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“TRUTH ABOUT MARSHALL'5
The following special correspondence from
Willow Creek, under date of April IS, ap
peared in the Nome Industrial Worker of
May 4:
“This camp i s life all gold. Nothing new
has been found this winter. The six (? I
claims on Disappointment creek are a fizzle.
Shorty Edgar sank a hole on No. 2 and
got a good prospect about December 28.
It was supposed to run 86 per square foot.
Instead of drifting on it he got a hand drill
and drilled a few more holes without pick
ing up anything more. So he went back to
the first hole and took out about six ounces
and a half, which is the total output of that
paystreak. The said creek was crosscut in
several places without even getting a pros
pect. There must have been forty or fifty
boles put down to bedrock on that creek.
“On McNeil creek, which was quite a
‘hope,’ Joe Wise crosscut in at discovery
without symptoms of gold. Captain New
comb and son crosscut on No. 4 above with
out results, and quite a few more holes
were put down to bedrock without results.
“East Fork, another ‘hope,’ did not show
up. Waskey crosscut it at discovery with
out picking up a paystreak. Of course that
does not condemn the creek.
“Slope creek, another ‘hope,’ fell by the
wayside this winter, but still is a chance.
“Prospecting is pretty hard over here;
everything is wet and hard to get down.
“Now about the ‘good’ creek over here,
which is Willow creek. This year will be
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To Brace Up
To Tone Up
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IDITAROD. ALACXA
the banner year Lore if nothing is found
more. The creek will produce about $500,
000 this coming summer ($270,000 last
summer), and will employ about two hun
dred men and no more than two hundred
and fifty under most favorable conditions
for mining. The claims to be worked are
No. 1 belmv, discovery, No. 1 above, No. 2
above. No. 3 above and No. 4 above.
“There is also known pay upon No. 5
above and No. 2 below; neither of them will
be worked this summer. By the way, No. 5
above was worked before the freeze-up last
fall and some money taken out--about $1.50
to the square foot—but its owners forgot
to record the assessment work, so a party
staked it on April 1.
“No. 6 above is the last claim on the
creek, and pretty well up the hilt, so you
can figure out the water problem (no water
shed).
“No. 2 below is deep ground and hard to
work. It takes a very long drain, and then
they have ro tailing room, while it is a
little too light to slope.
“From No. 2 below there is no known
pay, a few holes to bedrock and a whole
lot not to bedrock, on account of water,
which may make a good dredging proposi
tion.
“The paystreak is hard to work; the pick
ing and shoveling is very hard; muck or
clay and rocks, with a rough, uneven bed
rock. The pay runs from SI to So a square
foot, and is from fifteen to a hundred feet
wide.
“We have two towns here. One, Fortuna
Ledge, which is old Marshall, and Jungle
town, or Willow Creek, which is close to
the diggings, about half a mile. Fortuna
Ledge is on the river and Jungletown is
about nice miles southeast as the crow flies,
but in the summer by way of a slough (by
boat) to the landing it is eleven miles, and
from the landing to \\ illow it is about
three miles. The freight from Fortuna
to Willow in winter is $30 and in the sum
mer $40 a ton.
"There are tw’o stores at Fortum- Ledge
and two at Willow—that is, general stores;
Porter, formerly A. E. Edwards, and Delbar
& Betsch at Fortuna, and Porter & Shields
at Willow creek. Porter is from Iditarod.
and was partner of Dan Crowley. Grub is
not very high, considering freighting, and
there seems to be nlenty of everything here
until the boats come in in the spring.
“In the lest few weeks quite a number of
men have come from up river, and many
more are expected, as this camp received
some boosting up the river. There are
enough men here now to fill all the jobs this
summer.”
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NEWSPAPERS OF FAIRBANKS
ASK REDUCTION OF TOLLS
The following telegram, signed by the
! Fairbanks Citizen and News-Miner, was di-=
j patched on April 6 to the officer in charge
of the Alaska telegraph and cable system
! at Seattle:
“When war broke out Canada reduced
the press tolls one-half. Please call the at
tention of the chief signal officer to this
fact and to the fact that the war spirit in
Alaska is headed by the newspapers; that an
increased telegraph service is advisable and
necessary to Alaska papers now; that the
tolls are already too high for Alaska papers,
and that they cannot stand the strain of
| endeavor to get full war news.”
| Believing that Alaskans generally are en
titled to more news, and that it will stir
their patriotism to greater depths to have
all the news, the newspapers of Fairbanks
are securing the assistance of the Commer
cial Club and believe that other papers in
the territory should take action, and at
once.
| FOR SALE—Three pool tables, in good
condition, complete with all necessary
’ equipment. Inquire at postoffice, Flat.
WILL HAVE A FULL LINE OF
LANG’S
Stoves and Family Ranges
BY FIRST BOATS IN JULY
C. R- PECK, FLAT
TENTS, TARPAULINS
ALL SIZES
MOSQUITO BED-COVERS
SHOTGUN SHELLS
Pitch
Oakum
Calking Cotton
Oars, Paddies
Oarlocks
Pike Poles
Picaroons
Paints
Stains
Linseed Oil
1 urpentme
Greyling Nets
Whitefish Nets
Fishing Flies
Canvas
GUN STORE
IDITAROD, ALASKA PHONE 6 SECOND AND WILLOW
WILL FITTINGLY CELEBRATE
GLORIOUS FOURTH OF JULY
AT CREEK METROPOLIS
At a meeting of the business men of
Flat last Tuesday evening the initial steps
were taken looking to a fitting celebration
of Independence day at the creek town.
Committees were appointed and a general
outline of the program was discussed, and
within a short time the committees will
be able to make some definite cnnouncc
, ments. The sentiment is generally ex
pressed that this year in particular extra
efforts should be put forth to make the na
tional holiday one of patriotic demonstra
tion, and the efforts of the various commit
tees will no doubt follow along those lines.
While the time for preparation is limited,
it has been shown heretofore that the lively
creek town can organize a celebration of
the nature proposed in an incredibly short
period, and when the eventful day arrives
it will be found that the plans have been
carefully made and will be faithfully exe
cuted.
The finance committee, which is com
posed of A1 Currie and H. C. Crouse, will
report in a few days the amount of money
that will he at the disposal of the general
committee, and the program will be made
up accordingly. The other officers and com
mittees are: Chairman, Dr. Moore; treas
urer, Thomas McMahon; secretary, Max
Boas.
Advertising Committee—Thomas McMa
hon, A1 Currie and A. J. Weiss.
Sporting Committee—C. Anlhonison, C.
ft. Cameron George Mutchler. Jack McDon
nell, Fred Dicksen, Frank Stanley. Max
Boas and Dr. Auringer.
Entertainment Committee—Max Boas.
Ivan Wales and James Finnegan.
Dance Committee Ivan Wales.
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PERCY CHARLES DEPARTS
Percy G. Charles, for the paet four years
deputy United States marshal at Iiiit ^ rod,
left with the mail boat hi>t Thursday morn
ing for the Outside. While his term of of
fice does not expire until June 30. he re
ceived instructions recently to report at
Tanana to take charge of a batch of pris
oners departing for the Outside, and he will
accompany them.
There is r.t present no deputy marshal in
the precinct, and some little difficulty is
likely to be experienced because of the fact
the! there is no official here to serve .sub
poenas on grand jury witnesses, which pro
cedure was recently ordered by District At
tcrnev Roth.
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YUKON GOLD OFFICIALS
Perry in the Army
That 0. B. Perry, general manager of the
Yukon Geld Company, whose headquarters
are in New York, but who annually spends
considerable time here in the interests of
!hc company, has enlisted in the engineer
corps of the'United States army, is the re
port received here. It is understood that
Mr. Perry has been made a major of engi
neers. The corps with which he has become
r.-seriated is now training in the Hast with
the expectation of being sent to I ranee
shortly.—Dawson News.
Thomas Succeeded by McCarthy
Among the passenger? who will k-.-ve
here for the lower river this week cn the
steamer Washburn will be Chester T. A.
Thomas, retiring resident manager of the
Yukon Geld Company. Mr. ThomasTs go
ing to Iriitarod to in pect the work be'ng
done by the Guggenheim dredges m that
comp. He will then proceed to hi? home in
California via i't. Michael. Lug ea Mc
Carthy succeeds Mr. Thomas as resident
manager here. The trip iic is now making
usually made by O. B. Ferry, general
manager of the company, who is the high
est salaried man residing in the T uken.
drawing between thirty and forty thousand
dollars per year.—Dawson News.
Parmalee Returns
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Prrmekc arrived
.•board the Washburn on Monday Mr.
Parmplee is to fill the vacancy at the Yukon
Gold Company created by Turner's transfer.
•Kuby Record-Citizen.
SUICIDE WAS RICH MAN’S SON
Investigation by the Seattle police reveals
the fact that A. J. Wilkie, the former
Valdez, Alaska, man, who with his wife
committed suicide in that city by the gas
route recently, was the son of the million
aire San Francisco contractor and capitalist,
Andro Wilkie, according to a Seattle dis
patch of May 8.
Young Wilkie had been estranged from
his father for several years, and had trav
eled in nearly every country on the globe.
\ few years ago his marriage to a woman
whom the elder Wilkie disliked, caused a
further severance of relations, and the son
drifted away to Alaska, and was lost to
the knowledge of his relatives for several
years. Lately his father, who is advancing
bi years, had been endeavoring to trace_ his
son’s movements, with a view to reconcilia
tion. The first news of his son that the
father received was when his body was re
moved to the morgue.
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NAVAL ATTACHE HONORED
A London cable dated April 28 says. The
man who for the last fifty, years has han
dled Uncle Sam’s dispatches and mail for
his naval men when they happened to be
hi Europe has just been singularly honored
on the occasion of his entering upon his
fiftieth year of service. He is G. I. Pether
ick, deputy United States government dis
t’ch agent in London, who remembers
Admiral Farragut when the latter was com
mander-in-chief of the European station in
1868, and who was a close friend of Ad
miral Dewey and other United States nava
officials. , ,,
Mr. Petherick was requested the other
day to step into Ambassador Page’s private
office, when the ambassador, surrounded
by his embassy staff, made a formal speech
in which he reviewed Mr. Petherick s long
and faithful career in the service of the
American government, extended the thanks
of Uncle Sam, and concluded by presenting
the veteran deputy agent a large silver
uch bowl as a token of the esteem in
which he is held by the embassy staff.
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Old railway ties are used in Sweden in
the manufacture of illuminating gas
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Tub and steam baths at all hours. Sny
der House, Flat.
LAST BATCH OF WINTER MAIL
HUNDREDS OF MILES AWAY
FROM TERMINAL POINTS
_
Tom Boyd, the mail sub-contraetor, who
arrived here on June 7 with the last two
consignments of outgoing winter mail, which
he had been unable to deliver to' the con
necting carrier, and also with two belated
consignments of incoming mail from Sew
ard, has received a telegraphic message from
H. E. Revell, the contractor, stating that
the last consignment of mail from Seward
was left at Anderson’s on May 20.
It was customary early in the winter for
Mr. Boyd, whose contract extends only as
far as Anderson’s, the half-way point on
Seward trail, to continue his run beyond
that point in the event that the incoming
mail was not there on his arrival. A con
troversy arose because pay for extra serv
ice was demanded by Mr. Boyd, and he was
instructed not to go beyond Anderson’s. The
result was that the mail from Seward some
times was not at the meeting place when
the outgoing mail arrived there. This seems
to have happened with the last mail, which
apparently arrived at Anderson's two days
after Mr. Boyd or his carrier left there, and
here it yet reposes.
The questions now arise, How is that con
signment of mail to be brought in before
the freeze-up next fall? and whose duty
is it to convey it? Travel over the route
in the summer season is next to impossible
because of Ihe lack of bridges over the
many streams, and the swampy condition
of the ground.
Mr. Boyd is awaiting further instructions,
and estimates that it will cost several hun
dreds of dollars to bring the consignment
to Iditarod, and equally as much to return
it to Anchorage.
LITTLE BLIND NATIVE GIRL
WILL RECEIVE TREATMENT
Mrs. L. C. Thornton returned Wednesday
from Russian Mission, on the lower Yukon,
where she accompanied the i.ttle blind na
tive girl. Marie Marcell, and turned her over
to the care of the government nurse at that
point, Mrs. Corinne Cal Before Mrs. Thorn
ton left the lower river Mrs. Call and the
chil 1 left on board the Julia B. for St.
Michael, where they will take ship for Se
attle. It is the intention of the government
nurse to put the child under the care of
Dr. McCool of Portland, a noted eye spe
cialist. In case it should be found that
her blindness is incurable she will be put in
a government school for the blind.
Mrs. Thornton found the government
nurse very sympathetic, and she gladly un
dertook to do all she could for the unfortu
nate native child.
Before leaving here Mrs. Thornton took i
up a subscription for the little girl’s benefit. !
This mounted to $214. Two hundred do: |
lars of this was turned over to Mrs. Call
to pay the child's expenses to and from .
Portland. In case she should be found to j
be incurable and be sent to the school for ,
the blind, the unexpended balance is to hr i
i laced to her credit in a bank, together with j
the sum of £14 in Mrs. Thornton’s hands.
Mrs. Thornton's service? were donated by
her. and m> part of her expenses were
taken from the fund. She earned her pas
sage to and from Russian Mission by doing
the cooking on board the Transit. Her in
terest in the unfortunate l'ttle native girl
and her self-sacrificing efforts in her behalf
are worthy of the highest commendation.
TOKOTNA TO HAVE SCHOOL
UNDER NEW ENACTMENT
Good new? to the parents im.l residents
Of Tokotna, the thriving burg in the upper
Ku.-krkwim water-hed. is cmP' tied :n a
wireless message received on Tuesday last
; by The Pioneer. For several years the peo
j pic of that place have been endeavoring to
secure the establishment of a school, but be
! cause the cld law required an enrollment
i of twenty pupils it was impossible to secure
! the necessary authorization. The recent
I territorial legislature enacted new school
i 1 -- delation, but as yet the text of the law
has nut been received here. A message was
iherefore sent to the governor’s office at
Juneau inquiring whether the new' law' had
changed the number of pupils necessary' for
the establishment of a school. The follow
ing answer was received:
“Juneau, Alaska, June 12. 1917.
“Iditarod Pioneer, Iditarod, Alaska:
“Ten children sufficient for school district
under re-enactment Nelson school law by
j recent session legislature, and eighteen hun
| dred dollars allowed for construction and
i equipment school house.
“DAVIDSON, Acting Governor.”
It is the plan of the Tokotna people to
proceed immediately with the organization
of a school district, and an application for
the necessary authority will be immediately
forw'arded td Juneau. A school house has
already been built, and it is believed that
everything will be in readiness to open the
school during the coming autumn.
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FAIRBANKS FIRMS QUITTING
Before the summer is well along towards
fall several old-time concerns will be out of
businss in Fairbanks, says the News-Miner
of May 23. Pioneer Bill McPhee heads the
list. He quits tonight, and will never again
try the saloon business in Alaska. Wile’s
store soon will know Fairbanks no more.
Stock is being taken and the N. C. Co. is
taking over the Wile hardware stock and
such goods as they can handle at their va
rious points' in Alaska, while the toy de
partment will be distributed around where
it is wanted. One First avenue grocery store
expects to quit business the first of July and
one Second avenue restaurant will close its
doors before that date. Others are rumored
as having tired of the game of "beggar
your neighbor,” because they have found
out that in beggaring their neighbors they
also suffer the same fate.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that, the under
signed has been appointed administrator of
the estate of Sam Austin, deceased. All
persons having claims against the estate
of the said Sam Austin, deceased, are
herebv notified to present them, properly
verified and with the proper vouchers,
within six months from the date of this
notice, to the undersigned administrator,
a' his place of business, at Flat City Hotel,
Front street, Flat City, Otter precinct,
Alaska. _
(Signed) JAMES GUNNING,
Administrator of the Estate of Sam Austin,
Deceased.
Dated June 15, 1917.
Where You Can Get Just What You Want in the Line of
A. A, Cutter Shoepaos,
Strong & Garfield Shoes,
The Felder Shoes,*
The Dougherty Shoes
12 and !4-!nch Tops
A. J. WEISS
The Home of Hart, Schaffner & Marx Good Clothes
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
A1 Walsh was a visitor in the city last
Sunday.
Mrs. Robert Lowrie paid a v: .1 to the
city from Flat last Sunday.
Oscar Anderson of the Upgrade was a
visitor in the city on Tuesday lad.
Mayor Laplrnt and a force of men and
team? have been gravelling the down town
treets during the past week.
Dave Strandberg was in the city Thurs
day, and reports a plentiful supply of water
at lhe Upgrade, and much activity in con
sequence.
K. J. Stier, formerly comm: ioner at
Georgetown, on the Kuskokwirn, is at Ne
nana. where he expects to secure a position
with the Alaskan engineering commission.
Mrs. George Phillips of Flat has been
visiting Mrs. John C. Currin of this city for
several days. Mrs. Currin and children ex
pect to leave for Marshall on one of the
early boats.
Dan Gi'lis of Whitehorse, an old-time set
■! -r in Ruby, passed through on the Wash
bi rn cn route to Marshal!, to pick up the
la c a Victor, which is lying there, says the
Ruby Record-Citizen.
The case of Finnegan & Cameron against
Fundus Yeager for the collection of an ac
count of $30.25 was decided in favor of the
plaintiff by Commissioner Geraghty on
Wednesday la.-t.
Joseph II. Smith left some day- ago for
M e rc creek, where he will continue the
drilling operations started on his property
there last year. He expected to be gone
about a month.
Jack Honeywell, who left < n an overland
trip to Ophir about two weeks ago. re
turned to the city on Saturday last. Jack
reports that some little interest has been
created in the Inncko by the 1 ication of
• ay on a bench claim at the mouth of
Gane3 creek, by Johnson and partners.
Sid Schloemen, who for several months
: t has been prospecting in the Tolstoi
district, returned to the city on Wednesday
last. Sid says that while there is yet a
chance that a camp may develop there, the
present prospects are not the brightest.
Sluicing on Boob creek is in progress, and it
is expected that it will be completed by the
end of the present month. Sid made the
trip overland.
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EXPECT LABOR SHORTAGE
There is a scarcity of labor for projected
work on the Seward division of the govern
ment railway from Seward to Mile 80, on
Turnagain arm, says the Gateway of May
11. Within a week or two the line will be
opened over the second hill, and active con
struction will be rushed ail summer on the
section beyond Mile 71. New contracts will
be let north of Girdwood. There are prac
tically no idle men in Seward now, and a
call for labor from the Outside will have to
be made before any extensive increase can
be made in the present force.
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“Did the doctor treat you?” “No; he
charged me twenty dollars.”- Widow.
MONDAY IS ANNIVERSARY
OF BATTLE OF WATERLOO
Great among the landmarks of the world
stands the Lion of Waterloo, on its mound
200 feet high. Ten miles from the city of
Brussels, it marks the plain where history
greatest battle was fought, where <
50.000 men were killed, wounded and mi
i.ng. It is hardly necessary to say that .
was fought on June IS, 1815. and t!: .• r
culminated the campaign following ,\ .p
Icon's escape from Elba and stopped Ins
mighty effort to conquer all Europe.
The Duchess of Richmond gave si lull
in Brussels on June 15; at midnight Wh
lington, having already heard that the out
posts had been engaged, went to the ball.
Here he found the Prince of Orange, tin*
man who seemed fated to cause useless lo'S
of life through his blunders. Even now he
ought to have been at Binehe, where the
duke promptly sent him, after inquiring for
news.
Par trcra being surprised at me evenm - s
attack, as some writers assert, the duke had
dispatched his orders before he went to the
ball, for at 2 a. m. strange sounds broke
the night’s silence and great masses ot
troops were on the move, bugles were blow
ing everywhere, and people opened their
windows to see the various regiments tramp
past. A Highland band was playing bag
pipes to the swing of the “Black Watch"
as they went out to battle through the Na
mur gate. Curiously enough, many of the
officers were still wearing their silk stock
incs and dan ing pumps, for the heat was
so intense that men went mad and died on
the march; but for the rest, they pushed
on and were soon under fire. The battle
is eclipsed by the thought of the awful
aftermath; the plain so filled with the dying
and the dead that for three day- parties
brought in the wounded.
In the hurry 300 bodies were flung down
g well. For thirty years the corn crops
were of a deeper color where they grew
over the blood of the slain on the scorn
where the Li :n of Waterloo now forms on*
of the greatest landmarks of the world.
Ex.
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A CHALLENGE
A challenge has been received at this other
from a team of Iditarod baseball player*
addressed to ‘he Flat baseball team, for a
game to be played in the creek city on the
Fourth of July, for a side bet “limited by
the blue sky only.”
IDITAROD
RESTAORANImBAKERY
Short Orders
and Meals
Everything of Best Quality
Open 6 a. m. to 9 p. m.
Foot of Willow Street
Watches and Diamonds
At
STRICTLY OUTSIDE PRICES
J. L, SALE
J. W. Farrell,
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Discovery, Otter _
Front Street, Flat City Formerly the Bagoy Premises
Flat City Hotel
|_Mrs. J. E. Punning, Prop._Special Rates by the Week and Month
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H. BOAS, THE CLOTHIER,
Now Located at Flat City
And Is Closing Out His Big Stock of Men’s Clothing and Furnish
ings at Greatly Reduced Prices
BIG BARGAINS FOR ALL IN HIGH-CLASS GOODS
FOR
GOOD POTATOES AND CIGARS
CALL UP
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