Road Commission Would
Like City to Join
Stating that he had some funds fcr the begining of work at once,
and declaring that Willow street and the government road toward Flat
could be made into a good highway at comparatively little expense, A.
K. Light, local superintendent of the road commission, appeared before
the city council last Wednesday night and asked the city to assist him
in the work, at least as far as the city limits. This was the same re
quest as that put in by F. A, Cleveland the week before when he asked
the council to help him on his Otter street road, and therefore the mat
ter was turned over to the street committee with instructions to teport
on the advisability of spending any money on Willow.
Tne situation comes about as the direct and deplorable result of
too many fingers in the road building pie. Besides the tramway, this
city is now blessed with two roads neither one of which is complete,
and the city has been asked to expend money on bMh of them.
Mr. Light informed the council that he had been instructed to go
ahead with the government road leading out Willow street and was
already using the scraper to complete the ditching work of last year
He thought the commission would have funds enough available this
year to make a passable highway to Flat, but he believed it was up to
the city to assist the commission to the city limits.
Apparently the road commission is paying no attention to the road
started by Cleveland, and if that road is completed it will be done by
private subscription. The report on the council's attitude towards the
commission and the fate of Willow will come before the council next
week.
Are Many Inquiries
for Missing Friends
The Pioneer is in receipt of a communication from the office
of the governor asking space to mention the names of missing
persons, whose whereabouts have been sought by anxious ones
outside. Information is wanted concerning the following persons:
William Alexander Sutton (or William Alexander), who is sup
posed to have died in Alaska
Napoleon W. Powers, native of Marysville, Ohio, came to
Alaska in lb94.
Charles Kosenburger, last heard of about six years ago at
Eyak or Kyalc, Alaska.
Joseph I). Sollek of Cincinnati, Ohio, supposed to have sailed
from Seattle to Nome about May 22, 1910. Twenty five years o.
age, tall, dark complexioned, black, curly hair. Father and
mother very anxious.
Information concerning any of these people should be sent
direct to Governor Walter E, Clark.
We have also received a letter from Mrs. J. Stanton of 327 j
Mauisou avenue, Memphis, lenn., inquiring for .Joe Stanton, who
was last heard from in November, 1908, when he was on his way
from Valdez to Fairbanks.
Mrs. M- J. Hewitt of 9:19 Twenty-ninth avenue, Seattle, in
quires for information concerning Jack Hewitt, who is supposed to
have struck it well here.
Coming to Alaska
for More Red Blood
Seattle—The new vessel "Polar Rear,’’ built at the ship yards on
the Duwamish bank of Georgetown was launched April 19. She is 85!
feet long, with 20 ft. beam and 9 ft. draft, In build she is a graceful
schooner of the Gloucester model, with a knock about rig, and is as
trim a little craft as ever sailed for the laud of the midnight sun. She
is owned by Capt. Louis L. Lane, formerly ot Nome, and he will guide
her destinies in the northern seas. Lane lost his schooner, the Helen
Johnson, a couple of years ago, by being caught in the ice of Bering
sea.
Jack London is to cruise Alaska in the Polar Bear this summer, j
The little vessel will sail from Seattle during the first week in May, her
destination being Wrangell island in the Arctic ocean, lying north of
Hast Cape, Siberia, northwest of Alaska, and in the same degree of
longitude as the Piji islands. Wrangell island is one of the most north
erly points accessible in that portion of the Arctic ocean, and is usually
reached only via a 30 mile walk over the ice.
Capt. Latte goes to the northwest primarily to trade with the Es
kimos for ivory, skins and other marketable products, but on this occa
sion he will go equipped for complete moving pictures and will have as
his sailing p.utners wiiters and photographers, with the idea of getting
splendid pictures of natural waterfalls, glaciers, seal rookeries, walrus,
polar bears in action, the Russian coast, active volcanoes, the Eskimos
and moving ice through Bering straits.
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And a Full Line of Stationery.
You Can Always Meet Your Friends at FLAT CITY'S PLEASURE RESORT
MINCHELL & FINNEGAN, PROPS.
FOR A LUNCH_
Forks Coffee House1
FORKS FLAT CREEKMiss E. Lovcgren, Prop.I
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Motel Grand, Flat City
Finely Furnished Rooms
First Class Cafe. Liquors and Cigars
Poo! and Billiards
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Important Patent j
For Crave! Scrapers
—
With a patent device that will load
and dump any style of scraper without
the assistance of helpers, Kara Sander
son tlie well known operator, is said to '
have perfected a method of scraping
open-cut workings tiiat will greally;
economize on the expense of operating :
scrapers in open-cut diggings of this 1
section, but will expedite the work 1
and increase the efficiency of the ma- |
ehinery now available.
The device is simple in the extreme j
and consists merely in introducing pul
leys attached to the scraper itself over
which the pull back line is run in such
a manner as to permit the engineer to
(ill and dump the scraper by the simple
manipulation of the hoist levers.
Mining men who have inspected the
proposition are quite enthusiastic as to (
the possibilities of the new contrivance, [
and already two orders have gone in ;
for the use of the patent on 1-a and 1-a '
bench on Otter where Andy Hensley ,
and Mr. Ellis are to operate this sea
son.
Through his attorney, Roy E. Big
ham, Mr. Sanderson lias applied for a |
patent, and the papers have already i
gone forward to Washington.
The device will be tried out thorough- !
!y as soon as scraping days arrive and
it is confidently believed that it will
work a big saving for the operators of
the district.
Son Crowned In the Willamette
It is with deep regret that the Pion
eer has to chronicle the death by
drowning of Jack Baker, son of J. E. j
Baker, of the Takotnapost of the N. (J. j
Co.
From a letter just, received from the j
outside it appears that in company i
with a friend, Jack went canoeing on
the Willamette river, near Eugene, j
Ore. Somehow or other the canoe was j
capsized and its occupants thrown into
the water. The friend managed to
reach the bank in safety, but being en
cumbered with heavy gum boots, Jack !
was unable to teach the' shore and I
perished. At the time the letter was .
written t lie body had not been
recovered
Jack Baker had many friends in the i
North, and his untimely fate will be
learned with profound sorrow by all
who knew him.
Brennan Monorail
For John Rosene
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The Alaskan rights for the Brennan |
monorail car have been secured by
John Rosene, says the Valdez Pros-1
peetor. Mr. Rosene is having a car
built at Moran’s in Seattle, and will
give it a trial from Haines to his Rainy I
Hollow mine, following the old Dalton I
trail.
Louis Brennan, the inventor of the
car, will superintend tlie construction
of the car and has arrived at Seattle
for that purpose.
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Lindberg moved i
to Flat City last week where they will j
take ii|) their residence for the sum
mer. Mr. Lindberg, who is manager
of the M. & M. bunk, will be compelled
to spend most of his time on the creeks j
during the actual go’d harvest season,
while Charles Ross will look after the |
welfare of the local bank.
If you want your clothing cleaned or pressed
ring up Wile the Tailor—Phone 68
TRAIL WORK FOR
YEAR HAS BEGUN
The entire winter trail from Ram
part to ICaltag is to be perfected this
summer. Retween Rampart and Rap
ids the wotk was done last year, as
was also the stretch between Kokrines
and Melozi. This year the work will
be continued under the supervision of
Captain Knowles.
Sergt. Mundav, with a crew of 15
men — mostly civilians — are now at
work on the 48-mile stretch between
Tanana and Birches. That portion of
the trail will be shortened 15 miles and
will follow the telegraph line. E. M.
Webster is the packer for this crew.
Two or three more construction par
ties will be sent out to different points.
From Birches the trail will follow
the old one to Louden, which will he
widened and improved. From Louden
to Koyukuk a new trail will be started
beginning three miles east of Grimkoff
and running straight across country,
coming out seven miles above Koyu
kuk. This will considerably shorten
the trail between these two points. -
Gibbon News.
THE SERPENT’S TONGUE
He should be boiled in oil, or
hung, the agent with the serpent’s
tongue. He sells me traps I do not
need; he sells me books no man
would read; he sold a combination
fork, which drives a nail or pulls a
cork, with which he said a man
might shave, or shine his shoes, or
dig a grave. He might be through -
the transom flung the agent with
the serpent’s tongue. I'm always
paying hard-earned cash for patent
lamps or other trash ; for music
racks that are no good; for toilet
soap that’s made of wood; for denti
frice that doesn’t dent, for fountain
pens not worth a cent: for evermore
I'm being stung by agents with the
serpent's tongue. Each time I’m
stung I vow a vow: “I’m done for
good with agents now ; I’ll buy my
doodads at the store, and chain old
Towser by the door, and if an agent
should arrive, he will not leave the
place alive.” Alas 1 there is no
dodging fate. lie's laying for me
at the gate; at tnv approach he
will produce “The Life and Works
of Captain Loose,” or that illumin
ating book, “The Voyages of Doc
tor Cook, with maps and charts
which fully show the places where
be didn’t go.” The 1 itl upon him
should lie sprung—the agent with
the serpent’s tongue !
WALT MASON.
It has been ascertained that the tail
building going up on the corner of
Second and Richmond where the old
telephone exchange used to be, is noth
ing more or less than Henry Weir’s
wireless cheater, designed to block all
eminations of the spark that may bo
wafted this way.
THE HEIGHT OF LUXURY
A steam bath, a nice lunch, a
furnished room to sleep in. Elite
Baths, Caribou street.
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Cafe in Connections,
Liquors and Cipjats
Tel: “Summit Roadhouse.”
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