Miners & Merchants Bank
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
(.’has- Ross. Vice President
E. G. Lindberg, Manager
John Holmes, Cashier and Assayer
ADVERTISED LETTERS
Iditarod, Alaska. April 1, 1912.
Ahnstrora, knut Anderson, annie m
Bechtoll, peter m3 Breauliittes, thos3
Bertils, chas Brooker. rainnie
Berry, Ihomas 2 Bruckner, otto
Black, alex 5 Bradshaw, j
Browne, robt .'1
<'ooper. w w h Cullings, frank 2
Colewood, j Curgaev, rnakha
Cook, jay in 2 met
Davis, nir Daly, deny 3
jennie Derson, young &
Davidson, geo g hanson
Kliason. hollandd Emper, peter
Fournier, alfred
Gall, ferdinand 5 Gibson, james 2
(Jalli, f 2 Grosso, Steve 2
Gallagher, jack Green, w in
Gagne, louis Grimsley, 1 b
Gallinger, jas w 1 Greene, james
Gaffs, n n Oromsmo et co
Gills, dora Gunn, h d
i iilpin, barrv 2
llajunkkovich, He g berg, emel 2
mi Ian Henrikson, y a
Halpin, dan Hedstrom. f a
Hatch, fred f llenisley A co
Hawks, frank lleeney, clirts 3
Hamilton, fred it 2 Hughes, patrick 3
Hanson, nick m Ilumansson, chas p
Hensley, win Huppe, stanisselas
Jansen, Jacob dobnson, erick
" : ■ s Johnston, berman
Johnst •
Kelly, t . -s 2 Kkig jack
Larson, elms :t Lynch, bishop &
Lawless. « u 2. mneily
I .comis. ike 2
Martin, victor Moore, j r
“ j m 3 Morton, e g 2
Martinet’, Claude -1 Murray, john 3
Marshal!, howard “ james
Mack, ehas “ eapt j d
Mehou, harry " w a 4
Morison, g w Mullen, p j
Moreucy, i'redk 8
McCurdy, win McKenzie, m
McCullouch, mr McLemen. d w
MeCaskill. dan McLain, Ant hurt 2
McClellan ,V Me- MeLeish, john n
Kenzio McLoid, john b
MeCatel, john McNeil, 3
McDonald, margret McQueen, jim
joint r McRae, tliomas d
McCilaulilin, tom McTavish, james
Naylin, iiwt-n Nelson, humphrev
Nazel, frank “ anana 2
Nahamura, ruby Nilsen, carl
Neuman, henry Nickkelson, peder
Nevlund, end re w 2 Noltio, fred
Nemetchke. rttdolf Norton, may
Nelson, joint
Oie. ben Ornsby, john
Oksanen, a O'Donnali, pa trick
Ona. ben 2 O'Neil, i p
< trmsbee, w h
Palmar, jessie ru Pierce, john h
Parish, jim Pruitt, henry d 3
Peterson, chariot Purdy, ehas 4
Pervich, eli Pribick. sam
Perry, tobias
Quick, wm
Rainey, dottie Richie, laureace
Relies, j h Richards, hebert
Reichert, henry Rogers, a w
Richards, artliur 4 Robinson, fred 4
Richardson, j e Ryan, m
Richie, jack 2
Sandstrom, edward Smith, arnil
Sehomberg, ehas a " alex 2
.Schloamanri, sid- “ e tv
ney 2 Spinks, ike 2
Sehmickle, fred Stach, e j 2
Sexton, tnary e 7 Stayner, jaet
Shively, j m Stearns, ben
Shombet’I henry Sweeney, ru j 2
I Sillib, jarnes j Sivewright, o j
Taylor, tom Turner,Vance&Co
n-rn h 2 Thompson, tupper
| Tinike, frank " ben
1 '1'olbert, ed " wm s
Truran. john
Van tYbbenu, joe 4 Veiileuse, at'thur
Watts, g h 3 Wigger, john 7
| Wauginle, thos 2 Winter, w f
■ Warner, h a Widlund, edwin 9
Warren, clarence Wicks, andrew 2
Watson, d frank 4 Widener, Samuel 3
Wellar, may Williams, w w
Welsh, g b White, s j
Weisraan, frank Whalen, pat
Werwick, john Whitney, c d
Weickert, geo Whitcomb, tom
Weaverling, 1 h 3 Whittaker, john
Williams, ed j 2 Wolfe, chas 4
Wilsm, m f Woods, geo w
Wilkins, frank \Yro!f. Ed
Winsteadt, louis Wood, harry
Younkin, e 1 2 Voting, t h
Zucal, gtcch 2 Zimmerman, a a
CAPT.
IS LAID TO REST
Last Sunday afternoon the re
mains of the late Axel Haraid Pe
tersen were interred in the Iditaiod
cemetery.
The funeral services were held in
A. B. hall. By 2 o'clock friends
and acquaintances of the deceased,
men and women, had assembled to
a number exceeding two hundred
Judge A. E Maltby conducted the
services according to the rites of
the Episcopal church. A quartet
sang beautifully “Abide With Me,”
“The Vacant Chair,’’and ‘Ncaier,
My God, To Thee.” Henry Ro e.i,
in a short address, paid a fitting
tnbute to the dead man, alluding
with much feeling to the prominent
pait he had taken in the aff.irs o!
the community, his fine personal
qualities, his bodily graces and
in inly herring. The assemblage
war visibly affected throughout the
services, and. many followed the
body to the grave. When Judge
Maltby had read the burial service
ai.d tiie body had been lowered
into the grave, “tap-.” were
sounded on bugles by William C.
De Bauii and Ernest Eitzwater, in
honor ol Captain Petersen’s earlier
devotion to a military calling.
The pallbearers were: Mayor J.
D. Barnes, Counoilmen George
Aiiten, Dave Mutchler, Ira Wood
and Cileries Worden, and Chief of
Police Frank O’Farrell.
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Fred Lewis, of Fairbanks, is experimenting with an auto-sled
and ventures the prediction that some day the Lewis auto-sleds
will be used in winter travel between Fairbanks and Chitina. He
drew the first plans of the vehicle ten years ago ami has been
tinkering with it off and on ever since.
FI. L. Webster, of Fairbanks, presided at the closing rally of
the Gill campaign in Seattle, and Alaskans were so numerous and
so active in boosting for the candidate who met defeat that the in
ference Outside is quite natural that the Gill style of politics is
approved in the North.
The Alaska Sourdough, a Juneau weekly newspaper, has sus
pended because its publication didn’t pay.
Brown bear killed fifteen sheep belonging to Fred Rier on
Raspberry island, west of Seward, the first night he landed them
there.
Bishop Rowe recently expressed the belief that congress at
this session will pass a bill putting Alaska Indians under the health
and marine hospital bureaus.
There are eight hospitals in Alaska under the supervision of
Episcopal missionaries, the nurses at each of which are paid $50
a month.
Valdez had over $18,000 in city warrants outstanding the first
half of February.
In his latest annual report Attorney General Wickersharo
called attention to the fact that the laws applicable to Alaska con
tain no provision prohibiting gambling through bookmaking in
and about dog races, and accordingly he suggests that section 152
of the Carter code should be amended. The same remarks apply
also to elections in Alaska, and the Attorney General makes the
recommendatic n that the defect be remedied in this respect also.
Archdeacon Stuck, the Episcopal missionary, left Port Yukon
after Christmas, went to the Koyuknk via the Chandlar, and at
last accounts was bound for Fairbanks, via Tauana. He will come
to the Iditarod soon after the opening of navigation.
John Cameron succeeds Abe Spring as commissioner at Circle
City. He was formerly commissioner at Chatanika.
Bob Pauvich, formerly of the Iditarod, was last month given
a 90-day sentence by the city magistrate of Fairbanks for pester
ing residents of the restricted district, but the sentence was sus
! pended on condition that he leave town.
Michael Joseph Sullivan, who had been held in jail a long lime
I on suspicion of being implicated in the disappearance and possible
I murder of Duncan Angus in Hot Springs district last fall, lias
! been admitted to bail in the sum of $2,000.
The John Cooper murder case has been set for hearing at
Fairbanks April 22. Cooper is a colored man accused of killing
Wimbisb, also colored, and burning his body.
An 11-year old native girl at Koyukuk City, while tobogganing
down the river bank, ran against a sharp stick planted in the snow,
and was impaled on it and instantly killed.
Capt. Lim Moore, one of the oldest and best known skippers
on the Alaska coast, says the present mild winter is not due to any
change in the Japan current. He says the current always was
variable, and is not more so now than formerly.
The government schoolhouse at Koyukuk City, at the mouth
of the Koyukuk river, was burned the last day of February. The
building was erected in 1908 at a cost of about $4,000.
The recent break in the Alaska cable is attributed to sub
marine disturbances. Scientists claim the crust of the earth is
shrinking, owing to an internal cooling off; hence it crumpled up
in the weather places.
Frank Asam’s sixteen-ton caterpillar traction engine broke
through the ice of Lake Bennett and went to the bottom last
month. Three men on the engine had a narrow escape. A rope
eighty feet long was put down and failed to reach bottom where
the engine sank. Asam has been hauling ore from the Conrad
mines to the White Pass railway with the traction engine. He has
another tractor in Dawson, together with cars, which he took
there last summer.
TO CELEBRATE
JEWISH FEAST
The Feast of the Passover will be
celebrated by all the Jewish residents,
beginning next Monday. The feast
corresponds very closely to the Easter
of the people of the Christian faith,
and the latter day for a long time was
identical in point of time to the day
observed by the Jews, but was finally
changed because the authorities of the
Christian church thought it unbecom
ing for people of their faith to follow
so closely the custom of the Hebrews
But while Easter is commemorative
of the resurrection of Christ, the Jew
ish feast is in remembrance of the
sparing of the Israelite firstborn and
the escape out ot itgypt.
At this festival the Israelite.', while
they remained in Palestine, assembled
in the tabernacle, and from Solomon’s
time in the temple. During the eight
days of the feast they were commanded
to eat only unleavened bread, because
their hasty departure from Egypt
obliged them to take their dough with
them unleavened; hence the name of
"Feast of Unleavened Bread.” Every
family ate on the evening of the first
1 day a lamb served up without breaking
the bones. Offerings of the firstlings
of the flocks and herds, and first fruits,
were presented in the temple.
The Passover was, and indeed with
the orthodox Jew still is, the principal
Jewish annual festival. The Seder is
the great Jewish family reunion of the
year. Wherever the traveler may be
at the end of the year, his mind rests
not in the spring until he is safely
home again, so he may take part in the
Seder around the family table.
The masterof the house occupies the
seat of honor at the head of the table.
He is clothed in his best, over which
he wears his white linen death shroud,
the Kittel. A skullcap of silk or vel
vet covers his patriarchal head, and he I
rests his arms on soft pillows, enclosed
in shams of immaculate whiteness. At
his right sits his wife, at his left his
eldest son: guests, sons, daughters and
servants, if there be any, occupy the
remaining seats at the table, and sym
bolize the equality of all before man
and God, and commemorate the one
time slavery of all Israel. On the
table directly in front of pater familias
is a plate on which three flat cakes,
known as matzoth, are placed, each
covered with a spotless white cloth or
napkin. Close at hand is a dish which
contains a portion of the shoulder or
the shank of a fowl, wun a small nit
of meat attached, roasted on the coals
almost to the point of charring. In
this dish one may also observe an egg;
peeled of its shell, that has been
roasted hard in hot ash. A third dish
contains a goodly portion of horse
radish or other bitter herb, and a
fourth holds the Charoseth, a cement
like paste made of nuts, apples and
spices of various kinds.
Each of these dishes has its peculiar
significance. The matzoth represent J
the unleavened dough which the Is-,
raelites carried with them in their
flight out of bondage, the shank bone
or shoulder blade represents the pas
chal lamb; the bitter herbs stand as a
reminder of the bitter days of slavery
in the kingdom of the Pharaohs.
These preliminaries having been
i properly set in place, the ceremony
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proper begins. The hands are washed
and various blessings are recited ap
propriate to tlie occasion. The master
of the house, breaking one of the three
matzoth in two, and pointing to the
roasted bone and egg. lying before him,
recites in Chaldaic, “Go, this is the
bread of affliction, which our ancestors
ate in the land of Egypt; let all those
that are hungry enter and eat thereof,
and all who are in need come and
celebrate the Passover.”
The youngest male members of the
family then ask the classic “four ques
tions” ; the head of the house and all
those about the table reply in Hebrew
or in English: “Because we were
slaves unto Pharaoh in Egypt, and the
Eternal, our God, brought us forth
from thence with a mighty hand and
an outstretched arm; and if the Most
Holy had not. brought forth our ances
tors from Egypt we, and our children
and out children’s children, would still
continue to be slaves to the Pharaohs
of Egypt.”
As the story of the Exodus rolls on,
eacli of the various dishes is taken in
turn an«l ils significance explained in
picturesque language. A portion of
the Hallel is next recited, and the
reply closes with a benediction, in
which it is hoped that the Holy Temple
wiit be rebuilt and the ancient rites
and sacrifices restored. The hands are
agaiu washed and after pronouncing
grace over the matzoth, the meal
proper is served.
In the days of the Second Temple
this festival was observed in a most
elaborate manner. The Passover cele
bration of today differs, of course, from
that of 2,000 years ago; yet it differs
only in so far as the changed civil and
economic conditions have had their
effect on Jewish life. The sacrifices
are not made ar.d the journey to
Jerusalem Is not undertaken, for the
the Temple lias been destroyed these
many centuries. Nevertheless, apart,
from these features, the celebration of
the Passover by the orthodox does not
differ materially from the Passover as
it was celebrated by Christ, and the
Jews before his day.
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George Taylor, the veteran cham
pion lootracer, is hu~y these days
making extensive improvements on
his big Willow-street business
block. By George again taking up
the work of his trade, it must nuf
be lor a single moment inferred
that the old war boss of the cinder
path is not willing at any and all
times to show any nice old men who
imagine themselves to be speedy
that he is heie to defend his title
as the ancient hot footer ol this
nigger-headed empire.
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NOTICE is hereby given that at the
hour of 10 o’clock on the 20th day
of March, 1012, the registration
books will be open at the office of the
municipal clerk, in the town of Idita
rod, Alaska, for the purpose of regis
tering all male persons, 21 .yeatsof age,
who are citizens of tlie United States
or who have declared their intention to
become such, and who have resided
continuously one year next preceding
the date of election in the territory of
Alaska, and six months next preceding
the date of election within the town of
Iditarod. All persons desiring to vote
at said election must, before voting,
register their names and qualifications
with the town registrar of the town of
Iditaiod.
Registration books will be kept open
every day, except Sundays, beginning
March 20, during the hours of 10 a.m.
and 4 p.ra. The said registration books
will close at 4 p.m. March 31, li)12.
The said election will be held on the
first Tuesday in April for the purpose
of electing seven councilmen.
FRANK O’FARRELL,
Municipal Clerk.
NOTICE is hereby given thatonTues
da.v, April 2, 1912, there will be
held in the Fire Hall, in the town
of Iditarod. Alaska, an election for the
purpose of electing seven councilman.
The polls for said election will be
open at 9 o’clock a.tn. on the day and
will close at 8 o'clock p.m. on the same
day, and all qualified electors of the
town of Iditarod who have registered
as provided in section fi of this ordi
nance will be entitled to vote at said
election. FRANK O’FARRELL,
Municipal Clerk.
Dated March 19, 1912.
N' OTICE is hereby given that on Tues
day, April 2, 1912, there will be
held in the Fire Hall, in the town
I of Iditarod. Alaska, an election for the
purpose of electing one school director
for a term of three years.
The polls for said election will he
open at 9 o'clock a.m on the dav and
j will close at 8 o'clock p.m. on the
I same day, and all adults who are citi
| zens of the United States, or who have
j declared their intention to become
, such, and who are bona fide residents
| of tba town of Iditarod, shall have the
I right, to cast their ballot, and further,
- mat no registration shall be required.
FRANK O'FARRELL.
Municipal Clerk.
| Dated March 19, 1912,
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REMINDS US OF A TOWN ON YUKON
There is a town down in Mexico
where there has been a lot of
trouble lately. The name of the
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the name has the appearance of a
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ROBERT SIMPSON
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
fo 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
dred 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 Intioko mining and recording
district, district of Alaska.
You are further notified that if at the ex
piration of ninety—90—days after the last pub
lication of this notice, you fail or refuse to con
tribute your proportion of such expenditure
your interest in said claim yvill become the
property of the undersigned, your co-owners,
under section 2324 of the revised statutes of the
United States.
J. 11. McLKAN.
F. C EKYKR, Co-Owners.
First publication Feb. 24. 1912
| Last publication May 191.
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