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One Dollar Per Month. IDITAROD, ALASKA, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1911. Two Bits Per Copy
Flat City Will
Also Celebrate
They are preparing for a fine cele
bration at Flat city on the Fourth of
July and everybody is preparing for a
good time.
The committee on arrangements,
consisting of Dr. E. M. Spaulding,
Harry Shaw, George Mutchler and
Bert Moores have drawn up a splendid
program, with the baseball game
between Discovery and Flat as the star
feature of the day!
Judge C. E. Taylor will deliver the
oration of the day and the sports pro
gram begins at one o’clock with the
baseball game for a purse of $250. Fol
lowing is the list of events after the
game.
Pony race, three dashes, $20 and $10.
Miners’ Pack race, 100 yards, 75 lbs.
$20 and $10.
Hundred-yard dash, free for all, $15
and $5.
Running broad jump, $10.
Standing broad jump, $10.
Egg race for women, 75 yards, $10
and $5.
Log-rolling contest, $25 and $15.
Tug-of-War, between the Guggen
heims and Flat creek laymen. Purse
to be paid on the first of August.
Putting shot, $10.
Nail driving contest for women, $10.
Sack race, $10 and $5.
Poling Boat race, $20 and $15.
Old Men's race (over 50 years), $10
and $5.
Grand ball at A. B. hall in the
evening. _
Court Will Hear tire
Motion Docket First
For the purpose of getting cases to
Issue and ready for trial, Judge Over
field will probably hold a session of
court in this city before the regular
day of the opening of the term, July
10, when he will hear ex parte matters
and rule on motions and pleadings.
The day of this sitting has not been
announced nor can it be until after the
arrival of the court. There will be
time however to notify all members of
the bar in the district that they may
be present.
The following is the motion calendar
that will be taken up :
1. Anna M. Nee vs. Jos. Nee, di
vorce; motion for default.
3. Chas Worden et al vs. Wm. Bar
rett et al, nuisance; demurrer to com
plaint.
9. T. J. Nestor et al vs. I. Niholm
et al, foreclosure of lien; demurrer to
complaint. Deft. Nyholm, demurrer to
complaint. Deft. Clark Dumber Co.
11. J. A. Slippern et al vs. C. Kru
tsinger et al, foreclosure of lien ; de
murrer to complaint.
12. Annie Clifton vs. Anna My rick
et al, ejectment; stipulation to dismiss.
14. F. A. Martin et al vs. E. J. Car
sow, specific performance of agreement
to convey. Demurrer to complaint.
17. W. S. Clark vs. Wm. Eisen
menger, foreclosure of lien; motion for
default. Motion to set aside default.
Deft’s motion to quash attachment.
20. G. W. Mitchell vs. Fred Chap
man, to quiet title; demurrer to com
plaint.
23. Thos. Klog vs. T. P. Aitken, de
clare trust; motion to make complaint
more definite and certain.
24. Annie Clifton vs. T. D. McGrath,
ejectment; stipulation to dismiss.
25. Annie Clifton vs. Dick Carlisle,
ejectment; motion to make more defi
nite and certain.
34. R. H. Tiffany vs, Q. E. Craig et
al, declare trust; demurrer of Britt and
Maher to complaint.
United States vs. Wm. Rooney, as
sault and battery on appeal ; motion to
dismiss on stipulation.
CASES READY FOR FURTHER ACTION.
2. M. E. Heavey vs. Jessille Heavey,
divorce; ready for default.
10. W. B. Thomas vs. Wm. Weiss,
debt; ready for default.
13. John Bjerved vs. Fred Bruhn,
debt; ready for default.
1&- Herman Anderson vs. T. D.
Thurston et al, foreclosure of lien ;
ready for default.
Fine floor A. B. ball July 4th, $3.
Notice to Miners
Hydraulic hose, via St. Michael, at
greatly reduced prices; 3-inch, 6-inch,
8-inch and 10-inch.
Flume hose, any size you want, made
to order on short notice.
Small hose, for boiler feed or road
houses, from 5c foot up.
Tents, tarpaulins, flys, bunks, mat
tresss, comforters, pillows, blanket
sheets, etc., at lowest prices.
Johnson Mattress & Host; Factory,
Phone 22. Willow Street.
Big doings A. B. hall July 4th, $3.
MISSING—One case tacks, one bolt
houselining. Finder return to Sny
der, Flat City, and receive reward.
Pioneer Drug store, Flat City, has
Just received three tons new goods
FOR SALE — North Star restaurant,
Dis. Otter, completely equipped. In
quire Shonbeck, Discovery.
Lieutenant Edgerton mushed from
Fairbanks to Circle and came to Holy
Cross on the Sarah. He then caught
a salmon schooner to this city and says
he liked it. .
J. R. McGovern was appointed chief
of the fire department.
Try a Portola Eggnog, cold and re
freshing, at Johnstone’s.
Ingersoll watches $1.50. City Drug
Store.
Pioneer Drug store of the district
is at FlaL_
Good music A. B. hall July 4th, $3.
This thing of allowing newcomers in the camp to tackle that sum
mer trail from Dikeman to this city must stop at once. There are now
two men in the hills who failed to make connections and parties are
looking for them. One has been out nine days and one has been out
five days. It is entirely probable that more are in the hills fighting the
mosquitoes and the pangs of hunger.
There is no summer trail and the federal authorities should take
immediate steps to impress that on the public. Forty miles of the
hardest kind of going, with no chart nor compass and a liue of march
that even a seasoned campaigner would mistake, is no place fora
chechaco. Four men arrived at Jack Birrington’s cabin last night at io,
io miles above Discovery Oder. They were all in and could hardly
speak. They had left one member ot their party in the hills. He is
doubtless fighting for life. The whole country is a maze of hills, one
looks like the other. Water courses radiate in a thousand directions.
To allow an inexperienced man to tackle a journey such as Dikeman to
Idilarod is criminal carelessness. We would very much like to see it
stopped.
OTTO WINDHORST CUTS THROAT WITH RAZOR
Leaving every evidence that he had planned his self destruction
with cold deliberation, Otto Windhorst, a native of Missouri, about 50
years of age, a pioneer of Alaska and a well known prospector, com
mitted suicide some time Wednesday night about a mile and a half be
low the city. Apparently he stood in the shallow water near the bank
of the river, slashed his throat with a mighty effort that nearly severed
his head and fell forward into the water, making his purpose doubly
certain. He was found where he fell, face downward and the razor
under him. The dark-stained leaves of the willows bore mute evidence
of the frightful tragedy.
The body was found Thursday morning about 9 o’clock by Joe
Brown who had wandered down that way fishing. He reported im
mediately and Commissioner Maltby, with a coroner’s jury of six went
to the point and brought the remains to the city. He was buried yester
day in the local cemetary.
Wednesday noon he left the store of Vachon & Sterling, where he
has been working for the past month, saving that he was going out to
sell a case of goods. He did not return. That afternoon lie appeared
at the Golden Eagle saloon and left a $10 bill with J. H. Rogers with
instructions that it be given to his friend Fred Galli, from whom he had
borrowed it, “in case I do not return this evening.”
Upon the bank, a few feet from where the body lay, Windhorst had
left his black felt hat, covered with a red bandana. The only explana
tion is that he must have left this as a signal to attract attention.
In examining his effects at the Vachon & Sterling store, a small
memorandum book was found in his vest in a conspicuous position. In
this book were many addresses in ink and opposite one page was writ
GOOD ROAD TO FLAT CREEK IS THING DESIRED
With intent to investigate the problematical routes between this
city and Flat, Lieutenant Edgerton, member of the Alaska road com
mission who succeeded Capt. Pope as engineer, has arrived to see what
might be done in regard to settling the time honored question of how
to build a road to Flat.
Lieutenant Edgerton comes with an open mind and a desire to
achieve, as near as may be possible, a short and quick line of communi
cation between this city and the base of consumption. He would like
the co-operation of the citizens of this city and of Flat, and particularly
the view of the operators of the creeks in suggestions that might be
offered in the building of the most vital artery of trade that can possibly
exist between this city and the source of demand.
R. S Giddings is also here, foreman of the devision of work that
lays between Iditarod and Rainey pass on the Seward trail. He will
start immediately with a crew of 12 men to begin on this end of the
wo:k that will make the Seward Iditarod trail a highway of communi
cation with the Outside that will beat all the rest of them to it. He has
been given the long end of it, not only because he is capable of handling
it, but because he is also assisted by the fact that some po.tio 1 of his
trail is well-understood and traveled at this time.
The road commission, with the funds now available, and with the
sums that ma/ come to them through the licensing system now prevalent
in Alaska, will have about $7 000 to expend on a road between Iditarod
and Flat. This is exclusive of the money that may be collected as road
tax from those living outside of incorporated cities. The work will
begin at once, just as soon as Lieutenant Edgerton can nave oppor
tunity to decide the proper route to be traversed by the government
line between this side of the divide and the other. He especially depro
cates the fact that money has been spent on two roadways, but will
expend the government money in the furtherance of the most feasible
route.
Work will begin at once, not only on the Seward trail but on the
road between the two cities, the latter being the chief concern at the
present. As soon as the route to Flat is selected work will begin and
will go forward in the hope (editorially speaking) that a feasible route
is soon completed.
Iditarod Loses Second
Block in Three Months
Starting from an explosion of gasoline in the Board of Trade
saloon on Willow street, where the flames burst from both ends of
the building before all the occupants had time to get out, fire
again visited Iditarod at 10 o’clock last Sunday night and before
its race was run, licked up another block of this city, causing a
loss of approximately $50,000 and closely approaching in disastrous
effect the conflagration of April 4. • *
The exact origin is open to doubt as in the case of the big
fire. The gasoline lights in the Board of Trade saloon were acting
poorly and had caused trouble all the evening. They died down
about ten o’clock and Abe Wallace attempted to right them.
All agree that there was a sudden leaping of flames in the
vicinity of the tank, which reached the balloon ceiling and ran
along the top of the room so rapidly that they were forced to run
for their lives- Evidently, the atmosphere of the room was
heavily impregnated with gasoline fumes, and the result was a
subdued explosion. Simultaneously with the cry of fire which
ai'ose as soon as the men gained the street, billowing flames burst
from both ends of the building and in less time than it takes to tell
it, the whole structure was wrapped in a brilliant fiery blanket.
Even as the fire department was responding, the flames shot
to a tent warehouse in the rear, and with a suddenness that was
appalling the bystanders realized that another fateful and disas
rous conflagration was upon the city.
Realizing that it was utterly futile to try to check the flames
with the means at hand, everyone turned his attention to the
removal of property and the saving of houses on opposite sides of
the street. With bewildering rapidity the flames crept from store
to store and within an hour the entire block was a mass of fire,
with the exception of two or three detached buildings.
Good work was done by many, which space does not permit
recording here. Much property was saved by rapid work, and as
though by a miracle the blaze was prevented from spreading
beyond Caribou street. Across Willow and First paint was blis
tered and windows cracked, and the bucket brigade worked over
time. The city pump had not been installed but the small hose of
the Cascade laundry did good service along the fronts of the
buildings.
The list of losses is approximately as follows:
Miller & Jerman, $12,000; Popich & Jemo, restaurant, $1,200;
A. Stoner, barber shop, $300; Dick’s cigar store, $500; Board of
Trade saloon, $2,000; H. Boaz, $5,000; Royal Cafe, $2,000; Harry
Bridges, $3,000; Ophir house, $6,000; Iditarod Soda Water works,
$200; Barthel Brewery, $3,000; B. Leavitt, $700: H. Schlapik;
$1,000; C. Artell, $1,000; Moose cafe, $7,500; J. E. Bishop. $175;
Keys & Mayhan, $1,500; H. La France, $65; Adams house. $300.
Jack Galvin of Nome is on his way j
up from Dikeman coming overland
and assisting in the enterprise of land
ing the Tesack cattle.
Newspapers and magazines. City
Drug Store.
The steamboat inspectors, Capt.
Deering and Capt. Lehners, with
Jerome Desio, secretary, accompanied
by Capt. Donovan, deputy marshal,
i who will be with them as far as Dike
man, left Thursday morning early on
the Little Snug. The inspectors had
made a thorough canvass of all boats
now here, but will have two or three
Iditarod steamers which they must
catch on their way to the lower Yukon.
They will make the Kuskokwim next,
possibly crossing the Portage, or going
around by St. Michael.
Stationery, wholesale and retail. City
Drug Store;_
Fried eggs_ or ham and eggs at the
Merchants. 75c.
ten in pencil, “These are the addresses of my relatives. Otto Wind
horst.’’
He was seen in the city until evening but apparently had not been
drinking beyond an occasional glass of beer. When found he had a
pint bottle of whiskey in his pocket only half emptied. Apparently he
had taken two or three stiff drinks to nerve himself for the ordeal of
death.
Windhorst has been in the country many years and in many parts
of it. He has always been a rustler and nearly always had a bank
account of one or two thousand dollars. Last winter he went to San
Francisco with Ben Cockrill to raise money for a tramway project be
tween this city and Flat. Fred Galli, who saw much of him there, be
lieves that this trip cost him over a thousand dollars. He came back
broke, over the Seward trail, and of late became possessed of the idea
that he was getting the worst of it on the tramway deal or that the
project had failed.
When he first returned he worked for the Cleveland mill and later
for Vachott Sc Sterling. At one time he worked for a mercantile firm
in Dawson, and also prospected in the tar Nebesna country where the
copper is.
Among the names of those whom he designated as relatives were
found the following : A. W. Windhorst. Tampa, Fla.; F. W. Wind
horst, York Town, Iowa; Miss Minnie Windhorst, 1129 Central ave.,
St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. E. Berkemeier, 5510 Vernon ave., St. Louis; M
R. Windhorst, 3518 Morgan ave. and J. T. Windhorst, 4034 Greer ave ,
St. Louis.
As far as known the unfortunate man left no estate beyond a few
personal effects.
Another Tramway Is
About to Commence
With rolling stock and equipment already on the Yukon via Daw
son, and with the necessary mateiial at hand, a new tramway under
the direction of James Wilson formerly manager of the Alaska Com
mercial Co. will be started within the next few days to be run from this
city to Flat. The promoters, among whom are Frederick Wilson of
Spokane, James Wilson of San Francisco, L. S. Robe of this city and
Ben Cockrill, formerly a resident of Iditarod, have the funds necessary
for the enterprise and with the exception of a few preliminary skir
mishes, real work will begin in about four days.
Owing to the fact that the company wishes to experiment before
investigating definitely in equipment, horse-power will be used, and
gasoline cars will be sent in later in the summer if found advisable. As
yet, there appears to have been no negotiations between the new com
pany and the Mutchler Bros, in regard to the tramway- that is already
built a good part of the distance between the two towns. Doubtless
they will get together to avoid the ecouomic foolishness of two tram
ways where one is plenty.
The new company expects to be running cars within a month from
today.
Flat Creek vs. Id it a rod
Winner to Take All
There will be a ball game here on
July’ 4th, and according to the frameup
we can all go out on the sidelines and
cheer or swear as the moment moves
us. Joe McNamee is bringing a team
in and they will play for the entire
purse offered by the celebration com
mittee,—winner take all. The game
will begin at 12:30 at the ball grounds
above the Cleveland mill. The lineup
is as follows:
Flat: J Beleal, J Bidwell, Ed Hen
N. C, Gets Order
for Fire Apparatus
Being the only bidder in the field,
and offering to furnish the city with
pump and fire-fighting apparatus for
its actual cost landed here, the North
ern Commercial Co. was last week
awarded the contract for furnishing
a four-inch Worthington pump. 2000
feet of hose, 2 hose carts, several hun
dred feet of four-inch mains, nozzles,
etc., the price being $5,952 delivered at
Dikeman.
This price is the cost price anu
rung, Claud Shea, J Streid, W Grout.
H Fitzgerald, J McNamee, J Davis, W
Walker, A1 Anderson.
Iditarod: T M Meyers, C Fowler, Roy
Judkins, Tom Duscombe, Tom Lovley,
Dan O’Brien, Pete McMullen, Billy De
Baun, R Sirwell, C Beynon.
Slippern has screen dcors, fancy and
plain; wire screen—all sizes at lowest
prices.
Have you seen the Iditarod Hotel ?
Big dance A. B. hall July 4th, $3.
although no other bids had been put
in, others had figured on the price and
all came to about the same estimates
The order has been telegraphed out
and all haste has been urged in sending
the outfit, so that it should arrive by
late summer.
In the meantime, the three-inch
pump has been installed and is in
working order to be used until the
balance of the plant arrives.
Fried eggs or ham and eggs at the
Merchants, 75c.
Modern, comfortable, Iditarod Hotel
A new barge for the General Jacobs
has been built by the government at
Fort Gibbon. Jt has a capacity of
100 tons.
Sourdough Drowned
in Siragluk Slough
Early this week as the Seattle No.
3 was coming up the lower end of
Shagluk Slough, Joe Muldoon, a man
of about 50 years, who, as far as can
be learned was an Alaskan sourdough,
fell from the bow of the boat and was
drowned before help could reach him.
The steamer left Holy Cross about
six in the morning and the accident
occurred at eleven o’clock. Muldoon
had been riding on the barge and in
attempting to pass back to the boat he
stumbled in the cordage and was
plunged headlong into the water. The
current carried him past in a flash and
there was scarcely time to throw him
a line before he was far astern. A
hurried attempt was made to lower a
boat, but one or two glimpses of an
outstretched hand were all that
they saw of hfm. A futile search of
half an hour in the vicinity revealed
nothing, and the steamer perforce pro
ceeded on her way.
Muldoon is said to have lived in the
Fairbanks district, but little can be
learned concerning him. It is said by
those who were acquainted with him
on the boat that he carried a belt of
money amounting to a thousand dollars.
Gauss of Death
Remains a Mystery
There has been no satisfactory ex
planation discovered for the cause of
the death of Robert Linder, the young
German baker, who was lost while
hunting early in June in the vicinity
of Dikeman and whose body was dis
covered this week. He was found near
the bank of Horseshoe lake and had
evidently drowned.
His gun was strapped to his back and
it is surmised that he had either tried
to cross the lake or had attempted to
swim after a duck that he had killed.
The body was taken into Dikeman
and buried, no inquest having been
held. The interment was hastened by
the fact that decomposition was at an
advanced stage.
Later.—Commissioner Stanton went
down river yesterday to hold an inquest
over the remains.
Passenger List
Seattle No, 3
The following passengers arrived at
Dikeman and came hero by small boat:
Fred JBoedner, Louis Krodel, J A
Passich, F L Manley, B F Manley, F
Mothes, C E Landgraf, Mrs Landgrat,
and children, J L and Mrs Carter, C
and Mrs Hatch, C L Cole, Jos Herman
Miss G Williams, Miss G Weiss, Mrs
D Halpin, C J Zimmerman, C Myers,
H Entieknap, M Knuppe, J M Craw
ford, O and Mrs Carara, L and Mrs
Sicord, J W Charlton, T H Jordan, W
Ougan, W A Winkieman, W Lanne
grade, Mrs E Smith, Miss L Seney,
Miss J Saunders, L Olive, H Colombon,
F S Gruber, N Lawson, C E Thomas,
F W Rooney, L and Mrs Ramus, Edw
Sandstrora, A H Maclin, F R Nagle,
J W Orr, R S Geddings, C Shringer,
S Johnson, L Matson, W Evans, P Nor
ton, H Jerel, John Peltner. T N Case,
M Breme, Sam, O A Vik, F Smickle,
W J Barta, D Halpin, R Jordan, Theo
Smith, H O Vik, R O Fritch, J W
Skelly, A Johnson, W H Quick, M
Braonowski, J Pobocahinto, J Evanoff,
P Greegrief, Tom Barmot, O Boezkow
ski, ,T Weinberg, A J Anderson, John
OIsod, Isaac Skag, Mrs H Wicks, J
and Mrs Ashley, Thomas Kay, Dr F W
Hermes, L Skiel, Mrs S M Maulsby,
G Mortensen, O Andersen, Harry On
ong, I Bauer, F Hatch, S J van Volk
enburgh, Ed Jackson, L J Green, H
H Green. _
Don’t miss A. B. ball July 4th, $3.
Direct from England, imported
cloth suits made to order. Wile the
Tailor, Second avenue.
Prospectors’, Minors' and Loggers’ Supplies,
Washing machines, tubs, boards, wring
ers, pillows, comforters, mattresses,
stoves, ranges, optical goods, liai'dware.
RICHARDS, Willow St.
Capt. Ferpson on Hie Jab
Capt. W. H. Ferguson, head of the
Keystone Transportation Co., arrived
at Dikeman last Tuesday with the
gasoline launches Riugh Rider and
Keystone, horse scows and paraphan
alia to engage in Iditarod river ship
ping this summer. He is now getting
in shape to begin business. General
Manager A. J. Lowe of the company,
went down early this week to meet
him. _
OPENS TOMORROW
Many old-time customers will be
glad to know that the Regina cafe
will open on Sunday afternoon with a
fine Sunday dinner that will be served
at five o’clock.
Pioneer Drug store, Flat City, has
a fine line of perfumes and soaps.
Solo is au enjoyable game at th^
Sherburne.
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