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Newspaper
Iditarod Pioneer
Location
Iditarod, Alaska, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1917
Page
4
The summer mail service between Iditarod and Flat is in effect May 20 to September 30 with dispatches on Sundays and Thursdays each week. Telegraph instructions originate from the Tanana chief clerk. George Riley left his activities on Otter Creek to visit the city last Saturday.
A woodcutter named Austin was found emaciated in a tent on Storm Creek near Iditarod river around May 20. A coroner's jury, with Commissioner Geraghty, led the inquest amid uncertain clues and few known relatives. Witnesses testified he had no visible family and appeared to have starved despite provisions in the tent.
The jury impaneled to determine Sam Austins death finds he died at Storm Creek Otter precinct Alaska on about May 1 1917. Jurors named Claud Baker WE Anstey W R Day W C Mitchell Charles Bowman and C G Lamont. The funeral was held Wednesday from Smiths undertaking parlors.
Richard Langley known as Yorkey, an Ishman about 45, died Monday night near a cabin at Flat from a self inflicted razor wound to the throat. A coroner's jury found death by self harm after inquest. Langley, once a bartender, had health problems and no near friends. Funeral held yesterday. new Flat store near completion. Iditarod school closed term with exercises.
The Alaska governor race heats as opponents of J F A Strong rally behind Thomas Riggs Jr of the Alaska engineering commission. The Pioneer and Iditarod press back any real Democrat, with Riggs urged to Secretary Lane. Donohoe cites Strong’s Republican tilt and Wickersham ties while Jennings steps back, hinting Riggs may unite Democratic ranks.
Teddy Miles and partners at wood centers have rebuilt a long log boom on the waterfront opposite the N C Co wharf. When completed the boom will anchor below town to receive about eighteen hundred cords of wood. The woodsmen plan to drive the wood down the Iditarod river in the coming weeks. The wood was cut and sawed about one hundred miles from the city.
Pete Mounier and John Greer, miners from Boob Creek in the Telstoi, arrived at Discovery Otter Creek on Thursday after an overland trip through the ridges. They report Pete Muhrdock on Wilson Creek uncovered promising prospects. Sluicing on Riley and Mounier's Booth Creek ground began May 1 but was halted by water shortage as cold weather set in. Tolstoi district remains quiet.
Pete Miskovich cleans up a dump claim on disco with ten men by Hicks fraction between Nos 1 and 2. Riley's drill on Slate creek moved to Black creek. Otter Dredge Company begins driving logs and fuel on Otter creek but low water may slow operations. Earl Byers to launch Transit for Marshall with heavy mining gear for McKinzie and Riley and several passengers. Jerry Ford visited the city yesterday.
Community ladies circulate a subscription paper to aid Marie Marcel, an eight year old blind Native Indian girl, with doctors in Seattle or Portland believed to restore her sight. A committee led by Mrs. A G Norton, Mrs. J C Currin and Mrs. Anna Young will arrange care and travel to the Outside next week.
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