TOWN LEAPS
HERMANNSTADT, Transylvania,
Feb. 21.—Tucked away among the
foothills of the Transylvanian moun
tains almost on the border of Rouma
nian Hermannstadt was hardly ever
heard of before the war, but with the
continuance of the campaign against
Roumania it has leaped into promi
nence as a sort of “way station” for
officers and men on their way to the
front, and it is gradually achieving the
character of a real metropolis. *
The influx of business which hun
dreds of thousands of soldiers and
their officers have brought has jolted
the town into a wideawake state that
has first of all manifested itself in
an unprecedented soaring of prices.
Hermannstadt stands near the head
of the famous Red Tower pass, and
being essentially German in character,
it is so to speak, the first really “civ
ilized” spot as one comes out of the
mountains and offers creature com
forts which especially appeal to him
who has been marooned for any length
of time in the uncouth towns and vil
lages of Roumania.
The electric light plant that the
Roumanians destroyed has been put in
order again and Broadway is hardly
brighter at night than in Hermann
stadt now. The sleepy and formerly
little frequented streets fairly teem
with life, and it is a liberal education
in merchandising to watch the canny
storekeepers keep abreast of the times
in selling their antiquated but never
theless desirable stocks. Placarded
prices have disappeared from the win
dows, and the price of anything is
generally just what the purchaser
looks as if he were able or willing to
pay.
NOVELIST’S GRIM STORY
DUPLICATED IN ARCTIC
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. Can., Feb.
8.—Robert W. Service’s story of the
man who lived for months with the
body of Sam McGee in the frozen
north bound by a promise to cremate
him, was brought to mind by a simi
lar one. Constable Barbour, of the
Royal Northwest Mounted Police, who
is just in from his post, tells of a
trapper in the far north, Sigvald Nil
son, whose only companion since Octo
ber 26 was the body of Ole Hedberg,
his partner.
Nilson’s shack was at Island lake,
150 miles north of the police district,
far from any human habitation. The
trapper’s partner died of pneumonia
contracted while the two were pitching
in for the winter. Nilson feared he
would be accused of murder of his
companion, so he kept the body until
a member of the mounted police should
come.
Constable Barbour reached the
shack December 18. His examination
showed the man died naturally, and
he gave permission to inter the frozen
body.
He told Nilson to make a great pile
of wood and keep it burning until the
ground below was thawed, then to dig
a grave with the tools he had and put
the body in. He was to mark the spot
with a cross, according to the custom
of the wilderness.
Get your eyes examined free at
George Osborn’s, the leading jeweler,
by Fred Cariquist, graduate optician.
Satisfaction guaranteed. 260
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and so unusually artistically attrac
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is apt to result in regret later.
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NOTICE.
The Auditorium of the Labor Tem
ple may be rented for social affairs
and entertainments, also club rooms
and offices on the upper floor. Call on
the secretary or phone for particu
lars. 612
(Cordova Times).
A continuous string of complainls
to the marshal’s office regarding the
shipment of liquors by the saloonmen
of Seward to Anchorage and other
“dry” points along the government
railroad, has culminated in the issu
ance by Marshal Brenneman of strin
gent orders that the traffic must stop
under penalty of a forfeiture of li
censes. Marshal Brenneman tele
graphed to Deputy Marshal Evans, of
Seward, instructing him to notify the
saloon keepers at Seward that they
must assist the office in suppressing
this traffic and refrain from selling
liquors for transportation to Anchor
age and other points where the sale of
liquor is prohibited or he will proceed
to take action against all saloons with
a view to revoking the licenses, and
will further oppose the issuance of li
censes in Seward at the expiration of
the present license.
In this connection Marshal Brenne
man states that he expects the co
operation of the saloon men not only
at Seward, but at Valdez, Cordova am!
McCarthy in maintaining the obser
vance of the laws respecting the sale
of intoxicating liquors. 'He points out
that in this division the saloon men
have been permitted to sell liquor by
the bottle and case without molesta
tion, and would not be disturbed -in
this matter provided care is taken that
the liquor sold does not go to bootleg
gers and others who might engage in
the illegal sale of the same, but he al
so points out the licenses issued to sa
loons calls for the sale of liquor “to
be drunk on the premises,” and if vio
lations continue a strict construction
of the license will be enforced and the
sale, even by the bottle to be taken
from the premises where sold, will be
rigidly enforced throughout the entire
division.
LATEST REPORT FROM
DIME CREEK DIGGINGS
NOME, Feb. 10.—Victor Anderson
writing from Dime creek reports a
very promising looking for thecamp.
Valentine and company in the second
tier benches have just got down with
a working shaft and found very good
pay. Gunderson has just had his boil
er placed on his ground and expects to
Guisler and partners are working on
No. 1 above. Gagiler and Gloor have
their gin pole up and are building up a
dump. Lovell brothers’ dump is grow
ing steadily. Rylander and McNally
are busy opening up No. 2 above. Pet
erson Bros, have commenced prospect
ing the bench off of No. 2 above first
tier. Hanak and O’Sullivan are pros
pecting second tier off No. 2. Lovell
brothers have taken a lease from Al.
Wilson and will further prospect the
pay dirt struck by the latter at 100
feet in the fifth tier off of No. 3 be
low. Charles Goetsenburger and Er
nest Liden will commence prospecting
the benches just above Greenstone On
the left limit of Dime. Andy Peder
son hhs moved a boiler and com
menced thawing in the second tier
bench off of Nos. 6 and 6 below. The
Russian boys have cleaned up a cor
ner in the first tier off of discovery
and are now sinking a new shaft. Ol
son brothers are sinking on the first
tier bench off No. 1 below. All bench
ground mentioned so far is on the left
limit of the creek.
Lars Gunderson and Standish O’Sul
livan have just returned from a rather
strenuous trip to Candle whither they
went with a sick man.
Jules Gunderson and Hans Larson
landed here the other day via the head
of the Kusatrin and head of Koyuk.
They had reindeer and were forced to
kill and eat one of their pets to make
it through.
Found—The best meals in Anchor
age at Cameron’s Cafe. 864
Wood and coal delivered to any
port of the city. Phone 48-Y. Uni
versal Taxi and Transfer. 126
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PETITION.
To the Honorable Secretary of War,
Postmaster General, Secretary of the
Interior, Delegate to Congress, Gover
nor of Alaska, Judge Bunnell of the
Fourth Division, Chief of the Signal
Corps, United States Army, and ihe
Chairman Alaska Road Commission:
Gentlemen:
The residents of Ophir and Takotna,
Alaska, desire to call to the attention
of the proper officials some of the ur
gent needs of these communities and
request that action be taken in the
matters here referred to. Although
these two settlements are on different
watersheds and in different recording
precincts, they are so close together
that they may be regarded for most
purposes as one community. Both are
on the same winter mail routes and
the quickest and shortest for either of
them with the outside world is by
way of Iditarod, Alaska, which is
about equi-distant from both places.
What is done for one is of almost
equal benefit to the other, and the de
velopment of the mining country sur
rounding them is held back by the
same causes. The town of Ophir is
at the head of the Innoko river and is
the chief supply point of creeks that
have produced in the past, and will
continue for years to come to produce
gold in considerable quantities. To
date something over $3,000,000 has
been been produced by this district,
which may well be called the HOME
of the SMALL MINER, who by reason
of the high values in the ground has
been able to mine at a profit notwith
standing the many difficulties he has
had to overcome in the way of lack
of transportation and communication,
high freight rates and the like, all in
creasing the operating costs.
The town of Takotna, Alaska, lies
on the eastern side of the Yukon-Kus
kokwim river divide at the head of
navigation of the Takotna river. It
is the supply point of a rapidly devel
oping mining district on the Kusko
kwim side of the divide and also to a
large extent supplies the Innoko dis
trict. Supplies are landed in Ophir
by horse scows only, and in Takotna
by steamboats and gasoline power
boats as the Takotna river is always
navigable during the open season for
these boats from McGrath, Alaska,
which is on the Kuskokwim river at
the mouth of the Takotna river—55
miles by water and 15 by land from
Takotna, Alaska. From Ophir and
Takotna to points on Ganes, Yankee
and other creeks in the Innoko district,
the freight is on an average during
the summer season TEN CENTS a
pound by pack horses from either
point. On both sides of the divide
roads and trails are badly needed.
What summer roads and trails are in
the districts have been put in by the
operators at considerable cost to
themselves in time, labor and money.
The government in this respect has
done nothing for the development of
this section of Alaska. At present the
government winter trail from Iditarod
to Takotna, Alaska—a link in the Sew
ard-Iditarod winter mail trail—is not
used by the mail carrier or the bulk of
the winter travel. This is now going
over a trail from Takotna by way of
Ophir to Iditarod. This trail was cut
out by the Kuskokwim Commercial
Co., of Takotna and from Ophir to
Iditarod by the people of Ophir and
Iditarod, Alaska. Unless something
is done by the government on roads
or trails in this district, the develop
ment of the country on both sides of
the divide will be seriously checked
and retarded. The' formation of this
country is mostly broken slate and
road building is not expensive. In ad
dition it is essential that the trail to
Iditarod used for summer travel to
Ophir and Takotna be staked. This
trail runs over and along high ranges,
and in its present condition can not
be traveled in time of storm of fog.
Many have been lost and suffered se
vere hardship, while others have lost
their lives. How many have started
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and never arrived is not known. One
man found was buried at Crater moun
tain. This trail could be staked and
the necessary cabins put in at small
cost. Neither Ophir nor Takotna can
meet the present school taw which
requires 20 children of school age in a
school district outside of incorporated
towns. However, this is an instance
of a law not fitting the country. On
the entire Kuskokwim river from
Bethel to Takotna there is no school
for white children or those of mixed
blood, nor is there in the Innoko. A
school is needed at Takotna; it will
be attended by more than the mini
mum number of pupils required by
law.
There will be this winter, as there
was last year, a shortage of supplies
on the Kuskokwim river. Both yeai*s
vessels carrying supplies and machin
ery have met with accidents and have
failed to reach Bethel. In both of
these years news of these accidents
reached Takotna and Ophir too late
for arrangements to be made for other
shipments. In both instances the in
formation was delayed because there
was no means of communicating it
other than by the convenience of
chance travelers. The fact that. this
information could not be quickly con
veyed to the districts concerned has
caused serious loss to the merchants,
miners and inhabitants of the Kusko
kwim river and the Innoko in general.
There should be a government wire
less station at Bethel and on the up
per Kuskokwim river. The lack of
telegraphic communication is a seri
ous thing for so large a section of
country with such possibilities as the
Kuskokwim, Mt. McKinley and Innoko
precincts.
The winter mail service to the up
per Innoko and Kuskokwim is fairly
good—probably as good as can be
expected, but in the summer time
there is no service at all. Two mails
were received during the summer of
1916. When navigation is open the
mail service should be at least month
ly. There is no United States marshal
(deputy) stationed either in the Kus
kokwim, Mt. McKinley or the Innoko
precincts. One should be stationed ei
ther at Ophir or Takotna, if the gov
ernment is unable to stand the expense
of stationing one at both places. Thig
petition has been signed by people liv
ing in and around Ophir and Takotna,
but the matters touched on concern
those living anywhere in the Kusko
kwim, Mt. McKinley, Innoko, Ruby
and the Iditarod districts.
The Kuskokwim river is the second
largest riyer in Alaska, yet it drains
a country which is without telegraph
ic communication with the rest of the
territory. In summer it has practical
ly no mail service. It has no schools
for white children and no trails except
those built by GOD ALMIGHTY and
the people living in the said districts.
Although well mineralized this
country is of slow development be
cause it has for some reason or other
not been given by the government the
aids furnished to other parts of the
territory.
Your petitioners would ask that
aside from giving us some considera
tion as American citizens in improving
our mail service, that at least TWEN
TY-THOUSAND ($20,000.00) be ap
propriated for and used in building a
section of the Seward-Anchorage-Ru
by trunk line road between Ophir and
Takotna where it is sadly needed,
eventually connecting this with the
Ruby-Long-Poorman-Cripple - Tolstoi
Ophir-Mc Grath - Anchorage - Seward
TRUNK LINE road from tidewater to
the lower Yukon river.
Fred Carlquist, who is a graduate
optician from San Francisco, is per
manently established with George Os
born, the C. St. Jeweler, and will ex
amine eyes free. 260
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such items in FURNITURE and
DRY GOODS as cannot; be readily
supplied by the merchants in yotfr
own community \
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the prompt, personal attention of
an expert shopper, and Parcel Post
shipments are sent POSTAGE
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Lost—My appetite until I had a
meal at Cameron’s Cafe. 354
Maps of Alaska for Sale. Roberts.