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ICE HELD THEM ON
LOWER KUSKOKWIM
On account of an inshore wind that blew steadily for a month
in Kuskokwim bay, driving the ice toward Bethel, all transporta
tion on the Kuskokwim river, at least below Bethel, seems to have
been held up to the middle of June, interfering with the'bunch of
stampeders who were on their way to the Good News country and
stopping the reception of freight, badly needed all along the river.
William “Shorty” Davenport came over from Georgetown early
this week bringing news of the lower river and conflicting reports
concerning Good News bay. He had received a letter from a part
ner, written at Bethel on June 12, telling about the wind that had
piled the ice on the Kuskokwim Flats. The letter stated that it
■was impossible to get more than 16 miles below Bethel at that time.
None of the people at Bethel had been to Good News, and all
their information was second-hand and unreliable. The general
tone of reports was to the effect that the camp had shown nothing
unusual and would be no better than last year, or for a number of
years past.
Mr. Davenport returned this week to Georgetown, intending to
go up the Kuskokwim on a prospecting trip. He has heard good
reports from the Holiknuk country and will go there.
He told of the two chechacos who spent the winter on Swift
river, and how one of them was frozen about Christmas time while
making his round of the traps. His partner buried him and never
came down to report the matter until a week or so ago. No in
vestigation has ever been made into the circumstances of this
tragedy.
Mr. Davenport also corrected the Pioneer on the name of thp
man who lost the effects of Hunter on the Hahaliknuk. It was Mr.
Fraser instead of Gray, as the Pioneer published last week.
Money at the Head o! Happy
~Ed Donnelly, who with Win. Deeter
ing, better known as Caribou Bill, has
some good ground at the head of Happy,
arrived in town on Monday on a hurry
up trip for supplies. Donnelly reports
that on shovelling last year’s waste
into the boxes over $1,000 worth of
gold was recovered. They started work
in earnest on Wednesday last and ex
pect to show good returns before the
end of the season.
It will be remembered that this part
nership took out some $7,000 or $8,000
during their short season last year.
The $1,000 above referred to was the
result of only three days’ work.
Call up Slippern for screen doors and
wire screen. The stock on hand is fast
decreasing while the number of mos
quitoes is still increasing.
Sleep at the Idltarod Hotel.
Barthel Loses $5,000
Herman Barthel, the Fairbanks'
brewer, cannot enthuse particularly re
garding the Iditarod camp, so far as he
is personally concerned.
What with the loss of his consign
ment of keg beer, which went down on
the barge Chena, he is also a heavy
loser by last Sunday’s lire. He figures
his total loss at between $5,000 and $6,
000. However there is still a goodly
supply of the liquid and if the demand
grows as it should do there will be fur
ther supplies shipped from Fairbanks
Barthel’s beer is an Alaskan product,
and is equal to anything manufactured
on the Outside.
Launch Men! If you have any
surplus rigging, store it with the
Pioneer Storage.
Get your films developed by Miss
Tjernsrtom, McDonald Hotel.
Second Avenue, Next Iditarod Hotel
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GET YOUR CLOTHES WASHED
AT THE
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FAPJSl
THE DISPOSAL OP THE EMPTIES.
Dear Teacher: In re problem of con
duct upon being found with empty pop
bottles, and the umpire being un
deserving of the same, or out of shoot
ing range, I usually act as follows:
I provide myself with three empties.
The first- I reserve for the chap who,
before the game, states that he has'nt
missed a Cub-New York game in fifteen
years, and then, with Brownie and
Matty pitching, will ask during the
third inning, “Who’s that pitching for
the Cubs?” He gets his on that part
of the head best designated by the
phrenologists as the bunch of self
effacement. Bottle No. 2 is for the
player who, having mussed up an easy
chance, walks around in a circle ex
amining a make-believe dished finger.
He gels his one on the department of
general intelligence. The last, shot in
the locker is for the fan who, when a
fielder muffs an easy fly, bellows out,
“Gee, that was a dandy hit 1 ” Bang
on the bump of generosity for him.
_*__ * E. R. IC.
LINGUISTIC PHENOMENA.
Introductions to baseball games yet
unplayed in the early sporting extras
always are interesting reading,
especially so when one is familiar with
and appreciates the stress of uncer
tainty under which the bright young
men must prepare them and how much
they themselves must consider them in
the light of wasted effort. We do have
some bright young men engaged in
employment in Chicago — there are
more in New York—-but in Phila
delphia—well, say ! There is one in
Philadelphia—on the Bulletin, if we
identify the clipping—who, if you read
him. would cop the accolade of your
most disitnguished approval. As pipe
(randomly selected):
“However, all this leads to the
egress—that’s no animal, that’s the
thing Barnum copped Lite dimes on
when he wanted to blow ’em off the
lot, so that the pole wagon could get
under way, hauling the quarter poles,
‘centers,’ and those patience testers,
the ‘blue boys.’ What we wanted to
say was that despite the elementary
presentation of short duration, those
of our town went against the bunch
from the Michigan lake front in a con
test at the Philadelphia ball park at
3:30 this afternoon.”
“Ireland is a nation of sharp con
trasts,” saith the traveler. Isn’t it
though? Harrowing tales of distress
and the reports of an international golf
tourney coming from adjoining coun
ties.
We warbled to an Englishman, some
what by way of a jolly, that we con
sidered it rather impertinent, not to
say nervy, on the part of certain
proselytising Americans to try to force
baseball on England, saying, still by
way of a jolly, that if England saw
anything in the American national
game that appealed to it, it would
have adopted it long ago. “Adopted
it!” he cried, “Why, my dear fellow
if we saw anything in baseball we
would have discovered it, invented it,
evolved it—had it for our own; for the
principles of baseball were known and
discarded in England long before
America was colonized.” Now there
is only one comment on a proposition
such as that, and that is the helpless
exclamation, ‘‘Can you beat it ? ”
There are rumors—possibly you would
call them reports—abroad to the effect
that Mobile next winter will go in for
the improvement of the breed of hor
ses, taking up that important work
where the sister city of New Orleans
laid it down. Now Alabama, in which
state Mobile is situated, is one of the
banner anti states of the union. When
the other commonwealths in the
southern tier picked daintily and dis
criminately at reform while it was
waving by, Alabam swiped the whole
platter. They go in so strongly for the
anti thing down that way, that when
a ‘‘drastic measure” becomes so thal
it is not so hard to take they repeal it
and substitute another. In no place
else do they seem to stop things for tie
pure pleasure of st tpping them.
Therefore, we take it that they would
take about as kindly to improving the
breed of horses as they would to the
cultivation and propogation of yellow
fever germs.
BASEBALL STANDINGS.
June 14.
National League.
Won. Lost. Pet.
New York. 30 18 .685
Chicago . 29 18 .617
Philadelphia. 30 19 .612
Pittsburg. 27 22 .541
St. Louis . 25 22 .489
Cincinnati. 23 26 .469
Brooklyn . 18 31 .367
Boston. 12 37 .244
American League.
Detroit . 36 14 .720
Philadelphia . 29 17 .630
Boston. 26 21 .553
Chicago. 23 20 .534
New York . 23 22 .511
Cleveland . 20 30 .400
Washington. 17 32 .348
St. Louis. 15 32 .319
Northwestern League.
Spokane . 35 16 . 686
Tacoma. 34 18 .653
Vancouver . 32 20 .615
Seattle. 22 29 .431
Portland. 19 30 .387
Victoria . 11 40 .211
This Was Record Mail
The Reliance brought in the record
mail for the Iditarod last week and the
local postoffice is still struggling with
the mass of second class matter that
camo in.
There were eight tons in all, consis
ting of 41 sacks of first class and regis
tered matter. The second class matter
numbered 73 sacks, of which half a ton
is billed to the Innoko, and will go in
on the Florence S.
Thirty-seven sacks of registered mat
ter has piled the postoffice full of mer
chandise, and it must have been a busy
day at Montgomery Ward & Co.’s store
in Chicago.
Brother Hands Bouquet
New York, May 30—Charles Taft has
made the statement that his brother,
President Taft, will be a candidate of
the business men for re-election.
Quiet and cozy—Iditarod Hotel.
Casey Moran Has
Stampeded Again
The Pioneer i9 in receipt of a copy
of the first issue of the Porcupine
Press, of Porcupine, Ontario, a pros-!
perous twelve-page metropolitan look- j
ing newspaper with the name of Casey i
Moran flying at the masthead. Casey
has worked on every newspaper in the (
North and everywhere else, so it will i
occasion no surprise to his friends here i
to learn that he has invaded the new
Porcupine district, ready to hand out
the mining dope.
The paper was printed on April 29
and a rousing summer was predicted
for the camp and a railroad to be com
pleted by July 1.
The district is a quartz producer of
wide extent, situated in Ontario at a
point midway of the northern part of
the province. An extension of the
western boundary line of Canada and
the United States through Ontario
would just about pass through the
Porcupine district. It is about 100
miles south of the lower end of Hudson
bay.
In the editorial announcement, the
Press declares itself on the mining
question and says it is out to boost for
legitimate development and stock
broking. A corps of six or seven men
will do the writing for the paper, and
the Press puts the name of every one
of them on his stuff. Besides this they
will receive occasional contributions
from writers on the different branches
of the mining game.
Casey is described as a “newspaper
man who has been in every mining
camp of note in North America. He
has contributed to many magazines and
is generally recognized as an authority
on Alaska. Yukon and other northern
mining camps.”
Among the properties now being
opened up are several valuable ledges.
One group of claims boasts an ore-body
200 feet wide, nearly a thousand feet
feet long and the diamond drill has
shown a depth of 400 feet. This
property is worth millions. It is pre
dicted that there will be 40,000 people
in the district before the end of sum
mer. _
Ruby Excitement Cools Rapidly
That there is nothing in the Ruby
district to warrant excitement and that
the country is only a good prospecting
proposition is the verdict of several
Iditaroders who returned from Ruby
city early last week.
Among those who came back were
Torn McKinnon, A1 Burke, Otto Mar
holz, Curley Benson and others, and
they are all of the opinion that the
country has great scenic advantages.
Long creek has a little pay at the
mouth of Bear Paw gulch, the forma
tion is the right kind and there is a
chance that something will be found
some day. Old windlasses and cabins
speak of the prospecting of other days,
and the country has had a very thorough
test.
Ruby city is mostly tents as people
are afraid to build. They are already
stampeding away again to Fairbanks
and Hot Springs and Red Mountain.
Many are coming back to the Iditarod.
When you visit Flat creek call at
Carroll’s Globe Bakery and Coffee
House for a lunch.
AN AFTERTHOUGHT
If I were chosen president of the
United States, I don’t know how
I’d circumvent the office-hunting
skates; I’m sure I don’t know what
I’d do should puzzling critics rise;
my actions might be booby-like,
again, they might be wise. Per
haps the White House guests would
speak about my grace and charm;
perhaps they’d say “His nifty nobs
is sure a false alarm.’’ I know one
thing that I would do, to put stars
in my crown. If some old message
must be penned, I’d boil that mes
sage down. It’s more than likely
my mistakes would make the voters
wail, and patriots would freely say
that I should bo in jail; I’d wobble
when I should be firm, be firm when
I should yield; I might be haughty
to the poor and truckling to the
heeled; I might get things so badly
balled that voters’ worried souls,
would gather on the White House
lawn and shoot me full of holes.
But I would try to shape my course
so that when all was done, my term
expired and my career as statesman
fully run, some grateful citizen
would rise, to speak for me one
word, to say that while my wires
were crossed, my conduct most ab
surd, I did one thing that fairly
earned a deathless, bright renown;
when I had a message to grind, I
always boiled it down—Walt Mason.
Try a Portola Eggnog—they are the
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