Boys, What Do You j
Want for Christmas? j
AND EVERYBODY ANSWERED: j
jaffe’s pyf Coats
Now is the chance, Ladies; keep your husbands
warm. Everything that Men Wear
N. N. Jaffa, Flat City)
$100 A WEEK
LAUNDR YMAN
Fairbanks, Nov, 24—Ben.Pryor, the laundry-wagon diiver, went
Outside this fall with a fat pcke.
Though merely delivering and collecting washing ior the Cascade
laundry, run by Wm. Shinkle (who conducted a laundry of the same
name in Dawson), Pryor, with no capital invested, made more money
than many business men. Receiving a commission of 20 per cent ,
Pryor during the summer months averaged $10.> a week clear
THREE MAILS WEEK
FROM THE OUTSIDE
Tatiana, Dec. i-—From December 4 to April x ntxt, Tanana will
have three mails a week—^,000 pounds every seven days. Stages will
arrive every other day except Sunday.
The N. C. contract calls for two mails a week of 800 pounds each,
from December 4 to April 1. The weekly down river mail from Tanana
to Nome did not carry its capacity, so 400 pounds extra was advertised
for.
jack Hunnewell was the lowest bidder—$2,431 for the 17 weeks,
or $143 a trip. He took Harry Stockman in on the contract. Stook
tnan will bring the mail from Fairbanks to Tolovana, and Hunnewell
with fresh dogs will rush it down to Tanana.
Both Stockman and Hunnewell are veteran mail carriers. Thev
know how to manage, and will give an excellent service.
They will also carry express and passengers, calling their stage the
Malarqvte express No mail will be taken up river, so they are in a
position to make good lime. Their stage leaves Fairbanks immediately
after the arrival of the mid-week Cordova Stage.
CHEAPER SLEEPS
Washington, Dec. 3.—Tne price of upper berths in Pullman cars is to be
reduced. This follows the long fight made by George Loftus of St. Paul, who
argued before the interstate commerce commiss'icsiv-'that upper berths should be
euPMper than lower ones.
IDITAROD HOTEL
First-Class AcDommodations Vour Patronage solicited
.K* Snyder Mouse “
WARM DOG KENNELS
Second Avenue, Flat City. Snyder & Smith, Props.
WILLOW ST.
POOL AND BILLS ARP HALL f
Headquarters for Xmas Candles, Homo Made and Fancy Choco
I a tea. Full line of Imported and domestic Cigars. Apples, Oranges £
and Lemons fer Xmas week. C
7-:---—- £
| m;r. hussey FLAT CITY p. j. mannion l
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Kaltag General Store
Stables for Dogs*«*Lots of Salmon
The only Government Trail to Iditarod aud Innoko, and Short
est Starts from “Kaltag.”
The Connolly
Quaker Maid Whiskey our Specialty
Rooms Spring Bonks
Wlouth of Flat Creek
Tanan.i, Noy. 30—The Iditarod
will not produce more than $12,
000,000 at the utmost, according to
the estimate of Tom Aitken, who,
with Billy Casey and two others,
arrived here from the Iditarod last
Saturday.
Flat creek is the only good pro
ducer says Tom, and only about
two miles of that is rich- Frank
Manley and Aitken own the Mari
etta association, which they bought
front Frank Stevens and paitner
last summer.
(July one outfit is working on
Flat creek this winter—Lynn, who
is steam sluicing.
There are about 500 men over in
the Kuskokwim, but as yet the
stories of big pay over there are all
hot air, says Ailken. Tom eleane
up a big sum 011 his ground on Flat
and is going outside for the winter
Bilty Casey was on bis way to
Fairbanks from Flat cieek, where
Bert Moore is managing his saloon.
Billy may go outside and return to
the Iditarod over the Seward trail.
H. Laurie with Emil Johnson
brought Aitken and Casey up river
Laurie lias ground in the Kuskok
wim and intends taking back a sup
ply of Christmas turkeys and oys
ters He says the stampede into
the Kuskokwim caused the grub
shortage in the Iditarod. The N.
C. will have their entire stock sold
out by New Year’s, according to
Laurie, and the other merchants
are running short.
The party came by way of the
Nulato trail, which they say is the
best. It is about 105 miles from
| Diskaket to Nulato.
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Back with horses and double
lenders, Tom Shallow and Jim
! Lewis the well-known freighters,
[completed a round trip from this
j city to Georgetown and back last
j Wednesday, ha ving safely delivered
| a considerable consignment of goods
| to the Kuskokwim Commercial Co
j which had been purchased by A.
! H. Twitched on bis recent visit.
They had about a toil and a half
and took the stuff with single hor
ses. It is the first real freighting
between the two points, and is
merely the forerunner of a consider
able traffic that will pass from this
city to the other side of the divide
this winter.
They intend to start back the
iatter part of the w eek with another
load fot various parties at George
town and vicinity.
j Ben Anderson, who with John
j Kieland and others struck the (irst
j gold on George liver last spring,
| arrived in town last week accom
panied by one of his partners, Oscar
Nord.
They have been prospecting of
late on Julian creek but are now
transferring their operations lo
j Michigan where they will move a
j boiler immediately.
Besides good pay that is known
to exist on Julian, they rep< rt no
finds ot importance, and don’t look
for any uirtil prospectors get boilers
arrd pumps into the country to
handle the water that drives them
out on nearly every creek.
John Kielatrd is on Spruce creek
but has done little work for the last
few weeks otr account of being dis
abled by sickness.
Black Sullivan Gould
Net Deliver the Goods
According to the report brought back
by Samson and Boyne, the two men
who went to Bethel for reindeer in
October and returned last week, they
picked up all tho loose animals there
were around there and thus shut
several others out of the market.
Among these was “Black” Sullivan,
formerly city trustee and chief of the
Iditarod fire department who went
down from Georgetown with tho in
tention of getting a herd of reindeer
for up-river consumption.
Sampson and Boyne secured 120 head
about 100 miles up river from Bethel
and it appears that there were no more
reindeer in that portion of the country.
Sullivan was compelled to return empty
handed but it is probable that there
will be more deer in the Kuskokvim
before the winter is over.
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General Merchandise
and Outfitters
Stores™ Iditarod City and Dikeman
BETTER SAVE
BACON COVERS
There comes a story from the '
trail that is worth while repeating'
for it comes under the head of
handy hints to the heedless and
helpless.
You know that good bacon and
ham that comes done up in those
“seal tight packages. We would
mention the name it it didn't look
like advertising and everybody
knows it anyway.
Well, there are a lot of things
you can do with that seal tight
composition.
Harry Karstens, came in over
the"trail from Fairbanks the other
day with a dog team. He bad a
pneumatic mattress, and a sharp
cornered box rubbed a hole in it.
Harry was up in the air, but not on
the mattress. Then lie got an idea,
which is a habit with him once in
a while, and melted some of that
seal tight. When of the proper
consistency, as they say in the
cook book, he rubbed it over the
hole in the mattress and let it cool.
Then he slept peacefully that night.
The very next day lie punched a
hole in his tin bucket, which he
was also using for a kettle. He
scraped the tin clean around the
hole and poured on some more seal
tight. It worked fine a-* long as he
kept water in the kettle.
He found it an excellent tiling
to start a fire with when it was real
co d and he needed warmth, in a
hurry. It could also he u-ed for
mending rubber shoes and he says
in a pinch it makes excellent short
ening for hot cakes.
Following n slight scare at the
Budweiser saloon the other evening
when one ot tire gasoline lamps be
came unmanageable and nearly set
fire to the cloth ceiling, Jack Baird
immediately got busy and covered
the entire ceiling with asbestos
paper, evidently proceeding on the
theory that it is cheaper to spend
a little money on fire protection
than to lose his place of business.
Investigation has shown that
there are a number of places in the
heart of the city where gasoline
lamps are being used under cloth
and paper ceilings with no pre
caution of any kind to prevent a
fire should the lamps blaze up.
The city fathers should pass a
Front St., Jditurod
Leading Jeweler
CARRIES A LARGE SELECTION OF
Christmas Gifts
AT REASONABLE PRICES. ORDER EARLY.
When at Flat City
VISIT
COMPLETE STOCK OF
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
G E 0 RGETO W N K U S K 0 K WIM
JUST OPENED
Northern Hotel
and Restaurant
F. E. WO IT It E, PROF.
resolution condemning this practice
and .should use every eff rt to in
duce householders to comply with
so needful a precaution.
Bob Martin, one of the Granite creek
magnates, came into town last Tues
day to talk over business matters with
his partner Jim Chronister, who re
cently arrived from Fairbanks. Mr. and
Mrs. Chronister left Wednesday for
Otter where they will reside during
the balance of the winter on 1-a.
SUMMIT
ROADHOUSE
Furnished Rooms and Bunks
Cafe in Connections,
Liquors and C'igats
Tel: “Summit Roadhouse.“
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FLAT CITY
Ham and eggs SI at Merchants cafe.
CM AS. D. CARTER,
Dentist
Offices, Pioneer Drug Stores,
Flat Creek
The
Sideboard
OUU vler Whiskey a Specialty
Front St. J. R. Andorson, Prop. Iditarod
Fort Gibbon’s Uo-to-Oate House
Golden North
HOTEL
Finest and Neatest Rooms
Caters Especially to Family Tratle
NO Ear
ED Y. LEE, PROP.
OTTER CITY j
ROADHOUSE I
MOUTH OF OTTER CREEK j
Goes! Meals. Warm Buakhouae
Stables and Dog Houses in
Connection.
MRS. C. C. CHITTICK, Prop, j
UP 'l O DATE
MOUTH OF FLAT
mi and POOL BOOM
IN CONNECTION
H, GLANTZ & MRS, SWANSON, PROPS.