Alaska News Briefs Hint at Politics and Mining Booms
The notebook cites postmaster appointment hopes for L. F. Ing, a Fairbanks club New Year celebration plan, and a fireworks reschedule. It notes Forbes McRae leading a placer gold party reaching Whitehorse, and Alaska mineral production soaring to 29,650,005 dollars in 1910 with copper rising to 3,366,000. It mentions a body found on the McMillan river and remarks by Mrs. Helena M. McEvoy on Roosevelt’s impact, plus local trivia on white children, ambergris finds, Nome residents, and a chase involving wireless operators aboard a Santa Ana steamer.
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Otzman
Airbanks
Friends of
L. F. Ing
Washington
Fairbanks Commercial Club
Forbes McRae
San F
Cisco
Art
Whitehorse
Burwash Creek
Alaska
Henry
EK. E. Collins
Stratton
Colo
McMillan River
Yukon
William Alcroft
Jos. Greene
Dawson News
Roosevelt
Helena M. McEvoy
Seattle
Seward
Bill Stewart
Nome
Yom Ashby
Igioo
Pioneers
Santa Ana
Kasaan
Prospects On The Ditna In Nome Dispatch
The Nome Industrial Worker reports Bill Hereford writes Jon Todd about the Ditna district. Ed Donnelly Sterling Dark and others have invested 2500 dollars for winter prospecting gear. Prospects are reported all around with a homestake in sight and 2500 pounds of supplies shipped from Iditarod. Damfino creek prospects promise promising drill work to overcome water issues. A Outside note covers the Seattle wedding of Dr. E M Spaulding and Eva Donaldson.
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Nome Industrial Worker
Bill Hereford
Jon Todd
Ditna
Ed Donnelly
Sterling Dark
Joan Holmgren
Hereford
Donnelly
Iditarod
Takoma
Ophir City
Jesse Rogers
E. M. Spaulding
Eva Donaldson
Seattle
Grants Pass
Ore
Distressing accident on Stewart River ends in tragedy
A Dawson paper reports that Albert McKay, a famed Yukon woodsman, died from a rifle shot by Harry McWhorter near Gordon's Landing on the Stewart River last September. McWhorter fired at wolves disturbing his dogs, the bullet striking McKay in the groin and causing fatal bleeding two hours later. McKay, praised as a skilled woodsman and storyteller, died at Mayo landing after begging relief from misery.
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Dawson
Stewart River
Harry McWhorter
Albert McKay
Yukon
McWhorter
Gordon's Landing
McKay
Mraser Falls
Mr. Forey
Mayo Landing
Hudson's Bay
Dars McWhorter
Stewart Country
Iditarod
Yukon Gold Company
Stewart
Mayo
Nome Coast Pay Lined Up On Third Beach Line
Coast pay seas show line running similarly to the third beach with low grade. Many boilers are used in sinking along the line. Prospects point to a very large development from Solomon outward, about three to four miles in. The text notes a strong prospecting effort at Nome and mentions unsettled conditions.
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Nome
Solomon
Alomon
Arctic Brotherhood Admits Seven New Members in Nome
In Nome Camp Iditarod No 27 the Arctic Brotherhood welcomed seven new members, Chas Hurst W W Acheson Joe Kermond Tom Powers Paul Le Plant Charles Larson and Charles Denton. Arctic Chief C P Wood presided as master of ceremonies amid music singing and a late supper. The initiates praised the brotherly reception and vowed to recruit missing friends. The smokers lasted until 2 am with a jolly, communal mood.
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Order
Basketball series begins at Rew year
Interest in basketball grows in the city as the team conducts practice sessions. The committee has not yet fielded a full squad due to holiday disruptions, but plans to start a series of games with creek teams soon after the new year.
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Shiarod
Creek
Iar
Iditarod
Mildest Winter Known to Arctic Seaboard
Arrivals from Point Hope report unprecedented warmth in the Arctic Ocean region. November travelers found little ice along the shore and an open ocean at Cape Lisburne. Nome experiences strong warm winds and heavy snow as travel halts and property damage occurs with the Tishon roadhouse unroofed during the storm.
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Point Hope
Arctic Ocean
Cape Lisburne
Nome
Tishon
Rumor of Falcon Joslin for Alaska Governor Name
A Washington origin rumor suggests Falcon Joslin could be Alaska's next governor to succeed Walter E. Clark. The piece notes Joslin's political background with the Valdez convention split and a bid to be Wilson’s choice, but it questions feasibility given regularity and politics, though strong business ties leave some possibility before March 4.
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Washington, D. C
Falcon Joslin
Alaska
Walter E. Clark
Joslin
The
Pioneer
Valdez
Martin Harvais
Robert W. Jennings
Mr. Joslin
Baltimore
Harrais
Daly
Bayles Plan Iditarod Department Store Empire
Sam and Isadore Bayles buy Isaacs Bros interests and plan a large dep artment store in Iditarod. The emporium will offer head to toe apparel rugs blankets curtains leather goods perfumes and sundries with exclusive lines and a spring stock shipped over Lake LeBarge. The Isaacs Bros reputation will set the standard for the new firm.
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Iditarod
Sam
Isadore Bayles
Isaacs Bros
Aoa
Isaacs
Sam Bayles
Chicazo
Tsanes
Ruby
Lake LeBarge
Isaacs Bros. & Co
Fairbanks Levy Maintains 15 Mills Despite Property Change
Fairbanks town council sets the tax levy at 15 mills identical to last year. Real property value remains largely unchanged while personal property value edges up due to shipments and summer sales. Pioneer Drug Company in Flat City now handles our Home-N Cane related prices. Postoffice Candy Store reports annual assessment work blanks at Pioneer otc.
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Fairbanks
Pioneer Drug Company
Flat City
Postoffice
Arctic Brotherhood Meeting Notice at A. 13 Hull
Arctic Brotherhood Comp No 27 meets Monday evenings at 8 o'clock at A 13 Hull. Visiting brethren invited. Cyril P. Woop Arctic Chief. Ronald Frost Arctic Recorder.
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Arctic Brotherhood
Hull
Cyril P. Woop
Ronald Frost
Arctic Recorder
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Iditarod, Alaska
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Dikeman Roadhouse
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