Miners & Merchants Bank
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital, $50,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted Gold Dust Bought and Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Part of the World
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT: SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK
OFFICERS:
(.'has. Ross, President
T. J. Nestor, Vice President
John Holmes, Cashier and Assayer
MERCHANTS CAFE
Caters to Large and Small Parties
PRIVATE DINiNG ROO&1S
Popular Prices Everything First Class
CHAS. E. FILLER, PROP.
D'SKAKET and
OPHiR CiTY
Stampeders to the New Strike can rely on getting Nice Fresh Goods ,
at Very Reasonable Prices
Big Stocks, Standard Goods
GETS FIFTY DAYS FOE
KILLING FEMALE MOOSE
In a letter to the governor’s of-'
fice relative to game conditions in
the Kenai peninsula, the senior
game warden at Seward says: “The
case I had pending against King
Thurman w’as brought up some
days ago and he was fined $150 or
50 days for killing a female moose
out of season. He is now serving
the 50 days.
The conviction of King Thur
man will meet with the hearty ap
proval of all law-abiding citizens
of the Kenai peninsula, as he has
been a notorious violator of the
game law. His operations were
cariied on in such a way that it
was only after repeated efforts on
the part of the game warden that
he was apprehended, the game war
den finally catching him “with the j
goods.” Another mm against j
whom numerous complaints have j
been made from time to time fled
the country as soon as he learned J
of the arrest of Thurman and he J
has not been seen or heard of since j
—Juneau Empire, July 31.
JACK O’BBIEN VISITS SEATTLE
(Seattle Sun. July
“Philadelphia Jack’’ O'Brien, one of j
the most famous figures in the ring ofj
a few years ago, is in Seattle seeom- j
panied by his younger brother, who |
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has taken part in three bouts in Van
couver recently. The old ring veteran
thinks a lot of his younger brother’s j
ability and is taking him to California
with a view of getting him more im
portant matches. “Young Philadel
phia .Tack’’ O'Brien is only 18 years of
age and holds a draw decision with
Leach Cross.
Location Notices at Pioneer ofiice.
A Pine and Well Selected Stock of
Fresh Candies, Wuts and
Toilet Articles
Come and See Our Display of Goods
We are now introducing to the Iditarod public these
Choice Brands of Fine Smoking Tobaccos:
Velvet, Prince Albert and Arcadia
Fine, Mellow and Sweet
New Supply of Chewing Tobacco --j list Opened
HURST BROS.' IMPERIAL CIGAR STORE :: IOITAROD
GRAND BAR nothing but the best
CITY The Pl3ce to IVIeet
Xels Glantz, Prop. YOUf FrieildS
If You Intend
To go to the Sushana diggings
Co the best way. The Fairbanks
Route by way of Tanana River
is the only feasible water route.
Study the Map—Boats are leaving every
day. REMEMBER! All goods shipped
by Canada route are subject to customs
duty at boundary line.
Fairbanks
Commercial Club
The town council of Iditarod held a meeting last Wednesday
evening, the first one for about a mouth, and transacted what little
business there happened to be.
It was decided to hold an election on Monday, September 8,
for the purpose of electing a school board to serve until the reg
ular election next April. The voting booth will be at Jos. H.
Smith’s gun store, and members of the council will act as judges
and clerks, thus reducing the cost to a minium.
The town treasurer reported that there was over $3,000 in the
! municipal treasury, and more money is expected within a short
time. It is generally believed that a tax levy for 1913 will not be
necessary.
The council deferred action on the matter of securing a winter’s
supply of wood until a later meeting.
Dodge City, Kan., July 19.—Early in 1908 a farmer in the
Spring creek valley in Hodgeman county was approached by an
old German, a stranger to him, who wanted to buy a small strip
across his farm. On being questioned the stranger admitted he
j wanted the land for a railroad right of way. He said he was not
backed by any railroad company, and declared that he was going
| to build the railroad single-handed and alone.
The old German, Rudolph Meyer, obtained liis right
of way across that farm and across all of the others along the line
of the road lie had planned, and with the deeds safely stowed
away began his construction work and is still at it.
"What his plans are, where he gets the money to live on. how
he hopes to obtain ties and other equipment are questions that
Meyer doesn’t answer. He points to the roadbed already graded
and lets the visitors guess the rest.
Naturally Meyer's enterprise has provoked no end of comment
among the farmers and townspeople in that vicinity. Men said five
years ago that he would soon abandon his undertaking when he
struck some of the draws where he would be required to throw up
a 70-foot fill. But Meyer; with one pair of mules and a scraper still
is on the job.
With only his own labor, the pair of mules and the scraper he
has averaged a mile of roadbed a year since he began work. He
works all day when the weather is fine, winter or summer- When
it is too cold or too wet he whiles his time away in the little shack
that lie moves along as the grade advances.
Meyer began his work just outside the town of Jetmore, the
terminus of a branch line of the Atchison, Topeka Santa & Fe
railroad and is headed in a general southwesterly direction. Nat
urally railroad men are considerably interested in his doings.
They don’t know whether he is just eccentric or whether he
has responsible backing. Numbers of them have interviewed him,
but they never learned any more than anybody else. Meyer has
a positive genius for talking freely about himself without impart
ing any information,
A party of visitors recently went to see Meyer when he was
busy on the grade. They found a little shack huddled in a draw
between towering hills at the foot of a 70-foot fill.
The huge fill has been hauled into place a scrap erf. il at a time
by the patient old German. Stretching back towards Jetmore is
nearly five miles of such grade, and beyond him are several such
tills to be made before he reaches the fiat country over which he
can work rapidly. At his present rate of progress he will be two
years reaching the Hat country.
Meyer has no objections to talking to visitors. He enjoys a
chat with those who come to find out about his work and apparent
|y enjoys the opportunity to answer questions without giving away
his secrets. When it was suggested that the Santa Fe might be
behind him, he said; '‘Well I guess the Santa Fe is all right in some
ways; I don’t know much about ’em.”
He said he had not much experience in building grades, but
he remembered that he had once worked for the Sante Fe on a
trading job. Merchants of Jetmore are confident that no outside
persons are financing Meyer’s enterprise. They say he has a
farm somewhere in Missouri, which nets him $200 or $300 a year.
It has been rumored that a railroad is sending him pay checks,
but nobody has ever seen any of them. Neither has Meyer ever
placed any of his right-of-way deeds on record. In several of
these deeds it is stipulated that unless Meyer’s road is in operation
within six years the right-of-way shall revert to the grantor.
Meyer practically has work completed on the right-of-way he
has obtained by deed and now is negotiating for more. So far, the
men who own the land have refused to sell, their purpose being to
force Meyer to disclose his plans.
But Meyer does not appear to worry over that. He thinks he
has a way to avoid any difficulties in that line. What his plans
are he refuses to tell.
LONGEST
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The Canadian Pacific railway
has just announced that it will be
gin construction shortly of its long
est tunnel. It will be built through
Kicking Horse pass, in the Rocky
mountains, will be 16 miles long
and will cost $15,000,000.
It will take seven years, it is
estimated, to build it. The great
hole through the mountains will be
four miles longer than the famous
Simplou tunnel through the Alps.
Railway officials assert that the
construction of this tunnel will
eliminate many miles of dangerous
suowsheds.
Don’t forget to call at the Crosby,
baths when yon come in from tho creeks.
FORMER IBITAROBERS
GOING TO CHISANA
Skagway Alaskan, July 30: Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Fowler left the city Mon
day for Cordova, where they will stam
pede in to the new Chisana placer
district.
SUN’S RAYS MIGHT
START FOREST FIRES
Centralia, July 30.—Fire wardens
have been instructed by State Fire
Warden Ferris to bury all bottles
found in forests reserves, in order that
they may not act as a concentrating
medium for the sun’s rays and start
fires in dry leaves and moss.
More than 4,000 miles of copper wire
will be required for telephones in a big
office building which is being built in
New York.
When yon get off the boat take a
steam bath at the Crosby baths, Cari
bou street.
Ball Band Rubber Boots and Pacs
N. C. Co. Sole Agents for Alaska
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MEW POTATOES, ETC.,
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JV. Co. Sole Agents for Alaska
The Toreric whose home port is 1
Glasgow, Scotland, and which is j
commanded by Captain Young ar
rived in the roadstead at Nome re
ceutly with a cargo of coal from
Newcastle, New South Wales,
Australia, having sailed the dis
tance to Nome of 6413 tittles in 29
days, for when the tramp dropped !
anchor the vessel was exactly 29
days out from the loading port; a '
very uneventful, but a very pleas-1
ant voyage. The steamer has on
hoard over 5,000 tons of coal. The
Toreric is a comparatively new;
steamer and is a fine specimen of i
the tramp, blit not of the ram-yon-1
dam you linets that Kipling wrote1
about, and which were so plentiful
some score years back. This ves
sel is modern in all respects.
Representative Milo Kelly, of the]
Kr.ik district, has a four stamp
mill, on a four-foot ledge that aver
ages $67 per ton.
Secretary of the Interior Kane!
will explain, in an article in the!
next number of Worlds Woik, why
lie favors the opening of Alaska by
means of railways constructed by
the gove 1 imient.
The population of Katalla has
dropped to 58. The Alaska Oil
and Refining company, a concern
having headquarters in Vancouver,
is operating a small refinery tlie 1 e, j
handling in the neighborhood of]
fifty barrels of crude oil in 24 hours, !
The product —gasoline and kero- j
eitie—is sold at Cordova and near j
bv points, both ol the oil products I
bring high grade. With the ex
ception of the woik around this
plant, there is absolutely nothing |
doing in or around Katalla.
George J. Love of Valdez, a
member ol the firm of Whiteiy- j
Love company, is the latest aspir- j
ant for the U. S. marsiialship in |
the Third division.
The bureau of chemistry, depart-1
meut of agriculture, made an j
analysis of volcanic ash from Mt. j
Kattnai. It contains a trace of I
potash, phosphoric acid and lime, |
but not in sufficient quantities to j
render the ash suitable as a fertili- !
zer, yet there is nothing in it in
jurious to plant life.
Charging that his wife had been j
dazzled by a display of wealth and
alienated from him by Herbert j
Greenberg, a wealthy Nome min J
ing man, Robert 13eutie11 of Seattle!
has commenced suit against Green-j
berg for $25,000 damages.
The biggest king- salmon ever!
reported as caught in the waters of
Alaska was received recently at the
mild curing station at Point Con
clusion. It weighed 113 pounds
without the head and was iti ex
cellent condition.
Postmaster Boyer, of Fairbanks,
is something ot a gardener. He
has raised a cucumber 24^-2 inches
in length and four inches in
diameter.
John Fitzpatrick, serving life
sentence in the Uuited States pen
itentiary at Leavenworth for mur
der committed at Dyea, Alaska,
in 1898, was parolled July 25.
John Fitzpatrick together with
Henry Brooks and William Cor
bett were indicted for tire murder
of Samuel Roberts in Dyea on
March 13, 1898. They were tried
in Sitka before Judge C. S John
son. The jury brought iti a ver
dict of murder without capital pun
ishment agaicst Fitzpatrick, and of
manslaughter against Brooks and
Corbett. Fitzpatrick was sentenced
to life imprisonment and the other
two to ten years each. Fitzpatrick
was defended by the late Judge A.
C. Delaney and the case was car
ried to the supreme court on a writ
of error. The judgment of the
lower court was confi; med.
FRED C. CLARK
HARRIED AT RUB?
Ruby Record-Citizen, August 9: Fred:
C. Clark and Miss Ruby May Kelly ;
were married last Wednesday night'
at the home of tlie groom, Rev II. X'.
Bradshaw officiating.
The bride is one of the best known j
and most popular young ladies in !nte-!
riot- Alaska, where she has lived with ;
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kelly, j
since their advent into tiie Klondike \
in 1 SOS.
The groom is also one of the popular j
younger set, and is well known to all'
the residents of Ruby district as well!
as Fairbanks, Idliarod, Kovukulc—in !
all cf which places he can count his
friends as legion.
Following the ceremony, the imme-1
diate family and invited gue~ts sat,
down to a wedding supperat 10 o'clock. !
The following were seated at the table::
Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Clark, Mr. and!
Mrs. Ed Kelly, Miss Bessie Kelly, Miss i
Rosie Kelly, Mr. and Mrs. H. S. My-:
rick, Mr. Teddy Shaw, Rev. E. N. j
Bradshaw.
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Fresh dry-pack Butter.
Iditarod Meat Co.
For the Big Feed try DuRand's Dis-!
coverv Cafe. I
“The best ever,” is what patrons sav
of the new spring-water shower baths
at The Crosby baths, Caribou street.
Job Printing at Pioneer office.
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Outfit Here for Innoko and Mud <
1 fiver ('amps
Dikeman
Roadhouse and Store!
ROIH . COCKBURN, PROP.
Everything First Class
FREIGHTING
A, M, Kilgore the Oiler Freighter,
Ls now making Daily Trips between
Iditarod city and Dis. titter.
Freight. Deggage and Kxpress
handled promptly.
Telephone,
PJOW LOCATED
ON THE SUMMER TRAIL
SUMMIT
ROADHOUSE
Meals All Honrs.
Liquors and Cigars
Tel: “Summit Koadhousr
Oiler Greek Roadhouse
One Above Discovery
LODGING, MEALS AT ALL HOURS
Everything Comfortable fcr Travelers. JOHN SAGGY. Prop.
AT ANY HOUR AT
The Bank Cafe
FLAT CITY
CURLY ROBINSON, PROPRIETOR
Sail Features of New Piacer Mining Law
EFFECTIVE JULY 30, 1913
1. No location shall contain more than 411 acres.
2. A person may locate for himself, each month, two claims of 20 acres each.
(Both claims cannot te located in one location of40 acres.)
3. A person may locate for each of two other persons, during eacli calendar
month, two claims of 20 acres each. (So that one person, with two powers of at
torney, may locate each calendar mouth for himself and such two other persons,
six claims,)
4. Powers of attorney must be in writing; they need not be acknowledged be
fore a notary, must be witnessed by two witnesses, and must be recorded in the re
cording district in which the claim is to be located before the location is made.
3. Before any valid location can he made, a discovery must have been made
within the boundaries of each claim to be located.
6. Immediately alter making discovery, location notice must be posted at
point of discovery .containing [a] name or number of claim; [b] name of locator or
locators; [c] date'of discovery and posting of notice; [d] number of feet in length
and width claimed.
7. Locator must immediately proceed to mark his boundaries by planting
stakes at each corner not less than 3 feet above the ground and 3 inches through,
and brushing out and blazing all lines. All corner posts must be marked with the
name and number of the claim and the number of the corner post. Posts are
marked in consecutive numbers and the post nearest the discovery (but not the
discovery post) shall be the initial post and post No. 1,
8. Within 90 days, and before filing location certificate, $100 worth of devel
opment work must te done for every 20 acres or fraction thereof contained in a
claim.
q. After this work has been done ami witlim 90 days after posting location
notice, a certificate must be recorded with the recorder, which must contain —
[a] The name or number of the claim;
[b] The name of the locator or locators;
[c] The date of discovery and posting of location notice;
jd) Number of feet in length and width claimed.
The certificate must also give a description of the location of the claim with
reference to same natural object, permanent monument or well-known mining
claim; and a description of the boundaries, corner posts and markings thereon;
also a description of the $100 worth of location work done, and on what part ot
the claim it has been done. The locator or one of the locators, if there is more
than one, or some other person who has personal knowledge of the tacts, must
swear to the truth of the statements contained in. it, and the recorder must not
accept such a certificate for record unless it is sworn to. For this swearing and
everything connected with it, the recorder is entitled to charge 50 cents.
10. Annual assessment work amounting to $100 for each 20 acres or fraction
thereof contained in any claim must be done each vear, except during the year
in which the claim is located. (The same as has always been the case.)
11. After the last day of December, 1914, worth of assessment work
must be done for each 20 acres or fraction thereof contained in any claim here
tofore located; so that during the year 1015, fSoo worth of work must be done on
an association claim containing 160 acres.
12. The affidavit of annual labor must be filed with the precinct recorder
within 90 days after the last of the year for which the assessment work is done,
and failure to record it forfeits the claim.
13. The value of the work done under the new law will be computed on the
basis of the wage for similar work current in the precinct wherein the claim is
situated.
[Henry Roden, who managed the passage of the bill through the legisla
ture, says that he has prepared a pamphlet explaining every feature of the new
law, to enable prospectors to avoid trouble and litigation, and that this pam
phlet will soon be published with a copy of the law’, in small book form.]