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
OFFICERS:
CHAS. ROSS, President
JOHN HOLMES, Cashier
R. C. BUTTON, Asst. Cashier
MERCHANTS CAFE j
Caters to Large and Small Parties t
PREVATE DINING ROOMS
Popular Prices Everything First Class<
CHAS. E. MILLER, PROP. j
ssaa a n Gold St., Flat City
1 hp 0*58 Wf® Mrs. Swanson, Prop.
8 liU I CSwH 1'lsrfl D.ning Room Now Open
Nicely Furnished Rooms Barn for Horses and Dogs Baths in Connection
Tame Carioou
Dan Callahan of Fairbanks tells some
wonderful tales of the manner in which
the women of the Chena Hot Springs dis
trict have tamed a herd of caribou. Ac
cording to his story, the caribou came to
the spring and while there their feet be
came coated with ice to such an extent
that they could not run. As the visitors!
t<. the health resort did not care to violate
the law by killing the animals, the women j
fed them. After the feet of the caribou
were healed they refused to quit the camp. ;
and consequently have become the pets of
all the visitors.
Change of Editors
Mr. Hatton, the editor of the Nugget,
is out and Professor Grimm, formerly prin
cipal of the public schools, succeeds him. i
says the Nome Industrial Worker. While .
editor of the Nugget Hatton won the esteem ,
of all classes, and in his going out he none 1
the less stands higher than ever in their
estimation. While the Industrial Worker
is at variance with almost all the views
of the former editor of the Nugget, it is
si tine pleasure to express an appreciation
f.>r his fearless ability, even though his:
fearlessness may have had something to
do with the fact of his being no longer j
editor. But a man’s a man for a’ that,
and although a chechako, the Alaskan
>< urdough editor can well afford to con
sider his independence a model worth emu
lating. Here’s how!
Captain of Crack River Steamer
It l' reported that Captain McCann, who I
commanded the Schwatka last season, has
been promoted to the captaincy of the ;
crack river steamer Susie. The Susie was J
remodeled last year, and expensive new ma- :
chinery was installed. She is said to have j
the largest carrying capacity of any Yukon i
river boat
Newspaper Change at Ruby
On March 2S the Ruby Record-Citizen 1
announced the retirement of A. X. Grant
as one of its publishers, and J. J. Filbin’s j
name now appears at the head of the edi
torial page as manager.
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Big Suit for Damages
Alleging that the Northern Navigation i
Company willfully refused to deliver his j
goods to him at Betties, in the Koyukuk |
country, with the intention of putting him ;
out of business, Frank Smith, a saloon man
of Wiseman, in the Koyukuk, has filed a
complaint in the office of the clerk of the
i-iurt at Fairbanks in which he asks that
rie be given judgment against said com
pany in the sum of $30,000. The amount
is asked as damages sustained by the
plaintiff being unable to sell goods the past
•• 'liter, owing to the fact that the Northern
Navigation Company broke their contract
with him when they failed to deliver said
goods to him before the close of navigation
on the Koyukuk. Costs of the proceeding
are also asked. Smith alleges in his com
plaint that he bought twenty-two tons of
•■vines, liquors and beer in Seattle, and paid
about $8,000 for same. He then contract
ed with the Northern Navigation Company
to haul his freight from Seattle to Betties
for $90 per ton. the complaint stating that
he freight was paid in advance. Five tons
only of the liquor was delivered, and be
cause the other seventeen tons was not
brought to him. Smith asks damages in the
above named amount.
Has Poor Opinion of Chisana
'*ln the early Dawson days they could
pan in one week out of the sawdust of the
saloon floors more gold dust than they will
ever take out of the Chisana.” said R. J.
<Eilbeck. for fifteen years sheriff in Dawson,
who. with his son Jack, was en route to
California, just out from the new Alaska
diggings after five months’ steady work
there. During this five months they sank
sixteen prospect holes, besides panning
pretty much on all of the other claims,
and. as experienced miners, with years of
work behind them in the Yukon, they un
hesitatingly condemn the new camp. Van
couver (B. C.) Sun.
Physician Sued for Malpractice
Charging that Dr. Melville G. Evans is
indirectly responsible for the amputation of
his left hand, said operation having been
performed during the latter part of Febru
ary. Charles Cole, a Fairbanks miner, has
brought suit against the physician asking
judgment in the sum of $10,000. The di
rect charge is that Dr. Evans, through neg
ligence. allowed pieces of broken bone to re
main in the wrist of Cel?, thereby causing
inflammation of the member, which neces
sitated the operation.
COLONIZATION OF SIBERIA
IS PROVING SUCCESSFUL
St. Petersburg. March 10. The stream
of colonization in Siberia is productive of
results in Western American fashion. M.
TregubofT, during his recent journey, found
that three and a half million colonist5? set
tled there between 1908 and 1912. Freight
motor cars now facilitate traffic on stretches
up to 100 miles off the trunk line. On
what was bare steppe only three years
ago when M. Stolypin toured Siberia, pros
perous towns, such as Slavgorod, have
arisen, with electrical stations and power
houses, veterinary and sanitary institutions
and other establishments of a permanent
nature.
“INSURRECTION” PLANNED
BY TERRIBLE I. W. W.’S
Sacramento, Cal., March 17.—Five cap
tains and lieutenants of “General" Kelly
and his I. W. W. “army of unemployed"
today confessed that the aim of the Indus
trial Workers of the World armies now
headed for Washington from different parts
of the United States is to completely over
throw the national government. They ex
pect to reach Washington half a million
strong an dseize the national capital.
Just received—large assortment Howard
watches, the best made. J. L. SALE. Lead
ing Jeweler.
Equality of strength in both arms occurs
almost twice as frequently with women as
with men, more men than women being
stronger in the right arm than in the
left.
SALOONS WISHING
FAIRBANKS BEER
SEE
nranii^nnB
BEFORE DEPARTURE OF NEXT MAIL
But One Shipment Will Be Made This Season
COMMITTEE IN AGREEMENT
ON ALASKA COAL LAND BILL
Washington, March 24. The opening of
(he coal lands of the Territory of Alaska
under the leasing plan as proposed in the
bill which has been under consideration
by the committee on public lands was
agreed to today and the committee will
at once report the bdl back to the-senate
with its approval.
By the terms of the bill, 5,120 acres of
Bering coal lands and 7.6SO acres of Mata
rmska coal lands will be mined by the
government when in the opinion of the
President such mining becomes necessary
by reason of an insufficient supply of coal
in the country for the use of the navy
which may be procured at reasonable prices.
This provision of the bill will hit a hard
blow at the coal trust, which has for years
[ held up the navy department in the price
of coal. With the always present possibil
i ity that if their prices to the government
are not warranted by existing conditions
they will be debarred from bidding on
navy coal contracts, the companies in the
| coal trust will now be forced to treat, the
| navy in an impartial manner or see the
government mine its own coal.
Another clause in the bill which gives
the President almost unlimited power over
the coal barons is that which allows him
to mine in the Alaska fields at any time
when there is an insufficient supply of coal
at “reasonable prices” with which to carry
on all government work or to relieve op
pressive conditions. It is left solely to the
judgment of the President as to what op
pressive conditions may be.
The bill requires that the unreserved
lands shall be immediately surveyed :nto
forty-acre tracts or multiples of forty
acres, and that these tracts be leased to
competitive bidders, but it also provides
no one bidder nor any combination not bid
ders may lease at one time more than 560
acres.
One article in the bill which is designed
to prevent the condition at present exist
ing in most of the fields of the country
which are almost entirely in the hands of
the railroads, is that no railroad or other
corporation engaged in the carrying trade
may acquire more coal land than is neces
sary for the supplying of the amount of
coal which it will require in its business.
An arrangement is made in the bill which
will clear up the pending claims to coal
lands in Alaska. This is to the effect that
the present claimants must surrender all
of their rights to the government, which
will make a refund of the money paid over
under the public land laws, and the claim
ants will receive in addition prior rights
to the selection of land under the leasing
laws.
Much satisfaction is expressed over the
bill as it has been put together in com
mittee, and there is every prospect that it
will be passed and the coal lands of the
territory saved from the fate of those in
other sections of the country, which have
passed irrevocably into the hands of pri
vate corporations.
MANY CHECKS HELD
FOR IDITAROD PEOPLE
At the marshal’s office in Fairbanks there
are many unclaimed checks held for wit
nesses, jurors and others who have served
the government in some capacity, but who
have failed to present their claims. The
list of persons to whom money is due con
tains 126 names, and the officials are anx
ious to have the claimants appear as soon
as possible, in order to dispose of the mat
ters.
Below is given a list of residents of this
district who have money due them, and
the persons named should communicate
with Marshal L. T. Erwin:
Adson, Joe, Iditarod; Beaton, John. Idit
arod; Berby. C. D„ Iditarod; Brown, E„
Iditarod; Brown. Joe, Iditarod; Cannon,
Anthony, Iditarod; Carlson, Erick, Idita
rod; Dahl. Herman, Flat; Densmore, R,
Flat; Ericson, Charles, Georgetown; Fitz
patrick, James, Iditarod; Gibson, Janies,
Iditarod; Hughes, A., Iditarod; Illsiey, F.
I'„ Flat; Lindquist, Alfred, Iditarod; Lodge.
John, Dikeman; Long, John, Iditarod; Mc
Leod, D., Dikeman; Nelson, J. A., Iditarod;
Oliver, T. S., Iditarod; Oman, Herman,
Flat; Patterson, John, Flat; Parmenter, Al
bert, Iditarod; Richardson, A„ Dikeman;
Smith. William, Dikeman; Stevens, L. J.,
Iditarod; Strobel, M., Iditarod; Thompson,
W. W„ Flat.
FINE BABY GIRL ARRIVES
FOR RIVERS HOUSEHOLD
At the Grand hotel, Flat City, last Sun
day. a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs.
J. G. Rivers of Happy creek. The little
lady weighed nine pounds. Mother and
daughter are reported to be doing splen
didly, and Mr. Rivers is receiving congrat
ulations and bearing his honors proudly.
Mrs. Rivers was formerly Miss May Ca
hill, who has been a resident of the dis
trict since 1910, and was for a long time
one of Iditarod’s most popular telephone
young ladies.
EMERGENCY HOSPITAL
The management of the Emergency hos
pital at Flat City wish the people to know
that they have on hand all necessary in
struments for any and all operations, ob
stetrical work included. PHONE DAY OR
NIGHT.
Choice fresh lamb, 35c lb.
Iditarod Meat Co.
SORROWS OF A SOURDOUGH
IN A STRANGE COUNTRY
Tacoma, March 12. “Six-shooter Bill”
Lloyd, old-time Alaska and Klondike sour
dough, and former game warden at Fair
banks, sighs for the low cost of living in
(the Great North as he sits beneath a cocoa
nut tree nowadays, watching the crest of
white foam thrown up by the rollers on a
coral reef in the South seas. As the tem
perature under the cocoanut tree mounts to
94 degrees above, 50 below doesn't look
so bad to Bill. In fact, it looks pretty
good. Out on the caribou hunt last winter
the “Six-Shooter” used to slice his butter
with a sharp ax. Now he ladles it out
j with a spoon.
There is one ray of sunshine. He is
able to buy beer—at 40 cents a pint bottle.
“Six-shooter Bill” eases his heart in a
fifteen-page letter just received from
Papeete, Tahiti Islands. He settled there
with his wife and baby the last of No
vember. It seems that with the opening
of the Panama canal the South Seas will
become the "new frontier.” The Tahiti
Islands will be on one of the great trade
routes, and "Six-shooter Bill,” by getting
in early, stands a good show *of making a
“big clean-up.”
In the meantiem several things are tem
porarily getting the old-time sourdough’s
“goat.” Chief among these things rank
the high prices, the fluid condition of the
j butter, the native lingo, the French lan
! guage and the new and weird kinds of food
j that greet him at table. Some beans, a la
Alaska, would hit him right. Another thing
j that gets him is the fact that summer
comes in midwinter.
Papeete he describes as the “most beau
i tiful spot that one could imagine.” The
romance of the South Seas, it is evident
from his letter, has bitten into his soul,
but
“Prices? Well, they have got anything
skinned you ever saw. even in far-away
Alaska. The rate to the gas-boats for gaso
line is ">7 cents a gallon. We thought the
master hand had Alaska by the neck, but
one has just to stick a week or two around
this port and then he’ll change his mind.
“Saloons? I wish you could see the ;
kind they have here. Just picture, if you
can. a wooden shack with plain wood floor
(never washed), some old pictures on the!
wall covered with dust of years and vears, j
I an old bar covered with zinc, nailed on, j
some bottles and grimy glasses used by f
natives, negroes and sailors from all ports |
of the world. The bunches that hang |
around these drink dens look as if they
came from the devil’s kitchen. One look
into the joint is enough to cure a fellow
of the booze habit.”
JACK JOHNSON APPEARS
IN NEW ROLE AS WRESTLER
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The European papers describe Jack John
son's appearance as a wrestler in Paris. |
“The circus was packed,” writes one re
porter, “and the audience included a great
many fashionably dressed ladies. Johnson
was greeted with a thunder of applause
and flowers were thrown toward him by the
ladies. The ‘German Tiger.’ who was re
garded as a very rough wrestler, received
hootings at the same time and was pelted
w'ith onions, chocolates, potatoes, etc.
“At the signal the ‘Tiger’ made a rush
at Johnson. The black champion at first
seemed at a loss, and took up positions as
if he were going to box. Urbach went at
Johnson and struck him on the chest with
both fists. This created a scene in the i
circus, people hooting Urbach and shout
ing to Johnson: ‘Knock him out, Jack.’
Johnson, catching the German by one leg.
kept him hopping on one foot until the
men fell. The German kept hitting the
black with his fists and elbows, thus caus
ing a terrific uproar. Finally Johnson got
Urbach by the neck, making his shoulders
touch. The defeated German refused to
shake hands.”
REPLACING LIPS AND NOSE
BY SURGICAL OPERATIONS
Baltimore, March 11. With a part of
his forearm substituted for new lips, Ross
Allen, a young Canadian, at a hospital here,
seems to be in a favorable way to have
practically the whole of his face newly
shaped.
Allen entered the hospital about two
months ago with his face disfigured from
an accident in a sawmill five years ago.
His nose and lips were missing.
A section of flesh shaped to the form
of his lower lip was cut on his forearm
in December and a grafting juncture made
with the lip base. The arm was bound
about the head until the grafting was com
plete. This consumed about two wreeks,
when, sufficient adherence having taken
place, the lip section was severed from the
arm and the lip shaped.
The same procedure was followed in the
upper lip treatment, a section of the arm
I flesh being grafted across the upper gum
and the arm strapped to Allen’s head until
this section, too, had taken hold.
When Allen accumulates sufficient
strength for another operation the surgeons
will try to build him a new nose. It is
planned to cut away a piece of healthy
cartilage from one of the ribs at the junc
tion with the breastbone, shape it to the
form of a nose, with the nostril openings,
and insert it in place of the missing organ.
King salmon—caught at mouth of Yukon
—fine, fine, 35c lb. Iditarod Meat Co.
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INFORMATION ABOUT YAKS
BY EMINENT SCIENTISTS
Seattle. March 20. The bill now before
the United States congress which calls for
an appropriation of $100,000 to be used j
in transporting a band of yaks from Tibet j
to Alaska, where experiments will be made
to determine if it would be practicable to
import large numbers of the sturdy animals
to the northern territory, is attracting con
siderable attention among stockmen and
others interested in the breeding of do
mestic animals in the Northwestern states
and Alaska. The bill was introduced by
Congressman W. L. UaFolIette at the sug
gestion of Professor C. C. Georgeson, spe
cial agent in charge of the government
experiment stations in Alaska.
The climate of Alaska is thought to be
too cold and rugged for the ordinary cat
tle of the United States, and as yaks are
raised successfully in the high ranges of
the Himalaya mountains, in Tibet, it is
thought they will thrive equally well in
Alaska, and serve the purposes of the or
dinary cattle. Experiments will also be
made to determine if the animal wall breed
successfully with cattle.
Professor Trevor Kincaid, head of the
department of biology at the University of
Washington, says concerning the proposed
experiment:
"From what I have learned of the hab
its and characteristics of the yak, I be
lieve the government’s experiment will
prove successful, and will be a great benefit
to the people of Alaska. The animal is
of great service to the natives of Tibet.
It is used as a beast of burden, and also as
a source of food and clothing. Its milk
is rich in butter tat, from wmcn Dutter as
excellent as that made from the milk of
American cattle is procured. The hide of
the yak is more valuable than that of the
western steer. I
‘I do not know whether the yak will
breed successfully with American cattle
but as the animals are very similar, it will
no doubt be wise to make the experiment.
If it proves successful the result will be a
hybrid animal of great commercial and
domestic value in Alaska.”
The British government, at the suggei
tion of Ernest Thompson Seton, has al
ready conducted experiments of a similar
nature in parts of Canada, and, if maga
zine stories are authentic, the yaks have
been found to thrive as well there as they
do in the Himalaya mountains. The Brit
ish government, however, has made no at
tempts to breed the yak with the native
cattle of Canada.
Ernest Thompson Seton, in an article
entitled “The Wonderful Possibilities of the
Yak in North America,” which appeared in
the February issue of Country Life in 1909,
says:
“Lying between the natural range of
North American cattle at the south and the
range of the reindeer at the north is a
great strip of grazing country which has
never been put to its greatest use. This
territory runs entirely through Canada, and
includes the greatest portion of Alaska.
After a close investigation I have come to
the conclusion that the yak of Tibet will
flourish and be of wonderful economic value
in this district.”
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DEPUTY MARSHAL WENDLING
DESPERATELY ILL AT FLAT
Harry H. Wendling, deputy United
States marshal at Georgetown, is a patient
at the Emergency hospital at Flat, and his
life is despaired of. He is being attended
/by Dr. Moore, and everything possible is
being done to relieve his sufferings. It is
probable that an operation will be per
formed in an effort to save his life.
Mr Wendling recently visited this city,
and was on his return to his post when
he was taken ill at the Happy creek road
house.
A dainty Easter Sunday dinner was
served last Sunday at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. T. L. Thurston, at which Easter eggs
were delicately painted and laid in tiny bas
ket nests, each with a guest’s name beauti
fully written on it, thus service as appro
priate place cards and favors. Those pres
ent besides the host and hostess were: Mr.
and Mrs. P. G. Charles, Mr. and Mrs. A. E.
Maltby, Miss Ada Maltby, Mr. C. J. Maltby
and Mr. H. H. Porter.
FOR SALE—Bran. See J. J. Smith.
COMPETITION IN ARMAMENT
FOREBODES DISASTER
London, March 4. Sir Edward Grey, the
British secretary of foreign affairs, in ad
dressing the Manchester Chamber of Com
merce recently, referred to the foreign pol
icy and armament of Great Britain.
The speaker declared that he felt the
present strain from competition in the
purchase of armaments is one of the great
est of the monetary troubles of the govern
ment today, but he had the grave forebod
ing that the competition in armaments is
growing at such a^ace that it eventually
will be disastrous if not checked. He feared
the cost of war materials would be so
enormous as to sink European prosperity
and to undo civilization.
The statement has had a profound im
pression on many who have faith in the
judgment of this careful and well-informed
member of the British cabinet.
The agitation within the Liberal party
against the growing expenditure on arma
ments is rapidly gaining momentum, and
seems likely now to lead to a revival, per
haps under another name, of the reduction
of armaments committee. Preliminary steps
in this direction have already been taken,
and one hundred Liberal members of par
liament have declared themselves in support
of the movement
In some respects the situation recalls that
of five years ago, when the reduction of
armaments committee, which numbered 114
Liberal members, made a determined as
sault on the navy estimates of 1909. The
firm stand by the prime minister in the
debate in the house discouraged the agita
tion, which then rapidly declined, but it is
now being revived with all its old vigor,
the definite acquisition of Lloyd George to
the ranks of the “little navy” men having
given the latter new heart.
Le Temps, of Paris, in an editorial on
the British chancellor of the exchequer’s
recent utterances advocating a diminution
of armaments, expresses the opinion that
they are not only ill-advised and short
sighted, but unfavorable to the interests
and therefore the life of the triple entente.
IRISH HOME RULE BILL
MATTER OF COMPROMISE:
London. March 24 -It is officially stated
this afternoon that all misunderstandings
relative to the Irish home rule bill have
been settled, and this includes not onlv the
cabinet and party differences among the
Liberal members as well as the National
ists, but also the mutinous officers who
resigned rather than obey marching orders
to entrain for Ulster.
It can be further stated that under the
new understanding, Asquith's compromise
measure, which gives Protestant counties so
deciding by vote the option of six years’
exemption from the home rule government
in Ireland, will be put into immediate ef
fect.
That the Liberal government has made a
complete submission to the army cannot
be concealed, and no effort is being mode
to hide it. Every one of the army offi
cers who resigned has been reinstated on'y
after assurances had been given them that
they will not be asked to fight against the
Ulstermen.
Asquith refuses to discuss the reasons for
the government conceding this to the army !
officers, nor why it was necessary to recog
nize them after they had seemingly made
the government come to terms, for as it
now turns out they had actually to be eu
treated by the army council to return to
their commissions after they had resigned
them.
The Liberal papers are far from being
satisfied with the situation, and iemanda
are heard why the stringent orders first
issued by the war department were can
celed and a complete submission made Jn
spite of the settlement, Conservative, Lib
eral and Nationalist papers agrcn.* that the
future is now darker than ever, and that
the Asquith compromise and Asquith break
down in army control have accentuated
the difficulties as well as the dangers of
the situation. Civil war, concludes the Rad
ical Evening Star, is certainly inevitable,
and its inevitability has been hastened
rather than averted by compromise.
Algeria exported about 5.000.000 pounds
of olive oil last year.
Oregon has 545.000,000.000 feet of stand
ing timber, valued at £680,000.000.
MAX SiMEL,
DISKAKET AND CRIPPLE CITY
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Gasoline and Lubricating Oil
Good Roadhouse in Connection
Best of Everything
ALL THE TIME AT THE
Stanley Cafe
FLAT CITV
Open Dav and Night
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Warm Dog and Horse Stables
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