iDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital, $50,000.00
General Banking Bus'mess Transacted Gold Oast Bought and Assayed
Drafts issued on Any Part of the World
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT: SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK
OFFICERS:
(’has. Koss, President
T. . Nestor. Vice President
E. CL. Ijindberff, Manager
.lohn Holmes, Casluer and Assapor
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W. X. Landers, former assistant United States attorney in
.Alaska during ilie height of the early day litigation in Nome, has
received the appointment of United States district attorney at
J ’orto Rico.
A business revival is reported at Sitka, the old-time capital of
Alaska, which has always been notorious for the other kind.
If the nlans of the I? oth U:s! tries Co., of Chicago, material
i cither Sitka or Petersburg is destined to become the largest
cold-storage plant on Pacific seaboard.
Kazis Krauezunns. who is a Lithuanian by birth, told the re
porter of :h .1: neau !)i«pateii that he used to be a Russian nihilist.
Some oi iis former - >ci tes were exiled to Siberia, and others
have been elected to the Duma.
John K. Anderson, of San Francisco, who had recently come
to AN dead and bnrit d, Knudt Anderson, a companion, is
sufhwmg from a bulmt in the foot, and Irene Taylor, the culprit,
is in j bl under the charge of murder as the result of a fatal shoot
ing on ‘‘wharf’ last Monday night, i he shooting followed a dis
pute (>v-t pay for drinks. Tuesday morning a coroner's inquest
was held over the body of Anderson, and in the afternoon the cul
prit was brought up in the commissioner's court and was held to.
answer a murder charge at the next session of the grand jury.
John E. Anderson, tiie victim, was buried Wednesday, and leaves
a family of five children and a wife. -Wrangell Sentinel.
Cable advices jest received in Seattle slate that the salmon
cam ers operating in the Bristol bay district are having a good sea
son. and that all indications point to a large pack of fish. The re
ports so far received have been meager, but packers and bro
kers to believe ti: h the season is well advanced and that the out
put will be i p to all expectations. The Bristol bay salmon pack
last vcir aggregated TlG.Ood cases, compared with 1)13,092 in 1912,
1,147.593 cases in 1909. and 1.170,2*3 cas.-s jn lpo-c
].. l , Bales and wife, reported lost in the Katmai volcanic dis
tnrbaa. . are safe- Mr. Bales writes that before and since the
volcanic eruption he and Mrs Bales have been giving attention to
a garden which gives promise of a large crop this year.
Peioh-i ris, who has been representing the Standard Oil
Company in their mining interests over at Iiliamna, was an out
going pass -ug r on the Bertha, says the S nvard Gateway of July
10. Tim Standard Oil people are associated with the Morgan in
terest sj a some copper proper::; s *-> the westward, in life vicinity
of Lake Clark, and it is rumored that they are also keeping an eye
on the oil developments with a view of getting in as soon as the
land is open for location.
A movement has b-cn on foot for some time on Douglas island,
says the News, to make the blueberry Slower the state llower of
Alaska.
The Mexican population is fast be
ts • i-ijf tli,' ni"-; troublesome element
v, i h which Alaskan authoritit have to
ileal, say- the Juneau Daily Dispatch.
In the last few years they have
swarmed into Southeastern Alaska,
espeeiu y in and about Ketchikan, and
there are now hundred, of them
scattered around in the nearby camps
and canneries. The Ketchikan jail is
tilled with criminal Mexicans, who are
serving sentences as the result of
stabbing affrays, and in the Juneau jail
four Mexicans are serving terms for
the same offense.
Charley Hall and Fred Anderson
cure in f:o:n the now strike on the
Irinoko Tuesday.
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Los Angeles, August 17.—After a trial which had extended
over many weeks, Clarence Darrow was found not guilty of
corruptly influencing a juror named George Lockwood, in connec
tion with the McNamara trial- The jury arrived at their verdict at
9:4r> this morning, after having been out for only 47 minutes. The
verdict was unanimous. Judge Hurton immediately declared
| Darrow discharged and released his bail.
When the jurors retired Darrovv remained seated and
apparently calm, but he chewed his pencil and in other ways
indicated that he was not so much at ease as he would have had
onlookers believe. His devoted wife, who had remained by his side
throughout the trial, sat trembling with fear that was pitiful to
behold. When the verdict was announced she threw her arms
about Darrow’s neck and wept for joy.
Tiie verdict was universally popular. Immediately the fortnan
had announced it. loud cheers broke out in the court room, and
! were taken up in the corridors and into the street for several blocks.
Such a demonstration of popular approval has never before been
seen in a Los Angeles courthouse.
Clarence Harrow’ has little to say on the result, except that a
verdict of acquittal was the only one possible in the circumstances
C. C. Page, clerk of the district court for the Fourth division,
received a wire from Judge F. E. Fuller last Tuesday, instructing
him to adjourn the court to Monday, September 2, until which date
all jurymen and witnesses are excused, unless specially notified to
the contrary.
Judge Fuller also instructed Mr. Page to call a special term of
court for Friday, September 20, and notices to that effect have been
posted. No reason has been assigned for calling the special term,
but it is presumed that the action has been taken as a precaution- •
ary measure. In any case it appears certain that Judge Fuller j
will remain in Iditarod until all the business is disposed of.
Shortly after midday last Saturday, U. S- District Attorney
J. J. Cross ley received a message from the Attorney General stat
ing that the appointment of Judge Frederick E- Fuller to the |
Fourth division had been confirmed by the Senate, and that Judge
Fuller had been instructed to proceed to Iditarod without delay,
and complete the special term of court.
On Monday the Iditarod Pioneer wired its Nome correspondent
for further information, and received the following reply:
Nome, August 20*—Frederick E. Fuller has been con
firmed as judge of the Fourth division of Alaska, and took
the oath of office as district judge before Judge Thomas K.
Lyons, at Nome, yesterday morning, the 10th. Judge
Fuller will leave today on the revenue cutter Thetis for
St. Michael, where lie expects to connect with the Herman
for Holy Cross, and thence to Iditarod.
Nome, August 22 —Judge 1-ullcr has been unable to mike connec
tions here as yet, and mav not leave before the airiv .1 of the Senate:,
lie says he will go over before if pos-ibla Tire revenue cutter Bear is
! not going to St. Michael, but pr >c.*eds direct to Unalaska for coal
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Sea Girt, August 16 —Gov. Woodrow Wilson, with the advice of
his closest friends and party leaders, has named the 14 men who are to
| have complete charge of the national campaign ot the Demociatic party
! this year, and whom Chairman McCombs is authorized to appoint as his:
j lieutenants. They are; Hudspeth of New Jersey, Daniels of North
Carolina, Saulsbury cf Delaware, Ewing of Louisiana, Palmer of Penn
sylvania, Davies of Wisconsin, King of Oregon, so far al! members ofj
the nations! committee; Senators Gore, O’Gorman and Reid; Repre- j
jsentatives McGiliicuddy and Bmles..n and Wr G McAdoo. Head- j
! quarters are to he made in New York, with a branch in Chicago, and
one further wed.
MAY RESULT IN HEAVY DAMAGES
When the bill providing for free
American ships through the Panatnal
Canal first- came up for consideration in
the Senate, Senator Root gave a warn- j
ing that if the United Slates should |
discriminate in favor of American ships j
it would lay itself liable to damages of j
untold millions of dollars to foreign j
countries during the ten years' period
which might elapse while the question
was being decided by the Hague
tribunal under existing treaties- Prior
to this debate Secretary of State Knox
| had notified the Senate on the formal
protest made by Great Britain against
the proposed preferential Panama tolls
as contrary to the terms of the Hay
Pauncefote treaty. Burton of Ohio re
enforced the position of Root, while
Bristow, Crawford and Townsend com
batted it and Cummins said his mind
was not yet clear as to the constitutional
bearings of the legislation.
PARKER-BROWNE PARTY
WILL TRY AGAIN LATER
Seattle, August 16. — Belmore
Browne, of the Parker-Browne Mt.
| McKinley party, announces that an
j other attempt to reach the summit of
j that peak will be made next year. The
I members of the party nearly lost their
lives on the recent expedition, being
16,000 feet up when an earthquake oc
! curred, and a peak adjacent to where
j they were standing fell into the valley
1 thousands of feet below.
New York, August 21.—Seven men
have been indicted for tlie murder of
Herman Rosenthal the notorious
gambler, who had threatened toexpose
police methods in connection with
gambling prosecutions in the city of
New York.
Lieut. Becker, of the New York
Police department, has also been in
dicted.
Governor Dix is determined that the
charges of graft will be thoroughly
investigated, and the murderers of
Rosenthal punished. He has appointed
Supreme Court Justice Goff to hear the
CMSCS.
BRYAN ROASTS TEDDY
Cleveland, August 21.—William
Jennings Bryan roasted Roosevelt to a
frazzle here today, saying that the
colonel was “ strong on criticism but
short on construction.”
SENATE WON’T STAND
FOR COMMERCE COURT
Washington, August 21.—The Senate
refuses to pass the bill providing for a
continuance of the Commerce court, of
which Judge Archbald, now under
investigation, was the leading light.
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Bob Lowrie has taken down the tent
which liad been used as a pool hall at j
the forks of B’lat. and will uso it as a j
dog j barn in connection with t lie Home |
liotel. B’lat Citv.
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Stewart it Vogler have worked out
their lay on Flat creek.
Deeteting & Dark, who have been
working on the hillside at the head of i
Flat creek, laid off their men during j
the week and closed down. They are j
having trouble in the disposal of their
tailings.
J. B. Mailing left for tlie Outside
during the week.
Linn & Nelson, of the lower end of
B'lat, stopped work during the week. ;
the ground having been disposed of to
the Yukon Gold Co. About 4) mu
were affected.
THIRD DEGREE FOR M’NAKARA
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San Francisco, July 27. -Labor j
leaders in this city aro hostile over,
learning that J. B. McNamara has been
placed in the black hole at San Quentin ’
for the purpose of securing a further j
confession from him in connection with |
the explosion of llie Times building at ,
Los Angeles. They are holding public
speeches protesting against tlie use ot I
the third degree. An attempt will be I
made to have the ft flair investigated!
and to secure a judicial order prevent
ing further barbarity being prat iced on !
prisoners hereafters.
FL9CMG TO NORTHERN ALBERTA
Edmonton, August Hi. —The rate a', j
which new settlers arc coming into Ed
monton is being vividly illustrated at
the immigrant hall. In six working
days recently 80) interviews were
granted to those anxious to learn about
the country and the most advantageous
districts to settle in. In some days as
many as 150 such interviews have been
granted. A large number of I lie immi
grants are 'aking u;> land in Northern
Alberta, iu anticipation of extensions
to the Canadian Northern, and the
completion of the Grand Trunk Pacific.
CHINESE AFE4ID TO
OFFEND THE BUAGON
Pekin, July 2(5.—Minister of Educa
tion Tsai Yuan Pei is engaged in a fierce
controversy with the board of Imperial
astronomers over the revision of the
Chinese almanac.
The board is really no longer:
“imperial,” now that the republic has
been established, but it retains its old
| m.me and membership. When Min
ister Tsai took its work under his
direction, in connection with his other
duties as head of the department of j
education, he called upon the members
for a new almanac from which all !
references had been eliminated to
“lucky” and “unlucky” days, old
'Manchu festivalsand olhersuperstilions
of the fallen regime.
The astronomers did not dare to
refuse directly, but are simply neglect
ing to comply with the minister’s order.
Tlie latter is threatening them with
dismissal from the public service unless
they act as he wishes, but so firmly are
their superstitions rooted in Chinese
minds that a wholesale reorganization
of the board might precipitate serious
political trouble and the fight is con
sequently still raging, with nocertainty
that Minister Tsai will carry his point
for a long time to come.
Public Notice of Dissolution of Partnership
Notice is hereby given that the part
nership lately subsisting between Chas.
Ross ami T. J. Nestor, under the firm
name of Ross & Nestor, doing a lumber
and building material business, was dis
solved on the 8th day of August, 1512,
by mutual consent. AH debts owing to ;
the said partnership are to be paid to j
the Miners & Merchants Bank of Xdit- i
arod, Alaska, said batik having been ,
fully authorized to collect said debts; !
and all the demands on the said partner
ship are to be presented to the bank for j
payment. CHAS. ROSS.
T. J. NESTOR. ‘
WATER SCHEME
Ernest Sienter, of the Idaho as-j
sedation, lias a novel scheme
whereby he hopes to secure a more
. eg til n r supply of water for his
ground at the head of Flat creek J
Mr. Slenter’s idea is to tap a supply
of water from a contact during the j
winter. He will keep the water
flowing by means ot artificial heat,
allowing it to spread over the
ground below and theie freeze.
This operation could be continued j
all win'er, and in the spring the ice 1
would slowly melt atrd thus a sup
ply of water for early sluicing might j
he obtained..
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ROBBED FLAT CHEEK SLUICEBOXES |
IYa>t week some person or persons
Unknown lifled t'he sluiceboxes on j
Monkman & Ronan’s i lat creek j
ground, and obtained therefrom
so ne 12 nr 13 o inces of gold.
Monkm in iS.: R man had ill ide a
cleanup earlier in the week, but
had not cleaned out tlie riffles \
The amount of gold abstracted by
1 lie robbers is not known for a 1
certainty, but the estimated loss is j
based upon the results of forme: !
cleanups.
BIG CROWD GOT AWAY
LAST TUESDAY MORNING
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About 80 passengers left Iditarod
l’ues.la.v morning. Most of them were
bound for St. Michael, en route for the
Outside, but a few e.tpected to go up
river to Ruby and other points. They
traveled as far as Dikeman on the
Little Delta, Nancy Bell ur Comet.
Tickets are not. issued at this point,
so that a complete list of passengers is
not obtainable, but tbs following wife
among those who got away:
Mrs. Fred Bruhsi. Miss K. Hanson. |
John Olson, G. Wrist. John M Bride,
(for Dawson). Mrs. Henry Weir, Mrs
Smith, Miss Lillian Smith, G;lbe,t
Nairn, Mrs. ,T. M. Ryan and baby, F. O.
Thompson, J. F. Fox. M. Brochu, O. F.
Marholz, Mrs. Wilmt Rogers. Me. and
Mrs. Frank Moores, J. L. Walters, Mr.
and Mrs. Suedal, If. R. Bruah. J. A.
Ebaer. E. E. Reed, Mrs. W. Longden.
J. White. Mrs. J. E. Burns. M'ss
Gertrude Rescue, P. O. Sundborg, J. B.
Whitlock, Mrs. A. Watson, Mr. and
Mrs. Robt Pritchard, Hughey Paris.
Miss Irene Harvey, Mrs. Charles
Patton, Geo. Rich, J. B. Mading, Robt.
Mitchell, Mrs. Jay Johnson and child.
Tony Yelich, M. Friedman, (of Kansas
City), Montenegro Bob. Stewart ,
Holmes, Geo. C. Friend, Ed Reed, 1
an 1 many others.
The following passengers left.on the'
Beaver for Ruby last Saturday: D. W.
Cohee, A. Leslie, Tom McSmat”,
Charlie Drapeau, T. Harrington, J.
Horton, J. B. Patterson, N. Sanborn,
M. Henning, G. Westworth, M. Yig.
Dick O’Neil.
INTERNATIONAL MONEY
ORDERS ARE OBTAINABLE
Postmaster Thurston is now equipped j
with the necessary forms for dealing in j
international money orders, and those1
who wish to send money to foreign i
countries may now do so. Ever since !
the opening of the Iditarod post office J
the postmaster has been inundated with J
requests for money orders on foreign j
countries, but until this week was only
able to supply the same for places in j
the United States and Canada. Now ;
however, countries in Europe, Asia
Africa and Australia, as well as the
American republics, can be reached by
this economical and safe method for
forwarding small sums of money.
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WEEKLY)
The following list of letters remain
uncalled for at the Iditarod (Alaska)
1 post office on August 19, 1912. Parties
calling for any of the above letters will
please call for “advertised-1 letters.
AbielT, C Mathieson, II
McDonell, Dan 2
• Barnhart, Ora MacMillan, A1 K
BalikotiT, K
i Beauchene. Jean Nikola!!, Ovatko
| Carlin, F F Olsen, Christen
' Cook, J M O'VVellet, A1
Coyle, Jas
Conrad, Billy Parac. Geo
Pelttari. John
! Donahue, Wra and Pschirskv.Bmil C P
Thos
Roden, Carl
' Fuarv, J
Shatluck, C M
Gardiner, Thos 7 Snyder, Anthony
I Glidtlen, Mrs A J 3
Temollr, Myka
! Keirepalby, Toinaz Twun, Joe
Konechney, Joe
Urguhart, D
. Little, John 2
i Luders, Geo ZagaraetT, D
ETHEL IS AGAIN IN SPOTLIGHT
Miss Ethel Conrad the chorus girl
who, with her chum Lillian Graham,
j was acquitted several months ago of
i attempting to slay \V. E. D. Stokes, the
j millionaire hotel man, is a patient in a
j hospital, to which site was taken after
; being found unconscious, according • >
iha police, in a vacant lot.
It was saiu a chloroformed handker
chief was bound over her mouth and
her bauds and feet were tied with a
rope.
Site told the hospital authorities that
after leaving a subway station last
night she had been followed by a man
and that her mind “suddenly went
blank.'' The young woman refused to
tell her name until identified by Miss
I Graham.
FISHERMEN FIGHT FOR INCREASE
Kazis Krauezur.as is authority for the
j statement that a uattlo-royal has been
inaugurated in South-, astern Alaska
between the eannerymen and tisher
| men.
•'Until this year,” said Mr. Ktauo
i zunas, •‘the fishermen have been
getting 22 and fit cents for the number
of fish necessary to make a case of
salmon. Las' year canned salmon was
j sold by the canneries for *’> a case, an l
t he 22 cents, together with the 4 t
paid to the government for taxes, is all
of the $5 that remained in Alaska.
This year the fishermen have deter
mined to get a better price for their
work, and after organizing, decided to
raise the price to double last year's
price. The eannerymen have organized
to resist the raise, but I think that the
fishermen will fight it out to the end."
Notice of Forfeiture
| I > WILLIAM C H AS!-!:
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; t.cd that the undersigned has expended -;1
. nd improvements the sum i Tone hundred dol
1 lars -fioe—for each of the years of uni and 1912
! upon placer mining claim known as and. called
j N'o.7 Above Discove ry on Gav.es creek in the
| 1 nnoko Mining and Recording District District
j -«f Alaska; you are further notitnd that i;‘ at the
expiration of ninety—90—days allei the last
publication of this notice you fail or refuse to
1 ontribute your proportion of such expenditure,
our interest in said claim will become the
mperty of tl;e undersigned your co-owner
aider Section 2324 of t’v.c Revise 1 Statutes of the
• nited States. F M. WHELAN.
First publication August 3. o!2.
Last publication Novembt i 2. 1012.
j Public Notice of Dissolution of Partnership
j Notice is hereby given that the part
nership lately subsisting between Geo.
I 1Friend, B. T. James and T. F. Law
:-on, doing a mining business was dis
solved on the 19th day of August, 1912,
by mutual consent. All debts owing to
■ tie said partnership are to be paid to
B. T. James, to whom all the demands
. a the said partnership are to be pre
sented. GEO. C. FRIEND.
B. T. JAMES.
T. F. DAWSON.
At Oar Old-Time Location
ON THE SUMMER TRAIL
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