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Boys, What Do You Want for Christmas f AND EVERYBODY ANSWERED: jaffe’s Fur Coats Now is the chance. Ladies; keep your husbands warm. Everything that Men Wear N. N. Jaffa, Flat City ... ...__ v*. ’Suss Snyder House “ WARM DOG KENNELS Second Avenue, Flat City. Snyder & Smith, Props. “FERCY” IN THE PAY ON DONLAN CREEK A. B. Ferguson, the Lone Pine of Democracy seems to be on a live one again in the Donlau creek country for n find of good pay is reported on the Ruby creek association, where in a bole put down to bedrock nearly two weeks ago, they found two feet of gravel that pans from 5 to 70 cents. The hole was sunk about 100 feet from the lower line of the Ruby association, or nearly 200 feet from the mouth of Ruby and ou the left limit of Donlau, about a mile below Snow gulch where Smeaton and Larson made the first discovery. Interested with Ferguson, who was staked in on this association are lid Rusk, F.dger, Louis Rothmull, Martin Lonstadt and Tom Williams. The find is the best yet turned up in the Kuskokwim, and lias given a hearty impulse to prospecting in that section. Some think the pay is Donlau Bench pay, as Ruby is but a pup three-quarters of a mile long. Adjoining the Ruby as-ociation, and above it on the Doulan Bench, is the Othello, owned by Charles Wor den, Cole McDougall, Wallev Owens, Mace Farrer and others, where they are now prospecting with renewed vigor. The Miner’s Horae sells Bock cigars. CHAS. D. CARTER, Dentist Offices, Pioneer Drug Stores, Flat Creek Enlarged Remodelei BLACK’S HOTEL Fort Gibbon For Outfits FLAT CITY SUMMIT ROADHOUSE Furnished Rooms and Bunks Cafe in Connections, Liquors and Cigats Tel: "Summit Roadhouse." ■ -i i OTTER CITY i | ROADHOUSE I [ mouth of otter creek j Good Meals. Warm Bunkhouse ! Stables and Dog Houses in s | Connection. S | MRS. C. C. CH1TTICK, Prop. \ UP TO 13ATE Grand Hotel MOUTH OF FLAT GAFF, and POOL BOOM IN CONNECTION M.6LAWTZ & MRS.SWANSON, PROPS. _ Gaines will be an active producer next season according to the amount of development work that is now going on. Nearly all the operators are getting ready for open-cutting on a large scale as soon as water runs, and since good pay is being located for a long dis tauce on the creek, the production is looked for to go strong. Among others that have been heard from are Vaughn and Hugh Marlin on Spaulding, one of the forks of Gaines. They panned some fine s'.uffm the bottom of their new shaft and are now putting in a drain and another hole. There will be plenty of work here next spring. Bill Hunter, the man who found the $500 nugget about a year ago is working on 10 a. He is drifting now on the bench but will open cut in the creek next season. He has good pay/ Notter, w ho has taken a lay from Hankes and Morrison below Hun ter, has cross-cut the bench for 6o feet, and all of it is in pay. He is drifting now but will open cut in the spring. O11 4 a Englund, Coffey and End land are in very rich ground and will open-cut it next season. The latest development work in dicates that the pay is all oil the right limit at least as far as 16-b, where it is supposed to cross to the j left limit bench. They suffered for lack of water on Gaines, and work will be held back there until a big ditch is put in. Full line optical goods at Simpson's. Sister Wants to Know About Bert Wood I In a letter written by Sinio D. Wood of 819 Park avenue, Arkan sas Hot Springs, inquiry is made of A1 Morenzy of Ibis place, concern ing the whereabouts of Bert Wood of Fordyee, Arkansas, who left home years ago for the North and was last heard of in Circle in 1894. The young lady, who is a sister of the missing man, says that she was very young when he left home, but that she met a man in Hot Springs whe had known Bert Wood in Circle. This individual directed her to A1 Morenzy as an old timer who might know something about the man wanted. Morenzy remem bers a Bert Wood in Circle, but has no idea of what became of him. Anyone having information con cerning this inquiry, would eonter a great favor upon his family by addressing his family consisting of a mother, a sister and two brothers. Baird sells Bock cigars. TO HOLD OPEN HOUSE FOR THE YGUHOSTERS Frank B. Stanley, the hotel man out at Flat City has a Christmas tree hug in his bonnet and lie phoned in the other day to tell us that the only way he could get rid of the thing was to have the Christmas tree. Hence he is making plans out there for one big jollitication on Christmas eve, and has had a big crew of men out in the hills fora week or so looking for the largest evergreen tree in the Idit arod watershed. This specimen of forestry will be set up in the big dining room of the Stan ley house on Saturday evening, Dec. 24. and all the children in the entire coun try are invited to be on hand and play ring-around-the-rosey. There will be candles and popcorn and candies and presents, and Santa Claus will be there with a whole string of reindeer. Frank got a wireless from St. Nicholas the other day, saying he was getting ready to leave Ketchuuab#' early and would be on the job at tho appointed hour. Following the visit, of Santa Claus and the distribution of presents, every body will turn to for one big dance, of the kind that has made Flat creek fa mous. _ What Wi!i the Gravels of Glen Gulch Say? In the ardor of developing far and supposedly greener fields the good things of the immediate vicinity are being overlooked, and there are very few people who know that Carl 11am stadt and John Hewitt at the mouth of Glen gulch have struck a considerable quantity of the richest pay in the camp. They can rock out $100 in a day easily enough, and two- and three-doilar pans are said to be common. in addition, they have a ditcli of sev eral thousand feet which will bring water to (Hen next spring. Lack of water lias held this pup back since the camp started, and with plenty of it on the ground next spring, Glen will take a prominent place among the pro ducers ot the district. HOLDS CHEMICAL With (Chief Brunclle and six men sleeping in the fireball next to a telephone and the chemical, the first real semblance of fire protection came into existence early last week, .vhen the fire department took up quarters in the new building on First street, which was placed there by the city trustees as a temporary housing of the fire apparatus. There will be men sleeping in tire place now all the time, for be sides Brunelle and his assistants at night. Watchman Wallace will slumber there in tire day time, where he can be aroused by any call phoned in. Arrangemen s have also been made to call the Northern saloon at any time, so that should the fire house be empty, someone can run over from tire corner and ring the alarm. The big bell which has hung at the N. C Co corner ol Richmo d court, was placed on top of the fire hall, and if fire should be dis covered, the quickest way to raise an alarm would doubtless he to run to the hall and pud the bell rope. _ Following the mishap of two weeks ago when his automobile broke through the ice of the Idit arod river, Ross has been having ill luck with his freighting propo sition from Dikeman. The machine went through iu comparatively shallow water, but it was some time before he could get it out and some time after before he could re pair it. He bad succeeded in making two trips bringing up three and four tons at a trip, and could then make the return run in a day. However, since the teams quit the river trail and took to the cutoff, the snow has hindered him, and it is doubtful if he can compete successfully with the horses unless he devises some means of shoveling the snow away. Oemara Runs Glose To Record Time Beating out Roy Lund and Jack Norman, the latter dropping out at the 17th mile, Nick Detnara, the Greek, beat his best previous record for the Marathon distance at Fair banks on November 9th, and came near the world’s indoor record, by doing the 26 miles in 2 hours, 51 irod City and Dikeman minutes and 25 seconds. The las few miles were run against time and he finished in splendid con dition. The race was run in the Gordon rink and was witnessed by a large crowd. HOBBLES When Mabel McNabb was a bachelor maid, She hobbled her hair with a coronet braid; About her, amidships, a harness she laced Of Harveyized whalebone to hobble her waist. By means of a ten-stranded pearl studded chain, She callously hobbled her jugular vein. But when she went swishing along up the street, And glanced at the chaps that she hap pened to meet, They always glanced back in admiring surprise, Kor Mabel took care not to hobble her eyes. When Mabel was wedded to Michael McDollars, She hobbled her ears with astonishing collars; She hobbled her ankles with skirts of a style So costly they hobbled her better half's smile. With long leather gauntlets she hob bled her arms, With motoring goggles site hobbled her charms. But when he protested, and spoke of expense, And said she was hobbled past all com mon sense. lie got some new pointers regarding his wifo — Her tongue wasn't hobbled—no, not on your life! —Jas. J. Montague. The Sideboard Front St. J. R. Andarsos, Prop. Iditarad Fort Gibbon’s Uo-to-Date House Golden North HOTEL Finest and Neatest Rooms Caters Especially to Family Trade NO Bar Kl> Y. LEE. PROP. Front St., Iditarod Leading Jeweler of the Worth CARRIES A LARGE SELECTION OF Christmas Gifts AT REASONABLE PRICES. ORDER EARLY. When at Flat City VISIT € ASETS COMPLETE STOCK OF Wines, Liquors and Cigars GEORGETOWN KUSKOKWIM JUST OPENED Northern Hotel and Restaurant Ft E. WOITKE, PROP, Quaker Maid Whiskey our Specialty Rooms Spring Bunks Mouth of Flat Creek A Place Where You Gan Always Meet Your Friends D L. Choicest Cigars, Tobaccos, Fruits, Gandias, Nuts, Soft Drinks, Stationery, Etc. M. R. HUSSEY FLAT CITY P. J. MANNION AITCjmON ^JLA Kaltag General Store Stables for Dogs*>*Lots of Salmon The only Government Trail to Iditarod and Innoko, and Short est Starts from “Kaltag.” When you visit Flat creek call at Carroll’s Globe Bakery and Coffee House for a lunch. Coal oil and candles for sale at An derson Bros. & Nerland’s. Call for Bock cigars. FOR SALE — 40-horsepower mining plant; also 30-horsepower high pres sure marine boiler; 14-horsepower up right boiler, two direct-connected Morris sand pumps, one 8-in. and one 0-in. Enquire Johnson & Clark. Casey sells Bock cigars.