New Transportation Line Enters Iditarod Field
A new transportation company expands Alaska freight links with orders for hundreds of tons booked from San Francisco and Seattle to Iditarod. Bet Day heads the operation for B H & K, coordinating landings at Dikeman and negotiating with independent boats for a common landing point to reduce last summer’s freight chaos. The Julia B will shuttle freight from St Michael to Holy Cross and on to Gibbon, with plans for a warehouse, barge, and new town near the Yukon to support evolving shipping activity and passenger bookings.
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San Francisco
Seattle
Iditarod
Brumbaugh
Hamilton & Kellogg
Fairbanks
Alaska
Bet Day
N.C. Co
General Transportation Agent
Dikeman
Mosquito
Pacific Coast Steamship Co
Western Alaska Steamship Co
St. Michael
Julia B
Holy Cross
Samson
Little Delta
Florence S
St Michael and Gibbon
Gibbon
Yukon
Second Nome Sighting Reported at Good News Bay
A letter in the Nome Nugget by F. W. Cobb states a second Nome may form on Good News Bay near the Kuskokwim mouth. Reports from O Olson and Martin Johnson tell of Gabrielson finding 12 feet of pay and other gold prospects along the shore and creeks.
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F. W. Cobb
The
Nugget
Andreassky
Good News Bay
Kuskokwim
Cobb
O Olson
Nome
Martin Johnson
Gabrielson
Frank Waskey
Kusiloak
Nero's Fiddle and the Calm Mind in Disaster
A Walt Mason meditation on Nero and fire times. The essay mocks panic in crises and suggests steady humor and effort as the wiser path. It ends with a punch on facing loss and shifting to practical funds.
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Nero
Rome
Redelia
Walt Mason
Montana Magnate Stanley Scearce Leads Ronan Growth
Stanley Scearce, a 33 year old Montana magnate, now based in Ronan, heads the Fire National Bank of Ronan and the Ronan Commercial Club. He also runs the Ronan Townsite Company and a large department store, with over 100000 invested, plus freight by Packard truck, artesian well water supply, fire protection system, and 80 acres of planned scientific fruit orchards.
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Ronan Commercial Club
Ronan Townsite Company
Attorneys Heading in This Direction
Northern legal talent gathers for the Iditarod season with arrivals from Seattle and Nome. Alfred Murphy and partner plan summer practice, A J Daly will oversee Iditarod work, EF Coke Hill and Mr Grigsby from Nome may delay by water. Joseph H Bullock from Lexington, visiting Major Albrecht, may start practice if appealing.
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Iditarod
Seattle
Alfred Murphy
Partner
A.J. Daly
Coke Hill
Mr. Grigsby
Nome
Fire whistle codes warn of blaze directions
A guide explains fire whistle signals at Cascade laundry. Three long blasts mean the fire is west of Richmond street, two long blasts indicate the blaze is east. Listeners should call the police or use a telephone if unable to tally the toots.
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Cascade Laundry
Richmond Street
Richmond
First Boat Arrived Tuesday on Boulder Creek
The season opened with a boat from Boulder Creek led by Big John the Swede. A five to six foot channel greeted his poling craft as he appeared, drawing cheers from spectators along the Flatfront.
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Boulder Creek
John
Busy Winter Roundup of Notables Heads to Flat and Iditarod
Charles Marsh tours Ophir with Slim McRea then returns soon. Henry Leonardy plans to ship green goods and build greenhouses in Flat. Miss Cora Smith praised for Seattle fair trip and wedding soon after. Local building picks up with Baird & Anderson project to start June first. Several officials, merchants, and residents travel between Flat, Fairbanks, Iditarod, and Georgetown, with bets on ice thawing May 10.
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Charles Marsh
Upper Otter
Ophir
Slim McRea
McRae
Harry Moss
Flat City
Henry Leonardy
Fairbanks
Garden Island
al Taynor
Dome Creek
Walter Fisher
Flat Creek
Cora
Lillian Smith
Ben Smith
Cora Smith
Tanana
Seattle
Gus Olson
Baird & Avderson
Flat
Pacific
Casey’s
Hoosier Poet Riley Confined By Ill Health In Kentucky
Lexington dispatch reports James Whitcomb Riley, famed Hoosier poet, has suffered strokes and is nearly blank minded. He lies in a Riley home with two lifelong women friends. Kentucky writer John Wilson Townsend recounts a shocking scene as Riley, pale and emaciated, questions a longtime acquaintance about deaths and marriages back in Greenfield.
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Lexington
James Whitcomb Riley
Indianapolis
Mr. Riley
Greenfield
John Wilson Townsend
Riley
Indiana
Mr. Townsend
Alice
Townsend
Charles L. Holstein
John Mihaleik Aims Hydraulic Rich Ground At Ready Bullion Creek
From Fairbanks the Ester operator John Mihaleik announces a hydraulic plant to work No 3 Ready Bullion creek virgin ground. He owns the benches and will lay a mile long ditch from Willow creek to access pay gravels believed to be 42 feet deep with seven feet of muck. The plan, expecting early shipment of pipe and monitor, targets a practical deep ground test in the Fairbanks district this summer.
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Fairbanks
John Mihaleik
Ester Evel
Tanana Metropolis
No. 2
Mihaleik
Willow Creek
Upper
Ester
Caterpillar Traction Proves Useful on Northern Trail
Freight to Dawson and the foot of the lake moved by a caterpillar traction engine on a White Moss railroad line from Whitehorse. The machine, brought by the company this spring, handles heavy loads after overcoming snow clogging with fenders. It can drag 40 to 59 tons at two to three miles per hour once the trail is broken to its wide gauge. Dark and Sweeny shift from Hilltop to the head of Chicken for operations.
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Lebarge
White Moss
Whitehorse
Dawson
Iditaro
Whitehot Star
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Peterson
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HEWLY
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Dave Ferguson
Pat Keys
Phil Mayhan
Ophir House
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Piscovery Otter
Nero's Fiddle
Stanley Sgearge
Montana
Keo
Mishawaka Rubber Co
Iditarod and
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Cy Atwell
George Kilroy
Kilroy & Martindale
Up-Grace Association
J. J. Price
Halley
Kotsch
A. B. Hall
George Ade
Rooney
Rooney & Teassack
Seward
Teassack
Ellensburg
Wash
Selma Swanson
Grand Hotel
A. B. Ferguson
Simonpure Democracy
Ferguson
Georgetown
J.C. Moody
E. M. (Black) Sullivan
Moody
Mr. Sullivan
Bethel
Luke Radigan
Radigan and Paris
Cullenville
Iditarod City
Radigan
Forks
Minneapolis
Anna M. Nee
Snyder
My Nee
Wile
Hoosier
Simpson's
Gold Street
F. A. Perkins
Mutchler Bros
Sherburne House
Dark
Sweeny
Hilltop Association
Chicken
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