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ALASKA
Four Thousand Tons Crushed Daily
Four thousand tons of rock is being.
crushed every twenty-four hours in the j
Alaska Gastineau company's mill at Thane,
according to officials of the company, says
the Juneau Empire. Bart L. Thane, gen
eral manager, said recently that next month
the mill should be crushing 6,000 tons, as
the capacity is gradually being increased.
Arctic Brotherhood Corporation Formed
The Arctic Brotherhood Building Corpora
tion has filed articles of incorporation with
Territorial Secretary Davidson at Juneau.
Tlte capital stock of the company is placed
at $60,000. and the limit of indebtedness at
$500,000. The object of the corporation is
to build club and lodge rooms for the Ju
neau camp of the order, and after they have
been paid for, to turn them, over to the
camp. The time of the corporation is placed
at twenty-five years, and the business is to
be handled by a board of seven trustees.
The incorporators are J. F. A. Strong, Gro
ver C. Winn, Tom Radonich, John B. Mar
shall and F. E. Bradley.
Seward Camp, A. B„ to Build
The Arctic Brotherhood camp of Seward
has decided to erect a building, and at a
recent meeting the matter was left up to
the trustees to decide as to the size of the
new building, the manner in which it is to
be financed 3nd the other details. The build
ing will be erected at the northwest corner
of Fifth and Washington.
A B.g Fur Shipment
Probably the largest shipment of furs that
ever passed through Skagway was that
which came in on yesterday’s train from
Whitehorse, says the Alaskan of June 25.
It consisted of 100 bales, valued at ap
proximately $50,000. The furs came from
Rampart, Fairbanks. Fort Yukon and other
Yukon river points, and are consigned
through Wells Fargo ct Co. to Theo. Thorer,
Max Wulfsohn and other well-known New
York fur dealers.
Long Life for Nome Camp
“Nome will be noted as one of the great
est gold-producing districts of the world
long after members of the present genera
tion are great-grandparents,” said James B.
Ivory, a Nome mining man, to a Seattle
Post-Intelligencer reporter. Mr. Ivory, who
has been a mining operator at Nome since
1901, spent the winter on the Outside for
the first time in twelve years, coming out
last fall and staying in California. He is
now returning to Nome for the summer
season. “Placer mining will, of course, play
out in time,” said Mr. Ivory, “but dredging
will continue a great many more years than
I expect to live. There is practically un
limited ground that can be worked with
dredges, and this form of mining is just get
ting a good start. While I hold a great
deal of ground near Nome, I don’t expect to
do much work myself, but will lease the
greater part of my land.” Mr. Ivory at one
time held claims on the ground of the re
cent strike at Dexter hill, but relinquished
them five years ago. “I guess I didn't look
carefully enough when I had those claims,”
said he. “At any rate, I got tired of hold
ing them. Now comes a letter from a friend
of mine telling me that some rich pockets
have been located, and that the strike prom
ises to be unusual.”
Doubt Story of Gold Salvage
Doubt is expressed in Juneau as to the
truth of the story telegraphed from Seattle
recently that the schooner Winona had suc
ceeded in recovering SIOO.OOO in gold dust
from the wreck of the Islander, which sank
off the southern point of Douglas island,
Alaska, on August 15, 1901. Special Dep
uty Collector of Customs C. D. Garfield and
Deputy Collector M. S. Whitter express
doubt as to the truth of the story. The
customs house records show only one Wi
nona operating in Pacific waters, and she is
not a schooner, but a twenty-five-ton gas
boat, says the Empire. “Had an expedition
been at work at the Islander wreck we cer
tainly would have been officially notified of
it,” said Mr. Garfield. Seafaring men, fish
ermen and local launch men say they have
seen no boats working on the spot where
the Islander is known to have gone down,
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j and the last expedition known to have
| searched for her gold was in 1908. This
j search was unsuccessful. The Islander
struck an iceberg early on the morning of
! August 15. 1901, eight miles from Juneau.
! and foundered a quarter of a mile off shore,
with a fearful loss of life. The passengers 1
were for the most part Dawson miners go
ing Outside with full pokes of gold. There i
also was 8100.000 in gold dust and bullion i
in the ship’s safe. The vessel lies in thirty
fathoms of water, making it impossible for
divers to reach her. Fifty of the Islander’s
victims are buried in the Juneau cemetery.
Indians Violate Game Laws
Deputy Game Warden Hemenway, at
Fairbanks, has liberated forty-two live foxes
caught by the natives out of season and held
by them for sale to the fox ranchers. The
foxes were allowed their freedom far from
the city, so that the dogs could not follow
and kill them. The practice of the Indians
of robbing the dens of the young foxes will
be stopped, and the regulations of the de
partment of the interior will be enforced,
and the game wardens are trying to educate
the Indians into a realization that the game
must be protected or they themselves will
The Indians continue to violate all the
game laws, it. is reported, regarding the
slaughter of animals, but the officials do
not interfere with them when the animaLs
are used for food, but it is the constant
waste of wild meat that causes the trouble,
be the greatest sufferers.
Want Act Declared Void
Representative John G. Heid, for himself
and other members of the legislature from
the First division of Alaska, instituted a
suit in the United States district court on
July 1 asking the court to decree that the
law passed at the recent legislative session
distributing the money paid into the terri
torial treasury as a part of the proceeds
from the sale of timber, uses, etc., from
the Tongas national forest reserve for roads
and schools in various judicial divisions of
the territory to be unconstitutional and
void; asking that it declare the money re
ferred to belongs to the First division of
Alaska for school and road purposes, and
to issue an injunction restraining the treas
urer from paying out of the treasury any of
said money in his possession except to the
said First division. The money amounts to
$52,968.17. The suit is brought in the
names of Charles A. Sulzer, J. M. Tanner,
John R. Heckman, Arthur G. Shoup, Wil
liam E. Britt and John C. Heid, for them
selves and as representatives of and for the
people of Judicial Division No. 1., South
eastern Alaska," and is against Walstein G.
Smith, as treasurer of the territory. The
petition, after identifying the plaintiffs as
citizens of the United States and Alaska
and residents of the territory, and senators
and representatives in the legislature, re
cites the history of the formation of the
Tongass national forest, representing that
Alaska has four judicial divisions. No. 1, or
Southeastern Alaska, containing approxi
mately 49,000 square miles; No. 2, 158,600;
No. 3, 162,000, and No. 4, 228,600; that
the statute under which $52,968.17 was paid
into the treasury reads as follows: “That
hereafter 25 per cent of all money received
from each forest reserve during any fiscal
year, including the year ending June 30,
1908, shall be paid at the end thereof by
the secretary of the treasury to the state or
territory in which said reserve is situated,
to be expended as the state or territorial
legislature may prescribe, for the benefit of
the public schools and public roads of the
county or counties in which the forest re
serve is situated: Provided, That when any
forest reserve is in more than one state or
territory or county the distributive share to
each from the proceeds of said reserve shall
be proportional to its area therein.” The
object of the suit is to secure the full amount
of the fund for use of the First division, in
stead of being distributed pro rata to the
four judicial divisions.
MURDERER OF THREE WIVES
IS SENTENCED TO DEATH
LONDON, July 1.—George Joseph Smith,
styles the “brides-in-bath” murderer, was
found guilty today of drowning in a bath
tub three of his six wives, and was sen
tenced to be hanged.
The case has created a sensation which
almost causes people to forget the war for
the moment. The evidence showed that
Smith killed the three women one after the
other in a bath tub, after having married
them. His object was to secure the insur
ance which he took out at each marriage.
EXIGENCIES OF BUSINESS
“Open the window, w'aiter; I am roast
ing,” a customer exclaimed who had just
dined at a Paris restaurant.
‘‘Shut it up, waiter; I am frozen,” pro
tested a man who had just sat down.
The waiter hesitated. The proprietor set
tled the dispute at once.
“Obey the customer who has not yet
dined,” he said.—Ex.
A full line of Rubber Goods at Boas’, Flat
and Iditarod,
COLONISTS’ DESCENDANTS
HOLD TO EARLY TRADITIONS
The pathos and the strength, the romance
and the grimness, the kindliness and the
reticence of the people of the mountain dis
tricts of Kentucky. Tennessee and Virginia
were described in an address by Miss Ethel
De Long of the new school at Pine Moun
tain, Ky„ at the annual public meeting of
the Southern Industrial Educational Asso
ciation in Washington. For upward of an
hour Miss De Long held the interest of 400
or 500 "fotchefl-on” folks, or “furriners,” as
all outsiders are termed by the mountain
eers.
Disregarding the stories of illness, lack of
sanitation and poverty which might have
been told of the life in the mountains, Miss
De Long plunged immediately into a de
scription of the romance that is to be found
there.
She used the quaint language and expres
sions of the mountains, words and phrases
which have been handed down from ances
tors of Elizabethan days, and which have
been preserved in the cold storage of the
mountains, shut in from the outer world.
She explained that the mountaineers were
not to be considered “poor white trash.”
They are the direct descendants of the Eng
lish, Scotch and Irish settlers of colonial
and revolutionary days, and carry in their
veins some of the best blood in the country.
Miss De Long told incident after inci
dent to show the genuine courtesy and kind
liness these people accorded to “furriners”
and to each other. “Take them your cul
ture; they have civilization,” she said. Point
ing to the white linsey-woolsey suit which
she wore, Miss De Long said that the ma
terial had been made on a hand loom by
one of the mountain women. These women
raise sheep, shear them and weave all the
cloth they use for clothes, towels, linen, etc.,
she said, just as did women of 200 years
ago. They make their own dyes, in many
cases, from bark and leaves and roots.
And these dyes they frequently find more
“fast” than cheap dyes sent in by the out
side world.
She told how she had found carved on an
old tree the inscription: “This is whar I
first kissed Nance.” She declared that she
was immediately filled with a desire to learn
of this Nance. Nance, she found, had never
been married, and had died an old maid at
the age of 91. This was not because of a
lack of sweethearts or not being “talked
to,” as the mountain boys and girls say
when they mean “courted.” She had been
a girl full of spirit and a beauty. But she
had set her heart on one young mountaineer.
He rode away one day to get the marriage
license, and, coming home with the license
in his pocket, he fell in with a gang of
young men and stayed to drink with them.
It ended in a fight, and they hanged Nance's
intended husband to a poplar tree. Then
they took the body home and gave Nance
the marriage license. She never said much
about the death of her fiance, but she never
would listen to any other young man when
he came to “talk” to her. She used to carry
always with her her purse, and folks thought
that she must have money. But when she
came to die she made a last request that
she be buried in her wedding dress, made
by her own hands, and kept for more than
half a century m a small pine box.
They put the little old gown on her be
fore they laid her in the coffin. All they
found in the pocketbook was the marriage
license and some Confederate money, so they
buried the pocketbook with her, too.
Miss De Long told another story ol a
mountaineer who had owned several thou
I sand acres of land. V\ hen the railroad came
into that section he sold of! the timber on
j his land, getting So for each poplar tree,
j no matter what its size. He was paid, in
two checks, S17.444. Having no faith in
banks, he and his sons rode away to the
I nearest town where a bank was to be found
' to bring home the cash, and bring it home !
they did, in gold and greenbacks, tied up in ;
salt bags, and for years it was kept about i
the place. When the old man would go
into the woods with his two sons they would
take the money with them, because they
feared to leave it at home as a temptation
to weaker neighbors.
Miss De Long told of the old mountaineer,
“Uncle William.” she called him, who had
made the new’ school at Pine Mountain pos
sible. He had determined that he would
j bring into the mountains a school which
| would teach not only reading and writing, i
but also up-to-date methods of farming and
I housekeeping. And for this purpose he had
given of his own land some twenty-five
acres for the school, and in the deed he
placed a clause that declared this land should
I be used for school purposes “as long as the
[ constitution of the United States stands,
i Already the school was betting under way.
she said, and they had employed a trained
nurse and an expert agriculturist.
Miss De Long described the songs and
dances and games of the mountaineers, de
claring that they were those of old England.
The language used goes back even to the
days of Chaucer, she said. “Light from
your beastes, and bring in your plunder,”
she said, was the customary hail when at
sunset you stopped at a mountain home,
showing howr the old English plural is used.
She sang several of the mountain songs
and picked out tunes on a curious moun
tain musical instrument, fashioned after the
dulcimer of former centuries. The words
of one of the songs, she said, she hardly
dared to sing these days, for they went
something as follow’s: “The minds of girls
are weak, the minds of boys are strong;
what they tell you they always tell you
wrong,” the last referring to the girls.
Miss De Long said that one of the moun
tain women who could not read, but who
could do all kinds of work that modern
women cannot do, had said to her: ‘We
do a powerful lot of thinkin’. I reckon that
is the reason we know so much more than
'■you eddicated people.”—Washington Corre
spondence St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
DOUBLE MURDER COMMITTED
ON HOOTALINQUA RIVER
(Whitehorse Star, June IS;
The dead and practically air-dried bodies
of A. L. Dominy and Thomas Boyd were
found three weeks ago in separate but ad
joining cabins near the mouth of Swift
creek, on the right limit of the Hootalinqua
river,’ about eighty miles above Hootalinqua
post.’ Joe Brewer, a pioneer prospector and
trapper, vrho makes his home ten miles up
the river from Swift creek, where he has a
mink ranch, made the gruesome discovery,
having been requested by the police to make
search for two men, neither of whom had
been seen since they left here together, but
e.ach in his own boat, on the 31st of August,
1913.
News of the awful discovery was brought
to Whitehorse by Cam Smith and Charles
iGreime, who went to Teslin two weeks ago
in the former’s gasoline boat. Both Smith
and Greime visited the cabins where the
bodies were found and viewed the remains.
The story of the discovery of ihe bodies is
as follows:
All last year the few travelers who passed
up and down the Hootalinqua river noticed
two small boats tied up near the mouth of
Swift creek, but as that is what prospectors,
hunters and trappers who delve into the
Interior usually do, nothing was thought of
,it. Three weeks ago Brewer visited that
locality and noticed a dim trail leading
back into the woods from where the boats
were tied up. Following the trail about a
quarter of a mile, he came to a double
cabin, or two cabins standing together but
not connected by a door. In each was a
ibunk, and on each bunk was the dead body
*>f a man covered with blankets. In each
pabin was a gun fully loaded. There were
|io signs of violence. By the side of one
,of the bunks was a teapot containing tea
leaves. In each of the cabins a diary was
found, the last entry in one ot which was
(dated February 28, 1914. The other left off
several days before.
In the dairy kept by Dominy mention
was made early in February of the writer’s
health, which was recorded as very poor.
His condition was attributed to the drinking
water. The last three entries read:
“Feb. 26—Am getting weaker.
“Feb. 27 - “ “
“Feb. 28—(The one word) Weaker.”
In neither diary was mention made ot the
other’s sickness.
The police records here, made when the
two men left, August 31, 1913, show that
Dominy was then 55 years cf age, and
came from Lone Pine, Cal., where he had a
family. Postmaster George Wilson has sev
eral letters and post cards in his possession
from Lone Pine addressed to Dominy, one
card written only the 18th of last month
from “Rella” to “Dear Dad.” Boyd had no
relatives in this country, but gave the name
if a brother, an officer in a Scotch regi
ment, as “next of kin.” Boyd gave his age
as 50 years.
MANY ALASKA SOURDOUGHS
ASSEMBLED AT ANCHORAGE
(Cook Inlet Pioneer, July 12)
The town of Anchorage, the coal ter
minal. is the Mecca that attracts scores of old
sourdoughs from all parts of Alaska, as well
as from the Northwest Territory. They are
here, these pioneer frontiersmen, from Nome.
Fairbanks, Iditarod, Ruby, Dawson, Circle
City, Juneau, Cordova, Ketchikan. Valdez,
Seward, Chitina, Skagway and other places
too numerous to mention. It is perhaps
safe to asert that there is scacely a settle
ment in the whole of Alaska that is not
represented by a former inhabitant in
Anchorage.
These hardy independent, resourceful
pioneers compose, in large part, the history
makers of Alaska for the past score of years.
In the big gold camps of the North, some
of them were among the rich mine owners
of former times. Some of the pioneers were
in business here; others are employed on
the Government railway, while yet others
are “sticking around,” around waiting for i
..something to turn up.”
In making his daily rounds, the Pioneer
man came across the old timers whose
names appear below. This list is not com
plete, but tends to suggest that the pioneer
element predominates in the new town
Of course, Jack Cronin is here, and so is
Globe Trotter J. B. McAllister; so is Jake
Young, George Lee, Tom O’Ro alee, A1 Ains
ley, Johnnie Burns. Dan Donovan. Arthur
Marlott. “Tip” O’Conner, Paddy Cummings,
Hank 0‘Conneil. Joe Prarie, Charles Peters,
Billie Peterson, Dick Feltham, Raph Smith.
C. V.Lake, Slim Michaelson, Tom Paterson.
'P. L. Sennott, Elmer Dart and A1 Beet.
Then there’s Doc Sheel)2n, Tex Jones, W.
W. Casey. Alex Taylor, J. M. Long, D. C.
Liles, W. H. Tolen, John Harris, Oscar 01
son. the lone Swede, George Versailles, the
count, Louis Muir, Frank Murphy, Angus
Kennedy, Jack Hylen, Manuel Swanson. Os
car Anderson, George Shumm, Murdock Me
Lean, Joe Brown, W llli.uu Breeze, ii. L.
Newton, Paul Hansen, A. M. Barnes. Fred
Harman. Anton Hanson. Edward Michael
son, Charlie Pinkston, John McGee, Jack
Henry. Charles Reams, Harry the Jap. R.
Wufahl, Chris Uhrscow, Pat Lynch, Sain
Shequin, Sam Kelly, Pat Kecley, Bob
Matheson, Louis Jensen, Frank Zaremba, L.
N. Markle, “Shorty” Wehnke, M. Raich,
Fred Wagner, F. F. Farrington, Charles
Black, George Markam, Bob Speck, W. E.
Lee, Dan Sutherland, J. E. Berry, “Sandy”
Wilson, Jack Minus, “Skookum” Johnson,
R. E, McDonald, A1 Carlson, Henry Molen,
Jack Sutherland, Thomas Jefferson Robert
son, Ed Krause, Ed Hussey, Joe and Am
brose Bell. A. Amundsen, J. W. Kempf,
Carl W. Bolte, A. Frodenberg, J. Greenwood,
Mike Reilly, C. Sankey, P. J. McDonald, Bob
Beach, Dr. Hawse, Sam Cash, Fred Howe,
Charles Baker, Con Cullen, F. D. Sheldon,
Dan McFarland, Frank McGuire, Jack
Price, “Blinkey” Grimes, Hans Paulson, Jim
iSherlock, Charles David, Bob Small. Bdlie
Murray, L. David, Phil Eckert, Ray Linton,
A1 Soper, M. W. Diedrick, H. J. Ernard, M.
A. Williams, Janies Mitchell, George White,
Jack Nelson, C. C. Bush, Tom Doge, Pat
McManiman, Fred Martin, Jake Keppler,
Otto Maale, W. Minberg, Tom Curtain. Jack
McEachern, Charlie Gleason, Hamid Gra
ham, G. W. Balcaimer, the “Russian Kid,”
Arthur Balcaimer, J. B. Dyrkhorn. John ,
Nord, Ore Bernhard, Slim Gray, J. Fors- (
land, Oscar Miller, F. E. Parker, H. 0. Ticde- j
mann, E. M. Culbertson, Bert Mahoney, T
T. Hunter, C. Cole, Rudi Marcelli, Charlie
Hill, Bob Furiall, Pete Sunbeck, AI Samuel,
Robert Clark, Frank Johnson. Jerry Quin
lan, A. Hickey, Captain Turner, A. Sum
merwill, Harry Mehan, C. McGowan, Jimmie
Hill, Jim Wardell, Ray Larsen, Harry
Schultz, J. M. Austin, Joe Laubncr, Ross
Padden, Jimmie Carscadden, William Trout,
Doc Madden, M. S. Parker, C. II. Packard.
N. E. Ohlson, “Senator” Hill, C. A. Ander
son, Ed Anderson, J. M. Sheehan, Frank
■Reese, Thomas H. Jeter, Captain Johnson,
W. B. Bartholf, F. D. Becker, Al Raynor,
P. F. Cummings, Pete Cunningham, Dr. D.
L. Carmichael, Alexis Benjamin Woche, Mr.
and Mrs. Finkeistein, Mr. and Mrs. Elmyr
Kane, Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, Mr. and Mrs.
T. D.’ Corley, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Walters,
Mr. and Mrs. E. King, Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Brown, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. MeVeitty, Mr.
and Mrs. E. J. Hestel, Mr. and Mrs. O. Ja
cobsen, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Whitney, Mr. and
Mrs. George Crist, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Jones. Mr. and Mrs. F.'D. McCullough, Mr.
and Mrs. W. E. Ramsey, Mr. and Mrs. James
McCain, Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Charlebois,
Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Webber, Dr. and Mrs.
Kyvig, Mrs. Martha White, Mrs. E. Mutch
ler, Miss A. Dunlap and Mrs. George Kilroy.
German newspapers are forbidden in
Austria. The censorship in the dual empire
is extremely strict. Austrian papers as a
rule can print only a quarter of a column
of war news daily. The papers are not
even permitted to report burglaries, for fear
the people will believe their property in
secure.
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whiskies. 2.50 1.25
“Hermitage" Pure Straight Whiskey, mellowed by
age . 2.50 1.50
“Cyrus Noble" Blended Straight Whiskey, from
original old goods . 2.50 1.50
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"Cyrus Noble" Old Private Stock, very, very old.
Guaranteed to be a blend of pure, aged, natural
straight whiskies . 3.50 2.00
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KNIK NEWSPAPER MAN
IN INTERESTING INTERVIEW
T. R. Needham of Knik will leave to
morrow for San Francisco, where he will
complete negotiations for founding a news
paper at Knik, to be known, according to
| present plans, as the Cook Inlet Pioneer,
! says the Seattle Post4Jntelligencer. Mr.
Needham is a sourdough editor. He went
into Alaska in 1894 as associate editor of
the Juneau Searchlight, and has followed
i the newspaper business in the North ever
j since. Soon after leaving the Searchlight
he founded the Douglas Miner. In 1898,
! during the Stikine river boom, when the
S excitement over the projected building of
the so-called direct railroad to the Klondike
was at its height, he started the Stikine
River Journal at Wrangell. In 1906 he
was one of the founders of the Fairbanks
Daily Times.
Mr. Needham is firm in the belief that
the first railroad work to be done by the
government will be the construction of the
railroad coel branch from Ship Creek to the
Matanuska fields at Chickaloon.
The Ship Creek terminal is on govern
ment land, reserved from entry, and all the
early birds who are in the Cook inlet coun
try waiting to grab the expected opportuni
ties resulting from the railroad construction
are making their headquarters at Knik,
across the inlet.
Knik now has a population of approxi
mately six hundred, says Mr. Needham, and
besides being provided with the usual facili
ties of an outfitting point has what is per
haps the most novel community or social
eenter in the North, developed through the
efforts of Rev. T. P. Howard, a Presby
terian home missionarv.
The social center is a large frame building
with a variety of enterprises housed in it.
;n the main street front are two store
rooms, one occupied by a cigar and candy
shop and the other to be used by Mr. Need
ham’s newspaper. On the floor above is
Dr. Spaulding’s hospital, and in the rear
is a large hall, forty by seventy feet, which
serves as church, theater and dance hall.
Rev. Mr. Howard decided not only to min
ister to the spiritual wants of his parish, but
also to their social needs. So he built a
church that has a theater and a good floor,
and at the conclusion of a Sunday night
service, Mr. Needham says, it is not unusual
for the pastor to announce that “next Friday
night tne young people of Knik will give
a dance, to which all are cordially invited.”
Two nights a week moving pictures are
shown, and at other times the hall is open
for public meetings on civic affairs or wom
en’s entertainments. Indicative of the bal
anced character of the population of Knik,
Mr. Needham says that at the New Year’s
eve ball there were 240 persons present—
110 women and 130 men.
Mr. Needham says that while there is a
great future ahead" of the Cook inlet and
Matanuska district, it is no place for the
man seeking ordinary work at day wages.
There is plenty of room, he says, for the
miner and prospector who intends to de
velop his property, and for the homesteader.
Mr. Needham declares the agricultural op
portunities of the Susitna are unsurpassed
in Alaska.
BENNETT JAMES HEARD FROM
—
A letter received from Bennett James,
the well-known mining man, dated Seward,
June 16, gives the information that he is
now connected with the Alaska Mines En
gineering Company, incorporated. He stated
that things were rather quiet in Seward at
that time, as the railroad work had not
started, but was expected to begin about
July 1. “Ship Creek,” he says “is the cen
ter of activity, as the real construction work
is going on from there to the coal fields.
About 2,500 persons there are living in tents.
The railroad commission has laid out a
new towusite, and will either lease, auction,
sell or draw for the property—no one seems
to know which. The Broad Pass section
looks like a winner, and no doubt will be a
great producer in a few years from now.
I expect to make a trip into the Broad Pass
some time in July, and will likely be in
Iditarod late in the fall. * * * I have
received and enjoyed The Iditarod Pioneer
all winter. It went the rounds of the old
timers in San Francisco.”
GOOD NEWS FOR EPICURES
IN BAKER’S ANNOUNCEMENT
Claud Baker received word last Tuesday
morning that the cold storage company’s
barge has arrived at St. Michael, and soon
will be on its way up the Yukon. This will
be pleasing news to the epicures among the j
population of the district, because, whde «
they will admit a great fondness for beef,
they also confess that as a steady diet for
several months at a time, even this staple \
palls on the appetite. There are those who
also have a fondness for pork chops, veal
cutlets, roast leg of mutton, fried chicken,
pork sausage, spare ribs, and many other
delicacies which they are promising them
selves upon the arrival of the barge con
taining the fresh supplies.
For several months past the supply of
fresh meat here has been confined to beef.
Through the invention of a stoking de
vice by a Swedish engineer 1.3 tons of pul
verized peat have been made to produce as
much power in locomotives in Sweden as
one ton of coal.
! ANTONE MEYER GERHARD
APPRECIATES OUR ATTITUDE
BERLIN, June 29.— “The American pen j
pie would vote to prohibit the sale of muni
tions of war to any of the belligerent na
tions if the matter were submitted to a
referendum vote,” said Antone Meyer Ger
hard in an article appearing in Der Tag to- |
day. _ i
Dr. Meyer Gerhard, continuing, said that |
he was convinced that the American people j
as a whole were friendly toward Germany i
and the German people. “However,” he |
said, “while the American people regret that j
the law does not prevent the shipment of I
munitions of war to belligerents, all Ameri- J
cans condemn Germany for violating the j
neutrality of Belgium and for the sinking .
of the Lusitania.” j
: The whole tenor of Dr. Meyer Gerhard’s j
article was that President Wilson and the i
American people are endeavoring to main- I
tain neutrality fairly and in accordance with '
their understanding of the lew, and to pro- |
tect what they conceive to be the rights of
Americans. He said that the impression
’ that had prevailed widely in Germany that
I the United States was endeavoring to aid j
the allies was not correct in any sense. He j
also said that American sentiment supports j
the President in the stand he has taken.
DIGGS AND CAMINETTI
GRANTED WRIT OF REVIEW |
! -
WASHINGTON, June 21.—The supreme
' court reconsidered today its denial of a re
view of the conviction of F. Drew Cami
netti of San Francisco on charges of vio
lating the white slave law and granted a
review.
It also granted a review of the convic
tion of Maury I. Diggs, convicted with Cam
inetti in the same cases.
A week ago the court declined to review
the Caminetti case, and no announcement
was made today to indicate why it had re
versed itself.
The appeals of both Caminetti and Diggs
were the first to reach the court in which
I it was contended to cases where the element
of commerc
GERMANS GIVE ACCOUNT OF
SINKING OF FAMOUS VESSEL
BERLIN. June 19.—It was officially an
nounced here today that the famous Ger
| man submarine U-29 was sunk by a British
I vessel which was flying the Swedish flag.
The submarine was sunk some months ago.
Her commander was Lieutenant Wedding
ton, the “polite pirate,” who gained world
fame when he sank the three British cruis
ers, the Hogue, Aboukir and Cressy. The
British vessel was a tanker. As she ap
proached the submarine she was flying a
Swedish flag, that had the result of putting
Weddington off his guard, and the tanker
rammed him before he understood the trick.
The publication of the story has intensified
the feeling of bitterness against Great Brit- 1
ain throughout Germany.
AVERSE TO SLANG
Just to show how much averse to slang he
was, a small boy in a Chicago school ex
■ plained to the teacher one day that he had
'been walking with a friend, but neglected
to take off his hat when they met a lady
both knew. His friend had nudged him and
j whispered:
“Take off your hat, you simp.”
| “What he should have said,” explained
U'he boy, “was, ‘Remove your hat, you nut.’ ”
I’ The general sentiment is summed up in
'.the words of a small boy who ventured!
i this:
“Anyway, it’s only roughnecks who use |
slang nowadays.”—Philadelphia Public
Ledger.
POOR EDES GOT HIS
Chairman Edes of the railroad commis
sion was serenaded upon his arrival at Sew- j
ard by the newly-organized brass band. Ex. j
The Boas Clothing Store at Flat. Prices j
-- --
THE POOR SPANIARD
(Whitehorse Start
The sympathy of the entire world should
be extended to that unfortunate Spaniard
who is confined in jail in Madrid, from
which he has been endeavoring tor the past
twenty-five years to arrange for the care of
his 16-vear-old daughter, who by this time
must be at least 40 years of age. For
many years the victim was held for con
spiring against his government. At present
he is held for endeavoring to arrange for
Spain taking a hand in the European eon
flict on the side of the allies. Formerly the
order for the £25,000 he was ready to award
for slight temporary pecuniary assistance
was in a secret compartment of a trunk.
A’ow it is in a secret compartment in the
bottom of a war bag. The victim’s fortune,
consisting of nearly £100,000, is in a London
bank, and one-quarter of it is ready for the
person who will send $100 in ready John
Davis to be handed to the prisoner by a
friendly priest. The kindly-disposed person
will also have charge of the remainder of
the fortune on deposit in London for the
benefit of the dear daughter. On the whole,
it is a very pitiful circumstance. Several
letters from the Spanish prisoner have been
receved by Whitehorse citizens lately, but if
any of them have “come across they are
not making their generosity public.
INCONSISTENT
“The Declaration of Independence states
thet all men are born free and equal. I be
lieve ?”
“Something of the sort."
“Then why do you hold yourself so
aloof?” u
“My dear man, I’m descended from one
of its signers.”—Great Divide.
Fresh Olympia Oysters, for cocktail?, $2
camIditarod Meat Co.
Notice to Creditors
In the Probate Court for Otter Precinct.
Fourth Division, Territory of Masks,
before Hon. G. G. Geraghty. «unrui~
sloner and ex-ofHcio Probate JudK*
in the matter of the estate of I rank A.
Cleveland, 1 leceased.
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed. administratrix or the estate f
Frank Cleveland, deceased, to the ervd
itnrs of and all persons havnr-r claims
against ihe said deceased, to exhibit ib- iu.
with tie* necessary vouebers. within *i\
month' after the hrst publication of tins
notice, to the said administratrix, at tb«
< nice or Fre.i Harrison, attorney at law.
pegina hotel, iditarod. Alaska, the 'an <■
being the place for the transaction of the
business of the said estate in t <
precinct and territory.
Dated June do, 19 15.
ANNIE CLIFTON CLFVEI.XND.
Administratrix.
First publication, July d, 1915— it
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