FLAT AND IDITAROD
IDITAROD, Aug. 23.—The Banco
No. 1 arrived at Iditarod at 6:30 this
morning with a general cargo of
freight from St. Michale, including a
new Chevrolet one-ton truck for Tony
Jensen. This makes seven licensed
cars now in Flat.
Miss Alderson arrived aboard the
Banco, after an interesting voyage
from Golovin, where she taught
school the past year. She will be
Otter school teacher for the coming
tterm. Miss Alderson, incidentally, is
a sister of Mrs. Pa trek Savage of
Flat.
A dance wll be given by Moose
ILodge in Flat tonight.
Advices from Bethel state that the
:steamer Tupper expects to leave
iBtethel on Sunday with the tide if
dhe weather permits. The Tana, it
iis expected, will leave on Sunday for
IMcGrath.
Odin Strandburg, aged 14, suffered
ja serious accident yesterday after
noon, when his right hand was caught
in a cable block while working on
Flat creek. Four fingers were cut off
.above the knuckles and his thumb
\was broken. A plane was ordered to
flake him to haspiifcaL
Miss Taiana Demientig has nccept
«ed position as cook for Olso^n & Co,
who are now employing seven men on
Happy creek. Their new drag-line
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machine is now all assembled at the
mouth of Happy creek, with bucket
capacity of one and a half yards.
The Banco No. 1 will depart for St.
Michael, via Holy Cross, at 7 p. m.
Saturday. She will have two passen
Mail from Sleitmue arrived at
Bethel on the evening of the 21st.
The steamer Ruby'is ieported on a
bar about foui miles below Dilling
, ham. She has been in that pos’tion
i for af iut two weeks and it is not
known whether they will be able tc
gel -her og before frecze-up or ..of
gers—Miss Eva Miscovich, wllb is
going to Fairbanks to attend high
school, and Miss Nellie Marcelle, re
i cently returned from the Outside, I
I who is going to Fort Gibbon to teach
I school this coming term.
Ralph Dulac has quit Ms job qn the
road, and left for Takotna yesterday.
The dredges have been ding consider
, able blasting of frozen ground the
! past week.
Turner & Wood are erecting a new
! garage in Flat, 50x100 feet.
The Sea Wolf arrived at noon on
1 the -27th with seventy sacks of mail.
Only two more mail trips before the |
j freaeup. Last boat leaves Nenana on'
j September 12.
Frank Turner has purchased a new J
Atwater-Kent radio receiving set.
The hospital boat left Holy Cross
for Nulato at 9 p. m. yesterday.
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Owing to heavy rains, nearly half
of Flat is under water, two feet deep.
Otter creek is four inches higher than
at last, breakup.
aERNEST WALKER SAWYER
AND MAJOR L. E. ATKINS PAY
TAKOTNA VERY SHORT VISIT
Ernest Wafker Sawyer, administra
tive assistant of Secretary of Interior
Wilbur, also special representative of
General Manager Otto F. Ohlson of
the Alaska Railroad, and Major L. E.
Atkins, engineer officer of the Alasl|fi
Railroad, traveling with Pilot Matt
Nieminen, were Thursday arrivals
here, having taken plane at Unala
kleet, following a forced delay at the
latter place of about five days. Their
stay here was only of a fe wminutes’
duration, Mr. Sawyer particularly
being anxious to reach Anchorage in
time to greet the Senatorial party
about due there.
Major L. E. Atkins was assigned j
to duty as engineer officer of the
Alaska Road Commission on July 2g,
relieving Major D. H. Gillette, who
was assigned to other duties at
Washington, D. C.
Mr. Sawyer and Major Atkins for
F. C. H. SPENCER
Successors to Northern Commercial Co. At
Takotna, Alaska
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some days had been giving attention
to official duties in the Seward Penin
sula section, in the course of which
visits had been made at Nome, .Kot
zebue, Keewalik, Candle, St. Michael,
Teller and other places.
Mr. Sawyer’s visit was lor the pur
pose of getting -a fiance into the
reindeer situation, a matter in which
he is intensely .interested. “Tud
think of it.” he sad; “^5,000 rendeer
in ne herd ver t Ketwlk.”
Arnulf Hjelde, coming from Moore
creek, was a Tuesday .arrival, far a
href vist.
OKLAHOMA CITS, Aug. 17—Gore
received the Democratic nomination
for Sena1' *r in Tuesday's primaries.
LITTLE ROCK.—Robrson renom
nated for Senator by Arkansas Dem
ocrats in Tuesday’s primaries.
Flying Hurt Business.
Boston had its Babbitts hi the early
days, as may be inferred from . an
order permitting .a “flying” exhibition
in 1747, because it attracted so much
attention as to take people.from their
business.
The Boston .Gazette of September
12, 1757, carried .a /notice saying that
“John Childs has flown off most of
the highest steepels in Old England,
and does intend this day and two days
following, to fly off Dr. Cutler’s
TWEEN NENANA AND FLAT
Miles
Nenana ____00
Tavern Roadhouse _ 1714
Knight’s Roadhouse _.2314
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse_58 ..
Diamond Roadhouse_76
Roosevelt ____89
Lake Minchumina_115
Trappers’ Cabin _132
Lone Star Roadhouse_158
Telida Roadhouse ...16914
Slow Fork Roadhouse_187 ;
East Fork Roadhouse _) 206
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse_22714
Big River Roadhouse_241
McGrath _268
Takotna .—..—__280
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse_291 I
Ophir___300
McCafferty..306
Brown Creek shelter cabin_318
Fritz shelter cabin ..333
First Chance shelter cabin_346
Schermeyer R. H..360
Iditarod...376
Flat ...384
Bonanzza sheler eabin, 12 miles
Crooked Creek shelter cabin, 19
miles from Bonanza,
from Flat. '
Du Rand’s
Cafe and
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church, where'he fhopes to give satis
faction.to all spectators."
Later, the sameipaper stated that
the "flight” was satisfactory, it con
sisting of sliding, idown a nope slop
ing from, the steeple te^ point on the
ground about 'ZOO feet .away. But the
paper^ added:
“As these peidannanees ICdnntity
people away fr«wh their business,
John .Childs is farhid flying apy. mire
in the -town.’’
NOTICE OF. FORFEITURE.
To M. P„ Fleishman, .his heirs, suc
cessors or assigns:
Yon, and each of. yoou, are hereby
notified that 1, the i undersigned,, your
co-owner, have expended in labor and
improvements the sum of inot ! less
than one hundred dollars for the
years 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926,
1927, 1928, and 1929, upon the. .Mon
day Morning placer mining, claim, lo
cated.at the head of. Elat creek, .in
Otter Precinct, Fourtth Division,
Territory of Alaska, in. order, to■ hold
said claim under the provisions of
Section. 2324 of the Revised Statutes
of the United States and the amend
metns thereto concerning ..annual
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• CHICKEN' DINNERS
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18-Mile
Roadhouse
Ihone > In Advance for Special
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NICE BALLROOM
' Where Air May Dance to Their
' DelightJ byi’Radio Music.
A Short '©rive TThrough >>Dt- ]’
' lightful Forest-1Scenery.
Mr. and nMrs. Geo. *
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Propria tors
later upon mining Alaiaa, being the
amount required rto hold sand mining
claim for the period tending June 30,
1029.
| And if, iwtthin leninpty« days after
the publication bf this notice, you fait
or refuse to ■oentribdty yaur propor
tion af said expenditure*, namely, J26
per year lor oath of said, years, for
i year one-quarter interest : in saM
claim, aa~we£t as1 the costnof record- «
ing. the same, -anJ the.-easts of this
adrestiaenient, your interest in said
claim will become the property, .of the
undersigned, your co-owner>/torho has
■ made the required expenditures,under
the terms of said Section 2324fofhthe
Uevised Statutes of the United States.
Dated Flat, Alaska, Feb.vE6;'jn)B0.
TPAUL WABNlfi,
' Co-owner Otter Freoinct, 'Fouhth
Division, Territory o£ -Alaska,
residin gat /Flat, . Alaska.
First pub. .April .10; last. Aug. 16.
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