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 World
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT: SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK
OFFICERS:
Chas. Ross, President
T. J. Nestor, Vice President
John Holmes, Cashier and Assayer
MERCHANTS CAFE
Caters to Large and Small Parties
PRIVATE DINING ROOMS
Popular Prices Everything First Class
CHAS. E. MILLER, PROP.
DELINQUENT TAX LIST
lOTJOE is hereby given that the taxes for the year 1911. levied by the
3 Town of iditarod, Alaska, pursuant to law and ordinance of said
- town, have not been paid upon the property situated within the
boundaries of the said town, described below, and that the amount of taxes de
linquent and unpaid upon each item described below is still due and unpaid.
Therefore, by virtue of Ordinance No. 33, of the Town of Iditarod, proceedings
will be started in the Commissioiaer's Court on the 11th day of December, 1917,
for the foreclosure of each and every item, together with costs and disburse
ments, remaining unpaid at that date.
Block. Lot. Taxes Penalty. Total.
1 1 Ranks & Mikuta . $37 50 $3 75 $4125
1 1 Mrs. Stoner. 14 25 1 45 15 70
1 1 H. LaFrance. 21 25 2 15 23 40
4 2 Gularte & Fontas. 59 25 5 93 65 18
4 8 Richards, J H. 15 50 1 55 17 05
6 5 Strong. J F A. 21 75 2 18 23 93
7 3 Wile. Albert. 8 75 88 9 63
7 3 Sirnson, Alex. 4 25 43 4 68
7 4 Bigham, Roy. 1 25 13 1 38
7 4 Anderson, Mary. 1 25 13 1 38
7 0 Nelson, J . 1 50 15 1 65
7 7 McSmart, Thos . 4 75 48 5 23
8 5 Bergman, C’has . 6 00 60 6 60
9 1 Malt by, A E. 1 75 18 1 93
9 1 Byers, E L . 10 50 1 05 11 55
9 2 Robe, L S . 1 75 18 1 93
9 3 •• 4 00 40 4 40
9 3 Donovan. J J. 7 75 78 8 53
9 5 Slippern, J A . 3 75 38 4 13
9 7 Armstrong, . 1 00 10 1 10
10 4 Marsh, Chas . 9 25 93 10 18
11 4 Mutcbler Bros. 6 25 63 6 88
12 1 Fontas, F . 12 50 1 25 13 75
12 2 “ . 59 5 5,7
12 4 Keyes, Pat. 1 25 13 1 38
13 3 Burns, Joe. 25 3 28
13 4 “ . 25 3 28
14 1 Panter, Harry. 3 75 38 4 13
2w 2 Johnson, Nels. 8 75 88 9 63
“ 6 Bruhn & Ward. 5 00 59 5 50
9 Peterson & Elliott. 3 00 30 3 30
“ 10 Maltbv, A E... 14 25 1 43 15 68
“ 11 Sheppard, Harry. 1 50 15 T. 65
3w 1 Peterson, Jack. 4 25 43 4 68
“ 5 Miller, H . 1 50 15 1 Go
“ 7 Peterson, D L . 3 7s 38 4 13
“ 8 “ “ . 1 00 10 1 10
“ 10 Robe, L S . 25 3 28
“ 11 “ . 25 3 28
“ 12 “ 50 5 55
6w 2 Keenan, Frank. 2 25 23 2 48
“ 4 Bailey, Jack. 1 50 15 1 65
7w 1 Johnson, Nels. 5 00 50 5 50
“ 3 Thomas, W B. 4 50 45 4 95
“ 9 Olson, H . 2 25 23 2 48
8w 2 Shipler, Tom. 1 25 13 1 38
“ <3 Lewis,.. . 1 75 IS 1 93
“ 7 Green, Paddy . 2 50 25 2 75
8 Peel, Henry . 1 00 10 1 10
9 Hartnett, Dan. 1 00 10 1 10
“ 10 Cullasky, Paul. 2 25 23 2 48
“ 12 Moat, Jno. 4 00 40 4 40
le 3 Keyes, Pat 2 50 25 2 75
*’ 7 Sulligof, Nick. 2 50 25 2 75
“ 10 Holbrook, Scott . 4 25 43 4 68
“ 11 Taylor, Geo. et al. 18 75 1 88 19 63
“ 12 “ “■ . 1 50 15 1 65
“ 6 Porter, Mrs W H. 3 75 38 4 13
“ 6 De Rosa, Joe .. . 2 50 25 2 75
2e 2 Maltbv, A E. 6 25 63 6 88
“ 3 Graham, Mrs Robt. 10 50 1 05 11 55
“ 5 Watson, Mrs I
•> 6 “ “ f . 30 oO o Oo 33 55
“ 7 Slippern Mill Co. 2 50 25 2 75
“ 1 Moot, R. 1 75 18 1 93
" 8 Ryan, Jas.. 3 75 38 4 13
11 9 Halverson, Chris. 8 00 80 8 80
“ 10 Graham, Mrs Robt. 3 50 35 3 85
“ 10 Doolittle, Mr. 3 00 30 3 30
“ 11 Mutchler, Jake |
“ 12 “ “ { . 9 25 93 10 18
3e 1 -2 Nyholm, 1. 62 50 6 25 68 75
“ l-2 Faucett, J E. 2 50 25 2 75
1-2 Watson, Alex. 13 50 1 35 14 85
3 Erickson, Henry. 3 00 30 3 30
“ 4 LaChopelle, Joe. 3 00 30 3 30
“ 3 McMullen, Pete. 6 25 63 6 88
0 . 6 2o 63 6 88
“ 10 Faucett, J E. 18 75 ] 88 20 63
11 “ “ . 1 25 13 1 38
“ 12 Slippern Mill Co. 7 50 75 8 25
“ 12 Lovett, Mr. 4 25 43 4 68
4e 1 Mutchler Bros. 13 75 1 38 15 13
“ 2 Faucett, J E. 1 25 13 j 33
11 Sully, J H. 25 3 28
;• 12 “ “ . 225 23 2 48
5e 1 White, Anna. 4 25 43 4 68
(Continued on Page 4.)
BISHOP STRINGER DOUBTS
STORY 01 LOST CABIN MINE
y EFORE leaving Dawson last month on his way to attend the
T_ Anglican assembly at Montreal, Bishop J. O. Stringer had
the following to say to the Dawson News regarding the
“Lost Caibn Mine’’ which is supposed to exist in the Mackenzie
country, and in search of which a party left Fairbanks some weeks
ago:
“I have heai’d so many reports regarding the supposed ‘Lost
Cabin mines’ near the Mackenzie delta, that I deem it only fair to
prospectors to Jet them have the benefit of my observations and
what I have heard in that region. I spent many years near the
mouth of the Mackenzie and at Herschel island, and traveled with
whites and natives along the coast. Although certain parties have
gone into the country claiming they had information from authen
tic sources as to the location of the alleged mines, not one of the
parties has found the properties or any diggings justifying the be
lief such mines haye existed in the vicinity or that there is any
such pay there. I do not want to discourage legitimate prospect
ing, but, on the other hand, do not want to see prospectors led on
after mythical bonanzas.
“Men now devoting time to the chase after the ‘diggings’ are
evidently in the best of faith, but must have been misinformed. I
base my belief on the fact that several parties have scoured the
district, and have located nothing, and the further fact that Mr.
Firth, the agent of the Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort McPher
son, a thoroughly reliable and honorable man, never saw the al
leged discoverer or any of his party in the district, nor met any
natives or others who saw any such parly in the Mackenzie coun
try or vicinity about the time the discovery is reported to have
been made. Travelers are not so numerous in the Mackenzie val
ley but what the presence of a single man is most carefully chron
icled and reported. Mr. Firth has a marvelous memory. He re
members nothing of the alleged Wifley party.
“The story is that Wifley and party, all railway surveyors,
went down the Mackenzie 17 years ago, and, in crossing from the
coast coming back to the Mackenzie, made a short cut and struck
rich pay while on a creek on the west of the Mackenzie delta. The
men, the story runs, then left the country, none of them ever com
ing back. I met the party which went up the Porcupine this year.
They claimed to have the exact longitude and latitude, to have
gotten it from Wifley through a reliable connection. They seemed
to dislike it when I laughed at the idea of their going after the al
leged lost mine.
“McRae was there after the property a year or two, and went
through Dawson recently. He claimed to have had the exact long
itudinal and latitudinal locations secured from Wifley in Colorado,
but he did not find the mine. I was surprised he claimed on top of
his acknowledged failure in making the find he was going back.
I notice that he claimed also that he knew where to locate Wifley
in Colorado*
“I should only be too pleased to know there are such diggings
in the district, but the story does not seem plausible to me. I be
lieve the men on the quest have in some way gotten on a blind
trail.”
The Orca salmon cannery packed 55,000 cases of fish this
season.
The floating cannery, Glory of the Seas, was safely towed to
Seattle from Ketchikan.
The frozen fish industry of Southeasterh Alaska has grown to
be one of the big industries of that section.
A prospector was drowned recently while shooting the rapids
at the Big Riffle on the Stikine in a small boat. His partner clung
to the capsized craft and was picked up.
Gold bullion to the amount of $1,200,000 reached Seattle on the
steamship Senator. It was from Nome and Iditarod, and was the
largest shipment brought out of the North this year.
The schooner Alice, of the Robinson Fisheries Co., recently
reached Seattle with 184,000 codfish from the Bering sea.
Kazis Krauczunas, the Socialist candidate for delegate at the
last election, has returned to Ketchikan and has opened a law office.
The city of Ketchikan will try to have the squatters who have
taken up part of the baseball park and recreation park ousted, jj
Fifty drinks of Scotch whiskey a day for 12 years is the record
of a certain roadhouse man in the Dawson neighborhood, according
to persons who kept tab on him. No wonder the fellow was ‘'bugs”
on the steamer Casca, on which he was a passenger on the last trip
of that boat up the river. Forty drinks per day is enough for any
man who would distinguish between respectable intoxication and
beastly drunkenness- The fellow might have known those extra
10 drinks would eventually land him.
Grouse and rabbits are very plentiful around Whitehorse this
year.
The governor’s mansion at Juneau will be ready for occupancy
in December.
Whales now and then visit the waters near Skagway, and the
Alaskan pleads that no one frighten them away until the tourists
see them.
George Kyrage, of Juneau, also known as “George the Greek,’’
has sold out his business interests in the capital city and gone back
to Greece, after an absence of 37 years.
Major John E. Ballaine is quite sure that the government will
build a railroad from the coast to Fairbanks. The major is almost
persuaded that the Alaska Northern will form a part of the pro
jected line.
The famous Yukon-river steamer Tyrrell is being dismantled
at the West Dawson shipyards and the machinery, it is understood,
will be used by the White Pass in equipping its new steamer now
under construction at Whitehorse for the Upper Yukon.
A. R. O’Brien, formerly of the Daily Recorder of Juneau, is
now publishing the Record at Marshfield, Ore.
John Adelman, of Fairbanks, won a large silver cup for the
best display of Alaskan cereals at the Northwestern Land Exhibit
at St. Paul. Mr. Adelman’s place is above Graehl and there he
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GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, HARDWARE
For the information of the public, the shortest and best trail
to the Aniak or Bear Creek connects on the Kuskokwim
River at KolmakolTsky
Georgetown Station
A Full Line of Groceries, Provisions and Hardware
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raised the array of cereals last year that was first exhibited in Fair
banks and then forwarded to the New York and St. Paul fairs.
The engraved cup was received by Mr. Adelrnan last month.
President Dickeson, of the White Pass route, has subscribed
$600 toward the fund to purchase paintings for the Alaska-Yukon
Municipal Art Gallery at Seattle.
Andrew Taylor and Jacob Foos, two Iditarod miners who re
mained in the Cache-creek country, on their way out last spring,
have located bench claims which are very promising, and will de.
velop this winter.—Seward Gateway
Arrivals from the Cache-creek (Susitna) country state that the
output this year will be about ^100,000.
WILL GO AFTER
' DELINQUENTS
The Iditarod city council has de
cided to go after all delinquent tax
payers and make them pay their
assessments. Altogether there is
nearly' $2,000 in 1 g 11 taxes still
outstanding, and while many of
those who are delinquent have left
the country, others are still in our
midst.
After due notice has been served
upon all who are in arrears, the
collection of the outstanding
amounts will be placed in the hands
of the city attorney, when it is pos
sible the properties will be sold by
public auction to the highest bidder
f r cash. The assessments are so
trivial in most cases that it will be
to the interest of property owners i
to pay up without further delav.
The initial cost of disputing pay
ment will be greater than the
amount involved.
Location blanks—Pioneer office.
HOME AGAIN 1
ON THE WINTER TRAIL
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Than Ever Before to Supply Your Wants in
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