Daily we watch and observe the stupendous rush for the supposed new gold discovery, and that our population is gradually diminishing, it behooves us at this time
to warn all stampeders that you benefit by your sad last winter experience, encountering a shortage in provisions. With Our Unexcelled Large Outfitting
Stock and Establishment we are unable to rush with you at tin's time, but by purchasing your Outfit from us, not alone are you snaking dollars, but you
are getting the Best Of Everythfng that is made. Our aim in reaching for your patronage is not by hook methods nor highway solicitation, but through hon
orable channels of printers ink, and by giving One hundred Cents in Merchandise for Every Dollar Spent.
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Medlicott Underwear,
Uc^uliii* $7.00: cut to ^ ii'Evy
Eagle, 11 e a v y weight
Regular $7.00; cut to ..
Stockton Overshirt,
Regular $7..
Good Heavy All-Wool „ „
Navy Bine Overshirt . I »t’U
STUDY THIS _
Slightly damaged Moccasins, regular Aa
$4.00 ... ^ JuUO
Slightly damaged Gordon & Ferguson
Opossum Fur Caps, regular $0.00 . . WsVW !
Heavy Eisemlroth Mitts, -yir«
Regular jil.oO / OC
Sheepskin Socks. . 1.00:
corns AMD SEE IT ;
i.k-hf Wool™ Mitts, CA— '
Three p urs for (
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Extra Heavy Mitts. SOC J
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Sweaters, all wool, f^(T\ <
Heavvweight, regular $5, cut price W J
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All-Wool Socks. SOC j
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_ ACT IMPULSIVELY _
Strictly Up-to-Date Cloth and Style,
Meat Workmanship, late shipment of
S as its,, SI'S
WORTH $30 REGULAR
Purs Oregon Wooi Mackinaw Goats.... $4.50
lilie?’ for W(' are determined to move our large stock incessantly. CUR GOODS ARE BEST, WILL STAND THE TEST, WITH PRICES VERY LOWESL^^
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IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital, 3100,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted Geld Dust Bought and Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Part of the World
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT: SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK
SAKE DEPOSIT BOXES FOB KENT
OFFICERS:
T. J, Nestor, President
Chas. Ross, Vice President
E. G. Lindberg, Manager
John Holmes, Cashier and Assayer
Carrier at St Michael; Herman at
Gibbon; Schvratka, down, Eagle 7pm
7th; Kerr, up, Eagle 6 p m 7th: Relief,
up, Rampart 2nd: Delta, up, Rampart
Oth, for Porcupine river; Tanana, up,
Nenana 2 am: White Seal clears Che
na for Gibbon 2 p m; Jacobs, up, Chena
for Fairbanks 9:30am; Monarch, down,
Hot Springs 2 a m; Tana at Kaltag,
bound down: Susie, down, Kaltag 7th:
Louisa, down, Kaltag 7th; Sarah, up,
Ilvotlik 7th; Julia B six miles below
Kotlik up bound; Martha Clow, up,
Birches 9:15: Minneapolis, up, St Mi
chael 7th; Davis and Victoria at St
Michael.
Mrs. W. A. Van Horn, of Dikeman, j
went Outside via St. Michael. Mr. Van
Horn will probably go out over the ;
Seward trail and join his wife in
Washington state during the winter.
Warmth, comfort, cleanlir.esg.
Spring beds including bath S3 per
week. Elite Bathnouse, Caribou st.
Car Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Are a Combination of Brands
That can't be beat,
Yea li find
^ lit ISa Lai Sis bL
Worth Looking For. GEO, KINMAN, Mgr. FLAT CITY
Ice Cream Freezers, 8 to 20 Quarts
Lemonade Shakers
Ice Planes
Ice Chisels
Refrigerators
Crockery
Bar Glassware
Safes
Fire Extinguishers
Rakes, Hoes, Sp3(ie$
Pitch, Oakum
Calking Cotton
Oars, Oar Locks,
Pike Poles
Pool Tables
Pool Supplies
Lightweight Rubber Bouts Creedmore Hunting Boots
FURNITURE BEDDING
0*p*q
IF YOU WANT GOOD EGGS SEND TO
CHARLTON
EVERY EGG IN OUR CASES GUARANTEED
Plenty of Fresh Fruits on Hand—Apples, Oranges, Lemons, j
aJ-s-' -^rsP-e-_n^ *1 -Kfo*s- Candy, j
J. W. Charlton, - - Iditarod City
ADVENTUROUS CAREER
OF COL. W. C. GREENE
With the passing of Col. W. C. Greene, who died at Cananea,
Mexico, early last month, there was ended perhaps the most spectacular
career that has contributed to the history of mining on this continent.
William Cornell Greene was born in Westchester county. New
York, in 1851. He left home when 17 years old and started West, and
trom that time until his retirement in 1907 his life was one of ceaseless
adventure. His first work in the West was as a government contractor
in Colorado and Kansas. Then he went into ranching in the San Pedro
valley, drifted to Arizona, did a little prospecting and organized and
led volunteer forces against the Apaches, when he was dubbed colonel.
It was in these days that he was known as Bronco Bill.
A small ranch that he acquired in 1890 prospered, and taking ad
vantage of a Mexican law allowing prospecting on lands already granted
for pasturage, Col. Greene went over into the State of Sonora and
located eight mines on a big tract of land which had been purchased for
grazing purposes by a syndicate of Californians headed by United States
Senator George C. Perkins. He put in claims for the property and the
Perkins syndicate sold out for a nominal sum rather than fight condem
nation proceedings. It was not until Col. Greene had bought the
property that Senator Perkins had an investigation made and gave it
as his opinion that his syndicate had lost one of the richest copper
properties in the world. Col. Greene organized and became president
of the Greene Consolidated Company, the Greene Gold ami Silver
Mining Company, the Greene Cattle Company, the Turkey Track
Cattle Company, and had a hand in other corporations These corpora
tions he organized with Eastern capital and his effort to get the money
to float them was the purpose ol his first entrance into Wall street.
The $6,000,000 original stock of the Greene Consolidated Company was
offered to the public through newspaper advertisements in $10 shares.
The stock was sold and within two years the Cananea mine was a big
producer. Capitalists who had been skeptical of Greene’s claims took
him up and were glad to aid him for a consideration.
One of the men to whom he appealed was Thomas W Lawsou,
who had just floated the big Montana company. Lawson on behalf of
a syndicate, which included H. H. Rogers, agreed to supply develop
ment hinds up to $i,ooo,oo!) in return for an option on the control of
the Cananea property at one third of the face value of the stock. The
sum o! $135,000 was furnisned in accordance with the agreement, and
then a further draft of Greene’s was not honored and Lawson threat
ened suit on the three months’ note ou which the money had been bor
rowed. Greene got the money and saved his property, and not* long
afterward the Cananea property had an estimated value of $35,000,000.
In 1902 Greene headed a syndicate of four men which bought a
tract of 7,500.000 acres in Sonora for a ranch, to be the largest in the
world and to be stocked with 50,000 head of cattle. In Wall street he
became the associate of John W. Gates, James A. Drake and other
well-known speculators, and for a time outdid them all in the lavish
ness of his expendisuies. Much of the tnonev he spent is said to have
gone for worthless properties and in losing stock speculations, hor all
his astutene>s as a mining mm and a ranchman, in Wall street he was
known as an “angel” pure and simple
The height of his glory was reached in 1903, when his companies
had a capitalization of nearly a hundred million dollars, of which Greene
owned more than hall. In the fall of that year the Gates-Hawley group
began a systematic attack on the Greene securities, and the Consoli
dated Company’s stock dropped from $32 to $12 a share. There was a
war ot experts over the value of the property, in which (ireene won
nit, and the ptice returned to $35 a shate on the strength of new find
ings of $100,000,000 worth ot copper in the mine.
In April, 1904, as Greene was leaving the Ansonia hotel, James
W. Goodman, a mining man who said he had lost §500,000 through
ihe manipulation of the Greene stocks, pushed an automatic pistol
against him and said he was going to kill him. Greene told him such
an action would be foolish and talked him out of the idea. In the
winter ol the same year Greene himself was carrying a pistol and
making equally idle threats against the life ol Ihomas \\ . Lawson.
The bitterness between the two which began with the matter of the
advances for the Cananea mine, was increased in bitterness by Lawson’s
magazine articles on frenzied finance. Greene took up Lawson s
weapon, the press, and inserted a half-page advertisement in New York
newspapers calling Lawson “a liar, a fakir and a charlatan,” and de
claring he would call upon Lawson for his “answer” next day. In the
fall of his copper stocks Greene lost nearly four million dollars in a few
days and attributed it to Lawson. The two men met in the Hotel
Touraine, Boston. Lawson appeared in the corridor with a small army
of newspaper men and police. Greene came into the corridor at that
moment, extended bis hand and said; ”Hello, Lawsonj how are you?
“How are you, Colonel? ’ said Lawson, and alter shaking hands the
two men went up to Greene s room and had a conference over a bottle,
with glasses on the table and no firearms in sight.
Col. Greene’s later ventures were large, and he was unable to get
funds to carry through development work. Ihe panic of 19157 finished
the fall of his fortunes, and although he tried hard to stem the tide, he
was unable to put his enterprises on a stable footing again.
NOTICE OF MARSHAL'S SALE
United States of America. Fourth Divi
sion, District of Alaska, ss:
Public notice is hereby given, that hv
virtue of a writ of fieri facias (or execu
tion). dated Augusts, 1911, A.D., issued
out of the District Court, of the United
States for the Fourth Division, District
ot Alaska, on a judgment rendered in
said Court, on the 31st day of July,
A.D., 1911, in favor of Henry Schneider,
and against Abe Wallace, I have, on
this 9th day of August, 19FI, A.D., levied
upon the following described real estate,
situated in the city of Idilarod, Alaska,
to wit:
The northerly twenty-five feet of lots
numbered eleven (11) and twelve (12) of
block one i 1) east of die Town of Idita
rod, in Otter precinct, Territory of
Alaska, Fourth division, the said lots
fronting on Willow street, in said town
of Iditarod, and extending back there
from one hundred (too) feet toward
15 ack street in said town, and that I
will, accordingly, offer said real '.state
for sale, at public vendue to the highest
and best bidder, for cash, on the 2nd
City Warrants Now Payable
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On Sept. 7 there was in the hands of
City Treasurer E. (». Lindberg $4,893.
33 credited to the general fund, which
will pay warrants drawn on that fund
up to and including No. 82; and $3,282.
59 credited to the salary fund, which
will pay warrants on that fund up to
and including No. 56.
if you want your clothing cleaned or pressed
ring up Wile the Tailor- Phone 68
dov of October, A.I)., iqii, at 10:00
o'clock A. M.. at the front door of the
Marshal's office in the Town of Iditarod.
Territory of Alaska.
Dated this 9th day of September,
A.D., 1911.
H. K. LOVE,
U. S. Marshal Fourth Division of Alaska.
by H. P Sheppard, Deputy.
Chas. E. Taylor, Plaintiff’s Attorney.
W 1?M W' a W
he Pi &rtBern
First Ave. and Widow St.
Finest Drink Emporium in iditarotl
GEORGE MARSH AND HARRY ASHLAND. PROPS.
Using Pure Liquors Is as Essential to the System as the Eating of Pure Food
NATIONAL CLUB NO. 8 MARQUETTE A A
BOURBON R YE
Ask for ROYAL HORSESHOE JUPITER GIN “Square Face—Thls is the Purest Holland Gin Manufactured
YE OLD GERMAN LAGER BUDWEISER BEER, Bottled at the Brewery G & U DRY GIN Is the Highest Possible Grade
Take the Short-Cut Board Walk Thro Richmond Street, To and From the Creeks. We Buy Our Stock Thro the Most Reliable Wholesale Liquor House in the United States—Grommes & Ullrich, of Chicago
The Budweiser Jack Baird ID1TAR0D AND FLA! Ed Anderson The Branch