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
TERRITORIAL DEPOSITARY
OFFICERS:
CHARLES ROSS, President
JOHN HOLMES, Vice President
R. C. BUTTON, Cashier
FORFEITURE NOTICE
To Andrew Homo. Jacob Olsen. Chas. Holky. '
J. A. Littcrcl, Arthur Valentine, Win.
Butler. t:has. Nelson. 1’. H. Stafford,
Ed Keogh, K Albright and Geo. AI
bright, their heirs, administrators and
assigns:
Tou and each of you are hereby notified
that the undersigned and their assignors
have expended for labor and improvements
during each i f the years 191-J. 1913. 19 11
and 1915 the sum of one hundred dollars
9 1100.00) upon Discovery association min
ing claim, situated on Slate creek (at the
lime or the recording of the location notice
of the claim known as Henry creek . a trib
utary of otter creek, in Otter recording
precinct, territory of Alaska, m order to
hold said claim under the provisions of
law respecting the performance of annual
labor on mining claims.
And if within ninety days after the pub
lication of this notice you or either of you
fall or refuse to pay your portion of such
expenditure, your interest in said claim
will become the property of the under
signed co-owners, according to the provi
sions of Sec. 232 1, Revised statutes of the
t'nlted States.
J. F. RII.FY.
R. S. Me.MlI.LAN.
LOTTIE, R. MARSTON. ,
First publication, September 9, 19 10.
last publication, December 9, 1910.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To ('.has. Reno and V. Pierce, and to their
heirs and assigns:
You and each of you are hereby notified
that 1 have expended for labor and im
provements during eacli of the years 1913,
19 14 and 19 15 the sum of one hundred
dollars upon the Ready Money placer min
ing claim, situate on Maverick creek, a
tributary of Marvel creek. In the Ktisko
kvvlm recording district, territory of Alaska,
in order to hold said claim under the pro
visions of law respecting annual labor on
mining claims.
And if within ninety days arter the pub
lication of this nolice you or either of you
fall or refuse to pay your portion of such
expenditure your interest in said claim will
Jiecome the property of tile undersigned co
owner, according to the provisions of Ser.
939 i. Revised statutes or the t inted
Stales. I.ITHF.R C. HESS.
Fairbanks, Alaska.
First publication. July 99. 1916.
Last publication, Oct. 98, 1916.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To H Siebe ami F. AY. I.abelie, and to tlioir
heirs and assigns.
You and cat'll of you are hereby notified
that 1 have expended for labor and im
proteimnls during each or the years 19 13.
1914 and 1915 the sum or one hundred
dollars upon the War Eagle placer mining
claim, situate on the left limit or Fagle
creek, a tributary or the Salmon river, m
the Kuskokwiin recording district, territory
of Alaska, m order to hold said claim under
:tie provisions of law respecting annual la
bor on mining claims.
And if within ninety days after the pub
lication of tills notice you or eittier of you
fail or refuse to pay your portion of such
expenditure, your interest in said claim
will become the property of the under
signed co-owner, according to thr provi
sion? of See. 932 4. Revised Statutes or the
United States. LUTHER C. HESS.
Fairbanks. Alaska.
First publication, July 29, 1910.
Last publication, Ort. 2S, i010.
COLONEL W. P. RICHARDSON
REPLIES TO WICKERSHAM
Colonel VV. P. Richardson of the Alaska
road commission, resenting the language of
Delegate Wickersham’s recent “Address to
the People of Alaska,” has addressed the
following letter to several Alaska news
papers. It is dated Valdez, September 7
and while rather undignified for an officer
of the United States army and the holder
of a responsible post, it is printed for what
it is worth :
“My attention has been called to a small
pamphlet being circulated in Alaska en
titled ‘Address to the People of Alaska,’ by
James Wickersham. On page 10 of this
pamphlet, in a paragraph with the caption
of ‘Hiyu Cultus Wawa,’ he repeats an old
charge against me of having aided in the
opposition to his bill for the creation of
an Alaska legislature. This is false, as
he well knows, and he knows also that I
was urging some form of self-government
for Alaska when he was supporting and
aiding Goveronr Hoggatt in opposition to it.
“It is perhaps unnecessary to make this
denial, as my position on this subject has
been so well known in the territory to all
who cared enough to inquire, but I call
attention to it as I suspect Mr. Wicker
sham’s real purpose referred to is to convey
some kind of subtle insult by his interesting
caption of ‘Hiyu Cultus,’ etc.’
"It may be a form of humor on his part,
or it may be a sort of war cry that he has
adopted to terrorize the administration and
congress into granting him appropriations
and other legislation he claims to have
gotten through for Alaska.
“One could hardly suspect it of being his
native tongue, and yet it sounds ‘so like
him.’ ”
Ice was running in the Iditarod river for
the first time of the season on Monday
morning last, but later the weather moder
ated, and at present there is no more indi
cation of an early freeze-up than there was
a week ago.
NOTICE OF ELECTION
Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday.
November 7, 19 Hi, in the city fire hall, will
be held an election Tor the purpose of
electing a delegate to congress, territorial
attorney general, one senator and four rep
resentatives to the Alrska legislature from
the Fourth division.
Ail citizens of the I'nitcd States 2! years
of age or over, who are actual and bona
fire residents or Alaska, and who have been
such residents continuously during the en
tire year immediately preceding the elec
tion, and have been such residents conlinu
uosly for thirty days next preceding the
election in the incorporated limits of Idit
arod, shall he qualified to vote.
TOWN OF iniTAROD. ALASKA.
Gl'Y G. GFRAGHTY, Clerk.
October 3, 1916.
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RESULTS OBTAINED FROM
OPERATIONS OF DREDGE
OF YUKON GOLD COMPANY
From “The Alaska Mining Industry in
i 1915,” recently issued by the United States
Geological Survey, and compiled by Or.
Brooks, the following interesting table rela
tive to the operations of the Yukon Gold
Company's dredge, on Flat creek, from the
time of its installation till the close of op
erations last year, is taken. From this it
will be seen that while working in 1915 in
ground of lower grade than at any previous
time, an average of 91.3 cents per cubic
yard for the year, the gold product was
higher than in any former year and the
cost of operation was lower.
A statement by 0. B. I’erry, general man
nger of the Yukon Gold Company, which is
included in the bulletin, says that the aver
age cost of operation, including; depreciation
(which is placed at $50,000 per year), was
11.5 cents per cubic yard lower than in 1014.
The yardage handled in 1915 was 258,219
cubic yards greater than during the pre
vious season. The dredge operated 91.04
per cent of the possible time, and averaged
4,717 cubic yards per day. The daily out
put of the dredge was 1,210 yards more
\than during the 1914 season, anti was due
to better dredging conditions and to im
provement in the handling of sands. The
percentage of naturally thawed ground in
creased only 49,953 square yards, about 30
per cent having to be thawed by steam.
Sand elevators were installed on the Iditarod
dredge during the year to replace the pumps
previously in use for this purpose.
The table of operations for the four years
of 1912, 1913, 1914 and 1915 is as follows:
Cu. Yds.
Spjison— li.uullpd.
101? . 17?.:i:{:i
1 9 1 :i .
1914 . ()»*,8,7:17
101:» . 9 2»»,9.V>
Total
YioM.
S <0 4,(HO
827.120
7 a o.o a i
84.7.008
P**r
Oi. Yd.
$2.8 4
1 .«»7
1.10 l2
.0 1.08
roi.il Operat
ing Onsl.
$ 79,1 1 4
3 1
33 5,835
Costpor
Cu. V (1.
$0,150 I
.0 103
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ELECTION DAY
DRAWING NEAR
(Continued from Page One)
banks, on the Democratic ticket, and Dan
McCabe of the Fairbanks district, nominated
by the Socialists.
Dan Sutherland is the present senator,
and has served in both sessions of the legis
lature. He is extremely popular in his
home district, and also in Fairbanks, but
is making his own fight secondary to his
interest in the re-election of Delegate Wick
ersham.
Thomas McGowan, the Democratic candi
date, is well known throughout the terri
tory, and especially in the Fourth division.
He has made several visits to this city, and
numbers his friends by the hundreds. But
his personal friends have sometimes refused
to follow him politically. Mr. McGowan
has twice before been a candidate for the
position he now seeks, and it is conceded
that should he be elected he would be an
influential member of the law-making body.
And this very fact has to a certain extent
mitigated against him in his former fights,
and probably will in the present instance.
For Tom is known as the counsel for big
corporation interests in the territory, and
this year he is acting as the representative
of the liquor interests in their fight against
prohibition in the territory.
Flow much of a factor his attitude on the
liquor question will be remains to be seen;
but that it will affect many votes is gen
erally believed. One thing that can be said
in McGowan’s favor is that the public
knows just where he stands.
For Attorney General
There is a pretty contest on for the posi
tion of territorial attorney general, created
by the last legislature. There are three
candidates—John H. Cobb of Juneau, the
incumbent, on the Wickersham ticket;
George B. Grigsby of Nome, on the Demo
cratic ticket, and George D. Schofield, also
of Nome, on the Republican picket.
Cobb was a candidate for the nomination
at the hands of the Democratic territorial
convention, but was defeated by Grigsby,
and thereupon was “urged” to run inde
pendently. The Democratic newspapers of
the territory are particularly bitter against
him for what they term his treachery, and
some harsh things are being said of him.
It appears that he was at one time dis
barred for alleged irregular transactions in
the affairs of a client, and the detail? of
the story are being made the most of.
But the chief contest is between the two
Nome men, who are stumping the coast j
towns. Grigsby, the Democratic nominee, j
is highly spoken of by Iditarod people for- j
merly residents of Nome, and as he is cam- ;
paigning in behalf of Sulzer’s as well as his
own candidacy, he is making a good im- i
pression. It is believed he will poll a large I
vote in this section.
For Representatives
There are fifteen candidates for member
ship in the lower house of the territorial
legislature, four Democrats, four Wicker
sham adherents, four Socialists and three
independents. Four are to be elected for
the division.
Of the Democratic candidates, A. M. Kil
gore, the Iditarod candidate, should receive
the unanimous support of the voters of
this section, where he has been a resident
for years, and where he is at present work
ing as a “roughneck” on the creeks. Mr.
Kilgore is a man of excellent education, a
close student of national and territorial af
fairs, and is an ardent supporter of President
Wilson.
Of the other Democratic candidates, W.
T. Burns, the well-known and popular min
ing man of Fairbanks, has been a member
of both former sessions of the legislature,
and has made an excellent record, which
should insure his re-election. L. C. Hess
is the Fairbanks banker and mining man,
who is also interested in mining ventures j
in the Kusbokwim section. John W. Dunn
is a resident of the Ruby district.
The Wickersham candidates are Earnest
B. Collins, former speaker of the house of
representatives; Andrew Nerland, a Fair
banks city councilman; W. A. Vinal of
Ophir, at present United States commis
sioner there, and Daniel Webster of the
Koyukuk region. The people of Iditarod
will no doubt cast a heavy vote for Mr.
Vinal, who is interested in the development
of mining in the Innoko district, and in the
promising Tolstoi region. It is felt that
the Innoko country, as well as the Iditarod,
is entitled to representation in the lower
house of the territorial legislature, and Mr.
Vinal would make an excellent legislator.
Of the Socialist candidates, none is known
generally in this district.
The independent candidates are George W.
Ledger, Joe K. Green and C. K. Snow. Mr.
Snow was a member of the last legislature
, from Ruby, and was the author of the pro
i hibition referendum bill, and also the law
j providing for an expression by the voters
on the subject of a general eight-hour day.
For Road Commissioner
For road commissioner, a position cre
ated by the last legislature, there are four
candidates—Peter Jensen of Ruby, Inde
pendent; H. H. Ross of Fairbanks, incum
bent, Wickersham; Melvin R. Sabin and
Peter Steil, both running independently.
Peter Jensen, who is a former Iditarod
miner, and well and favorably known here,
will no doubt receive a large vote in this
district. Peter would make an excellent
road commissioner, as he is energetic, in
> telligent, and has had much experience.
EARLY KOYUKUK INCiDENT
RECALLED BY MARRIAGE
(Fairbanks Citizen)
Ten miles from the Yukon, on the banks
of this lake.
For a partner to Koyukuk, McGillis I’ll take.
, We have no preacher, and we have no ring;
It makes no difference, it’s all the same
thing. (Signed) AGGIE DALTON.
i
I swear by my gee-pole under this tree,
A devoted husband to Aggie I always
will be.
I'll love and protect this maiden so frail
From the sourdough stiffs on the Koyukuk
trail. (Signed) FRANK McGILLIS,
For two dollars apiece in cheechako money
1 unite this couple in matrimony;
He be a rancher, she be a teacher;
I do the job up just as well as a preache1
(Signed) FRENCH JOE.
Practically everyone in Interior Alaska
has at some time heard a line or two
quoted from the above old-time legend of
early days at Circle. And that the wedding
of the persons named was a fact i.s not to
be doubted. But not until recently has
there been a repetition of such a wedding
made necessary by the absence of a min
ister or officer of the law to perform the
ceremony, the lad mail from the Koyukuk
country having brought word of just such
a marriage on July 24. And an eminen
jurist on the Outside, in the state of Oregon,
in fact, rendered a decision less than a
week ago to the effect that such common
law marriages are binding on al! parti*
concerned.
'ihe parties to the recent marriage m
the Koyukuk, Edward Peterson of Nolan
creek and Miss Maud Anderson of Seattle,
however, are now legally bound ill the
bonds of matrimony. For when Thomas
B. Wright was named commissioner for
the Koyukuk district the couple went to
Wiseman and had him marry them accord
ing to law.
The absence of an officer of the law or a
minister of the gospel to perform the cere
mony made the common law marriage a
necessity. B. J. McGinnis, the former Koy
ukuk commissioner, had resigned to go Out
side. Nobody to perform the ceremony
could be found by Mr. Peterson, although
he started for Betties in the hope of being
able to head off Commissioner McGinni*
and have the knot legally tied when his
bride-to-be should arrive there. But he
reached Betties too lute.
After the arrival of Miss Anderson from
Seattle the pair had a happy thought. They
decided that they would go down the river
k i the Alatna mission and be married.
Much to their consternation, however, they
were told by Mrs. William Gienn that there
was no minister at the mission, after they
had completed the first hundred miles n- j
their journey down stream.
“There is nobody at the mission with j
any more authority to marry you than f i
have,” said Mrs. Glenn.
“Then you’re elected,” said Peterson. “If
there is nobody in the country with more j
authority to marry us than you have, that’s
ail there is to it.”
So on bended knee, before a woman who
asked the usual questions, these two per
sons called upon heaven to bear witness to
their solemn marriage vows. Two pros
pectors, who were located after much diffi
culty, acted as witnesses to the ceremony.
Thus did Dan Cupid overcome the diffi
culties of the two. The story is declared to
be true, despite the fact that such things
seldom occur outside the covers of novels.
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FAMOUS RIGHT OF PUGILIST
HAS TO BE AMPUTATED
There is no hope of saving the life of
James J. Jeffries, former world’s champion
pugilist, save in the event of his submit
ting his right arm to the surgeon's knife,
according to a recent Los Angeles dispatch.
Starting from an injury sustained some
time ago, blood poisoning of a virulent type
has developed in the mighty arm that
knocked out two of the world’s greatest
fighters, Corbett and Fitzsimmons, and the
life of the patient is now hanging in the
balance.
Jeffries has consented to the operation
and the arm will be removed.
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THE LATE JOHN P. ST. JOHN
John P. St. John, who died at Olathe,
Kan., on August 31 last, was a prominent
figure in the early days of the prohibition
movement in the West. He was a candi
date for the presidency on the prohibition
ticket in 1884, and was twice governor of
Kansas. He was 83 years of age, and had
been in failing health since a heat pros
tration during the early summer, whl'e on
a speaking tour. Born at Brookville, Ind.,
February 25, 1883, St. John served as a
captain and lieutenant colonel in the civil
war, and settled in Kansas, where he be
came a member of the state senate. He
became a political factor when he won a
fight to displace United States Senator Sam
uel E. Pomeroy. Pomeroy and St. John
had been personal friends, but the latter
became displeased with the way Pomeroy
conducted himself as a senator, and there
upon championed John J. Ingalls. This
made St. John a leader, and resulted in
his election as governor.
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Aztec corn 1,000 years old was recently
planted in Kansas. It grows much faster
than modern corn, and the grains wall be
at a premium.
MAN WHO KNEW LINCOLN
RELATES INTERESTING FACTS
Away back in the '40s Abraham Lincoln
opposed the war with Mexico in the house
of representatives, ‘‘If I were a Mexican I
would meet the American invaders with
bloody hands,” are the words in which the
great American expressed his opinion before
the former war with the Mexican republic,
and the fact i.s interesting now in the light
of prp.sent events, when President Wilson
is being attacked for his Mexican policy.
The above statement is given on the au
thority of J. P. Campbell, the nonogenarian
who is now in Seward, says the Gateway j
of September 10. Sixty-nine years ago Mr.
Campbell constantly saw Lincoln before the
latter had entered congress. At Paris. 111., ’
the home of Mr. Campbell, Lincoln entered j
court several times a year. lie is described
|y Mr. Campbell as a man who took up
cases that were decided on the law, while
another lawyer on the circuit was equally
famous as the lawyer when it came to sen
timental cases. Mr. Campbell says Lincoln
was regarded as the great exponent of law
and constantly traveled with the judge and
appeared to aid him.
To sit anil listen to Mr. Campbell talk is
to be spirited away back to the great days
of old from the material things of the pres
ent. In two months he will be 90 years of
age, and today he is in full possession of
every faculty and speaks with an intelli
gence and ciarity that a man of 30 might
be proud of. He was 36 years of age,
with a wife and family, when he enlisted
for the civil war, and that is more than
half a century ago. He fought in fourteen
battles, and in one of these battles, that of
Stone River, his regiment lost three hun
dred men. Three times he was wounded,
twice slightly. Today, after seventy years,
he can tell you the names of the other law
yers on the circuit traveled by Lincoln, and
even their personal habits.
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IDITAROD, ALASKA
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