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IDITAROD, ALASKA
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Of which Arbuckle is ruler and revolving hub,
Will on Roof Garden night quench your thirst by the
tub
And pacify all you hungry with delicious palatable
grub.
By last week's mail E. J. Ives
received a letter from Harry
Hamburger, dated Ruby, Feb. 9,
from which the Pioneer is per
mitted to quote as follows:
From present indications it looks as
if it is going to be the big thing. Up
to New Year's there was a feeling of
doubt and the only real hope at the
time was Bob Martin on the Nuahmah
bench. Flint creek: but .... our
faith was only half half hearted. The
bench has light pay, but they have not
lined up pay anywhere else on Flint
except a little gold about COO feet be
low Martin’s. Shortly after New Year’s
good reports were brought from Glen
and Fernald & Altman have ground
that will go $4 to $5 a foot. Gil Edgar
has pay above them, but not so strong.
Bill Alford has the ground below. In
November Lew Colbert quit working
with Alford and went to Trail creek.
Early in January thete were rumors of
pay on Trail. Colbert’s partners are
Henderson (formerly of Flat) ar.d a man
uamrti i ucj i\cuu
holes, restaking and jumping. When
people talked to them they said they
had 1 ceut on bedrock. They got all
they wanted, or could get, and about
the last of January let it out that they
had four feet of 10-cent dirt about two
miles below: and at the same time
Knute In!regard had four feet of better
than 10-cent dirt about two miles above
Colbert's hole. Since then Knute has
gone six feet into bedrock it; his hole
aud gets from 5 to 25 cents, making
over ten feet of pay. Trail is about
thirty miles long and the knowing ones
claim there is pay the whole length.
Wherw Colbert got pay it i« twenty
three feet to bedrock—ten feet of muck.
Lower down about four miles Pete
Jorgenson is supposed to have pay at
ninety feet. It is reported on the street
this morning that Bill Alford has taken
an option on the Prospector association
on Trail, $2,000 down and $63,000 later.
I do not know how true this is. About
two weeks ago pay was found on Mid
night creek, a tributary of Long. Mid
night is over six miles long. Ed Drake
(who worked on Willow), Billy Bowers
and Matt Ragan made this strike.
They have eight feet that will go
nearly 10 cents—twenty-two feet deep,
and people who have seen it say the
formation is ideal—same as Dawson.
The Poppert brothers have prospects
going 3 to 5 cents two miles above
Drake & Co. A few days ago Aug.
Pelke struck pay on the Dakota asso
ciation on Long, about a mile and a
half above Smith brothers above on
Long. I understand their pay is as
rich as, if not richer than, anything
yet on Long. Good prospects, but
hardly pay, have been found on Gold
Run, Surprise, Rabbit, Monument and
Twilight creeks. Everybody is opti
mistic. and we know it is a gold coun
try. Money is awfully tight and there
are so many creeks and so few diggers
that the development will be slow, but
I eventually you will all be here and the
i big tiling of Alaska will be Ruby.
Another Letter
Ernest Warner, a prospector,
! writing from Ruby Feb. 1 to
Robert Nesbitt at Iditarod, says:
It does not look good to me at all, but
I do not know where else to go to. I '
wish I had staid in the Iditarod. Now
i 1
| I will be broke again in the spring. 1
may come back, or I may go to the I
Sixtymile strike provided the news
i gets better toward spring. . . The
: only decent prospects that have been '
found so far are on Long creek, but
nothing big. The country is deep and J
j wet and very expensive to prospect. A
j man lias got to have a boiler, other
wise he is up against it. . . . The
; people of Ruby are trying their hardest
| to make the tiling stick. Maybe they
i will—I don't know, and then you can
never tell.
Telegram Received
The following telegram was
received last Monday by H. V.
Pierce, of Flat, from Sam God
frey at Ruby:
Low-grade pay holrs Long, Trail,
Midnight, Glen. No paystreak devel-j
oped any place. Looks spotted.
COLOR LINE FOR PUGS j
i
The New York state boxing commis
| sion is considering the advisability of J
| enacting a rule that white pugilists
shall not put on the gloves with ne
groes in public bouts at clubs operating
under tiie new law. There is said to
be considerable sentiment among pro
moters and trainers for compelling ne
groes to box among themselves. This
would mean that Langford, Johnson, |
Jeanette and McVey would have to
fight among themselves for the negro
championship, while Kaufman, Flynn,
Carl Morris, Palzer, Kennedy, Lester
| and others would compete for the white
| man's title.
j The problem is not a new one, but it
I is the first time in this country that a
j state official body has taken cognizance
of it with the idea of providing a rem
| ed.v if public clamor favors one.
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At Tanana Miss Matie Gilmore is conducting a dancing academy.
At Fort Gibbon a kennel club lias been organized, and the racing
fever is in the blood of citizens and soldiers. They have had one race
already, which was won by William Surridge, Johnny Smoke second,
Wheeler Marston third.
J Delay arrived in Tanana from the Kovnkuk January 24 with
very encouraging reports, and reported that the Hastings ground on
Hamtuoud river is particularly good. The gold is very coarse, and in
one afternoon Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Hill picked up $400 on the dump.
I11 a letter which Mr. Delay brought for the Yukon Valley News from
August Olson, of Wiseman, the latter states that Hastings and partners
in three days panned and picked up $1,400 on Hammond, and that
Perry Gibson and partners are in the money 011 the same stream. Jack
Nelson and Severly were close to bedrock on Hammond and were ex
pecting to strike the big thing. O11 Nolan creek there are but five out
fits working this winter; on Gold creek there are five outfits, and a few
more are scattered about the other creeks
The government wireless station at Tanana is to be changed next
summer from the present system to the telefunkeu system. After the
change the Tanana station will be the most powe.ful in Alaska. The
present tower will be adequate for the purposes of the new apparatus
Bango, the reindeer man stationed near Tanana lor the past sev
eral years, is moving the herd by easy stations to the vicinity of Unalak
iik, Norton sound. He keeps to the hills some distance back from the
river, and is now' over 100 miles on the way.
A letter received at Nome dated at Point Hope, in the Arclic, De
cember 18, said the coldest weather experienced there up to that time
was 4 above zero. The average for November was 20 above, 5 degrees
warmer than in Nome for the same period There was little young ice
and no old at all, so common at that season.
A lodge of the Order of Elks has been organized at Nome with
Henry Jacobson president, Ward Kstey vies-president, Walter L- Ba
hannon secretary, and E- E. Hill treasurer.
The Nome Nugget says that circles around the moon up here, as
in other climes, indicate the upper layers of air are surcharged with
moisure ready for precipitation
It is believed a commissioner and recorder will Ire appointed for
the Red Mountain district—sometimes called the Indian Creek district
— next spring. The district is north of the Yukon and east of the
Kovukuk river. It produced nearly $25,000 last summer. Happy
Jack Felix made a stake there and went Outside to visit relativer.
Hot Air Boh Herold is conducting weekly aboriginal dances at
Tatiana and making it pay.
Company A, Sixteenth infantry, gave a grand ball at the post
gymnasium, Fuit Gibbon, Washington’s birthday.
Mile Marcelle de Joumel, who formerly lived in Fairbanks, made
her dehut in grand opera at San Francisco this winter and was well re
ceived.
Stories continue to come in regarding the depredations committed
last fall by Staten and Coynt, now in jail at St. Michael awaiting the
pleasure of the Nome grand jury.
The latest is told by Judge H. W. Strangman, who arrived in Idit
arod from Nulato las1 Saturday evening. He says the men visited an
Indian village down below Kaltag, ami upon leaving carried c.ff a dog
belonging to a resident. The owmr ot the dog followed in a canoe
and came upon the men encamped on the beach. When the Indian de
manded the dog the men said, “Sure! take him We don’t want him,”
and to square themselves gave the native a drink of whiskey. One
drink brought on another, and the company and the liquor wcte so con
genial that the native tariied long Finally several wom.-n c.nne down
to see what was detaining their tribesman. Of course all the dogs ot
the village followed. On reaching the encampment the women were
shocked to see their friend in a drunken stupor asleep on the beach
The upshot was that the white men not only stole several other dog-,
but all the women besides, and departed leaving their dupe to sleep off
his jag. When they had done their will with the women and were
tired of their company, the men left them on shore to get back home as
best they could. The dogs were earned on and sold
Judge Strangman says a warrant has been issued for a native who
is supeeted of having robbed Dave Lewis’s store last fall.
Nome Nugget: According to the late papers there is to he a large
stampede on to Bolivia, in South America, that will call many of our
former residents now rusticating on the Outside to its gold-bearing
streams, or quartz. According to a clipping received by Jake Berger,
Joe Sullivan, Tom Doyle, Jack Flanagin, A1 Guinan and several more
are to hit the south trail to the scene of the new strike. Tom Dolye
has sold the ranch he purchased for $15,000, receiving $30,000, and is
anxious to stampede with the rest of the boys to Bolivia. John D.
Flanagin will sell his interest in the hotel and go with the boys.
Bolivia, the one mentioned, is believed to be the province of Ecua
dor, for the strike is believed to he in the Andes.
GREAT MAN’S DAUGHTER WORKS
Miss Laura Harlan, daughter of
the late Justice Harlan, deprived of
her means of support by the death
of her father, goes to work to earn
her living.
This sets a fellow thinking.
Evidently, John Marshall Harlan
died poor. “Every brave man, in
one way or another gives his life
away,” says Carlyle. Justice Har
lan was a brave man: his life didn’i
•‘pay” in the ordinary meaning of
the term, He might have made
millions as a corporation lawyer in
private practice. He might have
enjoyed extraordinary opportunities
tor "investments” in the 34 years
that he held a place of tremendous
power over big business, but—be
died poor.
Do you know, we have an idea
that if Justice Harlan looks down
from above, he is not a bit ashamed
to see his daughter earn her bread.
Isn’t it a title of high respect—very
high respect, indeed — under the
circumstances?—Ex.
In the Porcupine district of Ontario,
Canada, 5,000 claims of 40 acres each
were staked in 1910, and slightly more
than that number in 1911. There wai
also much buying and selling, and the
prices ranged from a few hundred ta
8500,000. Nearly every claim has some
market value.
Select Outside Cumber, coi rugated
iron and roofing paper at Ross & Nes
tor’s.
JllM THE NIGHT OF REVELRY!
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Mission Brand Canned Fruits and Vegetables
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LADIES’ BASKETBALL
An A. B. ladies’ basketball team is
being formed here and a number of■
ladies are practicing almost daily. ■
Some splendid talent is here, several of
the players having belonged to clubs
at Fairbanks and Nome. A series of
games with Iditarcd are contemplated.
The following ladies are active play
ers: Mrs. W. Amalong, Mrs. Frank
Dawson, Mrs. Charles Sutcr, Mrs. Alex.
Larson, Mrs. Selma Swanson, Mrs. :
Campbell, Mrs. Laing, Mrs. Oscar ;
Gardner, Mrs. A. Letner, Miss M. Cool
idge and Miss Larson.
NOTES AND PERSONALS
Harold Seddon, from the Takotna
district, lias been in town for a few
days.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Snyder, of the
well-known Snyder Elouse, entertained
Mr. G. Stanford and Mr. F. A. Clevo- 1
land at a dinner party last Sunday 1
evening.
Mrs. Judge Taylor, from Iditarod,
has been visiting Mrs. Tom Jackson up
the creek for a few days.
Frank Spira. George Neils, Toney
Seward and Danny Coil, who have been
working on Doulan creek, returned last
Sunday.
*
Frank Hanson, who returned from
Ruby a few weeks ago and went with
Bob Hart to Donlati creek, got back
! from there last Monday.
On the 18th of the month the great
] est mask ball that, has ever taken place
! in the North will be held at A. IJ. hull.
The following returned from Aniak
last .Sunday: A. B. l*'erguson, Duncan
Littie, Jack Shropshire, Dan McCarty,
William Be vans, George Kinraan, Mc
Donald and Krutsinger.
QUEER SKUNK FROM KUSKOXWIM
About as queer a specimen of a pelt
las has ever been seen by local far
dealers is being shown by Stacy, a hun
ter just, arrived from the lower river.
The skin is that of a spotted skunk, an
animal which is rarely caught in the
interior of Alaska, and is supposed to
be a freak. Instead of the usually
striped fur common to that animal,
this one shows bright yellow spots on
a dark background. On the back the
spots are round, while on the belly they
are elliptical.
Stacy trapped the animal near his
headquarters on the head of the Kus
kokwim river during the late fall.
Because of the freakish nature of the
catch, Stacy plans to send the fur to
the Smithsonian Institution, in order
that it may be classified.—Times.
The polar bear in an open-air in
closure at the New York zoo howled so
when a cold spell struck the city this
winter that the keeper had to take
them indoors and turn on the steam.
Staley underwear. H. Boas, clothier
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There is much indiscriminate use of
firearms, both within and without the!
city limits, and unless means are taken i
to check the evil a fatality is likely to :
result ere long.
Shots are being fired at all times of!
the day and night, and narrow escapes
have been recorded.
Some days ago two men were en
gaged repairing a scow on the river, .
when they became aware that the scow
was the target for a presumably ama
teur marksman. Presently a bullet of
large caliber whizzed past. Narrowly
missing one of the men. it went clear
through a 4-inch plank, then through
a door and finally disappeared. It was
the merest chance that neither of the
men was killed.
Such careless use of firearms should
bediscounlenanced, if it cannot be
penalized.
DAWSON MAN ENDS LONG FAST
R. E. Fox, of Dawson, well |
known as an ivory worker of this
city for many years, and lor a long
time engaged in mining on Mint
gulch, completed a fast of 26 days
a week ago. says the News of that
city. He lost 30 pounds during
the fast. Since then he has re
gained all but 10 pounds. He says
lie to ;k the fast to cure the rheu
niitism, and that he is entirely free
of the complaint No nourishment
of my l.i id passed iiis lips duitng
the fast. _
JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT
AGAINST GREEN AND SHIRLEY
Judgment by default was rendered
in the case of F. G. Noyes vs. George
H. Shirley and V. O. Green in Justice
I Stanton's court Feb. 20 The suit was
! on a promissory note for $000 given to
the VVashington-Alaska Bank in Sep
tember, 1910. The judgment includes
accrued interest.
CHECKS FOR WITNESSES
AWAITING THEIR OWNERS
Commissioner E. M. Stanton holds
checks as witness fees for Eugene
Brant, Henry Brant and Lem Baldwin.
During the week Fire Chief McGov
ern was around inspecting stovepipes,
in several instances pipe was found
full of holes and too rotten to bear its
awn weight, while its owners had sup
posed it to be in good condition.
It is within the safety that the pi) e
is so quickly eaten up by rust. Chief
McGovern again requests all residents
to take down, clean and test their pipes
frequently, and warns them that the
season of high winds is at hand and
is very dangerous.
BILLIONS OF BACTERIA FOUND
“Three thousand million bacteria
was the net yield given by washing
a smooth skinned ‘clean’ man,
while a hairy individual lost four
teen thousand million,’’ said J. \V.
M Bunker, instructor in sanitary
engineering at Harvard, in an ad
dress before the Boston Scientific
Society. He was telling of experi
ments carried on in England. He
recommended disinfection of water
in swimming pools, which he said
may transmit infectious diseases.
NOTH J. OF FOKI FITl KF.
I'o Mrs M. McKenzie [Formerly Mrs II
Beyer [:
You. your heirs and assigns, are hereby no
tified that the undersigned have expended in
labor and improvements the sum of one hun
dred dollars -$ioo—for each of the years of f.,io
and toil upon placer mining claim known as
and called the Three Star association. on Yan
kee creek. in the Innoko mining and recording
district, district of Alaska.
You are further notified that if at the ex
piration of ninety—90 - days after the last pub
lication of this notice, you fail or refuse to c<>u
tribute your proportion of such expenditure
jour interest in said claim will become the
property of the undersigned, your o owners,
under section 2324 of the revised statutes of the
United States.
J.II Mcl.KAN.
F. C BKYKR, Co-Owners.
First publication Feb. 24. 1912
Last *, ublieation May 25. 1912
We still have left a fine line of
SUITINGS
and Trousers. Fit and Work
manship guaranteed.
THE PIONEER
Tailor
First and Willow.
WHOLESALE j _RETAIL
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Enthusiasm over the Roof Garden event is steadily growing,
It's social enterprise applauded by ail those knowing;
March the 9th sure the apex of attraction duly be glowing,
Parade bv entire Kennel Club Brigade on date, shining or blowing.
—S. B.
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