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 Wor'd
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT: SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANX
OFFICERS:
CHAS. ROSS. President
JOHN HOLMES, Cashier
R. C. BUTTON, Asst, Cashier
MERCHANTS CAFE
Caters to Large and Small Parties
PRIVATE DINING ROOMS
Popular Prices Everything First Class
CI2AS. E. MILLER, PROP.
Gold St., Flat City
Mrs. Swanson, Prop.
Dining Room Now Open
Furnished Rooms Barn for Horses and Dogs Baths in Connection
Native Customs
That the trial marriages among the na
tives of Alaska under the ancient Tribal
customs work out better than the modern
system is the opinion of Commander Bal
linger of the revenue cutter Bear, and in
his annual report to the department he
recommends that either proper facilities
for obtaining divorces in Alaska should be
provided or greater precaution should be
taken in marrying the natives under the
Alaska code. - Juneau Post.
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Fort Davis Will Be Abandoned
Fort Davis will be closed down after all.
acoTiling to reports received by the Nome
Industrial Worker. It is stated that the
(■dicers have orders to be prepared to dis
pose of everything and that the quarters
will be closed after the transport takes the
orp.piit detachment from ihe fort. This
news is said to be of a final nature.
Prospecting Appliances at Nome
There is now a regular craze for divining
rods among prospectors, and many place
implicit confidence in the witchery of the
rod. Among the most devout believers in
the divining rod is Louis Stevenson of the
Pioneer Mining Company, but there are
others. In fact, it is safe to say that when
a persons opens up with a prospector on
the question he is likely as not to pull one
out of his hip pocket with the remark:
‘ Now. here's one that's as true as a com
pass.” Nome Industrial Worker.
GHOST OF PIONEER TRAPPER
HAUNTS ARIZONA CANYON
William?. Ariz.. April 7. In Wilson can
yon. southeast of Williams, is an uncanny
ppot wherein horses shy and bolt from ter
rors heretofore invisible to the human eye.
At least three wagons have been wrecked
there by runaways that started without
apparent cause. But at last a veritable
ghost has been materialized on the un
shaken testimony of two young residents of
the locality, Wright Clark and ‘“Tex”
Own by.
They say that last Sunday evening about
dusk they were riding down the Wilson
canyon trail when their horses became
frightened, snorting and prancing in ter
ror. The boys looked to the right and
saw emerging from behind a juniper tree
the form of a man at least six feet in
height, with long gray hair and beard, clad
in buckskin and dragging an old-fashioned
gun about as long as himself. Boys and
horses- stood as though entranced while the
apparition encircled them noiselessly,
though the ritie was seen to strike the
rocks. The circle about complete, the
figure stopped and, still without sound,
dropped the butt of the gun to the ground.
Then it was the boys departed without
delay, to pull up their foaming and trem
bling steeds a couple of miles away and de
termine it had not been a dream.
Pioneer residents declare the description
of the ghost exactly fits that of an old,
trapper named Wilson, after whom the can- j
yon was named. Eighteen years ago one j
summer day he wounded a bear and chased
it into the canyon. The beast turned back
upon him and as he had no charge in his
muzzle-loading rifle he climbed into a
juniper tree, but not to safety, for the bear
followed, dragged him by the foot to the
ground and killed him.
REVOLUTION IN MEXICO
WIPES OUT CATTLE TRADE
El Paso, Tex.. April 2.—The cattle indus
try in Northern Mexico, lately the source,
of a large portion of the meat supply of
the United Stales, has been practically
wiped out by the Mexican revolution, and
many of the largest cattle raisers have been
forced out of business.
Yearling steers now are selling for §30,
and §35 here, and 2-year-olds for §40 to
$47. and the supply is small. Before the
revolution S20 was a good price for a
yearling and $30 for a 2-year-old. The j
high price and scarcity of Mexican beef.;
coupled with the poor condition of the;
ranges through Texas and New Mexico, and i
the epidemics cf blackleg which have raged
among the cattle in those two states, are'
going to have an important effect upon the;
American market, and cattlemen here I
prophesy that beef will be higher than ever1
this spring.
General Luis Terrazas, the largest cattle
raiser in Mexico, and owner of thousands
of acres in Chihuahua, now is a fugitive on
the American side of the border, accompa
nied by several ohter large cattle raisers.
Before the revolution the annual export
from the Terrazas ranches was between
50.000 and 75,000 head. For the past fif
teen years Terrazas has branded between
75.000 and 100,000 calves. Last year “the
iron” was put on but 500.
Location Notices at Pioneer ofth*e
CLOSING OUT SALE
Pipes Pipes Pipes
By the gross, dozen or one—all kinds—Calabash, Peterson, Garrick, Missouri Meer
schaum, etc.
CIGARS CIGARS
Eight of the best and most popular brands. We are closing out at greatly re
duced prices, including the famous “Red, White and Blue"—in tins and boxes.
Tobaccos--27 Varieties
Chewing Tobaccos
EIGHT DIFFERENT BRANDS—ALL GOOD GOO DS
Fine assortment of CANDIES—including Fresh. Home-made Goods.
Fresh Copenhagen Snuff—6-oz. tins, 50c.
Fine Line of Choice Toilet Soaps
Creek merchants will profit by taking advantage of our Closing-Out Sale of To
baccos and Smokers' Articles.
HURST BROS.
IMPERIAL CIGAR STORE IDITAROD. ALASKA
FOR SALE—For S300, the Imperial Cigar Store Building, on Willow street
ANGUS sms FOR
HEAVY HAIMS
Angus McDonald on Tuesday last tiled
suit with the deputy clerk of the district
court against Thomas P. Aitken for
£100,000 damages. The case grows out of
the famous Chicago Bench Association
“jumping” incident of last October, and it
is expected that similar suits will be tiled
by others on like grounds.
Early in October of last year Samuel
Adams and William Knox located what was
known as the Spikenard claim on ground
claimed by Thomas P Aitken and under
lease to the Yukon Gold Company, known
as the Chicago Bench Association claim.
Adams, Knox, McDonald and Charles Krut
singer were arrested on a charge of criminal
trespass while engaged in the necessary loca
tion work on the claim. Adams and Mc
Donald were tried before Commissioner Al
brecht and acquitted, on the ground that
title had not been proven by Aitken, and
the charges against Knox and Krutsinger
were dismissed on motion of the prosecuting
attorney.
In his complaint, filed June », McDonald
alleges that on October 13, at Iditarod, the
defendant caused the arrest of plaintiff on a
charge of trespassing on the Chicago Bench
Association claim; that plaintiff was ar
rested on October 14 and imprisoned for ten
hours; that on October 22 plaintiff appeared
for a trial, whereupon the government
moved for a dismissal of the case, which
was granted by the court, and before the
plaintiff left the court room, defendant
herein filed another similar charge and
plaintiff was again arrested. He was tried
October 23 and acquitted.
The complaint recites that by reason of
the premises plaintiff was injured in his
reputation and person and was prevented
from attending to his business, and by all
said acts of defendant plaintiff has been
damaged in the sum of $100,000, for which
sum, together with costs, he asks judgment.
NATURE'S INFINITE MYSTERIES
(Chicago News)
The most striking thing about a really
learned man is not the extent of hi- ad
mitted ignorance. The wiser a person is.
the greater the number of things he doesn't
know. The more universally cocksure and
well informed one seems, the more likely
it is that he is a humbug.
How little has science made inroaii upon
that stupendous and limitless nescience that
surrounds it. as the stellar universe en
folds the tiny earth!
Sir Oliver Lodge the other day, at the
meeting of the British association, spoke
of the mystery of sex determination. Spite
of all claims, we know little more today
than did the cave men why one child is
born a boy and another a girl, and why
the world ratio keeps about the same.
Sir Oliver also expressed his wondet that
some plants bore both male and f- male
flowers. He said the same sap conies nito
the stem, 'but just at that junction where
differently sexed flowers branch away from
each other there must be some profound
change in the sap.
“I don’t know what if is. and micro
scopes tell me nothing about it,” he con
tinued. “Perhaps if physiologists could find
out just what happens in that little plant
joint the}- would get some clew to the rea
son why some human beings are born boys
and others girls.”
He might have pushed further his point
of wonder. How conies it that the earth
juices make here a white flower and there
a red? How is a huge oak all folded in
a little acorn?
How can nature make the peach, full of
juice and cased so closely in the thinnest of
tuzzy skin tnat never leaks r
How does blood food here create a hard
finger nail, there a hair and thfre a stony
tooth ?
What is electricity? We know somewhat
of how it acts. But what is it? We know
little more of it than does a savage.
What is life? What is the secret force
that transforms in a thrice a living dog
that eats his environment into a dead dog
whose environment eats him?
What is love? Why does this woman
thrill you and that one leave you cold
or repel you?
What is conscience, that world’s police
man that urges us on to what we think
right and affrights us at what we think
wrong ?
What is truth? What is personality?
What is being?
And these questions are not remote, aca
demic questions, not such things as Huxley
called “lunar politics.” but they touch the
very nearest and dearest regions of every
man’s life.
We are but dust motes in the sunbeam
of the infinite. We cling like oysters to
our little point in the bed of the vast
ocean of mystery.
All about us is nature, her mind a gal
axy of secrets, her thoughts far and strange
as the procession of the suns. Nothing be
fits us, her children, so much as reverence
for her purposes, humility before her great
brain, trust and love in her vast heart.
A recent census, the first of the kind ever
taken, credited Denmark, which has about
one-third the area of Wisconsin, with more
than 5,400,000 fruit trees.
Choice fresh lamb, 35c lb.
i Iditarod Meat Co.
TRAPPER'S BODY
mm IN CABIN
Nulato, June 9. -On June 2 natives came
down the Koyukuk river and reported to
Commissioner Strungmun the finding of the
body of a man in a cabin about one hun
dred miles from the mouth of the Koyukuk
river, near the Dalbi river. The body is
supposed to be that of Charles Sexton, who
was known to be in that vicinity, trapping
and prospecting.
Up to the present time the local authority
has made no attempt to investigate or posi
tively identify the body, or made any move
toward holding an inquest or bury the re
mains. The last heard from Sexton was
some time in March, when he sent a note
out by natives asking for his mail.
The commissioner at Nulato being N. C.
agent, postmaster, and also agent for the
American-Yukon Navigation Company,
makes it nearly impossible for him to at
tend to the duties assigned to the commis
sioner’s office. His plea for delay is lack
of funds to pay expenses. Feeling is very
strong here, and funds will probably be sub
scribed and a launch with private citizens
sent to investigate.
Passengers for Iditarod |
The Sarah arrived at Nulato about 4 p.
in. with the following passengers for Idita
rod: II. Boas and wife. Ed Anderson, Mr.
Hallberg, Mrs. Marston, Mrs. Campbell, Mrs.
Shonbeck, Mr. Beaton, wife and child, Sam
Bates. Mr. Jones, Mrs. Koland, John Schon,
I*. Matson. John Rose, B. T. James and
wife, George Shields, F. E. Warlick, John
Munz, Sam Adams and Chief Postal Clerk
Randles.
Outside letter mail left for Iditarod last
night. Second-class mail is being carried
on the Saran.
AMAZING RESOURCES OF
AMUR RIVER COUNTRY
Shanghai, April 10. -A recent traveler in
the Amur river country, Siberia, speaks of
the wonderful possibilities of development
there. Wealthy though it is, the district is
but little known. The Amur is navigable
for a distance of 2,000 miles, from Nic
elask, at the mouth, to Stretensk The
whole country appeared fine and promis
ing. There are wide plains, wholly uncul
tivated, on which grows excellent grass,
about throe feet high, of fine texture. Those
1 lains, it is estimated, would support mil
lions of sheep or cattle. The soil is of good
quality and of a deep black.
In the gardens and plantations where
settlements have arisen beautitul crops oi
:,11 descriptions were to be seen wheat,
bail y. oats and potatoes in abundance.
Through the last GUO miles to the sea the
country is one expanse of splendid forest,
both on Russian and Chinese territory. In
every mountain gully there were Chinese
prospectors seeking gold. A hundred mil
lion people could be settled in this white
man’s country.
Easily navigable, the Amur provides a
great natural highway for traffic from end
to end. It is strange that neither the
Chinese on the south nor the Russians on
the north appear to have made any seri
ous effort to develop the resources of the
country. There are signs of progress, how
ever. The chief of these is that wheat and
barley are being harvested by reapers in
Asia. The Russians are building a railway
line about thirty miles north of the banks
of the Amur.
Next year the line will reach Khabar
ovsk, and St. Petersburg wiil thus be put
in communication with Vladivostok by a
line quite independent of the great Siberian
railway. Along the entire length of the
river Russian settlements are growing up,
but lack of facilities in their work has
compelled numbers to return home. At
the same time it is estimated that 100,000
workers enter the country every year from
Europe. Farming, mining, lumbering and
fishing are the chief industries.
A country which should be exporting mil
lions of bushels of wheat and might in
course of time become the chief source
of the European supply is now importing
bags of Hour. The principal minerals are
gold, copper and coal. Blagoveshchensk is
the center of an increasing gold mining
industry, and so plentiful is gold that it
was humorously said to be reckoned not by
the ounce but by the pood, a Russian
weight equal to thirty-six pounds. The
Russians are adopting strong measures to
prevent the advance of Chinese on this ter
ritory, but as yet Chinese are to be seen
everywhere.
On the river bank opposite to Blavgrove
schchensk a prosperous Chinese city has
grown up, but no native boatman is allowed
to cross the river from that side. Chinese
may only use the ferry, which is a Rus
sian monopoly, upon obtaining from the
Russian consul a special permit. The po
litical situation is distinctly interesting. As
to the antiquity of Chinese industry in this
part of Siberia, there are evidences that
the gold mines were worked by them cen
turies ago. Growing out of some of the
old workings are trees of great size and
age.
When you come in from the creeks don’t
forget to stop in and Inspect the Crosby
Bath System. For everything is now ready
for public inspection. The Crosby Massage
and Bath Parlors, the home of the Twenti
eth Century Turkish Bath.
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(From the Record-Citizen)
Saw Logs Go Out With the Ice
Over 1.000 saw logs, the property of Fred
I Nelson, went out with the ice during the
break-up. Some were in the water, where
they were caught at the freeze-up last Oc- (
tober, and the remainder were on the bank.
A few of the latter were saved.
To Shorten Trail
Ophir Correspondence: If the proper
authorities could be shown, in the right
way. that by use of the trail cut from Ophir
to Iditarod three years ago by subscrip- [
tions from the people of Ophir^the distance 1
from Seward to Iditarod would be the same I
or less, the inconvenience and deep snows
of the Moore creek divide would be avoided, j
and the distance from Ruby to Iditarod via
Ophir shortened by twenty miles, that the
mail should be carried from Ruby to Idita
rod by this trail. Why not?
Mining in Town of Ruby
Mining operations have opened up in the ;
town of Rubv again. P. H. Robinson, who i
has a lease from Joe Green on discovery :
claim, upon which a part of the town of
Ruby is built, is operator, manager ami
gang so far. He has been ground-sluicing
this week at the side of the old cut be
tween Third and Fourth avenues, and ex
pects to sluice within twenty five feet of 1
Third avenue, opposite the lot owned by
John Teeland, between Second and Third.
Mr. Robinson sunk several holes in that
locality during the winter, and believes the
money lies in that direction. He considers
it only a sniping proposition, and does not |
contemplate working on an extensive scale I
at this time. However, the steady encroach- :
inent of this sniping on town property in
thut section is causing some uneasiness.
Long Creek Clean-Ups
The clean-ups on Long creek to date
have exceeded by far the most optimistic
expectations and the highest estimates of
operators and owners.
The Dog Nuisance
‘‘There is not an Indian village on the
Yukon where there are as many dogs run
ning loose as at Ruby,” is a statement made
by an old-time musher who arrived in town
a few days ago. Everyone in this com
munity knows there are many loose dogs
in Ruby. They are to be found everywhere
on the sidewalk, in the doorways, chasing
after teams, fighting on the streets and
pursuing their disorderly obscene conduct in
public places generally. By constant asso
ciation with nuisances of this nature we
become inured to the real conditions of our
surroundings and jog peacefully on our way
till something happens that wakes us up
with a jerk and we see very clearly where
we are at. This “something” happened in
Ruby last Saturday, when, by the merest
chance and the quick action of some of our
citizens, who happened to be passing,
5-year-old Mabel Teeland was rescued from
being torn and mangled to death and,
doubtless, quartered by a pack of those
same loose dogs that we see on the streets
every day. Your dogs may not have been
in this pack, but if they are running loose
they may be there next time, for there
will surely be a next time if something isn't
done to clear Ruby streets of dogs.
THE LUDLOW, COLO., HORROR
There was evidently the intention to de
stroy every living being in the strikers’
camp, and the tents were swept to and fro
with a deadly machine gun fire which was
reinforced by volleys from the riflemen. The
women and children sought refuge in the
pits which had been dug for sanitary pur
poses throughout the town, and into these
places of refuge the militia directed most
of their machine gun fire. About ten men
only were killed, while more than fifty
women and children were slaughtered in
the pits. When one of these pits was un
covered it revealed by actual count thirteen
children and ten women, riddled with the
bullets from the machine guns. One body
was perforated eighteen times in the terri
ble fire.—News dispatch in Nome Industrial ,
worker.
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DISTRICT ATTORNEY LEAVES
TO REPRESENT GOVERNMENT
James J. Crossley, United States attorney j
for this district, left Fairbanks April 8 for
San Francisco, where he will represent the j
government in several cases sent from the J
Fourth division.
The cases which will be prosecuted by
Mr. Crossley in San Francisco are those of
The United States vs. the Northern Navi
gation Company and the Northern Com-1
mercial Company, and the case of the ap
peal of Joseph Campbell, now serving a
term for murder, who was convicted in
Iditarod in 1912. of murdering the Nelson i
brothers in the Kuskokwim country.
The case against the' Northern Naviga
tion company involves the claim of the gov
ernment for a tonnage license fee of $1 per
ton for the carrying capacity of each boat
on all freight handled by them on the rivers j
of Alaska, and amounts to between $20,000
and $24,000. The question involved is as j
whether the company is liable for the tax j
on boats operating out of Yukon territory.!
LAW MAKES MONEY ORDERS
PAYABLE ANYWHERE IN U. S4:
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Washington, April 6.—Immediately after!
President Wilson signed the bill making!
postal money orders payable anywhere, j
Postmaster General Burleson appointed a1
committee of five officials of his depart- !
ment, headed by Alex M. Dockery, third |
assistant postmaster general, to prepare !
the regulations necessary to put the new |
law into effect. The other members of j
the committee arc: Charles A. Kram. !
auditor for the postoffice department; C. E. {
Matthews, chpef of the money order divi
sion ; C. If. Full away, assistant director of
the postal savings system, and L. M. Bart-1
lett, expert accountant in the auditor’s of
fice.
Third Assistant Postmaster General Dock-!
ery is given credit for having suggested the
passage of this new law, and will have to
take whatever praise or criticism it may
provoke in active operation. Mr. Burleson
and Mr. Dockery believe the law will prove
very popular with the business public, mak
ing post id money orders as convenient to
handle as bank drafts. It will be several
weeks before the new system is installed, i
The committee will make a careful study j
and prepare regulations designed to make ;
vhe new “universal money order system’’ j
work smoothly from the outset.
On June 30. 1913, there were more than
55,000 money order postoffices in the coun- j
try. After the new law is in operation a j
money order will be payable at any of
these offices, even when drawn on a speci- j
fied office.
Electricity is the only agent which will
thaw frozen water pipes underground. With
the aid of electricity the pipe can be easily
thawed in a short time, the passage of cur
rent through the pipe heating it enough to
melt the ice.
King salmon—caught at mouth of Yukon
—fine, fine. 35c lb. Iditarod Meat Co.
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP
DEMANDED AT DAWSON
Reciting that the rates charged the citi
zens of Dawson for electrical energy, water
and telephone service are excessive, and
that the service rendered the citizens of
Dawson by the public utility corporations
furnishing the said electrical energy, water
and telephone facilities is highly unsatisfac
tory, a petition has been circulated for pres
entation to the Yukon council acking the
enactment of legislation to empower the
city of Dawson to install such public utili
ties and operate them.
It is the opinion of the petitioners that
the city of Dawson should own and operate
its own plants for the distribution of elec
trical energy, water and telephone to the
citizens of Dawson and other consumers,
and the commissioners are asked to enact,
with the least possible delay, such legisla
tion as will empower the city of Dawson
to raise sufficient money by the issuo of
bonds, debentures or otherwise to install all
of said utilities for the use of consumers
thereof at the earliest possible date.
TO DEVELOP THE COUNTRY
CN AN EXTENSIVE SCALE
An event of the utmost significance to
the whole Kuskokwim country transpired
last Tuesday, when William McKeague and
Dominick Soroci, the two well-known and
energetic mining men, left for that region,
equipped for extensive operations.
Dominick is the owner of extensive in
terests on Bear creek and McKeague goes
to operate a power drill. It is predicted
that a new era will open up for the Kusko
kwim valley when this enterprising duo
engage in its development.
SHERLOCK HOLMES AT WORK
The place was forcibly entered by the
door, the lock being smashed through. Sev
eral footprints were visible in the snow,
and these seemed to belong to some man.
Exchange.
MAX SIMEL,
DISKAKET AND CRIPPLE CITY
Big Stocks, Standard Goods
Gasoline and Lubricating Oil
Good Roadhouse in Connection
CLEMONS & KOON
Portrait and View
Photographers
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Warm, Clean Well Ventilated
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TUC nOHODV Massage and
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MEDICATED, MINERAL VAPOR, STEAM, P|
TUB, SALT AND FRESH WATER E&glXllS
Caribou St., Bet. Black and Willow Sts., on Waterfront
Electric and Faradic Massage Treatments by Expert Attendants
Lighted by Gas Heated by Steam