Change of Time
IDITAROD TRACTION COMPANY
ONE ROUND TRIP OF PASSENGER DAILY
Passenger Car Leaves Flat at 8 a.m.
Returning, Leaves Iditarod at ‘2 p.m.
Freight Trains at 7 a.m. and Noon.
CAPTAIN SANFORD
DIES SUDDENLY
Captain Warren W. Sanford, master of the steamer Samson,
died very suddenly of heart disease at Dikeman just before noon
last Sunday. The body arrived in Iditarod on the launch Flyer,
accompanied by E. V. Brown, Monday afternoon.
The Samson was lying at Dikeman and Captain Sanford was
superintending the taking on of freight preparatory to dropping
down to the woodyard in the evening. At one time he complained
of a pain at the heart, but no one thought it was anything of a
serious nature. While he and his chief engineer were on the way
to the lower end of town the latter, walking in front, heard him
say, “My eyes are all blurred,” and when he looked around Cap
tain Sanford was lying on his back in a dying condition.
Captain Sanford’s parents live in Portland, Ore. Max San
ford, the father telegraphed instructions for the body to be buried
at Iditarod. Cyril Wood has been appointed administrator of the
estate.
Captain Sanford was one of ths best known steamboat men on
the waters of the Yukon. He was pilot on the old steamer Koyu
kuk when she was wrecked on the Tanana in 1904, and was for a
long time with Captain Haines as mate and as pilot on the Koyukuk.
LAND WHERE THE CARIBOU ROAM
Charles Boyer, who returned to Fair
banks from Big Chena Hot Springs, re
ported that both caribou and moose
were very plentiful between Fairbanks
and the Big Chena the middle of
September.
About the same time Game Warden
William Lloyd said the caribou for the
most part bad left the hills around the
Big Chena Hot Springs and were mov- '
ing along the higher ridges toward the ;
west and the high Bills and mountains j
of Beaver river. This is the move ;
whereby they band themselves into the i
great herds in which they are found ’
during the rutting season, and these
herds will soon begin their annua’ fall
movement.
HOT SPRINGS
LAWYER ARRESTED
Fairbanks, September 10.—On the
charge of embezzlement, J. H. Miles,
a Hot Springs attorney stationed at
Tofty, was arrested and is now on the
way to Eagle, where he will have a
hearing. He was taken into custody
by Deputy Marshal Coleman from Dep
uty J. L. Anders at Hot Springs.
Miles is charged with having taken
$200 attorney’s fees from a woman at.
Circle for transmission to McGowan &
Clark, of Fairbanks, and then failing to
remit the money. As this is alleged to
have happened at Eagle the hearing
will have to be held there.
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BETWEEN
DIKEMAN and IDITAROD
—
The regular semi-monthly meeting of Camp Iditarod No. 27,
A. B., to be held at the hall next Monday evening, will have more
important matters to attend to than have come before the camp in
many months. It is urgently requested that all members who can
conveniently do so will attend and participate in the deliberations.
One of the things that will come before the meeting is the
regular semi-annual election of officers. Another matter that may
receive attention is the selection of delegates to represent the camp
at the eleventh grand encampment, to be held at Portland, Ore.,
November 11.
Of more general local interest than all is the approach of the
season when social activities will demand a large amount of atten
tion from the public. In every place in the North where there is
a camp of the Arctic Brotherhood it always takes the lead in mat
ters of public entertainment, and Camp Iditarod will doubtless do
its part well. That none shall miss the pleasant responsibilities of
starting the social season off right let every member be on hand
with suggestions and counsel.
MURDER GASES TO GOME BEFORE
DISTRICT COURT AT FAIRBANKS
It is believed the next grand jury will convene at Fairbanks
some time in November, when the winter trails have become pass
able for witnesses from a distance.
This winter promises to be a record breaker in the number of
murder cases to come before the court. There are already six
men in jail charged with murder, only one of whom has been in
dieted by a grand jury. They are:
William Geise, indicted for the murder of Boyd, a discharged
soldier, at Tanana a year ago last April. Geise was not. held by
the coroner, the theory being that Boyd was a suicide; but he was
subsequently indicted and was arrested at St. Michael not long ago.
Robert John, an Indian, accused of the murder of William A.
Clark, a prospector, on the Chandlar over two years ago. Clark
and his partner Geraty disappeared and Clark's body was found
a year ago the past summer, and taken to Fairbanks last winter,
where an inquest resulted in a verdict of death from cause un
known. Robert John is said to have made threats against Clark
and Geraty. He was arrested at Fort Yukon recently after a
deputy marshal had made a long search for him on the Arctic slope.
John Cooper, a negro, held for the murder of William Wimbish,
another negro, last November. He is supposed to have burnt Wim
bish’s remains.
Borisa Rokocevieb, who shot Fred Sellers in the Imperial cigar
store at Fairbanks over a card game last spring.
Roy Davis and Michael Joseph Sullivan, charged with having
murdered Duncan Angus at Hot Springs a little over a month ago.
Mike Kanally and Joe Shaw, who have been prospecting in
the Old Man country for the past eighteen months, returned to
Tanana a few weeks ago, according to a press dispatch, and said
they believe they have located pay on Trinity creek, a tributary of
Allard. Old Man is the Kanuti river of the Geographical Diction
ary and the maps. It is a tributary of the Koyukuk, heading near
the South Fork of the Koyukuk and the Dali. The men had pros
pected last winter and this summer on Allard creek, about fifteen
miles below where Trinity comes in. They got light prospects
there. Later they moved up stream and at the mouth of Trinity
the gold got coarser and the outlook more favorable. They have
gone back into the country with supplies, and will work this winter
about half way up Trinity, which is about seven miles long.
The creeks lie about a hundred miles by winter trail north of
Tanana, but Kanally and Shaw, accompanied by William Corning,
are taking in their supplies by a much longer route by way of Ray
river. The backbone of the country is porphyry; the contact is
granite and schist.
NORTHERN PERSON MLS
F. C. Irons, the game warden who spent a few weeks in the Idita
rod during the summer, reported at Fail banks that he found very little
game around Iditarod.
Secretary W. A. Reid of the Army Y. M. C. A., who was at Fort
Gibbon the winter of igog-’io, was recently in Fairbanks and left read
ing matter with the signal corps men.
W. B. Vanderlip, mining engineer who has been investigating
Fairbanks quartz, thinks so well of the country he will remain there
permanently.
Harry Pratt, who was admitted to the bar and practiced with his
father Louis K. Pratt a while in Fairbanks, is returning to that city
after a year spent in his native state, Colorado.
Dan Jonas has gone Outside from Fairbanks.
George Goebel, Socialist, has been drawing big audiences at Nome.
TELEGRAMS PHONED TO ROBY
Ruby City may now be reached from
Iditarod by message started by wire
less, forwarded over the government
wire from Kaltag to Melozi and thence
telephoned over a newly installed line
to destination.
From Melozi to Ruby is. eight miles
and the telephone charge on a 10-word
message is $1.
Pool, solo, and the best clear Havana
cigars at Johnstone’s.
FAIRBANKS DELEGATES
TO A. B. GRAND CAMP
CampFairbanks elected the following
delegates to the eleventh annual grand
encampment of the Arctic Brotherhood,
to be held at Portland, Ore., Novem
ber 11:
Delegates at large, J. W. Hill and
R. L. Palmer. Other delegates, George
Palmer, James Lushbaugh, Ed. Wol
cott, George Hutchinson, L. L. James
and W. G. Fox.
Northern
Commercial
Company
Dike man
Idita rod
GRUB SHORT
IN CHANDLAR
—
Provisions are short in the Chand- |
lar, according to Special Deputy O I
J. Nicholson, who recently arrived j
at Fairbanks from that district, and
in some instances operations will!
be stopped until grub can be taken i
in over the snow from the Yukon
Roberts & Ross is one outfit of
quartz prospectors that has been
compelled to shut down for want of
grub. These men have driven a j
tunnel on their vein a distance of i
103 feet. They are located 011 Big
Squaw creek.
Nicholson has some quartz inter- j
ests in the camp, but has done
nothing of late but a little pros
pecting.
Commissioner S. J. Marsh, on j
Little Squaw creek, has his mill in j
working order and has just put j
through twenty tons of rock. The '
cleanup had not been made, so it j
was not known how good the ore is '
Very little has been done in the j
Chandlar placers this season. Ar- I
thur Mente has worked on ib. Big j
creek, and Brown on ra. Hood &;
Pearson have been mining St. Ma- j
rv’s creek, and Murphy & Wener |
are engaged on the same stream j
These four are the only outfits j
handling gravel this year.
SMALLPOX
Kaltag, October i.—The small
pox epidemic is apparently abating
There has been no new case in ten
days. There were seventy-two
cases altogether. Strict quarantine
is maintained at the mouth of the
Porcupine. STUCK.
Ruby, September 30.—Will open
in a few days six thousand dollars’
drug stock, stationery, etc.
WM. ANDERSON.
[The Pioneer does not know'i
any druggist uarued William An
derson.]
Cascatie Steam Laundry
IS MAKING A SPECIALTY OF ROUGH DRY WORK, $2.00 PER DOZEN
PHONE 129 IDITAROD
Diskaket and Ophir City....
Miners' Supplies and General Outfitting a Specialty
All Hours Alike in This House
CARIBOU CAFE
GOME ONCE m YOU WILL COME AGAIN
FIRST AVENUE. SOUTAR & SUTHERLAND. Props.
Frank Sohn was taken from Opliir
City by Deputy Marshal Clyde C. Cole
man ard left at Tatiana last month for
transportation to Mount Tabor.
Custave George Ludwig Carlson was
adjudged insane at Fairbanks Septem
ber 10. He is a Swede and had been
in the camp two months.
Johnny Ancarola, known as “Johnny
tlie Harp,” who recently suffered a
paralytic stroke, was thought to be
losing his mind in Fairbanks Septem
ber 15.
A native woman was reported insane
in the vicinity of Ruby September 12.
Dennis Goheen, at Fairbanks, was
acquitted of an insanity charge, his
condition being ascribed to drink.
\V. G. Dains, lately from the Koyu
kuk, was taken into custody at Fair
banks. His particular hobby was swat
ting (lies, and bis undivided attention
was given to the business. He was
discharged on the ground that lie was
oi ly suffering from alcoholism.
Select Outside Lumber, corrugated
iron and roofing paper at Ross & Nes
tor's.
SUMMIT
ROADHOUSE
At Junction of Tramway and Other
Creek Trails
Meats at All Hours.
Liquors and Cigats
Tel: “Summit Roadhouse.”
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To SAM RISTILUOMA and ALEX JOHNSON.
YOU and each of yon, your heirs and assigns,
are hereby notified that the undersigned has
expended in labor and improvements the sum
of one hundred dollars—$100—for each of the
years of 1009. 1910 and 1911 upon placer mining
claims known as and called Violet Bench, Ida
Bench and Number One l-inn Gulch, situated
on Finn Gulch, a tributary of Gane creek, and
on Gane creek, a tributary of lunoko river, iu
the lunoko mining and recording district, dis
trict of Alaska.
Notices of location therefor being of record in
Vol. 2 at page 41, Vol. 7 at page 2, Vol. 2 at page
36 of the records of lunoko min in ^ district, dis
trict 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 con -
tribute your proportion of such expenditure
jour interest in said claims will become the
property of the undersigned, your co-owner,
under section 2324 of the revised statutes of the
United States.
CLIVER LaDUKK, Co-Owner.
F'irst publication Sept 2, 1911.
Last publication Dec. 2, 1911.
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