IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital, $100,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted Gold Dust Bought and Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Part of the World
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT: SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK
OFFICERS:
T. J. Nestor. President
Chas. Ross, Vice President
E. G. Lindberg, Manager
John Holmes, Cashier and Assayer
TILE SUIT A661NST ELAT OPERATORS
Papers were filed last Monday with Deputy Court Clerk Stanton
in the case of Barney Hagerty in his own name and as administrator
of the estate of John Coyle, and G \V. Albrecht vs. Friend, Lawson
■S: James, for the recovery of the value ot quo cords of wood alleged to
have been cut from the New York association, the Poor Man a-soeia
tion and the Ohio association, on Boulder creek. The wood is alleged
to have been cut and removed by the defendants, their agents, servants
or employes, without the consent of the owners of the claims above
mentioned. The plaintiffs also ask for treble the amount of the value
of the wood so taken, under the provisions of the Alaska code relating
to the cutting of timber on land belonging to another.
The case involves questions, more or less important to the people
at large, which have not heretofore been directly passed upon in this
district. It will probably come up for hearing at the approaching term
of the district court.
DAWSON NEWS
ON NAT LYONS
The Dawson News of March 8 has
the following comment upon the recent
departure of Nat Lyons for England.:
NAT LYONS IS A MAN WITH
REAL TITLE
Klondike!'Who Lived Simple Life Sur
prises All Friends—Off for Old
London—For Years He Roughed It
and Lived Simple Life in Yukon.
“Letters from the lower river bring
the news that Nat Lyons, for years
a prominent Klondiker, and for the
last two years advertising manager of
the Idilarod Pioneer, has fallen heir to
a title and a large estate in England.
The title is said to descend from Nat’s
urother. The Iditarod Pioneer tells of
Nat preparing to leave for England,
but does not reveal the reason. Let
ters state he goes to get the wealth
and label.
“Nat Lyons’ history in Klondike is
romantic. He came in 'US. toiling over
the Chilcoot with the hardiest and the
«*•
toughest, eating beans and bacon for
months straight, sleeping in the snow,
mushing the numerous streams, pros
pecting at the end of the pick and
■shovel, and all the time maintaining
the simple tenor of his ways that led
none of his companions to suspect he
was a duke or a lord.
"Nat was a real miner He ran hun
dreds of feet of hard rock tunnels on
the Selwyn, and did much other work
behind the pick. Three years ago he
was prominent in A'ukon politics and
took the stump for Bob Lowe, making
speeches in some of the fiercest gath
erings, and acquitting hirasely credit
ably. When not mining he was the
mirror of fashion, and the Beau Brum
tnel of Dawson. The hopefuls of Klon
dike now know what a chance they
missed. Never before the news came
from Iditarod that Nat is a duke did
his Klondike friends know why he
always was so optimistic and always
kept his mustache waxed. All now
are looking for Nat's London address.”
THE WAY THEY DO
OUT AT CORDOVA
For the eleven months ending March
1 the sum of $18,852.22 had been turned
into the treasury of Cordova. Of that
amount $13,584.17 had been expended
for municipal and school purposes,
leaving a balance of $3,078.04. The
new council took office with money in
the treasury and no special tax had
been levied during the previous year.
NOTICE TO MINERS
The Johnson Hose Co. have placed
their stock of hose in our hands for
disposal at following prices:
3-inch hydraulic hose, 35c foot.
8-incft hydraulic hose, 70c foot.
10-inch hydraulic hose, 80c foot.
Nozzles for 3-inch hose, $8 each.
10-inch flume hose, 12c foot.
12-inch tlurae hose, 18e foot.
Terms cash.
CHESLEY, RYAN & KEHOE.
NOTICE
Ali persons owing the City Drug
store are hereby notified that their ac
counts have been assigned to the under
signed, to whom they are hereby re
quested to make payment.
CYRIL P. WOOD.
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OF GROCERIES IN ID IT A ROD
Flat City
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All Hours Alike in This House
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Some Famous Men Lost
When Titanic Went Down
Col. John Jacob Astor. who lost his
life on the ill-fated Titanic, was the
great-grandson of the John Jacob Astor
who came to America in 1783 from
Waldorf, Baden, and was the founder
of the famous American family now
representing one of the three or four
greatest private properties in the
world. Colonel Astor had been man
ager of the family estates since 1891.
He was born, July 31, 186-1, the son of
William, and was the fourth of his
name, being nephew of John Jacob the
third. He was colonel on the staff of
Gov. Levi P. Morton and in May, 1898,
was commanding lieutenant colonel of
United States volunteers. He presented
to the government a mountain battery
for use in the Spanish war, said to cost
over $100,000. After assisting Major
General Breckinridge in the inspection
of camp and troops at Ghickamauga
Park, Ga., he was assigned to duty on
the staff of Major General Shafter, and
served in Cuba in operations ending in
the surrender of Santiago. He achieved
some note as a succeessful inventor,
having to his credit a bicycle brake, a
pneumatic road improver and am im
proved turbine engine. He was an ex
pert in marine mechanics and a mem
ber of scientific and other intellectual
societies. He wrote “A Journey in
Other Worlds: A Romance of the Fu
t ure.”
In 1897 Colonel Astor built the Asto
r'a Hotel, New’ York, adjoining the
Waldorf Hotel, which Was built l>v
William Waldorf Astor, his cousin, t he
two now forming one building under
the name of Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, one
of the largest hotels in tiie world and
probably the most costly.
hits accomplishments were undoubt
edly sufficient to gain him reputation
on his merits, but the greatness of his
own and iiis family wealth probably
detracted from his personal deserts as a
talented man. The same influence was
manifest in the bitterness of the at
tacks made upon him when he married
Madeleine Force last fall, lie having
been divorced from his first wife who
was Ava Lowle, daughter of Edward S
Willing, of Philadelphia.
The Astor family lias founded in
America as nearly as possible a terri
lorial aristocracy, impossible to de
stroy, and fortified with legal immuni
ties and privileges. They form a group
of immense hereditary real estate own
ers, with holdings so solidly based that
no apparent catastrophe save a failure
of heirs could extinguish it; and though
originally springing from mercantile
business, removed by some three quar
ters of a century from its actual con
duct. For many years they were known
is “the landlords of New York,”—and
the best of landlords, prompt, just and
courteous; still probably form the larg
est set of individual real estate holders.
1'he family is also connected with nota
hie municipal charities and public
foundations.
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Francis Davis Millet, the artist, was
born at Mattapuiset, Mass., Nov. 3.
1810. He served in the civil war, grad
uated in Harvard in 1800 and subse
quently studied in the Royal Academy
at Antwerp. He became a member of
tlie National Academy o' Design in
1885. The decorations of Trinity
Church, Boston, and those of many im
portant buildings of New York, Chi
cago and elsewhere were designed by
him. Among bis best known paintings
are "At the Inn," Union League Club;
"A Cosey Corner,” Metropolitan Mu
seum of Art, and "Between Two Fires,”
National Gallery of British Art, Lon
dou. He served as a newspaper corre
spondent for the London I’itnes and
Harper’s Weekly at Man, t in 1898,
having served tiie New York Herald,
the London Daily News and the London
Graphic in a like capacity in the Russo
Turkish war in 1877-’78. He was
director of decorations and director of
functions at the Chicago exposition,
was United Stales commissioner to the
Tukio exposition and had been highly
honored by foreign countries and insti
tutions. Tolstoi’s "Sebastopol” was
translated by him.
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W. T. Stead, the English journalist
was perhaps the greatest known stu
dent of world affairs. He was editor of
tiie Northern Echo in 1871, at the age
of 22; assistant editor of the Pall Mall
Gazette in 1880, and in 1890 founded
the Review of Reviews. In July, 1885,
he published "The Maiden Tribute to
Modern Babylon,” and fot some of his
methods in procuring evidence for this
book he was imprisoned for three
mouths. In 1893 he founded Border
land, a magazine devoted to occultism,
being a student of such subjects. "If
Christ Came to Chicago” was one of
his books widely read in America.
"The Pope and the New Era,” "No
Rent,” “No Reduction” and “Truth
About Russia” are other of his books.
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Another of the conspicuous Ameri
cans who had served in the civil war
and whose career was ended by the
Titanic disaster was Washington Au-1
gustus Roebling. His father emigrated
from Muhlhausen, Prussia, and settled
in Pennsylvania in 1831. The son was
born in 1837. In the latter '50's he
joined his father in constructing the
suspension bridge across the Allegheny
river at Pittsburg. After the war he
was associated with his father in build
ing the Cinclnnati-Covington bridge
and became assistant engineer in con
structing the Brooklyn bridge. After
his father's death in 1839 the entire
direction of the latter work was left in
his hands. The bridge was completed
in 1883. Since that. time lie had been
vice-president of the iron and steel wire
rope manufacturing concern of the
John A. Roebling & Sons Co. of Tren
ton, N. ,T. In tiie war lie was brevetted
lieutenant colonel for gallant service
before Richmond and colonel of volun
teers for meritorious service.
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Isador Straus was one of three Jew
ish brothers who came from Bavaria
with their parents in 1851 and settled
at Tulbolton, Ga. He was the eldest
of the brothers. All of them became
prominent. Moving to New York the
family became very wealthy. Oscar
Solomon, the youngest, was United
States minister to Turkey from 1887 to
1889 and from 1898 to 1990; in 1992 lie
was appointed a member of the Per
manent Court of International Arbitra
tion at the Hague and in 1900 became
Secretary of Commerce and Rubor.
He is the author of several works on
political economy. Natiian lias been
prominent in civic affairs in New York!
and in 1S91 declined the Democratic
nomination for mayor. Isador was
preparing to enter the West Point
academy wlien the civil war intervened.
He was always interested in tariff and
currency reform. He was elected to
congress January 3, 1891, from the
Fifteenth New York district, to fill the
unexpired term of A. P. Fitch.
The local wireless station will en- 1
deavor to furnish as complete a ship
ping bulletin as possible for the com
ing open season. It will give the
movements of river steamers, as well
as the arrival and departure of ocean
steamers at St. Michael.
Items of river news which coma to
the attention of their Kaltag operator,
or which may bo picked up from remote
wireless stations, will be included from
time to time.
This bulletin will be posted free at
the station and a small charge will be
made for delivery of copies up town.
JUDGE VINAL OF OPHIR
RESIGNS C0MMI8SI0NEESHIP
P. W. Carlson, who was vi king in
Iditarod tiie first, of the week, lias been
appointed postmaster at Ophir City to
succeed W. A. Vinal, resigned. Judge
Vinal lias also sent, in his resignation
as United States commissioner, which
office he lias filled since the early part
if l‘J,)8.
It is not known here who will suc
ceed Judge Vinal as commissioner. He
expects to devote his undivided atten
lion to ihe mining business hereafter.
Tiie new postmaster lias a cigar store
and pool room in Ophir, and will be
well situated to look after tho business
of the postoffice.
Ole Quale, the carpenter, who was in
Iditarod last spring, when lie lost, a
finger while moving some heavy object,
is dying of consumption in a Fairbanks
hospital. He was a man of line phy
sique.
Select Outside Lumber, cot rugated
iron and roofing paper at Ross & Nes
tor’s. __
THE MERRY MEN.
The highwayman of olden days
was wont to haunt the lonely ways
upon his prancing steed, and when
a traveler came by the robber said:
“Shell out or die, and show your
highest speed!” And having swiped
the pilgrim’s roll, he galloped off,
gay, jaunty sou!, some damsel fair
to see; a little while he went his
way, and then upon some dismal day
he graced a gallows tree. The rob
ber of these mode'-n times doesn’t
ride the highway for his dimes, or
tlourish blunderbu.ts; he lias a hand
some gilded lair and by his wiles
entices there some unsuspecting
cuss. And then he sells Lite victim
shares in wireless fakes and other
snares, in moonlight and in blue
sky. For him no gallows creaks
and groans; he robs his victims of
their bones and winks the oilier
eye. I like the old-lime rubber
test: he had a bold heart in his j
breast, his life was in his hand; and j
even on the scaffold he was finer
than the crooks we see in this
knave-ridden land.—Walt Mason.
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FELLOWS
Yesterday was the 93rd anniversary
of the American Order of Odd Fellows,
the legal title of which is now “The
Independent Order of Odd Fellows.”
There was no observance of the event
in the Iditarod. where the only organi
zation of members of the order is the
I. O. O. F. Club of Flat City. Last
year the club celebrated the anniver
sary with a grand bail.
While the American Order was
founded in 1819, it was afterward affil
iated with the Manchester Unity, and
it was not till September 23, 1842, that
the Odd Fellows of the United States
resumed their original independence,
reaffirming the resolution in 1843 and
adopting a distinctively American rit
ual in 1845.
The first lodge established on this
continent was Shakspere No. 1, New
York city, December 26, 1806. The
live Odd Fellows composing this lodge
were of the Loyal Independent Order,
and the moving spirits were Solomon
Chambers and his son John C., English
mechanics from the south of London,
i'he early members were zealous work
ers and other lodges were soon organ
ized. In 1809 the roll of membership,
in the six New York city lodges, com
prised 36 prominent citizens and busi
ness men. as well as many others of
less influence.
Meantime attempts were being made
to plant Odd Fellowship in other parts
of North America. In 1815 there were
two lodges in "Halifax, Nova Scotia.
In Boston, during 1818, James B.
Barnes—who had emigrated from Eng
land the previous year—and four others
instituted Massachusetts Lodge No. 1,
and held regular meetings, the method
being, as in New York, ancient usage
and seif institution. Two Englishmen,
a Jew, an Irishman and a Frenchman
comprised its charter membership.
The origin of Odd Fellowship and
the source of its peculiar name cannot
now be historically traced. Until nearly
the close of the nineteenth century it
had been asserted for years that Defoe,
the English novelist, mentioned “Odd
Fellows” as early as 1745, but modern
research lias relegated this, as well as
many other alleged incidents of the
order’s early days, to the realm of tra
dition. It is known, however, that a
society grew up in England during the
eighteenth century, almost rivaling in
numbers and influence the Masonic
Fraternity, and that this “Antient and
Most Noble Older of Bucks” began to
decline about the year 1773 and passed
out of existence. A reasonable suppo
sition attains among antiquaries that
these lodges furnished the nucleus of
the Odd Fellows.
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iron and roofing paper at Ross & Nes
tor's. _
Best non-astigmatic snow glasses at
Sim pson’s.
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Hay and Oats Fresh Groceries
-^ Finest Line of Cigars at the Lowest ^
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GOOD GOODS 1 FLAT C!TY OTTER CiTY j PR|Cts R|GHT
Supplies for the postoffice at George
town, on the Kuskok'vitn river, arrived
in Iciitarod in the last mail, and will be
forwarded as soon as opp 01 tunitv cffe is
C4. Duke E. Stubbs, formerly of th! \
city, has been named as postmaster,
FOR SALE — Northern Commercial
dogteam of seven dogs, Rummey in
the lead, with harness and basket
sled complete. Inquire N. C. Co.
At Our Old-Time Location
ON THE WINTER TRAIL
SUMMIT
ROADHOUSE
Meals at All Hours.
Liquors and Cigars
Tel: “Summit Roadhouse.”
We still have left a fine line of
SUITINGS
and Trousers. Fit and Work
manship guaranteed.
Wile”
First and Willow.
Notice of Marshal’s Sale
United States ot America, /
Fourth District of Alaska, f ss’
Public notice is hereby given, that by
virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias (or execu
tion). dated March 21st, A. D. 1912,
issued out of the District Court of the
United States for the Fourth District of
Alaska on a judgment rendered in said
Court, on the 21st day of February, A. D.
1912, in favor of \Y. S. Clark, doing
business as Clark Lumber Company,
and against \V. EL Tom, I have, on
this 3rd day of April, A. D. 1912,
levied upon the following described real
estate, siuated in the town of Flat and
territory of Alaska, to wit: All of the
leasehold and other interests of the
defendant \V. H. Tom in and to a cer
tain piece or parcel of ground fronting
forty feet more or less on the easterly
side of Gold street in the town of Flat.
Otter precinct. Fourth Division, Terri
tory of Alaska, said parcel of ground ex
tending back from said Gold street to
Flat crwek; and which said ground is
bounded on the north by the premises
now occupied bv one Lee Roby and on
the south by the premises now occupied
by one S. Bashow; also all and singular
that certain one-story cottonwood log
building being fourteen feet wide and
eighteen feet deep, situated on the above
described parcel of ground and fronting
0:1 Gold street aforesaid. Also all ami
singular all the logs, lumber and other
material now oti the said described
parcel of ground and being used in
the erection and construction of a
cabin thereon and adjoining said cot
tonwood cabin; ami all the logs, ’um
ber and other material otherwise situ
ated upon said premises and property, and
that I will, accordingly, offer said real
estate for sale, at public vendue to the
highest and best bidder, for cash, on the
4th day of fVlay, A. D. 1912, at
2 o’clock p. m., at the front door of the
Marshal’s office in the town of Flat,
Otter precinct.
Dated, Iditarod, Alaska, April T,rd.
A. D. T9i2. II. K. LOVE,
LT. S. Marshal, Fourth District of Alaska.
By T. W. Howell, Deputy.
Chas. EL Taylor. Plaintiff's Attorney
TANANA TO GET
TERM OF COURT
A term of court will be held in
T.mana commencing August lit, savs
ll;e Yukon Valley News, ( uses from
Ruhv, Koyukuk. Rampart, Hot Springs
and tJi lower river points cn the Yukon
that are closer to Tatiana than they ate
to Iditarod will be tried at Tanana.
At its last session in Fai.banks the
grand jury recommended that a court
house he built tit Tanana anu terms • ‘
court held there early.
Eyes Examined for Glasses.
ROBERT SIMPSON
Films Developed
And All Kinds of Photographic
Work Done.
MiSS TJERNSTROM, MCDONALD HOTEL
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
In the Probate Court for Otter Pre
cinct, Territory of Alaska. Fourth
Division.—In the Matter of the I.
tate of John S. Harding. Deceased.
Notice to Creditors.
Notice is hereby given by I lie under
signed. administrator of the estate of
John S. Harding, deceased, to the cred
itors of, and all persons having claims
against the said deceased, to exhibit
them, with the necessary vouchers,
within six months after the final publi
cation of this notice to the said admin
istrator, at the office of Wickersham A:
Roden, at Iditarod, Alaska.
HENRY RODEN,
Administrator Estate of
John S. Harding, Deceased.
First publication March 30, 191:1.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To Fred A. Nichols, J. A. Westby and S T K
caid.
You and each of you are hereby notified that
during the year 1911. we have expended not 1<
than one hundred dollars in labor and improve
ments upon each of the following described
placer mining claims, situated in the Coni
News Mining District, Alaska, to wit:
Fox association claim on Fox creek, tributary
to Aralik river; Gap association claim on Aialik
river: Mavhood association claim on lam
creek, tributary to Aralik rivt r: Hoffman asso
ciation claim on Trail creek, tributary to Aralik
river.
And you. Fred A. Nic hols, or anyone claiming
by. through or under you, are hereby notified,
that unless von pay your proportion of said e\
pc use incurred on the said Fox associati >11 n
Gap association; and you, J. A. Westby. or any
one claiming by, through or under y • are
hereby notified that unless \ on pay your share
of such expense incurred on said May hood tss«
ciation; and you, S. T. Kincaid. or an v one claim
ing by, through or under you, are herein ncti
fied tin t unless you pay your proportion • f such
expense incurred oil said Hoffman association
wi'.uiu ninety days after the la^t publication < i
this notice, your interest in said properties will
become the property of the undersigned inch r
the provisi >ns of section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States of America.
P. I. 15 I,oBLANC
JULIUS HOFFMANN.
wm loiskllf:
Date of first publication March 30, 191:
Date of last publication June 20. 1912
NOTICK or Four KIT! KK.
To Mrs. M. McKenzie [Formerly Mrs. II
Beyer],
You, your heirs and assigns, are hereby no
tified that the undersigned have expended in
labor and improvements the sum of one him
di ed dollars -*100—for each of the years of '910
and 1911 upon placer mining claim known as
and called the Three Star association. on Yan
kee creek, in the Innoko mining and recording
district, di trie*, of Alaska.
You are further notified that if at the e\
piration * f ninety—90—days after the last pub
licatiou of this notice, you fail or refuse toe- m
tribute your proportion of such expenditure
jour interest in said claim will become the
property of the undersigned, your co-owners,
under sc lion 2324 of the revised statute- of tht
United states.
J. II. McLKAN,
F. C EKYKR, Co-Owners
First publication Feb. 24, 1912
Last publication May 25. 1912.