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MINSTREL SHOW TO TAKE PLACE
AT A. B. HALL ON MARCH 6TH
The minstrel show which has been talked 1
of for some time has now assumed definite !
shape, and the plans have so far matured
that it is possible to give a general outline
of what promises to be a most interesting
entertainment.
At a meeting held at the home of Percy i
Charles last Tuesday evening an organiza
tion was formed to take charge of the j
enterprise, which will be under the business
management of Bert Meyers. The musical
program will be under the direction of Mrs.
Percy Charles, and Ray Clarke will have
charge of the stage management. As gen
eral director of the show to be given. R. R.
McG. Hail was unanimously chosen. A
finance committee was also appointed, and
thp funds to be derived from the entertain
ment are to be used for charitable purposes,
having especially in view the relief of dis- ;
tressed, injured or sick prospectors who are ,
occasionally compelled to rely on the gen- j
erosity of the people of Iditarod and adja- j
cent camps. The entire proceeds of the en- j
tertainment are to be given to this fund. '
The unfolding of the plans develops that j
the managers of the minstrel show will have |
unlimited talent to draw upon, and that
as the ambitious nature of the program
contemplates that the audience be made !
up from the creek towns as well as from j
Iditarod. the services of talented entertainers
from those places has been offered and I
gladly accepted, and an amateur perform- |
ance of a magnitude and quality rarely seen
will be presented on March 6 next, the date
set for the event.
Mrs. Charles has gathered around her a
company of musicians of much ability, and !
they are diligently practicing under her di
rection a program of songs and choruses
among which are many catchy and tuneful
melodies. These are to be interspersed by
many of the old and popular darky melo
dies. besides some of the newest song hits
from the Outside. Among the soloists are :
to be Mrs. Ray Clarke. Mrs. Maher, Miss j
Lillian Smith and Miss Taylor, and the j
male soloists will be Harry Lei and. Earl ]
Hunt, Percy Charles, Owen Sanders, Jack
Smith, and Billy Stoneman, the latter of
whom made a big hit with comic songs at
recent entertainments at Flat City.
The show will open with the regular i
black-face minstrel ensemble, and the nun
strels will be both men and women. For
this feature great preparations are being
made, and some local hits may be looked
for that will make a lot of fun. It is likely,
as in all minstrel shows, some of the veteran
jokes will be resurrected, as no minstrel
show would be complete without them, but
there will be many new ones sprung, and
there will be many news ways of extracting
a laugh from the audience.
The leaders in the minstrel movement do
not expect to produce a show that will out
class Primrose & West and Lew’ Dock
stader, but they do expect to furnish an
evening oi good music, clean lun and en
joyment. As the proceeds are to be de
voted to charity, they feel that even if
the performance does not come up to the
highest expectations, the patrons will not
feel that they have been defrauded.
Arrangements have been made for an
electric lighting plant for the occasion, and
there will be footlights and spotlights and
everything necessary to the production of a
first-class show.
The enterprise should and undoubtedly
will receive the hearty support and co
operation of the people of the entire dis
trict, and the efforts of the entertainers to
provide an oasis in the amusement desert
will be rewarded by the establishment of a
fund that will be devoted to a laudable pur
pose.
COMPENSATION
“Shure, it’s married Oi am,” said Murphy.
“You don't tell me so,” said Moran.
“Fai', yes.” said Murphy, “and Oi’ve got
a foine, healthy boy, which the neighbors
say is the very pictur’ o’ me.”
“Ah, well, what’s the harm so long as
the child’s healthy?”- Ex.
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JOHN KATEZENSKE ACCIDENTALLY
KIllS HIMSELF WHILE HORINS
Lying beside his sled, to which his dogs
were still hooked, the body of John Kate
zenske, a young Russian laborer, was found
last Tuesday mornnig on the Iditarod-Dike
man trail by Bert Thorsen and Harry Lar
son. Some distance below where the body
was found a shotgun with one barrel dis
charged was later recovered, and there were
many evidences of the manner in which he
came to his death of the terrible effort of
th»- deceased to reach town after receiving
a mortal injury from the accidental dis
charge of his own weapon.
Katezenske, who was known as “Russian
John," is supposed to have left here on a
hunting expedition early last Monday morn
ing. taking with him his dog team and sled,
and armed with a double-barreled shotgun.
From the evidence gathered by Commis
sioner Albrecht, acting as coroner, and the
coroner’s jury, which visited the scene of
the tragedy, it was plain that he had met
his death by an accidental discharge of the
weapon as he was attempting to withdraw
rt from the sled upon sighting game. The
trigger of the gun probably caught in the
framework of the sled, and the charge of
shot was emptied into the body of the un
fortunate man at a point immediately un
der the right armpit, entering the lungs and
causing internal hemorrhage. Marks in the
snow showed where the accident had hap
pened. and how, after receiving the injury,
he had succeeded in turning his team and
sled, and after managing to mount the sled
had been drawn about two hundred yards
by his team, where he had evidently fallen
oil Here were further evidences of a strug
gle to regain his place in the sled, but, prob
ably overcome by loss of blood, he had
been unable to do so. Katezenske was a
most powerful young man, and the position
of the body and the mute evidences of the
struggle he had made to reach assistance,
were evidences of the wonderful vitality
displayed after receiving his terrible wound.
His faithful dogs had remained at the side
f their dead master for fully twenty-four
| hours, and the place where they lay was
' marked by deep impresses in the snow from
their bodies.
Early on Tuesday morning the two young
men brought word to the marshal s office
of their gruesome find, and Commissioner
Albrecht was notified and immediately a
jury was impaneled and proceeded to the
scene. After viewing the body and sur
roundings and questioning the witnesses,
the body was brought to the city by Un
dertaker Joe Smith, and later an examina
tion revealed the nature of the wound.
The Verdict
The jury rendered the following ver
dict :
“We, the jury duly impaneled and sworn
to inquire who the person was, and when,
where and by what means he came to his
death, and into the circumstances attending
the death, and to give a true verdict thereon
according to the evidence offered to us and
arising from the inspection of the body, do
hereby render this our verdict in writing,
and do find that the deceased was .John
Katezenske, commonly known as ‘Russian
John,’ a Russian subject, a wood-chopper
and miner, aged 24; that he came to his
death some time in the morning of the first
day of February, 1915, his death caused by |
the discharge of one 16-gauge shot cartridge \
from the left barrel of a shotgun, entering i
the right armpit, accidentally self-inflicted. !
“That the accident and death occurred
about three miles below the town of Idita
rod, near the river.”
“This 2d day of February. 1915.”
The verdict is signed by the following
jurymen: Harry Watson, Joe Hannigan,
Charles Larson. Frank Larson, C. B. Sims
and C. F. Golden.
Antecedents of Dead Man
Katezenske was of a reticent disposition,
and but little is known of his life before
coming here. It is learned that he came
to Iditarod a year ago last summer from the
coal mines of Eastern British Columbia.
He was a native of Russia, and is believed
to have had no near relatives in this coun
try. He worked for a time on the launch
Prairie Bell for Ira Wood, and later was a
member of the crew of the wood saw oper
ated by the latter. Last summer he was
employed at Marvel creek, and later in the
season worked for Charley Strandberg, on
Otter creek. He joined the Order of Moose
last winter, but is said to have paid but
little dues since his admission, and therefore
his membership lapsed. He was a man of
exemplary habits and of an ambitious na
ture. His struggle for an education marked
him as distinct from the average man of
his class and nationality, but his reserve
acted as a handicap that was hard to over
come, and he had few intimates, although
of a kindly disposition. He was generally
respected in the community.
Funeral This Afternoon
The funeral of John Kazeneske will be
held this afternoon at 1 o’clock at A. B.
hall, under the auspices of the Moose lodge.
The interment will be in Iditarod cemetery.
HER EVIL CONTROL
Two little girls became involved in a
quarrel the other day which culminated in
physical violence.
One of the mothers took her little daugh
ter to task very severely. Wishing to em
phasize. the enormity of her offense, the
mother said: “It’s the devil who tells you
to do such naughty things.”
The little girl replied, between sobs: “He
may have told me to pull her hair, but
I thought of kicking her shins all by my
self."- Ex.
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COMMISSIONER E COKE HILL
REPLIES TO DR. STUCK
The following letter from Commissioner
E. Coke Hill appeared in a recent issue of
the Ruby Record-Citizen, in reniy to the
letter of Archdeacon Stuck regarding the
removal of District Attorney Crossley
and the enforcement of law in Interior
Alaska, reprinted in last week’s Pioneer
from the New York Evening Post:
“My attention has been called to an arti
cle in the Valdez Weekly Miner of Nov.
lo, headed, ‘Archdeacon Stuck Protests
Against Crossley’s Removal.’ which quotes
from a letter written by Archdeacon Stuck
to the New York Evening Post, and pub
lished in that paper October 27. I desire
to comment upon one portion only of that
letter, and ask your space f": that pur
pose. I take this upon myself in the in
vest of fairness and recognition of good
service, and because I am particularly in a
position to know the exact facts I shall com
ment upon.
“After general statements relative to the
efforts which he says were made to remove
Mr. Crossley, and a statement of Mr. Cross
ley’s neutrality in political matters while in
office, and lauding Mr Crossley for his fear
lessness, the archdeacon cites Mr. Crossley’s
successes during the past summer, first in
keeping certain white men from intruding
upon the native village at Fort Yukon, and
then ‘in securing no less than four convic
tions of white men for peddling liquor to
Indians, an unprecedented success in one
term of court.' the archdeacon continues in
the next paragraph: ‘Moreover, he has won
his successes against the scarcely concealed
antagonism and intrigue of the United
States marshal’s office, instead of with its
hearty co-operation..'
“I would not in this letter detract a word
from any honor Mr. Crossley may have due
him. That he was a very pleasant gentle
man and a fearless prosecutor I willingly
concede, and, since he and I were each and
are each. I believe, Republicans, I have no
political quarrel with him. During the past
summer I have been United States commis
sioner at Ruby, where Mr. Crossley gained
his ‘unprecedented success,’ and my rela
tions with Mr. Crossley and his assistants
were mo*t pleasant, ana i neueve mai mr.
Crossley and Mr. Gardner, his Democratic
assistant, will each heartily concur in every
word I shall state hereafter with relation to
those ‘successes/
“When Archdeacon Stuck says or inti
mates that Mr. Crossley did not have the
enthusiastic support of the marshal’s office
in the prosecution of the four men con
victed of selling liquor to Indians, either he
is misinformed, uninformed, or he deliber
ately falsifies. Those cases were United
States vs. Ross, United States vs. Robert
son. United States vs. Fox and United
States vs. Russell. In each of those cases
the original complaint was made before me
and the preliminary hearing held before me.
In two of the cases the accused were well
known to the officers as suspects, but the
actual proof was hard to get. In the other
two cases the accused were suspects, but
were not so well known. In two of the
cases the first news of the offenses for
which conviction followed came to the
United States marshal at Ruby and the spe
cial agent appointed by the governor of
Alaska, from the United States marshal at
Nulato. In one of the other cases the first
information of the crime came to me
through a private citizen, and I informed
the deputy marshal; and in the other case,
I believe, the deputy marshal at Ruby and
the special agent got all the facts them
selves.
“The preliminary hearings in all of the
cases were conducted, so far as the prose
cution was concerned, by the special agent
and the marshal at Ruby. Neither Mr. i
I Crossley nor any of his assistants ever heard
of either of the cases : .1 they received |
the official reports. Neither Mr. Crossley
nor any of his assistants ever did anything
in the cases until after the accused were
bound over <ti.> was through no fault of
theirs, but simply because they were at
Fairbanks and the hearings were at Ruby) ;
and in the preparation of the cases for trial
in the district court there was no evidence
produced that had not been discovered and
furnished Mr. Crossley or his assistants by
either Mr. Light or the deputy marshals.
The trials were before juries composed
mainly of jurymen obtained by special
j venire, who were chosen by the marshal or
! his deputies.
‘’I have no knowledge as to what hap
! pened in relation to the other successes
l that the archdeacon credits to Mr. Cross
I ley. and do not address myself to them,
out if the archdeacon is really enthusiastic
i wishing those well who are doing their
I best to enforce the laws for the prevention
i of selling intoxicating liquor to Indians, and
i really wishes to give credit where it is due
• for the ‘unprecedented success' in the con
| victions mentioned, he will give the main
: honor to the deputy United States marshals
| on the Yukon and to the special agent—to
! the men who, to my personal knowledge,
j spent days and nights on guard in weather
| from 20 to 40 degrees below zero, drying to
| get the sort of proof needed in the courts.
; and after getting the proof, trying to catch
I the offenders. No man ever had more
j honest or loyal support and co-operation
! in enforcing the law than Mr. Crossley had
from the marshals in these matters, and it
; ill becomes one who is presumed to accept
! as his standard of morals those simple com
; mandments among which Thou shalt not
I bear false witness against thy neighbor’
j stands prominent, to allege antagonism anti
i intrigue against officials in matters whereof
j he knows nothing except that the law has
i been enforced with ‘unprecedented success.’
I “Verv sincerely, E. COKE HILL.” \
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'AITKEN'S DOGS CLASSED AS “MEAT''
When the foot and mouth disease among
cattle developed at Chicago, Canada
promptly issued an order that no meat
I should be allowed to come within its bor
! ders from the United States, and the order
was made applicable to dogs.
The enforcement of the “dog order” at
I Whitehorse, Y. T., caused Tom Aitken, the
j Northern mining man, to have a few more
j gray hairs added to his scalp, according to
i reports.
According to the Whitehorse Star, Aitken
left Iditarod, Alaska, for the coast by way
of Seward, taking with him six work dogs.
Aitken came to Skagway, and thence to
Whitehorse. The Star says:
“He expected to leave here that night for
Circle and Fairbanks, Alaska, by way of
Dawson, but could not do so with his dogs
on account of the quarantine order The
result was that Aitken had planned to ship
his dogs back to Skagway. Then a wire
from Ottawa to the authorities here ordered
the dogs released, which order was obeyed
end Aitken and Monroe left for Dawson at
4 o’clock, their dogs hitched a la Labrador.
Dr. Thompson lost no time after receiving
the wire in getting busy with the authori
ties at the Dominion capital.”—Juneau Em
pire.
WHEN SHE GROWS UP
Nurse—Why, Bobby, you selfish little
boy! Why didn't you give your sister a
piece of your apple?
Bobby—I gave her the seeds. She can
| plant ’em and have a whole orchard.—Ex.
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RYE WHISKEY— Price Cut to
"Old Crow" Straight Hand-Wade Sour Mash, bot
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“Hunter” Baltimore Pure Rye, a blend of straight rye
whiskies. 2.50 1.25
"Hermitage” Pure Straight Whiskey, mellowed by
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"Cyrus Noble" Blended Straight Whiskey, from
original old goods . 2.50 1.50
"Old Oscar Pepper" Hand-Made Sour Mash, bot
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BOURBON WHISKEY—
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“Cyrus Noble" Old Private Stock, ve y. very old.
Guaranteed to be a blend of pure, e.ged, natural
straight whiskies . 3.50 2.00
"Old Crow," bottled in bond..* 2.50 1.50
"Jesse Moore AA” 2.50 1.50
SCOTCH WHISKEY—
“Black and White," specially selected for the House
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"Strathmill” Pure Malt Scotch Whiskey 3.00 1.50
"Dewar’s Extra Special,” termed "the best product
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Rodgers Acquitted
William R. Rodgers, an Alaska miner,
who was arrested at Libertyville, 111., on a
charge of having murdered his partner,
Frank Wixon, was acquitted by a jury 111
Juneau. The jury deliberated only ten min
utes. Rodgeis’ plea was that he shot and
killed Wixon in self-defense. The murder
occurred in May, 1913, on a lonely claim
on Christmas creek, forty-five miles west
of Haines, Alaska. The men, it was said,
quarreled over a trivial subject. Rodgers is
52 years old. He left Juneau on the first
boat on his way back to Libertyville.
Juneau Japanese Contribute for Belgians
Juneau Japanese were caught in the wave
of sympathy which swept over Juneau and
contributed J2S.50 through E. Valentine to
the Belgian relief fund.
Alaska as a Winter Resort
The Seattle Sun of December 17 says:
“Alaska minimum temperatures put to
shame some of the Eastern cities this month.
Vesterday Chicago had 2 degrees below1
zero; Des Moines, 4 below; Minneapolis, 1U
below; Pittsburg, 2 below; St. Louis, 4 be
low ; Kansas City, 2 above. Alaska mini
mum temperatures yesterday were: Nome,
20 above; Sitka, 30 above; Valdez, 25
above.*’
A Remarkable Amputation
That a man would be able to cut off a
hunk of the end of his big toe and not notice
it is so far out of the ordinary that only
absolute confidence enables one to believe it.
let it is undoubtedly the truth, as the toe
itself proves. It seems as though F. C.
Irons, the well-known old sourdough, was
the victim of this strange and painless op
eration. With a partner he has been out
in the hills for the past two weeks, just
reaching the city again, and he tells it on
himself. “We had come into a cabin one
night," he explains, “and it was dark in
there. After standing around all day in the
snow and muck at the mouth of the si.aft,
my feet were cold, and I took off my pacs
to get warm, as we had a fire going. I was
not suffering from frozen feet, but they were
pretty cold. As I put one foot up to the
stove I noticed that my toe nail was scrap
ing the iron, and reaching in my pocket,
pulled out a knife and proceeded to cut it
off. It cut easily, but I noticed that there
was blood on tne knife when I came to
close the blade, so I called over to my part
ner to take a look at the foot and tell me
what was the matter, as my eyesight was
not any too keen in the dark cabin. He
came over, pulled up the foot, inspected the
toe and remarked: ‘\ou’re a fine speci
men. Y ou've cut off the end of your toe,
man.’ Sure enough, I had, although the
blade hadn't reached the bone. My toe had
become frosted enough to stop the circula
tion of blood and the operation had been
simple and painless. What I thought was
a long nail was simply the frosted end of
the toe. What do you think of an old
timer like I am doing a trick like that?”—
Fairbanks News-Miner.
Two Months' Storm at Nome
Without doubt the worst windstorm that
has ever hit the Seward peninsula has been
raging for the past two months, the average
velocity of the wind during that time being
thirty miles pier hour, says a dispatch to
the Fairbanks Times. The terrific wind,
.coupled with severe snowstorms, has caused
Lreat hardship all over the peninsula, and
especially at the larger towns along the
coast. At Nome the river and the sea are
higher than during the great storm of a
year ago last October, when a great deal of
damage was done. At the present time the
bridges across the river are covered with
water and many cabins along the water are
inundated. Owing to the high wall of ice
along the shore, the damage to property has
not been so great this year as in 1913. At
Port Safety and Solomon the residents were
forced to ffee to the hills to save their lives,
and they are suffering great hardships. A
dispatch from Unalakleet says that the na
tives were forced to take to the hills.
,HOW TO PRONOUNCE “PRZEMYSL”
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(Seattle Sun)
Przemysl is the most unfortunate word
on the war map. Every periodical gives a
different pronunciation.
Harper’s Weekly pronounces it to rhyme
with “feel”; the Seattle Star makes it
rhyme with “whistle”; the University of
Washington Daily rhymes it with “weasel.”
and in other papers it is variously rhymed
(to instruct the readers as to the correct
pronunciation) with “fizzle,” “tremble,”
“Flemish,” “fusil” and “muscle.” We have
seen the following pronunciations given in
various periodicals: “Pshemmish” (the cor
rect Polish pronunciation), “premisl” (the
correct Russian pronunciation), “shem
mish,” “shemmil,” “pshemmil,” “per
zimeezl,” “shemeel,” “permussle,” “zeemile”
and “pshil.” Just screw your face up and
sneeze, and this will give you the approved
English pronunciation of the name.
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can. * ldiiarod Meat Co. j
BABY GIRL AT WOOD HOME
At 7:30 o'clock last Monday morning
there was born to Mr. and Mrs. Cyril P.
Wood a fine baby girl, and as a conse
quence Cyril was strutting around with his
chest thrown out like a pouter pigeon and
distributing cigars to his many friends. Mrs.
Wood and daughter are reported to he do
ing fine. Dr. Auringer was in attendance.
CHANGE IN COURT PROCEDURE
(Newark News)
Nebraska is another state contemplating
a change in the rule that requires unanim
ity in the verdict of a juiy. At the com
ing election Nebraska will vote on a pro
posed constitutional amendment which pro
vides for a verdict by five-sixths of a jury
in all civil cases and in criminal cases less
in degree than felonies. This cannot be
termed a radical change, since it requires
the agreement of ten out of twelve jurors
in civil and petty criminal cases 3nd ab
solute unanimity in cases of crimes of mag
nitude.
At the same time Minnesota will pass
upon an amendment requiring the votes of
five of the seven supreme court judges to
declare a statute unconstitutional. This is
a more radical departure than the other,
because it is without precedent, while un
der Ohio’s new constitution majority ver
dicts are permitted in civil cases.
The Nebraska and Minnesota proposals
might well he united. Courts find it even
harder to agree upon the law in a given
case than jurors do upon the facm. and if
unanimity is indispensable as to the fact®,
why not as to the iaw also? Conversely, if
a majority of the court is sufficient to set
tie questions of law. why should not the
verdict of a majority of a jury settle ques
tions of fact?
The changes proposed in both states are
based upon a growing conviction that it is
unfair to insist upon absolute unanimity in
a jury or to permit a bare majority of a
court to settle disputed questions of law in
volving far-reaching conseqn»nces. Both
avoid extremes, one by requiri.ig five-sixths
of a jury to agree and the other five-sev
enths of the court, and both appeal strongly
to justice and common sense.
K. S. ESKRIDGE SPEAKS
OF SEWARD-IDITAROD TRAIL
(Seward Gateway)
In a strong letter to the Gateway. R. S.
Eskridge, the well-known mining man who
recently arrived from the Iditarod. crn
demns the trail between that city and this.
The letter is too long for publication in
fi 11. but Mr. Eskridge is so exnei: a musher
that his opinions are worth having.
“A reelmg drunk." says the letter, “wend
ing his tortuous way through a thicket
would not make a crookeder course than
that taken by the trail from Old Knik to
Bud creek."
“A chechaco.” says the letter in another
place, “lost and wild with fright, and 'limb
ing every hill in sight for the purpose of
finding where he was. could not climb mere
unnecessary hills than the trail from Ander
son’s to the mouth of Happy.”
Mr. Eskridge declares that Seward people
are at fault because they fail to raise an
agitation to have the road improved. He
says that many people in future will rather
travel the longer distance around by Fair
banks unless some improvement is made.
Every mistake under the sun, he assert*
seems to have been made in laying out this
trail, and when an unusually mild-man
nered and genial fellow like Eskridge says
the very strong things contained in that
communication there must be lots of foun
dation for the complaint. Captain Norton
more than bears out every word he says.
VON MOLTKE A PRISONER?
LONDON, Dec. 30.—A Copenhagen dis
patch to the Daily News asserts that the
wife of General Von Moltke, formerly chief
of staff of the German army, has written a
Danish relative that her husband is virtu
ally a prisoner of the kaiser in one of the
imperial palaces in Hamburg, as a result of
his interference with the strategic plans of
the crown prince during the western cam
paign.
It was his interference with the heir to
the throne that led to Von Moltke’s retire
ment as the field hea l of the German army,
although, Mrs. Von Moltke says, the reports
have been circulated that her husband was
replaced because of illness induced by in
juries received in the field.
CIRCULATION
The heart is the powerul working engine
of our body, and we know this to be the
case. From the most eniment medical au
thorities we learn that the heart is sup
posed to keep constantly pumping the blood
throughout the body. And this blood is
the great purifier of the human system.
The Crosby Vapor Bath and Vibrating
Massage keeps the blood on the go through
out the body and the arteries, and keeps
them free from clogging.
Gives perfect circulation, which means
perfect health.
THE CROSBY MASSAGE AND BATH
PARLORS
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Chefoo, China, yearly exports 1,500,000
pounds of silk thread.
DANNY BRYCE HERE
Dannj Bryce, the well-known prospector
and ope t »r of Bear creek, arrived in the
city last I >nday. Danny had a disappoint
ing seas . last year, ami is not very opt i
niistic a- fo the outlook for the coming '•ea
son, although it would take more than one
bad sea> n to depress his spirits, lie .--ay.')
that there is little doing in the Bear creek
region t 1 s winter. McKeague and partner
are pros ecting with a power drill, but he
had been unable to learn with what results
Danny i y that Joe Jean has been training
a team ol Siwash dogs to contest in coming
races here, and he understands that they
have wonderful speed. Danny will leave in
a few days for Seward.
RUBY DENTIST ARRIVES
On Friday, January 29. Dr. William
Good, th Ruby dentist, arrived at Flat City,
accompi ied by his wife, having come over
the trail by way of Ophir and Takotna by
dog team. Dr. Good and wife expect to
remain in the district for two week- or
more. The doctor states that Mrs. Good,
who dri m her own team, finds health and
enjoyment in the winter travel.
HOLMGREN AND McKINNON
LEAVE FOR THE OUTSIDE
Bound for the Outside, John Holmgren,
the well known mining man of Irlitarod and
Ruby, reached Fairbanks recently, accom
j panied by Tom McKinnon, another promi
nent Alaskan, says the Times of that city.
They sp nt Christmas in Fairbanks.
Mr. Holmgren owns practically the whole
of Greenstone creek, in the Ruby district,
and is going Outside to make arrangements
for an outfit suitable to work the ground
on an extensive scale.
Of all the Rubyites. he probably is the
most optimistic, and has backed his op
timism with cold cash. As soon as he gets
his ground opened up. he thinks, the output
of the lower river camp will be increased
considerably.
Light ling clouds are seldom more than
700 yar Is from the earth.
When you come in from the creeks, stop
in. The Crosby Baths.
McLean's Roadhouse
TAKOTNA
Cummings’ 01J Sand
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BEST ACCOMMODATIONS
FOR TRAVELERS
RATES REASONABLE _I
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FLAT CITY
Drugs, Etc.
_PHONE DAY OR NIGHT
Forfeiture Notice
To C. ci. Nord, B. E. Johnson. O. T. Olson,
John Swedal, Adolph Olson, Gust Er
ic? < n, Joe Jerman.
You are hereby notified that I have ex
pended during the years 1913 and 1914
two hundred dollars in labor and irnpn vo
menis uj on the Lone Star Association pit r
mining < hum. situate on Gold Hun crerk. a
tributary of Hear creek, in the Kuskokxvini
mining precinct. Fourth division, territory
or Alaska, the location certillcate of whi' li
is round of record in book No. 7. page 3 8.
in the < nice of the recorder of said pre
cinct, in order to hold said claim under the
provisions or Section 2324 or the Hevi-«-d
Statutes of the United State-, and the
amendin nts thereto approved January 2 2.
1880, and other amendments thereto relat
ing. concerning annua! labor upon mining
claims, being the amount reuired to hold
said placer mining claim for hte neivd
ending on the 31st day of December. A D.
1914.
And ir within ninety (90* days after the
publication thereof you fail or refuse to
contribute your proportion of such expen
diture as a co-owner, which amounts to
twenty-live (25) dollars for each >< .
your interest in the claim will become the
property of the subscriber, your co-owner,
who has made the reuired expenditure, by
the terms of said section with amendments.
(Signed) CHAHLES AMMIM'.'i.
Bear Creek, Alaska, Jan. 4. 19 15.
First publication, Jan. 9. 19 15.
Last publication, April 10, 1915.
Notice to Creditors
In the Probate Court for Otter Precinct,
Fourth Division, Territory of Alaska,
before George W. Albrecht, Cominis*
siner and ex officio Judge.
In the Matter of the Estate of Timothy
Joseph Lynch, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed, administrator or the estate of Tim
othy Joseph Lynch, deceased, to the cred
itors or and all persons having claims
against the said deceased, to exhibit them,
with the necessary vouchers, within six
months after the Tirst publication or this
notice, to the said administrator, at the
office of W. F. Harrison, attorney at law.
Regina hotel, Idilarod, Alaska, the same he
ing the place for the transaction of tin*
business of the said estate in the above
precinct and territory.
Dated January 20. 1915.
DAN McKENZIE. Administrator,
First publication, Jan. 23, 1915.