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Hunters, Minsrs and Traders
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There Is Only One More Week of the
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at Urn Little Shop
So get your winter supply of Clothing while the selection is
complete. Everything in Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear cheaper and bet
ter than ever before. Dresses. Kimonos, Petticoats, Corsets, Un
derwear. Hosiery, Gloves and Novelties.
Everything in the Shop
Reduced 25 to 50 Per Cent.
Orders from our creek patrons filled carefully and promptly.
THE LITTLE SHOP
MISS J. O'BRYAN, PROP.
GAME WAS NOT PLENTIFUL
Henry Weir. John Holmes, A. A. Shon
beek. Charley Worden an 1 Ramps Peterson,
constituting a party of hunters who have
been on the lower river for some ten days
past, returned home Wednesday afternoon.
They state that the recent high water
drove the water fowl away from their
usual feeding grounds, and as a consequence
birds were difficult to shoot. However, they
had some fairly good sport, and all rejwrt
having had a splendid outing. They state
that two other hunting parties now on the
lower river are sure of good shooting, as the
water is rapidly receding and the fowl are
returning to their usual haunts.
The hunters ha 1 the customary amount
of engine troubles that amateur “spark
We have just received a fre>h .shipment
rf Candy, which we are selling for almost
nothing. Call and see how it is done.
LIBRARY BOOKS
We are selling out our Library books,
vour choice for 50c and 75c each.
COPENHAGEN SNUFF
fi-oz. tins, 3 for.$1.00
1-oz. tins, 3 for. .25
NUTS, 10-LB. LOTS
Brazils, per lb. 25c
Almonds, per lb. 25c
Filberts, per lb. 25c
Walnuts, per lb... 50c
Take your Photos now, while the light
is good, and send us your films to develop.
A ful! line of Photo Supplies always in ,
stock.
We are not going out—just need the \
money; that's all.
IDITAROD, ALASKA
pluggers” encounter. Henry Weir, how
ever. who was the engineer, is resourceful,
and safely guided the expedition clear of
disaster, although iLey limped into port with
only one cylinder working, the other one
having been put out of commission. John
Holmes has a collection of engine parts in
his possession sufficient to stock a repair
shop. He states that the plan followed was
to remove any offending part, and as the
engine seemed to work satisfactorily with
out them, all went well.
They may or may not have killed nil the
water fowl they could eat. But be that as
it may, the piece de resistance at one of
the last dinners of the expedition was a
porcupine, and those who have been com
pelled from lack of proper provender to
eat that delicacy cannot understand why
the members of the party should prefer to
eat that kind of meat if they had such
abundance of duck, geese, crane, etc., as
abundance of duck, geese, crane, etc.
The weather during the entire trip was
execrable. The boat used, which thev had
built especially for such trips, proved to be
excellently adapted to the purpose.
ENGLAND PAYS TRIBUTE
TO GEORGE WASHINGTON
Sulgrave. England, Aug. 11.—The first
formal ceremony in honor of the one hun
dred years of peace between English-speak
ing nations occurred here when Sulgrave
Manor, the ancestral home of the family of
George Washington, purchased for $42,500.
subscribed in Great Britain, was handed
over to members of the centennary com- :
mittee as a gift to the American peopb j
This quaint village was in holiday attire
in honor of the occasion. The visiting
party consisted of American Ambassador
Page, the Duke of Teck. Lord Shaw, and
other prominent persons interested.
GIFFORD PINCHOT TO MARRY
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13. Fremont
Older, the well-known newspaper man of
this city, has received a telegram from Gif
ford Pinchot in which the conservationist
announces that he is engaged to wed Cor
nelia Bryce, daughter of the former minis
ter to the Netherlands.
THE PIONEER SALOON
Has Just Received From
GROMMES & ULLRICH
$5,GOO Worth of
National Club, Marquette Rye and Monogram Whiskeys, Imported
Port, Sherries, Brandies, Gins, in bulk and case, Porter, Ale, Cham
pagne, Burgundy. Also the Celebrated AMERICAN GIRL CIGARS.
Phon© “Ramps” PIONEER SALOON
An Additional Bargain
Have you read our Iasi half-page ad in The Idiiarod Pioneer?
Those prices are bona fide, and we are going further and add Coal
Oil to the list.
Was $7,50,jjow $8,80 Case
SMITH’S GUN STORE,
IDITAROD, ALASKA
A United States Geological Survey expe
dition, consisting of seven men and about
twenty pack horses, arrived in Iditarod on
Thursday last, after having completed a
survey of a strip of country from twenty
1 to forty miles wide from a point on the
lower end of Lake Clark, in the Cook inlet
country, to Iditarod. The party is in charge
of R. il. Sargent, topographic engineer, and
Dr. Philip S. Smith, geologist, the other
members of the expedition being Edward
P. Carlberg, Charles E. Anderson, James D.
Nelson, Olif Holt and Carl Kelso.
The expedition left Iliamna bay on June
2 last, and, in spite of many difficulties en
countered, completed what Mr. Sargent
terms the most successful trip he has ever
made. All the members of the part}’ will
leave here Sunday for the Outside by way
of the up-river route.
Considerable speculation has been in
dulged in since the advent of the party into
the district as to the object of the expedi
tion, some optimistic people being of the
opinion that it was in some way connected
with the survey of the government railway
route.
Not Connected With Railroad Survey
Mr. Sargent states that the expedition
had no official connection with the railroad
survey whatever. He does state, however,
that the fact that the proposed route of
the government railway from Susitna to
the Kuskokwim and Iditarod, as proposed
by the Alaska railroad commission, had not
been covered by the Geological Survey, was
largely responsible for the work being un
dertaken at this time.
He expressed surprise that J. L. McPher
son, the prominent Seattle surveyor, who
had been commissioned by the Alaska engi
neering commission to make a reconnois
ance of the route to Iditarod, had not been
heard from here. It is probable that his
commission ended at the Kuskokwim river
at or near McGrath.
Work Accomplished
The work of mapping the country between
Lake Clark and Iditarod, just completed by
Mr. Sargent’s party, was a continuation of
work previously done to connect with other
surveys. The Survey now has completed
maps of a strip of country from the Yukon
at Ruby, through Iditarod, to Cook inlet,
which will be of inestimable benefit should
it be decided to run a railroad survey in
this direction, which now seems probable.
Starting work from the lower end of
Lake Clark, the party crossed the Chulitna
river, proceeded north and crossing the
headwaters of the Mulchitna. They found
that the information given them in regal'd
to the country by the residents of Iliamna
and other coast points relative to the coun
try through which they worked was very
misleading, owing to the fact that the di
rections given were erroneous. Thus the
headwaters of the different, streams were
confused. Crossing the divide at the head
of the Mulchitna. the party reached the
Hoholitna river, crossing that stream about
twelve miles below Whitefish lake, thence
proceeding north to Stony river and down
that stream about twenty-five miles to the
Kuskokwim flats, which they traversed for
twenty-five miles. This they found to be
an almost impassable swamp. ^ They then
crossed the Kuskokwim at Sleimute, at the
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NEVER SAW MOSQUITOES
ON THE KUSKOKWIM
George Van Pelt, formerly of Seattle, but
now the proprietor of a trading store at
Nicolai, on the Kuskokwim river, Alaska, is
registered at the Rainier-Grand, says the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He has been in
Alaska three years.
“I came from Wisconsin originally,” he
said, “and I used to feel the cold back
there, but I never do on the Kuskokwim.
My chief business is trading in furs, of
which that part of the country produces a
great quantity. Elk, deer, foxes and all the
other Northern animals are found there in
abundance, and for the sportsman it is a
paradise. It is also a gold mining region,
and I have several claims there, yet of
doubtful value. Too much is made of the
gold strikes in Alaska. The Chisana strike
brought a rush of people into that district,
and those who succeeded were few. That
meant a great many poor people, with no
particular opportunities, left stranded far
from home.”
Mr. Van Pelt spends the winter in the
North, getting together his supply of skins,
and brings them out late in the spring.
"They say that there are lots of mos
quitoes on the Kuskokwim in the summer,”
he said, “but I have never seen any, because
I come out every summer before they ar
rive, and they are all gone when I get
back.”
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i SIGNIFICANT WARNING
BY ITALY TO SULTAN
J ROME. Aug. 14.—Warning not to use
the cruisers Goeben and Breslau in the Med
iterranean was to be given to Italy by Tur
: hey, it was understood here today.
Ihe two cruisers are the same which, fly
ing the German Hag, harried the coast of
French North Africa last week and sub
|sequentIy narrowly escaped capture or de
! :truction by French and British warships,
i finally taking refuge in Turkish waters.
I A report was current shortly afterward
| that Turkey had bought them from Ger
jmany. The Turkish ambassador in London
! denied this, but he was evidently misin
| formed. There seemed no question today
j that the transfer had been made.
! Had Germany not. sold them, it would
j have been Turkey’s business as a neutral
! power to disarm and intern them until the
; war ends.
The British. F'rench and Russians and
I their friends, who have all along suspected
j Turkey of favoring Germany, believed the
I sale was a mere excuse to avoid this step,
| and expected to see the two cruisers as
| active as ever as soon as they deemed it
| safe to emerge from the Dardanelles again,
j Hence the contemplated warning to Turkey.
The choice of Italy, formerly Germany's
and Austria-Hungary’s ally, to send this
iwarning to the sultan was deemed highly
significant of the change in Italian sym
pathies.
Tom Howell was a visitor in the city on
Thursday and Friday last.
mouth of the Holitna, followed the divide
westward and crossed the Georgetown river
above the town of Georgetown, and fol
lowed the regular trail to Iditarod. Mr.
Sargent says that his surveys have proven
to him that maps just about to be published
by the Survey at Washington are erroneous ,
in several respects with reference to the
country just traversed by him and his party, j
The route covered by the surveying party ;
I was the same for a short distance as that j
| followed by Senator Henry Roden when he !
came from Iliamna to Iditarod last spring.
Mr. Sargent says he heard from the Indians
of a big government official who came
through there.
Difficulties in the Flats
The party met with no serious obstacles
except in the Kuskokwim flats. The season
has been exceptionally wet in that region,
and instead of crossing the flats in four
days, as expected, eighteen days were con
sumed. It was necessary to cut and lay
brush for the passage of the horses, and but
three miles a day could be made in this
manner. The sloughs were all filled with
water, and in traversing a distance of fifty
one miles a total of fifty-one bridges were
constructed. Outside of the inconveniences
connected with this portion of the trip the
party met with continued good luck, and on
reaching the Kuskokwim river they were
fortunate enough to be ferried over that
stream in a steamboat operated by Henry
Jung of Bethel, who happened to be in the I
vicinit}' of Sleimute.
The Kuskokwim river on August 20, the
day on which the party crossed it, was
higher by ten feet than ever known at this
season of the year, and it was fully as high
as during the freshet after the break-up of
the ice last spring.
Frank Kern arrived with the mail early
Saturday evcningg.
The Little Delta, Captain Si Atwell, left
for Dikeman Monday morning, and re
turned with a load Wednesday.
The launch Beaver made a trip to Dike
man on Tuesday last.
The launch Yentna left early Friday
morning with several passengers for down
river points.
Friday, Sept, i I.—Alice down Melozi, 8:45
a. m. Alaska, Fairbanks for Dawson, 8
p. m. today. Casca up Carmacks, 5 a. m.
Canadian down Big Salmon. 8 p. m. 10th.
Davis up Kotlik. 9:30 p. m. 10th. Dawson
down Coffee creek, 6 p. m. 10th. Delta up
Louden, 9 p. in. 10th. Whitehorse up Cof
fee creek, 8 a. m. Yukon up Eagle, 6:30
a. m. Jacobs at Gibbon. Julia B. up Kal
rag, 10th. Reliance up Kokrines. 7 :40 a. m.
Sarah up Kotlik, 11:30 p. in. 10th.
Vtiwatka up Rampart. 6:30 a. m. Tanana
! up Nenana.
The scheduled trip of the Prairie Bell for
Dikeman tomorrow has been canceled.
The next scheduled sailing of the Prairie
Bell is set for September 18, when
-he will connect with the Washburn for
Whitehorse direct. On September 25 the
Prairie Bell will leave for Dikeman to make
connections with the steamer Louise for St.
Michael.
GOVERNMENT LIVESTOCK
SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION
Considerable interest was manifested yes
terday afternoon in the sale of government
horses and other property which had been
I I he equipment of the United Stales Geologi
cal Survey party which arrived here last
j Wednesday. The property was disposed of
at public auction at the Adams barn, on
I Willow street, and a fair-sized crowd had
been attracted by the posted notices of the
sale. R. II. Sargent, the head of the ex
petition, acted as auctioneer, and Dr. Smith
raked in the coin. The officials stated after
the sale that they were well satisfied with
i the prices obtained, in view of the condition
| of the local market, although the purchasers
had secured some good bargains. All of the
horses and other property were disposed of.
Among the horses auctioned were a few
ranging in weight around a thousand
pounds, and one of these was bought by P.
Uotila for £75. which was the top price.
When in condition the animal should weigh
1.250 pounds. Knute Koland bought four
of the animals at insignificant prices, and
W. F. Kilgore bought three. Joe Hovarth
secured for £9 an animal which has a repu- i
tation throughout Eastern Oregon and Mon
tana as a race horse, and which has won
much money and many souvenirs on the
track. Some of the animals were knocked
down at figures as low as $4. Wada the
Jap became the owner of an animal which
is said to be about as hard a proposition to
handle as could be desired by anyone look
ing for strenuous exercise.
The horses were purchased for the ex
pedition at Pendleton, Ore., last summer,
and are declared to have been excellently
adapted to the expedition’s needs.
BEAR STORY FROM DAWSON
DAWSON, July 15.—While washing i
dishes in a camp on the government road
near Leota bluff, on the Klondike river,
thirty miles above Dawson, a few days ago,
George Ameraux looked over his shoulder.
Grinning at. him was a huge black bear.
Ameraux threw a pan full of dishwater
at his visitor. While Bruin was trying to
rub the soap from his eyes, Ameraux rushed
to his tent, returned with his rifle and
killed the bear.
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HMTAROD DISCOVERY, OTTER
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PACK TRAIN FROM CHISANA
SAID TO HAVE BEEN ROBBED
Major Moodic, commander of the Royal
Northwest mounted police in the Yukon,
has just received advices from Constable
Bowen, in charge of the post at Snag, on
the White river, saying a report had reached
there that Andy Taylor, A. Beiswanger and
“Windy’* Johnson were held up and robbed
of $00,000 in gr id from Chisana, says the
Dawson News of August 7. The story was
brought to Snag by mushers en route from
the Chisana. The hold-up is said to have
occurred on the Chittisstone river, on the
; trail from Chisana to McCarthy, and the
gold is reported to have belonged to Ives
I and partners. The report from Snag is
dated July 27.
Taylor is well known a.s the sourdough
packer and trail blazer of the White river
country. He was one of the early stakers
in the Chisana camp, and last year brought
to Dawson the first gold from that camp
and the stories which started the general
ytampede ot Chisana.
Beiswanger is another old-timer in the
White river country.
E. Schink, Dawson trader, who arrived
this week from Chisana, says that the day
before he left Taylor and party were get
ting ready to leave for McCarthy with a
pack train, and that it was reported they
were to take out $50,000 in gold. Mr. Schink
heard nothing later of the reported hold-up,
but said that when the outfit was prepar
ing for the trip boys at the roadhouses
; had fears of bad men being in the country,
and some had predicted that some day a
hcld-up would take place.
Charley Bush, Charley Drake. Ray Hay
ion and Lyle Robinson, who returned to
Dawson yesterday from the Chisana, report
that they heard the story on the trail of
he alleged hold-up, but do not know that
it is true. Some of the party state that
Ives was seen hastily leaving the camp with
revolvers and a horse. They say the Chi
sana is so full of liars and knockers that
'here is no believing any tale that comes
out of the region. The output of the camp
for its entire life, some of them think, will
oe about $500,000. Discovery claim and
-everal others are reported worked out.
Billy James is in the camp, but is not get
ting a big lot of pay. It is said he spent
most'of the $40,000 which he received last
year in fighting lawsuits over the ground.
Hold-'Jp Story Branded as a Fake
The st< ry sent out fr< rn n iws n to the
tTVrt that \ncly Taylor. A. H“isangcr and
•Windy" .JohnsMi wen* held up and robbed
f §60,000 ;n gold while coming rr 1:1 llio
hi.-ana is branded by tin* Skagway Alas
kan as having ab.-olutely not one word of
truth in it, and how it could have origi
nated i< a mystery to that, paper. It is
•dated that Harney Taylor, vvii > pa— d
through skagway hi route to \tlin, was
me of the party entrusted with the g ! 1
dust, amounting to §i>5.uno. ami it was
lelivend at ifs destination without mis
hap. Harney Taylor ;s a brother of Andy
Taylor.
COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE NOTES
Court adjourned at Ruby on August 26.
The application of Dr. Carter for citizen
ship papers has been withdrawn, and he
will file a new application.
Word lias been received that an examiner
from the department of justice is on his
way to I( lit a rod.
Thomas P. Aitken has filed suit against J.
J. Gallagher to collect on a note for $450.
with interest and costs.
M. H. Marston has filed suit against Tony
Letnes, Louis Wiig and 0«car Olson to re
cover $271.50 alleged to be due for goods
furnished by Karl Theile.
Charles Johnson has commenced suit
again.-t Charles Strandberg for $441 alleged
to be due to himself and others for labor
performed, and a writ of attachment has
been issued. J. C. Moody is attorney for
the plaintiff.
S. Taroin has commenced suit against
Riley & Stetzer fi r damages, wages, ex
penses, attorney’s fee, etc., in the sum of
$822, alleging that on June 8 last, while at
work in a cut on the defendants’ workings,
he was struck by a bucket being transported
by means of a cable, and sustained cuts in
each leg of a severe nature, thus incapacitat
ing him for work. W. F. Harrison repre
sents the plaintiff.
TERM NEW TO FINANCIERS
CAUSES WALL STREET SCARE
NEW YORK, Aug. 17. Now it develops
that Wall Ftreet was scared out of its boots
the other flay because the clerks consulted
1 the cable code instead of the dictionary to
1 find the meaning of “moratorium.”
When the god of war went on a holiday
j in Europe, one of the Wall street houses
| received a cablegram from its London cor
| respondent which ended up, “Moratorium
[expected.” The clerk consulted the code
I book and found that “moratorium” was
! the symbol for “We draw on you for
$7,000.”
The word went through Wall street like
' a prairie fire, and visions of a flood of
$7,000 drafts almost tempted the financiers
to put up the shutters. The cable com
! panies were persuaded to have the message
repeated, and it came back with the curious
word still unchanged.
The mystery remained unsolved and Wall
street was in a cold sweat until somebody
happened to notice a piece on a news
ticker to the effect shat a general mora
torium had been declared in Europe, and
that moratorium simply meant the suspen
sion of the payment of debts pending a re
j adjustment of finances. That explained
! everything, but there are more white hairs
m Wall street’s mutton chop whiskers than
; there were a few days ago.
FRENCH AVIATORS ARE
READY FOR THE FRAY
i -
PARIS, Aug. IS.—French aviators are
; awaiting eagerly a test of strength with
j Germany’s aerial forces.
The two military air schools have worked
\ along radically different lines. The French
' have depended almost entirely on heavier
than air machines, the Germans, while not
without flyers of this type, placing the most
| reliance on giant dirigibles.
France’s air fleet, if called on for actiin.
will cross the frontier about 500 machines
! strong, most of them carrying each a pilot
i and a fighting man, and a few crews of
three each.
They will be met by a consideraolv
, smaller number of German aeroplanes, but
by a number of monster Zeppchns and Par
j sifals, with gun-carrying capacities far in
■ excess of the heavier than air machines and
I with crews running to twenty or more men.
The German theory is said to be that
, the dirigibles’ greater lifting pow.r and
consequently more formidable fighting
, equipment, as well as their superior sta
j biiity, will give them an important ad
j \ antage over the aeroplanes.
The French view is that a single aero
plane can put a dirigible out of commis
sion as easily as a dirigible can destroy an
aeroplane, and that whereas the buss of a
dirigible will he a serious matter for the
German air fleet. France will hardly fear
(hat of an aeroplane or even a considerable
number of them out of so many.
PORTUGAL TO SUPPORT BRITAIN
LONDON. Aug. 8.—Portugal’s decision
to support Britain in the general European
was was announced today, after Germany
had demanded information of her inten
tions.
A dispatch from Lisbon says that at a
special meeting parliament today the dec
laration was made that Portgual would place
her-elf unconditionally on the side of Eng
land, according to the terms of her ancient
treaty. The declaration was received with
enthusiastic cheering for France and Eng
land.
Portuguese warships have been ordered
to prepare for a cruise around the coast,
and foreign shipping in Portuguese ports has
been notified to remove its wireless installa
tion.
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