Miners & Merchants Bank
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital, $50,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted Gold Dust Bought and Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Part of the World
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT: SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK
OFFICERS:
CHAS. ROSS, President
JOHN HOLMES, Cashier
R. C. BUTTON, Asst. Cashier
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HANDLEY SUES
YUKON GOLD GO.
On Saturday, June 20, Richard E. Hand- j
ley tiled suit for $20,000 damages and costs j
and disbursements against the \ ukon Gold
Company for injuries received on or about !
November 15. 1913. 1
The complaint alleges that while in the i
employ of the defendant company on the j
above' date, and in the discharge of his j
usual duties on the dredge of the defendant, j
plaintiff was directed by the dredgemaster |
to adjust a valve or pipe in connection with j
the heating system, and while so engaged ;
was struck by and enveloped in a powerful j
gust of hot smoke and poisonous fumes j
and gases which emanated from the smoke- j
stake; that plaintiff was overcome by said;
fumes and gases and rendered unconscious j
and powerless, and fell from the roof to the |
floor of the dredge.
He further alleges that in December, j
1913. still suffering from the effects of said i
accident, and there being no doctor or phy- ;
sician at Flat City, plaintiff was compelled
to and did go to Fort Gibbon for medical j
assistance; that in consequence thereof j
plaintiff was compelled to and did pay the ;
sum of $200 for transportation to Fort Gib
bon. and was compelled to pay $62 to the
physician at that place. i
He complains that as a result of the j
accident he was unable to resume work i
with the defendant until about April 3, j
1914, and that he worked until about May j
26. 1914. when he was discharged; that1
since the time of the accident plaintiff has
been compelled to abandon all labor except
j as above set forth; that he is informed by
j his physician and he verily believes that he
j may never recover his bodily health, and
i that it will be necessary to indefinitely con
tinue medical treatment. He alleges that
all this was caused by the negligence of the
defendant, and asks judgment against the
Yukon Gold Company for $20,000 damages
and costs and disbursements of suit.
DEATH OF JOHN OLSON.
A RESIDENT OF DISCOVERY
John Olson, aged about 60 years, died
at Discovery, Otter, on Monday morning
last of heart failure, lie had been in poor
health for some time. The body was
brought to Iditarod and the funeral was
held Wednesday afternoon from the Smith
undertaking parlors, burial being in the
Iditarod cemetery.
Mr. Olson was a native of Sweden. He
leaves a widow, who is now in Seattle, hav
ing left here last fall. She was to have
been accompanied by her husband, but busi
ness matters prevented his leaving at that
time. Mrs. Olson was communicated with,
and under her instructions Senator Henry
Roden took charge of the affairs of the
dead man. He is said to have mining in
terests on Otter creek.
SPECIAL FODRTH
SALE
A discount of 25 per cent or more on
everything in the store will be allowed.
PIONEER DRUG STORE
Howdy, Howdy, Howdy. PapI
Under the Auspices of iditarod Lodge No. 1429
Loyal Order of
Flat City, July 4,1914
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DANCiNG COMMENCES AT 9:30 P. M.
TICKETS $3.50
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This ball is given for the double purpose of celebrating the
Glorious Fourth and of aiding in the purchase of Moose Hail.
CLOSING OUT SALE
- Pipes Pipes Pipes
By the gross, dozen or one—all kinds—Calabash, Peterson, Garrick, Missouri Meer
schaum, etc.
CIGARS CIGARS
Eight of the best and most popular brands. We are closing out at greatly re
duced prices, including the famous "Red, White and Blue"—in tins and boxes.
Tobaccos-*27 Varieties
Chewing Tobaccos
EIGHT DIFFERENT BRANDS—ALL GOOD GOO DS
Fine assortment of CANDIES—including Fresh, Home-made Goods.
Fresh Copenhagen Snuff—6-oz. tins, 50c.
Fine Line of Choice Toilet Soaps
Creek merchants will profit by taking advantage of our Closing-Out Sale of To
baccos and Smokers' Articles.
HURST BROS.
IMPERIAL CIGAR STORE IDITAROD, ALASKA
FOR SALE—For $300, the Imperial Cigar Store Building, on Willow street
NEWS OF KUSEOKWIM
(Special Correspondence of The Pioneer'
Aniak, Alaska, May 30. Roscoe Marker,
aged about 28 or 30 years, was drowned
in the Aniak river on May 21. The water
was very high, and accompanied by a man
known as “Count” Von Meyer, from Marvel
creek, he was coming down from William
Boardman’s cabin to Duke E. Stubbs' place
for a load of provisions which he had
cached there when the winter trail broke up.
They had already met with three mis
haps on the Salmon river, where Meyer
nearly lost his life. They had lost their
provisions and all the boat equipment but
one pipe pole when they got to the Aniak.
There they made a small paddle and had
proceeded but a short distance when the
boat struck a log jam, which wrecked the
boat and threw them into the water. The
current carried Meyer under the log jam,
but he finally managed to get his head
and arms above the water and held onto a
snag until his strength partially returned,
and when he dragged himself up onto the
logs he found himself a prisoner in the
middle of the swift river. He remained on
the jam for about fifteen hours, until all
hope of seeing his companion was gone, and
then by means of a rope which he cut off
of the boat, which lay crushed against the
logs, he constructed a little float that would
keep his head above water. He entered the
water and by hard swimming succeeded in
reaching a sweeper that hung far out into
the river. Holding to this, he saved the
rope off his little float and reached the
bank. He had then been wet for more than
twenty-four hours, the weather freezing and
snowing, and he had neither dry clothes,
food, matches nor ax, and did not know
where he was, never having been on this
part of the river before. From the wreck
of the boat he had saved a piece of rope j
and a hand saw. Lying on the bank near |
where he landed was a rusty tin can with .
a press-in lid. Hoping that it might con- ■
tain some kind of food, he pried the lid off
and found that it contained dry matches, ,
and with these he was able to build a fire
and dry his clothes.
After two days’ hard mushing through
brush and across sloughs running full of
water, he found the Bear creek winter trail !
and followed that until he reached the j
roadhouse.
Mr. Marker made a trip to Iditarod just |
before the break-up, and was the last j
musher over the winter trail. On his way |
home after leaving the Kuskokwim river
he had to abandon his sled, and with packs ;
on his dogs reached the roadhouse. He was !
on his way down river to pick up his outfit ,
when the accident occurred. He was ex- \
pecting to prospect at the head of the Aniak j
this summer. He was a native of Ohio, j
and was born on a farm north of Green- |
ville, Darke county. He was of a quiet, ;
reserved disposition, and was well liked by 1
everybody. j
Alex Cornwall, formerly living at Flat
City, who with his partner, Frank Mills, ;
was working a lay on Bear creek, was taken
seriously ill just as the snow went off with I
appendiceal abscess. He was taken over to
the roadhouse on the Aniak. where Mr. and
Mrs. Stubbs cared for him until after the !
break-up, when he was taken to Bethel and
operated on by the government surgeon. Dr.
Wilson Reed. Owing to the delays inci
dent to the break-up, he did not reach
Bethel until thirty-five days days after the
attack, and was then in a serious condi
tion. The operation was most successful,
and Mr. Cornwall stood the ordeal quite
well. Unless complications should set in
his recovery promises to be speedy.
The river steamer Alice was the first boat
of the season to go down river to meet
TRAPPER LAGIN
REPORTED LOST
Joseph I. Wills of McGrath, on the Kus
kokwim river. reached Iditarod last
Wednesday morning, and departed for
home the same day. He brought word that
grave fear is felt in that section that Bob
Lagin, an old-timer well known in this part
of Alaska, had lost his life. It appears that
Lagin, who had been trapping in the upper
Kuskokwim region, near the mouth of Soda
creek, left that place about October 15,
1913, expecting to spend Christmas at Ta
kotna, since which time he has not been
heard of. lie was to have traveled by way
of the north fork of Nixon creek, but it
was ascertained that he never reached there,
and it is believed that he struck the north
fork of the Novikaket, and was lost. It is
barely possible that he may have reached
the Yukon, but it is believed that if such
were the case he would have been heard
from. He is said to have SI,000 on deposit
at Takotna, and as this has not been
claimed, it lends color to the belief that
he lost his life.
Lagin was about 55 years of age, and
will be remembered as having conducted a
roadhouse near Moore creek about four
years ago.
BOOSTING FOR THE
FOURTH OF JULY
Hurrah! Hurrah! Come and we will all
join the jubilee.
Everything will be free for you and for me,
And that’s going some for Iditarod, you see.
I am a Iditarod Booster;
I will boost for Iditarod or die;
And I will keep on boosting for the cele
bration
To be in Iditarod on the Fourth of July.
There will be great times in this city;
There will be a hot time in old Iditarod
that day.
There will be dogomobiles and horseomo
biles
To be seen on the city’s highways.
I
Beneath the glaring sunlight,
On this Fourth of July day.
It will certainly be grand to hear the string
band
And see Old Glory wave.
Weil, I have tried and 1 have tried to get
up some stunt,
And I have even tried to get in line,
And now I will boost for the Crosby Bath
House—
So come in—the water is fine.
MRS. M. H. CROSBY
Of the Crosby Bath Parlors
the Outside boats at Bethel, arriving May
j 24. The Quickstep came down river a week
later.
Jacob Furrer (“Dutch Jake”), the Aniak
trapper and prospector, took his season’s
catch to Iditarod just .utter the break up.
The small drill on Ophir creek,
over which so much mechanical abil
ity went to seed, was finally put in working
condition, and the results are most promis
ing. Holes on the rim panned 0, 7 and up
to 12 cents.
Fred Labelle, on Marvel creek, has been
sinking a row of holes to find out where
to ground-sluice. The ground pans the best
of any so far found on Marvel, and aver
ages from 70 cents to $1.50 to the foot. He
has finished hauling his lumber and sup
plies.
Johnny Benet has a force of men on his
lay on upper Marvel creek.
Dick Eskridge, who came in late over
the Seward trail, has his outfit landed on
Bear creek, and is at Bethel taking up his
power drills for prospecting the upper end
of Bear this summer. Should he find suf
ficient yardage for a dredge, it will be in
stalled there next summer, and further
prospecting will proceed on middle Bear
creek, where he expects to install a second
and heavier dredge if the pay warrants it.
Contrary to general expectations, the
Kuskokwim break-up was milder than usual
this year. The water in the side streams
was unusually high. The ice went out on
May 1G.
Rev. J. Henz, a missionary of the Mor
ravian church, who has been stationed for
the past twelve years at Bethel, recently
left with his family for a two years’ vaca
tion. While Outside he will visit his old
home in Germany. Rev. Henz was sent
here to carry on his work only among the
native tribes, and speaks the many dialects
of the numerous tribes along this river flu
ently, and preaches to them in their own
tongue. He is not only extremely popular
with the native tribes, but with all the
prospectors as well. Rev. Mr. Henz goes
on his vacation with the best wishes of
everybody, and is easily the best liked and
most popular professional man who has
ever been on the Kuskokwim river. When
his vacation is ended the mission could not
do a more popular act than to send him
back to take up again his work on this
river.
The Outside boats, Bender Brothers and
Ruth, from Seattle, are expected hourly to
arrive at Bethel, but were not yet sighted
June 3.
WELL-KNOWN OPERATOR
TAKES CHAINING BRiDE
(Special Correspondence of Tli<* Pioneer)
Bethel. Alaska, June 2. Harold Seddon
and Miss Weorcke Hopstock Haslund were
married here today, the Rev. J. Ilenz offi
ciating.
Mr. Seddon accompanied Frank Haslund
and his sister to Bethel on the steamer
Alice, and will return to Takotna, after
which Mr. and Mrs. Seddon will take a
honeymoon trip to England.
We strive to please the people on the
creeks. The Crosby Massage and Bath Par
lofs, the Home of the Twentieth Century
Turkish Baths.
MOOSE DOINGS
The Moose lodge held a special meeting
at Flat on Thursday, June 18. to consider
the advisability of purchasing the Hussey
building for a hall. This building, which
cost in the neighborhood of SI 1.000 to build,
was offered at a ridiculously low price, and
it was decided to buy it and by making ex
tensive repairs and alterations, fit it up as
headquarters for the lodge and as a social
hall.
A crew of carpenters was immediately
employed to fit the upper floor for a lodge
room, and to put in a dancing floor of Out
side fir cn the ground floor. This last work
will provide a good hall for dances and
public meetings, etc. Even then it is not
as commodious as the A. B. hall recently
destroyed by fire.
This is not only a great convenience to
the people of Flat, but is rather startling
evidence that this progressive and growing
order is inclined to be optimistic about the
future of the acmp.
The committee appointed to arrange the
matter of taking over the building and
having the repairs and alterations done
consists of Messrs. Stanley, Finnegan and
Gage.
It was decided to give a grand Fourth
of July ball at the new hall, and commit
tees to arrange for the same were ap
pointed as follows:
Entertainment Committee—Messrs. Guy
G. Gerraghty. Henry 0. Roden. Karl Theile,
Grant Murdock, G. K. Lloyd and Leo Clif
ford.
Ticket Committee—Basil Clemons, James
Krogh, Oscar Gardner and Alfred Boas.
The general opinion at the meeting
seemed to be that the tickets for the ball
would be in good demand on account of
the double purpose for which it is given,
the purchasers of tickets being not only as
sured of a good time, but also the satisfac
tion of having aided a worthy cause, and
the hope was strongly expressed that it
would not be necessary to use any of the
money at present in the treasury of the
lodge to pay for the hall or the repairs, as
it is much desired that this money be kept
intact for the benefit of the lodge members
in the event of sickness or disability.
The next meeting of the lodge will be
held at Iditarod tomorrow evening, at Ans
ley's hall. It was also decided to hold a
special meeting of the lodge at Flat on
Sunday, July 5, at 8 p. m., as there will be
a large class to initiate at that time. After
the business meeting there wfill be a social
session devoted to music and other enter
tainment.
There is a good deal of local talent
among the members, and it is possible that
a few moving pictures will be shown.
The sale of the Sunday Morning Associa
tion claim, at the head of Flat creek, was
reported last Saturday to Thomas P. Ait
keo and associates.
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Historic Documents Burned
Priceless volumes and manuscripts bear
ing on the early history of Alaska, says the
Juneau Empire of May 4, and many valu
able oil paintings were destroyed with the
burning of the historic government ware
house in Sitka on April 25, according to
Rev. Father George Sergius Kostrometinoff,
who said recently in Juneau: '‘These vol
umes were gathered together by the Rev.
Father Anthony, who was commissioned to
do the work by Governor John G. Brady.
For two years he searched over St. Peters
burg, Kief, Moscow' and other places, col
lecting rare books dealing with the early
occupation of Alaska by the Russians, and
gathered also many valuable manuscripts
which had not yet been placed in print.
The entire collection was stored in the gov
ernment warehouse, and a large portion of
it was left there from the time that Gov.
H. B. Hoggatt moved the capital from
Sitka to Juneau. There are no duplicates
of the burned documents, and the loss is
therefore irretrievable. The oil paintings
were rare works of art, some of which were
on exhibition at the Alaska-Yukon exposi
tion in Seattle in 1909. These, too, are a
total loss.”
Space Allotted for Exhibit
Alfred H. Brooks of the geological survey
has convinced the government exhibit board
that it should not follow its plan of divid
ing the Alaska exhibit at San Francisco
among several buildings. Five thousand
square feet in the mines building for the
combined exhibit were granted.
Juneau Paper Makes Improvements
With the announcement of success in ob
taining a membership in the Associated
Press, the Daily Alaska Dispatch of Juneau
changes over to a morning paper. The Dis
patch is the first Alaska paper admitted to
the Associated Press. Ground was broken
recently for a $10,000 fireproof building in
the new Pacific Coast addition. This build
ing will house the only perfecting press
ever brought to Alaska. The press can
print, slit, paste and fold S.000 sixteen-page
papers in an hour.
Chena Has Terminal Visions
The fact that the government has with
drawn 3,840 acres of land at Chena for
railroad purposes for the proposed trunk
line from tidewater to the Yukon river,
via the Susitna valley, has proven a sur
prise to the residents of Fairbanks, and pro
tests are said to have been wired to the
commission. The residents of Chena are
jubilant because of the withdrawal of the
lands surrounding their burg. They have
always believed that Fairbanks had no real
excuse for being on the map, and now they
have hopes that the relative positions of
the rival towns will be reversed.
Boom at Seward
The first breath of the boom has touched
Seward. Every resident of that city feels
confident that the town will be the ter
minus of the government railroad. The
last boat brought 113 passengers, says a
dispatch of May 20. Many real estate trans
fers have been made, and with each ar
rival of encouraging news prices go up.
Many new business concerns are opening.
Like many Alaska towns, Seward is afraid
that she will be overrun with labor this
summer and fall, for railroad construction
will not begin until 1916, according to latest
reports. There are plenty of men waiting
there now to care for the increased building
that is expected. Recently there have been
started in Seward a new grocery store,
a real estate and insurance office, and three
saloons. There is not a vacant building in
Seward, and old structures that have been
vacant for ten years are being overhauled
and renovated.
Russia Would Connect With Alaska Road
It is reported that an unofficial docu
ment has been received by the President
with reference to the projected government
railroads, says a Washington dispatch.
In it he is informed that if the
United States will extend the Alaska rail
road to the Bering strait the Russian gov
ernment will extend the Trans-Siberian
railroad to a point on the opposite shore.
The idea would then be to transport trains
Progress in Juneau
The work of tearing down the old log
church building commenced this morning.
The site of this old landmark will soon be
occupied by a handsome business structure
to be erected by the Eagle Brewing Com
pany.—Juneau Empire.
Pay Ground Struck in Nelchina
Pay ground has been found on two creeks
in the Nelchina, according to a letter re
ceived from B. H. Bailey by Charles S.
Black, who, with Brice H. Howard and
Charles A. Sheldon, has holdings on Wil
low creek. The letter, which was written
on April 13, is in part as follows: “Things
look a little better here now. Pay has been
struck on Willow creek and an Poorman, so
it might turn out to be a camp yet. Good
prospects have been found on Placer. I had
a little bad luck—struck by foot with a
MERCHANTS CAFE
Caters to Large and Small Parlies
PRIVATE DINING ROOMS
Popular Prices Everything First Class
CHAS. E. MILLER, PROP.
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FAIRBANKS BEER
DRAFT AND BOTTLE
Bottled Beer $25 Barrel, $5 Dozen, 50c Bottle, 3 Bottles $1.25
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DISTRIBUTING AGENTS
Gold St., Flat City
Mrs. Swanson, Prop.
Nicely Furnished Rooms Barn for Horses and Dogs Baths in Connection
pick and have been in bed a few days. Lots
of people are coming into camp now."
Seward Gateway.
New Bank at Valdez
The First Bank of Valdez started opera
tions May 19. when the new’ bank took
over the - • business of the S. Blum & Co.
bank. The officials of the bank are S.
Blum, president; M. Blum, vice president,
and \V. M. Goodwin, cashier. The bank has
a capital of $2f>,000 ami deposits of $138,
832.77. The directors of the bank are S
Blum. M. Blum, K. B. Wheat, Judge Lyons
and W. M. Wilson.
Hydraulic Outfit for Hope
The most complete hydraulic mining out
fit that has been into the Kenai peninsula
for several years is being taken to Hope
via Knik anchorage on the Sampson by
Gus Seiffert of the St. Louis Mining &
Trading Company, which Gus promoted
this year in the Missouri metropolis. Gus
has nineteen men with him, and everything
that is needed to commence operations, in
cluding an electric light plant, a sawmill,
10,000 feet of thirty-inch pipe and several
horses. The outfit wlil be freighted in to
the company's holdings.—Seward Gateway,
May 2.
MORE DAMAGE SUITS
FILED AGAINST AITKEN
Two more damage suits resulting from
the famous Chicago Bench Association case
were hied with the deputy clerk of the dis
trict court last Monday. The plaintiffs in
the new suits are Charles Krutsinger and
John Ratto, and the defendant in each case
is Thomas P. Aitken. The complaints al
lege malicious prosecution, and damages in
the sum of $40,000 are demanded in each
instance.
WELL-KNOWN OLD-TIMER HERE
Jake Furrer, well known throughout this
section of Alaska as “Dutch Jake," arrived
in Iditarod Wednesday morning from the
Kuskokwim country, where he spent the
past season in trapping. He recently
escorted Alex Cornwall, another old-time
prospector and trapper of the Kuskokwim,
to Bethel for medical treatment. The latter
was in a serious condition but is reported
to be improving.
Copying and enlarging, also all kinds of
portrait and view work. See Clemons .k
Koon, Flat City.
We guarantee satisfaction.
Clemons k Koon.
IDITAROD
BAKERY
JIMMY THE BAKER
Best Cup of Coffee in Town
FRESH BREAD EVERY DAY
Choice Pies, Cakes, etc.
FINE NEW STOCK OF
Wallpaper
Just unpacked and placed on
display at my new Willow-street
store room.
HOUSELINING, BURLAP, ETC.
All Shades of Mixed Paints
H. SCHNEIDER
Best of Everything
ALL THE TIME AT THE
Arcade Cafe
FLAX CITY
Open Dav and Night
MAX SIMEL,
DISKAKET AND CRIPPLE CITY
Big Stocks, Standard Goods
Gasoline and Lubricating Oil
Good Roadhouse in Connection
CLEMONS & KOON
Portrait and View
Photographers
FLAT CITY_
NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS BY DAY OR WEEK
Warm, Clean Well Ventilated
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
TUC nnnCDV Massage and
|™ uHUuD I Bath Parlors
MEDICATED, MINERAL VAPOR, STEAM, « _
TUB, SALT AND FRESH WATER LilS
Caribou St., Bet. Black and Willow Sts., on Waterfront
Electric and Faradic Massage Treatments by Expert Attendants
Lighted by Gas Heated by Steam