Leading Jeweler of the North -McDonald Hotel Building
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IDITARQD, ALASKA
Capita!, $50,000,00
General Banking Business Transacted Gold Dust Bought and Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Part of the World
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT: SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANX
OFFICERS:
f'has- Ross, President
T. ,T. Nestor, Vico President
John Holmes, Cashier and Assayer
MONEY HERE
Of the $519 received from Fair
banks recently the city council de
cided to place 50 per cent in the
general fund and 50 per cent in the
salary fund. This arrangement
allows of the payment of the fol
lowing warrants:
General Fund
165 Fric Hard.$ 8 50
166 Ind. Machine Shop 1500
167 Win. Atisley... 4.00
16S Dan Hartnett. 3 50
169 North Star Horseshoe
Shop .... . . 2 50
» 370 Beattie & Riley . 6.00
171 Anderson Bros. &
Nerlaud 7.00
172 Smith's (lun Store 9 15
173 Win. Ansley. 7.25
174 Banks & Howland 100.00
175 Banks & Howland 100.00
Salary Fund
144a B J. Banks . 200.00
POPULAR
IN THE JAIL
That Senator Henry Roden is not
popular with jailbirds was shown
during the recent elections, when,
on a straw ballot among prisoners
in the federal jail at Fairbanks, the
assistant district attorney aid not
get a single vote. The following
was the result of the voting:
For Senators—Dan Sutherland,
9; J. M. Brooks, 7; T. McGowan,
2. Representatives—Wm. Burns,
9; Bernard Estby, 6; Dan Dris
coll, 6; J. J. Mullally, 7; K. B.
Collins, 4: Dittmer, 6; King, 4;
McCabe, 5.
POSTOFFICE FOR
HOFFMAN S POST
An effort is being made to get a
postoffice on the Kuskokwim at
Hoffman’s post. Instead of being
known as Hoffman’s the settlement
will be called Napamute, and ap
plication has been made for the ap
pointment of a postmaster. The
petition will probably be acted
upon before the opening of naviga
tion.
Everybody's doing it VVHAT?
EATING AT THE
Arcade Cafe
Meals Better Than Ever FLAT CITY
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Mr? Magnuson, of Valdez has I
been awarded damages at Tacoma
in the sum of $23,000 against
Catholic Priest Rev. G. C. Van
Goethem and the sisters of the Vis
itation academy, for kidnaping and
alienating the affections of her
daughter, Matjorie Reiman.
Mrs. Magnuson keeps the Wort
man roadhouse, about 20 miles
from Valdez. About a year ago
she sent her daughter to the Vis
itation academy in Tacoma and
later wanted to take her away. She
took the young girl, who is about
16 years of age, to Seattle, where [
: she was kidnaped and taken to L,os j
1 Angeles and other cities. The girl \
•testified that Sister Aloysius, who j
• took her, and the priest who had \
her under hi? charge for several j
j days, both made improper advances
! and suggestions to her.
• The name of Bishop O’Dea was
• made to figure in the complaint
' which charged the crime of kidnap
ing. He gave testimony to the
effect that as soon as he learned
that the girl was sought by the
authorities he instructed Father i
| Van Goethem to disclose her where- j
ahouts.
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Nome, December 13.—Advices
received from the armv-post ob
| servatory at Fort Gibbon are to
the effect that this winter is the
| mildest in the history of the post,
and other government stationssend
like reports. The weather in the
Nome district is exceptionally mild
for this time of the year and snow
is falling.
OLD BAWSONITE
SUES FOR DIVORCE
N. A. Fuller, formerly of the Yu
kon telephone syndicate and the
Dawson Water 8c Light company,
and who later installed the Fair
banks system, has brought action
| at San Francisco for divorce.
On leaving the North Mr. and
! Mrs. Fuller established their home
at National City, near San Diego.
Mr. Fuller has since moved to San
; Francisco.
| The parties were married in
Dawson 6ve years ago.
MERCHANTS CAFE
Caters to Large and Small Parties
PRIVATE DINING ROOMS
Popular Prices Everything First Class
CHAS. E. MILLER, PROP.
ROALD AMIN PREBISTEB
SHANES IN ALASKAN CLIMATE
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After leaving Alaska subsequent to his discovery of the Northwest
passage Roald Amundsen made the extrordinary prediction that the
climate of Alaska would become milder, and already this prophecy
seems to be verified.
Frank Waskey read the articles published by Amundsen at the
time and now recalls them. The famous explorer wrote that the great
ice wedge which lay solid between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans was
constantly moving eastward and would eventually break away into the
Atlantic. This, he said, would result in a flowing of the Arctic waters
into the Atlantic, a rush of the Bering sea water into the Arctic and
the warmer waters of the Pacific into Bering sea. Such would mean,
according to Amundsen, a change for the better in Alaska’s climatic
conditions. The ice wedge spoken of was the remains of the solid ice
which formerly surrounded the poles.
To the remarkable alteration that has come in our climate is added
the fact that ice appeared in the Atlantic in unusual quantities and in
peculiar conditions last year, and one result of the fact was the
loss of the Titanic. Mr. Waskey seems to think it mrst likely this
was due to the breaking of the ice wedge into the Atlantic.
This seems to be a far better explanation of the mildness of the
climate than the story of the change of the Japanese current, and has
the authority of the world’s greatest explorer.—Nome Nugget,
Fairbanks, December 13 —One of the most striking instances of
sudden rise from poverty to affluence that this camp has seen is the
case of Mr, Letterman, the quartz miner, who last week sold his in
terest in the Spaulding lease to John Rotian and John Cunningham.
Letterman came to Fairbanks last February' without means. He1
was a quartz miner and met Wm Spaulding, who had a lease on Dome
creek and a little grub, but no money wherewith to hire help. Spauld
ing offered Letterman a half interest in the lease in return for his labor.
Shortly after the partnership was formed they struck a ledge carrying
good pay and soon took out enough to erect a mill aud pay other ex
penses.
Now Letterman has sold his interest in the lease to Ronan and
Cunningham for $10,000 cash and $20,000 in six months. This, with
the money he has already taken out, works out at the rate of $125 a
day for every day that he worked. He is coming back in the spring to
invest in more quartz.
An 81-hour run of ore from the Spaulding-Letterman lease last
week netted $13,284 or $164 to the ton.
Nome, December 13 - -Extensive
preparations are going on for the
grand annual winter carnival, to be
held December 31. The funds ob
tained are to be divided equal!/ be
tween the hospital and the city
fund for the care of indigent sick.
FAIRBANKS Ml
HAS BAB ACCIDENT
Fairbanks, December 13.—John
Kolarik, a Chatham-creek miner,
had a bad accident a few day's ago
A fall of rock in the stope of the
Chatham mining company’s prop
erty lauded 011 him and broke his
collarbone.
EMMETT INDICTED
PLEADS NOT GUILTY
Fairbanks, December 9.—J. F.
Emmett was indicted by the grand
jury for robbery of sluiceboxes ou
Pedro last fall. He entered a plea
of not guilty and his trial com
menced today.
BRYAN MAY BE
ATTO BY GENERAL
Louisville, Kv., December 13.—
Senator-elect Ollie James predicts
that William Jennings Bryan will
be offered the attorney-generalship
by Woodrow Wilson.
Nugget jewelry to order. Chains a
specialty. Bill Taylor, Flat.
EXPLODING MOCK
SCALDED I EE
Fairbanks, December 13 —John
Beck, of lower Cleary, had a nar
row' escape Thursday, when muck
at the bottom of a 20 foot shaft ex
ploded, hurling him nearly to the
top of the hole. Fie was badly
scalded.
Jack Price has gone to Bear creek in
connection with some options he holds
in that country. He was accompanied
by At Thorns and Sam Sanderson.
Fresh grayling and whitefish.
Crowley & Porter.
White-meat grouse and ptarmigan,
Crowley & Porter.
You’ll Save
Lots of Writing,
Time and
Worry
By ordering the name of
your wife, business partner
or friend who is now on the
Outside, placed on the sub
scription books of the
ID1TAR0D PIONEER
It’s the most economical
way to keep them posted on
the affairs of Alaska’s best
mining district.
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complete line of
GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, HARDWARE
For the information of the public, the shortest and best trail
to the Aniak or Bear Creek connects on the Kuskokwim
River at Kolmakoffsky
Georgetown Station
A Full Line of Groceries, Provisions and Hardware
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Fairbanks will have the ordinances printed in book form.
Ten inches of snow stopped the work in theKantishna country
the first of September.
John Gorman, a resident of Juneau for 25 years, died last
month at the age of 81 years.
John T. Spickett, formerly postmaster at Juneau, is going
into the moving-picture business
The 1912 assessment of Wrangell property totals 25 per cent,
greater than last year. Going some.
Chased by two bears an Eskimo at Nome crawled into a hole
in the ground and stayed there two days.
It required 6,000 post cards for the assessor at Nome to send
notice of assessment to all the property owners.
Ketchikan has a citizen mean enough to steal meat from a hos
pital, and the Miner says that no true Alaskan would do that.
Fred Hartman, son of the Dawson postmaster and an employe
at the office was fired by orders from headquarters for offering to
bet on the election.
A few miles above Dawson the body of Arthur Dean, a wood
cutter, has been found on the river bank. He is supposed to have
died from sickness and exposure.
Recent careful investigation has revealed the fact that the
Eskimos of Alaska are not so much behind the times as was at first
suspected. A large per cent, of the deaths are caused by ptomaine
poisoning.
That an unknown man who is still at large shot at Pete An
derson and Pat Britt while the two men were coming down the
slough in a small boat, is the story told by the men upon their ar
rival in Fairbanks.
Uncle Sam is introducing into Alaska full-blooded collies, the
famous Scotch shepherd canines, noted as natural-born tenders of
the flocks. The dogs are to be employed looking after the rein
deer throughout the Seward peninsula and the islands.
It comes from excellent authority that, under the auspices of
the government, 200 tons of coal will be mined in the Matanuska
coalfields and transported to Sheep creek, on Cook inlet, to be used
for making tests by tne Navy department. This work will be done
under the direction of Dr. Joseph A. Holmes, director of the
bureau of mines, now doing similar work at the Katalla oilfields.
It is reported that there is a fight on between the Alaska
Packers Association and the Northwestern Fisheries Company, on
the one hand, and the Libby, McNeill & Libby people and the
Booth Fish Company, on the other hand, the former seeking to
drive the latter from the Alaska fields. In this scrap, the small
cannery men will have to go out of business, and there will be no
new ones established, as the price of canned salmon is too low to
pack at a profit.
Explorer Steffansson puts the Arctic again in the limelight
and his story is followed by the return of Trapper Leffingwell from
near Point Barrow with the greatest collection of furs ever brought
out of Alaska. At the same time an obliging whale gives up his
fortune in ambergris over in Resurrectiop bay, all of which goes to
show that Alaska can always be depended upon to produce a story
that can be “put over” without any effort. During September, out
of 30 days, Alaska news was on the front page of metropolitan pa
pers on 17 days. The volcanoes and disappearing islands having
passed into their summer decline, the Japan current can now be
safely counted upon to bring forth its ever interesting early winter
sensation. — Chitina Leader.
The impetus that Alaska is feeling is bound to have its effect
on Seattle in the near future, declared John R. Winn, a prominent
Juneau attorney, upon a recent visit to the Queen City. Capital is
literally pouring into Alaska, said Mr. Winn, and Its trade with the
states will grow by leaps and bounds. Right back of Juneau, the
Alaska-Gastineau Mining Co., with a working capital of $4,000,000,
is building a tunnel two miles long that will enable them to bring
all their ore right to sea level before it is smelted. They are hir
ing all the men they can get. It is the biggest project in Alaska,
and will be a larger mine even than the Treadwell. Winn is rep
resenting the Ebner mine, which is still nearer Juneau, and when
it is developed, it, too, will be larger than the mines at Treadwell
JOE MARTINDALE
CARRIED THE MAIL
The mail which left last Saturday
morning was taken as far as Dis
kaket bv Joe Martindale, who acted
as special carrier for the occasion.
Just after the mail arrived here
Postmaster Thurston received a tel
egram from Bob Griffis instructing
him not to deliver the outgoing
mail to the regular carrier, but to
engage another man to take out
the consignment. No reason was
given for the change, but as Joe
| Martindale was leaving that morn
ing for Cripple, via Diskaket, he
| agreed to take the mail with him.
ORDER OF INCORPORATION
SIGNED BY JUDGE FULLER
Fairbanks, December 73 —Judge
F. E. Fuller has signed the order
incorporating the town of Tanana,
which recently elected a mayor and
aldermen and decided to accept mu
nicipal responsibility.
ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD
Camp [ditarod No. 27, Arctic Broth
erhood, meets at A. B. Hall every
Monday evening at S o'clock. Visiting
brethren cordially invited to attend.
CYRIL P. WOOD,
Arctic Chief.
RONALD FROST,
Arctic Recorder.
HOME AGAIN!
ON THE WINTER TRAIL
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Liquors and Cigars
Tel: “Summit Roadhouse.”
Mrs. A. M. Auten Mrs. M. Maher
ID I TARO D
HOTEL
Neat New Bath Room
Regular Meats
EVERY REQUISITE FOR THE TRAVELER'S COMFORT
Best of Everything
ALL THE TIME AT THE
Stanley Cafe
FLAT CITY
Open Day and Night
Outfit Here for Innoko and Mud
River Camps
Dikeman
Roadhouse and Store
ROB! . COCKBURN, PROP.
Everything First Class