Banks Prepare Flat City Branches for June Opening
Miners and Merchants bank and American Bank of Alaska plan Flat City branches ready by early June as mining season starts. M M bank quarters face Stanley house. American Bank opposite Connolly. E G Lindberg and T W Brown join M M team. J B Adams to oversee American branch with undecided assistant. No coin collecting on creeks. all assays done in this city.
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Flat City
Miners & Merchants Bank
American Bank of Alaska
Big Creek
M. & M. Bank
Stanley House
American Bank
Connolly
E. G. Lindberg
Fairbanks
Panama Canal To Be Finished By Sept 1 1913
Colonel Goethals, chief engineer, states the Panama Canal will be completed by September 1 1913 at a total cost of 360000000. He says this is two years ahead of earlier estimates and $50000000 under many forecasts. He urges toll legislation and proposes a nominal 1 cent per net ton fee to start competition between rail and sea transit.
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Washington
George W. Goethals
Panama Canal
Goethals
House Committee
Taft
Senator Flint
Mann
New York
San Francisco
Balboa
Pacific Terminal
Wireless messages set Pacific record in long distance link
A San Francisco operator chatted an hour with a Japan coast station at Chosi Shimosa 5700 miles away. Messages crossed the Pacific via one relay, described as a new record for wireless work in the region. In Fairbanks residents seek William Wiley once tied to Vault Creek discoveries and A J Metz of Seattle hunts him for a will beneficiary matter.
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San Francisco
Chosi
Shimosa
Japan
Pacific
Globe
Fairbanks
William Wiley
Vault Creek
A. J. Metz
Seattle
William
Reciprocity With Canada Means Much to Alaska
Washington reports Alaska leaders push the Canadian reciprocity bill in the senate. Alaskans argue Vancouver would join Seattle and Portland as a North trading hub, intensifying competition and lowering prices. Vancouver BC and other Canadian cities could supply Alaska, aided by the Grand Trunk line’s far-north reach.
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Washington
Wickersham
Senate
Ala
Vancouver
Seattle
Tacoma
Portland
Alaska
Pacific
British Columbia
Puget Sound
New Telephone Exchange Under Construction In City
A new telephone exchange will be built or remodeled into a two story facility by June first to handle summer traffic. A double switchboard will serve local and long distance lines with offices, storage, and shifted central staff planned. An additional exchange at Flat is planned and a line to Dikeman may follow if wireless plans change.
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Ross & Nestor Lumber
Dikeman
Wireless Telegraph Company
First Train Load of Rich Copper Ore From Bonanza Mine
The Chitina Leader reports the first shipment of the richest copper ore from the Bonanza mine will haul to Cordova within two weeks. Thousands of sacks sent to Kennicott are mostly filled, and Tacoma smelter results may astonish the world and draw outside interest to Cordova as a mineral producer.
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Chitina
Bonanza
Cordova
Kennicott
Tacoma
Stanley Opens Cafe With Cat Factory Behind Front of Flat
Frank Stanley opens a new cafe and cat factory across from the Stanley house to serve guests and the public. The facility includes a long lunch counter and seating and aims to start catering for the summer season. Save the pieces broken lenses replaced at Simpson's Snow Glasses Red Cross Drug Store.
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Frank Stanley
Stanley House
Simpson's
Snow Glasses
Red Cross Drug Store
Long Time to Put Rich Man in Jail
Chronology of Abe Ruef trials from 1904 to March 7 1911 shows the difficulty of imprisoning a wealthy defendant. Key events include bribery trials, juror bribery confession, a court shooting, Ruef’s 14 year San Quentin sentence, and successive appeals culminating in his transfer to San Quentin.
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Abe Ruef
San Quentin
Cal
United States
Ruef
J. J. Furey
E. A. S. Blake
John Martin Kelly
Morris Haas
Francis J. Heney
Lawlor
Supreme Court
Webb
Ed J. Stier Named Georgetown Commissioner to Succeed Heavey
From Fairbanks advices it appears Heavey has resigned as Georgetown commissioner and Ed J. Stier, ex clerk of the Fairbanks district court and former Hot Springs mine operator, succeeds him. Judge Ignation notes no known reason for Heavey’s departure. Stier’s background suggests improved conditions for the office.
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Fairbanks
Heavey
Georgetown
Ed. J. Stier
Hot Springs
Ignation
Sher
Judge Heavey
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Wm. Wiley
Regina
Willow ST
Akd
I. Nyholm
Just
J. L. Sale
Eating Jeweler of the
North
the Connolly
Slippern’s Mill
Builders’ Supplies
Iditarod
Cascades Laundry
Ben Holland
B. J. Banks
Illow Street
Manuel’s Saloon
Budweiser Beer
Old Lewis Hunter Rye
W. H. McBride
Cedar Brook
Wlodel Otic
van Panies
Golden Eagle
JW Rogers
Iditargd Hotel
Canada
Flat Creek
Larrell’s Globe Bakery and Coffee House
Stanley
Cabaniss
Stier
Hotel Grand
N. Glant
Mrs. Swanson
Sherburne Pool
Ae Flat City
Casey
the Gilmore
Miner's Home Saloon
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