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Guy G. Geraghty. recently appointed
United States commissioner for Otter pre
cinct, accompanied by his wife, i bride of
a few weeks, arrived in Iditarod last Mon
day from Fairbanks, having come by dog
team. They left the up-river camp on
March 2, and made what is cons dered fair
time, considering the state of the trail and
the fact that there was a continual suc
cession of storms during the journey.
The travelers met with no stirring adven
tures on the trip, and report that the va
rious camps that they passed througn were
quiet, although Tanana showed signs of
some activity. At Poorman, in the Ruby
district, Mr. Geraghty says, there was evi
dence of considerable mining activity, and
be was told there was work for every man
in the district, and this was borne out by
the fact that very few men were to be seen
in town, all evidently being out on the
creeks.
Mr. Geraghty says that Professor Dra
peau’s moving picture outfit has caused a
great deal of profanity among mushers, ow
ing to the fact that the heavy mtfit has
up the trail badly. Drapeau and Beattie
had evidently ban tneir difficulties, as was
shown by the many indentations alongside
the trail where the machinery had fallen
from the sled or the sled had tipped over
with it, leaving an imprint in the snow.
Guy says that he can draw a perfect pic
ture of that, gas engine, including every
detail, from memory of the impressions in
the snow. Drapeau is said to have done
well with his show at the various camps he
passed through, charging an admission of
$1.50 per, and no free list.
Mr. Geraghty will assume the duties of
office on April 1, and in the meantime he
and Mrs. Geraghty are devoting their time
to a leisurely hunt for a suitable residence.
HUNDREDS OF IDITARODERS
TO RETURN OVER TRAIL
In the next few boats a large number of
Iditarod people are expected. J. E. Rilc-y,
who passed through this city some time
ago, stated that perhaps two hundred per
sons would go over the trail to Iditarod by
way of Seward this spring. When it is
rumored that the Mariposa has been sold
out, there is every reason to believe the
rumor, as the Iditaroders will prol ably flock
together on the way up.—Seward Gateway,
February 25.
LOST ONES SOUGHT
Deputy Marshal Percy G. Charles has re
ceived inquiries for the following persons:
John Patrick Baldwin is inquired for by
Mrs. Baldwin, 60 Wedmore road, Cardiff,
Wales. He left Dawson August 8, 1905,
for the lower river.
Willie Henry Myers, aged 33, height five
feet seven and a "half inches, light hair, is
inquired for by his brother at Stronaway
Station, Saskatchewan. Canada.
Job Printing at Pioneer office.
CANDLE CREEK NEWS NOTES
CANDLE CREEK, March 15— On Billy
Stanton’s ground on No. 7 above, Candle,
a shaft was sunk forty-five feet deep, with
good prospects. Bedrock was not reached
on account of water, however. Stanton will
try in a few days to continue sinking, l’arac
and Aspin have been assisting with this
work.
Jake Young has left for the Hartman
country to spend the summer. He and
Joe Kenechney have been prospecting on
Dome and Candle creeks all winter.
Higgins and Estleman are sinking shafts
and drilling on No. 7 bench.
McDonald, McClellan and Harms, on No.
6 above, got good prospects and are now
drifting.
Blackburn, Eldridge and Waldon. on No.
4 above, are drifting from the shaft where
they found the pay, and prospects are still
looking good.
Porcupine Nick is sinking on No. 3 below,
bench, on the right limit of Candle creek.
John Olson met with a painful accident
last week while working in a 95-foot shaft.
While thawing, he slipped in some way and
burnde both legs severely in the hot muck.
He is now under the care of Dr. Green
at Takotna, and resting as easily as can
be expected.
Frank Fontas and Joe Jerman visited
Candle and Karl creeks last week. Jerman
leaving for Ruby and Fontas for Iditarod.
Ed Option. Karl Schutler, “Albert the
Smiler” (Albert Lind), Jack Robinson and
La Belle & Gallant are busy prospecting on
their respective claims on Karl creek, and
all seem satisfied with the results they are
getting.
Porcupine Nick made a business trip to
Takotna this week. He moved from his
winter residence on No. 4 above bench,
Candle creek, to Igloovilie, on Discovery.
Stanton, Lind, Schutler, Option, Eldridge.
Young and Sprague all visited Drapeau’s
moving picture show at Takotna and trans
acted business there. They were chaperoned
by Bert E. Eldridge.
REPRIEVED MURDERER
KILLED BY POLICEMEN
WHITEHORSE, Y T.. Feb, 16—While
trying to escape at the change of his guards
Sunday night, Romilo Caesari, the reprieved
murderer, was shot by Northwest mounted
police and received wounds from which he
died last night.
The first bullet struck Caesari in the leg.
The wounded man rose and continued his
flight. When about 100 yards from the
barracks a second shot passed through
him, penetrating his stomach. Caesari fell
and was brought back to the hospital,
where he died twenty-four hours after his
break for liberty.
SUFFICIENT PROVOCATION
“Why did you beat Dobson so terribly?”
asked the judge, indicating the bebandaged
figure of the plaintiff.
“I asked him why a horse had run away,
your honor,” explained the prisoner, “and
he told me that it was because the animal
had lost his equineimity."
“H’m,” said the judge. “Discharged.”
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ALASKA’S LE6ISLATURE
JUNEAU, March 1. The Second terri
torial legislature was convened today, with
Surveyor General Charles E. Davidson act
ing as master of ceremonies and with the
four divisions represented by their full
membership with the exception of the va
cant seat of the late Elwood Bruner, sen
ator from the Second division. Rev. J. B.
Stevens was chosen chaplain of the senate
and Rev. Father KashevarofT officiated in
like capacity for the house. Federal Judge
Robert Jennings administered the oath of
office to the members.
Representative E. B. Collins, who served
as speaker during the first session, was
re-elected, and Senator Dan Sutherland was
elected president of the senate. A. E.
Malt by of Iditarod was elected clerk of the
senate and Barry Keown of Nome was
given the clerkship of the house.
Following the organization, both houses
adopted a resolution deploring the death of
the late Senator Bruner, and designating
March 27 as Bruner memorial day, in honor
of the deceased member, on which occasion
.both branches of the legislature will listen
to eulogies of the deceased.
The members of the senate will meet
daily at 12:30.
McGann Elected Senator
NOME, March 1.—Although there are
several precincts yet to hear from, it is
considered certain that Thomas McGann,
union labor candidate, has been elected to
the vacancy in the territorial senate caused
by the death of the late Senator Elwood
Bruner. The returns thus far received give
McGann a lead of 00 votes over Andy An
derson and a lead of 191 over George
James. In Nome and vicinity McGann has
a plurality of 20 votes. The totals for the
returns received here are: McGann, 485;
Anderson, 405; James, .374.
The election was held on Saturday and,
as the vote indicates, the contest aroused
little interest. The districts not yet re
ported are Marshall City, Teller and one or
two other oulying places.
Work of Legislature
JUNEAU, March 12.—Twenty-six bills
have so far been introduced in the house
and eleven in the senate, several of them
being duplicates. Repeal of the Roden min
ing law is assured.
An amendment to the eight-hour law, so
as to include underground placer work,
work in open cuts, on dredges and in hy
draulic operations, telephone plants, hotels,
restaurants, bakeries, etc., has been intro
duced. A memorial to congress asks that
Alaska be authorized to vote on the liquor
question at the next election. Another
memorial asks for a wireless station for
the Koyukuk.
QUIET DESIRED
Wifie—Do you love me still, dear
Hubby—When I’m trying to read the
paper I do.—Boston Transcript.
SENATOR RODEN OF ALASKA”
RETURNS TO JUNEAU TO LOBBY
(Fairbanks Times. Feb. 20)
After an absence of several years, Henry
Roden, well-known former attorney of this
city, and short term member of the upper
house of the first territorial legislature,
reached Fairbanks yesterday from the coast,
ling mushed over the trail from Chitina.
Mr. Roden will remain here only a short
time, it being his intention to return to the
coast as soon as he has attended to impor
tant business matters which brought him
to the Interior. He plans to arrive in
Juneau shortly after the opening of the
session of .he legislature, and will devote
his time to lobbying in the interest of legis
lation which he deems of importance to the
territory. With the exception of a few
days spent at Juneau en route, Mr. Roden
comes to Fairbanks direct front the Out
side, where he visited all of the principal
coast cities from Seattle to San Diego.
Questioned regarding the present mining
law% which he introduced at the First ses
sion of the territorial legislature, Mr. Roden
requested that it be denied that he w'rote
the measure, although he expressed the be
lief that the new law had given better sat
isfaction throughout the territory than the
one which it had supplanted. The present
law, he said, w'as copied from the present
Montana law, the Washington law, and the
United States law. Some of the sections ;
were also drafted from the majority report
of the miners’ association which was in ex
istence here in the early days of the camp.
“The only people who object seriuosly to
the law,” said the former senator, “are those
who are holding mining claims for specu
lation. the big companies, and people not
engaged in mining at all. The real pros- .
pector. the man who stakes a claim for the
gold he can extract from it, is not clamoring
for a new law, although it is generally be
lieved among mining men that the present
law can be improved.
“In my travels over the territory,” con
tinued the attorney, “I learned that there
are three objections to the law among min
ing men. The first of these is the section
requiring $100 worth of location work
within ninety days, and the recording
thereof. The second complaint is that
against the affidavit requirement. It fre- j
quently happens that the place of recording
is too far away from the claim to permit
of recording within the required time after
the location work has been completed. The
third objection is that the requirements of
’ present law do not conform to the
conditions in all parts of the territory. For
instance, there are no trees or rocks in the
Nome country for marking the boundaries
of claims, and in the Juneau district the
trees are of such size that it is impossible
for a prospector to stake a claim properly
without taking an entire sawmill outfit
along with him on his staking trips. It is
unfortunate, in this regard, that the terri
torial lawmakers cannot legislate by dis
tricts. If they had that authority it would
be a simple matter to make regulations
suitable to the various mining districts
throughout the territory.
“The chief complaint against the section
requiring annual assessment work was
found in the Iditarod and on Seward penin
sula. In the former district the Guggen
heims would like very much to be relieved
of the necessity of doing assessment work,
and the dredge companies made the loudest
noise in Nome.” Mr. Roden said he recog
nized the handicap placed upon capital, but
as there were two kinds of miners, it was
hard to distinguish between them.
Speaking of the attitude of the senators
of the First territorial legislature, who
wrote a letter to the secretary of the in
terior to the effect that the people of
Alaska were opposed on principle to gov
ernment' ownership of railroads. Mr. Roden
said that the wording of the letter was un
fortunate and that the writers had acted
in good faith. He said that the senators
were all on record in the senate as favoring
a railroad for Alaska, and in further ex
planation of the letter he said in part :
“Delegate Wickersham declared himself
opposed to the government ownership of
railroads, and as he had been re-elected by
a big majority, we took this to be a senti
ment of the majority of the voters, and so
informed Secretary Lane.”
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CANYON-CREEK MINING LOCATIONS
PRESENT COMPLICATED QUESTIONS
Word comes from the Kuskokwim coun
try of mining complications that are likely
) have a sequel in the courts, and which
will involve title to ground that is reputed
to have considerable value. The problems
involved will also bring into question the
interpretation of the Alaska mining law.
For the past year or more Joe Veil as, Joe
Jean and two Lapps have been working
placer ground on Canyon creek, in the
lower Kuskokwim region. The claims
worked were located some eighteen months
ago, but in spite of this, it is claimed that
no location notice has been filed, as pro
vided by the territorial law. The reason for
this is stated to be that the locators have
been in doubt as to what precinct and
judicial district the claims are located in.
According to the congressional act of 1910,
northwest from a point w’here the 159th
Alaska, the boundary line between the Third
and Fourth judicial divisions of Alaska runs
northwest fro ma point where the 1599h
meridian of longitude cuts the Coast divide
to a point at the intersection of the Kus
kokwim river and the 161st meridian of
longitude. This, according to the original
locators, would place the Canyon creek dis
trict within the boundaries of the Third ju
dicial division. It is contended by Duke E.
Stubbs, United States commissioner at
Aniak, that Canyon creek is in the Fourth
division, and in the Kuskokwim precinct.
For some reason there appears to be a dis
position to ignore the Kuskokwim commis
sioner and ex officio recorder, and while it
is understood that a local recorder was
named by the Canyon creek miners, no at
tempt seems to have been made to have
the claims recorded with the nearest pre
cinct recorder in the judicial district, as
provided by law.
Acting on the assumption that the raw
had not been complied with, and that the
claims were therefore open to relocation, on
the first of the year Elza Fischer, Joe Cha
ney, Sam Yoich and Billy Kay attempted
to relocate the entire creek. The original
locators, however, were still in possession,
and no opportunity was given the jumpers
to do the location work necessary under the
law to complete the location.
As yet there have been no legal proceed
ings inaugurated, and developments will he
awaited with interest.
Fine Watch Repairing,
J.E. RILEY BACK HOME
J. E. Riley, the Otter creek operator, ar
rived from the Outside last Sunday morn
ing, bringing with him the much-needed
shaft for his dredge. The piece of steel
weighs about seventeen hundred pounds,
and probably is the heaviest article ever
transported over the Seward trail to the
Interior of Alaska. Mr. Riley was about
forty days on the trip from Seward, and
employed a string of twenty-three dogs to
pull the shaft.
CANARD WAS STARTED
TO MISLEAD GERMANS
LONDON, March 1.—The British gov
ernment has finally admitted that the
widely-circulated report of Russian rein
forcements heine sent to France early in
the war was a hoax, intended to fnoi the
Germans into abandoning their attack on
Paris. The report stated that 100,000 Rus
| sians had been iande don the French coast,
having been transported around to Scotland
| from the White sea. Kitchener organized
j the story and secured its publication.
—
BLUECHER PARTICIPATED
IN SCARBOROUGH RAID
LONDON, Feb. 27.- The German pris
1 oners at Edinburgh include Captain Erd
j mann of the Bluecher, who is a man of
J fine physique. Fie was very downcast on
landing, but later, after being taken to the
castle in a cab, he chatted with some of the
officers there. From his conversation, it
appears that the Bluecher was one of the
German ships that bombarded Scarborough
and Flartlepool recently.
She did not get out of the venture with
out harm, for, it is said, she had nine men
killed and twenty-one wounded.
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“Dewar's Extra Special," termed “the best product
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Hidden Rocks Off Coast
A Washington dispatch states that the
Coast and Geodetic Survey last season
found twenty-one pinnacle rocks under the
water level off the coast of Alaska and
charted them. One was 000 feet high and
rose to within seventeen feet of the sur
face. The cost of finding the rocks with a
wire drag was $675 apiece. The loss of the
steamer California, which struck one of
these rocks, took thirty-one lives and caused
a property loss of $300,000. The pinnacles
were found in Reeillegeido channel, Nich
olas passage and Tongass narrows. The area
covered by the wire drag was sixty square
miles.
Unique Robbery at Wrangell
Considerable petty thieving, consisting
mainly of looting gas boats on the water
front and breaking into vacant buildings,
has been going on at Wrangell lately. But
for high-el:iss work, says a Post-Intelli
gencer dispatch, the stealing of a 400
pound safe on February 2. while the pro
prietor was at a picture show, i.s certainly
passing one over on the ordinary midnight
hief. When Jinks, the Chinese merchant
of Wrangell, opened the front door of his
store about 9:30 a. m., he thought he de
tected a draft of air from the rear. He in
vestigated and found the back door open
and his safe missing. Later on he discov
ered a rope dangling from the platform on
which his store stands, showing that the
thieves had lowered his safe to the beach
and evidently loaded it in a skiff afterward,
the merchant says he had very little money
in the safe, but mourns the loss of sev
eral watches and some jewelry that was left
in his care and placed in the safe a few days
before it was stolen.
Crowley's Observations at Seward
The following message was sent from
Seward to the Nome Nugget by Dan Crow
ley. under date of February 5: “Arrived
yesterday, seven (? I days from Flat City,
in company with C. R. Peck of Flat. Stopped
at Knik one day; has a population of six
hundred and is very quiet. The majority of
the people are awaiting the arrival of the
railroad. Two hundred homesteads have
been taken up. Seward townsite is the
best I have seen in Alaska, and the harbor
is unsurpassed. The population is 1,200, all
boosters. All are filled with optimism and
sure that with the coming of the govern
ment railroad Seward will be the greatest
town in Alaska. Large Nome contingent
here in business, and ail well satisfied with
^jjle outlook. I like Seward.”
Oldest Alaska-Built Ship
Pounding to pieces on the rocks in bleak
St. Michael bay, the oldest steam vessel in
Alaska will soon disappear beneath the
waves, according to advices received from
Nome, says the Juneau Empire. The dying
vessel is the steamship Polotofski. which was
one of four steam vessels built by the
Russians more than fifty years ago. Two
of the steamers were built in 1856 and
two in 1858. The hulls were knit from yel
low cedar and spruce, hewn from an Alas
kan forest. The Polotofski was propelled
by side wheels and had copper boilers. Her
hull was fastened by copper and iron bolts
which were hand-made. In the early '70s
this vessel xvas taken to Puget sound, where
her boilers were taken out and replaced by
iron ones. Her superstructure also was re
modeled and she was then sold to the Port
Blakeiye Lumber Company and used as a
towboat. In 1897 the vessel was towed
back north to St. Michael, carrying a cargo
of lumber and coal. She was used as a
wharf boat for a time. During a heavy
gale a few years ago the old weather-beaten
warrior was driven on a reef. It is said
that in spite of her fifty-eight years of serv
ice her cedar timbers are still sound.
Alaska Republicans to Organize '•
Albert White of Valdez has been ap
pointed organizer for the Republican party
in Alaska, and he has announced that he
will soon have his xvork under way. It is
understood that the Republicans of hte ter
ritory have determined to start an aggres
sive campaign, with the intention of put
ting in the field a candidate for delegate to
congress at the next election. Mr. White
says he will try to organize a Republican
club in every district.
Hazzard's Antecedents
A Tacoma paper says with reference to
George Hazzard, who was recently arrested
at Seward and bound over to the district
court on a charge of obtaining, money un
der false pretenses: ‘Democratic friends of
George Hazzard, who was a candidate for
the Democratic nomination for congress in
this district at the last election, said recently
that they had no idea when Hazzard left
here or why he was in Alaska Each de
scribed him as a character, concerning
whom ’most anything might be expected to
be heard He drew a large pension from
the government, it was said, the result of
his having been wounded during the civil
war. His wound caused him to use
crutches, but it was said that sometimes, in
the heat of a political argument, he would
hand one crutch to one man, one to an
other, and not seem to realize that he was
standing unsupported. Hazzard has been
known as a writer as well as one of the
most ardent Democrats. One friend de
scribed him as a political encyclopedia. An
other recalled that he was one of the most
insistent men when it came to party patron
age. Another spoke of him as an extrava
gant spender, and recalled the time when
he made $18,000 on a plunge in the wheat
market after he had concluded everything
was lost. This money he divided in three
equal parts—$6,000 to pay debts, $6,000 to
his wife and $6,000 for Democratic cam
paign funds. Since the death of his wife
he has lived alcne, his last known place of
residence having been the Donnelly hotel.
Although he has run for office many times,
he has never been elected to one. as far
as could be recalled.”
Incomplete Statistics
The report of Territorial Secretary David
son says that with the exception of the doc
tors in the First division, the physicians in
Alaska have faded to send in their reports
of deaths for recording, and he hopes that
this feature of the vital statistics law will
be acted upon at the present session. There
are hundreds of letters coming into his of
fice regularly from people who are seeking
information of their relatives who have
died in Alaska. A proper record of all
deaths would equip him to return to anx
ious people the information they seek. As
is, the death certificates received from
the Third, Fourth and Second divisions are
nowhere representative of the deaths. The
total number of deaths reported for the ter
ritory during the past year was 382, of
which only 16 were from the Fourth dis
trict.
Important Juneau Case Decided
In a decision rendered on February 2 in
the United States district court at Juneau
by Judge Fred M. Brown, sitting for Judge
R. W. Jennings, the title to the ground upon
which is situated Juneau’s most fashionable
residential section was declared to be good.
Alleging the land was non-mineral, the dis
trict attorney brought suit to cancel a patent
to that portion of the city known as the
Gold Belt addition, and patented as the j
Fractional Lode mining claim on June 21, \
1909. The prosecutor alleged that “under
the congressional act of March 17, 1884,
and the act of June 6, 1900, the land con- J
ccrned in the case was dedicated to public j
use as a cemetery, and as the cemetery was ;
maintained until 1894 the patent signed by
the President was illegal.” The case was
bitterly fought by the owners, John F. Ma
loney and J. H. Cobb, but in rendering his
decision Judge Brown said: “The highest
authority in the United States is unques
tionably to the effect that a patent, being a
written public grant of the highest char
acter, should only be set aside on clear and
convincing proof of fraud, and I am satis
fied there was no fraud perpetrated here,
and fully agree with the special agent of
he land office, upon whose report said land
was passed to patent.”
A DASTARDLY ACT
(Ruby Record-Citizen, Feb. 20)
Last Saturday night some person un
known entered Frank Whelan’s barn and
mutilated and practically ruined eight sets
of harness hanging there.
The destruction must have been done
with a sharp knife, for thick, hard leather
was severed apparently at 3 single stroke.
The losers through this outrageous crime
Forfeiture Notice
To C. 0. Nord, B. E. Johnson, O. T. Olson,
John Swerlal, Adolph Olson, Gust Er
icson, Jot* Jerman.
You are hereby notified that 1 have ex
pended during the years 1913 and 1914
two hundred dollars in labor and improve
ments upon the hone Star Association placer
mining claim, situate on Gold Run creek, a
tributary or Bear creek, in the Kuskokwim
mining 'precinct, Fourth division, territory
or Alaska, the location certificate of which
is round of record in book No. 7, page 38.
in the office of the recorder of said pre
cinct, in order to hold said claim under the
provisions of Section 2324 of the Revised
Statutes or the United States, and the
amendments thereto approved January 22,
1880, and other amendments thereto relat
ing, concerning annual labor upon mining
claims, being the amount reuired to hold
said placer mining claim for hte period
ending on the 31st day of December, A. D.
1014.
And if within ninety (90) days after the
publication thereof you fail or refuse to
contribute your proportion of such expen
diture as a co-owner, which amounts to
twenty-five (25) dollars Tor each o) you,
vour interest in the claim will become the
property of the subscriber, your co-owner,
who has made the reuired expenditure, by
the terms of said section with amendments.
(Signed) CHARLES AMMiLt'N.
Bear Creek, Alaska, Jan. 4, 1915.
First publication, Jan. 9, 1915.
Last publication, April 10, 1915.
are Albert Verhonic, Arthur Lheureux Alex
Feltcn, Joe Landers and John Teeland.
New straps necessary for piecing and patch
ing the harness into usable condition cost
about $70. All the men named were ex
pecting to make an early start with their
teams for the creeks Sunday morning, but
on account of the havoc wrought it was
some time in the afternoon before they were
able to move.
There is no clue to the guilty party. At
first it was thought probable that the work
was done by a lunatic, but as no crazy per
son has been reported, it seems a natural
conclusion that there is a very dangerous
criminal running loose.
Location Notices at Pioneer office.
REGISTRATION NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that at to o'clock
on the 23d day of March, 19)5, the tv ni
tration books or tie- town of Iditarod will
be open Tor the purpose or registering all
persons 21 years of age, who are citizens
or the United States or tiave declared their
Intention to become such, and who have re
sided continuously one year next preceding
the date or eleetii n in the territory or
Alaska, and six months re \t preceding t i •
date of election in the town or Iditar d.
All persons desiring to vote at -aid elm icai
must be Tore voting register their na -
ages and qualilleations with the town rev
trar or Iditarod.
Registration books will be kept open
everv dav excepting Sunday between the
(lavs'or March 23 and and 31. between the
hours of lit a. m. and l p. m.. at the
Miners and Merchants Rank,
Said election will be held ruesday, \
6, 1915, for the purpose of electing seven
councilmen and one school director.
IS. A. MEYERS, Municipal diet:-:.
BEST LIQUORS AND CIGARS
Three-Times-Move Bar
(Formerly the Stanley House)
JOHN BAGOY. PROP.
GOOD ROOMS CLEAN BEDS
FLAT CITY
Summit Roadhouse
FOB SALE
Both Wmter and Summer
Locations
INQUIRE AT THE ROADHOUSE
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Warm and Clean Rooms
Porcelain Tub Baths
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McLean's Roadhouse
TAKOTNA
Cummings’ Old Sand
MRS. J. H. McLEAN, PROP.
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FOR TRAVELERS
RATES REASONABLE
PIONEER DRUG STORE
FLAT CITY
Drugs. Etc,
PHONE DAY OR NIGHT
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Warm, Clean WTell Ventilated
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
Massage
Bath Pariors
MEDICATED, MINERAL VAPOR, STEAM, R m ^
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Electric and Faradic Massage Treatments by Expert Attendants
Lighted by Gas Heated by Steam