
11ivial case developed, through Clarke’s enterprise, into one of con
siderable magnitude, and he made quite a reputation out of it.
Evidences of early Russian activity in the Copper river region are
frequently being unearthed by the railroad builders At mile 67 a five
kopeck copper piece of the time of Peter the Great was recently found.
The coin was dated 1704
Coast newspapers are making a ieature of mining stock quotations
Some twenty different stocks are already listed, and considerable activity
is noticed. I,otie .Star is selling at 12^0, Seely Davis at 60c, Williams
Geutzler at 25c, and so on. Two or three firms are making a specialty
of stock-broking.
W. S. McCray, formerly of Nome, is at present in tire Cordova
district, whither he was attracted by tire reports of rich quartz strikes, j
Wm, Btinger, formerly of Nome, is bankrupt in Los Angeles.
The new Seattle stock exchange will be largely officered by Alas- !
kans. The membership is at present limited to 50. Among the latest j
to become members are Col. T.athrop, of Valdez, and Herbert Johnston, j
of Cordova.
Clifford Cayoutte, a French.Canadian, has turned down an offer ofj
$100,000 for his placer holdings on Dan creek, in trie Niziua district. He I
controls some 2500 acres of ground suitable for hydraulicking.
The Alaska Steamship Company is boosting the Iditarod and j
Kuskokwim districts. Its slogan for the campaign is‘‘See America i
first, but start with Alaska.”
\\ uifkey peddling is now declared to be a vanisned industry m tue |
first judicial division of Alaska, owing, primarily, to the energy of j
Deputy Marshal Faulkner and his assistants.
According to the Cordova Daily Adaskau, Skagvvay has the smallest |
winter population in her history this year.
Senator Dick, of Ohio, will operate extensively in the Porcupine
district this year.
Barney Cole, who made a big fortune out of the Gertrude mine at
Nome, died on a railroad train near Havre, Montana, recently.
Owing to the decline in placer production, and also to the exodus!
to the Iditarod, Fairbanks real estate has declined $500,000 during the!
past year.
Judge Overfield has decided that the $101,000 which was on its \
way Outside at the time of the failure of the Washington-Alaska bank j
shall remain in Alaska, and be available for the payment of dividends j
to the depositors of the defunct institution.
Major Richardson was expected to leave Seattle April 9 for Seward,
where he will superintend the initial work in connection with the con
struction of the Seward-Iditarod trail.
Mrs. Clara Wright, of Fairbanks, has returned from California.
Dad McCarty is at present wintering in San Francisco.
Herman Wobber, formerly of Fairbanks,is now running a nicolodeon j
in San Francisco, with a stationery store on Market street as a side j
line.
Dr. F. A. Cleveland is in Fairbanks from the Koyukuk, where he
has been for the past nine years. He states that the present population
of the northern camp is 235 whites.
F. S. Gordon is the new mayor of Fairbanks. Mr. Gordon is again
in the dry goods business, having recently opened a store on Second
avenue. Moreover, Frank is now a proud dad, which interesting event
took place the same day he was elected mayor.
A Gilmore man named Solberg claims to have located a camp rob
bers nest. Hitherto it has been common belief that the camp robber
built no nest, but Solberg's find proves this belief to be erroneous.
Commissioner Marsh, of the Clmndlar, is now 011 the Outside. He
will go to Washington, D. C , and thence to Fhrrope, where he hopes to
be able to interest British capitalists in his Chaudlar quartz properties.
Victor Durand, the violinist, is running a moving picture show in
Valdez.
Tom Lloyd, the conqueror of Mt. McKinley, has returned frcm his
trip to the Outside, where he has been endeavoring to interest capitalists
in his Kantishna properties. Next winter Tom will conduct the Her
schell Parker party to the summit of Alaska’s highest peak.
The Fairbanks Times predicts that there will be an exceptionally
late breakup at that place this year, owing to the extremely cold
weather experienced there this season.
Judge L. F. Lrwin, of Fairbanks, went Outside recently as one of
the guards in charge of the insane patients.
The Gil more gg^wop
THIBO AVE. AND WILLOW ST.
CHEER AND COMFORT
AT THE
MILLER & JERMAN, PROPS,
THE COLD STORAGE EGG
(3ray wanderer from the hoary past
Dumped on Alaska’s shore at last,
We break you with a prayer or curse;
\\ e know you’re bad, you may bo worse.
1 ho hen that cackled at thy birth
Long since lias mingled with the earth.
Tiie boy that gathered thee with glee
Dandles a grandchild on his knee.
Tell ns, oh! how, and where, and when,
Thou record of primeval hen,
What evil genius spoke thy doom
That laid thee in thy frozen tomb?
“In sunbaked barns of Illinois
I wus gathered by a barefoot boy;
Five cents a dozen was the price
That led me to a room of ice.
Beside me rose the great World’s Fair
Yet left me in my frozen lair.
The Klondike yielded up its gold
Vet found me still in storage cold.
At last when Big Bill Taft was king
The trust went busted with a ping.
Hoary and old, and weak and frail
At last I hit the sunset trail.
Seattle said ‘you’re good enough
To feed Alaskans rude and rough.’
So here at last I end my race:
F.ngulfed in a poor sourdough’s face.’ ”
—Cordova North Star.
PfiANKILLERS
1 like the man who digs a grave
and plants his neighbors in his gar
den, and doesn't even beg their par
don. I knew a perfect gentleman
who took a gun and killed his cousin,
a much-beloved old friend of mine
once ran amuck and slew a dozen.
A man may do as Crippen did, and
slay a lady in the cellar, and still
deserve our confidence as being
quite a decent feller. I read (lie
murder yarns each day appearing in
the daily papers; there always is
some good excuse for all these hom
icidal capers. When gentlemen take
knives or guns and butcher citizens
around them, you may be sure that
tilings confound them. But oil, those
cold and cautious knaves, who do
their murdering for money. Who
dope tiie food the people eat. and
take in wealth and think it funny.
For them the pillory should stand,
for them the leathern lash should
whistle. Their souls are built of
boiler iron—what hearts they have
are made of gristle. — Walt M non.
Zepp Up in Air Again
Frederickshafen, April 8—Count Zep
pe'in. in his new dirigible baloon,
started for Stuttgard today with ten
passengers.
DR. B. F. BROOKS,
Over Merchants Cafe, First Avenue.
Telephone 30
Dr. Heinrich Wortmann,
Office at City Drujx Store, Tel. 30
First Ave., Bet. Willow and Richmond
DR. E. T. BRJWBURY,
Dentist
Over Merchants Cafe, First Avenue
Telephone 30-B
CHAS. D. CARTER.
Dentist
Offices, Pioneer Drug Stores,
Flat Ci'eek
McGowan, Clark & Albrecht
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Iditarod, Alaska Phone No. 7
The Pioneer Attorneys of This Camp
ALFRED E. MALTBY,
fU. S. Commissioner]
Attorney at Law
Notary Public
Practice only in District Court. IDiTAROD
J. 5. HARDING,
Attorney at Law
Room 1, Iditarod Hotel
Iditarod, Alaska
CHAS. E. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law,
Notary Public, Conveyancing,
Abstracts of Titles
Iditarod City
A. J. DALY,
Attorney at Law
WILL ARRIVE ON THE FIRST BOAT
919-923 Leary Building, Seattle, Wash.
All Commissions Given Personal Attention.
Wickersham & Roden,
Iditarod, Alaska
Northern
Commercial
Company
THE ONLY PLACE
IN TOWN TO GET
Mishawaka loiter So,
“Bail Brand” Shoes and Pass
WE AHE THE SOLE AGENTS
Stores: Xditarod and Dikeman
Mrs. Leslie Kehoe and Miss Wolf of
Discovery came into town Sunday for a
few days, as the guests of Mrs. Me-'
Intosli.
C. P. Cliesley was quite iil during
the early part of the week, but at last
reports was improving. lie was at the
local hospital attended by Dr. Wort
mann.
Charles Knell was sounding the city
this week. He had come over from
Moore creek, where he has been en
gaged for t tie past month in moving
large quantities of gravel from its
ancient site to new portions of the
territory. In this laudable enterprise
lie has been assisted by one Edward
McArdle, who has forsaken the hy
draulicking business to properly assist
in the transportation of real estate.
Julius Kossoaud is about to open a
pool hall at Discovery, in the quarters
made famous by the occupancy of Luke
Radigan last winter. Julius will have
circus lemonade and other red drinks
to satisfy the most osponortis.
It is repoited on good authority that
one of Cleveland's teams hauled six
and a quarter cords of wood in one
load this week. Anyone wishing for
further particulars may call up the
Clark Lumber company, or talk to the
horses.
Accompanied by Mr. Bell ot Colo
rado, Frank Lawson of Dawson and
Fairbanks blew into town last week
with Simms, the musher. Lawson lias
been Outside watching the lights go
round during the winter, but will
spend a good portion of the summer in
the Iditarod. Mr. Bell will compare
Alaska placer with Colorado quartz
and note the difference.
Leonard Dodge returned from Fair
banks last week, bringing down Tom
Aitken, who has been outside this win
ter. Although Mr. Aitken is busy
buying ground on Flat creek, he has
nothing to give for publication.
Henry Riley, operator of Fairbanks,
and partner of Tom Aitken, in last
summer's operations on Cleary creek,
came in last Saturday with Slim Mc
Rae from Fairbanks. He will spend
the summer here and will undoubtedly
be into the mining game before many
weeks. _
FAIRBANKS PIONEERS
DO PRACTICAL GOOD
To provide the aged and needy
among their numbers with a comfor
table home, the Fairbanks igloo of the
Pioneers of Alaska have voted for the
purchase of the Charles Beam residence
on Second avenue, a short distance be
low St. Matthew’s hospital. Besides a
comfortable house the property includes
a barn and two good-sized lots where
a garden may be cultivated by those
who occupy the house.
The matter of providing a home for
the pioneers has been under consider
ation for a long time, and the action
taken is the first step for the practical
assistance of the indigent.
OTTER CREEK CASE
SETTLED DDT OF COURT
According to a Fairbanks paper the
case of Daniel J. Campbell vs. John
Goslow, M. H. Marston, John Beaton,
John Merritt, Gilbert Bates and Angus
McKenzie was recently settled there
out of court, and upon motion of the
plaintiff was dismissed, both parties
paying their own costs.
The ground in controversy lays on Ot
ter creek and tiie suit was brought for
an accounting under a grubstake agree
ment. __
No 8 Hours for Them
Portland, April 8—Employers from
all Pacific coast points will meet here
next week to form an association of
employers to resist the 8-hour law and
other "trade-union measures.
Among Late Arrivals
Chitina, April 8—The stage which
left here yesterday for Fairbanks car
ried as passengers Barney Simon, Jas.
Doherty, W. R. Cunningham, Geo. M.
Harp, Gus. E. Green, Wm. Hear, A.
W. Best, R. C. Sprecht, F. R. Short,
Jolin D. Cowell, Herman Koch and .T. |
it. Sloan.
Socialists So Likee
Madison, Wis., April 8—The Social
istic members of the state legislature j
absolutely refuse to serve on the com- i
mittec which will greet Theodore
Roosevelt upon his arrival here, April
15. _
Twinkler Boosts Ante
Washington, D. C'., April 8—Walter ;
Johnson, the premier pitcher of the
American league, who is with the
local nine, is holding out for $7,500 a
year.
Interests Brighten Up
Los Angeles, April 8—-In the in
terests of a general retrenchment in :
expenses, the Southern Pacific railroad j
shops will discharge 400 employes to
day.
Virtue Spasm on Wall Street
New York, April 8—The chamber of
commerce of this city has petitioned
congress to pass the reciprocity measure
for freer trade with Canada.
When you visit Flat creek call at
Carroll’s Globe Bakery and Coffee
House for a lunch.
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION
Notice is hereby given that the part
nership heretofore existing between Mor
gan & bitsey is hereby dissolved by mu
tual consent. Alt accounts due and
owing said firm in Iditarod, Alaska, will
be collected and paid bv Thomas Mor
gan. JOHN biTSEY.
Bv his Attorney, J. H. Miller,
THOMAS MORGAN.
March 30. rqi t.
NOTICK
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
will not be responsible for any of the debts con -
traded on the Otter association, Otter creek, or
accounts subseque t to the date of this notice
Dated March :-H, 1910 WM M. WISK
FLAT CITY
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Flat City
WE SATISFY THE HUNGRY
TODAY-SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNER-TODAY
Everything in Season
WILLOW STREET T. L. RflcGRATH, PROP.
ar gy Furnished Rooms and Spring Beds.
N zP (£& B Rates by the Day, Week or Month
M IS & A O J C3? £? £? Mrs. F. A. Perkins. Prop
COLD STREET, FLAT CITY
Telephone 67 Wood for Sale
Mutch Jer Bros.
FR IGHTERS
For Rates to the Creeks See Us
WEEK-DAY
Stage Line Between iditarod and Flat City
Leaves Flat City 9 a. m, Leaves Iditarod 4 p. ri.
ENCLOSED RIGS AND FOOT WARMERS
Iditarod Office, Next to Sherburne House, Willow Street.
Flat City Office, Grand Hotel.