Miners & Merchants Bank
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital, 8100,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted Gold Dust Bought and Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Fart of the World
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT: SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK
OFFICERS:
T. J. Nestor. President
Chas. Ross, Vice President
E. G. Lindberg, Manager
John Holmes, Cashier and Assayer
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W. SUNDERBRUCH
Fairbanks, Feb. 3.- The Fairbanks Times this morning prints
a private wire from Seattle stating that the grand jury sitting here
had indicted W. H. Parsons, F. E. Barbour, E. L. Webster and
John Sehram, all former officers and directors of the defunct
Washington-Alaska Bank. Warrants for the arrest of these men
are said to have been wired from Fairbanks yesterday afternoon.
The nature of the charges is not divulged.
W. H. Parsons is at present vice president of the Dexter
Horton Bank in Seattle.
DEPUTY MARSHAL KELDAY
ARRIVES OVER SEWARD TRAIL
Deputy Marshal John R. Kelday, lately appointed for the
Ivuskokwim district, arrived at Flat City over the Seward trail last
Monday and proceeded lo his headquarters at Georgetown or
Wednesday morning. Mr. Kelday started out from Seattle and
left Seward Dec. 31.
Stormy weather was encountered on the trip—for live days in
succession there was snow and wind and then followed two days
of rain.
Mr. Kelday met Teddy Heacock and Mrs. Porter at Knik.
The gold train was met one day this side of Knik, having a tough
time owing to the weather and the fact that the sled was too wide
to the trail. E. Coke Hill and Nat Lyons were met at the mouth
of Indian river, twelve miles from Pass Creek Roadhouse. They
were making fair time, but at the time of meeting, 2:30 in the
afternoon, they had been off trail nearly all day.
Deputy Marshal Harry Sheppard went over from Iditarod and
had a conference with Deputy Kelday at Plat City.
MIKE MCHALE CONVALESCENT
Mike McHale, who has been in hos
pital for two or three weeks, left that
institution last Monday fo.' his home on
Otter creek. Although much improved,
Mr. McHale proposes to take a good
long rest so that he will be thoroughly
fit when the active mining season opens.
Infinito, Humboidt, Cuerte Rev, Op
timo, Lovera, Bock and a tine line of
Puerto Rico Cigars at Empire Com
mercial Co.
High-top moccasins at. H. Boas’.
Quitclaim deed blanks—Pioneer.
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Cascade Steam Laundry
Whitehorse restaurants Lave advanced the price of meals from 50c
to 75c.
April x is the date set for the healing of the Barnette case in Fair,
hanks.
Nearly everybody who could get aw a. li .is gone from the Rampait
district into the Old Man.
Camp Valdez, Arctic Brotherhood, is planting the erection of a new
hall which will cost in the neighborhood of $10,000.
Clyde E Gtiptil, the steamboat agent who was assaulted at"
nearly killed at Skagvvav, 1i..n gone to Seattle oi reatmen' lot hi
eyes.
Duiing the series of fierce gales that swept the southern coast i
December, thtee schooners were wrecked on Shmnagin islands, neai
Unga.
Represcniative Humphrey has introduced a I ill in th H use ,> -
viding for the abolition ot all charges for handling Alaska gold at the
Seattle assay office.
A. S Kinzer has received notification from the first assistant post
master-general that his commission as postmaster of Ruby City will he
*>awarded upon receipt of properly filled out blank, bonds and oatb of
ffice.
Geo. A Carl lias received the sad intelligence of tbe death of bis
wife at tbe home of her parents in Birmingham, Ala. Mrs. Carl ard
her two-year-old son went Outside a year ago. Shortly after the little
hoy died. The mother’s death has followed, caused by tuberculosis.
According to a report of the United States Geological Survey.
petroleum seepages occur on the west shore ol Cook Inlet, on the
east side of the Alaska Peninsula and on Controller Bay. All the t
deposits are near tidewater and consequently easy of development.
The grand jury at Fairbanks failed to indict Robert John, the
Indian suspected of killing James D Clark, a prospector, on the Chand
iar, in December, 1909. Clark's body was found and sledded to Fair
banks, but nothing has ever been beard of Geraghty, who bad started
but prospecting with him.
The Department of Justice has authorized the increasing of tin
bond of Marshal Love fiom $45,000 to $60,000 This is done in orde
that the bond will more nearly cover tbe funds that must be drawn foi
each quarter, thus enabling the office force to clear up the accounts
with less delav than heretofore
COMMISSIONER E, J. STIR
WRITES FROM KUSKOKWIM
Writing to Judge Overfield regarding the outlook on tbe Kusko.
kwim, Commissioner lid J Stier says:
‘‘The tributaries of the Kuskokwim that flow in from the south
ide promise more, and will, I think, prove better than those flow ing in
ttoin the north. There are seven or eight large tributaries flowing into
he Kuskokwim from the south. They practically all head into tin
same mountains, but their mouths are wide apart and they drain an im
meuse territory, practically virgin and unprospected.
“Ou the Kiseralik, the first river flowing into the Kuskokwim from
the south this side of Bethel, the first claim was recorded in 1908, hut
[ have not heard of any gold being taken out on that stream
“The next tributary is tbe Tuluksak, a large river with main
-mailer tributaries This discovery was also made in 19 8 and caused
quite a stampede. In 19:0 there was a small (Xcitement and stampede
iti Bear creek, a tributary of the Tulaksak, but the creek was aban
doned for the George river strike. There is gold on the Tu.u ksak, bu
it is spotted There are not more than six men on that river and its
ribtitaries at the present time
‘‘Now we come to the Aniak, which is a large and swift river am
dangerous to pole up This year a party of three succeeded in getting
up this river and on the right fork, which they named Salmon livei
ihey found good prospects One of the party who was prospecting 01
the George liver last year, told me he had bad better prospects on tbe
rim and exposed bedrock of Salmon river than he had at any' time or
George river and he thinks he is going to get the pay.”
After dealing with the Holokuk, Holitna, Crooked, George and
other rivets, Commissioner Stier says.
‘‘In the last ten years there has been a great deal of running over
this country and findsof . nod prospects made, but they have never beet
able to locate the pay Most of the trouble has been wet ground. As
there are a number of hand drills in the country this winter, we might
hear from some of these streams this winter Let us hope so, for at the
present time there is not a producing mine in the precinct, and this is
a large unprospected, undeveloped country, full of fish and game and
berries: a place where a man can live on chicken and cranberry sauce
three times a day. It is not a bad place so far as living goes, but for
making any money something will have to be found to produce ”
HARRY RUHRO RELATES
EXPERIENCES ON ANIAK
According to the News-Miner, Luther C. Hess of Fairbanks lias
received a long letter from Harry Buhro dealing with the Atiiak strike
Buhro says that the gold in the Atiiak seems to be derived from
granite intrusions and not from ledges, and as soon as he and his part
ners realized the fact they proceeded to corral the gold-bearing area
Together with Fred LaBelle and E. T. Fisher, Buhro went up the
middle fork of the Aniak last summer, but found it a very barren
looking section, so they struck across country 25 miles to the right fork
(Salmon river) and at once began to get good indications of pay On
July 26 they made a discovery on Fisher creek and the next day got
colors 011 Salmon. The most important discovery of the season, how
ever, was made August 11 on Maivel creek. At the very point where
they dropped into the creek valley there was a rim of rock sticking up,
and from this the first pan yieldid 25 cents Pieces of bedrock pulled
up would show several colors sticking to the crevices. All told four
pans weighed $r .20. The next day they panned about $7 off the rim
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although the pans did not average more than seven cents. Then they
staked At the very head of Marvel creek, 1,000 feet above the level
«.f the valley, where it is so steep that one can hardly stand, a pan will
show-from 75 to 100 colors.
Marvel is a tributary of Eagle creek, and above its mouth it is
almost imossible to raise a color, while below Marvel two miles, on
Eagle creek, Buhro says that he took out as high as two grains on rim
rock
Dome was the next creek to receive attention, and Buhro estimates
'hat the run of the gravels there will pay about $5 to the man shovel
ing in On the right limit 16 puns yielded 50 chi's.
f HERE AKD THERE |j
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Sir Charles Tapper, Canaria’s j
representative in London, is seri- h
nudy ill with bronchitis. He i- 90 |i
rears old.
A jail delivery at San Luis, Mex 1
ico, resulted in the liberation of 1
too prisoners, who scattered in so
many directions that it was im .
possible to follow them.
In order to relieve the destitution '
nrtvalent in Berlin, the municipal
authorities opened soup kiichens. ,
nifty peopie were poisoned and the <
government is investigating
That 100,000 Jews stand ready to
enlist and fight against Russia
should insistence upon the rights of
American citizens firing about war,
•was the declaration of Rabbi M. M.
Kichles at a mass meeting at Boston
last month.
A package containing $25,000
which disappeared from a St. Louis
postoffice Sept 24, 1910, has been
recovered. George V. Sleek, a
postoffice clerk, has had the pack
age since its disappearance. He
onfes-ed to postoffice inspectors.
)f the full amount $1,400 is miss
ing S'eck says he spent this.
A greater liner than any yet
built has been ordered from a Brit
1 h firm by the Hamburg.American
line. The vessel will be 1,000 feet
long and eleven stories high. It
will accommodate 5,000 passen
gers. It will have 80,000 horse
■ower. An exact duplicate of the
marble swimming pool found at
Pompeii will be one of its luxurious
features.
RUBY PAPERS
AMALGAMATE
(Ruby Citizen, Jan. 24.)
The Citizen and the Record have de
cided to enter into a combination, not,
however, a “combination in restraint
f trade,” with the object of boosting
he price of anything, but rather a
ombination with the ideaof increasing
he business of one paper, and reducing
he burden on the people.
It is exceedingly painful, but neces
ary, to admit that this camp, while
ust now at its most promising stage,
s not sufficiently developed to support
wo newspapers, and the publishers
tave therefore concluded to form a
•ombination paper, which will he
mown as the Ruby Record-Citizen, to
how that the move was a wise one.
L'he combination will take place the
irst of February, the Record-Citizen
ippearing on the 3rd of the month.
The Citizen tenders its grateful
hanks to those who have so valiantly
itood by it, notwithstanding the days of
lepression. and hopes they will cor
inue to support the new paper.
Annual assessment work blanks at
l-’ioneer office.
Old Lacey, Tyler, Monogram, Ather
ton and Cedarbrook, also fine old Port,
Sherry and Clarets at Empire ,f'om
mercial Co.
LOST -About two weeks ago, gold
fountain pen. Finder please return
to Cascade Steam Laundry and re
ceive reward.
We still have lett a fine line of
sumMGs
and Trousers. Fit and Work- >
manship guaranteed.
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