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One Doi.r.au Per Month. IDITAROD, ALASKA, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1910. Two Bits Per Copy
THEY ARE ASKING 1
FOR BOBBIE MILLER
Just because the methods used in the
recent gold robbery between White
horse and Skagway, resemble those
employed at the time that Bobbie Mil
ler and his pals succeeded in ditching
some $80,000 between Fairbanks and
Gibbon, the astute detectives of Seattle
are now looking for Miller, believing
that his brain had something to do with
the latest theft.
In this last, little tea-party, $57,000
was taJren from the express box and
$13,352 from a mail pouch. According
to the Seattle dispatch the detectives
are completely baffled.
It appears that the job was pulled off
by an organized party according to a
carefully planned scheme. The Seattle
sleuths, at a loss for a theory, have
jumped at tho conclusion that Miller
had a hand in the robbery, because the
other job was similar and his where
abouts are unknown.
C. «oynt Now Railroading
According to the latest advices from
Fairbanks, Charles Joynt, formerly re.
ceirer for the defunct Tanana Electric
company has been appointed manager
for the Tanana Valley railroad in place
of A. P. Tyson, recently resigned. It
appears that Mr. Tyson has severed his
connection with the road to go Out
side. _
Best and most comfortable rooms in
town at the Sherburne. Get our rates
for the winter.
Building paper at Anderson Bros. &
N eriaud’s.
All previous guesses as to the gold output of the
Iditarod for the season that is about to come to a close
have been put to the bad by the latest figures received
from the banks. Some weeks ago it was thought that
the amount of gold taken from the gravels of this dis
trict would reach 5600,000, but it has since been learned
that more than that has already been shipped to the
Outside.
The Minors & Merchants bank has shipped more
than $400,000, while the American bank, in existence
but a few weeks, has sent out in the neighborhood of
$200,000.
In spite of the fact that there are only a few out
fits working and only two weeks figured upon for sluic
ing, it is estimated that nearly $200,000 more will be
taken out before general sluicing stops. This figure
will be made up of two cleanups on the Manley & Aitken
ground at the head of Plat creek, where they will prob
ably recover $50,000. Doc Mading’s lay just below
them will contribute a considerable bunch before active
operations cease; George Riley is still going to it on
1 Above Otter; the “Guggs” are working good ground
below Mading; Henderson & Larson will take some
more dust from the riffles, and a number of smaller op
erators will contribute to the general burst of harmony
by sluicing well toward the holidays.
Given these figures, it takes only half an eye so see
that the Iditarod is making an extraordinary showing,
and one that has it over every new camp of the
North.
Bring In Another Cleanup
J. J. Price, and Tom Aitken, opera
tors on the Marietta association at the
head of Flat creek came into the city
Friday with another cleanup. They are
not giving out the exact figures but it
is understood that this harvest was a
very fat one. They are working about
30 men and with an even break on
weather will get out probably $50,000
more before they close for the winter.
Mrs. Roscoe's new candy store on
Richmond street will be open for busi
ness next Thursday. In order to prop
erly introduce herself and famous array
of ‘‘sweets” Mrs. Roscoe's adv. in an
other colutt n says she will sell goods
at half-price on that day.
John Rosene, former head of the
Guggenheim interests in Alaska, is con
templating constructing GO miles of
railroad into the territory lying north
west of Skagwav.
The winter is coming, so get your
homes made comfortable while you can
get the material. Andersou Bros. &
Norland, wallpaper, paints, sash, doors.
WHEN YOU HEAR THE BIG SELL RING, GET BUSY
Several Left for Kuskokwim
Cole McDougall, W. A. Owens and
A1 Gooch left today for the Kuskok
wim, cairying a considerable amount
of supplies with them. They intend to
build a fair-sized cabin somewhere in
the vicinity of Julian creek, and have
stated that the latch-string will be
hanging out for a few select friends.
The boys are going to represent them
selves and Charley Worden in ground
that was staked this summer.
The wireless stations at Katalla and
Cordova have been closed down bo
cause they didn’t pay. Citizens of Ka
talla are worked up over the matter
and will appeal to the government for
connection with the Outside world.
Katalla has no cable connection.
Anderson Bros. & Nerland have just
completed several large and “classic”
signs that now adorn the big Nestor
block. _
Get a regulation “safety” at The Tin
Shop.
When you hear the big bell at the
N. C. Co. ring out its wild alarm one of
these days, you will understand that
someone has discovered a fire. If you
hear another small gong' ringing at
Smith’s gunstore, at the Nestor build
ing or the Ideal cafe on the corner of
First and Willow, then you will know
that the fire is located in any one of
these sections of the city.
Then just as you get out of your pa
jamas you will hear the chemical thun
dering out of Manuel’s saloon in the
wako of a band of enthusiastic fire
fighters who will keep primed with fire
water for the purpose.
Then somebody else will be heard
running down to Suter’s store where
the other chemical is located, and the
aforementioned fire will be immediately
extinguished and subdued.
These arrangements were made at
the last meeting of the board of city
trustees, of whom are there now seven
—Chas. Ross, E. E. Kellogg, John Dun
can, Chas. Suter, Ike Bayles, A. S.
Kemp and Thos. Morgan.
The chemical was housed at Manuel’
where someone will always be handy t.
start it off. It is charged and ready fo.
use. The alarm bells will be installer
at once, and at another meeting of the
council to be held at an early date there
will bo chosen four “call” men who
will be supposed to take charge of the
chemical at the time of fighting tire,
md to make inspections of flues at
stated periods in times of peace.
The council have recommended that
E. J. Sliter, deputy marshal be appoin
ted night watchman, and it is probable
that he will be made a peace officer
and watchman on a salary to be con
tributed by the property holders. E.
E. Kellogg will be made fire chief with
'Ut salary._
Arthur Celene, one of the owners of
he Celene fraction on Otter creek,
made a long-deferred visit t.o the city
last week. He has been living at Ot
ter City of late.
Have your nuggets made into souve
nirs at Simpson’s, the pioneer jeweler.
Splendid headway was made last
week by workmen on D. A. McDon
ald's new building on First avenue. It
is a substantial frame structure 36x40
feet, two stories, and will be occupied
by the McDonald lodging house and a
barber shop. Mr. McDonald was one
of the town’s earliest citizens.
Crowley & Porter weren’t a bit slow
in moving into their new storeroom,
which is now nearing completion. The
building is very attractive one.
Thomas McMahon, the pioneer mer
chant of Flat City, is building a com
modious warehouse on the waterfront,
near First avenue.
Annual assessment-work blank affi
davits on sale at the Pioneer office.
POSTMASTER NOW
HAS THE STAMPS
Following instructions from Wash
ington, Ohauncey Boyer, postmaster at
Fairbanks, recently sent dew 1 a bunch
of postage stamps for Iditarod City, and
Frank Dunham is now issuing them.
Although there are no facilities for
issuing money orders as yet, mail can
be registered and the public can be as
sured that there is an even chance that
it will get out this winter.
No definite word has been received
from Chief Clerk McManus at Nome to
indicate that arrangements for a winter
service have been completed, or wheth
er he received bids on a call published
here some weeks ago.
This call asked for bids on a weekly
service from the Yukon and it is hoped
that such a service can be instituted
before the next season’s shipping be
gins.
In the meantime there is a bare possi
bility that another mail will reach here
before the boats freeze in, after which
there will unquestionably be a period
of postal aberration prior to the time
the dog teams get working.
E. L. Cullen, the well-known prop
rietor of the Forks roadhouse on Flat
creek has moved into winter quarters.
His new log building is a very com
fortable affair and will be a most at
tractive haven of refuge this winter.
Jos. H. Smith’s big store at the
corner of Second and Willow last week
received a lotof exterior improvements
which greatly add to winter comfort. ,
SUING FOR HiS
Want3 Payment at Rato of $500 Por Month
Alleging that the Mine Owners and Operators Association of the
Tanana valley is indebted to him for salary at the rate of $500 per
month trom the 1st of October, 1908, to the 1st of October, 1909, Abe
Spring, one time mayor of Fairbanks and later a Guggenheim lobbyist
at Washington, has brought »uit in the district court at Fairbanks for
$6000, naming the Mine Owners and Operators Association and about
150 of the prominent mining men of the Tanana as defendants.
Fiver since the organization of this association, Abe Spring has
been prominently identified with it. He was one of its organizers and
it was through his activity that it survived as long as it did.
Starting originally to protect the operators during the strike diffi
culties, the association rather fell into desuetude during the last year or
two since the object for which it was formed had passed away. Abe
Spring, however, kept on thejob until last fall, it being charged that
the last work performed by him was as employmeat agent in Seattle
where he is alleged to have contracted with a number of laborers whom
he sent into the country.
Either Abe was trying to perpetuate a good tiling or the mine
owners forgot that he was on rhejob for we find him bobbing up all of
a sudden with this demand for £6000 which he seems unable to collect
I11 the complaint, which was filed September 13th, Mr. Spring says
that for the purpose of conducting the business of the Mine Owners and
Operators Association, plaintiff and defendant entered into a contract
on or about the —day of November, 1907, whereby it was mutually
agreed that said association would employ and did employ plaintiff as
its agent to do and perform such acts within the scope of a general
agency, as should from time to time be necessary ; and it was further
mutually agreed that said defendant would pay the plaintiff the sum of
$500 per month, and said plaintiff agreed to accept said amount as full
compensation for said services. And it was further agreed that such
employment should continue from month to month and that said plain
tiff should be reimbursed for all expenses of whatsoever nature which
Ue would pay or advance for the association.
The complaint then goes on to state that plaintiff did enter into
such service and that the association paid him a salary and expenses up
to the ist day of October, 1908. Since that time, or until October,
1909, there lias been nothing doing in the way of salary and Abe insists
that it is coming to him.
The various members of the association are scattered all over, most
of them here, some in Fairbanks and some Outside. The papers ate
being served at this time, under the direction of Stevens, Roth and
Dignan, attorneys for plaintiff, but it will doubtless be a considerable
time before they are all in court.
COMING AND GOING |
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Philip Jaffe, nephew of the Flat
creek clothier, visited Iditarod on a
business errand last week.
“Gun Store” Smith returned last
Tuesday from a short business trip to
Dikeman.
Charles E. Taylor, now acting as as
sistant prosecuting attorney has
changed his office from Flat City to
this metropolis, and will henceforth
practice here. He is building a resi
dence on Willow Point, across the
river, which lie had ready for the re
ception of Mrs. Taylor and daughter.
Paul and Frank Sickinger, sons of
Martin Sickinger, the Willow-street
merchant, are recent arrivals in the
city from Portland, Ore., and will be
associated witli their father in the
mercantile business.
Bill Rief, formerly property holder
on the head of Happy creek, is just
back from the Kuskokwim just long
enough to get what he needs and then
will hike back again. Bill used to be
a postmaster in Missouri when Presi
dent Grant was in the chair, in fact
Ulysses gave Bill his commission as
guardian of the L nit-ed States mails' j
However this has nothing to do with I
the fact that Bill believes the Kuskok
wim one of the future placer camps of
the world and will go back immediately
to prospect some of the ground he has
staked there.
A. X. Grant arrived from Nome last
week accompanied by Mrs. Grant. He
is a printer by avocation, and a well
known member of the newspaper pro
fession by force of actual occupation.
He will assist Major Strong in the com
mendable work of getting out the Idit
arod Nugget, being, according to
general report one of the best type
stickers this side of the Rubicon.
Joe Murray, one of the old timers of
the Bering sea region has decided that
Iditarod city looks good to him. He
caught a bird's eye view of the place
last week, having just arrived with
that bunch of argonauts that hit Dike
man on the Reliance. He brought a
telephone messenger call system which
! may be installed here in the near fu
ture. _
When you visit Flat creek call at
Carroll’s Globe Bakery and Coffee
House for a lunch.
Parties looking' for investment in
restaurant property would do well to
call at the Vienna bakery.
I By e& examined —Jbimpsou s.
IDITAROD’S WATERFRONT IS BUSY
—
The Delta and the Reliance ar
i rived at Dikemati early last week
i bringing about 30 passengers be
tween them. The Lois and the
Little Delta reached this city on
Friday bringing about 75 tons
which is the last of the river ton
nage this season with the exception
of small lots that may still be
brought iu by the launches.
According to the latest develop- j
rnents it is understood that the Re
liance will go into winter quarters
on the Iditarod and the Delta will
clear for a last run to Le Laberge
where she will hole in for the win
ter.
Of the freight brought in by the
Lois 20 tons were for the Dominion
Commercial company, consisting of
miscellaneous merchandise. Nearly
four tons of apples came to the N.
C. Co., and Siclcinger received some
furniture. The Little Delta brought
about 40 tons, 30 ot which came
from Fairbanks to Ckesley, Ryan
, & Kelioe, the latter member of the
_
I firm accompanying the shipment
I to sea that it arrived at this desti
ration.
The balance of the Little Delta’s
cargo consisted chiefly of liquid re
freshments for Miller and Jertnau
and Manuel Gularte.
The Martha Clow and the Dusty
Diamond are expected at Dikemau
from Fairbanks bringing the last
stampeders who believe that th
Tanaua metropolis can get along
without them this winter. With
their arrival the season can be
signed, sealed and delivered as a
closed proposition.
The passenger lists of the Delta
and Reliance were not procurable
but among those who arrived are a
few well-known people of the
Tanana as well as some new comers
from the Outside.
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Kelioe of the
firm of Chesley, Ryan & Kehoe,
came in after a burrv-up leave
taking from their friends at Fox
city. Mrs. Chas. E. Taylor and
daughter Lucile arrived from the
Outside. Mrs. Chas. L. Kemp
arrived from Nome, O. M. Ander
son came from Fairbanks. Miuchell
and Finnegan, formerly of Dome,
were among the travelers as well
as Mr. and Mrs. Berg. Mrs. Eddie
Troughton came from Seattle to
join her husband and Mrs. Dean
came from the Outside. Miss G. j
E. Jones, formerly head “hello” |
girl from the Fairbanks Telephone j
company was one of the arrivals as
well as Paul and Frank Sickinger. \
Mrs. Brooks, Mr. and Mrs. Grant j
and Mr. Williams of Hot Springs,
were among the first ten who ar
rived on the launch Alaskan. Mr.
Scheid, associated with Ross &
Nestor, returned from down river
after seeing Mr Nestor safely on
his way to Nome and the Outside.
Mr. Fox was also an arrival from
Nome.
Johnstone carries all of the leading
brands of cigars and tobaccos—whole
sale and retail.
PROTEST AGAINST !
CLOSING OF ALLEY
This morning, (Saturday) Jack Mutch
ler and Bill Kennedy began the con
struction of a building across the east |
end of an alley running throughout the j
main block of the town, their building
adjoining the Sherburne building on j
Willow street.
As soon as it became known that the
builders intended to close the alley the j
property holders residing in the block
signed a petition addressed to them, j
asking that they leave the alley open, i
This petition has been disregarded, and i
it is probable that some othor action
will be taken by the authorities to
open up the passageway.
The lot was staked by Barney Deery
at the time of the wholesale jumping
in June, but it was hoped that no struc
ture would be placed thereon and that
the alley might be kept open for tire
protection and the convenience of the
public.
For Cuboid, Tuxedo, Yale, Ferique
and Arcadia Mixtures, Edgeworth,
Dill’s Best, Lucky Strike, Golden
Sceptre, and all choice smoking and
chewing tobaccos; Pall Mall, Imperial, |
Melachrina and Sweet Caporal Cigar
ettes; Little Loveras and General Ar
thurs, Copenhagen Snuff, choice cigars '
and a full line of candies—try Sher
burne’s. _
Bill Rose blossomed in bis cigar j
store last week, flowering into full
blown beauty on Second avenue, next;
the Budweiser. A quiet little solo
game can be had there under the Mar- I
quis of Queensburv rules, ace high for 1
a comeback, put down three and carry
two. __
For a good cheap roof H-H asphalt
| roofing paper; $6 per roll, 250 sq. feet,
| at Anderson Bros. & Nerland.
^Odorless t li.wets complete m The
X ill nluOpi
LIEN CLAIMANTS 1
TO SHARE PRO RATA
fjjjF:
Another round in the case of T. j
Dixon and Abram Kiddi against Mar
kle, Tuttle & Slater, O. A. Celene, |
William Leggett and William Daven
port was fought out in the commis- j
sioner’s court eariy last week when J. ;
S. Harding and Chas. Taylor on behalf,
of a number of intervenors sought to j
have their liens declared prior to those
of the plaintiffs.
Roy Bigham, for the plaintiffs, 1
claimed that his clients were entitled
to an equal share of the geld dust that i
was attached when the suit was first
brought. The suit was instituted under
the new lien law, and the claim of
plaintiffs was for work done in getting
out the gold. The intervenors at
j tempted to show that the work done
j by plaintiffs resulted in an earlier
! cleanup, and that they had no part in
producing the gold that was attached.
There are 11 intervenors with claims
aggregating approximately $4000.
Since there were only about $1000 se
cured in gold dust under ths attach
ment, it is apparent that somebody will
lose. J
Judge Maltby has held that all claim
ants will have to share alike, and the
' attorneys are now fighting about the
claim of Mrs. Slater which was put in
for $1,572.50, Mr. Bingham contending
that this is far too much.
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Sluicing About to Cease
It is understood that the “Guggen
; heims,” working a lay on the Wildcat
; association on Flat creek are about to
■ close down for the winter. Friday
night was very cold at the diggings,
and some believe that sluicing is abiut
at an end.________
Just arrived—complete line of Utz &
Gunn .utiles’ shots —GOGilSi.h>i.N b.
JOHN BARLEYCORN
HURRYING THERE
_
According to the latest advices
from the Kuskokwim, the appli
cants for saloon licenses at George
town are already on the job. Joe
LaRosie and another individual are
each out with applications and are
circulating petitions, these being
separate from the petition that re
cently went from this town.
' The news was brought in by Pat
O’Connor and Bill Wiles who ar
rived from the new placer section
last Thursday. They tell of the
new hotel that is being built by
Shorty Davenport on First avenue
and the dwelling just completed by
Harry St. George on the corner of
Second and Water street,.
Pat O'Connor has a cabin on the
corner of First and Market right at
the point where the street car com
pany will have its main offices, and
Jack O’Connor is building next to
the site of the Singer building.
Joe McNamee is busy with a cab
in and the whole town rings with
the industrious knock of the ham
mer.
Tommy Buliene and Bill Stevens
recently came down to Georgetown
from Tokatna, bringing with them
some 3500 pounds of grub which
they are disposing of to needy pros
pectors.
On Dooley creek the O’Connor
brothers have just let a lay to A1
Morenzie, the latter going into
possession at once. Julian is show
ing better all the time, and ap
parently gold can be panned on any
stream in that section.
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.
From Hampton’s Nlagazine lor August
The man who cursed the gratitude of republics really was rail
ing against the memory of republics. Such memory is pitifully
short-lived. Politicians know this. Capitalists know it. In the
case of the United States and Alaska, the politicians and the capi
talists are waiting for the short-lived memory of the people to
lapse into what Grover Cleveland called innocuous desuetude.
Then they will go ahead and loot Alaska just the same.
We say regretfully that this looting will undoubtedly be ac
complished under the present administration- This is merely a
common-sense view to take of it, because the stubborn and adroit
men most interested in looting Alaska will not be with us in the
succeeding administration—or, if they are, they will not be so power
ful.
This administration, so far as circumstantial evidence can con
vict, is convicted in the minds of the people of trying to turn
Alaska over to the Morganheims. This administration goes out in
1912. This administration has yet a year and a half of life left in
it. As witness:
The census of Alaska is taken in the dead of winter at the risk
of each enumerator’s life. This is done “because the country is
impassable in summer.” Is it? It seems more probable that it is
done because fewer people are there in winter and the present ad
ministration heartily desires Alaska to make a poor showing as to
population. We predict a forthcoming argument against Alaskan
home rule from the administration based upon the latest “census”
of Alaska. Maybe Richard Achilles Ballinger himself will insert
his right hand in his frock coat and hiss these statistics at us. This
obyious and crass attempt to deceive the people will do more to
awaken their fading memory than anything else the present, ad
ministration could devise.
The Honorable Jacob Schilf —who not long ago had us fighting
with Japan for the sake of somebody’s railroad securities in Man
churia—Mr. SchifT has returned from an Alaskan trip breathing
wild threats against that country, saying it will never be opened
up and prosperous until the government unties the knots and “lets
capital in.”
It is well for the American people to remember that Mr. Schiff
is a man with a tremendous amount of money who hopes to enlarge
and aggravate that amount as loug as breath doth in him dwell.
His translation of Alaska “amounting to much” means amounting
to much to him and his associates. And you must not forget it.
Ballinger and the Morganheims and the Schiffs are not liable
to forget. They are eternally vigilant.
And again, for the revivifying of your memory, read between
the lines of the following newspaper dispatch:
WASHINGTON.—In connection with the report that political pres
sure is being brought to bear upon Mr. Ballinger to retire in the inter
est of the Republican party, there is significaaca in the fact that the
Cunningham coal claims of Alaska, which were the basis of Mr. Bal
linger’s main difficulty in the administration of his office, are practic
ally ready to be successfully passed through the Interior department.
It is understood that the report on them has been written by Commis
sioner McGee, who took testimony for and against the claimants, and it
is confidentially asserted by Interior department officers that the report
will uphold the claimants and be approved by attorneys of the Interior
department, and of the Department of Justice also, if submitted to
them.
. . . In any event, they predict that Mr. Ballinger will not quit
until the Cunningham claims are finally disposed of.
Who that is not sound asleep wants to bet a penny to a little
tin whistle that the government will get a fair show under Richard
Achilles Ballinger in the matter of the Alaskan coal claims?
The Alaskan fight will be won by the plunderers unless the
people prevent it. Have you written to your congressman and
told him in plain language that party ties mean less to you than
the people’s rights? Have you impressed upon him the neces ;.ty
of working to give every man a square deal in Alaska? Until you
have done that you have not protected your own interests.