Iditarod Pioneer
MAINE ELECTION
IS CLEAN SWEEP
PORTLAND, Me., Sept. 14.—In last Monday’s
election the Republicans carried the state, the Demo
crats being routed in every contest. A governor,
state auditor, two United States senators and four
Congressmen were elected.
Prohibitionist Candidate Attacks Wilson
SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 14.—Frank Hanly. the
presidential candidate of the Prohibition party, in
a speech last night in this city, criticized President
Wilson and blamed the administration for the fail
ure of the woman suffrage amendment to pass.
Lorimer Is Again Repudiated
CHICAGO, Sept. 14.—The Illinois primaries of
Tuesday last resulted in the defeat of William Lori
mer for the Republican nomination for congress.
Lorimer was ousted from the United States senate
six years ago for irregularities in connection with
his election, and was seeking a vindication.
Governor Dunne, Democrat, and Frank Lowden,
Republican, were the nominees for the governor
ship.
Gifford Pinchot, the well-known Progressive, in a
speech here in support of Hughes, said that the
safety, honor and welfare of the country were at
issue.
William Howard Contributes His Mite
NEW YORK. Sept. 1 5.—Former President W. H.
Taft, in his first campaign statement, just issued,
delivers an attack upon the Wilson administration.
He says that conditions after the war will require
a constructive policy on the part of the United
States.
Wilson Wili Help Suffragists
ATLANTIC CITY. Sept. 9.—President Wilson
addressed a woman’s suffrage convention here to
day. He said their cause would win, and that he
would help them.
PASSENGERS’ CLOSE CALL
ON BURNING STEAMSHIP
MARSHFIELD, Ore., Sept. 15.—The steamship
Congress, en route from San Francisco to Seattle,
with 250 passengers, caught fire yesterday. The
wireless apparatus failed to work, and the vessel
raced for shore. She was met by the dredge Colonel
P. S. Michie, and her passengers and crew were
transferred barely in time to avert disaster.
The Congress was totally destroyed. Two mem
bers of the crew were overcome by smoke, but
aside from this there were no casualties.
A special train has left for Seattle with the
stranded passengers and members of the crew._
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CONGRESS ADJOURNED ON SCHEDULE
AFTER SPENDING UNPRECEDENTED SUM
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—Both houses of con
gress adjourned yesterday. The expenditures of the
session just ended total two billions of dollars. The
Democrats in the closing moments indulged in lauda
tory speeches on the work of the session, and the
Republicans took occasion to draw attention to the
enormous expenditures, which they declared ex
ceeded those of any Republican congress.
The senate ordered an investigation of the charges
made of lobbying to defeat the halibut protection
amendment to the revenue bill.
PROBABLE VICTORY FOR PROHIBITIONISTS
VANCOUVER, B. C„ Sept. 15.—The “dry”
ticket in all probability has been successful at the
polls. Incomplete returns indicate the indorsement
of the new law and the return of the Conservative
government.
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GERMANS ARE DISSATISFIED WITH GERARD
BERLIN, Sept. 14.—The German press again ac
cuses United States Ambassador Gerard of siding
with the British. The ambassador has issued a
denial.
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SEATTLE MANUFACTURING RECEIVES A BOOST
SEATTLE, Sept. 15.—The Seattle newspapers
-re exulting over the fact that the Commercial Boiler
Works of this city have received an order from a
San Francisco firm.
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EXPLOSION OF AMMONIA TANK FATAL TO FIVE
NEWARK, N. J., Sept. 15.—Five persons were
killed by the explosion of an ammonia tank in a
creamery of this city. Others were injured.
SHIP KUSKOKWIM RIVER
MEETS ANOTHER MISHAP
Cyril Wood, local manager for the North
ern Commercial Company, has received a
telegram stating that the new power
schooner Kuskokwim River, which left Se
attle on August 25 with cargo for Bethel
and points along the Kuskokwim river,
had met with a mishap and returned to
port, and that the voyage had been aban
doned.
This will be bad news for the residents
of the Kuskokwim country. On the maiden
voyage of the vessel, which was built at
Seattle last winter especially for the Kus
kokwim trade, she lost her propeller off
the Alaska coast, and was compelled to
beach. A large portion of her cargo was
damaged. She was towed into Bethel by
a tug. On her second voyage she was
loaded with supplies to replace those dam
aged on the first trip. The abandonment
of the voyage is likely to cause a shortage
of supplies, as there is no hope of other
vessels making the trip to the Kuskokwim
this year.
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THOMAS WILLIAM O'BRIEN,
FOUNDER OF PIONEERS,
PASSES AWAY AT DAWSON
A Dawson dispatch in the Fairbanks
Times, dated August 26. says:
“Thomas William O'Brien, well-known
Klondike miner, died in this city last night
following an illness of two months. Liver
trouble was the cause of the death of the
old-timer.
“Tom O'Brien was known to every Klon
dike pioneer and all of the old residents of
Fortymile. He was the owner of claim
No. 1, Eldorado, from which he took a
quarter of a million dollars. He was like
wise the owner of many other claims on
Eldorado and Bonanza creeks.
| “The pioneer was the builder of the Klon
! dike Mines railway, the builder of the ferries
I across the Klondike, and constructed many
of the trails in the Dawson country.
“He was one of the founders of the Yu
kon Order of Pioneers, which was organ
ized in the Fortymile in 1894, and was
at one time the president of that order, be
sides being the founder of several branches
thereof in Seattle and other towns.
"At the time of his death Tom O’Brien
! was an extensive owner of Seattle real
’ estate. He was attended in his final illness
i by his nephew, Dr. Maurice Dwyer of Se
attle, who came to Dawson in a vain effort
to save his uncle’s life.
“Mr. O'Brien was the owner of the
brewery in this city. He had been
in that business for twelve years. Last
1 spring he visited Seattle, and was so pleased
with the results of prohibition and so im
pressed with what it had done for that city
that he became an ardent ‘dry advocate.’
He freely predicted that both Yukon terri
tory and Alaska would go ‘dry' m a short
time.
“His funeral will be held in Dawson on
Monday next, under the auspices of the
Yukon Pioneers and the Fraternal Order
of Flagles.
“The passing of the old-timer robs the
Yukon of one of its best friends and most
consistent boosters. Tom O'Brien was
! known to every man in the Northern coun
try who had ever visited Dawson. He was
| always ready to help those who needed help
■ and has done much to build up and de
velop the Klondike camp. His death is
mourned by many friends all over the North
aim in Seattle.”
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H. H. PORTER WILL LEAVE
FOR LOWER YUKON CAMP
II. H. Porter, who has been in business
in this city since the early days of the
camp, is packing up his stock of goods for
shipment to the Marshall diggings. The
building which he has occupied on First
avenue has been taken down, and together
with the building which formerly was oc
cupied by the Star restaurant, will be
loaded on Mr. Porter’s big barge and towed
I to the new camp, where they will be re
erected to house the stock.
The departure of Mr. Porter is generally
regretted. The well-known “House of Qual
ity” has been a prominent feature of the
business life of Iditarod, first under the firm
name of Crowley & Porter, and later con
ducted by Mr. Porter alone. The citizens
of Iditarod will wish Mr. Porter success in
his new location.
NEW SUITS FILED
New suits have been filed with Commis
sioner Geraghty as follows:
Northern Commercial Company vs. Harry
Nonagaki and Tony Sumi, for $509.75, with
; interest thereon from October 8, 1913, for
j goods, wares and merchandise delivered.
| Attachment has been issued.
Miners & Merchants Bank vs. W. H.
| Toms, for collection of $109.35, interest on a
! certain promissory note, the principal of
| which has been liquidated. Judgment is
i also asked on a certain promissory note
j dated September 11, 1915, for $367,94, with
interest, attorney’s fee and costs.
SAILOR KILLED BY RATS
NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—After four days
of searching, the body of Alfred Doey, a
ship’s carpenter, was found huddled in a
corner of the hold of the freighter Nor
mandie, off Tompkinsville, where he made
his last stand against rats. When the hatch
was opened the gray beasts swarmed up on
deck and the rescue squad had to stop to
beat them off before Doey’s body could be
removed.
At dusk he had fallen down a hatchway.
His leg was broken and he dragged him
self to a corner of the hold, where the
gray host could assail him only from in
front. The rats were victorious in the
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The north part of Claud Baker’s double
breasted mansion on Richmond street is
being torn down and shipped to Fortuna
Ledge, where it will be re-erected as a resi
dence by Mrs. Blanche Robinson, the Idit
: arod laundress.
ALASKA RAILROAD PROJECI
WILL BE JEOPARDIZED
BY ELECTION OF HUGHES
Telegrams received at Juneau on August
18 from Seward and Seattle stated that
great indignation existed in those cities be
cause of the refusal of Charles E. Hughes,
Republican nominee for President, to com
mit himself to the completion of the gov
ernment railroad that has been started in
Alaska, or for the extension of government
railroad work in the territory, according to
the Juneau Empire. Great efforts were
made by Republicans in Seward and Seattle
to get the candidate to make a clear-cut
and positive declaration in specific terms
that he would, if elected, favor the con
tinuation of the railroad and wagon road
development in Alaska, but the best they
could get from him in his Seattle speech
was a terse statement that he favored the
development of Alaska.
The Evening Post of Seward, an indepen
dent paper with Republican leanings, here
tofore inclined to support Delegate Wick
ersham, wired its correspondent at Seattle
to get a statement from Mr. Hughes while
he was in that city relative to the policy j
that his administration would adopt toward |
the government railroad in Alaska. The j
Seward paper’s Seattle correspondent saw |
the publicity man of the Republican na
tional committee who is accompanying Mr.
Hughes, who promised to consult the can
didate about the matter. Mr. Hughes was j
told that there was a report, bearing all the
earmarks of authenticity, in circulation that
the Republicans, if they should come into
power, would kill the government railroad !
project in Alaska. Mr. Hughes was asked
to make a positive statement of his posi- |
tion. In his speech that night he simply I
said:
“You have a great empire in Alaska. I
want to see it developed.”
Not satisfied with this, the Seward Even
ing Post sent a telegram directly to Mr.
Hughes at Portland, and other influence ;
was brought to bear upon the candidate to |
declare himself, as the reports that a Re- j
publican regime would put an end to the j
government railroad work in Alaska were
again in circulation. At Portland Mr.
Hughes simply repeated his Seattle speech.
In view of the efforts that were made
to secure specific statements from Mr. i
Hughes regarding his proposed attitude to- j
ward Alaska, his refusal to say more than
to make the general statement that he j
wants to see Alaska developed is taken at
Seward to mean that government work in i
Alaska, either railroad or wagon road, wou^d |
be in jeopardy in the event of Republican
success in the nation next November.
Dispatches from Seattle say that there
is a great deal of more or less suppressed ;
excitement among Alaskans there over the I
situation.
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w. A. VINAL IS NOMINATED
ON WICKERSHAM TICKET
News comes from Fairbanks that the
name of W. A. Vinal of Ophir has been
placed on the Wickersham ticket as a can
didate for representative in the Alaska legis
latere, in lieu of that of Sylvester Howell
of Hot Springs, who declined to make the
race for the reason that his business affairs
required all his attention.
The substitution apparently was made a
few days prior to the closing of nomina
tions. Mr. Vinal circulated his petition for
nomination several weeks ago, but the de
lay in filing it probably was due to the
fact that Ophir has but one mail a month, j
and the communication may have been de- ;
laved in transit, j
Mr. Vinal is one of the leading citizens of
the Innoko country. He has been mining
in that district for many years, with con
siderable success, and is now United States
commissioner for the Innoko precinct. Re
cently he has been interested in the new
district of Tolstoi, and has been instru
mental in opening up that promising sec
tion to a large extent. He is popular with
his neighbors, and it is expected that he
will poll a heavy vote in this section of the
Fourth division.
Mr. Howell, the man replaced on the
ticket by Mr. Vinal, is, according to the
Ruby Record-Citizen, one of the men r
cently indicted by the grand jury at Ruby
for violation of the eight-hour law, and that
newspaper took occasion recently to deliver
a severe arraignment of his candidacy. It
is probable that his situation had some
influence in inducing him to retire from
the ticket.
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LOUIS LANE’S SCHOONER
WRECKED IN BERING SEA
SEATTLE, Aug. 26.—Captain Louis
Lane’s power schooner, the Great Bear,
was wrecked on August 10 on Pinnacle
rocks, near St. Matthew island, in Bering
sea. All on board were taken off and landed
safely on the island, where they remained
until picked up by the revenue cutter Mc
Culloch. The party was expected to arrive
at Nome within a few days.
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MARINE REPORT
There was no marine report yesterday
because of wire troubles. Thursday’s bul
letin reported the Schwatka, with barge, up
Koyukuk at 8 p. m. on the 13th. The Se
attle No. 3 also was up Koyukuk. The
Susie, with five barges, was up-bound at
Kotlik on the 13th.
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STANDING OF THE CLUBS
IN BIG BASEBALL LEAGUES
CHICAGO, Sept. 14.—The relative stand
ing of the clubs of the National and Ameri
can Baseball Leagues today is as follows:
National— American—
Brooklyn Boston
Philadelphia Detroit
Boston Chicago
New York New York
Pittsburgh St. Louis
Chicago Washington
St. Louis Cleveland
Cincinnati Philadelphia
TRANSPORTA 1 luN BUMNfcM
BOUGHT BY DAVE MUTCHLER
A deal was consummated duriog the past
week by which the transportation and
freighting business of Mutchler Bros., in
cluding the Iditarod Hat tramway and its
equipment, was acquired by David Mutch
ler, and hereafter it will be conducted under
his sole ownership.
George Mutchler, who disposed of his in
terests to his brother, is now on his way to
Tolstoi to look over the business opportu
nities of the new camp.
David Mutchler is planning on improve
ments to the tramway, and it is likely that
next spring will see an extension of the line
to Otter creek.
The auto car service recently installed is
giving satisfaction, and with the improve
ments already made on the track and those
contemplated, next spring will see the line
equipped for real rapid transit between this
city and the creeks.
FAILURE TO RECEIVE FREIGHT
CAUSE C-F APPREHENSION
TO RESIDENTS OF DISTRICT
Freight deliveries for the Iditarod district
this year have been of a somewhat unsat
isfactory character, and as the navigation
season draws to a close, considerable appre
hension is felt by merchants and public as
to whether all shipments will be delivered
at the Iditarod docks. Assurances have
been given the Fairbanks merchants by the
ocean and river transportation companies
that all freight consigned to that point wiil
be delivered before the close of navigation,
but as yet there has been no such assurance
riven as to freight destined for Iditarod.
Local shippers state that most of their food
products have been forwarded with com
mendable promptness so far, considering the
fact of the Seattle longshoremen’s strike
and the congested chndition of the freight
warehouses at St. Michael and apparent
lack of adequate river transportation facili
ties on the Yukon, caused by the enormous
government shipments of material for use
on the railroad building out of Nenana.
Recent reports received here were to the
effect that thousands of tons of freight were
at St. Michael, and that slow progress was
being made toward relieving the conges
♦ ion. It was said that an attempt was be
ing made to put in commission some of the
vessels whilh have lain on the ways at
that port for many years, but so far no
definite information to that effect has
reacneci nere.
One cause of the reported congestion is
said to be the terms of the government con
tract with the White Pass Company, which
stipulates for the delivery of the whole of
the railroad freight this season, and provid
ing heavy penalties in case of failure to
comply with the terms of the contract. As
a consequence the government freight is
being given preference.
In some respects Iditarod seems to have
fared better in the matter of freight de
liveries than some points on the \ukon. An
effort to relieve the food shortage at Mar
shall City, for instance, by drawing on
Ruby is said to have been unsuccessful be
cause of the fact that freight deliveries at
the latter point have not been such as to
permit of a distribution of staples to out
side points, and the same is true of St.
Michael, apparently. But the main trouble
appears to be lack of river boats to move
the freight.
It is said that the operators in the Mar
shall diggings have been drawing for quite
a while on the supplies of the river steam
boats to provision their mess houses, and
that when an operator was successful in
purchasing a limited quantity of staple food
products in such manner he has been com
pelled to divide up with the other operators.
In this manner flour, potatoes, condensed
milk and such articles have been divided
up a case or a crate at a time, being suffi
cient to relieve only the immediate wants.
The Iditarod river mosquito fleet, up to
the middle of this week, hud beer, lying at
Dikeman for some time past in comparative
idleness. With the arrival of the Wash
burn early in the week, with freight from
the Susie, however, there has been renewed
activity, and during the past few days many
tons of freight have been delivered. The
fall shipments of perishables are now on the
way. and as navigation on the Iditarod is
liable to end early in October, there will be
some great hustling on the part of the
“gasoline kids’’ from now on.
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EIGHT HUNDRED SETTLERS
AT MATANUSKA AND SUSITNA
Eight hundred settlers were found in the
Matanuska and Susitna country by C. R.
Arundell, the new chief of the Alaska field
division of the United States land office,
who has arrived in Seward from that dis
trict. Mr. Arundell is the official who took
the place of Mr. Christensen when the lat
ter was attached to the Alaska engineering
commission. One of the remarkable facts
noted up there by him was that some of
the settlers are now' cutting red top that
grows six and eight feet in height. Other
conditions are also most promising in the
farming 'line. Mr. Arundell visited the coal
mine of Dick Dougherty, and at that time
Mr. Dougherty had gone in 492 feet and
had 1,200 or 1,400 tons of coal on the
dump.
A communication just received, by Mr.
Arundell from the department indicates that
the parcels of lands not carrying coal in
the Matanuska coal area will be thrown
open for settlement under the general rules
governing land allotment.—Seward Gate
way. _ _
MAN WHO SANK LUSITANIA
COPENHAGEN, Aug. 26.—A Reuter
dispatch received here states that Max Val
entiner, son of the dean of the Sendersburg
cathedral, was the captain and commander
of the submarine w'hich sank the Lusi
tania. The report further states that he
has been decorated with a number of or
ders, including the Iron Cross of the first
cIess and the Hohenzollern House Order,
with swords of special distinction, a per
sonal gift from the emperor.
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j LONDON, Sept. 14.—The British advance against
; Stuma, on the Greek front, has begun. Four villages
| have been taken by them, while the French have at
tacked Vardar. The allies are developing a new of
fensive on the Macedonian front.
Turks Pillage and Massacre
PARIS, Sept. 15.—The Greek port of Kavalia
was pillaged and its citizens massacred by the lurks
on the withdrawal of the Greek garrison.
Roumanians Occupy Hungarian Town
LONDON, Sept. 9.—The Roumanians have occu
pied Orzova, an important town in Hungary.
On the West Front
LONDON, Sept. 14.—The French on the north of
Peronne are holding tenaciously to the salient they
have driven into the German lines.
PARIS, Sept. 15.—The French forces on the
Somme have captured some positions and enlarged
others.
Anti-War Demonstrations
BERLIN, Sept. 14.—Notable anti-war demonstra
tions are reported from Bucharest. Resolutions
have been adopted urging Roumama to rescind its
declaration of war.
A Russian destroyer has been sunk by a German
aeroplane in the Gulf of Riga. Other sea forces
also were attacked.
General Haig’s Recent Statement
LONDON, Aug. 26.—On the Somme front, where
the Anglo-French forces have been carrying on a re
lentless warfare on the German lines, hurling attack
after attack at the trenches and fortifications, the
Germans and their allies are slowly but surely being
driven back. After fifty-six days of battling, during
all of which time the German forces have been on
the defensive, more than a score of villages and a
number of strongly-fortified redoubts which were
held by the enemy when the offensive started are now
in possession of General Haig’s men. According to
reports received here, General Haig states that
within six months hundreds of miles of French ter
ritory now in the hands of the invading army will
house once more the French peasants heretofore ren
dered homeless. General Haig reports that the Ger
mans are weakening and that reinforcements consist
chiefly of the older men and the younger boys.
POLICE FIRE ON RIOTERS
IN STREET CAR STRIKE
NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—Fierce rioting has devel
oped in connection wnth the street railroad strike.
The police have fired upon the rioters. Striking
’ carmen fired upon elevated trains, and the police
were rushed for duty on housetops along the line.
The mayor’s plan of mediation of the strike has
failed, and the proposed franchise for motor lines
cannot become effective until the expiration of thirty
days.
A strike call has been issued to three-quarters of
a million workers for a walk-out in sympathy with
the striking street car men.
The strike has so far failed to halt car traffic.
The contest is to decide the question as to whether
or not the men will be permitted to organize.
Rioting on Seattle water rront
SEATTLE, Sept. 15.—Open defiance of the police
! and rioting engaged in by more than a hundred
striking longshoremen last night brought out the
police reserves to quell the disturbances along the
water front. Seventy-two of the rioters were
landed in jail.
Fight with I. W. W.'s
EVERETT, Wash., Sept. 9.—The sheriff and his
deputies had a pitched battle with I. W. W. s here
today. Business men of the city responded to the
call of the officers.
Meeting of I. W. W.’s Raided
SCRANTON, Pa., Sept. 15.—The sheriff and his
deputies, aided by the state troops, raided a meet
ing of the Industrial Workers of the World here last
night. Three hundred and eighteen of those partici
pating were arrested and thrown into jail.
GREAT BRITAIN RESENTS SWEDEN’S ACTION
LONDON, Sept. 14.—A sharp exchange of notes
has taken place between Great Britain and Sweden
in regard to the retaliatory seizure of mail in transit
from England to Russia.
It is regarded as unlikely that Great Britain will
change her blacklist policy at the request of the
United States.