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Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18
A TRIBUTE TO THE PROSPECTOR

be admitted by those that look upon metal unentc medium of exchange, that have contributed more development of the world than have gold miners and pectors says the Alaska Empire They have been large the scoverers countries They have furnished markets ard employment the pioneers all lines of cndeavo many sechor of the world that famed for other things than mining c yellow product their toll and energy has gone the channels of trade and stimulate those that they left behind when engaging her quest for gold greater activity and achievements
 Speaking of the prospecors calling and its worth to inc world the Dawson News pays this apt tribute:
 Tn cynical minds eete lands the gold hunter the pros pecto the who civilization behind hm and boldly strikes the unknown regions of the earth regions of deep canyons high It necessary that hero shall be made of him. though the ancient robaou and the modern poet join tribute to the who braves the dangers of the unknown who ee natures rocbbed crust
 The neither heroes phanthropss they simply hardy of hard seeking better he condon seeking the greatest of all material things that which the world has stven for the dawn of history; they healthy hardy keen and footed and nearly many of them suffer death from their pr vatons and killed by mules goced by bulls in the home of the waving maze.
 Every dollar they bring forth from the wild added dollar the of values and has been taken from ee the mddenan elnated directly from the hand of the the goes the golden product thence into the channels of commerce. giving greater scope the manufacturing interests blood the arteries of trade
 The nomadc spirit which has gwen the prospector has made velopment made the world what it todaya glorious place to live in.
 We hear of reservations ranan in its primitive that the denzen of the city may their pleasure will through the brambles and souuly commune with nature.
 The prospecor the nounams nature at Its best witnesses the grand results of the and meanwhile west from hidden whereha continue the world in her onward march, hamng man, taking from but giving much
 California; Australia the Rand Alaska, but for the prospocteI would be spots on the map
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18
WATTERSORl OFl WELS0H
ton he has assumed.

In tribute that contains something of stng due probably to personal relations during the preliminary campaign last year. Henry Watterson speaking New York of President Woodrow Wilson, said
 Both Wilson's luck and his stay with hn He may prove of the favored few of destiny t much expect that sheer ation of circunance the chrsas of the school falling away from the leader of boys and the amplitude of the White House revealing leader of the clever shifts and smart devices of the politician gaining breadth from the weight of espons
 It pleasant thing to contemplate real scholar at the head of affairs were glorious thing have this scholar of flesh and blood equally and upright responsive to natural affection and unsefsh in his daily walks and ways
 He further characterized the President as follows:
 He of understanding, highly trained and of cold heart receptive his purposes who has the head of a at the beginning of formative period with politics something of fluid state ard parties much at loose ends
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18
DREDGING SOLE MiMlMG
 IN SOLOMON DISTRICT

Nome Industrial Worker September 15 Henry Sethman, who has been down in the solomon country brought back few notes which are of great interest as far as mil!ing is concerned. He states that there are nine dredges in the Solomon and Casa dstrict- the kimball and Yuba dredges on Shovel creek the Montana, the Seward, Anderson G Co.,, Flodine No. 1, Siverston and John son, Fcldine No. ? lat the mouth of East Forks) and the Solomon dredge. All are operating on Solomon river, so it will be only few more years until Solomon river
 is worked out from the mouth to the head
 Anderson 6 Go. stopped work on September 12, having worked out their ground siv- erston and Johnson are drilling three miles from Solomon and intend to move their dredge down from one mile below East Forks, where they will get through this season. The Seward dredge has the most ground to work. They had some trouble with their boilers; one was worn out and
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18

are united they that the United States should immediately ad providing transportation facilities for the territory and that the u
 mate destiny of e land shall be its incorporation the union of states.
 The people of Alaska alien They and that have from the Sates and they brought with them the same ideals ambitions and methods of thinking that obtain all sections of the Unon They part and parcel of the American people Others of the kidney coming North daily and tax ing up ae residence with ard they N continue to until thee is large population of Americans up here living ypcay American communities would be cga 10 deny these people the right look forward tne when they and their children shall be- fact and n decd participating part of the nation
 However the preaching os this disappointment IS not without its advantages has served those friends of Alaska who coopaned the excursion and things clearly greater activity than they would have exercised probably he'd ao been for the posi- ton he has assumed
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18
RCYCE'S FALSE DOCTRINE

Juneau Empire: There sometimes dsappomtmen mixed with the good these visiting investigations of Alaska. Nov and again investigator North only his home and spread transformation about the people of the territory and preach false doctrines concerning it. The disappointment of the recent New Seattle Chamber of Commerce excursion w. D. Boyce publisher of the Chicago Blade and the Chicago Ledger
 In speech delivered at Seattle just after his that city, and repeated before the Chicago Commercial Club later Mr. Boyce said that the people of Alaska do not want the federal aid in the construction of railroads in the territory.
 But that al Mr. Boyce dd stop mparting this mis- information He further and struck the very heart of the aspirations of the people of this territory, saying:
 Alaska not integral part of the United States-it continuous territory and become It the Hawaii, Porto Rico the Philippines
 there propositions upon which the people of Aaka
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18
RUBY B RE; WI s
(Rccord- Citizen, September 27.(

f|INAi4'N'
 Some of the outfits working on Long creek closed down during the recent cold spell. while others continued on, takinig chance that they would be able to sluce Q while longer
 Alec Larson on ? above Long, had cleanup the first of the week, which shows that he is working in pretty good ground. For six days run with four men Larson cleaned and weighed up S3 600.
 keIls X Co.,, on the Windy bench, cleaned up some dirt taken out of the new shaft, and when put on the scales and weighed showed s2 SCO
 G1lund X Co.,, 1 Bear Pup, cleaned the boxes on their ground Thursday morning and found, when dried and weighed, about $I1,0G0.
 Smith 6 Co.,, laymen on the Boston bench, have closed down for the season, and the boys have gone to town for a good rest.
 Bert Walker has been prospecting the Buckeye Association with his Keystone Gr!lj for the past few weeks, the result being unknown. He vii now move the drill onto the ground formerly held by the Big Four, where he will do considerable pros pecting.
 Judge Gilbert Nairn, appointed to the position cf deputy clerk of the district court, has established his office in the Hill building, sharing tEe quarters of Commis- sjoEer Hill. Nairn was appointed deputy clerk of court by Judge Fuller during the recent term of court, in order to enable those desiring to commence action in the higher court to do so without hvaing to go to Fairbanks.
 Alec Fe,ton left in a gasoline launch for Poorman creek the first of the week, taking with him load of provisions
 Louis Colbert of Trail creek is in town after an absence of several months, during which time he has been busiy engaged on his Trail creek property. Frank Miller ("iiootyinana kid'l steered his launch into dockage Thursday morning alter trip up the Novi river He is au- thcrity fer the statement that the outfits held up by the low stage of water and which were about 75 miles from their desti- nation, will bo enabled to make it all right ii they are not there already It had just started to rain when he left the boys, and it is his opinion that they will get through without any trouble.
 Parties arriving over the Long Cripple trai. report the trip "a otugh cne' this season f the year. They also bring the infor1na- ten that John Dunn, who left for Innoko several dayas since, lost lis bearings and wandered around in the hills fer a couple of days before he became strengthened ou.
 Dave Morris, enc of Ruby pioneers, ra- turned here by way of the Long Cripple trail from Orhir. Ophir, says Morris, is a good little camp to those who stayed with it.
 Mrs. Gordon Shea left on the Schwa.ka this morning fer Seattle where she will join her son Claude
 Jack Wallace, well known in every min ing camp in the North, and recently of Idit- arod, arrived in Ruby Tuesday from Grip pie City, coming overland from the latter camp
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18

of this precaution is said to be that native women have begun to go to reside in the Standard Oil district, and by 80 doing are giving the officers lot of trouble and ruin ing their efforts to stamp cut an evil which to mention it in print The city officials find this matter more difficult to handle as time goes on, and there are many com IS said that Governor Strong stated while here that if the people manifested desire to have special officers appointed the at tempt to secure them would probably be successful as it has been in other quarters. Nome Nugget, September lS
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18
]. c. RIVERS.
 NOTARY PUBLIC Deeds Leases Powers of Attorney anc Affidavits of Annual Labor
 FLAT CREEK, ALASKA
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE

To Margaret Brandt and W. II. Cantre(l,
 their heirs, executors. admlnIst stratQrS
 and assigns:
 You and each of you are hereby notified that during each of the years i912 and 1913 l have expended St00 in labor and improvements upon placer mining claim known as No. , above, right limit OphIr creek, situate ill the Ophlr mining and re- COrding district, territory of Alaska.
 In order to hold your interests Tn sald claim under the provisions Of section 232 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, said expenditures being for your shares of the annual assessment work for said years, and if within ninety days after the last publication of this notice you fall or refuse to pay to the undersigned, as CO owner, your Proportion of the eXpendi. lures aforesaid, your interests in said claim will become the property of the un- derSigned as co-OWner under sad section 2324 R. S. HENRY COX.
 First publication, october is, 1913.
 Last publication, January t7, 1914.
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18
Notice of Forfeiture

To Julian Spencer, F. C. sutif, J. Doian. NJ. C. Edmunds and C. Mack their heirs, assigns, successors or personal representatives,
 You are hereby notified that have expended in labor and improvements for each of the years of 1912 and 1913 the sum of one hundred dollars -SIoo--on the Rosebud association placer min ing claim, situated on Otter creek, a tributary of the Iditarod river, in the Otter Mining and Recording District Territory of Alaska, which have been duly recorded at the commissioners office at Iditarod. The above amounts have been expended ill order to hold the said claim under the provisions of the law concerning annual labor upon mining claims, being the amounts required to hold such claim. And you are further notified that if within ninety-qo-day after the last publication of this notice, you fail to contribute your proportion of said expendi- ture, your interest in said claim will become the property of the undersigned, your co-owner.
 A. ST. LAWRENCE. First publication September 27, 1918.
 last publication December 2-. IoIS.
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18
ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD

Camp [ditarod No. ?, Arctic Broth erhood, meets at A. B. Hall on the first and third Monday evenings of each month at 8 o'clock. Visiting brethren cordially invited to attend.
 SAM BAYLES,
 Arctic Chief.
 J. C. CURRIN,
 Arctic Recorder.
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18
NO MORE GIANT LINERS
 WILL BE CONSTRUCTED

Berlin, spt. 3o-The giant Imperator. the largest ship ahoat, will have to be re modelled. Tie boilers have been found de Gcient and fuel oil will be used instead of coal. The luxurious millionaire apartments have been found unpro6table and will be replaced with smaller state rooms. Steam ship companies believe the day of gigantic liners is over, and they will build smaller ships hereafter
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18

the other blew out the crown sheet. They are in good shape now. Every dredge is short of water and they have to build dams in order to keep afoat but even then they have to take up as much as three and four feet of bedrock to keep floating.
 There is no mining going on outside of dredging, Quigly OF Big Hurrah, has not done any hydraulcbing this summer. Kim ball has bought No , above and has three claims there It is said that he intends to build a dredge which he will place on this property next year.
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18

The schocnor Wasp, which iaft Nome for BelhI about August is now IJng over tue. She should have returned about Sep ten,ber l, and the cause of the delay is cats ing considerable speculation in maritime and trading circles. The Wasp tock down a bad of supplies for the bureau of edu- cation. some stores fer Brown of Schaeier & Brown, and lad on board several pas sengcrs. There vas also a quantity of snp- plies far Frank WaSkey's trading post at Good News bay, The Wasp is a native 3uiIs s>hoan5r, having been constructed at Un&laLlaot.
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18
NCW Ou SALE 7!

The Alaska Mining Law" with ex- plantations of the new regulations by Henry Roden. senator representing the Fourth division in the FiIst Alaska legislature. Every miner, operator and prospector should have one. Printed in neat pamphlet form. Price 50 cents For sale at Ansley's book store, Idit- arod, and at the Pioneer drug store, Flat City.
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18

The figures for the geld production for the country have just been issued, and it is seen by them that Alaska is the third Of Ill states and territories. The total pro ductsn fer the United States is $93 800, 600 end the production for that year for Alaska is Sl7, ,3J6 l00
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18
ALA SKA K

The number of pupils attending the pub lie schools at Nome September Is was l3O, CT well up to the average of last years attendance.
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18

T. W. Howell, who has been the deputy marshal at Flat City for the past two years, is now visiting with his parents at Sumas, Wash. He will probably return to Alaska in the early spring
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18

Juneau IS to have a free delivery system, the first nj Alaska The city council has ordered all the streets named and corner posts erected and the houses numbered.
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18

Edwin Tunsren, the fend who recently murdered number of poorla at Index. Wash, formerly resided at Skagway, where he was employed as an electrical engineer
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18

N1ert Marstcn, who has been overseeing the shipping of the new dredge from Dlke- man during the past two weeks was on3 of the first to arrive in this city over the ice this fall. He mushed in Monday.
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18

The First Territorial Bank of Alaska be gan business in Douglas and Juneau on September l. The new bank is the first one to be organized under the laws of the territory, ard is, generally speaking, q say ings bank
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18

At Nome recently judgment was given fer B. s. Flodin and Ed Benscn in their suit with the Solomon River Hydraulic Mining Company. The amount was S46,- 062.
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18

The town Of Juneau has named a street in honor of Hon. William L. DI>tin, sur veyor general of Alaska who retIres after IS years of service,
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18

Mrs Mary E. Hart, the woman with many titles, proposes to spend the winter in thc Chsana, locking for gold
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18

Tie Loyal Order of Moose organized ; Fort Seward wi,h l43 charter members.
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18

The wharf of the Foss Mill Company at HaGley collapsed last month and about 400.O0O feet of lumber fell into the deep sea.
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18

A concrete building 50xS2 feet and five stories high was begun recently at ketchi, kan.
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18

Thirty-eight Gredges are operating this sumner in the vicinity of Nome.
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18

The seven natives who were blown cut to sca cn the ice last January near Point Barrow have never shown Up, and they are now given up as l.st, although their relatives had hopes that they woUlt be found in Siberia CT some other part of the coat
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18

Job Printing at Pioneer office.
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18

Assessment Work Blanks at Pioneer.
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18

| found m Siberia CT some other part of the | coat
 Articles ct incorporation have been flecI with thc secretary of the territory by the Portage Bay tE MatanusI:a Railroad Com psny. The capital stock is S5,0000OO. The first board of directors is composed of T. P. Ccraghly. 4, L. Sin2letray B. F. Willard, all cf Valdez; D. Wheeler of Terre Haute, Ind, and E. H. Esterbrook of Cordova The purpose of the company is to build stand. ard gauge railroad from the head of Pas sage canal, On Prince William scunA to Cool, inlet, and thence northeasterly to Fairbanks and interior points.
 On September Is Representative Charles Kennedy received a check for 500 from Judge Murane for use in sending Joseph R. Bell to the poneers home at Sitka and in doing so he received the first money ever given for this purpose in this division out of the indigent portion of the Alaska fund This money for indigents is 10 per cent of thc total Alaska fund and was provided for some time ago by congress. Mr Kennedy is said to have been the first man to bring thc information to Nome that such fund had been provided for indgents and the fact that he was the first to be intrusted with a check for the use of a pioneer is psychologically proper, if one may say so.
 Word to the effect that ex-Judge Peter E Overheld had resumed the practice of lsw in Los Angeles Cal, has been received IF Alaska.
 A rule hsa been made by the city police authorities which prevents soldiers from crossing Snake river bridge unless they have 8 permit to do so from the con- mander at Fort Davis. If they cross to the Spit without this permission they are arrested by the police and the command Ing officer Is notified of the arrest, so that the one arrested is taken over by the mill tary authorities This step was taken to prevent certain class of soldiers from meeting the natives, and was supposed to be necessary, although 1t might be a sort of reflection on the soldiers generally, which 1t IS not intended to be at all The result
Iditarod pioneer., 1913-10-18

Word to the effect that ex-Judge Peter | OTerheld had resumed the practice of lsw in Los Angeles, Cal, has been received IF Alaska.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-02-06

Prince Alexander of Teck, broth
er Of Queen Mary, will be next
governor general of Canada.
Grand Rapids, Mimi Two
hotels and another bldg. burned.
$4,000 loss. Guests at hotels
driven to street. 80 below zero.
Rome.-Fermin Cabletony
Planchon, first Spanish ambassa-
dor at Vatican since 1910, pre-
sented credentials to Pope Plus.
New York Marconi Com
pany awarded contract for 8 new
wireless stations in Pacific ocean.
San Salvador.-Would-be as
sassin wounded DR.. Manuel F.
Aranjo, president Of Salvador.
Arrested.
Aurora, Ill.-Willie Benson,
Is, discovered fire in schoolhouse.
Gave alarm. Saved 800 kids.
Ann Arbor, Mich.-University
Hospital physicians removed Por-
ton of diseased brain from w. A.
Smiths head and substituted
dogs.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-02-06

lClll Dlll.
Springfield, Ill.-State civil
service commission to hold eX-
animation April s..
London. = Sylvia Pankhurst
and 20 other suffragettes fined
$40 each for melting riots.
Havana.-Cuban truck drivers
called general strike.
Paris.-Edouard Peltier, high
official of department of justice,
and woman nurse shot and killed.
Auto bandits.
Sterling, Ill.-Fred Runk shot
largest American eagle ever kill
ed in this vicinity, 70 inches from
tip to tip.
Kansas City.-John Maggia,
deaf mute who shot and killed
wife, freed. Insanity.
St. Joseph, Mo.-Oscar M.
Farber, charged with kidnapping
his stepdaughter, Bessie Jacobs,
Il, from her mother in Chicago,
arrested here.
Vineland, N. J.-Mrs. Leslie
Walton, who was mysteriously
shot last Thursday, died today
without unraveling mystery.
Baltimore. - Marjorie More
land, whose name has been con-
nected with Nat Goodwin's on
several occasions, granted di-
vorce from ChaS. N. Doughty.
Cleveland.-Police Chief Koh-
Ter will probably have to face
charges involving woman now in
Philadelphia unless he resigns.
Minneapolis Clinton Smith,
Z NJ IT,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-02-06
KILLS GIRL STRIKERWITH
SHOT GUN

Rochester, N. Y, Feb. 6.-Ira
BRAKEMAN, II years old, was shot
and killed in cold blood by Valen-
tine Sauter here last night.
Ida BRAKEMAN was a-girl of the
garment workers strike. Sauter
is a clothing manufacturer.
Every labor union in Rochester
will unite in the effort to push
the charge of murder in the first
degree against Sauter.
Sauter was. in his shop when
a group of strikers gathered out
side and called to the strike
breakers within to quit work and
join them.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-15
KERN RESOL ION
OPPOSED By GOFF
Who Concludes His Speech
and 1t Goes over until
S O'clock.
sTATE POsTMAsTER
Is among Those Who Want
the Mining District At
fairs Probed.


WASHINGTON, May 15.-Senator
Kern's resolution for an investigation
Of conditions in the West Virginia
coal strike rome was the unfinished
business before the Senate when 1t
met today and some senator's were
confident that vote would be reached
before adjournment
Senator Con, opposing the resol
ton. prepared to conclude his argu-
ment against It's adoption when the
Senate met.
Senator Kern made an agreement
with Chairman Simmons, of the
finance committee, to let the tariff bill
have the right Of way and calf up his
West Virginia investigation resolution
at 5 o'clock this afternoon,
Among the many communications
from the strike zone which Mr.. Kern
has received indorsfng his proposed
investigation was one today from
West virginia postmaster whose name
the senator withheld. The postmaster
charged that true conditions in the
coal fields were being withheld from
the public and that a former United
states oficial was among those re-
sponsible.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-15
CONVICT QUINN
Leader of Riots at the Strike
Will Be Sentenced to
Prison Tomorrow.

PATTERSON, N. T., May 15,-Rela-
Hons between the city and counts
authorities and the striking mill
werkers strained at all times since the
start oof the strike two months ago
wereamade more acute today by rea-
son OF the conviction OF Patrick ouin-
liu.ia leader of the Industrial Workers
Of the World. who was found guilty
yesterday OF melting riot He viii be
sentenced probably tomorrow and
faces a maximum penalty OF seven
years In prison and fine Of $4,000
He is perhaps the most conspicuous
leader of the Industrial Workers OF
the World ever convicted of an ofense
of this character Four other leaders
of the organization are yet to be tried