Iditarod pioneer., 1916-02-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST
 CONCERNING RUBY CAMP
lFrom the Record CitiGcnI

The cold that set in last Wednesday $ sad by cid residents to have lowered the temperature record of Ruby's lifetime. Tha following are the thermometer readings taken in early morning: Wednesday, January 19. 30 degrees above zero; Thurs day, January 20 45 below; Friday, Janu- ary 21, 62 below; Saturday, January 22, 54 below
 About fifteen pounds of mail for Runy arrived here on Tuesday. There is an- other mail due here this evening. Did you receive your Outside papers and mag azines? No? We'll, cheer up; have faith Navigation opens in June. Then you cen get full details of the banquets being ten dered Postmaster General Burleson. and the better service promises made by that official Get together. Get busy and write to your publishers write to Delegate Wlckersham; write, write, end keep on writing to friends regarding the miserable mail service
 Adolph Miller of Anyik Is reported to be training a team of bird dogs from the stock of Henry Weir of Iditarod, with which he proposes to come to Ruby on March l7 and take away the money
 Monday January l7, the native known as Twenty fve-mile Nicolai was given q preliminary hearing at Nulato on the charge of having murdered his wife The hearing was before Dr. Frank w. Lamb. United States commissioner, and Nic0Iai was held for appearance before the grand jury. Mrs, Nicolai was found dead in the vicinity of kaltag on September % of last year Her body was found in leaning posture over a bunch of wi lows. A cor oners jury at that time was divided in opinion as whether she had been murdered or had died of heart failure Nicolai had been known to beat her, and that fact subjected him to suspicion. Deputy Mar shal Long IS at present down the river, and it Is thought he may bring the ac- cuSed up with him.
 When Bob Grfis, the veteran dog musher reached Seward last month with a cargo of gold, his attention was drawn to a story reproduced in the Gateway some time ago to the effect that a man in Cali fcrnia is preparing an airship to make the run in future. It seems that the pr0DO- sltlon did not appeal to the musher as feas- ible, and 1t is hinted that he used ortho- dox trail language to explain that in cold weather man up in the air, going at a speed to beat a team of huskies would freeze to death in the wind he would make anyhow
 A mystery was cleared up last week whereby the good faith of an accommo- dating man was established and several financial transactions were strengthened out Coming out of the Koyukuk last September, Joe Oates of Panama brought five letters to be delivered in Ruby or posted here All the letters contained money, and none of them reached the parties for whom they were intended. Re gently Mr. Oates was requested to explain what he had done with the letters Last week he sent word to the postoffice where and how he had mailed the letters; and on that hunch Clerk E. NJ. Reynolds shoy- eled the snow away and opened up the kinzer building, where the office used to be. There in the old letter box lay all the letters and all the money Oates had passed through town in the night, and didn't know the office had been moved.