Iditarod pioneer., 1914-02-07
ALASKA

More than hundred teams are working to deliver freight along the government
 road from Valdez to Copper Center. J. E
 Wilson, the freighter, has a large number of teams working from Beaver Dam to Tonsina He also has number returning from Fairbanks, where they went with IF tons of steerage mail from Chitlna. The teams are now en route ot Valdez for more freight which Wilson has contracted to de- liver to the military stations along the gov ernment road.-Valdez Miner
 Max Lichtenberg reached Valdez last Monday evening to report to the federal au- thorities the death of his partner, Fred Grenough, who died November 26, five miles south of the Tazlina lake, where the two men were camped while on hunting and prospecting trip, says the Valdez Miner. Grenough was sick for 2l days prior to his death, and for IA days was unable to keep any food on his stomach, and during the last seven days could not be induced to eat. Lchtenberg hoped when the vom iting ceased that Grenough would get better, but in spite of every effort the man died Unable to bury his partner because of the frozen ground Lichtenberg wrapped him in his blanket, placed the body in tepee to protect it from animals, and started upon his return to the coast, deciding to come out over the Tazlina glacier then drop down on the Columbia and Shoup glaciers to reach the mining camps which he knew were established in the Shoup bay section. He had terrible experience on the trip out
 Jim Carruth of Douglas is in the hospital, where physicians are trying to locate re- volver bullet in his breast He was shot by colored woman named Cleo Williams. Carruth was trying to collect bill. The woman, who is under $l,000 cash bail, claims to have shot in elfdefense after having been struck over the arm. The amount involved was 25 cents.
 Owing to the number of hop joints which have sprung up in Juneau during the past few months, the city council has found it necessary to put quietus on the sale of cocaine, morphine, opium, etc. The new order makes it 8 misdemeanor punishable by fine of $l00 and imprisonment for any person other than licensed physician to sell any of the drugs. The smoking of opium in any place other than ones own home is punishable by fine of $l00 or i'm prisonment for 90 days, or both
 In refusing to grant a liquor license to Chris Petievitch on December 14 last Judge R. w. Jennings again reiterated his previous declaration that there are already too many saloons in Juneau, and that he will not grant any more liquor licenses until June 30 next. The refusal of the Petievitch application was based solely upon that con- clusion. Judge H. B. LeFevre, who repre- sented Petievitch, thanked the court for rul- ing on the real point of the case rather than in deciding it upon some technicality
 Monuments marking the Chisana trail from Mccarthy, relief stations and other precautions that have been taken along the tonly destroyed by vandals of some kind The Cordova Chamber of Commerce has wired Colonel w. P. Richardson and the war departmnet, requesting that a patrol of soldiers be assigned to protect the trail from this kind of highwaymen and looters
 Another dredge will be added to those now working in the famous third beach line' at Nome next spring J. W. Winter, tion on several claims on Cooper gulch and in the vicinity of that creek to San Fran cisco parties who have announced their in- tention of installing large dredge to work the ground.
 Delegates from seven different native h. dian settlements met in convention in Ju neau on December 1 to take initial steps in the formation of society to be known as the Alaska Native Brotherhood. The main idea is to unite all of the natives of Alaska in one common brotherhood and stamp out tribal relations, with the ultimate object of demanding the rights of citizenship. They have adopted as their slogan, "No taxation without representation" Said one of the best known of the delegates: "Every mem Der of the brotherhood that is to be formed will be eligible to citizenship so far as nor als and education are coAcerned We hold that to tax us without the rights of citi- zenship is unjust and un-American." The following settlements were represented by delegates Sitka Killisnoo, Klawock, Sha-