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John Holmes, vice president of the
Miners & Merchants Bank of this city, left
for Seattle last Tsueday. Mr. Holmes had
intended to remain until after the freeze
up and go out over the trail, but the un
satisfactory state of his health induced him
to cut short his stay.
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I DITAROD, ALA5XA
IMPORTANT MINING DECISION
BY CIRCUIT APPEAL COURT |
INVOLVES CHISANA CLAIMS
The United States circuit court of appeals
at San Francisco has rendered a decision
| in the case of Dan Sutherland vs. F. W.
Purdy, from Cordova, involving claims in
the Chisana district, which is of much im
portance to miners throughout the terri
torv. The decision reverses the decree of
the district court of the Third Alaska divi
sion. which held that the recording of
powers of attorney was not a prerequisite to
locating mining claims under those instru
ments. The ground in question was
awarded to Sutherland.
The claim was hied on by Sutherland
after it had been located by G L. Gates,
who located it by power of attorney from
F. W. Purdy, and the power of attorney
was not recorded.
The case is one of several that excited a
great deal of comment in the Chisana dis
trict. Gold was first discovered in the Chi
sana in 1913, and a man named William
James of Dawson, hearing of the same,
rushed into the new camp, accompanied by
G. L. Gates, W. E. McKinney and William
Johnson, and located about twenty claims
for themselves and about twenty more by
power of attorney, Other prospectors, who
arrived later, found the best ground prac
tically all located, as they claimed, “blan
keted,” and many of the claims so located
by proxy were relocated by the later ar
rivals, and out of this condition grew the
litigation.
The decision in question was rendered,
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C. R. PECK ■ ■ FLAT
COLUMBIA
AIR-TIGHT HEATERS
Fancy Cast-Iron Top with Nickel Trimmings
82 1 X .$15 00
825X . 20.00
828X .$25.00
YUKON STOVES
Yukon Stoves, 14x24 tops.$ 8.00
Yukon Stoves, 14x30 tops. 10.00
Half Hound Stoves, 14x30 tops.... 10.00
Drums .$ 6.00
Cast Top, four lioles. 12.00
TENTS AND TARPAULINS
8x1 ft— 8-oz. Tents .$ 9.00
8x10—lo- oz. Tents . 10.00
10x1*2— 8-oz. Tents . 10.00
10x12—10- oz. Tents . 12.00
7x 9— 8-oz. Tarpaulin?.$ 3.00
7x 9—10-oz. Tarpaulins. 3.50
10x16—’10-oz. Tarpaulins. 10.00
All 8lzes TenU and Tarpaulin* Carried In Stock
Acorn Special Gasoline Lamps....* 8.00
Air-o-lite Gasoline Lamps. 10.00
Coleman Gasoline Lanterns.
*8.00 and 16.00
Baby Bag Mantles.doz. 2 00
Large Hag Mantles.doz. 3.00
Baby Go-Carts .$10 and $12 50
Heavy Prnted Linoleums, 6 feet
wide, per yard . 2,25
Inlaid Linoleums, C feet wide, yd. 3.00
Hugs, 8.3x10.0.$15.00 to 25.00
Hugs, 9x12.$20.00 to 30.00
Drugs at Outside Prices
SMITH'S CUN STORE
IDITAROD, ALASKA PHONE S SECOND AND WILLOW
evidently, under tho old Wiokersham law.
The present statute only requires the record
ing of powers of attorney prior to the re
cording of claims staked thereunder.
A Nome dispatch of August 10 states that
considerable discussion has been aroused
there over a knotty mining question. Sev
eral of the most prominent attorneys assert
that Sec. 20, Chap. 10, of the Session Laws
of 1015, regarding assessment work on min
*ng claims by survey, is invalid. They as
sign the reason that this is not development
work required by the United States laws,
and that the Alaska legislature was with
out authority to modify the law.
Territorial Counsel J. H. Cobb made the
statement to the Juneau Empire recently
that the law was invalid, and that develop
ment work is demanded as assessments on
mining claims. Surveys are not improve
ments, being but a step in the acquisition
of a patent.
DEPUTY MARSHAL WOOD
TELLS OF BUND ANDREW
Blind Andrew, the native who is being
taken care of at the local jail, is still a
problem to the officials. No word of sug
gestion as to his disposition has yet been
received from the Fairbanks authorities, and
as his sentence for vagrancy will soon ex
nire, what to do with him remains a prob
lem. The poor fellow is naturally indus
trious, and has been engaged in odd jobs
around the jail to while away the time.
The case of the unfortunate Indian has
evidently aroused interest in Fairbanks, and
Jack Wood, the “roving marshal,” who is
well known here and along the Yukon, has
been telling the News-Miner about him.
Says that newspaper in its issue of Aug. 17;
In a telegram from Iditarod the mar
shal’s office is advised of the arrest of
Blind Andrew upon a charge of vagrancy.
The arrest brings to mind the struggle for
an existence that is being waged by this
blind native, who has not seen the light of
day for more than fifteen years. Notwith
standing his great handicap in life, Blind
Andrew has been able to do better for him
self than many natives who have all their
faculties, this being the first time that he
has been given government help since being
afflicted with his eye trouble.
Deputy Marshals George Berg and John
C. Wood, who know the Indian well, tell of
his fight for a living on the lower Yukon.
Among other things, he goes into the
woods alone every winter and cuts about
thirty cords of wood, which he piles along
the river, and in the spring sells it to steam
boats. Mr. Wood asked him how he knew
when to start and when to quit work wh°n
in the woods. He replied that he cut wood
until he had a half cord cut and piled, and
then he called that a day’s work.
One time Mr. Wood, in mushing along
the trail on the lower river, came to a
cabin. It was night and quite dark, so
the deputy marshal decided to go to the
cabin and remain there. He rapped at the
door and was told to “come in.” Upon
entering he found it in complete darkness,
and asked if the man did not have a candle.
“No,” said the Indian. “Why should I
have a candle? I am blind and cannot see
either with or without a candle.” Mr. Wood
finally found a candle in his own outfit, and
upon lighting it found that the native was
cooking his supper, just having returned
from his day’s work.
On one occasion the blind native mushed
along the shore of the Y ukon river forty
miles in the summer time and alone.
The deputies report that the blind man's
greatest troubles are the other natives, who
take his food from him. He works hard
all winter getting in his wood and when
he sells it in the spring gets in a supply of
grub. Other natives then go to live with
him, their visits lasting as long as the
grub holds out.
And now he has had such hard luck this
summer that he was in a state of starvation,
so the officials thought it advisable to take
him into custody on a charge of vagrancy,
so that he might be taken care of.
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CELEBRATES HIS BIRTHDAY
Harry Yeager came down from the Sum
mit mine last Sunday to fittingly celebrate
his birthday, which fell on that day, and
he visited friends here for a day or two.
While refraining from mentioning his cor
rect age, it may be stated that he is still
on the sunny side of fifty.
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SCHOOL OPENS
The Iditarod public school, in charge of
Miss Halley, opened the fall and winter term
on Tuesday last. For the first time in the
history of the school native children were
enrolled, there being four present.
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Dave Strandberg of the Up-Grade was a
visitor in the city on Monday last.
FORFEITURE NOTICE
To Andrew Homo, Jacob Olsen, Chas. Holky,
J. A. Lilterel, Arthur Valentine, Wm.
Butler, Chas. Nelson, P. H. Stafford,
lid Keogh, K. Albright and Geo. Al
bright, their heirs, administrators and
assigns:
You and each of you are hereby notified
that the undersigned and their assignors
have expended for labor and improvements
during each or the years 1912, 1913, 1914
and 1915 the sum of one hundred dollars
(St00.00) upon Discovery association min
ing claim, situated on Slate creek (at the
time or the recording of the location notice
or the claim known as Henry creek), a trib
utary or Otter creek, in Otter recording
prec'lnrt, territory or Alaska, in order to
hold said claim under the provisions or
law respecting the performance of annual
labor on mining claims.
And if within ninety days after the pub
lication or this notice you or either 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-owners, according to the provi
sions of Sec. 2324, Revised Statutes of the
United States.
J. E. B1LEY.
R. S. MCMILLAN.
LOTTIE, R. MARSTON.
First publication, September 9, 1916.
Last publication, ecember 9, 1916.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Mrs. Jonas Brewis and children arrived ]
home from Willow creek, where they have
been spending the summer, on Tuesday last.
The boys, Raoul and Verne, were present at
the opening of school.
Frank Meredith was a passenger for the
Marshall diggings on the Nancy Bell, which ,
left Tuesday night.
George Riley was in town this week, look '
ing after incoming freight. He has 500 tons
of crude oil at Dikeman and in transit from j
that point. The principal item of news 1
which George had to report was the birth j
of a daughter to his full blooded Holstein I
(or was it Berkshire?) cow. All livestock
on the Riley ranch is reported to be flour
ishing, and the increase this year will be
above normal.
fiam’l Applebaum, the grocer, is having a
large warm storage building erected on tbe
high river bank opposite his store room, to
accommodate his large stock of perishables
which he has ordered for his customers.
Work was commenced last Thursday
morning on a large two story addition in the
rear of the McDonald hotel. Mrs. Gu!ar»e,
the new proprietor, has added many im- |
provements to the premises since taking j
charge of the enterprise.
George DuBois is a late arrival from :
Dawson, Y. T. He came here to accept a j
position with Riley & Co., on Otter creek. '
Among the passengers on the Beaver,
leaving last Saturday morning, were Miss j
Lillian Smith, bound for Fairbanks, and
Mrs. Carey and two Larson children, also j
bound for the Tanann v .Ley city. Harry j
Watson, bound for Marshall, was also a ,
passenger.
Sid Ensor, an employe of the Gold Com
pany, evas a visitor in the city last Satur
day.
John Bagoy was in the city from Flat last I
Saturday.
John C. Currin was in town Saturday
from the power plant. Mr. Currin and
family will spend the winter in Iditrrod in
all probability, Mrs. Currin and children
being expected to reach here before the
freeze-up.
J. E. Kettlewell, in charge of the \ukon
j Gold Company’s power plant, on the Idita
; rod river, was a visitor in the city on Tues
day last. Mr. Kettlewell is justifiably proud
of the fact that the great engine at the
plant, which was started on the season’s run
early in April, has been running continu
j ously since that time, twenty-four hours a
| day,' without a break. Extensive improve
ments have been made this year, which
have effected substantial improvements in
fuel, and a fire protection system has been
! installed.
C. R. Peck, the Flat City merchant, was
i in town last Thursday, attending to busi
| ness affairs.
Mrs. Lottie R. Marston was a passenger
for the Outside on Tuesday evening last on
the Nancy Bell.
Mi's. Helen Lar.derking left for the Out
side on the Nancy Bell, leaving Tuesday
evening. She will visit her mother at Eagle
Harbor, Wash., across Puget sound from
Seattle.
Tom McKinnon, who has been to Candle
creek, returned to Hat on Thursday last.
He reports that McDonnell and Bevans, the
Candle creek operators, are making prep
arations to go Outside over the trail on the
first snow. Henry Riley is expected in Flat
within a day or two from Candle.
Dr. Auringer was a visitor from Hat City
last Thursday.
SCHOOL BEGINS AT FLAT
The Otter district school, with Miss Helen
Grant in charge, opened last Tuesday.
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THE HOME OF HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX
INITIATING A CHEECHAKO
Al Walsh left last Saturday for the lower
Kuskokwim, where he will attend to some
details in connection with quartz properties
in which he is interested, fie went on foot,
end was accompanied by his nephew. J. E.
Waish, a recent arrival from the East. As
this is the young man’s first trip to Alaska,
he is immensely interested in the country,
and Al is giving him full opportunity to
see all there is to see. It is probable that
there is no men better qualified to take a
cheeehako "over the jumps” than that same
Al Walsh. One of the reasons for the trip
to the Kuskokw’m was found in the desire
I,f the younger Walsh to view the valley of
the great river, and it happened in this
manner:
Al had been showing his nephew the
workings of the Summit mine, and the in
tricate processes employed in extracting gold
front the masses of earth and gravel. The
young man was deeply impressed with what
he saw, and his many questions conveyed
the deep interest he felt. He wanted to
know of Uncle Al how many acres of the
ground he owned, and Al. to further the
impression he had made, stated that Alaa
kans did not measure their reel estate by
acres, but by miles. Taking him to the
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brow of the hill, from which a view of
almost all of Western Alaska can he ob
tained, he pointed out to him the distant
ranges of mountains between which the
lordly Kuskokwim river flows, and described
its course and the extent of the valley.
Without a smile he said, “I own that whole
valley.’’ Further questioning elicited the
statement that Al’s title was based on the
fact of his discovery of Alaska’s second
largest river. Fie promised to take his
nephew for a survey of his extensvie pos
sessions. and it is said the young man's
letters home contained glowing accounts of
Uncle Al’s importance as one of Alaska’s
great land-owners. It s probable these ac
counts will he considerably elaborated upon
when he returns and attempts to put upon
paper the yarns that Uncle A1 will relate to
him.
WOMEN HELD TO GRAND JURY
The closing of Nome’s restricted area has
been the cause of some knotty problems for
the city authorities, and the Nome Nugget
of August 8 tells of a recent incident as
follows: “The trie! of the women of the
under world furnished an attraction to
many, and Commissioner Frawley’s court
room was crowded to capacity when the
case was called this morning. Quite a
number of witnesses were examined, includ
ing the arresting officers. The women were
tried altogether on the one charge of keep
ing a bawdy house. At the conclusion of
the hearing Attorney 0. D. Cochran, for the
defense, argued that the government had
not sustained its contention as to the na
ture of the restricted area, and contended
that it was not proven in law that the ac
tion of the women in returning to the
alley meant that they were engaged in pros
titution. Judge Frawley sustained the con
tention of the district attorney, however,
and held the women, with the exception of
one who intended to leave on the next
boat, to the action of the grand jury. The
bonds of 8250 were retained. It is probable
that Attorney Cochran will institute ha
beas corpus proceedings, and some lively de
velopments are to be expected.”
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