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Popular Couple Are
Wedded at Fairbanks
Late papers from the Tanana Valley ■
metropolis report the marriage of two j
well-known young people of Fairbanks
who begin the wedded life unde.' the
most favorable auspices.
Oscar Goetz and Miss Lena Lochke j
are the names of the happy pair who
were joined in holy matrimony on the
evening of September 21 at the Rhind
residence, which had been recently
purchased by the bridegroom. There
were quite a number of friends present
to witness the ceremony, and the list
of presents from their many acquaint
ances was an imposing one.
The bride is a sister of Mrs. Ernest
Parsons and has lived In Fairbanks and j
on the creeks tor some years, during !
which time she became one of the most
popular young ladies of the upper
camp. The groom has been the right
bower for Tony Nordate for the last
year or so, having much to do with the
success of the Nordale hotel.
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Attorney General Wick
Wants Interior Railway
According to an interview given out
by District Attorney Crossley as he
came through Dawson on his way to
Fairbanks, Attorney General Wicker
sham was so impressed on his recent
visit to the interior of Alaska that he
will use every effort to see that the
government takes some immediate ac
tion in favor of a railroad from the
coast to Fairbanks.
He believes that a railroad is abso
lutely necessary to the proper develop
ment of the country, and thinks that it
will be an easy matter to put through
a measure at the next session of Con
gress calling for a government guaran
tee of bonds, or even that the govern
ment build the road and lease it to
reliable parties. Anyway, it is certain
that Alaska has won an enthusiastic
supporter in the attorney general.
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PUBLIC SENTIMENT
FAVORED WALLACE
The latest arrivals from the Kuskok
wim say that Wallace has been turned
loose, completely exonerated of the
charge of killing William Trisco who
was accidently killed on Sept. 2(5, while
the two struggled for the possession of
a gun. Every bit of evidence tended to
show that Wallace was innocent of
crime, and following the verdict of the
coroner’s jury he was fully acquitted.
Those who know the two men are
loud in their defense of Wallace while
they have little commendatory to say
of the dead man. Everyone at George
town believed that Wallace simply be
came the victim of an unfortunate cir
cumstance brought on by an unreason
ing and oftropeated anger on the part
of Trisco. He was a surly individual
and frequently broke into those raania
cle frenzies which had siezed him when
he tried to kill the dogs with a gun.
In his interference for the sake of both
the dogs and the gun, Wallace was only
moving on a natural impulse, and the
tragedy that followed was an accidental
and swift culmination of the incident.
Will Hear Protests
Against Incorporation
An order has been received here
from Judge Overfield at Fairbanks set.
ting Nov. 21 as the day for the hear
ing of protests against the incorpora
tion of the city of Iditarod. This hear
ing is to be held in the district court
,at Fairbanks and if there are any kicks
to be registered against this procedure
they must be forwarded at once or car
ried in person.
The order recites that a petition
, signed by more than GO bona fide resi
dents of the city had been presented
j to the court in due form, and that it
appeared that the town of Iditarod con
tains more than 300 bona fide residents,
and that it is to ail intents and pur
poses a fit subject for incorporation. It
fixes November 21 as the day upon
which the court will give ear to such j
of those citizens of the city who are !
opposed to making this a full-fledged j
city.
If there are no protests put in, or if i
there be such and the court find them I
without weight, then a day will be
fixed for holding an election, upon
which day, the citizens can decide by
ballot whether they want a board of
real city dads or not. This day will be
set far enough ahead to give proper
notice which will bring it along toward
the first of the year or after. It is also
probable that a board of aldermen can
be voted for at the same time that the
incorporation question is decided.
When the matter of incorporating
the city first came, it was rumored that
there was objection to the move on the
part of some property holders who
would rather dodge municipal taxes
than support a fire department. These
may be still objecting, but when it
comes to going on record before the
court and the people as opposing this
idea it is probable that the tax-dodgers
will remain silent.
SOME HAVE JOB
FOB SHORT TIME
After Clerk of the District Court
Page and Martin Harrais, one of the
leading jury commissioners of Alaska,
got through pulling names from the
jury box up at Fairbanks last month
they had a goodly bunch of arbitrators
who aro now sitting on the job.
The grand jury went into session on
the 3d of October, and the trial of
criminal actions was to begin some
where about October 10.
Here is the list of the two juries:
GRAND JURY
J. L. Tobin, Lower Goldstream; W.
Cathcart, S. S. Carruthers, H. T. Her
ring, Leon Kellum, Frank Anderson,
Geo. C. Kern, Henry Gilcher, Fair
banks; Ed Anderson, John O’Connor,
Lower Dome; John Mathews, Neil Mc
Leod, Gilmore; G. M. Street, Chena;
Col. Geo. L. Bellows, Graehl; Geo. H.
Tiffany, Tanana; Ben Baker, Hot
Springs; Chas. Guis, Pedro; R. M.
Courtney, M. R. Boyd, Chatanika; C.A.
Thompson, Eagle; A. C. Wurtzell, Gil
more; John Mihalsik, Ester; E. VV.
Broughton, Circle.
PETIT JURY
W. H. Smallwood, Harry Atwood,
Gilmore; Julius Rahmstorf, Rampart;
P. S. Peterson, A. J. MacArthur, E. A.
Hering, John McDonald, A. H. Mc
Near, J. S. Sterling, Peter Steil, Dan
McCabe, A. C. Taylor, Fairbanks; Geo.
Morrell, Hot Springs: C. J. Trout,
Oscar Rodenburg, Chicken creek; G.
W. Ledger, Rampart; S. Wideman,
Graehl; J. L. Anderson, Sullivan creek;
J. H. O’Connor, Chatanika: H. O. Bei
den, E. J. Burger, R, H. Griffin, Chena
H. R. Pratt, Pedro; J. W. Tate, Upper
Cleary.__
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STILL A GRANGE
FOR WIRELESS
For the first time since the wireless |
station was installed at Fairbanks, the
operators there can talk directly with
Eagle, following the installation of a j
new and stronger apparatus. The new !
5-kilowatt set makes use of the current
supplied by the N. C. Co., and has the
old set in reserve. The Fairbanks
News-Miner of Sept. 22 has this to say
about a possible wireless for the Idit
arod this winter:
“From the orders issued, it looks
very much as if the war department in
tended to establish a wireless system
in the Iditarod this winter, in which
case the work of installation will be
under the direction of Captain Knowles
of Fort Gibbon.
“Recently Lieut. H. C. Tatum of this
place was queried from Seattle regard
ing the amount of wireless apparatus
that could b« spared at Fort Egbert,
and he furnished the necessary infirm
ation. This apparatus has all since
been shipped, although the lieutenant
has not been advised as to whether it
has been taken on down to the Idit
arod. If the department does establish j
a wireless station in the Iditarod this :
year, they could not erect a steel tower
such as that at Fairbanks, and would j
have to resort to some other means of
spreading the antennae.
NOW ENGAGED IN
MELTING 'EM DOWN
_
Back of the American Bank where
C. J. Hurley has been blowing dele
terious substances out of gold dust, they
are fitting up a place with gas engines
and clay pots. These are considered
necessary for the purpose of determin
ing the comparative density of metal
urgical mixtures, in fact, they call it
an assay office.
The reason for all this activity can
be centered in the arrival of C. W.
Rogers who got in on the very last
boat. He is wise to all this dope about
making pot roasts out of auriferous
material and will have charge of the
cuisine of the American bank because
he was chef of the same department in
Fairbanks.
Rogers was surprised when he got
down here and found so much raw ma
terial to work on. He had grown into
the habit of thinking that' Fairbanks
was the only district that could produce
gold, but he found it stacked all around
him with several weeks’ work in ad
vance. If you go around now and wait
till he gets the pot boiling, he will
hand you a nice little piece of litho
graphing whereon will be recorded the
record of your success or failure. Its
nice to know it.
ENGLISH CAPITAL TO
OPERATE ON PEDRO
Latest advices from Fairbanks are to
the effect that all the claims on Pedro,
the discovery creek of the Fairbanks
district have been tied up by options
secured by one G. G. Lemmons, who is
purported to represent English capital
ists and who is now on his way to Lon
don to complete the deal.
Before leaving he had tied up 12
claims, but since his departure W. W.
Powell has completed the work and
they now have 20 claims involved.
Nine month options were secured for
figures that aggregate about $175,000.
It is expected that dredges will be
working on the creek next summer.
A. Stoner, of the Discovery cafe at
Discovery, Otter, was in last week on
business. He was an enthusiastic
booster for the trail that they are cut
ting from Discovery city to the Kus
kokwim, saying that the work had pro
gressed as far as Bonanza and the go
ing fine. ____ i
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WORRY WAGON
WILL WANDER
Ross has his automobile down the
Iditarod at Dikeman, on the Samson,
which is that good and sufficient boat
built by the firm of Brumbaugh, Hamil
ton & Kellogg. This automobile is a
Thomas Flyer, and there has been a
time when it traveled from Fox to Fair
banks with people festooned all over
it and some in the boot. Not being an
old one, it is safe to say that it will
travel some more and this time be
tween Iditarod City and Flat.
Ross will start an automobile stage
line just as soon as conditions are ripe,
or just as soon as the trail becomes fit
for a benzine buggy to navigate. It is
opined that he will have little difficulty
in reaching Flat, except at that por
tion of the road whicli sidles along the
hillsides, and there it is expected that
he will have to do a little fortifying.
It is a matter of the most distin
guished congratulation, that Ross did
not arrive with his automobile in
August else he might have been dis
heartened and cast down.
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