Miners & Merchants Bank
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital, $50,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted 6old Dust Bought and Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Part of the World
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT: SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN (All
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OFFICERS:
CHAS. R0S8, PrwiUtnt
JOHN HOLMES. Caihiar
R. C. BUTTON, Aitt. C«hi«r
[AlASKJL
A blizzard of unusual severity hpd Fair
banks and the Tanana valley in its grip on
December 27. No damage is reported, as
great care was exercised by the residents in
watching their fires. In Fairbanks a num
ber of citizens were awakened from their
plumbers about 2 o’clock in the morning by
the high wind which started to blow at that
time. On Fairbanks creek the wind blew
so strong that men were hardly abl« to keep
their feet, and the trails were blown full of
drifted snow At the Summit roadhouse
the wind also was blowing a gale, the trails
being blown clear in places and the snow
was badly drifted in other places. Like re
ports were also received from Chatanika,
Olnes and Fox. A high wind was blowing
along Coldstream, and the trains had a hard
time, as the railroad cuts were blown full
of snow, which packed hard.
• • *
After a three-cornered conference over the
phone with his colleagues of the Alaska
legislature. Speaker of the House E. B. Col
lins of Fox and Representative Dan Driscoll
of Fairbanks has wired to Governor Strong
udvising that he call an extra seasioD of
the legislature. The three Fairbanks legis
lators also decided that they could attend
the session to better advantage if held in
the summer, and the governor was there
fore advised that the middle of July would
be a good time to call the body together.
The wire was as follows: “'Collins, Burns
and myself cannot attend before July 15.
Would advise calling extra session at that
time.—Dan Driscoll" As understood in
Fairbanks, the special session is to be called
to consider a revision of the territorial Laws
pertaining to the collecting of revenue.
Governor Strong has asked advice of each
of the legislators.
• • •
More than a ton of gold bullion from
Iditarod reached Fairbanks on December 29.
The gold represents practically the entire
output of the Iditarod district since the close
of navigation, most of it being the result of
the dredging operations of the Yukon Gold
Company, says the News-Miner. Although
b small part of the bullion is consigned to
the Northern Commercial Company, most of
it is being shipped through to Seattle. Bob
Griffis and another man took the large ship
ment of gold from Iditarod to Tanana, the
hauling of the enormous Ibad necessitating
the use of 25 dogs. The trip required 21
days’ time. At Tanana the bullion wm
turned over to the Wells-Fargo express
agent.
• * •
Alt ’Ugh it had been hourly expected by
those iear his bedside, the people of Fair
banks were shocked Sunday morning, De
cember 28, to learn of the demise of Joseph
C. Dillow, politician, attorney and busmeas
man, who died about midnight Saturday.
Mr. Dillow had been ailing for Borne time
past, but did not think of his condition ad
serious until about a month previous, when
he took a trip to the Big Chena hot springs
1 for the bcneht of his health. However,
he became steadily worse and, returning to
Fairbanks, went to St. Matthew’s hospital,
where death came peacefully Saturday
night.
• • •
As ft result of intoatinal trouble, from
| which he had been a lifelong sufferer. Alex
Patterson, a well-known old-timer of Fair
banks and other camps in the North, died
about midnight December 26 in 8t.
Matthew’s hospital. He had been in the in
stitution for about a month, and had an
operation performed for his ailment during
that time, but was unable to rally from
its effects.
• • •
In his first annual report Governor Strong
suggests that the Chugach Indian reserve
be abandoned, and says that too much land
has been appropriated by the forestry bu
reau in the Aleutian islands, and asks that
immediate steps be taken to establish a fish
ng reserve. He urges the reduction of tele
graph and cable tolls on the government
lines, and asks for more lighthouses. He
also recommends kinder treatment for the
Alaska Indians.
After an absence of almost six months.
Bioa A. Dodge, assistant district attorney
for the Fourth judicial division, returned to
Fairbanks from the lower river December
26, and has resumed his duties. During his
absence from Fairbanks Mr. Dodge visited
Ruby, Iditarod, Russian Mission, Tanana
and other way points, and has prosecuted
a number of violators of the law and made
numerous investigations for the district at
torney’s office.
• • •
The Nome Nugget of January 2 says:
“The people of St. Michael were surprised
today to learn that Harry F. Jordan, master
signal electrician in charge of the wireless
station here, and Carrie Belle Walker, a
nurse in the employ of the bureau of edu
cation, ware married at the home of E. H.
Flynn yesterday afternoon in the presence
of just a few friends. The groom has not
lived in St. Michael long, but has won the
good will of the people of the island by
his courtesy and constant attention to the
wants of the public. Miss Walker, the bride,
is also a newcomer to St. Michael, arriving
here in September, but her attention to the
work of nursing the sick natives has had
very beneficial results. Mrs. Jordan will
continue her work among the natives for
the present, as she is too devoted to her
duty to let the poor Indians go without
nursing."
A Convincing Argument
A man in North Carolina was saved from
conviction far horse stealing by the power
ful plea of his lawyer. After his acquittal
by the jury the lawyer asked:
"Honor bright, now, Bill, you did steal
that horse, didn't you?"
“Now, look here, judge," was the reply,
"I alien did think I stole that horse, but
since I heard your speech to that 'ere jury,
I'll be doggoned if I ain't got my doubts
about it."—Ex.
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LADIES WILL
ENTERTAIN
The entertainment committee of Camp
Iditarod No. 27, Arctic Brotherhood, an
nounces that on Wednesday evening, Febru
ary 4, an entertainment in honor of the
ladies of the city and district will be held
at A. B. hall The committee in its an
nouncement says: “Some beautiful prizes
will be awarded, so don't be late and spoil
your chance of winning one. A delightful
repast will be served at 11, during which
some musical numbers will be rendered.
This will lie followed by dancing. During
the evening several novelties and specialties
will be introduced. All ladies in the camp,
with their escorts, are cordially and pacticu
larly invited to be present. Otherwise the
attendance will be strictly confined to A.
B.’s. The principal object of the commit
tee is to further mutual acquaintance and,
Incidentally, to show the A B.'s a thing or
two in the way of managing entertainments.
Let's turn out and see how they do it.”
The ladies' committee in charge of the
entertainment is composed of Miss Maltby,
Mrs. J. H. Smith and Mrs. Charles.
“NEWS” OF MARSHALL CITY
The Kind of Bunk That li Being Peddled
to a Supposedly Gullible Public
About “Andreafski Strike"
. _
(St. Michael Correspondence in Nome Nug
get, January 2)
Albert E. Edwards, who was in town a
few days ago, had a very different story to
tell about the prospect* of Marshall City.
He is very sanguine of the camp turning out
good and he has already invested quite a
little in the new diggings. He says no one
has attempted any development work, as
there is all the locators could do in the
way of location work, and that the ground
has been scratched on many claims, but no
real development work on any.
Oscar Andrewuk, a reindeer herder from
Norton bay, passed through St. Michael
today on his way to Marshall City with 50
reindeer. He killed a few for the market
here and expects to sell the rest at Mar
shall. so there is no prospect of a shortage
of fresh meat there.
Comes now news of the first scrap at
Marshall City. The report is that Tom
Gray was walking across a claim owned
by A. C. Rohde and Godfried Meyer on
snowshoes, when the two owners of the
claim attacked him and gave him a severe
beating, blacking his eyes and even going
so far as to break a rib.
This rpeort was brought to town by C.
B. Drew, who has been teaching the Indian
school at Pilot Station, a little over 40
miles below Marshall City. Mr. Drew is not
the regular teacher, but was taking the
place of George Bowers, who had quit the
school to go mining at the new camp, and
he brought the story as told him by Mr.
Bowers.
Mr. Rohde is the man who brought the
first news of the strike to St. Michael last
September, and Meyer is the man who had
grubstaked him. Meyer has been night
watchman for the Northern Commercial
Company for seven or eight years, and
those who know him here do not think h*
is a man who is apt to make an unprovoked
attack on anyone.
However, Judge Waskey, who must have
arrived at Marshall City before now, will
likely have his hands full to straighten out
the matter, and the case may even come
i before the grand jury at Nome.
During the past week John Christensen
has arrived from Marshall City, but brought
no information of any pay being struck as
yet. He said he was going back in a few
I days.
APPLES RAISED IN ALASKA
Bringing with him a healtby-looking apple
grown in Juneau, Alaska, Edward C. Tubbs,
coast manager of the Main Belting Com
pany, has just returned from the North
land, convinced that the prosperity of
Alaska is without compare.
The apple is one of 15 grown this year
on a slip given to Mark Russell of Juneau
by Professor C. C. Georgeson in 1905. It
was grown by Mr. Russell in s yard 100
feet from the governor's mansion at Ju
neau.
“It is only the beginning of things up
there," commented Mr. Tubbs at he fondled
the precious fruit, which he destines for
preservation and exhibition here. “Millions
of capital are being invested there and the
young men of intelligence are in great de
mand. The big companies are choosing
young vitality for work up there, and those
who go are going there to stay. Juneau
is to be one of the greatest business cen
ters of the North.”
Mr. Tubbs was In the North on a busi
ness trip.—Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
DEAD MAN COMES BACK TO LIFE
Douglas, Aril., Dec. 4—Causing a panic
among many friends and acquaintances who
had gone to an undertaker’s shop to "take
their last look,” France Gregorio, a miner
who was believed to have been killed by
breaking his neck in a fall off an embank
ment at Bisbee, Ariz., suddenly sat up and
demanded “what was doing.” Gregorio,
while in a delirium at Bisbee, walked off
an embankment, striking his head upon a
railroad track. His friends believed him
dead, brought his “corpse”- here and ar
| ranged for an inquest and burial, while all
j the time Gregorio was merely in a coma.
RVBYNEWS
Another pay creek has been added to the
list during the past week, and it is thought
by a few who are familiar with the locality
in which the creek is located that the new
discovery will prove the best in the dis
trict. The find was made by Herman
Willike and partners on Flat creek, a trib
utary of Timber creek, the latter creek said
to l>e as large or larger than Poorman
creek Willike and partners bedrocked their
shaft last Sunday, pannings from which
showed 20 cents to 25 cents. It is now
said that a couple of thaws in drifting
show about three feet of gravel that will
run about )2 to the foot.
• • «
Poorman creek once more comes to the
front with another pay shaft, this time on
the Star Association, about three and a
half miles from Discovery, and George Bit
tie is the lucky man. It could not be
learned how good this ground is, but it is
claimed to be the banner find of the creek.
• * *
Last Monday evening, at the residence of
Mme. Hoffman, on Front street, Commis
sioner E. Coke Hill performed a wedding
ceremony which united two sourdoughs of
this community. The contracting parties
were Mrs. A. H. Stoddard and E. H. Hart
wich, both of whom are well known
throughout the North. Mrs. Stoddard has
been in this place for the past year and
a half, coming here from Fairbanks, where
she had resided for several years.
Mr. Hartwich is one of the pioneer busi
ness men of Ruby, having been in the res
taurant business since the infancy of the
town. He is also well and favorably known
in the several mining camps of the interior,
where he has had to do with the upbuild
ing of the business interests of said places.
Mr. Hartwich is at present one of the pro
prietors of the Merchants cafe, one of the
most up-to-date restaurants in interior
Alaska.—Ruby Record-Citizen.
BIRCH CREEK
LOOKS PROMISING
(Ruby Record-Citizen)
One dollar and fifty cents to the foot in
a 30-foot crosscut on Birch creek.
And 15-cent pans at the bottom of an
other hole about 600 feet below.
This is the tidings brought to town by
returning stakers on Birch creek.
Some weeks ago a few quiet tips were
given out that on the first of the year
something would be doing on Birch creek
and vicinity, and, like all “secrets," it was
given in confidence to friends and then to
still more friends, until on the fateful night
of December 31 there were about 25 men
on the creek, each imagining himself the
favored one of the many.
So many men making a mad dash to
stake ground at 12 o’clock midnight could
not help but result in confusion and prob
able law suits. This possible state of affairs
wag realized by the men, and but a short
time elapsed before a miners' meeting was
called, a chairman appointed, and the propo
sition discussed quietly and calmly. After a
few minutes' discussion it wras decided to
place the names of those present in a hat
and draw lots for the claims, which was
done, and the actual staking attended to in
the morning. They were all satisfied with
this solution of a probable mix-up, and the
following morning each man staked 660
feet in the order of the drawing, com
mencing on discovery and on down toward
the mouth of the creek. The stakers here
showed their fairness by allowing the dis
coverers to do their staking first, thus giv
ing the men who found the gold an oppor
tunity to acquire more ground as a reward
for their persistent efforts.
Birch creek, a tributary of Flint, has
been regarded with favor by a number of
prospectors ever since the discovery of the
camp, but very little work has been done
on it except by a few men who backed their
faith with prospect work.
Louis Trafolet and partner have stayed
with Birch creek almost constantly for the
past three years, sinking holes at different
times, and never for a minute losing faith in
eventual success. The shaft from which
they can now hoist pay gravel is on the left
limit, near the mouth of Crooked creek.
They have drifted about 30 feet and have
dirt which pans $1.50 to the foot.
Louis Miller is another who has had faith
in the creek. Some time ago he bedrocked
a hole 600 feet below that of Trafolet. Sev
eral pans of gravel from the bottom of this
shaft showed an average of 15 cents to the
pan.
It is the confidently exprassed opinion of
a number of the recent stakers that Birch
creek will show a good paystreak, and the
next 90 days will see a number of holes
for a distance of four miles.
Not so bad a start for 1914, do you
think?
While the horse market has been af
fected by the inroads of the automobile, the
mule market last year vyas better than
ever.
ANNUAL ASSESSMENT WORK BLANKS.—
" The Idltarod Pioneer h»s Just finished
and placed with dealers throughout the dis
trict a new blank form for the proper re
cording or annual assessment work on
placer mining'claims In Alaska. The blank
form conforms strictly with the new min
ing law, and contains ample cautionary and
explanatory' notes, which will greatly aid in
the lining out of the same. For sale, at
Ansley's, Idltarod; Pioneer Dn: , 't.i :, . rial
City, and Harry Donnelley^, Lis. Otter
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MANY COMPANIES WILL
USE PANAMA CANAL
Carefully prepared statistics by the for
eign trade department of the San Francisco
Chamber of Commerce show that a total oi
34 prosperous steamship lines will use the
Panama canal, a large number of which
will send vessels to the Puget sound ports.
The report covering this class of commer
cial activity is, in brief, as follows:
1. —American-Hawaiian Company: Now
building six steamers of 10,000 tons, speed
12Y2 knots. Will have a Heet of 26 ships,
with gross tonnage of over 292,000 tons.
Will run between New York and Philadel
phia and possibly Boston, and Pacific coast,
a ship practically every three days.
2. —American Navigation Company (Wil
mington, Delaware) : Will operate a line of
ships from Atlantic to Pacific, carrying ex
plosives west-bound and miscellaneous
freight east-bound. It is understood the
DuPont Powder Company is back of this
line.
3. —Bethlehem Steel Company (South
Bethlehem, Pa.): Contemplates putting on
a line of steamers between Atlantic ports
and Coquimbo, Chile. Fleet will cost ap
proximately $12,000,000. and will handle
Bessemer ore from Coquimbo.
4. —Boston-Pacific Steamship Line (J. S.
Emery & Co. of Boston) : Will put on a
fleet of six chartered ships of approximately
4,000 tons each, and is building two ships
of 9,000 tons with a speed of from 10 to
12 knots. They will operate between Bos
ton and Pacific coast ports.
5. —Compagnie Generale Transatlantique:
With 78 ships of 329,442 gross tons, are
building eight modern ships. This com
pany is reported as considering a line be
tween Europe and Pacific coast.
6. —Chesapeake & Ohio Steamship Com
pany (Furness, Withy & Co.) : With 69
ships of 202,069 gross tons, is considering a
line between the United Kingdom and the
Pacific coast.
7. —Compania Sud Americana de Vapores
(Chilean Steamship Company, Valparaiso) :
With 18 ships of 38,887 tons, has consoli
dated with another company and expects to
operate a line between Valpariso and New
York.
8. —-Compagnie Naval de 1'Oceanie: Is
figuring on a line of four ships of 8,000
tons each to run between Antwerp and Ta
hiti and New Caledonia, calling at Apia.
9. —East Asiatic Steamship Company:
With 18 ships of over 50,000 gross tons,
has ordered 6even new ships of about 60,000
total dead weight tons, fast motor ships of
12Mi knots, to operate between Pacific coast
and Europe.
10. —Fabre Line (Compagnie Francaise
de Nav a Vapeur, Marseilles: Operating 11
steamers of 45.221 gross tons. Is reported
as contemplating a round-the-world service
via canal and this coast, thence home via
Suex.
11. —Grace & Co. (Atlantic & Pacific
Steamship Company) : Expects to operate
a line between the Pacific coast and Charles
ton and New York via canal and New Or
leans. Has four new ships, three of 10,000
and one of 7,000 tons, capable of making 12
knots. In addition, Grace <4t Co operate
the New York-Pacific Steamship Company
from Pacific coast ports to Central and
South American west coast ports as far as
Antofagasta. Four new steamers of about
4,000 tons each with refrigerator and pas
senger accommodations are about com
pleted.
12. —Hamburg-American Line: With 192
steamers and over 1,066,219 gross tons, an
ticipates establishing a round-the-world
service from Europe to Pacific coast, thence
via Orient and Sue* back home.
13. —Hamburg-American Line: It is re
ported this company is building three new
ships costing approximately $12,000,000,
which will include other smaller ships of
American register to run between Atlantic
and Pacific ports.
14. —Holt & So, (Blue Funnel Line) •
With 23 ships of 130,800 gross tonnage, in
connection with the Ocean Line, with 43
ships of 270,000 gross tons, is reported as
contemplating a round-the-world line from
Europe to Pacific coast, thence to Orient
and home via Sue*.
15. —Holland-American Line: With 16
ships of 125,809 gross tons, is building two
new ships of 10,000 tons each, and contem
plates establishing a service between the
Netherlands and the. Pacific coast.
16. —Harrison Direct Line: With more
than 43 ships and 239 897 gross tens, is
building eight modern ships of 10,000 tons
each, and is erported as intending to use
j the canal between Europe and the Pacific
coast.
17. —Kosmos Line: With more than ?0
ships of 152,841 gross tons, is building seven
new ships of about 10,000 tons each, and
is reported as contemplating a line between
Europe and the Pacific coast via canal.
18. —Luckenbach Steamship Company,
Inc.: Now operates three ships of 12,076
gross tons between San Francisco and Pan
ama. Expects to operate between Pacific
coast and New York, putting on several
more ships as business demands.
19. —Leyland Line: With 40 ships and
220,193 gross tons, is reported as consider
ing a line between Europe and Pacific coast.
20. —La Veloce Navigazione Italians:
Now operates 11 ships of 62,601 gross tons
and expects to put on a line from Genoa
to Chile, touching at ports in Colombia,
Ecuador and Peru.
21. —Messageries Maritimes Company: Op
erating 63 ships of 286,802 gross tons; is in
creasing its fleet with larger vessels and con
templates running via canal between Mar
seilles and New Caledonia and Australia.
Also expects to put on service between Sin
gapore, Batavia and Noumea.
22. — New Zealand Shipping Company:
Operating 19 ships of 131,280 gross tons;
is establishing a line to run between Cana
dian East ports and New Zealand and Aus
tralia. There will be several 10,000-ton
ships n the service, which will go via the
canal.
24.—oiorth Uerman Lloya: uperating
ships of 751,183 gross tons; expects to build
six new vessels, four 12,000-ton freighters
and two 17,500-ton passenger ships. Report
ed they are considering service from Europe
to Pacific coast via canal and probably
home via Orient and Suez.
24. —Norske Amerikaline. Den. (North
American Line) ; Operating two 12,000-ton
ships; is reported as building two 6,000
ton ships for service betwreen Scandinavian
ports and Pacific coast.
25. —Nippon Yusen Kaisha: With 83
ships of 326,173 gross tons; is now building
three 12,000-ton and two 10,000-ton ships
and expects to put on a line between Japan
and New York via canal and New Orleans
26. —Osaka Sho6en Kaisha: With 100
ships of 155,000 gross tons, is building three
16,000-ton ships similar to Canadian Pacific
railway Empress of Asia, also three 12,000
ton ships. Anticipates putting on a line be
tween Japan and New York via canal and
New Orleans, and possibly a line between
Japan and Europe via canal.
27. —Panama Navigation & Commercial
Company: Expects to establish a line of
six vessels of 1,800 tons each between Pa
HOWDY, PAP !
The Loyal Order of Moose is now in all the principal camps of Alaska and \ ul$?3
territories, and Iditarod is to enjoy the isme distinction shortly.
The Moose is acknowledged to be the fastest growing and most popular order in
the world—700,000 members in over 1,500 lodges scattered from Nome to Panama and
from Berlin to Manila—and only 25 years old.
All the members enjoy all the privileges of every Moose club house anywhere, and
the International Home University, where indigent Moose widows and orphans are eared
(or, and Moose children given a college education absolutely free.
The lodge provides free medical attention for each member and his family, weekly
lick benefits when unable to work, funeral benefit in case of death, etc.
Charter initiation fee is 110, and covers all cost of joining. Dues are only $13 a
year, and no assessments.
All interested should send their names and addresses to Basil Clemons, district
director Loyal Order of Moose, at Clemons A Koon’s studio, corner Wiekersham and Front
streets. Flat City.
Basil Clemons, the deputy organizer for this district, is daily expecting the arrival
of Mr. Johnson, the regular organizer, from Seward peninsula, where he has been very
successful in ogranizing and instituting lodges of the popular order.
Mr. Clemons experienced little difficulty in securing far more than the requisite
number of charter members, and it is almost a certainty that the new lodge of Moose
to be organized in this district will be one of the largest in the North.
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I cific coast ports in Mexico and Central
America and New’ Orleans.
28. —Portland Merchants: Expect to build
five ships in Multnomah county, costing ap
proximately $900,000, to operate exclu
sively between Portland and Atlantic porta
via canal.
29. —Royal Mail Steam Packet Company:
With 50 ships of 254,140 gross tons, are
building nine ships, some of which will be
of 16,000 tons. Anticipate putting on serv
ice between Europe and Pacific coast, also
between Europe and west coast of South
America.
30. —Rederiaktiebolaget Nordstjernan of
Stockholm: With 11 ships of 37,358 gross
tons, anticipatevS putting on a line between
Scandinavianpo rts and Pacific coast.
32. —Scandinavian-American S. S. Co. (or
Scandinavian-Pacific S. 8. Co. : Is building
two 7,500-ton ships and two 10,000-ton
ships, the latter to be fast motor ships and
to be increased by two more similar onee
later to run between north coast of Europe
and Pacific coast.
33. —Toyo Risen Raisha: With 10 ships
of 83,033 gross tons, expects to establish a
line between Japan and New York via canal,
and probably touch at New Orleans. Also
expects to add three new ships to its South
American line, Japan and west coast.
34. —West Coast Line (Wessel, Duval 4
Co.) : Will operate between New York and
we^t coast of South America via canal. Will
not go via Magellan.
“MOOSE” JOHNSON IS THERE
Organizer Long Expected in Iditarod It
on Way Up the Yukon—Inoculated
With Gold Fever
(Nome Nugget)
The Nugget has received the following
special telegram from National Organizer
J. Frederick Johnson of the Loyal Order
of Moose, who is now at St. Michael:
“Arrived here Wednesday after good trip.
The trails are all in fine condition and the
weather was perfect. I found the road
houses in good shape and comfortable. We
initiated 14 members of the order at an
impressive ceremony here. There was a
big masquerade ball at St. Michael New
Year's night, which was attended by moro
than two hundred. The best information ob
tainable here, which seems to be authentic,
is that Marshall City is growing rapidly and
that they are getting 35 cents to the pan.
Too much water and 20 below, with high
winds, is preventing work, but the pros
pects are good. I shall start for the Yukon
on Sunday. It is 260 miles and expect to
make it in five days.”