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A TRIBUTE TO THE PROSPECTOR
It must be admitted, even by those that look upon metal money
as an unscientific medium of exchange, that no men have coni ribuiec!
more to the development of the world than have gold miners and pros
pectors, says the Alaska Empire. They have been in a large measure
the discoverers of new countries. They have furnished markets ar.d
employment to the pioneers in all lines of endeavor in many sections
ot the world that are now tamed tor other tnmgs than mining, me
yellow product of their toil and energy has gone into the channels of
trade and commerce to stimulate those that they left behind, when
engaging m their quest for gold, to greater activity and achievements.
Speaking of the prospectors’ calling and its worth to the world,
the Dawson News pays this apt tribute:
“In some cynical minds in effete lands the gold hunter, the pros
pector, the man who leaves civilization behind him and boldly strikes
mto the unknown regions of the earth, regions of deep canyons, high
mountains, raging torrents and mighty glaciers, is thought lightly of.
It is not necessary that a hero shall be made of him, though the ancient
troubadour and the modern poet join in tribute to the man who braves
the dangers of the unknown, who delves in nature’s rock-ribbed crust.
“The men are neither heroes nor philanthropists; they are simply
hardy scions of a hardy race seeking to better their condition, seeking
the greatest of all material things, that which the world has striven for
since the dawn ot history; they are heaitny, hardy, Keen and sure
footed, and not nearly so many of them suffer death from their pri
vations and exposure as are killed by vicious mules or gor cd by bulls
in the home of the waving maize.
“Every dollar they bring forth from the wild is an added dollar
to the measure of values, and lias been taken from no one else; the
middleman is eliminated; directly from the hand of the miner to the
mint goes the golden product, thence into the channels of commerce,
giving greater scope to the manufacturing interests, new blood in the
arteries of trade.
“The nomadic spirit which has given us the prospector has made
possible our railroads, given us the wonderful twentieth century de
velopment, made the world what it is today—a glorious place to
live in.
“We hear of reservations to maintam nature in its primitive state
that the denizens of the city may, at their pleasure, roam at will through
the brambles and soulfuily commune with nature.
I lie prospector, roaming cnw the mountains, sees nature at its
best, witnesses the grand results of the ag^s, and meanwhile wrests
from hidden recesses wherewithal to continue the world in her onward
march, harming no man, taking from no man, but giving much.
“California, Australia, the Rand, Alaska, but for the prospocter,
would be spots on the map.”
BOYCE’S FALSE DOCTRINE
Juneau Empire: There are sometimes disappointments mixed
up with the good in these visiting ‘’investigations” of Alaska. Now
and again an “investigator” comes North only to return to his home
and spread misinformation about the people of the territory and to
preach false doctrines concerning it. The “disappointemnt” of the
recent New Seattle Chamber of Commerce excursion is W. D. Boyce,
publisher of the Chicago Blade and the Chicago Ledger.
In a speech delivered at Seattle just after his return to that city,
and repeated before the Chicago Commercial Club later, Mr. Boyce
said that the people of Alaska do not want the federal government to
aid in the construction of railroads in the territory.
But that is not all. Mr. Boyce d:a not stop at imparting this mis
information. He went further, and struck at the very heart of the
aspirations of the people of this territory, saying:
‘‘Alaska is not an integral part of the United States—it is not
continuous territory, and never can become a state. It is the same
as Hawaii, as Porto Rico or the Philippines.”
If there are two propositions upon which the people of Alaska
Eggs Eggs Eggs
Fancy Petaluma Eggs, 59c a dozen. Fancy Butter, the best in the camp.
Fancy Potatoes, Onions, Apples, Oranges, Ham:, Bacon and Carnation Cream.
Coal Oil, $6 per case. New Apples, $5 per box.
Buy your outfit from Charlton, where you gat the best goods for the least
money.
Ja WB Charlton* Iditarod City
:: FRESH MEATS ::
Beef, Mutton, Pork, Poultry, Oysters, Fish
Smoked Meats and Dry Pa eked Buiier
You'll Gnd no mold on our smoked meats.
5e;ond St. 3DITAROD iVSEAT GO* Phono is
All Hours Alike in This House
CARIBOU CAFE
COME ONCE AND YOU WILL COME AGAIN
FIRST AVENUE. SOUTAR & SUTHERLAND. Props.
1 TMF MfUMfflF FLAT CITY, I
A A A M*si A A vUr A WA &&/ _ FRONT STREET
| Furnished Rooms, Clean Spring Beds, Bath, Dry Rooms, iU"' nh"’in |
We have just received a consignment of laid CALENDARS some- v
thing useful and beautiful. Call and roceivo one. i*
See Os for a Winter Outfit-Fresh Goods at Fair Prices!
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Axes, Saws, Mauls and Wedges for tho Wcodchopper. y
Guns and Ammunition for the Sportsman. £
Lamps for Every Home; Chimneys, Wicks and burners for Every 5
Lamp. House Lining, Drill and Heavy Canvas. Ruga, Couch i.
Covers, Piilows and Comforters, Bar and Table Glassware. Q
McMahon, Flat City.\
:: ^Le&s^The^ nJJ utsjde
MU Diamond Coeds -- Ei ouches, Scarf
Pins, Rings. Studs, Lockets, Bracelets,
Match Safes, Lovallieres. Cuff Buttons
and Pendants.
AT LESS then outs we prices
Souvenir Jewelry W W MJ ill Mr' Lending Jeweler
Made lo Order v McxI a JHL iLrf MS* of {ha North
Qpp. Traction
Company Depot j
i Mrs. T. L. McGrath, Prop.
\ Nicely Furnished Rooms FLAT CITY Large Drying Ream_j
A Nice Line of Out Glass Deposit Ware
Souvenir Jewelry and Watches
W. TAYLOR, JEWELER. Fiat City
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Foot of Willow St.. Id i t a roil
are united they arc that the United States should immediately aid in
' providing transportation facilities for the territory and that tne ulti
mate destiny of their land shall be its incorporation into the union of
| states.
The people of Alaska are not an alien race. They are men and
women that have come from the States, and they brought w in them
the same ideals, ambitions and methods of thinking that obtain in ail
sections of the Union. They are a part and parcel of the American
people. Others of the same kidney are coming North daily, and tak
ing up their residence with us, and they wll continue to come until
there is a large population of Americans up here 1 ring in typicaliy
American communities. It would be criminal to deny these people the
right to look forward to a time when they and thc.r children shall lie
come, in fact and m deed, a participating part of tne nation.
However, the preaching cl this ‘'d.s-appointrncnt is not without
its advantages. It has served to stir those friends of Alaska who ac
companied the excursion and saw things clearly to greater activity
than they would have exercised, probably, had it net be-.-n for tne posi
tion he has assumed. _
WATTERSON ON WILSON
In a tribute that contains something of a stung, due probably to
personal relations during the preliminary campaign last year, Henry
Watterson, speaking in New York of President Woodrow Wilson, said:
“Both Wilson’s luck and his nerve slay with him. He may prove
one of the favored few of destiny. It is not too much to expect that
sheer attrition of circumstances; the chrysalis of tire narrow school
room falling away from the leader of boys and m the amplitude of the
White House revealing a leader of men; the clever shifts and smart
devices of the politician gaining breadth from the weight of responsi
bility and dignity through the sense of elevation. Let us hope so.
“It is a pleasant thing to contemplate a real scholar at the head
of affairs. It were a glorious thing to have this scholar a man of flesh j
and blood, equally generous and upright, at once responsive to natural
a flection and unselfish in his daily walks and ways.”
He further characterized the President as follows:
“He is a man of acute understand,ng, highly trained and of cold
heart, receptive to his own purposes, who has come to the head of af
fairs at the beginning of a formative period with politics m something
of a fluid state and parties much at loose ends.”I
DREDGING SOLE MINING
IN SOLOMON DISTRICT
Nciiie Industrial Worker. September 15:
Henry Sethman, who has been down in the
S-.-Liiiion country, brought bock a few notes
which are of great interest as far as mining
is concerned. He states that there are nine
dredges in the Solomon and Casa cistrict —
the Kimball and Yuba dredges on Shovel
creek, the Montana, the Seward, Anderson
& Co.. Flodine No. 1, Sivc-rston and John
son. Fcldine No. 2 (at the mouth of East
Forks) and the Solomon dredge. All are
operatng on Solomon river, so it will be
only a few more years until Solomon river
is worked out from the mouth to the head.
Anderson & Co. stopped work on September
12, having worked out their ground. Siv
erston and Johnson are drilling three miles j
from Solomon and intend to move their :
dredge down from one mile below East
Forks, where they will get through this
season. The Seward dredge has the most
ground to work. They had some trouble
with their boilers; one was worn out and
the other blew out the crown sheet. They I
are in good shape now. Every dredge is |
short of water and they have to build dams
in order to keep afloat, but even then they
have to take up as much as three and
four feet of bedrock to keep floating.
There is no mining going on outside of
dredging, Quigly, on Big Hurrah, has not
done any hydraulic king this summer. Kim
ball has bought No. 5 above and has three
claims there. It is said that he intends to
build a dredge, which he will place on this
property next year.
Mert Marston, who has been overseeing
the shipping of the new dredge from Dike
man during the past two weeks, was on;
of the first to arrive in this city over the
ice this fad. He mushed in Monday.
T. W. Howell, who has been the deputy
marshal at Flat City for the past two
years, is now visiting with his parents at
Sumas, Wash. He will probably return to
Alaska in the early spring.
Job Printing at Pioneer office.
The number of pupils attending the pub
lic schorls at Nome September 1(3 was 130,
or well up to the average of last year’s
attendance.
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Jim *au is to have a free delivery system,
the first ni Alaska. The city council has
ordered all the streets named and corner
posts erected and the houses numbered.
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At Non: ■ recently judgment was given
for 1>. S. l lodin and Ed Benson in their
suit with the Scfomon River Hydraulic
Mining Company. The amount was $4(3,
062.
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The First Territorial Bank of Alaska be
gan business in Douglas and Juneau on
September 1. The new bank is the first
one t;> be organized under the laws of the
territory, ar.d is. general’}* speaking, a sav
ings bank.
The wharf of the IV-s Mill Company at
Hahh-y c: Lapsed last month and about
-K‘0.000 tact of lumber fell into the deep
sea.
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Mrs. Mary K. Hurt, the woman with
many till, s, proposes to spend the winter
in the Chisana, locking for gold.
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The town of Juneau ha- named a street
in honor of lion. Wilburn L. Di.-tin, sur
vivor general of Alaska, who retires after
10 years of service.
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A concrete building 50xS2 feet and five
stfries hi;.h was begun recently at Ketchi
kan.
Thirty-eight dredges are operating this
/mincer in the vicinity of Nome.
The Loyal Order of M* use organized at
id ri Seward with 113 charier members.
Win Tun.ren. the fiend who recently
mi.rb. red a number of p.-.-j la at Index
Wa foimerly resided at Ska gw ay, where
he wa- cm; Lived as an electrical engineer.
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The figures fur the gild production for
the Country have just been is-ued. and it
is .-1: n ip, -hem that Alaska is the third
u all -tat* s and lerrii; rie-. The total pro
dutii n for the (.Tilled State• i- $93,f)00,000
. n 1 tin ; r. dueti< n n.r that year for Alaska
is 517.-,bo 100.
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11 he sch i r Wasp, which haft Nome for
Be.h. 1 about August 1 is now I mg over
..mu She sh mid have returned about Sep
tember 1. and the came < f the delay i> cans
Ter eanhderabh* speculation in maritime
am! 1 radio. •: circle-, 'ihe Wa/p took down
a ! -ad of supplies for the bureau of edu
cation. -rores for Brown, of Schaefer
A Ba \vn. and had (n board several pas
engers. There was also a quantity of snp
I lies f; r IV. t k Wa/key’s trading post at
•' i -d N-cws bay. The Wa-p is a nafive
■ u 1- schu-mi. r. h sviug bw:i constructed at
Uncial. 1 -cl.
The seven iwives who were bbwn out
'«•'> .-ca ( n the ice hr! January near Point
Barrow have never shown up, and they
are now given up as 1 st. a’the ugh their
relative'’ had hopes that they would be
found in Liberia cr some other part of the
co a t.
Arti ! . o! it'c. rj rath n • eve been flPd
with the secretary of the turrit* ry by the
Port ago Bay <k Motanuska Railroad Com
pi n T! capital s ck is ). h he
first b of directors composed of T
P. Ccia.'P A. L. Sine let ray B. F. Millard,
ail of \ : 1 I). Wheeler of Terre Haute.
Hid., and K. H. H-.terbrook of Cordova The
purp-. so of the company is to build a stand
ard gauge railroad from the head of Pas
sage canal. on Prince William sound, to
Conk inl:t, and thence northeasterly to
Fairbanks and interior points.
On September IS Representative Charles
Kennv'v received a check for ,?90 from
•Riflp* Murane for use in sending Joseph
R. B01 to the peneers’ home at Sitka and
in doing so he received the firs: money ever
given for tli■ - purpose in this division out
of the indigent portion of the Alaska fund.
This money for inriigents is 10 per cent of
th" i'dal Alaska fund, and was provided for
M ine time ago by congress. Mr. Kennedy |
^airi to have been the first man to bring I
the information to Nome that such a fund |
had lava provided for inriigents, and the
fact that he was the first to be intrusted
with a check for the use of a pioneer is
psychologically proper, if one may say so.
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Word to the effect that cx-Judge Peter D
Overfield had resumed the practice of law 1
in Los Angeles, Cal., has been received in
Alaska.
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A rule hsa been made by the city police
authorities which prevents soldiers from
crossing Snake river bridge unless thev
have a permit to do so from the com
mander at Fort Davis. If they cross to
th? Spit without this permission they are
arrested by the police and the command
ing officer is notified of the arrest, so that
the one arrested is taken over by the mili
tary authorities. This step was taken to
prevent a certain class of soldiers from
meeting the natives, and was supposed to
be necessary, although it might be a sort
of reflection on the soldiers generally, which
it is not intended to be at all. The result
of this precaution is said to be that native
women have begun to go to reside in the
Standard Oil district, and by so doing are
giving the officers a lot of trouble and ruin
ing their efforts to stamp out an evil which
is obvious enough to make it unnecessary
to mention it in print. The city officials
find this matter more difficult to handle as
time goes on, and there are many com
plaints from citizens concerning the evil. It
is said that Governor Strong stated while
here that if the people manifested a desire
to have special officers appointed the at
tempt to secure them would probably be
suceessf? 1 as it has been in other quarters.
Nome Nugget, September IS.
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(Record Citizen, September 27m
Some of {he outfits working on Long I
creek closed down during the recent cold ,
sped, while others continued on. takinig a
; har.ee that they would be able to sluice
a while linger.
Alec Larson, on 2 above Long, had a
clean-up the first of the week, which show.'
that he is working in pretty good ground.
Lor .mx days’ run with four men Larson I
cleaned and weighed up S3,600.
Kells & Co., on the Windy bench, cleaned
up some dirt taken out of the new shaft,
and when put on the scales and weighed
showed >2 SCO.
Gi dund Ar Co.. 1 Bear Pup, cleaned the
boxes on their ground Thursday morning ■
and blind, when dried and weighed, about
SI 1.000.
Smith <k Co., laymen on the B .'ton
bench, have dosed down for the season. !
and the boys have gone to town for a ;
rood rest.
Bert Walker has been prospecting the j
Buckeye Association with his Keystone drib
i for the past few weeks, the result b ine
unknown. He wi 1 now move the drill
• nto the ground formerly held by the Big
Four, where he will do considerable pro.'
I'ceting.
Judge Gilbert Nairn, appointed to the *
'position of deputy clerk of the district ^
; court, has established his office in the Hill
building, sharing the quarters of Commis
.-ioncr 11:11. Nairn was appointed deputy
clerk of court by Judge Fuller during the 1
recent term cf court, in order to enable 1
those de-;ring to commence action in the i
! higher court to do so without hvaing t > :
| go to Fairbanks.
Ai r Feb 'n left in a gasoline launch for
| Boorman creek the lirst of the week, taking ,
with him a load of provisions.
Louis Colbert < f Trail creek is in town !
after an absence of several months, during ;
which time he has been busily engaged
on his Trail creek property.
Frank Miller ("liootlinana Kid"1 steered;
| his launch into dockage Thursday morning, j
after a trip up the Novi river. He is au
thurity for the statement that the outfits
h ll up by the low stage of water, and
which were about 75 miles from their desti
nation, will hr* enabled to make it all right,
it they are not there already. It had just
started t > rain when he left the boys, and
it is his opinion that they will get through
without any trouble.
Pardee arriving .va r the Long-Cripple trail !
report the trip “a otugh cm" this season j
f the year. They al-o bring the informa
‘ion that John Dunn, who left for Innoko j
oral day a-* since, lost his bearings and I
v. andc-re-d around in the lulls Ft a coupp •
of days before he became straightened oi: .
Dave Morris, cm of Ruby’s ta :o,r-. ta
turned here by way (if the I. mr-Cripple
trail from Opliir. Ophir. says Marais, is ..
good little camp to those who stayed 1
with it.
Mrs. Gordon Shea left on the Sell walk a.
this morning hr Seattle, where Mv will |
join her M.m Claude.
Jack Wallace, well known in every min- j
ing camp in the North, and recently of Idit
aro l, arrived in Ruby Tuesday from Crip
ple City, coming overland from the latter
camp.
NO MORE GIANT LINERS
WILL BE CONSTRUCTED
Berlin, ?pt. 30. The giant Imperator.
the largest chip afloat, will have to be re
modeled. The boiler? have been found de
ficient and fuel oil will be used instead of
coal. The luxurious millionaire apartments
have been found unprofitable and will be
replaced with smaller state room.?. Steam
ship companies believe the day of gigantic
liners is over, and they will build smaller
ships hereafter.
Assessment Work Blanks at Pioneer.
NOTARY PUBLIC
Deeds, Leases, Powers of Attorney and
Affidavits of Annual Labor.
FLAT CREEK, ALASKA
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To Margaret Brandt and \Y. H. Cantrell,
tlx ir la-irs, executors. administrators
and assigns:
You and curb of you art1 hereby notilled
that during each of the years 19 12 and
1913 1 have expended $lwo in labor and
improvements upon placer mining claim
known as .No. r< above, right limit, opliir
creek, situate in the nphir mining and re
cording district, territory or Alaska.
In order to hold your interests m said
claim under Hie provisions of .Section 2324
of the Revised Statutes of the United
States, said expenditures being for your
shares of the annual assessment work for
said years, and if within ninety days after
Hu' last publication of this notice you fail
or refuse to pay to tlx* undersigned, as
co-owner, your proportion of the expendi
tures aforesaid, your interests in said
claim will become the property of the un
dersigned as co-owner under said Section
2324, R. S. HENRY COX.
First publication, October 18, 1913.
l.a-t publication, January 17, 1914.
DR. H. BEHLA,
Dentist
Offices, Pioneer Drug Store.
Appointments hy Telephone
Hat Oily
A. E. MALTEY,
Attorney at Law,
Richmond St, next to Postoffice
Notary Public Phone
Richard J. Cook Joseph L. Reed
uorermental P,-3ciice Fc-meriy U. S. Ccrrnisslone
Washington, D. C. Velde?. Alaska
reed & COOK.
Admiralty, Patent and Mining
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WILLOW STREET,
Neat Rooms by Day or Week.
Bunks 50c. Mrs. A. M. An ten
Golden Eagle Hotel and Store
Front St., Iditarod
Ladies’ and Gents' Dresa Shoes
and Hose
Gasoline. Carbide and Klectru
Lightning Mop Kloor Cleaners and other
Shorts. Agency for Gray Motors.
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BAKERY
Foot cf Willow St.
Bss! Clip of Coffee in Town
Fresh Bread Kvery Day
(..’linice Dies, ( dikes. Kte.
WOW LOCATED
ON THE WINTER TRAIL
ROADHOUSE
Meals All Flours.
Liquors and < iifars
Tel: "Summit liuadhoust."
One Above Discosory
LODGING, MEALS AT ALL HOURS
Liquors and Cigars JOHN BACO. Prep.
FLAT CITY
Cu'RLY ROBINSON, PROPRIETOR
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H. SNYDER,
Has Many Beautiful Designs of
WALLPAPER
And also a goodly supply of
PAINTS, OILS, ETO.
Willow Street, Idiiarod.
ryow om sale?
''The Alaska Mining Law." with ex
planations of the new reguialiions by
Henry Roden, senator representing the
Fourth division in the Fast Alaska
legislature. Every miner, operator and
prospector should have one. Printed
in neat pamphlet form. Price 50 cents.
For sale at Ansley’s book store, Idit
irod, and at the Pioneer drug store.
Flat City.
! Camp Iditarod No. 27, Arctic Broth
j erhood, meets at A. B. Hall on the
first and third Monday evenings of
each month at 8 o'clock. Visiting
brethren cordially invited to attend.
SAM BAYLF.S,
Arctic Chief.
J. C. CURRIN,
Arctic Recorder.
Notice of Forfeiture
To Julian Spencer. V. C. Sutlif, J. Dolan, M. C.
Edmunds and C. Mack, their heirs, assigns,
successors or personal representatives.
Yon are hereby notified that I have expended
in labor and improvements for each of the years
of 1912 and 1913 the sum of one hundred dollars
—$100—on the Rosebud association placer min
ing claim, situated on Otter creek, a tributary
of the Iditarod river, in the Otter Mining and
Rrcordiug District, Territory of Alaska, which
have been duly recorded at the commissioner’s
office at Iditarod. The above amounts have been
expended in order to hold the said claim under
the provisions of the law concerning annual
labor upon mining claims, being the amounts
required to hold such claim. And you are
further notified that if. within ninety—90— days
after the last publication of this notice, you fail
to contribute your proportion of said expendi
ture, your interest in said claim will become the
property of the undersigned, your co-owner.
A. ST LAWRENCE.
First publication September 27, 1913
Last publication December 27. rur;