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of America. The primeval forest on it's banks has in most places no inhabitants ex- cept moose, caribou, bear lynx and other wild animals Some of these can be seen from the boat, upon the shores or swim ming in the waters. Here and there are few Indian cabins or the lodge of a wood chopper who supplies the steamers with fuel and a few mining camps now almost empty and owing their present linn tied existence principally to the fur trade. One of these, the town of Circle, was so named because 1t was enormously thought be upon the Arctic circle; which parallel, IS has been since discovered, cuts the river qt a p>nt near the mission and tracing
 ost of Fort Yukon, many miles fur her north. and IS inIicsted by white globe painted upon . sgnboard on the shore Circle WAS once the largest tent city in the world, but its white inhabitants are now
 ardly score. It IS said that in its we'll populated cemetery are the graves of only two persons who have died natural deaths ; he others buried there have been shot or committed suicide Another town, Eagle he nearest to the border of Canada, has now less than ten white fami.ie5. It con- tains wireless station which is one of the wonders of the world It is said to inter cept at times, messages from the Elfel owcr in Paris.
 The climate in summer IS ideql-warm by Jay and cool al night, with little rain. The mosquitoes winch are the plague of the country, rarely molest the boats. The beauty of the Arctic sunsets ard sunrlses
 h an interval of scarce an hour between he afterglow end the dawn, the clearness of the twilights, the northern lights, amply make up for all the di4comforts of the tourney. The men and women who are met upon the river are of sort which can nowhere else be found.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-02-17
Enormous Alaska Mining Deal

A San Francisco dispatch of January 3 quotes Colonel Jackling to the effect that a mining consolidation involving S4oo, ooo'- O00 is contemplated through Daniel Gus- ,nheim and the Morgan company to include the Utah Copper Company, Nevada Mines the Copper River railroad and the Alaska Steamship Company.
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lncomparabIe Grandeur

The finest scenery in the world IS within the United States. The Swiss and TyroleSe Alps would be lost if placed among the snow covered mountains that can be seen along he Alaskan coast Neither the Caucasus GOT the Pyrenees nor the Carpathians com are with these in grandeur The glaciers of Alaska not only arc the largest in the world put thev are so countless that most of them
 ave not yet a name. lcebergs can be seen il their formatiOn a process which IS ac- ..n.panied by roars from their mother gla, siers. Anyone who cares to approach 1t Tn a launch can mount one, as l did myself, Ike the polar bear in the advertisements
 All of this can be seen from the deck of a comfortable and well appointed steamer There Are at least three lines through Puget ,ound and along the coast of Alaska which compare favorably with the boats that cross the Atlanic. l heartily recommend a jour aey upon any one of them to sll who can endure 8 large amount Of fog and rain. Beers can be shot a few miles from one of
 island ports. Alpine climbers can find there new fields for adventure and exploga- ion. and can immortalize themselves by
 l,mbng and naming peaks which have never been touched by the foot of man.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-02-17

and miners in the North began to torsake gold fer the lure of rarer minerals, "Nlse Nike" went out into the hills. He found tungsten ore in good quantity, had 300 tons If it ireighted to the railroad, hauled to Fairbanks, and then transshipped to Seattle.
 le is at the Seattle Athletic Club now, while arranging to market the ore.
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Wise Mike" Has Tungsten

Wise Nike they call him in Interior Alaska, although his real name IS Steipo- vca says the Seattle t-lntelligencer. His home is in Fairbanks, and his vocation $ mining. For ten years "Wise Mike" has been in the mining game. His ventures in gold mining did not produce the wealth sought for. Last year, when the steel mak- CTS of the East were clamorng for tungsten
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-02-17
SERIOUS FIRE AT DAWSON

On December 27 last, while the mercury registered 35 degrees below zero, the fire department at Dawson was called upon to fight a blaze that destroyed a portion ct the boiler house and seventy tons of hay belonging to the Northern Commercial Com any. The loss was estimated &t about 2on 000
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-02-17
UNCLE OF LORD NORTHCLIFFE
 DIED IN HOME FOR THE AGED

Samuel s. Phillips, uncle of Lord North clffe, owner of the London Times and other newspapers, and nephew of the late Sir Bordwel Phillips, former lord mayor of London, died at the Hebrew Home for the Aged and Disabled at San Francisco accord ing to 9 dispatch of January l from that city.
 Phillips came to California slxty-six years ago For years he worked at odd jobs, mostly of clerical nature, but at no tune did fortune smile upon him. Four years ego he was admitted to the charitable institu- ton where he died He was 94 years old,
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The Ascetic Gold DiQQers

The old Aa=Nans are sturdy race. None of the weddings have survived lntemper- ance among them IS rare In this they how striking contrast to the canners of lams and salmon, on the coast, especially uch of those as have left Washington and Oregon since those states became dry.
 Most of them are ceHbates who in the long winters spent in the log cabins in the woods .ractice g m0nastic chgstty.l The lust for .old has quenched every other passion Win -er after winter. for more than fifteen years, many of them have gone alone or with 8 ireIe partner into the wilderness to search or mines and returned every spring with
 c4 insufficient to equal what they had
 aid out for tools dynamite and provisions, But they still continue, in the hope that some day they may strike 8 fortune; un ,,ctcrred by the fact that comrades who have died were buried in paupers' graves After careful inquiry 1 could not find q single case where prospector hal retired with q fortune, CT even competency e he result of his discovery.
 All the gold was carried away by shop keepers, gamblers and middlemen. At one lime miners had no currency, but paid for Fl purchases in gold dust As an agent of one of the trading companies naiveIy told me, he always tried to be honest in the nandling oi the scales, but it was impossi Dle that they should be even and his duty to himself required that any doubts be re- solved in favor of his employers. Such profits as he made in that WAY were en- cred in his general accounts, but the agent of another company in Nome kept 3 sep 2rate account of such profits, and it amounted to more than s85, 900 in 8 single year
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prnenactnrs Killed in SnoWsllde

James Barclay and Alex Herman old ,me prospectors well known in the coast region of Alaska, and also in the Fairbanks district, were killed in a snowslide on Me Carthy mountain, near McCarthy according 10 word reaching Cordova on January 1, The two men were doing assessment work for the Bonanza Gold Mining Company at the time. Searchers for the bodies have been sent out from Mccarthy, but on ac- count of the wide extent of the snowsIde and the belief that the bodies have been carried some distance from where they were working, little hope for the recovery of the bodies Is entertained
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-02-17

Job Printin, at The Pioneer office.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-02-17
Report of Clerk of Court, Fourth DjYisic

In the quarterly report of the clerk of court for the three months ending Decem- Der 3l, 1916, it shown that the receipts of Fund "C" for that period amounted to &3,t6452 and the total disbursements amounted to s3,28S22. All fines and prac- ticalIy all fees go into this fund, and it is from this fund also that sc!ne of the salaries in the clerks office are paid, and some mls- cellaneous expense, says the Fairbanks News Miner of January l2. The docket earnings for the quarter are larger by sev- eral hundred dollars than in any quarter for the past five years. The license money received from unincorporated towns and turned over to the United States treasury amount to s4,970.43, which will ultimately find its way back into the Alaska fund The money collected in incorporated towns during the quarter and turned over to the treasurers of the respective municipalities amounted to: Fairbanks, sl,759.t Cinema, s79S30; Iditarod, S47353; Panama, S3.3057O
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-02-17

Fresh Olympia and Eastern Oysters s1 50 per can. Iditarod Meat Co.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-02-17
Our Cultured Miners

The need of occupation during the long winter evenings has made them great read ,rs of books, usually of 8 serious character. They are good gecl0gists and well versed other branches of natural science Their lavorite periodical Is the Literary Digest. 1 saw in the Interior of the territory no ropy of story paper or of Police Ga l,te. UpCn the bar of a saloon at the unction of the Bonanza and Eldorado creeks, q few miles above where the kl0n- like receives their waters I found copy of Chambers Encyclopedia, used by the miners to settle disputes that arose under heir potatons. Their English, too, IS un- usually pure. Slang is almost unknown, out the necessities of a novel situation have 1 course led them to adopt new words, nknown in the East, although some are 4sed elsewhere on the Pacific coast. 4 'sourdough" Is an old Alaskan; a poke, an Id English word; a "cheechako' is a new conner; a "cywash" is an Indian This word is a corruption of the French 'sauvage" To "mush' Is to travel on foot This IS derived from the French verb "marcher" An obedient dog, when told O "mush," will leave the premises. (Tbe logs are magnificent. Their stock IS con inuaIly strengthened by tying the sluts in he woods where they csn be reached by he wolves, although precautions have to De taken to avoid the jealousy of the she wolves, who will kill them if they have in opportunity. The litter IS watched when old enough to drink water Those who lap with their tongues are preserved; but the pups who drink like horse or wolf gre destroyed as too wild for use on the sleds.l
 k Vicious Statement
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Job Printing at The Pioneer office.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-02-17
Costly Transportation

A journey to the Interior is far dlf- ferent matter The only means of travel, or those who cannot walk or take an auto mobile or horse several days over rough mountain trail is over the line of a rail way and steamship company which, by vio- .ations of the antitrust laws, has sup pressed all rivals upon the River Yukon, and, by exorb!tant charges for freight, has ,trangled commerce; so that although there is enough gold there to pay, within few wears, the WAT debts of Europe, the cost If transporting machinery and supplies is so enormous that many of the mining towns look like the Deserted Village described by Goldsmith; and the cities in the Interior are, year after year, deter!orating although they still refuse to give change for quar- ter. Meanwhile the coast, which Is sup piled by rival steamship companies, is gain ing in wealth and population. The mines, even with a low grade of ore, flourish on the ocean front snd new canne-ies of Jams and salmon are being built there. Nothing can save the Interior except the c0mple- ton of the government railroad, now being built iAnd the refusal of Judge Hughes to say whether he is in favor of the neces- sary appropriations has caused great dread throughout the territory lest he should be elected.
 It is my belief that the need of increas- ing the supply of gold, so that the national
 cbt can be more easily paid, will make Great Britain, after the war, offer subsl- Gies for river and railroad transportation in the Yukon.
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4 Vicious Statement

The white women are less numerous than the men, They are smaller and more Wiry. Since most of them live distance of sev eral days from a physician and physically hey are inferior to the squaws, they u8u- ally practice race suicide. But they make devoted wives. Many who st their fathers homes were accustomed to be waited upon, n steam heated apartments, live here cheer fully in log cabins, cooking, washing and making fires, without servants They are rewarded by devotion and admiration. Old maids are unknown in Alaska. Most women have two or even three husbands, and B line waiting for any vacancy that may oc- cur. In one respect they have reached an advanced stage of civilization. 4 woman who has sinned in the past, if her life is now respectable is respected by the others.
 There is a fascination about the Alaskan life which, despite its prlvatlons, makes men loath to leave and eager to return. There is no fear of starvation nor even of destltu- tion. The rivers and woods supply salmon and venison of moose and caribou sufficient to meet the wants of all A hole in the ground makes a refrigerator which will keep meat fresh throughout the hottest summers, without recourse to pemmlcan. And if white man is too lazy to hunt or fish for himself, he can always obtain 8 living from a squaw and fsh-wheel,
 Canned Food Epicures
 But the experience of the old camp life ,as given them an abnormal taste for canned food. They prefer smoked fish to what is fresh. They insist that fresh milk is inferior to condensed. When by chance they are served with fresh egg they crit
 eize it for the lack of the flavor to which those former days have accustomed them
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-02-17
Anent Yukon River Steamers

1 cannot now recommend travelling Tn the Interior to anyone who has q delicate stom cch. CT a sensitive nose, or IS particular about the company he keeps or the Ian guage that he hears, or has limited time at
 is disposal which requires the making of close connections, or is obliged to be econom- cal of money, as well as time The steam boats on the Yukon are filled to the gunnel with cargo, and each boat also pushes one or more scows similarly loaded The one hat I was on had another boat fastened
 its side. They carry, on their own decks or on the scows cattle, swine, sheep and poultry, the decks containing which l have never seen washed. Passengers who come ] to the river by the company's railroad, and l hose who are near the border, change from a boat with the British flag to one con- troled by the same people bearing an Amer lcan flag and are almost always obliged 1 between voyages to remain few days at a | hotel with metropolitan prices and village | accommodations. It IS generally believed | that this IS intentional, for the sake of benefting the keepers of hotels, restaurants l and shops, and thus tempering their grleV- ances at the extortionate freight they are ! UJIlSetI ID pay ~ ID 0 eoAAAAAAO' oSHNA SA'NN | for a boat to be stranded upon bar and to remain there surrounded by the wilder ness any length of time between several hours and several days; such events and the amount of cargo on the barges afford 1 other explanations of these delays. l heard sad tale of two school teachers who had 1 saved for two years or more in order tC sec Alaska, but when buying their steam
 ship tickets in advance had taken no money
 to provide food and lodging during sucE intermissions and suffered privation anc
 anxiety in consequence.
 Spell of the Yukon
 For those however, who are strong anC
 do not mind coarse food, roughnecks anC
 rough treatment when counterbalanced by
 beautiful scenery and interesting men, {
 voyage upon the River Yukon is an experi
 ence not to be regretted He who has no
 seen the Yukon the klondike, which emp
 ties into 1t, and those who live near the
 banks has not seen Alaska The Yuko1
 flows 2,OOO miles or more, outmeanderins
 the Meander river in its coils and twists
 near one point passing the same hill hv'
 times-through a wilderness almost path
 less, which the greater part of the wa, ] has remained unchanged since the discover,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-14
Kills Wife and Her
Mother, Then Dies

RED BANK, y. j., Dec. 13.-The door
Of the little hotel at linton Falls, I'VE
miles from here, swung open tonight
admitting q furry Of snow. gust OF
wind that set the big lamp TO smoking
and the muflled figure of man, who
fumbled in his pocket with his night
hand. Mrs. Belle Walsh and her
mother. Mrs. Frank Smock. who were
knitting in the barroom in front of the
stove, looked I'D.
They were alone in the hotel. Except
for rare transients, they had been
alone for weeks, ever since Mrs
Walsh's husband, Paul, left her in
huff and got work in Red Bank. Inc
snowy figure in the door was his. MS
right hand emerged from the pocket.
It held a revolver.
Without a word TO either woman ne
pulled the trigger, and Mrs. Smock
slumped down IN little heap in her
cushioned rocking chair, which, gro
tesouely, continued TO rock with
rhythmic creakings beneath its limp
burden.
Mrs Walsh leaped 20 her feet and
raced through the hall into the kitcnen'
BEHIND her came her husband. lie lev
elled the revolver again, and the DuileI
Shattered the door with her brains.
Inst one more shot rang out IN the nm
II went through the heart OF the muir
derer. ,,,,.., ce.,,r, =,
the rocker heard II and managed 10
drag itself 70 the telephone. AithOugh
every muscular effort pumped pi9ou
instead of air through her lungs MTs'
Smock. who is sixty-hve years olu'
managed to gasp the story TO the opei
ator. 8, l. ordoJ !,
"alone." .L,d nc of
.omething falling, and the next m
slant n iangling crash, as the teie-
nbonc fell TO the hotel floor. That was
tbe wav things we're when Constabie
pa,or Frawlev got there. Mrs. Smock
20 bevond hope, and died rev MN
- flor his arrival. The beaded tran
90 melted snow still pointed the way
10 the kitchen, where Walsh ana MS
wife lay dead. ..t,. ot,o~
49, doth Of her first husband, Alpert
nsrnis who had owned the hotei.
Ubat caused them TO separate Is hoI
troun but since his arrival IN ked
Rank Walsh had been half mad with
;oalousv and strove TO learn the name
Of every man who might stop at inc
hotel
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-14
Gamers Branded
AS Blood-Suckers
United States Trade Commits
sioner Tells Results of Hunt
for "Food-Huns"

WASHINGTON, Dec. BIN its hunt
for food spectators responsible TO a
large extent for the alleged shortage
and high prices, the Federal Trade
Commission to-day received evidence
pointing 10 certain Gamers.
I'm the course of the commission
hunt for these food Huns" said Com
missioner Murdoch, in charge OF the
investigation, eve are discovering that
certain Gamers OF this country are
turning into lot of unadulterated
blood-suckcrs on the public. These can
ners are not living up TO their contracts
with the wholesalers and jobbers, and
they arc seizing upon the present situa-
tion to soak the trade.
where they have contracted to fur
nsh a wholesaler or jobber a certain
amount of canned goods. they are fur
nishing only percentage of the
amount and telling the trade that the
remainder has had TO be turned over
for government use. However. they
have bungled in overlooking or Tor
getting the fact that the Federal Trade
Commission has on file copies of al!
the contracts they made with the
wholesalers last spring.
Evidence has come 70 me that canned
goods are being stored with some OF the
meat packers who are rot in the canned
goods business. and that these goods
arc being boarded. The practices on the
part of some of the Gamers are abso-
lutely unjustifable.
81 am going into this situation TO the
finish, and every Gamer caught with the
Goods will have to deal with me. The
country doesn't want professions OF
patriotism. but actions Of patriotism
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-14
Senate Begins Sugar
Shortage Probe To-day

WASHINGTON, Dec. t3.-Arrange-
nents 10 begin Immediately investiga-
tion of fuel and sugar shortages were
completed to-day by the Senate Manu-
features subcommittee. Hearings on
the sugar shortage will begin to-mor-
row, with Claus Spreckels. of the Fed
eral Sugar Refining Company, as the
first witness.
Food Administrator Hoover. who has
been the object Of attacks by Senator
Reed. pledged to-day his cooperation
10 the committee in investigating the
sugar situation, proposed attendance
of himself and the administrations
counsel. Judge Lindley, at the hear
ines. and sought the privilege of cross,
examining witnesses. Chairman Reed
assured them Of "every courtesy" but
said the committee would have TO de-
termine whether they could examine
witnesses.
Frank {. Dowry, New York sales
manager OF the Federal Sugar Refining
Company, and a. II. Lambdin, 80 Wall
street. New YORK a sugar broker. we're
subpmnaed late to-day by the commit :
tee as witnesses TO follow Claus ana
Rudolph Spreckelj.
Although the initial hearing to-mor'
ROW will deal with the sugar shortage
the committee plans to conduct Doth
SUGAR and coal inquiries simultaneous
lv as far as may be possible, examining
witnesses in each as they become most
available.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-14
Mutual McDermott
Dairy Co. Forced
Into Bankruptcy

The Acknowledgement Dairy Corpo-
ration. the third largest milk distrib-
uting agency of greater New York, was
forced into involuntary bankruptcy
yesterday By its creditors.
The high price Of milk that the COM
pany was forced TO pay farmers, the
narrow margin of profit Melted in sales,
the decrease OF milk consumption and
high cost Of labor and supplies are
given by attorneys for the creditors
as the reasons for the corporations
inability to meet its obligations.
The bankruptcy petition was filed By
Burns Brothers, the Milk Bottlers'
Federation and John Kreeb's Sons. as
creditors, stating that on December IL
the Mutual McDermott Dairy Corpora
ton committed an act in bankruptcy by
admitting its inability to pay lis debts
and its willingness to be adiudged
bankrupt on that ground. The total
claims Of the petitioners amount TO
only $500. but it is alleged that there
arc many other creditors.
Judge Martin T. Msnton appointed
George Y. s. Williams, former Public
Service Commissioner, and Francis /.
Hutchins, joint receivers for the COZ
poration. He directed the receivers 70
take over all the property Of the con-
Germ and TO continue its business.
According to the petition the assets
of the company are estimated at $780,
O0O The petitioners state that the
company did business to the amount
of 100000 yearly.
Mr.. Williams and ir. Hutchins, the
receivers. last night issued a state
ment saying that all the corporations
BUYERS and managers had been notified
that business would be continued and
that there would be no change IN the
personnel of the officers or employees.
The Mutual has eight
branches in Manhattan and The Bronx
and several in Brooklyn and outlying
territory.
The Mutual McDermott is the first
milk distributing company 10 meet Sc
rious business reverses since the tug
of war began a year ago. between the
Dairvmen's League, the sales agency LOT
the milk producers supplying New forh
Citv, and the distributing companies.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-14

ton much Of this deficit could be made
up by increasing freight rates gen.
orally. but officials have not yet decided
whether IL would be better for the gov
eminent TO appropriate the money out
right or have the public pay IT in IN
creased tariffs.
In addition TO guaranteeing earn
ings, the government. If it operate s
the roads, probably would be called
on TO guarantee returns on new capt
tai invested. The roads estimate that
they will have TO invest next year
between half and three-quarters of n
billion dollars in equipment and inn
provements. The roads, il is said, are
ready TO finance themselves, whether
under government control or not.
though they ask that their credit be
not impaired by having 10 compete
in bond sales with government bond
issues.