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Aniak. Alaska. vSept. Id. 1911
Bear City i> the latest addition to the
list of Alaska towns. Situated at the junc
tion of Bear creek with the Tulusak river,
it has good timber handy, plenty of fresh
water, uncont animated by tailings from
flumes or dredges, and good boating for
poling boats and hors ■ scows.
Mr Maddern of the Geological Survey
party which spent several weeks in this
vicinity last summer, is quoted as saying
that the mineralized reef which crosses Bear
ci.ek i" much larger and wider than that
.1 Hat creek, and that a much heavier
mil ol g.-ld will be found in the region ot
Bear than around Hat.
Tht pay recently struck on No. 1 above,
on Spruce creek, equals the wildest dreams
of the owners. It is generally believed that,
a heavier run of gold exists higher up the
creek. The gold is th.* roughest of any
found in the region of Bern.
Whitehesh lake has had a busy tish ng
season this summer. Two men have been
busy all summer packing fresh and smoked
fish to the miners on Bear creek, where
they could sell all they wer able to take
over at 50 cents per pound.
The reindeer herd *rs commenced to bring
supplies from Bethel to Bear creek this
season by packs on the reindeer. The miners
are also well supplied with reindeer meat
at ”»(J cents t»cr pound
Oscar Boulet worked part of September
and until the first frost shut off the water
on Tiney gulch. A tine day’.- run cleaned
up $98
Arthur W. Johnston. who. with J. A
Davidson, Walter Soule and Frank Moran,
ha.- been prospecting Cripple creek. Aniak.
for a dredging proposition, is well pleased
with the showing, and will begin installing
machinery next season. This outfit brought
up the Aniak the first large power boat to
the roadhouse, forty miles above the mouth.
Captain Soule settled the moot question
about the Aniak being navigable for river
steamers by stating that he could easily
take the river steamer Alice up the Aniak
Me.'.-rs. Johnston, Davidson and Soul.* are
“newlyweds." The brides of the first two
named accompanied their husbands info
Alaska.
The announcement in The Pioneer of the
prospects for a winter term of court in
Idifarod created great enthusiasm on the
middle and lower Kuskokwim river. Only
those who travel it know the hardships of
witnesses and others who are compelled to
attend a summer term of court. The hard
ships of travel are not so much dreaded
SERGE
DRESSES
Serge Dresses in Blue, Brown and
Black
Dress Goods by the Piece
Aprons, Hosiery, House Comfys
Arctics and Shoes
CLEANING AND PRESSING AND
PLAIN SEWING
MISS PETERSON. IDITAROD
■.s '* ■;■.si >jcr.fic? •:( t 111.* 'iui mr th. !
w<:k:ng iya.-en. In the past the Kafko
kw.m pnc.n.-; ha.* fr:n.-hr,l j\ 1...1
amount of the court - ca: ■. .*ar, am 1 h.s
honor will listen to this ■ . n 1 w min
ut*\- it will make him feel bashful about
refusing a winter term.
Answering the advertisement recently in |
The Pioneer for Victor T. Young, inquiry
being made by his mother, word is received
that he is at Sunrise, on Turnagain arm,
Cook inlet.
The second annual carnival and race meet
of he reindeer herders and apprentices will
take place the first week of next January
at Aniak. where they have a six-mile track
for the speed events. Obstacle, pole and
small prize races are among the events,
while blue ribbons are tied on the horns ,
of the prize beauty winners. The different
herders train their deer hard for the events. 1
and some snappy events are pulled off in !
the speed class. Pour hundred spectators 1
witnessed last year’s events.
CAMP 1DITARQD, A. B.,
EXPRESSES APPRECIATION
At last Sunday night’s meeting of Camp
Iditarcd No. 27. A. B.. a vote of thanks
and appreciation was extended to those who
help'd to make the Christmas tree enter
tainment such a grand success. The mem
bers of the ladies’ committee- Mrs. Joseph
H Smith. Miss Lucille Taylor and Miss
Lillian Smith- were especially commended,
but th ■ vote includes all those ladies and
gentleman who so generously donated their
services, talents and money to making the
event the enjoyable on it was.
GRANDSON OF VICTORIA
LOSES HIS LIFE IN BATTLE
LONDON. Dec. .‘L 1’rince Maurice of j
Battenburg. the youngest grandchild of 1
Queen Victoria, and a lieutenant in the j
Briti.-h army was killed by a shrapnel bill- '
let from a bursting shell while leading bis
company of the King’s Royal Rifles at
Ypres.
The prince was a great favorite with
Queen Victoria and passed the lirst few
years of his life continuously in her com- i
pany.
Just a few days before his death he
wrote to a member of his family: “I am
having the time of my life. Don’t bother
about me. It is like a picnic. I com
mandered a chicken and cooked it with
eggs. Tell Mrs. (the princess’s cook)
that it was better than anything she ever
cooked.”
Prince Maurice was the youngest son of
Princess Henry of Battenberg. and a tir<t |
cousin of King George. He was 23 years
of age. and was the only prince born in
Balmoral castle. In fact, no other prince
has been born in Scotland since 1 GOO. when
Charles I. was born at Dunfermline.
Prince Leopold. Prince Alexander and
Prince Maurice, all three sons of Prince !
Henry, entered the service at the begin- ;
ning of the war. Prince Leopold was in
valided home with a bullet in his knee
before the death '»f h»s brother The queen
Spain is a brother of the lamented
prince.
MINSTREL SHOW PROMISED
There is talk among the amateur musi
cians of the city of organzing a minstrel
show soon, and as there is plenty of splen
did talent here, there is no reason why the
affair should not be a pronounced success.
W. C. Mitchell left last Monday for Ophir
with a big load of produce.
A LITTLE LATE
In getting around to extend the compliments of the New Year to
our friends and patrons, but they’re on the square, just the same,
PIONEER SALOON
Phone “Ramps"
Just Received
A Choice Lot of the Latest
Victor Phonograph Records
Come In and Hear Them
SMITH’S GUN STORE,
IDITAROD, ALASKA
PIONEERS OF ALASKA
TO INSTITUTE IGLOO
On Monday last G. E. Austin received a telegram from the Grand
Igloo of the Pioneers of Alaska, at Nome, authorizing him to proceed
at once with the organization of Iditarod Igloo No. 10 of that popular
order. He immediately “got busy,” and in a very few hours had many
applications for membership from all parts of the precinct. From
present indications this camp will shortly have one of the best and
largest igloos in the sisterhood. It is safe to say that there are in this
district a greater percentage of “eligible m proportion to popula
tion, than in any community in Alaska. While all white male Alaskans
who were in the territory prior to January 1, 1901, are eligible for
membership, it is a very common thing to notice on the applications
filed for membership in the new igloo men who have been in the coun
try eighteen and twenty years, and several of them have been in the
North as much as twenty-five years. It is also a noticeable feature that
among the applicants are many who have heretofore refused to affili
ate with any of the other popular orders—seems as though they have
been patiently waiting for somebody to drive around with the Alaska
Pioneers’ band wagon in order that they could climb right on and all
take a ride with the rest of the “Old Century Boys of the Northland
The igloo will be instituted next Wednesday evening, January 1 3,
in the court room of the United States commissioner in this city, and
all those who have put in their applications for charter membership
are expected to be on hand and assist the organizer in his work of in
stitution.
Throughout the district there are many pioneers who are members
of the different igloos of the territory, and all who have been spoken
to in regard to the organization of a local lodge have expressed
themselves as being much in favor of the idea, and many will be on
hand next Wednesday evening to see that everything starts off well.
Many of the old members never tire of telling of the enjoyable evenings
they have spent at the meetings and smokers of the organization. A
big delegation of sourdoughs is expected from the creeks, and they
will receive a hearty welcome at the meeting.
Fresh Kiel Beef
Pure and sweet. Once you try it, you will eat no other. Insist
on getting it
Sam’! Applebaum
The Home of Hart, Schaffner & Marx Clothes
WE’RE UP TO DATE
C. R. PECK, FLAT CITY
NORTHERN CANADA IS
BEING RAPIDLY DEVELOPED
It will be well to keep an eye on Canada.
That immense domain has mighty possi
bilities, and although there is a disposition
on this side of the border to regard incred
ulously the many enthusiastic prophecies
made for it, most of them are likely to be
fulfilled.
Here, for instance, is something calcu
lated to surprise Americans: Ten light
houses have been established in Hudson bay
and a railroad has been nearly completed
from Winnipeg to Port Churchill, on its
western shores. For five months in the year
Hudson bay and the straits connecting it
with the Atlantic ocean at the south of
Greenland are navigable by steamships. The
route thus afforded for the shipment, of
grain from the great wheat fields of south
western Canada to Europe is much shorter
and cheaper than any now available.
Hudson bay is associated in the minds
of the majority of people with ice Hoes,
polar bears and Eskimos. But its outlet
is farther south than all of Alaska except
its southernmost strip of coast. Its lati
tude is about that of the north end of
[ Scotland, Christiania and Stockholm, on the
Scandinavian peninsula, and Petrograd, in :
Russia. The summer climate of the bay is
so temperate, bracing and equable that the
almost certainly will come when it (
~iiJ be made available for health and pleas- ,
ure seekers.
The Hudson bay railroad and steamship
I line may be considered certain to do won
' derful things for Canada.—Cleveland |
. Leader.
PROSPECTOR BECOMES
ACQUAINTED WITH SON
Joe Venus, the well-known miner and
prospector, who has been spending the sum
mer on Canyon creek, on the Kuskokwim
side, was very agreeably surprised when he
reached Flat City recently to find his sou.
a skookum young man of about 19 years,
aJtRing his arrival. The youngster had
reached this camp during the summer, and
since has been employed on Fiat creek. Mr.
Venus had not seen his son since he was
a child 6 months of age.
Fine Watch Repairing. ^
At last Sunday evening’s meeting of (.'amp
Iditarod, A. B„ it was decided that here- |
after, commencing with next Sunday night’s j
meeting, a smoker will be given, to follow J
the regular business session. The first of j
these smokers is to be for members only, j
but it is the intention later to give one
for the general public. It is hoped by this
means to awaken more interest in the af
fairs of the camp, which is now in a flour
ishing condition.
All members of Camp Iditarod, Camp Flat
and visiting A. B.’s are cordially invited to
be present, and a good time is assured by
the entertainment committee, which is ar
ranging a program. There will be light re
freshments and “smokes.”
Holiday Events Successful
Reports wer received from the committees
having charge of the Christmas tree and
entertainment given on Christmas eve, and
also from the committee which managed
the mask ball on New Year's eve.
The report of the Christmas tree coir,
mittee showed that a total of $217 was
subscribed for the purpose, and that after
paying all expenses incurred, including dec
orations, trees, presents for the children,
labor, refreshments, etc., there was a bal
ance of $7.75, which was turned in to partly
defray the expense of lighting and heating
the hall during the several days it was used
by those engaged in the work of prepara
tion and on the night of the entertain
ment.
The report on the masquerade ball given
on New Year’s eve showed that after pay
ing all expenses a tidy sum was left to be
turned into the camp's treasury.
TO UNITE FACTIONS
OF ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD
When informed of the action taken by
the grand camp of the Arctic Brotherhood
in regard to reuniting all factions, at it
meeting in Seattle, Henry T. Ray. grand
Arctic chief, expressed himself as much
pleased, and stated that it was in accord
ance with his views and recommendations,
says the Fairbanks Times of November 16.
Ever since being elected to the chair of
grand Arctic chief, a year ago, Mr. Ray
has worked incessantly for the reunion of
the factions, and many of his friends in
Fairbanks consider that it was due almost
entirely to his efforts that the unpleasant
situation was brought to a happy ending.
The break was caused by the action of the
grand camp when, at its meeting in Van
couver in 1912. it voted to grant charter^
to Arctic Brotherhood camps outside of
Alaska. The following March a meeting
was held at Juneau, at which sixteen camps
were represented, and some of these, par
ticularly those along the southeastern coast
of the territory, voted to secede and to
retain the same name, and with the positive j
understanding that no meeting should be j
held south of .54 degrees 20 minutes. In
July, 1913. a meeting was held at Juneau,
at which Governor Strong was chosen grand
Arctic chief of the “outlaw" organization, j
Early last winter, after returning to Fair- 1
banks from the States. Mr. Ray got in ;
touch with the governor and urged that
efforts be made to get the factions together i
again. The grand Arctic chief then com
mumcated with all the camps in Alaska
and urged upon them the advisability of
living their delegates to the convention
definite instructions, and also advised that
rhe grand camp adjourn its Seattle meeting
until March, to be held at Juneau, when
the legislature is in session.
In the “outlaw” organization the reunion
has been urged, and the differences have
been adjusted.
Mr. Ray expects that when the meeting
is held at Juneua all camps will be repre
sented. and that thereafter the grand camp
will never meet in the States.
1 .ike the Alaskans of the Southeast. Mr
Ray says that the organization is purely
Northern, and he is quite as anxious as
anyone that it retain its character as such.
The grand Arctic chief states that he would
like to attend the meeting at Juneau in
March, but at present he is unable to say
whether or not he will be able to do so.
All Fairbanks A. B.’s are delighted over
the outcome of the Seattle meeting, and
look forward to an active year Already
a number of applications for membership
have been received, and it is expected that
the members will show the same old en
thusiasm that was in evidence in thn early
days in Alaska.
SUIT FOR DAMAGES
Suit has been tiled in the district court
by W. F. Duffy and J. E. Beattie against
Dave Stranberg. in which damages to the
amount of #2,200 are asked. It is claimed
that the defendant has cut wood to the
value of that sum from a mining claim in
the lawful possession of the plaintiffs,
known as the Broken Snowshoe Association
claim, located on Cleary creek, a tributary
of Bonanza creek. Fred Harrison is at
torney for the plaintiffs.
SEVERAL PROSPECTING
PARTIES LEAVE CAMP
Well equipped with a good outfit. Tony
Letnes of Otter creek and Sture Stenberg
of Flat creek left town last Monday on an
extended prospecting trip to parts unknown
but to a few friends, and they are not giv
ing out any information. It is believed by
some that they are headed for the upper
part of the Ditna river valley.
During the first few days of the new
year several parties left Iditarod and the
creeks without advertising the fact very ex
tensively
NOT HALF BAD
Receipts for several registered letters j
which left this city on the first mail over
the Seward trail, November 2. were received
in Iditarod in last Thursday’s mail. The
receipts bore the Seattle date of Nov. 28.
Winter
Clothing
Bayles Clothing Co.
IDITAROD DISCOVERY, OTTER
WASHINGTON-ALASKA BANK
AGAIN OCCUPIES ATTENTION
(Fairbanks News-Miner, Nov. 13)
Next Wednesday will mark another im
portant chapter in the pitiful and tragic
history of the Washington-Alaska bank
failure. It should be one of the most, if
not the most, important dates in the long,
intricate legal efforts to save something
from the wreck for the unfortunate deposi
tors.
It will be November 18, the date that the
Barnette trust deed goes into effect per
mitting the sale of a large amount of prop
erty owned by himself and Isabell • Bar
nette, his wife, to cover losses not made
up by the sale of other assets of the bank,
which be established and in which he
served as president until it closed, January
5, 1911. By that deed In* temporarily re
lieved himself from suits for the recovery
of judgments because of his legal responsi
bility as an official of the institution. Also
by that deed he marie the recovery from
other officials of the defunct bank diffi
cult, since they have contended with all
the strength at their command that by giv
ing the deed Barnette himself assumed sole
responsibility for the losses, and it was
accepted by the old receivers as such.
However, Judge Fuller held last summer
that judgments might be secured against
the old directors, and they were secured,
as their responsibility was not relieved by
Barnette’s trust deed. The court held that
the Barnette trust deed should be enforced
when the time came and make up any defi
cit that existed at that date.
This trust deed was drawn up in favor
>f Receivers F. W. Hawkins and K H.
Mack, and is to cover “any deficit that may
hereafter be ascertained as between the
amounts due to such depositors and own
ers of unpaid drafts, with 6 per cent in
terest thereon from January 5, 1911. until
paid.’’ Up to date 50 per cent of these
roven claims have been pair! by the sale
of other assets, leaving a similar amount to
still be paid off if possible.
The Barnette property, besides some city
and mining property on local creeks, con
sists of an extensive land holding in Mexico.
Proceedings Stopped
(Fairbanks Times, Nov. 23'
Alleging that they acted without consid
eration in signing the famous trust deed
which was given to Tv H Mack and F \\
Hawkins, as receivers of the Washingtcn
Alaska bank. E. T. Barnette and his wife.
Isabeile Barnette, ask that the instrument
be set aside and the property restored to
them. Leroy Tozier. as attorney for Mr.
md Mrs. Barnette, has filed suit against
F. G. Noyes, the present receiver of the
Washington-Alaska bank, asking the court
to clear the title of the property for the
plaintiffs, and compel Mr. Noyes to turn
over the rents he has collected.
HARRY BUHRO RETURNS
FROM LAND OF CZAR
Harry Buhro, the Dome miner who was
so effectually lost in Russia that Delegate
Wickersham felt compelled to ask Secretary
of State Bryan to find him. is in Seattle
with the “bunch.” He reports that he was
in Russia when the war started, and to
please his father had to offer himself for
service against the Germans, but was re
fused by the army officers. He had a iot
of trouble to procure a pass letting him
out of Russia, but finally secured it and
came out by way of Vladivostok, via Japan
and across the Pacific to San Francisco
and Seattle, where he now is.—Fairbanks
News-Miner.
WAR'S DESTRUCTIVENESS
Before the British left Antwerp they blew
up thirty-two German merchantmen and
twenty-two Rhine vessels, a total of fifty
four ships. The act is characterized by
the kaiser as one of wanton destruction.
LEGISLATORS FROM NOME
FAVOR CHANGE IN LAW
Frank Aldrich, senator, and Jaine* P
Daly and Martin Moran, representative*
from Nome*, arrived in Seward on the morn
ing of December 5 on the steamer Dora,
which picked them up at Sand Point, when*
they had to land owing to the loss of the
propeller of the lit lie schooner Silver Wave,
on which they had started from Nome in
order to reach Juneau in time to take part
in the legislative session next March, w
cording to the Seward Gateway
The members of the Alaska legislature
seem to be in favor of introducing the Aus
tralian ballot system into Alaska elections
Senator Aldrich believes that registration
would be impracticable in the territory, ow
ing to the remoteness of several district'.
Representative Mo ran agrees with t h i, up
parently but both favor the Australian
tern. Mr Aldrich stands pat on the mining
law, but thinks a few amendments may be
found advisable. Mr. Moran believes in the
mining law generally, but In* says that he
wishes to see changed the clause which corn
pels holders of association claims to pay
$100 for each twenty-acre claim. lie oh
jects chiefly to this because so many owners
of association claims have already ailver
tised out the others who failed to do their
share of the work. As the association claim
has now been knocked out for the future,
he believed those held now should remain
under the old laws for the sake of justice.
Mr. Aldrich also favors a recall, referen
dum and direct primary law, but as to other
matters he says it would be impossible at
present to give any outline as to what
ought to be done Later he believes several
other matters will be taken up and acted on
Representative Daly favors the Australian
system, and he is totally opposed to th**
mining law as it applies in certain respects
to the association claim'. He has Dot qui* ■
made up his mind about registration.
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Typewriter, Photograph
Kodaks, Safety Razors, Soaps,
' Tooth Brushes and Blank
Books, Smokers’ Supplies,
Candies, Nuts and
Fruits, call at
Ansley's Book Store
Iditarod
Where you can always find a good
supply at reasonable prices
Annual assessment work blank*.—
The Iditarod Pioneer has just finished
and placed with dealers throughout the du
trlct a new blank form for the proper re
cording or annual assessment work on
placer mining claims in Alaska. The blaijc
form conforms strictly with the new min
ing law, 3nd contains ample cautionary and
explanatory notes, which will greatly aid id
the tilling out of the same. For sale at
Ansley's, Iditarod; the I'nsiolPce, Mat
City, and Harry Donnellev's. DIs. otter.
The House of Quality
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and Right Prices
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