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Iditarod pioneer., 1915-06-19
TWELVE PARTIES SENT OUT
 BY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

The United States Geological Survey IS disDatching twelve parties to Alaska to con- tinue the systematic surveys and lnvestlga- tions that have been in progress for the last eighteen wears. Of these parties, three will be sent to Southeastern Alaska one into the upper Chitina region, one to Port Valdez, two will work in the Turnagaln arm -knlk region, one will make investigations Tn the Yukon Panama region, and two in the Ruby kuskOkWim region, and another Will tTa- verse the laknown area lying between the Ruby district end the Tanana river, Che party will be engaged in general inVes- tigatiOns in different parts of the territory. These parties sailed from Seattle during Nav. so as to take full advantage of the field season. All the men needed for the work have been engaged, and the purchase Of horses, supplies and equipment is well under way.
 One of the most important of the under takings is the extension of the surveys Tn the Ruby district. on the Yukon, and in the adjacent regions c. E. Griffin and G. L. Harrington will undertake the surveys in the Ruby district proper, which is now an important gold placer camp. R. H. Sargent and J. B. Mertie will carry surveys south ward to Takotna on the kuskokwim river II M EaE1n will explore the region lying between the mouth of the Cosna river, a tributary of the Tanana, and the Ruby dis trict The only other work in the Yukon basin is that of Eliot Blackwelder, who will make a geologic examination of the White mountains southwest of Circle.
 The region lying between hnlk and Turn again arm, tributary to the proposed gov etnment railroad, has been only partly mapped, and here both geologic and topo- graphic surveys will be undertaken The preparation of the topographic base map will be undertaken by one party under the leadership of J W. Bagley, and the geology and mineral resources will be studied by an other party under s. R. Capps.
 Alfred H. Brooks, geologist in charge of the Surveys Alaska investigations, will be engaged in office work until about the end of June He will then leave for Alaska, and his work will probably include investiga- tions in the Iditarod, Fairbanks and Valdez districts.
Iditarod pioneer., 1915-06-19
Literally Blown to Death

A report from Cordova says that Olver Baker, who met his death near 1osts road house, on the Chitina Fairbanks trall, March 2l. really was blown" to death. The Delta yiver at that point from the summit down the few miles intervening IS nothing but q great glacier, with sometimes snow on It and sometimes not On this occasion a sixty-mile wind took it of, leaving glare ice in many places. Baker, it is believed by those who were with him and who found the body, slipped and fell, perhaps while catching his hat, and the wind simply blew him around until he was dead. Once down. 1t would be almost impossible for hlm to rise These heavy winds will take double ender and turn it around and around, which ,causes the stage company to provide thelr double enders with knife clamps for use ln heavy winds on the ice Bakers body was bruised black and blue all over. He was lierally pounded by the ice. If he was not frozen. death would have resulted anyway, The upper Delta country is dangerous country at any tme, and especially So Tn a winter or spring blizzard.
Iditarod pioneer., 1915-06-19
Senator Sutheriand's Opinion

Senator Dan Sutherland, who was in the Tolovana country for a week or ten days, was asked his opinion of the camp upon his arrival al Ruby on the Delta this morning. Mir. Sutherland knows too well the uncer- tainty of new mining camps to make posi- tive statements regarding the future of Tolo- vana but said he found nothing there to ge. excited about H. Patterson undoubtedly has good pay on a bench of Llyengood creek. On bench lower down Livengood here is low grade pay and the same may be said of some of the tributaries Outside of that, prospects are all there is to the district so far If the Livengood pay proves to be con tinuous Tolovana will be very good little samp. MT. Sutherland says the Tolovana is nayigable for small river steamers for nearly a hundred miles to where a log jam chokes the channel Above the jam it is open to launches for distance of forty miles to within seven miles of the diggings. A tram way to connect the two stretches of open vater will render the camp fairly easy of access.
Iditarod pioneer., 1915-06-19
PRESIDENT WILSON DEFINES
 IDEAL OF FIGHTING MAN

My interest in the neutrality of the keep out of trouble 1 have never looked for it, but I have always found it. l don't want to walk around trouble. If any man wants a scrap that IS an interesting scrap and worth while, I am his man. warn him that he is not going to draw me into the scrap for his advertisement, but if he is looking for trouble, that is the trouble of men in general, and 1 can heln a little, why, then l am in for it.
 But I am interested in neutrality because there is something so much greater to do than fight, because there is something there is distinction waiting for this nation that no nation has ever yet got. That IS the distinction of absolute self-control and self-mastery. Whom do you admire most among your friends? The irritable man? The man out of whom you can get a ''rise' without trying? The man who will fight at the drop of the hat, whether he knows what the hat is dropped for or not?
 Don't you admire and don't you fear if VOL have to contest with him the self mastered man who watches you with calm eve and comes in only when you have car ried the thing so far tbat you must be dis posed of? That is the man you respect That is the man who you know has at bot tom am uch more fundamental and terrible courage than the irritable fighting man.
 Now, I covet for America this splendid courage of reserve moral torce.-From Woodrow Wilson's speech before Associated Press, April 20.
Iditarod pioneer., 1915-06-19
ORDER

In the District Court for the Territory of
 Alaska, Fourth Judicial Division In the
 matter of a Special Term of Court at
 Iditarod, Alaska
 It satsiac orily appearing that it is nee essary for the public welfare, and for the despatch of the business of this court that special term of said court be held at Idit- arod, in Otter precinct, commencing at II a. m June 28, 1915, and the judge Of said court now deeming it eXpedent to hold such term
 It is ordered That special term of this court be held at sajd town of lditaroG, com mencng II a. m. June 26, 1915 and that the clerk O. this court cause due notice .o be given thereof.
 Witness the Hon, Charles E. Bunnell. judge of the district court for the Fourth judicial div ision, Territory of Alaska, rhls 28th day of May 1915, and the seal thereof.
 (Seal) J. E. CLARK Clerk.
 By c. G. GERAGHTY, Deputy
Iditarod pioneer., 1915-06-19
FORMER DAWSON BOY
 KILLED ON BATTLEFIELD
Dawson News, June 4 ]

Harry McLennan a former Dawson boy, was killed in action at the front recently. He went through the historic charge at Langemarck unharmed, and later was killed outright while in a trench. Harry was the l9-yearold son of R. P. McLennan, formerly in business here at the head of the hardware firm of McLennan X McFeely. The boy lived n Dawson with his parents when he was a mere youngster, and attended the Dawson schools and was member of the Presbyterian Sunday school. So far as lEown he is the first Dawson boy to have been killed in the great war. The Van ccuver Sun reports his death in connection with letter from his own cousin, who was in the same regiment, and who writes the details. A photograph published in the Sun in the same issue shows Harry in his High lend costume. He was a splendid specimen of manhood.
Iditarod pioneer., 1915-06-19
saiIor on Revenue Gutter Drowned

The United States revenue cutter Man. ming, Captain F. C. Dodge, arrived at Ju- neau on April 2S from Sitka, and confirmed the news of the drowning of Seaman Fred erck Engleman in Sitka harbor Engleman end two companions were out in the harbor sn canoe, which capszed. His companions reached shore, but Engleman became chilled and sank The effort to locate the body failed The Manning left for Sitka on April 29. where she will take on coal and sail direct for Seattle to prepare for the Bering sea cruise. The Manning has been in serv- 6co along the Alaska halibut banks, aid ing vessels in distress and sick seamen. This is the first year this has been done, and the halbut fleet men are loud in praise Of the service rendered.
Iditarod pioneer., 1915-06-19
WELL-KNOWN OLD-TIMER
 MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS

The Fairbanks Times of May 30 publishes lengthy story concerning the mysterious disappearance of Homer Leonard, an old timer well known in this section of Alaska, He Is described as feet II inches tall and walked with slight stoop. He was smooth shaven when he left Fairbanks. His hair was dark brown. tinged with gray. He had been in the North for many years, and was one of the Dawson pioneers.
 Homer Leonard is said to have left Fair banks about year ago in small boat tor Ruby. He arrived at Panama and is said to have left there for Ruby in the same small boat. That Is the last that is known about him.
 Leonard was a steamboat engineer, and during the season of 1913 he was engineer on the Iditarod stern-wheeler Little Delta ci which Si Atwell is master, The last work he did was in the vicinity of Fair banks in the spring of 1914. He quit work shortly after the river opened. He worked fer Rowson X Finlayson on the creeks When he left Fairbanks he advised Si At well to send money due to him to Ruby, Tn care of the Northern Commercial Company. On August 17 Si Atwell wrote Leonard a letter. inclosing a postal money order tor SS2. 50 The letter was never called for. The Ruby manager of the Northern Commercial Company knew that Leonard had been Tn Fairbanks since he left Ruby in the fall of 1913, and he forwarded the letter to the Hotel Northern, in Fairbanks where Leon ard was in the habit of stopping. After holding the letter for some time, and learn ing nothing of the missing man, William Casey, proprietor of the Northern, and a warm personal friend of Leonard, opened the letter in the hope of gaining some clue to the whereabouts of the man to whom It was addressed.
 Inquiries have been made for the missing man by his sister in Portland, and the post office authorities are also seeking his ad- dress. His partner, Jim Halloran, knows nothing of Leonard since the latter left Ian ana in the small boat for Ruby last spring Beyond Panama no one has been able to trace him.
 Captain Si Atwell, when asked regarding the case, said he knew nothing of Leonard s disappearance until he reached Ruby this srring on his way to Iditarod. He made irouiries there and learned that the man had not been heard from since leaving Tan ana in the spring of 1914. MT. Atwell could furnish no information that would tend to unravel the mystery.
Iditarod pioneer., 1915-06-19
SUNDAY CLOSING REPEAL
 VETOED BY GOVERNOR

Anent the Sunday closing law, Juneau dispatch says:
 'It was generally believed that both houses of the legislature would refuse to sustain the governors veto of the bill re pealing the Sunday closing restrictions but the senate upheld the veto. As a consc- quence Representative Coombs in particular is wrathy, and declares that he will take 1t upon himself to see that the people get enough of the law It has been practically a dead letter throughout the territory with the exception of at Nome. There it has been enforced recently, and as a conse- Quence much complaint has arisen. At Seward, also, a clause has been observed that closed the moving picture show on Sun day evenings
 Representative Coombs states that he has written to the department of justice at Washington, calling attention to the law which is on the statute book and stating that it Is being generally violated. He re- quests that the district attorneys in the several divisions be directed to see that the law is enforced He anticipates speedy compliance with his request. He then ex- poets to see all the moving picture houses and theaters, as we'll as stores, closed on Sundays. He believes that this will cause such a protest upon the part of the public that by the time the next legislature meets there will be very general demand for the repeal of the old blue law The law which It was sought to repeal is in the federal statutes, and reads as follows:
 That if any person shall keep open any store, shop, grocery, ball alley, billiard room or tipplng house, for purpose of labor or traffic, or for any place of amusement, on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, or the Lords day, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not less than five onr more than fifty dollars: Provided, That the above pro vision shall not apply to the keepers of drug stores, doctor shops, undertakers, livery stable keepers barbers, butchers and bakers, and all circumstances of necessity and mercy may be pleaded in defense, which shall be treated as questions of fact for the jury to determine, when the defense Is tried by jury"
Iditarod pioneer., 1915-06-19
Strike in the koYukuk

Among the strikes and rumors of strikes that are claiming public notice with bewil- dering frequency these days is one that got out" by the narrowest kind of margin. It is perfectly good strike, and the news of it. while lacking particulars, is as au- thentic as strike news can be which travels by word of mouth for a considerable dis tance It is on Emma creek, one of the old creeks of the Coldfoot section. Axel Lime took out 182 ounces from hole on Emma creek-a matter of about S3,000. On the very last mail coming out of the koyukuk this spring Mir. Lime forwarded letter telling of the strike to his friend AXel Peter son, at Ophir. In the nick of time the letter reached Ruby and caught the last overland mail of the season for Ophir. From Ophir the news has been passed back to Ruby, being brought into town from Poor man by people coming for supplies.
Iditarod pioneer., 1915-06-19
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the Probate Court, otter Precinct TerrL. tory of Alaska.---In the matter of the Estate of Joseph NOIet, drrra,ed. NJ. 2N- Notice I~ hereby given that the under signed has been duly appointed adnns- trator of the estate of Joseph Nolrt, de- ceased, and all persons having claims against the estate of the said Joseph NoIrt are hereby nuuncd to present the sane verified in the manner required by law. to the unders gncd at his residence on Front street, in the town Of Discovery. Otter otter Precinct, Alaska
 PETER THIBAJET. Dated May 27, 1915.
 Date of first publication, May %, 1915. Date of last publication, June i9, 1915.
Iditarod pioneer., 1915-06-19
Alaska Natives Work at Exposition

The only representative Alaskan exhibit at the Panama-Pacifc exposition is that as sembled by the Alaska Cruise Club, of which Mrs Mary E. Hart is president, and which is placed in the Transportation build ing, says San Francisco newspaper. Above the display, in an inclosure built to repre- sent the upper deck of steamship, IS commodious rest room for visitors. Mrs. Hart, who presides at the booth and dis
 tributes information and literature concern ing the far North is vice president of the Pacific Coast Womens Press Association. The exhibit consists of baskets made by both Alaska Indians and Eskimos, and other utensils and ornaments made by the abo- rigines Mrs Hart has assembled some Of the rarest and most valuable curios to be found in the West, and the displays are lent under bond by collectors from all over the coast. Besides the curios lent by San Fran cisco ladies, Mrs Hart has on display her own valuable collection, the result of many years of travel and residence in Alaska.
Iditarod pioneer., 1915-06-19
Disruption of Noted Native Settlement

The Ketchikan Progressive of March v says: A few days ago a report was clrcu- lated to the effect that the residents of the Metlakahtla settlement were to divide and part company. Tracing this report to near it's source it was found that the followers of MT. Duncan were out looking for new loca- ton. It was at first reported that the fac ton whose dissension with MT. Duncan caused the trouble were to leave the settle ment; now the contrary appears to be the case. What will be done with the property in which the Metlakahtlans claim an interest in common. is not apparent and neither fac ton seems to know However it IS known that party is out looking for new town
Iditarod pioneer., 1915-06-19
Notice of Forfeiture

To Robert NatN~ON;
 You are hereby notified that the under mcntS the sum of one hundred dollars lsl001 fer the year of l0ti upon the Gold Run fr0up placer mining claim, >!tN- atcd on Little creek, a tributary ur Canes creek in Innoko mining and recording dts- trict, district of Alaska, Nottr., ot I"raton recorded in Vol 10, Page 96, Innoho Min You are further notincd that if at the expiration of ninety l9o' days after th" last publication of this notice you fall or such expenditure your interest in sad claim viii become the property of the un- dcr>gnrd. your c0-oWncr under ScrtLo1 232f of the Revised statutes Of the tinted
 ROBERT EVANS. Co-owner.
 Date of first publication, April i7y.t2i5. Date of last publication. July r., 1915.
Iditarod pioneer., 1915-06-19
William Has to GO Round"

Deputy Marshall Tom Long went to Tan ana on the Washburn as escort for William Turner, who is in custody pending hear ing by the grand jury at the Ruby term of court Tanana and Ruby each has fed cral jail but William is the only inmate. Literally he has to "go round" Pretty soon he will return and mayhap be given his old room again. If he had only been conside1atc enough to have been born twins he would now be either giving employment to twice as many guards or the transporta- ton company would have few extra fares to ring up-and either eventuallty would help little But there's only one of him, and he just has to "go round"
Iditarod pioneer., 1915-06-19
ALASKA
Noted Greek Priest Dead

The Rev Serglus J. kostrometlnot, rector of St. MichaeTs cathedral, at Sitka, and dean of the Greek church of Alaska died May 1 in Seattle from cancer of the neck, while en route to Victoria to seek medical relief from Dr. Simpson, the specialist at that place. Father Sergius (he was chris tened George, but given the name ot Ser gius when ordained as prest) was born at Kodiak 62 years ago, his father belng d. rector of the Russian American Ice Com pany, concern which was engaged in ship ping ice from Wood island to San Fran cisco. After his fathers death the family moved to Sitka, and here, at l4 years of age young kostrometinotf witnessed the official transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States by the lowering ot the Russian colors and the raising of the Stars and Stripes. Later he entered the employ of the King Lear Mercantile Company at Warngell, and here learned the Indian Ian guage an accomplishment which won hlm position in the government servlce few years later He was employed later Tn buSl- ness houses at Sltka, one Of them belng that of N A. Fuller, and then he entered the government service as official interpreter for the navy, continuing this during the naval regime of Alaskan affairs He tray eled much with the navy in Northern waters his most hazardous trip being to the Arctic on the man-of-war Thetis, when he was away for eight months and endured many hardships. When civil government was given Alaska, Father Sergus became court interpreter, and served in this capacity for about twelve years, during which time he was 9 special deputy marshal under the ad- minlstrations including that of J. M. Shoup. He accompanied Governor Lyman I. Knapp to the worlds fair at Chicago as one of hls official staff, breveted by the governor colonel of the Alaska militia. In 1886 he was appointed head warden of St. Mlchaels cathedral at Sitka, and served in this ca pacitv for twenty-six years without com pensation. and brought the Sitka church up from dilipidated condition to one of prosperity. For these faithful services he received a loving cup of chaste silver from the hands of Czar Nicholas H., also medal of the Knights of Daniel II. In November, 1912, he was ordained priest by Arch deacon Platon, who was visiting Sltka at the time, and made rector of St. MlchaeIS cathedral with a salary He was held ID great esteem by the ecclesiastical conslStory at New York, and on January 1 of this year he was made dean of the Greek church ot Alaska. He is survived by a brother, widow and two children, residing at Sitka, and a sister in Portland-Juneau Empire.
Iditarod pioneer., 1915-06-19
Body of Sicotte Found

A special to the Nome Nugget from Gan. dle, dated May 20, says that the body of Alex Sicotte, who was lost in blizzard while returning to his cabin on the evening of March 20 last, was found by Adolph Escholtz about a mile below the roadhouse r,n bv the latter, from which point the de ceased miner started out on the fatal Jour- ney. As Sicotte's cabin was some distance above the roadhouse it is surmlsed that he attempted to return to the roadhouse on finding it impossible to face the storm, and missed his way in the darkness, with the result that he passed the shelter. No in .ulest was deemed necessary.
Iditarod pioneer., 1915-06-19
T0LOVANA CAMP
 LOOKS PROMISING

According 10 accounts published in the Fairbanks newspapers of May P to June l, received this week. there Is consider able activity at the scene of the new strike ill the Tulovana country. One of the boats leaving for the new camp was the old Grizzly. a product of Idtarod, which has been renamed the Tolovana She has been rehtted with machinery and boiler powerful enough to push small barge and polling boat up the Tolovana river. Her crew con sisted of Bob Smith, Frank Manton and Os car Haines, and she is taking Tom Patterson and restaurant outfit up to the new camp, besides a mining outfit for E. Sells, two tons of potatoes and a large supply of other stuff
 George Comstock and Billy Ward are Signment of some five tons for Paul Ring seth for his store at Lake City.
 Telephone Equipment Shipped
 Dan Kennedy left Olnes on the morning of May 27 with pack train loaded with telephone equipment destined for the new camp. Only q small part of the equipment necessary to establish such a line on the creeks and connect with Fairbanks was taken out on this trip, and more will go as rapidly as it can be taken out C. w. Pat terson. the lineman who will put in the system, went to Olnes the same afternoon, and will leave at once for the new camp.
 Wickersham Visits New Camp
 James Wckersham Alaska's delegate in congress, returned to Fairbanks from the Tolovana on May 25. He went in by way of the Olnes trail, and after spending the greater part of two weeks there, came out by the river route.
 His opinion of TOlOvana, according to the News Miner, Is that it Is good prospect with more work done there was done in the Fairbanks district the first two years The situation looks encouraging to him. and he believes that 1t Is likely to be small camp of value, to say the least How exten sive a camp it may develop into can only be guessed at by the best prospectors. It will justify a great deal of work and ex- animation. He says that two lines of pay gravel have been opened, one about thirty feet deep running along Livengood creek and one between ninety and one hundred feet in depth, on the right limit bench These lines, however, have not been suffi- ciently crosscut and extended to determine width, depth and continuity of the pay, and for this reason more prospecting is going on.
 The delegate showed small vial contain ing some coarse gold, about S125 worth banned by himself from six pans out of the Harry Patterson shaft on the Cascaden bench. Patterson found one small nugget worth 75 cents. It is paystreak gold, be- yond doubt.
 Substantial Developments Looked For
 One thing that impressed Delegate Wick ersham was the presence of so many first class mining men in the new camp. It is a favorable sign, he thinks, as 1t means that