eading Jeweler,
argest stock Inspoct Ou? Stock and Be Convinced
owest I 3rices,__
NORTHERN PERSONALS
Harry McLean, who, until recently was employed at the Fairbanks
postoffice, has accepted a position with the American Bank of Alaska,
Fairbanks branch,
Ed Williams and Green White, formerly of Cleary creek, have
opened a saloon in Fairbanks which they call the Sideboaid. Bodie
Davis is tending bar lor them.
T. E. Farrell, the Fairbanks druggist, is now employed by Frank
Gordon as cashier.
Abe Spring is the new commissioner at Circle.
In a letter to Lerov Tozier, Fernand DejouinelVays that the firm
of West and Dejournei is located in the Phelan building, San Fran
cisco, and is doing a”good business. Mr. Dejournei lives at Burlin
game.
Otto Nemitz, an oldtimer of Fairbanks, died in New Mexico on
May 17, of tuberculosis. Nemitz was one of the original owners of
the Niggerhead group, on lower Dome, and was still possessed of an
interest in the property at the time of his death.
J. C. Nelson, a member of the Fairbanks trial jury, was stricken
with .paralysis while in attendance upon the court He was removed
to the army hospital at Fort Gibbon and is reported somewhat im
proved. Hopes are entertained of his ultimate recovery.
The Hoe! brothers, who have been operating on upper Treasure
creek, in the Fairbanks district, have abandoned their placer workings
and will devote the balance of the summer to a search for quartz in
that neighborhood. The Iloels are old-timers in the quaitz business
Franklin Moses, the native teacher who was formerly stationed a1
St. Michael, and who was about four years ago let out of office undei
serious charges, has been vindicated by Secreeaiy of the Interim
Fisher, and will receive an appointment to a native school.
Philip L. Lang has been assigned by the postoffice department to
liie upper Yukon, where he will attend to the despatching of the mails
for Alaska points, his headquarters being at Dawson.
The engagement of Herbert L. Faulkner, United States marshal
of the first judicial division, and Miss Roma Jameson of Juneau, has
been announced.
Lieutenant Weeks of the 16th infantry, stationed at St. Michael,
has been ordered to Valdez to relieve Lieut. Orchard, of the Alaska
road commission.
J. A. Bachelder and.wife have returned to Nome after spending a
w inter outside. Formerly Mr. Bachelder was connected with tin: Nome
Bank & Trust Co., but he is now associated.with the Miners & Mer
chants bank.
Judge Gallaher, for two and a-lu;!f years Lbiited States comtnis
sioner at Tanana, has been transferred to Ruby. He is succeeded at
Tanana by Roy K Bigham, lately ot Iditarod.
Mrs. Pierce, the Nome resident who was accidentally shot by hei
grandson a few weeks ago, has recoved and left the hospital.
Mrs. Walter Ii Clark was seriously injured at Washingloi
recently.
Richard Bushnell, former publisher of tiie Wrangell Sentinel, bar
pin chased the Ketchikan Miner. Bert How deshell, the former editot
of the Miner, has gone bear limiting.
connected with the M. & M. hank a'
Fiat, will shortly be doing a business
of liis own between the creeks and this
city.
He lias rented the old quarters of
_ the M. & M. branch bank at Fiat and
, will make that place his headquarter.
Havmsr made arrangements with , , ,
■ , , , on the creeks. \\ itli tins base he will
many of the operators ior the gather- ,, . . , ,, , ,
. , . ,, , J, collect dust from all tlie creeks for
mg of their gold dust, 1. U . Brown, ,,oth hanks and will look after his gold
the energetic young man who was shipments in person.
Fair vie w Trading €g.
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Are Receiving New Goods
On Every Boa!.,..
Let us figure with us on Outfits large or small. Phone 73
Notice lo Properly Owners and Merchants
I am now Writing FIRE INSURANCE in IDITAROD
and FLAT CITY
BEST AMERICAN CGMPANIESI LOW RATES.
Give Accurate Description with Diagram, Present Values. Etc. Show Op
posite and Adjoining Exposures with Occupancy. I will then
make you a rate and advise by mail or wire.
T. A. FIRTH, "tSt" Dawson,Y.T,
^GiSmore'iUi*.!?'
_ThURD AVE. AND WiLLOW ST.
Slipperrfs Mill.
ROUGH AND PRESSED LUMBER,
SASH, DOORS, GLASS AND
BUILDERS' SUPPLIES
"================= Miiarod
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
The of fee House,
JLjBa mf WjL^f Formerly Homo Bakery
***& fcw A* VW Willow Street
Miners’ Supplies and General Outfitting a Specialty
THE OLD PLACE WITH A NEW NAME
For These Hot Days,
GET YOUR CLOTHES WASHED
AT THE
Cascade Steam Laundry
You Are invited to Visit tire Pioneer Greenhouses
AT FLAT AND ID’TAROD Baum Bros., Props.
Aii Alaskan Product
TRY THE
Bottled and Draught
Wholesale, Retail and Family Trade Supplied
Joe* Heacock, Agent
Following upon the murder of Fred
Sellers during a card game in the Im
i perial cigar store at Fairbanks, several
resorts in that city wore raided and
• he proprietors arrested for gambling.
Several frequenters of the places
raided were also gathered in the net,
among them being “Deep Hole” Joe.
Notwithstanding the fact that “Deep
Hole” Joe had just been married, he
was fined $150 and costs. The Im
perial cigar store owners were fined
$700 and costs; the Fugle cigar store,
?25ii and costs; and the Arctic club,
$t->0 and costs.
The Arctic club is located over the
Senate saloon and is run by Frank
' ,’olbert.
Charles I). Lane, one of the pioneers
of Nome, died at Palo Alto, California,
recently, at the age of 71.
Mr. Lane was horn in Missouri, but
early in life moved farther west and
took to prospecting. In 1893 he sent
an expedition from San Francisco to
Seward peninsula, which resulted in
the acquisition of several valuable
claims on Anvil creek. With these
properties in hand, Mr. Lane organized
the Wild Goose Mining company,
which he practically controlled until
1905, when he sold out his interests for
$450,000.
Mr. Lane was the builder of the
Seward Peninsula railway.
I_ 1
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Dawson—One of the largest mining
deals in the history of the Yukon has
just been closed, whereby Daniel Gug
genheim takes over the entire holdings
of the National Trust Company of
Toronto in the Yukon territory. These
include the oldest and richest portion
of Gold Run creek, which has pro
duced millions and is known as one of
banner streams of the Klondike camp.
The transfer also includes the Cru
ger concession on Dominion creek, ex
tending down stream two miles from
the mouth of Sulphur for the full width
of the valley.
The consideration is said to exceed
half a milliou dollars.
The property has been controlled for
years by the Canadian Bank of Com
merce. _
Not “made in Germany,” did not
make “Milwaukee famous”—Gold Belt
sodas made in Iditarod.
Save the pieces i broken lenses re
placed at Simpson’s.
GHOST tilES3AGES
When the fatuous William James j
quit this world and all Us games, i
for the country where in time we i
all must flit,, he, assured us that j
he'd send word of some kind to a I
friend if the rules and regulations |
would permit. People say that he !
has tried to converse from t’other j
side, but the wires iu bad condition !
seem to he; he no sooner makes a !
start than connections fall apart, ■
and the only thing we've heard is j
“Hully Chee!” If he does arrange !
to talk you can bet a pound of chalk j
that the message will be silly and
absurd; for the wliosts will never
tell of the regions where they dwell,
never send to eager ears a helpful
word. Men whose thoughts had
sterling worth when they lived up
on the earth, seem to deal in empty
twaddle when they're dead; and the
words they sent us back seem to in
dicate a crack in the thinking part
of every spectre's head. Men whose
words were spiced with wit ere this
weary world they quit arc as dull
as circus barkers when they die; and
they send us dreary dope from the
shining, starry slope, and I often
scratch my head and wonder why.
If a ghost had any sense it would
know that we're intense in our
longing for some knowledge of that
shore, where they find the journey’s
end—but the spirits only send stale
remarks that jar our souls and
make us sore.—Wait Mason.
According to ancient writers the
phoenix was a bird of great beauty
about the size of an eagle. Only one
of these birds could live at a time, hut
its existence covered a period of 500 or
000 years. When its life drew to a
close the bird built for itself a pyre of
wood and aromatic spices, with its
wings fanned the pyre into a flame and
therein consumed itself. Ftorn the
ashes a worm was produced, out of
which another phoenix was formed,
having all the the vigor of youth.
The first care of the new phoenix
was to solemnize its parent’s obsequies.
For that purpose it made a ball of
myrrh, frankincense and other frag
rant things. At Heliopolis, a city in
lower Egypt, there was a magnificent
temple dedicated to the sun. To this
temple the phoenix would carry the
fragrant ball and burn it on the altar
of the sun as a sacrifice. The priests
then examined the register and found
that exactly 500 or exactly 000 years
had elapsed since that same ceremony
had taken place. _
THE HEIGHT OF LUXURY
A steam bath, a nice lunch, a
furnished room to sleep in. Elite
Baths, Caribou street.
Tel, 74— siphons, sodas, ginger ale.
Juneau started an “anti-shack crusade” recently, and, as a con
sequence, those relics of Juneau’s pioneer days have almost dis
appeared.
Travelling men claim Ketchikan is one of the best towns in the
North, having had a remarkably prosperous season.
The Fairbanks placer output for 1911 is estimated by the hanks at
$5,000,000.
The officials of the Copper River railroad ha vq announced that a
preliminary survey will be started at once for an extension of the rail
road into the White river country. The extension proposed will start
from mile rgi on the present road and run through a highly-mineral
ized district for over 60 miles. This will take in the well known creaks
of Nazitia, Chititu, Dan and others on which properties are now being
worked and making excellent showings. The road will extend easterly
up McCarthy creek to the Nichols and Mother Lode properties The
railroad announces that it is willing to extend a line to any mining dis
trict as soon as development shows sufficient tonnage.
Gold mines, copper mines, coal mines and other kinds of mines
are to be given away by Alaskans at the American Land and Irrigation
Exposition to be held in Madison Square Garden, New York, Novem
ber 3 to November 12. The titles however, especially to the coal mines,
will not be guaranteed. The purpose of the exposition is to give the
residents ot Eastern states a comprehensive idea of the untold wealth
of the North and to attract attention. Falcon Joslin is the oi initiator
of the scheme.
Mr. John Kiord.iu, who will represent on tire Alaska tin corpora
tions properties, situated at Yoik peninsula, lias passed through Nome
on his way to the mines. Mr. Riordan believes that tilings will be
active in the tin country this season and several of the larger com
panies will do important development work. The dredge which will he
installed in that region is for the purpose of extracting the placer tin.
Already money has been made shovelling in the tin ore on the placer
del is into the boxes.
The Pioneer Mining company of Nome is bringing in three steam
hovel dredges. They will be installed and starred immediately. The
company will also install a syphon 4100 feet long at Hobson cieek,
capable of carrying ten thousand miners’ inches of water. The dia
meter of this pipe will be 66 inches. At Santa Clara will be installed
another syphon 600 feet long with a 56-inch pipe. At the Grand Cen
tral will be put in two syphons totalling 1500 teet of 40 inch pipe.
The Amalgamated Oil Company of Katalla will build large storage
tanks for the accommodation of the Southeastern Alaska trade. It is
hoped that eventually the Treadwell company, which at present obtains
its fuel oil from California, will become users of Katalla oil. The
Amalgamated company is negotiating for the purchase of two oil
steamers, wu icli will carry the oil in tanks to various points on the
Pacific coast. Plans have been completed for early shipments and the
production of oil will be general in a short while. All the property of
die English syndicate has been bought outright by the Amalgamated
people.
Tntinito, Humboldt, Cuerte Hey, Op
timo, Lovera, Bock and line line of
Puerto Rico Cigars at Empire Com
mercial Co.
Found—An appetizer: Lemon soda1
with lime juice. |
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
Notice is hereby given that the co- ’
partnership firm composed of Ray Brum
baugh, II. C. Hamilton and E. E. Kel
logg, doing business as Brumbaugh,
Hamilton & Kellogg, in tile general
business of machinery, hardware and
mechanical appliances at Eairbanks and ;
Iditarod, Alaska, and engaged in the j
transportation business under the firm ;
name and style of the Samson Trans
portation Company, upon the Iditarod
river. Alaska, between Holy Cross on
the Yukon river and Iditarod and Dike
man, has this day been dissolved by mu- j
tual consent. All accounts due to or1
owing by said Samson Transportation
Company’ will be collected and paid by |
said E. K. Kellogg, and all accounts due
to or owing by said Brumbaugh, Hamit
ton & Kellogg arising from the business
heretofore conducted by them in ma- j
ehinery, hardware and mechanical ap- j
pliauces will be collected and paid by j
said Ray Brumbaugh and said II. C.
Hamilton, who will continue said busi- !
ness under the firm name and style of j
Brumbaugh & Hamilton.
Dated at Iditarod, Alaska, this 17th
day of Julv, 19x1.
RAY BRUMBAUGH. !
H. C. HAMILTON,
By Ray Brumbaugh,
his attorney in fact, i
E. E. KELLOGG.
A LITTLEWAY 09J
CbaS-’
House Tel. 81 I
Where the Best Heme
Cocked Meal may
(f«0 i
obtained for.^ rJ awL? i
For a Loaf
or a Lunch
TRY THE
Idltarod Bakery
Ik Coffee House
Willow St., on Waterfront
Renovate Your Home!
SNYDER
CARIBOU ST.
Wallpaper,
Paints, Oils, &c.
SAMSON [.. CO.
OPERATING
XTb ^siii I
-CONNECTION_
WESTERN ALASKA STEAMSHIP C0„
SEATTLE,
—AND—
STEAMER JUEIA B
From St. Michael
A, J. DAY, AGENT