IDI7ARCD, ALASKA
Capital, $50,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted Gold Dust Bought and Assayed
Dratts Issued on Any Fart of the World
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT: SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK
OFFICERS:
CKAS. ROSS, President
JOHN HOLMES, Cashier
R. C. BUTTON, Asst. Cashier
NOTHING GOT THE BEST
p, CITY The place to ^eet
x,!«, ri • .Your Friends
PROF. DRAPEAU S
MOVING PICTURES
I’r • -or (kharles Prapeau. lobnrod’s
nasi ml mm spin in dire
: ami Alaska’s most iv*‘ed eornet i-layer
viinrisrd h • m my old friends h-t Saiur
, .\ aftnrno. n by o nnng ashore fn in the
j. Made I ' iplain H > K'-d M 1
l r . :.ri.{ wi'.i km. v.a.- a big and splendid
mg-pietur#* outfit, with \nhich l:c in
V - to ; um.-f ;he people »f • Vt.-r reeinet
•.i::.;ig t . * •.t11* slimin'T. A.-mei ll-'d
v.rh Professor Prapeau n tin cn 'r\ rise
young 1 1 Poirnor y naiui
has a spleml s a l
pi ire opera:. Tbt ir lb-t eon-mammem
v. . givtui Iasi .\ioinn y nig! t n A Ii. it id
:h;s eity. before i crowd ;h.it enmh.rt ablv
oil . the big a : ;: Tiur.i. rh 1 show la-ted
. • two hour-. and evetvi. dv *a- well
ji i The sec -mi oxb-v.m was on
Tin -nay night.
V prapeau is well supplied with t’lm.
o : lias many ill re • n the wav. : nu k
. ■: -red to furnish many .'veiling c i good
amusements.
TO STAKE HOMESTEADS
IN THE SUSITNA VALLEY
A n-!.( r; from S attic says that more
1 - ...... Vlas!
.an 1 l*-f: fur the Nh-rth
]•■ . : •’y on if,. - team* h j p Admiral Samp*
.11. v. i h \1. a.-: **t fading land
■A mg tm Id of the prupOMid government
r: lr< d. Many of them are men who.
oiler making small fortunes in the North,
1 md.t fan.ung h :.• i in tin* I’nited State*
and Canada.
The withdrawal i y President \\ ilsun of a
i; • .her of towmito- along the route which
1 i.hs from Portage hay to the interior
v; liter way system, has Id to the conclusion
Cult the main trunk line of the proposed
railroad will run through tlie rich grass
Jai, > of the Susitna valley to the agricul
• . al land on the Tanana. and it is certain
ih a vast amount of this land will b
mured under the hr:.-.-’rad act before the
rummer is ended.
Approximately 400.000 acre' of grass
which, in . i covered with i
m:. ;i 1 am milt rf k pine and spruce tim
i.-r. was '’.irvry.M* uni r the (iirection of
;m, inter, r r ,m: in lb 12 and 1319.
Ii i' t dieveu that this land, which is now
available to dev h-pmem. is as suitable for
agricultural and -lock raising as any in the
l nited States.
in :he cr-'w i that \v. nt North were Gus
>'-inert. \V. McAdams. Ross Kinney, Charles
Pu'rr. ‘Sport" Sn.hd. a well-known dog
iv,: :,*i. and other Noineites. They are rep
r--• v .iiv- of the .‘>t. Louis Mining &
i: Company, and are taking in a idsr
ira die plant, which will be in-U idled on
V - • v: n ere-k. which emptm- into Cook
Many rf the employes *>i the coni
] \ . ill take up agricubural land as soon
: - :h, mining season is over and erect
their cabins and develop their claims during
the winter.
Chris Hansen, who owns a big ranch in
tin' Yakima valley, also was a passenger
oil the Kvun<. He will select a site in the
gras.- lands as soon as he arrives and make
| arrangements to ship 300 head of cattle
' with a view of e-tabli.-hing a dairy farm.
He 1‘Xpects to make sales of his product to
the men who build the Alaska railroad and
to furnish supplies to the innumerable min
■ ing outfits in the Cook inlet region.
The St. Louis Mining & Trading Com
pany was financed by (bus Seiitert. who 1
the president and general manager. Me
engaged a crew of hydraulic mniers, prac
tically all of whom will take up home
steads as soon as the col 1 weather sets in.
The company has a big out tit of hydraulic
pipe and giant.-.
BASEBALL
Standing of Ciubs in Big Leagues
Up to May 27
Northwestern League
Won to-: Pet.
Y.mei over ■ 2S 12 .1 tit*
Seattle . 27 It) .'12s
Sou..me . 2! P.I .7)27)
To,oo. o .PI 2.4 .47,2
Poiolo.l .17 21 .417,
\i ena . 11 24 .275
Pacific Ccast League
Won Li i-t Pet.
San Fra::! • • • 22 22 .593
Ye!!!f ■■ o' I 21 .0OS
!. Ana la . 25 2S .472
Pottloinl .21 24 .4i‘,i
Saerainenti,. 24 2. .4*1*1
* to .Intel ■ ■ 2.1 2J -4l)s
American League
Won Lot Pet.
Wn-hinet. n . 2U 1 . .‘125
Pl.ita.telnliia .... Is 11 .921
Detroit .2i 14 0(10
New \ i o k ■ - ■ ■ 14 1*1 .4117
Boston -. 14 1*1 .4*17
st. Louis. 15 is .455
(’hieasm . M 2*1 .444
Ll'vdan.l . .. 1! 22 .333
National League
Won Lo.-t Pet.
Pittsburgh . 21 9 .700
V .v York . 17 11 .007
f.'iihinnati . 20 15 .571
Hr. oklyn . 15 3 4 .517
Si. Louis . 17 20 .459
Philadelphia . 12 10 .429
Chi, ago . 15 2o .429
Bo.-o a. 8 20 .280
Federal League
\V,.n Lo,r. Pet.
Baltimore . lit 7 .72,1
Brooklyn . 13 11 .542
Buffalo . 14 13 .517
('hieago . 10 10 . Oat
Kansas Pity . 15 10 .484
Indianan lis . 14 10 .407
S:. Louis . 13 IS .419
Pittsburgh . 13 20 394
DESTITUTE MEN NOT WANTED
Many men have been mushing into Daw
son lately over the trail, looking for work.
Some land here with barely enough t«> bring
thrm through on short rations, but men
■ with less than 825 are iv>: allowed to pass
: the summit. Dawson News.
CLOSING GUT SALE j
Pipes Pipes Pipes j
By the gross, dozen or one—ai! kinds—Calabash, Peterson, Garrick, M.ssouri Meer-|
schaum, etc.
CIGARS CIGARS j
Eight of the best and most popular brands. We are closing out at greatly re
: riuced prir.es, including the famous "Red, White and Blue" in tins and boxes.
Tobaccos--27 Varieties
Chewing Tobaccos
EIGHT DIFFERENT BRANDS—ALL GOOD GOO DS jj
Fine assortment of CAN DIES—including Fresh, Home-made Goods.
Fresh Copenhagen Snuff—6-oz. tins, 50c.
I Fine Line of Choice Toilet Soaps
i Creek merchants will profit by taking advantage of our Ciosing-Out Sale of To
■ baccos ar;d Smokers' Articles.
! HURST BROS.
! IMPERIAL CIGAR STORE IDITAROD. ALASKA
1 for SALE—For $300, the Imperial Cigar Store Building, on Willow street i
a __
New Daily for Fairbanks
The Alaska Citizen, published at Fair
j banks, announces that beginning with July
i 1 it will be issued daily. This makes three
j daily newspapers for the Interior metropolis.
Millard Talks Home Rule
| Senator B. F. Millard of Valdez stated
! recently in Seattle that unless congress
j legalizes the acts of the Alaska legislature a
1 special session will be called next summer,
j and a resolution calling upon congress to
! grant tin* territory a full measure of terri
| torial government will be passed, and the
| body will adjourn. lie said that the time
I has come when tin* people of Alaska should
be placed in control of their own affairs.
Famous Indian Guide Dies at Haines
Word comes from Haines of the death |
I at that place recently of Schwatka. the |
Indian guide who gained fame for piloting!
Lieutenant Schwatka across Chilkoot pass
| and down the Yukon river in the 'SOs.
Lieutenant Sclnvatka’s trips through Alaska
were made famous by subsequent lecturing
tour.' and his published work-. Schwatka,
who died at Haines, has borne his name
ever since the trip he took with Lieutenant
Schwatka. It is said that la1 claimed it be
cause Schwatka did not pay him for his
services. The story is that when refused his j
pay by Lieutenant Schwatka tne guide tie
nounced the latter anil told him that he
would die and "I will take your name ami
use it as long as I live."
Yukon Gold Company Changes
The Yukon G ild Company, which is the
title of the Guggonheim corporation operat
ing plait r mines m Yukon Territory and
the Territory of Alaska, on May 12 lik'd
with ('harles E. Davidson, secretary of the
territory, at Juneau, papers revoking the
appointment of Senator Henry Roden as
Alaska agent for that corporation. At the
Mime time a certificate of appointment des
ignating Edwin A. Austin of iditarod as the
company agent for Alaska was placed on
record. Dav.son News.
American Line tc Connect With Atlin
The preliminary survey for the railroad,
line of the Taku Railway iV Navigation J
( mipany was begun recently. E. I. Rond. |
who has been the Juneau agent for the in- i
tere>ts Lack of the enterprise, left for the J
Taku river, nceompameu by l- L Wet trick
the Wvll kiMvvn civil engineer, for the pur- ,
pose of making the preliminary survey up
the Taku river to the jlritish Columbia j
line. The line on the American sale is j
to connect with a line running northerly |
on the Canadian side to Allin and to Lake j
Tr slin. At Teslin it is designed to connect |
with a line of river steamers that will navi- !
gate the Yukon river and tributaries. An- ,
other branch is planned to run in a south- J
erly direction to connect with the Grand ,
Trunk Pacific, l or the present the tide-J
water terminus will be on Luka inlet, but j
it i' not improbable that eventually it will j
be built to Juneau.
Eby Sentenced
A. Kbv. who pleaded guilt'- i > an in
• " , i
bictment charging him with th° embezzb*
ment of $7,500 while in the empl >y of S.
Blum & Cm. Cordova bankers, was sen
tenced May -V> to a term of eighteen
months at McNeil i.-lnn-b
Negroes in Canneries
A Seattle dispatch says: The trouble j
and scandals that have grown out of the J
employment- of Orientals and Alaskan In- ,
dians in the canneries of Alaska in years i
past have resulted in governmental efforts ,
to provide cannery forces which will be !
less susceptible to criticism and result in 1
possibly a cleaner or more sanitary output.
'I lie first results from this crusade was when ;
twenty-two negroes from the South were
passengers on the City of Seattle lor the
canneries for experimental work there.
Crosoley Goes East
J. J. Cros.dev, district attorney for the
I-ourth district, has completed his legal du
ties in San Francisco and left for a visit
to his home in Iowa. He will return to
Fairbanks in time to proceed to Iditarod to
be on hand when court opens on July 0.
The tax cases in which Mr. Crossley ap- ;
peared on behalf of the government at San '
• Francisco are now being considered by that
! court, and a decision may be handed down
at any time.
Karluk Wrecked
i A Nome dispatch of May 29 states that
Captain R. A. Bartlett, master of Explorer
| Stefansson’s llagship, the Karluk, arrived at
; St. Michael the night previous on the steam
I whaler Herman, and reports the wreck of
his vessel in the Arctic ice at a point sixty
j miles north of Herald island, which is east
! of Wrangell island, off the northern shore
: of Siberia. Captain Bartlett states that the
| Karluk was crushed by the ice on January
| lb. and that following the disaster he and
1 the members of the crew mushed to Wran
gell island, where sixteen of the men are
now encamped, awaiting the arrival of the
relief ship. The captain left the island
about the middle of March and made his
way to the Siberian coast in company with
an Eskimo, where he was picked up by
the Herman. The eamp at Wrangell island
is well supplied with provisions but Captain
Bartlett and his companions were reduced
to short rations before they were rescued
by the whaler, and suffered many hardships.
The Karluk was carried off by the ice last
fall, while Stefansson and several other
members of the expedition were on shore
hunting caribou. The vessel has been re
ported several times since its disappearance,
but Captain Bartlett brings the first word
direct from the lost ship.
Fairbanks Mail by Automobile
Colonel Richardson, president of the
Alaska road commission, believing that the
department will ultimately see the wisdom
of the shorter and more expeditious mail
route from Valdez to Fairbanks, has volun
teered upon the part of the road commis
sion to make an experimental run by auto
mobile. As supplies must be taken to the
interior, it would not entail much additional
expense to carry the mail. But his idea i>
to make only one or two trips during the
season, commencing probably in July, when
th eroads are in fair condition. The com
mission already lias one auto truck, but is
having another shipped in. The new one
is of a little greater speed and power, and
it will be used to make the mail run. It
is the intention of Colonel Richardson to
make the experimental run with the object
in view of showing just what can be done
under ordinary circumstances, and without
any unusual effort, in giving the people
of the Tanuna valley a mail service during
the summer season. It is expected that
the present time required in transporting
the mail between Seattle and Fairbanks,
via Skagway. Whitehorse and Dawson, can
be reduced about one-half. For eight
months of the year the mail is taken via
Cordova, Chitina and Fairbanks.
Equipment for Alaska Road
Horses and other equipment and outfit
for the board of engineers of the Alaska
railroad commis. ion were shipped from Se
attle on May 27. The horses and supplies
will be discharged at Ship creek, on Kenai
peninsula, where the commission will estab
lish its headquarters camp.
$200 Toward Road Repairs
United States U mimissinner I7. (\»ke Hill,
at Ruby, recently received a telegram from
J*,hn Zug of the Alaska roa i commUsion,
stationed at Fairbanks giving him author
ity to expend not to exceed $200 in repair- |
inz the government road betwe* n Ruby and
Long creek.
One More Unfortunate
While mushing along over the :ce on
Fish lake some time ag •. .Lwk MeU.ann
noticed a hand near the surface. Upon in*
vc-tigation hr found that it belonged to j
<he body of a. man feue-n in :1.• • ice A.
large air hole in the ice made it impossible j
to sec the face, but the balance of the body
could be seen clearly thr ugh the glare ice.
Upon reaching Hot Springs. Commis. inner .
J. E. Coffer was notified "f the gruesome i
find, but as the lake is out of his district, j
he notified (Vmmis>i zu r Joseph Derm of r
Tanana. The latter summoned a coroner’s j
jury, which journeyed to the scene of the i
find and held an inquest. The body proved
to be that of Frank Wvey, who was lost
while hunting last fall. After rendering a
verdict of death by accidental drowning, j
the remains were taken from the ice and
removed to Tanana.
A Trapper's Miserable End
. i
When Court Co:nniis>ioner 1 >;: 1 .:i anil Dr.
Sutherland went down to the Kar.tishna j
the other day and held an inquest over i
the lx y of A. R. Hooper they found a i
diary in tin* cabin. The dead trapper had I
started it in August. 1013. - -uinai ly when j
lie went there and estabiid; d himself for!
the season. He didn’t have much com- i
ment to make at any tine*, but ;t is a
concise narrative of life as he saw it and i
bravely faced it to the end. first aggres- I
sivclv, then hopefully, manfully, and finally ,
unflinchingly until he saw only an agon- i
izing death ahead without possible aid j
from without, and ended it all with his
rit! \ Food was found in the cabin. Sick
ness alone seems to have overcome Hooper.
Fairbanks News-Miner.
COAL BEING SHIPPED
FROM THE YUKON MINES
While Alaska is shouting to get the
privilege to mine and burn its own coal,
Yukon mines are producing thousands of
tons for home consumption in Dawson and
at points along the Yukon river and on
the creeks near Dawson, says the News of
that city. Not only that, but the Yukon
is finding a coal market in Alaska. George
J. Milton, general manager of the i'ive
Fingers Coal Company, who has just re
turned from his old home in St. Paul,
Minn., where he spent the winter, states
that he closed a contract recently to de
liver to the White Pass Railway Company
this season 4,000 tons of coal for use on
the railway in operation of trains between
Skagway and Whitehorse. He says:
“We also have hopes that before long
our coal will be burned in Juneau, Wran
gel, Ketchikan and other Alaskan coast
points. President Dickeson of the White
Pass hopes to be able to place the coal
there, and is working even to get it into
Prince Rupert.
“The duty is removed from coal going
iuto Alaska, and this gives us a good swing
at the business there. We also expect to
place some in the Fairbanks market. There
is no reason why they should net use our
product.
“Our properties will continue to operate
steadily at Five Fingers this season. W'e
have opened on the lower level, and have
thirty men working at the mine.”
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Extra parts for these motors will be carried in stock.
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SAYS TUBERCULOSIS IS
NOT AN INFECTIOUS DISEASE
The statement of one of the country’s
leading medical authorities on tuberculosis,
to the effect that there is very little danger
from infection of this disease, will come as
a matter of extreme gratification to many
sensible men. both in and out of the pro
fission. who have long deplored the excited
condition of the public mind on this sub
ject. The gentleman who makes this com
forting statement is Dr. K R. Baldwin of
Saranac lake, who is a recognized specialist,
and his assurances lose nothing of their
value because they are referred to editori
ally, and with approval, by the Journal of
the American Medical Association.
Dr. Baldwin's conclusion is that “adults
are very little endangered by close contact
with open tuberculosis, and not at all in
ordinary association,” and he further says:
“Qualify these statements as we may. it i.
time for a reaction against the extreme
ideas of infection now prevailing. There
has been too much read into popular liter
ature by health boards and lectures that
has no sound basis in facts, and it needs
to be dropped out or revised.” He be
lieve.s that “the preachments about the dan
ger of infection to adults in the present
state of society are without justification
from an experimental standpoint."
To all of which the Journal of the Ameri
can Medical Association add:- that these
.-tatements “represent not one man’s views,
but what seems to be the growing convic
tion ( the nioM progressive and thoughtful
students of tuberculosis at the present
time.”
It i' fortunate that, the disclosures re
garding the non infectious nature of tuber
culi sis should come with tlie authority of
one who is accounted a specialist on the
subject, and that it should be vouched for
by so high a medical authority as the Jour
nal of the American Medical Association,
since now there will bo 1 -- room for skep
tic: m and less opportunity for dissent. The
medical journal referred to calls the preva
lent attitude of the public thought on the
aubeet by the appropriate if difficult title.
"Phthi-iophobia,” and commends Dr. Bald
win’s advice to apply a check to this mania.
Th'-'C who have observed the campaign
against tuberculosis which is now being
aged by certain portions of the medical
profession will hardly care to deny that
it has resulted in a deplorable hysteria,
which has not done the country any good.
Earnest men and women have been beguiled
by specious arguments of humanitarianism
into lending their aid to a publicity cam
paign that was ostensibly intended to warn
the public again t the ravages of the disease
but which has served only to spread in the
thought and hearts of hundreds of thou
sands a paralyzing fear that never should
have been created.
Members of state legislatures have been
impressed in many instances by the dra
matic and highly colored accounts of the
dangers of tuberculosis, furnished by over
zealous advocates of radical repressive
measures. This has sometimes resulted in
proposals to appropriate large urns of the
public money to build tuberculosis hospi
tals. Under the spur of what now proves
to be an unwarranted fear, lawmakers have
been urged to pledge the state to un
thought-of expenses, in order to treat all
who might be thus afflicted.
It has even been proposed to enact legis
lation which would clearly be unconstitu
tional. It has been proposed to give to
state boards of health unlimited authority
to enter the home and forcibly remove tu
berculosis patients to state hospitals, where
compulsory treatment would be adminis
tered. All of which has been jusified by the
advocates of these drastic measures on the
grounds that the danger of infection was
! so great as to demand such action.
Now that the medical profession has
modified its view about tuberculosis and its
menace to the public health as a trans
missible disease, perhaps the revelation, or
confession, whichever it may be, has come
in time to save a good many heartaches
j and further spreading of the debilitating
I fear which has hitherto accompanied the
I publicity campaign. Perhaps, also, the law
! makers, who have been stirred to unwonted
: depths of benevolent desire to guard the
I public health, may conclude that great ex
I penditures of the state money to protect
j citizens from a disease that has no serious
MERCHANTS CAFE
Oalers lo Large and Sinai! Parties
PRIVATE DIM1MG ROQPAS
Popular Prices Everything First Class
CHAS. E. FILLER, PROP.
_PATRON!ZEJ^OMEJNDUSTRY_
FAIRBANKS BEER
DRAFT AND BOTTiE
Bottled Beer $25 Barrel, $5 Dozen, 50c Bottle, 3 Bottles $1.25;
saloon] I
DISTRIBUTING AGENTS
"3“ if — Gold St., Flat City
| ||U Mrs. Swanson, Prop.
Nicely Famished Rooms Earn for Horses and Dogs Baths in Correction
infectious character would he poor econ
omy. to say the least. “Christian Science
Monitor.
OKLAHOMAN STEALS ROAD
AND RUNS IT HIMSELF
M"-kogpp. Ol'.Ia.. April 8. “I’ve siden
a railroad; I want to know if I can be
prosecuted.”
M. J. Maples, former justice of the peace
:;i Webbers Falls, Okla.. with a twinkle in
1 is eye, dropped into the office of County
Attorney W. E. Disney here and asked the
above question. I.'i.-ney knew Maples was
joking and asked what he meant.
Maples then explained. Last spring the
promoters of the Webbers Falls, Shawnee
& Western, a twelve-mile line between
Warner, Okla., and Webbers Falls, aban
doned operation of the road, and its tracks
have been idle since. That is. until Squire
Maples happened to think of all the good
road that was going to waste. Maples ac- |
cordingly purchased a second-hand gaso
line-driven inspection car, placed it on the
rails, and since that time has been doing
a thriving business carrying passengers
over the abandoned road between the two
towns.
The car is now making several trips daily
between the points, and cannot accommo
date the passengers. The f;ire is 50 cents
each way. and Maples has no one to de
mand shares of his profits in dividends. lie
is president and general manager, general !
superintendent, the engineering department,
shop force, train crew and section boss and
section gang all at the same time, and
says he is making money.
Maples was told that he wasn’t exactly
a trespasser, but that he was charging
over the regulation per mile per passenger.
Maples said he wanted to know about the
trespassing “chances/ because he wanted
to improve ‘‘his" road and did not know
just how far he could go.
SIMPLE CURE FOR COLDS
An incipient cold can often be prevented
by taking ten to twenty deep, full breaths
in the open air or at an open window. The
breath must be drawn through the nose
verv slowdy till the lungs are filled, held a
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NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS BY DAY OR WEEK
Warm, Clean Well Ventilated
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
Passage and
Bath Parlors
MEDICATED, MINERAL VAPOR, STEAM,
TUB, SALT AND FRESH WATER 0411
Caribou St., Bet. Black and Willow Sts., on Waterfront
Electric and Faradic Massage Treatments by Expert Attendants
Lighted bv Gas Heated by Steam
_ —-■— — rnTtn*Tiimnirii Ti, [tit****
econd, and exhaled slowly till iho lur.^s
ire emptied.- Cliirar i Journal.
Choice fresh lamb, 35c lb
Iditarod Meat C
FINE NEW STOCK OF
Just unpacked and placed on
display at my new Wiiiow-street
store room.
HOUSELINING. BURLAP, ETC.
All Shades of IViixed Paints
H. SCHNEIDER
Best of Everything
ALL THE TIME AT THE
Arcade Cafe
FLAT CITY
Open Dav and Night
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DISKAKET AND CRIPPLE CITY
Big Stocks, Standard Goods
Gasoline and Lubricating Oil j
Good Roadhouse in Connection j
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FLAT CITY_
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