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rirer clear. St. Michael canal now clear; Kotlik no change.
Water generally rising.
One Dollar Per Month. IDITAROD, ALASKA, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 18, 1912. Two Bits Per Copy
OVERFIELD
EXONERATED
Fairbanks, May x"). — Attorney
General Wiekersbam has exon
erated Judge Peter D. Overfield
from the charges filed against vim
by Fairbanks people last year
Judge Overfield lias asked to be
transferred to Valdez. He says
lie is tired of the knockers of Fair
banks.
TO TAKE SHORTS
TO THE KOYUKUK
Fairbanks, May 17 —The Tetlin
will leave for the Kovukuk to
morrow to relieve a grub shortage
in that district. She will carry
several passengers.
SOME GUESSING
ON LITTLE DELTA
Wagers have been made that
the steamer Little Delta, which
left Fairbanks May 11, will ar
rive at Iditarod by next Monday
night. She has been dodging
the ice along down the Yukon
and was last heard from when
she took shelter in a slough ten
miles below Kaltag at 10:30
o’clock Thursday night
DR, YOUNG NOW AT FAIRBANKS1
Fairbanks, May 18. — Dr. S. Hali |
Young, the fr auds of whom have in
quired about him, arrived here from :
Seward April lfi. He is in good health. !
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FIRES IN DRY MOSS MAY
SPREAD OYER BIG AREA
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Fire in the moss on the right hand j
side of the tram was burning yesterday !
this of Summit roadhouse. The moss !
is very dry, and the tire looked like it
might spread.
A big smoke was rising apparently
at the head of Boulder creek also.
Ice-cream Soda, all flavors—To
morrow—at the Red X Drug Store.
COMING AND GOING
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Mrs. Char Miller returned home last
Monday from a visit with Mrs. Jonas
Brewis, on Fiat creek.
Dr. C. Douglas Carter enjoyed metro
politan life a couple of days in this
city the first of the week.
Mrs. James Chronister was a visitor
in the city during the early days of the
week.
Attorney J. C. Murphy, of Flat City,
spent the greater part of the week in
Iditarod. _
AT IDITAROD HOSPITAL
Joe Taisoff has been in hospital for
a week and was operated upon Wednes
day last on account of an inflamed
"land. It will be several days before
he will be able to be out. He is now
the only patient in the institution.
Joe Mikuta, after a long siege of
rheumatism, is on the streets, greatly
improved.
Star Ballard, discharged the first of
the week, spends his time riding on
the tram between the Summit road
house and Flat and between Iditarod
and the roadhouse. He is gaining
strength rapidly.
FLOWER GIRDERS OH ALL SIDES
The hot. summer suu is doiug
effective work these day*, aud in a
week or two many au Iditarod
flower garden will be a blaze ot
glory. Gardens have sprung up
like magic aud bedding is bow the
o’rdet of the day. The more thrifty
arc also pUutiuj vegetable gardens
aud some ambitious oues have hot.
houses, wherein they ars raising
tomatoes, cucumbers, and other
’•able delicacies.
v fancy walnuts and almonds,
Sun Jarbruch's.
srasm ,»rre<f Miss Ko^cn. Fiat
MON BOLD GO.
IN BIB ON FLAT
The Yukon Gold Company, locally spoken cf as the Guggenheim',
now virtually controls Mat creek from the lower end of the Glen asac
ciatioti to the head of the creek. Part of this ground has been
secured by purchase and part bv lease, and certain interests have not
yet passed from their former ownership The rights of some of the lay
men along the creek have been bought Other laymen, most of the
leases of whom will expire this year, will continue on the ground until
the expiration of their terms
This is the gist of the developments to date in the deals that have
been going on. Operators and R. G. Lewis, special attorney tor the
company, have been busy during the week closing the options which
were limited to May 15 The business was completed and most of the
operator* returned to the creeks Thursday. Mr. Lewis and others of
the operators went out yesterday It is said there are a few other op
tions which will expire May 20, upon which final action has not been
taken
So far as any local action is concerned, nothing has been done re
garding Otter creek. It is understood that negotiations have been
going on between operator' and company representatives Outside, with
what result it is not known It is considered verv probable, however,
that the company will shortly secure control of important ground
around Discover/, if it has not already done so.
The territory indicated above includes Glen association, about
3,100 feet, with the largest body of virgin ground on the creek; the
Bonanza association, about 3,200 leet; the Pox association, two clair
the Sourdough fraction; the Lynx association, two claims; the Wildcat
association, six claims; and the Marietta association, five claims.
There is no one here who can speak authoritatively regarding the
company’s plans for work in the district. Attorney Lewis is not regu
larly connected with the company, but was specially engaged, by tele
graph, to look after the transfers which have been taking place this
week. He does not know anything even of the personnel of the crew
which will come to prosecute the work in th« Iditarod. It is matter of
genera! knowledge that a dredge will he brought from Dawson, it is
believed the dredge is now being loaded onto a steamer and it is taken
as a matter of course that the company will waste no time in getting
down to business—and that is all.
KILLED WHILE LAUNCHING DREDGE
Nome, May 15—Richard Burnette was killed last Saturday while
launching the caisson dredge at the mouth of the Snake river. The
dredge, on skids, was jacked up in front. Upon lowering the skids the
dredge shot into the water, crushing Burnette in front cf it into the mud
and water The body was recovered! four hours later
The funeral was held yesterday under the auspices of the Odd
fellows. He was an oldtimer, a Californian, and operattd on Center
creek. He leaves a widow and daughter.
MEN FROM OPHIR FIND DEEP SNOW
William Gray and William Schnierla arrived from the old dig
gings yesterday. They made it from Gainea creek to Discovery,
Otter, in three days. It was a hard trip.
Plenty of Snow Yet
For 30 miles it was necessary to use snowshoes. At the head
of Gaines creek the snow has little more than settled and the water
has not started to run. On the Ditna and Moore-creck watersheds
it is nearly as bad.
Mining Items
From a mining standpoint Mr. Gray said the old diggings are
looking very well. The spring cleanup is about over and is better
than expected, although Mr. Gray said he was not in a position to
estimate what it will total.
Backstrom & Sutherland, on Ophir, have a self dumper at
work with a force of men.
Reick & Steigler, on No- 10 Ophir, are preparing to hoist.
Anderson & Johnson will open cut 6 bench and employ a crew.
Several other outfits are preparing to do open cut work.
Harry Kuril, a dredge man from Nome, has been looking over
the country for about six weeks. He is preparing to prospect with
a hand drill. It is reported he has secured options on Gaines-creek
ground with view to prospecting it for a dredging proposition. He
has also looked over Yankee creek, but Mr. Gray did not know
whether he had secured options on that creek or not.
Asked how the quartz workings on Carter creek are progress
ing, Mr. Gray said he had heard they are having some trouble
with their mill, but he did not know how serious the trouble is or
any particulars regarding it.
Mr. Gray is a member of the firm of Fdwards & Gray, who
succeeded to the business of John Morrow. Mr. Morrow will go
out this summer and expects to travel extensively, probably going
to Europe, but it is said he claims to have been only joshing when
he spoke of going to Bolivia.
Messrs. Schnierla and Gray will not return for a week or so)
and they do not know what route they will take back home.
TO WORK OR MOORE CREEK
WHEH SHOW GOES OFF
Charley Knell, Eddie McArdle
and Walter Hunter expect to go
over and commence work on
Moore creek week after next.
The snow is too deep for any
thing to be done there at present.
GOLDEN GATE COFP 5a—unsur
lioasi::'- for quality and aroma.
®un<3ct&tocP«.
NOTICE
We hereby notify all persons that
we own and claim one third interest in
lay and option on Pack Mule associa
tion, Otter creek, held by and in the
name of D- S- McDonell.
C. KRUTSINGER.
RAY CPARKE.
lditarod, Alaska, May 17, 1912.
Jerry Ford, wtio spoke of going to
Ruby on the Pup for a look around,
deiayed his trip and will stay on the
creek a little while longer.
New shoes, bargains, Paulson's, Fiat
PUP GOES TODAY
TO RUBY REGION
The steamer Pup is leaving
today at 2 o’clock for Ruby and
vicinity. Captain Green says he
is on somewhat of a prospecting
tvip himself and expects to con
tinue the voyage up to the Nowi
kaket, as well as explore other
waters offering opportunities for
light-draft navigation.
Dr- F. W. Herms and Dr. Z. J.
Loussac are booked for passage
Dr. Herms will return after a
look around the new camp, but
Dr Loussac will remain there at
least for a couple of months.
EXCURSION TO BE
IDITAROD'S FIRST
The launch Standard, with Captain
Billy Peterson on the bridge, guiding
the GO-foot vessel around the bends and
bars above the metropolis, will carry
an excursion party to Otter City to
morrow.
It is strange nobody ever thought
or such a thing before, but it is a fact
that this will be the first excursion
beat ever to run from Iditarod.
It will start at 11 a.m. and return in
the cool of the evening after the pas
sengers have picnicked and rusticated
until they are tired.
HEW STEAMSHIP EXPECTED
AT NOME THIS SEASON
There is a chance of the new steam
ship Cordova coming to Nome this
spring according to the latest informa
tion in the form of letters from the
Outside. One man writes, "The Alaska
Steamship Company may dispatch the
new steamer to Nome the first thing
after it arrives from the Atlantic side,
which they expect will be sometime in
June." _
LAST DANCE OF A.B. SERIES
VERY SUCCESSFUL AFFAIR
The dance at A. B. hall last Wednes
day night proved to be one of the finest
little affairs that has come off in a long
time. About 20 couples were present
and the music was fine. It closed the
series of A. B. dances
WANT CONGRESS
TO ADJOURN EARLY
Washington, April 15.—Representa
tive Oscar Underwood, leader of the
House, has announces that the time for
bringing to a close the present session
of congress is drawing eigh, and a
program has heen decided upon for the
balance of the term. He said the
balance of the session will be devoted
to measures affecting appropriations
for carrying on the affairs of the
ration, supply bills and such needed
legislation. All other measures will
have to go over to next session.
The Republicans as well as the
Democrats are anxious for an early
adjournment in order that they may go
home and look after their political
fences.
Ice-oream Soda, all flavors—To
morrow—at the Red X Drufi store.
REGULATIONS
TOO NUIEROUS
Another regulation has been handed
out, this one being with reference to
stumpage. At first glance this last
edict appears to be all right. That is,
if it is necessary to place any tax at all
on Alaska timber. The proverbial
Philadelphia lawyer would be lost in a
maze of bewilderment to keep track of
the various regulations handed out by
the Washington clerks. Not a week
passes but that some intelligent gentle
man in the national capitol gets an
idea, which assumes concrete form in
the shapo of a rule or regulation, and
which is handed out to Alaska, already
overrun and overridden with depart
ment-made laws.We up here don’t pre
tend to keep track of theta, qu4 hence
we can’t take a step on the public
domain without butting up against a
regulation evolved in the imaginative
brain of some department clerk.—
Seward Gateway.
Choice mackerel, fancy salmon
bellies, pickled pigs feet. Sunder
bruch’e.
TAFT CONFIDENT; !
TEDDY PLEADING
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Aberdeen, May 17.—The Republicans of the state of Washing !
ton have split on Roosevelt and Taft and held two conventions.
The state supreme court will probably pass upon the question
of which convention is legal.
San Francisco, May 17.—In the California Presidential pri
maries Roosevelt carried the state by an overwhelming majority.
Taft was a poor second and La Follette a close third. Of the
Democrats, Wilson was defeated by Clark.
Cleveland, May 17.—Taft claims he will carry Ohio in the
primaries to be held May 21, and says he will easily secure the
nomination.
At Dayton in a speech he said his nomination is sure.
New York, May 17.—Roosevelt has issued a statement ad
dressed to the people of America, saying he is the only man who
can beat Taft, and he must have their support
Chicago, May 17.—The Republican national committee has
begun the hearing of contests. There is a movement under way
by the Democrats of this city to make Col. James Hamilton Lewis
chairman of the Baltimore convention.
Indianapolis, May 17.—The national Socialist convention will
probably nominate Eugene V. Debs for the Presidency.
Congress Deals In Politics
Washington, May 17.—A bill to make the term of the Presi
dent six years, with no re-election, has been favorably reported in
the Senate. The Senate and House have passed a joint resolution
providing for the direct elecion of United States senators.
REBELS SUFFER DEFEAT IN MEXICO
Jaurez, Mexico, May 17 —Gen. Orozee with a large force of insur
gents was defeated at Escalon, and lost one thousand men killed and
many wounded. He retreated to Jiminez and is there awaiting the ar
rival of the federals. The heat is intense and troops are moved only at
the cost of great suffering. Provisional President Gomez disappeared
upon the retreat of Gen. Orozee. He claimed he did not get the proper
support from the latter. At Chihuahua Gomez el Enrill, the financial
backer of the rebels, was fatally stabbed. His death will prove a hard
blow to the rebel cause.
QUARTZ AND DREDGE NEWS OF FAIRBANKS!
Fairbanks, May 17.—The first cleanup cf the Spaulding mill, at
the head of Dome creek, shows $92 ore. There is not enough water j
to run steady.
The Rhoads mill continues to yield $r,ooo a day and runs steady, |
The Lemons dredge, on Fairbanks creek, will start within a week.
It has be delayed by much repairing.
MTARTY S BODY FOUND BY CIRCLE MINERS
Fairbanks, May 17—The body of Red McCarty was found by J
B. Parkin on the Harrington fork of Birch creek, in the Circle
district. The body was destitute of clothing McCarty was reported
lost last fall. The government took no part in the search, but it was
organized and carried out bv the miners of Circle. j
IMS KOYUKUK HAS 600D CHANCE
J. E. Beattie, who received a letter from B. E. Plummer, of
Hammond river, Koyukuk, last week, expects to leave Iditarod for
that locality between the 1st and 5th of June. Mr. Beattie has
interests on Hammond river. It is not likely that he could hear
from there again before the middle of July, only three summer
mails coming out of the Koyukuk—the first of the months of July,
August and September- Aside from the news contained in the
letter, he thinks well of Hammond river and thinks pay is liable to
be developed for a distance of several miles. He says they are
already finding good money from 6 above to discovery, inclusive.
Some eight miles above discovery a limestone dike cuts the schist
diagonally across the river. Mr. Beattie thinks the pay is liable
to continue from discovery to this dike. Should it do so it will
make a big camp, even though it should be spotted. The ground
has been slow of development, because the ground is deep and the
miners have to sink on the rim and follow the rimrock into the
channel. In places boulders are also bothersome.
Mr. Plummer’s letter was dated April 1. In it he said:
“Hastings and Peterson got water. Tobin, Owens and Judge
Howard have just got to bedrock and it is immensely rich. Some
say it is the richest shaft that ever was put down in Alaska- They
got one $1,900 pan and picked up a little over $4,800 in the shaft
from one little side thaw. Siverley was telling me that even
though it pinches out they are sure of $40,000 or $50,000, and of
course there is a chance that it won’t pinch out. But take it as a
whole Hammond is moving slowly. Joe McNeal is bringing some
powder from the Chandlar, which will help considerable."
The ground being of the nature it is, it may be a long time
before the truth is determined about Hammond river, but there
seems to be a fair chance for it to turn out a great producer.
WIRELESS^ BRIEFS
King Frederick of Denmark
dropped dead at Hamburg. His
boby has ai rived at Copenhagen
and Prince Christian is proclaimed
king.
A great welcome was given Vice
President Ismay upon his arrival at
Liuerpool. He is to establish an
endowment fund for the Titanic
sufferers.
Congress is busy. Legislation
stops June 15.
At Los Augeles the Darrow trial
will probably go to the jury next
week. The grand jury is probing
the Industrial Workers of the
World. Ben Reitman, Emma Gold
man’s manager, was tarred and
feathered by the Industrial Work
ers
All roads load to Boas', the clothier.
WIRELESS FIGHT DOPE:
Melbourne — Langford defeats Jini !
Barry. The referee stopped the con ;
test in the eleventh round.
San Francisco—Woleast was foreet,j
to exert himself to get a four-round
decision over Willie Ritchie. Fan:’
believe Wolgast has gone back.
Los Angeles — Jack White defeat:,
Frankie Conley. Seconds threw up the ;
sponge in the twelfth.
New York—Johnny Kilbatie defeats i
Frankie Burns in a fast ten rounds.
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Ice-cream Soda, all flavors—To
morrow—at the Red X Drug Store.!
Col. Frank C. Ingles, Major Adolph
Kippi and Capt. Sid Enaor are passen
gers on the flagship Little Delta (Com- j
modore Atwell in command), due hero!
early next week.
Ice-cream Soda, all flavors—To
morrow—at the Red X Drug Store
Sweet, sour and dill pickles.
8urjderhruch’s.
VALDEZ FOR ”
WICKERSHAM
Valdez, May I".—Valdez last Wednes
day elected ten delegates to the Inde
pendent Republican convention to bo
held in this city May 29. They favor
Wickersham for delegate and are
malting preparations for a big conven
tion and an active campaign. Wicker
sham’s Democratic supporters here are
still for him.
DRT WEATHER
IN THE TANANA
Fairbanks, May 17.—The weath
er is dry and there is a shortage of
water in all the creeks. Un
precedented wiuds are sweeping th#
Tatiana valley and fires are raging
in many places in the hills.
THIS KIND OF SPAT
MAKES LAWYERS FAT
Nome, May 15.—Iu the commission
er’s court last Monday Doc Chambers
was found guilty of libeling William
A. Gilmore, and sentenced yesterday to
four months in the federal jail. He
gave notice of appeal and waa released
on 11,000 bail.
NOME SCHOONER SAILS
IN QUEST OF EARLY WORM
Nome, May 17. — The schooner
Yorkey sailed on her annual trading
trip to Siberia last Sunday—the earliest
date on record.
E. COKE HILL COMING
ON STEAMER LITTLE DELTA
E. Coke Hill, the Iditarod attorney
who mushed out over the Seward trail
in company with Nat Lyons last Jan
uary, is a passenger oa the Little
Delta, expected to arrive early next
week. _________
PONTOON BRIDGE
IN NEED OF REPAIR
The pontoon bridge across the
lake back of the city is in need of
repair. Several lengths of hand
rail were wrenched from position
by water carriers during the winter
and the water in the lake being
lower now than when the bridge
was built, parts or the structure
have become hogged and otherwise
rendered unsafe for women and
children.
The bridge is a great conveni
ence to patrons of the wireless
station and also to travelers to and
from the creeks, and as it would be
hopeless to expect the city council
to undertake the repairs, the cost
would have to be borne by public
subscription.
Some enterprising camera artist
in the postal card business photo
graphed the bridge last simmer,
and under the caption “Iditarod
I,overs’ Laue,’’ its fame has doubt
ess spread to the uttermost ends of
he earth.
ART IXHIBIT
Mr*. L. C. Thornton will give a water
color exhibit at the Iditarod hotel, be
ginning Sunday, May 19, and continuing
o-.ie week. Mrs. Thornton’s pupils will
< Iso exhibit.
Ice-cream Soda, all flavors—To
morrow—at the Red X Drug Stcre.
CLAUS FUST 8PBUG FLOWIIS
Most people are gardening more or
less these sunny day*. Of the many
early beginner* Tom McSmart claims
10 have distanced all competitor* in
the production of flower*. He had
nasturtiums and pansies in blossom
last Tuesday.
Ice-cream Soda, all flavors—To
morrow—atthaRQdXOruS Store.
One of the early-day paint stores in
Douglas used to display a sign wmcn
read, ‘‘Drink more and talk less."
rnnc —guaranteed the beat to be
CDDu had. Sunderbruch’e.
Cut Glass, jeivelry. W. Taylor, Flat..