Have to Travel Some
To Follow the Ponies
New York—Unless something new springs up beiore next winter
there will be but one racetrack in operation before the season closes in
this country and Canada, and that is at Juarez. The recent bill passed
in California seems to be a decisive result ot the crusade against Tom
Williams and his Oakland and San Francisco plants
There are those who think that the hills passed at Sacramento
were to clear the way for another bill that will provide lor racing dining
a limited number of days in each city of a stipulated number of inhabi
tants and with speculation under the pari-mutual system, a bill some
what similar to that now in force in Kentucky.
It is claimed that the recent measure bad to be passed before the
contemplated bill could be presented. Ii such is the case, and fiiends
of the limitation bill were strong enough to close the Oakland track,
they surely are strong enough to pass a rebel bill. I heie are others
who believe that with the passage of the recent bills racing in California
is dead, as the legislators would hardly pass such an extraordinary bill
as they did and a few minutes afterward turn around and pass a bill
making racing and speculation legal under certain conditions.
In Florida there is a bill that went into operation early in April
which will decide the fate of Moticrief park unless there is a loopnole
through which “Curley” Brown may creep or by liis judicious manage- ■
tuent be able to bolster up enough friends to continue the sport at
Jacksonville. Brown claims that there is a chance for racing next
winter for 40 or 50 days and that there is also a chance for a small
circuit of tracks in the south. j
Theie is another opportunity for a track to be built in Cuba. One
must never forget that if ever there was a hustler in the racetrack line;
be is “Curley” Brown, and, judging by the feeling among horsemen at j
Jacksonville, he could have followers by the wholesale no matter where;
he opened a track. (
Tells of Doings on Nixon *s Fork
In a letter to Dick Wood, president of the First National bank at
Fairbanks, in which he tells Mr. Wood of having been staked in on
some ground in that section, Commissioner YV . I‘ ■ Green ot Iakotua,
has things of interest to say about the possibilities there.
He writes Mr. Wood as follows :
“I find your name in the Bell association claim on Flat creek in the
Nixon Folk country. Nixon Fork is the right fork of the lakotna j
river and heads against the Noviknkit. Flat creek is the left fork of
Nixon and is showing up well, as high as 6oc to the pan on the left
limit rim on i a. The Mayflower is owned by I*. Braudel and Big!
Fritz Walter, and is two and a half miles above the Bell. 1 hose in
terested with you are J. Ryan, Mrs. Carie Ryan, Joe \ ogler, H. 1 in
dell, Mrs. Isabel Stanford, A. P. Anderson and Jack Ross, who died
here last October. This is now in probate. The claim was slaked by
Alex McDonald, April 16, 1910.
Two and a half miles above your ground, gold weighing two grains
was picked out of the gravel on a claim owned by Capt. V estbv and
partner J. Johnson.
The ground is wet and prospecting is slew. It is 12 feet deep. A
hand drill is now on the way there so we expect to know the extent of
the pay very soon. Coarse gold has been found also on the west fork
Flat and on Hunker, Bonita, Alder, Von Frank, Falls and Whiilwind
creeks. These are all wet, but not deep so far as known, and cover a
large section, as some of the creeks are 20 miles long.
Fire Beli Tolls Knell of a Fortunate Wisfake
There was “noting didditig” when
the fire bell and the fire whistle called
out the chemical last Monday after
noon for a hard run to the M. & M.
bank building from whence a cali had
been turned in about 3 o'clock.
A defective stove draught had filled
the upstairs with smoke, and believing
a fire to be under way, but not being
able to locate it, Charles Ross played
the safe side and sent in the call for
the chemical. It arrived quickly with
the aid of a large bunch of volunteers,
and for a few moments there was a
lively skirmish to locate the blaze that
did not exist. The only damage re
ported is one charge of the chemical.
John Folsom, one of the original dis
coverers of Moore creek, has been in
town during the week. He is figuring
on doing some prospecting on the Ditna
this summer.
Al. McDonald, Angus McDonald and
Dougal McPherson, who spent the win
ter on Donlan creek, have been en
joying the rapidity of city life for a few
days.
The Home Beautiful
We have plenty of Wallpaper and
House Lining to make your home com
fortable for the rest of the summer.
Also paint to paint your boat and let
people know you are afloat.
ANDERSON BROS. & NERLANO
Phone 21
The inhabitants of Flat were much
elated and impressed during the week
by the spectacular log-driving feats
performed by the attaches of the
Cleveland mill. Chief among these
was F. A. Cleveland himself, who with
festive mien and airy grace leaped
lightly from log to log, sometimes
making it in two jumps. It was
thought quite remarkable, considering
that he was not yet 82 years old.
Miss Taylor is at present mastering
the mysteries of the telephone switch
board at the local exchange, in pre
paration for a regular shift when the
system is enlarged this spring.
TURN YOUR FACE TO
For Bnspiration
Corner Second Avenue and Willow Street
George Auten Dave Ferguson
PAT KEYS AND PHIL NIAYHAN, PROPS.
Telephone Main 64. Office at Ophir House, Willow St.
PASSENGERS, EXPRESS and FREIGHT
Leaves Ophir House, Iditarod, daily, except Sunday 9 a.m.
Leaves Flat Creek, daily, except Sunday..' 2 p.m
Passenger Rate, $5, each way.
Freight Rates: From Iditarod to Flat City, 3ic a pound. To Creek Points
above 1*1 at City, 4Jc. To Discovery, Otter, 4.}c.
iV AWA'A-a-,* . .
CONTENTMENT
King Midas lived in tho days of
old; whatever he touched would
turn to gold. The sandwich and the
pumpkin pie, the long, cold pint of
extra dry, all kinds of tilings where
on he’d feed, the paper that lie trie 1
to read, the dachshund and the
thomas cat, his stogies and iiis Sun
day hat, ail turned to good, old vir
gin gold, and yet the monarch’s feet
ware cold. “Ods death,” quoth lie,
“this makes me tired; f find more,
gold than I desired; I find that
gold’s a false alarm and if some
sprite would lift the charm that’s
loading me with yellow bars, I i
I'd gladly pass around cigars.” And
there are moderns longing much
and greatly for the Midas’ touch.
They’d like to see whate’er they
hold turn into bars of virgin gold,
and fill their cellar bins with dross,
and count their millions by the
gross. Yet, all the age-long records
show that wealth but multiplies
one's woe; tho more you have, the
more you fret; you cease to sleep,
forget to eat, and pace the floor
on frantic feet, to knock the Midas
record cold, and pile up forty cords
of gold. I have some cake, and
pie and bread, I have a roof above
my head, I have a good old easy
chair, some books to read, some
clothes to wear and sundry troubles
put away to help out on a rainy
day, a pair of slippers by the fire,
and nothing more do I desire.
WALT MASON.
A MOLLYCODDLE LAY
Prithee, Jack London and others
who’ve flooded
Tiie market with novels of virulent
v i ra,
Reeking with phrases of people “red
blooded,”
“Hairy and heavy and grimy and
grim.”
Prithee, we’re weary of heroes gigan
tic,
Mighty young demigods out of the
West,
Tell us of somebody near the At
lantic,
Someone with less than a fifty-inch
chest.
Sing to us, also, of fluffy young
ladies
Loving sonis heroes of moderate
size,
Men who aren’t far front the cities
where trade is
Shaggy young giants no longer we
prize.
When you make heroes of peoplo like
we are,
Somehow it makes us as proud as
the deuce,
But when they’re combined of Ulysses
and “T R.,”
We must ejaculate “Well, what’s
the use ? ”
“Red-blooded” volumes have come in
terrific
Torrents and rivers from many a
pen,
Now that it's summer we long for
pacific
Tales of good common-place people
again;
Mortals who never fought bad men or
sheriffs,
Meek - mannered people we meet
every day,
People who talk about drama and
tariffs,—
As for the “Redbloods”—aw, take
’em away !
—Berton Braylev in Puck.
They Wilt Catch Your
Trunks on the Fly
With an agent at Dikeman to check
all baggage coming up river and pack
horses leaving town every morning at
nine o’clock, Joe Mc-Namee and C. O.
Fowler, who have formed the Iditarod
Express company, are in shape to look
after all incoming express and baggage
traffic, besides giving Iditarod and the
creeks a rapid service during the bad
going of the summer.
The company started operations last
Tuesday and are taking express mat
ter from this city to any point on the
creeks. They will make a business of
attending to all manner of commissions,
excluding heavy freight. When prop
erly fixed up for business they will have
office and storage room here and at
Flat, but for the time being their tem
porary office will be at the Red Cross
Drug store.
Documents From Fairbanks
Papers in two lawsuits instituted in
the district court at Fairbanks were
brought down recently and have been
served on the defendants in this dis
trict.
Both actions are for debt, one bein ti
the suit of Morrison & Saul vs. W. W.
Nelson and the other being the action
entitled Dome City Bank vs. Lemer.
Both defendants are residents of the
creeks. _
F. A. Cleveland is making prep,
arations for the installation of a
sawmill at Flat city.
<
Northern
Com-.•nereis 1
Company
THE ONLY PLACE
IN TOWN TO GET
__WE ARE THE SOLE AGENTS_
Stores: Iditarocl and 1.3 ike man
Bob Simpson, the jeweler, went to j
Flat last Tuesday to look up a location !
for a branch house he will establish !
out there in the near future.
Bob Martin visited the city again
this week in connection with his Gran
ite creek deal, where lie lias sold all
his holdings.
Ed Britt and Tom Maher were in
town Monday and Tuesday last, com
pleting the details of the Britt transfer
on lower Flat.
The steamer Lois, which was sunk
at Dikcman some weeks ago in t lie
process of loosening her from the ice,
is a total loss, with the exception of
her machinery. She has been stripped
and abandoned.
The launch Edna left Iditarod on
Thursday morning on her first trip to
Dikeman, where she goes for a load of!
Ross & Nestor lumber.
Owing to the difficulty in deciding
when the ice really went out, the
guessing contest at the Golden Eagle
saloon was declared off. Those who
made guesses will receive back their
deposits upon application.
Owing to the fact that Mr. Johnson,
of flume hose fame has been confined
to the hospital by sickness, the work
of turning out some urgent orders has
been somewhat delayed. Mrs. Johnson
lias taken his place at the machine,
however, and is trying to keep the out
put up to the average.
Mrs. Robert Martin of Otter creek
is confined to the local hospital suf
fering with a bad attack of grippe,
which threatened to turn into pneu
monia. She is reported to be improv
ing.
Gularte & Footas are having the
Lime of their lives straightening up
the floor of their saloon on Front
street. Through the winter the silis
have settled into the muck, making it
necessary to tear out the whole floor
and readjust it. The work was also
carried on iDto Friedman’s store ad
| joining, where it has been found
necessary to remove the muck and fill
in with slabs. Manuel’s saloon will
doubtless not open until near the first
of the month.
Mi-. A. Skanks, a quartz man of
Colorado, has been a visitor in the
citv for the last few days.
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Notes From 01(3 Man Country
The creeks at present attracting the
attention of prospectors in the Old Man
country, north of Gibbon, are Moose,
Squirrel, Porphyry, Allatd, Butte and
Lake. Ten men are prospecting there
and of that number Lee Noble, Mike
Kenally, Joe Shaw, George Dale and
St. Peter will remain through the
summer.
The ground is shallow and quite a
number of holes have been bedrocked,
but no very flattering prospects have
been obtained.
In many places light colors of gold
have been found. Specimens of stream
tin are common, several of which were
brought into Tanana. This metal is so
common that, should gold be located in
paying quantities, it is certain the tia
would interfere with the sluicing.
The creeks being prospected are all
tributary to the Middle Fork of Old
Man. The formation is composed of
granite, schist, porphyry and slate.
The South Fork and the Middle Fork,
lying on either side, are in granite.
Word has been received of Glen R.
Metsket’s marriage in February to Miss
Mary Katheryne Shannon at Forest
Grove. Mr. Metsker has been land
agent at Fairbanks for the past year.
Joe Gove, Guy Marks and Jack
Simpson, laymen on No. 7, first tier
bench, left limit, Goldstream, recently
purchased a 40-h.p. boiler and 12-h.p.
hoist.__
Store your dog sleds and harnesses
where they will be safe. Pioneer Stor
age: phone 54.
Peabody Smokes a
Very Fanciful Pipe
Everybody who has visited Alaska knows Capt. Peabody as the
man, who for years ran independent steamboats on the Yukon and the
Tatiana rivers and who took Captain Barnette up the latter when lie
was looking for the site of the metropolis of Fairbanks. Captain Pea
body was seeing New York this spring for the first time since 1898
when he gave out the following story about the founding of Fairbanks
"It was in 1901 that in the steamer Lavelle Young, of more than
600 tons, I took Capt. Barnette up the Tannna river for 290 miles, look,
ing for a place to stait a camp. Capt. Ba.nette was looking for gold.
His idea was solely to trade for furs and at the lime he was $32,000 in
debt, partly for the 126 tons of merchandise ol various kinds which he
took along to barter.
"I had never been up the river before, and I was told at St. Michael
it would be impossible in that steamer. There wasn’t any chart, but I
just kept to the middle of the liver and went up until Capt. Barnette
saw a clump of fine trees on the hank and were stopped. During the
latter part of our journey we would pass an Indian village of five or six
tents every few miles, which even as we looked back, would disappear,
for immediately the inhabitants would puli down their tents, stow them
in canoes and paddle along after us to see what we were going to do.
"Barnette had brought carpenters along, and by the time the freight
was unloaded they had a log house built over it, and that was the start
of the town.
"Then some of Barnette's men tnought the country looked good
enough to prospect in, and an Italian named Piedro sank a hole and
came across gold nuggets as big as your hand, and that made Fairbanks
a mining camp. Then, when Dan McCaity got lost in the neighbor
hood and just to pass the time sank a hole 011 Fairbanks creek and
found ore, that started the boom.
"But the work of unloading that st; a n;r was about the cheapest I
ever had done. I got the Indians to do it, and the nay they demanded
was a chew of tobacco and some sweet cakes.”
Twenty-live years ago the territory
of Alaska possessed only 13 1-2 miles of
road. Of those, 12 miles were built by
the Russians on Kodiak island, and the
remaining 1 1-2 miles ran out of the
capital. Sitka.
Jim Sturgill, who went from the Idit
arod early in the winter started for the
Outside from Fairbanks recently. He
plans returning here at the opening of
navigation.
The Smithsonian institution at Wash
ington contains 10 mummies obtained
from a cave on Unalaska, one of the
Aleutian islands.
I. N. Gatrell of Columbus, Ohio, is
inquiring regarding the whereabouts
of J. E. Gatrell, who was supposed to
be in Fairbanks last September.
The trading post of St. Michael wrs
founded by the Russians in 1835. It
was later transferred by them to the
Alaska Commercial Co., who were suc
ceeded in time by the N. C. Co. ard
the N. N. Co.
See Seneco about space and Summer
rates. Pioneer Storage; phone 54.
If you want your clothing cleansd or pressed
ring up Wile the Tailor—Phone 68
THE HEIGHT OF LUXURY
A steam bath, a nice lunch, a
furnished room to sleep in. Elite
Baths, Caribou street.
Pugilist Disqualified
as Peaceful Citizen
According to an English judge a
boxer must not lag in his assault and
battering upon a ring opponent and
the referee is justified in disqualifying
him for being a “peaceful citizen.”
The decision was made in the case of
Jack Goldswain, who was disqualified
for holding on in the eleventh round
of a battle for the welterweight title
of England. He sued the promoter
for his share of the purse and training
expenses.
j The following is copied from the de
| cision of Justice Darling:
I “I gather that it is the duty of a
I pugilist who undertakes to fight to go
| on committing assault and battery as
i fast and hard as possible. Occasionally
iie refuses to do this and becomes a
I peaceable citizen. He hangs upon the
1 neck of the othe'r combatant and then
this is objected to by the referee and
others who come to see the fight. He
is, accordingly, ordered to resume
assault and battery, and if ho does not
do it he is disqualified — for being a
peaceful citizen.”
Len DeCou, who has been connected
with Brumbaugh, Hamilton & Kellogg
during the winter went down to Dike
man during the week to take up his
duties as purser of the Samson.
FOR OUIETNESS AND COMFORT SLEEP AT
The Palaee cnA
Mutchler Bros.
FR 1QHTERS
Telephone 67 Wood for Sale I
Rates: To Flat Creek, 3 1-2 cents a pound. To Creek Points!
Above Flat, 4 1-2 cents. To Discovery, Otter, 4 1-2 cents. {
Stage Line Between Iditarod and Fiat City:
Leaves Flat City 8 a. m. Leaves iditarod 2 p. m.
Iditarod Office, Next to Sherburne House, Willow Street.
Flat City Office, Grand Hotel. ij