WEATHER KEEPS
MINERS WORM
The cold snap during the early part of the week looked so much
like winter that several outfits closed down, believing the sluicing
season to be over. Next day came the thaw and several outfits
resumed work.
McKay & Hotts have worked out their ground on the upper end of
Flat, and are making preparations to move to their new lay on the
Glenn association. The plant will be shifted as soon as snow peimits.
Stratidberg & Johnson, Mahoney & Rich, Monkman & Ronan and
Carroll & Thorns have closed down.
Kilroy & Mitchell on the Hilltop, Mitchell & Hicks on the Idaho,
and Donnelly, Deetering & Clark have also ceased operations for the
season.
Work on the reservoirs which are being constructed at the bead of
Flat is proceeding, and snow fences will be put up within the next few
weeks to conserve the water supply for next season.
All sluicing on the Friend, James & Dawson ground has ceased.
About io men are ground sluicing, stripping a portion of the claim for
next season, and they will continue as long as the rain las‘s.
Stewart and partners are still working. Doc Mading is still run
ning his plant at its full capacity, as also are Riley & Aitken.
Riley & Aitken had a good clean-up during the week, It was said
to total 2,200 ounces.
Only one plant has been working on Otter during the past week —
that cf Riley & Stetzer—and they are reported to have had a clean-up
somewhere in the neighborhood of $50,000.
BETTLES AT EDSSIAN MISSION
Recent arrivals from the Kuskokwim
say the veteran prospector Gordon C-.
Betties is at Russian Mission with his
family. They will conduct a roadhouse
this winter, and Mr. Betties will blaze
and improve the old Indian trail lead
ing up the Aniak river, which will
shorten the distance to be traveled by
prospectors going onto the upper tribu
taries of that stream.
PIONEER TAILOR'S NEW LOCATION
Finding his present quarters incon
venient and inadequate for his rapidly
growing business, Albert Wile, the
pioneer tailor, has taken over the
premises lately occupied by the Horse
shoe saloon, at the corner of First and
Willow. The place is now being re
modeled and Capt. Wile expects to be
doing business at his new stand in the
course of a few days.
That Speak
For Themselves,
WE ARE POSITIVELY 60ING OUT OF BUSINESS
Rubber Shoes, 12-Inch top, with heels, per pair $4.00
Asbestos Horsehide Mitts, per pair i.oo
President Suspenders, per pair • SO
Levi Strauss Overalls, per pair .75
Medlicott Underwear, per suit 4.S0
Blue Flannel Overshirts 1.00
Extra Heavy Mackinaw Coats 4.50
Suits, usual price S2S, cut to 12.00
Pants, usual price $6, cut to 3.50
Everything Else Accordingly, This Is a Bona Fide Sale.
These Goods Are Not Damaged, Don’t Forget the Place,
Boston Clothing Store
Neit to Red Cross Drug Store. WILLOW ST.
GRAND HOTEL, FLAT CITY
■Icily Furnished Faoms First-Class Cals Liquors and Cigars Pool and Billiards
N. GLANTZ AND MILS. SWANSON
JUST RECEIVED
Latest Victor Records,
Cole's Air-Tight Heaters
6asollne Manilas and Globes, Reflector Headlights,
RAILROAD LANTERNS, ANGLE LAMPS AND GLOBES
LIGHT-WEIGHT RUBBER SPORTING BOOTS
SMITH'S GUN STORE
Phone No. 6 Iditarcd, Alaska
Miners & Merchants Bank
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital, $100,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted 6o!d Dust Bought and Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Part of the World
SEATTLE GORRESPOIOENT: SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK
OFFICERS:
T. J. Nestor, President
Ohas. Ross, Vice President
E. G. Lindberg, Manager
John Holmes, Cashier and Assayer
WOMAN IS FOULLY
MURDERED
(Concluded from Page 1)
John Nelson, the messenger, deposed \
to having delivered some beer to!
Mary Thomson on Wednesday evening. ;
At that time a white man was present
with deceased. They appeared to be
talking about mining matters; but j
witness was not quite sure regarding j
the appearance of tho man. nor could I
he remember ever having seen him
before. He described the finding of
the body, with a pillow over the head.
Dr. Wortmann said he was called
to the house on Thursday evening. He
described the position in which he
found the body, and expressed the '
opinion that death had taken place
between 12 and 21 hours previous to i
his visit. He found that a shoe-string
had been tied tightly around the |
woman's neck, and a'so a towel. The !
shoe-string was sufficient to cause ]
death; it was buried about a quarter of
an inch in the flesh. There was also a
wound on the left cheek. No other
marks were found on the body. It was
not possible to teli whether there had
been a struggle or not, as in any c- s > I
the muscles would have relixed.
Death was undoubtedly due to strangu
lation by means of the shoe-lace.
Wada, the Japanese, said that the
deceased had relatives in Seattle, and
that a Japanese named George Makuda,
a resident of Flat City, brought her to
Iditarod.
Makuda, who arrived in Iditarod at
this juncture, denied that he knew the
deceased very well, although admitting
that he had accomoanied her and oilier
Japanese girls from Seattle to the Idit
arod. He claims to be a restaurant
man and a woodchopper.
After a short deliberation, the jury
returned the following verdict:
“We, the undersigned, being duly
sworn as jurors in the case, after hear
ing the evidence and viewing the
party Mary Thomson, deceased, have
agreed upon a verdict of death by
strangulation, at the hand or hands of
some person or persons unknown.’’
Aliliough no arrests have been
made in connection with the mur
der, several men have been ex
amitied without result. One o: j
two men are under suspicion, and
inuuiries are being made to the end j
of ascertaining what the woman I
was accustomed to do with her
savings.
LADIES MOLESTED
—
It has become known that la- j
dies of Iditarod haye recently
been annoyed and subjected to!
alarm by the unwarranted ad
vances of men.
The community is in a temper
that may lead to serious conse
quences if the offenders are
caught. For whoever is guilty
immediate absence would be the
best guarantee of safety.
[Later.—At 2 o’clock this af
ternoon George Fucias was put
in jail on suspicion.]
Just received a fancy line of Graven
stein apples, $8 a box; fancy red apples
$7 a box. At Johnstone’s.
No chance to catch a cold if you use
the poicelaiu tub baths at the Iditarod
hospital. _
Buy your winter clothing. H. Boas.
Boxed letter paper and envelopes
less than cost at Ansley’s.
COMING AND GOING
Charley Suter returned to Flat
Wednesday, after a brief business visit.
Fred Webber came in from Flat last
Tuesday evening to attend the A. B.
ball.
Dr. Carter, of Flat, was in town dur
ing the week.
Tommy McSmart has organized a
dancing class for the benefit of those
who wish to perfect themselves in the
graceful art. The professor will be as
sisted by Mrs. Newman.
Harry Buhro arrived from the Kus
kokwim Monday.
Jack Baird, proprietor of the Bud
weiser bar, returned from his trip to
Flat creek on Monday last.
LAUNCH SKWENTNA DID NOT SAIL
The launch Skwentna, advertised to
leave for St. Michael Tuesday, October
17, did not depart. It appears that no
body wanted the jobof engineering the
craft this late in the season.
Nothing pertaining to the river at
this point indicates that the voyage
would have been hazardous; but the
opinion seems to be gaining as the
years pass by that it is best to close
navigation when the right time comes,
regardless of the vagaries of weather.
Preparations for the grand hospital
fete to be held under the auspices tf
the ladies’ auxiliary are now assuming
definite shape. The following booths
have been decided upon: Candy, Japa
nese, fancy work, incubator, kitchen,
fishpond and fortune teller's.
Others will be added later.
Attention is called to the special
bnsiness meeting of the Ladies' Auxil
iary next Thursday afternoon. This
meeting will be held at the home oi
Mrs. Chesley, and as very important
matters will come up for consideration
all ladies interested in hospital work
are requested to be present.
HARRY JOHNSON
NOW A BENEDICT
In the Free Reading Room, Iditarod
City, on Wednesday, October 11. at 11
p. m., Mrs. Huldia Amelia Lloyd was
married to Harry R. Johnson. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr.
S. Hall Young. Mrs. Tyler was pres
ent with the bride, while Jonas Brewis
acted as best man.
Mrs. Johnson, who arrived from the
Outside last week, is well known in the
North, and formerly resided at Fair
banks. Harry Johnson is a member of
the Flat creek mining firm known as
the “Little Guggs.” Mr. and Mrs.
Johnson will make their home on Flat
creek, having taken over the residence
occupied by Will Langdon.
CITY’S INDEBTEDNESS
The report of City Clerk Earl B.
Hunt, read before the council Wednes
day night, gave the deficit in the city
revenues on October 1 as $3,9(30.13.
The deficit September 1 was $2,576.23.
Your Chance to Help
Patronize the porcelain baths at Idit
arod hospital—every convenience for
ladies and gentlemen.
Beds with bath $1.50 per night. Cari- i
bou Bath House.
BIRTHDAY PARTY
ON PUT CREEK
Monday, October 10, being the birth
day of Miss Luella Ives, the occasion
was celebrated by a grand birthday
party, given at Luelia’s home on Fiat
creek. Among the many good tilings
provided for the guests, who comprised
the whole juvenile population of the
creek, was real cow’s milk—an almost
unheard-of luxury for these parts. Iu
addition there was a magnificent birth
day cake; and Luella having reached
the strenuous age of six, the cake con
veyed that information, together with
her name and the date of her birth.
The cake was illuminated by six can
dles.
The following young ladies and gen
tlemen were present: Ella McDowell,
Marguerite Harbin, Dorothy Harbin,
Esther Strandberg, Sydney Harbin.
Herbert Strandberg, Herbert Linna
fee, Ralph Crawford, Wharton Harbin,
Arthur Strandberg, Harold Strandberg.
No mothers were allowed to be pres
ent, so the children enjoyed themselves
greatly.
The ladies who assisted Mrs. Tves
were: Mrs. Larson, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs.
McKay. Miss Taylor and Miss Mading.
NEW COMET SEEN
IN EASTERN SKY
Thursday morning at 3 o’clock a
comet was observed in the heavens
a little north of east from Iditarod.
The celestial wanderer was one of
the most brilliant and beautiful of its
kind, with a magnifiicent tail elevated
at an angle and (jointed in a direction
that gave local observers an impres
sion that Ruby City was receiving a
derisive and undignified challenge. Of
course that was merely an illusion, for
the merest tyro in astronomy under
stands that the comet was a long way
off and presented just as comely a front
to Ruby as to our own favored locality.
The comet’s appearance was unher
alded. The honor of its discovery is
claimed by Jim Brown. Be is on the
night shift at the Caribou Restaurant
and it is a habit of his to step out of
the back door after business quiets
down and thoughtfully survey the fir
mament. This time lie saw at once
the new object in the sky and knew
his title to it was even better than
Halley’s was to the comet which played
an over-advertised but very tame en
gagement a couple ot years ago.
A few others saw the comet, but un
fortunately the sky became overclouded
so that most people have not been ab’e
to take a look at it, although it was
visible a few moments this morning.
JEWISH COMMUNITY
HAVE BIG BANQUET
Last Sunday at 8 p. ra. a baker's
dozen of Mosaic followers and one
prominent invited guest gathered at
the unique and cozy dwelling of Mr.
and Mrs. Wolfe, on Third avenue, to
celebrate the event of the Tabernacle.
The decorations of the interior were a
positive dream — well-illumined chan
deliers in the center, peppered with
miners’ candlesticks stuck in the walls
around the rooms, suitably dressed with
flowers and fruit. The main attraction
was the large dining table covered with
snow-white linen. Propitiously en
graved cards, reading in German
“Bette zitchen zie zich,” were at each
plate. Last, but not least, the real
issue—the big feed, from soup to nuts—
food fit for a king. The beverages, in
large variety, consisted of the “sing
ing” kind, for there is no song in the
World’s Almanac that was not sung.
When the song of farewell was reached
it was voted that the spread provided
by the hostess, Mrs. Wolfe, was the
grandest, as well as the greatest, ever
participated in by those present, and
will long be remembered.
Those present wore: Messrs. Bayles.
Roden, Applebaum, Krom, Boas, Brom
berg, Rome, Hanauer, Wollman, Wile,
Wolfe, Victor Wolfe, Mrs. Wolfe and
Miss Wolfe.
Old Lacey, Tyler, Monogram, Ather
ton and Cedarbrook, also fine old Port
Sherry and Clartts at Empire Com
mercial Co.
—————
Canvas, house lining, colored burlap
at Boas’ Clothing House.
ISAACS BROS. & CO.,
LEADING CLOTHIERS
TAKE OFFICE
!
The first business done after Mayor
Barnes called the city council to order
Wednesday night was administering
the oath of office to the three newly
elected members. Messrs. Auten, Wor
den and Wood stood up and took the
obligation all together, after which
the Iditarod city council was in regular
session with a full board present for
the first time in many weeks.
The regular monthly bills were read
and allowed, and the clerk’s monthly
report was read and filed. Applications
ior the position of city assessor were
read from T. M. Dean and Walter G.
Hunsaker.
A warrant for $d0 was ordered drawn
in favor of the school board in order
that necessary desks may be paid for
and received from the N. C. Co.
The ordinance providing for the levy
and collection of taxes was read for the
thiid time and the meeting adjourned
to meet'Friday night, so that the new
members might have time to study more
fully the provisions of that instrument
and familiarize themselves with other
matters pressing for disposition by the
council.
Sheet music 2oc and musical instru
ment strings, at Ansley’s.
In the cargo of the Pacific Mail liner
Korea, which arrived at San Francisco
recently, were 10 bales of human hair—
Chinese hair—shorn from the heads of
men and women, later to be combed,
dyed and made into switches for Amer
ican women. The shipment was to be
forwarded to New York to be classified,
dyed and made up.
I-et us quote you prices on outfits.
Everything absolutely guaranteed.
Northern Commercial Company.
During the early part of the sum
mer three horses, the property of
John Teasack of Flat City, es
caped from tiie ham and took to
tiie hills. The proprietor offered a
reward of $250 for their recapture
(Jioo for the black mare and $150
for the other two); but although
search was mad, the animals could
not be located and were given up
for lost.
Early last week, Jim Lewis, Tcm
Shallow and Bili Lewis found the
animals on the divide between the
head of Moore and the head of
Otter, and succeeded in getting the
mare to the Summit roadhouse l ist
Saturday night. For this capture
they have received the reward of
$100.
When recovered the mare was in
exceedingly poor condition, due,
no doubt to long exposure and the
attacks of mosquitoes, etc. Care
ful attention since has greatly im
proved her appearance and she will
soon be all right again.
Herbert Riley repotts that his
party sighted the horses over in the
Ditna, and they drove them over
to the locality where they were
eventually found.
The horses were brought into
the country by Mr. Teasack and
were sent overland from Dikeman
to Flat, with the cattle that were
shipped in upon the opening of
navigation.
NOTICE
Candidates who have paid initiation
fees to Camp Iditarod No. 27, A. B.,
should be present at A. B. hall Monday
next for initiat ion.
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PRICES ARE STIFFENING
But we are prepared to quote figures oa
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