One of the most picturesque resorts that Soapy Smith s town
ever boasted, and one which every Klondike!- who came up Lynn
canal, knew from personal acquaintance or by reputation, was the
Pack Train in Skagway. George Rice, the founder, has since
drifted to other northern towns. It lias remained for Stroller
White to write the epitaph of the Pack Train He says:
The Pack Train was opened by “Tony and Louie” over thir
teen years ago and when the best street in Skagway was passable
only for a pack train. Hundreds of other restaurants opened
within the few months following, but there was only one Pack
Train. In those days the majority of restaurants in Skagway
opened with a flourish, but they usually went out of business at
the end of the month and just before the grocer and buteher
called to collect their bills. “Coffee litre mother used to make”
appeared on scores of fly-by-night restaurants in Skagway in those
days, and that, perhaps, is what drove nearly everybody to the
Pack Train.
Then, to eat at the Pack Train was an evidence of prosperity.
The best people ate at the Pack Train and those who had the
money were the “best people,” no matter what they had been be
fore and no matter how they got the money' When a member of
the “perfesh” made a winning he celebrated the event with a big;
dinner, with Mumm’s Extra Dry on the side, at the Pack Train.
When a tinhorn cleaned up a few dollars he celebrated the'event
at the Pack Train with beefsteak and onions. All money looked
alike t° “Tony” and “Louie.” The “Boostera” was served as
gracefully as the “Dealer,” and “Gumboot Kitty” was accorded ;
the same treatment as was the wife of the district judge.
The Pack Train was truly cosmopolitan. Many a time has the j
Stroller gone there for a meal, when he would climb onto a stool j
between a professional man and a Y. M. C. A- secretary. By the
time he had reached the dessert stage of his meal “Soapy” Smith
would probably be where'the professional man had sat, while thei
stool vacated by the Y. M. C. A. secretary would be occupied by
Pew Clothes Molly and next to Molly would be the “Gin Rickey
Kid” or possibly the bartender from the Red Onion Saloon- Three
minutes later the seat which the Stroller had held down might be
occupied by “Hop Head Harry,” the lady called “Little Egypt,”
who did the serpentine dance at the Standard theater, or some be
spectacled magazine writer from the East, who would say, “I came j
North to get material for a story and to study conditions,” but who j
usually wound up by washing dishes in some cheap hash house for
his board, until he could get a remittance from home.
And throughout the long changing years the Pack Train has
shared and had a part in the joys and sorrows, the ups and downs,
of Skagvvay, but for years past the glory and glamor which
hovered over that eating emporium in the early days have been j
missing. The gambler with the big “spark” is seen no more with [
the “leading l?dy” at Clancey’s in the “Private Box for Ladies,” j
nor is now ever heard the “Burn ’em up Kid,” who has just won !
a half dozen plunks at roulette, give his order for “De best you e
have in de house, see.” The lady who used to win on “fixed”
wheels, and then go the Pack Train and spend her winnings on
“cold birds and small bots” is now an unknown personage in
Skagway-by-the-Sea. All are gone. All is changed.
Why It Is It, An Egg
Because a Hen Says So
Just let your mind dreamily contem
plate 250 cases of fresh Petaluma eggs,
white and transparent, with the dew
of California still upon them, and the
golden sunlight of those soft-veiled
valleys imprisoned within theirdelicate
casements of Nature’s daintiest Sevres.
So early as the 28th of this very
month we may be breaking those yellow
globules in the pan. Before the month
of May has finally drawn the gossamer
draperies of spring about her, and
silently drifted into the purple dis
tances, we may be hearing the sten
toriun tones of the cafe god roaring his
commands to his enemy, the chef, con
veying the succinct information that
you have ordered, “ham and,” and
would prefer them “straight up.” And
you may loll back contentedly, sniffing
the savory odors, knowing that you are
to get fresh eggs,—eggs that lived not
in a pasteboard pent-house while the
last presidential campaign raged, but
eggs that but a few short weeks ago
nestled, gleaming in a nest of new
mown hay on that hillside farm where
the fresh winds of the Pacific froliced
through the meadows. Yes they are
coming on that first boat,—and wouldn’t
it make you hungry ?
After the Wickersham Scrap
“No hot Southern blood in this
scrap,” said a member of the Kentucky
delegation. “Alaska and Wyoming.
Think of it! We can prove an alibi.”
“I foresee another revision of the
rules,” remarked Representative Tay
lor, of Ohio, to a fellow-member, after
the trouble had died down.
“It’s too late,” was the reply. “And
what would be the use?”
“Ip£orporate the Marquis of Queens
berry rules,” carefully .explained the
Ohio member.”—Washington Post.
THE HEIGHT OF LUXURY
A steam bath, a nice lunch, a
furnished room to sleep In. Elite
Baths, Caribou street.
TURN YOUR FACE TO
The Mecca
For Inspiration
Corner Second Avenue and Willow Street
George Auten Dave Ferguson
Iditarod Stage Line
PAT KEYS AND PHIL MAYHAN, PROPS.
Telephone Main 64. Office at Ophir House, Willow St.
TRIPS EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY
Leaves Flat Creek .9:00 a. m.
Leaves Flat for Discovery Otter at.5:00 p. m.
Leaves Discovery Otter at.8.00 a. in.
Leaves Ophir House, Iditarod.2:00 p. m.
Round trip to t lat, $6 ;- round trip to Discovery Otter, $8.
PASSENGERS, EXPRESS and FREIGHT
THE HUGHES WHISKERS
It. gives my wearied heart a
wrench to see such whiskers on the
bench. The highest court in all the
land should the respect of all com
mand, and nothing should disturb
the awe with which we view that
home of law. But how can people,
calling there, regard that wide ex
panse of hair and think of anything
but soap and razor strops and bar
ber’s dope? The lawyer, when he
pleads a case, will see the greens on
Hughes’s face, and straightway all
his thoughts will lly to where the
fields of spinach lie. A man can’t
th ink of law, alas, when facing such
a stretch of grass Theother judges,
sitting near, with facts shaven,
calm, severe, will find those whis
kers in the way about five hundred
times a day. If it should chance
that Justice B should turn to speak
with Justice D, concerning matters
most profound, he'll find that six or
seven pound of weeping willows in
tervene, and hide the judge as with
a screen. Will law be purified or
cleared when filtered through that
widespread beard? Will court deci
sions seem more fair delivered
through a lot of hair? I cannot
think it, and I hope that Justice
Hughes will get some soap, a brush,
some water and a saw, and whack
those tassels from his jaw.—Walt
Mason.
Slapped Each Ollier
Very Vigorously
New York.—The much-talked-of box
ing bout, between Anthony J. Drexel, of
Philadelphia, husband of Marjorie
Gould, and Hon. Robert. Beresford, of
England, a brother of Lord Denies, took
place recently in a private gymnasium
at Georgian Court, the Gould’s country
home at Lakewood, N. J.
Details of the bout vary, but all agree
that “Battling Bobby” was victor after
three rounds. One version says young
Drexel was knocked out and all assert
his seconds threw up the sponge in the
third round. The bout was scheduled
to go six rounds.
Beresford weighed 166 pounds, Drexel
161. They were clad in regulation
fighting togs, and Mrs. George Gould
gave a silver cup to the winner.
The bout was witnessed by the family
of George Gould and a score of guests,
including Lord Deeies' mother and sis
ter. Lord Carmoys and Lord Alastaii
Graham acted as the young English
man's seconds, while Jay Gould and
Mr. Moffatt. appeared in a similar ca
pacity for Drexel.
Mrs, Or, Hal! Dies
in Boston Hospital
Fairbanks Times, April 2: A wire
conveying the sad intelligence of the
death of his wife at Boston, Mass., was
received yesterday morning by Dr. M.
F. Hall.
Death came yesterday morning at a
private hospital in Boston, and followed
an operation, the third that Mrs. Hall
had had to undergo in six months.
Mrs. Hall left Fairbanks in the fail
of 1906, and has since been located in
Massachusetts, where site has many
relatives. The daughter is in a girl’s
school near Boston, while the son, Bry
ant, is here with his father.
Ed Marcotte Is
Assayed at Springs
The Whitehorse Star tells of the
wonders of the mineral springs located
at Tenakee, Alaska. Ed Marcotte, a
Whitehorse tonsorialist, went to the
springs and the Star says: One month’s
bathing in the life-giving, health-pre
serving waters of the hot springs at
Tenakee, served to eradicate from the
Marcotte system 4 pounds of tin, 31 of
pewter, 40 ounces of bornite, 27 ounces
of pyrites of iron, 2 quarts of nicotine
and 9 clay pipes, also several hundred
wads of pepsin chewing gum.
NOTES FROM TOFTY
Leber brothers have taken a lay on
Mr. Cooney’s gtound and are busy pros
pecting the same.
Hosier, on the Abe Lincoln, has men
at work hoisting dirt, while Gil Edgar
is following suit on the same associ
ation.
Mr. Broom is hauling several hun
dred cords of wood on his lay on the
Elsie, adjoining Bock’s fraction.
Ed Richards is putting on men, pre
paring for his summer work on Cache.
Mr. McVicar and Professor McFadden
are expected in this month.
A1 White and L. C. Johnson are about
finishing on their lay on Gene Sulli
van’s claim on upper Cache.
There are no vacant cabins around
Tofty at present.
Curley Benson, formerly with the
Merchants cafe in this city has taken
charge of Stanley’s cafe at Flat.
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THE ONLY PLACE
IN TOWN TO GET
Mishawaka Bobber Co.
“Bail Brand” Sloes and Pace
.. WE ARE THE SOLE AGENTS___
Stores: Iditarod and Dikeman
NO! THERM
ITEMS OF
The Dawson authorities are making
a crusade against the cigar store gam
blers of that city. Two convictions re
cently tvere secured.
W. D. Lapp, an old-timer of the
Dawson country, was found dead in his
bed at a Dawson hotel on February 9.
Richard Oiker recently committed
suicide at Klondike city, as the result
of an overdose of liquor, brought on by
a disappointment in love.
Assay statistics compiled for the past
twelve years show that there has been
received in Washington $200,000,000 of
gold from the North.
Bob Willis, for 15 years manager of
the Treadwell store, is the largest
merchant in Goldendale, Wash.
A writer in the Alaska Yukon mag
azine dares a prediction of this year’s
production of gold in Alaska, and
places it at $23,000,000.
The territorial government and the
Klondike Mines railroad have entered
into an agreement for the building of
a permanent bridge across the Klon
dike river, at the point where the old
suspension bridge stands. The bridge
will be used by both the company and
the people.
Contractor MoncrielT has begun work
on the Northern Light, Power and
Coal company at Coal creek, in the
Dawson country, and will increase the
plant ot the present company to 9,000
horse power. The company will dis
tribute its electricity over the entire
Klondike for the operation of dredges
and other big plants, besides using a
considerable amount at Coal creek in
the working of the coal mine which is
already below the frost line and into
an excellent body of coal.
The report of the United States geo
logical survey upon the mineral de
velopment of Alaska during the past
year is notable principally for the
showing it makes of the expansion of
quartz mining in the great northern
territory. There are now thirteen pro
ducing gold lode mines in Alaska. In
addition to this there are more than 50
quartz prospects being rapidly devel
oped into mines, many of which have
already produced gold as an incident
to the development work.
It is reported that another flow of
lubricating oil was struck in drilling
on the Lovell oil well, at Katalla, at a
depth of 300 feet. This will be cased
and the drilling continued.
The Oolichaus are running in the
vicinity of Valdez and the townspeople
have the toothsome fish for breakfast,
dinner and supper.
The estimated spring cleanup for
Quartz creek in the Klondike is
$80,000.
Jimmy Sayles is opening a moving
picture show at Ketchikan, giving two
shows a week.
Persons who recently arrived in Cor
dova from Katalla declare that it is a
fortunate thing that the steamer Port
land was wrecked, because the wreck
age now lying on the beach proves the
vessel to have been a rotten old hulk,
wholly unfit for carrying passengers.
Jack McPhail, formerly of Ester
creek, is working with one man on
Twelve-Mile creek, in the Circle dis
trict. He expects to pick up the pay
streak before the season is over.
The Amalgamated Development
company will construct a wharf at
Kanak island. The company has com
pleted the assessment work on its
holdings, taken from the Alaska Dev
elopment company. O. L. Willoughby
is the field manager.
J. D. Meenach, formerly owner of
the Ellamar copper mine, and Capt.
Nels Peterson, who made a fortune out
of Nome placers, are among the
Kuskokwim Bay will
Re&oive Mit®nt!on
An item has been inserted in the rivers and harbors bill passed
by Congress providing for a preliminary survey of Kuskokwim
bay, with a view to establishing aids to navigation at that point,
according to advices received by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce
from Congressman W. E. Humphrey.
This first move toward an appropriation for aids to navigation
for Kuskokwim bay and river was made at the request of the
chamber of commerce. An effort was made by the chamber last
spring to have at least temporary aids to navigation installed in
the open bay of the Kuskokwim, marking the channel leading to
the river, which is a shorter route than any other to the Iditarod.
On information furnished by navigators and hunters familiar
with those waters through personal experience, the inspector of
this lighthouse district, Commander J. M. Ellicott, sent north on
the steamer Lindsay, spar and can buoys to be placed at points
| which it was expected would roughly mark the channel pending
definite survey.
There is ample depth of water for vessels of a substantial size
to reach the mouth of the Kuskokwim, provided the channel is
properly marked. With the revelations of the richness of the
Iditarod, Kuskokwim and neighboring districts, the traffic into
that region this coming season will be very large.
j prominent mining men who will visit 1
J Kenai peninsula during the season. !
j They are interested in the ICenai-Star j
quartz property near Hope.
Leon Giroux, president of the j
Beaver Dam Mining and Milling com
pany, who took over the Scott & Gott
property in the Valdez section, states
| that the tunnel on the claim has been
run in a distance of 150 feet and that
i he is greatly pleased with the showing, j
Word has reached Juneau of the:
| death of a Killisnoo Indian by the;
name of Nalioab. The cause of death, '
as near as can be ascertained, was I
brought on by over-indulgence at a big
potlatch celebrated there recently. '
Nahoah was sick, very sick, with a
painful disease, and could get no relief j
in any manner. Finally he secured1
his shotgun and crawled to the edge of!
the woods, where he suicided. His i
body was burned near where he was I
killed.
Under the law as interpreted by the
secretary of the treasury, furs of any !
kind may not be taken from the dis
trict of Alaska. The customs office at i
Cordova has a large quantity of furs I
of nearly all kinds native to Alaska in !
its possession awaiting disposition.
Customs officers declare that there is a j
“fluke” in the laws which permits the
prohibitory ruling of the secretary.
G. A. Christopher wired instructions
to Nome to have an increased force
put to work on the graphite mines of
the Sawtooth mountains. A plant to'
treat the ore will be established in the \
vicinity of Seattle.
Henry Stanley Hinrich, a special
agent of the interior department, has
been investigating coal locations on
Cook inlet.
Have your nuggets made into souve-!
nirs at Simpson’s, the Dioneer jeweler j
The Pioneer for Job Printing.
JUDGE OVERFIELD SAYS
DISCOVERY MUSTN'T
It looks from where we arc sitting at
the present moment that there will be
nothing stirring in the matter of liquor
licenses at Discovery Otter this season,
and maybe no other season. Judge
Overfield has declined to listen to the
siren voice of some of the applicants,
and has sent down his ultimatum, in
dicating that it would be just as well
for the applicants to take up some other
line of endeavor as he can do nothing
for them.
Hutchinson & Kinman received a
negative reply to their application, and
although there might have been a par
ticular objection in the particular case,
it is more probable that the court has
adopted a general policy of no licenses
for Discovery. It is very likely that
the objections sent to the court by some
of the citizens of Discovery had much
to do with this decision, although they
are probably outside the two-mile limit
from Fiat, and cannot get a license
untii they get a commissioner.
Notice to Prospectors
For sale, complete prospecting drill
with 10-h.p. boiler and 40 feet 4-inch
casing. Just the rig for prospecting
wet ground. Can be seen at Pioneer
Machine Shop.
Nelson Broken Old Wagon
Memphis.—The trainers of Battling
Nelson say that he will never fight
hard again. They claim his physique
has been weakened by long continued
and hard training.
Save the pieces: broken lenses re
placed at Simpson’s.
If you want your clothing cleaned or pressed
ring up Wile the Tailor—Phone 88
samsg V p| W Furnished Rooms and Spring Beds,
m Jtl£ iO e Rates by the Day, Week or Month
£ Mite* 1 g3i£lv& Mrs. r. A. Perkins, Prop
COLD STREET, FLAT CITY
Telephone 67 Wood for Sale]
Mutchler Bros. \
FREIGHTERS
For Rates to the Creeks See Us |
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WEEK-DAV
Stage Line Between iditarod and Flat City;
Leaves Flat City 9 a, m. Leaves Iditarod 4 p, m, \
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Iditarod Office, Next to Sherburne House, Willow Street. o
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