ID1TAROD, ALASKA
Capital, $50,000.00
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Drafts Issued on Any Part of the World
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OFFICERS:
Chas- Ross, President
T. J. Nestor, Vice President
E. G. Lindberg, Manager
John Holmes, Cashier and Assayer
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Popular Prices Everything First Glass
CHAS. E. PASLLER, PROP.
WOODROW WILSON
FAVORS DR. WILEY
Governor Woodrow .Wilson has de
clared himself in favor of Dr. Wiley in
the pure food controversy, which was
the cause of the doctor's dismissal.
Referring to the matter at Sioux City
recently, the governor intimated that
if elected president he would reinstate |
the pure food expert as chief of the '
bureau of chemistry.
SEVERAL PASSENGERS
LEAVE ON MARTHA CLOW
The last batch of passengers for
Ruby left Iditarod last Tuesday
morning on the Martha Clow.
Among those on board were: Billy
Murray, R. Halverson, Max Wrig
ler, J. Wilson, E Ryder, and three
Johnsons.
The steamer also had aboard a
large boiler and hoist, but little
other freight.
Under New Management Mrs. Auten and Mrs. Maher
idltarod Hots!
Fine Rooms and Clean Beds Best Accommodations in Town
Under New Management
Caribou
Turkish, Shower, Steam and Tub Baths
phone Open Day and Night phone
Nicely Furnished Rooms For Rent at Reasonable Rates
by the Day, Week or Month
MISS FANNIE GOODMAN
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Is now prepared to turn out the Highest Grade of Laundry Work at Most
Reasonable Prices. Try Us for Snow-White Linen.
OUR SOLICITOR WILL CALL
Just Received from the Outside; Our Special Supplies for Starch Work
We charge no Express on goods from the creeks.
The New Placer Law
The following is a copy of the law recently enacted by Congress amend
ing the mining laws of Alaska:
A bill to modify and amend the mining laws in their application to the Ter
ritory of Alaska, and ior other purposes.
Be it enacted, etc., That no association placer mining claim shall here
after be locate! in Alaska in excess of 40 acres, and 011 every placer mining
claim hereafter located in Alaska, and until a patent has been issued therefor,
not less than $100 worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made
during each year, including the year of location, for each and every 20 acres
or excess fraction thereof.
~ Sec. 2. That no person shall hereafter locale any placer mining claim in
Alaska as attorney for another unless he is duly authorized thereto hv a
power of attorney in writing, duly acknowledged and recorded in any record
er’s office in the judicial division where the location is made. Any person so
authorized may locate placer mining claims for not more than two individuals
or one association under such power of attorney', but no such agent or attor
ney shall be authorized or permitted to locate more than two placer mining
claims for any one principal or association during any calendar month, and
no placer mining claim shall hereafter be located in Alaska except under the
limitations of this act;
Sec. 3. That no person shall hereafter locate, cause or procure to be lo
cated, for himself more than two placer mining claims in any calendar mouth;
Provided, That one or both such locations may be included in an association
claim.
Sec. 4. That no placer mining claim hereafter located in Alaska shall be
patented which shall contain a greater area than is fixed bv law, nor which
is longer than three times its greatest- width.
Sec. 5. That any placer mining claim attempted to be located in viola
tion of this act shall be null and void, and the whole area thereof may be lo
oted by any qualified locator as if no such prior attempt had been made.
OPERATION OF NEW MINIS
LAW EXPLAINER BY SPONSOR
Last week the Iditarod Pioneer published an interpretation of
the new placer law which did not meet with universal approval
Since writing that article we have received a copy of the Ruby
Record'Citizen which gives Delegate Wickersham’s own interpreta
tion of the law, and we find that our version was correct. Here is
Mr. Wickersham’s idea of the possibilities and obligations of the
new law:
1. One hundred dollars’ worth of work must be done
for each 20 acres located, and must be done within the year
of location: that is to say, ground located in 1912 must be
represented before January 1, 1913.
2. One party locating ground for another must have a
power of attorney, in writing, properly acknowledged be
fore a notary public, and then recorded AHEAD OP THE
STAKING in any recording office in the judicial division
where the location is made. Powers of attorney from the
Outside, or from other divisions, may be used legally, but
must be recorded in the judicial division where the stak
ing is done.
3. A man may stake in each calendar month two
claims for himself personally, and two claims each for two
powers of attorney, or six 20-acre claims in all. He may
stake 72 claims or 1,440 acres of ground in a year, but $7,
200 worth of work is necessary to hold it, as against $900
under the old law.
4. All locations may be grouped in associations of 40
acres each; that is, three 40 acre associations may be lo
cated by one man, if he lias two powers of attorney, in one
calendar month.
5. No person may locate for himself more than two
20-acre claims in any calendar month, nor may ho procuro
more to be located for him. After 40 acres have been lo
cated for one man in one month, ALL located in excess
are null and void.
6- The new law does NOT affect ground located prior
to August 1, 1912.
Delegate Wickersham’s explanation should settle all argu
ments.
SCOTTISH SOCIALIST VISITS AHEM
New York, October 14.—J. Keir Hardie, the Scottish Socialist
who rose from the depths of a coal mine, where he worked with
pick and shovel, to a seat in parliament and leadershipof the group
which has the controlling vote'at the present time, had the follow
ing to say to a New York audience during an address on Socialism:
“Capitalism has developed more rapidly, more aggressively
and more brutally in the United States than in any other white
man’s country, and the corollary of that is that Socialism is bound
to make more rapid progress here than it has done in any of the
old European countries. You Americans with your love of freedom
are not likely to allow King Capital to boss you any more than your j
forefathers permitted themselves to be bossed by King George.”
Ruby, October 14.—Henry Roden, assistant district attorney,
has been notified from Fairbanks that he must remain on the lower
Yukon for the present to enforce the law there; consequently he
will make his headquarters at Ruby for a few weeks. The Depart
ment of Justice has intimated that it sees no objection to Roden’s [
candidature, but of course he will have to resign his official posi
tion if elected.
- -- -.—-.- ■ —.m
Charley Renaud left Ruby for the Outside three weeks ago. i
Nome is 6,000 miles from New York, and the difference in time
is six hours.
Col. Richardson has joined the Order of Alaska Pioneers, Fair
banks igloo.
The output for the Klondike region will this year exceed five |
million dollars.
T. Sakamoto, a Japanese doctor, has been arrested at Haines
for peddling liquor to Indians.
The White Pass railroad will build a §30,000 hotel at Atlin, for
the accommodation of tourists.
R. Lynn Smith, late of Hot Springs, has purchased the stock
and property of George Cowan, the Ruby jeweler.
George Q. Friend, who recently took an option on some ground
in the Ruby district, left September 20 for the Outside.
The first flower show and harvest home to be held in Alaska
was pulled off at Skagway September 21. It was a great success.
Claude Shea, who is well known in this section, left Ruby re
cently for the Outside. He will take a course at a business college.
William N. ,C. Middleton, a colored lawyer of Juneau who has
served six months in jail for selling whiskey to an Indian, is. again
at large.
The United States fish commission claims that the cod banks
of Alaska are greater than those of the far-famed Grand Banks of
Newfoundland.
The Chitina Leader says that there are 770 lots in the town, of
which 70 have been disposed of. Several of the purchasers now
complain that they have been “stung.”
Latest election returns further augment Wickersham’s lead
over his opponents. Slate creek, in the Third division, gave the
following returns: Wickersham, 33; Gilmore, 4; Krauczunas, 6;
Jennings, 1.
. Commissioner S. J. Marsh, of the Chandlar, who has been
spending the summer Outside, is back home again for the winter.
He has purchased the Alaska-Chandlar Mining Co.’s quartz prop
erty near Caro.
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JOE CAMPBELL TRIES TO JUMP 1
OVERBOARD FROM LITTLE DELTA!
•
Ruby, October 14.—Joseph Campbell, the convict, tried to j
jump overboard from the Little Delta while the steamer was in the i
vicinity of Nulato the day before yesterday. He had wrapped !
cloth around his leg irons to prevent them making a noise, and had i
prepared a lifebelt to put around bis body when he made his dash!
for liberty. It was dark at the time, but, unknown to Campbell, j
Guard Funk, who was in the next room, was watching him through
an aperture. Funk turned in the alarm.
In explanation of his attempted escape, Campbell said he was
tired of his cramped condition, after the free life to which he had
been accustomed, and that he had intended to jump overboard, get
ashore with the aid of the lifebelt, and make for the hills. He
said further that once free he would never have been caught, as he
could have “lived off the country” for an indefinite period.
New York, October 14.—The United States signal service!
headquarters at Fort Wood, Bedloe’s island, will shortly ship to 1
the North one of the longest-ranged instruments in existence, to!
be erected at Fort Egbert (Eagle), Alaska, next spring.
The special equipment is among the largest, in the world, hav
ing a radius of not less than 2,500 miles. The mast will be 200 feet
high, and constructed of steel in sections. The tower is about 5 :
feet in diameter at the base and about 3 inches at the top, and I
weighs altogether about 30 tons.
ARGUW1SNT
I toil with my hoe in the garden,
and talksmiths come to me and say:
“Wie geht's, my dear sir! Beg your
pardon, but hark while we talk half
a day. The evils confronting this
nation will swamp us unless we re
form, and stand up for true conser
vation—” then I get impatient and
warm: I turn to my hoein’ and rak
in’ and soon have the cockieburrs
thinned; for labor will bring a man
bacon, but arguments nothing but
wind. I toil at the sawbuck all
morning, and spellbinders come to
my door, with many a message of
warning, and slogans and pibrochs
galore They talk of ths bulwarks
in danger, they say tha escutcheons
are canned; “your vote," they de
clare to me “stranger, may rescue
this perishing land.” They talk and
they boom and they belief, they
yawp till each larynx is skinned;
but labor means coal in tha cellar,
and argument’s nothing but wind. I
go to the village with butter, and
eggs that my fat hens have laid; and
statesmen come to me and mutter,
"The outlook sure makes me afraid;
I fear that the eagle is moulting!
The star spangled banner’s in hock!
This country is in for a jolting un
less people list to my talk!” I shake
off the long-distance clacker, who
’long with his jawbone hath skinned;
for labor means grub and terbacker,
and argument’s nothing but wind.—
Walt Mason.
TREMENDOUS PRICES FOR
PRINCE RUPERT TOWN LOTS
The second auction sale of Prince
Rupert town lots was held in that
city late in August, and resulted in
very big prices being secured
More than $830,000 was realized
from one day’s sales
Eleven hundred and sixty dollars
per front foot was paid for one lot.
which is remarkable considering
the fact that the city is only three
years old. The first batch of lots
were disposed of at Vancouver dur
iug May, 1909
A cablegram received by Mrs. Auten
last Saturday contained the welcome
news that her son Lawrence had
reached Minneapolis without mishap.
LIFE E. SPRAY WILL
ASSIST MAJOR STRONG
Skeaking to a representative of1
the Ska g.vay Alaskan recently, I
William Britt, the Skagtvav and
Juneau druggist, says that the cap
ital city is a very busy place at the
present time. The mines are opei
Notice of Marshal’s Sale
United Slates of America, )
Fourth District of Alaska, j5”'
Public notice is hereby given, that
by virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias (or '
execution), dated October 7, A.D. 1912, i
issued out of the District court, of the i
United States for the Fourth division, i
district of Alaska, on a judgment ren-!
dered in said court, on the Sth day of]
August, A.D. 1912, in favor of the Clark !
Lumber Company, a corporation, and
against M. R. Hussey; Jos. Mannion::
S. J. Youngquist: and Herman Ander- [
son, Andrew Anderson and A. J. Ner- !
land, co-partners, doing business as An
ri arson Bros. & Nerland, 1 have on this1
14th day of October, A.D. 1912, levied
upon the following described real estate,
situated in the precinct of Otter, terri
torv of Alaska, to wit:
All of the right, title and interest of the
said defendants, M. R. Hussey and Jos.
Mannion, in arid to that certain lot or
parcel of ground in the town of Flat, in
the Otter raining precinct, territory of
Alaska, more particularly described as
follows: Commencing at a point on the
southerly side of Front street in said
town of Flat, about 75 feet from the
southwesterly corner of said Front
street; thence extending along said
Front street in a westerly direction 25
feet; thence in a southerly direction
150 feet more or less to Second street
in said town; thence easterly along said
Second street 25 feet; thence in a north
erly direction to the place of beginning.
All of which said ground is embraced
within the limits of the Prospector as
sociation claim, in said Otter precinct,
territory of Alaska;
Also all of the right, title and inter
est of the said defendants. M. R. Hus
sey and Jos. Mannion, in and to that
certain two-story log and frame build
ing situated on said parcel of land here
inbefore described, said building being
24 feet wide by 60feet deep, and gener
ally known and described as the H. &
M. Pool Room, in said town of Flat; to
gether with all and singular the tene
ments, hereditaments and appurten
ances thereunto belonging or in any
wise appertaining, and that I will, ac
cordingly, offer said real estate for sale,
at public vendue to the highest and
best bidder, for cash, on the 14th day
of November, A.D., 1912, at 2 o'clock
p. ra., at the front door of said H. & M.
Pool Room, in the town of Flat, pre- j
cinct and territory aforesaid.
Dated, Flat City, Alaska, October
14, A.D. 1912. H. K. LOVE,
U.S. Marshal Fourth Division of Alaska.
By I\ W. Howell, Deputy.
Chas. E. Taylor, Plaintiff ’s Attorney. I
ating on a big scale, and the pay
rolls are larger than ever before in
the history of the district.
Mr. Britt was informed when in
Juneau that IYaIe Kakin Spray will
assist Major J. F. A. Strong in the
editorial department of the new
Democratic daily which is to be es
tablished at the capital. lie also
stated it to be current belief around
Juneau that in tire event of Wood
row Wilson’s election to the Presi
dency, Major Strong will be made
governor. _
MONEY AWAITING WILLIAM LEE
Mrs. William I.ee, of 6.5 Bo
nanza, Dawson, is asking for her
husband. William or Bill) Lee,
who was last heard of July 4, when
he was in Iditarod. An estate is
awaiting him.
Notice of Marshal’s Sale
United States of America, 1
Fourth District of Alaska, I
Public notice is hereby given, that
by virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias r
execution), dated October 7. A. 1). 1912,
issued out of the District Court, of the
United States for the Fourth Division
of Alaska, on a judgment rendered in
said Court on tlie 11th day of Septem
ber, A. I). 1912, iu favor of \Y. S.
Clark, doing business as the Clark
Lumber Company, and against A. F.
Morgan; E. Hammer; American Hank
of Alaska, a corporal ion; C. P. Cl.tMex.
J. M. Ryan and F. L. Kehoe, partners,
doing business as Chesley. Ryu 1 A
Kehoe, 1 have, on this 12th day ft -
her. A. I). 1912, levied upon the fol
lowing' described real estate, situated
in the Precinct of Otter, Territety of
Alaska, to wit:
That certain lot or parcel of ground
known and described as lot number
eleven, in block number one west. 1
the town of Iditarod, Territory f
Alaska, together with that certain
building or structure situated thereon
generally known and described as the
“Riverside” hotel, on Front street,
near Otter street, in said town of Idit
arod, Alaska, and that l will, accord
ingly, offer said real estate for sale, at
public vendue to the highest and host
bidper, for cash, on the Util day of No
vember, A. D.. 1912. at 2 o’clock |>. m..
at ilia front door of said “Rwerstde”
hotel, in tlie town of Iditarod.
Dated. Iditarod, Alaska. October 12.
A. D. 1912. II. K. LOVE.
U. S. Marshal, Fourth District of Aluska.
By T. \V. Howell, Deputy.
Chas. E. Taylor, PlaitiiilFs Attorney.
Notice of Forfeiture
TO WILLIAM CII ASK:
You. your heir.- ami assigns, are hereby uni
fied that the undersigned has expended in 1. ' . .
and improvements he -am of one hundred i
lars—$100—for each of the years i f mu and
npon placer mining claim known as and calk 1
No. 7 Above Discovery on Gan • t k
Innoko Mining and Recording Di-irict, Distr
of Alaska; you are further notified that r t t i • -
expiration of ninety
publication of this notice you t..ii or i vi :
contribute your proportion of sm h - cubit arc,
your interest in said claim will b the
property it the undersigned your co owner
under Section 2324 of the Rev ised Statutes > ‘
United States. 1! M.WJIir.A.x
First publication August 3 .m2
Last publication November 2. 191?
Notice of Forfeiture
TO II. HUTCHINSON
You. your heirs and assigns, arc hereby u ;
fied that the undersigned has expended in i.ibo:
and improvements the sum of one hundred do.
lars—$100—for each of tlie vears of i«. 10, 1 ,: i and
1912 upon placer mining claim known as and
called the K. P M iciatiou on Otti
in the Otter Mining and Recording District
Territory of Alaska: you are further 1: to.- I
that if at the expiration of ninety - da . -
after the last publication of this notice von t «;l
or refuse to contribute your proportion of >u 1
expenditure, your interest in -cud club.-. will!
come the property of the undersigned, v
owner under Section 2324 of the Revised Stat
utes of the United States.
W. A. DIKKMAN
First publication September 14. 10:2.
Last publication December 14. on2.
Notice of Forfeiture
TO S. BLACKBURN:
You. your heirs and assigns, are hereby 1; -ti
fied that 1 lie undersigned has expended in labor
and improvements the sum of one hundred dol
lars— $roo—for each of the years of 1910. 1 .1 amt
1912 upon placer mining claim known as and
called the Prospector association on utter era ek
in the Otter Mining and Recording District.
Territory of Alaska; you are further notified
that if at the expiration of ninetv >- days
after the last publication of this notice you ta 1
or refuse to contribute your proportion 01 such
expenditure, your interest in said claim will be
come the property of the undersigned, your 0
owner, under Section 2324 of the Revised St.'.’
utes of the United States.
W. A. DIKKMAN.
F'irst publication September 14. 1912
Last publication December 14 191:
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