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Editor Iditarod Pioneer:
.Noting the wail fioni Nome in your paper of June 21,
1913, over the new mining law enacted by the first session
of the legislature of Alaska, and what they propose to do
to nullify the same provokes reply. They claim:
First- That it confiscates mining property.
Second- That it multiplies burdens.
Third--That it prevents future locations.
Fourth—If enforced, will ruin the dredging industry
of Seward peninsula.
Fifth Huy urge presenting a huge memorial to con
gress to have 1 he law annulled, and request all other dis
tricts in Alaska to join in such memorial.
Now what’s ailing these dredge operators at Nome ?
The wild geese leave Alaska every fall to seek a milder
winter, and fatten on the grainfields. The Nome dredge
operators leave Alaska every fall to wander over the world
on a good time, and spend the fat they accumulate during
three or four months of their summer's labors. Annually
the first boats of the spring fleet bring them back to fatten
for the next annual winter’s sojourn. Upon their arrival
this year at Nome they discover Alaska has had a legislature
in session this winter that had passed some Territorial laws
—one of which was a new mining law, and instantly up
goes the wail: confiscate mining property, multiply the bur
dens, prevents future locations, if enforced will ruin the (
dredge industry, etc.
They call a council of war and get busy to go in a body
to Washington (Nome people always like to go to Washing- •
t-m in winter), if need be, at the next session of congress,
and lobby in the interests of the dredge masters' industry.
And they call aloud with a strong voice upon all sections of
Alaska to-join them in tiiis protest against the law.
Wherein will their property be confiscated? They have
no title to government land until they have complied with
the requirements of the statute, anil the government has
passed title to them by Lb S. patent. Why should the gov
eminent cany indefinitely the ground for them as a mere
claim to relieve them of spending! the money necessary to
patent ? The law makes it easy and char how to secure
title to a claim after §500 worth of work has been done on it.
Under our federal regime these dredge operators have!
been among the favored. The government has carried their
burdens of investment of real intrinsic value, i. e., their
claims, without the cost of one dollar to them. The federal
government has been tiring of many of its old practices, ,
and congress changed the mining law of Alaska last year, j
and bitted the location law with a (Spanish) bit. Alaska’s
First legislature lengthens the bit a little, and slips the
bridle onto every cay use in Alaska. These Nome and other
dredge operators don’t like the feel of the Spanish hit. It
brings them to a short halt on their haunches and opens
their jaws ana they make a noise tnat sounds as though
they were hurt badly, lint they are not.
The time is ripe now for every elaimowner in Alaska, if,
he seeks security in the ownership of his ground, to go the
route and pay the price the government requires and secure j
the title in his own name, and relieve the government from j
bearing further his legitimate burden.
If these Nome dredge people will consult O. 1). or El
wood Bruner, or George Griggby, or George Scofield, or
some other good lawyer, pay than a fee, then put the U. S.
surveyor at work—between them they will be able to per
manently remove all danger of confiscating, under the new
law, any legitimate mining claim.
Stay in Alaska next winter and spend the money on
patenting your claims that you have heretofore spent going
Outside, and you will solve the lirst, second and fourth
problems of your complaint against the law, and at the
same time give your country, your lawyer, the surveyor,
and your neighbor an even break.
Your third complaint has long required radical treat-j
merit, and the new law looks the look of good medicine.
W hat effect do they think their memorial will have at
Washington ( Do not these disgruntled big boys under
stand the meaning of the schoolm ister’s language when lie j
asks: 11 What are all you big fellows doing around Wash.!
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We hope to meet all old friends, and wish to make new ones.
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F? AT CITY The Place to Meet
_MU C.lanU. l-ro;>._YOUT P-TCnSS_
For the SMew Goods wif! begin to Gome
via. St. Michael This Week
C. R. Peel', Flat City
COMPLETE LINE OF )
Foot of Willow St., Iditarod
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BETWEEN FAiMS AND I0ITAR83
■ESSHHHe®BHra®5*3swigg?5i'3??£2^^3irE3£S3E=33g
WHS Leave Dlkeman, July Mm
For Information and Kates Apply the Owner:
CAFTAIN G. P. SPROUL, FAIRS AN ICS
iiigton for indefinite periods ? One can’t throw a brick in
any part of town without hitting a lobbyist representing
some interest.’’
If tiiat memorial shows for signatures, turn it down,
down', DOWN.
Stand by the work of our legislature. It has done
good service for Alaska. It is possible they do not know
the United States has gone Democratic? and will approve
the acts of our legislature. WILLIAM KNOX.
Very few people understand themselves. There are
men and women who honestly think they are kind and sym
pathetic and yet when they buy a newspaper don’t think
they have theii money’s worth unless there is something
about a horrible tragedy in it.—Alaska Empire.
The buffalo on our coins makes the dragon on the Chi
nese empire coins seem a comparatively handsome brute.—
Washington Star.
THE SETTiNG HEN
Sr*33HE old hens sits, with feathers ruffled, upon her bunch of
jH.Hl fourteen eggs; for three long weeks she hasn’t scuffled
around the yard on scratching legs. She’s tended
strictly to her knitting—fidelity’s the old hen’s boast; by day
and night still brooding, sitting, the martyr mother at her post.
And now the time has come for hatching, and soon the old hen,
swelled with pride, around the dooryard will be scratching, her
fluffy offspring at her side. Then mark, O marl: her guard and
cherish the welfare of her little flock. Before she'd see one
chicken perish, she’d whip a wildcat or a hawk. And when the
lightning and the thunder announce the sudden, pelting storm,
the chickens crawl her wide breast under, and she protects
them with her form. There’s nothing, truly, more affecting
than mother love that old hens bear, as they go clucking round,
prospecting to find their children’s bill of fare. I sympathize
with orphan chickens hatched out in patent tin machines; I
can’t imagine what the dickens that sort of innovation means.
To rob a chicken of its mother—to ride its owner on a rail: One
crime’s as low? down as the other, and each should send a man
to jail.—Walt Mason.
Since the last published list of
subscribers to the road fund, Knute
Koland reports:
.1. E. Hiley & Co..$200
Northern Commercial Co.. 200
L. N. Ellis 50
1'om McMahon 2o
J. R (Chief) McGovern, looking
all to the good after spending the
winter on the Outside, was an
arrival on tire White' Seal, and was
glad/ffiSP’ed by his many old lilli
cutns hereabouts.
On the trip down the Yukon the
‘‘chief’' made a diligent study ol
the hen industry, so his fellow-pas
sengers say, and hv the time the
boat reached Dikeman Mac could
get fresh eggs out of Fiank Man
ley ’s chicken coop whether the liens
laid them nor not.
Notice of Marshal's Sale
United States of An.eriea.>_
Foil rill District of Alaska,* 's'
Public notice is herein given, that by
i virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias (or exe
cution). dated .Tune IS. A-D. Ibid, issued
out of the District court, of the United
States for the Fourth (list rict of Alaska,
on a judgment rendered in said court, on
t t,e iSi h day of June, A.D.. ibid, in
favor of U. Ji. Cites ley. J. M. Ryan and
j F. Ij. Kehoe, and against Joint Oleson,
! i have, on this dl-t day of June, A.D..
1:113, ho ied upon the following de
scribed rail estate, situated in the
j Otu-r t ecurding district, Territory ul
Alaska, to wit:
All of the right, title and interest of
John OU son it: and to placer mining
j claim known as No. 7 above on Slate
creek, tributary to Otter creek, and
that I w: I. accordingly, off -r said real
(■state for sale, at public vendue to the
highest ittal best bidder, for caslt, on
the dUt, day of July, A.D., Ibid, at 1
o'clock }>.in.. at the front, door of the
marshal's oilice, iu the town of kliiarod,
Alaska.
Out i-d. Iditarnd, Alaska. 2ist day of
June, A.D.. Ibid. II. K. UOVIC,"
U.S. Marsiial Fourth Distric* of Alaska.
I ty 11. i Slope in ta'. Depot y.
U. M. Stamen. PlaintilFs Attorney.
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Fivsh Bread Every Day
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And also a goodly supply of
Willow Street, Iditarod.
) Outfit Here for Innoko and Mud j
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LODGING, MEALS AT ALL HOURS
Everylhing Comfortable far Travelers. JOHN UAGOT, Prop.
In Hie United States Land Office at Horne, Alaska
In the matter of the application of Joa
quin, Fowler and Twitchell lor pat
ent for TraO'ng Site.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
Notice is hereby given that. in pursu
ance to tlie provisions of the act of ('im
press approved May 14, 1898 (30 Stat.
400) entitled “An act extending the
homestead laws and providing for right,
of way for railroads in the district of
Alaska, and for oilier purposes,” and
amendments thereto, Frank Joaquin,
whose postolflce address is Tacotna,
Alaska, G. A. Fowler, whose postottice
address is Bethel, Alaska, and A. 11.
Twitched, whose postotliee address is
Bethel, Alaska, claiming twenty and
sixtvone hundredths (30.01) acres of
laud at Bethel, on tlie Kuskokwim
river, Alaska, have made application to
tlie United States fora patent for the
saiii land, as a TRADING SITE, and
said land is more fully described as to
the metes and bounds thereof by the
official plat thereof and by the field
not< s of the survey thereof now on tile
in the office of the register of said land
office, which is U. S. Survey No. 10u3,
as follows, to wit:
Beginning at, corner Mo. 1, identical
with corner No. 1, Moravian Mission
Reserve. Bethel, at, ordinary high
water murk on Kuskokwim river, from
which point IMS. local ion monument at
Bethel bears S. 723 12’ \YM, 12.05
chains, and S.W. corner dwelling 21x2b
feet, bears NM 2-> - nT lv, 4.00 chains;
witness corner set N. 24° 24' W., 1.21
chains, an iron pipe 2 inches in diain
ter projecting one !M t above the
ground, marked on S.W. side. M-M
Cor.-l-W-C. and M-C on side facing the
river, and on N. 1M side S-l002-( ur-i
\V-(M Bit, 2bx2bxl2 inches bears N.
210 24' \\M, S feet distant. Mound of
earth 4 feet base, 2 feel high, bears N.
24 ° 2 B W. of corner.
Thence N. 2 l 3 21’ \V. ldchains along
S.W. boundary, from t rue corner ov^-r
rolling land on line 1-2 of Moravian Mis
sion Reserve survey to corner No. 2. at
which point is set an iron pipe 2 inches
in diameter. 2 feet long. 2 feet in the
ground, marked on the east side, S-10 *2
Cur-2. Under this corner broken glass
is deposited at base of pipe as memo
rial. Bits are dug on lines -approaching
and departing from corner and b feet
(listant 18x 1 *x 12 inches.
Thence N. b7 ° 10' !M 18.84 chains
along N.W. boundary in coiner No. 2 at
which point C set an iron pi pci 2 inches
in diameter, 2 feet, long, 2 feet in the
ground, marked < n S.W. side S.-1002
< \>r-2. Bn;n r tlii • Corner broken glass
is deposited at base of pipe as a memo
rial. Bits are dug l~'\i‘'.\l2 inches on
lines approaching and departing from
corner and b feet distant.
1'hence S. 21° 2U B. 111*7 chains
along N.U. boundary to corner No. 4. at
'inary higb-wat- r mark on Kusko
kwim river. Witness corner set NM24C
’.;i W., 28 linksuistant. which is an iron
pipe 2 inches in dianv er, 2 feet long. 2
feet in the ground, marked on N.W.
side S-10d2-Uoi-4-W-< '. and M-<\ on side
facing the river. Broken glass is de
posited at base of pipe as a memorial.
Thence following the meanders of the
Kuskokwim river at ordinary high
water mark, along sandy beach down
stream from true corner 1. N. s8° 47’
W. 11.7b chains: 2. S. Oz IT W. 8.24
chains to (.’or tier No. 1. the pi ice ui be
ginning. containing 21.01. acivs.
The U. S. location monument to
which this survey is tied is an iron pipe
2.4 inches in diameter 4 fern long set 2
feet in the ground, marked on the
north side U. 8. L. M.. Bethel M M.
and is situated in the center of the
plaza at Bethel Mission.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely the said land or any portion
thereof so described, surveyed and
plat 11 d as abort- a*v herein roMm-d
link, unless their adverse claims are
duly filed accca !;ng to law with tin*
register of the Uni ed States land office
at Nome. Aia-ka, they will he barred
by virtue of the provisions of said stat
ute. ./. SUN DB AC X. Register.
In the Probate Court f -r the Inneko Precinct,
coin th Iudioial T;i vi , Dist\ ict of 1 ■ - k i.
' r Matter ' t Dreg Peter son
i • cea.-\ !. Refer • W. A Vinal. Commi- -a •. r
s; ttiin; as Probate Ju !ge.
N< vise is hereby ei .cn that lire und.o -igm-d.
administrator uf the estatt < thirty. Petci - o.. de
cs :>• to the creditors of. and all persons h -
:.o cl: in: s :o ainst the said «lcc« ased, to exh:! ;t
them, with li’.c nece->sarv vc. ck.ers. wiih.in *dv
months after the first publication of thi- notice
to the said administrator t hi: h nt at
Inneko precinct, Alaska, th.e seme being the
1 lace for the transaction of the business of s.::d
cst.l 10.
Dated am! signed at fu-.hir. Ah-i-ke. t!:is 14th
day of June. 10:3. CHRISTIAN IHiDlIX,
Admin. t! ator.
ORDER
It is or b1 that notice to t!ie creditors of
Oreg I’ctcr on. deceased, requiring all persons
having claims against the said deceased to ex
hibit them, with the ncces-m v vouchers, to the
administrator of the estate of said deceased be
gi'-cii by publication in tiie Milan d Pioneer, a
fcws; c.j er printed and publish.cd i.i the city ot
Iditarod, Ala.-ka, at he. ;t once a week fur four
successive weeks, am! that a copy of the ala • e
notice be p( sted in three public and conspicuous
places in the t-11 of ophir, Alaska, one of
w inch, places shat! be at th.e postoffice in said
town of ophir.
W. A. ViNAL.
Probate Judge.
Ophir, Alaska. June 14. 1913.
MRS. M. L. PETERSON,
Notary Public
First, A vo., Opp. Heat tie House.
Dr. Heinrich Wortmann,
Offices: Iditarod and Flat City
Yeleplioras at c*ach place
VV. F. GREEN, M. D.,
DISCOVERY, OTTER
Telephone
DR. H. BE HE A,
Dentist
Offices, I’icineer Uni;' Store.
Elat City.
Appointments by Telephone
DR. CHAS. D. CARTER
Eos' £ & d A a
Gold Street, Flat City.
Appointments by Telephone.
HENRY RODEN,
Attorney at Law
Iditarod, Alaska
ichigsn. 1881 Kentucky, 1891 Alaska 1910
George Woodruff Albrecht.
COUNSELOR AND LAWYER
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E. M. STANTON,
Attorney at. Law
(ifllce in Y\':eki I'slrnn ,v K D.d_r,
Second A
CHAS. E. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law.,
Notary Public. (’ui;v > a: tin;**'
Front S1.. iA;l*ai • *< 1
A. E. MALT BY,
Attorney r*i Law,
Office in M. »■: M. Dank B-jlidinjr
NOTARY 1't'Bt.tC PHO.VF.
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In Connection
Vea!, “ “ 40c
frluttors, by the carcass 35c
Fowl, per lb. 40c
Halibut, per ib 25c
Roast Chickens 40c
Pork Loins 40c
Codfish 35c
Frankfurter Sausage 40c
Spring Chickens 75c
Lamb Saddles 50c
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OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
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