Boys, What Do You
Want for Christmas f
AND EVERYBODY ANSWERED:
jaffe’s Fur Coats
Now is the chance. Ladies; keep your husbands
warm. Everything that Men Wear
N. N. Jaffa, Flat City
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’Suss Snyder House “
WARM DOG KENNELS
Second Avenue, Flat City. Snyder & Smith, Props.
“FERCY” IN THE PAY
ON DONLAN CREEK
A. B. Ferguson, the Lone Pine of Democracy seems to be on a live
one again in the Donlau creek country for n find of good pay is reported
on the Ruby creek association, where in a bole put down to bedrock
nearly two weeks ago, they found two feet of gravel that pans from 5 to
70 cents.
The hole was sunk about 100 feet from the lower line of the Ruby
association, or nearly 200 feet from the mouth of Ruby and ou the left
limit of Donlau, about a mile below Snow gulch where Smeaton and
Larson made the first discovery.
Interested with Ferguson, who was staked in on this association
are lid Rusk, F.dger, Louis Rothmull, Martin Lonstadt and Tom
Williams.
The find is the best yet turned up in the Kuskokwim, and lias
given a hearty impulse to prospecting in that section.
Some think the pay is Donlau Bench pay, as Ruby is but a pup
three-quarters of a mile long. Adjoining the Ruby as-ociation, and
above it on the Doulan Bench, is the Othello, owned by Charles Wor
den, Cole McDougall, Wallev Owens, Mace Farrer and others, where
they are now prospecting with renewed vigor.
The Miner’s Horae sells Bock cigars.
CHAS. D. CARTER,
Dentist
Offices, Pioneer Drug Stores,
Flat Creek
Enlarged Remodelei
BLACK’S
HOTEL
Fort Gibbon
For Outfits
FLAT CITY
SUMMIT
ROADHOUSE
Furnished Rooms and Bunks
Cafe in Connections,
Liquors and Cigats
Tel: "Summit Roadhouse."
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i OTTER CITY i
| ROADHOUSE I
[ mouth of otter creek j
Good Meals. Warm Bunkhouse
! Stables and Dog Houses in s
| Connection. S
| MRS. C. C. CH1TTICK, Prop. \
UP TO 13ATE
Grand Hotel
MOUTH OF FLAT
GAFF, and POOL BOOM
IN CONNECTION
M.6LAWTZ & MRS.SWANSON, PROPS.
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Gaines will be an active producer
next season according to the
amount of development work that
is now going on. Nearly all the
operators are getting ready for
open-cutting on a large scale as
soon as water runs, and since good
pay is being located for a long dis
tauce on the creek, the production
is looked for to go strong.
Among others that have been
heard from are Vaughn and Hugh
Marlin on Spaulding, one of the
forks of Gaines. They panned some
fine s'.uffm the bottom of their new
shaft and are now putting in a drain
and another hole. There will be
plenty of work here next spring.
Bill Hunter, the man who found
the $500 nugget about a year ago
is working on 10 a. He is drifting
now on the bench but will open cut
in the creek next season. He has
good pay/
Notter, w ho has taken a lay from
Hankes and Morrison below Hun
ter, has cross-cut the bench for 6o
feet, and all of it is in pay. He is
drifting now but will open cut in
the spring.
O11 4 a Englund, Coffey and End
land are in very rich ground and
will open-cut it next season.
The latest development work in
dicates that the pay is all oil the
right limit at least as far as 16-b,
where it is supposed to cross to the
j left limit bench. They suffered for
lack of water on Gaines, and work
will be held back there until a big
ditch is put in.
Full line optical goods at Simpson's.
Sister Wants to Know
About Bert Wood
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In a letter written by Sinio D.
Wood of 819 Park avenue, Arkan
sas Hot Springs, inquiry is made of
A1 Morenzy of Ibis place, concern
ing the whereabouts of Bert Wood
of Fordyee, Arkansas, who left
home years ago for the North and
was last heard of in Circle in 1894.
The young lady, who is a sister
of the missing man, says that she
was very young when he left home,
but that she met a man in Hot
Springs whe had known Bert Wood
in Circle. This individual directed
her to A1 Morenzy as an old timer
who might know something about
the man wanted. Morenzy remem
bers a Bert Wood in Circle, but has
no idea of what became of him.
Anyone having information con
cerning this inquiry, would eonter
a great favor upon his family by
addressing his family consisting of
a mother, a sister and two brothers.
Baird sells Bock cigars.
TO HOLD OPEN HOUSE
FOR THE YGUHOSTERS
Frank B. Stanley, the hotel man out
at Flat City has a Christmas tree hug
in his bonnet and lie phoned in the
other day to tell us that the only way
he could get rid of the thing was to
have the Christmas tree.
Hence he is making plans out there
for one big jollitication on Christmas
eve, and has had a big crew of men out
in the hills fora week or so looking for
the largest evergreen tree in the Idit
arod watershed.
This specimen of forestry will be set
up in the big dining room of the Stan
ley house on Saturday evening, Dec. 24.
and all the children in the entire coun
try are invited to be on hand and play
ring-around-the-rosey. There will be
candles and popcorn and candies and
presents, and Santa Claus will be there
with a whole string of reindeer. Frank
got a wireless from St. Nicholas the
other day, saying he was getting ready
to leave Ketchuuab#' early and would
be on the job at tho appointed hour.
Following the visit, of Santa Claus
and the distribution of presents, every
body will turn to for one big dance, of
the kind that has made Flat creek fa
mous. _
What Wi!i the Gravels
of Glen Gulch Say?
In the ardor of developing far and
supposedly greener fields the good
things of the immediate vicinity are
being overlooked, and there are very
few people who know that Carl 11am
stadt and John Hewitt at the mouth of
Glen gulch have struck a considerable
quantity of the richest pay in the camp.
They can rock out $100 in a day easily
enough, and two- and three-doilar
pans are said to be common.
in addition, they have a ditcli of sev
eral thousand feet which will bring
water to (Hen next spring. Lack of
water lias held this pup back since the
camp started, and with plenty of it on
the ground next spring, Glen will
take a prominent place among the pro
ducers ot the district.
HOLDS CHEMICAL
With (Chief Brunclle and six men
sleeping in the fireball next to a
telephone and the chemical, the first
real semblance of fire protection
came into existence early last week,
.vhen the fire department took up
quarters in the new building on
First street, which was placed there
by the city trustees as a temporary
housing of the fire apparatus.
There will be men sleeping in
tire place now all the time, for be
sides Brunelle and his assistants at
night. Watchman Wallace will
slumber there in tire day time,
where he can be aroused by any
call phoned in. Arrangemen s have
also been made to call the Northern
saloon at any time, so that should
the fire house be empty, someone
can run over from tire corner and
ring the alarm.
The big bell which has hung at
the N. C Co corner ol Richmo d
court, was placed on top of the fire
hall, and if fire should be dis
covered, the quickest way to raise
an alarm would doubtless he to run
to the hall and pud the bell rope.
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Following the mishap of two
weeks ago when his automobile
broke through the ice of the Idit
arod river, Ross has been having
ill luck with his freighting propo
sition from Dikeman. The machine
went through iu comparatively
shallow water, but it was some
time before he could get it out and
some time after before he could re
pair it.
He bad succeeded in making two
trips bringing up three and four
tons at a trip, and could then make
the return run in a day. However,
since the teams quit the river trail
and took to the cutoff, the snow
has hindered him, and it is doubtful
if he can compete successfully with
the horses unless he devises some
means of shoveling the snow away.
Oemara Runs Glose
To Record Time
Beating out Roy Lund and Jack
Norman, the latter dropping out at
the 17th mile, Nick Detnara, the
Greek, beat his best previous record
for the Marathon distance at Fair
banks on November 9th, and came
near the world’s indoor record, by
doing the 26 miles in 2 hours, 51
irod City and Dikeman
minutes and 25 seconds. The las
few miles were run against time
and he finished in splendid con
dition. The race was run in the
Gordon rink and was witnessed by
a large crowd.
HOBBLES
When Mabel McNabb was a bachelor
maid,
She hobbled her hair with a coronet
braid;
About her, amidships, a harness she
laced
Of Harveyized whalebone to hobble
her waist.
By means of a ten-stranded pearl
studded chain,
She callously hobbled her jugular vein.
But when she went swishing along up
the street,
And glanced at the chaps that she hap
pened to meet,
They always glanced back in admiring
surprise,
Kor Mabel took care not to hobble her
eyes.
When Mabel was wedded to Michael
McDollars,
She hobbled her ears with astonishing
collars;
She hobbled her ankles with skirts of
a style
So costly they hobbled her better half's
smile.
With long leather gauntlets she hob
bled her arms,
With motoring goggles site hobbled
her charms.
But when he protested, and spoke of
expense,
And said she was hobbled past all com
mon sense.
lie got some new pointers regarding
his wifo —
Her tongue wasn't hobbled—no, not on
your life! —Jas. J. Montague.
The
Sideboard
Front St. J. R. Andarsos, Prop. Iditarad
Fort Gibbon’s Uo-to-Date House
Golden North
HOTEL
Finest and Neatest Rooms
Caters Especially to Family Trade
NO Bar
Kl> Y. LEE. PROP.
Front St., Iditarod
Leading Jeweler
of the Worth
CARRIES A LARGE SELECTION OF
Christmas Gifts
AT REASONABLE PRICES. ORDER EARLY.
When at Flat City
VISIT
€ ASETS
COMPLETE STOCK OF
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
GEORGETOWN KUSKOKWIM
JUST OPENED
Northern Hotel
and Restaurant
Ft E. WOITKE, PROP,
Quaker Maid Whiskey our Specialty
Rooms Spring Bunks
Mouth of Flat Creek
A Place Where You Gan Always Meet Your Friends
D L.
Choicest Cigars, Tobaccos, Fruits, Gandias, Nuts, Soft Drinks, Stationery, Etc.
M. R. HUSSEY FLAT CITY P. J. MANNION
AITCjmON ^JLA
Kaltag General Store
Stables for Dogs*>*Lots of Salmon
The only Government Trail to Iditarod and Innoko, and Short
est Starts from “Kaltag.”
When you visit Flat creek call at
Carroll’s Globe Bakery and Coffee
House for a lunch.
Coal oil and candles for sale at An
derson Bros. & Nerland’s.
Call for Bock cigars.
FOR SALE — 40-horsepower mining
plant; also 30-horsepower high pres
sure marine boiler; 14-horsepower up
right boiler, two direct-connected
Morris sand pumps, one 8-in. and one
0-in. Enquire Johnson & Clark.
Casey sells Bock cigars.