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IDITAROD, ALASKA
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SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT: SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK
OFFICERS:
T. .1. Nestor. President
( ’has- Ross, Vice President
E. G. Lindberg. Manager
John Holmes, Cashier and Assaye-r
Thomas Riggs., Jr., head of the American boundary survey
party, has written from Washington saying that he will have only
about twenty-five men at work the coming summer. Only about
twenty live miles of survey remains before reaching the Arctic
ocean. Reaburn and Dr. Smith wintered at Rampart House.
The scene of the big stampede of a few months ago into the
Sixtymile, near the American line in Yukon territory, is practically
deserted- It is now generally believed that there is no gold in the
camp except the little found on discovery.
In accordance with Law 66, Postmaster General Hitchcock has
ordered that the rate charged for government messages over the
wireless between Kaltag and Iditarod should be reduced to one
half of the commercial rate, which is $3 for ten words. The line
is owned by Falcon Joslin and associates, and heretofore they have
.charged government officials full rates.
Rudolph Aim, on his homestead six miles from Fairbanks, had
•a bear holed up all winter and at last accounts was preparing to
butcher it. The bear -robbed Aim’s -cabin last fall, and when the
weather turned cold it came back and settled down for its -long
-winter sleep.
An order came from the Postoffice Department recently order
ing the consolidation of the Treadwell with the Douglas office. The
idea is distasteful to Treadwell people, who will try to get the
order revoked
The phenomenal pay epened up on the Daly bench of Eva
•creek, Fairbanks, by Strath brothers last month, was holding out
-at last accounts. It is said to be the richest thing ever uncovered
in the Tanana. Delegate Wickersham is one of the owners of the
rgi'OUl»£ .
S. J. Marsh, Chandlar commissioner, recently left for New
York on business connected with his Chandlar quartz interests
This winter when the weather observer at Sitka wired to the
■office at Seattle showing the exceedingly mild weather throughout
Southeastern Alaska, the Seattle man did not believe the report
and sent back the curt reply : “You’re a liar.”
At Seward they sell three cat>s of Libby’s milk for £5 cents.
Friday, February 9, was an unlucky sfiay for the miners ear
$Yoyed in the Treadwell mines. There were three accidents
whereby two men metli-n-sta-nt death, a third the loss of his eye
sight- and three others suffered severe injuries.
“Happy Jack” Felix, James T. Kelly and Leif Holte have
returned from the Outside to begin preliminary work on their
rground in the Red Mountain district, lower Koyukuk. Felix got
•out some easy money there last year.
The fur trade ha-s been very poor at Tanana this season.
Fewer pelts have been received than rin any previous year.
A. G. Vaclion, prosnenent business man of Tanana, recently
went Outside to spend the time between now and opening of navi
:gation in touring the Middle West and Bp.-et.
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GILMORE STRENGTH
NEGATIVES BY VOTE
The following “special” was sent to the Pioneer collect, bear
ing the signature of the Nome Nugget. The Nugget is an admin
istration organ, always advocating straight party politics and
imposing upon itself as the first and highest duty the unquestion
ing obedience to party commands. No other paper in Alaska has
been quite so servile in its relation to the political machine.
With this attitude of the Nugget in mind, that paper and its
instigators are welcome to any benefits they may derive from their
boost, which is hereby paid for at press rates and published free.
It follows
“Nome, April 14.—With about eight hundred persons present
a wildly enthusiastic ratification meeting was held Saturday night
for Gilmore for delegate. In answer to letters and telegrams to
Delegate Wickersham a letter dated January 1-3 v.-as read in which
he says.: ‘I would gladly support Gilmore, and if our enemies
want to nominate him without forcing him to pledge himself to
support something vicious—which he would not do, of course —
let them do it.’
“Gilmore is absolutely unpledged, except standing squarely
on the Cordova platform. Gilmore made an able speech, meeting
with an immense ovation, and the platform was enthusiastically
endorsed.
At the close of the meeting a straw-ballot election was taken,
the men voting blue ballots and the women white. Gilmore re
ceived 520 men votes and 140 women votes, while Jennings and
Harrais received but 40 votes men and women combined, divided
also unequally between them. Blue tickets became exhausted and
fully a hundred men were unable to vote.
“The Gilmore ratification vote unequals Delegate WJcker
sham’s vote in the entire Second division at the last election, but |
excels the Orr vote by 200. Insurgents and regulars are working j
in complete harmony, all standing pat for Gilmore. It is conceded
Gilmore will carry the Second division almost solid -in August ”
For the city election in Nome x\pril 2 there were registered)
1,013 voters. The men casting straw votes for Gilmore, as related
above by the Nugget, numbered 520, a bare majority of the regis- j
tered voters of the city. The only qualifications necessary for
casting the straw ballots were the will and the physical strength
to lift a slip of paper into a hat. It is supposable that the ma
chine made the very best showing possible, and that enough bal
lots were cast by men disqualified as electors to change the result
of the straw vote from a majority to a pronounced minority of the
registered voters of the city. The Republicans are welcome to all
the elation they can get out of these figures. To us they indicate!
something very different from a vote for Gilmore “almost solid in
August.” We do not know the magnitude of Gilmore’s vote in the (
late city election; but it probably slightly exceeded bis straw vote)
for delegate.
Wickersham’s letter of January 13, read at the Nome ratifiea- j
tion meeting, taken an connection with his message to the Nome)
Industrial Worker after the adjournment of the Cordova conven-!
tion, shows that the present delegate knows the so called harmony
between the factions, as far as it goes, has been brought about by
the surrender of the anti administrationists, and that Gilmore is a
party to the-surrender and is now in line with Alaska's worst ene
mies. Wickersham will not aid Gilmore in binding his bargain.
If the Nugget has any more free advertising matter of a kind
! with the above “special,” let it send it along and circulation will be
given to it on the strength of its negative weight in the Republican
balance; but it is only fair that it should be sent prepaid.
j
Commissioner K M. Stanton re
[Ceived through this week’s mail
copies of the law governing and
■directions for his guidance in hold
ing the election for delegate to con
gress August 13.
The order and notice of election
should be made of record by the
commissioner at lea-st sixty days
before the day o-f election and
should be posted at least thirty days
before the election. Said order
will create and define the several
voting precincts as established by
the commissioner. No voting pre
cinct is to be created unless it con
tains at least thirty qualifed voters
Dikeman, Discovery and Flat will
be among the precincts named and
it is possible one may he provided
which will include Willow and
Bonanza. Iditarod will be pro
vided for by the city council
STAMPEDING
FOR DIAMONDS
London., March 13 —One of the
most marvelous diamond stakes
that the world has ever heard of
has recently been made in the dis
trict tributary to Bloemhof, Vaal
River diggings. Eight thousand
persons joined in one stampede
from Johannesburg, and thousands
of other peotde have gone from
there and different sections of the
tributary country. The richness
and extent of the gems discovered
is said to have startled even the
old-time miners who are accus
tomed to seeing big things in dia
| mond mining.
‘ Location blanks—Pioneer office.
GOT WISED UP
AT LAST MOMENT
A 'Correspondent of the Nome Indus
trial Worker of March SO, two days
before the city el-eetisn saul: a‘I want
now to call your attention and that of
the voters of Nome to the news just
out that Gilmore—at present mayor—
is about to bs nominated for delegate
to congress by the standpat Republi
cans at the Cordova convention. Let
them all think what this means, and
see if they can get tfie hang of the
frameup which condemned Gil to eat
a big pile of standpat crow before he
made his peace. Why don’t he come
cut and call his ticket the Standpat
Republican ticket right away and not
be fooling us with the People’s ticket,
as him and his fellow candidates call
themselves. Also I notice Doc Sloan,
the progtessive health officer, has -been
appointed marine doctor. Is this more
of the arrangement?
“Why can’t Gilmore and his buneh
come out squarely and say where
they are at and tell the people that
they have refoi tried and are forgiven
by them that want to control Seward
Peninsula? I bet a dollar that if there
are invitations given to Crater Lake
next summer Gil won’t be left out in
the eold same as last year.’’
NEW FIBM BOYS OUT MORROW
Edwards & Gray recently 'bought out
the mercantile establishment of John
Morrow at Opbir City. Pete Carlson,
another business man of Gphir, carried
with him an outfit of stationery printed
for the new firm by the Pioneer on
starting home last Monday.
Mr. Morrow will remain in Gphir
tisll about the middle of summer. It
was the report some time ago that he
intended to go to Bolivia upon settling
;up his affairs in Gphir, but he may
perhaps change his mind in that re
gard. _
ALEXANDER T. MARSHALL SOUGHT
The whereabouts of Alexander T.
Marshall is sought for by the postmas
ter of Iditarod. There is important
mail for him.
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GOLD
IN _ PINES
We are just beginning to discover
the mineral wealth of the Philip
pines. The bureau o! science at
Manila has had mining engineers
and metallurgists looking up the
possibilities and mapping the coun
try. They say that the islands hold
districts which are rich in gold,
copper and iron, and they have
recently discovered extensive un
derground gold workings which
were made by the Igot rotes. The
openings of these were so small
that a mtu of good size could
hardly get in, hut iurther on, whet
the mineral was reached, large
rooms had been excavated and tons
ot gold ore taken out. This ore
was crushed in rock mills, many
of which are still to be seen, and
the gold was then panned and
melted into bars. It is said that
the islands have been yielding gold
as lar back as the third century
A D , and during the last 200
years there have been numerous
mines operated bv the natives,
Spauia.ds, Englishmen and Ameri
cans
The Spaniards and tlie English
men were not allowed to work in
the Mountain Province, on account
of the Igorrotes and other head
hunters, hut since the Americans
came miners have scattered ovtr
1 he country and some o; them aie
now holding and developing prop
erties which were located some
years ago.
One of the best districts is near
Baguio, where is now the summer
capital ot the Philippines. There i>
one company there which has 35
claims, in which are 135 veins
of gold. These veins range from
one to 20 feet in wid'h, and some
can he traced for two miles along
the surface. One company has the
ore developed for 300 feet below
'he grass roots and lias blocked out
a half million tons of o:e. In some
of the mills they are crashing the
ore and taking it out on amalgama
tion plates. In others the ore is
treated with cyanide. The above
infoituation comes from Frank G.
Eddiagfat-ld, who is a mining en
gineer of flie bureau of science.
Another mining district which is
now being exploited is in the little
island)oi Masbate. This was also
worked by the ■_ liinese, and it has
three companies working in it
today Some of tlie veins average
§14 per ton and it is gotten out
with air drills
They are mining gold on the
eastern coast of Luzon, about 150
miles ft-om Manila This region is
an old one and much of the output
comes from placer mines. There is
a tract of river flats upon which
the gold is washed down from the
adjacent bills Some New Zea
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landers are getting this gold out '
with dredges and others are now j
bringing in ■dredges to take up and
wash up the soil. Qiua.tz boulders j
are sometimes found at the bottom, j
and some of the best diit averages;
over -$i per cubic yard. The gold j
is coarse and melted down it has a
value of $iS per ounce. There is j
also gold in Mindanao, and thete
are copper iron, roal av-i either
minerals of value in Luzon, Cebu,
Mindoro and elsewhere.
NOTICE
All persons owing the City Drug
store are hereby notified that their ac
counts have been assigned to the under
•signed, to whom they are hereby re
quested to make payment.
CYRIL P. WOOD.
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ton and Cedarbrook, also tine old Port, 1
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Notice of Marshal’s Sale
United States of America, 1
Fourth District of Alaska, 1 SS'
Public notice is hereby given, that by
virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias (orexecu
tiou), dated March 21st, A. I). 1912,
issued out of the District Court of the
United States for the Fourth District of
Alaska on a judgment rendered in said j
Court, on the 21st day of February. A. D.
1912, in favor of W. S. Clark, doing
business as Clark Lumber Company,
and against W. EL Torn., I have, on
this 3rd day ef April, A. D. iqi2,
levied upon the following described real
estate, siuated in the town of Flat and
territory of Alaska, to wit: All of the
leasehold and other interests of the
defendant W. H. Tom in and to a cer
tain piece or parcel of ground fronting
forty feet more or less on the easterly
side of Gold street in the town of Flat.
Otter precinct. Fourth Division, Terri
tory of Alaska, said parcel of ground ex
tending back from said Gold street to
Flat cmek; and which said ground is
bounded on the north by the premises
now occupied by one Lee Roby and on
the south by the premises now occupied
by one S. llashow.; also all and singular
that certain one-story cottonwood log
building being fourteen feet wide and
eighteen feet deep, situatedon the above
described parcel of ground ami fronting
on Gold street aforesaid. Also all and
singular all the logs, lumber and other
material now on the said described
parcel of ground and being used in
the erection and construction of a
cabin thereon and adjoining said cot
tonwood cabin; and all the logs, lum
ber and other material otherwise situ
ated upon said premises and property, and
that 1 will, accordingly, offer said real
estate for sale, at public vendue to the
highest and best bidder, for cash, on the
4th day of IVlay, A. D. 1912, at
2 o’clock p. m., at the front door of the
Marshal's office in the town of Flat,
Otter precinct.
Dated, Iditarod, Alaska, April 3rd.
A. D. 1912. H. K. LOVE,
U. S. Marshal, Fourth District of Alaska.
By T. \V. How’ell, Deputy.
Uhas. E. Taylor, Plaintiff's Attorney
Select Outside Lumber, corn 1 »*»*il
iron and roofing paper at Ross A: Xes
ter’s.
We still have left a fine line of
sun mas
and Trousers. Fit and Work- [
manship guaranteed.
Wile '=1
First and Willow.
Eyes Examined for Glasses.
ROBERT SIMPSON
Films Developed
And All Kinds of Photographic
Work Done.
MiSS TJERNSTROM. MCDONALD HOTEL
ADMINISTRATOR S NOTICE
In the Probate Court for Otter Pre
cinct, Territory of Alaska. Fourth
Division.—In tlie Matter of the Es
tate of John S. Harding. Deceased
Notice to Creditors.
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed. administrator of the estate of
John S. Harding, deceased, to the cred
itors of, and ail persons having claims
against tlie said deceased, to exhibit
them, with the necessary vouchers,
within six months after the final publi
cation of this notice to the said admin
istrator, at the office of Wickershara &
Roden, at Iditarod, Alaska
HENRY RODEN,
Administrator Estate of
John S. Harding, Deceased.
First publication March Jo. liili’.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To Fred A. Nichols, j. A. West by and S. T K in -
caid.
You and each of you are hereby notified that
during the year 1911. we have expended not les*.
than one hundred dollars in labor and improve
meuts upon each of the following 0 ->• ribe-.i
plaeer mining claims, situated in t]ie Good
News Mining District, Alaska, to wit
Fox association claim on Fox creek, tributary
to Aralik river; Gap association claim on Aralik
river; May hood association claim on Faro
creek, tributary to Aralik river: Hoffman
ciation claim on Trail creek, tributary to Aralik
river.
And you, Fred A Nichols, or anyone claiming
by, through or under you, are hereby notified
that unless you pay vour proportion t f said ex
pense incurred on the said Fox association ami
Gap association: and you, J. A. Westby. or any
one claiming by, through or under you, an
hereby notified that unless you pay your share
of such expense incurred on said May hood ass-,
ciation; and you, S. T. Kincaid, or any one claim
ing by, through or under you, are hereby iu ti
fied that unless you pay your proportion such
expense incurred 011 said Hoffman association.
within ninety days after the last publication of
this notice, your interest in said properties will
become the property of the undersigned .inder
the provisions of section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States of America.
r. J. B. L*. BLANC.
JULIUS HOFFMANN.
W M . Id HSF.LL1
Tate of first publication March 30, 19: :
Date of last publication June 20, 191:
NOTH'’li Of I'Oi’d I lH K»
To Mrs. M McKenzie [Formerly Mrs H
Beyer]:
You, your heirs and assigns, are hereby no
tified that the undersigned have expended in
labor and improvements the sum of one hun
dred dollars—$100—for each of the years of 'oio
and 1911 upon placer mining claim known as
and called the Three Star association, on Yan
kee creek, in the Intioko mining and recording
district, district of Alaska.
You are further notified that if at the o\
piration of ninety—90—days after the last pub
lication of this notice, yon fail or refuse toco 11
tri ute your proportion of such expenditure
\o .r interest in said claim will become the
property of the undersigned, your co-owners
m der section 2324 of the revised statutes of the
United States.
J. H MeLKAN,
K. C BKYKR. Co-Owners,
f irst publication Feb. 24. 1912
Last publication May 25. 1912.