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HERBERT E. RILEY, PROP.
Sea Bathing on Alaska Coast
For once the old sand bar just below
Thane is one of the most popular spots on
the channel. Usually a source of much
delay, anil generally to be avoided, the
shallow water has lured a crowd of bathers
during the past couple of days, and the clean
sand plus the warm water have made the
place an ideal bathing beach, says the Ju
neau Empire. Crowds from Thane and
Juneau have availed themselves of the
chance for a salt-water swim; and at low
tide the children round about are having
the time of their lives. The slope of the
beach is very much like the Aiki Point
bathing place in Seattle, and if the sunshine
continues the Thane beach probably will
become as popular as Alki.
Commercial Club for Skagway
The Commercial Club has been reorgan
ized at Skagway. and will soon begin an or
ganized campaign to boost the city as the
gateway to the Yukon. Colonel W. L. Ste
\ t'uson" a mining man, and head of the
Hargrave Mining & Engineering Company,
i- ar the head of the organization as presi
Mayor Howard Ashley has been eho
„ vice president, and Phil Abrahams sec
retary-treasury. F. M. Suttecool, George
Mowl and Robert Browning are the other
members of the board of trustees. Among
the propositions that the club will boost is
one to establish a string of tourist hotels in
Alaska. It is said that a company has been
organized for that purpose, and the people
of Skagway expect to secure the location of
the first hostelry that will be erected in the
North.
City of Puebla on Alaska Run
The Alaska Steamship Company has pur
chased the Pacific Coast Company’s liner
City of Puebla for Use in the Alaska trade,
according to a recent Seattle dispatch. She
will be placed on the Southwestern Alaska
route, with the Alameda. Mariposa and
Northwestern. The City of Puebla was
built in Philadelphia in 1881, and for main
years was the fastest vessel on the Seattie
San Francisco run. She was built as a col
Her. but later was converted into a passen
ger vessel. She is an iron steamship of
g.t',23 gross and 1,712 net tons, 320.6 feet
lung. 38.0 feet beam, and carries a crciv of
eighty-one men.
Tolovana Boat and Cargo Lost
As the result of colliding with a drift pile
at a point on the Tanana river about fifteen
miles below Chena. the steamer Marathon,
her barge and a cargo valued at about
$2,000, are a total loss. The accident hap
pened at an early hour on Saturday morn
ing, July 31. Four men, including W. R.
Sherwin. the owner of the boat, barely
escaped with their lives, but managed to
jump to safety on the drift pile, from which
they were rescued about seven hours later
by the government launch Midnight Sun.
The Marathon was on her way to the log
jam on the Tolovana river, loaded to the
guards and pushing a barge. Most of the
freight was consigned from Fairbanks to
Hahan & Gillis, merchants of the Tolovana.
Neil McDonald, the Tolovana mining man,
lost an outfit of 1,800 pounds of supplies
in the wreck.
Education Commissioner in Juneau
Dr. P. P. Claxton, federal commissioner
of education, is a Juneau visitor, says the
Empire of July 29. He is with W. T. Lopp
and W. G. Beattie of the Alaska educa
tional service. Dr. Claxton said: “I was
sent out here by Franklin K. Lane, secre
tary of the interior, to investigate the situ
ation at Metlakahtla, with the view of ar
riving at the easiest solution of the diffi
culties there. Any statement published here
that Father Duncan has been unceremoni
ously ousted is not true. It is a pity that
such things are published. I gave Father
Duncan to understand that Annette island
was to be used lor the benefit of the South
eastern Alaska Indians, and not for the
furtherance of the ambitions of any indi
vidual, and I talked with the Indian council
there while I visited Father Duncan’s settle
ment. It will take some time to adjust
matters at Metlakahtla. and until it has
been fully investigated I am not at liberty
to hazard any guesses as to the outcome.
I expect to go to Haines tomorrow with
Superintendent Beattie and Mr. Lopp, and
will return through here on my return from
Ketchikan. It is probable that I will make
another trip to Metlakahtla.”
Hearty Eating Caused His Death
After practically starving for three (lavs,
C. S. Dickhurt died in the Koyukuk from
the effects of two hearty meals eaten within
two hours of each other. That is the opin
ion given the district attorney’s office at
Fairbanks by Dr. C. E. Danforth, who in
vestigated the case. The news of the death
was received in Fairbanks when the steamer
Tanana recently arrived. According to three
men who were traveling with the deceased,
they had been living on only a few beans
a day for three days, anil when they reached
Myrtle creek, in the Koyukuk district, a
hearty meal was had at the cabin of
Charles Weiner, and two hours later an
other was had at the cabin of Mike Farley,
after which Dickhurt was taken sick, lie
died twenty four hours later.
Revenue Stamps Required
Announcement has been made by Secre
tary of the Territory Charles E. Davidson
that revenue stamps will be required on all
documents tiled in his office. This announce
ment is based upon the recent decision of
the commissioner of internal revenue.
Alaska Day at Exposition
Mayor Nerland of Fairbanks has received
a letter from C. C. Henion, commissioner of
the Panama-Pacific, exposition, in which he
is informed that October 18 has been set
aside as “Alaska day.” and everybody at the
fair will celebrate it as such. The letter
was presented to the city council, and that
body will select someone to represent the
city at the big fair on Alaska day.
Stabbing Affray at Oines
As the result of an argument. Julius Mil
ler was arrested at Oines on July 31 and
taken to Fairbanks, charged with assault
with a dangerous weapon. Scotty Lamb is
carrying an ugly though not serious cut
under his left arm as the result of the en
counter. Miller is one of the men later
charged with the murder of Mrs. Rowe. The
men were discussing the war, and as the
argument progressed it became more bitter.
Finally a scuffle ensued, and Lamb.threw
Miller down a caved-in shaft, which was
half full of water. Miller scrambled out of
the hole, took out his pocketknife and cut
Lamb under the arm. Miller was the pro
prietor of the Ninemile roadhouse, on the
Valdez trail, until this spring, when he sold
out. He was employed as cook by Morgan
on Dome creek. Scotty Lamb is an old
man, well known all over the creek. He
was not seriously injured.
To Domesticate Caribou
J. A. Singleton, a Tanana Crossing
rancher, who has been in that district for
a number of years, is endeavoring to get the
government to sanction his idea of domesti
cating a herd of caribou, and from them
to raise enough meat to supply the whole
Interior. He has sufficient room to pasture
the caribou, and has the means of taking
care of them. He figures on securing a few
good specimens of caribou, nad after secur
ing a number of calves, to set the old ones
at liberty. In this way, raising the young
from the time they are born, he thinks they
can be domesticated without difficulty, and
the government probably would have no
objection to such a proceeding. He has
consulted with Delegate Wickersham on the
proposition, and he has promised to give
his support to the undertaking. The dele
gate also suggested that he might find it
easier to raise and domesticate mountain
sheep, and it is possible that he will try to
do so. His experiment will depend entirely
upon the way the government officials take
to it.
W. B. Connell Drowned in Koyukuk
S. J. Peterson of the Koyukuk has written
to a friend in Fairbanks telling of the death
of W. B. Connell, which occurred on June
6. Connell attempted to swim across the
Koyukuk river in front of Wiseman, and
was taken with cramps and sank. Before
help could reach him he was drowned. After
the body was recovered Commissioner Dan
forth held an inquest, at which the jury
brought in a verdict of “accidental drown
ing.” The deceased was laid at rest at
Wiseman, many old-timers paying their re
spects by accompanying the remains to their
last resting place.
Tanana Woman Drowned
Captain .1. S. McCann of the steamer Tan
ana, arriving in Fairbanks July 31, brought
word of the death by drowning of Mrs. Will
iams at Tanana a week previously. The
woman’s husband also had a narrow escape.
The couple were sailing on the Yukon river
in front of Tanana in a sailboat. The story
told by the husband was somewhat inco
herent, but it appears that the boat upset
when struck by a heavy gust of wind, and
the husband was unable to save his wife, as
she could not swim.
POSTAL INSPECTOR HERE
S. D. Pinkham, United States postal in
spector, whose headquarters are at Spo
kane, Wash., arrived in the city on the
mail boat last Saturday, and after spend
ing several days in checking up the local
postoffice, left on Tuesday evening last on
’Gene Norton’s launch, the Comet, for Dike
man to make connections with the Wash
burn. He is on his way to lower Yukon
river points and Nome, from whence he will
take ship for Seattle.
If you are in need of anything in our
line, see us. Two stores—Flat and Iditarod.
Boas the Clothier.
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TWO MEN HELD IN FAIRBANKS
JAIL FOR MURDER OF MRS. ROWE
FAIRBANKS, Aug. 3—At a few mo
ments before 12 o’clock today, William
O’Connor and Julius Miller were arraigned
in the commissioner’s court, charged with
the murder of Mrs. W. E. Rowe. The com
plaint was read to the prisoners by Com
missioner Brown. It is signed by Edward
Cairns, and charges both men with the crime
of murder in the first degree. Both men
seemed to take the reading of the com
plaint calmly, except for the fact that
O’Connor had the semblance of a sneer on
his face as Prosecutor Pratt talked of the
date on which the preliminary hearing
should be held. The date of the hearing
was sent for August 10, and the prisoners
were remanded to the custody of the mar
shal without bail. The entire proceeding
did not take more than ten minutes.
Arrest of the Suspects
O’Connor, one of the accused, was brought
to town on Sunday morning, August 1, by
Deputy Marshal Miller, who arrested him
Saturday at the workings of Bob Patterson,
where he was employed. He denied all
knowledge of the crime, and maintained that
attitude when questioned by the officials.
Miller, the alleged accomplice of O’Connor,
was arrested several days ago on a minor
charge, and has since been in jail. He was
questioned by the officials, but no light was
thrown on the crime by either of the pris
oners..
A large crowd gathered at the depot Sat
urday evening, expecting O’Connor to be
brought in on the evening train, but few
were on the streets Sunday when the party
arrived in town.
O’Connor is a man of robust appearance,
between 40 and 50 years of age. He is
about five feet ten inches in height and is
of light complexion. Miller, the other ac
cused man, is probably the better known of
the two. He is a cook, and is said to have
been addicted to drink. He is of dark com
plexion, and is an inch or two more than
six feet in height. Both Miller and O'Con
nor have made this district their home for
a number of years, although it is stated that
O'Connor spent considerable time in Idit
arod.
The Accusation
The complaint on which the men were
arrested is signed by Ed Cairns, and is as
follows:
“On July 19. the night of the killing. I
saw Julius Miller at Morgan’s boiler room
about 7 o’clock p. m., and Miller said: ‘I
am going to get the money tonight.’ and he
said he was going to kill Mrs. Rowe at
Little Eldorado and that she had seven or
eight hundred dollars. And I said: - ‘If you
attempt to do anything like that I will
'phone to Sam Weiss.’ Then Miller went
away and came back about twenty minutes
later, and in a few minutes left again and
went over the tailings by Letendre’s house
and up toward Olnes. I did not see him
again until 3 o’clock in the morning. I got
up at 3 o’clock Tuesday morning and saw
Miller coining across the little bridge in
front of Morgan’s bunkhouse, and I said:
‘You have been up all night, have you?’
and he did not answer.
“On the morning of July 21, 1915, I took
a dollar flask of whisky to the cook house
and gave Miller three drinks and told him
he might as well tell me the truth about
killing Mrs. Rowe, and what did he do with
the money, and he answered that he did not
kill her, but said: T hit her with a little
stick and did not have the guts to go
through, and Billy Connors went about
thirty feet away and got a big stick and
Mrs. Rowe was talking to us and crying and
begging us not to kill her but to take her
money, and Connors struck her from be
hind with the big stick and Connors^ killed
her.’ He also said that they got *700 in
currency hid in her breast, that it was
composed of two one-hundred-dollar bills
and the rest in twenty-dollar bills, and that
he hid the money back of Letendre’s house.”
People Excited
Excitement was high Saturday afternoon
at Chatanika and Olnes when it was learned
that the alleged murderer had been appre
hended, several hundred men gathering at
each place. But the crowds were orderly.
Crowds of men gathered on the bridge in
town and at the depot Saturday evening.
A rumor reached town Saturday, shortly
after the arrest was made, that Cairns had
taken part in the murder, but had weak
ened and implicated the two prisoners. It
was credited until denied by Deputy Mar
shal Miller.
O’Connor is stated to have been an en
thusiastic searcher for the murderer when
the posse was out the next day after the
murder was discovered.
Tim Corcoran has brought suit in Com
missioner Geraghty’s court asking judgment
for S157 and costs against Charles Strand
berg and E. C. Strandberg, doing business
as Strandberg & Co. J. C. Moody is attor
ney for the plaintiff.
The little Misses Austin, Frances and
Catherine, have been the guests this week
of Ficrii] McDonald. They will leave soon
for the Outside with their mother.
Visit our new store at Flat.
Boas the Clothier.
DAWSON PROSPECTOR SAYS
HAS FOUND MAMMOTH
(Dawson News)
“Waitah, bring me a mammoth steak!”
Such may be the cry in Dawson within a
few days if R. A. Fox has just what he
thinks "he has. F’ox blew into town today
from up the Yukon with a gunnysack tilled
with what he declares is the steak of a
prehistoric mammoth.
“Flave I got it? Well, I should say I
have,” declared Fox today.
“Just wait a few minutes,” continued Fox,
“and I will bring you some of the mam
moth with the fat clinging to the sides of
the meat.”
Fox was gone a short while, and returned
to the News office with several slabs
wrapped in a gunnysack. Unwrapping it in
the presence of several who had not been
informed what the material was supposed
'to be, Fox said:
"Now, see here—what is it?”
A sourdough miner stepped up and looked
through his glasses carefully as he turned
over the strange substance.
“Why,” exclaimed the sourdough, “that's
asbestos. Sure thing. I've seen it in the
raw state, and I’ve seen the finished prod
uct."
A veteran print wno nan canea on rnt
News dropped in and was asked what it
was.
Feeling the material carefully, he declared,
“Why, asbestos, of course, I wish I had
plenty of that for future use.”
In ambled a third man, who was
shown a piece and asked his verdict. “Well,
it looks like wood fiber,” declared he, cau
tiously.
A cheechaco from Tacoma walked in and
was shown the samples.
“What does she look like, Mr. Chee
chako?” asked the discoverer.
“You don’t get me on that.” said the
cheechaco. “I've visited Seattle in my day,
and I have nothing to say.”
“Well, now just let me tell all you fel
lows what it is you are looking $t,” said
Fox. “That long, white, stringly, slabby
stuff is nothing more nor less than the tlesh
of a prehistoric mammoth reduced to fiber.
That whiter portion, which is less marked
by strings, is the residue of the fat. The
real grease evaporated.”
“Where did you shoot that mammoth?
piped a fellow in the crowd.
“Well, maybe you boys think you have
it on me,” rejoined Fox, “but let me tell
you I did shoot him, and I shot him on
the Yukon river bank above Dawson, and
the carcass is now' there.”
All the fellows opened their mouth with
astonishment. Everyone was from Missouri.
“But it’s this way.” said Fox. “I shot
him while he was lying compressed under
a million tons of rock, and where he had
been resting for two hundred million years.
“As I was coming down the Yukon in my
canoe the other day I put over to the right
limit of the river below the mouth of the
Sixtvmile river.
“In a secluded bend in the river, where it
was almost a cove, I observed in a cliff
about thirty feet high a singular whitish ob
ject projecting a foot or so from the regu
lar face of the rock. I got closer to it, and
on inspection found it was the end of a
mammoth tusk. I took a shot at it with
my rifle, and brought down a part of the
ivory. That confirmed my first suspicions.
I had done ivory carving in Dawson for
years, and I know mammoth ivory from
mastodon ivory quite well. The mastodon
ivory is checked like a crocodile hide, and
yellowish, while that of the mammoth is
whitish and has a long grain.
“After securing the sample of the tusk,
I got several sticks of dynamite and placed
them in the face of the bluff just beneath
the point where the tusk protruded. There
is where I shot the mammoth. Those sev
eral shots of dynamite disturbed enough of
his prehistoric majesty to afford me these
samples. The dynamite explosions freed a
cap of rock along the face of the bluff so
that the mammoth remains were exposed.
The strata is two feet thick and twenty feet
along the exposed edge. I did not have time
to drift in on the proposition, but I feel
assured the bones are there unless ab
sorbed or done away with by leaching of
the water and the chemical action in the
rocks.
“Now, it is onlv a matter of recovering
the rest of the fiber. I believe that the
mammoth was caught under the heavy rock
from above, which crushed him against the
other rock beneath, and, being encased her
metically, the fiber was preserved. I threw
some of the white fiber to mv cats, and
they gnawed on it. Since it did not hurt
them, I have eaten some, and I think mam
moth Steak is all right. Of course it is a
little drier than jerked beef, and lacks the
salt, hut we can get plenty of salt.
“Dr. Alfred Brooks, the American ecolo
gist. will be here tomorrow, and I shall call
the mammoth discovery to his attention and
get his views on the matter. When Dr.
Cairnes. the Canadian ecologist, arrives here
later this season, I shall ask him to go up
and examine the find, and he ntav tell me
just how to remove the big fellow.
Mr. Fox has samples of the mammoth at
Nick’s place, on Queen street. Mr. Fox has
been nrosnecting and following other pur
suits in Yukon several years.
Several years ago he had a thrilling ex
perience in a cabin on Quartz street, where
a miner who had been killed by accident
reanpeared at night in the corner of the
cabin and operated a rocker and held a
conversation with Fox. At the end of the
conversation the phantom form disappeared
suddenly.
GOVERNMENT WANTS SKULLS
Postmaster Wile has received the follow
ing letter, dated Washington, D. C., June
7, 1915:
“Can you obtain for me any skulls of
grizzly bears from your region? If so I
shall be glad to pay good prices for the
same, the price varying according to age,
sex and condition from $4 each for young
skulls up to $10 or $15 for adult females,
and $20 or even $25 for good old males.
“Each skull should be labeled with the
locality where killed and your own name,
and also with the sex and approximate date,
if known. A few tags are inclosed here
with.
“In case you have any skulls on hand, or
can purchase any, please ship the same by
express, c charges collect, addressed: U. S.
Biological Survey, Department of Agricul
ture, Washington, D. C. Please wrap each
skull carefully to prevent breakage in
transit. Very truly yours,
“C. HART MERRIAM.”
LOCOMOTIVES SHIPPED
FROM PANAMA TO SEWARD
That the ship which left Panama, or was
scheduled to leave Panama, July 8. has a
couple of locomotives and other railroad
equipment aboard for Seward is the state
ment of William C. Edes, chairman of the
engineering commission. At least, Mr. Edes
says the locomotives are supposed to be
aboard, but the ship may unload at Anchor
age first. Part of the equipment aboard for
Seward is a steam shovel. It is not gener
ally known that copper wire already has
come from Panama for use in constructing
the telephone line from Seward to Anchor
age. The men in charge of that work ex
pect communication to be opened up be
tween the two cities within three weeks.
Mr. Edes, accompanied by Mrs. Edes, re
turned last evening from Anchorage on the
Alameda. Eleven or twelve hundred men
are now working over there. As to the
work that will be done here, Mr. Edes
wishes to say no more than he has ever
! said. A good deal will depend, he says, on
I the time the Alaska Northern will be taken
^ over by the government. If it is taken over
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RYE WHISKEY— Price Cut to
“Old Crow" Straight Hand-Made Sour Mash, bot
tled in bond.Per bottle $2.50 $1.50
“Hunter” Baltimore Pure Rye, a blend of straight rye
whiskies. 2.50 1.25
"Hermitage” Pure Straight Whiskey, mellowed by
age 2.50 1.50
"Cyrus Noble” Blended Straight Whiskey, from
original old goods . 2.50 1.50
“Old Oscar Pepper" Hand-Made Sour Mash, bot
tled in bond, full quarts. 2.50 1.50
BOURBON WHISKEY—
“Cedar Brook" (formerly W. H. McB-rayer) Hand
Made Sour Mash V/hiskey 2.50 1.25
“Cyrus Noble” Old Private Stock, very, very old.
Guaranteed to be a blend of pure, aged, natural
straight whiskies 3.50 2.00
“Old Crow,” bottled in bond 2.50 '.50
"Jesse Moore AA".2.50 1.50
SCOTCH WHISKEY—
"Black and White,” specially selected for the House
of Commons . 3.00 1.50
“Strathmill” Pure Malt Scotch Whiskey 3.00 1.50
“Dewar’s Extra Special,” termed "the best product
of Scotland”. 4.00 2.25
"Usher’s Black Label” Grand Old Highland Whiskey 4.00 2.50
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before fall quite a little work will be done,
but he is not yet prepared to say how much.
Work is now going on clearing the way for
the light car to the Spencer glacier district, ]
and the road is being put in shape as much
as is necessary.—Seward Gateway, July 1/. J
RUMORED PLANS OF MORGAN
FUR ALASKA DEVELOPMENT
(New York Journal of Commerce)
Wall street believes that J. P. Morgan &
Co., the Guggenheims and other capitalists
are considering comprehensive plans for de
velopment work in Alaska.
"What has prompted steps to this end, it
is said, are conditions brought about by the
European war. According to rumor, these
plans cad for an increased output of copper
and other metals, railroad development to be
worked in conjunction with the construc
tion of the United States government lines,
and additional steamship facilities from the
tidewater terminals of those railroads to the
metal smelters of Tacoma and the great
metal-consuming districts of the Atlantic
coast of the United States and Europe
through the Panama canal.
“These interests have already taKen over
large copper properties, including the Beat
son Copper Company, and are expected to
acquire others. The purchase of the cop
per properties is being effected through the
Kennecott Copper Corporation, controlled
by the Morgan-Guggenheim interests.
The Kennecott mines are among the
largest properties in the world, their output
alone, it is said, having more than sup
ported the Copper River <fe Northwestern
railway, which was built some years ago
from Cordova to Chitina, with a branch
line from there to Kennecott, at a total
cost of about S14,000,000. From Chitina
there is a military wagon road to Fair
banks, 300 miles away, the metropolis of
Interior Alaska, and it is known that for
years the Copper River & Northwestern rail
way considered the extension of its railroad
along that road, but was halted by the at
tacks made on Alaska railway promoters in
connection with the political fight for the
national conservation of coal resources.
Meantime the United States government
plans for greater railroad development in
Alaska are moving fast to successful con
clusion. It is the intention of the American
capitalists who are entering the Alaska field
on such a large scale to work their plans
in entire harmony with the plans of the
government, doing everything possible to
prevent any recurrence of the friction be
tween governmental and private interests,
which have held back the growth of Alaska
to this date.
“With the building of these railroads
those familiar with Alaska conditions pre
dict that the interior of the vast Northern
territory will be transformed into a region
in which smelters, manufacturing compa
nies and various industries will abound, and
in which there will be cities similar to those
in the United States, with houses and
schools, instead of the mining camps ex
isting at present, and in which agricultural
resources will be developed on a great scale.
Unlike the coast region, the Interior of
Alaska, instead of being bleak and dismal, is
a great agricultural stretch similar to the
agricultural districts of Norway and Sweden,
which are inhabited by so large a popula
tion.
To meet this great development, steam
ship lines from the tidewater terminals of
the railroads will be necessary. It is these
steamship facilities which are provided for
in the Morgan line running between Alaska
and the Pacific coast states. This is the
Alaska steamship line, and from the Pacific
! coast states the Morgan interests have re
cently established the Panama & Pacific
line, through the Panama canal to New
York, while the Morgan lines across the
Atlantic are too well known to need de
scription.
It is thus seen that the Morgan interests
already have steamship lines in operation
affording practically through connections
from Alaska to Europe. In recent weeks
steamship owners and certain shipyards have
received inquiries regarding vessels suitable
for the Pacific states-Alaska coast routes.
President Eccles of the Alaska steamship
line says that his line has not put out such
inquiries, despite the reports crediting the
inquiries to his company. That the in
quiries are being made in behalf of the Mor
gan interests is the belief of steamship of
ficials who have followed the Alaska de
velopment.
,*r was suggested that possibly this mav
mean a line for the Morgan interests, which
v/ill be additional to the Alaska steamship
line. The vessels wanted are of a type
adaptable to the carrying of tonnage of ore.
It is interesting to note in connection with
the Alaska Steamship Company that its
management is virtually the same as that
of the Kennecott Copper Corporation, as
well as the management of the Cooper River
& Northwestern Railway Company.
WHY
56 per cent (more than half) of the
watches used on American railroads are
HAMILTONS. 16S. movements are made
only in 17 ewel adj., $15, to 23 jewel, $60;
12 size in a thin model, 14k. case, at $55.
WM. TAYLOR, Flat.
Fresh Olympia Oysters, for cocktails, $2
can. Iditarod Meat Co.
PI APARIK biff and small, printed on
; i LnvniiL/j paper, cardboard or cloth,
on short notice, at Iditarod Pioneer office.
BUDGET OF LIVE NEWS
FROM THE RUBY CAMP
(Ruby Record-Citizen, July 31)
In consequence of a miners’ strike only
two employing concerns are now operating
on Long creek and Bear pup.
Operators having given notice that with
the change to eight hours, in compliance
with the new law, wages would be re
duced from $5 to $4 a da}', about 150 mine
workers met at Long City Wednesday night
and passed resolutions binding themselves
not to work for less than to for eight
hours. Copies of the resolutions were given
to the operators the same night, with about
150 signatures attached.
Ward & Co., on the Novikaket associa
tion, and A1 Burke, on Bear pup, agreed to
the demand.
It is also said the scale is being paid on
Poorman and Flat.
Operators claim they cannot pay the
scale and break even; miners claim that
with the short working season and the ab
sence of continuous employment they can
not make a living at $4 a (lay, and would
be up against a hard condition with the
coming of winter.
Body of Frank G. Smith Found
(Issue of Aug. 7)
Almost a year after the drowning of
Frank G. Smith, his body was found on the
bar at the mouth of Melozi river last Sun
day evening. The body had been deposited
there at a higher stage of the Yukon, and
was left exposed when the water in the
river receded,
Carl Bolm and Nicholas Congopolis found
the body and came over to town and noti
fied Commissioner DeVane. The commis
sioner brought it to town, where it was
identified by the clothing, and most posi
tively by a watch, a record of which is on
file in the office of Lynn Smith, the jew
eler.
Under the circumstances the commissioner
did not consider an inquest necessary, and
the remains were given in charge of Igloo
No. 5, of which deceased was a member.
Mr. Smith’s former home was in Indiana,
but several years of his life had been spent
as timberman in Michigan. He came to the
American side from the Klondike in 1902,
and was one of a party who prospected on
the headwaters of Hodzana river during the
winter of 1902-'03. From that time for
ward his life was that of a typical pros
pector. He was strong and resourceful, and
while out prospecting was an indefatigable
worker.
In company with Ed Leepin. he boarded
the steamre Sarah at Ruby, intending to go
up the Hodzana again, and in some un
known manner was lost overboard, prob
ablv in the vicinity of Birches, during the
night of August 13-14, 1914.
Percy Was There
Percy G. Charles, president of Iditarod
Igloo No. 10, presided duriny part of a
social session given by the Ruby Pioneers’
igloo.
Wedding Was a Social Event
Last Saturday evening at 7 o’clock W ill
iam Pchutt and Elizabeth Opsgon, both
from the Koyukuk, were united in marriage
in the parlors of The Williams. Commis
sioner De Vane officiated. After the cere
monv a delightful dinner was served to the
following guests: Mr. and Mrs. William
Pchutt. Mr. and Mrs. Percy G. Charles.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Clarke, District Attor
ney R. F. Roth. E. Coke Hill. Commissioner
T. J. De Vane and Thomas H. Long.
THURSTONS CO OUTSIDE
Recent mail advices received in this city
indicate that T. L. Thurston, ex-postmaster
of Iditarod. who was convicted in this city
of embezzlement of mail matter and sen
fenced to fifteen months’ imprisonment, has
perfected an appeal from the judgment of
the district court, and it is presumed he is
now out on bail, as he was in Dawson in
company with his wife on August 6 last.
Fine Watch Repairing, 'p,1"'fTht,1>
LOCAL MAN IS OFFICER
OF GRAND ILGOO PIONEERS
The officers elected at the session of the
Grand Igloo, Pioneers of Alaska, which
closed at Nome July 18, are as fallow*:
Grand President* W. H. MePhee. Fair
banks.
First Grand Vice President E. F A:i • .
Valdez.
Second Grand Vice President P. Valen
tine. Juneau.
Grand Chaplain- Dr. S. Hall Young. Cor
dova.
Treasurer J. W. Thornton. Nome.
Historian—C. J. Lomen. Nome.
Trustees- T. A. McGowan. Fairbanks
C. K. Snow, Ruby; Frank E. Howard. Wi
man; Henry Kelling. St. Michael; J T.
Martin. Juneau.
Grand Sergeant-at-Arms—G. E. Austin.
Iditarod.
It was decided to publish an annual, and
historians and secretaries of subordinate
igloos will be asked to contribute material
for the publication.
JOE IS AN OPTIMIST
{Fairbanks Times)
Among the passengers arriving in lair
banks on the steamer Tanana Sunday morn
ing was J. IF Smith, proprietor of Smith's
Gun Stores in Fairbanks and Iditarod. Mr
Smith was in Fairbanks earlier in the sum
mer, but was compelled to return to the
lower river the day after arriving. Now he
expects to spend a month in town. In
speaking of conditions in Iditarod. he stated
that there were about six hundred and fifty
people there, and approximately three hun
dred and fifty of these are working in the
mines. The dredges are doing well, and
several hvdraulicking outfits are taking out
considerable money. He estimates that the
total output for the year will be in the
neighborhood of two million dollars.
Up to the time that Mr. Smith left Idita
rod two thousand ton- of freight had been
received this year. There has been ro -re
water than for several years, and conditions
generally are good.
For Working Clothing, see Boas. Flat.
PIONEER CREEK AGENCIES
FLAT CITY.Mrs. C. C. Chittick
DISCOVERY OTTER Harry Donnelley
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