Iditarod Pioneer
One Dollar Per Month. IDITAROD, ALASKA, SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 1910. Two Bits Per Copy
DAN SUTHERLAND CASTS
HIS FORTUNE WITH CAMP
Following his arrival here early
last week, Dan Sutherland, for
merly U. S. marshal for the First
division of Alaska, and whose re
moval by President Taft stirred up
such a storm of protest all over the
territory, has been making a tour
of the creeks here and finds things
so good that he has decided to stay
around a while.
Sutherland is a staunch admirer
ol Delegate Wickersham, and the
large majority received here by his
favorite candidate was a source ot
considerable pleasure. He im
mediately ventured the opinion that
Wickersham would run much the
same throughout the interior and
would more than hold his own in
the home of the enemy,
I he removal ot Mr. Sutherland
from the oGice of marshal on the
ground of incorupeteucy is con
sidered a huge joke by all who
know him, and the order caused
much justifiable indignation
throughout Alaska. It was known
to have originated in trumped up
charges brought by the Hoggatt
Shackleford-Clark bunch down at
Juneau, and Wiekersham’s sturdy
defense of Sutherland brought him
many votes everywhere he was
known.
Another Ax Goes Wrong
While cutting logs up river, W. A.
Dunaway miscalculated distances last
Saturday with the result that he in
flicted a nasty flesh wound in the right
leg just below the knee.
He placed himself under the care of
a physician, and Dr. Brooks reports
that he is doing nicely.
CASPER ELLINGER’S
FAMILY ARRIVES
After a wait of three weeks at
Holy Cross where he had gone to
meet his spouse, Casper Ellinger,
the Otter and Granite creek oper
ator arrived in Iditarod City early
last week accompanied by Mrs.
Ellinger and little son. The couple
have already proceeded to Otter.
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Street Occupants
lip For Contempt
Thirty days after the verdict of the
jury declaring them to be occupants of
Willow street, Robert Soutar and
Angus Sutherland, proprietors of the
Caribou cafe on the Waterfront, were
arrested for contempt of court yester
day, and were given until Tuesday
morning at 9 o'clock to remove their
building.
The verdict against Soutar and Suth
erland came at the time Nieboff and
Bourret were ordered off Willow
street, and upon condition of the fine
being delayed these parties complied
with the judgment of the court. Soutut
and Sutherland have persisted in their
refusal to open the street, claiming un
der their wharf location, and it is pos
sible that they may further resist the
order of the court.
In two or three other instances
where the streets are now being occu
pied, it is understood that actions are
to be commenced to have tho nuisance
abated. _
Wioksrsham Scores
Sweeping Victory
According to the best information
possible at time of going to press,
Wickersham carried Alaska by a
large margin over 1000 votes. A
message at Frank Miller’s place
gives him a majority of 769, but
this is thought below the real
figues.
According to Teddy Heacock,
who has just arrived from Fair
banks, he will carry the territory
by 1600. This figure is thought
to be too large.
Mr. Heacock reports that Wick
carried Fairbanks by 400. He
carried Nome by a small margin
and also carried Cordova and
Juneau. In next week’s issue it
will be possible to publish the full
returns.
All sizes of doors, sash and glass at
Anderson Bros. & Nerland, Willow st.
Store fronts made to order.
Dick Hussey has purchased R. S.
Hart’s interest in the H. & M. pool
,room, located at the mouth of Flat.
Rubber Flaxine Roofing Paper guar
anteed for 10 years at Anderson Bros.
& Nerland.
Fresh grocery stock at Sickinger's.
W!NTER MAIL VIA. KALTAG
The foregoing call for bids for the winter mail contract
into the Iditarod has just been received and posted in tbe
postoPice here. It is indefinite to say the least, and ap
parently calls for something impossible to perform.
It is impossible to say from the wording of the call
whether the mail is to be carried to Ophir in tbe Innoko
diggings or whether it can come straight through Diskaket
to this point. If the Innoko mail is also to Ire included,
then it will be practically impossible to make the run in the
time allowed by the department.
However, there could seem to be no use for tbe words
“by Imioko1’ unless it meant the Innoko diggings.
The distance as figured by those who have traversed
the route and who have lived long enough in the country
to be familiar with conditions, places the total from Kaltag
through Diskaket to Dikeman and Iditarod City at 18S
miles; thus Kaltag to Diskaket, 76 miles; Diskaket to
Dikeman, 72 miles ; Dikemau to Iditarod City, 40 miles.
Some think that if the Ophir postoffice is included in the
contract that it would be easier to go from Diskaket to
“Sealed proposals will be received by Wm. Mc
Manus, chief clerk of the railway mail service, Nome,
Alaska, until September ist, 1910, for carrying United
States mail from K.iltag by Innoko and Dikeman (n o.)
to Iditarod, Alaska, and back, hne round trip each week
on a schedule satisfn tory to the post office department,
with running time not to exceed five days each way
from November ist, 1910, to May 31st, 1911.
The total weight not to exceed 400 pound* per single
trip each way. Dated at Nome, July 24, 1910.“
Ophir and back to Diskaket • than to go from Kaltag to
Ophir and across country to Dikeman.
Others believe it feasible to come into the Iditarod from
Ophir instead of from Diskaket.
In viewoi the uncertainty contained in the wording
of the cal! it would seem advisable that precautions be used
in forwartung bids that there will be no mistake causing
vexatious delays in the establishment of the service. It is
barely possible that Mr. McManus is not hilly advised as to
conditions obtaining on the proposed route, and it might
be well for the prospective bidder to keep that in mind.
Thus it would seem advisable to submit a bid for carry
ing the mail under the terms of the notice from Kaltag
through Diskaket to Dikeman and Iditarod City. In ad
dition another bid, apparently called for by the notice for
carrying mail from Kaltag to Ophir, Dikeman and Iditarod
City.
Again, it is contended by some that the only feasible
route for mail from the Yukon is by way of the Lewis cut
off, the trail that leaves the Yukon about midway between
Melozi and Kokrines and passes through the Iunoko digg
ings to this cainp. If the postoffice department is not fully
advised of this route, it might not be amiss to submit a bid
for carrying mail that way, taking in the Iunoko and the
Iditarod.
After all it is a matter of regret that the department
has asked for bids for mail from the Yukon when we are
advised that the Seward trail will be feasible this winter.
However, with a 22 day service from Valdez, we will get
mail almost as quickly as we could from Seward.
UP OPTI
One of the best signs of the times is the deal closed
last week whereby Charles Knell, one of the pioneers
of the Iditarod camp, took up an option for Flat creek
interests which he had secured last winter, and which
under recent developments, appears to be a profitable
proposition.
The option referred to, is the one given by Jack
Sheedy to Knell for a quarter interest in the Link as
sociation, a one-half in the Sourdough fraction, just
above the Link, and a quarter in the Alpha, a piece of
ground laying above the Marietta.
The purchase price of this ground is $20,000. When
the option was secured last winter, Knell paid $3,000
down. Last Tuesday, a second payment of $7,000 was
met by Knell and his partner, Albert Arndt. The
balance of the purchase price is due on or before next
summer.
By a happy coincidence, all this ground lays in ad
vantageous positions, and seems likely to share with
the general prosperity of Flat creek. Above the Link
and the Sourdough fraction lays the Wildcat where ex
cellent pay is known to exist. Below the Link lays the
Fox association where laymen are now taking out much ■
better than pay.
The Alpha lays right above the rich Marietta group,
and seems almost certain to have the goods. Prank
Manley and associates aT'e the holders of the other
three-quarters of the Alpha and they are now pros
pecting there with a Keystone drill.
On the lower end of the Link, Strandberg brothers
and Emil Johnson have a lay where they are just open
ing up. On the upper end, hropshire and partners
are getting ready for work.
The deal is one of the important ones of recent
days and indicates an abiding faith in the Plat creek
paystreak.
STEAMBOATS AND LAUNCHES IMPROVE EACH FLEETING HOUR
With rivermeu betting on and confidently waiting for
a marked ralseiti the river, the announcement that the N.
N. Co. will have the Str. Reliance on the run between Dike
man and Iditarod City within a short time, becomes one ol
the most important shipping items of the times, and pies
ages lively doings on the waterfront before the freezeup.
The latest news indicates another stampede here this
fall. Everybody in Fairbanks including the town constable
and the village goat will be here before the snow flies, and
a large bunch of them is already on the way, Selnvatka and
Tanana reservations having been sold out on their last de
parture.
The Sir. Delta brought 48 passengers on her last trip, and
after bringing freight up the river from Dike-nan as far as
possible she will return to Holy Cross to connect with the
Sarah for St. Michael.
On Friday the Lois, recently gone under the manage
ment of Capt. Bingham, arrived in port with 25,000 feet of
lumber for the N. C. Co. and before the lines were well
made fast a large ere>v of men were packing the boards to
the site of the new N. C. building.
Launches and small craft are arriving constantly with
freight and passeugers, the combined tonnage being a mat
ter of wonder to the uninitiated.
Owing to the fact that freight handling is very profit
able business just now, there are many people turning their
attention to navigatien in all its various forms. Some are
sailors, some are not, but fhey all get there, and is the river
raises with the fall rains as it appears likely to do, the
duskydiued aboriginese of the North will be tanning salmon
in the large warehouses of Dikemau town.
Judge V. Li. Bevington, formerly U. S. commis
sioner for the Hot Springs precinct, who has been
practicing law in this locality during the summer, will
shortly join his family on the Outside, and will not re
turn until next spring.
Job Printing—many kinds—at the Pioneer office.
TWO MEMBERS OF PRESIDENT TAFT’S CABINET VISIT INTERIOR ALASKA
Contrary to the reports contained in some of the
latest papers it appears from news brought by recent
arrivals that Attorney General Wickersham and Secre
taay Nagle changed their minds about visising interior
Alaska, and did not only come down the Yukon but
were persuaded by Gov. Clark to join him at Fairbank-.
The first intention of the attorney general was to
visit the shores of southeastern Alaska only, but they
finally decided that they had time to hurry through
Dawson and out by St. Michael.
As they were hiking down the river, Gov. Clark,
who was stopping at Fairbanks for a few days, flagged
them at Gibbon in person accompanied by a large dele
gation of the prominent citizens of Fairbanks. As a
result, Wickershain and Nagle were prevailed upon to
j go back to the metropolis of the Tanana from which
has eminated so much trouble and gold in the last few
years.
Gaining an idea of our magnificent distances and
our means of travel, it may be that the head of the de
partment of justice will issue orders that judges do
more traveling, and that litigants and witnesses be not
dragged away from the pursuit of life, liberty and hap
piness.
Buildings Spring
Up Like Magic
Among the building achieve
ments of the last few days in I cl i t -
arod City, none is more notable
than the rapid construction ot the
Sherburne bail iing on Willow
street, between First and Second
and tbe Nyholm hotel and restau
rant on Second and Willow.
Mrs. Ruth Sherburne, formerly
of Dawson and of Fairbanks, one
of the pioneers of the North, aud
a competent business woman, put
up the Sherburne building, a two
story structure, 26 by 50 feet with
lodging rooms up stairs and a store
on the first floor to be occupied by
Mrs. Sherburne herself.
The Nyholm hotel is also a two
story structure, 26 by 60 feet and is
being erected by I. N. Nyholm,
restaurant man who has been con
ducting an eat emporium on Cari
bou street.
On Friday night, the launch
Emerald in charge of Charles Mar
tin arrived from Diketnan bringing
four passengers and nine tons of
freight consisting of fresh fruit.
Apples, oranges and lemons can
now be had for the asking,—that
is if you slip them something.
Skookum Johnson has removed to the
head of Fiat creek—all the workiDg
men knows it. *
Jack Connolly, proprietor'of the Riv
erside lodging house at Flat City, was
a visitor in the metropolis last week.
He returned home yesterday morning.
Anderson Bros. & Neriand have the
genuine Rubber Flaxine Roofing Paper
the best in the world.
FOR SALE—Sewing machine, drop
head Singer, firstelass order, cheap.
At Kemp & Co., Second ave.
According to the reports and
according to the recent clippings
from the Outside, the newspapers
of Seattle have lately been en
gaged in a merry controversy r
garding the Iditarod, the cause
of the trouble being the recent
report of H. L. Jalfe, represen
tative of Robert Guggenheim,
which was made public by the
Guggenheims and which gave a
very fair and optimistic des
cription of the camp.
About the time that this report
appeared, Brig.-Gen. M. P. Maus,
who stopped at Iditarod City
five hours in June, during which
time he made a thorough investi
gation of the camp, arrived in
Seattle and gave out au int
view in which he indicated th..t
everybody here would starve to
death this winter, as there was
not enough money to buy food.
Mr. Jaffe’s report which takes
up each creek in detail and which
was sent out after careful investi
gation, is too lengthy to repro
duce here, but in his general
summing up he places the Idit
arod among the big camps of the
North, figuring Flat creek alone
good for $5,000,000.
General Maus, who was in Idit
arod City from two o’clock in the
morning until 7 o’clock and who
never stepped two hundred yards
away from his boat in that time,
tells them outside that nothing
has been found here, and predicts
poverty and suffering in an over
crowded camp.
The astute editors of the Times
and the Post-Intelligencer, whis
tled softly when they read these
two reports, and said to them
selves, “'Somebody lied.” There
fore their columns are full of dis
cussion and the Iditarod is being
properly advertised. Therefore
it is apparent why the Times is
establishing an Alaskan section
in its paper and has secured the
services of a regular correspon
dent in the Iditarod.
FOR SALE—Cheap, 8 h. p. boiler and
plant complete. E. Welsh, cigar
store, opposite N. C. Co.
Street Improvement
In last week’s issue the Pioneer
failed to speak of the great improve
ment made on Front street in front of
the Merchants cafe, Crowley & Por
ter, the Phillips building, Rooney &
Co. and I Goidstien’s. These progres
sive business interests have paved the
street from the sidewalk to the center
of the highway with slabs and covered !
the same with a generous supply of
granulated lumber, making it high and
dry, and capable of easy passage for
heavy loads.
Those new-fangled sanitary, conveni
ent and odorless water closets made at
the Pioneer Sheet Metal Works are
in big demand by parties desiring eco
nomical conveniences, and cleanly and
healthful surroundings.
FOR SALE—Globe Bakery and Coffee
House at mouth of Flat creek; good
location and doing a good business.
GOOD PLACE FOR
MEDICINE TALK
Fully alive to the needs of the
times, Jack Baird is fitting his sa
loou with a suite of attractive offices
where he will not only transact his
own business but where visitors in
the city may go to make medicine
and sell mining claims.
These rooms will be tastefully
fitted up and will unquestionably
be in great demand as a rendezvous
where gentleman can not only chew
the industrial fat, but lift one oc
casionally with the proper decor
um and eclat.
We have without any exception the
best selected Salinas-Burbank potatoes
on the market—the kind that will keep
all winter, and they are here now.
Intoko Trading Co.
Maltby Has Guests
Scarcely had the rooftree been
placed in position at Judge Maltby’s
new residence on the corner of
Second and Otter streets, than the
guest chamber was properly dedi
cated by the arrival of that well
known and popular couple, Air.
aud Airs. Walter Riley of Fair
banks.
On the same boat with them
came Mr. and Airs. Herbert Rilev,
formerly of the Arcade in Fair
banks. The Rileys took to the
country with enthusiasm and are
already erecting a home.
Australian onions and winter lemons
and Salinas-Burbank potatoes—winter
stock, not coming, but here.
Innoko Trading Co.
FOR SALE—Two 2-horsepower pros
pecting boilers. Apply Henry Schnei
der’s paint shop on wateriront.
Fata! Fifteenth
Shown at
Through the enterprise of
Fred J. Chapman, assistant of
Ramps Peterson at the Pioneer
Bar on First street, it is possible
to see a fine lot of pictures of the
Jeffries-Johnson fight just re
ceired here from a friend of Mr.
Chapman’s who has undertaken
to supply him with all the live
fight and sporting dope lie can
lay hands upon.
These pictures, which are now
hanging on the walls at the
Pioneer tell the graphic story of
the defeat of the white champion
as no words could do, showing
also the great crowd of spec
tators sitting in the broiling sun,
the familiar faces of famous fight
celebrities and the dramatic in
cidents following the victory of
the Big Smoke.
Mr. Chapman expects more
pictures giving the fight by
rounds, and will have them pos
ted upon their arrival.
In New Quarters
Following the remodeling of the City
Drug Store on First street, the quar
ters have been enlarged to a consider
able extent, the general ensemble be
ing greatly improved by the installa
tion of Robert Simpson’s jewelry
store.
Simpson is now on the job with Idita
rod nugget jewelery, and a large ham
mer with which he repairs watches.
Racey, Monogram, Old Tyler, Ather
ton and Cedarbrouk whiskies, also
cash registers, bar fixtures and bar
glassw’are. Empire Commercial Co,
Anderson Bros. & Norland—sash,
doors, store fronts, wallpaper, house
linings, all came on the high water.
See us. Willow and Second st.
THEY GO PROSPECTING
IN REALMS CF JOY
On one of the last boats, Dan Cupid
arrived in the Iditarod with a whole
suitcase full of arrows and the havoc
he has wrought has worked the com
missioner overtime and burdened the
public records with marriage certifi
cates.
Three weddings took place last, week
at all of which Judge Maltby was the
presiding genius, on the right the god
of love with bow poised and string
taut, on the left, visions of bright
homes and happy families.
Last Monday evening, at the court
house in this city John Novak and Mrs,
Mary F. Watson, both formerly of Fair
banks were united in marriage, the
only witnesses of the ceremony being
the courthouse attaches. Mr. Novak
lived at Richmond during last winter
and both bride and groom are well
known in the North. They are now
residing at Flat creek, where they are
conducting a roadhouse.
On Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock
occurred the wedding of A. E. Light
and Mrs. Florschutz, at Mr. Light’s
residence on Willow street, and which
is described in another portion of this
issue.
Thursday afternoon, the wedding
bells again rang out at the courthouse,
while Judge Maltby was tying the knot
that united Owen Morgan Grant and ■
Mrs. Mary Henning in the holy bonds
of matrimony. The groom has been
a resident of the Iditarod for more
than a month past, but the bride ar
rived here Wednesday on the same boat
that brought Mrs. Light. Both bride
and groom lived formerly in Dawson.
They will make their future home at
Flat creek, where Mr. Grant is looking
i for mining investments.
THE “SIDEBOARD''
OPEN FOR BUSINESS
The other night they opened a keg
of Dails at Pete Anderson's—“Forty
mile Pete”—as they call him in the
upper country where he has been hand
ing out the red stuff that cheers for
the last 12 years. He is nicknamed
“Fortymile Pete,” but his “oil of joy”
is only guaranteed to carry forty rods.
The new sunshine emporium of Pete’s
is located on First avenue just at the
point where the cosmic cuter kicks the
kubical kismet. Having entered, you
approach with proper deference the
man behind, and having given the
tribal salutation, throw your head back
and quaff the "liquid joy that for forty
years has been confined within the
staves of oak, longing to kiss the lips
of man.”
Pete s new bar has this sideboard,
buffet, light and airy effect. The bar
is all shiny and stands on spindles.
Pete has nothing up his sleeve to de
ceive you.
If you order a mint julip or an Hun
garian golash or goolash you can look
right over into the copper kettle where
the barkeep mixes the dope, and, if
you watch him, you’ll find he always
plays fair.
So acute do these kind-faced gentle
men in white become that they can
tell by the merest nod what you want.
This is very handy as it relieves one of
the necessity of saying "A little of the
same.”
Now, for instance, Pete has some Old
Tyler whiskey down there that tastes
like a beautiful day in June. Having
taken one snort of this ambrosial fluid,
it becomes a profanation to say any
thing more about it—just a silent nod
of sympathy to the bartender, and be
hold, the sacred stuff swims sweetly in
the glass before you, its translucent
shadows playing fantastically on the
polished surface of the bar. With a
light heart you spread a glad smile
upon your friends, saying: '‘Gentle
men, how pleasant it us, suffering the
hardships of Alaska.”
Take Written Orders
According to the rule adopted at the
local postcffice all persons desiring to
call for the mail of third parties, must
present a written order signed by such
third party, otherwise the request will
not be granted.
This rule has been made necessary
by recent trouble experienced by the
postmaster, and is adopted to guard
against mistakes or treachery.
Just received a shipment of Wash
ington fir lumber, kiln dried. Ceiling,
flooring, shiplap and dimension lumber,
itoss & Nestor.
Nugget Jewelry at Low Prices
We have bought the entire stock of
Harry Stinson at greatly reduced prices
and are going to close it out on the
same plan. It is all of Fairbanks and
fditarod gold—heavy and of standard
patterns. The price we are making on
it is little more than bullion at the
I mint. If you are going Outside it will
be your best souvenir of the Iditarod.
Robert Simpson, Jeweler