Miners & Merchants Bank
ID1TAROD, ALASKA
Capital, $50,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted Gold Dust Bought and Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Part of the World
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT: SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK
OFFICERS:
('has. Ross, President
T. J. Nestor, Vice President
.John Holmes, Cashier and Assayer
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IfSHJC OPHIR CITY;
Stampers to the New Strike can rely on setting Nice Fre-th Goods <
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Big Stocks, Standard Goods WnS*!
Wo C 'arrv a $7.00
LARGE STOCK Per Case
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FLAT CITY The p,ace to Meet
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NEW SUPPLY OF BUDWEISER BEER \
PIONEERS' REPORT ON THE
GAME LAWS IS SENSIBLE
Nome Industrial Worker. September 17 :
At the meeting of the Pioneers of Alaska
on Wednesday last the following report by
a committee composed of Judge Thornton.
George 11 ilf rich. Dr Wesley and J. J. \\ ach
rnheimer to investigate the Alaska game
laws and suggest needed changes therein
was unanimously adopted:
T. Under the present law the secretary
of agriculture practically has authority to
make or amend the game laws for this
. great territory. (See section 2 of the act
^ of June 7. 1912.) This ought not to he.
There is every reason why this subject
should be handled by the territorial legis
lature.
*'2. Until this matter can be handled by
the territorial legislature steps should be
taken to secure the following changes in
the existing laws:
“The open season for ptarmigan should
be from September 1 to April 15.
“For water fowl and shore birds, from
August 15 to May 15.
“The closed season for muskrat should
not begin before June 5.
“There should be further provision for
the protection of fish—prohibiting fish
wheels, further regulation of fish traps, etc.
Canneries should be required to maintain
efficient hatcheries, subject to government
inspection and regulation; and this should
not exempt them from the payment of all
tax, as at present.
“The number of game wardens should
he increased. It is a notorious fact that
there Inis never been a game warden in
the whole of the Second judicial diu-i :t.
There is an income of over So.Obi) per year
from hunters’ licenses and the shipment of
trophies. This, at least, should be u-td in
th" employment of game \\ .rd-m-.
■ In support of the above recommenda
tions concerning changes d die ‘open’ and
‘closed’ seasons, we >ubm’i -he f<dl>\\ing
facts, gleaned from rn !■■ -or OrnKflJ ? ‘i a
cifie Avifauna”:
"White geese arrived May 10. Hutchins
geese arrived May 14. brant arrived Ma;> j
31. swan arrived May 11. crane arrived May !
17. plover arrived May 30. Fresh eider duck
eggs were found June L\ fresh ptarmigan j
eggs were found June- 3, rock ptarmigan i
began nesting about May 30.”
SUMMIT ROADHOUSE
NOW ON WINTER TRAIL
The Summit roadhouse boys this week
successfully performed their great semi j
annual moving stunt, and are now located ;
at their old home on the winter trail, and
are always pleased to see the weary way- !
farms as they go mushing along.
Dan Hartnett has taken winter quarters ;
at the Beattie house. P’or express and j
truckage slate your orders at the Beattie ;
house.
l'resh dry-pack Butter.
Iditarod Meat C ».
_ Gold St., Flat City
I HP mn Mr- Swans°n’ pr°p
I llll VII Dining Room Now Open
Nicely Furnished Rooms Barn for Horses and Dogs Baths in Connection
BB 9 1 PIONEER DRUG STORE
mJr 9 % FLAT CITY, ALASKA
MERCHANTS CAFE i
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l Caters to Large and Small Parties §
(PRIVATE DINING ROOMS \
Popular Prices Everything First Class c
CHAS. E. MILLER, PROP. |
NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS BY DAY OR WEEK
Warm, Clean Well Ventilated
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
Massage and
Bath Parlors
MEDICATED, MINERAL VAPOR, STEAM,
TUB, SALT AND FRESH WATER
Caribou St., Bet. Black and Willow Sts., on Waterfront
Electric and Faradic Massage Treatments by Expert Attendants
Lighted by Gas Heated by Steam
Three Sailors Drowned
Bridgeport, Conn., Sept. 22. Three of
the crew of the torpedo boat destroyer Mc
Call were drowned today when the tug
Seaboard collided with the torpedo boat’s
launch, in which they were travelog.
American Schools Seized
Vienna, Sept. 23. The Greek authori
ties at Korfitha, Albania, have seized three
American schools where 100 Albanian girls
were being taught by American teachers.
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Trying to Reorganize
New York, Sept. 21. The Republican
state convention has declared in favor of a
national convention to be held as soon as
possible to change the party rule ;->> that
each state may determine its method of
selecting delegates to the national conven
tions of the Republican party.
Served Forty-three Years
Columbus, Oho, Sept. 23. The governor
today pardoned John Tabor, who has served
43 years of a sentence for murder.
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Flew Across Mediterranean
Bizerta, France, Sept. 23. The l reneh
aviator Garros flew aci\. - the Mediterra
nean from St. Raphael to this city, 000
miles, in 7 hours and 33 minutes.
‘ The Death Valley Route”
Washington, Sent. 23. The interstate
commerce commission’s report of the recent
di-astorus wreck on the NTevv 3 ork, New
Haven Hartford railway blames the crew
of the wrecked train for the wreck and also
charges the officials of the road with in
efficient management. For years the r ;ad
has been known as the “Heath \ alley
route,” and its physical condition is such
that all who travel over that line carry
their lives in their hands.
Suit Against Southern Pacific
Washington. Sept. 2t. Attorney General
McReynrl.ls will soon bring suit to compel
the Southern Pacific Railway Company to
relinquish its interest in the Central Pacific
Railway Company.
To Aid Alaskan Navigation
Washington. Sept. 2">. The department
of commerce estimates, which will he sub
mitted to the regular ses.don of congress
in December next, contain an item of Si>0,
000 to be expended in aids to navigatu n
in Alaskan waters before December 1, 1915. I
The department of commerce, which has
ilie navigable waters of Alaska under its
jurisdiction, realizes that the needs of that
section are great, but could not hope to
obtain a greater appropriation at the first
regular session of the new administration.
Spain Will Exhibit
Madrid. Sept. 24. The premier of Spain
announced today that Spain will partici
pate officially in the Panama Pacific expo
sition at San Francisco.
Jackliny’s New Launch
Seattle, Sept. 4. The $500,000 steel
launch of W. U. Jadding, the Utah and
Alaska copper magnate, was l aunched to
day from the Moran shipyards in this city
this afternoon. Mr. Jadding will travel in
tlie launch on his trips along the Pacific
coast and in Alaska waters.
Trampled on the Flag
Tacoma, Sept. 21 A warrant has been
issued for Thomas Rogers, a member of
the Industrial Workers of the World, who
last night tore down, trampled upon and
then burned an American Hag.
Mrs. Mackay Sued
New York, Sept. 24. Mrs. Blake, wife
of Dr. Joseph Augustus Blake, who is one
of America’s most noted surgeons, filed suit
this morning against Mrs. Clarence II.
Mackay. wife of the cable owner, charging
her with alienating her husband’s affec
tions. Both families are separated because
of the intimacy of Dr. Blake and Mrs.
Mackay, and society is much interested in
the case.
Miss Pulitzer Married
Sacramento. Sept. 23. Helen Pulitzer, a
daughter of the late Joseph Pulitzer, the
famous New ^ ork edit* r, was married
today at Lake Tahoe to William Cl. l.n-lie
:n IlnclLhman.
Dynamited Passenger Train
Laredo, Texas. Sept. 23. At Sahiilo to
day tiie rebel soldiers dynamited a passen
ger train on the Mexican National railway,
wrecking the train and kilimg 40 fcd'-ral
soldiers and 10 civilians. The red; Is then
proceeded to strip the dead and living of
'•verything of value.
Race R:ot Among Miners
Benton. III.. Sept. 23. The killing of
I ill we 11 Hutchinson by Quincy Drummond's
band < f mini rs precipitated a race riot here
bet wren the Pi landers and Aan-rieans. and
the troops have been ca led out to | rotect
the Pi lander .
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S:. Michael, Sept. 1.” In 1 V.'o a halt -
breed Russian named Pitka appeared in
St. Michael wit ha ,-ackfid of coar.-e gold,
but would tell no cue where he found it.
and during the summer, always al me. Pitka
went away and returned with more g d I.
[Ie followed this up f< r seme time each
vear. It would take him aoout ad days
to fill his rack with the yellow nmtal, say
ing that he got it on a bar at a paenL to
the eastward, but would give no further in
formation. The so-called Pitka bar became
locally famous, and many miners and pros
pectors for years sought to 1 cate it. always
in the neighborhood of Anvik. Owing to
having performed some service to the half
breed, a man named Englestad became
friendly with Pitka, and the latter agreed to
take him to the bar. They set out with
a sled, but Pitka died on the trad, owing
to excesses which he had indulged in spend
ing his geld dust. lie was hauled back to
St. Michael and the secret died with him.
For the last two years miners have been
working in the Andrrafski district with en
couraging results, but the Pitka bar has
not been found. Now it is alleged that the
Pitka bar has been rediscovered.
Among the prospectors who are said to
have sought for the famous Pitka bar is
Rhodes, the author of the Kuskokwim
stampede in 1900. fie sought some few
friends here and was grubstaked by St.
Mkhml. s S'.inl ret .rood a tv dsy^ . go
with .’nothing over an ounce of c •: me ,
g< 11 and nugget'. The exact amount is
not known, as he was intensely secretive,
this time conferring so My with his grub
strikers Three days later he and his back
ers to a man started up the Yukon, telling ’
no cue of their destinrstimi.
Rhodes’ stcry lias leaked out. and it i
to the effect that when he hail about given ;
up prospecting in the region naYves volun
teered to show him where there was g< Id
■■him i lenty," and they brought him to a
bar which is evidently a cros.-ing of an old
channel, and in two days lie panned out the
geld he had with him.
The supposed strike, advance notice of
which was sent exclusively to the Industrial
Worker, is about Id miles up the Yukon
to the iNorth. and dose to Anorcatski. L
is declared to lie the famous Pitka bar, and
that it is, according to Rhodes, the out
cropping, owing to the wash of a creek, of
a rich old river channel which runs clear
across country and in the hills. The ex
citement here is very great, and men have
followed the early stampeders. seeking to j
get in on the discovery, about which there :
seems to be no kind of doubt. Industrial
Worker, September 15.
Lumbago successfully treated at the
Crosby Baths. Caribou street
STRIKE REPORTED
HEAR MATANUSKA
Valdez, Sept. 22.—Representative Milo
Kelly, who arrived here on the Knik en
route to Seattle, brings the news that an
other placer strike has been made in the
Matanuska district, near the coal fields, and
is expected to outdo the Chisana strike.
The news of the strike arrived in Knik
when Ole Oleson and Fred Getzel arrived
there with 68 ounces of coarse gold which
they claimed to have taken out in ten
days’ work. Having exhausted their sup
plies, they were forced to leave. Upon re
ceipt of the news the entire population of
Knik stampeded, and before Kelly left Knik
30 stampeders had returned and recorded.
The new diggings are 105 miles from
Knik, on the Matanuska river, and betw'een
Knik and Copper Center. Pay is said to
have been found on six creeks, but the
main discoveries are on Albert, Crooked and
Alfred creeks. As in the Chisana, all of
the creeks are above timber line, and wood
is seven miles away. It is 12 feet to bed
reck and frozen. Four feet of pay, aver
aging $12 to the cubic yard, is claimed.
MRS. WOODROW WILSON
BRINGS SUIT FOR LAND
Los Angeles, Sept. 21. The wife of Presi
dent Woodrow Wilson has begun suit in
the district court here for the recovery of
80 acres of valuable farm land lost through
the error of publication in the Coachella
Valley News.
Following the error the land commis
sioner advised Editor Compton of the mis
take made and ordered Cmopton to make
the necessary correction and republish the
notice. As Compton failed to rectify the
matter, the ground was lost by default.
It is alleged that the mistake was a willful
one, and was a fraudulent scheme, as Mrs.
Compton later filed on the land and is
one of the defendants in the suit.
The Merchants' Cafe during the past few
weeks has been undergoing alterations for
the winter season.
Absolute guarantee of satisfaction.
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Petaluma Eggs
NEW POTATOES, ETC.,
Other Prices Cut Proportionately
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The past week has been a great one
for the “gasoline kids.” Those captains oi
industry have come marching home quite
regularly during the past few days. Captain
Bromberg 1 d the forlorn hope immediately i
after the freeze-up, and reached home on i
Monday morning, f. l owed by Captain Billy
Peter mu and Commander Mert Marston. On
Wednesday morning the two captains of
the Orphan Boy Herb Rilev and Karl By
ers came in. Never within the memory
of the d Inst inhabitant of the Inland Kin
piiv has a freeze-up come so suddenly and
effectively as it did this year.
The C; Id snap of last Saturday night
caught :cven or eight boats < f the gasoline j
fleet between this city and Dikeman. The j
Teddy II. very luckily reached this port
on Sunday morning, and the Ruby-Tam
arack arrived the same evening. On Mon
day morning the river in front of town
was free of ice, caused by jams above and I
lx low.
The Little Delta, which arrived at 0
(ki rk Saturday, carried the last of the
Riley i‘c Mar.-t. n dredge, and it is stated
that the N ('o. succeeded in landing ail
of their perishables in good time.
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The steamer Teddy 11 . Captain Torn Wii
iett, is now in snug harbor against danger
( f the ice How at the foot of Richmond
street. The boat arrived just a few hour.-j
before the suddi n odd snap of last Satur
day no rning, carrying over 1.SG0 cases of
m-ri.-h; d * gends for a local house. The
lot trig (f the Teddy II to Dikeman and
i- turn .. made in three and a half days
;:d con*-:dering the am. ur.t >f freight car
ri ■ I and the short flays, the trip was an
vMo pti' nelly g-xd one. The Teddy II. was
■ • ut recently equipped with new boilers, and
is now the most powerful steamer of her .
trim age on the river.
John William Shaw, about 4b years of
age, Hack hair, dark eyes, rather heavy
build; plasterer by trade.
Charles Hammond, formerly of Fair-.iev,
Fa.; supposed to be in business in Alaska
cr Yukon territory.
Joseph Dobson, formerly of Brandsbv
Grange, England. Last heard of from
Klondike region.
Kenneth McLeod, last heard of in 1907.
at Fairbanks; first worked as telegraph op
erator in territory; about 30 years of age.
William Walter J antes Jones, age 41 |
years, height 5 feet 6 inches, brown hair,
blue-gray eyes, clear complexion; last hear 1
of in Dawson, 1903; engineer and minre
Sisters inquire.
Morris Davies of London, England, in
quires for his son, David Davies, last heard
from in 1910, working on N N. Co. boat,
bound for Iditarod.
ON HOME GREEK;
(News-Miner, September 25.)
Leon Jacques, now in St. Joseph’s hos
pital, Fairbanks, is authority for the state
ment that a new placer strike of some im
portance has been made on Home creek, a
tributary of Healey fork of the Nenana
river, the find having been made by
Jacques, Louis Caisson, Proctor Gaisson and
Cleophas Letu. Jacques is the man who
accidentally shot oft' the end of his left
hand several weeks ago, coming to Fair
banks for treatment.
The men left Fairbanks early in the
summer, presumably for the new strike
on the Chisana river, succeeding in de
ceiving everyone as to their final dastine
tion. They prospected all summer on the
Healey fork and struck nothing until July
18, then finding good prospects. They then
set up some sluice boxes and started shov
eling in, with the result that the ground
showed up to be a producer of about one
ounce of gold per day to the man.
The following article from the Fairbanks
News-Miner of September 22 tells of the
fatal accident to Clarence Erickson aboard
the little steamer S. & S., while en route
up the Tanana river. The deceased was
v/e'.l known in this camp, and prior to leav
ing here had been an engineer for Riley
Murston, cn Otter creek.
“That Clarence J. Erickson died as a re
si.lt of injuries sustained while attending
to his duties cn board the steamer S. & S.,
and that nobody is to blame for the acc -
dent, i- the verdict of the coroner’s jury
which sat at the inquest this morning he
ft ro Coioner Dillon. Erickson died about
' o’clock Saturday evening, after having
ecu taken to St. Joseph’s hospital, from
the loss of blood and the nervous shock
incidental to his left leg having been twisted
oh at the knee in the machinery of the
aforesaid boat.
Hie names oi ino.se sming on me cor
oner’.- jury at the inquest today were: John
did ivan, J. B. Ritz, Arthur Hyde, Arnold
H, h, J. R. Campbell and 0. E. Roadruck.
Witnesses examined, being other members
of the crew of the S. & S.f were John
St relic, Kail Slippei u, C. E. Keen and Frank
Robertson. Dr. J. A. Sutherland, the gov
ernment physician, also testified as to the
death at the hospital, explaining the injury
sustained by Erickson to the jury when
that body viewed the remains at the un
dertaking parlors.
“Very little is known of Erickson since
he came North, according to John Strrhc.
one of the owners of the boat on which
the accident occurred, lie had been in Idit
arocl and Ruby f< r the past two or three
years end had shipped as engineer on the
boat. Letters left by him show that his
lather’s name is J. P. Erickson, and that
he lives in Lents, Ore.
“The relatives at that address have been
r. mmunicaied with regarding the death of
Erickson. Disposition of the body awaits
an answer to the wire, although it was
Hated today that the burial will probably
take place here. Erickson was a young
man, being only about 2G years of age.”
at the Crosby Baths
Get your rheumatics scientifically treated
Fresh dry-pack Butter.
Iditarod Meat Co.
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS.
DEATHS AND MARRIAGES
An act of the first session of the legis
1 at ore of Alaska, approved April 25, HUM.
entitled “An act to require the registration
i-f vital statistics in the territory of Alaska,
and for other purposes.’’ provides that t
record shall be made and preserved of all
births, deaths and marriages that shall hen
after occur within the territory of Alaska,
and names the ex officio secretary of Alaska
to act as territorial registrar of vital stati
tics. Section 11 of the act provides as fol
lows:
“It shall be the duty, and hereby is male
the duty of all recorders in the territory of
Alaska, and of the clerks of all municipal'
ties in the territory, and all ministers of
the gospel, practicing physicians and under
takers in the territory, and others who may
have such data, to compile all record- in
their respective offices and transmit the
same to the territorial registrar, to be by
him recorded in the records provided ! r
under this act. ’
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EFFECTIVE JULY 30, 1913
1. Xo location shall contain more than 4° acres.
2. A person may locate for himself, each month, two clams of 20 acres each
(Both claims cannot te located in one location of 40 acres.)
3. A person may locate for each of two other persons, during each calendar
month, two claims of 20 acres each. ^So that one person, with two powers of at
torney. may locate each calendar month for liimselt and such two other person^,
six claims,) .
4. Powers or attorney must be m writing; they lieeu not ne aaiunuui^iu ■«
fore a no* ary, must be witnessed by two witnesses, and must be recorded ii. the re
cording district in which the claim is to be located before the location is made.
5. before any valid location can be made, a discovery must have been made
within the boun iaries of each claim to be located.
6. Immediately alter making discovery, location notice must be posted at
point of discovery, containing [a] name or number of claim; [b] name ot locator or
locators; [c] date of discovery and posting of notice; [d] number of feet in length
and width claimed. . .
y. Locator must immediately proceed to mark his boundaries by planting
stakes at each corner not less than 3 feet above the ground and 3 inches through,
and brushing out and blazing all lines. All corner posts must be marked with the
name and number of the claim and the number of the corner post. Posts ate
marked in consecutive numbers and the post nearest the discovery (but not the
discovery post) shall be the initial post and post No. 1.
8. Within 90 days, and before filing location certificate, $100 worth of de\el
opment work must he done for everv 20 acres or fraction thereot contained in a
claim.
9. After this work has been done and within 90 days after posting location
notice, a certificate must be recorded with the recorder, which must contain
[a] The name or number of the claim;
[b] The name of the locator or locators;
|c] The date of discovery and posting of location notice;
[d] Number of feet in length and width claimed.
The certificate must also give a description of the location of the claim with
reference to same natural object, permanent monument or well-known mining
claim; and a description of the boundaries, corner posts and markings thereon;
also a description of the $100 worth of location work done, and on what part ot
the claim it has been done. The locator or one of the locators, it there is more
than one, or some other person who has personal knowledge of the facts, must
swear to tne truui ot tne statements contained m 11, ami me n-unuu u.u.-h
accept such a certificate for record unless it is sworn to. For this swearing and
everything connected with it, the recorder is entitled to charge 50 cents.
10. Annual assessment work amounting to $100 for each 20 acres or fraction
thereof contained in any claim must be done each year, except during the year
in which the claim is located. (The same as has always been the case.)
11. After the last day of December, 1914. $10® worth of assessment work
must be done for each 20 acres or fraction thereof contained in any claim here
tofore located; so that during the year 1915, $800 worth of work must be done on
an association claim containing 160 acres.
12. The affidavit of annual labor must be filed with the precinct recorder
within 90 days after the last of the year for which the assessment work is done,
and failure to record it forfeits the claim.
13. The value of the work done under the new law will be computed on the
basis of the wage for similar work current in the precinct wherein the claim i*
situated.