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GOVERNOR CLARK’S ANNUAL REPORT
Juneau.—The annual report of Governor Walter Eli Clark has
been forwarded to Washington. Among the items dealt with in
the report are the following: Aids to navigation, railroads,
wagon roads, mining laws, coal, the care of indigents and better
quarantine regulations.
The summary here given indicates the scope of the report.
Numerous wrecks since the time of the last report one year
ago attest the necessity of more aids to navigation. The hazard
has the effect of raising rates of marine insurance, which results
in an increase of freight costs and an added burden to the cost of
living and of operations in the territory.
Government assistance in railway building in the territory is
not only proper, but necessary. Without government aid the in
vestment in this direction will be slow, and the development of
the country will be retarded accordingly.
The gain to the territory by the construction of wagon roads
and trails is so apparent that the federal government should have
no hesitation in continuing the work' Larger appropriatiaus are
needed to keep pace with the development of the interior, which is
now inadequately served.
Under the general mining laws as applied to Alaska, many
evils have sprung up that require correction. The laws should be
amended so as to prevent the location of huge areas of ground for
speculation Each 20 acres should demand $100 worth of assess
ment work per year, and the period should be shortened within
which the work may be done.
The governor's report also suggests that five per cent, of all
revenues that go into the Alaska fund should be set aside for the
care of indigeats, and that regulations should be drafted providing
for the legal enforcement of quarantine regulations.
NORTHERN PERSONALS
Frank M. Smith, the Hot Springs freighter, has left for a trip
Outside, where he will join his wife and boy Jimmy. Frank has
been in the freighting business in Alaska since 1902, when he
arrived at Rampart from Dawson.
Lafe Spray, formerly connected with the Skagwny Dai'y
Alaskan, is now occupying the editorial chair of the Fairbanks
Citizen.
Swan Rosendall, who at one time mined in the Fairbanks dis
trict, is now at Punta Arena, Tierra del Fuego, Southern Argen
tina. It is probable that he will return to Alaska.
While sojourning at Ruby Dave Cascaden suffered greatly
from an affection of the eyes. Upon his arrival at Fairbanks he
entered St. Joseph’s hospital for treatment, and has since been
discharged as cured.
B. B. Dobbs has left Nome for the Outside, where he will make
a specialty of exhibiting motion pictures illustrating scenes from
Northern life.
Traveling in a buckboard, Andy McDougall and Ed Farrell
went over the summer trail between Valdez and Fairbanks in nine
and a half days.
Assistant District Attorney Cecil H. Clegg has been trans
ferred to Ruby for the winter months.
Alex Hanot and Harry Close have returned to Fairbanks from
the Mt. McKinley district, where they spent five weeks gathering
photographs of its scenic beauties.
Ralph Deverill lias returned to Fairbanks after an absence of
several years.
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INTERESTED SENATORS
KILL NEW PLACER LAW
Speaking before the Fairbanks Commercial Club recently,
Delegate Wickersham dwelt upon the many evils connected with
the present mining laws, as applied to Alaska, anu pointed out the
difficulties he met with in his attempts to remedy the abuses. He
said in part:
“I promised two years ago, when I went to congress, that 1
would get a law passed limiting the scope of the association min
ing claim, under which a man can go out and stake 160-acre groups
for his friends and himself, so long as his pencil lasts. Now I got
a bill passed in the last session of congress limiting that matter to
such an extent that you would have been thoroughly satisfied. I
wasn’t quite satisfied, but it practically did away with the associa
tion claims, and limited the number that a man might take to three
a month, and it limited the total number and put other obstacles in
the way of speculators that would have been a very"good thing for
miners in this country. It passed the house and went to the
senate committee on mines and mining, of which Senator Dick of
Ohio is chairman.
“Senator Dick is interested very largely in mining in the
territory of Alaska; and it did not look good to Senator Dick. A
second member of that committee was Senator Guggenheim of
Colorado, who didn’t want it passed, and the result of it was that
these gentlemen killed the bill, put it in a pigeon-hole; and no
efforts that I could make—although dozens of men went to them —
no efforts that we could make have been successful in getting that:
bill out and getting it passed. Senator Jones, who is one of the
best friends this territory has, did all in his power to secure the
passage of that bill. I am going to re-introduce that bill this
winter, and I think we are going to get it passed. But we are up
against the most industrious lobby in the United States, connected
with the large interests in Alaska. They are maintaining these j
lobbies in Washington, and it is pretty hard to get legislation
through with that situation existing there.”yi
In a letter to a Fairbanks friend, “Cluster” Bunch, one time
Alaskan newspaper man, and now connected with the Seattle
Times, sends some interesting news of former Alaskans.
Herman Wobber is running a large stationery store and pool
in the heart of the business section of San Francisco. He also
runs a couple of moving picture shows and dabbles in real estate.
He is said to be making money fast.
“Dad” McCarty is going the pace in a $4,500 automobile. He
drives the car himself, and his particular delight is to gather in a
bunch of sourdoughs and take them joy-riding through the crowded
streets of ’Frisco.
Billy Barrett, who left Iditarod last winter, has been drum
ming for several eastern houses. He has now signed on with John
Rothschild & Co., with headquarters at the Golden Gate.
Kirk Latimer, who was associated with Charles in the publica
tion of the Northern Light at Fairbanks some years ago, is now in
business as a printer at Los Angeles. He is married.
Bunch, who, it will be remembered, recently married Daphne
Pollard, the vaudeville actress and “Queen of the Golden Pot
latch,” spent his honeymoon in California. He is now back at his
post and describes everything as O.K.
REAL WINTER.
O bring along your ice and snow,
and let ripsnorting breezes blow, as
in the good old days. I like my
winters cold and bleak, with stormy
winds that rave and shriek and swat
us forty ways. When I was young
old winter came in early fall, and
played the game until some time in
July; lie piled his snowdrifts in the
lane, and wrote his trademark on
the pane, and made his feathers fly.
He was a burly, noisy wight, who
painted things by day and night,
and read the riot act; and people
gloried in the snow, and children
mourned to see him go, when his
backbone was cracked. But winter
nowadays is kind, and ladylike and
quite refined, a thing of bows and
smirks; he comes kowtowing to your
door, and makes a healthy man so
sore he roasts the whole blamed
works. If winter springs a little
frost he thinks his reputation’s lost;
your pardon he entreats; he tries to
fix things with a thaw, and stands
around and wags his jaw and chews
the rag and bleats. All too effimin
ate he’s grown; he has resigned his
frozen throne, his manners loud
and rude; he wears a shirtwaist
made of gauze, and at our doors he
wags his jaws, Dame Nature’s splen
did dude. O, send along your ice
and snow, and let the doggone bliz
zard blow, and whoop to beat the
band. The winters of the time long
ago produced big men of force and
brawn who gave to us this land.—
Walt Mason.
I GREAT OBSERVATORY PLANNED
San Francisco, September 20.—Plans
to erect the largest observatory in the
world on the summit of Mount Tainal
pais have been completed by a syndi
cate of capitalists, headed by R. C.
Runyon of this city.
Mr. Runyan has been in conference
with government experts and other
authorities in reference to the project.
It is proposed to expend vast sums in
the equipment, which is to include a
telescope larger than either the Lick
or the Yerkes lenses.
DELEGATE MARES
STRONG SPEECH
President Taft lias promised Senator
Jones that if the bill giving Alaska an
elective territorial legislature were
passed, be would not veto it. He has
always before threatened that he
would. So we are going to get our
territorial legislature, not without a
great deal of opposition—opposition, I
am sorry to say, much of which is right
here at home—sorry to say it. Because
how an American with any warm
blood in his heart can denounce a man
as a demagogue who is standing for an
elective territorial legislature in Alas
ka I don’t understand. But it is being
done. No opposition of that kind is
going to avail. We are Americans,
and we are entitled to an American
system of government, and we are
going to get it. We are going to
defeat Mr. Taft to get it. He is going
to be renominated by acclamation and
defeated just as badly. But he isn’t
going to veto that bill. . . . Tt was
my platform ; I have stood for it ever
since. I have been making a fight
against the greatest odds, but we are
going to get that bill through and we
are going to get the mining bill
passed.—Delegate James Wickersham,
in a speech before the Fairbanks Com
mercial Club, Sept. 28.
ALL ABOARD FOR WIENERVILLE !
Weary wayfarers entering our fair
city under the black pall of night will
notice, down near the foot of Willow
street, a light of exceeding brilliance.
This beacon serves to mark the loca
tion of a haven of rest known as the
Miners Home saloon, wherein may be
obtained pure liquors, fragrant cigars,
and red-hot wieners. These latter deli
cacies must be heard to be appreciated.
Call in at the Miner’s Home and listen
to their repertoire.
NOME PROVIDES FOR INDIGENTS
Nome, October 20.—So many indi
geuts have arrived at Nome from up
river points that the city council has
been compelled to vote $400 for their
immediate relief.
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LETTER FROM TAMM
[The following private letter is
printed with due apology to its author
and with a sincere wish that it may be
read with as much interest by others
as it was by the man to whom it is
addressed.]
Tanana, Alaska, Sept. 30, 1911.
G. M. Arbuckle:
Respected Friend:—I received some
copies of the Pioneer from you a short
jfuve ago. Was pleased to get them.
Walt Mason on "The Old Village
Blacksmith” under the spreading chest
nut tree was certainly all right. The
up-to-date village blacksmith seemed
to be too much interested in the great
national game to shoe every old kan
garoo. And the Kansas corn — well,
say, permit me! And that ad. where
the man has just found the Combina
tion. Buck, you and your pardners
certainly do make a team and a valler
dog under the wagon to boot.
Well, Buck, I see in the Chicago
American where the Lenox House has
been torn down and a great theater
stands in its place. Thus the old land
marks go.
Buck, I am glad to tell you that Jack
Cavanaugh is much better and is well
on the road to recovery.
Well, Buck, I must say that I am
doing well this summer and fall, and
making six dollars every day. Have a
fine outfit and about $1,000 besides, and
plenty of that that hangs on the wall
[ bacon ].
Tell Sam Callahan there seems to be
an unlimited amount of flaked rice and
corn starch in Tanana this fall. Things
certainly do look good.
Buck, I must tell you about a little
racket that took place here in Tanana
a short lime ago between Joe Dehn
and John Kehoe, the famous old poet.
It seems that Kehoe had been leaving
the bars down and the gate open when
he comas from his ranch down to town.
So Arthur Campbell just put a lock on
the gate and nailed up the bars. In
the meantime Campbell goes up to
Fish Lake to put up hay, and he leaves
the key with Joe Dehn. So Kehoe
gets Riley's team and starts up to his
ranch after a load of vegetables. He
comes a-past Joe's house with the team
on his way up to the ranch. He asks
Joe for the key. Joe says: "Now, the
key is in my charge. You can’t get
through.”
Kehoe says: “I will break the lock
off.”
Dehn says: “You will not.”
So I saw there was going to be a
scrap. There were quite a few of us
standing around.
Dehn says: “You fellows had better
take this old man away; I am liable to
hurt him.”
The famous old poet says: “Do not
let that bother you. I am going to
give you a complete trimming.”
So they threw off their togs and at it
they went hammer and tongs. So in
about two minutes Joe had all he
wanted, and he hollered good and loud
to take him off. So William Lunn, who
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was watching the fight, pulled Kehoe |
away from him. The grand old poet !
would have batted the block off of him [
in about two more minutes.
So Kehoe broke the lock off and ■
passed through and on up to his ranch. ;
So you see that the dog baiks but the
caravan passes on.
So the N. C. Co. has cut a road
around Campbell’s ranch which comes \
into town by way of their store. There ,
is a big notice on the gate now stating j
“Any one breaking this gate open will 1
be prosecuted to the fullest extent of
the law.”
Well, Buck, you must be getting
tired; so I will close. Glad to hear
from you any old time.
With kind respects,
x x x x x
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Caribou Bath House.
Dog Musiiers, Attention
Dog inushers are invited to quote [
their charges for taking two ladies}
from Takotna to Seward, as soon at the I
trail is in condition. Proposals should ;
be sent at once to C.'apt. C. A. Boerner, :
Northern Commercial Co., Iditarod.
DISSOLUTION NOTICE
The co-partnership of the under- }
signed, doing business at Flat City, !
Alaska, as the “Combination Saloon,“ ;
has been mutually dissolved on this
date. George Kinman will continue
the business in the same stand, collect
all bills and pay all outstanding indebt
edness against the above-named co
paatnership.
Dated at Flat City, Alaska, October
24, 1911. Oscar Letourneau.
Geo. Kinman.
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Liquors and Cigats
Tel: “Summit Roadhouse.”
TAKE NOTICE
We have sold The Combination saloon
of Flat City to George Kinman & Co.,
and will not be responsible for any
debts contracted after Sept. 22, 1911
MANUEL GULARTE.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To SAM RISTI I.l'OMA and ALEX JOHNSON.
YOU and each of you, your heirs and assigns
are hereby notified that the undersigned has
expended in labor and improvements the sum
of one hundred dollars—$ too—for each of the
years of 1009. 1910 and 1911 upon placer mining
claims known as and called Violet Bench. Ida
Bench and Number One Finn Gulch, situated
on Finn Gulch, a tributary of Gane creek, and
on Gane creek, a tributary of Innoko river, in
the Innoko mining and recording district, dis
trict of Alaska.
Notices of location therefor being of record in
Vol. 2 at page 41, Vol. 7 at page 2, Vol. 2 at page
36 of the records of Innoko minin district, din
trict of Alaska.
You are further notified that if at the ex
piration of ninety—90—days after the last pub
lication of this notice, you fail or refuse to con
tribute your proportion of such expenditure
}our interest in said claims will become the
property of the undersigned, your co-owner,
under section 2324 of the revised statutes of the
United States.
L LIVER LaDUKH, Co-Owner.
First publication Sept 2, 1911.
Last publication Dec. 2, 1911.
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