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FOR PRESIDENT OF T1IE UNITED STATES
( INCLUDING ALASKA)
Wimtiuow Wilson, of New Jersey
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT
Thomas R. Marsh vll, of Indiana
FOR GOVERNOR OF ALASKA
J. F. A. Strong
FOR TERRITORIAL SENATOR. FOURTH DIVISION.
Henry Roden
RAILROADS FOR ALASKA
While the benefits likely to accrue to Alaska from
the building of railroads into the Interior have been gen
erally recognized by all who h ive given any thought to the
subject, it remained for Air. Falcon Joslin, president of the
Tanana valley railroad and of the Alaska wireless telegraph
company to place before residents of this section, in a con
crete form, the absolute necessity for the construction of
such railroads, if this great territory is to make any sub
stantial progress. And Air. Joslin's remarks were the more
convincing in that they came, not from a man indulging in
mere persiflage, but from one thoroughly acquainted with
the railroad question in ail its phases—especially in its ap
plication to Alaska.
it was, therefore, a source or much gratihcation to all
who listened to Mr. Joslin to see the earnestness with which
he pleaded the cause which he had at heart, and to hear
the convincing arguments he put forward in its behalf.
However much we may have pondered over the railroad
problem in the past; however much we may have recognized
the vital necessity of better means of communication with
with the Outside: it has remained for Mr. Joslin to awaken
the people of this section to instant action, which may end
in untold benefits and advancement for Western Alaska.
Dealing with the Alaska railroad question in a general
way, it had occurred to but few of 11s in the Iditarod that
we also were interested. Discussing railroads in the terri-1
territory, we seem to have taken it for granted that what-;
ever section of Alaska was to be immediately benefited, it
would not be ours. Mr. Joslin has pointed out to us that
that attitude was a mistake. He has shown ns that a rail
road from the Susitna valley to McGrath, at the month of
the Tukotna. is not merely a dream, but a living possibility.
He painted a picture of progress and prosperity which
would follow in the wake of the railroad such as few of us
had dreamed of, but which none of us could controvert;
and he spoke with such evident sincerity and absolute
knowledge of his subject that none could listen to him with
out being imbued with still greater belief in the magnifi
cent destiny which awaits the territory of Alaska, if her
sons and daughters will but keep their shoulders to the
wheel and help the good work along.
Dwelling on the agricultural possibilities of the country
Mr. Joslin waxed eloquent; but, as he pointed out, the
greatest benefit to be expected from the construction cf
railroads will be felt in the mining; industry. He declared
with confidence that the increased output of valuable min
erals alone would, every year, more than cover the total
cost of constructing 1,001) miles of railroad through the ter
iiioiy, its to ilie miiux oi population, Mr. Joslin may be
too optimistic, but lie, at least, does not think so, and" his
position in the business world and his wide experience en
title his views on the point to every respect.
But if only one-tenth of the benefits promised from
railroad construction come to fruition, we would be repaid
many fold for any time or labor we might expend in press
ing our claims to recognition upon the powers that be—in
this case the members of the railroad commission. Tore
peat Mr. Joslin's advice: “Strike while the iron is hot.’’
That is now.
HENRY RODEN FOR THE SENATE
In the selection of Henry Roden as the Non-Partisan candidate
for senator in the first Alaska Legislature the residents of this
section have made a wise choice- Mr. Roden has been in the North
nearly la years, and the struggles he has gone through during
that period were such as to peculiarly lit him to represent this
pioneer community. Mr. Roden is a man of broad sympathies, and
it is doubtful if any candidate could have been selected who could
do more to harmonize the different factions than he can.
A practical miner, he has suffered all of the hardships that fall
to the lot of those who spend their lives in seeking the hidden
wealth of the North, and he lias emerged from those early trials
with a reputation for rugged honesty and big-heartedness sur
passed by none.
His legal training and much deep reading have enabled him to
approach all questions with an open mind, and although it would
be unnatural to expect that he will at all times think as we think
and do as we would do, yet it is our firm belief that in Henry Roden
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we have a candidate who, when elected to the Senate, will prove a
credit to himself and the people who sent him there.
But Mr Roden can not win his lilRit alone- If he is to receive
support from other precincts in the Fourth division, he must be
able to convince those people that he has the solid support of this
community, and the series of addresses which he will make to the
voters of Otter precinct within the next few weeks will have that
object in view.
Mr. Roden is entitled to and must have your undivided sup
port.
W h H I1!) COT I
JMfiMl Msisii
One more parcel of gold bearing ground fell into the lap of th°
\ ukon Gold Company last W ednesday morning, when E. E. Britt
and Tom Maher disposed of their holdings on Flat creek for a sum
which is said to approach the hundred thousand mark. A substan
tial cash payment has been made and the balance is to be paid as it
comes out of the ground.
The ground covered by the latest deal consists of 2, 3, and -!• b.
and what is known as the Jumbo association. It was staked by
Britt and Maher in January 1910, and much of it has been worked
under lease ever since.
Judge Fuller arrived on the M. L. i Falcon Joslin. president of the Tan
Washburn. The bait was detained on ana Valley Railway Company andof tlie
a sandbar at the mouth of the river for Alaska \\ iivless Telegraph Company,
a coui le of days. j eame tip on the M. L. Washburn.
THE TURM OF LUCK
Upon my farm I sadly looked, for drought had left it sere.
‘‘Alas!” I cried, “mv goose is cooked—there’ll be no crop this
year.” The grass was burned to gray and ted, the corn leaves
willed were; and everything seemed stark and dead, save weed rind
cocklebur. And so I wrung my hands and wept, and made a
grievous roar; and in the time while I slept the rain began to pour.
It seemed a new and lovely world on which I gazed at morn; the
grass, refreshed, was all uncurled, and husky was the corn. And
things I considered dead were convalescent then; the stately cabbage
reared its head, the carrot blushed again. So, after this, when
things look black, and hick seems gone for keeps, I don’t intend to
cry "alack!” and spring a line of weeps. The darkest hour, the
sages say, is just before the dawn; and fortune’s headed oft our way
when every hope stems gone.—Walt Mason.
The New Placer Law
The following is a copy of the law recently enacted by Congress amend
ing the mining laws of Alaska:
A bill to modify and amend the mining laws in their application to the Ter
ritory of Alaska, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted, etc., That no association placer mining claim shall here
after be located in Alaska in excess of 40 acres, and on every placer mining
claim hereafter located in Alaska, and until a patent has been issued therefor,
not less than $100 worth of labor shall he performed or improvements made
during each year, including the year of location, for each and every 20 acres
or excess fraction thereof.
Sec. 2. That no person shall hereafter loc3te any placer mining claim in
Alaska as attorney for another unless he is duly authorized thereto by a
power of attorney in writing, duly acknowledged and recorded in any record
er’s office in the judicial division where the location is made. Any person so
authorized may locate placer mining claims for not more than two individuals
or one association under such power of attorney, hut no such agent or attor
ney shall he authorized or permitted to locate more than two placer mining
claims for any one principal or association during any calendar month, and
no placer mining claim shall hereafter be located in Alaska except under the
limitations of this act;
Sec. 3. That no person shall hereafter locate, cause or procure to be lo
cated, for himself more than two placer mining claims in any calendar month:
Provided, That one or both such locations may be included in an association
claim.
Sec. 4. That no placer mining claim hereafter located in Alaska shall be
patented which shall contain a greater area than is fixed bylaw, nor which
is longer than three times its greatest width.
Sec. 5. That any placer mining claim attempted to he located in viola
tion of this act shall be null and void, and the whole area thereof may he lo
cated by any qualified locator as if no such prior attempt had been made.
]_ TOLD IN THE MAIL ~
Great Britain will reduce the tolls
for vessels passing through the Suez
canal, in order to counteract the free
tolls for American ships through the
Panama canal.
The decline in the birthrate is worry
ing the German authorities, and the
government is investigating possible
causes. The Socialists ascribe tbe de
cline to the high cost of living.
Tbe one battleship which congress
has sanctioned will cost $15,000,000.
Nicola Capelli, of Pitigliano, Italy,
left a will providing that a gallon of
wine should bo poured over bis coffin,
and that two barrels of the same liquor
should be supplied fur tbe use of tbe
mourners, who were requested to dance
around bis grave.
The German Kaiser favors tbe
occupation of the Turkish dominions by
tbe powers, so that order could be
maintained from frontier to frontier.
He says that present conditions are a
disgrace to civilization.
Rogers, the renegade American gun
runner and trader, who was killed re
cently in British Central Africa by a
p jsse of government troops, was a
pioneer of the Klondike.
Carson 1). Boren, one of the founders
of Seattle, is dead. He was 85 years of
age
The city of El Paso, Texas, being
overrun with American refugees frjin
Mexico, congress appropriated $100,000
to supply them with means of trans
I portatiou to any part of the United
States they desire.
Cot. Samuel Hughes, Canadian
minister for defense, predicts tn.u
Great Britain will be at war with Ger
many within six mouths.
Mr. Me Master, the American consul
at Cartagena, Colombia was shot dead
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in tli.it c iv r.c miy as tho rosalt o; an
accident.
A bomb was thrown into a Chicago
saloon August 1. It did much damage
! to property, but nobody was injured.
The German foreign office will inves
1 ligate tlie murder of two of their sub
jects in ; lexico late last July.
Orozco, the leader of the Mexican
rebels, says that, Madero must resign if
lie wants peace.
Twelve thousand passengers from
Europe landed in New York on August
ii. Tills' is a record.
A group of American automobile
| manufacturers have decided to flood
: England with their surplus automobiles
and seil them at $250 apiece.
EARL BYERS HAS GOOD
Etrl Byers, who returned from a
’hunting 11 i p to the mouth of the
Iditarod on the steamer M. L
; Washburn, reports ducks am! geese
veiy plentiful in that region, and in
j proof thereof Karl brought in 6u
; geese and 40 ducks. There were
! i o other hunters there that Mr.
1 Byers saw.
WORLD’S OLDEST MAN
DIES IN MANZANILLO
Manzanillo, Mexico. August 20.—The
oldest man in the world died here last
week. His name was Jose Cali verio
and he was 185 years old. The old man
always claimed tlie lille of the world's
oldest man, but his statements regard
ing his age were doubted. Investiga
tion of tiie church records of Tuxapan,
however, show that lie was born there
in 1727, or fifty years before the Ameri
: can declaration of independence.
SAYS EE WAS BORN A FEMALE
Berlin, August 25.—The Baron von
j Zobelilz lias made a request to Herr
j von Jagosv, the Berlin police superin
tendent, asking that he be allosved to
be regarded as a woman and permitted
to go about in woman’s clothes. The
baron, wiso is of an ancient and noble
house, declared seriously that a mistake
was made on the day of his or her
birth. Perhaps a voluntary mistake,
for the Zobelilz family was eagerly
expecting a male offspring to prevent
the noble name from falling into
oblivion.
SHARK HAS SOLDIER'S THREE TOES
Charleston, S. C., August 24.—Cor
poral Kirkpatrick, of Company 78, at
Fort Moultrie, near Charleston, was
attacked by an eight-foot shark and
seriously bitten while bathing off the
post barracks yesterday.
The vicious fish bit off three of Kirk
patrick's toes and lacerated his left
ankle. The soldier was saved by sev
eral comrades who beat upon the water
and yelled to drive the shark away.
The old Brumbaugh & Hamilton
building on Front street, which was
purchased recently by the N. C. Co.,
will be used by them as a warm stor
| age. Last year the N. C. Company
| had to rent storage room.
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR
PRES. TAFT’S CAMPAIGN
The executive committee of the
Republican National committee I
which is to help Charles D Hilles
run the Taft campaign is composed
of the following;
J. T. Adams, Dubuque, la.
Chaiies F. Biooker, Ansonia,
Conn.
Fred \V. Estabrook, Nashua.
James P. Goodiich, Indianapolis.!
Alvah H. Martin, Norfolk, Va.
T II Niedringhaus, St Louis.
S. A. Perkins, Tacoma, Wash.
Alfred T. Rogers, Madison, Wis
Newell Sanders, Chattanooga,
fen 11.
Charles B. Warren, Detroit.
Roy O West, Chicago.
Ralph Williams, Dallas, Ore.
All the members of the executive
committee will devote their whole
time to the campaign Messrs !
Brooker, FIs'brook, Goodiich, I
Martin and Sanders will work at.
ihe New York headquarters; Xie> -
ringhnus, Warren, West, Rogers
and Adams at the Chicago head
quarters and Perkins and Williams j
on the Pacific coast.
ONLY ONE CORRIGAN
With the dt ] a ture from Yukon of
Major Fitz-IIorrigan, the old guard of
early day police otiicials is all gone and
only the memory of halcyon div; re
mains. Major Horrigan was with us iti
prosperity: also during the lean perio 1
which, from present indications, is now j
terminating, and we only wish it had i
been his lot to remain with us in the
prosperou.-. era now dawning. That his ;
future may be as useful, happy and
pleasant as lias been iiis residence in
Yukon is the wish of bis host of friends.
There never lias been but one Mijor
Horrigan and there never will another.
— Whitehorse Star.
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WEEKLY)
; Tiie following list of letters remain
uncalled f. r at the Iditarod Alaska)
; post office on Sept. 9, 1912. Parties
calling for any of the letters below will
j please call for “advertised-’ letters.
I Fekert, Fred Ne-.vland---, Thos
Kelley, Ja~ T Pernvich. Hivko
FAIRBANKS COILS ANNUAL FAIR
Fait banks, .September 7. The third
annual fair was held line last Monday
I ar.d Tuesday and was a great success,
although rain hindered outdoor sports.
There "’as a great variety of exhibits,
including agricultural produce, quartz,
furs, livestock and Fairbanks babies.
V hen J. it. McGovern went to the
Kuskokwim lie took along a pack
j horse. There was nothing remarkable
I about the horse, except that he dis
! appeared when the party was at the
! head of Donlun creek, about 25 miles
| from Georgetown, A search was in
stituted and the animal was eventually
j located about 15 miles from where they
j had camped; he was making fur Idila
! rod. _
Discussing Major J. F. A. St tong as
a delegate to the Democratic conven
tion at Baltimore, an Eastern paper
says that the major belonged to “Idide
rot.” later on the paper spells our
city name “Idididerot.1'
Deputy Marshal E. L. Vawter arrived
on the M. L. Washburn last Monday,
with funds tor the payment of expenses
connected with the district court. Mr.
Vawter will not remain in our midst
very long.
EASTERN INVESTOR BUYS
BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN
Bremerton, Wash., August 20.—
When E. A. Fuller, a tobacco importer
of Hartford, Conn., receives a letter
from a realty company of this city, he
will learn that his Western ranch of
100 acres is guarded from marauding
Indians by a tleet of I'ncle Sam's w i
vessels, which are anchored some tea
fathoms above it at low tide.
Fuller wrote to the realty company to
whom he had been referred by 3rad
srteel’s,asking for information about his
fa'Tn, which lie located accurately bv
range, township and section.
Investigation showed '‘the farm" lies
at the bottom of the bay between Fort
Orchard and Bremerton, where the
l’aific reserve tleet is lying at anchor.
Fuller did not state how became into
possesion of the farm. He asked for
information relative to its value, also
the probability of finding a customer
for it, as he desired to sell. So far the
realty man inis found no purchaser.
Shorty Gragan is reported to be
doing exceptionally well on his Bonlau
creek lay. The ground is spotted, hut
runs as high as $1 90 to the foot in
places.
NOTICE OF SPECIAL TERM OF COURT
In the District Court for the Territorv o.
Alaska, Fomth Division.
In the matter of calling a Special Ter:
of Court for the Fourth Judicial l>n
sio:i, at the town of Iditarod, Alask
In pursuance of an order ot the IIo.i
ora hie F. K. Fuller. District Judy •
made th.is 20th dav of August, 1912,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a
Special Term of the District Court for
the Territory of Alaska, Fourth Division,
will be held at the Court House in the
town of Iditarod, Alaska, beginning on
September 20. 1912. at the hour of 11 :o >
o’clock a.u'.. for the transaction of all
business which may be then and there
pending, and which may regularly come
before the Court.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand as Clerk of the District
Court, and affixed the seal thereof thi .
2util dav of August, 1912.
C. C. PAGE,
^ 1 Clerk ot the District Court,
- Seal - Territorv of Alaska.
I —.— ) Fourth Div:sa
Dr. Heinrich Wort man n.
Offices: Iditarod and Flat.(Tty
Telephones at each place
is! BEHLft & CARTER,
Dentists
Cilices, Pioneer Tlru" Stores,
Pint City
Appointments by Telephone
ALFRED E. MALT BY,
Attorney at Law
Notary Public
Ofiiee Simpson Bid^. First and Willow
CM AS. E. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law,
Notary Public. Conveyancing.
Rich mend St., Iditarod
Wicksrsham & Roden,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Iditarod, Alaska
GEORGE WOODRUFF ALBRECHT,
Attorney at Law
Michigan. '81 ilenku. '10 Kentucky. 81
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