LATE NEWS FROM NOME j
Pay Tin at Port Clarence
Nome, September 23.—Seward peninsula has now a tin proposition
of great promise. The placer-tin dredge which was recently installed
on Buck creek in the Port Clarence district is cleaning up over $1,500
daily. In addition to the tin there is enough gold to pay all operating
expenses. This is the first profitable tin mine in Seward peninsula.
Steamer Senator Scares Nome
Nome, September 23.—The town of Nome was considerably scared
when the steamer Senator arrived in the offing flying the quarantine
flag. The uneasiness was allayed when it was discovered that measles
was the only trouble.
Democrats Busy at Nome
Nome, September 23.-—A. J Daly has issued notices announcing
that the Democratic primary will be held in a few days. Efforts are
being made to secure corporation domination of the primary, but they
are not likely to succeed.
Reports From Good News Encouraging
Nomt, September 23.—Late reports from Good News Bay are of
an encouraging nature.
Constant storms are causing great delay to local shipping.
The steamer Corwin has left for the North. She will go to the
scene of the wrecked schooner Redfield, transship the supplies on that
vessel, and convey them to the government stations to which they were
consigned.
The Teddy Bear schooner, en route from Mackenzie river, is con
siderably overdue. The owners are getting anxious.
Last Vessel Leayes Nome October 29
Nome, September 23—The last vessel to leave Nome this seasou
will be the Victoria, which is expected to clear for the south October 29.
Strange Charge
Against Papke
When Hilly Papke whipped Jim Sullivan, the English middle
weight champion in London recently many charges of unfair tac
tics were made against Papke. The protests as a rule had to do
with the American’s rough style of infighting, but one of Sullivan’s
seconds, who answers to the name of Bill Natty, declares Papke’s
skin was so thoroughly annointed with vaseline that Sullivan’s
punches glanced off Billy like birdshot off a glass roof.
“How could Papke do anything of that kind and escape the
notice of the referee?” asked a reporter, to whom Natty unbur
dened his complaint against the Thunderbolt.
“Easy enough,” said Natty. “He probably had the vaseline
rubbed into him every day for a week before the fight. Papke
looked all right when he entered the ring, but just as soon as he
began to warm up the pores of his skin opened and he was very,
very greasy, As a consequence Jim’s punches slid off and had
little or no effect. Then again the grease served a double pur
pose. When Jim hit his man and his punch glanced off the vase
line, Jim bumped into Papke’s fists and took blows which he would
not have received otherwise.”
Papke's reply this will probably be that it is a libel, but in
case Billy admits that he adopted the sharp practices referred to
he will not be able to claim that he did anything original. Sam
Pruitt, the big San Francisco colored tighter of a dozen years ago,
was the first man to step into a bout with his hide vaselined to the
glistening point. Sam had been told that a liberal application of
the ungent named would prevent the other man’s blows from
landing solidly, but to Sam’s sorrow the plan did not work. He
was knocked out and he became so disgusted that he quit the ring
for good.
Jack Johnson Signs
With Hugh McIntosh
Prior to his departure from London for Australia, Hugh Mc
Intosh admitted that Jack Johnson had signed up for two years.
"During that time,” said McIntosh, "Johnson will not be able
to fight for any other promoter without my consent. Besides
Johnson and McVey I wall have eight big heavyweights fighting
in Australia next season- In addition I am trying to get Owen
Moran, Jim Driscoll and Abe Attell. I have already secured Jim.
my Clabby, who made a big reputation out that way last year.
This looks much like making Australia the boxing center of the
world, does it notf It surely is the best field in my opinion, and I
know a lot about the rest of the world. I have to laugh when I
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Arctic Brotherhood
Nominate Officers
The nomination of officers of Camp Iditarod No. 27, Arctic
Brotherhood, for the ensuing six months took place at the A. B.
Hall on Monday evening last, when the following names were re
ceived:
Arctic Chief: A. E. Maltby.
Vice Arctic Chief: E. G. Lindberg, Joe Smith.
Arctic Chaplain: A. E. Light, Nat Lyons.
Keeper of Nuggets: Robert Simpson.
Arctic Reconder: Stewart Holmes.
Trustees: Z. J. Loussac, E. G. Lindberg, Joe Smith, Dr.
Wortman, Wm. Ansley.
It will be seen that the contested offices are three in number:
Vice Arctic Chief, Arctic Chief. Arctic Chaplain and Trustee.
The election takes place October 9—a week from next Mon
day; and every A. B. should make an effort to be present. From
the excellent material available an efficient administration and
a successul season is assured.
During last Monday’s meeting Claude Marchant was conducted
over the trail.
Race Suicide Among
Native Americans
Much has been written during the
last few years concerning race suicide
in America, says Prof. W. B. Bailey in
the Independent, and the observation
has been quite general that the size of
family among the Americans of native
stock was smaller than among the
foreigners among the first and second
generations in this country. Informa
tion upon this subject was gathered
for the federal census of 1900, but no
use was ever made of this material
until, in 1910, the Immigration Com
mission was given access to the census
schedules. The recent abstract of the
Immigration Commission upon the
fecundity of the immigrant women
gives us therefore the first information
covering a large number of cases
which has ever been published. It
was impossible for the commission to
cover the whole of tire United States,
but certain districts were selected in
order to compare the fecundity of the
married women of different nation
alities i.r urban and rural districts.
The investigation covered the entire
State of Rhode Island, Cleveland Min
neapolis rural Ohio and rural Minne
sota. Only those married women were
included in the study who were under
45 years of age and had been married
from ten to uineteen years. The result
showed that for the total area tabu
lated there were 2.7 children born to
the native white mothers of native
parentage and 4.4 children to the white
mothers of foreign parentage.
In Minneapolis the number of chil
dren born to native mothers was 2.4,
and in rural Minnesota 3.4. The num
ber of children to mothers of specified
foreign parentage was as follows: En
glish, 3.4 ; English - Canadian, 3.5 ;
Scotch, 3.fi: German, 4.3; French, 4.3:
Irish, 4.4; Norwegian, 4.7: Italian, 4.9;
Bohemian, 5; Russian, 5.4; Frencb
Canadian, 5.6; and Polish. 6.2.
The statistics also seem to show that
the native women of foreign parentage
have a lower fecundity than the immi
grant women of the first generation.
Find Herd of Sea Elephants
On an island in the Gulf of Cali
fornia a herd of the curious animals
known as sea elephants, and supposed
to be now extinct has been found by
the expedition of the American Museum
of Natural History, which recently
returned to Los Angeles on the Alba
tross. The expedition was headed by
Dr. Charles H. Townsend and included
several other scientists. The name of
the island where the sea elephants
were found is Guadeloupe. One of the
largest of the bulls was shot as he was
making for the sea. He measured 21
feet in length. Five young ones were
brought, home. The largest herd com
prised about fifty of all ages and they
were so sluggish in their movements
that the explorers could walk among
them on or near the beach and take
photographs or make sketches. The
fighting bulls roared much like caged
lions. Their eyes were more than three
inches in diameter.
THE TOWN TIGHTWAD
The tightwad has a pile of wealth
in safety salted town; he's gathered
in the scads by stealth, from every
end of town. He’s loaded down with
bonds and stocks, and mortgages and
deeds; and when he takes his daily
walks, some victim’s bosom bleeds.
The man who gets within his mesh,
no mercy need implore; he'll always
have his pound of flesh and look
around for more. To add a dollar to
his stack, he’d risk his granite
head: he'd turn the widow from her
shack, the sick man from his bed.
I’d rather gnaw at husks and stones,
or grovel in a den, than have a pile
of shining bones that's wrung from
needy men. When you have lost
your wad of dough, and all your
plans are wrecked, you then may to
the poorhouse go, and keep your
self-respect. But if you torture
folks in debt, through all your
grinding years, and rake in dollars
moist with sweat, and blood, and
women's tears, you’ll learn to hate
yourself some day when death is
drawing nigh; and when they file
your bones away, no soul will heave
a sigh.—Walt Mason.
There Are Too Many Olsens
Minneapolis. August 30. — Setting
forth that the name '‘Smith” is less
common in Minneapolis than the name
Olsen,” and would therefore make
identification easier, Esther Kadell Ol
sen recently petitioned the District
Court to change her name to Esther
Kedell Smith. Her petition was
granted by Judge Steele. She adopted
the name of Smith several years ago,
and Judge Steele’s ruling makes the
change legal.
Under New Management
J. N. McCain is now in charge of the
Elite Baths. Turkish, plain or steam
hat s git on. Satisfaction guaranteed _
The following particulars of the
drowning of Kd McMullen and
Charles Noffke at Long Bead), Cal.,
the 20th of last month have been re
ceived through the mail. The}
were both were both well known
in Alaska and Mr. McMullen had
resided at Fairbanks aud Iditarod.
A brief telegram stating the fact of
the drowning was printed at the
time. The fuller report says:
Waving their hands in a last ago
nized farewell to friends and relatives
watching them from their home at
Seaside park, Ed McMullen and Charles
Noffke, of Alaska, were drowned at
noon yesterday about 400 feet off the
San Gabriel jetties.
Both men were good swimmers, but
the breakers were strong and heavy
and the tide rip which caught them
was resistless.
McMullen and Noffke were enjoying
the water in front of the home of Mc
Mullen’s brother when they were seen
to be in trouble and then their cry for
help came to shore. The next instant
both men were being whirled west
toward the jetties in a tide rip. They
were followed for 200 feet and then two
hands went up in a waving motion and
neither man was seen again.
Frantic, Frank McMullen attempted
to jump into the sea, but friends seeing
how hopeless any effort at rescue would
be, restrained him and he was almost
carried back into his house.
There are no boats or life-saving ap
pliances at this point, and it was some
time before the life guards at the batli
house could reach the scene, too late to
be of any service. Both victims were
AO years old and unmarried. McMullen
was a Tacoma man and came here two
weeks ago from Alaska to visit his
brother. The tragedy was witnessed
by several hundred people, all of whom
were powerless to aid.
RUBY CAMP IS
too p:
According to the Nome Industrial
Worker Joseph Kricek, the proprietor
of the Bank saloon, Nome, is in receipt
of the following letter from a former
patron who went to Ruby:
"Dear Sir.—
"Geo:—I will write you few words to
let you know my a this trip up to river.
1 tell you about everythings for I know.
I coming to Ruby new diggings. I
cant get work in the new camp. No
much work only man a get money now
build it house or takes mines claim. 1
being brook I cant duty anythink. I
cant get days work because the camp
never upon up yet only more poor than
a thousand. Thais right on river port,
more on diggens. Far from river to
new deggins charge for wright thirty
cents by the pounds. Everything higli
price nothing less than dollar. I tell
you truth those river loocks very bad;
too much poor people. I cant get any
thing in Tanana. I go to Hot Springs
todav or tomorrow. I am remain for
write you brief I can I favorite to every
body Yours truly Mike Mikanovitch.”
However difficult Mr. Mikanovitch
may find it to express himself his letter
conveys a pretty good idea of actual
conditions for the working man in
Ruby, and so it is given without alter
ation.
LATE IMPROVEMENT AN
AID TO PEDESTRIANS
A new footbridge has been con
structed across the babbling brook that
meanders over Second avenue east of
Willow street. A handrail is provided
for pedestrians with wobbly legs or de
fective lamps, and the journey from
Willow, down Second and athwart the
tundra diagonally to the eastern end of
Third avenue can now be made in com
parative safety from getting lost in the
mire.
The improvement was paid for by
subscriptions from the colony on Third
avenue, where sounds of revelry are
sometimes heard by night and commu
nication had been made difficult by pro
tracted rains and the darkness attend
ing the fall season.
Scores Implicated by Assassin
Kiev, Russia, September 23.—Pre
mier Stolypin of Russia is dead as the
result of wounds inflicted in the Kiev
theater by the assasin Sorrhoff. Sorr
hoff is in custody, and has made a con
fession which implicates scores of
people in the plot to remove Stolypin.
Sorrhoff is a young attorney.
WE DON’T CARE whether it rains
or not; we will land your freight here
if the river dries up. Byers & Co.
WIDOW WRITES
TO COL. GREEN
Col. Lv. H. R. Green, son of the
noted millionairess Hetty Green,
says he receives by mail so many
proposals of marriage from women
who extol their own charms that
he begins to think the world must
be inhabited almost exclusively by
beautiful women. Here is a letter
he lately received, written on dainty
robin’s-egg-blue paper fastened
with red wax and bearing the im
print of a smart female hand:
Clupham Common, London, S. W.,
August 9, 1911.
Dear Colonel Green: —You wish to be
married for yourself alone. Well, I'll
marry you for yourself alone if you'll
ask me to, as I know you must be a
dear good man to make that promise to
your mother and keep it. 1 am suro
you would make a nice husband.
I am a widow aged 43 years, and my
dear husband died fourteen months ago
from an attack of appendicitis. He was
taken from me so suddenly after seven
years of happy married life and I feel
so lonely and mtss him so and do so
want some one to care for. I have no
children, only brothers and a sister.
My family are highly respectable and
my brothers are business men in the
city of London. If you would care to
write to me, I shall be pleased to re
ceive and reply to your letters. Hoping
to hear from you if this should reach
you, I remain.
Very faithfully yours,
LUELLA CRUTHERS.
P. S.— I am tall and fair and consid
ered good looking and have a good
figure. _
Quarantine has been established
near the mouth of the Porcupine
river to prevent smallpox from en
tering the Yukon.
ROADHOUSE
At Junction of Tramway and Other
Creek Trails
Meals at All Honrs.
Liquors and Cijjats
Tel: “Summit Ruud house.”
NOTICE OF MARSHAL'S SALE
| United States of America, Fourth Divi
sion, District of Alaska, ss:
Public notice is hereby given, that by
virtue of a writ of fieri facias (or execu
tion), dated Augusts, 1911, A. D., issued
j out of the District Court, of the United
States for the Fourth Division, District
oi Alaska, on a judgment rendered in
said Court, on the 31st day of July,
A.D., 1911, in favor of Henry Schneider,
and against Abe Wallace, I have, on
this 9th day of August, 1911, A. D., levied
! upon the following described real estate,
j situated in the city of Iditarod, Alaska,
to wit:
The northerly twenty-five feet of lots
numbered eleven (11) and twelve 12) of
block one (1) east of the Town of Idita
rod. in Otter precinct, Territory of
Alaska, Fourth division, the said lols
fronting on Willow street, in said town
of Iditarod, and extending back there
from one hundred (100) feet toward
Black street in said town, and that I
will, accordingly, offer said real estate
for sale, at public vendue to the highest
and best bidder, for cash, 011 the 2nd
day of October, A.D., 1911, at 10:00
o’clock A. M., at the front door of the
Marshal’s office in the Town of Iditarod,
Territory of Alaska.
Dated this 9U1 day of September,
A.D., 1911.
H. K. LOVE,
U. S. Marshal Fourth Division of Alaska.
by H, P Sheppard, Deputy.
Chas E. Taylor, Plaintiff’s Attorney.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To SAM RISTILUOMA and ALEX JOHNSON.
Y'(>U and each of you, your heirs and assigns,
are hereby notified that the undersigned has
expended in labor and improvements the sum
of one hundred dollars—$100—for each of the
years of 1009. 1910 and 1911. upon placer mining
claims known as and called Violet Bench, Ida
Bench and Number One Finn Gulch, situated
on Finn Gulch, a tributary of Gatie creek, and
on Cane creek, a tributary of Innoko river, in
the Innoko mining and recording district, dis
trict of Alaska.
Notices of location therefor being of record in
Vnl. 7 at page 41, Vol. 7 at page 2, Vol. 2 at page
36 of the records of Innoko minir district, dis
trict of Alaska.
You are further notified that if at the ex
piration of ninety—90—days after the last pub
lication of this notice, you fail or refuse to con
tribute your proportion of such expenditure
jour interest in said claims will become the
property of the undersigned, your co-owner,
under section 2324 of the revised statutes of the
United States.
CLIVKR LaDUKK. Co-Owner,
First publication Sept 2, 1911.
Last publication Dec. 2, 1911.
FORFKITCRE NOTICE.
To FRANK KITZM AN—
No LICK IS HEREBY GIVEN that you or
any to whom any interest has been transferred
are hereby notified that I, W A Dikeman,
have expended in Libor and improvements
the sum of $100.00 outlie K. p M asso
ciation placer claim, in the Otter Recording
and Mining Precinct. Territory of Alaska
Fourth Division. Said work was performed
m ’909 and 1910 to hold said claim
under the provisions ol seciio* 2324 of the
Revised Statutes of the United States and the
amendments thereto approved January -2nd,
18S0 concerning annual labor upon mining
claims, being amount required to hold said
claims for the period ending December 31st.
1910 as named above, and within ninety days
from the personal service of this notice or
within ninety days after the publication thereof
you fail to contribute your proportion of such
expenditure as co-owner, which amount is
$25.00, of the labor expended on claims, your
interest in the claim will become the property
of tlie subscriber, your co-owner, who has made
all the required expenditures by the terms of
said section.
Dated at lditarod this 24th day of June. A.D.
1911.
WM. A. DIKEMAN,
By.I- D. SCHWARTZ, Attoruey-in-Fact.
First publication July ,, 191;.
Last publication Sept. 30, 1911.