Miners & Merchants Bank
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital, $50,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted Gold Dust Bought and Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Part of the World
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT: SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK
OFFICERS:
CHAS. ROSS. President
JOHN HOLMES, Cashier
R. C. BUTTON, Asst. Cashier
DEDICATION DANCE
WAS DELIGHTFUL
The dedication ball and banquet at the
new Discovery Social Mail last Saturday
night was certainly one of the successes of
the year, and those in attendance from
distant parts of the district are loud in their
praise of the treatment they received at
the hands of the hospitable people of Otter
creek. Visitors were most agreeably sur- :
prised at the beautiful appearance of the !
hall, and the music and floor, together with j
the snh'ndid banquet served, promoted such j
a genuine spirit of good feeling that all re I
.netted the arrival of the program’s last
number.
The Discovery Social Hall will be the
scene of many happy social events during
the next few months.
WORLD PICKINGS
Persia has one railway.
Brazil has 3.664 textile mills.
Italy has 4,575.000 cotton spindles.
Mukden. China, now has a sawmill.
There are 60,000 rag pickers in Paris.
There are 6,000 metal mines in the States.
Rio do Janeiro is to have a rubber fac- j
tory.
.-Vs early as 1720. at least, oysters were j
grown by artificial means in Japan.
Watermelon seeds are regarded as a deli- j
cnev in China.
There are 4.00(1 employes in the govern- j
merit printing office.
Brussels has 24 physician as for every 10,
000 inhabitants.
German pencil factories turn out about
3,000,000 gross annually.
The United States employes 7,500,000 ’
persons in its 275,000 mills and factories. j
Inducting the suburbs, tiiere are now !
about 400,000 telephones in use in Chicago. ]
Stead Got Even
The late William T. Stead was in Turkey
once and was received by the sultan.
The sultan wanted to give Stead a pres- j
cnt. and offered him a fine jeweled cigar- j
erte case. Stead didn’t smoke cigarettes, but
hr did want a jeweled cigar case the sultan
had. He tried diplomatically to make the ;
exchange, but couldn’t. The sultan wanted I
Stead to have the cigarette case.
"Very weh.” add Stead. ‘T will take the !
case, but only on the condition that I may :
be allowed to make your supreme highness j
a present in return.”
The sultan consented.
In telling the story Stead said: ‘‘I got ■
even with him. I gave him a jeweled
fountain pen, and he can’t write.” Satur
day Evening Post.
The Real Question
Father (impressively! Suppose I should
be taken away suddenly, what would be
come of you. my boy?
Irreverent Son I’d stay here. The ques
tion is, what would become of you? Ex
change.
Assessment Work Blanks at Pioneer
KENNEL CLUB
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The Iditarod Kennel Club held its first
meeting of the 1013-14 season last Saturday
night at the telephone hea Quarters build
mg. Election of officers for the coming
year was deferred until a later date, and a
committee on membership is looking after
the affairs of the club in the interim.
It was practically decided to -pull oil"
the annual New \ear> race, and the course
will probably be the same as before for
such events.
There is already much interest in the
snerf. and there appear to be several new
t-. am- in the district that will have to be
reckoned with in the racing season.
L'JKE McLUKE SAYS
There are all sorts of liars in the world. ,
including the man who tells you that he
I kes to drink olive oil.
The tailor-made girl attracts all the ad
miration on the street, but the home-made
gnl cops out aT the husband*.
A girl wouldn’t miss her class at the
gym f< r anything because she knows that
Muff like sweeping ;h>ors and making beds
■. n't the ['roiier kind of exercise.
The old fashioned daughter used to greet
father at the door when he came home
from his daily toil. Now she comes home
from her daily toil and give- father Ilail
Columbia because he mislaid the sporting
age of the evening pap<*r.
When a man has four or five children
and they are glad to see him when he
gets home, his uivorce case never occupies
any space in the court record column of a
newspaper.
Advice is the only thing that some men
find better to give than to receive.
The early bird scratches up a lot of worms
f r the late risers.
Shakespeare beat us all to the philosophy
<-f life. Any great reformer who cares to
r»vA Hamlet will find this gem: “There is
ji'thing either grvd cr bad. but thinking
makes it so.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.
ICE WAS USED IN CHINA
LONG BEFORE CHRISTIAN ERA
Chicago. Sept. 24. —While delegates to
the International Refrigeration Congress
v. ere having an outing at Milwaukee mem
bers of the National Ice Association listened
to addresses by 0. A. Hayward of B o-ron,
John C. Sparks of New York. Madison
Cooper of Calcium. N Y.. raid other-.
Mr. Hayward stated that water from
melted ice is pure, and that as a gallon of
water can be made from nine pounds of
i‘ »*. its use is economical where pure water
is desired.
Records found in China recently, the
speaker said, show that the use of ice as a
refrigerant obtained 500 years before the
Christian era. A prayer book, he said, was
found begging the spirits to prevent rapid
melting of ice.
Assessment Work Blanks at Bioncer.
CLEMONS & KOON
PORTRAIT AND VIEW
Photographers
To Remain in the District Only a Few Weeks
Will Visit All tiie Towns of the Camp
Corner Wickersham and Front streets. Flat City.
MERCHANTS CAFE
Caters to Large ansi Small Parties
PRIVATE DINING ROOMS
Popular Prices Everything First Class
CHAS. E. MILLER, PROP.
Tho tf3* mam* mmmM G°ld St" F'at C'ty
IIu ijir^no nMrs-twans°n’pr°p
■ ■ Wwl ■ Dining Room Now Open
Nicely Furnished Rooms Barn for Horses and Dogs Baths in Connection
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WHITE HOUSE WEDDING
WAS BRILLIANT AFFAIR
(By Wireless to The Pioneer)
Washington, Nov. 27.—Amid the most brilliant surroundings, and
on one of the most beautiful days of late autumn, on Tuesday last Miss
Jessie Wilson, the second daughter of President and Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson, was united in marriage at the White House to Mr. Francis
Sayre, a prominent young attorney of New \oik.
The entire diplomatic corps, arrayed in their gorgeous uniforms
bedecked with gold lace, were in attendance, as were many senators
and members of congress, also officers of the army and navy, who ap
peared in uniform.
Shortly after the ceremony the newly-married couple disappeared
from among the guests and started for Europe on their honeymoon
tour. This is the thirteenth marriage ceremony winch has taken place
in the White House. _____
WOULD DEVELOP THE II®
THORPE TYPE Of ATHLETES
Paris, Oct. 27. In the hope* of defeating j
the ITiited States at the sixth Olympiad, to j
he held in Berlin in 1916, France has put j
the finishing touch on the greatest athletic
organization the world has ever seen. lh)~
touch was the definite promise of $100 090
:;s a government subsidy to supplement pri
vatc subscription n r the purpose of p'e
paring a record team to be sent to the next i
i dympic games.
The war office will allow the army to be
fine-combed f r material and chosen soldiers
will be permitted to “do their time.” to a >
dirge extent, on cinder tracks and in train
ing quarters, all expenses paid. Every •'•eh'x 1
and college must contribute \vhme\or ma
terial they have; athletic clubs are mrmdig
all over France with the one object in ;
view to find the men who ?an leave be- j
hind “those wonders from Amorr i.
Athletics have suddenly become the na- i
br:;al passion. The whole country has |
been organized into a sort of *pnr‘.ng ic j
public inside a political one. umo ■ lu 1 as
sociations grouped into departmental on s. j
departmental ones into national on*', with)
an all-powerful Olympic games o .an! over1
all and watching all.
established at various cities throughout the
country. A second will shortly be begun in
Paris. There are already about SO men
training at Rheims.
The Rheims codege is open to the public,
: 100 a month paying nil expenses, tuition,
board and lodging. Army officers pay £50
a month, the government generally footing
the bilP. AU athletes who have won a na
tion;.! championship are given a month’s
scholarship free, during which time they
are put through their paces to see what
stuff they arc made of. If sufficiently prom
ising, they stick and the national commit
tee arranges for their expenses.
There is talk among the deputies in fa
vor of arranging things so that all soldiers
« . distinguish themselves in the athletic
fill.i may lirst serve about six months of
their three years regularly in the army and
then be "detailed for duty" at Rheims,
t here for two year- and a half all they
will have to do will be to train. Kx-Minis
ter of War Messimy himself told the cor
respondent that he personally favors the
plan. Put even if this does not go through,
athletic soldiers will be allowed the time to
do serious training throughout thetr com
pel ory military service, and whatever hap
pens. the Olympic committee wdl have the
pick of ihe entire army at its disposal.
Special effort is being made to develop
the Jim Thorpe type of athlete; that is, the
all-roun ' an. Tor this purpose a series
of field days is being hell all over France,
in which all who enter take part in ali con
tests, which include the decathclon events.
The winner of the Paris field day was
George Andre, a French Olympic athlete,
who. since Stockholm, is said to have de
ed ped wonderfully. Sportsmen here de
clare him now equal to tiie in iian. Thorpe.
President Kaymund ‘ omcare. i r*:*i • uin >
ister Louis Barthnu. Foreign Minister J n
thon and other statesmen are h the
agitation in a semi-official way and have j
given binding promises to see *hm ' f»t only
is every encouragement, toumeial Midi
otherwise, offered during the Lirmsii* n end
training period, but that the sum d Hu,060 j
will be contributed by the ‘gov errureu: m
1016 to take the men to B rl;n ail que.r- i
ter them there Considering the sP rt d; - |
••;nce separating Paris from ibei.n tins
•uni is regarded as generous.
France’s Olympic games orcani on i.
: n adoption of the American civ*, d he j
carious athletic organizations are grouped !
into a national body. Then t: * .s a na- ;
tional sports committee, in whi !i evcry i.n
port ant sporting club is represent * 1 Le d’,
there is the French Olympic, giuies com ,
mittee, at the head of which is Count Clary
who is also president of the nabomd com j
mittee. The Olympic committee is m*Me up ;
of representatives of the fedcra: '-ns com
• using the national association, the ] .tier
furnishing the funds, the former preparing
the final training of Olympiad athletes and
attending to all Olympiad arrangements, in
so far as France is concerned.
The College of Athletes at Lheims is the
first of a series of training camps to be
Timely Warning
"You’d better eat it si >w,’’ said VTiil.e
to the cl.*r-’y:M.n who was dimi p .vith the
family. "Mamma never gives more’ii one
piece of pie.” Boston Transcript.
A Reminder
Lives of husbands oft remind us
That our very best defense
Is to give in at the outset
Of incipient arguments
There has been a large increase in the
number of Chinese newspapers since the
rove lotion in that country. Shanghai alone
now has 21 newspapers.
(Ruby Record-Citizen, November IS)
More work and more activity generally
will be in evidence on Long creek this win
ter than a year ago, in the opinion of
Charles Fornander, one of the discoverers of
[hat creek. Fornander states that it is his
firm conviction, from what developments
of the past season have shown, that Ruby
as a mining camp has a very bright future.
"This is going to be a long lived camp, and
a world of money will be taken out of the
ground in the next few years.” This state
ment he backs up by pointing out the pay
ing claims of which the value is a.ready
known, and the additional pay shafts put
down on Long creek, Greenstone and Poor
man creeks. It is safe to say that there
will be other creeks which will show a pay
streak before the season is far advanced.
Warren & Strife have taken a lay on ]
No. 4 Bear pup. The drill has been moved
onto the ground to prospect it. Charlie
Strite wi:l have prospected the property by
the time his partner, BS9fv Warren, returns
from the Outside.
Diz & Co, are sinking a shaft above the
old shaft, in which they anticipate landing
on the pay.
McCormack & Pike have taken a lay on
the upper end of Windy bench, on which
considerable work will be done this winter.
Kells & Co., the old Windy bench lay
men, may be depended upon to allow no
rust to accumulate on their machinery
through idleness. They will be busy all
winter.
Just below Kells, on the upper end of
the Deacon bench (on which about 27 or j
28 holes had been unsuccessfully sunk), Er
ickson & Graham are in pay dirt, and will
be busy all winter.
On the lower end of the Deacon bench !
Nelson & Sturtevant have completed a
workng in dirt that will pan as good as
anything on Long creek.
Next comes the Emil bench, on which
Wally Laboski will sink in line with Web
ber and partners.
Buckley Bros., on the Novikaket, will
continue work in the pay dirt which their
ground showed at the close of the sluicing
season.
Below Buckley occurs the lay on which
the Big Four did some work last winter.
Bert Walker has taken a lay on this ground
and will start work in the next few weeks.
Adjoining Walker’s lay. Kells <fc Co. have
taken hold of the ground worked by Knud
son and partners last winter, and will work
it this season.
Ward & Major are working a lay on
the lower end of the Novikaket—the ground
worked by Ward & Rigler a year ago.
Axel Linne and partners have taken a
lay on the Lone Pine, and work will be com
menced by them in a few weeks.
Warren & McDaniels will work on the
lower end of the Keystone Association.
It is understood also that Frank Smith
will go to work on his ground, the Morning
Star fraction.
There will be quite a few more pieces of
ground worked this winter on Long creek
and its tributaries.
Found Pay 100 Feet Wide
A paystreak one hundred feet wide in
ground which is only nine feet deep, and
which pans evenly in gold of a uniform
size and a good grade, has been located by
Coffey & Sutherland on Greenstone.
A recent arrival from that section of the
district, a man of considerable experience
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in mining, when asked about conditions
generally on the creeks, had this to say:
“There is very little being done just now
on any of the creeks in the line of mining
or prospecting. The boys are all engaged
in getting things ready for winter—fixing
up their cabins, etc. The only place I found
any work being done in the way of pros
pecting was on Greenstone. Here I found
Coffey & Sutherland busy sinking holes.
On one part of their ground a series of
crosscut holes hud been completed, which
showed pay for a width of 100 feet. They
are now cros: cutting the ground some dis
tance below, and had completed between GO
and 70 feet, and still in the pay. While I
don't feci at liberty to state the result of
some pannings taken while 1 was there, I
will say that I think this is the best propo
sition in the camp. The dirt pans evenly
for several feet, and the gold is very uni
form."
Yukon River Closed
The Yukon river, in front of Ruby, came
to a standstill lor the winter season at
G .-lo p. ni. on the 27th day of October. On
die 3Uth day of October Gus Franzen
crossed to the opposite side and returned,
testing the ice, and on the day following
Ruby received its lir.-t mail over the ice.
SOMETHING TO FIGURE ON
In the “Tales of Tacoma” column of the
Tacoma Tribune the following appeared in
a recent issue:
t\ mmis.'ioner Ray Freeland has found a
new puzzle that has made the notorious
How Old Is Ann?” look like a relic of
the Stone Age. It is a very simple little
;>r; Flcm, and no person around the city hall
has yet been able to offer a satisfactory cx
Filiation. Here it is:
Five men enter a cigar store and each
purchases five 5-cent cigars; each wid spend
: 25 cents, and all will spend a total of £1.25.
| A second set of five men enter the same
i 'dg;:r store and purchase cigars for each
1 thcr, with the same result. The net rc
I F i; that 10 men purchase 50 cigars at a
| total cost of $2.50.
i Here it is illustrated in figures:
; Men. Each Spends. Total Spent,
j 5 25c $1.25
! 5 25c 1.25
j 10 spend 50c All spend $2.50
i Now:
!
| Eight men enter the same cigar store an<
! purchase cigars for each other, 64 cigars
being purchased, and 40 cents being ex
pended by each man, a total of $3*20 being
expended. Then two men enter anad pur
chase cigars for each other. Here are the
figures :
Men. Each Spends. Total Spent.
| 8 40c $3.20
2 10c .20
10 men spend 50c All spend $3.40
Ten men in the first instance spend 50c
a round of treats each, and a total of $2 50.
In the second instance 10 men spend 50
cents for the round of treats, but spend a
total of $3.40.
This may be the answer:
The first 10 men purchase but 50 cigars,
while the second 10 purchase 68 cigars.
FROST-PROOF POTATO FOUND
London, Oct. 12.—A new blight-proof and
frost-resistnig potato has been discovered by
John Harris at Raethi, New Zealand. The
discovery is said to be the most important
one in agriculture in many years, and the
agricultural department of the New Zealand
government has investigated the phenom
enon and admitted that the properties
claimed for the new potato are beyond
question.
Mr. Harris has been experimenting with
potatoes for years, and some time ago he
noticed a healthy stalk growing among a
crop of Northern Stars and El Dorados, all
of which were affected by blight. He took
up the root of the healthy plant, and finding
it in a perfect state, began to experiment
The result is that a potato now called the
New Era has been grown. The plant was
carefully nourished and tended, and for sev
eral seasons a new crop was propagated
from the seeds of the previouos crop. The
variety has been placed under the closest
observation, but on no occasion has there
been the slightest trace of blight or disease
caused by frost, though the crop planted
next to it has been blackened by severe
cold and is even now badly affected.
JAPAN WILL MAKE
CHINA BATTLEGROUND
London. Oct. 29. -A Peking dispatch to
the Daily Telegraph says:
“Japan is preparing to make China a
battleground. Her rivalry with Russia was
not settled by the late war. No Russo
Japanese agreements whatever exist regard
ing Mongolia or co-related territory.
“The Japanese policy has been devoted
to preserving the status quo in Manchuria. !
thus leaving her free to take any necessary
countervailing steps.
“The Japanese policy in China, summed
up. means the planting of garrisons without i
territorial leases, thereby guarantee :.g the
integrity of China by forestalling others. At
Hankow the garrison of 2.000 men will be
retained Another probably will be planted
at the Great Tahyo iron mines, near by.
“Special Japanese concessions, under po
lice contn 1. w;!i be demanded at Nanking,
w! ich p< licy will be repeated at Fu Chow.
Anmy and rbewhere. In case c>f trouble,
the railways, in which it was hoped that
Briti-h capital would be interested, would
. Iso be demanded.
“Ihe Japanese naval unit will be in- ,
creased in Chinese waters. There wid be ,
no danger to British interests if Great Brit- i
ain dis: lays her usual flexibility.
“Peking is no longer the capital in the
. Id sense, the loss of Mongolia and the ab
sence of the usual intercourse rendering it
unimportant and transferring the power to
the south.
“Japan, with practically the whole Chi
nese revolutionary party under lock and
: key in Tokyo, holds out her hand to Eng
I land, knowing that the alliance is more im
portant now than ever.”
Paralysis, locomotor ataxia, scientifically
| treated at the Crosby Massage and Bath
j Parlors.
Solicitous for Others
A member of the Providence bar one
flay met an able and conscientious judge on
the street and said to him :
;,1 see, Judge, that the supreme court has
overruled you in the case of A versus /.
but you need feel no concern about your
reputation.”
“No, indeed.” answered the judge, com
placently; “l don't. I'm only concerned
about the reputation of the supreme* court
- Lippincott’s.
A by-product of the manufacture of tho
rium gas mantles, according to a German
scientist, who has experimented with
is an effective substitute for radium, at one
third the cost.
Olter Creek Roaionse
One Above Discovery
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The Loyal Order of Moose is now in all the principal camps of Alaska tni '•*»
! territories, and Iditarod can enjoy the same distinction if the citizens so desire.
A lodge outfit is on the way. but no attempt will be made to institute unless 30
respectable English-speaking white men voluntarily make application.
The Moose is acknowledged to be the fastest-growing and most popular order :n
| the world—-700,000 members in over 1.500 lodges scattered from Nome to Panama and
| from Berlin to Manila— and only 25 years old.
All the members enjoy all the privileges of every Moose club house anywhere, and
; the International Home University, where indigent Moose widows and orphans are eared
I for, and Moose children given a college education absolutely free.
The lodge provides free medical attention for each member and his family, weekly
! sick benefits when unable to work, funeral benefit in case of death, etc.
Charter initiation fee is $10, and covers all cost of joining. Dues only $ld a
! year, and no assessments.
Alt interested should send their names and addresses to Basil Clemons, district
[ director Loyal Order of Moose, at Clemons & Koon’s studio, corner Wickersham and I ront
streets, Flat City.
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