IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital, $50,000.00
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T. J. Nestor, Vice President
E. G. Lind berg, Manager
John Holmes, Cashier and Assayer
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It is learned on good authority that the Keystone drill which has
been employed on Sterling Dark's Chicken creek ground under the di
l ection of J dm Ronan has proved the existence or a rich paystrenk on
that creek, although the extent of the pay has not yet been ascertained.
It is stated that an average of 75 cents was found at the bottom o!
the drill holes and as eight 4 inch drill holes are considered to equal one
foot of bedrock, this Would give $6 to the foot.
Ronan & Aitkeu have an option on the five-claim association
where the pay has been found, and it is considered doubtful by those
who should know whether they would accept a cash offer of $25,000 for
t le same at the present time. It is reported that they took the option
with a view to turning over the ground to the Yukon Gold Company,
if it showed ud sufficiently well to tempt that corporation, but Confirm
ation of this rumor is lacking. Anyhow the Keystone drill was form
eily used by the company on Flat, and it was they who ordered the
s m* to be dismantled and taken over to Chicken.
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LAUMCH OFF5CE 1
IJitarod, Alaska ^
Notice of Forfeiture
TO WILLIAM C HASH:
Von, your heirs and assigns, are hereby noti
fied that the undersigned has expended in labor
and improvements the sum of one hundred dol
lars— $100—for each of the years of 1911 and 1912
upon placer mining claim known as and called
No.7 Above Discovery on Danes creek in the
Intiuko Mining and Recording District, District
of Alaska: you are further notified that if at the
expiration of ninety -90—days aftei the last
publication of this notice you fail or refuse to
contribute your proportion of such expenditure,
your interest in said claim will become the
property of the undersigned your co-owner
under Section 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States. K M. WHELAN.
First publication August 3, 1912.
Last publication November 2, 1912.
At Our Old-Time Location
ON THE SUMMER TRAIL
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SERVANT’S STRANGE STORY
EXPLAINED BY NEWSPAPER
Berlin, August 20.—A preacher
at Innsbruck. Germany, recently
declared that while Pope Pius X
1 was engaged in prayer he fell
into an ecstasy and rose several
feet into the air.
Cases of levitation, technical word
for the phenomenon, are recorded
I in the lives of many of the saints;
• hut if a vviiter in the New Century,
a journal of marked anti-papal
tendencies, is to be believed, the
story of Pius X. has a very simple
explanation.
The Pope, it says, was working
jin his study, and happened to re
quire a book from a shelf which
j was beyond his reach. He there
i fore, climbed on a chair to reach it.
A servant in an ante-room, from
motives of curiosity, not perhaps
unmixed with piety, looked through
i the keyhole to see what the Pope
i did when he was alone. To his
! amazement he saw the white robed
figure of the pontiff floating a
j couple of feet above the floor. The
i fact was that between him and Pius
X. stood a desk which hid the chair
upon which the Pope was standing.
It never occurred to the servant
that so great a person as the Pope
would resort to so simple an expe
dient to get a &book. Hence he
jumped to the conclusion that he
was witnessing the phenomenon of
levitation.
CLAIMS WE SHOULD
WALK LIKE MONKEYS
Leipzig, August 20.—All the miseries
to which man is subject are directly
attributable to the fact that he behaves
like a biped, although nature intended
him for a quadruped. This is the new
doctrine being preached by Dr. Emil
Klotz, who contends that the proper
position of the human spine is horizon
tal, and that the method of locomotion
j should be on all fours.
Dr. Wortmann visited Iditarod Mon
i day.
DESCRIBES
OROLIK DIMES
Writing to the Nome Industrial Worker from Quinhagak, on
the lower Kuskokwim, Frank Sharp and John Stratton give much
information relating to the Orolik diggings. There was an early
spring in that district and the winter dumps cleaned up much bet
ter than expected.
John Hardy, an old-timer of Nome who rocked on the beach in
! 1899, and who also at one time ran the roadhouse at Penny river,
I is operating on discovery, Butte creek- Prospecting with his part
ners during the winter they found excellent pay. One 1-b. Butte
creek, which is owned by Albert Gabrielson, are lessees named
Chris Edmundson and George Broadhurst- They are employing
about 14 men. It was on this claim that the big money was taken
out last season. No. 2-b. is owned by Will Leslie, who was form
erly in Nome and in Council City. He has good pay and has a
number of men at work this season. On 3-b- good pay was located
during the winter by John Haroldso.a and he was expecting to op.
erate on a b:g scale this summer.
Tom Padden from Nushagak will operate on Quartz creek,
where he has been prospecting and where he found suprisingly good
pay. McLean, Campbell and Hansen will work on Snow Gulch,
and from indications they will take out considerable money. When
the letter was written they were at the mouth of the river waiting
for Frank Waskey, who was expected in almost any day. Mason
brothers from Nushagak, who are mineralogists, have discovered a
garnet mine. At present they are testing the garnets; they are
fine-looking samples and seem to be valuable.
Taken all in all, says the letter, the future of the camp looks
bright, and gets brighter all the time. The squaw men and the
fishermen, who do most of the knocking but never mine, are gone
to work in the canneries, where no doubt they will pass off as first
class miners.
Bill Cushing and partner, Nel.s Sorenson, have been prospect
ing on the Good News river all winter. Reports state that they
struck it, but nothing at all reliable has been learned from them
direct.
Mrs. Ruth Sherburne, W. Warren, Chris Heney and A1 Burke
have taken over No. 3 Bear Pup, Ruby district, from Charles Per.
nander, the owner, for a consideration of $17,000.
J. Russell Walle, of Tanana, lias left on a tour around the
world.
A mining engineer named Dunkle, said to be representing the
Guggenheims, has been examining properties on Willow creek, j
near Seward, for the past two months.
The discoverer of the rich quartz at Teikhell is a native named (
Steve Clark. Clark used to hang around Dell Clark’s dance hall
in the palmy days of Seward.
Doc Mading arrived at Seward the second week in August, to
j look after his quartz interests in that district.
Ketchikan has appropriated over $11,000 for school purposes
J for the ensuing year.
A new placer strike is recorded from Lewis creek, a tributary
j of the Susitna.
Gustatfson & Noellor have struck very rich pay on Fairbanks
! creek.
Howard Turner, of the N. C. Co., who has just returned from
the Koyukuk, says that that district is looking better than it has
done for years. Much machinery is now going into the camp, and
the population is largar than ever before.
Steamboat men are having much trouble with their freight in
i the Fairbanks district, as the water in the slough opposite the
j town is very low.
j C. S. Sargent has returned to Fairbanks after a year’s ab
sence. He is interested in quartz mines in the Fairbanks district.
Archie McIntyre will leave shortly for the Novikaket, where
he proposes lo spend the winter prospecting. He has been visit
I mg Fairbanks for the past two or three weeks.
William Reagan, now serving a long sentence at McNeil’s
island for the rape of Violet Myers, has secured the services of
Ferdinand de Journel,of the firm of West & De Journel. San Fran
cisco, to represent him when his case comes up before the court of
appeals.
Capt. Jandis, master of the U. S. steamer Jeff Davis, on the
Yukon, has been retired at the age of 80 years.
N. J. McNeil, Box 118, Seattle,
Wash., is inquiring for his nephew,
John Vencen McNeil, who has not
been heard from for over two years.
When John Vencen McNeil last wrote
he was in the Iditarod district and was
interested in claims on Little creek,
Lynx creek, Makeup creek and other
places.
Mrs. Almira Davis, of Faith, S. Dak.,
is inquiring for her son, Harry A.
Davis. When Mr. Davis last wrote he j
was preparing to go to the Kovukuk
with W. C. Mitchell and others.
Mrs. Imogens Puhler, of Milwaukee,
is inquiring after her sister, Mrs. L. N.
Lowell, from whom she has not heard
for some time. Replies should be sent
to Mrs. Puhler, per Mr. Ira Bell, Pfis
ter hotel barber shop, Milwaukee, who
will forward the letters.
Mrs. Martin Larson, of 629 S. Third
street, Rockford, 111., is inquiring for
her husband, Martin Larson, who is
supposed to be in Iditarod. Mr. Lar- {
son has not been heard from for sev
eral months, when he wrote that h3
was leaving Ruby for this camp. Any-j
one knowing where Mr. Larson is will ■
please call his attention to th>s notice. 1
MSS. ANNIE NEE GOES
OUTSIDE TO BE MARRIED
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Mrs. Nee, of Fairbanks, arrived j
in Skagivay Tuesday evening, and
was the guest of Mrs. W. C. Mc
Kenzie on Wednesday, going south
on the Dolphin. Mrs. Nee, who
has been a resident of Fairbanks
for several years, is on her way to
Seattle, where she will become the
wife of Mr. Percy G. Charles, chief
deputy U. S. marshal of that place.
—Skagway Alaskan, August 17.
SUTCHLERS GET BIG CONTRACT
Last week the Mutcblers secured
a contract for hauling 3,000 cords of
wood for Riley & Marstou, Otter
creek. The wood will be hauled to
Discovery and 2 a. from Boulder,
Granite and Alder.
Ha>'ry Buhro returned from the
Aniak early this week. I
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The steamer M. L. Washburn or the
launch Nancy Bell will leave Iditarod
September 17 at 7 a. tn. to connect with ;
i lie Senator at St. Michael. Passengers
will also be able to make connection
for up-river points on this trip.
The last boat to make conection for
the Outside will leave here September
27. Either the Nancy Beli or the M.
L. Washburn will make the trip, and
will connect at Holy Cross with the
Herman for St. Michael, where pas
sengers will board the steamer Victoria
for Seattle.
WORK ON MARVEL CREEK, ANIAK
A fair amount of work is going on on
Marvel creek, in the Aniak, according i
o Fred Labelie.
At the head of the creek Mr. Perry
is sluicing. He claims to have pay j
running f-1 to the foot, and five feet to j
bedrock. Johnny Bennet. who is work- j
ing about 1,000 feet below Perry, Inis
six or seven men shoveling in. Ken
nedy, Benson and Joe Mulvrin, who are
working about a mile and a-half below
Bennet, have about ten men shoveling
in. He is doing very well, with tiie
ground five feet to bedrock and 50 cents
and up to tiie foot. He lias crosscut
tiie creek and claims to have 3,000 feet
of pay.
Mr. Labelle says that provisions are
plentiful on the Ku .kokwim, and ean be
sent into tiie Aniak from Bethel at six
cents a pound.
SDSITRA MIKES WILL
^TAPT STAMP S
Seward, August 31. —A company ha
been formed to build a power plant on 1
tlie Little Susitna river which will
supply electricity for the entire Willow
creek and Fishook mining districts. It
is believed this will double the outuut i
of the districts.
The Gold Bullion mine is now pro
ducing about $1000 a day. The Alaska
Free Gold property is installing a
tramway to the stamp mill.
Another rich strike is reported in
the Knik country by Frank Skeen and
Ira Issues. The Alaska road commis
sion is now building a wagon road from
Knik to Willow creek.
ARRIVALS ON I. L. WASHBURN
The M. L,. Washburn, which
arrived from Holy' Cross Monday
night at about 8:45, brought up
about 600 pounds of first and second
class mail and the following pas
sengers:
Judge F. E. Fuller, Falcon Joslin,
of the Alaska Wireless company; 1
Deputy Marshal E. L. Vavvter, J.
Donovan, B. W. Stickney, Jerry
Ford, Postal Inspector T. J. Flavin, !
Win. Suuderbruch, Mrs. Frank
Larson, Mis. K. Crouse and Mrs.
G. W. Sundberg.
TO PERFORM SURGICAL MIRACLE
Atlanta, Ga., August 23.—Sur
geons here have completed arrange
rnents for performing what it suc
cessful will actually be a miracle of
the surgical art. A murderer is to
be executed and the surgeons pro
pose to graft the eyes of the exe
cuted man on the person of a blind
boy and thus restore the latter’s
sight. Naturally the general public
scoff at the possibility of such an
operation, and refuse to take the
story seriously.
Ed Uhl returned to Iditarod the first
of the week.
SHOOTS RIVAL AND ACTRESS
AND THEN COMMITS SUICIDE
Allentown, Pa., August 20 —
Eric Schaffer, an actor in the ‘'Get
Rich-Quick Wallingford” company,
went to the flat of Miss Lovauda 1
Caynes, an actress, forme ily of
Scranton, and found there William
J Free, a well known businessman
of South Bethlehem. Schaffer shot
and killed the actress, who was 23
years of age and more than ordi
narily good looking He also fired
three shots into Free’s body, in
flicting wounds which it is said |
will prove fatal. He then fled.
A policeman saw Schaffer leav- j
ing the house with the revolver in
his hand and gave chase. He
failed, however, to catch him and :
returned to the flat, where he found
the woman at the point of death.
She died before she could he re
moved to the hospital, but F'ree
was taken there, and was able to
tell all about the tragedy to Distiict
Attorney Rupp
Rite in the afternoon John Muth,
a farmer, whose place is three
miles south of this citv, saw a man
answering the description of the
murderer sitting under a tree by
the roadside. He started toward
him, but the man pointed a revolver
at him and Muth fled. A minute
1 a 1 er Muth heard a shot and turn
ing saw Schaffer had sent a bullet
through his own head. He was
dead when Muth reached him.
FEARED THE HAWK, BUT
TRUSTED RUTHLESS MAN
That even instinct errs was evi
deuced last Monday, when a bunch
of ptarmigan alighted in the busi
ness section of Flat City, to escapt
capture by a ferocious hawk. To
the ptarmigan the hawk was a
deadly foe, although he would
have been satisfied with but one of
the flight; hut the bi.ds thought
they would be safer with man, and
evidences ol their misplaced cotifi
deuce garnished more than one
table that evening. C R. Peck
shot two of the birds opposite his
Front street store, a dog caught
another, the druggist got a thitd,
and Pete Pierce picked one off the
roof of his store. The birds were
terrified and dazed. Hearing so
many shots the citizens rushed to
their doors, to see the rare spectacle
of hunted ptarmigan taking refuge
among treacherous humans. It
was a sad error in judgiueut on the
part of the ptarmigan.
When Fred Labelle was coming
from the Aniak he met Thorns and Mc
Donald going in. They were then
about 30 miles up the Aniak. They
said they had had a very hard trip from
Tditarod, the travel over the portage
being very hard owing to lack of water
in the lakes. Thorns & McDonald had
a drill with them with which they
were going to prospect some ground on ,
Marvel and other creeks.
Terry L. McGrath visited Iditarod j
Sunday and Monday.
GUGGENHEIMS TO BUILD
A $300,000 SMELTER
Tacoma, August 23.—It is announced
here today that the Guggenheim syn
dicate will begin at once on the con
struction of a $300,000 smelter to bo
built near their Alaskan Copper pro
perties, probably at Cordova or some
suitable place near there. Managers of
the company say that they anticipate
great improvements in Alaska business,
which calls for tho building of tha
smelter. Their assistant vice president,
Mr. Lipmun, is now in tlie Klondike
after having recently visited the pr >
perties of the Guggenheims on the
Copper river railroad. It is said that
it was partly upon Ins recommendation
that tlie decision to build the smelter
was decided upon.
Notice of Dissolution of Partnership
Notice is hereby givstt that the part
nership heretofore existing between T.
K. Webber and M. J. McDermott, under
tile firm name and style of I'. K. Webber
& Co , doing a mercantile business at
Flat City, Alaska, was dissolved on the
2nd day of September, 1912, bv mutual
consent. All debts owing to the said
partnership are to be paid to I-'. Ii. Web
ber or W. B. Thomas, of Flat City,
Alaska, said parties being authorized to
collect said debts; and all demands on
said partnership arc to be presented to
Fb K. Webber for payment.
M. J. McDERMOTT.
Bv W. B. Thomas, his attornev in fact.
F. E. WEBBER'.
Notice ot Dissolution of Partnership
Notice is hereby given that the co
partnership heretofore existing betwvi :i
E. Mutchler, C. F Marsh and G. A.
Bishop, operating as laymen on the Flat
Iron Fraction, adjoining the Idaho asso
ciation claim, situate at the head of Flat
creek, in tire Otter precinct, territory ot
Alaska, lias this day been dissolve.! In
mutual consent, and all parties having
bills against the said firm will present
the same for payment to C. II. Marsh
and G. A. Bishop, who have taken over
the lay from E. Mutchler and assume
ail indebtedness incurred by the said co
partnership of Mutchler, Marsh C:
Bishop. K. MUTCHLER.
C. II. MARSH.
G. A. BISHOP.
Dated at Iditarod, this 30th day of
August, 1912.
Public Notice of Dissolution of Partnership
Notice is hereby given that the part
nership lately subsisting between C. P.
Chesley, J. M. Ryan and F. L. Kehoe,
under the firm name of Chesley, Ryan &
Kehoe, doing a general merchandising
business, was dissolved on the 29th day
of August, 1912, by mutual consent. All
debts owing .to the said partnership are
to be paid to Ryan and Kehoe, who will
pav all debts against the said partnership.
C. P. CHESLEY.
J. M. RYAN.
E. L. KEKOF.
Witnessed by: James M. Wilson. Sam’l
Applebaum.
Iditarod, Alaska, August 29, 19; 2.
Public Notice of Dissolution of Partnership
Notice is hereby given that the part
nership lately subsisting between Geo.
C. Friend, B. T. James and T. F. Law
son, doing a mining business was dis
solved on the 19th day of August, 19111,
by mutual consent. All debts owing to
the said partnership are to be paid to
B. T. James, to whom all the demands
on the said partnership are to be pre
sented. GEO. O. FRIEND.
B. T. JAMES.
T. F. LAWSON.
NOTICE
Ail persons who claim any interest
therein, in opposition to the lien claim
ant may come in aud answer and set up
and defend their said claims, but no
claim or claims of any owner, lessee or
other adverse defendant shall bar the
lien claimant from recovering the sum
1.400 hundred dollars Conduct claims,
Happy Gulch due him, for actual labor
1911 in producing the said dump or
mass of mineral bearing sands, gravels,
earth, or rock or gold and gold dust, or
other minerals. JOHN SEITl'FLA.
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