Miners & Merchants Bank
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital, $50,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted Gold Bust Bought and Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Part of the World
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT. SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK
TERRITORIAL DEPOSITARY
OFFICERS:
CHARLES ROSS, President J'"'
JOHN HOLMES, Vice President
R. C. BUTTON, Cashier
NOTICE OF MARSHAL’S SALE
i'nited States or America, Fourth District
or Alaska, ss.
Public notice is hereby given that by
virtue or a writ of Ilerl facias tor execu
tion'. dated August 22d. A. D. 1910, issued
out of the district court of tin* I’nited
States for the mirth district of Alaska, on
a judgment rendered in said court mi the
19th day of June. A. D. 1910, in favor of
the Clark Lumber Company, a corporation,
and against Robert Simpson, Ernest Nlchofr
and Nellie Winters. 1 have on this 2:td day
of Migtist. A. D. 19 10. levied upon the fol
lowing described real estate, situated in
the town of Iditarod and territory of Alaska,
to wit:
That certain parcel of ground described
as a parallelogram, situated in the south
east corner or lot mu* (11, in block one
(P of the Fairview Trading Post, in the
town of Iditarod. Maska, said parcel of
ground fronting fourteen feet on First av
enue, and fronting llfty (f>0‘ root on Wil
low street, in said town of Iditarod, Alaska,
as the same now appears on the plat of
tin4 said town made by L. S. Robe, sur
veyor. and filed with the municipal clerk
of said town or Iditarod, Alaska. Also that
certain two-story frame building situated
on the said land.
And that 1 will, accordingly, offer said real
estate for sale at public vendue to the high
est and best bidder for cash, on the 22d
da\ of September. A. D. 19 1c’). at 2 o'clock
p. in., at the front door or the marshal's
oftlee. in the town of Iditarod, territory or
Alaska.
Dated August 22(1. A. D. 1910, at Idita
rod. Alaska.
L. T. ERWIN.
I'nited States Marshal. Fourth Dstrict of
Alaska.
Ry W. B. THOMAS. Deputy.
oilA-'. F. TAYLOR, Plaintiff’s Attorney.
ALIAS SUMMONS, FOR PUBLI
CATION—No. 162
In the Commissioner's Court for Otter Pre
etnrt. Fourth Division. Territory of
Alaska; before H"ii. Guy G. Geraghty,
Commissioner and ex officio Justice of
the Peace.
Clark Lumber Company, a Corporation,
Plaintiff, vs. William W. Acheson, De
fendant.
The President of the United Stales, to
William W. Acheson, the above-named
defendant:
You are hereby summoned to appear be- |
fore the undersigned, commissioner and ex t
officio justice of the peace for Otter pre- •
einet. Fourth division, territory or Alaska, !
on the 14th day of October, I Pie, at tile
hour of i o’clock in the afternoon, at the
office of said commissioner in the town
of iditarod. in said precinct, and answer
the complaint of the plaintiff, founded upon
an open account and an assigned open ac
count, both for goods sold and delivered.
And In rase of your railure to appear and
answer the plaintiff’s complaint at the time
and place aforesaid, judgment will be en
tered against you for the sum of forty
three dollars ($431, with interest thereon
at tile rate of eight per rent per annum
from the 2r.th day of March, 1913. and for
the further sum of forty dollars and
seventy-five rents (•'*40.75 ■. with interest
thereon at the rate or eight per cent per
annum from the 2Jd day of July. 1PI3;
and tiie costs and disbursements or this
action.
Pursuant to an order of the above en
titled court, this day made and entered,
tills alias summons is served upon y..ii by
publication in The Iditarod Pioneer, a news
paper published ill the town of Idltarod, in
said oiler precinct, once a week for six
weeks, the first publication thereof being on
the 20th day of August, 19 10, and the last
publication thereof being on the 7th day of
neiober, 1916, after which last-named date
t»f publication service upon you will be
completed.
G:\en under my hand this, the 23d day of
August, 1916.
(Seal) G. G. GFR.\GHT\,
Commissioner and ex otllcio Justice of the
Peace. __
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To Ghas. Reno and V. Pierce, and to their
heirs and assigns:
■ You and each of you are hereby notilled
that l have expended for labor and im
provements during each of the years 1913,
19 14 and 19 15 the sum of one hundred
dollars upon the Ready Money placer min
ing'- claim, situate on Maverick creek, a
tributary of Marvel creek, m the ktisko
kwim recording district, territory or Alaska,
m order to hold said claim under the pro
visions of law respecting annual labor on
mining claims.
And if within ninety days after the pub
lication Of this notice you or either of you
fail or refuse to pay your portion of such
expenditure vour interest in said claim will
become the property oT the undersigned co
owner, according to the provisions of Sec.
2324. Revised Statutes of the United
States. LUTHER C. HESS.
Fairbanks, Alaska.
First publication, July 29, 1916.
Cast publication, net. 28. 1916.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To 11. Piebe and F. W. habelle. and to their
heirs and assigns:
You and each or you are hereby notitlud
that I have expended for labor and im
provements during each of the years 19 13,
19 i i and 1915 the sum of one hundred
dollars upon the War Eagle placer mining
claim, situate on the left limit or Eagle
creek, a tributary of the Salmon river, In
the Kiiskokxvim recording district, territory
or Alaska, in order to hold said claim under
the provisions or law respecting annual la
bor on mining claims.
And ir within ninety days arter the pub
lication of ilils notice you or either nr you
rail or refuse to pay your portion of such
expenditure, your interest in said claim
will become the property of the under
signed co-owner, according to the provi
sions or Per, 93 9 4, Revised Statutes ,,r the
I'nited States. l.l'TIIF.R IT HESP.
Fairbanks, .Alaska.
First publication. July 99, 1916.
l.ast publication, Oct. 98, 19 16.
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Military Censorship of Pictures
William Mullen, who has been at St.
Michael in an endeavor to establish a pic
ture show at that place, returned to Nome
recently, after having vainly tried to over
come the censorious inclinations of the mili
tary authorities in that section, says the
Nugget. Mullen asserts that his best pic
tures were first ruled out and he was later
given polite intimation that the censor had
decided to delete Muden himself from the
moving picture possibilities of that burg.
The things that Mullen says about militarism
as disclosed at St. Michael would make a
German shudder.
Laborers Prefer to Work for Railroad
Reports from several of the creeks indi
cate that there is a great shortage of men
for the mines, says the Fairbanks News
Miner. Several operators at Chatamka quit
work last week rather than to stand a loss
through incompetent help and short-handed
ness. Many of the men who have been
working as miners during the last few years
have refused to go into the mines this sea
son, preferring to work for the government
on the construction of the railroad, though
they get less money. One mining man
stated that he believed the output would be
curtailed somewhat owing to the shortage
of men. He said that he preferred to let
his ground lie idle for the year, and even
through next summer, until he can get
cheaper fuel and plenty of labor. Ffe said
that he and others had tried to continue
operations, believing that they could get
enough men to handle the work properly,
but that it was impossible.
Big Alaska Shipments
The steamship Juneau of the Alaska
Steamship Company, Captain William Jen
sen, sailed from Seattle for St. Michael and
Nome on August 4 with more than 4,000
tons of cargo, including 2,500 tons of steel
rails and fittings, the first for the Alaska
engineering commission to be sent to In
terior Alaska via St. Michael. The vessel
formerly was the Burlington, her name hav
ing been changed recently by special act of
congress. The Juneau also had about 1,000
tons of oils, distillate and gasoline for the
North. The shipment of raiLs and fittings
will go to Nenana and will be used in
building the Nenana branch of the govern
ment railroad.
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Bender Brothers Is Now a Cannery Tender
The famous power schooner Bendpr
Brothers, known as the gold ship of the
Kuskokwim, was chartered in Seattle on
August 4 by her owners, Shields and Knaf
lich of Seattle, to the Bering Sea Packing
Company of Everett, and will serve as a
tender in connection with the company's
cannery on Herenden bay. The vessel will
go North with Captain Harry Ashbury as
master. The power schooner Ruby. Captain
Louis Knaflich. left recently for Bethel and
other Northern points with a full cargo, in
cluding supplies for government schools.
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The Victoria’s Cargo
The Alaska Steamship Company’s liner
Victoria, Captain John A. O’Brien, on its
arrival at Seattle on August 1 from Nome
and St. Michael, via ports in Southwestern
Alaska, had a cargo consisting of 8263,000
in gold from Nome. Iditarod and Ruby; 309
tons of silver ore from the Stewart river
district; 325 tons of antimony ore from
Fairbanks, and two live black bears, which
were to be presented to the city of Seattle
by O. A. Kjos of the Western Dry Goods
Company. The Victoria was in heavy fog
for eight days of the voyage.
Government Sues for Broken Cable
Captain C. A. Dougherty, Sixteenth
United States cavalry, Fort Sam Houston,
Texas, arrived in Seattle recently to aid in
faking testimony in the admiralty case of
'he government against the Alaska Steam
hip company because of the breaking of
the Sitka-Yaldez cable in 1913. Captain
Dougherty at the time of the accident was
a first lieutenant in charge of the first sec
tion of the Washington and Alaska military
telegraph system, with headquarters in Val
dez. The depositions are being taken in the
office of United States Commissioner Bow
man. The government is trying to prove
'hat the steamship Alameda broke the cable
by dragging her anchors.
Waskey Going Outside
Frank H. Waskey, Alaska’s first delegate
in congress, will return to the State? this
fall, after being “buried” in the wilderness
for several years, and will take with him
several thousand dollars in raw gold, says
the Juneau Empire. Waskey, in a letter to
J. C. Gaffney of Seattle, formerly of Nome,
says he has made a new strike at Marshall
City, on the lower Yukon. Waskey made
a big fortune at. Nome, and spent a large
part of it at Washington endeavoring to get
congress to pass a territorial government
law for Alaska. The balance of his for
tune was involved in the collapse of a big
tunnel near Nome, which had taken a large
crew of men two years to construct. In his
letter the former delegate says he has
ground-sluiced a large tract and has sent to
Nome for men to assist him in shoveling the
pay gravel into the boxes. He expresses a
hope that somebody will start an up-to-date
store on the lower Yukon, as the circle of
vision of the traders indigenous to that sec
tion is bounded by calico, tea and muskrats.
Juneau Pioneer at Rest
James Winn, one of the first residents of
Juneau, and a general pioneer of Alaska,
known familiarly to his friends and ac
quaintances as “Slim Jim,” died at his
residence in that city on the morning of
August 25. He was 76 years of age, having
been born at Cornwall, England, in 1840.
He came to the United States when still a
young man. He has been an invalid for
the past three years, the last year being
completely paralyzed. In 1872 James Winn
went to the Cassiar country by way of
Wrangell and Telegraph creek. He had
claims on Dish creek. He arrived in Juneau
in 1882, and was the first white man to
cross the Chilkoot pass. He was accom
panied on that trip by John McKenzie. He
was also the first whHe man to run the
live Finger rapids and the other rapids of
the upper Yukon river.
Letter of Japanese Tells of Murder
On June 11, at Sanborn Harbor, Nagai
island, one of the Shumagin group, a Jap
anese ran amuck, killed two of the fisher
men at the fishing station there, wounded
three others, and set fire to several of the
buildings, following which he killed himself,
according (o a Valdez dispatch. The coast
guard steamer Unalga on July 30 brought
mail from that place, and among the letters
received at the marshal's office was one from
the Japanese who committed the crime, and
which sheds much light on the killing and
the causes leading thereto. The letter was
written in Japanese, apparently a few days
before the shooting took place, and was
translated into English by another Japanese
as follows: “Citizen of imperial Japan
hereby gives not to Sir Marshal: 1 came
here from San Francisco as cook for the
fishermen last spring, but one man often
intimidate me by saying, ‘This is word from
government.’ So I quit the job. Then
after I came to this place the men intimi
date me more than ever. They said, ‘We
will kill you by the hand of the governor;
if that is impossible we will get a man
killer to kill you.’ Such plans were made
to kill me, so I killed them and myself in
stead of getting killed myself for nothing.
Now, officer, how would you judge about
this? what Would you do under the cir
cumstances? Suppose there were eight men
in a gang; one of the eight tried to save
me, but he, too, was then intimidated, which
made me grieve for this man. I did not
mean to kill so many people; I was aiming
at one. -Japanese Murata.” “I wish you
would stop this treatment from the Ameri
can government.” This letter was found
among the effects of the Japanese after the
crime, and was forwarded to Valdez. It
tells a story of persecution at the hands of
Ihe rough fishermen who, finding time hang
ing heavily upon their hands, amused them
selves by frightening the ignorant Japanese,
and as a consequence brought upon them
selves a heavy punshment.
! DENMARK FINED $22,000,000
FOR PERMITTING E-BOAT
TO PASS TO THE BALTIC
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 18.—Denmark has
been forced to pay a secret indemnity to
Germany for failure to maintain strict neu
trality. The indemnity exacted is under
stood to be as much as 60,000,000 kroner
(about $22,000,000).
The offense occurred last winter, when
the Baltic sea was invaded by a submarine.
To enter the Baltic from the North sea it
was necessary to pass through Danish
waters, strongly guarded by forts. Germany
secured evidence that the English subma
rines could not have entered the Baltic
without the permission or connivance of
the Danish government. Of all the Scandi
navian countries, the Danes are the strong
est sympathizers with the allies, and have
the strongest antipathy to Germany.
German merchant ships plying between
Swedish and East German ports with food,
rubber and copper constituted the only Ger
man traffic which the war had not sus
pended. But the havoc made by the British
E-hoats in the Baltic so terrorized the Ger
man and Swedish shipmasters that there
was a time when the traffic was at a stand
still.
Tricked the Danes
When the E boat raids ceased Germany
waited to see whether Denmark would pro
test to England against the violation of
the neutrality of the Sund. An E-boat com
mander asked permission to pass through.
Permission was given. The E-boat passed
through and headed straight for Kiel. This
E-boat was a German U-boat in disguise.
Its crew consisted of sailors who spoke
good English, like the crew of the Deutsch
land. Crew and officers wore English uni
forms. At Kiel they dropped their disguise, j
lhe passage had furnished the German gov- i
ernment the evidence of Denmark’s willing
ness to allow what was supposed to be an
English E-boat to violate neutrality. Ger
many thereupon made her demands.
How the Secret Leaked Out
According to the best-informed bankers, .
it was agreed, when Denmark nil any cou
senteu to pay oU,uOU,Uuu kroner damages in
sausiaction of Germany's claims, tliai tne
liansaciion shoulu not be published, it
leaked out in a curious way. About two
months ago the rate ot exenange between
Copenhagen and Berlin began to tall sharply,
cankers were puzzled, as mere was nothing
in the balance of trade to justify it.
it was suggested tnat Denmark was to be
invaded by one ot tne warring powers, and
tnat weaiuiy Danes were sending money out
oi the country. The tact was that Den
mark was making its payments to Germany
in installments.
Deninaik then pressed the negotiations
witn tne United States tor tne sale ot me
Danish West indies tor *2o,U0U,(JUU. Al
thuugn Denmark was eager to sell ttie
islands oi St. Thomas, Si. Croix and St.
Joiin a dozen or more years ago tor $o,UUu,
uuU, she was able to take advantage ot "war,
prices lor naval bases in tde Caribuean sea,
and expects now to get ®2o,<JUU,UU0 trom
the United States.
It is understood that President Wilson]
agreeu to ttiat price and that a treaty tias
been signed in W ashing ton. Ihe Danish
parliament is expected to ratity it, but
whether the United States will cio so is un
known here. Denmark, it is stated, takes
a grim satisfaction in selling these islands
for two reasons:
First, because the money is very welcome;
and second, because Germany wanted them
very badly a few years ago.
It is understood that German influence
was used a few years ago to prevent a treaty
going through for the sale of the islands
to the United States when the late H. H.
Rogers of the Standard Oil Company was
prominent in the negotiations. But Ger
man efforts have not been exerted to pre
vent the sale this time.
The only popular opposition on the part
of the Danish press is the campaign started
by Keobmghan, a Conservative but vio
lently anti-German newspaper.
Nevertheless Germany is, in an impor
tant sense, the cause of Denmark’s efforts to
sell the islands, since the indemnity which
Germany demanded is responsible for Den
mark’s need of money. Danish officials
refuse to discuss any phases of the situa
tion.
After the recent Jutland naval battle sev
eral British cruisers, badly damaged, en
tered Danish harbors. This time Germany
sent an ultimatum. The cruisers were com
pelled by Denmark to leave within twenty
four hours. One of them was so badly
crippled that it was abandoned and the
crew taken off in the North sea.
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FOUND
Two malamutes, which came to my place
at Flat in June; one black, one gray. Owner
can have same by paying for feed and for
this advertisement. CHAS. SCHUBERT.
Flat, Aug. 24, 1916.
NEWS ITEMS OF MARSHALL .
That the Marshall diggings, on the lower
Yukon, are the scene of much activity, and
that there is promise of a camp of some
stability, is the report brought from that
place by Fred Harrison, who says that there
are now about four hundred men there. Re
cent clean-ups have been of a most satisfac
tory character, and show that although the
ground is somewhat expensive to work, it
nets more than $3 to the foot. McGrath and
partners recently made another clean-up,
and it is said that they have now taken out
$44,000 this season, and expect to take out
as much more before the freeze-up.
Gay & McKinzie, with whom ,1. E. Riley
of this district is interested, expected to
make a clean-up within a few days, hut ,;n
accident to their scraping plant may delay
them considerably. It is said that the
ground which they are working in is ex
tremely difficult to handle, being composed
of a sticky clay, interspersed with uneven
rocks of large size.
While there have been no reports of new
strikes, there is a belief that other creeks
will be opened up. Some work is being
done on E.ephant creek, which, although
of lower grade than Willow, may yet prove
to be a producer.
Joe Mills and Hank Grimm, both -veil
known in Iditarod, are saiil to have some
promising property in the neighborhood of
Anvik, which, however, they refuse to dis
cuss. They were in Marshall recently.
Lumber is said to be in great demand,
$125 a thousand having been paid for it.
There is as yet no attempt at building a
town on the creek. Supplies are being
hauled from the slough, three or four miles
from Willow creek, over execrable roads.
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