An interesting story in which several Kloudikers are s fid to have
been bumped hard was received in the mail today Iron Poitland, Ore.,
savs the Dawson News of Nov, rSth. Schalkenbach, Dickey and Daub,
former Da wson traders of the film then styled the Dominion trading
Co , and Charley Jones, of the old Dawson trading firm of Jones &
Hayward, are among those mentioned as having been victimized A
special from Boise, Idaho, to the Oregonian of Oct. 26th tells the story
as follows :
High finance and the mulcting of the firm ot Schalkenbach and
Dickey, leal estate dealers and brokers ot Seattle, and its associates,
Albert Daub, also of Seattle, and C. E Jones, ot Snnnysidc., Wash.,
out ot $52,000 bv the Great Western Beet Sugar Co. of Mountain Home,
through its officers, Garrett, Daniels, Colthrop, Howie and Griffith, was
the sensational storv narrated in the tederal court in this city today dur
ing the tiial of the Mountain Home land fraud cases.
In one of the payments on tiiis small fortune, the Seattle people
handed Garrett a check for $21,000, according to the testimony of U.
M. Dicker, who was placed on the stand together with his associates.
Charles Schalkenbach. Daub and Jones. Each corroborated the others’
testimony.
Their firm contracted for the purchase of 128 j acres of land under
the Great Western pioject when it was represented by Garrett that the
land was legally relinquished. After the deal was closed and payment
made, it was discovered the papers were irregular This led to sus
picion. The purchasers ascertained the laud they had bought was not
assigned.
The prosecution proved that Garrett sold government land, then
secured "dunum " entremen to file and relinquish on it so he could
give the Seattle firm title. To make matters worse for Schalkenbach
and Dickev, the government contested and cancelled their lands. They
were therefore ‘ stung" for the entire §32,000.
Certain of the checks they had given Garrett had been changed,
the names on them erased and others substituted.
NEGLECT OF ALASKA
Congressional Delegate Wickersham, on his official way to Wash
ington, Isas a word or two to say as to what he thinks the federal govern
ment ought to do for his constituency in Alaska. Brit fly put he will
contend in congress that Alaska should he developed for the people and
not lor the monopolies ; that in furtherance of that end there should be
an elective legislature in that territory that will enact laws according to
the local understanding of local needs, and that also there should be in
auguration of such federal policy with respect to Alaskan administration
that the interests of the individual shall be considered as well as those
of the corporation, and that it shall not be truthfully said of that terri
lory that it is altogethei the big man's country.
The more power to the Wickersham purpose and the stronger hope
that lie persists in it with honesty and earnestness and success.
To conservative statesmanship in the United States that has no
direct interest in the corporate exploitation of Alaska, that territory
appears as yet to be a sott of terra incognita. There is appreciation, t<
be sure, that gold has been discovered, that fisheries have been developer
to tome value and that towns ate springing up and railroads are being
built in that territory. But lire assumption is that ali this activity is
but pioneer effort to bring to the service of humanity the more refractory
resources of natuie. It is, moreover, a sott of foregone conclusion with
these same conservative statesmen that the ultimate development ol
Alaska depends upon the man who does things upon a big scale, and
that it is time enough to take action upon the form of government suit
a Die to that territory when the big man gives the word.
From 1866 to 1896—-almost a generation -the big man was wliolh
Telephone 67 Wood for Sale
Mutchler Eros.
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! WEEK-DAY
■Stage Line Between Iditarod and Fiat City
! Leaves Fiat City 9 a. m. Leaves Iditarod 3 p, m.
' ENCLOSED RIGS AND FOOT WARMERS
J Iditarod Office, Next to Sherburne House, Willow Street,
i Flat City Office, Grand Hotel.
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nRS^NUL Beattie House Thruoot
Bath Rooms in Connection. Furnished Rooms and Spring Cots
First-Class Stables and Dog Houses
You Should Buy One or
More More Bonds is
sued by the Arctic
Brotherhood Club:
The money derived from the sale of the bonds will be put
into a public improvement—no, a public necessity—a public hall.
The bonds will be amply secured by the building and lot,
at the corner of Second avenue and Richmond street.
The bonds are issued in denominations of $25 each, and
draw 8 per cent, interest.
These bonds will be redeemed before the expiration of the
year, as only a limited number will be issued.
BO'/ ONE Oil MORE AT ONCE, AND HELP A PUBLIC ENTERPRISE
Bonds may be had at the Miners & Merchants Bank, the Merchants
SafM-ur fr??1Khef S?ard of Trustees: Charles Ross, Jos. H. Smith. Charles
E. Miller, Robert Simpson, I. Goldstein. DO ST TODA Y !
WHEN IN IDITAROD STOP AT
The Sherburne
POOL, CIGARS, TQ3ACCOS, CANDIES WILLOW ST.
obvious of the fact that Alaska was natural treasure house. He was
a skeptic who at first railed at the idea of the United States paying $7,.
000,000 for a territory that Russia was ready to throw away He real
! ized his mistake only when courageous enterprise went gold hunting
and discovered an.empire of varied and most valuable commercial and
industrial possibi
Wheat raised ru Alaska was awarded the blue ribbon at the Cen
tennial exposition in Philadelphia. On Sewaid peninsula, where Nome
gold miners have burrowed in the sands of the beach like moles, there
are miles upon miles of arable valleys in which grass and grain grow as
high as a man’s shoulders, and upon the hills and mountain sides in
that section and for hundreds of leagues southeast, there is grazing
ground almost unexcelled. And this ai a line more than .. thousand
miles nearer the Arctic circle than the bleak coast of Labrador.
Everybody knows the story of the discovery of Alaska's marvelous
mineral resources ; also, in * general way, of its wealth in timber and
oil and coal. Everybody does not appreciate, however, the vast area
comprised within the Alaska boundaries, nor the facilities which it
affords the average man in the average occupation—an area that ex
ceeds the total square mileage of Oregon, Washington, California, Ne
vada and Utah by only enough to make a good sized county or two,
I11 this vast empire cities are building and railroads are being laid. It
is a region that invites the best pioneer enterprise of the time, a region
that one time will be more populous and richer than the Scandinavian
peninsula. It is a region fitted for the growth of the American state- -
not upon the theory of monopolistic overlordship, but with the view of
developing strong, thrifty and enterprising citizenship,—r Portland
Evenii g Telegram
Upper Flat Transfers
Are Now Most Au Fait
There has been a deal in Upper Flat
mining property that sounds much like
the opening gun of a long campaign.
Fred Chapman bought a half interest
in the. Idaho assassination and Lon
Doggett sold it to him the price
being somewhere in the neighborhood
of *3,750. There was a tidy sum paid
down, and there are a few more dollars
to slip over when the swallows home
ward By.
Upper Flat is looking awfully good
to some of the wisenheimers who
passed the bet last spring. The Idaho
association, in fact, was staked more or
less as a gamble, while the man who
was cutting the notches was saying to
himself that lie hardly saw til* use,
but might just as weli anyway.
There was gold all over the top of
the ground, and is yet—wherefore the
bead of Flat croak will produce many
interesting things before another
freezenp.
Another Unfortunate
Added to Insane List
After a winter spend at Boulder,
during which ho came gradually to be
lieve that his family were gathering
about him, only to meet teiriblo ends
at the hands of assassins, John Call, an
Irishman of 32 years, was taken into
custody last Tuesday by the authorities
and is now held in the federal jail until
lie can be sent to tlie insane asylum at
Mt. Tabor.
On Wednesday morning he was
brought before an insanity commission
sitting in Judge Maltby's court, and
was adjudged insane without much de
liberation, as it was apparent that the
man was totally unba'anced.
He has lived in the North fora num
ber of years, but so far as known at the
present time there are no relatives to
help him in his hour of need.
Ming To It Bat Jof
There was something stirring in
Bill Ansley’s hall last Satuiday
night, the occasion being the ad
vent of one of the niftiest little
dancing parties that Bill has had
for some weeks.
There were about forty couples
’there and they tote frills off the
skirts ot Terpsichore until a sma]]
hour of the morning had crept in
| when no one noticed it.
Kemps orchestra consisting of
\ Chas. Kemp, Mrs. M. Maher, Jack
I Donahoe and ''Shorty” Drapeau,
contributed four parts of the melo
dies ensemble with some chiaroos
euro,—an extinct animal found
only in Iditarod and the Quartier
Latin.
There were several bars of eats,
too. The ladies furnished this por
i tion of the entertainment, and it is
i said that many a mail's heart was
j reached through bis stomach that
| "ig'A-_
WILL LOOK AT
WILD GOOSE
A1 Morency will soon be on his way
to Fairbanks. He goes to investigate
the high tariff on wet putty, and inci
dentally will shake hands with his
family. Besides this he will have the
satisfaction of peeping at his bank ac.
count, the same being the result of
certain earnest efforts on the part of
energetic gentlemen who have been
scratching around in the gravel of the
Wild Goose association on Engineer
creek. _
Place your order for cigar and dis
play cases of all kinds, shipped first
steamers. J. I. Johnstone, distributor
for Grand Rapids and Wilmarth Fix
tures Co.
Lemon Hatchery Started
in the Garden of Love
The Glory-Hole Slasher is about to
depart from hence, so we are informed
by the Juneau Dispatch. Alaska is
about to lose one of her most valuable
citizens and little friend of the rich.
What? Don’t know the Treadwell
Terror? fJttlu Louie Shackleford, the
Republican who lived on a plutocratic
ticket? Well, ha’s going away to Ta
coma to watch it grow (Lewd-ie will
like Tacoma), and incidentally sink the
hooks of iniquity a little deeper into
the virgin soil of Washington.
Mavbo he hasseveted his connections
with the Morganheitns — maybe he
hasn't. It. strikes us with peculiar
force that they need a man just like
Louie right where they are sending
him.
THEY WELL PACK
HU&iAfiS AROUiMD
Simply by way of inauguration, the
i Mutchier Brothers will start some
stages Saturday night for the Flat City
dance.
The Mutchier boys are breaking into
tin; stage business between this city
and the creek metropolis, and this will
be their first appearance. One of the
peculiarly attractive features of the
performance, however, is one that
should be kept entirely under your
bonnet—they figure on taking out
folks free gratis for nothing.
When the regular stage is estab
lished, which will be Monday, they
will hike from Fiat hitherward at 9 in
the morning. After that they will
turn around and hike back at 3 past
meridian. _
Will Sargent, the pioneer miner and
Flat City realty enthusiast, was a vis
itor in the big metropolis during the
week. Bill is preparing to hike for
his promising property on Boulder
creek, where he will valiantly jar the
geology and gently fondle the form
ation of that vicinity.
All cigars dealers sell Bock cigars.
SUMMIT
ROADHOUSE
Furnished Rooms and Bunks
Cafe in Connection*!,
Liquors and Cigats
Tel: “Summit Roadhouse."
For Outfits
FLAT CITY
Enlarged Reraodele
BLACK’S
HOTEL
Fort Gibbon
Iditarod
Machine Shop
List Your Machinery
With Us for Saie'
Black Street, Near Slippern’s Mill
Having Done Ones
The Arctic Brotherhood Club of this
perfectly good town will hold one of
them things Monday night. Some call
it a high jinks and some say as how it
is a low jinks, but by jinks we’il bet ^
there will bo some junks that you !
never did beam on afore.
This is a stag party devoted entirely 1
to the culture of good fellowship. You ;
plant tho seed and strive to make it
grow. The greatest savants today say ;
that liie best fertilizer is a large glad-1
some smile which you will permit to i
spread over your features regardless.
They do say that your being an A. B. |
or a prospective A. B. gives you no
coupons for the orchestra circle, if
you have a lonesome friend, you are i
supposed to iiook one over on him and !
bring him there, just to Leaeh him
what a poor misguided wretch lie is by
not belonging.
The nt i
BS m
There will be one large smoker at
the Iditaro;! Club tonight. It will be!
a free-for-ail-eateh-us-catch-can-hit-in- j
clinch, with water on the side and!
averything in but tlie license. You can j
go as far as you like, and if you don’t !
cure for tiie scenery they will put you i
on a branch iine or call in a new oper- j
at or.
The event signifies nothing in par
ticular except the desire to get to
gether and sing “Hi Lee, Hi Lone
some,” or other touching ballads of
like purport.
Under the management of a bunch of
pirates who were with Captain Kidd in
his famous raid, there has been pre
pared a program, but you don’t need to
travel by the time-card if the batting
list doesn't look favorable, Be there,
and bring along a friend—there will be
a special course in hydraulics.
1,500 Acre Farm
Won in 14 Years
—
Portland, Ore., Jan. 10.—Fourteen
years ago David Koopman, a poor Ger
man immigrant, located himself in
Central Oregon, living alone in his
rude cabin, sometimes with barely
enough food to keep him in comfort.
Yesterday he came to Portland for the
first time. In these 11 years ho had ac
quired a farm of 1,500 acres, a large
flock of sheep, a herd of cattle, broad
fields in cultivation, a wife and two
children. For himself and the other
members of his family he bought
round-trip rail and steamship tickets to
his native home in Germany. They
will spend several months with his rel
atives.
Koopman’s property is near Post,
Crook county, and is one of the most
valuable farms in that section.
“I knew that 1 could make money if
I tried,” said Koopman. "The land
was there and all I needed to do was to
go to work on it. I took it up little by
little. Tilings have been coming my
way pretty fast the last, few years, and
this year I decided I could afford to
take my wife and our two children to
see my folks in the old country, which
none of them ever have visited.”
The Koopman family traveled nearly
100 miles by stage. Mrs. Koopman
formerly was a school teacher in the
district of which the Koopman farm is
a part.
FOR SALE
One Scotch marine boiler 9i ft. long,
44-in. in diameter, water back. 45 ft.
of stack. All in first class condition.
Address Pioneer.
FOR SALE—Cheap, 1,100 feet T-rail
and spikes. Apply White & Lefergy,
Dikeman.
Full line optical goods at Simpson’s.
BEST HOUSE
Thediliri@r©^ li\j iDITAROD
THiRO AVE. AND WILLOW ST.
Pioneer Sheet Metal Works
$29,000 Worth of Yukon Stoves
To be sold at Reduced Prices
FLA012 VOrn ORDERS NOW FOR
HYDRAUUC PIPE and NOZZLES '
yjf & $yar Larges! Poo! and Billiard Hall In Flat City.
h M $ /(\j& « Choicest Cigars and Tobaccos,
Stationery, C3nciy, Nuts, Soft Drinks
Try One of Our Famous ‘4Flat Creek Manhattan^"
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Expert Watch Repairing
NUGGET JEWELRY MADE TO ORDER
j SPRING BEDS,
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l MRS. C. STOMER, PROP j
HNE WINES, LIQUORS ANO
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT CAFE IN CONNECTION FURNISHED ROOMS
Large Warm Stables and Dog Kennels
Quaker Maid Whiskey our Specially
Rooms Spring Bunks
ftflGuth of Flat Creek
A ITCH ISON & LAWRENCE,
Kaltag General Store
Stables for Dogs—l.ots of Salmon
The Only Government Trail to Idi'arod and Innoko, and Short
est Starts from Kaltag.”
Flat City