THIS AFFAIR WAS
HOWLIUCCESS
The opening of the new A. B. hall at Flat City last Saturday,
January 14, was the occasion of the most brilliant social affair held
in the history of the Iditarod. There were in the neighborhood of
BOO people there, and no such time has been recorded since the
year of the big wind.
From this city 150 peop'e attended, every creek in the district
contributed a liberal quota, and when the revelry was at its height
along about midnight, the fine, big hall which is large enough to
hold a three ring circus, was crowded to the doors
There have been big and little dances held hereabouts since
this niggerheaded empire popped up out of the moss, but this ODe
had them all beaten to a Scandinavian whisper. One man said
that there was a dance like it once back near old Queoec, but he
was immediately mobbed, and will be used hereafter as the horrible
oxample.
The people began assembling at Flat City early in the day to
be sure they could get a fair start with the music and not miss any
thing. Keys Mayhan took out a big stage load in the afternoon,
and about the same time they were coming into the creek metrop
olis from all directions on foot, horseback and by canine convey
ances. Every lodging house and private residence in the city was
requisitioned for the need of the guests, and even at that many had
to sleep standing up the next day.
Early in the evening it could be seen that they would either
have to stretch the hall or make them dance in relays. There wTere
people everywhere—in the hall and around the hall, in the saloons
and around the saloons. Men tried to get up, but if they couldn’t
they threw their money up and let it go at that. Fortunately no
one was hurt in the riot, but it is said that one man nearly died of
thirst while trying to get a place at one of the local bars. Let it
not be thought, however, that it was a combination dance and
spree, for it was just all good old dance with everyone in the game, i
There was not an unpleasant incident to mar the complete enjoy
ment of the e\ ning.
Long ’bout midnight they began to feed the crowd from the
good things provided by the ladies of Flat, but one of them was
heard to say that she wished she had that basket of tish that one
time fed a multitude. They got through very creditably, however,
considering that they had to relay about .six times, and even at
that there were many who were too busy devoting themselves to
the aesthetic beauties of terpsichoreau accomplishment to think
about a ham sandwich.
They danced so long and so hard that it makes one’s arms
ache to write about it. At 7 o’clock in the morning there were
still 50 couples that wanted to keep going, even though they were
fanning the musicians and rubbing them down with wet towels.
Yes, it was a great dance. They sold over 300 tickets at five
bones a throw. Nobody knows how many they fed. They cleared
something over $900 to apply on the building, and they gave a
whole lot of people the time of their lives.
Among those from Iditarod were:
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Riley, Bert Banks, Walter Riley, Dave Mutchler.
Roy Stevens, Frank McGibney, J. E. Bishop, A. E, Light, Wm. Eisenmenger;
Mesdames B. F. Brooks, Ruth Sherburne, C. J. Sellander, Gordon Shea, Wm.
Newman, K. Masters, W. H. Porter, E. Stoner, Wilson, Garkins. Ramps Peter
son, Clifton, C. T. Suter, T. L. Thurston, E. Lee, C. C. Stoner, J. F. Hunter, J.
E. Beattie, M. Lang, M. Tyler, Cummins; Misses Kotsc.h, Maltbv, Taylor,
Jones, Winters, Johanson, N’vholm, Cahill, Tjernscrom, Roscoe; Messrs. Capt
J. J. Donovan, Judge Maltby, C. H. C'egg, Joe Smith, Pat Keys, John Duncan
Bert Day, Tom Dean, Claude Merchant, Robert Simpson, Dr. Heinrich Wort,
mann, Cy Atwell, Albert Wile, Oliver Anderson, E. E. Kellogg, Fred Hicks,
Basil Clemons. Earl Hunt, Fred Chapman, Isadore Goldstein, Claude Shea,
Leslie Clog, Walter Hunsacber, Ed Lund, Harry Sickinger, W. J. Henrv, Eric
Palmer, A. C. Kramer. Earl Slippern, E. A. Smith, G. Decon, George Kinmar,
C, £. Taylor, J. Rogers, C. J. Hurley, E. G. Lindberg, Seward M. Dalby, Jack
Allman, A. C. Kramer, Max Boas.
INDIAN RIVER LOOKS
GOOD TO “HAPPY”
Although expressly absolving himself from any responsibility
as to the correctness of the information therein contained, Col.
Jerome Chute, the well known mining man, is showing a few
friends a letter he received on the last mail from Bill MePaee, of
Fairbanks, and from "Happy Jack” Felix, the prospector who was
one of the first in the Indian river (or Red Mountain) country
north of Gibbon and adjacent to the Koyukuk.
In this letter, Felix, who had returned to Fairbanks in Novem
ber, declared his belief in the discovery of a new camp. He said
that there is four miles of pay on Pearson creek, a tributary of In
dian, which will go $200 to the shovel. The ground is from three
to six feet deep, and they begin shoveling from the grass roots
J. L. SALE
[FADING JEWELER OF THE NORTH
Expert Watch Repairing
NUGGET JEWELRY MADE TO ORDER
Joseph H. Smith
CARRIES A FULL LINE OF
Furniture
Carpets
Mattings
Bedding
Harness
Cash Registers
Stovosand Ranges
Cole’s Heaters
Firo Extinguishers
Crockery
Bar Glassware
Safes
Pool Tallies
Hardware
Phonographs and Record I
Phone 6, Second and Willow Streets, Iditarod City I
Miners & Merchants BankI
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital, $100,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted Gold Dust Bought and Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Part ot the World
SEATTLE CORRESPORDENT: SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BASK
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOB KENT
OFFICERS:
T. J. Nestor. President
Chas- Ross, Vice President
E. G. Lindberg, Manager
John Holmes, Cashier and Assayer
WILLOW ST.
J. H ROGERS, PROP.
Wines, Liquors and Cigars Pool Table Sleeping Rooms Upstairs
TOM WALSH WILL
GO TO ML TABOR
Enfeebled in mind and body to
such an extent that he had to be
canied into the court toom before
Commissioner Maltby last Wednes
day afternoon, and was shortly
afterward found insane, 1'om
Walsh, an old timer of the North
is now held in the federal jail pend
ing his departure for the Outside,
where he will he consigned to the
care and attention ol the asylum at
Mt Tabor, Oregon.
Walsh was a soldier of fortune in j
tie first ranbs that invaded tin
Northland Of late years he drank
heavily, breaking down his bealt'
and effecting his mind. He is now
penni ess and as tar as known, is
without relatives in the country.
Pioneer for Quick Jo!) Printing;
EMPIRE COMMERCIAL COMPANY
r-WHOLESALE AND RETAIL-,
-“Wines, Liquors, Cigars—1
ROSS & NESTOR.
Lumber and Building Materials
Bank Bldg. Iditarod
He claims the pay is at least 110 feet wide, and he knows not how
much wider.
Pearson is between Rock Island and Red Mountain anj is
about 15 miles due east over the hills from the Koyuknk, and prob
ably 100 miles north of Gibbon.
In McPhee’s letter he said that the report looked so good to
him, Tom Lloyd and another that they sent three men- Ike Henni
ger, Lloyd’s son and Pete Barrett. He also said that Felix had
gone back with Dunbar, and that both E. W. Griffin and Fn k
Manley were sending in men.
Mr. Chute desires to have it expressly understood in giving
out the letter, that although the report sounds good, that anyone
must act on his own judgment in following “Happy Jack’s” report.
Since these letters were written some of the men sent into the
country have returned without encouraging reports. However, it
appears that there will be a small stampede to Red Mountain next
spring.
He was standing beside the burned ruins of his cabin, his grub
stake gone, everything he possessed but the clothes he had on and
the gun he carried in his hands, evaporated into thin air through
the medium of smoke.
It was in the dead of winter, far up on the headwaters of a
tributary of the Kuskokwim, days away from the nearest human
habitation. He is a Frenchman, to fame unknown and to glory un
sung, for he was just prospecting up there and had left his cabin
that morning to peck away at a quartz ledge he had found a few
miles away.
Mildly speaking, he was up against it when he came out of the
timber aud saw only the last lingering whispsof smoke that marked
the passing of his weapons against Old Man Winter and the grip
ping cold of the North, and he knew it.
He didn’t tarry long. Hastily he raked over the charred re
mains and found a few handful of burned beans—that was all.
It’s a great story as told by J- E. Baker, the N. C Co. out
rider who came over from the Takotna with Captain Boerner last
week. Baker saw him after he had arrived at the post with all his
toes and fingers black, and says he will probably only lose a few
of them. Besides that, he is a much older man.
He don’t know how many days he was out there in the hills
alone with his gun, struggling through the deep snow. He killed
a bird now and then, and finally got a caribou, but could only pack
a little of it. He was all in when he reached the first Indian camp,
but they took him in and tended him as best they could. No, it was
not a summer picnic.
But that isn’t all. Lee Page, who used to be with the N. C.
Co. at Fairbanks, took a good long look into the eyes of death,
’way up on East Fork this winter.
Page was out with his shotgun looking for birds, and the gun
went off accidentally shattering a whole finger close to the palm.
After he reached his cabin he tried to cut it off with a razor, but
from pain and loss of blood he fainted repeatedly, and it took him
two days to finish the job.
He was a long ways from a brother man, white or red. He
finally stopped the flow of blood and started for help, and he, too.
found friends in a camp of natives. It looked like blood poisoning
and a long ways from medicines, but they pulled him through.
Say, a man a one in the hills is sometimes very uncomfortable,
isn’t he?
Enjoy yourself at Johnstone’s pool
room.
For sile chra ). Conn sdve -cornel, in
fj'ood CJiKtiiion. Rooert Siuijttou
ABOUT POSTOFFICE
SUBSCRIPTIONS
The answer to the coupon call for
post office assistance as issued by the
Iditarod Pioneer last week was very
er ouraging. and it looks as though
the people may continue to have good
postoffice service here without causing
any serious ripple in local financial
circles.
We did think of printing another
coupon this week in order to keep the
matter before the people, but we can
do it this way just as well, and the
coupon isn’t necessary,—just send in
your dollar with your name.
The impression seems to have become
somewhat general that Postmaster
Thurston was about to quit the job
without saying good-bye. This is quite
unfounded. Thurston says he has gone
through the worst of it, and would
like to stick if he can make a rough
standoff. We believe that he has
given very efficient service and we
would like to see him stay. We would
also like to see him paid for his trouble,
therefore do it now.
Below is the list of the thoughtful
ones, but more names have doubtless
been aided since we copied the roll.
It will be much longer next week.
Mrs. Charles Worden . $1.00
M. & M. Bank. 5.00
Iditarod Machine Shop . 1.00
Iditarod Pioneer. 1.00
H. H. Ross. 1.00
Dr. B. F. Brooks . 1.00
Max Allman . 1.00
C'has. E. Bergman. 1.00
L. S. Robe . 2.50
No name (2). 2.00
Mrs. S. H. Sherman. 1.00
Miss Eva Donaldson. 1.00
J. E. McDowell. 1.00
Theo. Witte. 1.00
Louis Husen . 1.00
M. Sickinger. 100
C. T. Suter . 1.00
R. M. Hillary. 1.00
Mr J. F. Hunter. 1.00
Frank E. Becker. 100
Jean Derval. 100
Leon tine Roberts. 1.00
Mrs. Ashby E. Bain.. 100
Riverside Hotel. 1-00
Marie Lavor. 1-00
W. H. Holmes. 1.00
J. H. Scott. 1.00
A, Shonbeck. 1-00
Carl Thiele . LOO
Nat Lyons . 1.00
Slap Now Runs to Discovery
--
Finding their daily business with
Discovery of sufficient extent to war
rant an addition to the service, Keys
& Mayhan put on additional herses and
rips last week and are now carrying
freight and passengers between Flat
and Discovery to connect with the stage
from this city.
On the evening of the A. B. dance at
Flat last week. Keys & Mayhan took
care of 73 passengers, while Muichler
and Paitr.en handled nearli fifty m ire
Csd ,0. Bock c!g..rs.
A MODERN HOTEL
Hotel Grand, Flat City
Finely Furnished Rooms
First Class Cafe. Liquors and Cigars
Pool and Billiards
H. GLANTZ AND MRS. SWANSON
FRESH
Rsindser Steaks and Chops
AT
Crowley & Porter's
Steam, Turkish and Plain
« Vflt H s® *1 Experienced Attendants lor Ladles and Gintlimi*
Sleeping and West Rooms_Willow Street Mrs. C. J. 8ellander
FILED FOR RECORD
—.—
Friday, Jan. 13.
Location — Ed Lewin, 4-b. Midas
creek, 5-a. Porcupine, 4-a. Beno, 2-a. [
Lippick, 2-a. Reindeer creek, Reindeer ’
district.
Mortgage—Jerry Donovan to M. A
M. Bank, 1-16 Summit association,
Happy gulch, $303.
Saturday, Jan. 14.
Location—Jule Smith and 7 others,
Pay Day association, Chicken creek.
Mortgage—W. H. Johnson to J. P.
Mulligan, lot 11, block 1, Dikeman,
$75.
Grubstake Agreement—Dave John
son and Tony McDonald, $200.
Monday, Jan. 16.
Location—Sam T. Kincaid. Discovery
claim, Reindeer creek.
Location—James Blodget, 3-a. Smith
creek, 9-b. Midas creek,
Deed—John Morrow to Jack Sheedy,
1-10 Prospector association, Otter
creek, $1.
Lease—A. Mitchell, Segurd Wiig,
John Olson, G. F. Kilroy, lessors, to G.
F. Kilroy and J. Martindale, lessees,
800 feet westerly portion Up-Grade as
sociation, Flat creak, 25 per cent.
Option Agreement—O K Lamon and
Flans Olsen, 3-5 lower 1900 feet of
Glen association, Flat creek; 1-8 in
Alpha association, Flat.; 3-5 Tomcod
bench, lower 1900 feet; 1-8 Fourth-of
Julv, right limit, Otter creek; 1-4
Rainey bench, right limit, Otter creek;
also all interests which first party may
have acquired in Iditarod up to date of
signing, $33,000: $9,000 down, the bal
ance on Sept. 1, 1911; signed Nov. 30,
1910, at Spokane, Wash.
Tuesday, Jan. 17.
Mortgage— M D Doolittle to M R
Hussey, steam launch Zodiac, $75.
Wednesday, Jan. 18.
Location—T L McGrath, 19-b Midas
creek, claim on Sieil creek.
Location—Mrs TL McGrath, 3-a Lip
pik creek.
Thursday, Jan. 19.
Power of Attorney, General—Robert
Dixon to John Curran.
Power of Attorney, General—Barney
Haggerty and John Coyle to John Cur
ren.
Bill of Sale—Chas Peterson to Ches
ter Riley, 1-3 interest 1-b Black creek,
$1.
Deed—Stewart JE McDowell to Chas
E Miller and E H Slenter, east 1-2 lot
4, block 4, Iditarod, $1.
Friday, Jan. 20.
Lease—To W Bozeman by Tom
Davis, agent of Prospector association,
in town of Flat, $0 per year.
Mortgage—Bozeman & Richards to
Connolly, leasehold interest lit on Gold
street, Flat City, $400.
Deed—John Cronin to Martin Sick
inger, 1-4 interest Ateha bench, left
limit, Granite creek, adjoining 2-a, $20.
Location—P L Green, 9-bMint creek.
Location—P M Robbin, Bessie bench,
Flat creek.
Look Out for Nixon Fork
They do say that something is hap
pening over on Nixon's fork, and they
are just beginning to sit up and take
notice. However, don’t stampede until
you hear front us, for we may learn
something about it before it happens.
Dave Johnson, who had that big lay
on the Wildcat association on Flat
creek, has gone over there to meet
Tony McDonald, and it is just possible
that they have something under their
bonnets besides their toupes. Seri
ously, however, Nixon's Fork is look
ing good.
HOTEL ARRIVALS
RIVERSIDE HOTEL
Jay Smith, Jos Roberts, H Howard,
Dave Garssman, John Morrow, Geo W
Frye, Dan Sutherland and wife, O L
Anderson, E J Ives, Geo Young, Jack
Bellerby, T Sinclair, W M Graham,
Martin Redelspherger, Jack Bolton, II
P Eliason, J J Kelly, Frank O'Farrell,
W C Mitchell, Mrs J J Price, Mrs A
V Thorns, Wm Bates and wife.
REGINA HOTEL
W E Rowe, W E Nobie. J A Davies,
John Brown, Oscar Letourneau, R S
Hart, M Sims.
M'DONALD HOTEL
F Mazza, Geo Riley, Henry Hickey,
Peter Dahl, G C Buckley, G Dando
noau. H Hebsrt, H Liston, Paris Par
owliks, John Stefano, Dougold M Mus
sino, Henry McDermott, Will Sargent,
Wm Sheedy, Mr and Mr;. C'apt Jack
Green, Mr and Mrs Myrick, E D Mc
Donald, D M Ryan, J Lynch, J Don
nelly. E K Collins, Emil Johnson, Jack
Murphy, John J Blair, Robert Olsoi .
BEATTIE HOUSE
Geo Armor, Harry C Karsten, Mrs
Jefiries, J Hutchinson, C M Groat, . .
Kimberger, Ed Williams, Dominick
Sorica, H Lombard,Sam Palmer, Billy
Sandstrom, C Bailey, Bob Henry, John
Conaolly, E M Welch, Pat O'Connor,
Geo Riley, Archie Simpson, S Dens
more.
FOR SALE
One Scotch marine boiler !>} ft. long,
44-in. in diameter, water back. 45 ft.
of stack. All in first class conditior.
Address Pioneer.
The Sideboard sells Bock cigars.
Moose Cafe
—AND
WILLOW ST., IDITAROD
JIMMY NISHIMOTO, Proprietor.
Iditarod
Machine Shop
List Your Machinery
With Us for Sale
Black Street, Near Slippern'a Mill
The Northern
First Ave. and Willow St.
Finest Drink Emporium in iditarod
GEORGE MARSH AND HARRY ASHLAND, PROPS