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IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital, SIOO,000.00
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OFFICERS:
T. .T. Nestor, President
('lias. Koss, Vine President
E. G. Lindberg, Manager
John Holmes, Cashier and Assayer
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CHARGED WITH ASSAULT
WITH DEADLY WEAPON
Tom Shatiovie. a minor, was arrested
by Deputy Marshal Tom Howell last
Saturday, and charged with having
assaulted one Steve Lajovieh with a
deadly weapon. The fracas took place
on Otter creek, and it is claimed that
Lajovieh sustained serious injuries.
A preliminary hearing was held be
fore Commissioner C. I'.. Taylor tit 5
o'clock Monday evening. The accused
made no statement and was bound over
to the grand jury.
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Smith's Roadhouse, located at
the Forks of the Takotna river,
on the Seward-Iditarod trail. The
best location between Iditarod
and Seward. Business good both
summer and winter. Address
K. P. Smith, Forks of Takotna,
Alaska.
HILLTOP
““ AMS NEGLECTED
Tie numerous operators on the
hillside at the head of Flat and
Hai py creeks complain that theii
interests are neglected by the road
commissioner.
The operators point out, as justi
fication for their complaint, that
although many of them have been
working on the claims for over two
years, yet the road commissionei
has not expended a single dollar in
road work that would directly ben
efit them. Consequently all goods
juectssarv for ti e wot king of their
ground have to be conveyed thereto :
through the laborious and expen
sive agency of the pack mule
Under such conditions i’ is impos
sible to work much of the ground
at a fair margin of profit.
According to many who have
been over the ground, the hillside
claims would mike an ideal hy
draulicking proposition, but the
divided ownership which at present
prevails precludes the possibility of
the employment of such methods
for. several \eais to cotne.
The Treadwell mine paid dividends
totaling $150,000 during the first five
months of 1012. The Alaska Mexican
paid out $72,000 in the same period and I
the Alaska United $90,100. All these !
mines are in Southeastern Alaska.
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We charge no Express on goods from the creeks.
Judge Royal A. Gunnison, of Juneau, thinks Kazis Krauczunas
will make “a tremendously strong run” for delegate, and may even
win. Yes, and he may even lose.
Judge Thomas Lyons, of the First judicial district, is visiting
at his old home town, Walla Walla, Wash.
An exchange figures it out that the Alaska cable made a clear
profit last year of $251,098.
Herminio D. Gardinas, found guilty of Ketchikan of man
slaughter, was sentenced by Judge Lyons to serve four years in
the penitentiary.
A second horse has been brought to Wrangell and the Sentinel
proudly boasts that the Stikine metropolis is no longer a one horse
town.
On June 4 the wharf at Gypsum, Southeastern Alaska, col
lapsed, dumping about 28,000 tons of gypsum into the bay. The
wharf is owned by the Pacific Coast Gypsum Company, which
operates a gypsum mine. The mine is closed down awaiting the
rebuilding of the wharf.
A big hydraulic plant purchased on the Pacific coast is being
shipped to Atlin by a French syndicate for use on Otter creek.
Lieut. O. E. Michael is, of the lGkh Infantry, U. S. A., who has
been stationed at Haines, is striving through influential friends to
get an appointment on the special publicity bureau of the Pan
American Exposition.
H. C. McDowell has been appointed purser of the steamship
Victoria, of the Alaska Steamship Company, succeeding Fred
Tracy, who was recently promoted to general agent of the Alaska
Steamship Company at Cordova- McDowell has been purser of
the steamships Dolphin, Jefferson and Northwestern, and last year
was on the steamship Melville Dollar, which was sent to the Kus
kokwirn river under charter to the Alaska Steamship Company.—
Douglas Island News.
“It is no use for a man to think he can go into the Tuluksak
with a little grub and go to work shoveling in,” said Danny Brice
t> the Iditarod Pioneer. “There are places at the head ot Bear
creek, and perhaps occasional spots at other places, where a few
men in partnership might take out a little money; but taking the
Tuluksak all through it is a low-grade proposition, which can only;
lie worked with the aid of machinery and on a large scale.”
Mr. Brice, who arrived from the lower Kuskokwim Tuesday, I
is very optimistic regarding the district, and gave it as his opinion
that the whole range, from the mouth of the Aniak to Quinhaga
mute, was mineralized, and could be worked at a profit by those
willing to install machinery.
Captain Anderson, of Nome, who bought out Reiser & Co.’s
interests.on Bear creek last fall, shipped in a large plant on the
gasoline schooner Abler this spring. The schooner did not stop
at Bethel, but proceeded direct to the Tuluksak, some 60 miles
above, and then up the Tuluksak for a mile or so, where she un
loaded her freight. Captain Anderson represents the Minneapolis
Gold Mining and Dredging Company, which owns four and a half
claims on Bear. The ground goes about 65 cents to the foot.
Captain Anderson took in 18 men to work this summer.
Bob Martin and Walter Thomas have taken an option on
Dominick & Forrest’s ground on Bear. The option called for a
cash payment down, tne balance to be paid in installments spread
over two and a half years.
Bill Fisher, on Bonanza creek, a tributary of Bear, commenced I
to sluice June 5, and several others were about ready at that time.
William Smith, working on G below Bear, is said to have a pay- -
streak 150 feet wide, running about GO cents to the foot.
Kellerman & Wolgast, the oldtimers of the camp, were open
ing up their ground when last seen, and expected to commence
sluicing July 1- No one knows what they have got, but they seem
to be very well satisfied, and are believed to be in good ground.
Florin & Hayes are opening up on 4 below Bear. While run
ning a bedrock drain through 5 they struck a little pay, which
looks very encouraging, and they are going ahead.
TRUTH WILL BE KNOWN
WITHIN THIRTY DAYS
Little more can be learned at pres
ent regarding the possibilities of the
new strike back of Simel City on the
Innoko. Returning stampeders are al
most unanimous in asserting that the
country promises well enough, but
work done to date has been insufficient
to prove the district either one way or
the other.
The report that the whole district
has been punctured with holes is not
true. Indeed there has been very little
sinking done at all. It is claimed, how
ever that the 50 odd dollars in dust
taken out by Fred Anderson and others
came from a much larger area of bed
rock than was previously reported, and
the general opinion seems to be that
the discoverers have been over op
timistic regarding their find.
Fred Anderson lias a boiler on Color
ado. and he and his partners are pros
pecting that creek. Another boiler
was on the way and has probably been
installed by now.
It is reported that J. ,T. Price lias
secured an option on Eldorado creek,
and has put up the money to have the
ground thoroughly prospected. The
option runs for 30 days, at the end of
which time several thousands of dollars
become due if the option is taken up.
One or two who leturned last Sunday
stated that the best prospects up to the
time of their departure did not go more
than 1 cent to the pan, but this is be
lieved to be unduly pessimistic. In any
case, the truth will doubtless be known
within 30 days, and until that time has
expired it is almost useless to speculate
on the prospects of the camp.
Although there have been several
hundred men in the vicinity from time
to time, most of them were trar.sie vs
who passed on within a few hours of
their arrival, and the number in camp
at present is not large. Nearly all of
the Ophir City folk have returned to
headquarters.
MAY VISIT US LATER
SAYS BISHOP P, T. ROWE
Bishop Rowe, Archdeacon Stuck and
Rev. C. E. Betticher, Jr., who intended
to visit Iditarod this month, have had
to postpone their trip up river on ac
count of low water. The information
comes in a letter to Mrs. Davis from
Mr. Betticher.
The launch Pelican, on which the
three ecclesiastics are traveling,
reached a point on the Iditarod river
about three miles below Dikemun, be
yond which it was impossible to pro
ceed, as tlie launch draws too much
water.
“If it were not for the fact that the
bishop has so little time at his dis
posal,” says Mr. Betticher in his letter,
“he would get through on one of the
small boats. That, however, is out of
the question.”
Bishop Rowe promises that this sec
tion will be visited some time during
the summer, and expresses his sincere
regrets that he cannot get to the Idit
arod at this lime.
Tlie Bi-diop must be in Nome in time
to catch the revenue cutter Bear for
the Arctic.
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THE CANDIDATE
I stand for all that’s good and pure
and this, our country, can’t endure if
you should turn me down: beneath
my coat and vest and things I have a
handsome pair of wings, and in mv
grip a crown. Unless you choose me
as your guide you're pretty sure to
wander wide in morass, fen and
swamp; but if you choose me for vour
chief I’ll lead you from this gloom
and grief to splendor and to pomp.
All other candidates who beg your
votes and try to pull your leg are
wolves in sheep’s array; on Virtue I
' have placed my brand; True Worth
is eating from my hand, as horses
eat their hav. I am the Peepul's
only friend; if I'm defeated there’san
end to all their earthly hopes; the
government our fathers built will
get the cleaver to the hilt, and
tumble through the ropes. If I'm
defeated anarchy will sweep this
country of the free, our homesteads
be laid waste; the husbandman will
wade in blood, the clergyman throw
gobs of mud, the printer eat his
paste. The rivers ail will backward
How, the garden sass refuse to grow.
there’ll be nu prunes or tigs; the
blighted trees will wilt and die, the
cows and wells will all go dry, the
hens will hatch out pigs. To dodge
this dire catastrophe you'll simply
have to vote for me and help along
mv boom, for I alone can be the
shield, the sword and buckler you
must wield to shun this awful doom!
— Walt Mason.
PRITCHARD RESIDENCE
WAS BURNT OUT MONDAY
Last Monday evening a lire broke
out in the rear part of the Pritchard
residence on Black street, and consid
erable damage to property resulted,
although the house was saved.
The fire department had been prac
ticing, and when the alarm was turned
in the hose was stretched along Front
street disjoiated. As soon as the loca
tion of the fire was made known by ,T.
W. Charlton, willing hands helped to
carry the hose along Willow, Caribou
and Black streets, and in a very few
minutes all was ready and the water
made short work of the blaze. The
chemical had reached the scene earlier
and was playing on the tire when the
water arrived. Mr. Banks was ably
assisted at the nozzle by Mayor Barnes,
■I. R. McGovern, Eric Hard, Joe Brad
ley, Harry the Jap. ar.d others, and it
was owing to their strenuous efforts
that the lire was confined to such nar
row limits.
The building is not much damaged,
but the interior decorations, furniture
and personal effects suffered to a con
siderable extent from water, and the
loss on this account will be fairly
serious.
The origin of the fire is not known
positively, but it is thought to have
been caused by the stove in the kitchen
being set too near the wall, the paper
on which evidently was the first thing
to become ignited At the time the
fire started both Mr. and Mrs. Pritch
ard were away. Mrs. Pritchard, who
had been preparing the dinner, left the
house to call her husband, and when
the latter arrived it was to find part of
his residence in fiatres.
The house, which is of frame con
struction, belongs to J. A. Slippern.
Mr. Pritchard had spent a good deal of
money in fixing it up, one way and an
other.
The only accident recorded happened
to Eric Hard. Joe Bradley was holding
tiie nozzle when the water was turned
on, and had it pointed full at. Hard,
who got the first of the water iull in
the chest, and was thrown off his feet.
He soon recovered himself.
Commissioner C. E. Taylor, who has
been occupying offices on Richmond
street ever since last fall, has changed
his location. He is now settled in the
building formerly occupied by Lord’s
jewelry store, on Front street, next to
_ he Fait view Trading Company’s store.
Messrs. Sevier A Dark, who have
been working' on Chicken creek for
some months past, are reported to have
struck pood pay at the head of the
creek. The ground is said to range
from 20 to 40 feet deep.
Jonas Brewis had a good cleanup!
Tuesday morning.
Caribou Bill expects to clean up bis
flume on the lower works on the Dark
A Sweeney ground this week, and he
looks for very good returns.
All operators on the hillsides were :
compelled to close down entirely early
this week, and unless plentiful rains
come soon, the whole of Flat creek will
be put temporarily out of business.
Lorg' Shorty, of Alder creek, is re
ported to have struck good pay on the
Montana association, which is owned
by Messrs. Baird A Hoxie.
Cameron A Moisant, the freighters,
took a party to the head of Slats creek
Tuesday morning. They are going to
chop wood, and have a large contract
to fill.
George F. Kilroy came into Iditarod !
with a cieamip from the Upgrade asso- 1
ciation during the week. Shortage of
water compelled the laymen on the
upgrade to rock their cleanup.
Max Lohbrunner reports the finding
of cinnabar, antimony and other varie
ties of quartz float in llie sluiceboxes I
of the hillside c’aims.
Charley Linn was looking forward to
a gool cleanup this week.
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PROFESSOR NEWSOM HURRIES
TO THE ANIAK IN A LAUFH
—
Prof. J. F. Newsom, the eminent'
geologist, who is believed to be con- j
ntctect with the Yukon Gold Company !
in some way, is making a hurry-up I
trip to the Aniak.
The professor arrived in Idiiarod
June 27 last, and left almost imm ■<!;
ately for Flit. After a few days in
that neighborhood he went overland to
Georgetown. At Georgetown the pro-1
fessor hired a fast launch, engaged!
George Fredericks, the Georgetown
roadhouse man, as helper, and took
along a man named Taylor as guide.
It was learned before the party left
Georgetown that Fredericks had been
directed to get to the Aniak in as short
time as possible: to go up that stream
at far as the draft of the launch would
allow, and then take to the poling noai
which they had with them for the
journey to the headwaters of the
Aniak.
Professor Newsom's appearance on
the Kuskokwim gave rise to consider
able speculation among the hardy pio
neers of the region. Some asserted
that he was merely after “bugs”: but
his subsequent movements and appa
rent haste to get over the ground
argued that he was after bigger game, j
Professor Newsom did not enlighten !
them.
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION
Notice is hereby given that the part-j
nership heretofore existing between the
undersigned has been dissolved by mu
tual consent.
J. B. Mading Frank li. Ii gels
\V. C. Mading I). C. Micliie
F. H. Griffin
Dated ist day of July, 1912.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT,
Territory of Alaska, Fourth Division
In the matter of FRED WILLISON, j
Bankrupt.—Notice of Meeting of Cred
itors.
To the creditors of Fred Willisou in the
Territory of Alaska, a bankrupt:
Notice is hereby given that on the j
25th day of June, 1912, the said Fredj
Willison was duly adjudicated a bank- j
rupt; and that the first meeting of his j
creditors will be held at my office in
the Towni of Iditarod, on the 13th day I
of July, 1912, at two o’clock p. m., at
which time said creditors may attend,
prove their claims, appoint Trustee, ex
amine the bankrupt and transact such
other business as may properly come '
before said meeting.
HENRY RODEN,
Referee in Bankruptcy.
! Dated at Iditarod, Alaska, June 25, 1912.
Al. Thorns and Malcolm McDonald,
who aro hound fur the Aniak. are
taking along a hand drill. They have
named their little motor poling boat
the Aniak, and will travel via the port
age at Russian Mission. Thorns and
McDonald have numerous interests in
the Aniak, any of which may turn out
very welh Joe Lewis, a well known
old-timer, will accompany them as
guide and helper.
At Our Old-Time Location!
ON THE SUMMER TRAIL
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Liquors and Cigars
Tel: “Summit Roadhouse.''
Films Developed
And All Kinds of Photographic
Work Done.
MiSS TJERNSTRGM, MCDONALD HOTEL
In the District Court for the Territory of
Alaska, Fourth Division.
F.mina Holloway. Plaintiff, vs 1.mnlis
Fat nest Hoi o\V .; Del idaiit. No
i ,06 i, Summons.
The President of the United Slates of
America, greeting: To tile above
named Defendant:
Summons having been duly issued out
of the above court, in the above entitled
action, and placed in the hands of the
United States marshal for service, cud
the said marshal having made due re
turn, setting forth his inability to serve
the said summons ill said district, and
that tlie said defendant could not be
found therein; and the plaintiff having
filed and presented to the court an affi
davit showing that the said defendant
did not reside in said district and could
not be found therein, and that a good
cause of action existed in tier of tlie
plaintiff and against the defendant;
And the court having considered the
same, did on the S.h day ofjulv, 1912
make an order directing tile publication
of the said summons for a period o: six
weeks in the Iditarod Pioneer, a news
paper of general circulation within said
district.
Now, therefore, you are hereby re
quired to appear in the said District
court in and for the Territory of Alaska,
Fourth division, within 30 days after the
completion of the said publication, to
wit: within 30 days after the 24th duv of
August, 1912, exclusive of said day, cud
answer tile complaint of the above-named
plaintiff, a copy of w hich is 011 file in the
office of the clerk of the above-entitled
court, and unless you so appear and an
swer, the plaintiff will apply for the re
lief dent ended in said complaint.
Witness the Honorable Peter D. fiver
field, Judge of said court, this qth dav of
Julv, A. 1). 1912.
. C. C. PAGE,
■ Seal ' Clerk.
United Slates of America, District
Court, Territory of Alaska, Fourth
Division.
Kd ward M. Spaulding, Piaintiff, vs.
Harriet F. Spaulding, Defendant- —
No. 551, Alias Summons.
The President of the United States of
America, greeting, to the above
named Defendant:
Summons having been duly issued out
of i lie above court, m iheabovc-entiiled
ac-ion, and placed in tlie hands of the
United States marshal for service, and
the said marshal having made due i
turn, setting forth his inability to serve
the said summons in said district, and
tl.at the said defendant could not be
found therein; and the plain! ill' having
filed and presented to the e ift an ah
davit showing that the si id defendant
did not reside in said district and could
not be found therein, and that a good
cause of action existed in favor of the
p'aintiff and against the defendant:
And ihe court hiving considered the
same, din on the 5th day of Jane, 1912,
m ike an order directing ihe publica
ti ui of the said summons for a period of
six weeks in the Iditarod Pioneer, a
newspaper of general circulation within
sa.d district.
non, mereiore, you are liereoy re
quired to appear in the said District
L* urtinand for the Territory of Alaska,
Fourth division, within 30 days after
the completion of the said publication,
to wit: within 30 days after the 27th day
ol July, 1012, exclusive of said day, and
answer the complaint of the above
u. uued plaintiff, a copy of which is on
file in the office of the clerk of the
above-entitled court, and unless you so
a. pear and answer, the plaintiff will
apply for the relief demanded in said
v, inpalint.
Witness the Honorable Peter D.
f verfield, Julge of said court, this 1-lth
i. y of June in the year of our Lord
1. t2, and of our Independence 130.
, —— . C. C. PAGE, Clerk,
Seal r By E. M. Stanton,
—*— Deputy Clerk,