NOME.—With a lot of money al
ready donated, Nome will have more
dog races this winter than during any
other season in the history of Bering
sea. The All-Alaska sweepstakes
race, the great sporting classic of
the north, will not receive individual
attention for premiership honors this
year, for a new contest, the dog race
marathon, has been inaugurated, ac
cording to Charles Sangford, former
editor of the Nome Nugget.
John Borden, Chicago millionaire,
who started north on a sporting expe
dition last summer that ended when
the power schooner Great Bear piled
up on St. Matthew island in Bering
sea, was the creator of the Marathon
for dogs. Borden reached Nome aft
er a wet and chilly experience in the
surf of St. Matthew island and be
came interested in dog racing. He
sent to Chicago for the handsomest
silver cup that the silversmiths of
that city could furnish, and donated
it for a race over a Marathon course.
The trophy weighs more than 60
pounds without the. pedestal.
Course 26 Miles 300 Yards.
The Nome Kennel club, with Bor
den’s assistance, laid out the rules un
der which the trophy must be com
peted for. The course will be 26 miles
and 300 yards. The event is to be
run under the most favorable climat
ic conditions, it being the desire of
flP' th the club and the donor of the
Ctrophy to learn exactly how fast a
t<iam of dogs can cover this distance,
'jfhe big cup must be won three times
fjy the same team owner, but each
Winter will be given a smaller silver
c-up. It is likely that the Marathon
nice will be held a few days before
CJiiristmas, but the date is dependent
u\pon the weather.
/ Eight teams are in training for the
e^vent. Perry Riley, Russ Downing,
dirant Jackson, Fay Delzene, Charley
Stoss, John Erickson and Billy Webb
?.re getting their animals in shape for
he test.
/ Only five teams will compete in the
f All-Alaska Sweepstakes race, from
' Nome to Candle creek and return, a
distance of 412 miles, and the contest
is likely to simmer down to a battle
between-the malamutes with pointed
ears and malamutes of .the lop-eared
variety. Leonard Seppala has acquir
ed all the pointed ear Siberian dogs
in the country and Fay Delzene has a
monopoly on the best lop-eared dogs.
Seppala and Delzene each has won a
victory in this great event.
Crossed Breed Animals to Run.
Perry Riley is training a team of
Missouri bird hounds, crossed with
malamute, which may upset the gen
eral belief that crossed breed animals
are not good racers. The dogs are
said to be very fast, but there is a
question as to their having the stay
ing qualities as needed in a gruelling
race of 412 miles.
The Ladies’ Amateur race this year
promises to bring out considerable ri
valry. George Bokum, a Chicago
•sportsman and who accompanied Bor
ilen to Nome, donated a beautiful
bronze and silver vase for this event,
and already the women dog fanciers
of Nome are arranging to borrow a
few dogs from the crack racing teams.
There will be about eight other races
during the winter.
Sanford says there will be more
prospecting in Nome this winter than
ever before, but he has never seen the
time when miners wouldn’t take a
few days off to watch a dog race, no
matter how much gold they were ga
thering from deep in the earth at the
time. When a dog race starts all oth
er activities are suspended.
Seattle Second-hand Store buys and
sells everything. D and 4th Ave.
11-6-tf
Hand-Painted China at Loussac’s.
Best dance floor in Alaska, with
good music, Saturday, Dec. 23rd. 139
Don’t Forget to get your Norwe
gian Stock Fish in time to prepare
it for Christmas. Sundberg’s Gro
cery, corner 4th and C. 106
Xmas Gifts at Loussac’s. 163
Reproductions of famous Paintings
at Loussac’s. 154
Grand Masquerade Carnival, New
Labor Temple, Saturday Evening, De
cember 30. Elegant prizes. 165
Pearl and Ivory Manicuring Sets at
Loussac’s. 155
Children’s Toys at Loussac’s. 154
Fine Job Printing at Times office.
(Juneau Dispatch)
Max Endelman, a democrat true
and blue, has evidently stolen a march
on the other aspirants to succeed Har
ry Bishop, present United States mar
shal, and has hurried east to solicit
the appointment. Endelman has been
prominent in democratic circles in
Alaska for 20 years. He was for
many years a deputy U. S. marshal
under U. S. Marshal Williams, who
served two terms. During the terri
torial campaign Endelman worked
early and late for the success of the
democratic territorial and divisional
ticket.
Among the other aspirants promi
nently mentioned to succeed Bishop
are Hon. Si Tanner, defeated candi
date for re-election as senator in the
first division; Jack Bayless, defeated
candidate for representative, and oth
ers.
The Ketchikan Progressive indi
cates editorially the democrats are
quarreling over patronage. The pa
per says:
“JuBt think: The election returns
are not all in, therefore, the election
is far from being conclusive as to who
is who; yet they are at it hammer and
tongue. They all want a job. They
are all jewels—all number one men.
Each and every one is the most de
serving of a meal, and all. that kind of
bull con. The old officials want to re
main in office, of course, but others
want them fired that they may have
a whack at the government seat. It
beats all how some men can be so
greedy—or it may be that they love
the dear people so that they jv.st
crave to serve them. Be that as it
may, the fight is on. They are fight
ing among themselves and hell is pop
ping. One says to the other, ‘You
never did anything for the party and
much less for the candidates.’ The
other answers, ‘You’re another,’ and
there you are.
“If they would only leave it to us
to say who should get a job, there
would be no need of fightingl It’s
scandalous the way they carry on.
And although we have offered our ser
v'cen, tluy evidently fear our preju
dice against democrats in general and
in particular about those around Ju-.
neau. To give a democrat an office
we must go to Juneau for the simple
reason that there aren’t any to be
found anywhere else. They are all re
publicans. At least they were a few
days ago when Hughes was reported
to be leading Wilson. But of course
they may have changed since then;
you can never tell. However, let them
fight it out. Most of us are agree
able spectators.”
TEMPERANCE
TOWN RAIDS
SKAGWAY, Dec. 1.—Not since the
filling of Soapy Smith has the me
tropolis of Lynn canal suffered such
disgrace. Booze divorced from Skag
;way early last fall has been discover
ed in the soft drink emporium. Two
of Skagway’s leading soft drink men
are out on bail and Detective Naud, of
Juneau, has taken his evidence, depos
ited it safely in a strong box and
the next federal grand jury will han
dle the matter.
Raids on the soft drink places
known as the Pantheon and Mascot
took place last Saturday. In both
places liquor is said to have been
found. The proprietors wer placed
under $1,000 bonds.
The search was made by a special
officer named Naud from Juneau. The
detective spent several days shadow
ing the suspected places and the man
hunt culminated Saturday in the
search and arrest.
Collar Boxes at Loussac’s.
Electric Lamps at Loussac’s. 154
BELL’S PLACE, 831 4th Ave.
Denver Rooming
House
Say, Boys, we keep warm all
night. Rooms, spring beds.
Everything new and clean.
BEDS, 50c.
JUNEAU, Dec. 1.—The amount of
Alaskan products exported to the
United States during November, 1916,
while several million less than those
shipped during the month of October,
1916, is still indicative of the great
and growing industries of the terri
tory. During the month of October
heavy shipments of canned salmon
ran the total up to the thirteen-mil
lion mark.
The following statement, compiled
at the local customs house, shows the
kind and amounts of exports from
Alaska to the United States during
the month ended November 30th:
Animals.$ 1,300
Antimony ore . 14,350
Bones, hoofs and horns .... 194
Copper ore. 4,000,567
Curios . 1,518
Kippered Herring . 24,388
Fresh fish, exclusive of sal
mon . 50,896
Dried and smoked fish .... 22,565
Pickled fish . 22,513
Canned salmon . 1,399,781
All other salmon . 79,526
Shell fish . 8,649
Other fish and fish products 5,695
Furs . 24,785
Ivory . 787
Lead ore. 4,950
Oils, fish and animal. 55,203
rin . 39,850
All other articles'. 5,313
Total ...$5,756,830
United States merchandise
returned . 230,517
Total . 5,987,347
Gold bullion. 2,672,504
Gold ore . 576,240
Silver ore. 84,185
Total of all exports from
Alaska .$9,320,276
Included in the above items, but not
segregated are reindeer skins, whale
skins, Alaskan vegetables, tungsten
ore and graphite ore.
P.-I.TELLSOF
“RED” ELLIS
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer.)
Alaskan mining annals contain no
more curious bit of history than that
of “Red“ Ellis, discoverer Of no less
than three bonanza mining properties.
According to J. O. Buzard, Port Wells
mining man, who is at the Northern,
the career of “Red" Ellis is distinctly
unique and interesting and without a
parallel in all Alaska.
Ellis has prospected all over Alaska.
From boyhood he has roamed the vast
stretches of mountainside, crossed
streams and suffered hardships galore
in his search for metals. It is said of
him, according to Buzard, that as a
lad he had occasion to cross many
streams, some of which were swift
and dangerous. At one of these an
Indian operated a ferry. He charged
$2 for each person whom he took
across the turbulent river. “Red”
Ellis at that time believed in con
serving his finances, and refused to
pay the native his fee. Instead, he
swam the river on every occasion.
The first property that Ellis as
sisted in putting on the mining map
was the famous Bonanza group at the
head of Kennecott river. This group,
under the management of the Guggen
heims, has become the world’s richest
copper mine, producing at the rate of
$3,000,000 a month. Then he staked
the Midas mine, across the bay from
Valdez. This property has been tak
en over by the influential Granby peo
ple and the mine is pouring out a con
tinual stream of rich copper ore.
Then Ellis turned to gold. He
hunted around a bit and before long
he had uncovered what developed into
a rich bonanza quarty property vor
tually overnight. The Cliff mine paid
over a million dollars in dividends and
was given up as worthless. The les
sees abandoned it, and presently Ellis
went back to work it himself. Last
summer he prospected around on the
:laim and found a new ore shoot. This
ledge of rich quartz he has developed
steadily all fall and at the time Buz
lrd left Valdez this fall Ellis’ clean
ops were running into tens of thous
vnads of dollars. Some of the ore
'oes as high as $200 a ton.
And aside from these three big
iroperties Ellis has on his record
nany smaller properties and pros
>ects that have not paid dividends as
/et, but for which he has hopes.
Leather Novelties at Loussac’s. 153
Blue-River Diamonds. Walter A.
rx>rd, jeweler, near Harmony theatre.
163
IN CABINET OF
THE FRENCH
PARIS, Dec. 1.—Albert Claveille,
former under secretary for munitions,
assumed office today as director-gen
eral of transports and importations,
with supervisory powers over all mat
ters connected with the traffic by rail
and water. He took hold of his im
mense task with energy, and before
noon had summoned the general man
agers of railway lines and outlined to
them a comprehensive scheme of gov
ernment control.
M. Claveille is subordinate to three
ministeries, war, marine and public
works. He is the first French official
to be under orders of more than one
department. It will be his duty to
give greater impulsion to measures al
ready taken or to be taken up by the
ministries to relieve congestion of
railway and water traffic and also to
supervise execution of decrees restric
ting importations.
M. Caveille, a self-made man, be
gan by carrying a surveyor’s chain
and became by practical application an
engineer able to hold his own with
graduates of the polytechnical schools. |
He built one of the largest hydraulic
power stations in France, and had be
come director of the staff of the min
istry of public works, when the gov
ernment bought the Western railroad
and made him its general manager.
Since the outbreak of hostilities he has
been directing artillery production in
collaboration with Albert Thomas, the
minister of munitions.
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PERSONAL SHOPPING BY MAIL
THE items in Women’s and Chil
dren’s Wear, and Men’s Haber
dashery, that cannot be obtained from
your home merchant may be ordered
from us, and will be sent POSTAGE
PAID to any Alaska address reached
by U. S. Mail.
During the Holiday Season, as at all
times, we shall be glad to study your
wishes in the selecting of Gifts, and in
properly packing and mailing them to
your friends. Let us send you the lat
est issue of our Mail Order News.
Address Mail Order Department “A”
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SEATTLE
XMAS GIFTS
For useful Christmas Gifts
See
Dohrmann Heming. 136
Grand Masquerade Carnival, New
Labor Temple, Saturday Evening, De
cember 30. Elegant prizes. 165
Alaska ivory and nugget jewelry.
Walter A. Lord, jewaler, near Har
mony theatre. 163
For Rent—An up-to-date apart
ment of two rooms and toilet on Third
St. near I. Inquire of Dr. Coble. 152
Genuine Meerschaum and Amber
pipes, Dunbar, Cecil, English Briar at
Loussac’s. 195
Second-hand harnesses bought and
sold by Bartholf, between 5th and 6tb.
near C St. 20
Attend the opening dance, Union
Hall, Saturday, December 23rd. 140
Grand Masquerade Carnival, New
Labor Temple, Saturday Evening, De
cember 30. Elegant prizes. 165
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
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Panorama Photographs
Anchorage and
Mount McKinley
LADIES
Try Excelsior Cream for the
hands. On sale for 85 cts. at
the Gift Shop, F Street.
THE COOK INLET
TRANSFER CO.
Central Barber Shop
Modern Equipment Throughout
New Sanitary Bathroom in
Connection.
417 4th Avep.ne.
£ NEW CABINET SHOP
| Furniture Made to Order. All
I Kinds Cabinet Work, Show
Cases, Etc.
JOE KITAK.
4th and K Sts.
Attend the opening dance, Union
Hall, Saturday, December 23rd. 140
H. W. NAGLEY
General Merchandise
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(Next to Empress Theatre.)
Your PHOTO makes a nice
Xmas gift, appreciated by all.
Also the latest Photo Frames.
Photos Enlarged to any size.
We Do Kodak Finishing.
Develop, 15c. Prints, 3c up.
Butts’ Parlor
FOURTH, BET. G AND H.
Hot Chocolate,
Hot Malted Milk,
Fox Oyster Cocktails.
Hot Fox Famous Clam
Nectar.
Hot Beef Tea.
BUTTS HAS IT
Anchorage General Hospital
Comer 6th & K Sts.
Private Rooms and Wards, Sani
tary and Thoroughly Equipped.
When you are sick it's CARE
you want.
Of the taking over of the Wible & St. Clair Stock by
Roy Fairbanks
Have just opened case of 50 Smart Winter Suits,
which will be sold at a great reduction. Also fine high
grade sweaters and Stag Shirts.
General reduction on all other goods.
Bills payable to the firm of Wible & St. Clair are
now payable to me.
ANNOUNCEMENT!!
ROY FAIRBANKS, Prop.
m
WHEN you come to Seattle, remember the
Hotel Savoy extends you a hearty welcome.
All the Alaskans who have made their headquar
ters with us in the past, and those who are con
templating coming to Seattle in the future will
find the Savoy the right hotel in the right loca
tion and at the right price. It goes without say
ing, if you come once, you will come again.
Our hotel is in the very heart of the city,
most convenient to the shopping district, thea
tres, churches and public buildings, absolutely
fire-proof. Rates: $1.00 per day and up, without
bath; $1.50 per day and up with bath.
Don’t forget the place—the Savoy Hotel.
W. G. KING, Manager.
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Robert H. Fleming, Manager
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